The Sun. — London, England, 1832-04-17 00:00:00

LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 17, 1832. The Earl of WICKLOW last night brought forward his promised motion in the House of Lords, for papers relating to the dismissal of Captain GRAHAM (who, our readers will re collect, was the officer in command during the Newtownbarry affair) from the Commis 51°n of the Peace in Ireland. After a very lengthy discussion, not only on the subject of the Newtownbarry transactions, but also on the general position of affairs in Ireland, the motion Was negatived without a division. Without en tering into the merits of a question on which the public mind is already made up, we shall only observe, that a very strong case having been proved against Captain GRAHAM by the Go vernment, he was very properly not re-appointed ---for it amounted only to that, and was conse quently not a dismissal. In the Commons, Lord STORMONT brought forward the motion of which he had given no tice, respecting a breach of privilege in the Publication of a letter and of a placard, at Sunderland, on the subject of the proceed ings of the Committee upon the Sunder land Wet Docks Bill. Mr. HODGSON having explained that the letter was not written with a view to publicati o n, the matter was ordered to be taken into further consideration on Monday, the 7th May. Notice was afterwards given by Lord ALTDORP, that on Wednesday next he in tended t o move the adjournment of the House till Monday the 7th of May, and to move the consideration of the Scotch Reform Bill on Wednesday the 9th May. Mr. DIXON having complained of the seizure of British ships by the Brazilian Government in 1826-7, for whi c h no compensation had been given, Lord PALMERSTON allowed that the transactions in question were against every principle of national law, but would not consent to the production of papers on the sub ject at present, as matters were in a course of prompt and speedy settlement. Mr. STANLEY moved the third reading of the Tithes (Ireland) Bill, which, after some discussion, was carried by a majority of fifty-two to seven. The Bill was then read a third time and passed. The Protest against the second reading of the Reform Bill, which bears the signature of the Duke of WELLINGTON, is one of the most grotesque, suicidal productions we ever read, or attempted to understand. His Grace objects to the Ministerial measure, for the very same reason that the Reformers advocate it. He is dis sentient, " because in providing for the correction of abuses in the election of Members to serve in the Common s House of Parliament, we are bound, above all things, to bear in mind that the Government of this country is, what from the earliest period of our history it has ever been, a Monarchy ; that this Monarchy, limited by the law s and customs of the realm, and by the necessity imposed on the Sovereign of Paving constant recourse to the advice and aid of arliament, is the form of Government best adapted ° the habits, wants and wishes of the people, c i ? el e "sequently that no changes, however spe eic;' Can of be w or thy adoption which would itoll"ever strik e at t h e principles of the Monarchy the. or would leave the Sovereign without Pot q 4. of performing the high duties re n?"cei'l , fronz him, without the free and inde rivareci4,'ln exercise of his lawful prerogatives in uph o l d ih g the general interests of the State, in due pro g its ancient institutions, and affording and lives eet lOn to the rights, liberties, property, nf all his subjects." His Grace, though a great w • or he Ivo :tor, is , clearly but a small logician, y eet i d scarcely venture to put forth such s ° tr j onol ° ‘: l3 as these, not one of which but tells Whv w '' It a ,gainst hi; own view of the question. I s Precisely because they desire to see the cc free and independent exercise of the So. vereign's lawful prerogative, in guarding the ' general interests of the State," restored, that the reformers are so earnest in the support of the Nlinisterial Bill ! As at present constituted the Monarchy is little better than a name— shadow. It is an oligarchy that rules every thing —an oligarchy unknown, even abhorrent to, the principle of the Constitution, but which yet, by the aid of fraud, and menace, and corruption, carries all before it. The boroughmongers are, indeed, King, Lords, and Commons. The public purse is theirs, and theirs only ; the public taxes are their perquisites ; the army, the navy, the colonies, and more especially the church, are the Charitable Asylums—the foundling hospi tals, for the decayed and destitute Members of their fraternity. Does a young Lordling evince symptoms of more than average aristocratic sto- lidity, he is forthwith thrust into some snug rectory or golden prebend or deanery, whence, as a matter of course, in the fulness of time, he is elevated to a bishopric ! Is the needy fourth cousin of my Lord so wedded to the dis sipations of society as to threaten much pecu niary inconvenience to his titled relation, his unwelcome claims are got rid of by a colo nelcy in the army, or a lucrative post in the colonies ! Has the SOVEREIGN any control over these appointments ? Not the slightest. Has he the power of withholding them, if he thinks them injurious to the public interest? Not the slightest. The Constitution says he has, the boroughmongers say he has not, and these last are right, for they have proved it by their conduct during the last fifty years. Adopting then the Duke of WELLINGTON'S argument, we say that it tells against himself; that it is all but decisive of the necessity, the stern,im perious, inexorable necessity of Reform. It is by supporting, not opposing, the Ministerial Bill, that the SOVEREIGN'S and the people's emancipation must be worked out. This great sanatory measure will restore the old equilibrium of the Constitu tion. It will reduce the theory of King, Lords, and Commons, to practice, instead of consigning over the attributes of all three to the borough mongers. As for its giving undue power to what his Grace is pleased sneeringly to call the " democracy," it will do no such thing. It will, in deed deprive the Aristocracy of all that they ought not to possess, but it will still leave them in the full and perfect exercise of their legitimate rights. The Reform Bill is nothing more than an act of justice to the three Powers of the