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Canvass, Cordage in Paper-stuff, Shakings, Coals, Bed. ditig, Ballast, Timber, Hand-screws, &c. &c. &c., ah lying in the said Yard. Persons wishing to view the Lots must apply to Captain Warren for Notes of Admission for that purpose. Catalogues and Conditions of Sale may he had here, lad at the Yard. J. W. MORTON. to State ; altho mall portion The said onount of fi Hider the late ceived to the <ection of the he said Seen lry into the - equired by the Act, the sum of 4,3301. ; f fees older the 48th section, and the first schedule to the Act, to the 26th of March, and which hays wen applied for the purposes mentioned in such section, the sum of 1791. 13s. Bd., out of which h;i maid for part of the expenses of the office, 33,, the Is, re.. 45 by as ( PRICE 7D.) LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 23, 1832. (No. 12,359.) FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAINE, APRIL 10. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. 12th of January last, already returned to the Honourable the House of Commons, is di MANSION-HO USE. 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(From the Morning Chronicle.) I said in my last, that with a free Press our Revolution would not be one of blood. I can not help offering a few observations suggested by that expression. We are threatened with a war of opinion. Let it come What are its horrors, that we should quake at its very mention, and cry out Vce Victis ! What is a war of opinion ? What are the weapons with which it is waged ? The vulgar implements of battle—the gun, the bayonet, and the sword ? No such thing. It is the least sanguinary of contests. It is not a warfare of blood. The plan of its campaigns is not traced in Cabinets, nor decided on the field. It is a conflict of thoughts and words. It is the mind militant which fights the fight, and gains the vic tory. It is a struggle of mental stream and tide, which works its way through the channels of intellect, uprooting prejudices, and sapping the embankment of old customs, by which it had been too long restrained. But viewing the question in its more obvious and general acceptation, no war but a civil war can be truly called a war of opinion. In do mestic struggles ,uaata arm for conscience sake, and fight from conviction. But no foreign war, whatever its pretext, possesses that character. It is waged with hireling soldiers; and mercenaries have no opinions. They fight from impulse or instinct. National prejudice may move their arms ; it cannot enlighten their minds. No two nations will now-a-days go to war, on abstract questions, religious or political; nor is there a chance of any calculator having to add a man to the nine millions seven hundred and thirty-three thousand victims reckoned up by Voltaire. In fact the world has grown wiser, and in a double sense. It knows the little value of mere theo ries of Government, conduct, or faith ; and it is satisfied that blows will never force conviction into the heads of men. Let us then dismiss our fear of this threatened war of opinion, and even forget Mr. Canning's memorable manifesto. It is well to quote a great man, in support of a grand principle. But the ex cathedra dictum of a statesman is only worth its weight after the circumstances which gave it currency are changed. It may float for a while in fictitious value ; but it rises or falls with the fluctuations of events. And is the Europe of to-day that of five years back ? The antediluvian world was not more different from our own. A deluge of light has poured on us. All the material forms of old abuses have been either washed away, or are rotting in the clefts and crevices to which they desperately cling. The eyes of men have been opened. Now indeed there is light. The two great bugbears that oppressed the world during the long darkness, were despotism and revolution. Wrapped in gloom, or only seen in glimpses, we knew not really what they were—we imagined them what they are not. Tyranny has too long played the part of ghost, to scare the old women and children of political life. The unreal nature of the cheat is now as despicable as it is evident. European freedom has had a long minority. It has struggled for centuries through its ordeal of adolescence. It is now of age ; and it stands up erect, with co lossal elevation—like the giant in Montgomery's poem : " In the full manhood of three hundred years." It now looks Despotism boldly in the face ; meets it foot to foot; and the decrepit monster dares not come to blows. If some few dull in tellects doubt the fact, it proceeds from the old prejudice of considering Governments as all in all, and