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r 2 2 2 EVENING EDITION. 1 rz yr.t. m : 11111 ‘ N P .' (/' I 0:11 e ) :!:11 t • • I ; • 4. 4 4 - 4, I P L -• I / _ , , • * .; # //.. • s's o • . ^ e / 1 . , ,\. . A 1) VI) 'll/ r 1,6›. Ii0IT!MV" ~~ ' , -f ;:e4 LTA TO ARCHITECTS. AYOUNG MAN, of respectable connections, who has just completed the terms of his Articleship with an Architect and Surveyor in the country, is desirous of obtaining a Situation in the Office of an Architect of celebrity in town, where he will have extensive opportunities of perfect ing himself in the knowledge of his profes.ion. Address J. A., 32, Hatton-garden. UNION BANK OF AUSTRALIA, 38, OLD BROAD-STREET, F. 3, 1540. At a SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING of the PRO PRIETORS of this BANK, held this day, a DIVIDEND of FOURTEEN SHILLINGS PER SHARE having been declared payable on the 10th of this month, Notice is hereby given, that the TRANSFER BOOKS will be CLOSED during the present Week. By Order of the Board of Directors, SAMUEL JACKSON, Secretary. MIDLAND COUNTIES RAILWAY. TENDERS FOR LOANS. The DIRECTORS of the MIDLAND COUNTIES RAIL WAY are prepared to receive TENDERS for the REMAIN ING PORTI!)N of the LOAN which they are empowered by their Act of Parliament to raise on Interest at the rate of Five per Cent. per Annum, for any term not less than three years. Interest to be paid half-yearly. The Tenders are to express the suns, and the term of years for which the same are proposed to remain. App ications to be addressed to Mr. Patteson, 13, George street, Mansion House, London ; Mr. S. Woods, jun., 3, In dia-buildings, Liverpool ; M r . A s h wort h , 57 , Back King street, Manchester ; and to the Secretary, at the Office of the Company, High-street, Leicester. By Order, Leicester, Jan. 16, 1840. J. F. BELL, Secretary. TONDON and BRIGHTON RAILWAY . COMPANY, incorporated by Act of Parliament. 15th July 1837. CALL for the SEVENTH INSTALMENT-st. PER SHARE. Notice is hereby given, that the Directors of the London and Brighten Railway Company have this day made a Call of M. per Share in this undertaking, and the same is directed to be paid on or before the 3d (lay of March next, to either of the undermentioned Bankers, via. : London—Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths; Messrs. Lad broke, Kingscete, and Co. Liverpool and Manchester—The Manchester and Liverpool District Bank, on account of Smith, Payne, and Smiths. Brighton—Horsham, Lewes, and Tunbridge ; the Louden and County Joint-stock Branch Banks. Lewes—Messrs. Molvneux and Co. Glasgow—The Glasgow Union Bank. Dublin—The Provincial Bank of Ireland. Proprietors of Shares are therefore requested to pay the same accordingly. (Signed) JOHN HARMAN, Chairman. London and Brighton Railway Office, le, Angel-court, Thregmorton-street, 6th February, Is4o. GREAT WRSTERN. The speed, safety, and puuctuality, with which the " Great Western" has invariably performed her voyages, had determined the Directors not to notice the unfounded reports which have been circulated ; but they feel that they ought not to withhold the following Letter from the Surveyor General of Lloyd's, which proves that the care bestowed in the construction of this Vessel, has realized the most sanguine expectations. Lloyd's Register of British and Foreign Shipping, London, 1 Ith January, 1840. Dear Sir,—ln reply to yours of the 9th inst., requesting my opinion of the " Great Western" Steam Ship, as to her condi tion and signs of working, after having performed 22 voyages across the Atlantic, amounting in the aggregate to 75,600 nau tical miles, I have much pleasure in st a ti ng , th a t on exam i n i ng her in the Dry Dock at Bristol, on the 7th and Btb inst., I found her to be in perfectly good condition, free from any in dication of defect inside ; the Copper smooth, and without any appearanee of straining outside. My attention was particularly directed to the Trusses imme diately before and abaft the Engine Room, where the first in dications of straining and movement in Steam Vessels are in variably given, and I found even less straining and yielding there than is commonly seen in much smaller vessels at the same age, and after so much service; in fact, I found the Abut ments there to be in title same state as when I examined them whilst receiving her Machinery on board in London. The fact of the Copper being smooth, and free from wrinkle, the bottom and keel fair and regular under the Engines, and along the entire length, the abutments a the Trusses close, and the Butts aloft perfect and unbroken, are, in my opinion, conclusive proofs of her freedom from any straining which can by possibility affect either her safety or durability ; and I hear tily congratulate you upon the successful result of this magnifi cent experiment in Steam Navigation. I am, dear Sir, Your obedient Servant, GEORGE BAYLEY. Surveyor of Shipping fur Lloyd's. " To Christ. Claxton, Esq." (Signed) The Directors have further to add, that they have arranged the days of sailing so as to admit of her remaining a sufficient tim e in Port to make improvements for the comfort of the Passengers, and to undergo that careful inspection and refit which it is their determination to repeat periodically, in order to ensure a continuance of the confidence which has been so justly placed in the Great Western. THE GREAT WESTERN, Lieutenant HOSKIN, R.N., Commander, Is iutended to Sail FROM BRISTOL. FROM NEW YORK. 20th February. 19th March. 15th April. 9th May. 4th June. Ist July. 25th July. 18th August. 12t,i September. 10th October. 7th November. Rth December. For Freight, Passage, or further information, apply at Bristol to Christopher Claxton, Esq. ; London T. M. Ward, Esq., Great 'Western Railway-Office ; Liverpool Messrs. Gibbs. Bright, and Co., North John .street; Glasgow H. B. Webb, Esq., Glassford• street. Paris Messrs. Andelle and Soulas. On the •20th of February the first Steam• Tender will leave Cumberland Basin at Eleven o'cl , ,ck, and the second at Twelve, or before, if the Northern Letter-Bags have arrived. Bristol, Ist. February, 1840. MANY SCIENTIFIC and MEDICAL GENTLEMEN have signified their approbation of the CHUNK PATENT STOVE. EXPERIENCE has proved there is not a situation in which any Stove could be made to answer, that the CHUNK PATENT STOVE may not be placed in to act satisfactorily, at a less eost and with much less inconveni ence than any other, with the certainty that it will merit ap probation. An extraordinary large quantity of the Chunk Stoves have been sold, and upwards of one thousand of them delight their possessors, by producing the most salubrious warmth ever yet obtained. It is possible, out of the immense quantity which have been sold, some may be improperly fixed ; the Stoves would then, no doubt, be blamed for not acting, although the fault does not rest with them, but in the fixing. In such cases (if there are any) application should be made to Messrs. RIPPON and BURTON for proper directions, which are very simple, and, when attended to, the Stoves are certain to giv e the same satisfactory proofs, which they have already given in upwards of one thousand instances, that they far excel all others in point of simplicity, safety, cleanliness, comfort, and economy. To prevent that delay from being experienced, Which with much regret Bippon and Burton acknowledge Many have been subjected to, arrangements have been made for Manufacturing five hundred Stoves weekly—the orders will, therefore, be executed with much greater dispatch than hitherto. Price for cash with order, at the Manufactory, 12, Wells-street, Oxford-street : —Rain, 60s. ; Fluted, 705.; Ornamented, 90s. ; Package, 2s. 6d. They may also be had of every respectable Ironmonger in the kingdom, at 655., 755., and 955. ; but, as there are many ironmongers whose interest it is to recommend other Stoves which they have in stock, the Public are advised to seek the opinion of those who have the Chunk Stove in use, references to whom, in almost every part of England, will be furnished by Rippon and Burton, the Sole Proprietors. Wells -street, Oxford-street. 