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on have not been received, and yet the in their love of change, have, it seeictg , neasure.—Morning Post. re m i ttF of the House, to be examined, on oath respecting ,mswer ilitary orders. The general had directed them not to IE GOVERNOR OP JAMAICA., sum ail arrived yesterday morning, bringwe th e H 41 4 he refused to appear. His refusal was taken up by .o the 18th ult. That intelligence is and H ouse but the Duke of Manchester justified the refusal, deepest importance. From the hour • d , :.‘d blotted, 0 nei: dissolve the House before it had voted the usual supplies, uit rve ro e ro vez p o ub t l i i le e creditor ssembl u n nx t a i ld, He c_ t nted or there have been a series of contests be. illi self the g in o s , t _ruction s from P the he could receive rnor and the Board of Council on n ifovernment. "his dispute between the e House of Assembly on the other. A n oti ve o r r'r and the Assembly was brought under the considera illy arisen as to the right of the Board of and therveral cabinet councils, at which Lord Eldon assisted, late bills other than bills of impost, the 'were bou r n fi d n t al o d a eci e si a o r n was , be th e a x t am th i e n sue , r i a i l le agli e is Man -1 o rers asserting, the House of Assembly de- ester convened Assembly, and announced the recognition The Board of Council having declared , n'l l ' lo , Government of the rights of the Assembly ; the general use of Assembly should distinctly recog' ter, ' 44 apology at the bar of the House, and he and his offs : the board would do no further business siteawere examined. But this right has been exercised ever —the house, on the other hand, hav i ng oi split tlie Assembly existed, without . interruption and without 1 -e don Innumerable t o the Government has sition tO comply with the demands or te I \ r 4i ed itself an of the . exercise__ of this right, by adopting examina of the ents of the board—it has seemed advis- l c iaken on oath before committees rnor to put a stop to the unfortunate col- q i iore his lordship had received the report of the committee subject of :en dissolution of the House of Assembly , 4 f 4 this right, a claim was made by the council of he has made to their the address which 11 0 ,,t to originate bills. This claim had been disputed by the t eile ' , and for more than half a century the Council had not another part of our paper. 4(1 cal 1 it. It i s well k nown th a t a Le g i s l a ti ve C o u nc il i n a irk we have to make upon this add r ess : Fi n ''Y never moves without the sanction of a Governor. A cumstances which have called it forth, is th e te Wcrd from him would prevent any thing being done on ters made at the best an unf or t una te 13 4t e rt which could produce a schism with the Assembly. 1 sent the Earl of Mulgrave to Jamaica- \,, - lii cti ; ,assertion . of this claim was made under circumstances I k i n , nauceci a belief that they were the instruments of the yet reeking with the blood which, in a •tri t '`"?tor ; the Council refused to transact any further business ;gle, had been profusely shed; the fires 14 the Assembly. Lord Mulgrave, instead ' - of remaining per mitance of the opulent and the hoarding 4i„i, neuter, adopts the conduct of the Council, and abruptly is had been consumed were scarcely ex. th e 4 yes the Assembly before its business was terminated, or veer the fear of punishment on the one UN:tl ea a t l e suppli i e ) ; raised. He In_is . thus plunged the island i i i nt i o l i l t s oceasi s o t n er i : c a a l le ra u s l s a m te e d n n ts o , t a m nd er t e h ly l t a e naef his 1 st for vengeance on the other, societL produce grea s t 'e e e x n cit n e ' excite its very foundations. It was rtimoure ith ° ,t.aniongst the slave population, but to place the coloured s were about to introduce a revolutionarf t ) ,, l a ultants in collision with the white. We make no further nstitutions of the island, and to destroy, ir.isi l ' 4e nt- We ask this question—Can the government seri -3 introduction, the independence of the ti ai Y expect to preserve the island of Jamaica, and at the same 46 /ic Led g er. , p e leave Lord Mulgrave as its Governor ?—Guardian and re. At this time, for the pacifying o f l for the facilitating of future change, to %....., Cabinet entrust the governorship of me distinguished officerperhaps, capable ibmission men whom he could not per it, able to enforce peace where he could ;ration ; or to some eminent civilian, bir limits of the privileges of the colonial lit be fully recognised and fairly ex- Troof might be listened to with defer tot with satisfaction ; or, at the least, to atesman, whose years might command' vhose experience might convey some Tisdom. No such thing. The King's Tamaica is a writer of fashionable novels, Johns and Lady Marys, a performer of tiliar of the green room, who answers a• sture, and a remonstrance with an atti ken out, as his stock in trade, carmine cs and tiaras, Inchbald's British Thea. rtoire of the Gymnase. 