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FRENCH PAPERS. (From the 41foniteur of Friday, April 27. ) PARIS, APRIL 26.—The King, being unwilling that his fete should be the occasion of solemnities which would form a contrast with the mourning of many families, has decided that there shall be no drawing-room at the Tuile ries on Tuesday next, the lit of May. The reports which have been circulated, and which have been inserted in several Journals, of a change of Mi n stry, have no foundation. The Papal Government has ordered that all ships from French ports on arriving in the ports of the States of the Holy See, shall perform twenty-one day's quarantine. The passengers to be liable to eighteen days and the goods to twenty days' quarantine. Couriers, travellers, and goods, on arriving at the fron tiers of the Papal dominions, are to be liable to the pre cautions previously ordered with respect to arrivals from Germany. At Leghorn all arrivals from France, without exception, are placed under the regulations of the patente brute. The duration of the quarantine is not fixed. The Magistrates of Frankfort-on•the-Maine have pub.. fished a notice stating that travellers will only be required to prove that they have passed in a perfectly healthy place the five days immediately preceding their arrival at Frankfort. A quarantine of ninety ttion is established at Sarrehruck. (From the Afessager des Chambres, April 28.) _ _ PARIS, APRIL 27.—A strange report is Spread, which we are nevertheless unable to contradict. It is affirmed that, notwithstanding the afflicting state of the President of the Camcil, nobody has yet dared to hint to him the possibility of a radical elurge in the Cabinet. . . . . . . . . . AI • It is known that it is unlikely his health should return quickly enough to be sufficiently fortified for him to resume the direction of affairs, yet people do not venture to act as if all hope of his recovery were vanished. There is a fear, a hesitation, to decide; a state of uncertainty is prolonged for the sake of this singular fear, which shews itself at this time under a strange figure, and which for this year past has had so much influence on the resolution taken, and the great detriment of public business. In this perplexity it seems to be proposed to arrange matters by letter. M. Augustin Perier acts as President ad interim. He is the elder brother of M. Casimir, a man of honour, talent, and zeal. No one is more ready than we are to acknowledge his capacity, and to appreciate the services which he has rendered in the several situations ;n which he has been placed. But to name him President ad interim would, in our opinion, be placing him in a most false position. It would be giving him only the mask of a power which he would not really e:.rcise, and imposing on him a respon sibility real for himself, fictitious for us, and which would be only patching up a cyst-m which would, notwithstand ing, fall on all parts. When we reflect we cannot think that such arrang..ments have been seriously thought of ; and yet this comes from a source from which we have re crived accurate information. There must therefore be some truth in it; and, in fine, we must say, adopting the maxim of Cardinal de Retz—" There is nothing impracti cable th it may not be attempted; and often, also, no thing to which more credit ought to be given than things which seem the most incredible." (From the Gazette de France, dated Saturday.) APRIL 27.—We said yesterday (and the num ber has been seized), " A Commissary of Palice came yesterday, and seized in our office the remaining copies of our number of the 25th, and also seized at the Post-office that of the 26th. We have not been able to discover the reason. A few hours afterwards we read in the evening Minis terial journal-' The Gazette de France contained a letter from M. Fouquet, Judge in the Tribunal of Paris.' This letter having appeared to the Keeper of the Seals calculated to compromise the dignity of that Magistrate, and in opposition to the law and the oath which he has taken, the conduct of M. Fouquet hos been i nrnediately brought before the Court of Ca,sation. This article is re po ted in the Moniteur this morning. " Yesterday evening the same Commissary of Police came to make a new seizure. Our subscribers, will, there fore, not receive their Journal for two days together. We do not know the reason of this new seizure." FRENCH Frsns.-P.sais, APRIL 27.-Five per Cents , 96f. 50c. 43c. 40c. 50c FOc. 55c. 60c. 53c. 50c. 96t: 10c. 50c. 40c. ; Four per Cents., 82f. 90c. ; Three per Cents., 69i 75c. 70c. 8(c. 85c. 91.1 c. 70f. 691: 90c. 83c. 691. SOc. 85c. 9.5 c. 90c. 9.5 c. 90c. ; National Loan, 96E 65c. ; Paris Lean, 96f. 75c. ; Rente de Naples, 811'. 60c. 75c. '7oc. 75c. 70c.; Roman Five per Cents. 80% % 3i ; Rente d'Es pagne, 101,4 ; Royal Spanish, 80 80!4 ; Rente Perpetuelle d'Espagne, 57; Belgian Certificates, 79 ; Haytian Loan, 220 f. Exchange on London, one month, paper, 25t: 65c. ; money, 25f. 65c.: three months, paper, 25E 50c.; money, 25f. 50c.-fours Authentique, April 27. BELGIC AND DUTCH TREATY. " PROTOCOL (No. 57.) " 01' THE CONFERENCE HELD AT THE FOREIGN OFFICE ON THE 18th OF ♦PAIL, 1832. • Present, the Plenipotentiaries of Austria, of France, of " Great Britain, of Prussia, and of Russia. " The Conference is opened by a declaration on the part of the Plenipotentiaries of Austria and Prussia, who, in referring to the protocol No. 56., of the sth of.the pre sent month, announce the having received from their Courts the definitive orders of which mention was made in the said protocol. These orders, authorizing them to exchange with the BAgian Plenipotentiary the acts of ratification of the treaty of the 15th of November, 1831, the Plenipotentiaries of Austria and Prussia declare them selves ready to make that exchange. " The Plenipotentiaries of Russia make known that the definitive orders of their Court are not yet arrived, hut that they expect to receive them from day to day. " The Plenipotentiaries of Austria and Prussia then ex pressed the w:sh that, in consequence of the expectation of the Russian Plenipotentiaries, a delay of some days may be rasolved on. in order that all the Courts represented at the Conference of London may have the opportunity of placing themselves at the same time on the same line with regard to the treaty of the 15th of November, 1831. " The Plenipotentiaries of France and Great Britain testify the lively satisfaction afforded them by the declara tion of the Austrian and Prussian Plenipotentiaries relative to the powers granted them of proceeding to the exchange of the ratifications of the treaty of the 15th of November, 1831. The Plenipotentiaries of France and Great Britain appreciate and participate in the sentiments which have induced the Austrian and Prussian Plenipotentiaries to ex press the wish of adjourning the exchange of the ratifica tions