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THE LIVERPOOL STANDAhty. Vottry. A CALL TO THE PROTESTANTS OF ENGLAND. (From " For Ever, anti other Devotional Poems." By a Clergyman of the Church of England.) OW lien on occasion of the suppression of the .13ible in the Plan of National Bdaeationfor Irelinul.—APßlL 1832. PROTESTANTS, awake, assemble! Or for ever fallen lie ! Is it not a time to tremble, When the fatal blow is nigh ? hen the foe's unhallow'd finger Rests on God's eternal Word, Shall his faithful servants linger I Will they then desert their Lord Shame to this long-favoned nation, h ame and sorrow be her meed I If the ark of her salvation Be abandon'd in its need 1 Brightly on the page of story Deeds of other days may shine, But the Sun of England's glory 'Will 'mid scorn and woe decline. Sworn to keep the faith of Jesus, Caa we perjured Traitors prove ? ! from yonder Heaven he sees us, With a look of anxious love ! Oh ! with such a look to chide us, Such a quenchless love to cheer, With our martyr 7 d Sires to guide us, Can we bow to sloth or fear ? Hark ! our Sister Island, weeping, Calls to us across the wave— " Christian brothers ! are ye sleeping? " I am wounded—come and save ! " Think—if ye refuse assistance— " Who will pity or deplore, " Should the Light that g,ilds existence " Sink 'ere long on England's shore ? " Yes ! we come !—the spell is broken ! 'Tis the summons of the Lord ! Protestants the vow have spoken, Hear it Earth ! and Heaven, record ! Like our Fathers, we may perish On the glorious battle-field, But what they could die to cherish, We will never live to yield ! REMARK UPON A WIDOWER'S NARRIAGE.—"Ood forgave him once, and he has married again!"—My FORCE OF HABIT.—A decayed gentlewoman being obliged for her livelihood to go about with muffins, used in a faint voice to ejaculate, " muffins and crumpets ;" adding, in a still more under-tone, " 1 hope to goodness nobody hears me."—lbid. FOREIGN JOGRNALS.—By Colombo papers, to October 13, we learn, that the mail-coach travelling introduced into Ceylon, continues to open the way to a better acquaintance with the in terior.—A Hobart Town Courier, of the same date, says, "Tahiti is becoming a great place for settlers now. We have Dutch, English, and Americans, here as settlers. Several are turning their attention to sugar-making. I believe there were upwards of forty tons of sugar made last year on 2 ahiti. The natives themse4es made a good quantity, and bartered it to ships that touch here." FRENCH NOTIONS OP THE NEW PARLIAMENT.—The Courrier de l'Ettrope says, "English reform, in many points, resembles our revolution of July. The new elections in England, like ours, have thrown into the House of Commons a considerable number of legal men and men of letters, whose barren loqua city replaces the weighty and substantial eloquence which cha racterized the Parliamentary discussions in the time of Pitt, Fox, Burke, and Lord Grenviiie. The prolongation of the debate on the address is proof of our assertion. It *as a kind of review of the new orators, who were all eager to take up their position." CHINON, by the river, is grand and picturesque. It is on the right bank of the Vienne, and is sheltered between craggy hills, on the top of the loftiest of which are the remains of the once formidable castle, which for a thousand years held the surround ing country in awe. It was the favourite residence of Henry the Second of England, and the scene of his last moments, in 1189, when, broken-hearted by the undutiful conduct of his children, he left the world with a malediction on theca upon his lips. And here, ten years afterwards, his son, the lion-hearted Richard, closed his valiant career, and his giant-like ambition, in the narrow precincts of the grave. This castle was the chosen abode of Charles the Seventh. The apartments he inhabited are still in tolerable preservation, as is also the room in which Joan of Arc was introduced into his presence, and, selecting him, in his assumed disguise, from the nobles by whom he was surrounded, declared to him her divine mission. Here likewise it was that his unnatural sou, Louis the Eleventh, whilst yet dauphin, dared to propOse the assassination of his parent, to the Comte de Cha baunes, the favourite minister, who had virtue enough to shrink from the horrible crime, and revealed the intention to his royal master. The dismal oubliettes may still be traced, close behind the fire-place, in the principal sitting-room; so that the haughty prince might be stretching his legs over the fire, with the utmost nonchalance at the moment that the unfort una t e wre t c h w h o h a d offended him might be precipitated, at his very side, into this horrid grave. Alas ! that history should have recorded this to have actually been the case with that mirror of chivalrous honour, Francis the First , in company with one of his mistresses; b u t having seen such incontrovertible proof of the monstrous cruelty of the ages of despotism, I can now believe almost any thing that is told of them; and amongst the rest, the account of a French writer, which, before, I thought only adapted for pages of ro mance. " The chamber which this monarch occupied," says he, speaking of Louis the Eleventh, at the chateau des Loches, " was exactly over the frightful