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On the 28th of December last, a statement appeared in the Brighton Guardian, reflecting on the character of the plaintiff. of which the following is the substance:— " That on the 20th of December, when the Regulator coach arrived at Lewes, the public were attracted to it by the coachman accusing, and pointlpg out to persons as semblsd in the street, a Mr. Richards, (the plaintiff), who is the land-agent of Lord Gage, and a venerable man of 65 years of age, and accusing him of having conducted himself in a ruffianly manner towards the wife and daughter of a respectable tradesman in the town ; that his conduct was so gross as to compel his removal from the inside to the outside of the coach ; and that upon this statement of the coachman, the people of Lewes had very properly expressed their detestation. That Mr. Richards was an old m in, and, as an agent of Lord Gage, ought to have exerted the influence which be possessed as such, to pr tect morala anti female virtue, and not to destroy them." The alledged libel concluded by expressing a wish, that if the charge made against Mr. Richards were false, those who made it would be punished. . The defendant pleaded a justification, and the jury, after a abort deliberation, returned a verdict for the plaintiff— Damages one farthiaz. CROWN COURT. Ann Kennet. aged 23, was indicted as an accessory after the fact in the murder of Celia Holloway. It is well know to the public that John Holloway, the husband, was executed I Alt winter for the murder of his wife, which he 'perpetrated under circumstances of great barbarity at Brighton. Ann Kennet is the woman with whom he co hahited at the time. She was tried with him for the murder last winter assizes, and aquitted. She was now charged as an accessory after the fact. She has since borne a child by Holloway, and appeared with it at the bar. She was allowed a chair during her trial. After a patient investigation of the case, the Jury ac quitted the prisoner, apparently to the satisfaction of the spectators. MURDER NEAR WARRINGTON. APPREHENSION AND COMMITTAL OF THE MURDERED MAN'S WIFE. Since the trial and execution of William Heaton at Lancaster for the diabolical murder of Thomas Ratcliffe at Barton Wood, near Warrington, some extraordinary dis claques relating to the barbarous crime have been made by several of the friends and relatives of the murderer, from which it appeared that there was every ground for supposing that Ratcliffe's wife was implicated with Heaton as an accessary to the murder of her own husband. It appears that immediately after the condemnation of Heaton, a man named Joseph Lawson, Heaton's brother in-law, who had given evidence favourable to the convict at the trial, intimated to Mr. Foulkes, of Manchester, the Attorney for the defence, that the wife of Ratcliffe was equally criminal in the affair with Heaton, for be (Lawson) bad himself heard her urge the unfortunate man to put her husband out of the way. Mr. Foulkes, on hearing this statement, recommended Lawson to go to the proper au thorities and disclose all he knew on the subject. Lawoon took the advice of Mr. Foulkes and communicated informs tion, touching the guilt of Ratcliffe's wife, to Davis, an officer from Lambeth-street (now deputy constable of Warrington), who apprehended Heaton in the first in stance, and he, under the directions of the Magistrates of Warrington, proceeded to Barton Wood for the purpose of making further inquiries, in order to ascertain whether there were any substantial prounds to found a charge against the unfortunate Ratcliffe's wife. Upon arriving at Barton Wood, Davis received such information, both of a new character and in corroboration of Lawson'estatement, as warranted him in apprehending the woman, who was still living in the house occupied by herself and her mur dered husband. The disclosures made to Davis went also to shew that an illicit intercouse had for a considerable time existed between Ratcliffe's wife and the murderer, and that her dislike for her husband, and partiality for the latter, had prompted her to conspire with Heaton, to take the life of her husband. From the evidence adduced against Heaton at his trial it appeared that the deceased Ratcliffe was an infirm cripple, but the murderer Heaton seemed a hale athletic countryman. Heaton, subsequent to his condemnation, confessed his guilt to Mr. Row'ey, the Reverend Chaplain of the gaol of Lancaster, but did not in any way implicate the wife of Ratcliffe. It will be recollected that, at the trial, a potato fork, spotted with blood, was produced by Davis in evidence against Heaton. The fork was not found is Heaton's dwelling, but in that of an acquaintance of his, who said at the trial that the spots of blood were not upon the fork the day previous to the murder, when he put it away, and that it had not I ern used by the witness, or any of his fa mily, since his so placing it by. This witness, about the time of the murder, was not in his own house, but had gone to fetch his wife from somewhere, leaving the door on the latch. Heaton having been seen in the neighbour hood of the witness's house alluded to during the time the witness was out, the circumstances led to the supposition, bat the murderer had taken the fork from the house, with which he went and perpetrated the murder, and then re• placed it. Such, however, it has turned out, was not the case, which shows that implicit confidence should not be placed in circumstantial evidence, be the links ever so strong. Those who read the confession of Heaton, as given to Mr. Rowley, will remember that he strenuously denied having murdered his victim with the potato fork, but said that lie had committed the deed with a hedge hook and afterwards threw that instrument into a pond, or pit, of water, the situation of which he described. The pond alluded to has since been dragged, and the hedge-hook Beaton described was found. The woman Ratcliffe, im mediately after her apprehensi was placed in a post chaise, and conveyed by Davis to the gaol at Warrington. On Wednesday, she was taken before the Warrington ma gistrates, when she underwent a long examination, the re sult of which was, that she was fully committed to Lan ,easter Castle for trial, from which her guilty paramour bas just been released, by the forfeiture of his life. DREADFUL EXPLOSION AND LOSS OF LIFE AT MANCHESTER. MANCHESTER, MARcm 23. Last evening about six o'clock, the neighbourhood of