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ES ?RIC OF THE STOCKS TII Bank Stock 194‘ 4 , ii 3 per Cent. Red 52%3 3 per Cent,Cons. B9.S 4 3 , 4 per Cent. 90.4 Ditto Red 90%% New Nper Cent.... 89% 90 89% , 3 per Cent Ann. 1726 -- 4 per Cent. Itt26 Bit. k Long Ann. to expire Jan. 5, 1561 16% 13-16 t Oct. 111, .., mg 16% -', 1 Jan. 5, IWO - Jan. 5 , 1880 _ April 5, 1880 Jan. 5, 1870 I CAKES or FOREIGN FUNDS All stri ttrt nnnj, Belgian Scrip Bnelos Ayres Bond., than Bonds olortibian Bonds Ditto, ItiN. Danlsh Greek Bonds Ditto, l Guatimala Vexlean Bolide 182 5 IIS DAV AT ONI O'CLOCK. New :5 per Cent. India Stock Ditto Bonds par South Sea Stock Old Annuities New Ditto per Cent. Ann. 1751 .... Ex. Bills, £1,000... 10 11 9 pm. Ditto ...SO° lO 11 pm. Ditto Small Ditto Commercial. pm. Ditto Advertised — pm. fLiak for Opening India for Account. 'Cons. fcr Feb. !2S 92 THIS DAT AT ~H T. •feI.OOK. Neapolitan Peruvian Bonds Portuguese Bonds !:'russian, .)itto, New :tussian ipanigh. IS - 21 :B‘,ll French ilen' cei, p. c. --t Exchange 3 per cent, —c, i:•;lange Dutch Scrip 40N ?._A‘ LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING. FEBRUARY 9, 1832. The Paris Papers of yesterday's date, and those of Tuesday, have been received, but their contents are of a contradictory character. Russia is again stated to have resumed her determi nation of restoring the Bourbon Dynasty, and settling the affairs of Belgium to the satisf ac ti on of the King of HOLLAND. As to her sincere disposition to accomplish these thing s , we never entertained the least doubt ; but the question now is one of expediency more than disposition. Prussia is said to be marching fresh troops on the Rhine, and Austria into Italy, while FERDINAND is stirring in Spain, with a look-out to Portugal and an eye to the Pyrenees. All these manceuvres may yet prove true, but they are not yet confirmed. A French force of 5,000 men is stated to be ordered for Civita Vecchia, to see that the Italians have fair play. The accounts from Italy are so exaggerated that it would be useless to attach any credit to them till authenticated. The French Ministry obtained a very large majority in the Chamber of Deputies on Tues day, and the capital remained perfectly quiet. The late conspiracy is already forgotten ! FRENCH FONDS.-PARIS, FED. 6.-Five per Cents., 96f. '2oc. 3 `'c. '2.5e. 30c. 40c. 30c. 25c. 20c. 15c. 20c. 15c. 10c. 15e. 10c. 15c. i o e. 15c. 10c. sc. 15c. ltic Sc. 96f. 96f. 9.0 c. 10c. ; Four per Cent. Rentes SOE ,• Three ' per Cents., 65f. 50c. 60c. 70c. 60c. 5 • 5 c. 50c. 45c. ' 40c. 30c.• Bank Actions, 1,610 f.; Rentede Naples, . 76f i ,• 90 c. 75E ; Rente i d'Espagne, 104 ; Royal Spanish Loan, ; Bente Perpetuelle d'Espagne, 53!4 53 53 1 ,4 53 53!1i money, 25f. 30c. "%•-Exchange on London one month paper, '2sf. 35c. ; three months, ' paper, 25f. 20Zi. ; money, •..!sf. 15c. gitif f ß _E ,, cit Ft/Nos.-P.4m, FEB. 7.-Five per Cents. opened at • closed at 96f. 20c. 111 • ' Three per Cents. opened at 65f. o c., closed at 65f. 50c.,- Bank Actions 1,605 f. ; Rente de Naples 76f • 75 c. Rente d'Espagne 104 ; Royal Spanish Loan 75 ; Rente Perpetuelle d'Espagne opened at 53,closed at 53 ; llavtian an 200 f. Exchange on Lmdon, one month, paper, 25f. 35c. ; money 26f. 30c.; three months, paper, 251. 20c.; money 25f. 15c. The followin g are extracts from Brussels Papers. If we may credit the accounts in the German Papers, the Paella of EGYPT and the GRAND SULTAN have compromised matters : BRUSSELS, FEB. s.—An Austrian Cabinet messenger passed through Brussels yesterday, on his way from London to Vienna. He had despatches from Prince Esterhazy to his Court. The Courrier said that the Prince, on his return to Vienna, will not go through France as he at first proposed, but will pass through Brussels in four or fire days. A letter from the Hague of the 30th of January mentions the sending of several Cabinet messengers, with dispatches for Berlin and Petersleurgh. The Stuttgard Gazette announces that the Court of Vienna has transmitted a very energetic note to the Swiss Confederation, in which it highly disapproves of the con tinuance of the troubles in the Canton of Basle, and the support which the Cantons of Vand and Geneva have given to the insurrection in the principality of Neufchatel. The Imperial Court requires that measures shall he taken to put an end to these deplorable scenes, and offers its in fluence and assistance tilt that purpose. It is certain that the plans of an iron-rail road from Antwerp to Cologne, or Dusseldorf, have been determined on ; it will not pass throu g h the Dutch territory, and the consent of Prussia has been obtained. BRUSSELS, FEB. 6.—An English Cabinet messenger arrived yesterday evening with despatches for Sir R. Adair, and soon after set out with other despatches for London. WEST CAPELLE, FEB. 2.—. Within these three days the Dutch have seemed inclined to pick a quarrel with our out posts. On Sunday nighta musket-shot was fired at our out posts near St. Anne, and this morning at five another had nearly killed the sentinel near the camp of Leopold, where there is not a single piece of artillery. These cir cumstances have been reported to the General. (From the Stadts Courant.) Tian HAGUE, FEB. 7.—We give with our number of to-d ay a Supplement in five sheets containing (in the French and Dutch languages) the communications made by the Minister for Foreign Affairs to the States-General on February 1. This communication consists-1. Of the answer of the Conference, dated 4th February, 1823, to the Dutch note of 14th December;-2. A memorial intended as an answe r to that of the Plenipotentiaries of the King of Holland, dated 14th December, 1831 ;-3. The Dutch note of 30th January, 1830. After these documents had been read, the Minister said the result of this communication is not yet known, but the Dutch nation and its representatives shall not be disap pointed in their expectations that the Government, pru dently and steadily pursuing the course that has been adopted, will do every thing in its power to attain a result by which our first rights shall descend uninjured to our Posterity, and which shall he at the same time the re ward and the termination of the manifold sacrifices by Whi c h the Netherlander s , so often tried in the school of ad- Yersity, have on this occasion again asserted their national character. tctual Debt, 214 p er cent AMSTERDAM, FEB. 6. :31 - 44 to so% wort Syndic, 4% per cent 67 to 675., Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent. TRIESTE, JAN. 22.