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miles from St. Omer — thirty miles, from Calais, ,gne, be reached in eighteen hours from London, OF eifi gfr Dover—St. Omer being the first principal town on th dir t roads from the coast to Paris and Brussels. 77411315. The English Course, with the addition of French and Draw ing, and meudinc , Washing:, Stationery, the use of Books, and a Seat in the English Protestant church, Fifty Guineas per annum.—No extras whatever. The Vacations will he a Forpight at Midsummer and Christ mas, and Ten Days at Easter. No Eatra Charge is made 111 r Pupils remaining during the Vacations. No Fee required for Entrance; but the Quarter to be paid in advance—the Charge taking date from the Day of Entrance. For Testimonials and other particulars apply to Mr. W. GRAPES.; Bpokseller, Church-street. . THORBURN, 11, St. Janes-placo,-Liverpoot; or to Ito ICE ENS, Esq., 11, Threadneedle-street, Messrs. Dc Po d Cooccs,'Tavis tock-street, Covent-garden, Lond OCTAVICS SCOTT, Esq., Margate; the Rev. CHARL ES DELACOUR, Heckington, Lin colnshire; and CHARLF.S WEAVER, Esq., Gloucester. N.B. —Mr. PARMINTCR will be in Liverpool during the Christmas week. C. W. RICHARDS'S CLASSICAL and MATHE- J_ MA.TICAL ESTABLISHMENT will be 1-opened on the 25th of January, when a full attendant f Mr. R.'s Pupils is respectfully requested. 3, Mount Vernon' Road, near Liverpool, December 28,1835. _ _ _ _ An ASSISTANT is Wanted immediately, and Mr. It. would give the preference to a Graduate of either of the English Universities. * * l Post-paid Letter only will be replied to. LIVERPOOL ROYAL INSTITUTION, COLQUITT "tee-' • 'STREET. . - . A fir R. EDWARD TAYLOR, of LONDON, Nv . deliver a -.Vit. Course of FOUR LECTURES on E LISH VO CAL HARMONY, to commence on MON Y, Jan. 4, 18.36, at One o'clock, and to be continued each succeeding, THURSDAY and MONDAY, at the same h r; Repeating them at Half-past . Seven each succeeding TUESDAY and FRIDAY. VOCAL PERFORMERS. Miss Leach, Miss Hornby, Mr. Walton, Mr. Ball, Mr. E. Taylor. Mr. G. Holden will preside at the Piano-forte. Subscriptions to the Course, Half-a-Guinea. Admission to a Single Lecture, Three Shillings; and for Children and Schools, Half-price r —a Teacher being admitted Free when Six Scholars attend. ! - TO THE ELECTORS OF THE EVERTON AND KIRKDALE WARD. GENTLEMEN, I do great injustice to my own feelings, if I did not express the deep sense I entertain of the honour you have done me in nominating me as one of the three why - you sotr xin wished to return a s your r e presentatives in the Ne ouncil, and if I did nut convey to you my warmest ackn edgments for the strenuous efforts you made in my behalf. Under the circumstances of the present ti s, I can assure you that that sense is in no degree tlitnini dby the issue of the contest, while it is much increased b e reflection that so very large a proportion of the votes of tb Vard were recorded in my favour without solicitation, and dfter my sentiments bad been so fully and frankly expressed. Such a mark of your kindness will ever give me a grateful, and still deeper interest than before, in whatever may affect the welfare of a neighbourhood which has honoured me with so gra tifying a proof of confidence and regard. • I have the honour to remain, Gentlemen, Your faithful and obedient servant, Everton, December 31, 1835. ADAM HODGSON. TO THE: BLIgGESSES OF ST. PAUL'S WAIID. GENTLEMEN'', Y best thanks are . clue to the Electors who so intlependt4 recordel their "Votes in my favour at the recent F.Wetton, for although the anticipations of a successful resulklurre not been realized, I cannot but feel deeply indebted for thtekindexertions to promote Inv rotnro as one of the Councillors pAir Ws t rd. I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, Your faithful Servant, WILLIAM SHAND TO THE ELECTORS OF EXCHANGE WARD. GENTLEMEN; OUR warmest thanks are due for the high honour con on us by electing us your Representatives in t . Town Council. Of your own free will you invited us to become andidites, neither desiring or receiving from us any person solicitation for your votes, and the testimony of your apt bation so ho nourably conferred is thus the mole highly ed by us. We beg you, therefore, to accept the assurance our anxious en deavours to discharge the duties imposed us faithfully and impartially, and to justify the confidence you have placed in us. We must also congratulate you on the triumph you have achieved for yourselves on this occasion; but we trust you will now allow all temporary feelings of excitement to subside, and be replaced by a cordial feeling of co-operation for the best in terests of the whole community. To George Quayle, Esq., your respected Chairman, and your high-minded and independent Committee who have so nobly perfOrmed their duty, and to the Electors generally, we tender our best thanks, and beg to subscribe ourselves, Gentlemen, Your eery faithful Servants, HENRY HOLMES. LAWRENCE HEYWORTH. JAMES MELLOR. Liverpool, 31st Dec., 1835. TO THE BURGESSES OF PITT-STREET WARD. GENTLEMEN, BEG to return my wannest thanks to the Burgesses and my numerous Friends who 'have supported my clai as a CANDIDATE to . represent this Ward in the N Town Council. I assure you that I feel sensibly grateful to y or your un solicited votes and exertions in my favour d ng the recent Election; and to repeat to you, that had it f len to my lot to have been elected as a Councillor, my b attention should have been paid to the local and general interests of this Ward, and of the community at large. I have the honour to remain, Gentlemen, Your faithful servant, Duke's Dock, December 31, 1835. JOHN BIBI3Y. TO THE ELECTORS OF THE WEST DERBY WARD. GENTLEMEN, I - AM unable to give that expression to the sense I entertain _I of Tour recent successful exertions in placing me in the ho nourable position as one of your representatives in, the Council, which my inclination suggests, but as the best r ibution in my power for the honour you have conferred up me, I beg to as sure you that every exertion shall be em yed by me to pro mote your interests, so far as they are sistent with the ge ..neral welfare of the Borough, to which it is also my duty and desire to devote my best efforts. I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, Your very obedient Servant. J. S. LEIGH. Edge-lane, Dec. 30, 1E435. • TO TIIE ELECTORS OF THE WARD OF WEST DERBY. GENTLEMEN, THE first movement of a people in the exercise of newly acquired rights is always beyond the necessity of the case. To establish good government in this borough, it was not neces sary to return 43, out of the 48 councillors, in one interest. It must, however, to regarded as a strong expression of public in digi ation against the utterly indefeasible practice of " self: election," and of the exclusive system existing in the old cor porate body. It is earnestly hoped, that the re of will not be lost upon the new council ; and that thei ensures will be directed by a spirit of fairness and tolera e which should cha racterise the period when liberal senti is are stated to govern the' conduct of public men. . I enter the council without a feel g of hostility to any man composing it. 'I shall look to the measures brought forward, and shall be governed in all my votes by their merits or de merits. To you, the electors, who, by your exertions, placed . me in the honourable, if not e x ac tly enviable, position in which I stand, I return. you my warmest thanks. I cannot sufficiently express the sense of obligation I have been laid under, by the unwearied exertions of the Chairman Deputy-Chairman,—by the labours the Coturnittee, and particularly of those of the Gentlemen Can vassers. It h as not been one of the least grat i fy i ng circum stances attending the contest, that it has made me personally aca‘uainted with a l l of them. such 71 . the elector s as voted against me, I tender my best t'vrthetsk;, with i ' it n an .ssurau ce o f my grea t rea di ness t o co - opera t e auv measures calculated to promote the interest of the ward. have the honour to be, Gentlemen, lour obedient and faithful servant. JOS. SANDAIIS. Mount Vernon-place, Dec. 31, 1535. I ..... 13 0:1M13: , ELECTORS OF SOUTH TOX'TEIII-PARK. , • ~, .• ' , !.'.7- W (41g - t4TbEstElve- . ! , 3. E,..bg-- e-;tri , :returi?-nu i r snicere Tha n k s to the CoMmittee .. .... ,;a.nd,Gen.ttenters, who.anterested t hernselve,.-in our be ' .half' tithing AhN'lzke ..ILLECTION.,..I to thp..se-who did us the htinOur to : .vote. , in our•favt:py •when, Ca„,44lnate s for the New • Town CiiiiiiCil. ••! ..,*. •. ~ , .. i ost ., • . .Although unsureessful, yet...w asi relon th a t we feel giate • • . ful for the support which .we re 4 ed, and f o r th e good Opinion manifested towards us by the tes of su many of our fellow townsmen. It We have The - honour to be, ''" Gentlemen, Your much obli7eri a nd o b e di en t servants, NICHOLAS ROBINSON, ALEXANDER SMITH, Jun., JOHN FLETCHER. Liverpool, December 3Q 1835. -:''' ' ' ' 4 :1* ' . , ;:' 'l/4 '..tea.. e . .4) . ..." • • __- lk , ' 7 s - - 'l. 'if' • 2 , jC.1 , J...... - ,,,ri..........r..._-,.............6A5..p.............re. EDUCATION. . •.