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he wou'd move for leave to brio; in a Bill, to change the lidding of the Norwich Acsizes from Thetford to Norwich. ielt• A. BARING admitted all that had been said with revert to Norwich, but still must ever contend against any statement which would represent Thetford other than as a thriving place.—(Laughter.) He did not feel the force of the arguments for holding the Assizes at the cen tral pint of the county ; and, even admitting their vali dity, he saw no reason why Norfolk should be singled out for the trial of a geographical experiment. Sir J. SERRiblitwas one who thought that much benefit, by ray of example and fear, would by derived from executing criminals at the place of t eir crimes, and not promiscuously at the assize town. After a few words in support of the motion from Mr. R. CoLcoaYE, Mr. Hume, and Mr. WASON, leave was given to bring in the Bill. MAYO MAGISTRACY. Mr. RUTTIVEN moved for a copy of the memorial ir rented to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland by William Murphy, of Nlayo, complaining of very severe and illegal punishment inflicted upon hint by order of certain ma.. gistrates in that county, and of the official correspairlence which that memorial had occasioned. His f,bitret was to bring mailer the notice of Parliament the very oppressive conduct of those magistrates—particularly of a R,v. Storey—towards the memorialist, which was too true a comment upon the memorable declaration of Lord Reties dale. that tr Ireland there was one law for the rich and another for the poor.—(Hear.) The Hon. Gent'eman then entered into a statement, from which it appearvl that Murphy was twice confined in the public etualis, under circumstances of unnecessary viol nce and severity, for the offence of" insolence towards the Rev: Mr. Storey;'' that in adence ajnaunting to some warm language, reprobatory of that rev. magisirate's zeal in the exaction of his tithes. dot ontent with thus twice inflicting upon Alurphy the punishment of the stocks, the rev. geneem in compelled tie ,ri.oner to carry the stocks by himself front the piece of his confinement to that in which they were usually kept Hear), and his cruelty was abetted by his brother ma g , tra ea. M:. STANLEY was free to a Inalt, that on inquiry by t , e Lord Chancellor of Ireland into the circumstances of Murphy's case, that Nuhle and Learn. d persen declared, in an official communication to the Lord Lieutenant of the county of Mayo, that the epithet of the nigistrates was " intemperate and highly indiscreet."—(Hear.) He, however, did not think it so culpable as to induce him to deprive those gentlemen of the commission of the peace; and tin retore left it to the Marquis of Sligo, the Lord Lieutenant of Mayo, to formally reprimand them for their miscon Hear. ) Colon] PERCEVAL should be ready to acquiesce in any eulogium on the Lord Lieutenants' Bill if di measure bad b,. n curried into effect with fairness and impartiatity. In answer to a question from an BUN. MemßEit, Mr. CRA3IPTON state:', that the Lords Lieutenant of counties hail the power to dismiss Magi.trates from the commission, with the concurrence of the Lorti Chancellor. Mr. JONES thought that the Hon. Member (Mr. Rutliven) wee not justified in occupying the time tit the }louse with the consideration of so trivial a matter as that which he had introduced. Mr. HUNT was Wad to learn that Magistrates in Ire land were called to account for their conduc , ,, and he only wished that they were treated in the same manner in this country. They had too much liberty allowed them of disposing of easel by summary pm, ss; and many a poor man was eternally sent for three months—(Laughter)— to the tread Mill, without trial by jury, and in violation of Magna Charts and the Bid of Rights. Mr. RUTaIVEN, after a few words, withdrew his mo tion. At the request of Mr. STANLEY, Mr. DIXON consented to postpone his motion relative t:s the British claims on the Brazlian G ,vcroment (which stood for this night) until Thursday, the 12th of April. Mr. M. O'FERRALL moved for a copy of the corre spondence with Dublin Castle, requiring troops to be sent into the county nt Kildare, on the days appointed to bold meetings to petition against the tithe system, at the follow ing places: Nurrymore, Suncroft, Dallitore, Mgaastereven, and Rath more. The Hon. Member said, that V.e object of his motion was to discover upon whose re k r&entation it 'sad been thought necessa-y to send these troops into the county of Kildare. If it should appear that the Lord Lieutenant f the county had not been consulted, he should then feel, as one of those members why had sup. V ocal the Lord Lieutenants' bill, the oNtot of which was t„ place undtr the care of the Lord Lieutenants the peace of their respective counties, that he bad just cause tu com plain of the conduct pursued by the Irish Government. M r. STANLEY could not Consent to the production of the returns moved for. It did not appear that the troops bad at all inteifered with the meetings which they were ee ut to attend ; and the correspondence of which the Hon. Member desired to have a copy was of too confidential a n+turc to be made public. There was no person to whose opinion he was more ready to defer, than the Noble Person at the Head of the county of Kildare, but he must repeat that it was net for Ministers of the Crown to disclose the inMrmation on which they acted in moving troops. After a few words from Mr. O'CONNELL and Mr. SHELL, Mr. M. O'FERRALL would not pruss his motion, which was accordingly withdrawn. The report of the - iilarine Mutiny Bill was brought up. The Consolidated Fund (3,000,0000 Bill was read a third time, and pas'ed. The Indemnity Bill was read a third time, and passed. The Malt Drawback Bill was read a third time, and passed. REGISTRY OF DEEDS (IRELAND) BILL. The House then went into a Committee on the Re gistry of Deeds (Ireland) Bill. Mr. JEPHSON m. - wed that the salary of the registrar (Mr. Moore) be 1,5001. a year. The Hon. Member de. tailed the various improvements which bad been made in the office by this UM, and stated that Mr. Moore had been given to understand that be was to receive 1,5001. a year, and a Treasury minute to thateffect was transmitted to him. Mr. LEADER and Mr. JAMES GRATTAN opposed the increase of salary from 1,2001. to 1,5001. Mr. M. O'CONNELL made a ftw observations, which we could not hear. Mr. CRAMPTON .aid that Mr. Moore had an equi table right to 1,500/. a year. Ile had been appointed at that salary, anel a Treasury minute I , f the late Govern ment was passed to that effect, though it appeared that another Treasury minute of the same date was recorded, by which the salary was fixed at 1,2001., which Air. Moore had since received under protest. Mr. S. RICE stated that the'rninute of Treasury fixing the salary at 1,5001., he understood had not passed the Treasury at all, but had been issued by a mistake of the clerk. He denied that Mr. Moore had any equitable claim to 1,5001., but, con idering the changes which had been made in the office, the additional duty imposed upon the registrar, he thought the public would gain mire than the 3001. a year. If it was the case of a newly-created office, he should think 1,200!. a vtetr enough. Mr. WYSE supported the mo:ion. He, however, thought the increase of salary should be confined to Mr. Moore only, and that provision shoul l he made that his successor should not have more than 1,2001. per annum. Mr. SHELL felt it his duty to move as an arnemitn-nt, that the sum of 1,200/. should be inserted in the clause in place of the stun of 1,5g0/. _ _ Mr. LEFROY supportvd the original motion. After a few war& from Mr. SHAW in support of the original motion, Mr. JEPHSON said he - was completely in the bands of the House, and he felt