State, awarded ,hem in strict accordance with the principles of the Constitution. No one party gains exclusively, but all are bettered, by it. The SOVEREIGN is restored to the exercise of his rightful authority the influence of the Lords is confined within the pale of the law ; that of the Commons is kept within the same sacred boundary. In a word, ;he Reform Bill is neither more nor less than the British Constitution cleansed of long standing abuses and restored to its ancient purity. The Duke of WELLINGTON'S allusion to the " disciplined" freedom of the subject is highly diverting and characteristic. By " disciplined," his Grace, of course, means the discipline of the camp, that peculiar and indulgent species of martial law, which so delighted and improved Ireland in the memorable 1798. But the days of such discipline are gone by. Already they are with the years beyond the flood. The school master has elbowed the soldier, and it is to the discipline of the primer, instead of the sword, that this country will henceforth owe its pros perity. element of the British Constitution deknod by thin Bill Rhit give additional strength and impetus to a principle iell, while duly restrained and tempered by the checks provided in the existing constitution of Parliarne .1, is the freedom of that genuine spirit of disciplined and enlightened 4r gedotu which is the proudest distinction of our national 'aftracter, but which, without those checks, or other Nuivalent resttaints, could not fail to advance with aug- Tmted and accelerated force till, all other power, being drawn within its vortex, the Government would become a [ Here democracy; or if the name and form of a mo barchy were preserved, all that could give independence t 0 the Sovereign or protection to the subject would be really excluded. April 16. (Signed) In the course of yesterday evening attached their names to his Grace's pre [ meat Redesdale William Frederick Abingdon bkalmesbury Norwich, (Earl of l'verley Gordon) Kenyon Meldrurn \ , G ascoigne Salisbury Mayo Tel Rutlaud 7 yning Doncaster ' De L a Warr .Eerersham i ) enhurst Montagu 4owlWinchilsea and Not. ey tingham Wallace "De Dunstanville, &c. Newcastle Selkirk alaryborou g h Sidmeuth Delamere Manners Limerick I Brownlow Jersey I Howe Dartmouth Lorton I Caredo n Wilton Colville of Cullross It. Bristol Chalmondeley H. Exeter G. Rochester H. Carlisle Lonsdale Beresford Falmouth Ker WELLINGTON. the following Peer• test : Clanwilliam Saltoun Guilford Clanbrassill Home Camden Vane Longford Douglas Wynford Forester Eldon Sydney George Kilmore Bexley Northumberhtud Mansfield Verulam Abercorn Beauchamp Bathurst J. H. Gloucester Combermere John Geo. Armagh Rosalyn Itt all 74. ?KICKS OF STOCKS THIS Bank stock 196 )4 3 per Cent. Red. 63% X, 3 per Cent Cons. B4li % I'4 per Cent......-... - Ditto Red 90N % New 3%per Cent. 91 1 4 % 2 3 per Cent. Ann. 1726 - 4 per Cent. 1826 9OU 100 liank Long Ann. to expire Jan. 5, 1860........., 16% 7-16 Oct. 10, 1859........,,,, 16 7-16 Jan. 5, 1660... .......... Jan. 5, 1880... ..... .. ..... - Aprlls, 1880 ..... .......... - Jan. 5. 1870...... .... - DAT AT ONE O'CLOCK. New 5 per Cent. ...... ...... India Stock Ditto Bonds par 1 pm. South Sea Stock 93 Old Annuities New Ditto — 3 per Cent. Ann. 1751 - Ex. Bills, £l,OOO l2 13 pm. Ditto.. ..500 l2 13 pm. Ditto 317 Z l2 13 pm. Ditto Commercial..........—pm. Ditto Advertised Bank for Account ..... India for Account — Cons. for May 23 ...... S4X, %% PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds — Belgian Bonds vitt° Scrip Ditto Account 1 pm. Brazilian Bonds 43% Ditto Account — Buenos Ayres Bonds oo 1 Ditto Chilian Bo Account -nds l6 Ditto Account .rolurnbian Bonds ...... Ditto Account Ditto Bonds, 18'24 ll7f, Danish Bonds 66% Ditto Account Greek Bonds 23 Ditto Bonds, 1825. 29% Ditto Account Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent — Ditto Account _ Ditto, 6 per cent 3l _ D itto Account _ vPolitast THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Peruvian Bonds 105,i Ditto Account Portuguese Bonds 49% Ditto Account. Regency Scrip Ditto Account dig. Prussian Bonds 'l9 Ditto Account Ditto Bonds, 1822 Russian Honds, 1822 971, 1 " Ditto Account 9B New Loan 92 Ditto Account — Spanish Bonds, 1321 — Ditto Account IV _ Ditto Bonds, 1813 ,French Rented. sp. c. —f. —c. Exchange —f —c. , n per cent Exchange —f. —c. Dutch Scrip Ditto Account 43% French Scrip ir?r , ebe use rtm) * •• THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWEL VE 0' CLOCK We have no arrivals this morning of consequence; not even a single ship letter. The French mail has brought us the following : —" They state from Brussels, that at present they have only two French Generals , in their army, who are occupied in mak ing great improvements daily ; nevertheless, the Belgian Government has solicited of the Cabinet of France a third General, to take the command in chief of the Belgian army. Ore regiment of Poles, it is said, is going to be formed." Accounts from Berne to the 9th April state, that a severe engagement took place on the 7th instant at the village of Gellerblenden, part of which was burnt, and the federal troops were obliged to retreat. The tocsin was sounded, and thirty villages assembled the landsturm. The email-pox is making great ravages at Berne, and the hospitals are crowded. The information in the Augsburg Gazette from Vienna states that a courier arrived there from Paris, and it is assured brought favourable news regarding the affairs of Rome and Portugal. It is stated that the French Minister is ready to give every satisfaction to the demands of the Pope, and to act in concert with the other Powers. The French garrison will only remain in Ancona until the Pope has sufficient for ce to maintain order in the legations without the aid of foreign powers. The accounts from Bayonne say that the King of Spain is still determined to give assistance to Don Miguel against the expedition of Don Pedro. Three regiments which were on the frontiers of France, are proceeding by forced marches to Extremadura, to re-inferce the army of observation. It is also stated that the French Cabinet insists that their differences shall be adjusted between themselves without the interference of any foreign power. They write from St. Petersburgh, that on the 11th of March the port of Revel was free from ice, and on the 15th several ships had entered