nations as nothing. But fact will force conviction into the most stubborn and stolid. Even they must admit that there are now no mighty conquerors—no women more masculine and monstrous than the men—to urge their lords to foreign conquest, or trample liberty at home. There is now no Louis, no Frederick, no Napo leon, each and all " the Great," no Elizabeth, no Maria Theresa, no Catherine. Sovereigns have shrunk into their natural dimensions. The absolute monarchs of to-day are but monsters with drawn teeth, and clipped claws. Even Ni cholas is notoriously turning his attention to the amelioration of internal affairs. In Prussia, and even in Austria, Liberty is making vast strides, Were it dependent on the conduct of Francis, or Frederick William, the best prayer we could put up would be, that heaven might turn their hearts and make them tyrants. Let them dare attempt one act of oppression, and they are lust. Every day that prolongs the present state of things saps absolute power to its base. The monarchs know this well. Every one of their individual acts is a rebuke to their minion flatterers. The tide is full in. Canute must remove his chair. It is true that some isolated member of the mon ster-brood may struggle for awhile, and in its last efforts drag down a foe or two. It may then sing a Pavan ; but it is the chant of the dying swan. And what is Revolution to-day ? Does it now, as of old, end in military power, dictator, ship, or massacre ? The reply is recorded in the events of Paris, Brussels, and Brunswick. It is now clear, that as Governments learn the secret of their weakness, and the people acquire the consciousness of their strength, revolutions will be proportionately bloodless. Confidence has changed sides. The citizens are now willing to fight, the soldiers hesitate—and as each begins to know his relative power, and his relative place in the social system, both laugh on finding that the only difference between them is the cut or the colour of their coats. But the spirit of civili zation is not confined to citizen or soldier. It penetrates into the Cabinets, too often mere " places of skulls." The moral sense of justice overpowers the morbid instinct of oppression. The unwillingness to shed blood in a bad cause gains daily force. In fact, the people have every advantage. And while the upper classes learn to consider themselves a part ot', instead of coati . nuing to keep apart from, the people, the very sovereigns begin to feel that they do not in them selves form the whole pyramid of social power, but only its point. The Ettrick Shepherd is arrived in excellent health at Altrive, where his return was hailed with delight by his family and friends. In a letter received from him a few days ago, after recapitulating the kind attention he experienced from all classes of society, whilst he was in London, the unmphis icited and simple-minded poet con cludes his epistle by observing, " Our happy evenings are over for a space, and God knows if they will ever return; but I shall cherish the recollection of the nights I spent in London for ever." Mr. Mendoza, of Rosemary-lane, appeared to as. swer the complaint of a young man, named Clinch , By the solicitation of the barker to Moses, the core plairiant was, according to his own account, " per. wailed" upon to purchase a fashionable cut coat, with " wel wet" collar, and the cuffs al-o lined wit} " welwet," a " wesket" to match, and a pair () " kassemere" unmentionables, to complete " a Sun day-going turn-out ;" all of which the Jew care fully tied up in a handkerchief, as the complainant houghs, and delivered over to him, declaring thar he had " cot a pargin." When Clinch got home, however, he discovered the coat had been changed. He went to Moses, but he offered to swear any oath, and any where, that the coat was the same which had been selected. The magistrate was con sequently applied to, and Moses persisted in declar ing it was the same coat, and wished every body was as honest as he was. The Alderman desired the complainant to put the coat on, on which he con trived to squeeze his body into it, but cut so ludi• crous a figure, that the gravity of the Bench could not be preserved. Notwithstanding the dispropor tion of the coat and the wearer, the " barker" per. sisted in pronouncing it a " prime fir," and that it was the one originally purchased ; " for (said Moses) I'm so werry particler in my business, thar when a gentleman wants a harticle, I always asks him for a handkerchief to wrapt it up in, as there should be no mistake. I have been 18 years in the same spot, and never knowed what it was to have nothing agin me ; and when the gentleman came and accused me wilfully of changing the coat, my feelings were so much hurt that I told him I would not give no recompense." The Magistrate recommended Mr. Moses, for the credit of his shop, to change the coat. The " barker" said, " Well, your Worship, on your account, and only to oblige your Worship, I will change the coat."