39, ALBEMARLE-STREET, PICCADILLY, AND 96, CHEAASIDE, Corner of Lawrence-lane. SIGHT AND HEARING. 'THE INVISIBLE OPERATIVE VOICE CONDUCTOR, effected by the Messrs. S. and B. SOLOMONS, Opticians and Aurists to the Royal Family, by which thousands of deaf persons have been greatly benefited, is the size of a aeven.shilling piece, and when fixed into the cavity of the ear is soft and easy, and not more perceptible than having a piece of wool in its place, by which the faintest whisper at a public assembly is heard with distinctness. And defective V ISION is brought to nature by the use of newly-invented SPECTACLE LENSES ; immediately they are placed() efore weak and imperfect eyesight, either by day et candle light, every abject becomes clear and distinct, and the most Minute particle is seen with great distinctness, by the use of which both the sight and hearing become much improved. The Messrs. SOLOMONS DISCLAIM 311 connection with persons of the SAME NAME, and the sale of Amber Spectacles: in doing so they state the HISTORY of AMBER, from the Dictionary of Arts and Sciences" of Andrew Ure, M.D., F.R.S., &c. &c. , " Ainber is an induratea vegetable juice, and not p ro d uce d b y t h e laws of crystallization, but by the same causes which influence the mechanical condition of gum. Insects are otten found embedded in 't• Amber is most powerfully electrical by friction—very hot, to such an extent as to explode into fragments ; the workmen_ too, are subject to nervous tremours in their wrists, arms, &c. ; they en counter great danger by handling such dreadful excited ele c t r i cs ; Amber graws with lime, and is apt to take fire, and bubbles up, is of suc and soft nature when exposed to warmth that it swells, will burn away with flame." The above Dr. We's statements are further confirmed by Sir 1). REWSTER and Pliny, as also by Parks and Heny en Chemistry, l'h edestructive effects of such a material for Spectacles, to imperfect ~v is ion, are fully and most satisfactorily expl a i ne d i n M essrs. Curtis and Dollond's Second Edition on the Preservation of Sight, and may be ascertained at any respectable Optician's in London. The Messrs. Solomons' newly-invented Spectacle Lenses are not b ring of such a material; but which are very supe r i or , an d 'lng back at once dimness of sight and imperfect visi on to i ts „tlgiiial " and natural state ; these Spectacles, and very small Voice ` -o riuctors for Deaf persons, are only to be had at their Establish. Z n ".tv, 314 Albemar• le.street, and 96, Cheapside, Corner of Lawrence. ' No 'Travellers are employed. --- FRANKS'S SPECIFIC SOLUTION OF COPAIBA. Within a period of Two Months upwards of Three Hundred Patients s. wer r slloeebsfully treated at the Metropolitan Hospitals with ',:itANKS'S SPECIFIC SOLUTION of COPAIBA. .Y Joseph Henry Green, Esq., F.R.S., one of the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons, Surgeon to St. Thomas's Hospital, and Professor of Surgery in the King's College, London. I have mane trio lof Mr. Frank's Solution of Copaiba, at St. T homas's Hospital, in a variety of cases of discharges in the male and female, and the results warrant my stating, that it is an cities. Nous remedy, and one which does not produce the usual unpleasant efreels of Copaiba. (Signed) ...JOSEPH HENRY GREEN. 46. Lincoln's-Inn-fields April 15, 1835. 'Y Bransby Cooper, Esq., , F. R.S., Surgeon to Guy's Hospital, and Lecturer on Anatomy, &c. &c., and others most eminent in the Medical Profession.' " Mr. Bransby Coolierpresentr his compliments to Mr. Geo. Franks ?NI has great pleasure in bearing testimony of the efficacy of his So. Litton of Copaiba In Gonorrhiria, for which diseas e M r . C ooper ha pro scribed the Sclution in t en or twelvecases with perfect success. Ncw.street,Spring.gartiens, Apr 1113,15485." This invaluable Medicine is confidently recommended in all case lFritOf Goncrrhcea, Gleets, Urethral Di sc h arges, Spasmodic Strictures, aticn of the Kidneys, Bladder Urethra, and Prostate Gland; n! purifying °fleets up , n the gent cal health render it particularly ap. Plic.lble in all cases of relax.ed fibre anti nervous debility. Pr epared only by George Franks, S urgeon, 90, Blackfriars _ road CAUTlkitorion, and may be had of all Medicine.venders in the United King ON.—Unless in Bottles at 2s. 4s. 6d., and I Is. eacn. CAUTION.— Unless " George Franks, Bialtfriars road," is engraved on the Government Stamp it cannot be genuine. ' Mr. Franks may he consulted until Two O'clock daily. CONTRACT FOR PAPER, FOR POST OFFICE COVERS. THE Commissioners of Ex c i se are rea dy to receive TENDERS for the Supl7 of 24,000 Reams of PAPER required f or t h e p ropose d LLI TER COVERS; or for any part thereof not less than 3,000 Reams. Particulars of Contract, and Samples of the Paper, may be had at the S ecre t ary ' s Offi ce, Old B roa d - street ; and also at the Excise Offices in Edinburgh, Dublin, Manchester, Exeter, and Newcastle-on-Tyne. Tenders to be addressed to the Commissioners of Excise, Old Broad-street, and to be delivered by Twelve o'Clock, on THURSDAY, the 20th of February, 1840, marked on the cover " Tender for Paper." The Commissioners do not bind themselves to accept the lowest Tender. Old Broad-street, Feb. 5, 1840. LONDON HOTEL, GLASGOW. CI . BRIDGES begs to inform Commercial k_A e Gentlemen that the ENLARGEMENT of the above Hotel is now completed, with every attention to do mestic comfort, and respectfully solicits a share of their pa tronage ; at the same time G. 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The object of this work, observes the editor in his address, is to illustrate the distinctive characters of all the most important races or breeds of the domestic animals proper to, or naturalized in, Great Britain, so that agriculturists will be supplied with the means of making themselves acquainted with those differences of character and form by which our various races are dis criminated. This is a useful object, and, so far as the work has yet proceeded, is executed by Mr. Low in a knowing, and pains-taking spirit. The Part before us contains four plates, showing the different breeds of oxen ; they are carefully and skilfully coloured—indeed we know not when we have seen such highly finished lithographic prints, which, in general, do not show to much advantage when coloured—and are taken from a collection of original paintings preserved in the Agri cultural Museum of the College of Edinburgh, which, we believe, are considered the cleverest and most correct as they are the most extensive, of the sort in the kingdom. Tne first plate, which is also the best, is illustrative of the " Wild, or White Forest Breed," ofoxen ; the animal stands,of course, in the foreground ; his proportions are defined with the greatest nicetyand exactness, and the va rious lights and shades on the rough hairy back, are inter mingled with infinite skill. The back-ground is made up of a wild mountain landscape, the adroit colouring of which gives all the idea of distance which the artist evidently intended to convey. To each plate is at tached a page or more of explanatory letter-press from the pen of Mr. Low, the editor, who has accom plished his task in no careless or superficial spirit, but with a determination to say all on the subject that could be said, with a due regard to conciseness. The work is got up apparently