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Ent Enbito. A regular Trader. For BOMB. Y, r'"' The The well-known ShippIINERVA, I'. METCALF, Commander; 377 tons register; will have early despatch.—For freight or cabin passage apply on board, Prince's Dock, or to A. PARLANE, 21, Water -street. For CALCUTTA, The BAHAMI N, T. MAXWELL, Csi is ander; • Al, a regular trader, well k own for making short passages.—Apply to TAYLOR, POTTER, and Co. To follow the above, The IMOGEN, J. RICHARDSON', Commander. CORDELIA, G. WEAVER, Commander. Zatot Enbito. For DEMERARA; The fast-sailing Ship GEDIGETOWN, JAMES MILLER, Master; Lying in the Prince's Dock.—For terms of freight or passage apply to T. and H. MURRAY. To sail in fourteen day For DEMERAR The Ship SEAM JOHN ROBERTSON, C mmander; For freight or passage, having superior cabin accommodation, apply to JOHN GLADSTONE and Co. ' FOr ANTIGUA I e k , The-Ship _ "r"* Captain liAnzu ' Y; - - For freight or passage apply to W. and F. SHAND. Will sail positively on or belize the 25th instant. Akr The fast-sailing-buil°l;ri AGNES, WILLIAM JOHNSTON, kleter; Lying east side Queen's Dock.—For freight or passage apply to HEYES, LITHERLAND, and Co. Wolstenholme-square. To sail on the 10th February. A l For BARBADOS 4 The Ship THOMAS DANIEL, • - R. DUNN, Mater; Lyin„o• in the King's Dock . — For freight or passage apply to the blaster, on board, or to • N. WATERHOUSE and SONS. To clear ore the .....' 4. 4 111 t; The fast-sailing Brig LAVDOUGLAS, -:_r--- " J. Cocks, Ma er; Lying in the King's Dock.—For terms of freight apply toMURRAY T. and H. itoutb America. First vessel, and will hare quick despatch. For PERNAMBUCO, The fine A 1 British - built Brig HEBE, GEORGE BATRICK, Master; Burthen 189 tons, coppered and coppetlastened, sails very fast, and is in all respects a very eligible cci6veyanee. Lying in the King's Dock.---For freight or passage apply to ASHLEY BROTHERS. ffitbittrrantan. Clears out To-day and Sdils To-morrow. A For LEGHORN, The fine coppered Brig JOHN, Captain IrEy; For freight of a few tons of light ds, apply on board, east side Queen's Dock, or to CHAPMAN nd Lts, or to HIGHFIELD BROTHERS. Cot *alt. • For SALE, A The New Ship 6, • •=: Burthen per register 461 tons ; built of the best mate - • rials, and may be sent to sea at a small expense.—For n v entor y, &c., apply to DUNCAN GIBB. 1..-alco by Auction. To-sioaaow, (Wednesday) the 23d instant, at Twelve o'clock, e , a t MOLYNEUX, TAYLOR, and Co.'s Offic Chapel-street, 100 Tierces fine New Ca j r • a RICE, • Now landing ex Sterling. —Apply Mr. W. C. MoLy *mix, Merchant, or to MOLYNEUX, TAYI OR, and CO., Brokers. To-bionao__,W (Wednesday) the 23d instant, a ' welve o'clock , at WILLIAM NEVETT'S Office, Ru rd-street, About 2 Tons STAG NS, Ex Hall from Bombay.—Apply to Me s. CHARLES IRONSIDES and Co. Merchants, or to WM. NEVETT, Broker. To-MORROW, (Wednesday) the 23rd inst., at Twelve o'clock, at MOLYNEUX, TAYLOR, and Co.'s Office, 16, eapel-street, 701 Elephant Teeth, about 41 tons Afri,ati IVORY. 477 Bans D Cu it t to D , itto, et about 2 tons ta India IVORY. Sustlandeeex Vestal—Apply to Messrs. CYRUS MORRA LL and Sox, Merchants, or to MOLYNEUX, TAYLOR, and Co., Brokers. For the Benefit of the Fire Insurance Companies. On THURSDAY next, the 24th instant, ay twelve o'clock, at RUTSON'S Yard, Queitreet, A Quantity o Damaged COTTON, WHEAI, and LOGWOOD. A ppl y to HENRY GLYNN, and} WM. WHITEHOUSE and SON, Broke rs. I On account of whom it may con rn. On FRIDAY next, the 25th instant, at Twelv o'clock, at SAMUEL DUTTON and NEPHEW'S Office 8, E hane-buildings, 43 Bales Syrian MADDER ROO S TS, Ex St. Antonio, from Genoa.—Apply to SAML. DUTTON and NEPHEW, Brokers. On MONDAY, the 4th of February next, at Four o'clock in the Afternoon, at the Swan Inn, in Tarporley, in the county of tltiester„subject to the conditions then to be produced, THE Fee-simple and Inheritance of, and in all that MES SUAGE or DWELLING-HOUSE, situate at HoMu llin, in Utkinton, in the parish of Tarporl ; together with the Lands, Garden, Stone-quarry, and Pre • es thereunto belong ing, containing in statute measure I res or thereabouts , in the holding of Mr. John Wilson. Also, a PEW in the parish church of Tarporley. The House is pleasantly situate, and the Land is exceedingly good, and in a high state of cultivation. The Quarry is valuable, yielding great profit from the excel lent quality of its red and white stone. There is a large bed of excellent Marl running through the whole Estate. Mr. John Burgess, of Utkinton, will show the Property, and further particulars may be obtained at the Office of Mr. J. THORLEY, Solicitor, Tarporley. EXTRAORDINARY DEATHS—THE NURSE AND CHlk.P. — On Wednesday an inquest was held at Brunswick-terruce, Ball's pond, Islington. on view of the bodies of Ann Slymm and John Dickson. - The woman was in the habit of taking young chil siren to nurse, and on Sunday morning, in consequence of some alarm, a neighbour entered her room, and found her in the agonies of death. Assistance was procured„ but she was quite Jeid. On lifting her body, the chill, John Dickson, was found