1 we make is, that the discretion with i's controversy with the House of M ed is much what might have been anti' previous knowledge of his character io question more difficult of determina ich relates to the authority which the nt is entitled to exercise over the cola , id the period at which its exercise ought kr readers call to mind the cautious, yet vhich Mr. Canning addressed the House his point, and then let them admire the ;y with which the author of Matilda )f the House of Assembly- the doctrine utional lawyer." Let the dicta of the be correct, and his principles sound, 1 one which it is most perilous to expose langerous to scrutinize too narrowly ?Hz. We should not discuss .without t we cannot decide without risk. we make is, that the noble novelist not profited so much as we might have Ong courtship of his country's muses• not reckon upon; eloquence we had id. But tolerable sentences we may a so accomplished a maker of little oc an observe how. the relatives and the one another through the second para thip's discourse, and say whether the r flirted so abominably with synthesis• lovernor of Jamaica treats the King's to his instructions; but surely for his ►ing's English he is personally respon 'ost. :ondemned the unconciliatory policy VP* lent for many years towards our Colonies, of that policy nave been mitigated by the reet conduct of those who have been sent :hus, iu the extensive island of Jamaica, iys been in maintaining the constitutional of its House of Assembly, we have seen a stering for twenty years its Government, y his- just respect for the privileges of the reconciliating any occasional differences inches_, not only to carry with him their y of the measures which he has required An, but to preserve the peace and. trol l. Once only, and that shortly after his did he interpose in opposition to the just nibly, and it is singular that it should have bject which has been selected by the pre iaica as a pretext for quarrelling with the ptly dissolving that body, at a time a nd which evince such a degree of folly and ; dreadful to think the destinies of a great rusted to him. The Duke of Manchester Sir John Keane and Lord Belmore, andi erved the same discreet and conciliatory* Mulgrave, known only to the public as it iter, was selected for the government of when the island was agitated and convulsed the most appalling character. H e met first time, with a speech unexampled in unnecessary introduction of topics which for an answer from the Assembly, assert tation‘in its internal government, and the maintaining those rights, in cousequencd ;aining, under the Reorm Bill, any indi the House of Commons. .To this answer a reply, which we believe even his INlajes aued. It was a lecture on the supremacy se would suppose he had laboured to make as and expressions which should be most most likely to irritate that body of men to essed. The House, with great moderation sed a resolution declaratory of their rights :islature of the colony, and, to avoid prO tbstaihed from sending it to the governor. nee of the Assembly had counteracted the rnor. A pretext was to be found for cre the Assembly. Lord Mulgrave moots no —whether the Assembly had a right to dc ees the power of examining witnesses on had kept his meditations to himself, he .earnt enough of . the history of the colony elf of the existence of the right which he io. Although there was no subject which ding on this proposition, and still less for lations the subject of a communication to ously sends a message to that body, dent , " ssembiy, still determined to bear with this ate and foolish conduct, condescended to committee fora report, and the committee into the origin and history of its exercise.; unless indeed he was determined, at all .11 the Assembly, would have brought to instance to which we have alluded in the s administration, which would have taught the exercise of that right had been‘recog s Government. It was this—Major Gene' in .1808, the commander of the forces. of the garrison were summoned before a. ronEzaN XNTELLIGENCE. „ustiria FRANCE. . The Duchess de Berri has been reported sick, nay, dead; but a re assured that she is now convalescent. The ministers of , Spain, Naples, &c. are labouring for her release. '",gtaad, on this question, practises her non-intervention. tf ,'' naval force of eight ships of the line and frigates is to be 'ed out with great expedition at Toulon, destined, it is 1: . ” under ,(l, for th e L evan t. ae Diligente sloop of war has sailed from Toulon on a very 'Oat mission to Alexandria. HOLLAND AND BELGIUM. I AGun, JAN, 27.—Yesterday our Government sent off l e i s Patches to London by a special messenger. It is said that a nswer of the Government to the explanation demanded by ,_agland and France respecting . the navigation of the Scheldt `:llcedes this much—that the river shall be provisionally free all nations, with the exception of France and England.. Of ro.m, it seems, there is no mention made in the answer. Vurther said that the existence of this exception with respect F rench a n d E ng li s h vesse l s i s d e p en d ent on t h e remova l o f i e e ,c.lubargo on our ships, and the liberation of our troops now as prisoners. Aloreover, it is understood England 31 , coup c ounter-propositions will be made on the part ofg France, but that, on the contrary, the former conditions :Blsted upon by those Powers with respect to the citadel of Ant jell, are now again proposed in reference to the free naviga- Q °4 of the Scheldt; and that the opening of the Scheidt is cte ptipd as a p re liminary to any further negotiation. i • ve • 28 .—Some persons affirm that our Government has n orders to open the Scheldt for Austrian. Russian, and rt issian ships, and has declared its readiness to do the same v tile Fren c h an d E ng li s h vesse l s as soon th e ir G overnments 14tc orders for removing the embargo upon Dutch ships.— eit Papers. Jan. 30. The , SPAIN. e Madrid corres p on d en t of the Morning Herald asserts e m tively, that as far as the mission of Sir Stratford Can tulic,(4 was intended to assist the cause of the Pedroites in Por u ' ,41 , it has entirely failed. The Spanish Ministry say, that as 11 4 Y have recognized Don Miguel as King of Portugal, they will t i c ', i t , loterfere in any way now to dethrone him. Moreover, they dal'e, what must be perfectly true, that they have enough to t r : home without .mixing themselves up with the affairs and , elects of other nations. In other respects, Sir Stratford 4 1 , 4111 a°' is likely to be more successful. In retu,rn for the kpOrt''which England may give the present Spanish . govern ),,,“( in strengthening the Queen's party, and recognizing the 14 ` 1 1. 