* CUATEAD D B IT, NEAR. ST. OMER, FRANCZ. lug - R. W. G. ER, .Pupil of Dr. Russell, and OVA. many years o f e Masters of the Rochester and Cll2"iarn, Classico d Mathematical institution, receives a Limited Number OUNG GENT MEN, as Boarders in his House, who attended by native Masters in all the branchei of Education, not comprised in the English Course of Study. This 'Course comprehends the English, Latin, and Greek languages; Arithmetic and the different branches of the Mathe. raaries; Writing, Ilistpry, Geography, and Elocution . The method of instruction sorsued in the study of the Classics, is founded on an union of the Charterhouse and Hamiltonian systems, which are so blended a s greatly to facilitate the ac- quisition, and ensure a sound grammatical knowledge of the dead languages. , • ;.- Every attention is devntetkito the comfort au advancement of the Pupils; whilst the establishment of th : morals, and the improvement o f their manness, are are romoted . by an un- restrained intercourse with the heads' o e amily. They have also constant access to a select library, and attend an English Protestant church. The Youth entrusted to the care of Mr. rat-Minter derive all the advantages to be obtained from the best French masters and French society, without any of the danger to he Apprehended frotn-the influences which sometimes operate upon the infant mind when left to the entire control and direction of foreigners. The house is spacious, the Gardens and Grounds are exten- sive, and the Situation is celebrated as one of the most healthy and be .Itiful in France. Chateau de Saubruit is .distant two miles from St. Omer — nearly equidistant. within the range of thirty miles, from Calais, Boulogne, and Dunkirk; and may be reached in . eighteen •. . ~ •.-... • •• - • FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. H. It (Wu, December, 1. lt is gratifying to see the favourable change which has taken place in these island" since the appointment of Sir H. Doug las as Lord High CaTnmissioner. Sir Howard has acquired the good opinion and affections of all the respectable part of the population of these islands by his affability, his attention to business, and his facility of access. His strict impartiality has gained him the respect even of his political opponents. As a friend to trade, and particularly to that of his native country, he has done much to remove the impediments and vexatious re strictions imposed on it by his predecessors, estecially in what regards the staple commodity of Zante.h.nd Cephalonia. You will remember that lAN Nugent enacted claws which had the effect of throwing the trade in currants into the hands of certain privileged growers, who could dictate the price at which the English merchants were permitted to buy, and the absurd pre text for such enactments was that these merchants exercised a monopoly to the injury of the grower and of the revenue. Sir H. Douglas removed these restrictions, and, al the dictates of common sense suggested, Left every one at liberty to buy and sell. What has been the result? So far from restoring the pretended monopoly, which was the bugbear of Lord Nugent, the demand for currants has been so steady that this year's crop, consisting of 16,000 tons“(exceeding by one-third an average crop,) has been entirety bought up at higher prices than was realised under Lord Nugent's restrictions for a much smaller crop ! The articles of British colonial produce which L ord Nngent had taxed with import duties, varying from 40 to 150 • per cent., are again permitted to be imported at their former duties of 10 per cent., and the effect has been to increase con siderably the consumption of British plantation sugar, coffee, and ruin. .A great number of the youth of these islands ha ve received educations in France and Italy, and I regret to say that the principles they have imbibed are not such as will tend to their advantage in life. Lord Nugent had given these youths to ex pect the realization of those wild notions of Utopian liberty, which the modern school of French politicians preach up, but luckily he was removed before he had set the islands iu opS ir revolt against the protecting country. The exertions of n Howard - Douglas have calmed this effervescence, and, at the same time, he shows his anxiety and readiness to employ the talent of the lonian youth whenever he can find it useful to their,country. The excellent example which he gives of do mestic life in his own family will, I trust, serve as a check to the loose morals of the population of these islands, and counter act the bad effeets which the immoral practices of some high in office had produ6d. I know that many of the frien ds of the . , late Lord'High Commissioner have made strong efforts to ob tain his re-appointment, but I trust that the present secretary of state for the colonies will not inflict hiM again ou these islands, or deprive them of the benefits they have begun to reap from the indefatigable assiduity of Sir H. Douglas. GREECE. TREATY OF NAVIGATION AND COMMERCE BETWEEN AUSTRIA AND GREECE. SIGNED AT ATHENS 20TH FEBRUARY (4TH MARCH,) 1835; RATIFICATIONS' EXCHANGED AT VIENNA, 28TH AUG. (OTH SEPT.,) 1835. His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, &c., and his Majesty the King of Greece, mutually animated by the desire to continue the friendly relations happily existing between them, and to extend and confirm the commercial relations between their states, and persuaded that nothing will so much contribute to the accomplishment of their mutual wishes in this respect, as the establishment of freedom of trade and navigation, based on the principle of a just reciprocity, have named for plenipoten tiaries to conclude a treaty to this effect, his Majesty the Em peror of Austria, the Chevalier Prokesch d'Oden, &c., his Ma jesty's Minister' Plenipotentiary to the Court of his Hellenic Majesty; and his Majesty the King of Greece the Sieur J. Itiza Neroulos, Secretary of State for the Household and for Foreign Affairs, who, having exchanged their respective powers, and found to be in due form, have stipulated the following ar ticles:— I. There shall be reciprocal freedom of trade and navigation between the subjects of Austria and Greece. 11. In consequence, the subjects of the high contracting par ties shall enjoy in all the seaports of their dominions an equal freedom of trade, in manner that there shall be accorded to them in the said 'ports by the respective governments a perfect equality and reciprocity of commercial rights and advantages, and in so far as these rights and advantages are subject to what soever species of service (redevances), they will be treated ab solutely on the same footing as the natives in respect to the public imposts. 111. Articles of warlike stores and of coasting trade, consist ing of native or foreien produce, from one port to another of the state are excepted; the said trade being only permitted in national bottoms ; nevertheless the subjects of the high con tracting powers are at liberty to embark their goods and mer chandises in the same bottoms, both paying the same duties.* IV. The vessels of the subjects of each of the high-contract ing powers will only pay in the ports of the other the same dues of pilotage, - &c., to which national vessels are or shall be subjected. V. Such vessels shall be considered Austrian or Greek as are held and navigated agreeably to the laws in force in the re spective countries. VI. All raw and manufactured produce of the territories sub ject to the high contracting parties, the importation or exporta tion of which in or from the respective ports is legally permitted to native vessels, may be equally imported or exported in the vessels belonging to the subjects of the high contracting parties, without being' subjected to any higher duties whatever than those which are or may be imposed on such produce imported or exported in native bottoms. VII. All articles which not being the raw or manufactured produce of the states of his Majesty the King of Greece can he legally imported into the Austrian ports shall only be subjected in Greek vessels to the same duties which are paid on the same articles imported in Austrian vessels ; and a strict reciprocity shall - be observed in Greek ports for Austrian vessels,__ in respect to articles not' the produce of the states of H. I. R. Majesty, which can be legally imported into Greek ports. VIII. The raw and manufactured produce of the States of each offlui high we tractina powers. the importation of which is legally permitrarrn the States of the other, shall not be sub ject to any higher duty or payment whatsoever, than those to which are or may be subject the produce of a similar kind of another country ; excepting in case that in the States of one of the said Powers, the duties on the raw or manufactured pro duce of another country should be diminished in virtue of a formal treaty, on the assurances of peculiar commercial advan tages, or to a relative diminution of duty ; in such case, the other Government cannot demand the same diminution of duty without'offering the same advantages, and will not enjoy it„ except from the moment it will have assured them ; and it can not offer them to the same extent and consideration, only after having given an equivalent; but in all cases the two Covern ments must conclude a special agreement to this effect. IX. In all that relates to the police of ports, to the loading or unloading of ships, to the safety of merchandise, objects of trade, goods and effects whatever, the subjects of the high contracting patties shall he mutually subject to the laws and re gulations of the local police. On the other hand, they will en joy 'in their persons and goods, in all the