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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, APRIL 30. The Bishop of LONDON presented a petition against the Tithe Commutation Act. The Earl of MALMESBURY presented petitions from the Isle of Wight, in favour of the Corn-laws, to which he said the addresses of petitioners were affixed, 1,300 in number. Earl FITZ WILLIAM said he had a petition to present signed by 10,000 persons against the Corn laws, all affixing their addresses to their names. The Earl of MAL NIES BURY—It is of the greatest importance to know who are our petitioners. Earl FITZ W ILLIANI—No doubt. The Bishop of RIPON presented many petitions in favour of Church Extension. CHURCH OF SCOTLAND. _ _ _ The Earl of ABERDEEN—My Lords, I beg to give notice tltett on Tuesday I shall lay before your Lordships a Bill to remove doubts respecting the ad mission of ministers into benefices in Scotland ; and as it is possible that I shall for some time delay the further progress of the Bill, I shall on that occasion fully state the nature and design of the measure.—( Hear, hear.) The Marquis of LANSDOWNE moved the dis charge of the order for committing the Tithe Commu tation Bill, and its renewal for Tuesday. IRELAND. The Marquis of WESTMEATH wished to ask the Noble Viscount (Melbourne) opposite a question. A new and intense system of agitation had commenced in Ireland for the purpose of severing that country from Great Britain. The Noble Viscount must of course be aware of the motives assigned for that agitation, which were that the other House of the Le- gislature had thought fit to entertain a Bill brought in by the Noble Lord (he believed) the Member for North Lancashire. He believed the Noble Viscount would not deny that ho had the support of the Honourable and Learned Gentlemen who ex cited the agitation, and who on this occasion and most others professed that he alone understood the interest of Ireland, and what might be considered justice to that country. The nature of the Bill would be best understood by reference to the three volumes of Reports on fictitious votes in Ireland, which lay on their Lordships' table, and which exposed a catalogue of systematic crime never exceeded, if even equalled, in atrocity by any book in the English language, except the Ncwgate Calendar.—(Laughter.) The Irish public were informed that, unless the Legisla ture ceased to entertain that Bill, the Union between the two countries was to be repealed. The gentleman to whom he referred had many times professed his ob ject of repealing the union, and since he had publicly avowed that object, the Nob!e Viscount opposite had been accused in that House, and bad not denied the charge, of offering. to that gentleman a very high legal office. The gentleman himself fre quentiy boasted that such a situation was offered to bins by the Noble Viscount, and as that boast was not contradicted, he must suppose that it was well founded, The gentleman took upon himself to call to account every Member of the House of Commons who did not choose to follow in his wake in that blind support of the Government, without which, as everybody knew, Go vernment could not exist five minutes. He felt called upon to ask the Noble Viscount whether he would avow the confederation which existed between him and the Honourable Gentleman, and whether, in con formity with the oath which he, in common with every other Peer of that House, had taken, he had told his Sovereign what would be the effects of the refusal upon the empire at large, and what would be the effects of the present agitation upon Ireland itself ? He wished to ask the Noble Viscount whether the law officers of the Crown had been hstructed to attend those, meetings, either themselves or: by their agents, for the purpose of instituting prosecutions with respect to them ? Those meetings had been advertised to take place, in the Irish Papers ; and, therefore, it was im possible for her Majesty's Government to say they were not aware of them. Viscount MELBOURNE was quite aware of the system of agitation which the Noble Marquis had said had lately commenced in Ireland. That agitation was certainly not new ; it was an old system of agitation 'newly revived, and it was not quite so intense as it had been on former occasions. —(Hear.) With respect to the question, whether he disapproved of it or not, he had only to say that he had always disapproved of proceedings of a similar nature. With respect to the confederation to which the Noble Marquis had referred, as there existed no such confederation, there could be no intention of continuing that which did not exist. With respect to the advice that had been given to her Majesty on the subject, that was a question on:which he could not give a specific or precise answer.—(Hear.) The Marquis of WESTMEATH said that it was only necessary to refer to the newspapers to see that such confederation did exist. Lord HOLLAND rose to order—lt was a most disorderly proceeding, to refer to newspapers when questions were put in that House. The Marquis of WESTMEATH said if he was a member of her Majesty's Government, he should be exceedingly sorry to get rid of questions such as he had put in such a meow. BUENOS AYRES. Vise/mat STRANGFORD wished to know from the Noble Viscount, whether he had received any commu nication from France ancouncisg their intention of dis patching a considerable military force to Bueynos Ayres. Viscount MELBOURNE replied that no such in timation hall been received. CORN-LAWS. Earl FITZ WIL LIAM said he had a petition to present from the inhabitants of Sheffield, signed by 10,864 persons, each of whom not following but per haps giving the example to the petitioners whose petition was presented by a NobleEsrl that evening (Malmesbury) stated his employment and residence. That petition, and others which he should present, related to a subject of the greatest possible importance, and which could not be better described than as a law to limit the population of the United Kingdom, for such was necessa rily the effect of a law which limited the population to the means of sustenance which could be produced within these realms.—(Hear, hear.) The petitioners com plained that there was an interference with that free in tercatirse with foreign nations which it had been the in tention of the Almighty should be kept up by giving to various countries various productions, and by enabling them to exchange those productions one with the other. They complained that many obstacles were put in the way of intercourse with foreign nations by means of those laws ; they stated that the effect of those obstacles was most injurious to themselves and those who de pended upon them—that they produced great commer cial inconveniences, and that, under particular circum stances, they created great distrust among tho great mass of the population of this coun try. In the view which the petitioners took of those laws he entirely concurred, and he would take the liberty of laying upon their Lordships' table the first petition, which was from the inhabitants of Shef field, and at the head of which were the signa tures cf the Master Cutler, and several of the Ma gistrates of the West Riding of Yorkshire. The Noble Earl also presented a petition from Brad ford, signed by between 7,000 and 8,000, and about 60 petitions from places in Scotland and England, about one half of which were from agricultural parishes and districts—in all, signed by upwards of 4,000 per sons, all to the same offect. The Marquis of NORMANBY laid on the table of the House certain returns of the number of Irish Peerages created since the Union ; also the number of those become extinct in the same period. The Noble Marquis then laid upon the table copies of the instructions issued by the Poor-law Commissioners in Ireland to the Poor-law Guardians, for the regula tion of their proceedings, and also to the Poor law valuators. Before the return was printed he begged to state to the Noble Duke ( Wel lington) that he had made inquiries with respect to the effect of the sth section of the Act of last year, as it referred to the 85th section of the prz.vintis Act. He had taken the opinion of the Law Officers et the Crown, and their opinion was, that tlic 85th section remained unaffected by the Act of last year. Under these circumstances he would not be called.upon to redeem the pledge he had given to intro (Ince a dectaratory Act. The correspondence between Mr. Nichols and th e res id ent P oor-law Commissioners was also presented, and he wished to know whethe r the Noble Duke ;wished to have all these ',returns and cor respondence printed ? The Duke of WELLINGTON did not think it necessary. Toe Duke of I3EAUFORT presented a petition from Gloucestershire praying for the repeal of the Corn laws. The Duke of RUTLAND presented petitions from Leicestershire against any further grant to the College of Mavnooth, and' in favour of the Exemption Union Workhouse Bill. FRIVOLOUS SUITS' BILL. On the motion of Lord DENMAN, the Frivolous Suits' Bill was read a third time and rtssed. The Noble Lord also r.ve notice of withdrawing the Rated Inhabitants Evidence Bill. The House then adjourned. • HOUSE OF COMMONS, APRIL 30. There being only 27 Members present at Four o'Clock, thz House adjourned till to-morrow. • A COMPANY. —The following circumstance Las been mentioned to us by a shareholder, and the names of the possession of some parties too. A few individuals which they did, in property, pretended to make a saleabot:victi,n. its value, value, and then fact, to thernselves, extravagantly capital, and considerable apportioned it in shares, paid dividends To prevent gulled some parties to purchase these shares at °f eeLthernselves premium upon the already exaggerated capitala unpleasant diselosuraMey have contrived to k in as managers, but take good care to produc e and can give no satisfactory account of the capital. This is a Railway Company, but a concern that is in high repu'tel'w'itoltl the public; and, we understand, the knot of individuals in gee,- ti , n are mien of property, and considere to be respectable. A certain banking-house is said to be not altogether innocen i n , he tr a nsaction. —Railway Maya: NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Brighton Gazette.) PORTSMOUTH.