Underneath quite dead. The child must have been clasped in tne arms of thb poor eld woman at the time that she was seized with a fit, and in the agony of sker attack she had lain upon it in such a way as to produce suffocation, Two surgeons pro nounced that the woman died of appoplexy, and that the infant `died :roin suffocation, produced by external pressuce. When the persons burst open the door, another clad - , 18 months old, whom Mrs. Slymm had under her care, was playing at" cock horse," as it is called by children, upon the poor old woman's hack. The Jury returned a verdict of died by the visitation of God, as respected Mrs. Slymm; and of aceideeal death, as to eve child The length of the paved streets and roads in England and Wales is calculated at 20,000 miles • that of the roads which are not paved at about 100,(XX) miles. The extent of the turnpike roads as appears by Parliamentary. documents, in 1823, was 24,531 wiles, MR. RUTHVEN, M.l TO THE EDITOR OF THE SIR,-1 take'the earliest oppor that my letter, in your paper of tamed a misstatement regardini dress to the electors of Kildare I I now find that Mr. Ruthven it 46 I believed him to be, for the C the statement of his having bee returned for the latter county is, I have, therefore, to request, tl . (whom I know only by his electi( *wn reputation for honourable co to this prompt avowal of my m remain, Sir, your obedient servan Liverpool, Jan. 21, 1833. WEST INDIA TO THE EDITOR OF THE L SIR,--I am aware, in touching West India Slavery, I am enterin , and, at the present moment, of munity at large. Fully impressi task, I seek only to offer observai trammelled by the prejudices, and others. In seeking out justice, right or to the left, but proceei course, forgetting all minor consid our purpose. The excitement cre eussions on this subject, rendere ceeding it, all observations useless of the truth of their own observati, rejected every argument which to !yen those opinions, however unfi citement has now partially subsic More inclined to listen and weigh t ere they proceed to pass a judgmer The principal division of sentim justice and propriety of "immediat, population in the West India col both parties, that "Slavery in itsel ‘questions—ls emancipation, with( planter, just? Would the measure be beneficial or injurious to the only at present offer a few observat the subject of a future letter. Under the direct protection and of these realms, property first bees Population of the West India coloni by the Lords and Commons, and Wanting nothing therefore to coma 'aline the root from whence sprung according to their, institutes. Rest futissimi cassis, sub clypeo legis ne y such looked not forward to a per azanded to surrender that which ti direct sanction of a wise and cler late years there has arisen a feeling owners of slave property, and one (and by no means a small one) have I for a legislative act for forcible moan nature, by destroying the tenure of pr by the laws of the land, in opposition and without remuneration, is, I n being a manifest injustice, wanting principle of honesty, and as a law di Maxim. " Lex nemini operatur in tiam." Upon the union of the mora taws depend, and as justice is the pr laws, when they once cease to be pc being contradictory to moral duty, et guides. In unjustly robbing the st him, in opposition to laws framed pu the community are guilty of an act ( one individual defrauding another Without vitiating themselves, enjo the divine law, the former being for the better enforcement of the law expressly forbids us to approi belongs to others, no one I presume Ping the Planter of his birth-right, wishes, though authorized by the 'tate, is not an unjust taking ow: thee, and as such, in direct oppositi which we are bound to obey ? In big property, in opposition to his wis rating him for his loss, we ate layin )ziay at a future period he made a rule taore closely connected with oursel the subject places upon laws formed lks person and his property, must neo considerably shaken. • Laying asi which would incline us nevertheless t Cation we ought to be guarded how • by making them subservient tt 'lt justice. That slavery is repugnar Cation, and to the spirit of our laws to confess ; but in removing the ev oar counsels; let moderation be op' Werwhelming desire of change, whi War the consequences, so that'the mcn Wad let the nation in her desire of ( the West Indies be careful, lest that !cent of its being a blessing to its p The cry for forcible manumission for a short period—the nation, stirrer t Way be induced to threaten harsh *e every where perceive the spirit of liolicy spreading its influence ; and I 4 -at hand when the measures propose il ls Slaves will be such as will induct lelve s to become its advocates. Whether immediate emancipation, 1 / 4 ntageous or otherwise to the Slav k r a subject of enquiry in a future le Jail. 17th, 1833. THE CURRE TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIP', BIR,-_A t the present eventful pe t hange and innovation, under the :!form, engages the attention of all 01 1 no longer consents to "let well 'Pic% calls loudly for changes in