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EADVERTUSEMENT.I TO THE EDITOR OP THE LIrERPOOL ST-11VDARD Liverpool, 18th October, 1833. - SIR,—H-aving, on Wednesday, the 16th instant, served a 'notice, in writing, upon the auctioneers, Messrs. Winstauley and Sons, at the Clarendon-rooms, South John-street, Liver pool, that a bill had actually been tiled in Chancery, pursuant to the notices which had already appeared in several of the Liverpool papers, and thereof requested them to give notice to the public previously to the sale of the freehold and copyhold estates belongrug to the late Edmund Livesey, may I beg the favour of your inserting, in your paper, the following extracts from answers, upon oath, of two of the defendants, Edmund W. Livesey, the heir-at-law, and Elizabeth Livesey, the widow of the late Edmund Livesey, to a. bill filed in Chancery in Novem ber, 1823, by this same party, who lately attempted' to sell the estates. Defendant Edmund Livesev admits, that Edmund Live sey, deceased, did make and publish his last will and testament, in writing, of. such date, purport and effect, as in the said bill -in that behalf set forth, so tar as the same is therein set forth; but defendant saith, that the said will was not according to the instructions and intentions of the said testator; for defendant iraith, that the said testator gave instructions and intended that the said estates should, on failure of issue of him, the said Edmund W. Livesey, devolve upon his younger sons, James W. Livesev and H. Livesey, and their issue successively, before the iimications therein inserted for the benefit of the slaughters of the said testator aud, their issue, but that such limitations or dispositions for the benefit of the said younger ions of the said testator and their issue, were accidentally or in advertently omitted by the solicitor who prepared the said will. Defendant •Edmund W. Livesey further saith that, for several years before the date of the said will, and thenceforward to the time of his death, the said testator was unfortunately addicted to excessive intemperance in drinking, and that, in conse quence thereof, he was, fur long periods of time, in a state of absolute derangement and utter incapacity to manage his own affairs, but that, sometimes, during such periods, he was rather less intemperate, and, iu some measure, recovered, and able to do valid acts respecting his property. Defendant Elizabeth Livesey admits it to be true that said testator did make and publish such instrument as in said bill is mentioned to be his last will and testament in writing, and that the seine was of such date, purport, and effect as in said hill in that behalf set forth so far as the same is therein set forth, but defendant believes and avers the fact to be that said instrument, so far as the same is or may be in the bill alleged, or may pur port or appear upon the face thereof to be or to contain a com plete declaration of the will and intention of said testator, in respect of his real estates therein mentioned, and the limitations thereby created in respect thereof, is erroneous and defective, and was not framed according to the instructions and intentions of said testator, for this defendant saith and avers the fact to be that said testator gave instructions and intended that the estates should in case of failure of issue of Edmund Worthington Livesev, another of the defendants in said bill named as therein mentioned, devolve upon his younger sons and their issue sac .cessively, Fedora the limitations therein inserted for the benefit of the daughters of said testator and their issue, but that such limitations or dispositions for the benefit of the younger sous of said testator and their issue were omitted by the solicitor who prepared said will and testament. Defendant Elizabeth Live sey further saith that the said testator, for several years previously to and up to the time of his death, was unhappily addicted to excessive intemperance in drinking, and that in consequence thereof he was for long periods of time in every year in a state of absolute mental derangement and utterly incapacitated to manage his own affairs; but that sometimes during such periods he was rather less intemperate, and recovered his senses and mental faculties. The Master of the Rolls, at the hearing of the cause in July, 1830, observed, that the testator. Edmund Livesey, evidently was not a man capable of managing his own affairs, and gave me liberty to take such proceedings as I might think fit to esta blish my own rights as heir-at-law and the eldest son, although the question of construction as to the words eldest or only son, in the alleged will, was never argued. I have, therefore, filed a bill in Chancery to establish my rights to the freehold and copyhold estates, being advised that there were not proper or sufficient parties to the former suit of Livesey v. Harding, the delay hitherto having pprinci• pally arisen from a desire to settle amicably and avoid furthsr litigation in my own family, as a series of correspondence, in possession of myself and solicitors, will sufficiently establish.— lain, Sir, yours, respectfully, JAMES W. LIVESE Y. LONDON POLICE REPORT. LAMBETH-STREET. Jane Walls, the girl who stood remanded on a charge of arson, in having set fire to the dwelling-house of Mr. Stones, a respectable farmer, residing at Barking-side, Essex, was brought up for final examination. Miller, the principal officer, as di rected by the magistrates on the previous examination, pro duced a portion of the floor, and the papering of the room in which the bed had been set on fire by the prisoner,. hut they slid nut appear to be burnt through, but merely scorched. Mr. Flower, of the firm of Harmer and Co., who attended on behalf of the pritouer, handed to the magistrates a certificate, of which the following is a copy:— "33, New Broad-street. "I hereby certify, that I have been in the habit of attending, in February last, Jane Walls, who was a patient of the Eastern Dispensary, and who was attack e d by a severe fe ver , accom panied with ' much delirium and disease of the brain. Her con valescence was remarkably slow, and her mind for a long time feeble, as is often the care in such an attack of fever ,• but I know nothing of her state of mind since she discontinued to be a pa tient at the Dispensary. i° Octobdr 21, 1833." " SOUTHWOOD SMITH, M.D." In addition to this, her mother and several respectable per sons said that. she had her head shaved several times in conse quence of fever and giddiness; and that at the death of her lather, a month since, her manner indicated that she had not recovered - Irene the effects of her illness. Mr. Stones, in reply to the questions of the magistrates, said, t6o. in 6 " " in himself nor any of his fatly observed the slightest giddiness of manner in the prisoner; on the contrary, she always appeared very steady and &emotive for tier age. Mr. Hardwick, after having conferred with Mr. Walker, ob served, that under all the circumstances, and in the absence of anything like proof of malice on the part of the prisoner, they would not commit her for the capital offence; but the charge was one of so serious a nature that it was impossible to overlook it, and they would therefore send her to take her trial for the minor offence, of misdemeanour, in attempting to set the house on fire. The evidence of the witnesses was then taken, and the youth ful yrisoner committed to take her trial at the next Chelinaford aunts. On the application of Mr. Flower she was admitted to bail, and taken tome by her friends. OLD BAILEY SESSIONS. FORGING THE GOLDSMITH'S HALL MARKS. •Wm. Treen, the man charged with forging the Hall mark to a quantity of silver spoons, which were found in the shop . of Mr. Thos. Com. Savory, the silversmith, of Cornhill, was tried -on Saturday, before Mr. Baron Vaughan, and acquitted_ On Monday. Mr. Savory was arraigned before the same learned judge for exposing for sale this plate, with a guilty knowledge that the marks impressed upon it were forgeries. it was nut denied that these marks were counterfeited; but he evidence - adduced, on the part of the prosecution, failed in proving that Mr. Savory was cognizant of it, and Mr. Baron Vaughan, in his summing up, observed that there was a total absence of any plod of a guilty knowledge on the part of the defendant • but, at the same time, be was of opini o n that the prosecution hadi been most properly instituted. The jury, without turning round, pronounced a verdict of Not Guilty. Mr. Alley