—Commander the Hon. Dudley Pel ham (son of the Earl of Yarborough) has given up the command of the Wasp, 16, at Gibraltar, and is on his way home. His successor is Commander George Man sell, 1826. The remains of Captain William Burnett, of the Magicienne, 24, in this harbour, were consigned to the tomb in the Garrison Chapel here on Wednesday, at tended by all the naval and military authorities, and a large assemblage of private friends. His successor in the command is Captai❑ Frederick Michell, 1830. The ship will be ready to proceed to the Mediterranean in about a fortnight. The Pique, 36, Captain Boxer, has left Spithead for Cronstadt, to await the arrival there of the Marquis of Clanricarde, from St. Petersburgh, and to land him at Sheerness. The Sheerness command having expired, it is confi dently put forth that Vice-Admiral Sir Henry Digby, K.C:13., of the Wnite Squadron, will succeed Sir Tho mas Otway, Bart. The Persian, 16, new brig, Commander Quin, is ready for sea at Plymouth, but will not proceed to her destina tion, the coast of Africa, until the Nautilus, 10, Lieut. Beaufoy, shall he also ready. The brig, Dolphin, 3, Lieut. Littlehales, is in the harbour, repairing damages sustained by a steamer run ning foul of her, when on her way to Spiehead from the river. She will, in consequence, be detained for a short period from proceeding to Slert a Leone. The Seaflower cutter, and tender Cracker, are shortly expected from the Jersey btation, the fishery Laving nearly terminated. Accounts from the Seringapatam, 46, Captain Leith, of the 10th of February, report that ship in Carlisle Bay, Barbadoes, craw well. The Sapphire, troop ship, was also there, having arrived from Gibraltar on the 25th of the previous mouth, and was to leave on the 12th for Demerara and Jamaica. The troop ship, Athol, had proceeded to Trinidad and St. Vincent's. The Seringapatam, it was expected, would reach Eng land in July next, to be paid off. The Wolverine, 16, Comm inder Tucker, was cruis ing off Prince's Island on the sth February, expecting daily to go to Cape Coast to meet the Admiral, to re ceive her orders for England. The crew had been rather sickly, but no fatal cases had occurred. The corvette Pearl, 20, Commander Frankland, des tined for the South American station, is hourly ex pected to depart with despatches for Rear-Admiral Ross, and for Commodore Sullivan. Colonel Pasley, Royal Engineers, is engaged at Woolwich, superintending preparations for further pro ceedings for the removal of the Royal George from Spithead. Operations will shortly commence. The Success, hulk, has been again moored at Spithead for the undertaking. AT SPITHEAD—PearI, 20. IN HARBOUR—Britannia and Victory, flag ships ; Vanguard, Jupiter, Magicionne, Victor, Dolphin, Mes senger, Excellent, and Royal George yacht. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. (From the Globe.) Mr. Joseph Sturge and the Herald are employed in the agreeable occupation of quoting one another, and trying to show that the opium meeting of Friday last was of some importance. They accuse a portion of the London press of endeavouring to depreciate the said meeting by the use of " falsehood and ridicule." Of the former they must know we were not in tentionally guilty, as we stated the numbers on the authority of the Post—accurately we still believe. On Monday the Herald became angry, called names, and said at one period the room contained SOO persons ; and to-day it is a thousand, and " crowded." We were not there, but should be glad to know at what hour " by Shrewsbury clock" it would have been difficult to swing a cat in the crowd. At this rate of progres sion we shall not be surprised to hear in about a week that many hundreds of respectable per sons—" in buckram suits"—were unable to obtain ad mittance. Mr. Sturge says—" A conclusive proof, if any further were wanting, of the number and respecta bility of the meeting, was the triumphant defeat of a large and apparently a regularly organised number of persons who attended the meeting for the purpose of opposing the objects for which it was convened, and moving amendments on the resolution." Yet this nu merous body, according to the Herald, mustered only five hands in support of their amendment. No doubt the majority was with Mr. Sturge, but that is surely no proof of the respectability of the meeting. That, moreover, is a point which we did not dispute. We only said that it was unimportant, and that the only names which we had ever heard before were those of the Chair man, Mr. Burnett, the Reverend Boatswain Smith, and Mr. Sturge. Had any other person whose name was given ever said or done anything worth mentioning, we do not doubt that Mr. Sturge and the Herald would have told us. In the absence of all information on this head, we still hold that the meeting was insignificant. (From the Standard.) It is well to remind the Duke of Wellington and his friends, as the Times does with characteristic abi lity, that no one of the conditions, upon the fulfilment of which it was intimated that a favourable conside ration might be given to the Municipal Bill, has, in fact, been fulfilled : far from it—every one of the abuses guarded against by these conditions has been practised with shameless effrontery ; but we say again, that if every one of these conditions had been fulfilled with perfect fidelity, new proofs of the danger of the Municipal Bill arising in other quar era ought to be decisive against entertaining it. And hare we not these new proofs in the present tem per of the Irish Romanists, which is said by the Morning Chronicle to be, in a " fierce flame," and whose " agitation " we learn from the same authority "is stormy and universal." And why ? Because it is proposed to prevent the practice of fraud, and personation, and perjury at elections. Is this the moment for conferring power upon persons animated by " flames" and " storms ?" Are persons who can be so easily affected by a danger threatened only to perjury, fraud, and personation, exactly the men in whose hands it is safe to place at any time the govern ment of their more peaceable fellow-subjects, with a power of taxation ? Again, is the repeal of the union likely to be retarded or to be accelerated by incorporating the masses of repealers by char ter, and giving them money and authority to promote their objects ? But some one will say, perhaps, though we can scarcely imagine the notion to come from any one who has not " outslept Endymion" —concede the Municipal Bill—let Lord Stanley with draw his measure of reform, and the Romanists will,be content. To such simple slumberers of the last twelve years we reply, in the words of Mr. Daniel O'Connell himself at his mob-meeting of Tuesday -4‘ Why, they did not give us religious liberty until the year 1829—and then did they give it to us, even? Was it a free gift? Were we not imploring them to give it to us before they consented? Oh ! yes, we were imploring, to be sure, but we implored with five or six millions at our backs. Whenever you want to persuade a stubborn fellow, who won't go on, bring five or six and twenty fellows with you—if you want to cow a fellow who won't do what is right, by all means have as many of your neighbours looking at you as you can. So we took five or six millions to look at Weliington and Peel and Co., and behold they took the infection just as if we had the cholera. Peel and Wellington took the emancipation cholera, and we suc ceeded in infecting them.—(Great cheering.) Yes, we got the emancipation, and how ? We got it, and no thanks to them—that is the way we got it." This is the gratitude to be expected from Mr. O'Connell and his party, this is the peace that is bought by concession. [Gratitude truly ! Gratitude for what ? For granting what could no longer be refused—Catholic Emanci pation! This is sheer absurdity.