The Sun. — London, England, 1832-02-15 00:00:00

alteration proposed by the Right lion. Gentleman, was bound to say that he disputed his fact., denied his reasons, disapproved of his policy, and doubted lis success. When the proper time came, however, he would enter into the subject more full•. _ - Sir JAMES GRAHAM, in reply, said that whenever the Right Hon. Gentleman chose to gripple with the plan he would be ready to meet him. The objections of the Right Hon. Bironet would not apply, for the officers were to be appointed by patent; and the officers whose appointments were plain diu se bone gesserit would be placed exactly in the situation of the Under Secretary of State es to their appointments being revocable Leave was then given to bring in the Bill, which was read a first time. Mr. CROKER wished, as it might be a matter of cone vrniency to many Hon. Gentlemen, that the Right Hon. Baronet would fix a day for the second reading. Sir JAMES GRAHAM then named Monday se'nnight. The Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at Two o'clock this morning. DUEL ON WIMBLEDON COMNION. On Monday evening, at right o'clock, a post-chaise, in which was Major- General Lorenzo Moore, C. 8., in the custody of Walters, the constable of Kine.ton-on-Thames, and two other individuals, drove up to the door of Union hall, Southwark ; and the Mazistrate, Mr. CHAMBERS, being on the bench, the General was conducted into the offic.. Walters, having stated who and what he was, said that the General had been given into his custody at Kingston, in the early part of that afternoon, on a charge of wound. tag a gentleman, named Miles Stapylton, in a duel. He added that none of the seconds were in custody, owing to the confusion that prevailed on the ground after Mr. Sta pylton fell wounded. Mr. David Harris stated that as he was proceeding to Godalming, on the outside of the stage-coach, about four o'clock on Monday afternoon, on passing the road which crosses Wirnhlettou-common he heard the report of a Fetid, and on looking towards the spot from whence it proceeded, he observ, d a gentleman fall. The coachman, who also heard the report, immediately pulled up, when witness and a Mr. Self, who were sitting next each other on the coach, immediately alighted, and ran to the place, which was a short distance from the road side. There were several gentlemen together, and witness, on seeing the gentleman lying on the ground, and blood upon the breast part of his shirt, went towards the General, who had a pistol in his hand, and told him that he must con sider himself then in custody. The General offered not the slightest resistance, and 'mmediately resigned up the possession of his fire-arms. During the period that elapsed from the time the wounded gentleman fell, until witness had the conversation with the General on the suitj ct of his apprehension, the seconds and some other persons assisted the former off the ground, and placed him in a carriage which was in waiting, and immediately drove (If toward• town. Witness and Mr. Self conducted General Moore to Kingston, and gave him into the custody of Walters, the constable. Mr. Self stated that when he approached the gentleman wh o fell, he exclaimed lam mortally wounded." In the confusion that arose, in consequence of the dangerous state in which he seemed to be, the blood gushing from a wound in his left breast, he (Mr. Self) was so occupied in rendering what assistance was in his power, that he ❑e glected securing either of the seconds, and they proceeded off towards town at a smart pace, in a carriage, with the wound e d gen leman, as described by the last witness. Major -General Moore, who declined saying any thing on the subject of the unfortunate affair, was remanded, and h e Was brought up again yesterday morning, when the following certificate, describing the dangerous condition of h. l opponent in the duel, was read : 2, Berkeley-street, Berkeley-square, Feb. 2. I certify that Mr. Stapyleon is in very great danger. (Signed) .‘ G. J. GUTHRIE." The General appeared to be affected on hearing the cer tificate read, but he made no remlrk. Bail to any amount Was offered for his appearance to answer the charge, but l‘fr. Chambers said that while the wounded gentleman re mained in his present condition, it was his duty to keep the General in custody. In the course of the day Major-General Moore was v isited at the office by Lord Nugent, and several other of his friends. We are gives to understand that the meeting between the General and Mr. Stlpylton took place in consequence of the latter gentleman giving offence to the daughter of the General in the the ttre. The General teac remanded until next Tuesday. (FURTHER PARTICULARS.) We have heard that the hostile meeting between General Moore and Mr. Stapylton, took place in consequence of a letter which the General addressed to his antagonist on the subject of a young lady of great beauty and accomplish ments, a near connection of the Gallant Officer's, and to whom he (Mr. S.) devoted much of his attention during a recent sojourn of the parties in Italy. Mr. Stapylton, we are told, on the receipt of the General's communication, whilst staying at his seat near Richmond, in Yorkshire, ordered post-horses, and travelled with all possible expedi tion to the metropolis, and called on General Moore for an explanation, which demand, it would appear, not being complied with, a meeting took place between the two gentlemen on Alonday afternoon, on Wimbledon-common, unfortunately with serious consequences to Mr. Stapyl ton nho received his opponent's ball in the side, and Mr. Guthrie has not yet succeeded in extracting it. Mr. Stapylton was conveyed in a carriage to Long's li ntel, in New Bond -street, where the proprietor is un remitting in his atention to the comforts of the wounded gentleman who passed a restless night on Monday, but yesterday he was pronounced a little better, and was enabled to converse with his second, Major Fan- Court, on the subject of drawing up a statement of the unhappy transaction. In the early part of the diy Captain ronow and another gentleman waited upon Mr. Conant, the sitting Magistrate at Marlborough-street, and solicited that gentleman to proceed to Long's Hotel, for the purpose of receiving the declaration of Mr. Stapylton, who, it was re Ptesented, might not survive the effects of his wound many hours. Mr. Conant was of opinion that if it were t ssential for the ends of justice he would at once comply with the application, but in the existing circumstances of the case any person could take down Mr. Stapylton's de e".attno, and render it of equal validity. According to l egal authorities, the declarations of a person who expects to die, respecting the circumstances under which he re ceived a mortal wound, are admitted in criminal pro.ecu- II "oa, where the death of the party is the subject of the , In quiry, thou gh the accused was not present when they were made, and had no opportunity of cross-examination; for it is considered that when an individual is in constant expectation of immediate death all temptations to falsehood Will be removed, anti the awful nature of his situation may be presumed to impress him with the necessity of a strict adherence to truth. Major-General Moore is, we believe, a distinguished and meritorious officer, and he has been in vested with the insignia of a CAL for his services in the field. He was Lieut.