that in thus bringing the' 'natter before it he had discharged his duty to the public. The amendment was then put, and the Gallery cleared fur a division ; when the nu,rbers appeared— For the amendment 23 Against it 2l Majority ..... ..... On our re-ad m i ss i on i n t o th e Gallery, we found ti e Sr.aaultit in the Chair. • NISI PRIUS COURT (DUBLIN) BILL. On the motion that the li,use resolve itself into a Corn - ruitt,e o n th e Ni.i Prius Court (Dublin) Bid, Mr. M. O'CONNELL denounced this Bill as a j,h, and moved that it be cornmittt d that day six months. Mr. CRAMPTON would only make one ob.ervation in reply to the speech of the !to o . Member for Clare; and that was, that a gro , ser libel was never uttered than the i;dlltt,.: this Bill a job. Air. O'CONNEIL—" A4initted, if truth be a libel." T: lion. Nl,mber teen declared his intention of dit,liog the House upon the, ameniment. Strangers Nt• er e then orders! to withdraw; hut it having been found that there were not 40 Memhers pre sent, the House adj,urned It twelve o'clock. LORD 3/IUNSTER'S'MENIOIRS OF THE LATE Ws R. --" These sketches are among the liveliest specimens of military description that we have happened to meet with any where. Lord Munster's picture of Soult's flight from Oporto may rank with the best pages of ` Cyril Thornton,' or The Subaltern.' His volume is full of interest, evidently the work of a humane and gallant mind—an enthusiastic soldier of Wel- Engton—and a hearty Tory."--Quarterly Review for March. THE LUCKY TWINS.-011 Thursday week, Petsey and Jane Fraser, twin-sisters, daughters of Hugh Fraser, crofter in Clactholl, pariah of Aisynt, Sutherlandshire, were married. Having been born and baptized the same day, these I win-aisters hare proserred tie similarity of their fates, by being wedded at thy Kim tizaa—ScAtftweart. OLD ISAIsLE.Y, ENSUI. 'G SESSIONS. PTIVE OF THE VARIOUS OFFENCES S;,MMARY STATV4ENT, nEscaz: WITH WHiCH THE PRISONERS SEVERALLY STAND CHARGED. ' cAPITAL OFFENCES. Receiving stolenstectrs 3 3tiirder highway robbery Horse-stealing .; ' l Larcenies Forgery Ste...ling in d‘relf ag.houses 16 Not surrendering to a com.- Burglarv -- 5 mission of bankruptcy .... 1 .`(NOR OFFENCES Embezzlement 4 Manslaughter 1 - Stealing from the person - • 315 Of the above number. 40 ate charged with crimes committed in the City, and 209 in the County. The followittg (5 a comparative statement of the respective age: of the alleged ofrenders Above 10 years and mrler 20 IOS 20 ....., ..... ... ...... ... no HI 90 4O 35 40 50 CO ,.......• '`io STATE Or HIS MAJESTY'S GAOL OF NEWGATE, MADE UP TO TUESDAY F.y Misoners under sentence of death • 1 Prisoners under sentence of transportation for life • • 12 14 years ....,.. 6 7 Ditto, sentenced to various terms of imprinnnMent, having I);,•,en convicted of felony, &c. • •N 5 Ditto, for trial at the ensiling Sessions Ditto, whose judgments are respited 6 Ditto, acquitted on the ground of insanity, but remain dur ing Royal pleasure ...... 4 Ditto, committed on a Judge's Warrant 1 Ditto, trvversed and remanded.„., 2 Males 297 Fecnales • 83. I Total 180 IS'I'ANLEY BUXTON.—This novel, by the author of " Lawrie Tetle' einbraces one of the most sin gular plots ever devel,stseA, even in a work of fiction. The cha racter of Lady Lrrington, and the fearful acts of her life, are declared to be based on one of those actual occorrento 'Which trrActimes surpass the inventions of rerear.te. CAUTION TO COUNTRY BANKERS.—With in the last week a sttspicious-looking fellow has visited several banks in the County of Kent, pretending some traveller had ap. point - 61 to meet him there about the time he celled, and re_ 'quested permission to take a seat and w , %it a little, but in no in stance does it appear that his tliend, the traveller, presented himself. At one bank4iig•-mouse in the Isle of Thanet, where he took his statitln in this way for nearly half an hour, it was suggested ;having had enough of his company) the )!etter plan V - Otild be for him to say where lie was st, and if his friend called they would inform him wl..cre he might be found, when the gentleman withdrew, naming a respectable inn in the town as his head-owarte7s ; he was followed secretly, but, instead of going to any house of the kind, was observed to enter a low cheap beer shop. The object of this roan lv strongly suspected to have been a mere visit of ebterVation as to the banker's fastenings, with the ulterior view to opening a private running account with thettl, of no very favourable description. At one house he expected to meet a Mr. Bentley, and at another Mr, Person. I.l ; iL ITY.—There is Al set of men in this strange world of et t 3, who, when they once get on a hobby, will ride it tO ail manner of excess and absurdity ; and there 11, perhaps, no word in the language that has hreti Made such a Cool of as the word utility. It has loci: construed to mean no thing but the visible and tangible; nothing but that which has a direct and posltire tendency to till the belly or cover the back. Your supet-super-utilitarian Quixote would tear all the fringe fre!'ti. our curtains, would dash the capitals ATM mir columns, and the gold from our gingerhmed. When I was a young man, and• had a little ntepensity to quizzing, which, I now trust, I have totally subdued, I once asked an old maid, who was proditionsly wise and sagacious, which was more useful, a fiddle or a frying.pan.—Tait : And she decided in favour of the frying-pan ?—Smith : To be sure, she did ; and you will find that to be the case almost ail the world over, that second-rate wits and deputy Wise-acres think nothing useful that does not contribute to the support of life, as if being were of Melt inipor tuce than well-being. They speak of the 'aseful and the orna mental, as if the one were oerCted to the other, and, as if that which is ornamental i• dot useful.—Tait's Magazine. CI-TRIOUS DISCOVERY.—As two men were tN g in g the high mounds on Warley-common, bear Brent wood, they observed before them thlt the earth suddenly gave way, and sunk to a depth of about two feet. Fearful that the day of retributlell had arrived, and the world was again return ing to its primitive state, they fled "like dust before the wind. " Soon, however, being convinc e d of th e ir rnista!se, it became evident that terra firma did not forsake them. " Calling all their courage up," they beti3 immediately returned and speedily commenced heaving out the monld, when, to their no small astoninment, they discovered a deep well, encircled with What afterwards appeared to be Roman bricks, " and many therein were human skulls," bones, and pieces of broken ar. mour. Warley-common kliOwn to the historian as a Roman encampment ; It is, therefore, very generally supposed that, as there leas a decisive battle fought thereon, this Well, or hole, has been, no doubt, a place for water in time of emsrgency,but afterwards converted into. a cabin for the dead." HORRIBLE CASE OF MURDER AND SUP- Posen 1N...N1T - v.—About a fortnight since the wife of a labotiret named Padley, residing at Ne' Bolingbrott, was delivered of a child, and a day or two rftcrwards, in the absence of her husband, who was chlployed in the fields, she took the little innocent, atm' threw it on the fire! where it was in a short time Wally consumed. Upon the return of her husband she told him that some strange beggar.woman had been in the house during his absence, and stele tile child. She afterwards, how. ever, varied in her account, and on Friday last confessed the dreadftil Mull. It is strongly suspected that she is deranged, aml females have kept watch by her ever since to prevent her laying violent hands upon herself. Her we , iknos prevents her, for the present, being taken into rustody.