until the arrival of the instructions which the Russian Plenipotentiaries expect from day to day. " These sentiments have already been expresser] in the name of France and Great Britain in the protocols No. 54 and as. But, guided by the motives which induced them, on the 31st of January of the current year, to renounce the desire of securing the simultaneous exchange of the ratifications,—motives which have only acquired addi tional force in the interval which has elapsed since that epoch,—and convinced that the immediate exchange of the Awrian and Prussian ratifications would have the most salutary influence on the general peace, which, since the Pyening of the Conferences of London, has formed the constant Object pf the solicitude of the Five Courts, the Plenipotentiarisa of France and Great Britain earnestly eratre it the Plenipotentiaries of Austria and Prussia to pro geard without further delay to the execution of the instruc tions, the receipt of which they themselves have announced. " The Plenipotenti tries of Austria and Prussia pene trated by the importance of the considerations set forth by the P enipotentiaries of France and Great Britain, and wishing on their part to co-operate, by all means in their power, towards the common object of the Five Courts, which the Plenipotentiaries of France and Great Britain had urged upon their attention, consent to carry into effect, without farther delay, the exchange of the acts of ratifica tion of their Courts. " The Pienipotentiaries of Russia observe that the whole policy of their Court proves to what degree it shares with its allied the desire of maintaining general peace, and of contributing by all its means to the conso lidation of that peace which is so essential ; hut that on the present occasion, in consideration of the absence of de finitive instructions, they can only reserve themselves, as they did on the 31st of January of the current year, the protocol being lett open for them until the receipt of the said instructions. " The Belgian Plenipotentiary heing introduced during the itting,, the Austrian and Prussian Plenipotentiaries proceeded t o exchange with him the acts of the ratifica- J.- Lion of the 15th of November, 1831, and have at the same time, by the express desire of their Sovereigns, consigned to the present protocol the following declarations:— " COIIAION DFCLARATION OF "P HE PLENIPOTENTIARIES OF AUSTRIA ANT) PRUSSIA. " In prreeeding to the exchang e of the ratifications of the treaty of the kith of November, 1831, the PieniP o tentiarics of Austria and Prussia are charg e d t o declare in the protocol, in the name of their Courts, that the add ratifications are only gi%en under the express reservation of the rights of the Germanic Confederition relative to the articles of the treaty of the 15th of November, which regaril the cession and exchange of a part of the Grand liichy of Luxemburg, forming one of the States of the Coe federation. " DECLARATION OF THE PLENIPOTENTIARIES OF AUSTRIA. " The Plenipotent;ariel Atteria are charged at the tame time to consign to the Protocol the following deekra, !ion : " In ratifying the treaty of the 13th of November, 1831, and taking into consideration the necessity of an ulterior negotiation between the Government of his Ma jesty the King of the Netherlands and that of the kingdom of Belgium, for the conclusion of a treaty, comprehending the 24 articles agreed to on the 15th of October, with the modifications which the five Powers may judge admissible, his Imperial Majesty proposes to declare, and does for his part declare, that the arrangement stipulated by mutual accord between the above-named high parties, under the auspices of the Conference, shall have the same force and value as the articles of the treaty of tl e 15th of Novem ber, and shall be equally confirmed and ratified by the Courts subscribing that treaty. " DECLARATION OF THE MINISTER OF PRUSSIA. " His Majesty the king of Prussia having ratified the treaty of the 15th of November purely and simply, the Minister of Prussia has orders to announce and make known at the Conference the legitimate views and the just expectation of his Court,—namely, " That the Ministers of the subscribing Powers proceed in the first place to consider of such modifications in favour of Holland, as, without infringing the substance of the 24 articles, may be introduced therein, and which, if the Conference concur therewith, and the New Sovereign of Belgium consent to accept, may be established as explana tory or supplemental articles, and thus have the same force and value as the others. " Prussia believes that she can and ought to insist the more upon this point, since, according to the often re peated assurance of France and England, the proper pe riod for considering that important object was to be found aft•r the ratifications. Besides, the treaty of the 15th of November being ratified and signed, the Allies must advise concerning the means of carrying it into execution. Now before concerting upon these means, prudence and equity will dictate the previous necessity of accomplishing this end by agreeing to modifications, which would terminate, perh Ts, by placing the contending parties upon the same line. " The Belgic Plenipotentiary being informed of the re servation of the Courts of Austria and Prussia relative to the rights of the Germanic Confederation, made the de. claration here annexed." (Signed) " ANNEXATION TO THE PROTOCOL NO. 57. " The Belgian Plenipotentiary having obtained informa tion of the reservation made by the Plenipotentiaries of Austria and Prussia in as far as concerns the rights of the Germanic Coaederation, refers purely and simply to the guarantee made to Belgium by the Five Powers—a guarantee in which the Belgian Plenipotentiary has a full confidence, founded on the engagements contracted by the treaty of the 15tb of November, 1813. "London, April 18, 1832. (Signed) " SYLVAIN VAN DE 'WEYER." DEATH OF SIR RICHARD BIRNIE. Sir Richard Birnie, lint. Chief Magistrate of the Me tropolitan Police, expired at his official residence in Bow street, Covent-garden, yesterday morning-at four o'clock, after a severe illness of more than six months, arising from a pulmonary affection. Sir Richard, who had just com pleted his 73d year, lived and acted in eventful timL s, and a slight biographical sketch may n:-t, perhaps, be con sidered uninteresting. He was a native of Banff, in Scot land. and was born of comparatively humble but respect able parents. He was bred to the trade of a saddler, and after serving his regular apprenticeship, came to London, and obtained a situation as journeyman at the house of Macintosh and Co., who were then saddle and harness makers to the Royal Family, in the Haymarket. He was clever at his trade, and soon recommended himself to the favourable notice of his employers by his application and industry. His subsequent advancement in