extent of the respec tive territories, the same rights, privileges, favours, and exceptions which are, or may be accorded to natives. They may dispose freely of their property by sale, exchange, dona tion, will, or any other manner, without hindrance or obstacles, conforming, nevertheless, to he laws and regulations of their respective country. They can transfer as they like their fortune from one of the two states to the other, without being subject in respect of such transfer to any impost (Mille) or extraordinary tax whatsoever. X. There shall not be given, either directly or indirectly, neither by one of the two Governments, nor by any agent, com pany or corporation, acting in in its name, or under its autho rity, any preference for the purchase or sale of the raw or manufactured produce of the possessions of the two high con tracting parties, and imported in the territory of the other, on account, or in consideration of the nationality of the vessel ; the intention of the high contracting parties being that no difference or distinction whatsoever shall exist in this'respect. XL If it happen that any Austrian or Greek ship of war, or merchant vessel, is wrecked in the ports, or on the shores of the respective territories, the greatest possible aid shall be given, as well for the conservation of the persons and effects, as for t heir safety, and the care and delivery of the articles saved ; and these latter shall not be subject to pay any duty, except on such as may afterwards be disposed of for importation. XII. The . high contracting parties agree not to receive any pirates in any of the ports, bays, or anchorages of their states, and apply the rigour of the laws against all persons known to be pirates, and against all individuals resident in their states, who shall be convicted of connivance or complicity with them. All the vessels and cargoes belonging to the subjects of the high., contracting parties which the pirates may seize or take into the ports of one or the other, shall be restored to the owners, or their representatives duly appointed, if they can prove the identity of the property; and the restitution shall also be made in the case the article claimed shall have passed into the hands of a third party, provided that it he proved that the purchaser knew, or might have known, that the said articles were taken by pirates. XIII. The Greek subjects arrested on account of piracy by the vessels of H. I. R. Majesty, and detained up to this time in the Austrian states, shall be placed at the disposal of the (reek government, which engages on its part to reimburse to the Im perial Government the expenses of their detention up to the day of their delivery. XIV. If it happen that one of the high contracting powers be at war with any power, nation, or state, the subjects of the other may continue their trade and navigation with the said state, excepting with the towns and ports which may be beseiged or blockaded by land or sea. But in no case shall the commerce of warlike stores (contraband de guerre) be permitted. • XV. The high contracting parties are agreed to explain, by • a special act, on what may be determined " contraband de guerre," also on the principles they will pursue relative to the maritime right of neutrals. XVI. Each of the high contracting powers shall have the right to name consuls-general, consuls, vice-cousuls, and con • solar agents in the ports and towns of the dominions of the other, where they are or may be judged necessary for the deve lopement of commerce and of the trading interests of their sub jects. The consuls, of whatever class they be, duly named by their respective government, cannot enter on their functions without the previous approbation of the government in whose territory they are to be employed. They will enjoy in the one and the other country, both in their persons and for the exercise of their functions, equal privileges. XVII. In what regards the importation and exportation of , the produce of their, etates, by the route of the Danube, as well those which this river offers in its course as at its mouth, the • high contracting parties declare their intention to favour this commerce, and they reserve to themselves to stipulate by a spe cial convention the reciprocal facilities which they may accord to it. XVIII. The present treaty of commeece and navigation shall be in force for ten years, to date front the exchange of ratifica tions, and beyond this term for twelve months after one of the high contracting parties shall announce its intention to cause its effects to cease. XIX. The ratifications of the present treaty shall be ex changed at Vienna in the space of three months, or sooner if possible, to (late front its signature. In witness whereof the respective plenipotentiaries have signed • and affixed thercuuto their seals. Done at Athens, March 4, (February 20,) in the year of grace 1835. ( L.S.) DE PROKESCH-ODEN, (L.S.) J. Rizo. * By a postscriptum between the high-contracting powers the stipulations of this article relative to warlike stores are only applicable in case of active hostilities, and not in time of peace. A (IreEa CUSTOMER.—On Monday last, a large ox, belong ing to Mr. Bower, deliberately walked into the shop of Mr. Lief, pawnbroker, Sheffield. The shopmen being very busy at the time, could not immediately attend to their new customer ; he, therefore, walked forward into the next room, (viz., the sale rsoin,) where, after inspecting the various articles of wearing a iiParels guns, watches, jewellery. Etc , and, not finding any tning to suit him, he turned himself round, upset the counter, tore down the shelves, broke the table and chairs, put out the gas, and then walked• back again into the street in the same orderly manner as he had entered, but without leaving his address. t MESSAGE FRO. s UNITED ..r2 ,;; t, VERPOOL STANDARD. F THE -• STANDARD We reprint froM the sec the following extract rrom the PrZsident's message : In the ine,intinie the government of the United States having full confidence thit a treaty entered into and so sdlerunly rati fied by the Frencif King wou:il be executed in good faith, and not duubtiii tl4at prevision would be made for the payment of the ficst installent, which was to become due on the 2d day of Februar 1833, negotiated a draft for the amount through the Bank of e UniteSStates. When this draft was presented by thepolder, with the credentials required by the treaty to autho rize him to receive) the money, the government of Prance al lowed it to be protested. In addition to the injury in the nonpayment of the money by France conformably to her en gagement, the United States were exposed to a heavy claim on the part of the banklunder pretence of damages, in satisfaction of which that institution seized upon, and still retains, an equal amount of the public moneys. Congress was in session when the decision of the Chambers reached Washington, and an im mediate communication of this apparently final decision of France not to fulfil the stil ulations of the treaty was the course naturally to be expected from the President. The deep tone of dissatisfaction which pervaded the public mind, and the corre spondent excitement produced in the Congress by only a gene ral knowledge of the result, rendered it more than probable that a resort to immediate measures of redress would be the conse quence of calling the attention of that body to the subject. Sincerely desirous of preserving the pacific relations which had so long existed between the two countries, I was anxious to avoid this course, if 1 could be satisfied that by doin g so neither the interest nor the honour of my country would be compro mised. Without the fullest assurances upon that point, I could not hope to acquit myself of the responsibility to be incurred in suffering Congress to adjourn without laying the subject before them. [hose received by me were believed to be of that cha- racter. That the feelings produced in the United States by the news of the rejection of the appropriation would be such as I have described theta to have been was foreseen by the Fiench go vernment, and prompt measures were taken by it to prevent the consequences. The King in person expressed through our minister at Paris his profound regret at the decisiou of the Chambers, and promised to send forthwith a national ship with despatches to his minister 'here, authorizing him to give such assurances as would satisfy the government and people of the United States that the treaty would yet be faithfully . executed by France. The national ship arrived, and the minister re ceived his instructions. Claiming to act under the authority derived from them, he gave to this government in the name of his theNnost solemn assurances then as soottafter i new elacone as the charter would permit, the French Chambers would be convened, and the attempt to procure the necessary appropria tions renewed; that all the constitutional powers of the King and his ministers should be put in requisition to accomplish the object; anti he was understood, and so expressly informed by his government at the time, to engage, that the question should be pressed to a decision at a period sufficiently early to permit information of the result to be communicated to Congress at the commencement of their next session. Relying upon these assurances, I incurred the responsibility, great as I regarded it to be, of suffering Congress to separate without communicating