—With this promise the case was dismissed. BOW-STREET. On Saturday, a young lady of more than ordinary personal beauty, far advanced in pregnancy, applied to Mr. HALLS, the sitting Magistrate, for a warrant against a solicitor of considerable eminence, residing in the neighbourhood of Holborn, for committing an assault of an indelicate nature upon her, under rather peculiar circumstances. The husband of the applicant first stepped forward, and began to detail the circumstances, apologizing for doing so, by stating that they were of so delicate a nature that his wife could not bring herself to make the application personally. Mr. HALLS asked if the lady was present, and be ing answered in the affirmative, said, that however painful it might be to her feelings, it was absolutely necessary that she should state the facts herself. The lady came forward, and being sworn, deposed that her husband, who was a schoolmaster, had given his acceptance to a bill of exchange which the gentleman against whom she complained held. It was not convenient for her husband to take up the bill, and she, at his desire, waited upon the defendant to request that he would allow it to be renewed. The defendant received her with great politeness, and, after some conversation, he said should not ob ject to give her husband the accommodation re quired. She, upon this assurance, was about to leave the room, when the defendant took her by the hand, and placing her on the chair which she had just quitted, he said, " I am not immaculate—you are a very charming woman—forgive me, but I wish to have a few minutes' conversation with you." To this she objected, and endeavoured to get our of the room, but he held her fast, and proceeded to take liberties of a very improper kind with her. She remonstrated, and urged the situation she was in, and begged very earnestly that he would desist from his importunities, but he became only the more pressing, and at length said that if she would con sent to his wishes he would at once release her hus band from the pecuniary ob igation, and even ad vance a sum of money beyond the amount of that obligation. She, however, indignantly spurned at the offer, and made towards the door. He held her as tightly as he could, but by main force she got to the door, and when he found he could not detain her any longer, he said he hoped she would make allowance for h►s feelings—he was not master of his own conduct, when so beautiful a woman was in the way, and he hoped she would not expose him. She made him no promise, but forced her way out of the room, and went immediately to her husband, to 1 whom she communicated the whole of the circum. stances. The husband of the applicant stated that the case was made worse by the fact that the wife of the defendant was said to be at the point of death in a distant part of the country. Mr. HALLS granted the warrant, which was placed in the bands of one of the principal officers, who, on going to the defendant's residence, was in formed that he had gone into the country. The applicant stated herself to be within two months of her confinement. LAMBETH-STREET. The overseers of the hamlet of Mile-end Old Town attended to have their accounts passed. They alluded to some resolutions which had been passed at a public meeting, severely censuring their good living at the parish expense, and declaring that no more rates should be paid until the Select Vestry was overturned. Mr. WALKER, the Magis trate, after a few remarks on matters of business, said, " As to the allusiun made about dinners and feeding in these resolutions, it is mere nonsense. I say that persons who are doing the business of the parish gratuitously ought to have a dinner when they are so engaged, as it is a great stimulus to them to get through their business; and so long as they keep within bounds no notice should be taken of it. I have myself frequently dined at pariah dinners, and will again. Indeed I have been invited by the parish officers of Whitechapel to dine with them next week ; and if I had an invitation to dine with the Archbishop of York on the same day, I would send an apology to the latter, believing, as I do, that it is essential to the interest of the different parishes that a kind and cordial feeling should sub sist between the parochial officers and district Ma. gistracy. I can only say for myself, that I obtained much of the