that port. The Dublin Evening Post, received this morning, states, that on Friday the cholera was as follows: 30 cases since its commencement, and 19 deaths. No country cases has been reported to the Board this day. FIX N DS. The dulness of the morning rather casts a gloom in the City, nevertheless the Funds remain firm at the prices ; they left off yesterday at 84 for the Account, with little doing as yet, although we understand that the ratifications of Austria and Prussia are to be exchanged this night or to-morrow. But little attention is paid in the City to the protest of the Duke of Wellitagton against the Reform Bill. In the Foreign Market, Dutch Stoek maintains yester day's prices. In other Foreign Securities nothing doing at present. HALF-PAST ONE. The gloomy weather which hovered over the city most part of the morning, has at length been dispersed by the bright rays of the sun, which has had an effect on the Funds, as well as the certainty of the ratification of the twenty-four articles of the Dutch treaty; but if we are correctly informed, although Austria and Prussia are ready for the immediate exchange of the ratification, it will not take place before Count Orloff's despatches arrive, which are expected by to-morrow or next day, when a general exchange of the ratification will ensue. Consols, which were in the early part of the morning at 84E for the Account, have improved to 84 and a good deal of business has been doing. Consuls for money, 84. In the Foreign market, Dutch stock has also improved to 431 to Condole just done at 54i i- IRRE A S O' CL 0 CK. Consols for Account 84 FOUR O'CLOCK CLOSING PRICES Consols Ditto for Account 844 Greek, 1825 291, Brazilian Bonds Mexican, 1525 3ll Buenos Ayres... Peruvisn ........ 11 Chilian Russian Columbian 1 5 24 Spanish .........•• 14 FRENCH: PAPERS. (Extract from Le Breton, published at Nant7, April H.) A fresh expedition for the Isle of Terceira left Belle- Isle on the 7th inst., at about eight o'clock in the morn ing, with a strong north-east wind. It is composed of three three-masted vessels, having eight companies, form ing a battalion of about 600 Frenchmen, under the orders of Brigadier Freires. The superior officers are Portuguese, the others are French. Twenty men refused to embark It is affirmed that another battalion will be immediately formed at Belle-Isle, for the same destination. (From the Memorial des Pyrenn&.s of April 10.) We are at length enabled to give gorse intelligence of Don Pedro's expedition. On the 25th of last month, six ships of war presented themselves before Peniche, at the north of Lisbon, and fired at the fort of Sainte Suzanne for some hours ; the batteries of the fort returned the fire with vigour. It appears that Don Pedro calculated on his presence exciting some movement in his favour; but seeing that the cannonade, far from abating, became more and more vigorous, and the shores became lined with troops who seemed prepared to oppose his landing, the chief of the squadron deemed it advisable to put about, and to try, perhaps, some more favourable spat. It is affirmed that in this moment of difficulty, Don Miguel shewed that re solution and presence which he is known to possess; still although neither the soldiers nor the chiefs manifested for a single moment the least hesitation, such as even the ter ror ins Fired by a disputed and insecure power, that it is asserted the major part of the Ministers are to be changed, and that Lisbon will be once more a prey to proscriptions. Other details are hourly expected. OFFICIAL REPORT OF THE STATE OF THE CHOLERA. (From the Moniteur of April 15.) The malady continual to remain stationary; still a slight decrease in the number of deaths is manifested every day. The malignity is every day weakened, and we may hope that we shall soon arrive at the period of decrease. The number of deaths in tie tls and public esta blishments amounts to-day to 309 ; yesterday it was 313. We have reason to believe that the number of new cases is about the same as that of die two preceding days. But the difficulty of ascertaining the precise number of cases treated at prinate houses having been augmented, we de• cline including them in our list. These difficulties arise from two causes ; the first is, that many -rseases present at first sight the symptoms of the cholera, but after a few hours assume a different aspect, and thus we are led into the error of representing the epidemic as of greater ex tent than it really is; the second difficulty arises from the physicians, harassed by fatigue, and desirous of devot. ing all their time to their patients, dispense with sending the account to the Prefecture of all the cases they treat out of the hospitals. These two difficulties it is out of the power of the Administration to surmount. The Administration has also reason to believe that some errors may have crept into the accounts transmitted to it by some of the Mayories, relatively to the number of deaths. During the days in which the disease made the greatest ravages, there was some confusion in the registry of deaths at the Mayory ; and the service of the funeral coaches being obliged to employ extraordinary means, could not give the precise number; but both these incon veniences have been remedied. Two registers of deaths have been opened in each Mayory, and more extensive ar rangemen have been made by the service of the funeral coaches. Thus it will be easy to revise the daily reports made at the Mayories. M. Taboreau has been specially charged with this mission by the Minister of Commerce. GERMAN PAPERS. TURIN, Aram 2.