with them upon the subject. The expectations justly founded upon the promises thus so lemnly made to the government by that of France, were not realized. The French Chambers met on the 31st of July, 1831, soon after the election; and although our minister in Paris urged the French ministry to bring the subject before them, they declined doing so. He next insisted that the Chambers, if prorogued without acting on the subject, should be reas sembled-at a period so early that their action on the treaty might be known in Washington prior to the meeting of Congress. This reasonable request was not only declined, but the Cham bers were prorogued to the 29th of December, a day so late that their decision, however urgently pressed, could not, in all pro bability be obtained in time to reach Washington before the necessary adjournment of Congress by the constitution. The reasons given by tne ministry for refusing to convoke the Cham bers at an earlier period, were afterwards shown not to be in superable by their actual convocation on the Ist of December, under a special call, for domestic purposes—which fact, how ever, did not become known to this government until after the commencement of the session of Congress. Thus dissappointeal in our just expectations, it became my imperative duty to consult with Congress, in regard to the ex pediency of a resort to retaliatory measures, in case the stipu lations of the treaty should not be speedly complied with ,• and to recommend such as in my judgment, the occasion called for. To this end, an unreserved communication of the case, in all its aspects, became indispensable. To have shrunk, in making it, from saying all that was necessary to its correct understand ing, and that the truth would justify, for fear of giving offence to others, would have been unwoi thy of us. To have gone, on the other hand, a single step further, for the purpose of wound ing the pride of a government and people with whom we had so many motives for cultivating relations of amity and reciprocal advantage, would have been unwise and improper. Admonished by the past of the difficulty of making even the simplest state ment of our wrongs, without disturbing the sensibilities of those who had, by their position become responsible for their redress, and earnestly desirous of preventing father obstacles from that source, I went out of my way to preclude a construc tion of the message, by which the recommendation that was made to congress might be regarded as a menace to France, in not only disavowing such a design, but in declaring that her pride and her power were too well known to expect any thing from her fears. The message did not reach Paris until more than a month after the Chambers had been in session; and such was the insensibility of the ministry to our rightful claims and just expectations, that our minister had been informed that the matter, when introduced, would not be pressed as a cabinet measure. Although the messayse was not officially communicated to the Fiench government, and notwithstanding the declaration to the contrary which it contained, the French ministry decided to consider the conditional recommendation of reprisals, a menace and an insult which the honour of the nation made it incumbent on them to resent. The measures resorted to by them to evince their sense of the supposed indignity, were the immediate recall of their Minitaar st WeAingti..n, ihe offetvel passports to the American Minister at Paris, and a public no tice to the Legislative Chambers, that all diplomatic intercourse with the United States had been suspended. , Having in this manner vindicated the dignity of France, they next proceeded to illustrate her justice. To this end , a bill was immediately introduced into the Chamber of Depu• ties, proposing to make the appropriations necessary to carry into effect the treaty. As this bill subsequently passed into a law, the provisions of which now constitute the main subject of difficulty between the two nations, it becomes my duty, in or der to place the subject before you in a clear light ," to trace the history of its passage, and to refer with some particularity to the proceedings and discussions with regard to it. The Minister ot Finance, in his opening speech, alluded to the measures which had been adopted to resent the supposed indignity, and recommended the execution of the treaty as a measure re quired by the honour and justice of France. He, as the organ of the ministry, declared the message, so long as it ha d not re ceived the sanction of Congress, a mere expression of the per- , sonal opinion of the President, for which neither the govern ment nor the people of the United States were responsible, and that an engagement had been entered into, for the fulfilment of which the honour of France was pledged. Entertaining these views, the single condition which the French ministry proposed to annex to the payment of the money, was, that it should not be made until it was ascertained that the government of the United States had done nothing to injure the interests of France; or, in other words, that no steps had been authorised by Congress of a hostile character towards France. What the disposition or actiou of Congress might he, was then unknown to the French cabinet. But, on the 14th of January, the senate resolved that it was at that time inexpedi ent to adopt any legislative measures in regard to the state of affairs between the United States and France, and no action on the subject had occurred in the House of Representatives. These facts were known in Paris prior to the 28th of March, 1835, when the committee to whom the bill of indemnification had been referred, reported it to the Chamber of Deputies. That committee substantially re-echoed the sentiments of the ministry, declared that Congress had set aside the pro position of the President, and recommended the pas sage of the bill, without any other restriction than that orogi ginally pfoposed. Thus was it known to the French ministry and chambers, that if the position assumed by them, and which had been so frequently and solemnly announced as the only one compatible with the honour of France was maintained and the bill passed as originally propcsed, the money would be paid. and there would be an end of this unfortunate controversy. But this cheering prospect was soon destroyed by an amend ment introduced into the bill at the moment of its passage, pro• viding that the money should not be paid until the French go vernment had received satisfactory explanations of the presi. i dent's message, of the 2 d December , 1834 ; and what s still more extraordinary, the president of the council of ministers adopted this amendment, and consented to its incorporation in the bill. In regard to a supposed insult which had been for mally resented by the recall of their minister, and the offer of passports to ours, they now, for the first time, proposed to ask explanations. Sentiments and propositions, which they had de clared could not justly be imputed to the government or people of the United States, are set up as obstacles to the performance of an act of conceded justice to that government and people. They had declared that the house of .France required the fulfil ment of the engagement into which the king had entered, unless congress adopted the recommendations of the message. They ascertained that congress did not adopt them, and yet that ful filment is refused, unless they first obtain from the president - explanitidiis of an opinion characterised Isy themselves-as per, sonal and inoperative. The conception that it was my intention to menace or insult the government of France, is as unfounded as the attempt to extort from the fears of that nation what her sense of justice may deny, would be vain and ridiculous. But the constitution of tile United States imposes on the president the duty of laying before congress the condition of the country, in its foreign and domestic relations, and of recommending such measures as may, in his opinion, be required by its interests. From the perform ance of this duty he cannot be deterred by the fear of wounding the sensibilities of the people or government of whom it may be come necessary to speak; and the American people are incapa ble of submitting to an interference, by any government on earth, howeier powerful, with the fiee performance of the do mestic duties which the constitution has imposed on their public functionaries. The discussions which intervene between the several departments of our government belong to ourselves; and, for anything said in them, our public servants are only re sponsible to their own constituents, and to each other. If, in the course of their consultations, facts are erroneously stated, or unjust deductions are made, they require no other induce ment to correct them, however informed of their error, than their love of justice, and what is due to their own character; but they can never submit to be interrogated upon the subject, as a matter of right, by a foreign power. When our discussions terminate in acts, our responsibility to foreign powers com mences, not as individuals, but as a nation. The principle which calls in question the president for the language of his message, would equally justify a foreign power in demanding explanation of the language used in the report of a committee, by a member in debate. This is not the first time that the government of France has taken exception to