-Colonel of the 35th, or Sussex Re giment of foot, from 1809 to 1830, when he was advanced to the rank of Major-General. Among the amusements prepared for Lord EDWARD BENTINcx, the Governor-General, during a recent tour in the province of Oude, was to have been a combat between a wild hone and a tiger, but which, at the especial request of Lady BENTINCY, did not take place. It should be added, however, that upon two previous occa sions, the horse in question had come off victorious. THE BARNET IMPOSTOR.—The Lancaster Eeruld says, that the fellow who trumped up the story of an attempt to Burke him last week, at Barnet, played a similar trick in that neighbourhood in 1829. lie then called himself STANLEY, and was found tied to a gate near Lancaster, under precisely similar circumstances to those which are spoken of at Barnet. He told very nearly the same story, and prosecuted to conviction two men, named GAMES and RIGBY, and a woman, the dau4hter of GatmEs. The men were convicted, and left for eaten tko ; and th e woman was sentenced for transportat i on f or life. Suspicions were entertained of the trick, inquiry R ' ss mad e , and the men respited, but only within a few , "ors before the period fixed for their execution. The re sult of a further inquiry was the free pardon of all. The To r i es are en d eavour i ng , b y every 'neaking and underhand means, to get up a petition a g a inst all Reform. They are scouring the country to catch s i gnatures , and to entrap a ll honest and sens i ble b 'toglishtnen by misrepresentation and artifice. They are 4 t ,! * rtiog with unparalleled impudence that there is a re-ac -1" in the cou n t r y, and disguising the real extent of th e p: °n which they have concocted. They are insulting e farmers and tradesmen, whom they are in hopes of i T'l t)° 'ing on by soliciting the signatures of all over whom th q have any p erso n a l influence. Instead of proving that er e a re-action by calling a meeting and taking the shimse of the p eo ple on the questi o n, th e y are sneaking f With copies of the petition in their pockets, in parties ; i ll t hree or four each. Among the gentlemen who ere yr ; trying to bring upon their countrymen the die. e t of praying f or the continu a nce of th e ir own slavery '""cars air. JOHN BOND and Mr. JOHN PARKIN, Deputy "eUtenants of the county. —Laiacaster Herald. ri - or --\l5lllll LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING. FEBRUARY 15, 132. Lord ALTHORP made a most important de claration last night, with respect to the question of tithes in Ireland. The speech of Earl GREY had been misconstrued on this subject, for it now appears by Lord ALTHORP'S explanation, that while Government are prepared to enforce the laws when broken, yet, if extraordinary powers should be demanded to enforce these laws, they will be accompanied by an efficient remedy for the grievance which occasions their necessity. This announcement was received with loud cheers, and will, we have no doubt, spread universal joy throughout Ireland, where the mis conception of Earl GREY'S speech occasioned much astonishment and dismay, coupled with indignation. Mr. STANLEY followed up the manly decla ration of Lord A L THoR P, by stating that Go vernment never would have thought of applying coercive measures, but upon an assurance that remedial measures were in contemplation. In deed the Government would not exercise any coercive authority for enforcing the collection of tithes, unless accompanied by a pledge that the grievances complained of should be promptly, substantially, and satisfactorily redressed. This is all that an honest Government can do—and all that the people of Ireland expect at their hands. Mr. STANLEY, in answer to a question from Mr. CROKER, who affected to understand that the remedies intended by Ministers were not meant to affect the existence of tithes, but only to remove the difficulty of their collection,—ob served that while Ministers endeavoured to se cure the maintenance of the Protestant clergy, their attention was also direced to the extinc tion of the system of tithes ! This surely bodes well to poor, distracted, and long neglected Ireland. In the House of Commons last night Lord ALTHORP brought in a Bill to increase the powers of the Privy Council, for the purpose of preventing the spread of cholera. Sir JAMES GRAHAM last night brought for ward his Bill for consolidating the civil branches of the Navy and Victualling Departments under one head—the Board of Admiralty. He pro posed to divide the Admiralty department into five great branches. 