life may be attributed, in some degree, to accident. The foreman, as well as the senior partner in the firm, being absent from illness at the same time, and a command being re ceived from his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales for some one to attend him to take orders to a considerable ex tent on some remarkable occasion, " young Birnie" was directed to attend his Royal Highness. The orders of the Prince were executed so completely to his satisfaction, that he often afterwards, on similar occasions, desired that the " young Scotchmal" might be sent to him. At that period Sir Richard was the occupant of a furnished apart ment in Whitcomb-street, Haymarket. By the exercise of the diligence, perseverance, and honesty for which so many of his countrymen have been rem irkable, he at length became foreman of the establishment of Messrs. Macintosh, and eventually a parner in the firm. During the progress of these events he became acquainted with the present Lady Birnie, then the daughter of an opulent baker in ()xendon-street, Haymarket, and married her, receiving in her right a considerable sum in cash, and a cottage and some valuable land at Acton, Middlesex. He then became a housekeeper in St. Martin's parish, and soon distinguished himself by his activity in parochial af fairs. He served successively (as the writer of this notice has often heard him state with a good deal of exultation) every parochial office except those of watchman and beadle. During the troublesome times of the latter part of the Pitt Administration, he was an Ultra-Royalist, and gave a proof of his devotion to the " good cause," by en rolling himself as a private in the " Royal Westminster Volunteers," in which corps, however, he soon obtained the rank of Captain. After serving the offices of Con stable, Overseer, Auditor, &c., in the parish, he became, in the year 1805, Churchwarden, and, in conjunction with Mr. Elam, a silversmith in the Strand, his co- Churchwarden, ar.d Dr. Anthony Hamilton, the then Vicar of St. Martin's parish, founded the establishment, on a liberal scale, of a number of alms-houses, together with a chapel, called St. Martin's Chapel, for decayed parishioners, in Pratt-street, Camden-town, an extensive burying ground being attached thereto. St. Martin's parish being governed by a local Act of Parliament, two resident magistrates are necessary, and Mr. Birnie was (at the special request of the late Duke of Northumberland) placed in the Commission of the Peace. From this time, exercising the tact so characteristic of the natives of his country, he betook himself to frequent attendances at Bow-street Office, and the study of the penal statutes and magisterial practice in general. He was in the habit of sitting in the absence of Sir Richard Ford, Mr. Graham, and other stipendiary magistrates of the day, and was con sidered (the term is not _intended in an offensive sense) "an excellent fag." He was at length appointed Police Magistrate at Union Hall, and after some few years' service there, was removed to Bow-street Office, to a seat on th bench of which he had long most earnestly aspired. In Feb. 1820, he headed the party of peace officers and mili tary in the apprehension of the celebrated Cato-street gang of conspirators, consisting of Thistlewood, Brunt, Tidd, logs, Davidson, and others, and in the affray which took place on that occasion at the entrance to the hay-loft in which the offenders met, he received a shot through the crown of his hat. Sir Nathaniel Conant, the then Chief Magistrate, died shortly after, and Mr. Birnie was greatly chagrined at the appointment of Sir Robert Biker, of Marlborough -street, to the vacant office. The writer of this notice remembers well his saying to a brother magi strate, publicly on the bench, the tears starting from his eyes, " This is the reward a man gets for risking his life in the service of his country !" lie soon afterwards, how ever, attained, what might be fairly said to be the summit of his ambition. In August, 1821, at the funeral of Queen Caroline, Sir Robert Baker offended the " Powers that were," by pursuing a line of conduct which they called pusillanimous, but which many designated as highly honourable both to his heart and head, and be received a hint that he might retire, which, of comae, he imme diately acted upon. Mr.- Birnie, upon this, was appointed Chief Magistrate, and, as a matter of course, received the honour of . knighthood. He has left a daughter and two sans. Sir STRATFORD CANNING, now engaged on an especial mission at the Court of Constantin o pl e' to which he was accompanied by Colonel BAR NETT and two other attachjs, on their arrival had their first introduction to the GRAND SULTAN at t iv. of his Palaces, at a short distance from the city. Sir STRATFORD CANNING and his friends were received by the SULTAN with great kind n ss, but very little Sate ceremony. The SULTAN Was dressed in an olive frock coat, without any other- orna ment or decoration, except a brilliant star on his lett breast. He did not even wear a turban, that ancient ap pendage of dress not being now adopted by the highest in rank in the Turkish Empire. Coffee was served to the whole patty by the attendants, after the manner of the English. The SULTAN was extremely free, lively and communicative in his conversation during the time the Ambassador and his suite were in the Royal presence. " OH, THIS LOVE !"--A young nobleman, on the verge of his majority, and the full possession of his hereditary honours and political privileges, hastily left his maternal residence, eastward of Stamford, last Saturday morning, and was so lung absent as to render it necessary to despatch messenger, in search of " the Bei tie's arms," one of whom traced them to Stamford, and tt ence to the house of a hospitable Don in the " little royal county," where his Lordship bad taken re f uge , preferring—indeed, who would not ?—.the smiles of a tender " lady love,"—a " first impression," to the dogmas of a crabbtd tutor.