—Belfast Northern Whig. We have se'dom had occasion to detail a more horrible or affecting circumstance than the following. An imbecile lad named Henry Wright, son of the keeper of the lock-up house in the village of Sanquhar, having on the even, ing of Thursday last got intoxicated, his father thought proper to confine him in one of the rooms. Next morning the lad, looking through the iron grating of the window, and observing a girl pass with a shovel full of live coal, called to her to give him a light to his pipe ; the girl complied. Whether from ac cident or intention, a quantity of straw caught fire, and com municating with some beds in the cell, in an instant the whole was in a blaze, and the unfortunate youth was enveloped in the flames. His cries soon led to a discovery of his dreadful situa tion, but his father being out of the way with the key, all of. Parts to afford him effectual assistance were unavailing. Una. ble to escape from the scorching flames, his arms and head were in vain stretched through the iron grating, while cans of water were thrown upon him from without. When at last his father arrived, he was carried out literally roasted, several parts of his body being entirely consumed. On Tuesday he was still in life, but no hopes are entertained of his recovery.—Ayr Adver tiser. ASSAULT ON A FEMALE AT CHELMS PORD.-011 Thursday evening, Mrs. Leslie, the wife of a highly respectable brandy-merchant, residing in Springfield lane, was assaulted and ill-treated by a man near Galleywood.common. The man accused of this miscreant conduct is named John Hills, a native of Springfield. On Friday he was taken to the Shire-hall; but as the sufferer was too ill from the treatment she had received to attend, the proceedings were merely formal, and he was again remanded. He was saluted by hooting and hisses as he passed down the street. On Saturday he was fi nally examined, when Mrs. Leslie stated, that on Thursday afternoon she was proceeding across the fields to Galleywood. common to visit a friend, and when within one mile of a cottage, the prisoner came up to her. He seised her and made use of brutal language. She begged of him to let her go, and offered him money and a parcel she had with her. He threw her into a ditch. Prisoner, after various acts of cruelty, perpetrated a capital offence. Witness's shrieks and moans at length brought a woman to see what was the matter, and the prisoner ran away. Mr. Leslie proved the dreadfully exhausted state both of mind and body in which his wife was when brought home. Mr. Leslie and the constable went in pursuit of the prisoner, whom they found about four miles on the Danbury-road, but lie was so desperate that they could not take him. After a des perate encounter, in which the prisoner was twice knocked down, he was secured. _.He then said, " I have done enough this time ; I shall be hung." The prisoner seemed totally care. less as to the charge. He is a man of most repulsive aspect. Mrs. Leslie is a woman of very 'weak and delicate constitution. The prisoner was committed for trial at the assizes on the capi. tat charge.—Esser Mercury. EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCE.-Al though the circumstance we are about to relate may stagger the faith of ninety-nine out cf the hundred of our readers, we can assure them that it is literally true. Many of our readers are aware that the body of John Thomas, who murdered Ellen Bancroft, at Eyerton, was sent to Liverpool for dissection, and is now undergoing anatomical examination at our Royal Insti tution. A cast was made from the head by Mr. Clements, of Bold-street, in whose possession it is at present ; and it is an ab solute fact that, since the cast was completed, the hair of the head and the beard have visibly and palpably grown, having, no doubt, taken root in the plaster of Paris. It is a well-known fact that the human hair, which grows from a root like that of vegetables, will continue to increase long after life is ex tinct, and that the beard, which has been close shaved imme diately after death, will grow again for some days. Now, in the instance we have been relating, there can be little doubt that the plaster mould applied to the face of John Thomas, for the purpose of taking a cast, must, when drawn of the face, have plucked out the roots of the hair with it. The cast which was afterwards formed from that mould was soft, moist, and warm, and continned so for a sufficient time to permit the hair to spring from the roots, until the moisture was expended and the plaster had cooled and heardened. The surgeon who acted as demonstrator on the dissection has assured us that he shaved the head close im mediately before the operation, and that the hair has in the corresponding parts of the cast evidently grown. If we are asked why so singular a phenomenon has never before been noticed or recorded, our answer is, that there is one circum stance connected with this case which may serve to explain the matter. - In general, when casts are taken of deceased friends, the .face is smeared with soap and oil, in order that the plaster of the mould when taken off may not injure or disfigure the flesh or features. No snob precaution was taken, it seems, in this instance, and the plaster consequently adhered sore tenaciously than usual to the face, plucking otf with it, as we have already stated, the roots of the hair of the head, and of the beard,—Lirerpopl Mercarg, FROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT. Conunissiena by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Derby. The Right Hon. Henry Manners Lord Waterpark ; Sir W. Boothby, Bart.; Sir FL Griesley, Bart.; Sir C. Colville, Knt. ; Sir F. Darwin, Kut. ,• R. T. Bateman, Esq. ; A. S. Bateman, Esq ; J. Balguy, jun. Esq.; J. Beaumont, Esq. ; T. Bent, Esq.; J. Roden, Esq. ;J. Broadhurst, Eq., W, Bagshatve, Esq.; J. H. Barker, Esq. ; J. R. B. Cave, Eaq.; C. Clarke, Esq., tti be Deputy Lieutenants, March tl4. • • Commitsion by the Lord LieUtenant of the County of Anglesey. royal Anglese'v W. B. Pariton, Gent., t , 2": be Second Lieutenant, vice H. Jones, promoted, Fab. Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of the West Riclint of ine County of York, City, and County of the ',;ity, of York. 2d Regiment cf west York Militia. C. J. Brandlint, Lsq., to be Major, vice Priestley, resigned, March n. Yorkshire. Hussar Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry. Cornet J. Hodgson to be Lieutenant, vice Cros,e, resigned ; Cornet D. Cayley to be ditto, vice Fairfax, promoted; Cornet R. S. Gascoigne to he ditto, vic.P 'F. 0. Oascolgne; promoted G. Anne, Gent., to be Cornet, vice HodgsOn, promoted; R, T. Lee', Gent., to be d'Ato, rice Cayley, prornoted, March O. 13ANKRUPTCIFS '2 - I'ERSEDED. WILLIAM MAYELL, High-street, Exeter, jeweller and 11E RY DEA N, Nel3oll-street, GrPenwich, tobacconist. NATHANIEL 'mom AS, Manchester, upholsterer. BANKRUPTS: JAMES A 1.111 REY, Hatttor. -gar& riv ener, to sur render April 11, at May 15, at ten, at the Court of Bankt - tiptty , raokney, Bedford-row. JOSEPH B ADCOCK, Shrivenham, Berkshire, linen -draper, April 19 and May IS, at two, at the Bush Tavern, Bristol. Bush and Prineaux, Bristol ; Holmes, Frampton, and Loftus; New Inn, London. RICHARD THOIr_rTON, Horsham, Sussex, common brewer, -Arra :9 and May 15, at eleven, at the Court of Bank repty. Bousfield, Chatham-place, London ; Lamb, Horsham. JAMES BEARD, Marple Bridge, Derbyshire, corn-dealer, April 21, 24, and May 15, at two, at the York Hotel, Manchrster. Milne, Parry, Milne, and Morris, Temple. Lendrn ; Bullack Smithy, Derbyshire. ROBERT E1 4 1.T.5 , , Clreliester, Gloucestershire, mercer, April 13 at wit anti May IS, at twelve, at the Court of Ban kru p tc y . - Ti,leard and Miller, Old Jewry. JAMES MERCER, Thrapston, Northamptonshire, innkeeper, April 14, and May 15, at eleven, at the White Hart Inn, Thrapston. Sanders, Hart-street, Bloom&?nry.square, London; Archbould, Thrapston, ROBERT 13/3 . 