—We learn from Alexandria, that Ibrahim Pacba had sustained a severe defeat at St. Jean d'Acre on the 9th Dec., and hating expended nearly all his ammunition, (having fired 60,000 shot at the fortress) bad retired same leagues with his troops, and his fleet had returned to Caiffa. JAN. 25.—1 t is just reported that Jussuff, the agent of the Viceroy of Egypt here, has received news from Alex andria, dated Dec. 27, announcing that the differences be tween the Porte and Mehemet Ali are amicably adjusted. V IENNA, JAN. 28.—Fi ve per C ents. 85 i ; Four per Cents. 75i ; Bank Shares 1120. A public meeting was held yesterday at Exeter Hall, on the subject of what was called the Promotion of Scriptural Education in Ireland At this meeting, which, had it confined itself to its proper duties, and kept within the limits of propriety, might have been serviceable to the cause it professed to serve, much intemperate and vindi ct i ve f ee li ng was discernible. Mr. SHAW, tl R ecorder of Dublin, particularly distinguished ir se lf by the ill-j u d ge d c h arac t er o f hi s a dd ress . b : e gan by hinting at a grievance w hi c h ex i s t s up ' 0 his own fancy, and then worked hi mse lf 0 : - Hu ° a towering p a ssion with Gover nmen t, as ? u gh they were the cause of that imaginary d 6 c i n ;: 4 ie n rn ee: n, " If it was sought," said the Hon. 13 " a "to lay sacrilegious hands on their if the Bible were the property of a t-hect, i nstead of the community—i , to tear down e standard of the living God, and to raise a T uti lated on e i n i ts stea d , t h en i t wou ld b e no tun e to halt between two opinio n s ; then i eve n r Y valley 'and every hill of his native country would resound the rallying cry, 4 To your tents, 0 Israel !' " What trashy bombast is this ! 'Who talks of mutilating the Bible, or depriving a nation of the benefits to be derived from its perusal ? Not the Government. All they desire to see established throughout Ire land is freedom of religious opinion ; that the Catholic should be put on an equal footing wii,ll the Protestant ; and the former be no longer per secuted on account of his religious creed. Extract of a letter received by one of the first connnercial houses in the city : " St. Petersburgh, Jan. 24. " It has been made known that orders have been sent to the regiment of the guards to return to St. Petersburgh, and it may he inferred from that circumstance that there is no doubt that the peace of Europe will he maintained." For the last week the table of the House of Commons has been covered with petitions against the Bill for the General Registry of Deeds, and many of the country gentlemen have expressed themselves very strongly against the measure. The extensive counties of York and Cumberland have deprecated the Bill altogether: the former of those counties having failed in its attempt to obtain an exemption from its opera tion, and to perpetuate the system of local Re gistry already in force within the county. The opponents of the Bill contend that its effect will be to increase the expense of the trans fer of property, and to prejudice commercial credit by publicly disclosing incumbrances upon estates ; they urge that if registration be desir able at all, it should be local, or within the county in which the lands lie ; and they say it is premature to add the necessity of registry to the other requisites of the law, without, in the first place, simplifying and cheapening the exist ing practice of conveyancing.. These are all objections deserving of full consideration and discussion before the Bill shall be passed into a law. Mr. CAMPBELL and his supporters, on the other hand, argue that the effect of the Bill is wholly misunderstood, for that its tendency will be to strengthen the security of titles, by prevent ing the possibility of secret incumbrances, and to diminish the expense of conveyances by making titles deduccable frem the register hook itself. They say it is ridiculous to fear the publicity of deeds, when wills are open to every one's inspection, and that none will be allowed to search the register but those who are inte rested in the business. They contend that the introduction of a system which prevails very generally on the Continent, will be a great pub lic benefit and convenience, and that the landed gentlemen out of ignorance, and the lawyers from selfish motives, are striving to upset a very wholesome measure of Reform. We have doubts whether the Bill be not pre mature, because we do not collect that it is to be preceded by, or accompanied with, any dimi nution of those expensive legal formalities which are now necessary on the sale or mortgage of landed property. If a purchaser of an estate is to be visited with his lawyer's bill as heretofore, it is not easy for him to understand how he is benefited by his purchase being registered. The late Mr. HUMPHREYS pointed out the means of making an enormous saving in charges for conveyancing, but scarcely any of his suggestions have been adopted by the Law Commissioners, and the charges are likely to remain pretty much what they have been. In Foreign States an estate is conveyed by a mere transfer in the re gistry book ; but, as nothing of this kind is in tended to take place in England, we do not see how, for the present, there can be any saving of law expenses. After the lapse of years the re gistry may certainly afford assistance in the de duction of titles, but unless the system of con veyancing is otherwise reformed, the benefit of this will, we fear, be much less than Alr. CAJtP BELL imagines. But supposing the benefits of registration to be conceded, it remains for Mr. CAMPBELL to show why it should be confined to our metropo litan office, rather than that local registers should be established in the respective counties. The system of judicial centralization has been carried very far in this country, but it by no means