without the slightest consideration of expense, time, or labour,—ip a handsome folio form, and is printed in a bold, distinct, elegant type. To farmers in general, and to those who, like Lord Al thorp, take an interest in the breed of cattle, we can imagine no more acceptable publication. It will be published, we understand, on the first of every alternate month. Her Majesty the Queen and the Queen Dowager have given up their private boxes at Covent -garden Theatre on the night of the benefit of that excellent charity the Western Philanthropic Institution. His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex visited the Prince and Princess of Capna, yesterday, at Mivart's Hotel. Tuesday next is the day fixed for the nuptials of Lord Dinorben with Miss Smyth, sister of the Princess of Capua. His Royal Highness gives Miss Smyth away at the altar. It is reported that the Hereditary Princess of Orange is slightly indisposed, and that there is every hope of the King becoming before long a great-grr.dfathe r . The Duke and Duchess of Richmond, accom panied by the Lords and Lady Caroline Lennox, have arrived at the family residence in Portland-place, from Goodwood Park, Sussex. THE SHERIFFS' IVIPRISONIdIENT. MEETING IN THE GUILDHALL. A Common Hall was held yesterday at the Guildhall by the appointment of the Lord Mayor, to whom a requisi tion had been presented, signed by the Livery, by whom the Sheriffs were elected, for the purpose, as the placards calling the meeting announced, of ‘. taking the circum stances of their case into consideration, in consequence of the refusal of the House of Commons to liberate them from the imprisonment to which they have been committed for discharging their duty as Ministerial officers, by execut ing the process of the Court of Queen's Bench." Although the meeting was called for twelve o'clock pre cisely, the Chair was not taken until ten minutes past one, by which time there were between MO and 900 persons present. On the platform we observed the Lord Mayor, Sir Peter Laurie, Sir M. Wood, Alderman Thomas Wood, Alderman Farebrother, Alderman Johnson, Alderman Gibbs, Alderman Lainson, the City Solicitor, Mr. Wire, the Under Sheriff, Mr. Clarkson, the Barrister, &c. &c. The LORD MAYOR, in opening the business of the meet ing, stated that he did not hesitate to call the present meeting when the requisition sent to him was signed by some of the oldest and most distinguished members of the Corporation.---(Hear, hear.) He much lamented the cir cumstances that had called them together, which was no less than the incarceration of the most honourable and con scientious gentlemen that, perhaps, ever served an im portant office in that great Corporation.—( Hear, hear.) tie was sure the deliberation of that day would be so eon. ducted as would reflect honour and credit on the Livery of London.—( Hear, hear.) He esteemed and respected the high privilege of Parliament, yet he thought it was high time that they were actually defied. He trusted the day was not far distant when they would have the pleasure of seeing their esteemed friends, the Sheriffs, among them again.--(Hear.) Mr. CLARKSON, the barrister, s a id be h a d th e h onour of waiting up on die meeting to propose a resolution, which those who had had the care and management of that meeting had done hiM the ~ }honour to put into hi s hands. He had bee n l e d t o believe that the Livcry and Commonalty of that great City had always been prompt and prominent in coming forward to protect and defend, and if occasion served, to vindicate and preserve the liber ties of their fellow ci ty ens .—( Hear.) Ho trusted th e feelings which had descended to them from their ancestors, would be recorded before the House of Commons as their sentiments on the deprivation of the liberty of two of their fellow citizens for discharging duties cast upon them by the solemnity of an oath, and which they would be amerced for not performing, and that they would extend protection to them as far as they were able to give it.— (Cheers.) It was not necessary he should go through the form of telling them the Sheriffs were now in prison. Who sent them there?—The House of Commons. By what authority? A resolution they themselves thought fit to pass, and which, they said, was the law of the land. With all respect he denied the position—it was not the law of the land. Who was to know what the resolutions of the House of Commons were, and which of them were to be obeyed? The only means by which the public could obtain a knowledge of them was by the p-ess, which had so ably advocated the cause of the Sheriffs, but who, in publish ing those resolutions and reports of other proceedings, were also guilty of a breach of the privileges of the House.—(Cheers. Were statutes, he asked, enacted by the House of Commons only, or by the three estates of the realm ? Were they, then, to imprison, for no breach of law, these gentlemen, in a room twelve feet square, with a bed in it, and in which room they were obliged to receive their visiters, wives, and families ? who were not permitted to take exercise, unless attended by those who were called officers of justlee, who also f.t.. towed them to the water-closet. They were only per mitted to take such exercise as this on the piles now erected for the new building for the reception of that body, who he hoped, before the time they entered it, would be better acquainted with what their privileges were (Loud cheering. ) He asked had the House of Com mons only privileges—had the people none ?—(Cheers. ) Was it then come to this—that the House of Commons, which claimed to have a right of undefined privileges, over which they alone were to be judges, would enforce them in so manly a manner—in a manner so creditable to them selves, and so much to be respected by the country, that they were ashamed to put on their warrant the cause of the commitment? He had heard that a great law authority, in the drawing up that warrant, had recommended the Se cretary of State not to put in it the cause of that warrant—to suppress the charge against the parties by a proceeding which this country had ever abhorred— making honourable men the victims of an oppression which it was found impossible to justify by giving the cause of, and thus enabling the Judges of the land to reverse the decision, and to determine whether the parties who had been the authors of it were right in issuing the writ in question. He was one who should deny that the House of Commons had privileges, and it was net necessary for him to examine what was the extent of those privi leges—it was enough for him to ask if those privileges, undetermined and varying as they were, should be placed above the law of the land.—( Hear, hear, hear.) He supposed that many members of the meeting had an opportunity of seeing in the papers of the day that the Learned Attorney-General had suggested that it was pos sible, under the peculiar circumstances of the case—( Hear, hear)—that the Sheriffs had already been sufficiently pu nished, and that the House of Commons should begin to consider that question to-night.—( Hear, hear.) Mercy unexampled ! They were to consider whether two unof fending individuals—men who had been already im prisoned two weeks—whether these men had been sufficiently punished for doing nothing but obeying the law. He would demonstrate, from proceedings of the House of Commons themselves, that they were not entitled to the privileges which they had claimed. —( Hear, hear. )—The resolutions upon which these privi leges were founded had been passed in the year 1837, and yet in 1838 they had directed their Learned Attorney- General to plead in defence of those privileges before a Court of Law. Their privileges were not then so invio lable as they now pretended that they were.