information of parochial matters and local affairs which I possess at these parochial din ners." After some other observations the accounts were passed, and the parties left the office. TV OR SHIP:STREET. On Saturday a sailor, who gave his name John Castle, was brought before the sitting magistrate, Mr. BROUGHTON, charged with having capsized an orange-stall, the properly of Benjamin Perkins. Benjamin Perkins stated that on Thursday even ing last, at nine o'clock, he was wheeling his bar row, consisting of oranges, apples, and other mer chandise, down High-street, Shoreditch, for the pur pose of selling them, when, unluckily for himself, the prisoner came up and upset the whole of the contents, value 3/. 10s. In consequence he gave him into custody, and on asking him at the station house what could have induced him to have done so, he replied that he had done it for a lark. Mr. BROUGHTON—What have you lost by your barrow being thrown over ?—Complainant—Your Worship, I have no wish to punish him if he will only pay me for the trouble I have had in cleaning the nuts and oranges which he threw into the mud. Believe me, your Worship, I have had a precious job of it, cleaning the nuts. It took me a whole day ; but, however, they are not hurt.—Mr.BROUGH TON—I don't know that ; 'tis not very pleasant to •at nuts after having been in the mud. To the Dri :oner—What have you to say P—Prisoner—Why, f I have done wrong I'll pay for it. Your Wor ship, he says I threw over his stall for a lark. Now, your honour, it happened in a lark. I had laid a wager of ss. to run backwards for half a mile in a terrain time, in doing which I accidentally came stern foremost on this good man's barrow, and cap sized it.—Mr. BROUGHTON, to the prisoner—There is a grand difference in the meaning of the words " in" a lark, and " for" a lark, and therefore, under all the circumstances, I shall merely order you to pay for the mischief you have done, which is 10s. or, in default of payment, ten days' imprisonment in the House of Correction.—Prisoner—Will your Ho nour let me sit down while I send to my friends in Wrapping for the money, for —me if I have a farthing ?—Mr. BROUGHTON—Certainly.—Priso ner—God bless your Honour ! May you live a long life ! QUEEN- S QUARE. Police constable Keinnty, of the B division, No. 74, was charged with attempting to violate the per• son of Caroline Miller, aged 19, the daughter of an artist in Kensington-place, Vauxhall•road. From the evidence of the complainant, it appeared that sure knew the prisoner from his acquaintance with her sister. Or► Thursday evening last, about half-past seven, she met him near Regent-street, Westminster, and he asked her to walk up Millbank with him. When they approached Vauxhall-bridge he wanted her to go down a lane with him which led to the Vauxhall-road. She refused; and he then seized her by both arms and dragged her down a considerable distance. The complainant begged him to let her go, but he refused. She then struggled with him until she fainted. On her recovery she found herself in his arms. He made use of a com mon low expression, and said " I'll murder you if you cry out again." He next thrust a handkerchief into her mouth, and on her resisting, threatened to throw her into a ditch close by. The complainant then fainted away. Mr. George Ray, a printer, of No. 3, Vauxhall bridge-road, said he was passing the top of the lane, when two ladies stopped him, and said that they had heard cries of murder and distress from a female down the lane. On going down the lane fifty yards he observed the prisoner and the com plainant, who had recovered from her fit, and who eagerly appealed to him for protection. The pri soner said that the young woman was subject to fits, and he had found her in one, and was endea vouring to get her home. In her struggles she had pulled his belt off his arm. The complainant was then taken home, and her father, on hearing of the prisoner's conduct, informed the Superintendent, Mr. Lowry, of it. The prisoner was taken before the Commissioner, who at once sent the case before the Magistrates. The prisoner, in defence, said that while walking with the complainant she took hold of him by the collar, laid her head upon his breast and fainted, and he merely took a handkerchief to wipe her lace, as she was covered with perspiration. Mr. MARRIOTT said, that it was a most serious charge. He did not know whether the threaten ing looks of the prisoner had deterred the complain ant from stating every thing, but there was quite sufficient to commit him for the misdemeanour. He trusted that the two ladies who heard the screams of the complainant, and had given information to Mr. Ray, might hear