fol lows that because legal proceedings are carried on almost wholly in London, lands should be registered in London without reference to dis tance, or local convenience. The reason of the thing is certainly not in favour of registering in Middlesex a transfer of lands lying in Cumber land, nor is it very consistent with the advantages of publicity that is alleged as an argument for registration. There may be objections to local regitration, of which we are not fully aware, but Mr. CAMPBELL has not stated any, and is, we think, bound to satisfy the House of the supe rior advantages of the proposed metropolitan office. Without desiring to impugn the Bill altogether, we really think the petitions against it have been sufficiently numerous and respec table to make it incumbent upon Hon. Members to consider it thoroughly before they give it their unqualified support. Sinee writing the above we find that Mr. CAMPBELL himself has expressed his intention of referring the Bill to a Select Committee, which shall represent all the interests involved in the question. This is as it should be—manly and to the purpose. We know that Mr. CAMPBELL has only one object in view—to be nefit the country. His Excellency Prince ESTERHAZY, accom panied by his son, sailed yesterday for Calais, on their way to Vienna. The Edinburgh Review, in its notice of the " Life of Sir THOMAS LAWRENCE," quotes a letter written by the artist from Rome to his sister, in which he relates an occurrence which took place whilst he was painting his splendid portrait of the Pore, now in the possession of the KING. S►r THOMAS expressed a sort of half-wish that the Pore had put upon his finger the ring which he wore when he was elected ; when the old man immediately sprung from the chair in which he was sit ting, and, rejecting the offer of assistance from two or three prelates who were in the room, hurried off and brought it. " I may almost class this with the Emperor of RUSSIA'S stooping to put the pegs into my easel, arta then, with me, lifting the picture on it. The latter cir cumstance quite equals CHARLES V. taking up the pencil for TITIAN ; and the only trifling thing wanting to the parallel is that I should be a TITIAN.'' COURT OF CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) ROBERTS L'. KNOWLES AND OTHERS, .--.EX.TARTE JUNCTION. Sir EDWARD SUGDEN moved, on behalf of the plaintiff, Mr. Richard Roberts, for an injunction ex-parte against the defendants, until the legal rights of the parties shall have been adjudicated upon. The bill stated that the plaintiff, in the year 1825, invented a new machine for spinning cotton and other fibrous materials, far which he had obtained n patent. Having considerably improved the original invention, he obtained a farther patent in the year 1830, and duly enrolled a speci fication of such improved invention. In the judgment of most experienced and scientific individuals, this invention was perfectly novel. Ooe of the defendants had been permitted by the plaintiff to inspect the machine thus improved on the premises in Manchester. That de fendant is a workman and mechanic, in the employment of the other defendants. 'fhe plaintiff, after a certain time, suspected that the defendants were making at their own manufactory a machine similar to his. He enquired if his suspicions were well founded. The defendants replied that they had made a lumbering soft of thing of the kind, but that it was not at work nor fit to be inspected, promising them at the same time, that if they made any machine resembling the plaintiff's which could be worked, the plaintiff should have the opportunity of inspecting it. They had since made a useful spinning machine, pre cisely like the plaintiff's, in all essential respects,—the only difference between the two being, that upon the defen dants' a certain cord was attached to a part of the ma chine that was stationary, whereas the similar cord was attached to the carriage-post of the plaintiff's ma chine, and which was kept in constant motion. The de fend routs had also positively refused to allow the plaintiff to see his machine. The whole of these facts were positively sworn to, and Hui LORDSHIP at once granted the injunction to re strain the defendants from using or making, or causing to be made, any such spring machine as the one i❑ question. ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.) His Honour the MASTER of the Row; sat at the Rolls' Court, Chancery-lane, to-day, for the first time since the end of Hillary Term. The Court proceeded with petitions, upwards of 120 of which are set down for hearing before his Honour. Nothing, however, worth reporting had curie before the Court when our reporter left. VICE-CHANCERY COURT-(THIS DAY.) This being the first Seal after Hilary Term, his Honour, the VICE-CHANCELLOR, sat at Lincoln's Inn, and took motions to-day. SHIPLEY V. WRIGHT. It having been arranged that this part heard bankrupt petition should be proceeded with to-morrow, his Ho- Nouß, on Mr. Montague's corning into Court, enquired whether lie would be able to attend the Court to-morrow. Mr. MONTAGUE said that he could. Mr. PEPYS thought it would he more convenient if his Honour would proceed with motions to-morrow, as that was the only part of the business of the Court which was in arrear, and the disposal of them would be a great relief to the suitors. Ti.e VICE-CHANCELLOR would adopt any course that was most convenient to the bar, which would tend to the relief of the suitors of the Court. Mr. MONTAGUE observed, that he would attend the Court any day his Honour chose to mention in the case of Shipley and Wright. Mr. KNIGHT stated that it would be a great personal convenience to him if Shipley and Wright was appointed for Monday. He felt satisfied there were sufficient mo tions to occupy the Court to that day. The VICE-CHANCELLOR said that there was now no very heavy weight of causes, he would, therefore, finish the seal in the first instance, and take the bankrupt peti tion of Shipley and Wright on Monday. CLARKE V. TIOLDWITCII, FISHER, AND WESTON. Mr. Parrs applied for an injunction to restrain the de fendants from digging, raising, or taking any coal from under the estate of the plaintiff, and