the messages of American presidents. Pre sident Washington , and the hrst president Adams, in the per formance of their duties to the American people, fell under the animadversions of the French directory. The objection taken by the ministry of Charles X., and removed by the explanations made by our Minister upon the spot. has already been adverted to. When it was understood that the ministry of the present King . took exception to my message of last year, putting a con struction upon it which was disavowed on its face, oar late minister at Paris. in answer to the note which first announced a dissatisfaction with the language used in the message, made a communication to the French government, under date of the 29th of January, 1835, calculated to retnove,all impressions which an unreasonable susceptibility had created. He repeated, and called the attention of the French government to, the dis• avowal contained in the message itself, of any intention to intimidate by menace—he truly declared that it comtained, and was intended to contain, no charge of ill faith against the King of the French, and properly distinguished between the right to complain, in unexceptionable terms, of the omission to execute an agreement, and an accusation of bad motives in withholding such execution—and demonstrated that the necessary use of that right ought not to be considered as an offensive imputation. Although this communication was made without instructions , and entirely on the minister's own responsibility, vet it was af terwards made the act of this government by my full approba tion, and that aperebation was officially made known on the 25th of April, Ket, to the French government. It, however, failed to have any effect. The law, after this friendly explana tion, passed with the obnoxious amendment supported by the King's ministers, and was finally approved by the King. The people of the United States are justly attached to a pa cific system in their intercourse with foreign nations. It is proper, therefore, that they should know whether their govern ment has adhered to it. In the present instance, it has been carried to the utmost extent that was consistent with a becoming self-respect. The note of the 29th of January, to which I have before altuded, was not the only one which our minister took upon himself the responsibility of presenting, on the same sub ject and in the same spirit. Finding that it was intended to make the payment of a just debt dependent on the performance of a condition which he knew could never be complied with, he thought it a duty to make another attempt to convince the French government that whilst self-respect and regard to the dignity of other nations would always prevent us from using any language that ought to give offence, yet we could never ad mit a right in any foreign government to ask explanations of, or to interfere in any manner in, the communications which one branch of our public councils made with another • that in the present case, no such language had been used, and that this had in a formes Dote been fully and voluntarily stated, before it was contemplated to make the explanation a condition; and that there might be no misapprehension, he stated the terms used in that note, and he officially informed them that it had been ap proved by the president; and that, therefore, every explanation which could reasonably be asked, or honourably given, had been already made—that the contemplated measure had been anticipated by a voluntary and friendly declaration, and was therefore not only useless, but might be deemed offensive, and certainly would not be complied with, if annexed as a condition. When this latter communication, to which I especially . in vite the attention of Congress, was laid before me, I entertained the hope that the means it was obviously intended to afford, of an honourable and speedy adjustment of the difficulties between the two nations, would have been accepted ; and I therefore did not hesitate to give it my sanction and full approbation. This was due to the minister who had made himself responsible for the act; and it was published to the people of the United States, and is now laid before their representative, to show how far their executive has gone in its endeavours to restore a good understanding between the two countries. It would have been, at any time, communicated to the government of France, had it been officially requested. . The French government, having received all the explanations which honour and principle permitted, and which could in rea kni be asked, it was hoped would no longer hesitate to pay the instalments now due. I'he agent authorised to receive the mo ney was instructed to inform the French minister of his readi ness to do so. In reply to this notice, he was told that the mo ney could not then be paid, because the formalities required by the act of the Chambers had not been arranged. Nut having received any official communication of the inten tions of the French government, and anxious to bring, as far as practicable, this unpleasant affair to a close before the meet ing of Congress, that you might have the whole subject '_before you, I caused our Charge d'Affaires at Paris to be instructed to ask for the final determinatiouot the French government; and, in the event of their refusal to pay the instalments now due, without further explanations, to return to the United States. The result of this last application has not yet reached us, but is daily expected. That it may be favourable is my sincere wish. France having now, through all the branches of her go vern went, acknowledged the validity of our claims, and the ob ligations of the Beaty of 1831;' and there really existing no adequate cause for further delay, will, at length, it may be hoped, adopt the course which the interests of both nations, not less than the principles of justice, so imperiously require. The treaty being once executed on her part, little will remain to dis turb the friendly relations of the two countries; nothing, in deed, which will not y ield to the suggestions of a pacific and enlightened policy, and to the influence of that mutual good will, and of those generous recollections, which we may confi dently expect will then be revived in all their ancient force. In any event, however, the principle involved in the new as pect, which has been given to the controversy, is so vitally im portant to the independent administration of the government, that it can neither be surrendered or compromised without na tional degradation. I hope it is unnecessary for me to s 4 that such a sacrifice will not be made through any agency of mine. The honour of my country shall never be stained by an apology from me, for the statement of truth and the performance of duty; nor can I give any explanation of official acts, except such as is due to integrity and justice, and consistent with the principles on which our institutions have been framed. This determination will. I am confident, lie approved by my constitu ents. I have indeed studied their character to but little pur pose if the sum of twenty-five millions of francs will have the weight of a feather in the estimation of what appertains to their national independence; and if, unhappily, a different im pression should at any time obtain in any quarter, they will, 1 am sure, rally round the government of their choice with ala crity and unanimity, and silence forever the degrading impute- Having thus frankly presented to you the circumstances which, since the last session of congress, have occurred in this interesting and important matter, with the views of the execu tive in regard to them, it is at this time only necessary to add that whenever the advices now daily expected from our Charge d'Afi"Jirs shall have been received, they will be made the sub ject of a special communication. MUNICIPAL CORPORATION ACT. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sirt,—My clients having taken the further opinion of Mr. Stephens as to the power which the aldermen and councillors possess electing a mayor under the municipal corporation act, I transmit you the case and opinion for insertion in the columns of your valuable paper, as I conceive the question to be of the greatest public importance at the present moment. I am, sir, yo . ur obedient servant, R. H. 11. WILSON, 4, South-square, Gray's-inn, Dec. 28, 1835. " CASE. " A. B. and C. D., the gentlemen for whom you have already advised, having been elected town councillors, are desirous, from the importance of the question, that you should reconsider your opinion of the 2lst instant, and particularly in reference to the 36th and 49th sections of the municipal corporation act.