of this examination and attend at the Sessions, as their evidence was very impor tant for the prosecution. The prisoner was then ordered to find bail, him self in 2001. and two sureties of 1001. each, and the witne-ses were all bound over to prosecute.;. No bail being in attendance the prisoner was locked up. PARLIAMENTARY PAPER. BANKRUPTCY COURT. RETURN TO AN ORDER OF THE HON. HOUSE OF COMMONS, DATED MARCH 19, 1632; FOR, Return (A the Number of Issues tried by the Court of Re view in Bank.uptcy ; of the Number of Matters heard by that Court upon vied voce Evidence; of the Num ber of Days the Court has sat, and the Number of Hours on each Day ; of the Number of Petitions and Matters heard by the Court, distinguishing such as had previously been decided by the Vice-Chancellor, and such as were Matters beard ex parte, or not opposed ; of the Fees received by the different Officers of the Court, distinguishing those enumerated in Schedule I, of the Act authorising the establishment of the Court, from those enumerated in Schedule 2 ; of the Duties performed by the Deputy Registrars of the Court ; of the Duties performed by the Secretary, and the Number of Hours of each Day in which be had been engaged in the public Duties of his Office, and of the Amount of Fees received by him or his Clerks; of the Number of Attendances of any of the Judges of the Court as Cim roissioners ; of the Number of Matters now ready for bearing in the said Court of Review ; of the Amount of Fees received for the admission of Solicitors of the slid Court, and the purposes to which the same have been applied ; and also, of the Names of the Persons ap pointed Official Assignees. No issue has hitherto been tried by the Court of Review in Bankruptcy. Ni) matters had been, on the said 19th day of March, heard on viva voce evidence ; but two matters, which were then depending in the Court of Review in Bankruptcy, and had been before then appointed for hearing, have since been heard by that Court, and determined on viva voce evidence. The said Court had, on the said 19th day of March, sat 42 days ; but there are not any means of ascertaining the number of hours each day of its sitting, no memorandum having been kept thereof. One hundred and fifty-eight petitions and other matters were heard by the said Court of Review, to the said 19th of March inclusive ; of which two had been previously decided by the Vice-Chancellor, and one hundred and eleven were ex parte, or not opposed. The Judges have frequently attended at the Court of Commissioners of Bankrupt, in Basing hall-street, with a view to assist the Commis sioners, and sometimes on ar pointments ; but on one occasion only has a Judge actually sat as Commissioner. The number of matters which on the 19th of 'March stood for hearing in the Court of Re view, on that and subsequent days, was thirty ; of which eight stood for hearing on that day. The sums received for the fees enumerated in the second schedule of the Act, authorising the establishment of the Court of Bankruptcy, to the said 19th day of March, inclusive (comprehend ing 1361. 6s. for the filing of affidavits for pro curing the admission of Attorneys and Solicitors) amount to 4861. 2s. 4-id. The fees received for the admission and enrol ment of Attorneys and Solicitors to and upon that day, exclusive of those for filing their affi davits, amount to 6811. 10s. The expenses of the affidavits and enrolments, and the necessary books for entering the residences of the Attor neys an d S o li c it o rs admitt e d i n the Court of Bankrup tcy , up to the sam e d a y, is 671. 175.; after payment of which, there will remain a balance of 613/. 135.; which, by the rules made by the Judges of the Court of Review, on the rected to be applied to the same purpose as the fees received under the second schedule of the Ist and 2a William IV. c. 56. The names of the persons hitherto appointed official assignees are George John Graham, Ro binson John Kitchener, Robert Waithman the younger, Peter Harris Abbot, David Carman, James Foster Groom, George Lackington George Green, Patrick Johnson, William Tur. cr land, Alexander Brymer Belcher, James Clarke, Edward Edwards, William Tennant, Charles Turner, William Whitmore, George Gibson, Moses Asher Goldsmith, and Joseph Lowe ; three of the first eighteen of these gen tlemen are attached to each of the six Commis slime's of the Court ; but Mr. Joseph Lowe has not been attached to any Commissioner, so as to enter upon his official duties; nor will he be so attached, until it is found necessary to add to ie present number of acting official assignees. In consequence of the said order of the Ho nourble the House of Commons, the