from Selby street, which was already raised. The defendant, Mr- Holdwitch, who had formerly been a coach-maker, re siding in Long-acre, obtained a lease from the plaintiff of certain pats of his property, but that lease did not au thorise the opening of mines. Subsequently, however, under (as it was contended by the Learned Counsel for the plaintiff) a representation of the great services be had rendered to the plaintiff in his family affairs, he induced him to grant him a licence to open his mines under his farm, the plaintiff taking one-fourth of the property in consideration of the great expence attendant on the opening of the mines. This the Learned Counsel contended was a great misrepresentation ; but independent of that, Holdwitch had under-let the mines to the two other defendants, whereby the plaintiff was defrauded of his share of the property, and the defendant had invalidated the contract entered into. In the course of the ap plication the Learned Counsel read several letters from Holdwitch to the plaintiff, which, on account of the illiterate and unintelligible manner in which they expressed the writer's intentions, created considerable tnerrivaent in the Court. Mr. PARKER appeared for the defendants, and contended that it was impossible to argne that the agreement had been obtained by the defendant from the plaintiff under fake representations, or that he was imposed upon, the plaintiff knowing for twelve months previous to the agree ment being entered into that there were coals ,under the property. The VICE •CHANCELLOR was clearly of opinion, upon the face of the agreement, its nature was such that it could not stand for a moment, as it was evident the plaintiff did not understand it at the time he signed it.—lnjunction granted. COURT OF KING'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.) ARCHBOLD, ESQ. V. SWEET. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, Edward Archbold, Esq., barrister at law and editor of various legal works, to recover a compensation in damages for an in jury stated to have been done to his professional charac ter by the defendant publishing a third edition of a legal work originally edited by the plaintiff, but so altered in that:edition, which was edited by another person, although his initials were attached to it, that his character as an editor of such works was deteriorated. The cause occupied all the forenoon, but it was only interesting to the parties concerned. Mr. CAMPBELL and Mr. FOLLETT appeared for the plaintiff; Sir JAMES SCARLETT, ➢lr. WILLIAMS, and Mr. LEE, for the defendant. The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff, damages 51., subject to the opinion of the Court upon a point of law. COURT OF EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.) LIBEL.-.IIUNT V. LAWSON. In this action, which is against the Times, the plain tiff, the Member for Preston, conducted his own case. He said he felt it necessary to say a few words in explana tion why he appeared in person to conduct his own cause. The action was against the printer of the Times, but he was only a nominal defendant, the real ones were the proprietors of that Paper—men of great wealth, who were clearing their 30,0001. a-year by it, and such was the state of the public Press at the present moment, that he felt he could not ask any gentleman at the bar to incur the odium and abuse which he would do if engaged on his side. He therefore had come himself to ask of the Jury reparation for the most infamous libels that had ever ap peared even in the Times before. It had been his lot, as some thought, his misfortune, to be be fore the public for the last twenty-five years as a political character, and during all that time he had upheld the rights of the people of England. As this action was almost life or death to him, it would be neces sary for him to go a little farther into his own political history than what would perhaps be agreeable; but he considered it necessary. He was a real advocate for the liberty of the Press, but these sort of beastly attacks upon an honest individual were what he should rejoice to see, if he were its greatest enemy, for they must work its ruin. As the Press of this country was at present conducted, in place of being a blessing, it was a curse to the people, for it did not speak the truth. He was come prepared to prove there was not one word of truth in a series of libels which had appeared against him. In 1830 he was elected to serve in Parliament for the borough of Preston, and since that time he had not uttered one word differing from his former sentiments, as expressed before the public for the last twenty-five years. He would not appear in false colours, but avow that he appeared before the Jury as a radical Reformer, and this it was, because he was so, that the present action had come before the Court. It was be cause he had bad the hardihood to differ with his Majesty's Ministers upon that subject which had agitated the country front one end to the other. At the time the Reform Bill was introduced, lie gaving his opinion of it that it was of a sweeping nature, and one which he never expected to see brought in by any Ministry, but it did not contain many of those principles which he had advocated during the whole of his long political life. He had attended many large meetings at which petitions had been agreed to, hod] to the King and Parliament, and the language of none of thorn had bean so bad that they had been refused either by the King or Parliament. Invariably they had been received, and sometimes acted upon. He contended, along with the late Duke of Richmand, that every man who was taxed ought to have a voice in the representation ; that had been hi s creed from the first, and was so still. As he said before the Bill was a sweeping measure, and, at the time of its in troduction it had given satisfaction to 99 out of every 100 of the people of England, but now, when the people had had time to consider of its provisions, he would say seven out of every eight were not satisfied, because it kept the representation from them, and they wanted the ballot and short Parliaments. Because he said this, the Press ac cused him of being against all Reform ; it would