—(Cheers . ) That fact was of itself conclusive; they had done that, they had the opinion of the Judges of the land; that opinion was against them, and being so, what did they say ? Why that they had no confidence in the Judges of the land. What sort of a subterfuge was this? The Learned At torney-General by the direction of the House of Commons presented himself to the Court of Queen's Bench, and taken their opinion after a solemn argument, and after wards he said he wished be had never asked for their opi nion, because he said he had no confidence in them. One of the Judges was stated to have made this observation, that if the Judges had given judgment against Mr. Stockdale he would have been entitled to have gone to the Exchequer Chamber, and from thence to the House of Lords for the purpose of ascertaining whether the Judges of the Court of Queen's Bench were right or not. Why did not the House of Commons pursue that course ? He would tell them the reason why it was, because they s iid they had no confidence, not only in the Judges of the Court of Queen's Bench, but in all the Judges, and therefore it was that th- . . ey what woes- sow . Ay, inste, .of being three estates,. unfit, he thought, from the use it had made of its functions, would not pl ace thi s question before the House of Lords. there would be but one.--( Cheers, and cries of " No, to be entrusted with any privileges at all.—( Hear, hear.) —(Cheers.) H e was desirous of occupying as little of no.") This was no party question.—(Cheers, and hear.) That was his opinion; and he would conclude by willingly the time of hi s b rot h er Livery men as possible, but he Look to the conduct of th e C onservat i ve leader of the seconding the resolution. should have be en ashamed of himself when he was House of Commons. What had Sir Robert Peel said ? The resolution was then put, and declared to have been called upon to support a resolution like the one he —why, that the privilege of publication was essential to carried unanimously. was about to prop o se, if he had hesitated for a single the House of Commons for the benefit of the public.-- Mr. BROWNING came forward to propose the next reso moment to render his feeble assistance towards its aue- (Cries of " Who cares for what he says ?") That great lution : cess.—(Cheers.) They had beard that the Attorney- leader had further said, that if such were the law, rather " That this Common Hall sincerely trust that the Legis- General seemed to doubt whether the Sheriffs ought not than permit the authority of the House of Commons to bo lature, in its wisdom, will devise the means whereby all to be let free—(Cheers)—but he felt it to be his duty to opposed on that foundation, he would abdicate his needful publicity may be given to the proceedings of Par. call the attention of the meeting to what those who acted functions.—(Loud cheering, and cries of ,' What liament, the evil now deplored avoided, and the law of with him thought three days ago :he had read it in the does common sense say ?") The feelings of those libel so amended as to afford protection to all classes of the press of the day, whether it was true or not he present had been worked upon for the purposeof the meet- community. he could not say ; but it had been stated in the news- ing.—( Cries of " No, no.") He should conclude with " That this Common Hall trusts the 'Sheriffs may be papers that it had been said by an Honourabl e proposing the following amendment, and whether it was immediately restored to their liberty, and the unimpeded Member, but he would not mention names, that seconded or not was immaterial to him : ' That while performance of the duties of their high and distinguished the Sheriffs had not been sufficiently screwed.— this meeting feels great regret for the situation of the office." (Cheers.) Screw them tighter, and then you will obtain Sheriffs, they cannot but feel that the rights and privileges He came forward to propose this resolution, in which he your privileges; and if that does not do, ask the Queen to a the House of Commons are the rights and privileges of thought there could be no difference of opinion. It could 1 a dj o u rn Parliament instead of proroguing it ; and if that the people, and that they place their confidence in their not be doubted that it was of extreme importance, that the does not succeed, ask the Queen to have a new Parli a _ representatives in that House, and they will persevere in information on which the proceedings of Parliament were mont.—(Cheers.) He (Mr. Clarkson) h a d seen t hi s i n upho l d i ng them. " grounded, s h ou ld b e commun i cated in some form to the the newspapers ;it mi g ht b e a breach of privilege to in- A person in the meeting having seconded the resolution, public. But then he thought it was advisable that sert, and equally se to read it, but he had done so.-... Mr. MAITLAND came forward to address the meeting, its privileges on that subject should be properly defined, (Cheers.) But be had seen more th an t hi s . Ths H e trusted t h at t h e m ee ti ng would look to what and duly limited by a regard for the public interest. meeting would recollect that an unfortunate solicitor had their ancestors had done, and unanimously reject the Mr. JAMES GURNEY had great pleasure in seconding now become the object of attack of the House of Commons, amendment. He need only call upon all persent to look the resolution. He regretted the continued confinement and because he h a d en d eavo ured the elude their grasp, round the Hall for memorials of what their ancestors of the of the Sheriffs, and he thought that they had already a suggestion had been made from the one side of the City of London had done to assert their independence in been sufficiently punished to satisfy the offended dignity House that his wife and child should be sent for, in order spi te o f t h e aut h or i ty of the Crown, exercised against the of' the House of Commons. to extort from them where he was.—(Cries of " Shame, liberty of the p eo pl e . Th e statue on his right (pointing to Mr. BALMY proposed the next resolution. It struck shame.") Me declared that during the whol e period of his that of Alderman Beckford) must remind the citizens of him that the injustice with which the Sheriffs had been existence he never heard of a suggestion so abhorrent and London that on former days the members of their body were treated was a very simple matter, inasmuch as they would estilential.---(Hear, hear.) If the Sheri ffs had chosen not afraid even to remonstrate with the Crown itself.— be forced by the double order of the House of Commons, unworthily to exercise the privileges t h e y possessed, net a In conclusion, b e t ruste d t h at the meeting would at once and of the Court of Queen's Bench, to pay the money twice p single Jury would have been found in or near the jury- reject the amendment. over. That was a most unfair position to place them in, box in the Old Bailey to try the various delinquents, Mr. COATES felt it to be his duty, as a Liveryman, to The House of Commons said they were defending the nor would a single step have been taken by them in express his sentiments to the meeting, because those !en- privileges of the people, but the people told them that the discharge of their duties. Upon the proceeding's timents were not in accordance with the resolution that they were ashamed of them, and that they would take taken by Stockclale, there did not appear one circum- had been proposed.