St. Ann's-square, the Market-place, and the principal streets adjacent, were thrown into the utmost state of con sternation and alarm, in consequence of a shocking ex plosion which aheok the buildings in the streets alluded to, to the very foundation, similar in its effect to a severe 'shock of an earthquake. The shock was instantaneously followed by large volumes of smoke or steam, which com pletely darkened the atmosphere. The inhabitants of the warehouses and shops contiguous, rushed out of their workplaces petrified with astonishment and fright, when it was ascertained that the steam-engines of Messrs. Goodier and Crow, the calenderers, of Pool-fold, New- Marbet-buildings, had suddenly burst, destroying the whole of their extensive calendering premises, consisting of an immense quantity of machinery and property of other descriptions, and burying in the ruins a number of the operatives in their employ. Upon proceeding to the scene of devastation, the whole of the calender works—build ings four stories high—were literally guttted, as though the mischief had been the effect of a dreadful fire ; the beams and machinery were seen hanging upon fragile materials, threatening destruction to any persons venturing into the ruins; and the shocking catastrophe was merely the work of one single moment. Workmen were immediately em ployed to clear away the timbers and bricks, for the pur ascertaining the extent of the loss o f l if e; in doin g pose of which one of the workmen perceived the hand of a boy amongst the ruins, which he laid hold of for the purpose of pulling him up, when shocking to relate the band came from the body from the effects of scalding. Opon further search the body of the boy was found quite dead ; four other youths were picked out of the wreck also quite dead. Their names are John Hurst, John Ogden, Thomas Hinehcliffe, Joseph Smith ; and several others who are missing, who were seen at their remit a short time before, are supposed to have perished anti are still beneath the ruins. Mr. Goodier, one of the partners, was much in jured, and conveyed to the Infirmary, as were a consider able number of workmen more or less injured. The bodies of most of the unfortunate youths who have thus come to a premature grave were shockingly mutilated and scalded. It appears that the engine was not at work at the time, but the engineer was making prepartions to commence working. There were two boilers, and a 60. horse power of steam was on at the time. A Bond deal of neglect is attributed to the engineer, which, however, is not yet ascer tained, in consequence of his now lying in the Infirmary in a precarious state. Amongst the property destroyed are four cafender machines, of an expensive description ; and the estimate of damage sustained it is expected will exceed 2,0001. One of the sufferers, Ogden, was sadly crushed about the head; and the e y es of Smith hung in a shocking manner from their sockets, and the hair was completely taken off his head by the steam. Several causes are assigned for the accident. Mr. Cross, one of the principles of the firm, thinks that the engines had either been overloaded with steam, or that something had sot between the weights of the valve, which prevented it from rising, and giving the steam ita required vent. The last is the most probable ; but either way there appears to have been some mismanagement. There were two boilers attached to the engine, both of which burst, one after the other. Considerable damage was done to the windows of warehouses in the neighbourhood from the shock. An investigation, touching the deaths of the deceased, will be held before John Milne, Esq., the Coroner, either to-day or Monday, by which time it is probable that other bodies may he found in the ruins, Ai the workmen have been busily employed in searching the whole morning. PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ARMY ESTIMATES. ABSTRACT of the ESTIMATES of NON.EFFECTIVE ARMY SERVICES, from the Ist of April, 1832, to the 31st of March, 1833. s p p ®@ 5.P:.- 1 1 j j ,=gll..l I glxEll 11l ! m e2s...gra.7=iF>'Px'j l j g . g.s . Av3,' 5 E 2 i';',. 6 l = . g I El. y EEO 5. - E ' - 0 : 1- .1 7 -4 i „ 4 _ . 1.7,--tzg. l = , S 0 =.t...' . a2—. g " ! cat..r6Tg E rr - d".s, &. T . ; 27.g.;T4.7. - - › 3nm>E" o - ' , =23 . = .... - e-= ..I›:i2l .•,. 0 68 3a,a2.,01 t a , 4 g.; 9 ,5, ',O 3. -..,= .›.O ao '1 12 .; ga.l9. ?-0 3 30. . ........,' 6,4 -'. ao2 4'2 n9to =". P.R2 fr , F. , •ir- - r4 E. 4 E. 'g 8 .:8 .4 . 2,5 1. 1 :§ :'' :§ thg 121 . . - 0 -..4 -i u .1 7. R. 7.; - 1. 4 7: 2 kis P -- 3 AP51 , 41 2 E 0 1§ F. tt §l§§ m ,-7. .; ..5 . ocil oaool" S oS .zo 0 co cocoP. F :.1 5 1 4 ' : = :g : .§ ?. ..r n .... 2. :.:. . . ,a bo ZS' co . . 5 P. A co co mo 0 P. I iIA . i - .- ' + g V 1.1 S§Ve.l% §k; g§ 5V §§§§- g !.... _ _ _ . .. .. . 0? ....r ~ O».G= 0 00 00009. MEMORANDUM. By the Act 4 Geo. IV. c. 71, a Sum of 60,0001. per annum is paid into his Majesty's Exchequer by the East India Company on account of the Charge for retiring Pay and Pensions, and other Expenses of that nature, arising in respect of his Majesty's Forces serving in India. The Sum is applied annually towards the general Expenses of the State. War.office, March 19, 1532. JOHN HOBHOUSE. CHOLERA NIORBUS. OFFICIAL REPORT. CENTRAL COUNCIL OFFICE, DAILY REPO BOARD OF HEALTH. COURT OF CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) EXPARTE COX IN THE MATTER OF JARVIS A BANKRUPT.-IMPORTANT JUDGMENT- The points in this matter were discussed a few days ago. A Commission of Bankruptcy was taken out, and an adjudica. Lion took place. The 28 days expired within which a Commission after it has issued usually finds its way into the Gazette, without either this Commission having been Gazetted or notice of the adjudication having been given at the office of the Secretary of Bankrupts, A second fiat issued on the application of another creditor on the twenty-ninth day after the issuing of the first. The party who took out the first then came forward and said it wag his intention to open the com mission forthwith, and that he would have done so earlier, had the party issuing the second expressed a wish to that effect. A petition was then presented to his Lordship, praying that he would be pleased to annul the second fiat on the ground that the proceedings under the first were regular, the adjudication having been made on the 26th day, and the Gazetting on the 23rd day. The Counsel for the petitioner contended for the validity of the first process. Sir