1. The Surveyor-General of the Navy. His duty would continue pretty much the same as it was at present. It would be for him to superintend the labour in the dockyards, the building of ships, and the care of ships in ordi nary. 2. The Accountant-General. The accounts of the Victualling Board and of the Navy Board were not now kept ou the same principle. At the Navy Board the principle of double-entry had been introduced with good effect, but at the Victualling Board double-entry had, by an order from the Admiralty, been neglected. He thought that, by an introduction of the system of double-entry, one Accountant-General could conduct the whole business. The 3d was the Store-keeper-General, whose duties would be the same as now—namely, the care of all the great articles for the consumption of the Navy. The 4th was the Superintendant of the Victualling Department ; and the sth was the Head of the Medical Department, who would have the care of the hospitals at home and abroad. These were the five heads under which he would place the civil departments of the Navy. He should propose that the oilicers at the head of those departments should IRA be Commissioners, holding their situatio:,s by patent, and possessing co-ordinate authority with other Boards, even with the Commissioners of the Admiralty itself, as was the case << r present ; but that thay should be appointed under war rants from the Board of Admiralty, and that they should retain their situations whilst they performed their duties properly. The adoptio❑ of this plan, he said, would sim plify the administration of naval affairs, while it would at the same time do away with the jea lousy often manifested by the Navy and Victual ling Boards of the Admiralty. It would also have the effect of producing a great saving, for if the House agreed to his proposition the Right Honourable Baronet said that in three months he would reduce five Commissioners, at 6,000/. ; 3 Secretaries, at 2,6001.; 29 superior officers, at 10,280/. ; 6 in ferior officers, at 1,4401. ; and 54 clerks at 11,9501. The account would then stand thus, with the reductions of last year :—Reduced 9 Commissioners, 10,0001.; 3 Secretaries, 2,6001.; 66 superior officers, 19,7501.; 31 inferior officers, 2,725/. ; and 62 clerks, 13,9201. ; forming a total saving, if his measure were acceded to, upon the civil establishment of the Navy, leaving superannuations out of the account, of 49,0001. This reduction is highly important in the pre sent distress of the country ; and we think Sir JAMES GRAHAM deserves great thanks for his unwearied exertions in introducing so much economy into one branch of our expenditure. The total reduction proposed in the Naval Estimates of the current year amounts to nearly one million. In another column will be found a communi cation headed " Infant Slavery in England," which deserves most serious attention. The article is an extract from the speech of a gentle man named FIRTH, at a public meeting lately held on the subject of Mr. SADLER'S Factory Bill, and describes in forcible terms the inhuman treatment but too often adopted towards children of tender age, in some of our English factories. A communication of a similar import which has been forwarded to us from Dundee (but which, from want of space, we are for the present compelled to postpone), mentions that the same harsh sys tem towards children, which Mr. FIRTH so feelingly exposes, prevails in many parts of Scot land, especially at the Dundee flax spinning mills. At some of the mills," says the writer of this communication— " The cliildr, , n labour thirteen hours twenty minutes per day, or seventy-nine three quarters hours per week, exclusive of the time allowed for meals, which, in some instances, is one hour per day; and in others, it is cur tailed to fifty minutes, although frequently the distances betwixt the mills and the homes of the children are con siderable. None labour for a shorter period than twelve and a half hours per day, or 74 per week. This tak-s place in Dundee, where the operatives have benefit from occasional competition for labour amongst the masters. But, in mills situated in solitary or thinly-peopled parts of the country, the hours of labour sometimes extend to fourteen and a half and fifteen hours per day, which, when the hour or fifty minutes for meals, and the time spent in going to and returning from work, and in Other unavoidable avocations, are deducted, will not leave more than betwixt six and seven hours for s•cep. But, if time be lost by the stoppage of the machinery, or from any of the various causes which are constantly re curring to occasion this, the time has to be made up; so that the children are frequently made to labour for a num ber of hours in succession greater than any indicated in the table,—it being customary in some of the mills to keep them working till wi bin a quarter to twelve o'clock of a Saturday night! Frequ«ntly, too, during the period occupied in repairing or adjusting the machinery, tic children are locked up either in the flats of the mills, or within the walls of the establishment ; and this period is not counted to them as one of labour. Any dispute about odd time is generally decided against the children, on the plea that ten minutes or a quarter of an hour is little or nothing to them individully, but a good deal to their masters." After a statement of this sort, which can be proved, if necessary, on oath, no man with a heart in his bosom, not even a political econo mist, can come forward and say that the prompt attention of the Legislature should not be drawn to the subject with a view to furnish an efficient remedy. The present system, it is impossible, can continue much longer, for not only is it repug nant to every principle of humanity, not only does it shock the commonest instincts of nature, and violate the spirit of that creed which says—" Do unto others • as you would they should do unto you," but it de praves the morals of the lower orders, originates crime by wholesale, and is the means of filling the country with paupers and invalids. The evil, too, does not stop with this generation, it extends its baleful influence to to the next. What health or spirit, or sense of decency anti propriety, can be expected from the chil dren of parents, who have grown up from youth to age in the hot, sweltering, unwhole some atmosphere of a crowded factory, and been familiar with the depraved habits which such modes of life, such indiscriminate society rarely fail to engender ? It was not thus that our olden English peasantry acquired that indomi table spirit, that high independence of character, that robust form, and healthy, cheerful disposi tion, which made them the envy and the admiration of the world. They knew not the miseries, the privations of crowded mills and factories, but met health :on the hills, or among the scenes of their daily avocations, and gave birth to a race which has raised Great Britain to her present elevated rank among na tions. We would wish to see this fine old race restored, and not be compelled to witness the dail;, hourly decay of its energies in those pestilential hells—the factories. Upon this principle we most cordially approve of Mr. SADLER'S proposal for regulating the hours of labour among our poorer classes of ope ratives, and give him the full, unqualified praise that is due to so noble and philanthropical a plan. It does credit to the Hon. Member's head and heart, and we most earnestly hope that he will follow up the subject with all the zeal, energy, and perseverance that its paramount im portance demands. ZS FRIG OP THE STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red. 1433,“‘ India Stock ..... .... 