— And secondly, " If you should retain ionr opinion, that `no mayor can be elected under the act, whether A. B. and C. D. would incur any personal liabilities by acting in a corporate capacity as town councillors " " I have reconsidered my opinion of the 21st instant, pre viously to my writing which, however, I directed my attention to the 36th and 49th section of the municipal corporation act. " 1 really cannot discover a single plausible reason for doubt ing the accuracy of m y previous premises and conclusions. " It is true that the words of a statute, especially if obscure or ambiguous, may be qualified, or restrained by subsequent clauses or sentences; but in every case where the words of an enacting clause are plain, they cannot even be restrained by the title or preamble, notwithstanding the preamble to an act of parliament is considered the key to its construction ; but no key is by preamble, or anyotherwise, given for the con struction of the term council,' except in the 25th section of this act. " Many aggregate corporations,' observes Mr. Kvd, with his usual accuracy and perspicuity, are composed of several distinct parts, which are called integral parts, without any one of which the corporation would not be complete, although none of them be a distinct corporatien. Thus, where a corporation consists of a mayor, aldermen, and commonalty, the mayor, the aldermen, and commonalty are three integral parts; but neither of these has any corporate capacity distinct from the other two; and therefore the mayor cannot , in his politic al character o mayor, take in succession anything as a sole corporation, nor the aldermen, as a select body, take anything to them and their successors as an aggregate corporation. In most aggregate cor porations there is one particular person who is called the 'head,' and who forms one of the integral parts of the corporation; such is the mayor in a corporation of mayor, aldermen, and common alty, &c.' " Aggregate corporations, also, that have by their constitu tion a head—as a dean, warden, master, or the like—cannot do any acts during the vacancy- of the headship, except only ap pointing another; neither are they capable of receiving a grant, fo'r such corporation is incomplete without a head. (Coke on Littleton, 2i3. 264; 1 Blackstone, 478.) "In my former opinion, I defined the word council,' ac• cording to the unequivocal language of the 23th section of the act, to consist of a 'mayor,' 'aldermen,' and councillors; and in that section the legislature itself has drawn a distinction in the first election of the aldermen' between the words council lors' and 'council,' in the first instance, by a mode different from that which was to be pursued on s ubsequent occasions, is evinced by the provisions which have been made for the election of the ' councillors' and aldermen' in the year 1835; and that the council was intended to consist of three 'distinct and integral parts, as defined by the '2sth section, is further established by the framers of the act having, by the order of the Privy Council of the 11th of September, 1835, themselves directed the election of the councillors," aldermen,' and mayor,' to be held upon separate days. Indeed, this question depends upon a principle too simple for doubt, and too clear for argument; so much so, as hardly to require to be laid down. " When the town council has been once called into being, the legislature has then enacted, that such a council' shall not be deprived of its corporate name and existence fi om the accidental deficiency of one of its integral component parts, but gives the surviving members of the 'council' a power to replace such deficiency within a certain prescribed period (although if the deficiency be not so supplied the the council will have gone for ever,) and thus the term council,' in the 36th and 49th sections of the act is perfectly applicable and correct in the cases there contemplated ; and as no such corporate body as the council' will have existed, when the first election of a mayor,' under the act is fixed to take place, the term in the 25th section is not only perfectly inapplicable, but absolutely without any meaning at all, and it is impossible to take any other view of it, either by itself, or in conjunction with the context, which indeed precludes any other inference. • I am, therefore, more decidedly of opinion than I was when I before advised upon this point, because I have still further considered it, that this act has provided no means of electing any mayor in the first instance, and given no persons any power of making such election; and I may add, that the consequence is, that no corporation can ever be legally created under this act. I can therefore only recommend the gentlemen for whom I am now advising by no means to take upon themselves to do any act, on the assumption that they will be incorporated, for, as they will possess no powers of suing in a corporate capacity, they may be rendering themselves liable in their private capaci ties to numerous suits, without any means of defence. They should remember that ignorantia leyis nun excnsat. ARCHIKALD JOHN STEPHENS. " 61, Chancery-lane, Dec. 28, 1835." DEATH OF LADY 11. 'WILLIAMS `'LYNNE. — We regret to state that this estimable lady breathed her last, on Tuesday, the 291 instant, at Wynnstay, the mansion of her husband, Sir Wat kin Williwns Wynn.. Lad) Henrietta. Antonia Williams Wynn was the Eldest daughter of the FAA of Powis, sister to the Duchess of Northumberland, and - Viscount Clive. She was a most amiable, benevolent, good christian, and her death will be deeply lamented by the needy, " wlwm she clothed and fed," as well as by numerous families of the highest distinction, with whom she was connected. Died on Thursday, the 24th instant. after a severe illness, at her house in York-street, Portman-square, the Right Hon. Emma Penelope Lady POltiniore. She was the daughter of the late Rev. Ralph Soeyd, LL.D., rector of Tivington and Westham, precentor of St. Asaph, and domestic chaplain to his late Majesty George IV., by Penelope, second daughter of Sir John Moore, Bart., K. 13., Admiral of the Red, grandson of the Right Bon. Charles Moore, Earl of Droi,heda, ancestorof the present marquis. In 1807 she married her first cousin, the present Lord Poltitnore, by whom she had issue an only daugh ter, Emma Catherine Bampfylde, who died at an early age in 1825. The remains of her ladyship will lie. deposited in a pri vate vault under Marylebone church, by the side of her de ceased daughter. LONDON LAW AND POLICE COURTS. MARLBOBOUGH.STREET.—MoNDAy , EXTENSIVE BANKER'S ROE BERY.—Willialrl Summers, a banker's clerk, was brought to this office on Saturday, having been sent from Quebec to England by the authorities there, to answer the charge of having robbed his employers, Messrs. Ash ley and Co., bankers, 135, Regent-street, of bank notes and gold amounting to £3725. The manner in which the capture of the prisoner appeared to have been effected was as follows :—After absconding with the large sum above named, he contrived, after secreting himself for some time, to reach Canada. Handbills offering a consi derable reward for his apprehension were circulated immedi ately by Messrs. Ashley, one of which reached the banking house at Montreal. A young, man having entered the bank and offered a £5O Bank note for sale, the bill was referred to, and his description being found to tally with the information in it, he was questioned by Mr. Simpson, and taxed with being the person who had robbed Mr. Ashley. The young man be came violently agitated, and, after some hesitation, admitted he was the offender, and expressed, in the strongest terms, his penitence, and his desire to do all he could to repair the injury he had inflicted. Having given up all the money then in his possession, Messrs. Ashley were apprised of his capture and re embarkation for England. Mr. James Ashley, banker, Regent-street, said the prisoner up to May last had been for some months in the employ of the firm as an out-door clerk. On the 6th of May last the prisoner absconded with Bank notes and gold to the amount of £3725. Witness caused hand-bills to be printed and circulated, and sonic time in Oct. he received the following lettqr by post Montreal Bank-office, Oct. 15, 1835. "Messrs. Ashley, bankers. " Gentlemen,—l have the pleasure to inform you that Wm. Summers, the person described in the hand-bill, dated Police office, Marlborough-street., May 6, 1835, as having absconded from your employ with a large sum of money in Bank of Eng land notes and sovereigns, has been safely lodged in the gaol of this city, and further we have received from him £1290 in cash, which sum we shall hold until we receive your instruc tions, unless some favourable opportunity should turn up for forwarding the money to your address direct. I feel satisfied that he has delivered up all the money he had left, and he also appears deeply to lament that he has so far deviated from the path of rectitude. Whatever further steps are necessary will be followed up by the authorities here, on whom I shall urge the propriety of sending him to England this fall, as he may assist in searching for Jackson, the offender. "Yours, respectfully, . "A. SIMPSON." Witness answered the above letter, and in due course received a second letter, acquainting him that the prisoner was on his way to England in the Friends, Captain Duncan, and transmitting a copy of his examination before the magistrates at Quebec. The following is the examination of Wm. Summers, late of the city of London, banker's clerk, taken by Noah Prier, Esq., one of his majesty's justices of the peace, Oct. 16, 1835 7 " Win. Summers being charged on oath before me with hav- • ing on the 6th May last feloniously stolen a large sum of money belonging to his employers, Messrs. Ashley, bankers, London, voluntarily and freely declared that he was clerk in Messrs. Ashley's employ, and that on the day in question he did ab scond with a sum of money of which the notes now produced were a part; and that for this act, he being desirous of making all the amends in his power by delivering up notes and gold in his possession amounting to £ l3OO has done so; and