—En. SON.] (From the Courier.) The assassination of Mr. Claudius West, the bro ther of the late Conservative Member for Dublin, is an addition to the enormous mass of guilt, which a bigoted and infuriated faction have accumulated upon our un happy Sister Kingdom. After this atrocious murder, it will be difficult for the most unscrupulous advocate of the system that preserves an Administration in offices, of which it does not appear to comprehend any one of the duties, to contend that the measures of the Whigs for the government of Ireland arc not calculated to render life and property there worth the purchase of a day, or even an hour. The murder of Lord Norbury, which took place on his own grounds, in the broad light of day, and with the foreknowledge of the vicinity, through whose criminal misprision the assassins have hitherto eluded the hands of justice, ought to have caused an immediate and thorough revision of the Whig system of misgovernment. To these murders we may add the numerous crime s of all descriptions arising from poli tical brought htha es r agitationbee n prooftreducedto o g the light d priestly b by Lord miserable rd e r Rtho:cti e Ministersn scondition t encouragement, o ‘,% n which were Commit tee.hliych A continue e to receive unearned salaries, is found in the official returns on the state of crime, which, although somo were obviously garbled, corroborated the tact, that the Roman Catholic population of Ireland, under the auspices of the Liberal Whigs, render their country a blemish upon civilised Europe. STEAM-BOAT COLLISION.-- O n M onday raf ternoon, about two o'clock, a collision tookp a l acaheaa Greenwich .bstt eleynbetehne Anthracite, a new iron steam-vessel, whi c h running between London and Woolwich, n steamer. The vessels were proceeding in different directions,eenich and met near the Shadw ell entrance of the London Dock, when, owing to some mistake , each takin g the co urse intended by th e other, they came in contact, with a tremendous crash, to the great alarm of the passengers. The Greenwich steamer, beirg the stoutest vessel, received trifling damage, but the paddle-box and wheel of the Anthracite were shattered to pieces, her main beam split, and part of her bulwarks stove in on one side. The vessel brought up, and was unable to proceed farther, and her passengers were transferred to the Greenwich boat: No one was hurt, but the fright amorgr, the people on board the two ste arners,particnlarly the,females, was extreme. Tho Anthral aite has been so named from the peculiar description of coal which supplies her furnaces. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, APRIL 30. (Sittings in Banco.) SCALES V. KEY. This was an action which had been brought by Mr. Michael Scales against Sir John Key, who was Lord Mayor of London in 1831, for a false return to a man damus. It will be in the recollection of our readers, that in 1831 Mr. Scales was elected Alderman of the Ward of Portsoken, but that the Court of Aldermen refused to swear him in, whereupon he obtained a writ of mandamus, calling upon the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen to admit him. The return to the man damus stated that, from time immemorial, a right had existed on the part of the Court of Aldermen, not only of examining into the details of elections of Aldermen, but also into the qualifications of persons elected as Aldermen, and if, on a petition from any persons in terested, they should find a person so elected was not a fit and proper person, then the Court had always exercised the right of rejecting such person. To try the validity of this return the present action had been brought ; it had been tried before Lord Denman, and the Jury had found that the custom had existed from time immemorial, up to 1699. This the Lord Chief Justice had ordered to be entered as a verdict for the defendant. The counsel for the plaintiff had requested the Learned Judge to ask the Jury if the right had existed since that period ; this his Lordship had refused to do, saying the Jury could not find that, as it was a matter of law. In 1834 a rule had been obtained to show cause why the verdict should not be entered for the plaintiff, or a new trial had. The case had, however, been put off from time to time, as the very same question had arisen in the case of Scales v. Johnson, which had been carried by writ of error into the Exchequer Chamber, and eventually into the House of Lords, and by the decision in that case the present case would be regulated. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL and the RECORDER of the CITY of LONDON this day showed cause against the rule, and Mr. MICHAEL SCALES was heard in support of it in a long rambling speech, during the course of which he was frequently interrupted by their Lordships, and desired to confine himself to the matters before the Court. The arguments having been concluded, Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE having gone into the facts of the case, said that the custom having been proved to exist up to 1699, it remained to see if any thing had occurred since that time to set it aside, and he consi dered that all the Acts of Common Council and the Act of George 11., which had been relied on as having done away with the custom, had nothing on earth to do with it, but related solely to the elections of Aldermen by the Wardmote, and not to the manner in which such elections were afterwards dealt with by the Court of Aldermen. The question had already been decided in the Exchequer Chamber, but if even it had not been so decided he should have been of opinion that the verdict of the Jury was rightly entered as a verdict for the defendant, and, therefore, that the rule must be discharged. The other Judges concurred.—Rule discharged. VAUGHAN V. WATT. This was an action of trovcr, brought to recover the value of a quantity of linen pledged with the defendant by the plaintiff's wife. It was tried before Mr. Baron Rolfe, when a verdict was found for the plaintiff. Last term Mr. Wityrz moved for, and obtained a rule nisi, for a new trial upon the ground of misdi rection on the part of the Learned Judge. Mr. PIKE now showed cause against the rule, and contended that the verdict ought not to be dis turbed, the direction of the Learned Judge having been perfectly right, both according to the law and the facts. The goods ware pawned for 101. by Mary Hubbard, in behalf and in the name of the plaintiff's wife, on the c)4th July. The plaintiff found the duplicate, and on 6th August he went to the promises of tho defendant, ofered the money due upon the goods, and demanded them as his own. Between those dates Mary Hub bard, as the agent of the wife, had applied for and obtained two forms of declaration, having lost the du plicate. Under these circumstances, the pawnbroker refused to give, up the -goods until one of the decla rations came in, or he found that the goods were actually the property of the plaintiff. The parties went before a Magistrate, but he had no jurisdiction, and the matter was dismissed. As the plaintiff could obtain no redress, he was reluc tantly compelled to bring an action of trover. The Learned Gentlemen contended that the refusal upon the 6th August was a full conversion of the goods, and the Judge was perfectly right in so directing the Jury. There was plenty of time for the 'defendant to make inquiry into the facts of the case, indeed, he must have known the goods were the property of the plaintiff from what took place before the Magistrate, and he had no good and reasonable ground for his refusal to deliver the goods, as the action was not commenced until August 21. Mr. WHITE and Mr. COCKBURN, in support of the rule, contended that it ought to have been left to the jury to say whether, after the party pledging the goods had obtained two forms of declaration previous to the 6th of August, the pawnbroker had not just and reasonable grounds for believing the goods to be the bona fide pro perty of the person pawning. In place of that his Lord. ship told the jury that if the goods were those of the plaintiff, then the refusal to deliver them up, was a conversion of the property, and if so they ought to find for the plaintiff. They contended that what the Learned Judge had assumed was a question for the Jury, and ought to have been left for their consideration. The LORD CHIEF BARON said it was with great regret that ho concurred in sending the case down to a new trial, fur the expenses must be infinitely greater than the sum in dispute; still the question of reason ableness of time ought to have been left to the Jury. The cause must again go down, although no one could for a moment doubt but that the result would be the same. The defendant, however, had a right to have the question left to the Jury, The rule, therefore, must be made absolute. Mr. Baron PARKE and Mr. Baron ROLFE concurred in the question of law, as well as in the regret expressed by the Lord Chief Baron. Upon the interference of Counsel on both sides, proceedings were ordered to be stayed upon the defendants delivering up the goods, and paying all costs, exclusively of the costs of the trial. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, APRIL 31. The Court was occupied the whole of the day with arguments in the oft litigated and long contested case of Small v. Attwood. It will be recollected that, after being carried through all its stages, that renowned cause reached the Lords, on appeal—and the decision was for Mr. Attwood. The present action was brought by Mr. Attwood to recover interest upon the purchase-money of the pro perty in dispute, the payment of which money had been so long delayed ; the question mainly in dispute was whether the plaintiff could claim interest on that inter est as well. The verdict was for defendant. Sergeant Wilde, the Solicitor-General, suppportcd, and Sir W. Follett opposed, a rule for a new trial the arguments were not over when the Court rose. The Court sat also in Nisi Prius, but no case of in• tcrest occurred. THE MIDDLESEX QUARTER SESSIONS. The Court sat on Wednesday, pursuant to adjourn ment from List week, for the purpose of hearing appeals. Mr. Sergeant Adams was in the Chair, and among the Magistrates upo❑ the bend. were Sir W. Curtis, S;r J. Williams, Sir J. J. flimsier, S:r J. S. Lillie, Mr. Ser geant Arabin, Captain Bague, R.N, &c. Mr. D. Ells appealed against the rafusal of the Jus tices of the Holborn division to grant a license to No. 198, Strand. It appeared that the recognisance entered into by the appellant to prosecute the appeal, set forth that he would. abide the judgment of the Court, but did not con tain the words " and pay all costs if required to do so," according to the terms of the Act of Parliament. After hearing Counsel on either side, Mr. CONANT (who in this case took the Chair at the request of Mr. Sergeant Adams) decided that the recognizance was insufficient, and that the Court could not therefore hear the appeal. The appellant was ordered to pay the respondents' costs, amounting to JO/. 19s. 10d. L, e a n r o e r a i d. st Mr. Richard Smith appealed agai ns t th e re f usa l of residing nex t the Justices of the Kensington division t o gran t a li cense to the Manor House, King's-road, Chel sea . T A h e m a e p rn p o e r l ia a I n f t r ' s o m p e t o r . n was ittle then door to the manor-house, was read against the appli cation. A memorial from six licensed victuallers in the neigh bourhood, and from fifty householders, including the rector, curate, and churchwardens, were also presented against the license. Mr. BoDxIN regretted that a Magistrate (Captain this case, by stating• Bague) should have prejudged his determination to oppose this license before he had heard the merits, and he could not help stating that it was not becoming a judge, who should act dispassionately, Ultimately the Magistrates divided, and there appeared 13 to 1 against the license being granted. In the course of the a ppeals that were heard the CHAIRMAN ohser%ed that he was surprised that a large body of men like the police had not a professional ad viser, as the course of justice was frequently interrupted by the informality of the proceedmgs of the officers, who, of course, could not be expected to understand all the technicalities of the law. THE MONUMENT OF CHATTERTON• — T IIe monument, which for some time has been in course of erec tion near the muniment room of Redcliff church, to the me mory of Chatterton, was finished on Thursday last, when the statue of the unfortunate poet was fixed in its place. The mo nument is nearly 40 feet high; it has been erected by public subscription, and was designed by Mr. Fripp, the architect. — Bristol Standard. COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. Yesterday a Court was held for the despatch of public business. ALDERSGATE•STREET DISPENSART. Mr. Herring, and others of the Governors of the General Dispensary, Aldersgate-street, appeared at the bar, and presented the following memorial from the institution : _ _ That the General Dispensary was established in the City of London in 1770. It is the parent institution of this kind, and has been and is chiefly supported b) voluntary contributions. That the objects of the in stitution are to afford medical and surgical relief gra tuitously to the sick poor, without regard to their places of abode, and to visit at their own habitations poor persons residing within the limits or liberties of the City who may not be able, from the nature of their disease, to attend at the Infirmary house. The follow ing statement will show the gradual incress of its use fulness during recent years, and the great advantages conferred by the institution on the poor of the me tropolis : From the Ist January, 1839, to the 31st December of the same year, including 1,067 patients visited at their own houses within the City of London, there were ad- mitted .......................................... 6,273 There remained under cure at the end of 1838 1.280 Making total for the year 1839 - 7,553 Of this number there have been cured, re lieved, and dismise I Died - 6,331 Leaving under cure at the end 1839 1,222 The number of patients admitted within the last eleven years amounted to nearly 60,000, and had nearly doubled since 1829, the number being 3,909 in that year, and 6,273 in 1839. From the commencement in 1770 to the 31st December, 1839, the number of patients admitted has been 252,307 Of this number there have been cured, relieved, and dismissed -.••• 233,583 Died 6,806 --- 240,389 Leaving under cure at the end of 1839 1,222 That from the increased number of patients the ex penditure of the institution has also much increased by reason thereof, and of the falling off rather than in creasing in amount of donations and subscriptions, a considerable debt has been incurred, and now remains due to the Treasurer of the institution. That your memorialists and other charitably disposed persons, feel ing that unless the funds of the institution are consider ably augmented, the amount of relief hitherto afforded to the poor must necessarily be diminished, have entered into an additional subscription towards liquidating the present debt, and otherwise advancing the interest of the institution ; and your memorialists venture to hope that your Honourable Court will encourage and assist their exertions by such exercise of its benevolence as the occasion may appear to requires Your memorialists, therefore, most respectfully beg leave to recommend the institution to the kind and generous patronage of your Honourable Court, and humbly pray that your Honourable Court will be pleased to grant such aid in behalf of the objects of the institution as to your Hon ourable Court shall seem fit.—( Hear, hear.) Sir PETER LAURIE said the Court was perfectly aware that ho was not in the habit of recommending ap plications for grants of money. He:was generallylopposed to pecuniary petitions, but the Aldersgate-street Dis pensary, as appeared from the statement just read, rendered invaluable benefits to the sick poor of the City of London.—(Cheers.) The arrangements were all upon the most economical principle, and the institu tion instead of encouraging idleness, a fault possessed by some, aimed at the most speedy restoration of pa tients to their families. He trusted that the Court would testify their estimation of its value by the libe rality of their contribution.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. STEVENS wished that the memorial should be re ferred to a Committee, but did not consider that the mere reference was a proof of the intention to subscribe. Sir Peter Laurie, it was evident, thought that as he had been a means of saving money to the Corporation by rejecting other applications, he had a right to give away the funds in a favourite instance of his own, and which was in his own ward. Sir PETER LAURIE said that the Dispensary com prehended the sick and diseased of the whole city, although it certainly stood, very much to his gratifica tion, in his own ward.—( Hear, hear.) Mr. BED/ORD also spoke in warm terms of the great utility of the institution. The memorial was then referred to the Coal, Corn, and Finance Committee. COMMON INFORMERS. Mr. HUMPHREYS gave notice of a motion, " That the Court petition both Houses of Parliament, pray ing that the law be so amended, and that the same powers of mitigation and relief may be given to Justices of the Peace for the City of London, in cases of sum mary conviction, as are given to the Magistrates of the Metropolitan Police Court, and also that the law, as re gards the proceedings by information before Magistrates and Justices of the Peace for the City of London, and all other parts of the United Kingdom, may be so amended, as that common informers may be henceforth prohibited from becoming prosecutors thereon." THE ANCIENT BOAR'S HEAD TAVERN. Sir PETER LAURIE gave notice of a motion that it be referred to the Committee of City Lands to con sider the best means of erecting some memorial of the site of the Boar's Head Tavern, in Eastcheap, the scene of Prince Henry and Falstaff's revels, the old stone effigy having been taken down in the progress of the recent improvements, and not replaced, to the great regret of the admirers of Shakspeare. CORPORATION REFORM. Mr. NV. PRITCHARD, as Chairman of the Corpora tion Reform Committee, brought up the Report agreed to by the majority of the Committee ; but so far was he from approving of it, or the Bill appended to it, that he had an amendment to propose upon the motion for the first reading of the Bill. The following is the Report :-- ‘. We, whose names are hereunto subscribed, your Committee in relation to the Corporation inquiry, to whom, on the 28th of February last, was referred to bring in a Bill to assimilate, as far as may be practicable, the number of representatives to be returned from the different wards to the relative number of inhabitants and amount of rateable property therein, do certify that we have proceeded thereon, and having considered the returns of the several wards as to the number of houses and amount of rateable property, therein, we are of opinion that the number of Common Councilmen to be elected in future in the wards of