11 . g Princess as successor to the throne, it is said that Fora- Ih Q ( ' l4l advantages of great . importance . may be obtained. k ct ll,e have been some slight disturbances in the interior,. pro e'' by the Carlists; but the capital remained quiet. tz x tract of a letter of the 18th instant from Madrid:—" The 14 e + e k rs of the Royalist Volunteers of Aigatocin; Velez Rubio, ' . ,_"e kingdom of Granada; of Torox; in the province of - ' 4 ga; and those of Estremadura, have sent to the Queen h re sses of adherence to the system which she has established. t ( i e Minister of the Interior daily receives applications for leave i r publish political and literary journals. The press has an .144 9 f rt Pat part to act in Spain, as it will contribute towards limp4'ing the system of the government, and diffusing sound Y114 41 '4 ideas, to which the Spanish people have been strangers ‘,,,11it0. The insurrection of the Royalist Volunteers of I• oledo, C oilt e ll was considered as an isolated Carlist attempt, was, on the sc a l e r aq. the result of a conspiracy organized on an extensive in e • Among the prisoners taken is a Colonel Espagne, who, „ 4 1 :11cle r to save his life, promised to make important revelations si o ne subject. His declarations have been such as to give occa -4 m 'or the arrest of persons of the highest ecclesiastical rank. Ot t eat number of persons have been compromised at Seville. titp s e day when some groups at Madrid uttered cries of ' Viva 4, Re y Carlos v.r the town of St. lago, in Galicia, presented 11 ,,, 11 , 8 of rebellion. An inflammatory proclamation, proceed .lT 'rota the Episcopal . Palace, was posted up in the streets. ti e r ,Royalist V olunteers, commanded by a captain surnamed rii s ‘;apon, took up arms, and if the troops of the line had not tsit upon, gret energy 'the insurrection would have !Tread ' Pl 'll Theirexamination, . )e o , y. ease is under in common with the qz B Pirators of Madrid and Toledo. Fifty more of the Body ;4,: 4 ,_"ds have just been discharged. A woman, named Ronkali, kii' e d for her intrigues, has been exiled from Madrid. Coun ye of Ministers are very frequent. Sir Stratford Canning had Al,,,,terday a long conference with his Majesty, at which the 'Luster of Foreign Affairs was present." PORTUGAL. t,rouro, JAN. 12.—The Chronica C ons tit uc i ona l o f thi s d a t e it,ill,tains in the official part decrees o f th e D u k e o f B raganza the following tenour :- 1. / ti consequence of the representations of Marquis Pal kirs7, relieves him from the office of Minister of Foreign Af .2444d 3. In like manner discharges Seno r J ose X av i er (la Silveira, Minister of Finance, and Senor Luiz da Nlouzinho de Albuquerque, Minister of the Interior. At). ai a ppoints the Marquis de Louie to be Minister of Foreign „. the' ).-- f il A PPoints Senhor Candido Jose Xavier to be Minister of tenor. ' ll these decrees, dated the 12th, are signed Don Pedro, and oiont e rsigned by Bernardo de la •Nogueita, Minister of M ar i ne , j r gertod interim with the functions of Minister of the Interior. N. 8 . Take from M. Freire, Minister of War, and from of fi c lPleira, Minister of the Marine, the functions of Minister t he f 0 Affairs and the Interior, which they held ad interim. y. a in c ts et is :_ an extract of aletter received from Lisbon "'"u Te e Tar v p lit LI SBCVS •l9 —:Lord Hervey has _returned to Madrid, JAN. Gre at °no here is aware of the object of his coming to Lisbon. Preparations are making at the batteries, and a new th at. l B Planning at I'alhares , on the other side of the river, lo ug hs to have se v enty pieces of artillery, if so many can be soe n - ' to mount it. The. whole will very probably be wanted to as th e l ate fi r i ng a t the Fren c h brig of war, the insult at L e A tlog at Oporto, and the opposition of the authorities au bon .to th e f r ee entry of French vessels, may l ea d t o ye Ate e l hostile vi s it. `A 'French brig of war crossed the ba r Whil„ r liaj but was not allowed to come above Passo d'Arcos, h w;" vessels have free ingress and egress. This, 'PL --v er, proceeds rather from fear of the large ships in the shi l l s than any - hive borne to the English. His 'Majesty's' eeevitt, St. Vincent (120) was sent off in haste on Monday . last for t° receive,. as it is said, Sir S. Canning, who is to pro- - hut thither f rom M a d r id , on hi s wa y t o Oporto and Lisbon ;. " this there - is some doubt. At the Foreign Office of itio lg to tiet there are certainly advices from Madrid of his intend •art' hitherTelles*Jordaoarrived here from the. • i tlY, it is said in. disgrace.—Exchange on England, 48 ;, 4 gio, 26." • tf,i, 441 THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. The news from Oporto, as detailed in the letters of the Times, correspondent, reaches to the 22d January. The Marquis of Palmella has been dismissed from his post of Ambassador to England, and all his friends have been excluded from the Cabinet. Palmella, it is said, exceeded his powers,—which were, however, very ample ; and his dismissal is attributed more to the intrigues of his enemies than to his own miscon duct. It is quite ludicrous to read the accounts of the changes in Don Pedro's Government announced with so much pomp. It seems that this broken-down potentate, who cannot stir a mile by land from the gates of the city *here he is beseiged, has Foreign, Home, Marine, and Finance Secretaries, a Direc tor-General of the Customs, a Diplomatic establishment, and all the paraphernalia of a court.