—The reserve of the French Minis try in the debates repecting Algiers, must have convinced you of the correctness of what I stated, that our Court had made application at Constantinople and London, to obtain the evacuation of North Africa by the French. I am now able to add, that very serious negotiations are now on foot on the subject, and that the French Cabinet spews itself inclined to accede to the proposal' made to it for the future organization of the Barbary States. It only wishes to wait for a favourable moment to have an ostensible motive for evacuating the country. This concession will, doubtless, he very agreeable in London, and highly flatter ing to Lord Grey in having obtained by negotiation the abandonment of a covenant made against the will of the Duke of Wellington. At Paris, on the contrary, M. Perier will be most vehemently attacked by the opposition In all France there will be a great outcry against the renun ciation of a conquest so glorious and advantageous to France. For the present the ministerial journals deny this, but you may rest assured that the resolution is taken, and that, perhaps, official documents may be soon pub lished. Our court has energetically protested against the occupation of Ancona, and especially made a representation at London, in order to induce all the Cabinets to take steps in common at Paris, with a view to obtaining the immediate evacuation of Ancona. For reasons not known here, the English and Prussian Cabinets declined joining in such a step, but are said to have declared that they considered it unnecessary, as there was reason to hope the object would be attained by negotiations in the usual way. And it seems that the latest assurances of the French Ca binet on this point are satisfactory. The Austrian troops, however, are so posted, that they rn :y, at the shortest notice, act in Italy in all directions. The measures taken by Count Raditzky are extremely judicious. All the fortresses in Lombardy and in this kingdom are completely repaired and supplied with ammunition and provisions. Precautions are also taken by our Government on several parts of the coast to frustrate any attempt that might be made to effect a land ing. On the part of Austria, the whole coast of Dalma tia, and some islands in the Adriatic, are to be placed in a state of defence. CHA3IRERY, APRIL 4.-We have lately had a confir mation of the hope that our Government will advance slowly and prudently in the improvement of our civil in stitutions. It would have been dangerous to give to our couutry, which is agitated in consequence of events in the south and the west, the freedom of the press, in the French sense of the term. A step, however, has lately been taken in this matter, which could never have been thought of under the late King. All the printers and booksellers here were called together, by order of the Government, and informed that they should enjoy hence for;•ard entire liberty to print and publish, if they would promise on their oaths not to publish any thing political, religious, or literary, that by its alarming, exciting, or offms,ve tendency, might give occasion for the displeasure of the Government. The old plan of defending Turin by the formation of a great fortified camp, is again spoke❑ of. BERLIN, MARCH 31.—There is a report here of an in tended marriage of the Princess Elizabeth, his Majesty's niece, with the reigning Duke Prince William of Bruns wick : and the prospect of this new bond of union between the families which have had so many alliances with each other for centuries past, gives great satisfaction. VIENNA, APRIL 6.—Five per Cent. Aletalliques, 87 13-16 ; Four per Cent 771 ; Bank Shares, 1,156. .Allgemcitie Zeitung, April 11. CASSELL, APRIL I..—We learn from good authority that the Electoral Prince had at Wilhelinsbad only half an hour's conversation with his august father; the object of his journey, which related to the Countess Schotnberg, and her being recognised as the consort of the Prince, was fully at tained.—Nuremburg Correspondent, April S. SHAKING HANDS.—At a late duel, the par ties discharged their pistols without effect, whereupon one of the seconds proposed that the combatants should shake hands. To this the other second objected, as unnecessary, " for," said he, " their hands have been shaking this half hour."—The Cab. FIRE AT THE HOUSE OF LORDS.—At about twelve o'clock on Sunday the inhabitants of Abingdon street were thrown into some alarm by perceiving a dense smoke rise from the Royal entrance to the House of Lords, built by the command of his late Majesty. But as ten, twenty, and thirty minutes passed without any thing but smoke making its appearance, the matter passed off in sundry jokes about the Reform Bill having fired the House, the Lords having smothered the Bill in the night, &c. The fact of the matter, however, was this :—the Gothic passage forming the Royal entrance, when not prepared for his Majesty's reception, is generally turned into a receptacle for the old and partly worn matting used in the different chambers and passages of the House of Lords, which is laid up in it in rolls, as also its own matting, upon the floor, which is of stone. There is a small German stove at about the centre of the entrance; but no wood work nearer to it than the large oaken folding doors at each extremity of the passage. The matters, as the men are called whose duty it is to lay down the matting, being employed that day in preparieg the House for their Lordships' reception, early yesterday morning, having occasion to go to their stoves, found the mat ting rather damp. One of them thereupon made a fire in the stove; but leaving the door open (it is so believed), a coal fell out upon the partly unrolled matting, which was laid too near to the tire. The matting caught light, and is supposed to have been smouldering some ten minutes or quarter of an hour before it was discovered. Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt, the Usher of the Black Rod, had his carriage at the door of the House, and was on the point of driving out with a part of his family when the discovery was made. Under his direction a plentiful quan tity of water was thrown upon the ignited materials, which having been extinguished he drove away. Before church time was over, nothing remained to indicate what had happened but a strong smell. The detached and harbacandike nature of the entrance prevented, when matters were at the worst, any one fearing that the fire would communicate with :the body of the BENCH-(THIS DAY.) TODD V. TILE WATERMEN'S COMPANY. This was an action, tried last term, against the Watermen% Company for a false return to a mandamue. Tho man • damus had been issued to show cause why they refused to admit the plaintiff to the freedom of their Company, and the defendants returned, that the plaintiff had not duly merved seven years' apprenticeship. The plaintiff then brought his action for a false return, and the Jury found a verdict in his favour. The Arroaltrv-GeNtaar., this day, moved for a rule to show cause wby the verdict should not be set aside, and a new trial had, under the following circumstance. On the trial it appeared