dungeons in which th e unfortu nates, cast in by his orders, languished. What reflections could a king make, thus taking up his abode above the he r ribl e vau lt s from which the last sighs of his expiring victims were breathed ! What hope of pardon for these despairing wretches, when he who alone had the power of granting it, could thus unfeelingly repose immediately over the spot where they were suffering ! A considerable time after the death of Louis the Eleventh, a cap tain of the name of Pontbriant, governor of the chateau, dis covered an iron door, which he caused to be opened, and traced, by the light of flambeaus, the subterranean passages, the entrance to which its purport was to close. After advancing a little way, he perceived a second iron door, which was opened, as the first; he Chen penetrated into a vast dungeon, at the extremity of which he beheld, exactly under the apartments of Louis the Eleventh, a man sitting on a stone bench, leaning his head on his hands. No doubt the unhappy wretch had died, in this position, of fa mine and despair ! There was nothing near him, excepting some linen in a small trunk. Pontbriant approached, and touched him; but only a hideous skeleton, of large proportions, remained beneath his band, at the pressure of which, slight as it must have been, the flesh and garments had instantly fallen to the e a r th, a heap of dust !" It is natural enough that tyrants should be cow ards; the castle of Chinon, like most of the same period, has several subterranean passages, to favour escape in case of any sudden attack. One, in the corner of the king's dormitory, ian not only to the river, but under the bed of it, to a chateau on the other side, within sight of the castle; and thence to another, it is said, at twelve miles distance. What a . picture might the imagination draw of a blood-stained, conscience-stricken mo -nasal, thus flying by torch-light through the very bowels of the earth ;_ his glittering robe and trembl ing di a d em i mpe di ng hi s coward flight ; fear leading the way—hate pursuing him ! whilst above, in the blessed sunshine, and pure breezes of heaven, the shepherd throws himself on the enamelled turf; " With all his little flock at feed before him," ignorant alike of the troubles and crimes of the great !—But enough of horrors. * * * The interior of the quadrangle is laid oat in garden grounds, watered by a well two hundred and forty-eight teet deep. This well was, eight years ago, the scene of a 'most calaraitous accident : th e mouth of it was, by most un pardonable negligence, left open, with only a temporary cover ing of straw over it; so much worse than nothing,, as it hid the appearance of dauber. Hanging over the aperture was au almond. tree, whickluxurtant in blossom, caught the attention of a young lady, the boast of Latouraine for her bea u ty, an d the ouly child o f wealthy parents, who, with their daughter and a few friends, had colipli:orn some distance, on an excursion of pleasure, to explore the...remains of the castle—her eyes fixed on the fragrant flow ers above her head, she thought not of the cavity beneath; she 'sprang forward in youthful hilarity, to catch th - e branch— het.'ftiot touched the straw.—in an instant she disappeared, and was, no More ! Thus, without a, moment's warning of her fate, realising, in days of peace and refinement, the barbarous death of the oubliette*, in the darkest ages of cruelty.—Six Weeks on the Loir. MOHAMMED ALI. (From the Bulletin de la Societe de Geographie.) The government of Mohammed Ali is loudly censured by those who pretend that he is ruining his country by depriving it of money and men. Those who knew Egypt before he pos sessed himself of it are satisfied that the Arabs were never richer nor better clothed. If the revenue of Egypt is at pre sent considerably increased, it is not by any additional burden on the people, but by increasing the extent of his possession, in consequence of the conquest of Sennar and Cordofar; by cultivating a much larger quantity of laud, by the introduction of new_ products, such as indigo, &c. If the actual commercial - exportation and importation of Egypt be compared with its former amount, it will be found to be at least as fifty to one. One year with another it exports in cotton alone from a hundred to a hundred and fifty th ousan d bales;' its importations are considerable, especially of metals, timber for building, arms, manufactured cloth, &c. This prosperity, these products, and this commerce, have their main spring in the genius and activity of Mohammed Ali. The Fellahs, left to themselves, would never dig canals, would never make sakiehs, except to water the doura necessary for their subsistence ; and Egypt would furnish only a few quintals of bad cotton. Her new manufactures would become useless, and the importation of specie, which is at present several mil lions, would in that case not exceed a few hundred thousands of frOxics. Mohammed Ali cannot be compared to those avaricious pashas of the rest of Turkey, who burden the people and extort revenue, in order to amass treasure. That of Egypt is em ployed in maintaining the army, in constructing buildings and o• introducin manufactures of all kinds, in founding useful esta blishments,' in sending, at a great expense, persons for instruc