t It is, therefore, my intention to co. a lk te Practicable, and if practicable, w or likely to answer the obje To arrive at correct conclusions, it 4 ider the present state and nature mouses which have produced and sup e changes required, as far they as c bre the probable results to be expec bake and carry such changes into e It is a well-known fact, that, alth 4 ar present circulating medium cons Promissory notes, restricted in amo bards, yet, as they are all payable in ran Lao t cow' e driel . e ott° at t 1 1 , 3, cti(s • fornie d s frf t , ill lessr - shahawe! shol, -,llst o 4 . ! coal 'ltek 1 fe , Po , astl , greet THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, SATURDAY, JAN. 19. DIFFICULTIES OF EMANCIPATING SLAVES. THORNLEY V. BYRNE, Sir Edward Sugden stated that this was a petition beset with greater difficulties than perhaps ever came under the conside ration of a court of justice, and proved how often it was that the most humane and kind intentions were lost on the object of them. In the year 1816 Lord Crawford and Lindsey died, and by his will bequeathed a tract of land in the Island of Antigua to trustees, the profits of which were to accumulate until I.'ebruary, 18.33, and then the whole of the slaves on his lordship's estate were to receive their manumission, and the money accumulated divided equally between them. His lord ship also further directed by his will, that the slaves who would in 1833 be entitled to their freedom should be taught to read the Bible, and treated with all the humanity that reason and justice could dictate. These humane and benevolent intentions of the testator it was now found impossible to carry into effect, and all the flattering hopes of manumission were utterly hopeless. The slaves at the present time were one hundred and thirty four in number, and from the depreciation of property and other causes, the whole sum at the disposal of the trustees was only £750. All and every offer to benefit the slaves had been proposed, but they would listen to no terms, being completely intoxicated at the idea of liberty. It had been suggested to purchase land and form them into a colony, but this they indignantly refused, declaring they would no longer live to- Tether. Another insurmountable di ffi culty presented itself. welve of the slaves, from old age, were incapable of labour, and the laws of the island required that, when the owner of a slave gave him his manumission, he (the owner) should deposit £3OO, currency in the public treasury, as a guarantee for his future support. Now, in the present case, there was no fund to make this deposit from. In short, it was found impossible to carry the intentions of the testator into effect, hence the present application. Sir' Edward Sugden concluded his address, by some general observations upon the difficulties attending the question of negro slavery. The Attorney-General, on behalf of the crown, wished to leave the case entirely in the hands of the court. The Lord Chancellor said, if counsel did not object, he should wish, before giving any opinion, to advise with the government on the subject. Sir Edward Sugden would feel muck obliged to his lordship so to do. This case must show to every thinking man the difficulties attending the general question of the abolition of slavery. The Lord Chancellor.—l agree with you, Sir Edward, that the present case suggests many and very serious reflections regarding the question of slavery. I will advise with the government. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, MONDAY, Jan, 14. LIBEL. Captain Forbes brought an action against the Satirist news caper for the following alleged libel published on the 30th September last. Langford conversing with his man Friday (meaning the Ilaintiff) on the'subject of the slave trade, enumerated several nstances of superior endowments among the black population. Yes,' observed Forbes, the history of Hayti affords ample proof of that ; they are equal to us at least in intellectual matters.' You know, Forbes, I fear, but little of history,' remarked his Lordship; look into the history of England, and you will there read an account of a black prince who was the greatest soldier of his time.' " It was contended for the plaintiff , that it was degrading to call any subject of his Majesty " the man Friday :" but the Judge held, that, as Friday was a very faithful, honest fellow, it was certainly no libel to call a man by that name. Captain Forbes also complained of .another paragraph in the same paper, headed " Gambling Fracas," in which it was said that " Mr. Hugh, calling himself Captain Forbes, had quarrelled at a gambling-house, with a Mr. Tarlton—that a meeting was arranged, to come off at Putney Heath—that the adverse parties were in attendance at the time appointed, but that neither the plaintiff nor his second appeared upon the ground." But their Lordships decided that it was no libel to charge a man with neglecting to keep ,an illegal appointment, and that ail gambling was not illegal, The plaintiff, therefore, was beaten upon both counts. IRELAND. Lord Anglesey quits Ireland on the 25th, under