1.1Ti ND, St. John-street, Clerkenwell, lapidary, April VA, at one, and May 15, at ten, at the Bankruptcy Court. Spyer, Broad-street-buildings ; G. J. Graham, official assignee, Coothall-buildings. HENRY TOON, Cornwall-road, Waterlon-;•ondi gicker, April 6. and May 15, at eleven, at the BankruptCy Court. Wil loughby, Clifford's-inn; g. Green, King's Arms-yard, official assignee. SA M tJEL, HO RSFA LL, Sowerbridge, Yorkshire, dyer, April IS, and May 15, at ten, at the Office of Mr. Holroyde, Hac lifax. Jacques, Batty; and Edwards, Coleman-street; London ; Holroyde, Halifax. JOSEPH W ATH. EN, Itoilbdrough, Goucestershire, clothier, April 93 awl May 15, at eleven, at the Golden Cross Inn, Cains cros:. Blower, Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, London; Croome and Son, Gloucestershire. DIVIDENDS. R. D. Deniford, Chipping Norton, OY,fordShire, draper, April 26, at half-past ten, at the C*.tart or eleven, Wotitiruffe, Ramsay, Essex, rattl-dealer, April 24, at at the Court of Danitruptcy—H. Graves and W. S. Gooding, Strand, tailors, April 26, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy—M. Andrew, Crown-court, Threadneedle-street, insurance broker, April 26, at half-past one, at the Court of Bankruptcy—J. Cliorley, Little Bell-alley, Coleman-street, woollen:Alt - age:, April 26, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy—lt. S. Prettyman, Regent circus. ottfotd-street, linen-draper, April 26, at. half-past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy—T. Moffat, Goswell-street, St. Luke's, blue-manufacturer, May I, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy—A. Cuthbert, Great Scotland-yard, navy:agent, May 2, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy—A. Ryder, Budge row, warehouseman, April 23, at Iwo, at the Court of Bankruptcy IligOired, Finsbury-square, merchant, April 26, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy—W. Battams, Hardingstone, Nor thamptonshire, grazier, April 27, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy—C. Robertson, D. D. Milligan, and It. M. Danzell, Fenchurch.street, merchants, April 26, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy-,T. Hodgstin, Nicholas-lane, insurance -broker, April 27, at the Court of Bankruptcy— H. Downer, Fleet-street, ironmonger, April 25, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy—E. Pegg, Shoreditch, linen-draper, April 30, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy—W. Dennison, Toxteth Park, Lancashire, merchant, April 19, at one, at the Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool—FL Rishton ' Preston, money scrivener, April 27, at one, at the office of Messrs. Shuttleworth and Hopkins, Preston—J. \Vatkinson, Manchester, calico printer, April 26, at two, at the King's Arms, Manchester—J. Marshall, Watling-street, silk-manufacturer, April 27, at nine, at the York Hotel, Manchester—W. Dean, Abbey-mills, Dui' , ham, worsted-spinner, May I, at twelve, at the Waterloo Hotel, Durham—J. E. Eyles, Cnntetbury, ha , ter, April 'X, at eleven, at the Cotirt of Bankruptcy.—W. J. Cooling, Bidborough-street, Judd-street, master-mariner, April 26, at half-past two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. CERTIFICATES, APRIL 21. W. Ivory, St. Mary-at-Hill, victualler-.T. Oldhant, Manches , ter, calico-printer— W. Wright, Wenrock Basin, Shoreditch, engineer—J. Bai)ard, Brighthelwstone, tobacconist--T. M. Moses, Stockton-upon-Tees, joiner. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. J. Jackson and S. Jones, Chester, linen-drapers--E. Brennan d and E. Donnison, West Derby, Lancashire, grOcers—lt. Dixon and Co., Wickham Bishops, Essex, milers, as far as regards R. Dixon—H, Stevens and T. Elam, Newaigton-causeway, dra pers—J. T. Egan and E. N. Sackett, Rotherhithe, shipwrights H. Francis and A. Urquhart, Monument-yard, attorneys—W. Thomas and J. Brougham, Burslem, Stattbrdshire, colour-makers —W. Swift, jun. and J. Brettell. Birmingham, steel toy-manu facturers—T. Murch and E. Wakeford, Southampton, wine merchants—C. Lowe and Co., Hardsbaw, Lancashire, confec tioners—J. S. and J. S. Baily, jun., Boston, Lincolnshire, grocers— G. Marriott and Co., Sheffield, merchants—M. Rowley and S. A. Bullock, Half-moon-street, Piccadilly, dress-makers—W. Hey_ wood and G. Johnson, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, masons—C. ar.d F. Spence, Lockwood, Yorkshire, grocers —T. and C..Raynton, Bedminster, Somersetshire, maltsters—P. C. Byne aced J. Eliot, South Molton, Devonshire , attorneys—T. Brooke and J. Cooper, Birmingham, coal-dealers—J. Sellers and Co., Burnley, Lanca shire, cotton-spinners—T. Webb and Co., Bristol, wine-mer, chants—S. Minshull and J. T. Race, Manchester, muslin-menu ' facturers—J and G. Stockman, Prtsmouth, linen-drapers — T. and H. Paul, Fakenham, Norfolk, stine-merchants—R. W. Bar ton and J. Armstrong, Manchester. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. LOU ND ES ROYL A NCE GO W, Falkirk, Stirling, cloth-mer chant, April 9, 24, at the Red Lion Inn, Falkirk. WILLIAM STEWART WATSON, Edi n burgh, picture dealer, April 6, 20, at the Rainbow Cofti,e-house, Edinburgh. HUGH MORRIS and WILLIAM KIRKWOOD, Glasgow, merchants, April 6, 20, at the Black Bull Inn, Glasgow. The forthcoming novel, entitled " The Con trast," from the pen of a Noble Earl, Consists mainly, we understand, of incidents consequent on the ill-assorted mar riage of a young Peer who, suspecting the fidelity of women in his own class of life, allies himself to a peasant girl, and finds, too late, that in so doing he has fallen on more disastrous con sequences than could have attended an union of a more con sistent description. The idea is new and piquant, and seems admirably adapted to the pen of the author of " Matilda." A patient recovering from a bad accident, which had deprived him of his nose and one eye, was congra tulated by the surgeon upon his improvement and reformed ap pearance " My face is quite reformed, you say, And by the glass I see — My nose is placed in schedule A, My eyes in schedule B." The first introduction of women to the stage resulted from mere necessity. We have already given in. stances of boys playing female characters previous to the Civil Wars; those boys had been regularly trained to those perform ances, and at the Restoration they had grown too manly to re sume the petticoat with any degree of propriety. Mrs. Hughes, who was the first English actress, previous to her appearance in Desdemona, spoke a prologue, wherein the following lines were introduced for the occasion : " Our women arc defective, and so sized, You'd think they were some of the guard disguised ; For, to speak truth, men act, that are between Forty and fifty—wenches of fifteen : With bone so large, and nerve so uncompliant, When you call Desdemona—enter giant." Gentleman's Magazine of Fashion. CAUTION TO TRADESMEN.-THE GEN TLEMAN IN BLACK.-Yesterday afternoon a very respectable looking man, genteelly dressed in black, entered the shop of Mr. Austin, haberdasher, of No. 22, Hathbone.place, under the pre tence of purchasing some goods. After looking over several articles, he selected several pieces of silk handkerchiefs, four dozen pair of black silk stockings, two valuable black lace veils, and a quantity of black silk, which he ordered to be taken to No. 16, Alfred-place. He then entered into conversation with the shopman, and looked over some more goods, during which time the shopman had to go into the back parlour for something. He was gone but a few seconds, and on his return found that the gentleman in black had vanished, and also all the goods which he looked out, to the amount of between 301. and 401., and although prompt measures were immediately adopted to discover the black gentleman, no trace of him could be found. PREVENTION OF CONTAGION.