— ..Stamford News. LITERATURE. THE EDINBURGH RE VIEW, No. CIX. EDINBURGH, 1832. The ablest article in the present number is ►►►questionably the one entitled the " History, Present Wrongs, and Claims of Poland," which enters minutely into all the details of a prolific, though melancholy task. The slight historical sketch at the commencement of the article is ad mirably completed ; though necessarily consist ing but of few pages, it yet gives a very fair bird's-eye view of the subject. The following romantic episode has been well condensed, and made the most of, from the more copious ac counts of Lardner and Fletcher : " In this spirit, the electors made terms with Louis, who, fully occupied with the affairs of his own kingdom, and with the unfurling of his well-known black banner against the beautiful and unfortunate Joanna of Naples, afforded the Polish magnates many opportunities for re gaining that ascendency which the vigour of Casimir had shaken ; and after the death of Louis, they still further strengthened their privileges, during the relaxation conse quent to the contested claims to the throne of his two slaughters. The Poles at length rejected the elder, and chose the young, the beautiful, and the romantic Hedwig. Her history is illustrative of the state of Poland ; and as a saint, as the last Piast, and the wife of the first Jagellon, it may not be idle to preserve some faint memory of her. " Young as she was when elected Queen, she had loved, and been affianced to William Duke of Austria. His imaee was fixed in her heart. And, when on the throne of Poland, her first impulse was to share its honours with him, with whom she had from childhood shared every thought. Her letters called upon him to hasten to her court ; and he came, loaded with treasures, and full of hope. But the nobles of Poland had other views. They barred his entrance to the palace. They called in a rival, Jagello the Lithuanian. The rough heathen, clad in bear-skin, and educated in the wilds of the forest, was to be preferred by the enamoured Queen of sixteen, to the handsome, refined, and Christian Duke, to whom she had pledged her faith and her affections. She was a prisoner within her palace. It was in vain that, with the martial manners of the age, she seized a hatchet, and vowed she would hew down the bars that separated her from her lover. The nobles of Poland were inflexible. The Jagellon offered his rich duchy of Lithuania to their political cupidity, and the conversion of himself, and of his subjects, to their religious zeal. Of necessity, the ro mance of the fair Hedwig yielded to the duller duties of the queen. She saw and heard the Lithuanian, and gave a reluctant consent; when the Austrian prince, having lost one jewel of his heart, rode away in despair, and scattered in the streets of Cracow, on the very morning which gave her to the Lithuanian, those other jewels which he believed would have adorned her for himself. Dull years rolled away, till William of Austria returned, and the days passed quicker. But the Lithuanian hus band, sensible of his own social defects, listened to an lago, whose slanderous accusations fortunately were conveyed to the ears of the magnanimous Hedwig. who, proud of her virtuous sacrifice, insisted on a public Investigation. The result was most honourable to her fame ; and, ac cording to Dlugoss, the accuser was sentenced publicly to place himself under a table, in the attitude of a dog, there to bark three several times, and between each barking to declare aloud that be had lied like a dog.' A singular punishment for scandal, which, with many flagrant omis sions, continued till within the last century. " On another occasion, when the King at length re stored at her intreaties the estates and cattle of some of his subjects upon which be bad seized, she said with much feeling, ' The cattle are restored indeed, but who shall re store the tears?'" The account of the solemn pledges given by the Emperor Alexander, at the Congress of Vienna, to respect the nationality of Poland ; the analysis of the subsequent conduct of that coxcomb Czar, " the Autocrat of waltzes and of war," and of the present Nicholas, with regard to these same pledges, are dwelt on by the au thor in a very commendable spirit. But the whole article is penned in a liberal vein, and is as praiseworthy for its eloquence as it is for its feeling. " Life and Writings of Dr. Currie," is a copious commendation of a Scoteh gentle man, named Currie, who distinguished himself towards the close of the last century as a phy sician and politician. In his last capacity he published a pamphlet, which he addressed to Mr. Pitt, under the signature of " Jasper Wil son," and which procured him not a little cele brity. But Dr. Currie is now best known by his " Life of Burns." This is the fullest, and, we believe, the most authentic memoir we have of that great poet ; though in point of style, and pith, and sagacity of criticism, Lockhart's late biography beats it clean out of the field. We find no other fault with the present notice of Dr. Currie, further than that it is too uniformly panegyrical. The Doctor, though a liberal and accomplished gentleman, could scarcely be called a great man. He does not stand out on the forehead of the age, as its one, great prodigy, and yet this eulogium would insinuate something of the sort. " Jeremie on Colonial Slavery," is at the present eventful crisis to all West India colonists a most interesting article : to us it is most attractive, for it warmly advocates the libe ral side of the question. " Greek Authoresses" is well written, and has the addition of novelty to recommend it. " NEN Bulwer's Novels" is a very sensible, and not over-strained analysis of the literary character of this intelligent young writer. We cannot say as much for the " Wa verley Novels," which are the production of a very inferior pen. The remaining articles are of the usual calibre. HUNGERFORD MARKET.—The buildings forming the principal part of the new fish- market, begin to assume a marked and stately appearance. We hav, now the form of the plan, consisting of a pier for landing. a piazza, and archway. The area of Hungerford-marker is not quite clear, but the houses east and west are nearly demolished. Part of the west side of Villiers-street wil, come down, with the whole of the dirty court, which has kern so long a nuisance. Most of the improvements in Westminster will be advantageous, with a view to the health and comfort of the inhabitants—but none more so than those projected on the Hungerford estate. An the fil thy alleys leading from the Adelphi to the market will, we hope, be removed. The dilapidated houses, many of which are ancient, now present a curious spectacle; deserted, and in a state of demolition, they form the picture of a town, destroyed by batteries. Hungerford-market was esta blished, we believe, in the reign of CHARLES the Second, whose bust, supposed to he the best likeness of that Mo narch, stood not long since in a niche in the north- end of the old Market-house. The antiquary might find aevera objects worth observation now standing, but which cannot stand much longer, on the site of the intended new mat ken. There is CHARLES the Second's Library, with many speci mens of the architecture and the style of building which distinguished London about the commencement of the six • teenth century. Wednesday week the first stone of a suspen sion bridge over the Towy, at Llandovery, was laid, in the prasence of a great number of spectators, by Colonel GWYNNE. DREADFUL ATTEMPT AT SELF-DESTRUC TION.