--( Hear, hear.) The business of this some steps to define what ware the privileges of the House stance that would give the Sheriffs knowledge that the meeting had been opened in an unusual manner. It was of Commons. The resolution he had to propose was, that libels emanated from the House of Commons ; but some- not the custom at meetings on great public questions to a petitio n founded on these resolutions he pr esented to the body served the Sheriffs with notice of certain resol u ti ons reta i n lawyers.-_( Cries of " '"°, no," "he is a Livery- House of Commons by Sir M. Wood, and that the other passed by the House of Commons. If those privileges man," and " retract the expression.") He would retract the Members for the City, and any other Members connected which the House of Commons claimed did, in point of word which appeared to be offensive to the meeting, an d w ith t t h o e th C e i i t r y sofheLroansd.on,Hbee wreoquuldestgedo t t o o s t u h p e p c ir u t e i e t e her. it. fact, exist, who were the offenders? Who were the per- which had onls fallen f rom hi m i n t h e heat of argument. M r . Rien AE D HARDING seconded the resolution. sons that s t a t e d in public Courts of Justice there was no He was sorry that the Sheriffs were imprisoned, and was Mr. Wruetsrsors said if he stood alone he would not such law as the House of Commons had set up ? Why, willing to join in any resolution, praying for their imme- agree to petition the body which had behaved so impro the Judges of the Court of Queen's Bench. But the diate discharge.—( Cries of "We demand it as a right.") PerlY House of Commons did not find it convenient to meddle He wished the Court of Queen's Bench—if the privileges self, and tell her Nlajesty what the conduct of the House with the Judges.—( Hear.) The very f act of the r were not tenable—had flown at hither game, and had at- of Commons had been. Mr. Wilkinson th en read the ad avoiding the Judges, showed that they could not su pp or t tacked the S p eaher-- ( Lau g hter4and cries Of '. Oh, oh I" dress, which ho proposed to have their privil ege , and the fact of their keepin g out of the " You are making a mistake.") He thought it would be jests. presented to her Ma warrant the reaso ns why they had been induced to commit presumptuous in that hall to d ema nd th e liberation of the Mr. D. W. Wtat was sure that those present had met these men, in his (Mr. C 's) judgment, made it clear Sheriffs, and th ere f ore h e b egge d to propose another with feelings too warm and ardent in the present cause to that the privileges of the citizens of Lond on, in the persons amendment.—(Cries of " Oh, oh," and " Let ' s dis p ose be led away by the ardou r of others to do an act which of their excellent officers, the Sheriffs, had been grossly of one first.") could be productive of no good.—( Cheers, and violated, an d t h e c i t i ze ns of London had already waited The Loan MAYOR i n timated that Mr. Coates could not cries of " No, no.") They bad met that day for the too long before stating to the country the protecti on they Propose another amendment until the former had been dis- purpose of petitioning the House of Commons— claimed.—( Cheers.) If the reason had been assigned in posed of.—( Hear. ) and telling them that in the course they had pursued the Mr. Beam-tut th oug ht th e p u rposes of the meeting people were not with them. If they adopted the amend doubt warrantwhich whereby way yo it the we Sheriffs u Jtud g havewee r e b, inee bean?_ custody, ? (~ N t the J u n d o g . • d, e , : ; would ep on unC dm nt and could any b o y , wo u ld b e b es t answered by an adjournment, and he would meet, n ow p ropose d, th ey wou ld d e f eat the object of the meeting, and they would not get the Sheriffs liberated.— ( therefore La ugh te r move ,and (Cries of " Shan't we.") As Liverymen be would tell . He regretted to find that those who had lived a long poli_t of. th ,, e sp r i, a o ll h. d " o ) at once adjourn.-- Is tical life, und e r the p r etence of being Liberals had sup- No person seconded this motion. them they had not the power to go to the Crown in th ported such p ro p os iti on s as the House of Commons had The Loan MAYOI then took the sense of the m eet i - nit 1 Way.—( Hear, hear.) What then would be the result ? put forward.—( Hear, hear ) He (Mr. Cl ar k son) had , on the resolution and the original amendment. About Why, for the purpose of showing that he would read a cries a almost him se lf b ecome a T,, r y ; and he conld not sit down forty hands only w e r e held up in favour of they amendment, letter, a reply to a petition to the Queen, which had al. without calli ng t h e atten ti o n of the meeting to the me r it s a n d t h e rema i n d er b e i ng in favour of the esolution his ready been presented by the Sheriffs, praying that her of on e wh o had the honour of being a membe r of th e Lordship declared the resolution to be carried.—(Ch eers o m a j esty wou ld exerc i se h er prerogatives and cause her Corporation, an d who h a d di sc harged his duties hoary,honoabl Mr. SIDNEY T AYLOR ca me forward to propose the next , officers to be discharged. The reply to that petition was, he alluded to t h e i r exce ll en t Recorder.—( Hear, ) resolution, which was as follows : There had be er , only two occasions on which th a t gentle. " That it is with pain and regret that the citi zens o f her majesty etiti had not been pleased tO signify any commands man could hav e b een expe cted to interf ere f or the liberty London have witnessed, on the part of the House of c orns on th„ubject. ( Laughter.) The meeting might de. of the subject ; an d on b ot h those occ as i ons, vie.—the pro- mops, in the commitment of the Sheriffs, a recurrence to pend upon it, that any amendment on the petition that tha the pon ha been laid bfore ueen, but that ( EVENING EDITION" had been Mu, proposed would be treated in a similar manner.—( Cries of " No.") But it would bo very dif ferent with respect to the House of Commons; that bletue must succumb to the popular voice, they must obey the be" beet of th e people.—(A cry of " What's th e us e o f peti tioxing men, the majority of whose body are against the people.") Ha felt convinced that the petition proposedto be presented to the House of Commons was one which the meeting would approve, and it would be listened to with respect.—(Hear.) That petition was bold and niar.dy, it spoke the voice of freedom, anti it muc• therefore have its weight with the Legislature.—( Mr. Wire hero read the petition at length.) If the louse of Commons would not listen to their petition would the Lord Mayor and the Li very of London rest quiet ? No,; they would then be able to go up with double effect withla petition to the Queen. — (Cheers.) One step at a time—give the House the op por unity of doing justice, and if it refused, the whole country would be roused, and they would approach the' Throne with a voice that could not be misstated or disre garded,—( Cheers.) Mr. WILKINiON said that as the Lord Mayor had in formed him that, according to the terms of the requision, the meeting being called to petition Parliament, he could not entertain his ( Mr. W.'s) amendment, he would withdraw it.