not do fur them to say, " here is an obstinate radical Reformer, who votes for the Bill, but wishes it to go further ; who sates his honest opinion, but wishes to go further." In the Committee he had voted against some of the clauses, but on all the principles of the Bill he had voted with the Ministers. But this would not do for the Press, they must have " the whole Bill, and nothing but the Bill ;" upon the rejection of the Bill by the Lords, his Majesty had been pleased to dissolve the Parliament, and he was called upon by his former constituents again to pre sent himself as a candidate for their suffrages. It as then that the Times began to attack him, evidently for the purpose of preventing him from being returned again. He would make an offer now to the Learned Counsel for the defendant, even at this late stage of the bu siness, if he, Sir James Scarlett. could put a witness in the box who could prove that one word of the libels were true, he would walk out of the Court and trouble the Court and Jury no further ; but no, that course they could not take; they knew that they were all false ; in fact they had admitted it in their pleas. The Hon. Gen tleman then read the alleged libels. One of them was from the Times of April 26, 1831, and was as follows The effigy of the recreant Hunt has been burned on the famous field of Peterloo, where he has addressed thousands of persons ; but more persons danced around the ashes of his effigy than he ever saw in the days of his prosperity. The band played the ' Dead march in Saul,' and his name was exe crated on the scene of his former glory." This was taken up by his opponents at Preston, and posted up in large cha racters in all parts of the town. It was said that he was a traitor to the cause which he had advocated all his lire, and for this thousands who used to thank him had for this conduct burned him in effigy. He was pre pared to prove that every word of this was a falsehood. This libel first appeared in The Sun ; and when that Paper reached Manchester, a meeting of his friends was called, and a contradiction of the whole statement was forwarded to the Editor; that Editor had moat honourably inserted the contradiction, but what was the conduct of the malignant proprietors of that Paper ?—(holding up the Times.) They sent abroad the falsehood, but never once could they find room for the contradiction. They could afford space to contradict a report of the death of May the Burkite, but they could not afford room to contradict a falsehood relating to him, Mr. Hunt. He would now state the facts as they actually occurred. At the dissolution of Parliament the Unions of Manches ter did meet, they paraded with bands of music, and when they come to th a t p ar t o f th e fi e ld o f P e t er l oo w h ere the hustings stood on the famous 19th August, ISI9, they played the " Dead march in Saul ;" but in place of burning him in effigy, or reviling him in any way, his name was cheered, and the meeting dispersed peaceably. Burn. mug of effigies did take place, but they were a week after, and were the effigies of two of his enemies Major Burley, the commander of the yeomanry in 1819, and Richard Potter, the writer of a letter to the London newspapers reviling him. He would show how Tire Sun acted, they inserted the libels on the 25th, and on the 28th they published the letter in c ont ra di c tion. Had the Tim es acted in that way he would never have troubled either his Lordship or the Jury. The Jury would remember that only a short year and a half ago this con sistent Paper strenuously supported the Government of the Duke of Wellington, and at that time was in violent opposition to the present Ministry. They now supported them, or rather they had been supporting them, for it was evident to any ono that they were now preparing for another change, when they would again be as bitter opponents to their present friends as they were before.— T bey had heard a great deal lately about the march of intellect, but if this great leading journal of Europe was allowed to go on, and libel their opponents by such odious means, they ought to hear no more of such cant. The other libels charged him with having sold himself to the Tories, but as that had been said in the House of Commons by Mr. O'Con nell, he did not bring it forward as a charge further than to spew the animus with which be was pursued by the editor of this Paper. Being a freeholder of Somersetehire, he attended at the election for that county, and there again the Times, in their report, made the people cry out, " We will have no Hunt ! Hunt is a traitor, a turncoat, and a villain !" These were rather hard names, to be sure ; but he would be ashamed to bring forward any thing that took place at an election but this was not true, he knew how it was made up ; the reporters got some half dozen friends about them to cry out " Hunt is a villain," and then down it goes as Hit were the cry of the meeting. Sometimes they were with out the assistance of those friends, and then one reporter cries to another, " We will have no Hunt-,Hunt is a turncoat ;" this equally passes as the opinion of the meeting. At the great Spa-fields meeting, where he attended, the Times found great fault with him for using the word " boroughmonger." The Jury would be perfectly aware that that same Paper had rung the changes upon that word. The Learned Counsel would say this was a mere political squib, and he ought to take no notice of it, but was a man to be called a recreant, a villain, a turn coat, and a liar, by this, as they term themselves, the fourth state of the realm with impunity. They had bullied the King, they had bullied the Lord§ and bullied the Commons, but there was now only one thing more to do, and if they could once bully a Court of Justice, then adieu to the liberties of Englishmen. He trusted that the Jury, by their verdict to-day would put a stop to such disgraceful proceedings; and by the damages they would give, preserve a man's character from being stolen from him in this way. The Learned Gentle man then called the following witnesses : Mr. Tomlins, from the Tax-office, proved that the de fendant was the publisher of the Times at the time of the libels. Mr. Turner