-HIS Grace the Duke of Bedford has given orders for the wh o l e o f the fruiterers and green-grocers shops on his estate in Covent. garden market to be newly painted, and a number of workmen are now employed on the work, which will be finished in a few days. Strict orders have also been issued that all filth and rubbish shall be immediately removed, and not allowed to ac cumulate in heaps. EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF CHOLERA.— On Tuesday or Wednesday last one of the workmen at Calder iron works was seized with what was considered the premoni tory symptoms of cholera ; and such being the alleged state of the patient, no time was lost in procuring surgical assistance from the neighbouring village. The treatment practised on this occasion did not, however, seem to better the poor man's condition, and the attending E scu l a pi us pronounced the case hopeless, and, bundling up his utensils, precipitately fled the premises, leaving the poor man to toddle to the next world the canniest way he could. Meantime the death of Wat son was reported at the public office of Calder iron works An order was forthwith sent to an undertaker in Airdrie to prepare a coffin express, a surgeon from the same place was sent for to fumigate the house, and the poor man's family were busied at home dressing his corpse! Alas for the frailty of human na ture ! shortly after the white stockings, the head-dress, and the tape, had been properly adjusted, the coffin prepared, and all in readiness to hurry the unfortunate cholera patient off to his long home, up he starts in the bed, and cries, "Lassie, mak me some tea, for I'm wonderfu' dry." " Na, na," quoth the lassie, "I daurna do that, father, for ye're dead!" Atter ex amining his dead habiliments with feelings of surprise and tdis trust, Aweel," quoth he , " if y e winna do it for me, I'll e'en do e ' t ;" Cut th souephegot, drew off' the white s t oc ki ngs an d h tape that tied his legs, seized a twopenny loaf, cut it, toasted it, prepared the tea, and in presence of his aflrighted family took a hearty meal. The man is still living at Calder iron works, though weakly from inanition. The cof iin still in Airdrie, which we have seen ; and the truth. of Lite circumstances narrated in the foregoing may be ti rin ly re lied o:l.—Glasgow Free Preys. WINDSOR, APRIL 3. Yesterday afternoon his Majesty left the Castle in a pony barouche, accompanied by Lady Mayo, and enjoyed several hours' drive in the Great Park and its vicinity. Her Majesty, attended by Prince George of Cambridge, and several Gentle nien df iti 11.dyal suite, accompanied the King on horseback.- I..4dies Drownlow, Sidney; and Miss Wilson; followed in a close carriage. _ _ Yesterday afternoon Earl Howe arri'veil at the Castle, on a visit to their "Nestles. Th.:t; morning Baron Stockinar arrived at the Castle, and, after having had an interview with Sir Herbert Taylor, returned to London. This day the Field Officers of both regiments stationed here will (by invitation) have the honour of dining with his Majesty. To-morrow (this day) the King will leave the Castle flit St. James's PalaCe, where he Will bold a levee, and returh in the e'yening to dinner The ctrriagei3 mid saddle-horses are ordered at three o'clock This afternoon, when the King and Queen will take their usual exercise. COURT CIRCULAR. ".ic Du k e and Duchess of Cumberland entertained a party of Foreign Ministers at dinner yesterday at their residence at Kew. The Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria rode at Mr. Fozard's riding-schoid yesterday. A Cabiiiet Council was h^ld at One o'clock yesterday after:lobn, at the Foresgn-office, which was attended by the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Earl Grey, Viscounts Melbourne, Palmerston, Goderich, and Althorp, the Right lion. Charles Grant, Sir James Graham, Lord Holland, Lord John Russell, the Duke of Richmond, and Mr. Stanley.--- The Ministers rimained in deliberation till near four o'clock. Count Mastucevitz, the Russian Minister On a special mis sion, the Baron de Wessenburg, the Austrian Minister on a special mission, the Austrian Charge des Affaires, the Belgian and Prussian Ministers, had interviews with Viscount Palmer, Stbn Yesterday at the Fbreign-office. Lord Plunket and Sir Francis Burdett visited Earl Grey yesterday at the Treasury. Mr. Colquhoun, the agent for the Virgin Islands, transacted business yesterday at the Treasury. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. Sir Lloyd Dukenfield, Bart., at Fenton's Hotel, St. .Tames's, street, from his seat in Berks ; the Rev. Mr. Tomkinsott, at Morley's Hotel, Cockspur-street, from Leamington; Thump. son, Esq., at ditto, from a tour; Mr. and Mrs. Dimsdale, at the Burlington Hotel, from Berkhampstead ; A. Oswald ; Esq., at ditto, from Glasgow ; St. Leger, Esq., at ditto, front a tout ; Colonel Campbell, at ditto, from the Isle of Wight; Hon. Mr. Gray, at ditto, from ditto ; Mr. and Mrs. John Lloyd, in Harley_ street, from Norfolk ; Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Palmer, in Park-lane, from their seat in Shropshire. DEPARTURES: Colonel Powell, from Morley's Hotel, Cockspur.street, for No% castle ; Woodhouse, Esq., from ditto, on a tour; Mrs. Clifton, from the St. George's Hotel, Albemarle-street, for her seat, Hatch Court, Somersetshire ; Thomas and Edward Clifton, Esqrs., from ditto, for Lytham Hall, Lancashire; Hon. Gen. O'Neill, from the Burlington Hotel, for Richmond; Hat ton, Esq., from ditto, for Dorsetshire ; Blake, Esq., from ditto, for Dublin ; Captain Hughes, for Brighton ; Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd, from Dover-street, for their seat in Oxfordshire ; Capt. Moore, from the British Hotel, Jermyn-street, for Dover. THE COUNTESS OF GREY'S ASSEMBLY. Her Ladyship, on Monday evening, gave a brilliant party, at her residence in Downing=street, to upwards of 151) persons of distinction. The three principal drawing.rooms were illumi nated and thrown open for the reception of the guests. The amusements were cards and conversazione. The visitants re. tired at one o'clock. • His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex was prevented from accepting her Ladyship's invitation by in. thsposition. Among the company were—Prince Talleyrand and Prince Lieven ; Count Orloff; the Ministers from Naples, Wirtemberg, Hanover, Bavaria, Saxony, Mexico, Russia, and the Netherlands, Baron Wessenberg, the Austrian Special Mi. nister, Count Matucevitz ; Dukes of Richmond and Hamilton ; Duchesses Richmond, Leeds (Dowager), and De Dino; Mar quisses Thomond, Clanricarde, Graham, Lansdowne, Abercorn, Ailesbury, and Salisbury ; Marchionesses Clanricarde, Tho mond ; Sligo, Salisbury, Dowager of Salisbury, and Lansdowne; Earls Albemarle, Sefton, Sandwich, Kerry, Cowper, Grosvenor, Lichfield, Meath, Charlemont, Mountcharles, Mulgrave, and Haddington; Countesses Mulgrave, Cowper, Albemarle, Wick low, Sandwich, Sefton, Dowager Dartmouth, Charlemont, Lichfield, Morley, Charleville, Haddington, Kenmare, Gros venor, Bathiany ; Lords Auckland, Melbourne, John Russell, Howick, Ebrington, William Russell, Villiers, Hill, Arthur Hill, Fitzroy Somerset, Stuart de Rothsay, Mahon, Acheson, Oakley, John Thynne, Mary Primrose, Cecilia Paulet ; Theo. dosia Brabazon, Henry Grey, Farquhar, Fitzroy Somerset, Mo. lineux (2), Kerr (2), Stuart de Rothsay; Baronesses de Cetto, Zuylen de Nyvelt, Bulow ; Sirs Robert Gordon, Geo. Shee. Mr. Dawson, yesterday morning, moved for a Copy of the Treasury Minute authorising the payment of 40001. to Mr. Telford, for expenses incurred in his survey for supplying the metropolis with pure water. It was ordered. This survey took place at the very laudable