—( Hear, hear.) The resolution for petitioning the House of Commons was then put and carried unanimously. A vote of thanks was then given to the Lord Mayor for his readiness in convening the Common Hall, and his ability in presiding; and his Lordship having returned thanks, the meeting separated. COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE. Mr. Leigh Hunt's new play, entitled d Legend c f 17n rence, was brought out last night at this theatre, and met with such a triumphant reception as convinces us it will not be the last we shall have from his pen. The plot of this striking drama is as follows:—Francesco Agolanti (More) is married to Ginevra (Miss Tree), but being of 'a mean, distrustful nature, he is incessantly haunted with the idea that his innocent and lovely wife is, if not false to her mar riage vows, at least wholly estranged from him at heart. Under the influence of these perverse, maudlin feelings, he summons Ginevra into his presence, and upbraids her in the most cutting a n d ungenerous terms for her supposedin difference to his affection, to which she makes little other reply than is made by her exhausted energies, utterly worn down by his long-continued, systematic malignity ef pug pose. Thi s scene was one of the most deeply affecting in the play. There was no exaggerated declamation—no Im passioned effort at defence on the part of the meek, subdued Ginevra ; her still attitude, her wan looks, her broken voice, with a few touching words of supplication, rather than remonstrance, uttered at intervals, spoke more elo quently for her, and went deeper to the hearts of the audience, than whole pages of rhetorical pleading would have done. Immediately on Ginevra's retirement from the scene, a letter is put into the hands of her husband from Antonio Rodieelli (Anderson), a former suitor to his wife, and a high-minded, chivalrous character, who requests permission to see him but for a few minutes. The r,- quest is granted ; and then ensues a scene full of robust energy, and containing passages not unworthy to vie with some of the best in 13eaursont and Fletcher. Antonio entreats Agolauti to lay asida a arie unworthy doubts of his wife, assuring him that she is already marked for the grave ; but the more feeling he displays on this occasion, the more he convinces the husband of the justice of his osvn suspicions. While they are angrily conversing together, news arrives that Ginevra is dead, which calls forth la Agolanti the only burst of emorse he evinces throughout the play. In the next act we find that she is not dead, but has merely fallen into a trance ; on recovering from which she hastens from the Church, where her open coffin has been deposited—for it has been rumoured among her attendants that life perhaps was net quite extinct, sod tile tomb therefore has not been permitted to close on her __and finds h er way h ome, w h ere h i r h us b an d , who is roaming in his garden at the time, hearing her voice, imagines that a spectre is summoning him to his destiny, and bars his doe: against her. Thus repulsed, she seeks the house of Antonio, who, after his first shock is allayed, receives her kindly, and assisted by his mother, carefully watches over her. Meanwhile the news of her restoration gains wind; and coming to the ears of Agolanti, he insists on her returning home ; but goaded to desperation by his repeated insults she releases; and the play cl oses by hi s d eat h , w h et h er i nf li cte d by his own hand or not, we could not discover. Such is a brief sketc h of the plot of this play, which is by no means fer tile in iaeideuts, hut deserves high commendation for the skill with which the few that it contains, are worked up. But its most extraordinary feature is the character of Agolanti. We have little hesitation in pronouncing this the most ori ginal conception with which we are acquainted in the modern drama. In its essence it is singularly repulsive. There se scarcely one redeeming feature in it. Mesa, jealous, test less, superstitious, and cruel, yet anxious to keep up appear ances, and stand in a respectable position before the ;Todd —Agolanti is given up to unmitigated scorn ; and yet such is the art with which his character is evolved ; such the curious felicity with which the depths of his strange nature are sounded, so that he is literally turned inside out, and presented unreservedly before us in all his naked defor mity ; that we regard his out-goings and his io-comings with the deepest interest, as a new view of hunsan nature offered to our consideration. The execution of this mils ing character, argues a subtler knowledge of the heart than we ever gave Mr. Hunt credit for. It is no fantastic conception drawn from fairy-land, but a stern, truthful ske:ch, the result of quick observation and attentive study in a worldly, prosaic school, with which poets are seld om f am il iar. W e w i ll fairly confess that it has taken us by surprise ; and having now seen of what the author is capable—being sow satisfied that he is not a mere make-believe, but has real stuff in hint ; we see no vrthly reason why he should not give us a drama such as Shirley, had he been living among us, might have been proud to own. God knows we are sadly in want of such ! The character of Ginevra is sweetly conceived, and delicately handled throughout. Mr. Hunt is chary of her pretenee, giving us just enough of her, and not too much. An tonio is a pleasant common place —a sort of revival of one of Fletcher's chivalrous lovers— Arcite, for instance, in the " Two Noble Kinsmen." The language of the play is free and animated ; sufficiently/terse, where terseness is required ; and giving a loose to eloquent declamation where it suits the speaker and the scene. Occasionally we meet with sonic delightful bits of poetry-, but these are not intruders, but spring naturally out of, and are directly suggested by, the subject m a tter in hani. A word now by way of balance to our praise. In the earlier scenes there is a little too much talking. The action is languid, th e di a l ogue d oes no t tend !nil:- cieetly to assist the progress of the catastrophe. This remedied, we know of nothing to prevent a long snit to the piece. It has deep, unaffected pathos, much vigour of expression, and unexpected manlirress of s sentiment. The actors all did their best, especially Moore and Ellen Tree., whom we have never yet seen to greater advantage. The former gentleman, how ever, will do well to forget Macready, and trast to the promptings of his own heart, which will not lead him astray, if he will but "do its bidding gently." At the close of the play Leigh Hunt was loudly called for, and ' made his eppearanco on the stage in a most amusing state of mingled extacy and trepidation. The House was crowded to suffocation. HOLIDAY IN THE CITY. The following notice has been issued by the Lord Mayor: MARSHALL, MAYOR. " Mansion House, 7th February, Ig4o. " Whereas, Monday, the 10th day of February instant, is appointed for the solemnization of the marriage of her Most Gracious Majesty, Queen Victoria, the Lord Mayor considers it will be desirable on the part of his fellow citizens, as a mark of dutiful respect to her Majesty, that all business which can possibly be avoided should bo•sus peuded on that joyful occasion. " The Lord Mayor doth hereby give notice, that the Guildhall of the City of London wilt be closed o■ that day, and doth recommend to the loyalty of his fellow citiems the respectful obsorvance of the same. 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The Marquess of Kildare is new at Oxford University, where he will remain till the middle of *ext . mount, —then he will come over to Ireland, on the oevasiofi of lsis , r , " riving of age, and will be entexpaincal at Mavnooth by the tv... merous and happy tenantry of his illustrious gather. We 4 heard that it is the intention of the Nike and his son to • a tour on the continent during the Suntreer.....Deffig i ng Post. position to take from a Jery the right of trying prisoners, and in defence of the Sheriffs he had manly come forward.— ( Hear, hear.) He did not know whether other great per sons connected with the City had acted as they ought. If not, he hoped they speedily would.—( Hear, hear.) If they were found lax—if they were found voting the wrong way, or absta'ning from voting, he hoped they would be remembered at the next election. They must have no lukewarm —no milk-and -water supporters —no shirk mongers, no cowards, and, above all, no spies.