the pretext of taking the oaths in a new Parliament, and thereby quali fying himself for leaving his proxy with the Premier; but wa pledge ourselves upon unquestionable authority, that he will never return as Viceroy. A mere change of men will, however, effect no substantial benefit for the country; there must be a distinct and decided alteration in measures. The laws must be duly administered, and rigorously—aye and severely enforced. Protection must be afforded to Protestant life and property; and some plan adopted in the selection of jurors on criminal cases by which the ends of justice may be attained, and the per petrators of crime punished; whole districts must for a season be deprived of the benefits of the constitution, and martial law be resorted to in place of the civil code; seditious societies must be abolished, insurrectionary meetings suppressed, the priests kept in order, and demagogues put down, &c. Mr. O'Connell and his party defy the Executive to administer the affairs of Ire land in a spirit of firmness. Let but the Executive manifest a fixed determination to exert its strength and seek the support of those capable of giving it, and in one week they will have the brawlers tame and tranquil.—Dublin Evening Mail.' LAW CHANGES.—A rumour is afloat "in the Hall," that Sir William Macmahon is about to retire from the Bench upon the usual pension, and an English peerage; that the Attorney- General succeeds to the Rolls; and Sergeant Perrin to the vacancy opened by his promotion. To the authenticity of this report we do not pledge ourselves.—Dublin paper. At Cashel quarter sessions 10,000 civil bills are entered for recovery of tithes, at the suit of the Attorney-GeneraL—Dublin paper. It appears that the Crown is resolved upon proceeding with the prosecution of William O'Reilly, Esq. M.P. for Dundalk, on account of his opposition to the payment of tithes. Notice to plead was served upon his attorney on Saturday last.—Dublin Morning Register. Messrs. Gladstone. Jones, and Archdale have reflised to at tend the "National Convention" of the Irish Members of Pat liament, proposed to be held in Dublin on the 18th. "'BREVITY THE SOUL OP Wrr."—The following reply.from Sir Edmond Hayes, one of the members for the county of Donegal, in answer to the "invitation" to attend the meeting of the O'Connell members in Dublin, is as short, and to the purpose, as any we have seen since Bob Short's communica tions to the Spectator : "Drumboe Castle, 12th Jan. "SIR,-It is not my intention to be present at a meeting in Dublin, called a 'National Convention.'—Your obedient ser vant, "EDMOND HAYES." BELFAST SHIPPING.—The increase of this kind of property has gone on, notwithstanding some years of great discourage ment, very steadily these ten years past. The total number of vessels is 219, amounting to 23,681 tons. Last year a number of line vessels owned at this port were lost; these, however, have been replaced by new ones. Of the above number 60 vessels, measuring 13,554 tons, averaging 225 tons to each ship, are employed in the foreign commerce of this place, and the remaining 159 vessels, averaging 60 tons each, in the coasting and cross-channel trade.—Dublin Mercantile Register. THE VOLUNTEERS.—Our doughty Daniel is talking big, and swaggering at an awful rate anent his new corps of volunteers. They are to be dressed in green uniform, and the Blackfeet and Whitefeet of Kilkenny, and the Whiteboys and Ribandmen of Tipperary . , assisted by the Terry Alts and the other good boys in the various disturbed districts, have in the handsomest man ner undertaken to provide the newly created legions with arms and ammunition ! Tom Steele, whom Mr. O'Connell has cre ated fugleman to the conscripts, says—but let honest Tom, the prince of purlers, speak for himself, as becometh a good man and true. " I told the men of Clare (quoth Tom) that if such a crisis were to arrive, in consequence of any atrocious act of the Government, as that of Camden and Castlereagh in 1798, as that O'Connell should command us to have recourse to arms, and blood, and convulsion, instead of our usual constitutional warfare, by which we had achieved such resplendent and inevi table triumphs, in that case I would not order the Clare men to go into Cratloe-wood to cut down trees for pike-handles, but that I would first send them to cut down the trees in my own domain of Lough O'Connell, and that I would, of course, my self not be idle, nor a mere looker-on in the conflict." This was spoken at the meeting on Saturday, in the pro , gress of a peaceable and legal debate on the a t Irish volunteers. '—Dubtin Evening Mail. • MEETING OF PAHLIAMENT.