-Saturday morning a respectably dressed man, about 60 years of age, stepped into a barber's shop -in the Kinpland-road, and whi'e preparation was making for his accommodation, took up a raz tr and cut his throat, draw ing the razor across in the manner of a saw. The mistress of the house and a Journeyman, who were in the shop, were so horror-struck, that they could do n o more t h an cry out. surgical assistance was immediately procured, and after the loss o f a great quantity of blood, the wound was dressed. When he was somewhat recovered, he was understood to say he war a ladies' shoemaker m blington, that some feina'e "charged him with cruelty , and he wou ld sooner die than live under the imputation . He was conveye d to St. 13,r -tho'ortew's Hospital, with little hopes of recovery. THEIR MAJESTIES. (From the Windsor Express of Saturday.) The KING remains in excellent health, and that of the QUEEN, with the exception of a slight tendency to cough, winch is excited by the cold easterly winds which have lately prevailed, and which prevents her MAJESTY from t eking as much exercise in the open air as she could wish, also continues good. We are sorry to say that the young Princess of SAYE WEIMAR still lies in a hopeless state. Yesterday the KINc, accompanied by Lord FARN BOROUGH (one of the Commissioners of Windsor Castle), Sir JEFFREY WYATVILLE, Sir Wag. FREMANTLE, and a large party from the Castle, went to inspect the equestrian statue at the end of the Long Walk, for the purpose of examining the base or pedestal on which it stands, an opinion having been expressed that the proportions were not quite correct. The pedestal in question, which is intended to represent a rock, has been erected under the superintendance of Sir JEFFREY WYATVILLE, from a design by GEORGE IV., but is not yet in a finished state, and Sir JEFFREY therefore wished that nothing might be decided until the whole should be completed. The Court are expected to go to London on Wednesday next for the Levee on that day, the Drawing-room on Thursday, and the two Grand Dinners on Thursday and Friday, and return on Saturday. It is supposed that this evening some fresh arrangement will be made with respect to Friday next, which day has teen named fora Grand Dinner, and the visits to Greenwich, Woolwich, and Somerset •house. It is feared that, if even the rime ad. mitted of all this being compassed, the exertion attendant thereon would be too great for the KING'S health. The KING has beers driving out in his pony photon two or three times to-day, and returned this afternoon to the Cast', about half-past four. The QUEEN has not been out for three days past, for the reasons above stated. In consequence of crowding round the KING at the opening of Stiines Bridge on Monday, a portion of the Royal Suite were entirely separated from their MA VITUS, and some of the Court, we understand, had their pockets picked. COURT CIRCULAR. The Duke OM! OUCESTER entertained Count ORLOFF, the Russian Minister on a special mission, to dinner on Saturday, at Gloucester House, Park-lane. The Nether lands Ambassador, the Neapolitan Minister, Count Mictixt, WortoNzow, the Marquess of ABERCORN, Earl HowE, and a select party, were present to meet his Excellency. The Duchess of KENT and the Princess VICTORIA re• turned to their apartments at the Palace at Kensington, on Saturday, from Claremont, where their Royal High nesses had passed the holydays. The Duke of GLOUCESTER attended divine service yes. terday, at the Chapel Royal, St. James's. . . _ Divine service was performed ye.derday, before the Duchess of KENT and the Princess VICTORIA, and their Royal Highnesses' household, by the Dean of CHESTER. Viscount PALMERSTON came to town on Saturday from the scat et Earl CowrEa at Pansanger. Prince TAt.r.zy- R AND, the French Ambassador, and Monsieur BERMUDEZ, the Spanish Minister, visi.ed his Lordship in the afternoon at the Foreign- office. The Brazilian Minister transacted business on Wednesday at the office of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. The Earl Of DA LEIOUSIE, late Commander-in-Chief in India, has arrived in town : his Lordship transacted busi ness on Saturday at the Colonial-office. The Master- General of the Ordnance also transacted business at the Colonial office on Saturday. Despatches from Sir ROBERT HORTON, the Governor of Ceylon, were received on Friday at the Colonial-office. WINDSOR, APRIL 29.—His MAJESTY inspected the Horse and Foot Guards in the quadrangle of the Palace this morning ; the bands of both regiments were in at tendance. The KING, accompanied by Prince GEORGE of Cam bridge, and a hive party of visitors, afterwards attended divine service at St. George's Chapel. The Rev. Mr. GORE chanted tire first part of the service. The Rev. Mr. GUST and the Rev. Mr. AIARKHAM officiated at the altar; the latter divine pre iched the set mon. His MAJESTY has exceedingly improved the appearance of the 9ch, or Queen's Royal Lancers, now on duty at Windsor, by substituting for their new dresses brilliant scarlet instead of blue. The KING is an enemy to all superfluous military finery and gew-gaw ornament—the prevalent taste of GEORGE IV. There is great economy connected with this change of colour. It is produced from the newly-adopted lac-dye. WILLIAM HENRY LAMBTON, Esq. the father of Lord DURHAM, who died in 1797, in Italy, where be was buried, settled upon his widow. the late Lady ANNE WYNDHAM, an annuity of 80,0001 a-year, a moiety of which she was to forfeit in the event of a second marriage, and which really occurred, when Ltdy ANNE married the Hon. CHARLES WYNDHAM, whom she survived. Lord DURHAM comes into the possession of 4,0001. a-year by his mother's death. KING'S THEATRE.—The old opera of the Barber of Seville was performed here on Saturday night, on which occasion Madame CINTO DA3IOUREAU made her appearance as Rosina. Her voice is remarkable for sweetness of quality, and for perfect smoothness and flexi bility. LABLACHE was Figaro. Both performers were received with marked favour by a full House. Mr. BARTLEY, the indefatigable stage mana ger of Covent-garden, and, in his department of the Drama, one of the few legitimate actors of the Old School, takes his benefit on Thursday, the 10th of May; having very judiciously selected for the occasion KNOWLES'S admi rable ply of The Hunchback. BARTLEY has likewise received voluntary offers from En AnAm, and from Miss INVERARITY and Miss SHIRREFF, to perform the same evening in the dtlightful musical Entertainment, Midas. Mr. BRAHASI will personate Apollo, and Miss InvirnA ßlTY and Miss SHIRREFF, for the first time, Daphne and Myatt. We hope this highly respected comedian will have a bumper. The Members of the Council for managing that excellent Institution the Literary Fund, have directed their Secretary to address a letter to Mr. SHERIDAN KNOWLES, enclosing a ticket to their annual dinner, and at the same time to express their anxious hope to entertain a gentleman who has so largely contributed to revive the character of the British Drama, by having written the very b..st modern play, perhaps, that has been produced upon the stage during a period of more than twenty years The earliest account we have of the singing of the cuckoo in the neighbourhood of the metropolis this season was in Wimbledon-park, on the morning of Tuesday, the 17th inst. ; and the first recorded song of the nightin :ale was heard from the Royal Gardens at Kew on the night of Sunday, the 22d.