that the plaintiff's father was in a very extensive business as a wharfinger, and that he had in his employ, as a lighterman, a person named Coleman. It would be a great object with Mr. Todd, sen. to be en ibled to work his own barges, and, not being a freeman of the Watermen's Company himself, he apprenticed his son, the plaintiff, to his servant (Coleman), in the year 1623. It was certainly proved that the plaintiff had been very frequently employed in craft on the river, and there was no doubt that he was capable of managing craft. But it was also proved that he had been as frequently employed in the capacity of clerk to his father, and giving orders to his father's servants ; that Coleman had upon one occasion been fined by the Watermen's Company for an offence against their liege laws, in not insisting on the plaintiff's residing with him, as his master, and that in order to avoid a repetition of that offence, Coleman then took a lodging, or nominally took a lodging for the plaintiff in his father's house, although Coleman would not swear on the trial that he had ever paid any rent for the lodging. There was in his, the Attorney-General's opinion, such evi dence, of a collusion, and also only a partial service to Coleman, that the defendants ought to have had a verdict. He thought, however, that the Jury looked to a point to which they ought motto have directed their atten tion, and that was the plaintiff's capacity to manage craft on the river. That view of the case was a very dangerous and mischievous one, and one which would be attended with great inconvenience to all the companies of the City of London ; for there ought to be a clear and undivided service of seven years, by a party claiming the freedom and the privilege to carry on trade in the city. _ _ Mr. Justice J. PARKE said he certainly left it to the Jury to say whether the plaintiff was actually and sub stantially the apprentice of Coleman for seven whole years, and not whether be was merely learning how to manage craft. The Court granted a rule Nisi. MILLS v. HARRIS. This was an action tried at the last Gloucester Assizes, before Mr. Justice Littledale, to recover damages of the defend int, for mismanaging a farm belonging to the plaintiff. On the motion of Mr. CAMPBELL, this morning, the Court granted a rule for a new trial, on the ground that the verdict was contrary to evidence. CRIMINAL INFORMATION. Mr. HoLT moved for two rules, calling upon the pro prietors of the Bedford Chronicle, and a London news paper called the Ballot. He moved this on behalf of a gentleman named Hawkins, a maeistrate residing near Harpenden, in the county of Hertford, who was compelled to resort to this measure for a very gross misrepresenta tion of his conduct in those two papers. The circum stance which had given rise to the application were these: some time in the summer of last year, there were five small poor, or church houses, in the parish of Harpenden, which were allotted to poor widows, or sick and needy per sons, whom the overseers might think deserving of them. The overseers put into one of them the wife and family of a man named Wells, who had left his family chargeable to the parish. Some time afterwards, 'Wells, who was an able bodied man, returned to Harpenden, and the overseers being desirous of having the houses, which were much dilapidated, repaired, and of putting a poor widow into one of them, required of Wells that he should take his family out and support them ; he refused to do so, and the overseers summoned him before the Magistrates at the Petty Sessions at St. Alban's, when he was ordered to remove his family from the house. He still refused, and the overseers having obtained a warrant against him, and took him before Mr. Hawkins, who advised the suspension of the warrant for a few weeks, in order that he might consider the propriety of leaving the house, the warrant was suspended for six weeks, during which time he refused to quit the house, and Mr. Hawkins was obliged at last, in pursuance of the powers vested in him by Act of Parliament, to commit him to prison for a month. Shortly afterwards, a statement appeared in the Bedford Chronicle, in which the real facts were greatly exaggerated, and many parts of which were false, as appeared by the affidavit of Mr. Hawkins, who was fully corroborated by the affidavits of the two over seers of Harpenden, and of the Rev. Mr. Lloyd, the Chaplain of the gaol to which Wells was sent. That statement was copied from the Bedford Chronicle into the Ballot, and introduced there by a few observations of the editor, calling the " abhorrence of the British public, and the attention of the legislature" to such conduct as that imputed to Mr. Hawkins. Those statements, Mr. Hawkins stated in his affidavit were, he feared, calculated to bring the vengeance of persons in his neighbourhood upon him, and of greatly injuring his reputation and property. Lord TENDERDEN-How do you bring the publication home to the parties against whom you move ? Mr. Hovr said he had certificates from the Stamp-office upon that point. Lord TENTERDEN-Take rules to shew cause, COURT OF EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.) Mr. Baron BAY LEY presided in the absence of the Lord Chiet Baron. At the sitting of the Court, Sir John Gurney was sworn in as one of the Barons of this Court, being the firs; time of his sitting on the Bench in Term. DIORGAN MORGAN V. MORGAN HARRIS. This was an action tried at the Glamorganehire Assizes, before Mr. Baron Bolland. The plaintiff was a plas terer, and brought his action for work and labour done, in plastering a house belonging to the defendant. A ver dict was found for the plaintiff, with 20/. damages. This morning Mr. EVANS, for the defendant, moved for a rule to show cause why that verdict should not be set aside, and a nonsuit entered, or a new trial had on the ground of its being against evidence, and the plaintif f not having complied with the rules of Court. The Learned Gentleman said, that by order of Baron Vaughan, the plaintiff delivered his particular of demand, and by the 6th new rule of Court he was also requited to annex his particular of demand to the record. When the cause came to be tried, it was found that there was a material iI,E -rence between the two particulars. Upon this ground he considered he was entitled to a nonsuit. On the other ground it was proved in evidence that the de fendant had entered into an agreement with a builder, named Samuel, to finish the work, who had engaged the plaintiff. and by whose orders the defendant had paid to the plaintiff' 201., which was the only transaction that had been between thern.