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vestment of monied capital, hut likewise from our appre-
hension that his Lordship's great legal abilities—great
perhaps, beyond example—were but ill-adapted to regu-
late the concerns of commerce, or to adjust the principles
of mercantile speculation, we still cannot help congratu-
lating the country on the very important principle which
his Lordship's Speech involves, when we consider it u
coming from the Woolsack, and clothed with all the
authority which belongs to it as proceeding from the Lord
Chancellor, in his character of SPEAKER or Till House
or Loans. Adverting to the mischievous extent to which
Joint Stock Companies are carried, his Lordship announced
that—
" It was his intention to bring in a Bill that would check these
proceedings, and he thought proper to mention it on the test day
of the Session, in order that thaw persons whom the Bill might
affect, should hare early notice of it. The operation of the Bill
would affect all sales of shares 10 those Companies that were
merely proposed, but not yet in reality funned, and its operation
was to begin from and after the grit day of this Session. It mild
mot, therefore, be said that timely notice had not been riven; there
would not, therefore, be any ground of complaint ow that head."
We have here not merely a tacit disavowal of the prin-
,:'ple, that the publication of what passes in either House
of Parliament is a breads of privilege, tolerated only by
connivance, but we have a practical dereliction of it. It
can never hereafter be urged, that Parliament cannot, con-
sistently with its privileges, auffer what occurs in a de-
bate to go forth to the public. It would be a waste
of words to attempt to prove that the Speaker of the House
of Lords, in his place in Parliament, would never have
given timely notice To THE PUBLIC of a clause he intended
to introduce in a Bill not yet submitted to their Lordship,
if it was ever, hereafter, intended to insist that the making
any report of the proceedings of that House was a breach of
privilege. We hold the public to be highly indebted to Lord
Er DON, for thus boldly breaking away from the trammels
of Parliamentary usage. The precedent is inestimable.
The public are henceforth justified in considering that the
reporting to the public what passes in Parliament is no
longer to be regarded as an infraction of its privileges. This
actual recognition of the right, on the part of the LORD
COAtraz ttoit, was virtually approved by all the rest of the
House, as not a single Peer rose to remark that a breach of
the Standing Orders of the House must necessarily ensue
from proclaiming to the people without doors what was pass-
ing toifhin, and that a specific breach of privilegg would be
committed by conveying this tint( ly notice to the public,
for whose warning it was intended. The inference that
may justly be drawn from this acquiescence may be con-
sidered as setting this doctrine at rest, and we hail it as a
tribute to those principles of primeval justice, which re-
gard every &aim essential to the rational freedom of the
community, not as tolerated by connivance, but enjoyed
under the grant of that Constitution by which that free-
dom is secured.

Some of our contemporaries have long been busied with
speculating as to the individual to be appointed to the
Government of Madras, it appearing that neither Sir J.
MeacoLis nor Mr. Lust!' so-row are likely to succeed to
it. The fact is, that no change is in agitation at present.
Sir THOMAS Muria° had been induced, by ill heslth, to
resign his situation as Governor, and it consequently be-
came necessary to appoint some other person to that im-
portant station ; but a letter was, by some late despatches,
received by a relative of Sir Tttoeus MuN RO, in London,
which intimated that he Mould not have resigned could he
have foreseen the breaking out of the Burmese war, as he
should have conceived that such a measure, at such a
' crisis, might have been injurious to the interests of the
India Government. This intimation of course led to a
conference between the India Directors and his MAJIseY'S
Ministers, which ended in the prudent postponement of
any Change for the present. The report of Sir TnoMAS
having taken his departure for England is therefore pre-
mature.

The Stock Markets were extremely steady on Saturday,
and, what is somewhat remarkable, the money and account
prices scarcely varied. The former were 93i a, the latter
9311 I, and both markets were firm in maintaining their
prices ; there were almost sellers, however, at 8 for the ac-
count. It was, previous to the opening of Parliament, ex-
pected, that the King's Speech would have a tendency to
raise prices; but when that was found not to be the case,
it was declared that they must go down : but, contrary to
each of these predictions, they continue steady. Foreign
Stocks are equally firm in maintaining their prices. New
Brazilian Scrip was done at 44 ; Colombian Bonds, 921 ;
Buenos Ayres, 91} 24 ; Chilian, 884 9 ; Greek Bonds,
57i and 58 ; Spanish continued firm at 22. The Mining
and other Shares were extremely heavy ; they have in no
wise recovered the shock that the Lord Chancellor's de-
claration on Thursday night, in the House of Peery, gave
to them.