Edward:Sugden, for the respondent, relied principally on the doc trine of Lord Loughborough, expressed in an order made by him in 1793, that it was necessary that a fiat should be proceeded with within twenty-eight days from the day of its issuing, other wise another party should be at liberty to take out another, and that if there should subsequently be a struggle between the two parties, the party issuing the second fiat would be preferred. At all events, the Ldarned Counsel argued here that notice ought to have been given. The LORD CHANCELLOR, after all the consideration he had been able to giveto the case, did not consider the doctrine of Lord Loughborough inflexible, nor did he, in the result of all his researches, find that a bona fide proceeding of this sort was necessary to be treated as a proceeding that must either lead to a notice of it in the Gazette or at the Bankrupts' Office. It was expedient, that, at least. notice! at the Bankrupt Office should be given. Had the notice been given in the present instance the second trial would not have been granted. In the circum. stances here, therefore, his Lordship judgment was, that the prosedendo should issue on the first trial—that the second should be annulled, but that in consequence of no notice having been given at the Bankrupt Office of the adjudication, the party taking out and sustaining the first fiat should pay the costs attending the issuing of the second. ?RIC'S OT IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, MARCH 21. Bank Stock 2044 St. l Patrick Insur.(perShare Consols, 3 Der cent 82% 'Royal Irish Ditto Gov. Stock, 3% per cent. 90% National Ditto Ditto, New ...........«.«..90 4, Patriotic Ditt0........... I per Cent --Hibernian Bank Gov. Deb. 3% percent.... 84% (Provincial Ditto Royal Lanai Stock 85%, Royal Irish Mine Grand Canal Stock S7N !Imperial Mine City Deb. 4 per cent. '77 Alining Co. of Ireland Ballast Office Deb. 4p. c. Commercial Buildings Places and Date. Ely, Cambr. March 23 South Shields, March 22 Coldstream,March 21......' Hetton, &c., March 17:...1 Portobello, March 20 Water of Leith, March 21 Bonnington, March 21 Greenock, March 21. Glasgow, &c., March 21..fi Mary Hill, March 21 Paisley, March % .........I Pollockchaws, March 21... Falkirk, March 20 ITotal Total from places where and from which no retu received. LONDON -MA: 1 , to t g District .% 1"- ... ' of Tower Afloat in the River......... ' Limehouse, Feb. 13.. St adwell Ratelift' I Poplar Bermondsey Southwark Newington Butts , Camberwell Christchurch Westminster, Chelsea St. George's, Hanover-sq. Mary lebone Paddington Canal. St. Pancras St. G iles's Whitechapel ... St. Georges's East St. Luke's Bethnal Green 1 Brentford Wandsworth Woolwich Total 1166 147 Cases from places before reported Grand Total.. ..... 1 680 (Signed WM. MACLEAN, Secretary. • The two fatal cases reported at Camberwell yesterday, oc cured in the village, but within the boundaries of the parish of Lambeth, and the total numbers have been altered accordingly. LITERARY UNION. Various mis-statements having been circulated respecting this club, it is important that the correct account of its circumstances should be known ; for what with the frauds of some clubs, the building debts of others, and the negligent ma. nagement of most of them, the club system in London may suffer serious injury, if not an extinction. This would be un fortunate, for whatever objections may have been urged to clubs, they unquestionably produce excellent effects in detach ing persons from the gaming table, and from the excesses of coffee-houses ; and they afford to young men, whose families are not in London, a resort, partaking more than any other of the character of domestic life. The Literary Union corn. menced with an entrance fee of only two guineas, and a subscription of two guineas a year. The first has been gradually raised to fifteen guineas and the latter to five guineas a year, and the climax to this mismanage. ment is the failure of the banker, who, as one of the committee of the club, lodges its funds in his own insolvent and tottering house. It was alleged that bankers would not takr the ac counts of clubs, (a strange assertion), and that the balance was left in the hands of Messrs. Duckett, as a remuneration for their kindness and trouble. Sir G. Duckett was placed in a double capacity of banker and one of the committee of the club, pay ing with one hand, and receiving with the other. Without violating the general principles of bankers, or trespassing upon the interests of his clients, he advised the committee of the Literary Union, to invest their money in Exchequer Bills, a hint which they were too lax to take. No managing member of a club ought to be its banker, wine supplier, or to have any personal interest in the expenditure of its funds. In order to avoid all invidious distinctions, perhaps it would be better for all clubs to bank at the Bank of England. The Secretary of a club ought to receive its subscriptions, and to pay them daily into the Bank when they amount to the minimum which the Bank will receive. The failure of the Crown Club, with the debts of many others, ought to have made the Literary Union more cautious and vigilant. This club has done much to pre. judice Sir George Duckett's affairs ; for, by calling upon its members for a new subscription, it betrays its want of confi dence in the settlement which the bankrupts have held out to their creditors. George Pearce and John Moore were on Tuesday executed at Fisherton Anger, in pursuance of their sentence. They were convicted of viiipation.—Peci. , ,c. Uazeite. HAY MA RKETS.—( At per Load of 36 Trusses.) CUMBERLAND (LATEST. JAMES'S.) Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £2 5 to £2 10 New Meadow Hay 0 0 0 0 Useful Old Ditto 2 15 3 10 Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay 3 15 4 4 Llover Hay 4 0 5 5 Oat Straw .£1 12 to £1 14 I Wheat Straw... 118 2 0 A moderate supply, but trade dull ; prices stationary. SMITHFI ELD. Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £2 10 to £2 15 New Meadow Hay ........... ..... 0 0 0 0 Useful Old Ditto 3 0 3 10 Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay ..... 315 4 4 clover Hay (extra fine)....£6 o...Oenerally Oat Straw I 14 to .