tion to Europe; consequently, all the revenue of the country is expended for the benefit of the country; and the result of this generous government is, that Mohammed Ali is forming, in ali the arts and sciences, men who will soon be prepared, or who are already prepared, to co-operat e i n th e civilisation of their country. It is, nevertheless, true that the military force which Moham med Ali keeps up, is by no means in proportion to the popula tion, and that the expense of this army demands contributions which press heavily upon the people ; but however excellent his intentions, and however great the benefit which he has con ferred upon Egypt, all had not sufficed to shelter him frym the intrigues and the injustice of the Porte, which often put the government of Egypt up to auction, by sending assassins to at tempt the life of a man who had already rendered services to the empire, above all, by the conquest of Mecca, and the de struction of the tribe of Wahabites, who threatened nothing less than the invasion of Syria after Arabia. It is, therefore, for his own preservation, and to secure to Egypt the continu ance and the happy influence of his reforms, that Mohammed Ali has considered it necessary to create a formidable army in order to give him the means of resistance. Mohammed Ali had never thought of revolting against the Porte; very far from that, he had always manifested towards it the greatest submission; paid it annuallyla considerable tribute, much exceeding that of his predecessors;- it sent pecuniary sub sidies whenever stood in need of them; and, more than all that, maintained for a long time an army in Greece; defended the exhausted empire of the crescent against the most mortal foes, and subjected to its authority the islands of Cyprus and Candia. Mohammed Ali was then, in point of fact, the most faithful and firm supporter of the Porte, the supporter even from whom it derived the greatest advantages. Nevertheless, the Porte could not pardon him his power. Mohammed Ali was not ignorant of this, for he has powerful friends at Constantinople, as well as in all the rest of Turkey. • Various motives rendered it necessary for Mohammed Ali to possess himself of Saint Jean d'Acre; first, because there was an enemy in that place who had been armed by the Porte against him, and then because he had experienced from Abdallah Pasha insults which his honour would not allow him to leave unrevenged; the Porte not having shewu any disposi tion, to obtain for him satisfaction. - Mohammed Ali, in his expedition to Syria, had, in the first instance, no other intention than to chastise Abdallah Pasha, and replace Saint Jean d'Acre in the power of the Porte. The Porte, far from interfering amicably, and in a manner honour able to Mohammed Ali, threatens him, and sends an army to fight him. It does more, it names governors in the room of him and his son; it employs, at the same time, anathema and ; excommunication against him. Mohammed Ali was compelled to exert himself in his own defence. Eventually, Saint Jean d'Acre falls into his power; he announces it to the Porte; he makes a last act of submission, by declaring that, having obtained satisfaction for the insult lie had received, he was ready to restore the place. How has this proposition been received by the blind and haughty divan? It has prepared new troops, and issued insult ing proclamations against Mohammed Ali and his son, whom it hopes to intimidate by threats, but whom it only further alienates. Mohammed Ali is considered by the Mussulmans as a war rior, the liberator of holy places. As for the military forces of the grand seignor, Mohammed Ali knows perfectly, how to esti mate them ; he has never doubted of victory. He has frequent ly said that all the threats of the sultan were rodomontades, and that his army of children, without discipline, without ex perience, and badly commanded. would never resist the brave Arabs, led byhis son. In fact, his famous army of eighty or a hundred thousand men has been . destroyed, according to Mo-' hammed Ali's prediction. His artillery, his ammunition, &c. have fallen into the hands , of Ibrahim Pasha. The fate of Ibraham Pasha is bound up with that of his fa ther, towards whom, besides, he professes the sentiments of the most submissive and devoted of sons. Ibrahim Pasha pos sesses military taste and genius. He is gifted with the greatest intrepidity and courage. In his campaigns in Hegiaz and in the Morea, he acquired the manner of warfare and the affection of the Arab soldiers. He exercises over their minds the magic influence which Napoleon exercised over the French. The offi cers of his army have had several years' experience. Most of them made the campaigns of Ilegiaz, Sennar, and the Morea. The principal chiefs are devoted to Mohammed Ali; the greater part of the generals and colonels are his relations, or slaves brought up in his house ) who are as much attached to him as his own son. The others are also tried men. The Arabs are very good soldiers, brave, sober, obedient, supporting without murmur the fatigues of war. They are incapable of being se duced, for they love their chiefs. In a word, Mohammed Ali's army forms a homogeneous body, well organised, and animated with the best spirit. As for Mohammed All's naval force, it is composed of