—Alkentruni. The tenants and tradesmen of the Marquess of LANSDOWNE were yesterday entertained with a splendid dinner at Bowood, for the purpose of celebrating the coming of age of Lord KERRY. This young nobleman, we be lieve, attained his majority in March; but the celebration of the event was deferred until the Easter holydays, that his noble father might have an opportunity of presiding at the festive board. Lord and Lady LatisnowisE, Lord KERRY, and Lady LOUISA and Lord HENRY, were of the party. An elegant dinner was laid out in the conserva tory, which was tastefully decorated for the purpose ; the wines and desert were of a very superior description ; and the party, consisting of about 140 persons, were highly ratified by the hospitality and kindness with which they were treated. There was to be a series of rural amuse ments in the park to-day, in which a number of booths are erected for refreshments, Ste.; and in the evening here will he a grand display of fireworks. Fifteen bags .if flour (in bread) were to be distributed, with a propor tionate quantity of meat, beer, Bx.—Devizes Gasette Of Thursday. Within the last few days an immense number 4,f English families have arrived on the French coast, pre paratory to returning home, on account of the cholera. On Sunday last, during the morning service in East Dean Church, Brighton, much excitement was caused by the sudden entrance of a neighbouring clodhop- Jer, who ran in abruptly without hat or coat, with jaws extended, and a visage labouring under some great etno. tion. He Kent his course to a pew, in which his master, jolly farmer, sat, and delivered himself of the following : —" Pine, Zur, here lie a letter for you ; 1 think as how it comes from the Duke of RICHMOND." The effect of this on the congregation, who had stopped the service, may be more easily imagined than described. On Sunday week the ship Transit sailed 'from Warrenpoint to Quebec with 160 passengers ; she was obliged to put back to Belfast on Thursday, in conse quence of three persons on board having died of cholera. O n Wednesday, after arriving at the quarantine ground Garmoile, the Captain and one of the passengers died. l'he pestilence is saw raging in that unhappy vessel. God cnows, if ever there was a case which calls for sympathy ,nd active benevolence, it is this. Here are 160 persons, .01 poor creatures, seeking another home, enclosed in a ,)!ague-ship ! Had the vessel been two or three hundred .niles in the Atlantic betore the disorder broke out, the probability is that not a soul would survive to tell the tale of the calamity.....—Caledonian Mercury. ELECTION FOR CHURCHWARDEN AT HULL. (PROM A CORRESPONDENT.) The contest which we mentioned in our Paper of Fri d ty as then going on in Hull has terminated in the trium phant return of the people's champion, Mr. Acland. On Thursday, at the close of the po'l, the numbers ware : Acland King Woolley 79 The election finally terminated on Friday, at six o'clock, after a contest of five days; from the first hour of which it was evident that the party who have so long had the parish and parochial jobs in their own hands, had no lon ger the shadow of a chance of ever again foisting a crea ture of their own upon the parishioners. At the final close of the poll the numbers were : A eland King Woolley 9l During the election, bribes and threats were net want ing to induce the honest vot.r to forego his purpose, but in vain ; each man seemed as though he felt the whole decision of the contest rested with himself, and hence the gratifying result. Alter the close, Mr. Acland, accompanied by his friends, with flags, banners, music, &c., paraded the streets of the town, attended by an immense concourse of more than 10,000 persons; after which he addressed them from a window in the mar ket-pl we. The opponents of the people are evidently chagrined at the result of the contest, and talk of taking ulterior mea sures ; but they are laughed to scorn. Msre good will accrue from this contest than at first sight appears, as, under the General Vestry Act, by which the outs claimed that the election should be conducted, a plurality of votes, according to the amount of ratedble property, is allowed ; this, by the 13th Charles 11., is not allowed, and every inhabitant and householder is entitled to vote, thus esta blishing an equal right of all to one vote and no more. The following is the extract from the Act 13th Charles IL, c. 2, sec. 10, to which allusion has been made:— And bee it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that on Mon. day in Easter weeke there shall bee two Churchwardens elected and named for the said parish ; one of them by the Viccar fur the tyme being, and the other by the Inhabitants or Householders of the said parish, or the greater number of them, which shall bee present at such election." This Act has neither been repealed nor superseded ; and either the election of a Churchwarden for the parish of Holy Trinity must he governed by this Act, or the district must cease to he a parish. Hull, April 28. REFORM MEETING OF THE BURGESSES AND INHABITANTS OF DUNDEE. (From the Dundee Courier.) The public meeting to which we alluded last week was held in the Steeple Church, at two o'clock, on Monday last. Soon after the hour, the church, which is reckoned capable of containing about 3,000 persons, was nearly filled ; and every corner of it would have been filled, had not the doors and passages been blocked up by persons who did not take the requisite pains to find sitting accommo dation in parts where it might have been found. On the motion of Mr. ANDREW WILLISON, writer, Provost LINDSAY was called to the Chair, and Mr. George Milne, writer, was appointed clerk. Provost LINDSAY observed, that the meeting had been called to consider the propriety of petitioning the House of Lords to pass the Reform Bill exactly as it had been sent up by the Commons.—(Cheer ing.) It was incumbent on the people to come forward and state their determination to have the entire Bill as sent up by the Commons,—to show the Lords that no reaction has taken place, unless what is meant by reaction be a more decided deter mination than ever in favour of the Bill.—(Conti nued cheering.) It was highly proper that a peti tion, embodying these sentiments, should proceed from this large and populous town; he had no doubt but the Town Council would nnanitaously give their sanction to it, and authorise the town's seal to be attached to it, to mark their approbation of the sentiments it contains.