£1 161 Wheat Straw 1 16 1 18 A good supply, and a steady trade ; and prices as last quoted. The Gazette of last night contains various Orders it► Council, in reference to the Cholera. In the event of any person dying, or being affected with symptoms of cholera on board of any vessel or boat of any description, sailing from any port of the United Kingdom, the master or other person in charge of the vessel shall cause a yellow flag " to be kept hoist ed," and shall not himself, nor permit any of his crew to leave the vessel, or hove any communication with any other vessel, or filth the shore in any part of the United Kingdom, until his vessel shall have been examined, and regularly released by the proper officers, A second order empowers the Board of Health for the parish of Lambeth to enforce the payment of .00/. out of the poor rates of that parish, for the expenses in curred by the said Board ; and that this order is issued because the Vestry of the said parish had declined to provide for the same. And a third order directs that the Board of Health for the city , of Norwich shall convene a General Court of the Guardians of the Poor, and submit to the said Court proposals, accounts, and estimates, and apply to it for money to defray the reasonable expenses of the said Board of Health. _ _ The High Sheriff, A. Donovan, Esq., during one of the trials on Tuesday, in the Crown Court, to which he had listened with much apparent attention, actuated by the impulse of the moment, with great en erg y p u t a ques ti o n to one of the witnesses, as if acting in his Magisterial capacity, and that, too, while the Judge himself was in the act of ques tioning the witness. The abruptness of this interruption caused the Learned Judge to smile, and he gently put his hand towards the Sheriff; who seemed much confuse d, The Coun. sel laughed heartily.—BrdeateN Gawk., Just published in Sen., price 2s. 6d. T HE PREROGATIVE of CREATING PEERS. • • But on another and critically important question, the powers of this pamphlet are bestowed with great effect in esta blishing the necessity of an immediate recourse to that preroga tive, with a view to the salvation of the country. The language employed for this purpose is so emphatic and convincing that we shall not weaken it by a paraphrase or translation of the Author's words.—Times, March 22. • • • Highly distinguished for the extent of constitutional learning and soundness of argument. —Chronicle. Jamie Ridgway, 21, Piccadilly, and through every hook seller (who has in the Press a second edition of " Monta gue Gore's Reply to Sir John Walsh on the Present Balance of Parties." 2s. 6d.) , WHITEHALL.—(THIS DAY.) iRT of CHOLERA CASES. .., II g i , II U tz 1 z, I it Ou g 7 7)§6 -,.te R 2 s ..• § 11 0 sly 51 I se ha been 17 1124 s ceased,i this otayl rand TotaL 1 FIVE P. t e I= • a § E RISING FOR THE HOLIDAYS. His LORDSHIP stated that he had intended to sit all next week, but that as this was not approved of by the Bar, and as it had been stated, he would rise on Thusday the 29th, he should do so. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.) FROM LLOYD'S. DEAL, MARCH 23..—Wind W.S. W.—Arrived the Bram ley, Brown, from Smyrna. Arrived and sailed for the River, the Welcome, Paul, from the Mauritius. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 23.-Wind W.—Arrived from London, the Sir Edward Codrington, for Sidney, N.B. PLYMOUTH, MARCH 22.—Wind W.S. W.—Sailed his Majesty's ship Pike, for the Cape of Good Hope. MARGATE, MARCH 23.—Arrived off port, the Ann, from St. Jago de Cuba. DOVER, MARCH 23.—Arrived off port, the Jane, Battray, from Havannah. HOLYHEAD, MARCH 2.2.—Arrived the Corsair, Jenkin son, from Halifax. - LIVERPOOL, Maacu a—Arrived the Hibboleth, An. drew, from Savannah ; and the St. Croix, Brandley, from Trieste. GREENOCK, MARCH 21.—Arrived the Arethusa, Boyd, from Trinidad. DUBLIN, MARCH22.—Arrived the Levant Packet, Per cival, from Palermo; and the Vesirta, Andrews, from Messina. BRIGHTON, MARCH 21.—Arrived off port, the Pheasant, M'Cullum, from the Mauritius. • The Penelope, from the Mauritius, )s supposed to be arrived off Dover. The Hebe, Lethe, from Sunderland, to Schiedam, was aban doned, being in a sinking state : crew saved. BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.) UNSTAMPED NEWSPAPERS. John Davis-, a poor half-starved looking fellow was brought before Mr. MINSHULL, the Magistrate, charged with selling unstamped Newspapers. A police constable in plain clothes stated that he was walk ing through Ship-yard, Temple.bar, when he observed the de fendant in the act of selling a number of the publication called the Poor Man's Guardian to a man passing by. He seized him immediately, and took the whole of his stock from him, which consisted of the Poor Man's Guardian and the Cosmopolite. Mr: MINSHULL asked the officer where the defendant had purchased the works ? The officer said he had purchased them of a person in Ship-yard, who had been before convicted at this office. On the defendant being call upon to answer the compaint, he pleaded hard to be set at liberty. He said that he had a wife and large family to support, who at that moment were in a state of starvation. He could procure a good character from his master, with whom he had lived for the last ten years, but was compelled to leave about a fortnight ago, through a stagna. tion in his trade. The Magistrate asked to what trade he belonged Y—The de fendant said he was a seal-skin-dresser, and his late master lived in High street, Bloomsbury. The Magistrate said, he was very sorry to say that he had made himself liable to three months' imprisonment in the House of Correction. He, however, under the circumstances would send for his last employer, and hear what he bad to say, beforo he gave his judgment. The officer was desired to procure the attendance of the de. fendant's master, and in the interim the defendant was re. manded. STANDARD NOVELS. On the Ist of April, complete in one volume, neatly bound and illustrated, and revised and corrected by the Author, expressly for this Edition, price 65., THE -PI.ONEERS, FIGARO IN LONDON. An Irishman named Moran, was charged by a Policeman named Corrie, of the C. division, with selling the publication called Figaro in London. The Magistrate, upon looking at the cuts in the work, laughed heartily—one represented Lord Plunkett as an Irish political Kangaroo, and the other " The political game of High cockalorum." He observed that this was the first time that any person had been brought before him for selling this work. The officer said it was ; they did not wish to press for a severe conviction, but they wished merely to make an example, to pro. hibit others from selling the work. The Magistrate asked who he meant by they ? The officer said the Stamp Office Commissioners. The officer then proved that he saw the defendant that morn. ing selling the publication in Leicester Square, whereupon he took him into custody. The Magistrate asked who was the publisher of the work ? The officer said a person of the name of Strange in Paternoster. row. • There was a prosecution pending against Strange, which would shortly come to an issue, and in the interim it was determined, if possible, to put an end to the sale of the pub. lication. The defendant, as in the other case, pleaded in excuse, dis tress. The Magistrate, under these circumstances; sentenced the defendant to three weeks imprisonment in the House of Correction. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) COVENT-GAR' IEN MARKET. There was a moderately good s with a steady trade. Prices neap s. d. s. d Potatoes (cwt) ...... 2 6 to 5 C Catttaftes (12 heads) 1 0 2 0 Red ditto 3 0 5 0 Savoy ditto 1 0 2 0 Horse Itadish(bundle) 4 0 8 0 Brocoli 1 0 2 0 supply at this naorning's market, irly as on this day se'nnight. s d. s. d. Spinach (half-sieve) 0 6 to! 0 Apples 4 0 8 0 Span. Chesnuts (peck) 6 0 10 0 French ditto 4 0 6 0 Spanish tiazlenuts 6 0 10 0 French Walnuts 4 0 6 0 Brazilian Nuts 2 0 4 0 ISweet Oranges (100) 5 0 14 0 Seville Oranges 8 0 14 0 Lemons 9 0 15 0 Endive (pummet) 0 9 1 0 Sea Kail ..... 0 6 1 0 .Jew Potatoei 0 6 1 0 Radishes (hand) 0 3 0 4 Asparagus (bundle) 5 0 10 0 French Bcans 3 6 7 0 Celery Carrots ;12 bunches) 4 0 5 6 1 Turnips Coleworts or Greens 2 6 4 0 Leeks 1 6 3 o For. Grapes (per lb.) 1 0 2 6 English, Forced 3 0 5 0 Filberts Pine Apples (lb.) Turnip Greens (bush) 0 4 0 8 COURSE OF EXCH. Amsterdam C.F 12 2 Ditto, at sight " —..11 19 Rotterdam 2U 12 2 Antwerp 12 4 Hamburg M.B. 13 14 Altona l3 144 Paris, 3 days' sight . 25 65 Ditto .4 il. 25 90 Bordeaux 25 95 Berli4 — Frankfort on Maine, Ex. 51.154 Petersburgh, ruble, 3 Us. 10 0 Vienna, effbctive A. 2M. 10 9 Trieste do lO 10 Madrid. 36 Cadiz 36 Gilboa Barcelona 36 Seville 36 Gibraltar 47 ,NOK YESTERDAY. Leghorn 47% Genoa. .2 5 85 Venice 47 Malta 46 Naples 4O Palermo perm 119 Lisbon Oporto 4B Rio Janeiro 27% !Buenos 26 Ayres Dublin, 21 days' sight.— 1 Cork lg BULLION, PZit OZ. £. s. d. Portugal Gold, coin 0 0 0 Foreign Gold, in bars 3 17 9 New Doubloons 0 0 0 New Dollars Sayer bars. standard 0 0 0 10 ~.J i . PI A • r.it c 5 g 1,!111 653 27 PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds ......... Belgian Bonds .....»....»..... Ditto Scrip ...... .... - jun. Ditto Account 4 % pm. Brazilian Bonds 45% Ditto Account Buenos Ayres Bonds ..... Ditto Account Chilian Bonds Ditto Account Columbian Bonds Ditto Account Ditto Bonds, 1824 Danish Bonds Ditto Account Greek Bonds ....... -- Ditto Bonds, , Ditto Account — Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent — Ditto Account --------------- Ditto, 6 per cent Ditto Account Neapolitan ............. DAY AT ONI O'CLOCK. PRICES OP STOCKS THIS Bank Stock ........ shut I 3 per Cent. Red. ....... shut 383% per Cent. Cons. 3,y per Cent. shut Ditto ...... - New 3}6per Cent. 9l 901,i 3 per Cent Ann. 1726 - 4 per Cent. 1826 Rink Long Ann. to expire Jan. 5. 1860 Oct. 10, 1859..«.« - Jan. 5, 1860 Jan. - Aprlls, 1880 Jan. 5. 1870.....«.«.« - New 5 per Cent. ..... -- India Stock Ditto Bonds 3 1 2 dis. 'South Sea Stock 92 Old New Ditt0..—...1 a per Cent. Ann. 1751 - Ex. Bills, £l,OOO 9 10 pm. Ditto.. ..S(X) 9 10 pm. Ditto Small Ditto C0mmercia1......... pm. Ditto Advertised Bank for Acc0unt..........Acc0unt.......... India for Account . Cons. for April 11 THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Peruvian Bonds ....„. — Ditto Account Portuguese Bonds Ditto Account Regency Scrip Ditto Account 'Prussian Honda Ditto Account I _ ' Ditto Bonds, 1822 Ditto Account Russian Ponds, 1822 974 Ditto Account New Loan 97% Ditto Account Spanish Bonds, 1821 Ditto Account Ditto Bonds, 1t+.13 French Rented, sp. c. —f —c. Exchange —f —c. per —f —c. Exchange —f -- c. Dutch Scrip 49%►( French Scrip PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAT ♦T ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. Brazilian Imp. Min. Co. (iss. at 51. pm.) £2O 37% 365( 37 United Mex. Min. Co. (iss. at 21. pm.) 40 Ditto New Scrip 25( Protector Insurance Comp. X X 1 8 0 HIGH WATER ♦T LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning... 15 minutes after 8.1 Evening... 47 minutes atter 8. By COOPER. No.. XII. and XIII. , just published, contain THE CANTERBURY TALES. by SOPHIA and HARRIET LEE, revised, corrected, and accompanied by a new IN TRODUCTION, by Mrs. HARRIET LEE, written expressly for this Edition. •„. N.B. The present Edition of the Canterbury Tales contains the whole Five Volumes of the original. Henry CJlburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington street, rt , _ LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 24 1832. The Archbishop of CANTERBURY'S Restric tion of Pluralities' Bill went into Committee last night in the House of Lords. To a certain extent we are glad of this, .as it is an express acknowledgement on the part of the highest Ec clesiastical authority, that some Reform is ab solutely necessary in the Church. But here our satisfaction must halt ; for the Bill, viewed in the light of an improvement on the present system, is meagre and barren to a degree, full of unjust partialities, grounded on prejudice ; in a word, a mere begging of the question, as might have been anticipated from any plan of Church Reform broached by an Archbishop. The people demand an absolute cleansing of the Au gean stables, his Grace gives them merely a slight sprinkling. The people demand that the Church should march a mile on the broad high-road of improvement, his Grace forbids it to march be yond an inch. The people demand an unquali fied, his Grace proffers them a bit-by-bit, Reform. Well then might Lord KING exclaim, that the whole Bill was a "delusion, a net which let in all the rich drones, but kept out the working and poor clergy !" The good Archbishop. seemed particularly sore on the amendment of Lord SUFFIELD, to the effect " that no Bishop having a See worth four thousand a year, should be allowed to hold a living in commendam." He thought the amendment most unjust, and the reasons he as signed for such an assertion, though plausible and ingenious enough, tend irresistibly to the conclusion that Bishopricks are not to be valued in proportion to the rank they confer on the individual holding