Depute Registrars of the Court of Bankruptcy re•pec tively, have been required to make a correct statement, for the information of that Honour able House, of the several matters and thing concerning them mentioned in the said order, and have for that purpose communicated the following statements. Francis Gregg, one of the Deputy Registrars of the said Court of Bankruptcy, attached to the Court of Review, states that the duties o► that office performed by him have been as follows : Attending upon and assisting the Judges of thit Coot, during its sittings : and afterwards, when the Coto, rose early enough to enable him to do so, and on days when it did not sit, attenoing at the offic, in Basing ball-street; inspecting the petitions brought there, and . . signing toe fiats for answering them ; examining bank. rupts' certificates, and the documents accompanying such certificates; conferring with attorneys, solicitors, and their clerks, relative to matters heard or depending in the Court of Review; drawing up orders of the Court, when rtquired, and generally assisting in the business of the office. John Vizard, the other Deputy Registrar of said Court of Bankruptcy, attached to the said Court of Review, states that the duties of that office performed by him have been as follows : Attending at the Registrar's office in Basinghall-street daily, from ten to four o'clock, there receiving and in specting all petitions presented for hearing in the Court of Review, and signing the fiats for attendance on them; keeping a daily record of such petitions, as they are to be brought on for hearing, for the use of the Court, and supplying each of the Judges with a copy (left by the Solicitor) of every petition, two days prior to the day fur hearing ; receiving all certificates o f bankrupts' conformity in the kingdom, when brought for allowance ; examining the same, and the several affi davits, powers of Attorney and other documents filed therewith, to see that the rules relating thereto, as prescribed by Statute and the general orders in bank ruptcy, have been complied with, and signing the ad vertisements for allowance to authorise their insertion in the Gazette ; preparing the allowance by the Court of such certiffcates at the expiration of the time specified in the advertisements, unless stayed by peti tion in the meantime ; receiving all applications and papers for drawing up orders on hearing; furnishing the R. eistr,ir with rvoru t,, coablc haw to draw the minutes of such orders, and when drawn, attending the Solicitors on both sides, on their meeting, to settle the minutes ; making the orders ready for engrossment, and uft-rwards passing and entering them; receiving; all applications for orders of course ; examining the affi davits and other documents filed in support of such orders; drawing up the orders, getting them engrossed, passing and entering them. Francis Charles Parry, Daniel William Rich ardson, William Cheek Bousfield, John Camp bell, William Henry Whitehead, and John Barnes, the six Deputy Registrars attached to the Commissioners of the said Court of Bank- ruptcy, state, that the duties of their respective offices performed by them have been as follows: — lit. To attend upon and assist the Commissioners, to whom the said Deputy Registrars are respectively at tached, in all their sittings; to examine the depos , tions and other documents presented to the Commissioners, anti ascertain their correctness in point of form; and examine the exhibits referred to, and ascertain that they are correctly set out. 2d. To examine all affidavits sworn before the Com missioners. 3d. To take down the examinations of various parties summoned by the Commissioners where no Solicitor attends, and on other occasions, when directed by the Commissioners. 4th. To examine and authenticate all advertisements for the Gazette, which come before the Commissioners. Bth. To prepare and fill up the summonses to the Soli citors and Assignees under the old commissions, for the purpose of examining their accounts. A. To assist the Comntisbioners in taxing Solicitors' hills, in all matters in bankruptcy depending before the Com. missioners. B. To examine the proceedings under commissions and fiats, and the necessary affidavits and documents for ob taining the bankrupts' certificates, prior to their being signed by the Commissioners. C. To keep the minutes of the proceedings of each daily sitting of the Commissioners ; to arrange the several proceedings and documents under commissions and fiats, and to attend to the various seirehes therein, and references thereto, which are constantly required. D. To keep an account of the fees payable under the 47th section of the