produced the Times of the 26th April, and 2d and sth May, from the Stamp-office. William Briant was sent for on the 29th April to Mr. Hunt's house. Sir J. SCARLETT objected to this line of evidence. Cross-examined—Could not say how many actions Mr. Hunt had brought for these same libel. The libels complained of were put in and read. Edward Cullen, from Manchester, was there on the 22d April last. There was a procession on that day in honour of the King having prorogued Parliament, and he was in the procession ; they had a band of music; it went over St. Peter's-fields playing " See the conquering hero comes," and when they came to the place where the hust ings were erected on the 16th August, 1819, they played the " Dead March in Saul." On that day no effigy wan burned ; on the Monday following there were two effigies burned. Attended yesterday as a witness in Court, and was apprehended by the Deputy Constable of Manchester, and kept all night in a very uncomfortable place. Cross - examined—ls a silk-weaver by trade, could not get more by the Reform trade, nor had ever said so ; was at a meeting on a Sunday in Manchester, when be made a speech, there were about 10,0030 people present; is a householder, but not a 101, one at present. Re-examined—lf he had work he could make 10s. a week, never made anything by Reform. They met on Sunday in order to petition for the lives of the men at Bristol. Had heard of the Privy Council meeting on a S:inday. Nathan Broadhurst, also a housekeeper in Manchester, was at the field of Peterloo on the 22d April. No effigy was burned, nor any disrespectful language used towards Mr. Hunt, but the reverse. Cross - examined—It was near ten o'clock when they were at St.:Peter's-fields, did not stop above an hour. Is a silk weaver and occasionally a bill sticker, did not stick up a bill headed " Illegal Murder." Never applied to Dr. Carpenter for money at any time. Re-examined—The " Illegal Murder" related to the un fortunate men at Bristol, for whom they intended to peti tion at the meeting on Sunday. These two witnesses were in custody, for being at the late Sunday meeting at Manchester, charged with sedition. Sir JaxEs ScanLETT addressed the July. He said Mr. Hunt in his speech had made a great complaint of his suffering s in his trade, in his character, and even stated that his life wasetadangered, by these libels as he called them. In his speech also, he had urged a great deal of declamation gainst the Times. He had made a long explan a ti on why he had conducted his own case ; but he might be assured that no gentleman at the bar would have been afraid to undertake hi s case for fear of the odium which would have been cast upon him. Mr. Hunt seemed to be in error as to , the meaning o f t h e words, " the liberty of the Press." No information by an individual who felt himself aggrieved by a . : libel, nor any trial to which they re- tiered themselves liable, could in any way hurt the " liberty of the Press." The liberty of th. Press —meant the liberty to publish without controul. Mr. Hunt being the real Member of the people, he believed. in Parliament, being the Member for Preston elected by universal suffrage, ought to be awar. that lie could no t enjoy, such an eminence with ou t paying the t ax f or such eminence. How could a man wh o had co ur t e d pu bli c i ty so much as Mr. Hunt, complain of that which gave him that which is general!) , so much desired. Not one of the extract hoed of was the original compilation of the news paper, but copied from those sources of inforinatio, which the Editors of the several London Newspap er s copied from. As for the last libel comptainee of, it was the report of a speech made by Mr. Dawson—, speech made at a public meeting—and why should Mr. Hunt complain of that to which all are liable ? A mob was the mo-t unsteady of all things; and thou 4 l, Mr. Hunt might have be-n a favourite with them at on, time, still when Mr. Dawson told them that Mr. Hunt had said in the House that the people were not all for the Bill, they being good Reformers, were very likely to cry out that they would have no Hunt, but was this a libel? It is not the Editor that was in fault, he merely reported what the mob said. Mr. Hunt had allowed his political ani mosity to stir up his bile on this oce4sion, and was going to have his revenge upon the proprietors , because the reporters did not report him. As for his being burnt in effigy, he (Sir J. Scarbatt) would not have thought worse of Mr. Hunt, even had his friends, Cullen and Broadhurst, along with their other Sunday friends, ac tually burnt him in effigy ; for his part he would rather be burnt in effigy by a mob, who voted that the Judge. and Bishops ought to be hang, in place of the criminals at Bristol, than not. Was this a libel ? Certainly not, and no political man of Mr. Hunt's emi nence ought to find fault with it. As to the word recreant, it was not to be taken as coward. No person ever thought Mr. Hunt was a coward—his former life belied that, it ought to be taken in the classical sense, merely that Mr. Hunt had changed his opiniou on certain subjects, but was that a libel ? Where was there a man of any eminence in politics, who had not, at some time, given in a little, so as to met with other parties ? Sonic of our present Mi nistry hail changed their opinions upon Reform, but would any one think ofcalling them recreants? He frosted the Jury would take the case into their consideration, and if they in their judgment thought that a verdict should p iss against his client, the injury had been so slight that the smallest damages would be adequate to the offence. The Learned Banox summed up the case at consider able length, and the Jury, after a short consultation, at a quarter before two o'clock, found a verdict for the plaintiff —Damages, Fifty Pounds. The Court was excessively crowded. BANKRUPTCY COURT.-(THIS DAY.) Their Honours, the Judges of this Court, sat in the Council-room, at Lincoln's Inn, today. The Court was occupied the whole morning with bankrupt petitions of no general public interest. SHIPPING INTELLIUENUE-(T(IIS DAY.) FROM LLOYD'S. FALMOUTH, FEB. 7.—Wind S.W., fresh.