said that there was a second indictment against the defendant, but after the full investigation which had just terminated, he should not think of pressing it. A verdict of Not Guilty was then recorded on the second in siictinent, in the usual form. The trial occupied from ten o'clock in the morning until five o'clock, and the court was crowded to excess during the whole of the proceedings, CANNING AND EARL GREY. The Earl of Blessington had often intellectual parties, se lected with solicitude, at his table; and one day, the Countess resolved to have for her friends, " A feast of reason and a flow of soul ;" for which purpose some of the most brilliant orbs of London were brought •into conjunction. Her ladyship, in asking me to be a gazer, told me what phenomena wouid shine out, assuring me that many a day might come to pass before the cycle of such another meeting would come round ; nor, indeed, was it possible to conceive that so many accomplished characters could he assembled, some of them greatly distinguished for their conversational brilliancy, without eliciting sparkles and scintil lations worthy of ever being held in remembranet. Alas ! empty as musty filberts are all earthly expectations ! It proved one of the ,dullest congregations that ever sat making long faces together in conventicle. When the company adjourned to the drawing-roo n, the aspect of things rather improved; and the dread of elle another, to which, no doubt, the dulness of the dinner-table may be ascribed, was lessened by the scattering, and by others coming in; but a more complete failure cannot be ima gined. In all kocial ease it was below a very common party. Ne vertheless to me one incident was memorable. I was standing near a wiudow in one of the back drawing-rooms, when Earl Grey and Mr. Canning did me the honour of addressing me. From the place in which I stood there was no moving ; nor was I, much incliued, for after a short conversation, they began to converse together, and I became interested. The opportunity of comparing two such eminent men was too precious to be neglected. Whether owing to the impression left on me by "the dirgie" of the game in the dining-room, or really to some greater dignity of manner, I shall not attempt to deter mine, but Earl Grey both in colloquial taste and expression seemed decidedly the superior. His remarks were not less neatly and simply made, but there was a sustained aristocracy about him exceedingly Aaracteristic •' and I should think, from the tones of his voice and the general deportment, he must have been very pleasing to those with whom he was intimate. Mr. Can ning had more -of the House of Commons about him, with something like pertinacity, especially when there was any difference in opinion between them ; and the conversation, happily, was apt to bring out peculiarities of that kind in deed, he differed with his noble autagonist, I thought, as briskly as if they had been discussing the previous question else where; but the matter in question was no less debateable. -tit Earl Grey's elhow stood a beautiful marble statue of a female in- fashionable nudity; and their debate arose, from observing bee--feet, respecting the point of beauty in the female foot; his lordship maintaining that it consisted in a certain smoothness of fleshy fulness Canning thought the reverse; and finding themselves as little like to agree as on a matter of the status ant. belLu=, Sir Thomas - Lawrence;,-who was of the party, was appealed .to. He, of course, sided with the Earl; but Canning was not satisfied, and continued the controversy. Sir Thomas, as all the world knows, was a very saponaceous character, but, 1 Juspect, not possessed of the most mellifluous spirit. Being pricked by the pugnacity of Canning, he said, that if there was no other way ef convincing him, he would call in the Countess, and ask her t o s h ow h er f oot. "Ah !" rep li e d C ann i ng, "if you will do that, I'll say black is white, and give in."—Galt. A ovrtrut. Sont.—" You will of course immediately join the mess, Mr —," said Adjutant —to Ensign —, on the day of his arrival at the regitnent. " You are very kind, sir," stammered out the incipienthero; " but the last promise which I made to my father was to s.yoiti getting into any mess what ever." MDRAIATY PIGS.—Some time since* a gentleman farmer was ha-gaining with a pig-driver'Lo.-Durchester market for two pigs, when the latter, to beitovv a good character on the ant male, observed "You'll find Ahem ,"ere a couple of as good sasoral pigs as ever you clappede.S•.es on."—" What do you mean, my good friend?" asked the gentleman—" Why your honour, 'll find `a m as good moral pigs as ever was; . go where you yonetZl for the next."—" But what du,y4u mean b %vb ., ow 's" a) pigs, your honour—pigs 411 0 0 trio . any .— day j , de avid to th eir keep -" CAPTAIN ROSS. (FRO3I OLR LONDON PRivATE CORRESPONDENT.) We base seen . a long statement sent by Captain Ross to the Lords of the Admiralty, being a detail of the expedition front which he has so extraordinarily returned. In this he sums up his discoveries to be the Gulf of Boothia, the Continent, and the Isthmus of Boothia Felix, with its lakes. Hellas also un deniably established that the north-east point of North Ame rica extends to the 74th degree, north lat. Leopold South Island is the north-east point of America, in lat. 73. 56., Long. th). W. The sufferings of the party are described with great simplicity and evident truth. By the natives, hitherto insu lated by nature and unknown to strangers, Captain Ross was directed to where the impossibility of a north-west passage that way was fully ascertained. Two great seas, described by these Atiorigines, were found to be divided by a neck of land fifteen miles braal, composed of two high ridges, between which su the vallies two-thirds of the land was occupied by a chain of lakes, leaving actually only five miles of land between. The Captain speaks in the highest terms of Mr. M‘Diarmid, the sur geon, and of the men accompanying him, whom he strongly recommends to the notice of the government. Altogether, if anything were wanting, this detail proves Captain Russ to be a most noble fellow. COPT OP A LETTER FROM CAPTAIN ROSS TO WM. MOWAT, ESQ., SHETLAND. " On board the Isabella of Hull, Baffin's Gay, Sept. 17,1833. " DILA.II Silt.- -AS lam sure you will be glad to learn that I am still ' numbered among the living,' I avail myself of the opportunity of a ship bound to your - hospitable island to send you these few lines. Our voyage nas been most eventful and interesting, and although it has ended in the loss of our little vessel, which we have been obliged to leave frozen up in a harbour which we discovered, we trust that when the important discoveries we have made, and our sufferings, are taken into consideration, that no one concerned will be suffered to lose on this occasion. Our endeavours have indeed been completely successful, but in a very different way from what had been an ticipated. We found 'land instead of water, and have unques tionably proved that there is no N.W. passage to the southward of 70 deg. north, or by Prince Regent's Inlet. Our discoveries may be said to consist in the establishment of no passage to the southward of 74 deg. ; the discovery of a large inhabited tract of land, between lat. 69 and 72 deg. ; and an isthmus, which di vides the eastern from the western sea, only five miles in breadth; and the discovery of the true position of the magnetic pole. We have existed on the provisions landed from the Fury, and, last winter, lived in a snow house on Fury beach. On the 26th August last, we were picked up by my old ship the Isabella, in the Fury's boats. We have only lost three men. I need searcly add, that our constitutions have had a severe blow; but we have all wonderfully-recovered since we got on board the Isabella, where we were most kindly received. " P.S.—I will scud you a copy of my public letter when I get to the Admiralty." On Sunday, Captain Ross, accompanied by Commander Ross, attended the Lords of the Admiralty, by whom, we under stand, they were most favourably received, and welcomed on their arrival. The particulars of their voyage are long, and of course highly interesting; but, as yet, few of the details are known. It seems they succeeded, after much difficulty, in reaching the place where the Fury was wrecked, on the shore of Prince Regent's Inlet, in August, 1825, in Captain Parry's third voyage. 