193 44 3'4 3 per Cent,C,ons 82%4 Ditto Bonds 1 die. par 1' per Cent. Ditto Red.. QMA % Oki Annuities — !slew 3% per Cent. S 9 Mi New Ditto .......... . SOI 3 per Cent Ann. 1726 .... 3 per Cent. Ann. 1751 I per Cent. 18E26 994 100 Ex. 8i115,.£1,000 8 9 i , n . Bank Long Ann to expire Ditto 500 8 9 pm. Jan. 5, 1860 l6 13-16 :Ditto Small Oct. 19, 1859 (Ditto Commercial ... ..... . pm Jan. 5, 1860 16% !Ditto Advertised — pm. Jan. 5, 1880 Bank for Account — April 5, 1880 - 11ndia for Account — Jan. 5, 1870 lCons. , or Feb 9.8 S' l 4 !it li ',ICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Belgian Scrip l}6 dis. 8r...112n ,sona, - 14elcs Ayres Bonds C 11 . an Bonds t7olorniiim Bends Dltn, Oanish T,reek _lilt:), 1823 Guatimala. Nlexican Bonds . 1£t2,5 THIS DST AT ,NZ • J'CLOCK, Neapelit.aui Pernviai. Bonds 'ortuguese Bonds "russlan., Itto, New ....... ....... ..... I :ussian ................• ;panish, li=r2l 13 ench Renter, sp. c. —c. Exchange —• 3 pc! cent Fx ange —c Dutch Scrip 40% FOREIGN EXCHANGES ON LONDON. HAMBURG, Fec. 10.-13, ; two months, 13. 0, BERLIN, FRB. 7.—Three months. 6.2714. Vtiz!vea, FEI4. 2.—Two months, 9. 53. BREMEN, FEB. 7.—Two months, 612 613. ERRATUM.—In Mr. Stanley's second speech, for existence of the system of tithes"—read extinction. COUNCIL-OFFICE, WHITEHALL, FEB. 15, 133:2. The Lords of the Council have just received intimation that the Bishop of London has directed the Clergy in his Diocese in no cases to permit the bodies of persons dying of cholera to be carried into the ohurch previous to interment. SURREY DISPERSARY, UNION.STREET, SOUTIMA R. This day a Special Meeting of the Committee was held, to take further precautionary measures in relation to the cholera, when it was determined that the rules of the Institution, re quiring letters of recommendation, be, as to cases of cholera, for the present suspended, and that the Medical Officers be re. quested to attend all cases applying at the Dispensary without such letters.;. Every step seems to be taken by the Committee that the emergency requires. Feb. 15, 1832. Authenticated by George Whiting, London bridge, South. wark, Secretary to the Dispensary. We have received by express the Journal des Debats of Monday, front which we copy the following : FRONTIERS OF RUSSIA, JAR. 20.—We can repeat to you the assurance which we gave you a few days ago, that the Rua•ian troops have been ordered back from Poland, and they are to be distributed on a new footing, but there are still in Poland about eighty thousand men, which can be concentrated at a short notice. Paris was tranquil. French Funds, 66f. 150." The following are extracts from German Papers, and the Hamburg Reporter of the 10th instant : • - - POSEN, FEB. a—Among the Poles who have sought refuge in the Prussian territory, there are many who had formerly served as officers in the Prussian army. These are put under rigorous military arrest, and it is said that in a few days a court martial will be appointed to try them. Those who have served in the troops of the line will probably be more severely punished than those of the Landwehr. The former resolution, to send them to Glogau, to have them enrolled as common soldiers, is revoked by an order of the King. Hitherto all landowners who took an active part in the revolution were not allowed to leave their place of residence without special permission. This pro hibition is also revoked. PRAGUE, FEB. 3.—The reports of yesterday and today, re. , lative to the chol era , are un h app il y, very me l anc holy. ester. day there were seventy-seven new cases, twenty recoveries, and twenty-tive deaths. To-day the numbers are ninety-nine new cases, seventeen recoveries, and forty deaths. In the House of Correction there are 1,200 prisoners, among whom there were about forty attacked in one night, of whom six died ; hence the great increase in the new town. Up to today there have been in all 2,349 cases ; 1,117 recoveries ; 1,133 deaths ; remain 329. HAMBURG, FEB. 10.—The Senate has ordered to have thanksgivings offered up in all the churches of the city and its ter ritory on Sunday, the 12th instant, for the mercy of the Almighty manifested in the mild character of the Asiatic cholera among up, and for our entire deliverance from that malady. BERLIN, FEB. B.—The Government of Meek lenburgh Schwerin having modified the precautions against the cholera, the passage of travellers between Hamburg and Berlin is now re. established, with the only restriction that up to the 12th instant persons coming from Hamburg, and up to the 16th persons coming from Berlin, are not to stop in the territory of Mecklenburgh longer than is necessary to change horses. After the above dates all restrictions cease, on the travellers giving satisfactory proofs that they passed the last ten days in healthy places. BERLIN, FED. a—GENERAL POST-OFFICE—The city of Berlin still continues free from cholera. HAMBURG, FEB. 10.—BORSEN-HALLE, HALF-PAST Two O'CLOCK,—Wheat —During last week several parcels of the best description only have been sold for exportation. Weight. Wheat, Anhalt, white ll5 to 12 0 l' to 1 - 28 -- red 117 to 127 11 I to 118 - Brun wick l2O to 125 120 to 132 - Niecklenhurgli -- Holstein, red 118 to 125 112 to 130 - Lower Elbe 116 to 123 1 ! 2 to 128 .. ___. . During the week 41 lasts of Wheat have been imported, 17 exported, and there remains stock on hand 1800 lasts. The transactions in our Stock Market continue to be ex tremely limited. End of February Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent 62s4' Anglo-Russian Loan Russian Inscription, 5 per cent. 1831 Polish Bonds Austrian Bank Shares 110 Ditto Metalliques New Austrian 4 ner Cents 754 SIIIPPING INTELLIGENCE-( TliIS DAY.) FROM T LOYD'S. DEAL, FEB. 14.—Wind E.S.E—Arrived from the river the William Fairlie, and Marquis Camden, for China; and Cathe rine, Ferm, for India. The William Fairlie sailed for China at hall.past five. DARTMOUTH, FEB. 14.—Arrived off port the Edward, from :Messina. BRISTOL, FEB. Lk—Arrived the Hero, Hammond, from Odessa. STANDGATE CREEK, FEB. 14.—Arrived the Jason, Nel son, from Hamburg. LIVERPOOL, FEB. 13.