suggestion of Sir F. Burdett; and did not the Honouzable Baronet undertake, in the event of the Government sanctioning the survey, to defray the expense of it 1 That is the impression with his con stituents. Among the improbable rumours of the last few days has been one of Mr. Hume taking office. One report as. signed the Hon. Member the Secretaryship of the Home De partment. Mr. Portman's resignation of his seat for Dor setshire is generally looked upon as a premature and uncalled for fulfilment of a rash and hasty engagement. The " Sentence of Death" Bill having already reched the House of Lords, will, It is to be hoped, have passed into a law previous to the termination of the ensuing Old Bailey Sessions. Mr. Stanley, just as the House was about to adjourn yesterday morning, brought in the Bill founded on his tithe resolutions ; it is entitled a Bill " to facilitate the Reco very of Tithes in certain cases in Ireland, and for the Relief of the Clergy of the Established Church in Ireland." It is to be read a second time on Friday ; so that, except Mr. O'Con. nell make great haste, it is not unlikely to pass through the House of Commons without his benediction. Count Orloff -received despatches yesterday morning, at an early hour, by an extraordinary courier, from the RussiareGovernment. The Count subsequently had an in. terview with Prince Lieven, at Ashburnham House, on di. plornatic business, and he had also a conference with the Secre. tary of State for Foreign Affairs. Major Sullivan, Aide-de- Camp to Major-General Sir Charles Dalbiac, Inspector General of the Cavalry, called at the Clarendon Hotel in the course of the day, in consequence, we understand, of his Excellency, who is a distinguished military commander, having expressed his desire to inspect the Household Brigade, and Lord Hill has, accordingly, given instructions to have the Guards assembled on a future day for that purpose. The Wurtemburg Minister, Count de Richberg. (attaché to the Austrian Embassy) Lord Eliot, Sir George Seymour, and Baron Wessenburg, called upon his Excellency yesterday. It is stated that Mr. Bucke, we believe upon the part of some city capitalists, has made a liberal offer to the proprietors of Covent.garden, for a lease of that theatre for a cer tain period. We should regret if so splendid a theatre were to be closed ; and we cannot but rejoice at a prospect which is likely to afford the public the advantage of so magnificent and national a place of entertainment. The Polish Committee at Paris have received an aid of 1,200/. from the United States ; it was accompanied by a silver vase of 4001. value, which was ornamented with the ar morial bearings of Poland. It is intended that those Polish youths who have no prospect of entering the military career should be assisted out of this fund in literary pursuits ; and each of them is to receive a monthly allowance of 3/. 12s. There are a number of these youths now attending the courses of lec tures which are delivering in the university of Paris. Each of them is continuing the routine of education which he had com menced in his native country; and a great many of them are devoting themselves to the classics and oriental literature. — Quarterly Journal of Education. OFFICIAL PARLIAMENTARY DOCUMENT. The 'mintier of fourpenny stamps issued from the Stamp Office for all the London Newspapers, in the yc ar 1831, were .2 , 048,509, for the supply of 12 daily Journals, four three-day a week, 56 weekly Papers, and the Government Gazette, out of which number Mr. Clement, the Proprietor of The Morning Chronicle, used for that Journal and his three weekly Papers, 0 , 209,850. Mr. Clement alone consumed many more than one tenth of the London Press, daily, three-day, and weekly, put together, the total number of Stamps had for all the London Newspapers in the past year 1831, having been 22,048,509, of which Mr. Clement issued 2,269,850, being 138,000 more than his consumption in the preceding year of 1830. SPLENDID TROUT.--'Lhe lovers of angling and the naturalist will be much gratified, as we have been our selves, on calling at Mt Kenzie's fishing-tackle warehouse, North Bridge, by seeing a specimen of the most splendid trout ever exhibited in this city. It is not so much its size as the propor tion and beauty of its form that delights; when alive, its weight was about 18 lbs. It is the property of the gentleman that killed it, and who has consented, we understand, to let it remain a short time in Mr. M`Kenzie's shop, for the inspection of sportsmen. —Scotsman. Nearly 9,000 cows are kept for the purpose of lox AND Bond. supp l y i n g the groundwork of the a d u l terated milk wh i ch is consum ed in London and the suburb s. THE n THE stre G et, O ss O •it S h E a . n — ill M ust r r . .iou F s o e x r. , while Per_ so nage, laid him a wager that he would s ee more c ats than the P r i nc e in his walk, and that he m i g ht ta k e w hi c h s id e o f th e wa y he liked. When they got to th e t op, it was found that Mr. Fox had seen 13 cats, and the Prince not one. The Royal perso nage asked for an expl ana ti on o f t h e apparen t mir a cl e , ' o walking HE e x and Mr. Fox said, " Your Royal Highness took, of course, the shady side of the way, as most agreeable ; I knew that the sunny side would be left tome, and cats always prefer the sunshine." ILCHESTER GAUL, SOMERSET. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—Your paper of the 28th of March, under the head of " Parliamentary proceedings of the House of Corn - nums," reports as follows t "Mr. HUNT Was not iiiiphised at the che.raCter given by the Noble Lord to this gaoler, when he recollected the high encomiums passed on the gaoler of Ilchester, who had teen guilty the other day of poisoning a woman under circumstances of the greatest atrocity." I know not if this (to me very unpleasant error) be a mistake of Mr. Hunt's or your Reporter's ; bu• I shall feel obliged by your taking the earliest ol•portunity of cor rectifig it; I suppose the allusion was intended for the late gaoler of Huntingdon. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, . W. E. HARDY, Keeper of Ilebester Gaol [The error originated with Mr. Hunt, no doubt unintentionally; and we teel pleasure in taking the e,,tliest opportunity of correcting it.j—ED. SUN. THE COAL-OWNEHS AND THE PITMEN. It appears to be no longer doubtful that the pitmen of the collieries of the Tyne and Wear will have another " strike." They have usually been re-engaged a fortnight befofe the bonds expire. 'the present bonds will expire on Thursday next, the sth of April, yet up to this time the men have only been bound at thirteen out of thirty. nine collieries. The conclusion to be drawn is, that they are dissatisfied with the terms offered to them by the coal. owners. They seem to imagine that, as by their last " strike" they obtained whatever they desired, they have only to make a like demand now to obtain still further . concessiona. They appear to regard their toasters as ty rants, who might give them much higher wages than they have hitherto done, and only require to he alarmed by their servants deserting their employment to give them What they please to ask. This is a mistake, which can only proceed from ignorance. The price which is paid for labour, like the price which is paid for other artici s, has a limit, beyond which it cannot be raised. The masters ate not obliged to employ men; they are induced to em ploy them from an expectation of profit to themselves. It the wages required are bu eh as to reduce that profit to little or nothing, or to cause absolute loss, the inducement to engage the men is taken away. The master, from re gard to his own interest, is compelled to refuse the men on such terms, or to seek them on more advantageous terms elsewhere. Yet this is the situation