'They looked for the hull of this vessel, but in vain, as not a vestige remained, and Captain Ross supposed it must have been forced off the beach by the ice, floated by that immense body to sea, and, on the melting of its support, had sunk. This event was most calamitous to the expedition, as much dependence had been placed on what was considered a supply of timber; but the elements had not left a " wreck behind. Such of the stores, provisions, preserved meats, &c., as had been lauded when the Fury was abandoned, were found front the circumstance of their having been carried further up the beach, out of high water mark, when taken out of the ship. The benefit ultimate ly derived from these most seasonable supplies were of the greatest importance vital they were not, as we learn, sufficient; . and the means of the ice-bound navigators were occasionally made upon sea's, musk bulls, bears, foxes, and such birds as could be procured; and these delicate repasts were, latterly, washed clown with pure water, their stock of spirits being ex hausted. The whole of the individuals that; originally sailed in the Victory steam vessel (which was abandoned after the first season,) consisted of twenty-three persons, of whom all except three have returned. This sas been a most wonderful interposition of Divine Providence, as there are no instances upon record of any human beings passing four successive winters in such a rigorous climate. No opportunity presented itself of communicating with England, and but once did they see any individuals. These proved to be a party of Esquimaux, and who had heard, a very long time before, of Captain Parry's ships having been seen by some of their own tribe. That frightful scourge to seamen, the scurvy, made its ap pearance among the people of the expedition, and several of this brave crew experienced its baneful effects most severely. Some were greatly reduced and emaciated, and so ill when they reached the Isabella as to be carried on board that vessel, where, in about a month, their health, and, indeed that of all, which had suffered more or less, was happily re-established.— Albion. Captain Ross and his nephew had the honour of dining with his Majesty, at Windsor Castle, on Sunday. Their reception was highly gratifying, and they will not forget the kind atten tions they received from his Majesty and the royal family. The latest accounts received from Captain Back left him at a post belonging to the Hudson's Bay Company, called Cheper wyans, and which is in the 61st degree of latitude, and 113 de grees of west longitude. Here Captain Back proposed winter ing, so that very little difficulty is likely to be experienced in conveyin to him, as proposed, the intelligence of the safe arrival o f-Captain Ross, whom he was in quest of.—Glasgow Herald. So entirely had the Admiralty relinquished all expectation of the return of Captain Ross, that, fur the last two years, the name of that distinguished officer has nut appeared in the list of captains, nor his nephew's name in that of commanders. ARCTIC LAND r.,A.L'ILIJI I 'Uri. At a meeting of the committee for managing this ex pedition, held yesterday, Admiial Sir Charles Ogle, Bart., in the chair, the following letter from Captain Ross was read : " TO THE COMMITTER FOR MANAGING, AND SeESCRIBERS TO, THI: ARCTIC LAND EXPEDITION. " London, October 20 ! 1833, " Garcrr.emEN,—Of the many circumstances of high gratifi cation which have welcomed the delivery of myself and my companions from four years of severe sufferings, there is no thing (next after a deep sense of the merciful Providence by which we have been surrounded in such great perils,) which has excited so strong a feeling of gratitude as the humane and generous sympathy of a number of persons who, at the chance of being instrumental in our preservation, contributed, with the assistance of his Majesty's Government, a sum ample fur the purpose of paying the expense of an expedition which was so promptly, and with so much judgment, put in motion by your committee, and so wisely confided to the guidance of Captain Back, whose known intelligence and intrepidity gave to the committee a certainty that all would be done which a sagacious mind and unflinching perseverance could accomplish. " It is my wish and duty to make the earliest acknowledg ments of this instance of wide-extended compassion towards us, an.l I venture to rely on the favour of the committee to receive, with allowance, this imperfect expression of my feelings to wards them, to his Majesty's Government, to the contributors to the undertaking, and to the Hudson's Bay Company, f or t h e efforts which might - have proved, as designed, the m eans of snatching myself and my faithful companions from the further sufferings which, almostto the last moment, we seemed doomed to encounter.—l have the honour to be, gentlemen, your very humble and grateful servant, " JOHN ROSS, Captain Royal N avy. . , To which the following answer was directed to be sent : " 21, Relent-street, October 22. " Slll,-1 have the honour to acknowledge the r ece i pt o f your letter of the 20th instant, addressed to the committee for managing the arctic land expedition, and returningyour thanks to its members, to the Hudson's Bay Company, and to all the subscribers towards the equipment of that expedition, for the' exertions made by them in hopes of rescuing you and your brave companions from your perilous situation. " In reply, I beg, in the name of the committee and of all the subscribers, to offer you our warmest congratulations on your safe ret , lrn • and , although the main object of Captain Back's 9 . expedition is thus attained, without his assistance, yet we feel much gratified that it should have gone, inasmuch as it proves to all-future adventurers in a like career, that their country will not be unmindful of them. 'While, on the other hand, your return also shows, that no situation should be considered too desperate to be beyond the reach of a similar exertion.—l have the honour to be, sir, your most obedient servant, " (Signed) CHARLES OGLE, Chairman, " To Captain John Ross, Royal Navy." And at the same time a despatch was agreed to, to be forwarded by a written express to Captain . Back, ac quainting him of Captain Ross's return, and directinc , him to turn his attention now entirely to the second .ob ject of his mission, namely, completing the coast-line of the northeastern part ofAmerica, of - which little more than one hundred and fifty miles remains to be traced.— London Paper. THE SOCIETT OF FRlccus.—Since the passing of the act, in troduced by Lord Morpeth in the late session of parliament, rendering the affirmation of Quakers of the same effect as an oath in ad cases where an oath is or maybe required, it has been generally supposed that they were eligible to serve on juries at sessions and assizes, and, in consequence, some members cf that body were summoned to attend at the sessions for the West riding held in Leeds during the present week. The first gen tleman called on did not answer, and the clerk of the rieace, C. H. Elsley, Esq., said that it was not necessary that he . should answer, as Quakers were not liable to serve; they had been ex empted by au old act of parliament, and the new act left the law in that respect in precisely the same state as it was before. We are not aware whether the exemption applies to coroners' juries, but we know that in the borough of Leeds several memberi of the Society of Friends have recently been summoned and have served with great credit to themselves and advantage to the public, and we think that the sooner this old statute is repealed, the e tter. —Leeds Intelligencer. WESLETAN METtionisT MissioNs.—The twentieth anniver sary of the Auxiliary Methodists Missionary Society fur the Leeds district, has been celebrated during the past week. On Sunday morning, at seven o'clock, a missionary prayer meet ing was held in the Old Chapel, and at subsequent periods of the day sermons were preached in all the Methodist Chapels; namely, in the Old Chapel, by the Rev. Robert Carver, missionary from Continental India; by the Rev. Joseph Roberts, late missionary at Celon; and by the Rev. Valentine Ward from Newcastle. In Brunswick Chapel, by the Rev. Robert Newton of Manchester; by the Rev. John Ely, minis ter of Salem Chapel; and by the Rev. Thomas Galland, A.M. of Halifax. InAlbion-street Chapel, by the Rev. Thomas Galland; by the Rev. Robert Young; and by the Rev. Robert Newton. In Wesley Chapel. by the Rev. 