—Arrived the Hope, Jennings, from Newfoundland; Amphitrite, Dane, from Zante. Off port, the Matilda, Moor, from Alicant. CORK, Fen. 11.—Wind N.W.—Arrived the Prince Regent, Mortimer, from Algesiras. Sailed his Majesty's ship Nautilus, for Oporto. PORFSMOUTH, FEB. 14.—The Sir Janice Kempt, Patrick, from Dundee to New York, is discharging part of her cargo, to repair. . _ ABERDEEN, FEB. 12.—The Pirate, Sutherland, from Sun derland to Banff, driven on shore near this port on the 6th inst., has become a total wreck. The Palemon, Massingen, from Marseilles, has arrived at Dartmouth, with damage, bound to Antwerp. CHOLERA NIORBUS, OFF COUNCIL OFFICE, DAILY REPO Places and Date. Newcastle, Feb. 13 N. Shields &c. Feb. 13, ... Hetton, &c., Feb. 13, L REPORT. Haddington, Feb. 12, ...., -(THIS DAY.) CASES. ;At 3sg r Trencnt, reb.l2 '2 g E 2 E Er. Preston Pans, Feb. 12, North Berwick, Feb. 11.., Nius*elburgh, Feb. 12 Hawick, Feb. 10 to 12.., Edinburgh, Feb. 1t2....... Glasgow, Feb. 12.. Total Total from pace where or from which ❑o retu: received oil o 1 1 36 1287 '2546 s ceased, this day —.. 1906 4452 se ha been Total rand LONDON -1/1"W TEN O'CLOCK THIS MORNING. The total number of Cases reported at Rotherhithe, Lime house' RatcMY Highway. Lambeth, and Southwark, are 16— Deaths, 7. (Signed) WM. MACLEAN, Secretary. CHOLERA IN GLASGOW. (From the Glasgow Herald of Monday.) With much reeret and considerable reluctance we insert the following documents :—As Edinburgh got quit of the malady at the expense of three lives, we trust we shall be entrilly fortunate. There has been no new case of cholera in Kirkinrilloch for the last three days, and none now remain there. We confidently hope that the malady has terminated in that place. . . . (Official Communications.) " Royal Hotel, George-square, Glasgow, Feb. 12, "TO WILLIAM M‘LEAN, ESQ., SECRETA It Y, C EN - .URAL BOARD OF HEALTH, LONDON. SlR,—With reference to my letter of yesterday's date, I have to state to you, for the information of the Central Bo ,rd of Health, that the suspicious case of cholera therein alluded to expired yesterday afternoon. It is farther my painful duty to announce to you that spasmodic ch , lera has been this day iden tified in two cases—one at Partick, three miles west of Glasgow, which was carried off in thirteen hours' illness—the other in the Goose Dubs—the St. Giles's of Glasgow—and at present in a very dangerous condition. " It is a consolation, under this awful visitation, that active and extensive arrangements are ready to be called into operation to arrest its progress, and avert the calamities likely to arise trom it in this great and important community. " I have the honour to i e, Sir, " Your most obedient humble servant, "JAS. ARTHUR, M.D. " Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals." " Glasgow, 12th Feb., 1832. " TO THE I,ORD PROVOST AND PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH, GLASGOW. " M LORD, —«'e beg to report, for the information of the Board of Hea th, that we this day visited an old woman in Goose Dubs-street, Glasgow, whom we found labouring under cholera. It is also our unpleasant duty to add, that we visited a man in Partick at three o'clock, whom we found expiring of the same disease. He died while we were in the room. " We have the honour to be, my Lord, " Your Lordship's very obedient servants, " JAS. ARTHUR, M.D., " Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals. " J. A. LAWRIE, M.D. " JAS. CORKINDALE, M.D." PRIVY COUNCIL.-(THIS DAY.) IN THE MATTER OF THE HON. J. H. BENT. At twelve o'clock this day the Lord Chancellor, Lord Ten terden, Lord Goderich, Sir G. Murray, and Sir N. C. Tindal, took their seats in the Council Chamber, and the further hear ing of the appeal of the Hon. Jeffery Hart Bent, the late Chief Justice of the Island of Grenada, was proceeded with. The in vestigation is likely to occupy their Lordships several days. THE MARKETS-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. This week again there are abundant arrivals of Grain, and a good quantity of Flour. The Wheat trade is very dull and hardly maintains Monday's terms. Barley, Beans, and Pease are un altered. Oats met few buyers at Monday's terms. Flour remains as last reported. ARRIVALS. Wheat. I Barley. Oats. 170,4 Flour..c English Foreign I - - brls. THE FUNDS.—(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O' CL 0 CK. twClonihl Immense Americanle ,ensstoeofctnios stages cr os s ed oos es were dtpoe jrrsetgn ; laeciriryl;s:duart the t h e D e l a ware th e N a r t y h of a y n te sh i t e S 2rdd o .a u y t h The attempt to open a passage through the ice into the harbour of Baltimore, by the aid of steam-boats, did not succeed. Several outward-bound vessels, by taking advantage of a favour. able opportunity, got to sea. THE FUNDS. We have no arrivals of consequence as yet, and we must now wait to hear the result of Count Orlors mission to the King of Holland. By all we can learn, and by a gentleman who has lately arrived from Amsterdam, the King and the Dutch nation con. tinue in the same obstinacy as before ; and it is expected that th e King of Holl an d w il l propose to the Russian Envoy, some modi fications in the treaty, and that Count Orloff will be the bearer of them to this country ; this may cause another procastinated negotiation. At present we have no further information in regard to the progress of the cholera morbus, and it is generally thought that the present cold weather will have the effect of preventing it spreading. The alarm in the city is not so great as when it was first communicated to the public, as every precaution is taken to counteract the evil. In the House of Commons last night an interesting discussion took place respecting the Irish tithes. Mr. Stanley announced his intention to propose a measure for the extinction of the Irish tithes, which no doubt will meet with great satisfaction in Ireland. Consols, which left off yesterday at 823 i for the Account, opened at S 9. afterwards were done at 8:24 ;at present they are 82 1 ,4 sellers, with little doing. The speculators are waiting to hear the French prices. In the Foreign Market it is settling day, and all is going off well at present. N - OE. We have a general report in the city that several fresh cases of the cholera morbus have taken place in the Borough, and also a case of a seaman on board a Scotch ship in the river; but up to this time we have no authentic accounts from the Board of Health. Consols may be quoted at 524 % for the Account. Belgian Scrip 19 4 to 14 discount. THREE O'CLOCK Consols, 821 t. ORDNANCE ESTIMATES.