—(Great cheering.) Mr. GEORGE MILNE, writer—" Gentlemen, allow me cordially to second the adoption of the petition. The Anti-Reformers ask, Why these frequent meet ings ? why meet to give utterance to the same stale and threadbare sentiments ? The answer is, that we are determined to repeat our setiments till they be properly attended to. The question proceeds from those who, by means of the present corrupt system, have found their way into the people's pockets, and wish to retain the power of emptying them, with out giving any thing in return.—(Cheers and laughter.) As stated in the petition, it is for no vague or indefinite objects—for no imag;nary bene fits—that we have entered the lists with the Anti- Reformers. Our hostility towards them, and to the system of misgovernment of which they have been —but shall no longer he—the successful supporters, is ba-ed on those great and fundamental principles, which, being legitimate deductions from natural rea son, are not subject to alteration by change of time or place, but influence the judgment of mankind at all times in a similar manner. Government is indis pensably necessary for the protection of persons and property ; and the essence of a good Government is, that these shall be protected at the least possible expense. The enormous expense which the Anti- Reformers wish us to pay for our protection, is the cause of our quarrel with them. They tell us that we are, upon the whole, very well off in this country —that, instead of being dissatisfied with things as they are, we should be thankful that our heads are allowed to remain on our bodies.—(Cheers and laughter.) This may be very convenient doctrine for them, but it is not so palatable to us. We want them not only to let our heads alone, but to keep their fingers out of our pockets. We know the bad system under which we have been governed. We have met three times to petition for its correction ; and, if we are required to meet another time on the same subject, it will be to do an act of our own in our own favour.—(Loud cheering and laughter.) It has been impudently asserted that the people will be contented with a less measure of Reform than the one passed by the Commons—that they have been brought to such a temper that they will com promise the matter. We must show the falsehood of such assertions. Reform is an indispensable pre liminary to the lessening and removal of our burdens —to the correction of the numerous abuses by which we are surrounded—to the abolition of the odious law of entail—the obnoxious corn laws, and mono polies of every description, especially the extinction of corporations, which fetter industry and intelli gence.—(Loud cheering.) For the correction of these and similar abuses, nothing less than the mea sure of Reform proposed by his Majesty's ministers will answer; and if, with our eyes open, we submit to any thing short of that measure, it will be our own fault." Mr. FETTER moved certain Resolutions as an Amendment, which were read, but not seconded, though received with considerable applause. Mr. W. CIIRISTIE rose amid much cheering. " Having been so frequently," he said, " a party in petitioning the House of Lords on the Reform ques tion, and seeing the arrogant infatuation with which the people's petitions have hitherto been treated in that Hospital of Incurables, I had determined, until these few days, rather to oppose, than otherwise, all further petitioning until that House showed signs of repentance, by displaying more sympathy with the feelings and wants, and wishes of their fellow-coun trymen—(Cheers.)—considering L it derogatory to the character of the free-born sons of the British Islands (and as one of that democracy, too, which the lordlings affect so much to despise) to approach them again in the shape of a petitioner.—(Continued cheering.) But having had recent communication's with friends both here and elsewhere, of whose judg ment and patriotism I entertain a high opinion, 1 have been induced to wave my own views in thi• instance, on grounds of expediency, and to concur In the present petition to the utmost of my p ower. The people of these kingdoms have been trodden o p po pr n es b s y io a n, h ba o se we f v a e c r ti e o xe faction for expenyears ; sive, will, orat l b e u r : bring its cure.—(Cheering ) Our aristocracy hay, (reef, very industriously sowing the storm; and it hey do not change their course very speedily, I predict that they will reap the whirlwind.—(Cheer mg.) Let them throw out the people's Bill again, and hereditary wisdom, with all its paraphernalia, ill be sent with a vengeance, at no distant day. into the land of chimeras.—(Tremendous cheering.) Mr. JOHN PENNY moved that a clause he inserted in the petition, praying that the 10/, franchise c' ruse might be retained, as any attempt to heighten it would be extremely unpalatable to the peoples and, if successful, would be looked upon as a direct v'olation of the pledges of the Ministry. He was the more particular in bringing this under the notice of the Ministry, as he had seen that Earl Grey had asserted, that although " he would be sorry that any , a!teration took place in the 10/. franchise clause, or in the number of boroughs to be disfranchi,ed, yet he held that such a deviation did not interfere with. the principle of the Bill." If such a statement pro ceeded from Earl Grey, what might be expected from the Anti-Reformers? He moved that the fol lowing clause should be added to the petition. " That it is the unanimou! opinion of this meeting, that the 101 clause and the disfranchi.ing clause in the Reform Bill are the most important parts of the Bill ; and that raising the qualification for electors, or reducing the num ber of boroughs as they stand in Schedule A, is a departure from the principles of the Bill, and would, in the opinion of this meeting, allowed by the Ministry, be a direct violation of their pledges to the country." Mr..TamEs BUIK seconded the amendment. Provost LINDSAY thought that Mr. Penny's ideas were sufficiently stated in the petition, although par ticular reference was not made to the details of the bill. The petition was referred to, and the opinion of the meeting seemed to coincide with the views of the Provost. Mr. EDWARD 8U1K..--A9 one of the working classes of Dundee, he rose to recommend the adop tion of the petition which had just now been read— a petition which, for plain down truth and strength of argument, he considered superior to any which their Lordships had ever received from any town in Scotland. In addition to the above petition, be would also move the adoption of a memorial to his Majesty's Ministers, embodying the resolutions which Mr. Penny had just read, with the addition of a clause, praying that the Ministers would use the King's prerogative in a creation of Peers.