—M.Loule, the Emperor's very youthful and very handsome brother-in-law, is to supply the vacant post at London. We have long been at a loss to know of what use the English squadron in the Douro was. The Times has at length vouch safed instruction on this point. "The English ships teach the sentinels on both sides to take off their hats to each other," in short they are " the Chesterfields of the Douro," a title which English sailors nay be proud of for the very first time. In the absence of any lighting of importance, the correspon dents of the daily papers inform their readers of almost every shot that is fired by a sentry. or piquet. The Miguelites were short of powder for nearly a week • so that no bombs or shells were thrown into the city during that time. Nearly four hun dred French soldiers arrived in a brig on the 20th of January; a reinforcement which caused much joy. Confiscations and seizures of property, British and Portuguese, distinguish every day of Don Pedro's rule in Oporto, and desertion in his fleet increases. In the army, discipline is preserved; but the British soldiers are in mutiny on account of pay and clothing being withheld.. The new commander-in-chief, Solignac, is very dili gent in preparing . his troops to act offensively. He is said to be a strict disciplinarian. Admiral Sartorius has arrived with four vessels of different .sizes. He had been ordered to leave Vigo by the Spanish Government, who sent a detachment of 4000 men, and a seventy-four gun ship, to enforce the order ; so he was obliged to move away. He entered the Douro on the 20th January. The English ships saluted the admiral, and the Portuguese batteries shot away his mizen-trysail. Provisions were arriving, horses were in the offing, and 600 new troops had arrived. An immediate movement was expected. the accounts is the more probable. Every thing, however, leads us to believe, that anarchy and distress are prevalent to a great extent in Mexico, and the people appear to be , in the low est state of civilization.—London Standard. NEW SOUTH WALES. In a private letter, dated the 31st of July, a highly respect able corespondent writes as follows from Hobart -town:— " A few persons of good education, and who have seen some thing of the world, are much wanted here, and they would do well. The police system h as b een greatly improved and now works very effectively. Good mechanics and farm labourers would find employ,, and be well paid. The colony.could afford to pay £2O each for their passage 'and outfit; bid, the pension ers, of whom 160 have lately arrived, are worse than useless. They are the most lazy, drunken, and dissipated men I ever met. They land here with a small pittance, which is soon spent in the pot-houses, and sharks are not wanting to help' them to make away with' whatever they have. You cannot imagine the daily misery I see existing amongst them here. There is a proposition now made to tax convict servants, which I do not think will ever succeed, although convict mechanics lent to settlers and charged Gd. a-day, and worki ng conv i cts holding tickets of leave (by which they work for themselves) to pay £sper annum each, may do so, and £lO,OOO a-year will be thus raised, which, if judiciously applied, must be beneficial to the colony. I think the wealth of the colony is somewhat over estimated. The hardships of the settlers in remote parts (and all new settlers must go to remote parts) are very great. No one .but a settler can know them. To tax assigned servants will be actual ruin to the poorer classes of them. The cost of these convicts is £22 a-year, and they do not do half the work that they would do were their labour voluntary and they were paid. On the whole the colony is flourishing; and if the peo ple are treated as I hope they will be by the present govern ment, I am sure it will be a great country in half a century. The English imports are, I believe, £300,000 a-year, and the balance of trade is considerably against the colony, which has only ivool and oil to offer in exchange. Every good labourer can get work , but the pensioner's are a burden to the town, ou t of which they will not go." WURTEMBERG. In the sitting of the 22nd, a petition was presented, complain ing that the accounts of the proceedings of the Chamber were not fairly published, the reports being altered and mutilated by the censors. The Chamber ordered the petition to be referred to a committee. RUSSIA. Extract of a letter, of the 7th inst.. from Odessa:—" The fleet is quite ready, and only waiting for a thaw to leave the ports of Nicolaieff and Sebastopol; the cold is intense, and the ice is extremely solid. It is said that, in consequence of the want Of transports, the fleet will take on board only 60(X) men, instead of 12,000. There exists no longer any doubt that this fleet is destined for Trebisonde, a port which has been thought prefer able to any other for supplying with provisions the 20,0Q0 men who, it is said, are marching against Ibrahim. It is not stated what districts this army will traverse. Some assert that at is to be under the command of General Rosen, who is Governor of Georgia: others under that of Marshal Roth, who commands in Bessarabia. A report is even current that this corps is already within a short distance of Erzeroum, but this news does not obtain credit. The equipment of the fleet, even in the opinion of the partisans of the Russians themselves, is very in different. The vessels composing it are almost unfit for service, through use and neglect, and the crews consist of old discharged sailors. It is said that some naval officers ' who have come from the Baltic, to be employed in the fleet, have made representa tions against such a state of.things."