five superb men-of-war and several frigates, without reckoning a pretty large number of other vessels, such as corvettes, brigs, and galleys. All these vessels are new, well armed, well equipped, and manned by experienced - sailors. The ships of the line ate mostly commanded. by able. officers, among whom are several French and English. The admiral who commands the fleet, Osinan Pasha, is a person distinguished by his edu cation and intelligence,. having resided a long time in Europe, being intimately acquainted with the French and several other languages, understanding perfectly naval discipline, which he has organised, and in a manner created in Egypt, and being a brave man, and possessed of imperturbable coolness. The fleet, therefore, of the Viceroy of Egypt, although in ferior in number to that of the Sultan, is capable of "meeting the latter; it is even almost certain that if it meets it united, it will beat, and probably destroy it; for the grand Signior's fleet is composed of bad ships, badly armed and equipped. The crews have been formed from a mass of wretches, vagabonds, labourers, and shopkeepers, impressed in the streets of Constanti nople. On these accounts the Captain-pasha, and other chiefs, are so conscious of their weakness, that they avoid meeting Mohammed Ali's fleet. What can be expected from sailors like those who rau away with so much precipitation and fear from the Greek fire-ships ? The. viceroy's ships have already captured a corvette, a brig, and several other vessels, which surrendered without firing a shot; so that the success of the naval force is not more doubtful than that of the army. Mohammed. Ali is the only man in Turkey capable of re covering the disorganised, crumbling, and dismembered em pire. All the acts which have signalised his government in Egypt, are, it seems to us, unequivocal assurances that the empire would flourish and be consolidated if he were to take the reins. It is probable that Mohammed Ali will not desire to pro ceed by giving up his position. To all appearances he will confine himseif to the conquest of Syria. That province suits his present possessions in Egypt. He will be too sensible of this ever to resolve to abandon it. The Porte will never be in a state to dispossgss him of it—above all, since he has become master of Saint Jean d,'Acre, which in his hands will be im pregnable, and much more than it was before, if, in repairing the fortifications, lie causes them to be re-established alter the best plans. While Syria, in the power of Mohammed Ali, will become a new outlet for European commerce, this prince will subdue the barbarous manners of the inhabitants, which hitherto have nipt every germ of civilization.' It is always with the greatest diffi culty, and never without danger, that travellers can journey in it. Every body is acquainted with the destruction of the French factories by Djezzar Pasha, the vain efforts which in our days have been made by one of the first powers in the world to esta blish a consul at Damns, and, finally, the vexatious and exac tions which Christians sustain in the Holy Land. Mohammed Ali's conquest, therefore, is a real benefit to commerce, to the sciences, and to humanity. Tzar, LONDON PRESS. (FROM THE STANDARD.) The question of the power of the House of Comm ons to call for the muniments of corporation rights is one of very great importance, and public attention cannot be called to it too earnestly or too early. This is, howeirer, a question of great extent, if thoroughly investigated ; it is therefore only in a very simple and abstract shape that we can touch upon it. The universally established principle of English law, and of the law of every civilized country, is, that pos session affords a presumption of right ; consequently, our civil courts will never call for the defence of a civil right before a prima facie case is made against it, any more than our criminal courts will require a party to prove his innocence before information or indictment is preferred against him, and supported too by evidence. If .a party were to apply to Lord Brougham, upon mere suggestion that the Duke of Bedford has no right to Covent Garden Market, for leave to. file a bill of discovery against his Grace ; or, to come nearer to the mark, were to request from that keeper of the officina brevium, a " a subpama duces tecum," commanding the production of the duke's title deeds, the learned Chancellor would no doubt give the officious " orator" some such hint, as that he had better go ask his brother Denman why judgment of death and execution should not be awarded against his Grace, unless he proved that he had never robbed the mail—of robbing which the Duke of Bedford has, let us remark, never been accused; more than we can say for every member of the legislature. The principle, we repeat it, is, that no man is to be made party in a suit in which his life, liberty, property, or privilege, shall be jepparded, before a prima facie case has been raised against him ; still less shall a man be put to the torture of imprison ment, or any other torture, to furnish evidence as a ground-work for that prima facie case. What is true of individuals in their individual capacity is no less true of corporations; indeed, the rights of cor porations are fenced by still stronger barriers, for they seem to partake in some degree of the royal prerogative of impeccability. We find in "Rolls' Abridgment," 1. 