—The following is a recapitulatio n of the Ordnance Estimates, from the lit January to the 31st March, 1832 : Ordinary .£145,308 Extraordinaries Military Store Branch 29,671 To be expended £265,914 Deduct—By Rents to he received 13,u00 252,914 Exchequer Fees 379 Total to be voted :X253,A.43 COURT OF ADMIRALTY.-(THIS DAY.) THE COGNAC JUDGMENT. This was an important question relative to the rate of premium charge d on a hottomry band. The Cngnat, a new ship, proceeded from the part of London in Decem ber, 1830, with a general cargo, met with rough weather, anti put into the Isle of TW, to repair. The charges came to between 15 and 16.000 francs, a hottomry order was given for 24,000 francs on the vessel, with a premium of 20 per cent. The vessel arrived in London, and the charge for premium was oppost d as exorbitant. The matter was referred to the registrar of merchants, and the premium was reduced from 20 to 124, per cent. This decision was appealed against, and the case came before the Judge of this Courr, for his decision. In the arguments the jurisdiction of the Court was doubted, the party taking the bond being a foreigner. Sir C. ROBINSON gave judgment. He said it appeared that when this bond was given the money market was in a bad state, and confidence much lessened, the stare o f France and Europe being also in a very unsettled comb tion. The parties too were advised that the interest would he large on the bond. During the war the premi um on hottomry bonds was about 17A per cent. In this case lie saw no imputation of fraud, collusion, or usurious con duct proved, and he could not, therefore, interfere with the bond. He decided, therefore, against ttte reduction of the premium from 20 to 12,4 per cent. The other parts of the appeal, relative to the charges for commission and wages, were left for agreement. LONDON SESSIONS. These Sessions commenced this morning before the Right Hon. the LORD MAYOR, the RECIIRDER, and a full Bench of ALDERMEN. The Grand Jury were sworn in and were charged at great len4th by the Learned Recorder. A few assault cases of no interest were then disposed of, when the Court adjourned till to-morrow at the Old Bailey. COURT CIRCULAR. Prince TALLEY RAND, the French Ambassador ; B3ron CETTO, the Bavarian Minister; and Monsieur VAN DF. 'FEVER, the Belgian Minister; had interviews with Vis count PALMER , TON yesterday at the Foreign-office. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE, Viscount MELBOURNE, and the Right Hon. E. STANLEY, had a conference with Earl GREY yesterday at the Treasury. Lord aim., the Commander of the Forces, and Viscount ALTuoRr, also visited the Noble Earl yesterday. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of KENT and the Princess VICTORIA honoured the King's Theatre with their presence last night. Lord AUCKLAND, the President of the Board of Trade, visited Viscount GODERICH yesterday at the Colonial-office. The Lord Advocate of Scotland, the Right Hon. P. THOMSON, S►r JOHN HOIIHOUSE, Lord NUGENT, Sir J. MACKINTOSH, Mr. POYNTZ, and a select party, dined with Viscount ALTHORT, on Sunday, at his residence in Down ing. street. The King's Messengers employed on foreign service re ceived orders yesterday to proceed to Ca ais, where it is exp,cted they will remain in luture during the continuance of toe cholera morhus in town. The despatches for the different Con - inental Courts will be forwarded to Calsis by the King's Messengers for borne service attached to the Foreign-office. The members of the Central Board of Health are en gaged at the Council office till a late hour every night. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. The Marquis and Marchioness of Cleveland, in St. James's square, from their seat, Raby Castle, Durham; the Earl and Countess of Jersey, at the Earl of Warwick's seat, Warwick Castle, Warwickshire, from their seat, Middleton Park, Oxford. shire; the Earl of Meath, in Connaught-place, from Ireland ; Dowager Lady Chetwynd, in Portugal street, from Brighton ; Lady Rivers, in Grosvenor.place, from Eltham, Kent; the Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde, in St. James's-square, from the Duke of Portland's seat, Welbeck, Nottinghamshire; the Marquis and Marchioness of Bristol, in St. James's_ square, from Brighton ; J. Croker, Esq. and son, at Sym mons's Hotel, St. James's street, from Ireland ; Sir Henry Bunbury, Bart. M.P., at Batt's Hotel, Dover street, from his seat, Barton, Suffolk ; the Lord Chief Baron Abercrombie and family, at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley square, from Scotland ; Mr. and Mrs. Yeatman, at the British Hotel, Jerrnyn-street, from East Wickham, Kent ; Mrs. Gaily Knight, at the St. James's Hotel, Jermyn-street, from the Earl of Manvers' seat, Thoresby Park, Nottinghamshire; William Congreve, Esq., at ditto, from Tonbridge Wells; Mr. and Mrs. Fox and family, at the Orlean's Hotel (late Miller's';, Jennyn-street, from their seat in Cornwall ; R. Plunket, Esq., at ditto, from Ireland ; Mrs. Par rot, at ditto, from Sussex. DEPARTURES. The Hon. C. C. Cavendish, for Brighton ; J. H. Lyon, Egg , for his seat, near Norwich ; Mrs. Pigott, for her seat, in Kent ; Colonel Light and Captain Napier, R.N., from Batt's Hotel, Dover-street, for Suffolk ; Mr. and Mrs. Gambier, from Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley square, for Brighton ; Captain Cooke, for Brighton ; Lord Dundonald, from Hanover Lodge, Re gent's Park, for Scotland. MR. HUME AND THE CHOLERA.