—( Cheers.) Mr. JAMES Bum, weaver, begged to state the reasons which induced him to have the 101. clause adverted to in the petition. It was well known that the party which had gone over to the support of the Ministry was Lord Wharncliffe and his followers; and everybody knew that these individuals opposed the franchise being so low as 10/. They were not real Reformers—they had not the ground of the matter in them--they were the stony-ground Re formers, who would wither and putrefy when ex posed to the sunshine of democracy. (Laughter.) Mr. CHRISTIE, haulier, could see no good reason why the Mmistry should not be held to their pledges. The pledges as to the 10/. franchise, the disfran chisement arid enfranchisement of boroughs, were given in the face of the country, anti the country accepted them. He had on many oecusions stated his wish that the qualification might be so low as 5/., but if it was raised to 1.5/. he would rather that the Bill was rejected.—(Cheers.) If it suited the views of the meeting, he would propose that a separate memorial be prepared for the Ministry, embodying the views of the meeting as to the pledges given and accepted, and introducing at the same time the propriety of the creation of Peers. The meeting unanimously agreed to the proposal; and, on the suggestion of Provost Lindsay, Mr. Christie was re quested to prepare the memorial, which he at once agreed to. - The petition, as read by Provost Lindsay, was carried amidst rapturous applause, and ordered to be transmitted to Earl Camperdown for presentation. The thanks of the meeting were then voted to Provost Lindsay, after which the meeting broke up. In the New North Briton of Saturday there is an admirable wood-cut illustrative of the late grand Edinburgh Reform Meeting, which conveys an imposing idea of the countless numbers who attended that meeting. The well known Dr. WILLIAM THoMPSoN, a Szotchman; driving the trade of an author in London, and who completed the life of PHILIP of Spain, left unfi nished by Dr. WATSON, of St. Andrew's, had prepared a work in which he seriously attempted to prove that BUONAPARTR's real name was JOHN OSWALD, and that he vas the son of a goldsmith in Edinhurgh. OswALD, who had commanded a regiment in the Republican service, he argued, was a man of enterprise and a great admirer of OSSIAN'S Poems, as was also, he said, BOONAPART2; -Upon this slender foundation, the D )ctor had contrived to raise a great superstructure of argument and conjecture. He was prevented, however, from publishing his theory, in consequence of a discovery made by a friend who happened to dine with General PAOLI, on the very day after he had heard Dr. THOMPSON read his manuscript; when the General mentioned that he not only knew BUONAPARTIC's early history perfectly well, but h,d actually held him up at the baptismal font. —B irmingham Journal. BOBBIN-NET TURN-OUT.—On Wednesday the workmen engaged in the large factory at New Radford struck for a regulation of wages, which they allege is be neath the average price given by other masters in the same trade. It appears that there are several lace-machines of the extraordinary width of twenty and sixteen quarters, the proprietor having nineteen machines above three yards wide. The dispute orig inates in a ch arge ma d e to t he workmen of 4s. per set for the machine bobbins windit g in the machines above three yards in width, and one she!.. ling for the narrow machines, which is against the mist , Ea of the trade, not being charged by other employers. By this practice the machines of extra width are not paid in the same ratio as the narrow machines, though the work men state that the labour and the skill is much increased, the former even to endanger their health, and that their employer obtains an additional price for their net. The object, therefore, of the workmen is to obtain a regulation, not an advance.—Nottingham Review. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET FRIDAY, APRIL 27.—The business transacted in out cotton market during the week has again been limited, and from the little disposition manifested by the trade to purchase, be yond what they immediately require, the quotations of last week are with difficulty realized, either in American or Brazil descriptions, excepting in the best qualities 0 f Maranhams, and in Pernems, which, from their scarcitYl continue to command full prices. 400 bales of Brazil and 60 Bengal have been taken for export. The dales of the week amount to 10,370 bags, viz.-400 Sea I s land Georgia, 11d. to 16d. ; 40 stained ditto, 6ial. to Bd. 4,790 Upland ditto, 6 ,- A -d. to 7 1 1 d. ; 1,760 Alabama, 6d. to 62,1 ; 850 New Orleans, 60. to Bd. ; 630, Pernam buco, 81d. to 9d. ; 660 Bahia and Macaio, 6i.1. to 71d. ; 650 Maranham, 7d. to l i d . ; 180 Demerara, 81' 1 - t o 9 a I. ;20 West Indi a , 6p. ; 260 Egyptian, 7 to 'Md. ; 30 Surat, sitl. to si-d. ; and 60 Bengal, 4id. to 411. lb. Import, 45,445 bags. The sales of cotton re ported to-day are 300 Bahia, at 6id. to 7+,1. ; and 900 American descriptions, from 64d. to 74d., making a total of 8,200 Dales, at former rates. Mr. BECKFORD'S tower, on Lansdown was broken into on Wednesday morning about two o'clock, aDd property to the amount of 400/. was stolen therefroolo the thieves were fortunately disturbed ere they had coal' pleted their designes, or it is probable that they would nave carried off valuables to an immense an3ount.--Bristoi Mercury. AWFULLY SUDDEN DEATH.--On We d ' nesday afternoon as Mr. fIArNEs, gardener, living a $ Larkhall, was taking his tea about six o'clock, he fell su tl " lenly from his chair and instantly expired. The deceso, was only in his 42nd year, an d h ad not experienced t " slightest apparent inii4position—Bristpl Mercury. The prosecution of felons at the late A s • t 7 zes for Somerset cost tile county the e normous soul ° ( 3,300/, GIGANTIC FISIL-011 Tuesday the 17th ir stant, an eel of extraordinary size was taken in a stake Of • at Petty, near this town ; •the length of th e fish was feet, a nd it weighed :Pi-lbs. The same day a halibut (- rare fish i n our frith) was caught at R osernar ki e , Wh ie ' l a eighed 7 0 pounds.—lnverness Courier. HORRIBLE EXCITEMENT IN THE FRENCII PROVINCES.--Tile horrible impression that Government intends to poison the people, has reached the country parts id Franc. At Never, the following extraordinary occur rence took place :—A medical student, fond of botany , was seen walking on the bank of a river which rung through Nevers, and occasionally stooping to pick up s, pl ant in or near the river. A man came up, an d ac costed him—" You are washing your hands in the river, Sir, said he ; " Yes, my friend, I am," replied the student. With that the stranger made a signal, when a fellow, w ith pair of mastiffs, appeared, and in an instant the doge were Pet upon the youth. It was only by the most el" o t r f a o h r i d s inary assailants.exertions however,t hew gasuat offHe, bletomeistehaupteitthaenyit's.eri, riot's in jure'. — London ilf , dical and Surgical Journal'.