'V. Ward, by the Rev. Joseph Mortimer from Bristol, and by the Rev. Robert Carver. The annual meeting was held on Monday morning, in Albion -street, Chapel, and was attended by a very numerous and highly respectable -auditory, consisting chiefly df ladies. According to previous announcement, the chair was taken soon after eleven o'clock by the much respected James Montgomery, Esq. of Sheffield; and after he had delivered an appropriate address to the auditory, the Rev. F. A. West read the 'Oth annual report. It gave a comprehensive view of the origin and- progress of - the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society, commencing with the year 1769, when the lato.liev. John Wesley asked at the conference held in the Otd:rChapel ut Leeds who. would go to Amerrca. The amountof public col lec.tions„ during tine anniversary (intkulit2g. £26 lls. proceeds of. tickets for the hieak(ist) f:243, being an• increase of !Mils. 6d:wan, last year's aasiiversaly.— Leeds Istalirmter• THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. PA R TS. OCT. 20.—0 n the 16th Count Armadas de Toledo was at Miranda on the Ebro, at six Spanish leagues from Vit toria, with a detachment of the Royal Guard and some other troops. The approach of this officer had given rise to reports at Bayonne, that General Sarsfeld himself was marching against the Biseayan provinees— As some parties have ex pressed a doubt of the adhesion of General Sarsfeld to the Queen's government, we think it right to give a literal transla tion of his despatch to the Minister of War : ARMY Or OBSERVATION. By the extraordinary courier who arrived this morning at four o'clock, I have received the royal despatch, dated on the 29th September last, by which your excellency has conde scended to inform me of the afflicting intelligence of the death of our dearly beloved Sovereign, which took place on the said day, at a quarter before four o'clock in the evening. Your excellency has communicated to me the measures that her Ma jesty the Queen Regent during the minority of the Queen our Sovereign Donna Isabella 11., has thought proper to adopt, and to which I will minutely conform. They wilt serve me as a guide in all that may concern the inviolable oath that I have taken, to sacrifice my life for the defence of the legitimate rights of our Sovereign the Queen Donna Isabella 11., a senti ment in which all the trooys under my command unite. At the Head quarters of Ciudad PEDRO SARSFELD. Rodrigo, 3d Oct. 1833. To his Excellency the Minister Secretary of War. BOURDEAUX, OCT. 16.—The diligence from Madrid has just arrived. On its departure the capital of Spain does not enjoy that tranquillity which the liberal papers wish the partisans of the Queen to believe. . . Tl►e Christinos dare not, even backed by power that protects them, walk about without shame, and in the countenances of the people arc the marks of contempt and hatred for the usurp ation. It was reported at Madrid that Don Carlos would soon arrive at Bilboa ; the Biscayans have sent to him in Portugal a steamer to convey him to Biscay. The passengers in the dili gence confirm this. There have been sent from Madrid two regiments of the royal guard to oppose the general insurrection in Estreinadura, which had broken out. in several points in favour of Don Carlos. There is no doubt but that the soldiers will join the legitimists, as the royal guard, we are assured, will not fight for the little Queen. The same travellers say, that on the whole of the way from Madrid to Irun there is a fermentation contrary to the interests of the young Queen; but nevertheless the order and discipline among the royalist volunteers will not allow any excess. By this time Don Carlos must have been proclaimed at Bur gos, where the Carlists of Vittoria had sent 2,000 volunteers on 20,040 men who assembled on the Basque provinces. By this means they will hasten at Burgos and Old Castille the general recognizance of the King. There have also been some forces sent against General Castanos, to dislodge him front St. Se bastian. The regiment of the Queen No. 2, quartered at Tolosa, does not seem very favourable to the usurpation. The carbineers of the coasts and froutiers present themselves iu crowds to the Royalist authorities at Vittoria. I have iu my hand several French journals whose tenor, in respect of us,* is laughable or worthy of pity. One must he blind not to see that the well wishes of the whole of Spain arc for Don Carlo; and that it is impossible for a handful of ambi tious persons to force the acceptance of revolutionary principles in lieu of national institutions. Let us settle our affairs ourselves, and if any have the teme rity to interfere, we will show them that we nre the same men who knew how to combat and vanquish for uur rights and inde pendence, the most redoubtable army in the world. * This letter was written by one Spaniard to another residing at Bordeaux. HOLLAND. Tits HAGUE, OCT. 21.—The twn Chambers of the States General having met in a joint assembly to-day, between twelve and one, his Majesty arrived in state at a quarter past one to open the ordinary session of this year. The King, seated'on his throne, delivered the following speech : "High and Mighty Lords, " Whilst I always find myself with satisfaction in the midst of the representatives of this noble people, who do not cease to support me under the cares of government by proofs of their love and fidelity, the presence of your High Mightinesses in the difficult circumstances in which I now, for the fourth time, open your ordinary session, is still more especially welcome to me, as it will again afford the opportunity of conducting the most im portant concerns of the county with a mutual consent founded upon mutual confidence, and of testifying the harmony of our views. _ _ " With gratitude I call to recollection, on the commencement of this session, the blessing which fell to the lot of my house, shortly after the close of the former session, by the birth of a second offspring of my beloved younger son, and the cordial interest my subjects took in this fiappy event. " Our present relations with the different powers inspire tran quillity ; from some of them I have received, within a few days, new proofs of real friendship. "During the course of your former session coercive measures against the Netherlands, such of which history does not record an example in a time of perfect peace, were temporarily sub-. stituted for the negociations for regulating the consequences of the Belgian insurrection; the subsequent resumption of these negociations, in which the spirit of concession and desire of ter minating on our side were met with new difficulties, has not for the present, led to a final settlem:mt. By the communications which I will cause to be laid before your Assembly upon this subject within a few days, your High Slightinesses will perceive that the honour, dignity, and the real interests of the nation have been exclusively attended to in these negociations. I con tinue to entertain the hopes of their being brought to a reason able termination, and, if it were that the expectance of an equitable support were partly disappointed by the policy of Eu rope, even then old Netherland will not lament its aiir;wa thew. th''" v"'"'t } Mt: with the gratifying re trospect of the example given of patriotism and attar went to legal order in the midst of the turbulent spirit of the age, con fidently leave its conduct to the judgment of contemporaries and posterity. " Amidst the painful feelings which were occasioned by the measures of the English and French governments in the pre ceding year, the patriotic affection found a consolation in the behaviour of the military and naval forces, that continued meri toriously to maintain, in the eyes of all Europe, the honour of the Netherland came. " I have been deeply affected by the manner in which the nation have testified their gratitude to the brave combatants, to the wounded, and to the surviving relatives of the slain. " The state of our war forces continues favourable; they in cessantly maintain the glory of their enthusiasm, discipline, and exercise; a part of the army is now restored to their rela tives and accustomed occupations by extended furloughs. " The obstruction, which the Netherland navigation and commerce have experienced, has been borne with patience ; on the cessation of the impediment our industrious countrymen have shown the most praiseworthy activity to remedy the sufferings. " Agriculture has generally been blessed to a great extent, and in several branches of the industry of the people, a new life has been remarkable, of which I may anticipate the best