—Rule granted. DA NDO V. BETTS. This was an action tried at the sittinzs at Guildhall, after last Term, before Mr. Baron Rolland, the plaintiff in which was a violin player belonging to the Opera-house, and the defendant the executor of a gentleman named Vernon, who had been a dealer in musical instruments. The action was brought to recover the sum of 29/. fur the hire and value of a doublelass, which had been let to ;Mr. Vernon and never returned. The Jury at the trial gave a verdict of damages 201. Mr. WY BERG this mornity., applied to have that ver dict set asid e and a new trial had, on the grounds of sur prise, and the verdict bein,r. against evidence. The COURT were of opinion that the Learned Counsel had not mad e out a case, on either ground, for their inter ference.—Rule refused. EXCHEQUER CHAMBER.-(THIS DAY) IN RE THE FLIXTON FEMALE BENEVOLENT SOCIETY. This was a petition, calling upon a Mr. Rogers, who was the manager of a s h o p un d er th e S oc i e ty, to account to one of th e mem b ers, who cla i med to b e treasurer, f or a sum of 240/. I t cppeared that the Soc i ety held quarter l y meetings in public-house of the sign of the Red Lion. At one of the meetings it was moved and carried by a large majo r i ty , t h at i n f uture the Sickly should hold its meetings at the Union public•house. Accordingly the majority went to the Union, but those who had been in the minority remained in the Red Lion, keeping the box, and expelling those who did not meet with them. Not satisfied with this, they, without notice to the other party, go before the Justices at the Quarter Sessions, and get en rolled under the New Act of Pie, liaineut, under a new set of laws, and then call upon Mr. Rogers to account to the treasurer appointed by them, the minority of the club. It appeared, that under the old laws, the club was supposed to be where the box was; but the majority s u t, that though they had not the box, the lawful possession was with them, for a majority of the club, legally convened could alter the law. Mr. BEAats s appeared for the peCtioncri, ani Mr. JARVIS opposed it. Lord LYNDHURST would not make soy order on the petitiott at present, but only bindlMr. Jarvis's client from - - • t ARRIVALS OF GRAIN IN LONDON DURING LAST WEEK. 1 ,1 4 9 F 7 ' =f From Whence. < 7 ; ht .' F p 5, t.t. ,< Qrs. grg. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Scks. Aldbormigh 325 973 22 1Q Alemouth Bideford I 150 282 Bridlington 92 18, Clay Cowes V a l r cts i t , er ,1,32`.(.; 116-.- :1 L 1 7 2 --. _ .. 10 1, --.. ... 378 390 ALeigh 287 95 20 64 45 2 Maldon 477 248 15 11 291 40 140 Exeter Gainsborough — 105 2 Grimsby — 402 Hull l5O 120 300 I t em c h l3f 321 1996 156 308 415 254 535 I 70 140 35 450 Louth - ..., Lynn 235 488 25 .-.-..,. Poole — 2 .._ — 30 Stockton — " . 7'.. 760 Weymouth - --; 152 Whitby — 121 Woodbrido ' 54 524 140 Yarmouth 27 1390 22.30 100 IS 1020 SCOTCH 3150 335 2.530 0 30 166 .......• 6503 4804 614 4199, 702 162 4931 I Min. Ballyraine ...... Cork 490 Galway B6B 1505 Limerick Youghall l6 1595 -- FOREIGN. Bandholin Kallundborg 286 Kiel ......... Nakskov - _ Rostock„..„..„„ 112 _ _ Sudwesthorn 350 —__ Coastways Total AGGREGATE QUAN' stye, o —Tares, '26—, MtLis' 5334 TITY 0 'LiWV ;end, 'll I 6844 F OTP, 979 :IL MI { apes ee Is, 176. , 162 DS OF PULSE. o —Brank, 0-- The following is the House List of Governors and Directors of the Bank of England for the year ensuing, viz. FOR GOVERNORS. John Horsley Palmer, Esq. Governor. And' ew Henry Thomson, Esq. Deputy Governor. FOR DIRECTORS. John Bowden, Esq. George Warde Norman, Esq. John Cockerel', Esq. Charles Pole, Esq. William Cotton, Esq. Richard Mee Raikes, Esq. 'Fiinothy Abraham Curtis, Esq. Sir John Rae Reid, Hart. Samuel Dresve, Esq. John I:aker Richards, Esq. George Dorrien, Esq. ‘Vm. R. Robinson, Esq. John Oliver Hanson, Esq. Samuel Thornton, Esq. John Benjamin Heath, Esq. Stephen Edward 7 !tort& n, Esq. :sanmel Hibbert, Esq. Wiliam Ward, Esq. William Mellish, F,sq. Thomas Wavle, Esq. Humphrey St. John Mildmay, Money Wigram, Esq. Esq. Melvil Wilson, Esq. James Morris, Fsq. The Election for Governor and Deputy Governor will be held at the Bank on Tuesday the 17th, and for Directors on Wednesday the 18th inst.., from ten o'clock in the forenoon till our in the atterneon: parting with any of the money to either party, till they had again applied to the Quarter Sessions, and got a place appointed where the club should be held. COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.) :tARCIIANT V. BOXALL. Mr. Sergeant ANDREWS movecifin - a rule to show cause why the verdict in this ease, which had been ob tained by the defendant at the last assizes at Lewes, should not be set aside, and a new trial bad. The action was tried before Lord Lyndhurst and a special jury, and the facts of the case were these :—The plainitff was the occu pier of some cottages, in Castle-street, Brighton, and the defendant, who is a man of property, had built a house immediately abutting upon the cottages of the plaintiff, whereby the sentient light of the lane had been con siderably ob-t-irted, and which was the ground of action. Upcx Cie trial several witaessee were called for the defendant, who swore, that after the house had h^.n built, the wall fronting the plain tiff's cottage- , ; - rts; . : been whitewashed, which cast sucWa re flection upon the kitchen of the plaintiff that a Dutch clock, that could never be seen before, became then quite visible, and the plaintiff was, owing to such whitewashing, &c. enabled to tell the hour of the day without the slightest difficulty, a convenience he bad hitherto never enjoyed. It further appeared that the gentlemen who formed the Jury were from the neighbourhood of Brighton, and was acquainted with the defendant. The Court granted a rule nisi. Mr. Sergeant MEREWETHER applied to the Court, to allow a gentleman, an attorney of this Court, to be struck off the Rolls, to enable him to become a Magistrate. The Learned Sergeant said, he was prepared with the usual affidavit., to show there was no ground of complaint, &c. The COURT granted the application. BANK OF ENGLAND.