514, that a cor poration cannot be punished or dissolved by . act of the King, or otherwise than by the extinction of some essen tial part ; and the putting, of interrogatories to a corpora tion, with a view to the discovery of evidence against it, is, in the well-known argument of Sir George Treby, properly assimilated to the inquisitorial examination of an individual. "I confess, my lord," said the intrepid lawyer, "I do not see but that at this rate a quo warranto may be brought against a particular man to know by what authority he claims to have the liberty of a subject ? to sue and be sued ? to plead and be impleaded ? Now, if the exercise of an inquisitorial power by the "Rex in Curia," the minister and representative of the whole legislature, be so intolerable, and necessarily lead to an extinction of all individual liberty, can it be pretended that this. inquisitorial power exists in one branch of the legislature and that which used to be considered the meanest ? In short, has the House of Commons the right of delegating to its committees a power which the law has not given to the King in his Court of King's Bench ? The question may be soon put in issue. Let the first corporation upon which (what we consider the tyrannical) demand for its muniments shall be made, refuse. If the House of Commons dare to coerce a compliance by the only process which it possesses—imprisonment of the re cusant officer or officers, the sufferer will then sue out his habeas corpus in the King's Bench. If the court decide that it is sufficient return to the writ to say that the party is committed by the order of the House of Commons, then there is a solemn -confession, that British liberty is no more, an acknowledgment that we are at the Mercy of an assembly of 658 men, who may imprison our bodies—arid why not hang us ?—upon any pretext,,or no pretext ; and that though the subject should be bolted down in the low est dungeon of Newgate, or even stand haltered upon the drop before that building, the Court of King's Bench will not interpose to save him from torture or death, when once apprised that " les communes se veulent." If either King, Lords, or Commons, can claim more than a de fensive right of coercion, independent of the law and of their co-ordinates in the sovereignty, then the pretence of a free constitution is an idle jest, and the King or chamber having right to make such claim, is depot() the despot of the country, despot King, despot oligarchy, or despot democracy, for despotism can subsist with either of the three forms. Despotism of any kind, however, the people of England will not bear; and, if the House of Commons show itself in the character of despot, or be so displayed by subservient tribunals, it will run a fair chance of being effectually reformed, body and members. On the other hand, should the . Court of King's Bench entertain the consideration of merits, upon return of a habeas corpus, on a committal by the House of Com mons, the question is at an end; the Court cannot sanc tion, in a parliamentary committee, a power which it has not itself, and the proposed exercise of which is discoun tenanced by the whole policy of the law. All we ask is a fair hearing in a court of justice, to shut up Lord Al thorp's committee. The corporations, however, have, one way or the other, the whole game in their hands. Re sist, we say—resist. Examples of firmness are what kings and statesmen, lords and bishops, most want at the present time ; and the first corporation which shall afford that example will not only achieve the victory that legal courage, supporting a just cause, always maintains; but commence a revulsion of feeling by which the country may yet be saved from the spoliation and anarchy that now threaten, and, whatever the result, he who shall for the first time try the question whether the Habeas Cor pus Act is a dead letter as respects the • House of Com mons, will be entitled to, and will obtain the, gratitude of all posterity. (FROM THE GUARDIAN AND PUBLIC LEDGER.) We have heard, in common with others, of the whis pers about dissensions in the Cabinet. That they exist we have not the slightest doubt, but what they relate to is still a matter of conjecture. We may infer, however, from the whole policy of the Government, that they are beset with difficulties, which have their origin in the stu pendous measures which they have undertaken for the reformation, as they are pleased to call it, of all the in stitutions of the country. They have sown the whirl wind, and they must now reap the storm. They have set the machinery of revolution into motion, and they must place themselves on the front of the chariot, and fly with it whether for good or for evil, and whether the re ward be fame or infamy. This being the case, it is very natural to infer that there are some members of the Cabinet who have little or no relish for so perilous and precipitate a movement, who do not feel easy in their situations, and who are disinclined to march, or, rather, gallop, with their colleagues. • It is not simply the, affairs of Ireland which involve the. Ministers in serious difficulties. They see that the re formers of England will not be