—(llear, hear, and laughter.) With these observations he begged leave to read the resolution which he had been called upon to propose. It was purely inoffensive, and per fectly true—( Hear, hear, hear)—and was as follows : " That this Common Hall has learned with surprise and alarm that William Evans and John \Vheelton, Esqrs., the Sheriff of London, and the Sheriff of Middlesex, have been interrupted in the due execution of the law by the order of the House of Commons, directing them to disobey the Queen's Writs, which they had sworn duly to execute and serve; and for the non-compliance with which order of the House, they have been and still are deprived of their liberty by the said House."—( Cheers.) He hoped that before the morning dawned the Sheriffs would be with their families. (Cheers.) Mr. JAMES WILKINSON seconded the resolution. A great seal had been said about the law of the case— what were plain men to do ? how were they to understand this matter when lawyers differed respecting it among themselves?—( Cheers.) All they could go by was Acts of Parliament, and it was curious that he saw no thing respecting these privileges in them. But it would appear there had been a great dispute about them, and as Blackstone had taken so much notice of them, he sup posed he had deemed them of importance.—(The speaker then read an extract from " Blackstone's Commentaries" and " Wade's History of England," and proceeded.) Could any thing be more clear than the opinions of these au thors ? Now, he wished to ask if any of the Newspapers had published what Messrs. Hansard had published, and that Stoekdale had brought his action against them, and had obtained a verdict, whether the House of Commons would have stopped that action, and prevented the money of tile Newspaper Proprietors from passing into the pocket of Stockdale ?—( Hear, hear, hear.) He had no connection with the gentlemen who had nr sainbled the meeting, but he was equally anxious with them that justice should be done ; and, however inade quate he felt himself, he had the mind of an Englishman, and though his party—for he was a Radical—had been accused of wishing to commit spoliation and robbery, lie wished to give to every man that he desired himself, and he maintained there was nothing in Radicalism incon sistent with Christianity. He wished not to exclude but to participate—( Near)—and, therefore, he stood up to ad vocate the law in preference to the tyranny of the House of Commons, and the House of Peers, or that of a king himself. He would maintain the laws that were made by the whole body. He considered Mr. Fielder was the only truo Radical in the House of Commons, and lie had uniformly voted against this unfounded claim of pri vilege. The gentleman who preceded him had tripped him up as to what he had to say, and he would not repeat what had been said, for he could not say it so well, and he should, therefore, do no more than say he cordially se conded the resolution, and hoped it would be unanimously carried. The Loin Mann was then about to put the resolution, when— THOS. KERBY, Esq. (formerly Sheriff of London) rose to move an amendment, and proceeded amid great clamour to make a variety of observations connected with the his tory of his own shrievalty, and was proceeding to censure the course adopted by a Court of Alderman twenty-four years ago, when, after loud cries of " Order," The LORD MAYOR said that he was sure that the meeting would give every gentleman an opportunity of declaring his sentiments—( Hear, hear)—but he called on the worthy gentleman who had risen to propose an amend ment to the first resolution, to read that amendment, which he tnought would be the fairest course to follow, and he hoped that gentleman would have some regard for their time.—(Cheers.) Air. KERBY then proposed his amendment, which was as follows :—" At a meeting, or assembly, of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and the several Companies of the City of London, in the Common Hail assembled, to take into consideration the imprisonment of the Sheriffs of' London and Middlesex, by the House of Commons, for a contempt of its privileges ; at that meeting a resolu tion had been proposed, to which the following is an amendment :—" That the Livery sympathise with the Sheriffs in their imprisonment, but decline to go into any opinion on the great conflict—(Off, off, off)_between the law of high privilege of the House of Commons and the venerable Judges of the common-law and statuto-law of England, as the best means of preservinc , their own ancient and constitutional privilege—that of electing the Sheriffs of Landon and Middlesex, and in the full expectation that the House of Commons will speedily take into considera tion the very peculiar labyrinth of difficulties—( Laughter) —the Sheriffs were involved in in the suit of Stockdale against Hansard, and thereon release the Sheriffs of Lon• don and Middlesex from the custody of the Sergeant•at- Arms."—(Laughter and confusion.) Mr. Kerby addressed some more purposeless phraes to the meeting, amidst cries of " Off, off," and great laughter. He was con vinced that if any attempt was made to create a division between the two conflicting parties, the result would be to extend the incarceration of the Sheriffs.—(Cries of " Off, off ; " and Hear, hear.) Without a volunteer came forward to second his amendment, it would fall to the ground at once.—( Cheers and laughter. No person seconding the resolution, as a matter of course it fell to the ground. ) Mr. GEO. SaLIOS then came forward to propose an amendment. The present meeting had been called to-day to compassionate the Sheriffs on their incarceration. Now he begged to present to their notice another side of the picture. The incarceration of the Sheriffs was not the question—th e real question was the rights and privileges of the people.—(Cheers.) They had no other repre sentatives on the side of the people but the House of Commons The bulwarks of all the privileges of the people were the rights of the House of Commons. Three Estates formed the Constitution of the country—the Queen, the Lords, and the Commons. Who defended the rights of the people ? the privileges of the House of Commons.—( Cries of " All of them?") He knew he was broaching a subject that gentlemen were not there to support, but he stood there as the advocate of the people, and he must designate the whole of the transaction as " Law versus Common Sense," " Law versus the Insti tutions of the Country."—(No, no.) If they wished the House of Commons to be subservient to every Court of Law in the kingdom, what would be the consequence ? Why they would do away with the House of Commons, and destroy it, and lie would tell them why.—( Cries of " The law of the land.") lie knew questions had been asked whether the House of Commons was superior to the law of the land ; if the House of Commons was to be amenable to the law of the land it must bend to the House of Lords, and then it would become its slave ; and then tld follow ? ' a warrant, silent as to any specific offence, but epproach ing nearly to the unconstitutional and tyrannical character of those general warrants which have been condemned as universally abhorrent to Englishmen, and subversive of the best principles of justice." The subject on which they had at that day met was one in which the great voice of the citizens of London had never been silent. The liberty of the subject was now in jeopardy, and by what power ? Why, by the power to whom th ey h a d d e l egated the authority of representa tives, to enact laws, not to unmake them.