—.4iipbury Gazette. AUSTRIA. A letter of 19th inst., received from Vienna, states that the draught of a treaty between England, France, and Austria, to resist the threatened aggressions of Russia on the Turkish fron tier, had been drawn up with the concurrence of the Austrian dovernment., and that there,was every likelihood of its being uly concluded. The letter adds, that the notion of such an alliance for such an object was exceedingly popular throughout the Austrian dominions, though there existed a strong repug nance to any other that might tend to disturb the tranquillity of the country. In Hungary the enthusiasm is represented to have been so great, that oilers had been sent to Vienna of assist ance in men or money to any extent that might he required. Should Russia, in th e f ace o f suc h a formidable league to op pose them, still persist in the objects believed to be meditated, the opinion at Vienna was that it would infallibly lead to another movement for re-establishing the kingdom of Poland. —Times. TURKEY AND EGYPT. The Augsburg Gazette, of the 25th inst. contains the following of the 19th from Vienna:—"Commercial letters from Semlin mention that the Egyptians are advancing towards Smyrna, in order to derive supplies from thence in their further progress. Some letters even state that Ibrahim Paella had arrived at Smyrna, and add that it was his intention to proceed thence to the Hellespont, and then to make use of his fleet to convey his troops to Europe, and lead them against the capital. This news, however, appears to be premature, as nothing of it is known here through official channels; the last adviees from Constantinople make no mention of such movements. Public attention is here almost entirely absorbed by the affairs of the east, and fears are entertained that they may produce serious complications." JAMAICA. The intelligence by the Jamaica mail of Lord Mulgrav's abrupt dissolution of the Assembly, and his threatened collision with the planters and landed proprietors of that island, seems to have excited a good deal of alarm among the members of the West India interest, who appear to anticipate from it another insurrection of the slaves, and the repetit►on of the dreadful scenes that took place in 1831. The circumstance, joined with the uneasiness the whole body profess to feel at measures they believe to be in contemplation by the government at home, has thrown them into a state of consternation which it is not easy to describe. MEXICO. By way of New York, advices have been received form Vera Cruz, of the date of the 11th December. By these it appears, that the contending parties have at length come to blows, with the prospect of advantage, though not quite decidelily so, on the side of Santa Anna. A convoy with 50,000 dollars, on its way to that General, was attacked and taken by General Busta mente on the Ist of December, but recovered on the folio wing day by Santa Anna. Bustamente subsequently attacked the city of Puebla, from which he was driven off, after a severe contest, by his oppenent. It was added that Santa Anna had contrived to cut off his retreat, and that the belief was in Puebla on the 7th that Bustamente would be forced to submit, but this requires confirmation.— Times. NEW ORLEANS, Dec. B.—By the William A. Turner, Capt. Budd, from Vera Cruz, whence she sailed on the 17th ult., we have received late accounts of the state of affairs in that coun try.—Santa Anna had raised the siege of Mexico, for the pur pose of attacking Bustamente (who was marching to relieve that place), iu order to prevent the junction of General with Bustamente who has now an army of 5000 or 6000 men. Bustamente was within a few days' march of that city, and it was expected he would risk a battle with Santa Anna, who had about an equal force, as soon as they approached each other.— Mexico, it is said, would not have held out two weeks lonwir, as water and provisions were scarce. The Government, how ever, were actively engaged in putting it in a state to sustain a long siege, in case Bustamente should be defeated. There is no prospect that the country will be restored to tranquillity for six months to come. Both parties seem confident of ulti mate success. A gale occurred at Vera Cruz a short time before the Wil liam A. Turner left, which destroyed the wharf, and did consi derable injury to the shipping and town —American paper Jan. 3. A Mexican mail, brought by the Sheldrake, which left Vera Cruz, on the 19th Dec., and Ilavannah on the Ist of January, supplies us with Vera Cruz papers, by which we learn than au armistice has been agreed on between Bustamente and Santa Anna, and that Pedraz is to be President until the Ist of April, after which an election is to take place, the result of which will, in all probability, be the appointment of General Bravo to that office. If the Chambers-Should oppose this arrangement, it is said that the united armies of Bustamente and Santa Anna will compel them to yield. This, however, is only one version of the story. Other ac counts represent that the faction Of the existing government is still exceedingly strong, and that there was little prospect of au early final adjustment of the civil war. These latter accounts give a very different version of the action between Santa Anna and Bustamente to that published in the New York papers. They state that Santa Anna was repulsed in that action, and his loss so serious as to preventhim advancing upon the capital,. and that he remained at Puebla. They represent also the country to be in a state of complete anarchy from one extreme to the other, and confidence utterly annihilated. We really are not s uffi c i en tly in possession of the state of Mexican politics, to be able to offer any opinion as to which of Emptriat Parliament. HOUSE OF LORDS7--TnuusnAv, Jan. 31. Their Lordships assembled this day, shortly after two o'clock, for the purpose of signifying his Majesty's royal, approval, by commission, to the choice of the