further declares that he had been acquainted with George Jackson (formerly of the metropolitan police) for about ten years, that they were in the habit of frequenting gaming tables together, and that his salary of £36 a year being insufficient to meet his enpenses, he was instigated by the said George Jackson to corn . mit the robbery; that George Jackson had said to him he had ample opportunity of making his fortune; that with the booty he could obtain from Messrs. Ashley they might both go to America, and be independent; that he did commit the robbery, and that at two o'clock the same day he went to a coffee shop in Long Acre, and met Jackson there by appointment; that he and Jackson took a private lodging at Dock- head, and remained for about three weeks, when both went to Dublin; that they re mained there about two months, when Jackson, during the ab sence of witness, robbed him of 300 sovereign, and £2015 in notes, and left Dublin, and he had not seen nor heard of him since; that it was agreed between him and Jackson they should go halves; that after Jackson left Dublin witness took a pas sage to America, by the name of Wm. Smith, in the Friends, Captain Duncan, in October last; that this statement was care fully read over to the prisoner, and he persisted therein and signed it." One of the notes received back by witness was for £5O. This had the prisoner's hand-writing on the back of it. Mr. Dyer told the prisoner he was at liberty to refuse to answer any question put to him; but if he chose to make any additional statement lie could do so. The prisoner said he had nothing more to add to the confes sion which had been read, and which contained the truth. Mr. Ashley.—Did you change any of the notes? Prisoner.—l changed a £2O note to buy a gold watch, which I gave up; I also lost a £lO note. Is that all ?—Yes. Did Jackson negotiate any of the notes ?—I believe he did. The prisoner was then fully committed. He is respectably connected, and states his parents to be of the baptist persuasion, and of strict religious principles. Although the prisoner was a frequenter of gaming tables, it is not a little singular that all the books found in his possession were of a religious character, and a MS. in his hand-writing was filled with texts of scripture. LAMBETH-STREET, MONDAY EXTRAORDINARY DISCOVERY OF VALUABLE JEWELS. — will be recollected that in the month of February last the ware house of Messrs. Hall and Co., on the Custom House-quay, had been broken into, and a box, in which there were deposited diamonds belonging to a foreign countess, and amounting to from £7,000 to £OOO in value, stolen therefrom. From the mode in which the robbery had been effected at the Custom House, it was the decided opinion of Lea of this office at the time that both it and the one at Messrs. Hall and Co.'s had been accomplished by the same parties, and that both had been " put up" by a confederate of theirs. This latter opinion was strengthened by the fact of the box and jewels having been de posited fur some time at the Custom House before it had been removed to the warehouse fromeellith it, was stolen, and that the person who was all along beetapeeted of being in league with those who had effected the Custom:l-louse robbery was per fectly aware not only of the removal of the box to the warehouse on the Custom House-quay, but also the value of its contents. It has therefore been a matter of some surprise to that officer (Lea) that among all the property which he had discovered be longing to Sullivan and Jourdan, whom he has in custody for the Custom House robbery, or even among their papers, he had not found any thing relating to their possession of the jewels, convinced as he was in his own mind that they it was who had them. By the most singular accident, however, a portion of the diamonds has been discovered in such a manner as to leave no doubt whatever that they had been in possession of William Jourdan. Tuesday morning', shortly after Mr. Hardwick had taken his seat on the bench, Lea came before him, and made the follow ing statement :—He said that having satisfied himself by in quiries, and information through various channels, that Sulli van and Jourdan were the persons engaged in the robberies, he with much . difficulty traced out their residence in the neighbour hood of Kennington. He had no sooner done so, however, than they by some means or other got information of it, and before he could secure them they both left their homes, taking with them a portmanteau and trunk each, with an excellent stock of clothes, and took Lid their lodgings at the Red Lion tavern, in King-street, Bloomsbury, where they represented themselves as persons engaged in mercantile pursuits. By this means he (Lea) lost all trace of them for several days, until a person who was placed to watch the house at Kennington had followed and traced the brother of Sullivan from there to the Red Lion in King-street. Being made acquainted with this circumstance he ( Lea) lost no time in going to the house, and of making in quiries of Mrs. Proctor, the landlady of the inn, about the per son (describing the brother of Sullivan) who had been there a short time before with a green bag, and the object of his call ing. She said he was a shoemaker, who had called to take some orders from, and to do some work for, two gentlemen, who were stopping in the house. Mr. Hardwick.—Then is the brother of Sullivan. a shoema ker ? Lea—Not at all, sir; he is a common thief, and had assumed the character merely to prevent any suspicion in the mind of Mr. Proctor and his family, and by this means he was enabled to see his brother and Mr. Jourdan often, and when seen by a fourth party his manner towards them was precisely that of a humble artisan. Lea then proceeded to state that from the de scription which he had obtained from Mrs. Proctor of the gen tlemen who were at her house, he was satisfied they were the parties whom he was in pursuit of, and he consequently made such arrangements as to succeed in the apprehension ofbo'h on the following morning. At that time, (the 2d instant,) after securing his prisoners, he made what he had conceived to be a minute search of the apartments which the prisoners occupied, and had secured everything belonging to them; but he had now discovered that notwithstanding all his care he had over looked some most valuable property. After the capture of the prisoners, the wife of Jourdan and the brother of Sullivan hail repeatedly called at Mr. Proctor's, (the Red Lion Tavern,) and, upon various occasions, expressed the greatest anxiety to go to the room that had becu occupied by Jourdan; but this was refused, notwithstanding their urgent entreaties.' Two or three persons of gentlemanly appearance had also at different times driven up to the door in coa ches, with lu gg a g e, as if they had come off a journey, and eagerly asked fur lodging; but Mr. Proctor, owing to what had previously happened. refused to ad mit any strangers to lodge at his house , and t h e p arties were obliged_ to go away. On Thursday morning last, Mr. Hanson, a gentleman residing at Reading, who, when in town, was al ways in the habit of stopping at Mr. Proctor's, called there, and, his luggage being taken into the room that bad previously been occupied by Jourdan, he ordered a fire to be lit by the time he came home in the evening. This was done by a char woman who is in the habit of attending the house, and, that being the first time since spring that a fire had been made in , I the room, *she threw a quantity of what she conceived to he rubbish, which had accumulated during the summer months under the ornamental paper in the grate, on the top of the coals, after the fire had been made up. In the course of the night, the attention of Mr. Hanson was attracted to a most brilliant substance in the centre of the fire, and on taking it out with the tongs, be, on inspection, found a brooch of consider able size, set with pearls, but the gieater part oftiie gold mount ing had melted from it. This circumstance led him to examine the fire more minutely, and he found (wo more, one of a larger and one of a smaller size, but which, es well as the former, had been seriously damaged by the fire. 