—" Parliament, at the present moment, stands summoned for the 29th, but ministerial arrange ments, as well as other weighty considerations, will probably postpone the commencement of the session till the second week in I. ebruary. Earl Grey will promulgate the plans whicl'have engaged the attention of the cabinet during the recess • and we learn that among the first and the most prominent will be the measures for a commutation of tithes both in England and Ire land, and the repeal of the greater part, if not the whole, of the house and window duties. These and some other measures with respect to finance and the colonies, will form the subjects of immediate consideration, but not until the house has been asked for, and has sanctioned, an authority, the highest known to the executive, for the restoration of perfect tranquillity in Ireland. In anticipation of a ready assent of the legislature to the preliminary step—the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act, several regiments of horse and foot are to be added to the al ready imposing military force in that country aand if circum stances render it expedient, the English militia will be called forth to their assistance. On the propriety of this proceeding, the heads of the opposition have beeri consulted, and we under stand they are fully consenting.—Few, indeed of those who wish to preserve the integrity of the empire—to ensure obedi ence to law—or to stay the career of unbridled anarchy and licentiousness, can object to such a course, when it is known to be, and when the legislature is pledged to make it, the preamble of a bill for the settlement of the questions of tithes and of cess —for an effectual redress, in brief, of all the real grievances of the Irish people." RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION.--Mr. O'Connell has been at great pains to persuade us that his new project has nothing whatever to do with religious differences, but is a common ground on which men of all opinions can join hands. He may pretend to believe - so, but nobody else does. The following paragraph from a Carlow Paper devoted implicitly to his views, and in immediate connection with a member of his family, shows how the liberal press treats the question. The thirty seven proscribed individuals are men who offended "their country and their God" by supporting conservative candidates, and opposing repealers : THE THIRTY-SEVEN CATHOLICS WHO VOTED AGAINST THE CLERGY.—Never was there such an example made of any poor unfortunate creatures as has been exhibited in the total dis grace of these 37 apostates. Their shops are literally deserted —their houses shunned as if they contained pestilence and plague —and themselves avoided in the streets. We shall soon furnish a list of their names and residences, in order to be posted on all the chapel doors of this county, and that society may know the enemies of religion, and the traitors to the inde pendence of the people. It is but fair that they should be known, in order that some distinction may be made by the public between them and the poor fellows who in the teeth of danger, and at the sacrifice of money proffered, voted. for their country and their God. It would not be treating our friends well, not to brand our enemies with public disgrace and permanent shame." _ _ . One word of 'observation upon this infamous denunciation would insult the understanding of the reader.—Dublin Evening Mail. _ _ _ On Friday night, the. 4th instant, about the hour of 9 o'clock, upwards of rk men, some of whom were armed, entered the dwelling-house of John 'Atwell, of Leitrim, in the district of Longford, in search of fire,-arms • not finding any, the party, on leaving the house, met Mr. Atwell'si servant boy, and most inhumanly beat and stabbed him in several parts of the body. On Sunday night last, the 6th instant, an armed party en tered the dwelling-house of George and William Hoxey ' about half a mile from the town of Edgeworthstown, and took there from three muskets, a bayonet., two pouches, two waist-belts, and a powder-horn, together with five gallons of potteen whisky. The Honeys were absent at the time. At the Tralee Assizes the leaders of two desperate county of Kerry factious, the Curtaynes and the Leahys, were severally indicted for breaking the peace and each others' heads. There was . no particular ground of enmity adduced in defence, the parties having fought solely from their innate combativeness. The Court sentenced 12 of the principal combatants (natives of Bresnah), some to, four months' and some to six months' imprisonment. _ • - The several tithe cases for Nenagh and Cashel (upwards of 10,000) are all adjourned to the 21st instant, at Cashel. , The excitement of the contested elections has aggravated the usual lawless state of the counties of Westmeath and Longford. Scarce 51 night elapses without numerous outrages of various kinds occurring. The system of stealing arms is particularly prevalent, and much bad feeling is entertained against indi viduals of the peasantry who in the late election voted for Lord Forbes and Mr. Lefroy. In some cases gangs of from 40 to 50 men have attacked houses, beaten the inhabitants, and carried off arms. In one night five houses were attacked, and the des peradoes succeeded in getting possession of four guns, served some threatening notices, and attacked and beat several persons eeverely, EX PARTE COBBETT. FRIDAY, Jan. 18.