them ; not in proportion to the facilities they give him of advancing the sacred interests of charity and the true faith ; but solely in proportion to the wealth with which they furnish him, and the means they enable him to acquire of providing bountifully for his family. Else why the idle talk about the high rank which Bishops have to support ! What hare they to do, of necessity, with the ostentatious shows of Vanity Fair ? There is no warrant for such frivolities in scripture. We cannot find it, 'tis not in the bowl" as SHYLOCK says. But we may have more to say on this subject hereafter. Lord AL rlloßP last night in the House made a stateme►►t of the intentions of Government respect to relieving the sufferings of' the West Indian colonists. His Lordship's plan is, to lend money to all who can give security upon their estates, and the Government are to have a priority in claiming a repayment of the loans. We are far from wishing to embarrass or to im pede a case of such an urgent nature ; but we must confess that we are totally at a loss to con ceive how the plan of his Lordship can be put into execution. The property of a vast number of the colonists consists in negroes, and it would be difficult to make them available as a security for money lent by Government. But a great ma jority of the estates, and all the estates of dis tressed colonists, are already mortgaged to English merchants, and generally to the full extent of their value. It would not be just for Government to enact a priority of claim over the original and prior mortgagees, and yet without this the public can have no security for the money which Ministers may advance. Sir ROBERT PEEL, on Thursday night, as serted that the liberal commercial views of Mr. PITT, in 1785, had been thwarted by the gross ignorance of the PEOPLE. It may be useful to know what Sir ROBERT PEEL means by . the PEOPLE. The ignorance appears to us to have been all on the side of a few rich Trading monopolists. The opposition to Mr. PITT was founded upon the evidence given at the Bar of the House. And who were the witnesses ? We have a list of them. They were, 6 , Mr. WEDGWOOD, of Staffordshire ; Messrs. WALKER, RICHARDSON, and PEEL, of Manchester ; Mr. ROBERTS, of Glasgow ; and Mr. GIBBONS, of Bristol." It is too bad of Sir ROBERT PEEL to palm the Trading errors even of his own father upon the PEOPLE. Dutch and Hamburg Papers have been re ceived. It appears that rail-roads are in high es timation on the Continent. One is on the point of being made to facilitate the communications in Northern Germany. We have no doubt that in a few years an inventio❑ of such obvious utility will be very generally adopted. The fol lowing are extracts : BRUNSWICK, MARCH la—We have received from good authority the following piece of intelligence, which will be highly agreeable to all the people of Brunswick. The plan is resumed of facilitating the communications between Hanover and Brunswick, and the Hanseatic cities, by a new iron rail. road. COPENHAGEN, MARCH 10.—The following ordinance has just been published here : " Frederick VI. by the Urace of God, King of Den mark, &c. &c. " Dearly Beloved—By the general law published by us on the 28th May last year, respecting the establishment of provincial estates in the Duchies of Sleswick and Holstein, you are ac. quainted with what we have thought fit to resolve respecting the introduction of those estates. In that law we also thought proper to determine, that experienced men from the two Duchies should be consulted respecting the measures intended to be adopted for the regulation of the estates in each Duchy for the proceedings at the elections, and in the provincial as semblies, before we issued our final resolution on the subject ; and at the same time that we would declare our decision re specting the number of Deputies for each Duchy. We there fore command you, and you—(Here follow the names of 29 per sons) of distinction in the Duchies two to meet before April 9.7, this year, in our capital city o f Copenhagen, at which Military Coart, Van Maltke, our Minister of State will preside, to deli berate on the contents of the projects of law, which will be com municated to you for that purpose, and to deliver your report on them, that such report may be submitted to us before we make a decision and publish our final resolution through our Chancery of Schlemig, Holatien, and Lunenburg." (Signed) " FREDERICK R." " Copenhagen, March 6, 1832." BERLIN, MARCH 16.—Prince Paskewitsch, who left St. Petersburgh on the 2d., arrived at Warsaw on the 10th inst. with the Princess, his wife, his son, and three daughters. Many persons of distinction waited on him immediately on his arrival. The Municipal Government of Warsaw has pub lished an order of the Military Governor of the Capital most strictly prohibiting the wearing of the uniform of the National Guard, and enjoining the officers of the former Polish army henceforth to lay aside the uniform and insignia of their rank, excepting such Polish officers as have remained on actual service, who are allowed to retain their uniform and insignia till further orders. THE HAGUE, MARCH 20.—His Royal Highness the Prince of Orange arrived at the head quarters, at Bois-le-Duc, at eleven o'clock on Friday. We hear that the Governor. Ge. neral of our East India Possessions, General Van der Bosck, among other important measures for the advantage of the co. lonies, has taken steps to make tea an article of exportation from Java, and that a specimen of Javanese tea lately sent by him to the King promises a favourable result to the Governor's exer tions, which have merited new testimonies of his Majesty's sa tisfaction. AMSTERDAM, MARCH 20, Actual Debt, 234 per Cent 41►34 to 42 Amort Syndic, 434 per Cent 68% to 70 Ditto, ditto, 334 per Cent. Voluntary Loan, 1832 Exchange on London, one month IIE 95 Two Months llf. 90 HAMBURG, MARCH 16.—BORSEN-HALLE, HALF-PAST Two o'CLocx.