results, likewise with regard to our colonies. "According to the latest repo r t s , a d es i ra bl e t ranqu illi ty reigns in the Last India possessions; the improvement of the state of finances goes there hand in hand with the increasing of extension of the culture of important productions, and the bene ficial influence of both is likewise felt in the Netherlands. "The West India possessions have endured with calmness the hindrance of communication, which, however, has not entirely obstructed the reciprocal intercourse. "In all our colonies the spirit of the inhabitants has been most favourably . manifested under these eireunistances, and all classes have rivalled in proofs of attachment to the mother country. "The interior concerns continue to be sedulously attended to; the government experiences in this respect the most laudable support of the local and provincial adnunistrations; they pro ceed cautiously with the introduction of appropriate simplifica tions. _ " All the branches of public instruction continue to anwcr my solicitude. " The sciences arc still cultivated with the best result. " Although the arts must necessarily be affected by the .pres sure of the times, even in this very moment several gratifying objects may be pointed out as giving the proof that our artists do not allow themselves to be discouraged. " The last winter has passed happily for our extended sea and river dams; but the late storms have greatly damaged them, the repair of which has been commenced without delay. " Our finances are in a good state; the ample participation of the inhabitants in the last loan, and the regular payment of the contributions, insured by appropriate lass, enable me to provide for all the present emergencies; and the disclosures which I shall cause to be given to Your noble mightiness in this respect will afford the proof, as I flatter myself, that the public credit, which has never forsaken us, rests upon solid grounds. "The bills relating to the Budget, which I will cause, ere long, to be proposed to your assembly, will give evidence to your noble mightinesses of my desire, on one side, t o bring the system of our means to a proper coherence, and, on the other side, to promote, by conciliation, the accelerated introduction of equal charges upon all real property. "The chapters of the code of civil law that remained uncon eluded shall likewise be submitted to the deliberations of your noble mizhtinesses. I trust, moreover, that I shall be enabled to call the attention of your assembly to several other (not less important) parts of the national legislation. "Noble and mighty lords !—I rely again, as always, upon your zealous co-operation in the promotion of the interests of the realm during your present meet►n;. I wish that it may not pass without showing us the final term of the uncertain state in which the country continues to be since, thc. , defection of the southern provinces. "Let us pursue, in the mean while, calmly and steadily, the path of reason and truth, which we have hitherto followed with concord under the most difficult circumstances; so may we con stantly, under all eventful occurrences, with a peaceful con science, and . an unlimited confidence in the Almighty, await the future allotted to the Netherlands." PORTUGAL. LISBON, OCTOBER 11.—(OFFIcIAL.)—The Beija-mano could not take place on account of the military operations. For some days the enemy had remained quiet before onr lines, but there was great activity in their rear. They brought up a quantity of planks and square timber, which indicated their in tention to place heavy artillery in the strong positions, in which they were posted, and, as they had forgotten the lessons they bad received before Oporto, every thing announc e d th a t it was their i n t e ntion t o keep up the dejected spirits of their soldiers by the rest/ye of an artillery which they were not capable Of maintaining, by redoubts which they did not dare to defend, and positions which they did not venture to prevent being turned. However it may be, the Duke of Braganza easily saw through the intentions of the enemy, and resolved to attack them before they had established themselves in their lines, which, though ill-defended, presented obstacles of no small importance. Having thus resolved, on the 10th instant, at nine in the morning, leaving the fortifications round Lisbon sufficiently guarded,-he sallied out with the remainder of his troops, divided into four columns. That on the right took the road of Fortelle ; that of the right centre, bivouacking by the Val d'Arroios, was to march up Mirante de Freire; the two on the left, taking the road of Rego, were destined to march upon Titheira. These two columns were composed of the three arms; that of the right, however, on account of the difficulty of the road, had no artillery. The right column of the centre being soon embar rassed by the obstacles which impeded its march, was obliged to join that on its left, with which it proceeded to Fortelle, but meeting there with a corps of 1,500 rebels, which kept the road of Sacavern, and which, on our arrival, retired by it, our left column of the centre was obliged to observe this corps, while the others proceeded to the emineneet of Miraute da Quinta rreire, for which it was destined. AJeliool3 as this 'column rip peared there the enemy was forced to send to Tilheira two pieces of cannon, with which they annoyed us in the direction of Catupo-grande, and the eolnran which retired by the road of n Sacavem, trot daring to keep its artillery, ordered it to join a corps oi 2,000 men which were posted on the heights of Amex ocira. When this column had moved forward in the direction of Sacavem, ours, which observed it, advanced a little, and without losing sight of it, went however and took a position be tween Mirante and the said heights. Meantime the two other columns in a short time met the re bels, who appeared to the number of seven thousand men, and atter having performed prodigies of valour, and their attacks in trout being vigorously supported by the first two columns, which threatened o, beat tee enemy in flank, they drove him front all his positions. The firing continued all night. The rebels having reached the position of Aricirc), where they had collected all their artillery under the protection of that, and of the night, they halted, and the two armies bivouacked in pre sence of each other. At one o'clock the enemy hastened their retreat, and at day-break, when we were preparing to attack them, we found al: the spoils which they had left us,-----an hospi tal, with seventy-live sick, abandoued without attendants and without provisions, besides many wounded left neglected in the houses • mauy arms, a large quantity of baggage, heavy artil lery, platforms, works finished or begun, a great quantity of ammunition, and abundance of timber of all kinds. In the morning of the 11th our advanced troops tell in with the columns of the enemy posted in a mass on the heights Of Lowres and supported by the artillery. Ours was in the rear; but our troops would not suffer this circumstance, to delay the defeat of the enemy; but scarcely did our troops show them selves ready to attack them when they completely disappeared, and went to post themselves on the road of Santo Antonio de Toial, as we bad made it impossible for them to follow that of Sacavem. It is easy to understand why the enemy attempted, though in vain, to concentrate themselves on this last road, f)r at two in the afternoon, the column, with their heavy baggage, retreated by La Povoa and Alhandra; and our gun-boats, pro tecting the troops which his Imperial Majesty had detached for that purpose to the river, followed its march. At three in the afternoon, the enemy attempted, with three squadrons of cavalry, to attack our right, but our artillery and cavalry coming up, they divided and concentrated themselves on their field of battle; but supposing from our preceding move ment, that our left was ill supported, they attempted an attack upon it at live o'clock. The result did not answer to their expectations, for we, having promptly sent our cavalry to that flank, and attacking with it and with three squadrons of reserve, they were completely repulsed, and lost a great part of the grouna which they occupied. and of which we took possession. So far we are informed, and it is probable that the 11th and following day will decide the fate of the fugitives, and crown the glory of the victors. We cannot sufficiently extol the courage and order of our troops, the brilliant charges of the cavalry, and the firmness with which the enemy was repulsed at the point of the bayonet, nor the coolnes with' which they dislodged the rebels from the positions which they vainly attempted to defend. In these two days the enemy lost in all much more than 1000 men—our loss did not exceed one hundred men, including very few officers. 