At a Meeting of the Levant Company, on Friday, a
letter was read from Mr. Snretary Canning, stating that
Government wished the Company should be dissolved, as
the opinions as to free trade were now so universally dif-
fused, that a Bill would be introduced into Parliament to'
carry this object into execution, but that Government had
no fault to find with the Company, and would retain all
their agents in Greece., &c. as Consuls, or as the accredited
agents of the English Government.
A document has just been published, giving a list of the
various foreign loans and schemes for Joint Stock Compa-
nies put forth in London during the years 1824 and 11325.
It appears that the total capital proposed to be raised ex-
ceeda 160,000,0001. sterling, being in amount more than '
four timesall the hard cash in the British dominions. The
schemes are principally Rail-roads, twenty, capital
13,930,000/. ; Banking Loan Investment, he. twenty-two,
36;760,000k; has Companies, eleven. 8,000,000/. ; British
and Irish Mine!, eight,3,600,000/.; Foreign Mines, seven-
teen, 11,565,000/. ; Shipping and Dock Companies, nine,
10,580.000/.; Miscellaneous, twenty-seven, 11,070,00`01.
In the house of Common* on Friday night, Mr. Wool-
ryche Whitmore gave notice for Tuesday, the Ist of
March, of a motion for leave to bring in a Bill to amend
the Corn Laws.

The Wellesley, 74, is noes fitting with great haste at
Portsmouth, and is, we understand, about to proceed to
Lisbon and the Brazils, instead of the Thetis, Capt. Sir
John Phillimore. This sudden alteration is attributed to
some hast 7 act of Sir John's towards Capt. Wallis, of the
Niemen, inconsistent with the strict rules of naval dis-
cipline. Sir John, we regret to add, will, in all proba-
bility, be brought to a court-martial Ur his conduct.
Captain Wallis has sailed for Halifax, after communicat-
ine his cause of complaint to the Lords of the Admiralty.
It is said that Mr. Clonghton, one of the Members for
Newton, will vacate his seat early in the approaching
session, and that Sir Robert Farittliar will he returned for
that borough. If Mr. Claughton does this, he will act
like the prudent dog, described by the mock Duke in the
Honeymoon, which walked down stairs when he knew pre•
parations were on foot for kicking him into the street. If
we recollect right, Mr. Stuart Wortley stood sponsor for an
Act of Parliament a few years ago, whereby it was enacted
that a Member of the House of Commons becoming bank-
rupt, and not paying his debts iu full, within six months
after the issuing of the commission against him, should
ipso.facin, forfeit his seat. We need scarcely say that Mr.
Claughton is in this predicament.—Maneltraler Guardien.

Lewes is dreadfully afflicted with the electioneering
mania. "One half of the population, at least," rays our
correspondent, " are mad ; and serious apprehensions are
entertained for the sanity of the remainder." Mr. Kemp's
party are very sanguine of succeu.—Brighton Hrru

The Princes Pohgnse entertained an elegant circle of dlatin.
guiahed faahionables yesterday evening, at her house in Portland-
place.
The Duke of Norfolk entertained the Marquis of Lansdown and
a large party of distinction to dinner yesterday, at his house in St.
Jaines's.aquare.
The Right Honourable the Seeaker of the House of Commons
had a grand dinner party yesterday, at his house, Palace-yard.
Stuart Nicolson, Esq., had a large party to dinner yesterday,
at his house in Portland-place.
Mrs. Cairns will give an elegant entertainment to-morrow to the
' Duke of York, the Duke of Wellington, and a large party of dia.
tinguiahed personages, at her house in Stratton-street, Piccadilly.
Emily Marchioness of Londonderry has issued cards of invitation
for an evening party, on Friday next, at her house in St. James's-
square.
Lord and Lady Morley have issued cards of invitation for an en-
tertainment on the 16th inst., at Kent House, Knightsbridge.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury hare left town for
their seat, Hatfield, Herts.
Lord and Lady John Thynne left town on Saturday fee the
Marquis of Bath's seat, [Angled, Wilts.
Hon. Colonel and Lady la Lygon have arrived at their house,
in Hertford-street, from their seat in Gloucestershire.
Lord Yarborough has kit town, for his seat, Brocklesby, Lin-
colnahire.
The lion. George Lamb has arrived in town, from the Duke of
Devonshire's rear, Chatsworth, Derbyshire.
The Countess or Dartmouth has arrived at her seat, Blackheath,
from Lord Begot's, Blithfield, Staffordshire.
The Honourable William Lamb left town on Saturday for
Broeket Hall.
Sir Thomas Ackland, Bart. arrived yesterday at Warren's Hotel,
Regent-street, Iron his seat in Devonshire.
Colonel Robins, M.P., and Mrs. Roberts, arrived on Saturday