—ln the wheat market business is brisker, and the arrivals are considerable, but of rather inferior quallity, so that they scarcely fetched the quotations ; picked samples, how ever, found buyers at even higher prices than are quoted. Rye prices firm : Wheat, Anhalt, white red ll6 to 120 - Brunswick l2O to 128 Mecklenburgh ll5 to 130 - Holstein, red llO to 126 Our Stock market has been looking up this week, owing to the improvement of those of Paris, Amsterdam, and Berlin. Yesterday and the day before a good deal of Stock was sold to speculators. In Austrian and Russian Securities much busi ness was done. To-day the price is somewhat heavier, occa sioned, probably, in some measure, by the demand for gold : End of March. Anglo-Danish Loan, 9 per Cent 647 Anglo-Russian Loan Hamburg ditto 86% Russian Inscription, 5 per cent 86% Ditto, ditto, 1831 8 5% Polish Bonds Austrian Bank Shares lll 1136 % Ditto Metalliques New Austrian 4 per Cents 76% —Hamburg Reporter. • The report of an insurrection at Naples is not credited. It is very possible that a riot may have taken place during the Carnival, but that is a matter of usual occurrence on such occasions. The French Papers contain no other news, and some of them do not even notice the report re specting Naples. EXETER-HALL.---EXHIBITION. An exhibition of paintings by old masters, illustrative of sacred history, will open at Exeter-hall, in the Strand, on Monday next. We were favoured with a private view this day, but regret that the arrangement of the gallery was not suf ficiently forward to enable us to lay before our readers a detailed statement of its contents. There is a beautiful " Holy Family," by Rafaelle, a " Sleeping Infant Christ," by Murillo, a fine " Altar Sketch" by P. Veronese, and several excellent Interiors of Cathedrals and Architectural Views. The paintings are about 100 in number, but a humane mind must regret that the old masters so frequently selected sub jects so revolting to humanity. Bodies pierced with darts and writhing in pain, ruffians stabbing and mangling children, and similar subjects, cannot create any very pleasing sentiments, or effect any moral " improvement of the disposition. There is a pain tin g of the Raising of La zarus," which we should think extremely old, probably before the time of Cimabue. On Saturday night a poor woman of Balder ton, near Newark, named H o l m es, after having p u t h er two children to bed, one about six years of age and the other four, returned to her household duties; soon after she heard the children scream most violently; she returned to them and scolded them, but had no sooner left them than they began again ; upon her entering the room a second time she saw a large rat jump off' the bed ; and upon examination found the bed ciothes covered with blood, the rats (it is supposing there must have been more than one) having bit the children's faces in a dreadful manner, and about the arms and hands. Had the woman delayed going to them a few minutes longer the vermin would soon have killed them..-Stain lord New,y, UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. (From the Cambridge and Hereford Independent Pres 8 0 March 24.) THE ELECTION OF REGISTRAR. Thursday morning the Rev. Joseph Romilly, M. A, and the Rev. Temple Chevallier, B.D. were nominated by the heads of houses, to the office of Registrar) , of this university, vacant the death of William Hustler, Esq., and the election took place yesterday. The poll closed at ten in the evening, when the numbers were— For Romilly , Chevallier, Majority, -40. Mr. CHEVALLIER. —The unsuccessful candidate is one of the gentlemen who originated the opposition against Lord Palmerston and Mr. Cavendish, at the late general election Will not the editor of the Cambridge Chronicle find souse diffi culty in twisting the result of this eleciion into a system of " reaction" on the subject of Reform ? What will Captain Yorke say to it ? HORRID CATASTROPHE. (From the Nottingham Review.) Last Sunday morning a shocking murder was committed by Thomas Popple, a joiner, aged fifty-five years, on the body of his only child, a pretty girl, about three and a half years old, accompanied with a most barbarous attack on his wife. On Thursday night he threatened to murder her if she would not give him money; she at length gave him a shilling and he went away. On Saturday morning he went to the Dog and Bear in Bridlesmith-gate, where he called for a can of ale, and before he drank it, said to the waiter, " This is the last can of ale I shall drink here." The expression was noticed, and the landlord sent a message to Mrs. Popple, telling her what her husband had said, and advising that he should be taken care of. She replied, she hoped there was no danger. His principle cry was for mercy to his soul; he appeared more ungovernable at one period, when his wife said to him, " Tom, if you do so, I shall not dare to stay with you ;" to this he replied, " My wench, my wench, do not think I shall ever hurt you or the child." About three o'clock on Sunday morning, the unhappy man declared he would have something to drink, when his wife offered to fetch it; a light was burning in the room, and she became much alarmed on finding that he had a large joiner's chisel in bed ; he refused her proffered assistance, and told her he would fetch it himself, charging her if she stirred he would murder her. He had no sooner got into the next room on his way to the stairs, than she arose, with the hope of either hiding herself or making her escape ; when he heard her move he turned back and began his murderous attack upon her. She contrived, however, to roll down the stairs, " having fought like a dragon," to use her own expression ; after this the en. raged man turned his fury upon his little daughter, who was crying in the bed. He took her by the legs, and beat her head upon the floor, and then threw her down stairs, where she was afterwards found. On Sunday morning, the prisoner was examined before the Mayor, in the house of correction, when he made a statement which was taken down in writing, the substance of which was, that upon being told he was in custody on a charge of murder. ing his child, he stated, " I doubled it up, head and foot to gether, to prevent it from crying, and then took it by the legs, and beat its head against the floor. I had been to bed, but had no rest ; my wife was not in the room when I served the child so, but was getting away from me down stain; I bad been beating her with a piece of deal ; I used to work in the room ; the deal broke, and then I got a piece of oak, and struck her with it, but I do not know how many times; I struck at her as often as I could, but there were boxes and things in the way. When my wife escaped down stairs, I turned to the child, and did what I have said to it. I was distracted and mad. I had not been at any public-house, nor had any drink. I and my wife went to bed good friends about eleven o'clock : she gave spill to make me sleep, for I could not rest at night on account of sin. When I got out of bed, she got out, seeing danger I suppose. It was my intention to murder her. I knowed I should die in sin. She had done nothing to aggra vate me; the child had done nothing to offend me, I loved it be yond anything, My sin pressed upon me ; I have led a bad life ever since 1 was horn. I don't know what reason I had to murder my wife. She used to pray and console with me. I knew I should not get a better. and I thought when I was gone she would get somebody else, and I thought she should not; and when I saw her getting away, 1 thought she would enjoy herself with the child, and I deter. mined she should not."