1 he 12th will put an end to this desperate combat, and that anniversary of the birth day of the general in chief will be worthily crowned ith laurels of a victory which will immortalise his name, and seal once more with the noble blood of the illustri ous victims of Portuguese liberty the oath taken to the consti tutional charter and to their young Queen.—Lisbon Chronica, Oct. 12. TO CORRESPONDENTS. The letter of " Amicus" is too long for our present number and, besides, we cannot see the object or the utility of such sweeping accusations against the whole body of salt manu facturers. " Aniicus" confesses he has no remedy to propose, in which case silence is the best course to pursue, for he may depend upon it, that although some of the parties may be ruined, the evil will cure itself. In answer to a question we beg to state that Junius, like other quacks, was a reformer to the fullest extent that reform was mooted at the period he lived. Elie Eiberpool 'tanbarb. FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 25, 1833. The speech of the King of HOLLAND, at the opening of the States-General, will be found elsewhere. It con tains nothing to induce a belief that the settlement of the negociations is practicable in the present state of Europe. His MAJESTY assures his people in the strongest terms, that "new difficulties" have been raised to every fresh offer of concession on his part. And by whom have these difficulties been started ? Certainly not by LEOPOLD of Belgium, who has no more to say in the dispute than the Emperor of MOROCCO. The parties accused, then, must be the liberal governments of France and England. Louis PHILIPPE keeps Belgium as a sort of suburban cabbage garden, and poor LEOPOLD is merely the "man in possession." He has no power, no fees, no wages, but is compelled to vegetate upon his English pension. A King, indeed! he is not the shadow of a King, and the people who surround him, and by whom he is despised, know it well. We have said it from the beginning, and every passing event fortifies the opinion, that the separation of Belgium from Hol land, and the erection of that worthless people into a nation, was one of the most unfortunate occurrences in European policy. It was unfortunate as concerns the people themselves. Their once flourishing trade is nearly destroyed, and the merchants of Antwerp are fast emigrating to Rotterdam, and the other mercantile towns of Holland. The separation is not yet complete, and never will be while Lord PALMERSTON holds the seals of the foreign office.' At the very first commotion on the continent, Belgium will be the field of conflict. Holland is ready, Prussia is prepared, Austria expects, Russia desires it. If Louts PHILIPPE, as he threatens to do, should march an army across the Pyrenees, the w::ole of Europe will he up in arms. Holland, of course, is an anxious and interested spectator of the Peninsular contest, and she waits the decision of the French govern ment as to the line of policy they will pursue. The news from Portugal is to the 13th instant, on which and the two preceding days, if the PEDRO accounts can be relied upon, some severe fighting took place in the vicinity of Lisbon. The MIGUELITES are represented to have been repulsed from all their strong positions near the capital, and driven some twenty or thirty miles into the country. We give the news as we find it, leaving the reader to form his own estimate of its au thenticity in the ratio of the credit due to the agents of DON PEDRO. The fighting men on his side were chiefly foreign mercenaries, and it is believed that at least a hundred of our countrymen are among the killed, and as many more, at least, among the wounded. Death in such a cause is a trifle more honourable than being hanged at Newgate, but it is only a trifle. We have no intelligence of much novelty or impor tance from Spaila. Nothing has yet transpired as to the progress of Don Catt Los ; nor is it known where he is. Marshal BourtstoNT is equally under a cloud; and till these personages appear in the field, and we know some thing of the reception they experience in Spain, it would be rash to speculate upon the result. The mail has again been stopped between Madrid and Bayonne, which is a proof that the northern provinces are favour able to CARLOS. Under a separate head, aided by our private corres pondent, we give the fullest particulars that have yet transpired relative to the extraordinary enterprise of Captain Ross. It is singular enough that that brave officer was of opinion that no passage existed between the western and eastern seas, and this opinion he has had the honour to prove. The narrow isthmus which runs from the continent of America to the 74th degree of north latitude; great part of which was traversed by the younger Ross, sets the question at rest as to a passage in a lower latitude than 74. At the extremity of the isthmus, tremendous mountains of never-melting ice Were piled one upon the other, and this fact demonstrates that there can be no passage northward of 74. This is an important point now ascertained for the first time, and far exceeds all the discoveries of Captain PARRY. In ad dition to this, Captain Ross has now ascertained, by ac tual experiments, the true position of the magnetic pole. Lord DURHAM, we perceive, the Whig Lord DURHAM, who has been toasting the " Liberty of the Press" dur ing the whole f his peevish life, has commenced a legal crusade against the Durham Advertiser in particular, and has issued an ukase against the conservative press generally. Ever since this petulant lord was turned out of the Cabinet by Lord BROUGHAM and Mr. STANLEY, he has been at his small wits' end. He was sent to Russia to be kept out of the way, and the charge upon the nation was upwards of £30,000; but when the money was spent, and Lord AvruoaP began to grumble, he returned, half inclined, as some say, to join the opposition against his too-kind and good-natured father-in-law. Since then he has been roaming and sailing in summer weather, and wrangling and snarl ing at every man, dog, tree, gate, and wheelbarrow that have come in his way. The newspapers, it would appear, have noticed these curvetting s of Lord DURHAM, and his lordship is tremendously wroth thereat. We knou not the nature of the particular offence charged upon the Durham 4dvertzser, but the stories which have gone the round of the press must be 'familia; to moat of our readers. It is Laid, we kaow r t•.~ not how truly, that when his lordship was in his yacht at Cherbourg, on a visit to Louis PHILIPPE, he hoisted the Durham arms over the British slag--the flag of his Sover!ign. It is also said, that when the same yacht returned to England it carried at its mast head the blood-stained tri-coloured flag of France. In addition to this, there was an affair between his lordship and a Mr. WARD, at a watering place on the coast about a right of way, the obstruction to which the servants of Lord DURHAM pulled down. These are the anecdotes Which have appeared in the newspapers, and, as far as we have been able to ascertain, they have never been contradicted, either by Lord DURHAM or any body else. If they be untrue, surely their immediate and unqualified contradiction is all that is required to satisfy the wounded honour of an amiable gentleman. To run to an attorney at the first philippic in the newspapers, is conduct that might become the keeper of a turnpike, but is very unseemly in a peer. It is particularly unseemly in so high-born a personage, who has dined with one Emperor and two Kings, who is son-in-law of the prime minister of England, one of the learned authors of the rObrm bill. an•? whose foreign tours for the benefit of his health and his education have already cost the people of England so much money. If Lord Du a lIAM be lampooned, or quizzed, or laughed at, or even libelled in the newspapers, let him say so—let him deny the libel —and there will be an end to the matter, and the greatest possible share of truth and gravity will be bestowed upon him hereafter. We have said that we know not the nature of the offence given by the Advertiser but we know that Lord Mtn- HAM has written a letter to his attorney, and