of the coal owners and pitmen at this moment. Having obtained by long contest with their employers last year the highest wages their trade would enable them to give, the men now demand privileges that amount ton still fit , titer advance. The system of centinual exaction and dictation which they befot e adopted, as we have already noticed, has permanently lessened the amount of employment of the pitmen, by causing lead miners to be introduced instead of them at four different collieries. This might fairly be supposed to hme reduced the rate of wages; the pitmen seem to think it ought to have increased it. They will not profit from experience. They are resolved to have everything their own way, and they hope to obtain it by intimidation and violence. A few days have only elapsed since they sent a written de mand to the owners of the Hetton Colliery that they should dismiss their principal viewer, otherwise they would not consent to be bound. On the night of Monday the 26th of March, five of them assaulted a man in the pit because he was working without having first b•come a member of the Union. Two days afterwards, they were committed for trial at the Durham quarter sessions. On Tuesday and Wednesday night, a considerable number of them assaulted two of the banksmen, because they had quitted the Union. Warrant., in consequence, were is sued against eighteen of them, and they were apprehended on Friday night. On Satutalay morning they were forci bly released by a body of about 400 pitmen, who broke into the house at Hetton where they were confined, and rescued them from the constables. The Magistrates of Durham, on hearing the report of their police officers, to whom they had granted the warrants, sent off an express t o Newcastle, requesting the military to meet them at Houghton le-spring. The troops of the Queen's iys arrived there at four o'clock in the afternoon. The Magistrates accompanied them to Hetton with a view of retaking the men who had been forc;b:y r. leased, but it was found they had all absconded. They succeeded, however, in apprehending six or eight of the men who were concerned in the riot and rescue, and they were lodged that night in Durham gaol. Tney are probably at this moment on their trial at the quarter sessions. Thee proceedings should teach the pitmen a useful lesson. They should show them the folly of listening to those who ad. vise them to ask terms which cannot he granted, the very demanding of which is calculated to throw them out of good employment, to deprive them of a comfortable liveli hood, and bring them into diffieulties, disgrace, and punish ment. Some of them require that the banksnien, over men, &e. should be in the Union as a condition of their binding. The coal-owners, as men of business, will act in reference to such a demand as the owners of Hetton Col liery have done when they were told they must discharge their viewer. Ti ey will never entertain such a proposi tion : they will have the control of their own concern : they will be toasters. Our advice to the men is, not to accept an insufficient remuneration for their labour—that we shall never recommend—but to accede to the terms now offered to them, which are higher than are paid to any other labourers in the district. Let them be speedy, for, from their number, they cannot all be employed— let them be speedy, lest their places he taken by strangers.— Tyne Mercury. EXETER HALL -RELIGIOUS MEETING. (Concluded from the The Sun or yesterday.) Mr. CUNNINGHAM Said, when he was in Ireland be visited the schools of the Kildare-street Society; he was sorry to find, that he felt it to be his duty to state the fact as he found it, that there was ton much of a worldly feel ing, too little glorification of God in these schools ; th ey appeared to be wedded to the Government grant, and he thought that, after all, the withdrawal of that grant might be advantageous. He then entreated the meeting to come forward liberally with subscriptions. After a few words from Viscount INGESTRIE and Mr. FLANNAGAN• Sir ANDREW AGNEW, Bart., M.P., moved the second resolution—" That it was highly important that a syetem of National Education for I r e land should afford united in • struction in the Bible in its s i m p le and entire form." The Earl of Roost; supported the resolution. The Rev. ROBERT DALEY, Rector of Powerscourt, and one of the Deputation from I reland, su pp orted the Reso lution. The Rev. MARK BERESFORD (Vicar -General of Ra pboe) supported the Resolution in a speech distinguished fur its florid style, but in which very little argument w..s advanced. He agreed with the preceding speaker, that the Society would do better without the Parliamentary giant. We will not, therefore, (said Mr. Beresford,) take the money of Government, but we will take your money, bee +use it comes accompanied by Christian prayers.—( Hear, hear, from the platform.) The NOBLE CHAIRMAN then put the Resolution, which was carried unanimously. Captain GORDON, M.P., gave notice that the Ladies' Hibernian Society would• meet there on Wednesday, the 11th instant, at twelve o'clock. The Eirl of WINCHILSEA moved the next Resolution, " That the :plans pursued by the Kildare-street Society reception m country." with" Mr. WARREN, K.C. (one of the Deputati on ) ex wptoiee promoterses e w d el well his thsugil tleetduitnufoi:ir,enf:ifrall t iie classese eept in that he e had y o n eduction in Ireland, and also t e nd e d iu England, and entered into a variety of details as to the management and progress of the Society with which the ptilil , c, from the Reports of the foriner meetings, is already well acquainted; of impstienc,. The Resolution was then carried. The SECRETARY readalistof donitions, among , t which were the Lord Pri ma t e o f Ireland, 100 guineis; girl of Band on , 501. ; 201. Lord Arden, 501. ; Lord Moon , Sanfp "; Marquis of Thom , nd ; 201- ; Lord Bex ley, 50/.; Miss Vanwittart, 0 5/. ; Viscount Ingestrie, ind many others; and in Ireland it appears that annual subscriptions to the amount of 1,000/. only have been obtained, and donations to about the same amount. The Hon. It. DoNnas, M.P., moved the next resolu tion, expressive of the regret of the meeting at the with drama; of the grant by his Majesty's Government, which was seconded by Colonel Connolly, M.P , and carried. The Hun. Colonel Stratford moved a resolution, ex presing the propriety of raising contributions in aid of the Society, which was seconded by Mr. Pringle, M.P., and carried unanimously ; after which thanks were voted to the Chairman, and the sleeting broke up about five o'clock. The following statues have been ordered for the gardens of the Tuileries :—A Phidias, by Pradher ; a Fent , lon, by I)ebay ; a Cato, by Roman ; a Cincinnatus, by Foya tier ; a Philo:nen:en, by Daviri ; a The7i7istoeles, by Lemaire ; a Spartan soldier dying, by Caxton ; and an Alexander in com bat, by NAnteitii. PRENCII PAPERS. a (From the Measager des Chambres.) The Cure of St. Denis refused to admit into the church the body of a soldier who died in barracks :vithout his spiritual aid. The knowledge of this fact edilsed sortie Uneasiness in people's minds. Flovvever, nothing evil followed iii &insentience of it, and the body of the dead soldier was carried tnediately to the grave by his comrades and a crowd of citizens. (From the Courrier Francais.) The famous Vidocq has gone back to the Prefec ture of Police as Chief of the Brigade of Safety, un der the name of Laurent. The Message?. des Cbaiiztires contains the 3d bul -I,•tin, issued on Saturday, at four o'clock. The number of the attacked is 104; their ages, tradei; t : and residences are given, with the places where they are under trea.ment. There are a number of soldiers and very poor women, and all appear in the lo..est condition of life, the women chiefly