—The poor man signed his examination, and was afterwards conveyed to the House of Correction, and on Monday the inquest was taken, when Mr. Davison the sur geon, declared the cause of the child's death was the back part of the skull being fractured in six pieces. —Of course the Jury returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder," and he was on the same day, removed to the town jail, to be kept in safe custody until the Assizes. THE SPEAKING FRENCH GRAMMAR, IN SIXTY LESSONS, Particularly calculated to render the speaking of French easy to English persons. The Fourth Edition. By J. V. DOUVILLE, M.A. Protestor of the French language, 110, Strand, London. 1832. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sta,—This Grammar, of which the fourth edition has just ap peared, will be found eminently useful for self-instruction. It is the best companion which a person desirous of learning the French language can possibly have. The Essays on the rules of the language are all colloquial, and form a valuable repertory for conversation. By construing these familiar exercises into French, according to the method recommended in the Key, the pupil is kept in constant practice, and may learn the French language with as much facility as if he studied it in Paris. I am, Sir, your's respectfully, London, March 22, M. N. 0. N.B.—M. Douville is also the author of an excrllent in troductory book to the French language, in 19 lessons. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, T WEL VE 0' CLOCK. Two Dutch mails have arrived ; by the latter we find that the Dutch Funds are rather lower, 4174. We have no other arri vals of consequence. The express expected from Paris this morning is anticipated. The particulars of the insurrection at Naples are not as yet known, but we should imagine that it will not be of long dura tion, and is of minor importance. Consols opened this morning at the same price it left off yes terday, 8314 N i for the Account, for Money 38 ;4 We have this moment received the express from Paris with the Cours Authentic ofthe leaving off prices of the 22d March : —Three per Cents. 69f. 60c. ; Five per Cents. 96f. 55c. (From the France Nouvelle of March 29..) - - - BELGRADE, MARCH I.—Letters from Bitoglia of Feb. 15 state that the Grand Vizier (Reschid Pacha) is on his return to Constantinople; his army is in march for the capital, and it is thought his troops will proceed against Mahomed Ali in Syria. The Memorial Belge of March 20 says we hear that the term for the ratification of the treaty relative to the fortresses is pro longed to the 31st March. Count Orloff is expected to arrive in London before that period. The two French Papers we have received (France Nouvelle and the Nouvelliste) do not:mention anything of theinsurrectioa at Naples, and the private accounts from Paris snake slight of it. It was the time of the Carnaval and the Fair of Naples, at which a row took place between some Sicilians and Neapolitans. Consols have just receded 83% 14. HALF-PAST ONE. The following we learn to be the decision of the Stock Ex change in regard to the affair of Messrs. Marjoribanks, and Co. Messrs. Marjoribanks and Co. having, on Friday, the 16th inst., contrary to the regulations of the Stock Exchange, quoted the prices of certain Foreign Stocks in the daily authorized list , and such Stock not having been sold in the Stock Market, but to a party not a member of the Stock Exchange, It is resolved, that such conduct is very irregular, and as the Committee had learnt that an infringement of the law on that subject has been general, and of frequent occurrence, it does hereby determine to resist any future violation of it, and to visit such with its severe censure. Since the early part of the morning, when Consols were 8034 %, the Market has been heavy at 83% Dutch Rocic is also lower. THREE 0' CL 0 CX. Consols, Sq. FOUR O'CLOCK CLOSING PRICES Consols •. B3A. Danish Ditto for Account 83 Greek, 1825 ....... Brazilian Bonds 45 Buenos Ayres... Ditto.... Columbian 1824 -- Mexican, 1825 -- Peruvian Russian 971 Spanish The Representative of his Royal Hi g h n eo s the Duke D'Aumaule, ha s, according to the judgment of °j Court of the Premier In s t ance, put tile Baroness de Foucher e e , in possession of the est a t es bequeathed to her by the late PrioC2 - de Conde ; and Mad ame de Foucheres has brought an action r defamation against the Princes de Rohan. It does not aPPer why some journ a l s have stated the Baroness de Foucheres to i ". in England, when it is well known that she has constant l i resided in Paris, and personally superintended the proceeding ° in the Courts of Law. MANCHESTER, MARCH 22.-OBSERVANCE OF MY GENERAL FAST.—The general fast was observed i n this town in a variety of ways—feasting, fasting, praying , Preaching, drinking, and fighting. The shops and factori o were closed, but the churches, gin shops, and public.houseir were open ; at several of the latter, public ordinaries were pa' Posely got up for the day, most of whom were well attended' Drinking was very general, and parties of working men, under Lowy fighting throughout the o - of the name of Dixon' w t G h he George's e rl egfi e e of t s t Rh o oe f liquor,ad afternoon, r in‘o were opno ltbi o c c o at h n l r, t i an n g u i Ltaalotluer Mosley-street, and St' dubbed reverend for the occasion, preached a sermon on th e evils calculated to result from the fast day, in a large room , n Salford, to a numerous auditory—indeed, with the exceptio.o of the closing of places of business, and the performance of vine service at the churches, a greater burlesque upou a gene° fast could not have been exhibited. GLASGOW MA 1L... The Glasgow Papersstat that the London mail betw een th a t c i ty an d C ar li s l e i s to conveyed by a two-horse li g h t coac h to travel twelve m ile re e an hour, and to change every six miles.