-(THIS DAY). This morning a General Court of Proprietors of Bank Stock was held in the Court-room of the Bank of Eng land, for the purpose of electing a Governor and Deputy Governor for the ensuing year. At ten o'clock the Go vernor, J. 11. Palmer, EN., took the Chair, and the ballot commenced immediately. The present Governor and Deputy-Governor were no - ninated for re-election, in order that they may continue to act during the proceedings which are about to be commenced in Parliament, relative to the Bank charter,—there gentlemen being more intl. ma , ely acquainted with the affairs of the Bank than any Governor or Deputy could be. The ballot is proceeding, but not with any activity, as no opposition is expected to the House Li.t. The ballot will not close before four o'clock. To-morrow another Court will be held, for the purpose of balloting for twenty-four Directors. BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.) THE LITERARY GAZETTE. At half-past one to-day, Mr. Scripps, the publisher of the Literary Gazette, appeared to answer the information preferred against him by Mr. Judge last week, for pub lishing news on unstamped paper. Mr. Anotrxus, for the defendant, said he would at once upset the case by a reference to the Acts of Parliament upon the subject. By the 38th George 111. cap. 78, a penalty of twenty pounds was certainly incurred, but by the statute passed in the 7 Geo. 111. for consolidating the various Stamp Acts, it was enacted that all actions for penalties in the Courts above should be brought by the Attorney-General, and that in the inferior Courts none but officers employed by the Commissioners of Stamps should be allowed to sue for penalties. He would therefore simply ask Mr. Judge, it he was an officer of Stamps? Mr. Judge replied in the negative, and his solicitor admitted he had not a leg to stand upon. The case was then dismissed. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.) FROM LLOYD'S, DEAL, Aran. 16.—Wind S.W.—Arrived from the river and remain, the Laing; Princess Charlotte; and Governor Hilkett, Fotheringham, for New South Wales. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 16.—Wind S.S.W. light.— Arrived the Marqurss of Huntley transport, from Corfu, and Hope transport, from Plymouth. TORBAY, APRIL Is.—Arrived off port, the Eincy, Snell, from Lisbon. Livirarour., APRIL 15.—Arrived the Emerald, from Trieste. BELFAST, APRIL 14.—Arrived the Liberty, Raiburn, from Rotteldatn. RAMSGATE, APRIL 16.—Arrived the Sisters, Rose, from London, with damage and very leaky, having been in contact with a brig and struck the pier, bound to Antwerp. Wick, APRIL 13.—The Lord Suffield, Carlisle, from Hull to Quebec ; the Champion, of Whitby, and the Sarah, Adamson, of Glasgow, ran on shore near the Hurn, on the S. W. at the Pentland Firth, on the 10th instant. The Lord Suffield has become a complete wreck. The other vessels have got off. CHOLERA MORBUS, OFFICIAL REPORT. CENTRAL BOARD OF HEALTH. COUNCIL OFFICE, WHITEHALL.—(THIS DAY.) DAILY REPORT of CHOLERA CASES. Remaining at last Report, 205—New Cases 75—Deaths, 35, Recovered, 39--Remaining, LONDON.—APRIL 16, al FIVE P.M. Remaining at last Report, 116—New Cases, 11—Deaths, 7 Recovered, 17—Remaining, 163. (Signed) VV M. MACLE A N, Secretary. NEW VESTRY BILL. - . CELEBRATION OF THE VICTORY OF THE PARISHIONERS OF ST. MARYLERONE. Yesterday a very numerous meeting of this ex tensive and populous parish took place•at the Horse Bazar, King-street, Portman-square, order to hear read the Report of the Committee relative to the expense incurred in the late struggle of the rate payers to obtain their 'just and constitutional rights. J. HUME, Esq. M.P. being called to the Chair, said, he trusted that it would be the last time that the parish would peet on a subject which had so long agitated it. The complaints against the• late Vestries were, that they were taxed by those over whom they had no control. In every parish where there is no special act, every rate-payer has R right to vote at the vestry of his parish. The parishioners have obtained nothing more than their just and con stitutional right ; namely, that no man shall be taxed without his own consent. Mr. JACKSON, the Secretary to the Committee, then read their report, which, after congratulating the pariah on their late glorious victory, stared that the arduous struggle had now continued for five years. When the Select Vestry had seized upon the goods of two spirited individuals, Messrs. Pot ter and Savage, for refusing to pay the church rates, the Committee waited upon his Majesty's Minis ters, and obtained from them a promise to support the Bill then before Parliament. For the la , t four months they had been perpetually engaged in the arduous struggle. He then proceeded to detail, at great length, the progress of the contest ; the parish, he observed, would, in a , hort time, be called to elect forty men to represent the rights of the rate-payers in the Vestry, and also five auditors. Sir SAMUEL WHALLEY and several other gentle men then addressed the meeting, which passed off with great spirit and harmony. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) HAY MARKS' CUMBERL) Coarse heavy Lowland hlew meadow Hay Useful Old Ditto Fine Upland Meadow a Clover Hay Oat Straw £1 12 to Coarse heavy Lowland New Meadow Hay , Useful Old Ditto Fine Upland Meadow ai Clover Hay (extra tine) Oat Straw I 1 14 t( TS.—(At per Load of 36 Trusses.) AND (LATE ST. JAMES'S.) Meadow Hay £2 10 to £2 0 0 0 3 0 4 0 4 0 1 IS and Rye-grass Hay £1 14 I Wheat 6traw, SMITHFIELD. Meadow Hay 15 0 15 15 2 0 Lnd Rye-grass Hay )....£6 o... Generally , o £1 181 Wheat Str, ....:6415 to .0 0 ~... 0 0 0 0 3 15 .... 3 15 4 10 .... 4 0 4 15 •aw 1 16 1 18 • *AL. `4.7.