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Tlw Court of Caseation hot in Jecteil the appeal of M.
Dosseui, liditor of Ike Journal of Ike TIM Flanders, and
alau that of Captain de Cock and Lis ot.eutoilliccs.

A change of wind to the north-east, which h4l
continued since ye-terilar t.rtt, ettabled ell the
detained ow ard- hound niercli4 to men rind I rune-
ports Nt Portsmouth (upwards of flu 10
teed on their respective voyages. 'rile tratisporis
with the Silt and 9th regiments, for liarbadoes,
tiled on Sunday se'imight; the Waterloo, /atlas,
Bombay, Geaerul Kyd, Ilerefordshire, and
Streatham, East Indiamen, on Monday morning.
The 1 Ith and 13th regiments of Dragoons are em-
barked in the Streatham and General Kyd.

Saturday afternoon the lletolationaire frigate,
ilmi. Captain FLEETwOOO I'Ll.t.ew, sailed from
l'ortsmowli for the Mediterranean station. The
lion. C. ligitcy (son of the Earl of BEVERI.Et),
Accountant-General of the lonian island% went
passenger, Itemaiii at Spithrad, Wye, for Leith ;
Pheasant and Nautilus, fitted for foreign stations;
the latter under orders for St. Helena and the
Cape.

A letter from 11.ilifax, dated the ht ult. states
that the Forth frigate, Sir .loitN Tuos. Louts,
Bart. was ordered to sail for New Yolk, to receive
on board the Hon. Mr. &snot., and convey him
to England. The Ambassador leaves the United
States entirely through ill health, the climaie of
that country (particularly in the b ttttt titer mouths)
having proved very injurious to his constitution.
The Cyreme, 24, Captain TOZER, had arrived on
the station.

The Funds on Saturday experienced a gradual
rise. Consols fur the account opened at 74, mud
the last quotation, at the termination of the market,
was 74ii. Since Monday, therefore, a rise of nearly

two per cent. has taken place ; the continuation (or
difference between money and time bargains) has
diminished from 20 to 3 per cent. t Exchequer Bills
have recovered from 200. discount to par, or to a
discount of only Is. and India bonds nearly in the
same proportion. Public confidence thus appears
to be reviving. A Swedish house, we under-
stand, stopped payment on Saturday. but none
other of any consequence has transpired.

We have already presented to our readers a brief
abstract of the Bill introduced into the House of
Commons by Mr. STvaoxs BOURNE. for amend-
ing the Laws relating to the Poor. This Bill will
be found to differ from that which was submitted
to the House on the same subject during the last
Session of Parliament in only one point of any
moment ;—the former Bill confined the right of
constituting select vestries to parishes in which the
annual value of the property charged with rates for
the relief of the pour amouoted to 1,000/. and
in which not less than ten persons were respectively
charged for the annual value of Qsl.—hut the pre-
sent Bill extends this right to all parishes %loit-
erer. So fur there is en improvement ; but we fear
that, notwithstanding the eppointment of these
select vestries for the more careful disposi-
tion of the parish property, the lamer of
taking and leasing lands; the rating of owners,
in certain cases, instead of the occupiers of
houses; the principle of giving temporary
rc-
lief by way of /oats, instead of gift ; and the
as-
signment of soldiers' and sailor.' pensions, the
proposed measure will be found wholly inadequate
to afford any corrective to the growing evil of pau.
perisin. Nothing can evince more strongly the in-
veterate character of that evil, than that after two
years of deep and anxious investigation of the sub-
ject, by several Gentlemen eminent as Statesmen
and Magistrates, who have united extensive ex-
perience to profound theory, no better remedy could
be provided than the present Bill, on which no num
(including even the proposer of the Bill and the
members of the (,'ommittee) could fur an instant re-
pose with any well-founded hopes of eventual success.
It may palliate, but it cannot reform—it may pie-
vent the waste or improvident application of money,
butt it cannot remove the existing poverty nor iii-
terrupt its progress—it may burden a pour nail
with debt, or deter him from seeking relief, but it
does not offer huts employment for his industry,
nor enable him by an increase of wages to mert his
current expenses, I.quidate his debts, nod pros ide
fur future exigetici,-s.

fhe country is ut present unhappily reduced to
such a state, 1114 even the eniploymeot of the la-
bouring classes does not enable the tii to live inde-
pendent 0r patoclind assistance. Nothing is mote
common than to pay a non in full work the tiul.
&settee between the wages of his labour, and what
may be thought necessary for the support of him-
self and iris racily. Such u state of affairs is tin-
riatioral in the extreme, and, like every oilier
deviation from the strict line of justice end ho-
nesty, brings with it a thousand evils. From this How
not only the enormous increase in the ',our rates,
but also the impoverishment and mental debase-
meot of twit class of persons thus driven to public
charity for support, and that tone of inde-
pendence and devoted attachment to tine lacd
of their birth, which once distingnished the pcoplc