—Arrived the Earsden, Wightman, from Alexandria ; and Courier, Robinson, from Cadiz. MARGATE, FEE. B.—Arrived the Columbian packet, Cook, from Tchesine; and Nereid, Jay, from Leghorn. STANDGATE CREEK, FEE. B.—Arrived the Malta, Setter, from Missouri. LIVERPOOL, FEB. 7.—Arrived the Caledonia, Graham, from New York. Off port—the Jessie, from Nassau. GREENOCK, FEB. 6.—Arrived the James, Bartlett, from Messina. LIMERICK, FEB. 6.—Arrived the Zephyr, Sharp, from Seville. JERSEY, FEB. 6.—Arrived the Syren, Marquand, and Maria, Vautier, from Cadiz. TORBAY, FEB. 7.—Sailed his Majesty's ship Childers, for Lisbon. The George Canning, bound to Savannah, was totally wrecked to the southward of Tybee Light, 7th ult.-- Crew and passengers saved. The Royal Charlotte, Hay, from Charente to London and Hull, was totally wrecked, the 30th ult., on the I.le of Re, and all the crew drowned; about 300 casks of brandy saved. THE FUNDS.—(THIS DAY.) CITY. TWELVE O'CLOCK. Quebec Papers to the Bth, and Montreal to the 12th January, have been received at the North and South Ame rican Coffeehouse. The Quebec Papers are void of all interest. They write from Brussels, that the ratifications of France and England to the treaty will decide the King of Holland to strike some blow against Belgium ; but the army of Belgium is prepared to receive the Dutch troops, and can muster in twenty-four hours. Accounts from Pernambuco to the 16th December state that all was tranquil there, and the insurgents had retired to the interior. THE FUNDS. We have no arrivals with the exception of the estafette from Paris. The accounts it bring• are of two descrip• tions. The first is of a warlike nature : Prussia is said to be sending troops to the Rhine, Russia wants the ancient regime in Europe, and Austria has some views on Italy. The other account states that some disturbances took place in the Jardin des Plantes, but was soon quelled. This was the cause of the French Funds being heavy. In regard to the first statement, we should think that E irl Grey's declaration yesterday that the peace of Europe would be maintained, is more correct than the speculations in the French Papers. The second statement, of the disturbances in Paris, will always be more or less as long as the French King pursues his present system ; but all this has not had any effect on our Funds. Consols, which left off yesterday at 82i opened at the same price ; fell to 82i, but at present are 82i for the account. HALF-PAST ONE. We have been favoured with the following letter from Trieste, dated J tn. 27 :—" It is reported here that the Viceroy of Egypt has taken St. Jean d'Acre, and occu pies several places on the sea-coast; also Jerusalem, and will, no doubt, take possession of Damascus. The Turkish fleet has not as yet put to sea, and will not sail before April; and the troops marching from Constan tinople towards Syria cannot act before the spring. Thus Ibrahim has plenty of time to execute his views." Accounts from Cyprus, in the French Papers of Tues day, received this morning, state that Demascus has submitted to its new Pacha, as well as Canea. On Monday a diplomatic conference took plate at the Russian Ambassador's, at Paris, after which Pogo di Borgo despatched a courier for St. Petersburgh. Consols, which were in the early part of the morning at 82A for the account, have receded to 62i-it . , owing to a report that the French Rentes, after 'Change, were done lower. In the Foreign Market little or nothing doing. Consols are again 82 1. THREE 0' CLOCK Consols, 82i I. FOUR O'CLOCK.—CLOSING PRICES. Consols ... 82;} Danish Dittofor Account 821- Greek, 1825 22 Brazilian Bonds Mexican, 1825 35 Buenos Ayres... Peruvian... Chilian Ditto.... Russian Columbian 3824 11.J 2 - Spanish l3l The lies daily propagated by the Charles street gang, in the hope of furthering their dishonest pur poses, seem likely to extend the limits of the English lan guage,—the term " a Tory" has become synonymous with " a falsehood ;" even urchins in the street, instead of "that's a lie," now exclaim " that's a Tory ;" or when they wish to lie particularly emphatic and expressive, " Oh, what a boroughmouger ! !" When we gather from the French Papers the mention which has been made in the Carlist journals of the first communion of the Duke of BORDEAUX, and the importance attached thereto as a subject for ultra gratula• tion, it is impossible not to suspect that the recent addle headed break-out in Paris was more than accident.illy connected with the event thus described in the Caledonian Mercury received yesterday morning :—" On Thursday last, being the Feast of the Purification, or Candlemas-d , v, the Duke of BORDEAUX, along with two of the sons of the Duke de GUICHE, were admitted to their first communion in the Catholic chapel of this city. CHARLES X., the Duke and Duchess of ANGouLEsiz, and almost the whole of the Royal Household, were present. The young com municants received the sacrament from the hands of Cie dinal LaTiL, who, at the conclusion of the service, deli. vered a short exhortation from the altar in reference to the nature of the important engagement they had COD tracttd. The demeanour of these beautiful and interesiiig youths on this soleyn occasion was highly edifying." SPIRIT Or THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. We insert in another part of our Paper the spirited manifesto which has been issued by he ex-Emperor Don Pedro on his embarkation it Belleisle for Terceira, with the intention of heading from the Azores an expedition to Por tugal, to dethrone his usurping brother, and re establish the sovereign rights of his daughter. In this well-weighed document the Ex-Emperor draws a just and striking picture of the perfidious character and treacherous usurpation of Don kliguel, details the objects which he himself has in view in joining the expedition, and announces the policy which, as the natural guardian of the young Queen, he intends to pursue, should his irms be blessed with success and his daughter's authority be restored. With the black narrative contained in the first part of this manifesto all the world was previously acquainted. The ac cumulation of perfidies, perjuries, and crimes r3wded into the short history of the cor. temptible usurper, whom