satisfied unless some sweeping changes take place in the temporalities of the church here as well as in Ireland. They. perceive that agitation will, ere long, work the same effects on this as it has already done on the other side of the Irish chan nel, and we believe they are apprehensive that the scene of its operations will, as soon as the suspension bill is passed, be transferred from the Corn Exchange of Dub lin to some Exchange nearer the Court of St. James's. But, whether or not, there is quite enough connected with other important questions to occupy the attention of the Cabinet and keep alive their anxieties. There is the itonban (13 subject of the West Indies, which, we are told, is to! considered, and safely and satisfactorily settled in present session of Parliament. The East India Cope (' ny's charter too is to b e r e v i se d if no t annu ll e d. Itofi j the first time that the W higs have tried their h a nd . 7 0 employed all their talents in ref o r m ing th e i ns titutO t of our Eastern empire, and n o w th e y h ave a fi ne opP° tunity for carrying their speculations into effect, and 5 lizing their early dreams. As ruin is the order of day, what chance of escape can remain to the gentler o 7 of Leadenhall-street ; The reform bill must be perm ted the benefit of a voyage round the Cape o f Go Hope in a steamer, built in Downing-street, carryill„g ti Broom at the mast head and a GRANT at the helm. 4.1 TUESDAY, FEBRUA PARTNERSHIPS I th? l l'an and Co., Liverpool, boot-mal ciss'gcw, Renfrewshire, ship builders salters. —E. S. Loosemore, Piccadi . 11 ,:qaschester, importers of oil.—Parkin a ireclle-street, ship and insurance broke ,1441 . --R. and J. Shaw, Lenton, No Neter and Jones, Ludlow, Salop, b ""r S heffield, cutle rs .—Ki r k and Hur s'"'Vrost and Taylor, Kilnhurst, Yorksl lorgan and Son, Cardiff,Glam( fie, and Co., Priestbooth, Lancal ~..nts M. De Maine. —Tibbetts and l ..aters. — Stevens and Bren c hl ey , it( Gaskell, Manchester, surgeons..--, t07n,,; grocers.--W. and J. Tuck, .4 liti7.-proprietors.—Schwabe and Co., dam"waiqe.--Scott and Mr'. Bazett. Eh ; so far as regards Mr. Bazett. BANKRUPTCIES A doh Henry Woolb ert Southampton. Leadbeater and John Barlow, 31 BANKRUPT tdward Bennett, Merstham, Surrey, avid Greenley, jun., Goswell-stree R ; art Topham, Dock-head, Berm° c;illiam Broadbent Gunning, Egham ,?eurge Ti* Bank, likewise, we fear, is exposed to some trencb°.! ameliorations, such as bleeding, perhaps, in the first T i stance, and a water diet during the rest of her life. 11 ,j Corporations, too, must be opened up, reformed, then plundered. The tories have too much influence I , these privileged places, and it is incumbent that tb e i should be expelled, and . their seats occupied by hone s a, conscientious, and disinterested whigs. All this, nit good reader, is to be done, or is promised to be done, the present session of Parliament. RnauSouthey Haßrrise Loh 0, 1 : 1a81, 7, New Quebec-street, 4 1 . 10 4 ,, - '''7'er, Beaminster, Dorsetshir qe obi ; ieal a s ni : Cocl a ka tl ri U ke rn r(:, Old Compton-street. laer eh ' a f t Ness White, Waterloo-place, h0w,"...* b, .e.te Greaves, Leicester, grocer. el'u el Sanders, Totness, DevonsluTe Ticliarles Brown, Olainfo rd Briggs, Lin J "las Cardwell, Manchester, mere; 44.0 4 es l lucklow, Birmingham, stamp 5'441:11-o',4 -j -111 441 e, Pine. jun., Devonport, Devon Brighton, dodni t,ehß , a Sussex, th ,Worcester ic u r y i 01. W i , DIVIDEND i'te i •4nson late of Billiter-lane, me Ls 'llei t i i ," o , l verton, Buckinghams i , ~4,7,-laphalin, Surry, tallo h w . - r e e han mi d i 'ller ` rs°l,l 7, merchant, March 19.-1 L‘l4l.eii March 19.—T. North, Woottez ,Ntr eh , 2 „ 1 .--It. S. Jobling, Duke-stree N`'....0 - ". - -T. and K Broekbank, Carlisl bu s'• Howson, Winterton, Lincolnshi efR",, .Sherborne Dorsetshire, innhok ,Itztl.-",,iset,,Q. Saw 'ufacturer, March 20.. Itl y " , 4'). ` .ih°n ivl P io ° l c e k sa 'ki t ,' Rrocer, March 19.—J. Hewitt, ju . let, Nlarch 21.—C. Hayles, Portsr Nottingham, Macdonald, currier, K i Marchr e sb o r o 2 u b t* . li i n e gt la o rd n, w li ar 'o e rk d s e h ai ir e e r , , Cl, Ginter,u ucestershire, shopkeeper, March qtr , ,, t'ICATES to be granted, unless 4 1 b trary on or before the el9th tii,` urba n k , Cambridge, grocer.—ll. J. 1 / 4 k2 , ! le aler.—W. Harrison, Portsmouth - ' ,- street, Portman-square; bookselll (FROM THE TIMES.) The General Steam-navigation Company's mail-pao, Cotambine, which arrived yesterday from the El„1 brought Hamburgh letters and papers to the 23rd, 1) " the intelligence is not important. They contain or ) accounts of the sittings of the German Chambers, Nvl ll l / possess, however, too little interest for translation. may be mentioned that the motion brought forward 3 ,' the Saxon Chamber by Professor Krug has been drawn, in consequence of explanations given by 1 : Minister of State, Von bindenan, which, it is said, 0 9 ; vinced the Professor that, " under present circumstancs', such a law could not be conveniently passed. Norwegian Storthing has just met. The King was P r e ' sent, and opened the session with a speech which N s Borsen Halle Zeitung of the 22nd promises to give 1 0 I , future number. The prices of the Austrian 5 p er cell, Metallics is quoted in the stock-list of the 22nd' at 91 