I and 2 William IV. c. 56 ; the Court of Review having directed the Deputy Registrars to receive and pay them into the Bank of England, and to file the receipts with the Accountant General. The six last•meiitioned Deputy-Registrars further state, that the duties Nos. 1,2, 3,4, and 5, are considered public, and require their daily attendance ; and that the duties A, B, C, and D, occupy their time not devoted to attendance on the Commissioners, and frequently the whole evening. The Lord Chancellor's Secretary of Bank rupts is not an officer of, or attached to, the Court of Bankruptcy ; but in consequence of a copy of the Order of the Honourable the House of Commons having been forwarded to him, the said Secretary, not doubting but that the said order referred to his office, states, for the infor mation of the Honourable the House of Corn , moos, that as the duties of that office are multi farious, and not limited to hours or to attend ance at his office, it is impossible to make a re turn in the precise terms of the order. The said Secretary further states, that the duties of his office consist of a general superin tendence of all the business directed by the se veral Statutes to be transacted at the office set apart for the purpose, and which require and have had his daily attendance there ; that to these are to be added attendances in Court, when any matters in Bankruptcy are discussed there ; and very frequent attendances upon the Lord Chancellor personally at the House of Lords, or at his own house, sometimes in the morning before his Lordship goes into Court, and at other times late in the evening upon various matters of business. The said Secretary further states, that he, like the Lord Chancellor's other Secretaries, is one of his Lordship's attendants at the House of Lords, and on occasions of CAPTAIN ROSS. The uncertainty which hangs over the fate of hip gallant officer, owing to the length of time .vhich has elapsed since any thing was heard of and to the appalling difficulties of his un dertaking, is the mole distressing since, if he has perished, he may be considtled as having fallen a victim to the intrigues of as con temptible a junto as ever smattered in science, tiis failure to explore Lancaster's S quid w an accident which might have befallen any officer ;; and it was owing to the very parties who . t.trneci igainst him. When off the coast neat the htad of this Sound, of which no appearance was visible to the eye. he sent below to re q lest tiro tine " men of science " would come upon duck to examine the land, and give their (Onion as to whether it would be advt , able to stand close in shore and search for an opening. These learned persons, including Captain Sabine of ‘• coking celebrity,* happened at the time to he playi.g at chess, and not choosing to break off their game, they sent hack word that they had alrea-y ex amined the appearance of the 1 ind, and chat the idea of find,ng an entrance was chimerical. NtA observing anything to lead bin) to doubt the ac curacy of this, Captain Ross acquiesced. Matters continued in this state, all the scientific persisting in this opinion, until the expedition reached Orkney. Here Sabine and his as sociates picked up a newspaper, in which th.y found a paragraph from some communication by Mr. Barrow, in which that gentleman expressed the most confident conviction that there was an opening where they had ridiculed the idea. This discovery effected an instant change in their way of thinking and acting. The Secretary must be right ; and Mr. Barrow being right, Capt. Ross must be wrong ; that was promptly agreed on. Accordingly, the whole blame was shifted on the Commander; and the chess-playing lu minaries of science, including the renowned Captain, joined in the cry against poor Captain Ross. This was galling enough to a gallant and proud-spirited man ; nor wa, the bitterness of the mortification lessened by the discovery which was afterwards made, of an opening where Capt. Ross had been induced to report there was none. The circumstance appears to have preyed upon his spirits ; and Captain Ross had a steam-boat constructed at his own expense, and set o itlgwithlnlet, y his son and a small but hardy crew, to endeavour ttohepesntertait of penetrate th t r i o le ug F h u P ry rit a ic nd Prince Regent's Hecela, along northern coast of America, and then to proceed through Behring's Strait to Kamtschatka_ 11,4 from the time that the adventurous navigators entered the Inlet, not a whisper has been heard of them ; and the only thing certain respecting them is, that they have not succeeded in effect ing the object of their desperate enterprise. Whether they have even survived the