Bassishaw and Lime -street, should be four each ; in the wards of Billingsgate, Bridge, Bread -street, Can dlewick, Coleman-street, Cordwainers, Cornhill, Dow gate, Queenhithe, Vintry, and Wa'brook, six each ; in the wards of Aldersgate, Aldgate, Broad-street, Castlebaynard, Cheap, Langbourn, Portsoken, and Tower, eight each ; in the wards of Bishopsgate and Farringdon Within, fourteen each ; and in the wards of Cripplegate Within and Without, and Farringdon Without, sixteen each ; making a total of two hundred and four memb e r s . A n d we directed the City Soli citor to prepare a Bill in conformity with the said refe rence of the 28th day of February last ; and the be fore-mentioned members, and Mr. Solicitor, having prepared such Bill, we considered and approved there of, and recommend the same to this Honourable Court for adoption. "E. W. WHEELER. " E. MOTTRAM. W. STEVENS. W. A. PEACOCK. JAMES HOOLE. JOHN BRITTEN. JAMES CURTIS. JOHN HOARD. T. B. HALL. RICH. TAYLOR." JOHN KING. Mr. WHEELER, after having repeated the arguments so frequently adduced in the Court on the subject of making the alterations recommended in the Report, moved that the Bill should be read a first time. Mr. R. TAYLOR seconded the motion. Mr. W. PRITCHARD then rose and proposed the following amendment :—" That the proposed Bill does not, in fact, assimilate the number of representatives to the number of inhabitants and amount of rateable property in the several wards. That in order really to carry that assimilation into effect, to establish f tir and equal representation of the citizens , and secure a vigilant control of the representation by the cons. i tuent body, it is, in the opinion of this Court, necessary that the electors of Members of Parliament for this city should also be the only electors of all officers to be chosen in Common-hall, and at the several wardmotes ; and that a Bill should be forthwith introduced into Parliament, pursuant to the resolutions of this Court of the 9.7 th of February 1834, and the 15th February 1838, for repealing the Act of the 11th Geo. 1., cap. 1 8, and granting poxer to this Court to unite the smaller and divide the larger wards, or to change their boundaries, so as to oaks them more equal in number of inhabitants and rateable property. That it be referred to the Committee to prepare such Bill, and to report the same for the consideration of this Court." After a long discussion the amendment was nega tived, and the Bill was read a first time and ordered to be printed.—Adjourned. THE WEATHER.—During the last week, the weather has been of the most genial kind. The absence of refreshing and invigorating showers, has been amply made up by the "pearly dews of eve." Occasional l y there is a sl ight frost in the mornings, but not so severe, however, as to inflict the smallest injury on the brairded grain. Those harbingers of summer, the bat, the bee, the butterfly, the cuckoo, and the svc allow, have already been heard or seen in this neighbourhood. Ayr Observer. The "large crucifix with a figure of Salvator Mundi," recently seen by the correspondent of the Brighton _Herald to enter St. Peter's Church, turns out to be a new candlestick, which has lately been procured for the convenience of those who attend the evening service! !—BrightonGazette. In a paragraph it is pompously put forth by the Brighton Gazette, as a proof of re-action, that, .4 at the close of the poll last night, the lowest name on the Conservative list of candidates for the office of Directors and Guardians, had a msjority of no less than 684 above the highest name on the Liberal' list !" CLERGY RESERVES - CANADA. (From the Morning Advertiser•. The questions placed in the hands of the I . j gee yes terby,respecting the Clergy Reserves in Cersadu, and to which, so far as we know, they havealt ret ivered an answer, may well excuse us for returnmr, once more to the importance of the opinion political point of view which they may deliver. Canada we hold to be in almost all respects an inte gral portion of the mother country. It is true that it is a colony in name, but only to that extent does it fail to be part and parcel of the United Kingdom, if just laws were enacted for its government—if the two pro vinces were united—if equal protection were given to all religious professors of Christianity, and the mother country were to second its wishes in all these respects. This is what the present Governor has attempted to do, and with a degree of success unparalleled in the history of Canadian legislation and government ; and ought not both Houses of Parliament to pause before they inter fere with a course of policy which promises results of the highest order to the best interests of the British and Canadian community ? We have no hesitation in say ing that the fate of the Canadas and their future peaceful connection with this country, depend entirely upon a compliance with the wishes of the people of Canada, and the views of his Excellency the Governor-General. What the latter has done for the pacification of these important possessions may be easily learned from a re ference, upon which we do not choose to dwell, to their alarming state in 1837. The burnings—the massacres —the desolations are almost beyond description. Terror reigned throughout the provinces—and fear seized hold of the minds of all loyal subjects. Oar merchants gave up their future hopes of prosperity—our Canadian holders of property all expectation of a shilling for the produce of their immense domains. In this extremity the Government determined to send out Lord Durham to inquire into the cause of the disturbances, and to devise a remedy for the production of tranquillity ; but what was the result ? Why, the Noble Lord failed in the most important part of his mission—and why did he fail? Because he vras attacked right and left in both Houses of Parliament, and to such an extent as to disgust him with his office, and render it necessary for him to return home and face his opponents. This was the work of the Tories, and the country and the Canadas have to thank them for it. The Government, after due deliberation, next dis patched his Excellency, the present Governor-General, to Canada, and the brilliant success which has attended his mission is known to the readers of this and every other journal. His arrival was hailed with acclama tion ; and, upon the announcement of his views, the moderate men of all parties combined, heart and hand, to support his Administration. There were two im portant points—distracting points—to be settled : first, the union of the two provinces —and, secondly, the clergy reserves. The first, under the confidence which his fair and liberal views created, yielded at once to his conciliatory policy ; and with regard to the latter most important measure, it was only opposed by the Bishops and a few dignitaries of the Church—most worthy preliminaries of the Archbishop of Canterbury here—his colleague of Exeter, and the truly grateful and consistent Bishop of London Well, so be it. The Church is not satisfied with imprisoning a Thorogood to maintain its flagrant usurp ation of the rights of the people—it is not satisfied with the enormous revenues which it draws from the pockets of British subjects in this country ; but it must neces sarily extend its empire to the Canadas, and not only , declare against the existence of any othcr religion ex cept its own, but endeavour to appropriate the whole of the property set aside for the purposes of church and educational instruction to its own use. A similar at tempt was made in Calcutta, by the late Bishop Mid dleton—the 'o, 'e, to of clerical instruction ; but the proud and intolerant creature was trampled in the dust by Lord Hastings and the members of the Established Church of Scotland, and such ought also to be the rc sultin the present instance. We meant, when we commenced this article, to have appealed to our commercial readers upon the enormous mischief which would result to both countries from the adoption of the Tory views upon the subject ; but as the Clergy Reserve Bill has been read a second time, and the question will remain for discussion until after the Easter holidays, and we have much to say on the subject, we conclude by giving that from Canadian Papers which must satisfy every one, not only of the importance of the question as being in every respect national, but also of the excellent conduct of the Go vernor-General—of the unanimity which his policy has produced—and of the danger to the mother-country of departing from it (From the Canada Inquirer.) It is admitted on all hands, that we are passing through the most important times, and events, either for weal or woe, that Upper Canada has ever seen—and that it is to the judicious conducting of public matters now that our country is before long to take a prosperous and respectable standing on the continent of North America. On the contrary, if injudiciously managed now, that she is to retro grade into a state of confusion and helplessness, even much lower than what she at present is, or for some some time past hat been. By general consent, the chief power of raising the country from its confused and unprosperous condition, to a harmonious and elevated state, is admitted to be placed in the hands of the Governor-General. This view of the case we admit to a great extent ; while, at the same time, we cannot close our senses to the fact, that it will be to ;the cordial and effective assistance that the country may render him, that he will be able eventually to succeed. And on the contrary, that unreasonable and injudicious opposition will place it out of the power of him or any other man, how ever good their intentions, or great their abilities to raise it from a state so fallen and confused as it is generally ad mitted to be. In forming an opinion how far the Governor-General has succeeded, for the short time he has been amongst us, in accomplishing the great objects of his mission to the Canadas, we must always take into the account the state in which he found matters here. If the state of the Ca nada! was measurably prosperous, and the political dis eases easy of cure, then much might be expected in no very lengthened time. But, on the contrary, if matters were unprosperous—if political diseases were deep and wide-spread—if the social fabric was distempered—and all things confused—then time must be given, as well as assistance rendered, to enable even the most consummate abilities and best disposition to effect a lasting cure. That the latter is the case, who can look at the state of the Canadas for a moment and not admit. Is not nearly everything that has a tendency to make them prosperous, in either the most crippled or discordant state ? Where can we look for anything that tends to general prosperity, or lasting harmony ? What encouragement has agricul ture or trade ? What are the inducements to emigration ? What state is our public credit in ? What is the state of our public improvements? What are the inducements to the capitalist to lend the means to finish them, or to go en with others? What is the state of the public mind on poli tical and religious matters—and the circumstances that made them extremely difficult to mend ? We might go on asking numerous questions of a similar kind, and would have to give one answer to them all, namely, they are in a bad state. But who has heretofore shown the way out of this state of things ? Who has had the talent and the dis position to lead the Canadas out of a state of things that evidently requires the mind of a master statesman to do? We may answer none I but, on the contrary, that every effort heretofore made, has only given a more binding cha racter to our difficulties, and made the elements of which they were composed more discordant. In this state of things it is the duty, or is not, of every friend to constitutional government, and who has at heart the prosperity and peace of the Canadas, to lend their cordial assistance to the Governor-General; who pos sesses the power; whose ability must be admitted; ar who undoubtedly has the disposition, to heal, as far as it will admit of, the diseased state of public feeling, and the disordered state of all other public affairs, and to place the Canadas again at least on the road to pros perity. We think that the question can admit but of one answer, namelt, It is. As far as the Governor-General has yet proceeded, and as far as the circumstances in which he found the country, and his measure and general policy for their cure would admit of, we have no hesitation in saying that he has acted with ability, impartiality, and the very best intentions. His object, professedly and designedly, is to gather all that he can find that is good, from the wreck in which he found the Canadas, and to place them in a healthy and thriving position in the constitution for the union—mixed, we hope, with a little !truly British constitutional material, that will be more vigorous and sound than any that he will be able to collect from past practice in them. To cure the evils of the Canadas, while remaining as they are, allowing such to be even practicable, is not his design. To attempt it at the risk (which probably would be the case) of defeating his general policy in the union, would be the height of folly. For the people to expect him, or even wish him, where there was a probability of such defeat, would be madness. But at all events his general objects are too important to be either risked or retarded by the opposition that any effectual attempt to make a hasty cure would bring up against him. In the Union the Executive Government will have strength ; many of our evils will either die a na tural death, or never be admitted into that arrangement, or be perfectly harmless if they should, and the Governor- General is too cool and far-seeing a statesman to risk the whole objects of his mission by raising a powerful opposition against Isim, in attempting an inconsiderate and partial reformation of matters that will either cease to have an existence, or can be easily and safely removed after the Union. But leaving general policy apart, the Governor-Gene ral's conduct and special policy while he resided in To ronto and conducted the Government, has hail a most salutary effect on provincial matters, as wall-as in allaying and calming those feelings which have heretofore had a deleterious effect on the country. Impartiality and kind ness to all was his motto, and which in every instance marred h's conduct. As far as improvement could be judiciously effected, in accordance with the general measures contemplated for the renovation of the country, he has acted promptly. And we have every hope that in as short a time as it could reasonably be expected to be done, and with as little injury as possible to conflicting in.. terests and opinions, he will bring to a successful termina. tion the great objects of his mission to the Canadas, pro vided always that he meets with that reasonable support, that is evidently the duty and interest of every well wisher of good Government and peace to render him. (From the Upper Canada Gazette Extraordinary. .na Exry.cl. ) e GOVE RN U INT Honsa, FEB. 12, 1840 . lency the Governor-General has been pleased to make the following- appointments until her-Majesty's pleasure there-. on shall be known :--Chris. A. Hagerman, Esq., to be Judge in the Court of Queen's Bench ; Hon. NN'm. H. Draper, to be Attorney-General ; and Robert Baldwir., Esq., to be Solicitor-General. The first of the above appointments is judicial, the other two are political. In relation to Mr. Bidwell, the writer contended nearly two years ago, that the most distinguished Judges in England had been political men, and therefore that the fact of a man having been engaged in politics, or cherishing any class of opinions on public affairs, was no disqualification for a judicial office, provided the individual selected pos sessed character, integrity, knowledge, and ability. The remarks made in reference to the case of Mr. Bidwell, arc equally applicable to the case of Mr. Hagerman. Mr. Draper's opinions on the Union and Clergy Re. serve questions have not been essentially different in past years from the measures recommended by the Governor- General. He is, therefore, not liable to any charge of sacri fice of principle in the service he has lately rendered to the Government and the country, by which, as well as by his ge neral talents and attainments, he has entitled himself to his present elevation. Mr. Baldwin is the first expounder and advocate of Ca nadian " responsible government" as it has been understood and advocated during the last three years; a man of un blemished character, upright principles, sound talents, and well read in law. These appointments are all-important on two grounds, as proving-1. That the Governor-General will respect individual merit, and not parties, in his appointment to office. 2. That the Government has been and is to be conducted on such principles under the administration of the Governor-General, that the most thorough advocates cf " responsible government" can unite with his Excellency and give his administration their cordial support. Lord Bacon, in one of his speeches delivered in the House of Commons during the reign of James 1., said, " Mr. Speaker, I know but two forts in this House which the King ever hath ; the fort of affection and the fort of rea son; the one commands the hearts, and the other com mands the heads; and others I know none." By proceeding as his Excellency has begun, he will, without the expen diture of a shilling, erect two such forts in the person of every British subject in the Canadas. (From the Montreal Transcript.) We are truly surprised at what we read in Tuesday 's Herald, when speaking on behalf of " the loyal portion of the community," which portion is afterwards identiled with " the British inhabitants of Canada." The follow ing expression occurs : It is thought there is not any fear of them rebelling, but the calculation may be found to be erroneous." Something very similar to the foregoing threat oc curred but a few days previous in the Courier, and as we belong both to the loyal and to the British portion of the community, we are astonished to find such expres sions made use of on our behalf, which we can only consider as a libel on the British Colonists. The word " Loyalty" was never so perverted from its true meaning in any other country, as it is in Canada. It is here used to imply a subserviency to a violent, a small, but an overbearing faction, who have even gone the length to sound the note of loyalty as a cloak for covetousness. Those who will not stifle the dictates of common