—Mr. J. Cobbett Moved for a rule to show cause why a criminal information should not be filed against Edward Baines and Edward Baines, jun. printers and publish ers of the Leeds Mercury, for alibel on Mr. Wm. Cobbett, M.P. for Oldham. The libel in question consisted of a 'paragraph beaded " Uneertificated Bankrupt." It was stated from the affidavits, that part of the paragraph in question first ap peared in an evening paper, and was in the form of questions by a correspondent—viz : first, whether Mr. Cobbett was in eligible to take his seat in parliament, from his being an un certificated bankrupt? and secondly, if a friend lent a candi date an estate to qualify him, whether that estate would not be forfeited to his assignees if he were an uncertificated bankrupt? These questions had been copied by the Leeds Mercury, with the addition of confirmation to the first—namely, that Mr. Cobbett had been a bankrupt, but had not obtained his certifi cate. The affidavit of Mr. Cobbett and his solicitor stated in substance that he (Mr. Cobbett) had been a bankrupt in 1820, but that he had subsequently obtained his certificate, and added that Mr. Edward Baines the elder must have been aware of that fact, for a short time afterwards he had congratulated Mr. Cob bett on his having obtained his certificate. Under these cir cumstance's, Mr. Cobbett, conceiving that the statement in the Mercury was malicious, and calulated to injure him, had thought proper to make this application.—Rule Nisi granted. SALFORD SESSIONS, SATURDAY, JAR. 12. CURIOUS. CASE-A MAN TRANSPORTED FOR STEALING HIS OWN PROPERTY. Richard Harris was indicted. for stealing, at Manchester, on the 24th of December, one box, the property of Thomas Pick r ford and Co., carriers. This was one of the most curious cases tried during the sessions, the prisoner being in fact indicted for committing a felony upon his own property, under the following circumstances. On the 24th of December, the prisoner called at Messrs. Pickfords' warehouse, in Manchester, to inquire whether a box had arrived for him, which he expected trom Birmingham. He was told by the porter that it was in the warehouse, and was directed to go into the office, and pay the carriage before it was given up to him. He went into the of fice, when he inquired from one of the clerks what the carriage amounted to, but did not pay the amount, saying, that he would call again about it. A fe* days after this, the prisoner again called at Messrs. Pickfords' warehouse, and said he had brought the money for the carriage of the box, and wished to take it away with him ; but, on searching the warehouse, the box could no where be found. At this, he professed to be in a violent rage, and threatened, that if the box was not found he should forthwith commence an action against the carriers to recover the value of it, and with this determination he left the ware house. Inquiries were then made among the clerks and por ters in the warehouse, the result' of which was a suspicion that the prisoner had carried away the box at the time of his first visit to the warehouse. A search warrant was obtained, and on searching his lodgings, the box was there found; emptied of its contents. These were the facts proved against the prisoner; and in his defence he called a boy named Hughes, whom he re presented as an orphan, taken under his care for charity, and who swore that the box found in the prisoner's lodgings had come from Liverpool full of dirty linen, and that no other box had been received by him since he came to Manchester. The boy, however, contradicted himself so grossly in his cross-ex amination, that his story was totally unworthy of credit, and his falsehood was more fully established by Barke, the p . olice-- officer, who said that when he told Hughes that the prisoner was in custody, he said, " Well, he is a good fellow, and what ever he says, I'll swear to." The certificate of a previous con viction of the prisoner, under the name of Richardson, was put in, and he confessed that he was the person alluded to, and that he had so told the turnkey when he was first committed. The Chairman was proceeding to sum up the case, when the Foreman of the Jury said, that they were quite satisfied upon the facts, and only wished to know what was the law—and whe ther a man could commit felony upon his own property. The Chairman said there was no doubt that such a felony might be committed. When goods were delivered to a carrier for the purpose of being carried, they became the property of that carrier until they were delivered to the person to whom they were directed; and if that person should obtain them from the carrier in a fraudulent manlier, and with the intention of after wards charging the value of the goods, that was a felony in the eye of the law.—The jury returned a verdict of guilty against the prisoner, when the following colloquy took place:— The Chairman,--Prisoner, are you the person who corres ponded with Mr. Spring Rice some years ago ? Prisoner.—Yes, Sir, I am. Chairman.—Before whom were you tried? Prisoner_—Before Mr. Thomas Starkie. Chairman,—Yes, and Mr. Thomas Starkie had a great deal of trouble with. you. You followed him to London, and plagued him so much, that he was obliged to go to one of the public offices and swear the peace against you. I myself had a great deal of trouble with you about that case, the whole of the cor re.spondence with Mr. Spring Rice being trausinitted to me. Prisoner.