-Yester flay evening a numerous meeting, to form a Mechanics' Institution, took place at the Mulberry-garden School room. Prince's-square, Sr. George's in the East. GEORGE OFEAR, Esq., a magistrate, was called to the chair. Mr. Memitis said that the meeting had been once adjourned, in consequence of Mr. HUME breaking a promise which he bad made to attend their meeting on Monday evening. It was expected, howtver, that he would attend that evening (Tuesday.) The following letter, just received, had dis appointed them:— " Bryanston-square, Feb. 140832.. SlR,—The appearance of cholera at Limehouse and its vici nity renders a public meeting, as had been appointed fur this evening, very impolitic; and however unpleasant the disappoint ment may be, I advise the Committee immediately to counter order the meeting until the alarm shall be over, as I cannot be the means of bringing so many persons together at this time. " I remain your obedient servant, " JOSEPH HUME." Mr. Mc:mitts said that he had sent a message back to Mr. HUME, to say the disappointment would be great in deed. The genileisien at the West end of the town were mightily afraid of the cholera—he hoped they would have their share of it. The meeting then proceeded to business, not appearing to be sensible that at a period when cholera is reported to be prevalent in their district, the calling to gether large assemblages of people, when it can be avoided, is. to say the least of it, imprudent, if not extremely rash and reprehensible. —Morning Chronicle. We have to announce that tithes will be col lected under the authority and by the power of Govern ment, which is now providing the means of accomplishing this object. Major MILLER has been ordered to take up his residence in Cashel, where ninety of the Carhineers, and ten mounted and several foot police, are stationed.— Clorintel Herald. The Garrick Club have wisely engaged in the cuisine the far-famed SOLOMON, who, fur nearly forty years, directed the taste of the Piazza Coffee-house. The Com mittee of Noblemen and Gentlemen who superintend this establishment have placed the charges for eating and drink ing upon the lowest scale. The club is full, and many persona of distinction are candidates for admission. BRISTOL, FEB. 13.—The holding of the Quarter Sessions created some stir through the city to. day, hut it is not expected that any cases will be tried deserving of notice, the Special Commission having dis posed of all the trials that possessed any thing of public interest. The address of the Learned Town.clerk (Sex jeant LUDLOW) to the Grand Jury, has furoished, how ever, some food to the citizens, which they will not find easy of digestion. The Learned Serjeant considered him self bound on this public occasion to give the inhabitants some knowledge of the comforts which the Corporation in their kindness and grace intend, with the permission of Parliament, to shower upon the city of Bristol. Among other things, the pleasing information was afforded, that the rate upon Bristol for the loss during the late out rages will be no less a sum than 10s. in the IL rental of the city. A notice has been very generally posted through the city, from the Committee of Inquiry, stating that the Committee has made another and last application to Go vernment for a Commission of Inquiry. The notice has created a good deal of conversation, and has calmed the anxiety of the people on the subject for the present. The answer if Lord MELBOURNE is very anxiously looked for. —Times Correspondent. The accounts from St. Petersburgh down to the 30th ult. furnish some statistical details relative to the population, deaths, &c. in the Russian capital, during the past year. It appears that, at the close of 1831, the in habitants of St. Petersburgh were 448,220 in number. Of these 316,211 were males, and 132,000 were females ; of the Clergy there were 1,924 ; of Nobility 42,900 ; Of persons attached to the army 45,829. There were 6,800 merchants ; 44,393 citizens; 11,755 artisans ; literal - ) persons and others, of various conditions, 63,119; coun trymen, 117,400 ; strangers, 13,000, &c. The numbet of births bad been 6,511, of which 3,515 were boys. (It marriages there had been 1,041. The numt-er of deaths had been very considerable, amounting to 10,225, not in cluding the deaths from choler.i morbus, which amounted to 9,258, including 5,820 males and 3,438 females. The total number of individuals attacked by the cholera mor bus since the malady first commenced in the Russian capital was 13,152, PORTUGUESE Letters from Belleisle of the 10th a-mounce the sailing on that day of the first division of the Portu guese expedition. The following order of the day, addressed more particularly to the English auxi liaries, was issued by Admiral Sirtorius on the occasion : " ORDER OF THE DAY. " The Commander-in-Chief of the expedition hastens to mike known to the ►eamen and soldiers of the division, :hat his Imperial Majesty has been pleased to confirm th gift of the equipments which the Vice-Admiral, in his reliance on the well-known high-mindedness of the Eai peror, had taken upon him to promise. His Maj •sty moreover, not only ratified the allowance of 5.55. month`s• pay, but, in order to testify his high opinion of the E , g lish seamen and soldiers, espeei illy with reuard to thuse who are under the command of the Vice-Admiral, he has ;mere iced that pay by ss. a month, during all the time that the Queen's flag shall remain hoisted on their vessels. " The Vice-Admiral calls on his shipmates to second his efforts with heart and hand in a cause which, next to that of their King and country, is the most noble that an Englishman can serve—a ciuse laudably undertaken for the purpose of restoring an august Princess to her throne, of opening the dwigeons of thousands of victims, whose only crime has been fidelity to their duty and their oath; and of enabling Portugal to regain that constitutional liberty which has so greatly contributed in giving 'o your own country the sovereignty of the seas, and placing you among the first nations of the world. His Majesty's in tentions are humane and conciliatory, hut if they are dis rgarded, it will he then for us to prove, as true Britons, with the help of Providence, that reliance has not in vain be e n pl iced in our courace and our arms, fit the purpose of succouring the oppressed and prucur;ng the liberation of the innocent. " 13elleisle, Feb. 4." The vessels composing this first division were the Rainha de Portugal, Maria 11., one corvette, and two transports, having in all about 1,500 troops on board, exclusive of the crews and the marines. Tne remainder of the expedition was to sail on the 14th, and was supposed to be destined for the attack of Madeira. THE MANCHESTER AGITATORS. MANCHESTER, FEE. 13.