an admirable correspondent an attorney is, in which he states that the conservative press has for some time been circulating un founded imputations upon his, (Lord Duriam's,) charac ter. With all respect, we beg to observe that this sweeping charge is a falsehood. In the conservative papers, which we read professionally, and generally with great delight, we have seen no unfounded imputations against Lord DURHAM. We have seen nothing which he has denied, nothing but what his advocate in the Morning Chronicle, now also a conservative paper, admits to be true. But' we are ashamed of having bestowed so much pains upon him. He is like all the rest of his hollow, shabby, and deceitful party, the worst enemy of that press, the " liberty" of which he has so long toasted at public meetings. Passive resistance, as it is modestly termed, is tra velling over the country at railroad speed, and tht Lon don disciples of Lord MILTON have already their imita tors in Manchester. We find the following in the Man chester Herald of Wednesday:— " Last week a table was seized for house and window duty, amounting to £1 2s. 6d., on the premises of John Doherty, the radical bookseller and news-room keeper, in Wythy-grove, and deposited for sale in the New Boar's Head, an inn adjoining his premises. On Saturday Doherty issued a placard, stating the circumstance, and requesting his friends to attend the sale , for the purpose of seeing that justice' was done between the tax collector and himself. Accordingly, ou Monday morning a strong body of political unionists, nine-tenths of whom never paid a direct tux in their lives, took up their station in and around Doherty's shop and news-room, and a number of police-officers were also on the spot, for the purpose of preventing a breach of the peace. About eleven o'clock, there being no appear ance of either tax-collector or auctioneer to proceed with the sale, Doherty addressed the people through the window, thank ing them for their attendance, and regretting that they should be exposed to the rain, but he hoped they would not depart until their work was completed, as he feared that advantage would immediately be taken of their absence to proceed with the sale. At sunset it was triumphantly announced, that the five days allowed by law had expired, and that the table had once more become the property of its rightful owner, a victory having been obtained over the government and their minions, the tax-gatherers. This was received with loud cheers, and so elated were the heroes of the day with the beer they had drunk and the victory they had gained, that they insisted upon bear' ing the table in triumph through the town, as an evidence o their success. It was accordingly hoisted through the window / and chalked with the inscriptions, " Seized for Assessed Taxes, bid who will, we will not," and " No votes, no taxes;' , it was carried on the shoulders of four men, followed by a rabble of some four or five hundred radicals, through the principal streets of the town. After this farce had been per formed, the proccsss;on returned to Dotiort 7 , . house, and the table was presented with all due ceremony to Mrs. Doherty, as the gift of the people.' " This is pleasant work certainly, although it looks very like rebellion. Has the Lord MILTON that was, the Lord FiT2wiLLIA.3I that is, any land or houses in the neigh bourhood of Manchester ? If he have, let him look to i t —his turn comes next. It must be vastly agreeable to all debtors to have so ready a way of discharging thei r • obligations: What creditors think of it we know not and what Lord ALTIIDIIP thinks of it is of no earthly con sequence ; but we ask Lord GREY, as the reputed and responsible head of the government, bow long these open violations of the law are to be endured ? The mob, in these scandalous exhibitions, act as boldly as if they were authorised to do so by his MAJESTY'S ministers They could not do their work with greater coolness i they had the Premier's letter, addressed to Mr Secretary PARKES of the Birmingham Union, instructing them how to proceed, and indemnifying them against the consequences. It is said that two unknown gentlemen, supposed to be barristers, who have the honour of bearing the KING'S commission, and who also act upon a resolution of the House of Commons, are to make their appearance here next week in order to hold what they are pleased to call a court, for the purpose of inquiring into the abuses of corporations. Not being in possession of any of their secrets, we are unable to tell, or even conjecture, what course the MAYOR and the other members of the Corporation intend to pursue with regard to this inquiry. What follows, therefore, is merely the suggestions of our own minds upon a question of mightier import than the stability or disfranchisement of the borough of Liverpool. We look at the institution of this commission as an invasion of the rights of property. If the Commons of England can call upon their Sovereign to invade the law which has raised a fence round corporations, and which has given to the supreme court of judicature the exclusive right of investigation, and the power of punishing real versation and delinquency—if the Commons do take this liberty, and the KING is so ill advised as to accede to their call, then is a second Star Chamber erected in Eng land, and no property in house or land, in mine or fac tory, in bank or chest, ort.earth or water, is :safe for a single moment. • It has for some time been charged against corpora- . tions, that they have been profuse in their expenditure, partial in the distribution of their favours, corrupt in their dealings, and that they have abused their trusts. What is meant by trust? Corporations hold nothing in trust but for the use and benefit of their own mem bers. They are responsible to no person who is beyond their own pale. They obtained certain rights and pri vileges, in most instances of an exclusive nature, and wisely intended to be of an exclusive nature, by royal charters. Their several modes of election, the qualifica ,tions for members, the extent of servitude requisite to constitute a free burgess, were all severally and distinct y defined. So long as these corporations fulfilled the provisions of their charters they were not amenable to the law; but they have ever been amenable on any charge involving a dereliction of duty, a corrupt use of power, or a violation in an oppressive form of their mu nicipal privileges, and contrary to the letter and spirit of their chartered rights. Whenever any charge of this kind has been brought in due form of law, and according to the prescribed form of law, the Court of King's Bench has been open to do strict and impartial justice between the accuser and the accused. Further than this the law could not go—and we maintain that it would have been oppression and injustice to have gone further. But the charges to which we have alluded above have been brought in general terms, without any regard to particular grievances. They have been brought by per sons who have no interest whatever in corporations—by persons who never were, and whom the law never in tended should be, members of corporations, exce pt b y courtesy. What right has a London, Dublin, or Glas gow trader to be admitted a member of the Liverpool Corporation ? It never was intended that such persons, or any other peraoos, shouhl be admissible, except by OccoRER :25, 1.83 Y. servitude ; and where there was . no servitude there Was no right. The alien was excluded for the best of all pos sible reasons, ❑amely, that his privileges might be con fined either to the ',lase of his birth, where be had learned his handicraft, where he had acquired hereditary rights, and where his character was best known. The complaints against corporations have, therefore, no foundation in fact, because they proceed from persons who have no legal ground of grievance. These persons do not contend that they are illegally excluded, for that would be a grievance which the supreme courts would rectify ; but they complain that they are legally excluded, and they contend that charters should be burnt, and the law altered for their personal advantage ! The clamour thus raised by self-interested persons has been listened to by the reformed Parliament, and an at• tempt is now making to invade, violate, and destroy all chartered rights for their sole advantage. We care not what protestations to the contrary are made. The expa7 rience of the last three years has taught us that when a Whig talks of protecting an institution, he