—But you know I was deranged at that tiet a Jr. The Chairman then consulted with his brother magiArate as to the punishment to be inflicted upon the prisoner, and passing sentence he remarked—"l should have thought, p 1 soner, that the imprisonment you formerly underwent, won}.' have been a sufficient warning to induce you to abandon UV course of life. You are a man of very considerable and ver, acute intellect, and the address you have displayed in this affai shews yoti to be a clever man. Your offence has rendered V I liable to be transported for life, but the court will not got length, although they have had considerable difficulty 11 coming to that decision. Your conduct in gaol has been vett bad, and you have displayed so much address in committivl this offence, that we cannot do less than sentence you to 0 transported for fourteen years. MISCELLANEOUS. PRINCE Pozzo DI BORGO is reputed to possess great wealth ) Last winter a nephew of his Excellency's, a Captain in the En' Royal Guard of France, was united to the daughter of tj Duke de Crillon, upon which occasion Prince Pozzo di Bo gave the bridegroom a fortune of 1,500,000 francs (about £6O, stetling,) with the promise of as much more after the Ambassne ' dor's demise. A report has been going the round of the papers for sow' time past that his Grace the Duke of Wellington had broken up . his establishment, previously to, and with the intention of going abroad. We have already contradicted a rumour 0 1 this subject, which had found its way accidentally into our 0% 1 columns, and we are now enabled in the most positive manner to repeat this contradiction, having obtained authentic infor mation that no such reduction has taken place in any branch of his Grace's household.—Morning Post. Her Grace the Duchess of Buckingham has been seriouslf, indisposed during the past week, at her residence, Avingto* Park, near Winchester. We are happy to say, however, than by the last accounts her Grace was better.—Portsmouth Herald , CONSERVATIVE CIA:B.—The inhabitants of Bath have fol', lowed the example of those of Bristol, and have formed a large, and highly respectable Conservative body, the first object or, which is to declare that the present members for that city are, not the men of their choice, but that their principles are / 7 , direct opposition to the views and feelings of the great maj oral', of the people, and to make arrangements to secure, at the nes t election, the return of men of totally different politics, anii who are likely to stand forward in defence of the constitution the avowed enemies of innovation and destruction.—John Thai Three brothers, miners, in the employ of Messrs. Guest and Co., Dowlais , have lately received an unexpected bequest o £l2,ooo.—Bolton Chronicle. It is expected that the King and. Queen of the Belgians will make a trip to this country in the spring, and sojourn for a short time at Claremont. The amiable and accomplished daughter of the Countess d Molande is about to be united to a foreigner of distinctio holding a high situation at King. Leopold's Court, On Monday last a furious attack was made on W. Fishbouril jun., Esq. (agent to the Duke of Buckingham), who, with at under-agent and a servant, were returning in a jaunting-c from Clare Island to Old Castle, (county of Westmeath), aft collecting the Duke's rents in the neighbourhood of the former , Passing through a plantation two shots were fired at him fro; a party of four in ambush, who afterwards sprang across the road as if to intercept him at a turn in advance. Mr. Fish' bourne, however, drove on and escaped. Several people whops, he met on the road refused to have anything to do with joiningl him in pursuit of the villains, so he wisely hastened to Olai Castle.. The Westmeath Journal states that orders had been ; given at the neighbouring chapels for the two preceding Sun'l days not to' pay more than a certain rent to the Duke's agentsr l and that the Rev. Mr. Burke, parish priest, had spoken of Wi Fishbourne at Tullystown chapel, only two miles from the abort ambush, on both occasions in terms of the most shocking abuse, &c. The Dutch King's answer has arrived in the mail-packet the Attwood, and consists of a counter-project, which it is pro posed to submit to all the Five Powers, although one of - them has formally withdrawn from the conference. Upon the whole we have reason to believe that, with an air of approach and mode ration, the new proposals are concocted in the same bad faith and spirit of procrastination which have, attended these nego ciations on the part of the King of Holland from first to last. —Globe of Monday Evening. DISCOVERY OF FOSSIL REMAINS.