—1 t will be recollected that Ministers have been warmly supported by the real Re formers (for hare-brained enthuaiaate canner be so elassed) f Manchester, and that numerous public me, -rings have been held, comprising all ranks, from the very first ►ner ch<:nts and manufacturers down to the humblest in their employment, at which all minor differ, ores of opinion were dropped, and an unanimous determination was xpresactl in favour of the Reform Bill as a great aitientlinent upon the present system of representation. Some months ago, some furious men. leaving their looms and their stalls. and &training; their living nobody knew how, contrived to throw confus!on into public meetings by mere strength of howling and groaning. Amongst the most prominent of these were three men, named Ash►nore, Curran, an Bro.idhurst, the originators of the scheme of hehing Sunday meetings. These individuals contrived to he out of the way at the second Sunday meeting, when some of the poor creatures who had met to hear their harangues were apprehended, hat they have now been arrested on a charge of utter ing seditious language at the first Sunday meeting, and were to-day brought before the sitting 'Magistrat- on that charge. Ashmore was in the usual fustian dress in which he has appeared at public assemblages, but Correia and Broadhurst came up in decent clean suits, which their journey to London as witnesses for Mr. Hunt seems to have procured for them, and certainly they looked in very different trim from that in which they have usually been seen, Broadhurst pirticullrly, who seems to have been suddenly lifted from the squalor of a beggar to the con-, d.tion of a decent tradesman. The evidence examined against them was given by a young man named Ga.kill, an occadonal reporter for London newspapers, and an other named Cooper, who is in the Manchester Courier office. Tiiey had not taken notes, but they said they had a distinct recollection of ;be language which was attri buted to the men in the Newspapers of the time, and which was to the effect, that the Judges ought to he hanged ra tifier than the men they had condemned at Bristol ; that Sir Charles Wetherell, in particular. should be hung as high as Haman ; and that it wooed he an easy matter for a few resolute men to break into the New B dley prison. Broadhurst, in defence, made a long, rambling, awl in coherent speech, in which he avowed himself a Radical Reformer, a name in which he gloried, and he poured forth a torrent of abuse against the Press, especially against the reporters who had given evidence against him, and whom he designated as base tools of the base Whigs. Curran, in more moderate language, begged that the Magistrate would write to Lord Melbourne, and obtain from him the original address which had been agreed upon at the meeting, which he said would more fairly ex press the objects and intentions of that meeting than the imperfect recollections of persons who did not hear all that passed. Ashmore said, the reporters had certainly stated a part of what he had said, but with their usual trickery they had chosen to forget all that he had said in qualification, which, if reported, would have taken from him all ap pearance of counselling violence, a thing which he had al ways deprecated. Mr. FOSTER said that he had already committed ;o Lan caster Assizes the men who seemed to have been led by the prisonera,:and be could not do less by the leaders. He would therefore commit them to take their trial at the Lancaster assizes, and require them to give good bad of four 25/. each, and twenty-four hours' notice of bail. There is no probability of the men obtaining the bail required. THE CHOLERA IN LONDON.—Many whn were preparing to leave Brighton at the close of its usual season, intend now to lengthen their residence, in consequence of the breaking out of the cholera in the metropolis. The elevated situation of this town, with its dry and salubrious atmosphere, is likely, we understand, to render it the resort of numbers who seek a refu4e from the prevailing formidable epidemic—B rightots Guardsan. The female whose death was mentioned at the medical meeting on Monday night, and who was said to be an inhabitant of the New -cut, Lambeth, lived and died in the Bear-garden, Bankside. The boy is not dead, as was reported by mis take, in our repirt of Dr. WHITING'S speech on Monday night, but is improving, although still in danger. There can be very little doubt, that, as in other places, the cholera will follow the course of the river; and as the atmosphere of such places as the House of Gammons is, beyond all others, calculated for the pro pagation of contagion, we trust that the Members, in compassion to those whose dory calls them to the House, as well as with a regard to their own safety, will refrain for the present from the exerci-e of that privilege of giving o' dere, which nightly renders the air of the gallery more dangerous than that of the mirshes of Africa. We wonder, indeed, that at such a time there can be found any per- sons desirous to avail themselves of the privilege.—Mora. beg Chronicle. The east wind is always considered more prejudicial to health than any other, and it is a singular tart, that the cholera reached the metropolis after that malaria had set in for several days, with more than usual harshness. LOOSENESS OF THE BOWELS IS THE BEGINNING OF CHOLERA.-Thousands of lives may be saved by attending in time to this complaint, w hick should on no account be neglected by either young or old, in places where the disease prevails. When cramps in the legs, arms, or belly, are felt, with looseness or rckness at stomach, when medical assistance is not at hand, three tea spoonsful of mustard powder in h,,11 a pin , of warm water, or the satn , 3 quantity of warm water, with as much common salt as it will melt, should be taken as a vomit ; and after the stomach has been cleared out with more warm water, twenty-five drops of laudanum should be taken in a small glas. of any agreeable drink. Heated plates or platters to be applied to the belly and pit of the stomach.— Cholera Gazette page 50. iera increased sh u virulence, ld un fo rbtuutntoatgerleyatlybu forth lf ,uo t t h o e withcholera aug mented extent, it was last night very confidently rumoured about the Houses, that it is not at all unlikely that a short adjournment of the Parliament will, in such case. be proposed. The gallery of the House of Commons, which House is notoriously most abotninately ventilated, has at tracted some notice already, and gave ri.e yesterday to several judicious and by no means ground ess cautions, but from accident, or some other cause, the said g slier). arid the passages leading thereto, last night, were, notwith standing, most unmercifully crowded, beyond any thing we have seen since Lord J. RusseLes first motion on I{^- form. The House—or the Speaker ratter—no will look to this matter, except it wishes to have withi.r own walls as fficient means of sprea.ling r amongst its own I:embers as could well be devis.d,