> • . •I• ••• TILE DIXNXI. After the meeting, the inh;d;itants of St. Mary lebone dined together at the Eyre Arms Tavern, to celebrate the triumph of the reforming party in the reception of the New Vestry Bill, by the votes of a large majority of the inhabitants of the parish. From .500 to 600 persons sat down to dinner. About six o'clock, Joseph Hume, M.P., took the Chair, supported by Sir John Cam Hob house, M.P., Sir Gerard Noel, Sir Sanniel Whol ley, Colonel Jones, Major Revell, &c. The SECRETARY read letters from Mr. Wa•bu ton, M.P., and Mr. Protheroe, M.P., aporog , sin g for their absence, the former on RCC011i11: of Padia mentary duty, the latter on account of Illness. Mr. Sheil, M.P., was also expected, but was no , present. The CHAIRMAN went over several of the state ments which he had made at the meeting, and en tered into a detailed account of the state of parties in the parish. They had borne the exactions of the party over whom they had at length triumpt•ed with most Christian patience—they had borne than until the Select Vestry had incurred a debt to the amount of a quarter of a debt for which, be it observed, they (the parish) were responsible, and which they must pay. They might yet have re mained silent, had not the Vestry attempted to bring into the Homo a Bill to legalize the demand for Easter Offerings, which every body knew was a voluntary gift. This outrageous attempt was the immediate cause of the measures which they adopt ed, and therefore he could not help saving that. after all, perhaps Dr. Spry was the greatest re.• former in the parish—at least reform was more ir debted to him than to any other person.—(Laugh ter and cheers.) The Hon. Chairman then pas.ed a eulogium upon the exertions of Sir John Cam Hob house and the Committee in overcoming the very serious obstacles which they had to encounter. — This led him to the toast which it was his duty to propose, " The Patron of our Parish, King Wiluarn the Reformer; may he enjoy every blessing he if.. sires to confer on his people."—(Loud cheers.) Parochial Reform would put an end to many great and overwhelming abuses, but Parliamentary Re form would sweep away abuses in the State, to the full as rank and as oppressive ; and he wa, happy to say that he could not doubt, that, with a Munarch, a Ministry, and a people. firmly united, there was now nothing to fear for the ultimate result of that great measure.--(lmmense cheering.) The toast was drunk with the greatest enthusiasm; and " God save the Ktng" was sung, with the whole company joining in the chorus. Sir SAMUEL WHALLEY proposed the next toast. To the present liberal Administration they were in debted for carrying the Vestries 8.11 into a law,. They might be justly proud of it ; but if any gen tleman might l; more proud than another, it wag the gentleman who sat by his slde---he meant Sir J. C. Hobhouse.—(Loud cheers.) This Bill was his work; it was his child—the child, not of his adop tion, but of his own begetting.—(Laughter and great cheers,) He would say no more, but pro pose to them—" The health of S'r John Cam Hobhouse and his Majesty's Ministers, and th,o4s to them for their exertions it passing the Vestries Bill."—(The toast was drunk with three times three.) Air—" e Wh e en im l o n v f l t ., L ß i a b :t r . ty ; ;: p., rose, to return Sir J. C. H thanks, and was received with thunders, of applause. He alluded to the rapid progress of the parish of Maryleboae in population, wealtk ar.d intelligence ; and observed, that he considered tie present meet ing, composed as it waa of various classes, but prin cipally of the middle class, to be a good specimen of the people of England. He wished those who doubted the increasing power and intelligence of the people would but come amongst them. In teture. jog thanks for the honour conferred upon me, I feel bound to state, that the measure would never have come to the present issue had it not been for the support of his Majesty's Government. Yet I can not but feel supremely gratified, that with their as sistance, backed by your support, and that of my own constituents, I have been the humble insttu. went of promoting the success of a measure which I feel assured will tend to the welfare and prosperity not only of this metropolis, but of every communist' throughout this vast empire. —(The conclusion of this speech, whielt was energetically delivered, wa; attended by the most rapturous applause.) " Mr. flume's health" was then drunk with three themesti r t o h n r t e e a . m d H s t e b t r ia i e o fly io r u e d t tr e r a t ned de th rn a o n t k is s t , ral n i t o ld ns le [i t approbation. The greater part a the company then retired, bu numbers remained apparently with the intention of prolonging their hilarity to slater hour. • It is with extreme concern we hear that an amiable and accomplished Nobleman, who not many years ago held the high office of Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, is at present subject to frequent aberrations of mind. We hope that some of the statements which have been published will prove to be gross exaggerations of the fact (many of them we know to be so) ; and all that 4ss been said of his Lordship's conduct while in office is utte4y unfounded. Ile was an inti mate friend and associ,at,e of Mr. Canning, and his classical attainments were cif She highest order. At a grand dinner given at a certain great house, on Sunday set - WOO, to a Royal Duke, and the high Tories, just as they Were about to sit ucwn to table, a Trimmer and his Lady were announced. The momentary confusion is indescribable! The illustrious hostess suffered even more than ner visitors. However, the evil was without a remedy ; and therefore the Lady and Gentleman were received with the brit „race possible ! We shall not attempt to describe the asto nishment of the intruders Into the sanctum sanctorum, but content ourselves with stating that, by a mistake in the date oC the card, they were invited to meet Whigs instead of T or i es. —Court Journal. of anescaped ESCAPEDAN sequent destruction of a boa. A lady of a n e i g hb our i ng town . according to, the strange fashion of the pr esen t d ay, was wa lk. Zion ; we heard B O last . s—t week\' k ? e sometimes hear of the escape and con. ing, towards dusk, with one of th ose uns i ghtly monsters p l a y. ing round her neck. Without her observation it escaped from her shoulders, and fell into a hedge, where it did not lie long ;ill it was espied by some ditchers, returning from their work, Spade in hand. Tho " chopstick s, " w h o h a d ne ver seen such a monster before, did not know that it was perfectly harmless. It yoked so formidable, that they could not doubt that it was " wick ;" and one of them, after making his approa' hes With iuccaution, ineicted a blow heavy enough to settle all disputes :n that point. This was succeeded Isy a shower of bLws, and the lady, who had In the meantime missed her favourite, re. urnedjust i te See it cut into sweaty picc 9f ,--No t o estv ., AtOperK,Frr.