'On communicating the circumstance to Mr. Proctor, the fire and the ashes underneath were carefully examined, and seven good-sized brilliants, seven emeralds, one of which is of considerable size, and must have been of immense value, and four dozen of small but sparkling brilliants, were found. Lea here exhibited to Mr. Hardwick the whole of the articles found, and which were delivered up to him. The three brooches, the centres of whirls appear to be ame thysts. and which were set with diamonds and pearls, must, when perfect, have. been of great value ; but, owing to their being so long in the fire, they are considerably injured, and the pearls quite destroyed. The emeralds are also much damaged, but the fire appears to have had no effect whatever on the brilli ants, as they appear most sparkling and of the first water. Lea, in continuation, said he recollected perfectly, when searching Jourdan's room, observing the ornamental paper in the fire-place, but, not perceiving it disturbed in any way, it did not strike bins to examine it minutely, particularly as the pri soner had trunks in the room. There was no doubt on his (Lea's) mind that the property which had been placed there by Jourdan was of considerable value, from the anxiety evinced by his (Jourdan's) friends to get to the room to release it; and it was not at all improbable that there were a portion of the notes stolen from the Custom-house placed there also; and if so, they must have been destroyed by the fire. He (Lea)-thought he should be able to show that the brooches recovered formed a part of those stolen from the Custom-house Quay, in Febru ary last, as they answered the description of three that had been stolen. Mr. Hardwick expressed much surprise at the singular man ner in which the property had been discovered, and regretted that it had not been found before. The foundations of a city have been lately laid in Hungary, in the pa!atinate of Schi►nech, on a height s►tuate at the meet ing of the Mur and Kanischa, branches of the Danube. , t I LI pit ENT Of L'A.l os • NGRESS. !cond editi n of Tuesday's 4, 46. ' 441 - e 4 • JANUARY LIVER THEATRE, CHUCH-STREET. Mr. T. P. COO..VE for a Limited Period. TIIHIS present FRIDAY, the Ist, and TO-MORROW A Saturday,) the 2d January, will be produced the cele4 brute(' Drama of ROBERT MACAIR E. Robert Maeaire .. . ... ....Mr. T. P. Cooke. With the Interlude of THE IRISH FOOTMAN. In which Mr. Raymond, Mr. Melville, and Mrs. Raymond will perform. -' To conclude with BLACK EYED SU William T. P. Cooke. Captain Crosstree Susan Mrs. Herbert. It is respectfully announced that the celebrated Drama of MY POLL AND Al Y PARTNER JOE, In which Mr. T. P. Cooke sustained the principal character 98 successive nights in London, is in rehearsal, and will be pro duced on MONDAY next, with new and appropriate Scenery, Dresses, &c. THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL. ITALIAN OPERAS. QIGNOR BEGNIS has the honour to inform the Nobility and Gentry of Liverpool, that the ITALIAN OPERAS will commence on MONDAY next, the 4th Jan., 1836. PRIMA DONNAS. Signora CONTESSA DEGLI ANTON Miss WATERS, (Pupil of Signor De Begnis,) Off Mademoiselle DE ANGIOM, Signora OLDERICCI, and Signora MARIAN!. Signor BERRETONI, Signor CURIONI, Signor DE ANGIOLI, Signor GALLI, Signor PLATONI, Signor ZOTTI, and Signor DE BEGNIS. Conductor—ll Cellebre Maestro Cavalier GABUSSI. LIST OF TH E OPERAS To be performed during the first Three Weeks. FIRST WEEK. MONDAY. January 4 IL BARBIERE. WEDNESDAY LA CENERENTOLA. FRIDAY LA SONNAMBULA. SECOND WEEK MONDAY LA DONNA DEL LAGO. WEDNESDAY L'ITALIANI IN ALGIERI. FRIDAY..... , TANCREpI. • THIRD WERK. . . . MONDAY L'ELISiII, D' AMORE. WEDNESDAY IL DON GIOVANNI. FRIDAY....IL FANATICO PER LA MUSICA. And MONDAY... ,IL PURITANI, &c. The CHORUSES will be upon a most extensive scale. Further particulars may be known by applying at WEiss* Music Warehouse, 2, Church-street, and in future Advertise ments. • The Box-office will be open on SATURDAY next, the 2d Jan.. where Places may be taken from Eleven till Three o'clock. Notwithstanding the great expense attending this under taking, the Prices of Admission will remain as usual, viz.:— Boxes, 4s.—Upper Boxes, 3s. 6d.—Pit, 2s 6d.—Gallery, ls. GRAND MASQUERADE, FANCY, AND DRESS BALL. ON TUESDAY, sth JANUARY, 1836, Under the Sanction of the Worshipful the Mayor. .P. STUBBS has the honour to announce to his Frien • and the Public, that for their superior accomodatis se has expressly engaged Mr. LUCAS'S LARGE ROW • or the above occasion, and that the Arrangements are un • the direc tion of a Committee of Gentlemen, who have . • y consented to render their assissance, and to act as Ste .s. Mr. STunns's CELEBRATED QUADRILLE :AND will be in at tendance, and considerably augmented for the occasion. Gentleman's 'ricket 12s. Lady's Bs. Refreshments included. Doors to be opened at Eight, Dancing to commence at Nine. Tickets to be had at 5, Bridport.sireet, and the usual places. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We cannot understand what " Tiphp" means. We suspect be is not destined to shine as a poet. Felix 0' Fallagan's letter contains a good deal of humour, but it is inadmissible. The matter which M refers to is in a course of inquiry. The real offender will be found in a shop not far from the entrance to the Postoffice. We have an eye upon him. The American popish journal called the Truth Teller, which we have no doubt is edited by an Irish priest, contains more falsehoods and absurdities than any rag of the kind that ever• fell in our way. Mr. Watt's Cabinet of Art, and T. K. Hervey's Book of Christ mas, have both been received, and will be duly noticed, as they well deserve to be. on Tuesday if possible. mit ILiberpooF *tanbarti. FRIDAY monAvivc, JANUARY 1, 1806. At the commencement of another year, which is like the beginning of a new chapter in the history of human life, it is usual for friends to interchange the compliments of good wishes and the regards of sincere gratitude and affection. We are too much attached to the social and venerable customs of our beloved country to depart from the rule; and we therefore wish all our readers the en joyments of a merry fireside and a happy new year. May they be prosperous i house and field, at home and abroad,t and may' be t I,* and enduring as a christian's hopes „ It is 'Well that the dawn of a new ye . Z. should be a sea son of festivity, bringing with it the kind attentions of kindred and friends, and cheering, with the prospect of better days, subdued griefs, and diminished troubles to . those on whom, in the season that is past, the hand of affliction may have fallen heavy. It is perhapS but an ideal relief, consecrated by the charm of old and early recollections. But, provided it be a day or an hour of relaxation, we have no right to murmur at the appa rently delusive cause. The year that is gone may be a memorable one in the painful recollections of families. The destroyer may have stalked into the hallowed cham ber of love and made it desolate. In the noble mansion and in the lowly cottage there may still remain all the marks of sorrow; but in reference to a recent sad catas trophe, and to every uther to which our race is subject, the sufferers may console themselves in the words of Sir WALTER SCOTT:-- "That length of frail and fire-scorched wall Once screened the hospitable hall; When yonder broken arch was whole 'Twas there was dealt the weekly dole ; And where yon tottering columns nod The chapel sent the hymn to God.— So flits the world's uncertain span !" Adieu then to EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND THIRTY-FIVE r It was a year of folly in England, and of fearful crime in Ireland. It was a year in which faction tried hard to , plunge the nation into anarchy—endeavoured to strike at the throne itself through the breasts of our nobles — strove to confiscate the revenues of our protestant church for the use of Irish papists and English infidels—but,. GOD be thanked! tried, endeavoured, and strove IN VAIN ! An ignorant, besotted, and unprincipleci majority in' the House of Commons, reckless of all sense of religion themselves, and urged by no impulses but those which spring from base selfishness, had the temerity to assume that the protestants of England cared as little about true religion as do the HUMES, RUSsELLS, and WARBURTONS, and the brigade of empty and shuffling creatures, mean, waspish, and craven, who follow in their wake, and obey their commands. These men know little of the spirit . and the honest pride of Englishmen. Their daring and revolutionary designs, which, the Irish demagogue had not sufficient pap:knee to conceal, roused a feeling of in dignation which still rages in indomitable scorn, and which it is impossible they can ever survive. They were not satisfied with protestant spoliation—they were not content with demoralizing the people, and making them the instruments of sacrilege and crime—they went still farther, and insolently demanded that the House of Lords, the gallant, ancient, and noble peerage of Eng land, should be dragged through the kennels of London, made the sport of every unwashed cobbler of Fetter lane, and sacrificed to the spleen and rapacity of some thirty perjured papists, who have been too long tolerated, and who have no right to misrepresent the people of Ire land in the British House of Commons, and, moreover, who are not competent, as far as honour or honesty is concerned, to sit in any deliberative assembly. That they drew their bow to its bent, and shot their arrow at random, is now clearly demonstrated by the al most unanimous voice of public opinion. That the de testable nature of their principles is properly appreciated and duly execrated is also clear ; and that, as a party, EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND THIRTY-FIVE has poured out its last vial upon them, and made them as powerless as they are worthless, will not now admit of any dispute. Dark then as were the days of the last spring and sum- mer, we cannot be sufficiently grateful that the year which is before us will in all probability compensate, by its just punishment of anarchists, for the evils of the last. In the approaching session of parliament, if the present ministers dare to meet it, the. revulsion of public opinion, bearing down all before it, will lay prostrate at one blow the pretensions of the enemies of our King and country. Thus, while we have every hupe of redeeming.the past, we trust that DIVINE PROVIDENCE will not only enable us to improve the future, but will also dissipate those por: tentous clouds, streaked with blood, which have for some time impended over our father land. There is at this