—An antediluvian skele ton, of the ichthyosaurus genus, has recently been discovered near Bedford. The skeleton itself was found lying in a hori zontal position, embedded,ln clay, and, rin the opinion of ouf informant, was evidently a marine deposit. At present it is only partially uncovered, but the length of the whole may be judged to be from about 12 to 14 feet. It is a curious fact, that in the im mediate neighbourhood of the skeleton was found a number of small stones, although none are discovered in any other part of the same bed of clay. There is a fossil specimen of the same animal in the British Museum.—Northampton Mercury. Among the members returned to the new House of Commons, no fewer than eighty are sons of peers.--So much for the pre text of " diminishing- the influence of the Lords in the Com• mons' House," for the construction of the Reform Bill . ! THE LATE ADMIRAL SIR THOMAS l' s OLEY.—The late Ad miral Sir T. Foley, who died at the Admiralty, at Portsmouth, on Thursday, was commander-in-chief on that station, and whose term of service would have expired on the Ist of April next, had been in a very feeble and defining state of health l'ot some time past. Ile was one of the heroes of the Nile, where he commanded the Goliath, 74, and had the honour of leadinohe van division (after the Culloden grounded, near the island of Bequier, by outselling the Zealous, which for some time dis puted the point of honour with him), and anchored close to the French ship Conquerant. He was one of those who pos sessed the early friendship of Nelson, and commanded the Elephant, 74, at the battle of Copenhagen in 1801, on board which ship Nelson shifted his flag from the St. George during that sanguinary conflict. Of Captain Foley's services, in his despatch to the Commander-in-Chief, Sir Hyde Parker, Nelson observes, "To Captain Foley, who permitted me the honour of hoisting my flag in the Elephant, I feel under the greatest obli-, getion; his advice was necessary on many and important occa sions during the battle." In the partial enrgement between Admiral Hotham and the French fleet in 1/91, Captain Foley commanded the St. George, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Sir H. Parker, and was constantly employed during the late war. Sir Thorns Foley was an Admiral of the White, and a Knight Commander of the Bath. The gallant band of heroes (of whom the deceased was one) who commanded the ships which composed the fleet at the battle of the Nile, in 1798, which were considered the elite of the British navy, are test quitting the stage of life. We believe the following only now (January, 1833) survive:—Admiral Lord de Saumarez, Sir B. Hallowell Carew, Sir Davidge Gould, Sir D. E. Darby, and Sir T. M. Hardy, who commanded the 31utine brig. Admiral Foley was in his 76th year. He united himself, July 21, 1802, to Lady Lucy Anne Pitzgerald, (youngest daughter of James, Duke of leinster,) who survives him, by whom he had a nu merous issue. His remains will be interred with military honours in the garrison chapel, at Portsmouth, on Wednesday next. LONDON ARTISTS IN THE COUNTRY-011 Wednesday last, a man, who gave his name Edward Bailey, and described him self as a stationer resident at Lewes, was eommitted for trial to the Falkingham House of Correction, charged with stealing a box of apparel from the Bull Inn, at Bourne. It appeared that the box had been left by a young woman who araived there by coach on tha Monday preceding, and had to walk from thence to Coulby, about five nliles distant. On the way she was over taken by the prisoner, who said that he was going to Stamford, and would gladly accompany her; but having, in the course of conversation, learned the circumstances under which she had left her box, he quitted her near the village, and retraced his steos to the Bull Inn at Bourne, where he obtained possession of i . . On the prisoner's person were_ found several letters, an , , one which he had just written was obtained from the post-offic. This was addressed to a woman in London, informing her that the writer had escaped from H n, (supposed to mean Huntingdon,) and that if he could live over Sunday, he in tended " prigging the parson's plate." This was supposed to al ude to the Rev. Mr. Hutchinson, of Pinchbeck, who had re ceived a letter, purporting to come from a clerical neighbour, requesting him.to officiate for the latter on the following Sun day. The prisoner, in his letter to his female friend, requested her also to send him a, supply of mix, or counterfeit coin. b was ascertained that an attempt was made on the Sunday to rob the Rev. Mr. Hutchinson's house, and that gentleman has since identified the prisoner as Edward Brown, who once lived in his service. ANECDOTE OF A PAINTING.-At the sale of paintings on the 10th instant, at Porncostle, the portrait of Archibald, Duke of Argyll, by Ramsay, was offered, and in answer to an inquiry how a small injury to the canvass hail happened, the auctioneer related the following anecdote :—The portrait had been hung in a bed-room, which was on one occasion occupied, by a female domestic; the girl, fancying that the Duke 0. 1 Argyll eyed her too closely whilst she was dressing, became indignant, and seizing a poker aimed a blow with the intent of putting the. Duke's eye out; the poker missed the eye, but perforated the canvass close to the fate.—Stamford News.