f; money, and the Bank Actions at 1,200, but business,' stated to have been very dull on the Hamburgh Y' r change. (FROM THE MORNING HERALD.) I We cannot too strongly reprobate the course which; evidently taking, by part of that portion of the pre y ,' which has peculiarly the ear of the labouring classes 6 set them, not only against the government fur the 0 9 ., being, but to dissatisfy them altogether with the coas ti i i tution under which they live, and under which, with " its defects, this country has risen to the highest s tate glory and civilization. In a Sunday paper, remarkable for vigorous writing; we find the following pretty plain avowal u n til r new reform bill is passed (says the writer)—a bill by f a s 6 more sweeping than the last—the people will with nothing in the House of Commons but the unavaih, ll :t struggles of a few against such Judas-Iscariotism as O h ; displayed by Burdett and Hobhouse.s Even were ministers what they are not, honest and bold, they c ol; , effect but little for the country with such a House of CO, mons, and under the remains of our most gothic and ba r , barons constitution. Were the Commons House of P 3 . f t liament as free and pure as imagination could paint 1 ; little could be done for the 'people whilst the King has tt; i , prerogative of a veto, and whilst a House of Peers is lowed to exist." COURT OF BANKRUPT ( Before Mr. Commission A v MARSH, STRACEY, AND GRAM Niti e ?y numerous meeting of the creditor N tti loriner.ly bankers in Berners-stree ° t tng. in Mr. Co mm i ss i oner Evans' London Gazette, to attempt to claimed by the Bank of England l A lt i l' _ ll b rtl e P r ts ec . ollected that the unfortunal !rie t ,,f of the bankrupts, forged a numl k t o "3' he posse3sed himself of stock in t ztl2';;Arious persons. The amount of f F r % th'°° o , and the proprietors of the bi r 2t loss themselves made claims to pi th forgeries of their partner, which, a: NRart of the assignees to the commis: Or o ,l"?rs., were admitted. One of these t4 : 1 1 , 4 11 , at t l u d t , ae Court of Exchequer, then 44 . e P h Y l ‘ l ;. s J n e o cred i rallt n elr l i n ect i t i o e i p i r o o u v s e e fo o i kOsntleroy having by means of a for ; E :1 4 5,8-11 9s. Bd. 5 er cent. stock, Zl4, the Bank of England; and this a ;IN" °f Lords, for the purpose of trying I 14 1.3 to make such claim, and with the v ;:t.her claims. '),ll4,,_ll.oivrAoux attended to-day before ;I t i i ‘j several aims called upon the tt i p , 4 . l s e u g s u u n ch do c rta : kin,,, f , r a o s ni th th e e 6 a.e ot e h ou s n e ts o lynetly enjoins, and empowers the k 4 1 contended that the Bank of En o to prove against th e bankrupts um hit s several cases in confirmation of tl .00lland, reported in Montague al 'Nl4:ll4t.e;sz‘v ith r great e em so p l h ic as: or asto athceonne; ka t ° ' ele eases de_pended upon the issw °I . Lords, the Commissioner ought nc This is pretty plain language, and is, we fear, but tt well calculated to base its effect among a great body readers, who have no means of being disabused of Lb' , effect which such flagitious trash, uncontradicted, is litem to have upon them. We condemn such language as tll the more, coming, as it does, at the very outset of th proceedings of a new parliament, elected under eircolin stances which the people were taught, and justly taught to expect, would be the means of removing most of the' evils and defects which an impure system of represent s ' reformed had led. Nor is it because the rafored Parliaine ll , j has not, in ten days, accomplished all that was ex pect of it, that any honest public writer can be justified in d e e , c i crying it as useless, or the great safeguards of our mix government as unfit for longer duration. If such s et , sons will look round, and see how little has been °v: tained by the overthrow of institutions in other countri e ' and to what scenes of misery and desolation civil Ou r motion gives rise, we think they would be slow to -coon, sal gild' things, or to instil rebellion in a country wh e ':i public opinion has recently shown the power which I possesses. tt:!,,tll4:sterda But why do we notice these sentiments ? Not svi i t . e ° ?;', L 'IaZ accounts that have reached u: any view of giving them currency, still less with tP,,. V i Ntr i ,ges done by the late gales is r most remote intention of courting the vengeance of t` i- j THE Bt g Character. The following ex e . L k °f it shipwrecks, and loss of hun law towards them. No, we are of opinion, with L° f Bacon, that " the surest way to remove seditious i'l i '; i k t th lll t 11 : ' i S ty TE ; m r -I t 3 he A s T.