sense, and bend the knee before this faction, are unscrupulously designated as rebels and traitors. It is greatly to be lamented that the press should use such violent and inconsiderate language. This is a moment when it is of the utmost consequence that the British inhabitants of Canada should appear, in the eyes of the Imperial Parliament, what they really are; and not what this or that person chooses to paint them. It is something quite novel, in the name of loyalty, or in the exercise of constitutional free dom, to present a petition to the Crown, and before it can have left the colony to threaten rebellion if the prayer be not conceded. Yet such is the effect in one case, while in the other case the loyalty of the British is made to depend on an undue preponderance, on the utter subjugation of 500,000 British subjects, because they were once French, and on the unusual privilege of dictating to the Governor- General the associates who shall share his confidence, and even his hospitality Such things, however preposterous, may be very well as the mere opinions of editors—all we should hope is, that they will cease so to write in the name of ' the British inhabitants of Canada.'" DUELLING IN FRANCE. On the 7th March, 183 Cr, a meeting took place in the Forest of St. Germain, between M. Alderic de Saint Pierre and M. Eugene Savary (Marquis de Ro vigo). They were attended by MM. Ladislas de Saint Pierre, Aubin Soubzmaigne, Henry Macarty Macteig, and the Baron de Bazancourt. The duel was to be fought with swords. Hardly had they crossed weapons when M. de Saint Pierre's sword broke. A pair of foils, without buttons, were then procured by M. Aubin Soubzmaigne. The result of the combat was, that both the adversaries were several times wounded, but not severely. The case was definitively brought before the Tribu nal of Correctional Police at Versailles, on the 7th of April, 1840, after having previously undergone the or deal or examination of one or two Courts. The above gentlemen's name being called over, they were all found present, with the exception of M. Aubin Soubzmaigne, absent on public military service, and whose trial is therefore postponed. _ _ Louis Delatre, first witness, is a servant attached to the Pavilion Henry IV., at St. Germain. Prepared an apartment there for the Marquis de Rovigo, whom he helped to get out of his carriage. Was at the time ignorant that the Marquis was wounded. It was only some days afterwards that he learned that a meeting had taken place in the forest between the young Mar quis and M. de St. Pierre. Rosalia Bremard, second witness, a sadly ill-favoured female, declares her residence to be at the sign of the Syren.—(A laugh.) She saw a battle raging in the forest. It lasted at least three-quarters of an hour. So said a Monsieur whom she questioned on the sub ject. Saw one of the combatants fall, and heard him utter a piercing cry. He was then lifted up and led to wards a carriage which was close at hand. The President to M. de Saint Pierre:Do you ac knowledge having had a duel with the Marquis de Rovigo ? M. de St. Pierre—Yes, Sir. What was the occasion of your duel ?—I wish to be allowed not to answer that question. By another JUDGE—Which of you two sent the challenge ? M. do St. Pierre—l cannot answer. You can easily answer ; the more so as - one of you has already confessed to being the aggressor.—No an swer. What occasioned the duel P—A letter sent and re ceived. The PRESIDENT to M. de Rovigo.—You were wounded in your encounter with M. de St. Pierre ? Yes, Sir. Do you acknowledge yourself as having been the agressor ?—Aggressor is not the word. We had had some difference. I wrote a letter to my ad versary. He demanded satisfaction for that letter. It was all I wished. At the beginning of the en counter one of the swords broke. Other weapons were obtained, and the combat was renewed with ar dour. The sword broke just as we began. It be came necessary to obtain other weapons, for we had come to St. Germain's with the determination to ob tain satisfaction. Our meeting was a fair one. I was twice wounded by my adversary, but so very slightly that in six days I was able to go about. And yet a witness has sworn that the encounter lasted three quarters of an hour. A sword is broken, and immediately you have recourse to other weapons. Surely this denoted a deadly animosity ?—Believe me, Sir, there was no animosity in our encounter. Since that event M. de St. Pierre and myself are upon ex cellent terms. If there had been any rancorous feel ing between u; we should not have met again in a friendly manner. Here the Baron de Bazancourt, one of the seconds, explained, and said that the combat had not lasted more than five or six minutes—that the principals had shown no animosity. The reason one of the witnesses fancied the combat to have lasted three quarters of an hour takes its rise in that, after the sword was broken, it required some time to go back to St. Germain's and return with the foils. The seconds did all in their power, consistent with their duty, in order that the re sult of the meeting should not prove fatal, and they are each and all conscious of having acted well and fairly. The KING'S ADVOCATE proposed to the Court the application against the prisoners of the 311th article of the penal code. M. Barrillon appeared as counsel for the five gentle men, and entered into a long examination of the question if the law, the application of which was invoked, was really applicable to it case of duelling. The Tribunal retired into the Council-room to dcli berate, and subsequently gave the following judgment : " Considering that both from the evidence and the avowal of Rovigo, it is proved that he did, on the 7th March, 1839, intentionally wound St. Pierre : " Considering from the evidence it is likewise proved that on the same day St. Pierre did intentionally wound Rovigo : " Considering that Ladislas de St. Pierre, Frederic de Bazancourt, Henry de Macarty Macteig, and Aubin Soubamaigne did willingly aid and abet Rovigo and St. Pierre : " Considering that Rovigo was the aggressor in send ing to St. Pierre an insulting letter, and that after rt sword had been broken the said Rovigo refused to put an end to the combat. " Considering that Ladislas de St. Pierre and Macarty Macteig arc not supposed to have willingly consented to the renewal of the duel : " Considering that this is not the case with Bazan court ; making application of the 59th, 60th, and 31 Ith articles of the penal code, " SENTENCE. " Rovigo, to eight months' imprisonment, and 5001. fine. " Alderic de St. Pierre, to one month's imprisonment, and .50f. fine. " Bazancourt, to six months' imprisonment, and 400 f. fine. " L' de St. Pierre and Macarty to six days' imprison ment, and 501. fine." The five gentlemen have appealed. MAUNDY THURSDAY. Thursday, being Maundy Thursday, according to annual c ustom, the Royal donations were distributed at the Chapel Royal, Whitehall, consisting of fish, bread, money, and wearing apparel, to the poor and aged men and women of Westminster, by the Sub imoner-and Officers of the Lord Chamberlain'soffice. THE WEATHER, FRUIT, &c. Such a tract of fine weather at this season has not been witnessed, we believe, by that hoary-headed chro nicler, the " oldest man living." One fine sunny day succeeds another without a single hearty shower, or even those violent gusts of wind which are so common at this season. Yesterday at three o'clock the thermometer stood at 7-1 in the shade, and several of the preceding days have approached this temperature.—Scotsman. THE CLYDESDALE Oactraans.—Last year the fruit blossom only served to feed the caterpillars and the wasps. A meeting was held of some of the orchard men, for the purpose of applying to Parliament for a protecting duty on foreign fruit, but it would have been of no advantage whatever, as they had nothing to pro tect. This season, however, in all appearance, will make ample amelds for the last, should the weather continue good. A better appearance of a plentiful crop of fruit has seldom been seen.—Scotsman. Similar weather prevails, as we have already stated, through the whole of England and a great part of France. No person recollects an April—proverbially showery—almost without a drop of rain. In England, too, as in Scotland, the bloom on the fruit-trees is most luxuriant. The cherry orchards of Kent, Surrey, and Sussex, are completely white with bloom. Hundreds of trees may be seen without a single branch or twig which is not covered with beautiful blossoms. The pear-trees are also splendid. The apple-trees arc not yet in full show, but they promise most abundantly• The wild crab and cherry trees in the hedges and woods are as full of bloom as the cultivated trees of the orchards, and we are informed by a geatleman who has just just made an excursion through the counties above mentioned, that such a season is not remembered there. It is at least a fortnight earlier than usual. In the good old times the frequenters of Maidstone May Fair which is held on the 12th, had a treat if they saw the hedge lined with may, and the orchards in full bloom on that day. At the same time the weather is calm, and the sky for several days has been almost cloudless, an al most unexampled circumstance in England at any sea" son. We trust that these harbingers of a fine summer and an abundant harvest may be followed by those bles sings, and that all hearts may share in and be gladdened by the bounties which Providence vouchsafes to map• We quote from another Scotch Paper another evidence of the same propitious weather : . . . LAMBING SEASON, 1840.