House of Commons of a Speaker. The commissioners were the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Richmond, the Marquis of Lansdown, and Lord Auckland. The Usher of the BlaCk Rod haVing summoned the Com mons, the right hon. M. Sutton, supported by Lord Morpeth and Sir Francis Burdett, and accompanied by about 2(X) mem bers, approached the bar. Mr. C. MANNERS SUTTON then addressed the Lords Commis: sioners, he said that his Majesty's faithful Commons had, :ac cording to his Majesty's command, proceeded in pursuance of their ancient and indisputable right to the election of a Speaker ; and he had now to info r m th e i r Lordships that their choice had fallen on him. From long experience he was well aware of the great difficulties attendant •on the discharge of that high and arduous office, and he could not but deeply feel his own incapa city; should it, however, please his Majesty to disapprove of.the choice made by his faithful Commons, he was quite sure that they-would have no difficulty in selecting some other individual much more capable of sustaining that high office. The Lou') CHANCELLOR.—Mr. Manners Sutton, we have it in command to inform von that his Majesty i s so fully satisfied of your great zeal for the public service, and from your many eminent qualities, that he most fully approves of and confirms the choice of his faithful Commons. The SPEAKER then in his own name and that of the Com mons claimed the usual privileges of freedom of debate—free dom from arrest for themselves and servants, facility of up— proach to the royal presence—and, finally, that if any error should appear to be attributable to his Majesty's faithfui Corn= mons, it might be attributed to him individuahy and not to the House generally. The Loan CHANCELLOR having in the usual Manner, and in his Majesty's name, granted the request, the Commons retired. Both Houses sat for some time, but nothing ivas done but ad ministering the oaths. HOUSE OF COMMONS—THURSDAY, Jan. 31. This House was opened at ten minutes to two o'clock. At two, the Speaker took the seat usually occupied by .Mr. Ley, the C . ;',liief Clerk, there being at that time about two hundred members present. .The ministerial benches were fully occu pied, but there were on the opposite seats but a few members, amongst whom was the lion. member for Oldham. At a quar ter past two the Deputy Usher of the Black Rod came to re quire the attendance of the House, in the House of Peers with they Speaker.—The Speaker, accompanied by most of the members present, Lord Morpeth and Sir F r an c i s B ur d e tt closely attending him, left the House, and in about ten minutes he returned mid took the Chair. -The members having taken their seats, _ _ _ The SPEAKER said—l have to acquaint this House that this House has been to the House of Peers, whore I have com municated to the Lords Commissioners appointed u by his Majesty, that this House, in the exercise of its ancient and undoubted privilege, had proceeded to choose a Speaker, and that the choice had fallen upon me, which choice their Lord ships his Majesty's Commissioners were pleased to approve. I then proceeded to lay claim, by humble petition, to ad those ancient rights and privileges which this House has claimed in all former Parliaments, particularly freedom of debate; and freedom from arrest for the per6ons of its members and of their servants; and free access to his Majesty at all reasonable times; and that the most favourable construction should always be put upon their language; and the Lords Commissioners, in the name of his Majesty, stated that all those privileges should be granted by his Majesty . in as full a manner as they had been enjoyed by former Parliaments. And now I have again to return thanks for the honour conferred on sue,_ by my appoint ment to fill this chair. I assure the House, that from the long experience which I have had, I am aware that the . honest dis charge of the duties of this most honourable office is the best means of securing the confidence of the House, and that it will be my inclination, as it is my duty, to maintain those privileges to the utmost, and to impress upon the members themselves, for our own sake, and for the sake of the public, the necessity of a strict adherence to the rules and orders of the House • and as a much larger number of nn w mem b ers than usual' haVe been returned to this Parliament, I wish to assure them that—which I hope it is unnecessary to state to the old members—l shall give, on all occasions, every assist ance and advice in my power, and I hope that no member will feel any difficulty in applying to me for such aid as I can render. (Cheers.) Mr. Ley, the chief clerk, then administered the oaths to the Speaker, who proceeded to swear the other Members, beginning with the English counties, in alphabetical order. On calling the members for the county of Durham, there seemed to be a pause for some minutes, in the expectation that Mr. PEASE would present himself, but that gentleman, although irr the House at the time, did not come to the table. After which the House adjourned to 12 o'clock to-morrow. Baron Stockmar, the friend and confidential secretary of the King of the Belgians, who has just departed for Brussels, is un derstood to be the bearer of a private communication from our Cabinet to King Leopold. INGENIOUS TAVERN ROBBERY IN PARIS.