— ft A g o r f e a thisd take away the causes thereof," and if the Governnt cn '4 % -I:ha c roes on- o - Sundayae safety of lc see, as they must do if they ore not stone blind, ti le powerful engines are at work to take advantages of ul 1',, 1 1i e4 1 , 5 0 and some passengers, an g in :tor— The-Erin had not any 'distresses of the people, it is their first and bounden doti ,0 d av a Llte city yesterday . ; the Shaun cirei,isci; it.,llit 'i ll ii:of. st s hh t ea h n l ov r es i n h , a ha yin g taken to lose no time in inquiring into the cause of those tresses, as it is the first and obvious duty of a reform 'l,!,Vbut no tidings parliament to lend a: prompt and willing hand in the so l y 'il i k e " o n has been received in the inquiry, and in the speedy removal of that which, 3° ' an e t t e hs been eoe apprehensions hrittynh announcesa guru itua th ( 1, 40 11 .. a have been picked up on the 1 T il' o t° r e , fide bein g nearly knocked to piece f itt i e -, ts are tihnesail.atreeprpuhreesifbe tt 4v Sl l t i ra o. ld t st longer allowed to smoolder, may at length burst (er e ; cially by the aid of such fanning as it receives) flame not easily quenched. The great evil which tli e , N't„ of the r waterni " e i n — at Gi tlu e 'shinc , I steamer left l i i t a i ll e e w fo s r tr ß on ri l people labour under is the want of employment. inedy this should be the first object of the legislot ° That it may be remedied, and that speedily, we lO ve Il y doubt, if those who have hitherto looked to to:0 °1 1 1 1 . e he 3 t° ,.,::: about N a v edn e m which d a t y i i in :l e it A th g , : No. : d i wind a y l e: very hitt expedients and on the mere surface, will boldly 10 . 0 0 o f ,I tto q ol 'if e li n ich 4 :continu n ed' with the root of things, and - to the permanent consolitlan . !eA -' le -"° lialct of the He al the true interests of the empire. 4 ' as 0 4 Y d 'h ' r Herald. Nl.' keh anxiety to attend to his duty in Pat klv ,_ is felt for the safety of th e 4 es, weiell left tport for I tha r enzan ltlik sari boar ~wit intent to i d .4esday t 11 , i . he -schooner Kitty, of New t en on sh ore . o the west a cove t VW was ashe n overboard. and drr e r e k broken ; yroce, lw. g It;is but .he was got on e t ten, Thursday gh she is greatly do n, mo rn i ng, the p q . "' k large. vessel totally 4 O'el of off, thou dismasted at , t. 4 ifnal flying at th i 4 e - ,, Yes to-reader he e r flag staff on her that. the cargo cat 1 4 nine Wednesday assista : nee ' 4 , 4, out, morning, a sch 4 , 60 tons burthen, foundered a I V port]; a . few. miles west of. Pa `lti l gt the entire crew perished. . A ,t,, crew of another, of less size, w h' 44 -t th :; 11 , ,I, was overset. this vessel is su c4 4 _ e same porth, , in , . a trem en d ous ; r k ,Mk, with butter and corn; som e . ItiVied on shore. ,Y from New-quay, with four men I W 4 wreck on Thursday; on reti ,N , th e whole of the persons on boar 'eA 4 day evening last, the schooner , W,i k klaster, ran for Padstow harlic k ,4 -t i,vitaibly wrecked, but for the AF ' VY the boats and capstans belonl Ilktl,A.ssociation. oe,lpe r y barge on the river at Wad p,,. 4 lost. Oi r :Y . the storm of Tuesday night a. id VA' men, belonging to Wadebridi i t ko _ . ~ ti t „,went in a small boat to gat et ; m 'clay, were drowned by the filliii qp i ;: their return with tile - evenin, a't at, • I'AGUR replied, that the creditor 44ol l. 4l Cut, and therefore ought not to be Fh 118IIPIELD said the assi"necs had 4h, iejeditors must abide by it. reel 'ki r :night the ease would very speedil, t o ° use of Lords. p,"%ia LOT I SSIONER said that, under the ( 4 st b eadj li o r u e r p n o e s d te i r i r ne ms d t i o e. entertain the THE LATE STOT CURE FOR SMOKEY CHIMNE YS .—A wire gauze frout h t° t h w e fitted over the place, of about twenty-two wires to th e inc" effect of which is said to be instantaneous.—Country papef' ea l THE YOUNGER CATHILINEAN, devoted with hereditarY i fbr courage. Orders re e s r u m s e ee were w s d to the worn-out cause of the Bourbons, took up arv is Madame la Duchess de Berri; andnd M. dea associatedlleLar in de the Suriac,aa o IVl f o fi r d ri e s l s i e ty t, to arrest them at Beaupreau; they took refuge in a chateau !t, the neighbourhood. The troops surrounded and searched but all in vain; not a single human being was to be found In if Certain, however, that the objects of their search were actua'l within the precincts of the chateau, they closed the gates, 5 ' 4 their watch, and allowed no one to enter, except apeas,,ts whom they employed to show them the hiding-places. re watch they kept three days, till wearied by the non-app n , of the parties, and the bellowing of the cattle, which wer e c ib© fined without water and on short allowance, they were 01 at point of quitting the spot; one of the officers, however, thous> previous to doing so, he would go over the chateau once roo'! er the peasant followed close at his heels, suddenly the gm' j a turned towards him,—"Give me a.pinch of snuff, triend, s., he. "I have none," replied the man, "I do not take , I ,`,^ at "Then who is there in this chateau that does?" "No otV„tu en I know of—there is no one in the chateau, as you see." whence comes the snuff which I see here?" said the officers pointing with his foot to some which was scattered on tl ' r ground. The man turned pale, and made no reply. The oiti r c e u ci looked round again, examined the earth more . closely, "agFthe with his foot, and at last thought he felt a vibration, as l e at ground below was hollow, he scrutinized every inch, an le length saw something like a loose _board; he raised . it then, alas! he beheld Cathilinean, in. front of his three cow'; panions, with his pistols in his hand ready to fire. , . T . he 0tn!,7, 1 had net a moment to deliberated,-The 111;ed--Cathihnean e Musee, and afterwards confirmed b, the officer who was one of the party employed.—Six Weeks en bdyeaddi,eaknedepheisrcoofmtphaniOns were seized. This story was told ni Loire.