at their house in Lower tir;avenor-street.
Arrivals at Mivart's Hotel, Lower Brook-street t--Lady Warren,
from a tour. Departures:—J. Spencer, Esq., Mrs. Spencer, and
family, for Clifton.
Arrivals at Thrintu's Hotel, Rerkeley.square :—Tbe Dowager
]Marchioness of Downs ire and family, from Woreesterahire ; !Br.
and Mrs. Bonr,ar, from Brighton; and Mr. and Miss Conyrin,
from Devonshire. Departures:—Sir Robert and Lady Harland.
fur their seat in Suffolk; and Mr. and Mrs. Armitage, for
Brighton.
Arrivals at the British Hotel. Jermytustreet :—Sir Robert Shaw.
front Dublin; Sir Thomas nankin, from the Isle of Wight; and
Captain Cumberland, front a tour. Departure :—Wm. Cohen,
Esq. for Oxford.
Arrivals at Kirkham's Hotel, Lower Brook-street :—W. tlnwin,
Esq. from • tour; and C. Thompson, Esq from Paris. Depar-
tures:—Lord Thomas Cecil, for his brother's (the Marquis of
Exeter's) seat. Burleigh, Licolnshite ; and A. de Cmp'gity, Esq.
for Northamptonshire.
Arrivals at the St. James's Hotel, Jermyn-street :—The Mar-
quis Douglas and Sons, from Paris; and the Marquis of Donegal,
from a tour.
Arrivals at Flagdon's Hotel, Oxford-street :—Mrs F. Simpson,
Miss Simpson, and Miss Ducaul, from Laundi Abbey ; and P.
Meagher. From s tour. Departures:—The Rev. Mrs., and
the Misses Collett, fur Bath ; S. Tyson, Esq. for Norfolk ; Capt.
and Mrs. Morgell, on a tour; Col. and Mrs. Chsritie, on a tour;
Mr. and Mrs. Sayler, on a tour ; Hamilton, Esq. on a tour ;
Fombelle. Esq. on a tour; Partridge, Esq. on a tour;
and Thomas Roberts, Esq. on • tour.
Arrivsis at Batt's Hotel, Dover-street:—The Earl of Roden,
from Ireland; and H. Grattan, Esq. MP. from Ireland. Depar.
tures :--J. Hyde, Doi; and family, for St. Petrisburgh ; Captain
and Johnson; Captain and Mrs. Sandys, and family, fur
Clapham; Earl Lismore; and Earl O'Niell.
Lord Nugent left town on Saturday for his seat, Linty., Buck-
inghamshire.
Lord Boston, and the Hon. Misses Irby, have arrived at their
house in Lower Grosvenor-street, from their seat, liedsor Lodge,

Yesterday the Duke of York visited the King.
Yesterday Divine Service was performed at the King's
Palace, Pall-mall, by the Rev. Dr. Blomberg. The Duke
of York attended Divine Service at the Chapel Royal.
The Lord Chancellor had an audience of his Majesty
yesterday.
Yesterday Mr. Canning had a numerous dinner party.
Mr. Secretary Peel was yesterday confined by a severe
cold.