—A few days ago a wcll-dressed man, with an eye-glass hung from his neck, a switch in his hand, and a young and pretty woman on his arm, entered the: restaurant of I\l. Deffieux, on the Bouvelard du Temple, and after having, in half French, • half English, an nounced that he came in consequence of the high repute of the fare of the house, which he had heard of in London, ordered a dinner of every delicacy to be served iu a private room, They were accordingly shown into one, and the waiter having fur nished the table with three silver spoons and forks, went down to the kitchen for the soup. On his return the guests desired to have spoons and forks; the waiter asserted that he had already laid them; upon which the gentleman became highly incensed, and insisted upon seeing M. Deffieux himself. Complaint was made of the insolence of the waiter, and a search of the two guests, upon the peremptory demand of the Englishman, was made, but nothing was found. The most abject apologies were then tendered by the accusing garcon, and offended dignity was appeased; the dinner was served and eaten; the bill amounting to 2t3f., was paid, with.the addition of 2f., to the wait e r, a s a to ken of complete amnesty. This tete-a-tete party had scarcely withdrawn when two good-looking persons entered, and took their seats in the places which had just been vacated. Dinner was ordered, served, eaten, and paid for. The room being - again vacant, the waiter entered to clear the table, and happening to move it he heard something, fall on the floor. On looking he found on the ground one of the missing silver forks, and on the under side of the table a large patch of pitch, bearing the im yressions of the six articles of plate which had caused him so much uneasiness. They had been thus concealed by the first party, and were•there found and carried off by the second, who were their confederates in this ingenious mode of robbery. Two days afterwards a similar manoeuvre was performed with equal success at another restaurant in the Bois de nomainville.— Galigtranf Messenger. IVZISCES.LANEOTJS. A commercial treaty with the French Government, which is said to be on the Lapis, has lately occupied the attention of the Ministry. Lord Lansdown and Mr. Poulett Thomson have been in constant communication with Lord Grey on the subject. The Duchess of Bedford has been detained at Baron's court, in Ireland, (the seat of the Marquis of Abercorn,) by a severe and dangerous attack of pleurisy; but we are happy to► learn that she is now convalescent. In the event of Mr. Alderman .Waithman's retiring from Parliament, which from the state of his health there appears great reason to apprehend, we understand it is Mr. Lyall's in tention again to come forward as a representative for the city. . IRISH LEGISLATION.—In May 1784, a bill, intended to limit the privilege of franking, was sent from Ireland for the Royal approbation; in it was a clause enacting that any member who, from illness or other cause, should be unable .to write, might authorise some other person to frank for him, provided that on the back of the letter so franked the member uoth, at,the same tune, give under his hand a full certificate of his inability to write.—Dublin Penny Journal. EXPEDITION. 7 -ThC following appears in the Parliamentary report on the Post-office communication with Ireland proof of the capability of expeditious communications with Ire, land via Bristol, an instance recently occurred. An express with the result of the division in the 'House of Lords on the second reading of the Reform Bill left London on the 14th at 8 o'clock in the 'mornin g , arr i ve d i n B r i s t o l at half-past 3. was.- forwarded by a steam- vesse l a t h a lf- pas t 4 , a nd was delicered in Waterford at 3 o'clock in the afternoon of the 15th, taking 31 hours only from London to Waterford. Puanic Ent:CATION FRANCE.—The Moniteur contains a report 'to the-King from the Minister of Public Instruction on the present state and progress of, primary instruction, from whiCh it appears that since the year 1829 there has been established 4,655 additional schools, and that the number of scholars has beed increased by 231,375 within the same period ; that there are 2,741 communes which have primary schools now that had none in 1829; that the number of schools of mutual instruction have- increased by 536, and of normal primary schools by 31. ACCIDENTS BY FIRE. IMPORTANT SUGGESTION TO Ph. RENTS, &c.=-Inquests were on Monday held in St. Barthole, mew's Hospital, on the bodies of John Horland,.aged 4 years ; Emma Pragg, aged 5 years ; and - John Dernocom, aged . years, who were all burnt to death in • consequence of their clothes taking fire. A fourth child remains inthe hospital, SO shockingly burnt, from a similar calamity, that little hopes are entertained of its recovery.. The jury appeared much shocked at the repetition of these dreadful calamities; and one of tßem,* an experienced chemist, suggested to parents the propriety of washing children's clothes in a weak solution of alum, as a pre-. ventive to tire. He has tried the experiment, and could testify that it was almost impossible to set auy kind of linen or stuff on fire when washed in this way. Verdict—Accidental death in each case. PARQUIIARS . ON, who, it will be recollected, committed a contempt of the Court of Chancery, in reporting the proceed. ings of a meeting of the late Duke of York's creditors, was ar rested on' Saturday last, and sent to the Fleet. On Thprsday, the Attorney-General moved, before the Lord Chancellor, for his discharge r without payment of costs. Sir E. Sugden, for the plaintiff, did not object to his release • but thought that he ought to pay the costs. The Lord Chancellor ordered his dis charge, on the payment of costs, on the grounds stated in his affidavit, namely, that he had no evil intention in sending the report in question for publication; that he expressed contrition for his offence ; and that his state of health was such as enti tled him to the merciful consideration of the court. The Lord Chancellor said,—" I do not envy the feelings of that man, be lie who he may, or of those men, be they who they may, who placed Mr. Farquharson in this situation, and will not imme diately convey to him the means of paying those costs." And, "my impression is, that those who have got off by exposing this gentleman for them, ought to pay the costs. Where is the newspaper? :They were liable for this contempt, but were let off for Mr. Farquharson." The Attorney-General, Mr. Be thell, and Mr. Whitlock have relinquishe' their share of the costs, having returned their fees to Mr. Farquharson. It was stated also, that his solicitor had acted gratuitously. Lone EXMOUTH.