—( Hear, hear.) The resolution of the House under which the Sheriffs had been committed to durance in a cell of that unconsti tutional bastile attached to the House, was a violation of the great principles of Magna Chute. The petty sub terfuge and contrivance which the House had adopted in order to take the jurisdiction out of the hands of the highest criminal Court in the kingdom was an invasion of the Habeas Corpus Act.—Loud cheers.) He told the House of Commons that he was prepared to say what he now said before their arbitrary House.— (Cheers.) A gentleman who had addressed them had spoken of what he designated the iniquities of the members of the legal prof !scion ; but he had not so read the law of England as to know that the authority of one branch of the Legislature, whether King,, Lords, or Commons, was an authority above that of the united Legislature. If such were the case where would be the liberties of England? The Sheriffs were struck to-day—the Judges might be te-morrow ; and the Livery had been told they had better not interfere or the incarceration might be extended to themselves. —( Laughter.) Had he lived to hear such a statement in a Common Hall of that Livery who, from the earliest times, had asserted the laws—laws not of yes terday, and which required no Select Committee to know what they were, which had withstood the despotic power of the Tudors and the Stuarts —which the power of the Crown could not crush in the worst days of Monarchy, and which not even the false decisions of corrupt Judges could root out of a land of freedom —were those laws then to be torn from the people of England by by the resolution of one branch of its Legislature —were they to hold them in base subservience to arbitrary power Vs hich had stretched out its hand, not against the offending Judges, that would be too bold, but against the ministe rial officers of the law, who were urged to violate their oaths by one branch of the Legislature, and on their re fusal had committed them to prison, end thus struck a blow at the rights of every man in England ?—(Great cheering.) But he believed that those who would not allow the arbitrary power of the Crown, would not stand tamely by and see the Sheriffs sacrificed by an act of tyrannical authority, and that they would not express mere barren sympathy, but act in a manly and constitu tional manner, which would set a great public example, and he trusted do a great public benefit. He trusted that when the history of these times was written, and the names of those gentlemen who were now suffering for principle would be given. If they c old obtain no redress in courts of law, or in either /horse of Parliament—if the Throne itself were inaccessible to justice—stall there was one protecting power to appeal to, the irresistible power of public opinion. He felt he should have been wanting in his duty if, while %hie great struggle was going on. he had not come forward. He knew their proceedings would be cal ried to the At torney-General before sun-set; but in spite of his general warrants, of the subterfuge by which he had got rid of the habeas corpus; his sneers at the captivity of the Sheriffs, and ss.ying they h a d l a id t h e f oundation for the presentation of pieces of plate ; he, who could never have had the spirit or capacity to know what it was to suffer for principle, if he talked in that way—he hoped they would refuse all sympathy with his power, and set it at defiance..--( Cheers ) Mr. SEAGER said lie had great pleasure in assisting to procure the liberation of the Sheriffs, one of whom was his particular friend, and whom, with his colleague, he had much pleasure in informing them, he had left this morning in good health ; and that they had told him they were determined to uphold the rights and privileges of their fellow-citizens, and that they would not swervo from the course they had taken one jot.—(Cheers.) An allusion had been made to e negoci_ tion which was going on for their liberation, but lie could assure the Livery the Sheriffs were not the men who would suffer their privileges or liberties to be negociated for. They had but one purpose, which was that of restoring to them the office with which they had been entrusted, in all the purity in which it was delivered to them. It was said by some that they were wrong in the course they were pursuing; but it was a great consolation to them to have with them the sympathy and opinions of a Tact majority of the people, who, if they were wrong, must al oo be wrong with them. He should say no more than that he had great pleasure in seconding the resolution. The resolution was then put and carried with but one dissentient voice. Mr. RaMSDIN then came forward to propose the follow ing resolution : That, admitting the privilege claimed by the House of Commons to publish the evidence upon w hich it legislates to be of public utility, this Common Hall humbly submits thai such publication should be made under laws and regu lations known and defined, and not by means calculated to weaken the authority of the law, to disturb the peace and security of the country, and to impair the sanctity of an oath, by requiring the Officers of the Law to decide upon the expediency of obeying such writ." In proposing this resolution he begged their indulgence for a few moments, which he thought he was entitled to, as it was the first time he ever had the honour of address ing them, though ho had the honour of belonging to their body for the last thirty-five years. The question before them was so interesting to them, both as citizens, of London, and as the inhabitants of a free land that, though he did not intend when entering the meeting to address them, he could not when called on refuse any ta lent he might possess in submittin g the resolution to their notice. He believed that the imprisonment of the Sheriffs was a gross violation of the liberty of the subject. It might, it was true, bo beneficial that the House of Commons should have privileges; but why were those privileges left in an ambiguous position—why were they not properly defined, and made part of the law of the land ? The difficulties of the question would not, he believed, end where they were now. Parliament would be dissolved—other actions would be brought, and other Sheriff's would feel it their duty to execute the law. It was now time, therefore, that the question should be put at rest—(Cheers)—and that the sense of the people should be taken with regard to it. He trusted, too, that the expression of an opinion on the part of so large, intelligent, and influential a meeting as that which he had then the honour of addressing, would have its due weight with those parties to whom it was to be addressed. Mr. Casoovr, in scconding the resolution, found it unnecessary to address the meeting at any length, as very few among them seemed disposed to enrol themselves among the serfs of the House of Commons. There were not more than five or six per sons among them who appeared to be ready to sanction `lie tyranny of the House of Commons, which - MI SS CHAMBER S, (the Banker's Daughter), has the honoar to announce that her EVENING CONCERT, at the Albion, Aldersgate-street, is postponed from the 10th, to Monday, the 24th of February, 1840, when she implores a continuance of that kindness and support which has ever been extended to her misfortunes. Particulars and Single Ti'•kets 10s. 6d. Family Tickets Three for a Guinea, Will be forwarded on applying by letter, to Miss Chambers 10, Davies -street, Grosvenor-square, and may be had at the .Albion, and principal music shops. To Commence at Eight o'Clock. STOCK EXCHANGE ; Faa. 7, 1840. ALT a MEETING of the COMMITTEE for General Purposes, beldthis day, it was Resolved—That this House be closed on Monday next, the 10th instant, being the day appointed for the solemnization of her Majesty's Marriage. By order of the Committee. JAMES VAN SOMMER, Secretary.