washer women (bianchisseuses) and milliners. There have been established in Pali= 11 Bureaux des Seeours. (From Le TeOiips, April 1.) A Journal announced this morning that it wan intended to form an army at Lyons to suifiptitt any difficulties that might arise from the occupation df Ancona. The affair of Ancona is already at an end, and there will be no need of an army to arrive at an arrangement already nearly concluded. It appears that the evacuation of Ancona will follow the ex change of the ratification by Austria of the treaty of Belgium; some pretext will be taken. M. de Met teinich, and especially Prince E3terhazy.,. haie been showing themselves very conciliatory. Europe desires peace: it cannot go to war; we have always said so ? What might not have been attempted in such a position I If an army is forming at Lyons, it is with some other view. In the Chamber of Deputies the corn law has been voted—this law, so important and so difficult, in which it was necessary to conciliate the pressing interests of the landowners and the sacred rights of the poor and of the consumer : the Cha m b er b ag been highly indulgent to the landowners. We ar e too strongly attached to the landed interests, the foundation of social order, to participate in the opi nions of the declaimers; but perhaps it might have been prudent not to be so rigid towards the con sumer; it would have been Ailful, true policy; producers and consumers would have been gainers; in the mean time the people suffer, and certainly no Deputy would lefuse to succour them ; it is the fault of the precipitation with whicb the law was called for, without the Chamber having had time to prepare itself for this important di,cussion. (From L'Echo du Nord ) STATISTICS OF THE PARIS NEWSPAPERS:-Im mediately after the revolution of July, or at least when the old opposition under the restoration began to divide itself into two camps, there arose in the public mind, especially in the middling class, and in the upper class of commerce, a re-action against the liberal Press. Many patriot Papers of Paris, and of the departments, were publicly burned on the Exchange or in the reading-rooms; others were sent back to their editors without being opened; conse quently the number of subscribers of the major part of the liberal Papers decreased somewhat, and there arose, particularly in the departments, a great num ber of Papers of the juste milieu. These new creations have not generally prospered. Some have alrerdy disappeared, others vegetate ; and if in the commerce of large towns there should be found some agent to keep them going, it is more difficult for them to find, even among those who supply the funds, a public to read them. We know in a large city a paper of juste milieu which has more shareholders than readers. This fact is mathemati cally true. In Paris, at a time when the Papers which re mained faithful to the opposition lost their sub seribers, iho e which went over to the service of power did not gain in propoition . to the losses of their poliveal adversaries. At present there is a contrary reaction—die Ministerial Papers, and the few which profess the opinions of the flute milieu, are losing their subscribers, and the progress of the Opposition Papers is again very considerable. Of all Papers devoted to the Perier system, the Con stitutionnel, the trinisterialism of which is not, how ever, exclusive, and which retains a very honourable recollection of its old independence, is, on account of the uncertainty and of the contradiction of its opi nions, the one whose losses have been the greatest. But it still remains the richest of the Papers; it has still its 15,000 subscribers. After the Constitutionnel, came, formerly, the Journal des Debats ; it is now from the number of its subscribers, the Gazette de France, which has 12,000 to 14,000. subscribers; the Journal des Debals has from 10,000 to 12,000 subscribers; the Courrier Francais from 7,000 to 8,000; the Quotidienne 5,0(10; the National 3,000 to 3.200: Journal du Commerce 1,700 to 1,900; the Tribune 1,200 to 1,500; the France Nouvelle 800 to 1,000. The Messager is at present casting its skin, as it is said; and not being sufficiently ministerial to please the public functionaries, but too ministerial to find subscribers among the common order of tax payers, it may be predicted that before it will have cast its skin twice mote, it will have lost seven eighths of its old subscribers, without having found another eighth by which to replace them. It is the same with the Courrier des Electeurs, strangely amalgamated with the Revolution, and which within three months has three times changed its prise and its journ4l. The Nouvelliste has no sub'cribers ; in reality, it does not calculate on Any, but much rather ore a ministerial subvention. The S'tenographe, supported, or rather paid, on the one hand by the Chamber, and on the other by the Ministry, has no subscribers but the Deputies, whose collective subscription is paid for by the country, at the rare of 6,000 francs (MO a month. The literary papers were formerly all in the op pos tion ; the Figaro was the only one which pros pered. Since it has nassed over to the ministerial camp the Corsaire has assumed its place in the opi nion of the public; but the Corsaire has not gained so many subscribers as the Figaro has lost. Among the periodicals, the Voleur, which was formerly in the first rank, is now far from it ; the Cabinet de Lecture, more varied and more really amusing, has replaced it. The Revue Britanniquc is at present but a magazine in the service of M. Perier, and destined to maintain in favour M. Saulnier, a prefect and journalist at the same time. The forthcoming novel of " The Fair of May Fair" consists of a series of tales, intended to illustrate, in the manner of Marmontel's " Contes Moraux," the character of a female flirt, a divorcee, a gambler, a parvenue, an aristocrat, and a woman of Fashion, living on a separate maintenance. Two other works, calculated to excite a very considerable sen sation in the world of fashion, about to make their appearance, are a novel from the pen of the author of " Matilda," and " Yes and tio,"—(Lord Mulgrave) called " The Contrast," and an other, entitled " Arlington," by Mr. Lister, the distinguished author of " Granby," and " Herbert Lacy." CONSUMMATE IMPUDENCE.—Daniel'Clarke was placed at the bar of the Queen_square police-office, on the following charge :—The maid -servant to Mrs. Smith, of Beau fort-row, Chelsea, on Monday morning, left some spoons and a basket of lemons in the back kitchen,. while she went to clean the front parlour windows. The prisoner, who bad observed her, got over the garden wall, and, entering the kitchen, took the spoons and lemons. He then returned to the front of the house, and asked the servant if she, wanted to buy any lemons! The servant suspected something, and said she would ask her mistress. She then went into the kitchen, and having ascer tained the robbery, rushed out of the front door, and caught hold ofjhe prisoner. The fellow had the impudence to declare to the Magistrates that he picked up both the spoons and the lemons in the road. He was committed for trial. • -- GENERATION UPON GENERATION.--There is at this time residing at Stock a boy, named Hills, the son of an industrious labourer, who haslive grandfathers living. This ex traordinary fact is thus ex plained—Farrow, who had a father living, married a young woman named Waldon, whose father was also alive. They had a daughter who married Hills, the father of the boy, who had a father and grandfather living. Thus Hills, sen. Hills, jun. Farrow, sen.. Farrow, jun. and Wahlon, make the five. Their united ages amount to :1 , 32. Our correspondent does not state whether the boy was fa voured with a smilar supply of grandmothers.