secretly means to annihilate it. When he talks cf protecting property, he intends confiscation. When he professes his sincere attachment to the Church of England, he has made up his mind to spoliate and degrade it. When he assures us that he is anxious to extend the political franchise, he is busy in circumscribing it. In the sacred cause of reform. he only converts decayed or nominal boroughs to Whig purposes. He has not an idea beyond self, family, and faction—beyond power, place, and pay. This being the case, which the acts of the present ad ministration have proved beyond all cavil, we require no ghost to tell us what are the secret and levelling objects of the "base Whigs." The corporations are doomed. The commissions are a mere pretext. They are sent forth to gloss the prepared measures with something like inquiry. It is of no consequence what they report. Foul or fair—favourable or otherwise—it is no matter. The knife is whetted, the brand is lit, SWING is in Down ing•street, and before two years elapse, provided the present men are in power, every charter in England will be considered as waste paper, and the ten-pound house holders will be the electors, enjoying the privileges of the present freemen in all corporate towns. There may be some worthy people who dissent from this opinion, and if so, we are sorry for it, inasmuch as the present are times when nothing but•the most resolute courage, the most unflinching adherence to principle. the most vigilant suspicion of the ministerial authorities, and the most uncompromising opposition to all their measures, can secure the country against anarchy, rob bery, and bankruptcy. It is because we see in the intention what is likely to be, what Dr. CHALMERS calls, the upshot of the conspi racy against existing charters, that we, after mature de liberation, call upon those who are the guardians of local but long-established privileges to take their stand on the .outer rampart. They can gain nothing by. concession. To sanction the assumed right of inquiry is to meet the enemy half way, and facilitate his contemplated victory. That position which ensures the longest defence is the most desirable. What right have these commissioners to inquire ? None whatever. They are empowered, we are told, to call for persons, papers, and records ; but they cannot " call spirits from the vasty deep"—they cannot compel any man to answer any one of the nu merous questions dictated to them by the government. They have permission to listen to every idle tale—to hear the allegations of meddlers and busy-bodies-4o surfeit upon mendacity—to revel in dreams and pot house fictions—in all the falsehood that public credulity feeds upon—in hearsay slanders, stale and fallacious ; but they have no right to administer an oath, no power to compel an answer, no authority to extort facts, or en force the production of books or deeds. Such a commie.- sion is therefore of no practical utility. Before it truth has no chance. It is incapable of adjudicating upon right or wrong—upon what is admissible and what is ob jectionable. It cannot determine what is worthy of cre dence, and what is pure assertion without proof. It can not determine what is and what is not true ! But apart from its incompetency, we object to the inves tigation, by such counnibssonei 3, on higher grounds. We deny that the KING or the Commons have the power to institute any such inquiry. That they have not the power is proved by the admitted inadequacy of their right to enforce evidence. The KING, the Lords, and the Commons may do what they please. We are net here contesting their united and , legislative authority but we do contest the right of the CROWN, backed though it be by the Commons, to legislate by commission, or ad judicate by Star Chamber practice, upon those rights and immunities which were originally derived from the foun tain-head of feudal authority. The KING cannot recal the honours or rewards conferred by his ancestors. He cannot rcOahn the patent rights or dignities which he or his royal predecessors have bestowed. If we were to ad mit the cOntrary, we should be bound to concede to the CROWN the right to inquire how the Marquis of WEST MINSTER came by his estates—how the Duke of BEDFORD came by Woburn Abbey—what right Earl FiTzwamssi has to his coronet and his fair lands—who made Lord Dun- HAM a peer, Mr. GREY a bishop, and Sir JOHN KEY a_ baronet. To admit the right of inquiry into corpora tions, by commissioners appointed by the CROWN, or by the House of Commons, is to admit the right of inquiry into the title of every man's property. Such a power is utterly incompatible with the liberty of the subject, and if assumed or usurped would lead to monstrous abuses, frightful tyranny, and endless confiscations. The Com mons have no more right to inquire how corporations . expand their revenues, or whence they derive them, than the chairman of a political union has to inquire where we buy our endive in winter and our parsnips in the spring- If the right be usurped by a revolutionary faction, or by a ministry equally devoid of principle and shame, that is another question. We are not combating force, or deny ing the power of extortion, or.the desires of avarice; We• are only contending for those well-defined rights which have, during many ages, and by the wisest of our states men, been considered the bulwarks of British liberty. It is true that corporate bodies, sensitively olive to the unfounded misrepresentations which have been system atically circulated by their enemies, may very naturally be anxious to avail themselves of any opportunity to show to the world that these mischievous imputations are unmerited. But this, in our opinion, can hardly be taken as a sufficient reason for surrendering a constitu tional right. When a man is accused in general terms of parsimony or extravagance, does he invite the public, or a travelling commission to inspect his books, examiner his servants, and question his tradesmen ? If this were the only way to meet detraction there would be no lei sure for anything else. Our lives would be spent in eternal - inquiries concerning ourselves or our neigh-. bours. If any distinct charge be brought against an in dividual or corporation, then is the time to go into court To rush in heedlessly and unnecessarily is madness. But enough of this for the present—in our next vve shall, perhaps, be enabled to speak more definitely on the subject. THE LATE LADY FARNHANI.—We have to announce tha death of the above lady. who died on the 10th inst., at Valence , in France. Her ladyship (formerly Lady Juliana Lucy An nesley,) was the eldest daughter of the late Earl Mountnorris , and sister-in-law to tic present nobleman of that title. Her ladyship was united in 1,89 to the present Lord Farnham, ut . Farnham, in the county of Cavan, ono of the representative peers of Ireland, and his left no issue. Her ladyship was aloe related by marriage to the families of Lord John Somerset, Lord Le Despeuser, Viscount Bangor, &c. A TIGER HUNT.—As soon as we reached the spot, the boldly leaped into the hoilow, at the same time uttering a shrill cry in order to arouse his enemy from its slumbers. Upon seeing its resolute aggressor slowly advance, the animal raised itself upon its forelegs with a terrific howl. As the little Hitidoe continued to approach, which lie did slowly and with his dark eyes keenly fixed upon the face of his formidable foe the tiger rose W its full height, and began to lash its ides furinusiy with its tail, yet it evidently appeared to be in a state of embarrassment. Still the man advanced deliberarely but undauntedly; the uneasinesS and rage of the excited beast increased with every step; ,e 1 length it crouched, evidently with a determination to make terrific spring. The man suddenly stopped, when the tiger paused, turned up its head, and, uttering a horrible noise be' tweeu a snarl and a howl, made one stop forward, and sprang towards its victim, who instantly bent his body, ieceive a the animal's paws upon his shield, dashed the knife into his btglfo and fell under, but almost entirely beyond the extremities of MS wounded enemy. The creature turned upon its back; the little • llindoo regained his feet in an instant, striking the prostrate tiger with astonishing quickness and precision a desperate blow upon the throat, which completely severed the windpipe, at the, same moment springing witil.the etuickness of thought, beyeti 4 the roach o; the moiastees elawt fheligfr diod 'auk* irons*' diate4.—Orievita: Armitel. E ,. ~,