--Most of our inquiries have now been answered from the hills and moors ; and upon the strength of these we may safely characterise the present lambing season as one of the most favourable that has occurred in Scotland for a quarter of a century. The writer of the last Clydesdale Agricultural Report that has fallen under our notice states confidently , that nothing equalling the late seed-time for oats as well as barley, in the west, is remembered 6. by the oldest man living," since the first year of the pre sent century ; and possibly enough the remark which the reporter confines to plains and braes, subject to the plough, is equally applicable to the hills and moors. A few years ago, weakness or taint crept in from continued stress of weather, and the scarcity which invariably follows in its train ; but unsoundness in the flocks is rapidly disappearing, and should nothing' altogether unforeseen cast up, will henceforth be known more as a matter of history than painful reality. It is always good for the woolly people when an open w inter ushers in a favourable spring. Al rea dy th e staplers , and their numerous subordi na t es , arc on th e o ut-look respecting the concerns of the " muc kl e pack," an d somehow or other " a little bird h as w hi s tl e d" that fleec e 1840 bids fair to be one of th e h eav i es t th a t has been cast for a cycle of seasons. W e are we ll a ware tha t prices latterly for clip 1839 were f ar f rom rea lizing th e expectations of d ea l ers ; b u t t ra d e i s i mprov i n g at leas t incipiently, and by f a ll ti me , or b e f ore th a t p e riod, on e of its most powe r f u l a lli es w ill b e a b un d ance t e nding t ° cheapness in th e f ru it s o f th e so il, i nc l u di ng the grea t commodity that gives such buoyancy to the workshop s and warehouses of Yorkshire.—Dumfries Courier. THE MARKETS COUNTRY MARKETS. Wheat. Barley. I — Oats. I Bea..s. Pease Per Quarter s. to s. s. a. a. to s. a. to a. t° Bath Blandford 73 7S 32 40 26 30 48 50 Bridport 68 Chard Gloucester 54 80 34 52 25 35 41 43 37 Exeter Guildford Newbury Reading 50 84 35 47 23 34 40 5 3 a , ' Salisbury .... 56 94 28 46 1 24 34 40 Sherborne 7O 78 42 58 26 30 42 48 Sheldon Mallet 60 78 33 54 30 34 48 50 Uxbridge —..— 37 431 28 32 Warminster 52 78 36 54 27 39 50 58 Winchester 64 76 freovil (.9 70 40 48 30 32 46 50 """ , LEEDS CORN MARKET.—ApriI 28. Wheat, Norfolk and Suffolk, 601 b. 52 78 , 6-4 76 , (,9 70 40 48 I b. LEEDS CORN MARKET.—ApriI 28. Pe Wheat, Norfolk and Suffolk, 601 b. .1. York. and Lincoln. 601 b. Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk iv Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Grinding Beans Oats, Potatoe —Nlealaig, For. —d. to—d GUILDFORD MARKET,6. o Wheat, Old (Per Load) 191. to 201. ts. —New, 161. t o 211 . fill. Barley (Per Qr.) Oats 2l 34 I Rye 4O 44 4 t .t 0 1 6 3 d 8 . , . per pc t s atone Shelling Grey Pease, 425. to 445. DEVIZES COItN MARKET. d Par Sack. s. d. s. d. Per Quarter. s. 4. s• ( First Wheat '34i 0 to 3/4 0 Oats 23 0 to ..*: ( Second '3 0 35 (3 Beans (per sack)." 20 0 . P Third Barley 23 0 42 6 Bread (per ga11.)... 1 5 ...- PUBLIC BUILDINGS IN L IVERPO OL. Corporation of Liverpool in l ess th an t en y ears laid out upward s of 700,0001. in widening:the streets, enlarging the doc d os- af fording other facilities to the gro w i ng comme rce of that pr_ perous town. Nothwithstanding which, it was the subject of observation by strangers visiting the town, that the architectu ral beauty and importance of its publi c b u ildings, were not at all in keeping with other improvements. On the contrary, their appearance was calculated to inspire a mean opinion 01 the taste of its inhabitants. The Town Council have, however' at length awakened to the necessity of vindicating ter of the town, from the imputation—within the last 6 Incm t designs for two splendid buildings have been adopted —the or a grand hall, to be erected partly by subscription, and p art out of the Corporation funds, at an expense of 40,000/. ; the other for the Assize Courts, which will cost a similar sum It is intended that they shall both be erected to constitute two sin of a quadrangle, next to the erections which form the termin us f t„ the railway. Liberal promises of 300 guineas for the B r ' design and 200 guineas for the second, for each buildingi; were offered by the Committee, which, operating in conjunc t & with the reputation of the members selected to decide , talent and impartiality, caused no less in each case than betvre'' 80 and 90 competitors of the first rank and talent in the 1 1 % fession from all parts of the kingdom. The designs w er a the charahc; reduced by ballot, in the first place, to 20, then to 10, aof finally to 2. In each case Mr. Harvey Lansdale Omni. Park-street, Westminster, obtained the first prize ; an d - r a Abraham, of London, the second prize, for the Hall; Mr. Samuel Greig, of Paris-s:reet, Exeter, the second Pad. for his design of the Courts. It i s u n d ers t oo d that both bli" f inns will be speedily commenced u n d er th e superintendence ° the successful competitors. THE AVON LIG TH OUSE .—ThiS bUild in g ' which has been in course of erection during the past year'; v "% now completed, and forms an object of cons iderable w ill to the visitors of Penpole and th e neighbourhood. Carmel prove of great utility to v esse l s c o mi ng u p th e Bristol C, to Kingroad, and greatly tend to ensure the safety of thi s r°3 stead. —Bristol Journal. 23, Extract of a l e tt er , d a t e d C a b u l, Jan. '- 1840:—" At present we h ave muc h a t s t a k e h e re, and tile r employed share a vast resp ons ibility, f or we are f a st draW in g, ' : that point when two great nations, England and Russia, m sib measure their strength on the plains of Central Asia. 11 is by no means disposed to t a k e our a d vance i n t o this co on " , quietly, and a crisis is far nearer a t h an d th an the great statead men and speculators wish or desire. E re l ong Englan d ar ' e Russia will have warred with each oth er i n Tartary., or come to the tacit conclusion that the Oxus i s th e b ou ndary lin e "' hie shall separate them." . _ SILVER TEA and COFFEE SERVICES Drawings of the newest patterns, will he forwarded, post fre e ' any part of the country, i n a nswer t o a p a id l e tter, with fully, r, culars of size, weight, and price ; or Purchasers will fin ow most extensive assortment of the Silver Services in the Rooms. Either Tea-pot, S ugar B as i n , C rea m Ewer er Pi"e pot, may be had separately. 'F. COX SAVORY, Silversmith, &c., 47, Cornh ill (Seven doors from Gracechurc street), London On the 28th ult., at He ß 1 R rne-h T Mrs. Bicknell, of a d aug mife of On the 28th ult., in the Prec:n....ts, Canterbury, th e 51 the Onev. George Wallace, of a d...gnter. cll ireß the 28th ult., i%lr(. James 'kers, Manchester -but Parliament-street, of a son. of a s°ll. Lee, s On the 28th ult., at Ga rre tt H ouse , M rs. G eorge Lee, 5 H o od, On the 30th ult., in Notti ng h am - p l ace, t h e Viscount of a daughter. ' 'sleig h " On the 30th ult., M rs . Willi am Everington, End sleig h- On Tavistock-squar e , o f a son. Step On the 28th ult., at L eam i ngton, t h e L a d y o f Major of a daughter. of m i lbl On the 24th ult., th e l a d y o f E . B . H ar t o pp, E`4.,Hall, Leicester s hi re , o f a d aug h ter. __.----"'"— On the 23d ult. at St. Pancras New Church, MARRIED. Bancroft, Esq., of ' Manchaster, to Sept ma Elizabeth, d li r: land-street, Fitzroy-square, daughter of the late Dr. Thorn ° t ' s On the 28th ult., at War rave Chur h, the lev. Th of Hayes, of Heckfield. Hants, tii g i.ouisa Eoceldest daught er - pc. the Rev. J. Hitchings, vicar of NN'argrave, Berks. -a nod On the • 28th ult., at St. Edmund's, Salisbury, i'er,-:ne, Senior, Esq., of Comptorr Pauncefoot, Somerset, to J. youngest daughter of W. B. Blackmore, Esq., of Salisbury. On the 29th at Kensington, William James H. I l l i f y' Esq., of the Bengal Civil Service, eldest son of Wigr ani '''' i iji a in " Esq., to Elizabeth Margaret Douglas, only daughter of W Moffat, Esq., of Harperton, Roxburghshir P.obort Nevi - ------ DIED. On the 24th ult. , at th e Franchise Burwash, Sussex, scOrynrigtheeou2r3ldvetdildte.r,bautrnß. algarvie, the Hon. 3lrs. FredAerli,nc: Dyko, wife of Captain H. H. Ilaviland. Aft On the 25th ult. , Cap t. L. O'Brien , l a t e of the Royal lery, aged 75. •. b n er On the 26th ult , Edmund Garland, Esq. , Captain 1 Majesty's 69th Regiment. so no on onf t t Gh lt e e e.2 2 r: 9 3gd t e h , ul ia u tt l . e t , . , ii)n L u kc o e r e t c l oifl C -i‘s h ti a ra r er l el e ht s ,o r3 S of f ia e 7 y a. etre Churchill,, 2 e c°/' Robert Croft, Esq., of Dumpton House 97.arab' late of On the 25th ult., at Greenwich, G. Thrower, E• s l' , la tlz4lll==t, aget ..._....., 1'71 : 5e ----- -- - G " f London: Printed and Published by MIIRDO YOL/N 0 t st,e No. 112, Sir:rid, at The San Office, No. 112, Str" (l 1 county of Middlesex.—Friday, May 1, 1840. - _:—.... 1 relict of EVENING EDITION. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1840. EVENING EDITION.