—Ve have to announce the death of Lord Exmouth, Vice-Admiral of England. He expired at half-past 6 o'clock on Wednesday sennight, in the 67th year of his age, at his house at Teignmouth and surrounded by his family, one of whom, the Rey. - IMward 'Fellow, Dean of Yorwich, hail onl7,- arrived in time to take his sorrowing stand by •the death-bed oii which the most honoured hero of the British navy, and a man the most amiable iu all the social endearments of 'domestic life, was closing his last scene. His Lordship had been for a con siderable time suffering . under severe illness, in the first stage of which he became quite delirious, and was wholly, engrossed, with the idea that he was then actually engaged in fighting the . Dutch fleet. A few days before his death he appeared to feel himself better, and, in noticing the improvement, said ." I have lately been going to leeward, but now I think I am working to windward again." He has left two sons, the present Lord Exmouth, a Captain in the Navy, and the Hon. Captain Fleet wood Pellew, and we believe one daughter, Lady Halstead. His funeral, in obedience to his own wishes, is to be strictly private. Every reader of our naval annals must be familiar with his long and brilliant career of service during the eventful war of 1793. At the commencement of that contest he received, the honour of knighthood for the first capture of a French fri gate, and a few years after he was further rewarded with the dignity of baronet, for his heroic benevolence in saving, at the imminent hazard of his own life, the whole crew of the - Dutton, when that ship was driven on shore in a dreadful gale at Plymouth.—Courier. His lordship was Grand Cross of Charles 111. of Spain, of the order of Ferdinand and Marie, of Sicily ; the St. Lazarus and St. Maurice, of Sardinia; and of of the Netherlands. CONVOCATION OF THE CLERGY. • On Wednesday morning last, pursuant to a mandate issued' by order of the Archbishop'of Canterbury, a convocation of the clergy of the established church was held at the Cathedral 'church of St. Paul's, for the purpose of electing a prolocutor to represent the clergy in the new Parliament, and on other matters. The attendance of the proctors representing this clergy in the several dioceses was by no means numerous, Shortly before 11 o'clock the Vicar-General (Sir Herbert Jenner,) the Chancellor of London, the Advocates, among whom were Dr. Dodson, Dr. Ni c h o l,' D r . L ee , D r . Haggare, Dr. Curteis, &c„ the Registrars of the Arches and the Province of Canterbury, the Proctors, &c. proceeded in coaches from Doctors'-commons to the Chapter-house. In the Court-room of the Chapter-house there were found waiting to receive the above-named officers, &c., the Bishops of London, Hereford, and Llandaff, together with a num b er of the clergy delegated to represent the members of the'esta. blished church in various parts of the country, to whom sills - monses had been sent demanding their attendance, A procession was then formed for. the purpose of attending divine service in the Cathedral, preparatory to the opening of the convocation. At the great western door of the cathedral the procession was received by the Dean and Chapter, the Bishops, and the Choristers. In consequence of the recent loss sustained by the Arch. bishop of Canterbury in the death of his only son, his grace appointed the BishUps of London and Hereford as his corn •nussioners, and they were received at the convocation ac cordingly. The members of the, convocation proceeded to the choir 41 the following order, viz. : The gentlemen of the choir in their surplices, the Bishops of London and Hereford, the Vicar-Geneiai, the Chancellor, the Advocates, and followed by the Proctors, clergy, &c. .The commissioners entered the Dean's seat, the rest of the officials occupying their placeifin the stalls,. &C. The Bishop of Hereford, as the 'junior Bishop, read prayer', after which followed the anthem, "Oh pray for the peace} Jerusalem." The Rev. Dr. Rnsgell then delivered a sermon in Latin. The learned divine preached in an audible and powerful voice, and was listened to with considerable attention. After the sermon was concluded, the anthem "Gloria in E 7 :,, Mils" was sung by the choir, and at its conclusion the Bishop , of London pronounced the blessing. The procession then left the Cathedral for the Chapter-house, where the mandate from His Itlajesty was read, commanding the Archbishop of Canterbury, the, Bishops, &c., to meet in convocation in order to choose a prolocutor. The mandate stated that in consequence of many weighty and urgent row ters connected with the church. establishment. calling for the convocation, and that as his. Majesty did not' for divers reasons think lit to be personally present, the Archbishop of Canter bury or his Commissioners were- to take the subjects conuecti 4 with the convocation into consideration. 'the appointinet.f of the commissioners - was then read, and the Bishop - cf London addressed the cle rg y, ca lli ng on them to proceed to the election. The clergy of the lower house proceeded to the chapel co the north side of the cathedral, and after. some consideration uni t . nimously elected the Dean of 'Chichester as their prolocutpr. The convocation then adjourned to February.