we have formerly called the Dey of Lisbon, would have served sufficiently to decorate the annals of more celebrated, though not more criminal tyrants ; and few modern despots, with such limited sway, ever occasioned such extensive misery. The Emperor, seated on the other side of the Ate lantic, and unable,by the fundamental laws of the two monarchies to which by his father's death he succeeded, to retain the crowns of both on his head, resolved, on the arrival of the news of King John's decease, to resign that of Portugal in favour of his daughter, retaining that of Bra zil—destined, in his opinion, to become a more mighty inheritance—for himself and his eldest son. In order to render her faithful Majesty's reign a greater blessing to her subjects, he em ployed the short interval during which he re mained King of Portugal to frame a charter, which was transmitted to Europe along with his daughter's title-deeds to the crown, and which was intended never to be separated from those rights which it conferred. Every Court in Europe, whether constitutional or absolutist, ac knowledged his Imperial Majesty as King of Portugal, and therefore all were precluded from denying, even on the principles of the Holy Alliance, the legitimacy of those institutions which emanated from his throne, and which prescribed the duties as well as established the rights of his successor. Even Don Miguel took the oath of allegiance, first to his brother and then to his niece, along with the other subjects of Portugal. But the constitutional act which was intended to secure an uncontested and a happy reign to the young Queen, excited the enemies of existing abuses against her au thority, and led to the short-lived rebellion of Chaves. It then became evident that the claims of a female, a minor, and a stranger—however supported by the laws of succession in Portugal, and countenanced by the general recognition of' Europe—would run serious dangers in collision with those of a Prince of mature age, whose cause had already been adopted by a considerable portion of the privileged orders. Hence the idea of uniting the rights of the former and the pretensions of the latter by an ill-omened mar riage—hence the appointment of Don Miguel to the Regency of the kingdom till his betrothed niece should attain the years of majority—and hence that series of engagements, promises, and oaths to rule according to the charter, which lulled suspicion asleep till he arrived in Portu gal, and was able to dest ro y th e c h ar t er an d usur p the throne by almost incredible acts of baseness, falsehood, and perjury. It is but doing justice to the sagacity of Don Pedro to say, that he never implicitly trusted his brother, aed that he was only prevailed upon to permit his re turn to Portugal in the capacity of his Lieu ! tenant by the assurances of some of his Eu ropean allies and the menaces of others. In this state of things he may expect their countenance, or at least their forbearance, in attempting to reco ver those rights which he lost by confiding in their counsels or submitting to their importunities.— But it will be by his own good conduct alone, or by the hatred entertained of his brother, that he can expect success. The manifesto, after detailing the reasons by which the expedition is justified, announces the intended proceedings of the Ex-Emperor both on reaching Terceira and on arriving in Portugal. He has formally abdi cated, therefore he has no longer any pretensions to the throne ; but, as the guardian of his daughter, he appointed a Regency two years ago, and in the same capacity he intends to resume his own commission, and to appoint himself Regent. His daughter's minority, and the ab sence of constitutional bodies to act upon emer gencies, may render necessary conduct which necessity only can justify. 01 this kind is the change of the Terceira Regency. If, on the arrival of the expedition at Lisbon, the Ex-Im perial Regent can depose his Royal Lieutenant, he will be able in reality to reign for some tune in the name of his daughter. In that case he engages to convoke the Cortes of the kingdom, and to issue a general amnesty for the treasons committed under the usurper. It will be ob served that the Ex-Emperor makes no mention. of the revival of the extinct charter, and pro bably, in his present circumstances, and with the eyes of the absolute as well as the free Govern ments of Europe directed to his proceedings, he is right to exercise a little caution in Ins declara tions; but we are persuaded that no cause can ultimately gain by the compromise of principle,— that his best friends will feel no interest in his success as a mere question of legitimacy,—and that Spain, together with other legitimate Go vernments which are hostile to his movement, will feel as much alarmed at the convocation of the Cortes to make a Constitution, as at the re establishment of the Constitution which has lately been destroyed.— Times. It is to be apprehended, that if Lord Grey should not think proper to explain more dis tinctly than he has yet, done, his intentions, as a Minister, with regard to Ireland,—we mean, more particularly, in relation to the Church, — his Lordship will have to charge himself with something at least approaching to an indiscre tion. The plain meaning of his words on Tues day evening was, that he would enforce the law for the collection of tithe in Ireland. Was it not so ? If his Lordship answers i n th e affirma tive, he prepares for himself an enterprise the most abortive in its execution, and in its final re sults the most fearful, that ever blind man under took when he walked over the edge of a precipice. It is impossible to make the Irish Catholics pay tithe, at the existin g ra t e , t o any ( even a C a tholic) clergy, or any tithe to Protestant clergy. And we rejoice that it is impossible, because it is un jus of going to law v t.Letnot LordGreyt,lirieth 6,0 threaten 0 wild)e 00 ex perimento men, by seizing their goods and chattles ; or of going to war with them in a foul cause, by at ttsehtteanitpretspimnegra,sroi n o as n sfoLr t h ao e rrrde r a e rE c o gu m fe e rl o d . t a iL t g i t,n hire imprison(u)tc,l 1 a e implore Lord Grey, and if he will not listen to