attempt is now exceedingly doubtful. Captain Ross, we fear, was not provided with the necessary means for encountering so many winters in the Arctic regions. He seems to have calculated upon the power of steam enabling him to force his way in much less time than would he occupied by sail-boats; and as this calculation has not been realized, the natural inference appears to be that he is either locked up in ‘, thick-ribbed ice," or has suffered shipwreck on the frozen shores of the Arctic Sea. As the report of its being in the contemplation of Government to send one or two vessels in search of Captain Ross is without foundation ; we trust that the Captains of the vessels employed in the whale fishery on the north eastern coast of America, will make every possible effort to obtain some information respecting Captain Ross, and in the event of their discovering that he is still alive, encounter some risk to afford him assistance.—Scotch Paper. * See Babbage on " Th. .:nee in England." THE PIONEERS.- flits woci, which unites all the charms of romance with the interest of the most exciting book of travyls, is now reprinted in " The S andard Novels." Never bas Coorcit shown himself more happy in &scribing the grand and imposing scenery of his n awe country, than in this story. Who that has once re rd " The Pioneers" can ever forget the character, that figure upon the scene ? The old Indian Hunter, Leatherstocking, whom nothing can divert from old habits and old associa tions,—the great land proprietor and administrat , Ts of the laws, 111 am +duke Temp e—Billy Ku by, the eidetic wood-chopper—Dr. Todd, the phy-ici ,n, whose know ledge of his art is rather obtained than corrected by experiments on the human constittrion—'he h.lf educated, litigious lawyer, Hir to aailittle, are all portraits that cannot easily be erased from the tn.- m Ty. BRUNTON'S admirable story of " S2lf Gmtrol" is .n. nounc , rl to form the next volume of " The Standard Novels." It is, we understand, in the contemplation of the Post office to tran-mit all the mails of the kingdom by two light horse vehicles, instead of the iiair-oor-e post coaches at present in use. Since the itnproveinents to road•making, and the correspondent improvement in the quality of the ordioary stage coaches, and the spe ai of tra velling, the mails are no longer the fastest or the best coaches on their respective roads ; and the contractors, who calculated on a preference at all tim-s from the tra veller, with whom speed and accommodation were the only bjects, now find that their gains front this Isom co are must ruinously diminished, and that th• y cannot continue to carry the mails by four-horse coaches without a more liberal allowance from Government. Taking this into consideration, and having ascertained that by the use of two-horse machines, carrying two passengers, as in France, the speed of the conveyance of the mails cin be increased by full two milts an bout, it is proposed by the Post office, at the end of the present contracts. to adopt , the new system throughout the kinginon.—Observer of yesterday. LAW REFORM IN AMERICA.—Before the Revolution, a judgin.nt could not b- obtained under eight years in the Supreme Court, when the suit was in tile de partment of the common law, which embraces nine-tenths bf the subjects of legal contestation. In that of the Chancery, from twelve to twenty years were requisite. The reformation of this was among the first works of the Legislature after the independence of the United Sates. A Judgment can now be obtained in the Supreme Court in one year at common law, and in abut three in Chan cery.— Westminster Review. STRIKES FOR ‘VAGES.—On Saturday last, the workmen employed at the woollen-cloth In +nut t: , ory !tlessrs. HENRY BKOOK and SoNs, of Htrldvr,tield, 'truck work for an advance of wage., ; ari,l the eryperi .n the employ of hlemits. PEULEY at 1 Co., of th e same place, have since ..lowed their example. We understand that the advance required on the weave .vagets la Iron 20 to 25 per cent. upon the pre,ent t ,. ic,s This day was published in 2 vols. post S vo . 21 s . THE EARL of MUNSTER'S ME MOIRS of the LATE WAR; together with the PERSONAL NARRATIVE of CAPT. COOKE of the 43d Regiment. " These sketches are among the liveliest specimens of mili tary description th at we have happene d to meet w i t h anyw h ere. Lord Munster's picture of Soult's flight from Oporto may rank VII the best pages of • Cyril Thornton,' or • The Subaltern.' His volume is full of interest, —evidently the work of a humane a nd gallant mi n d , an d an enthusiastic soldier of Wellington."— Quarterly Rev. March. F ruited for Colhurn and Bentley, New Burlington-street.