Yesterday afternoon the Chancellor of the Exchequer
left town for the seat of Lady Buckinghamshire, at Charl-
ton, Kent.
Saturday, at half-past three o'clock, a Cabinet Council
was held at the Foreign Office, Downing-street, which sat
till five. Another Cabinet Council was summoned to meet
yesterday, at half-past three o'clock, but wu afterwards
postponed.
We are happy to hear that the Marchioness of Taviatock
is nearly recovered from the effects of the accident occa-
sioned by her clothes taking fire while engaged at her
toilet on Christmas day. The effects were more serious
than were generally understood, and would unquestionably
have been fatal had she not had the presence of mind to
wrap herself up in the carpet, but not before her neck was
burned, and her finger nails totally destroyed in pressing
out the flames.
Edward Beaumont, Esq. fourth son of Colonel and Mrs.
Beaumont, of Bretton Hall, and late of the 10th Hussars,
will shortly lead to the hymeneal altar, his cousin, Miss
Jane Lee, fourth daughter of William Lee, Esq. of Grove
Hill.
The Lord Chancellor of Ireland has appointed Carew
Smyth O'Grady, of Oghamarta Castle, county Cork, Esq.,
to be a Magistrate for that county.
LORD NOIBURy.—H is Lordship, who, for some months,
has been in the best health, and who is, indeed, regaining
all the elasticity of youth, met, within he last few days, a
gentleman of the Bar, Mr. I'—a, whose name indicates
mortality itself, and who stands in a degree of near relation-
ship to a certain legal functionary, who, although many
years younger than his Lerdship, is supposed will inherit,
if not his good name, at least his place. Lord N., who is
rather offended at people's supposing lie has any notion to
die, and who counteracts the report by every practical de-
monstration, called out to Mr. T. as he rode past him,
" Well, T., how do you do? how do you? how is old
J—y? You know there is mortality in the family. hut T.
I'm very well—very well, indeed." His Lordship then
rode off.—Diddin Paper.
ADDISON.—When Addsion was appointed by George I.
Secretary to the Earl of Sunderland, as Lord Lieutenant
of Ireland, the Earl said to him, " But there are some
people in Ireland who are not agreeable to me, with whom
I hope you will not converse. when you go thither." To'
this Mr. Addison replied, that he was much obliged to his'
Majesty for the honour ietended him, but he could not
comply with his Excellency's request, for he would not
(;ire op his friendship. or Dr. Swift to be made Chief Go-
vernor of the Kingdom.
Liberality for many centuries has characterised the house',
of Cotton, and we arc happy to see the present Baronet has'
evinced the spirit of his ancestors by a generous gift of 20
per cent. on their rental to his tenantry a few days since,
at Maddingley.—Cambridge Paper.
The estate of Menlougli, part of which lies in the
Counties of Clare and Galway, is about to afford some
employment to the Gentlemen of the Long Robe. Mr.
F. B. Foster claims it, he Rays, as heir-at-law.
The ROYAL MANCDESTER INSTITUTION.—We have
the pleasure of announcing a donation to this Institution
which is not only intrinsically valuable, but which has
been made in a spirit that cannot but be gratifying to our
townsmen. Jonathan Hatfield, Esq., of S2rge Hill,
Herta, son of the late Jonathan Hatfield, Esq., of Travis
Isle, near this town, a gentleman much attached to
the Fine Arts, and who has resided a considerable time
in Italy, has presented to the Institution, through Dr.
Holme, a most valuable collection cf casts and busts,
consisting of-1. Apollo, Canova's own casts ;
Apol-
lina; 3. Muse playing on the lyre; 4. Creugas • 3. Da-
inoxinus (story in Pausanias); 6. Endytnion (only three
casts allowed by the Duke of Devonshire): 7. Venus Me-
dici ; 8. Venus—Canova • 9. Endymion—from the Capi-
tol (relief) ; 10. Head of Canova ; 11. Bust of Virgil;
12. Bust of Homer; 13. Bust of Cicero—marble. The
following is an extract from Mr. Hatfield's letter t 6
Dr. Holme :—" I have some very fine casts, which I
am desirous of presenting to the infant Institution at
Manchester, if the Directors should wish to accept them,
and if the present should fall within the views of the
Society. I offer them in the spirit of affection, and in the
hope that the example will be followed by others, who
may wish to embellish their native town."— Manchester'
Paper.
At the Committee Meeting of the Devon and Exeter
Hospital, on Thursday, Mr. Treasurer Blackall reported
a legacy of Fire Hundred Pounds, bequeathed by the late
Sir John Davie, of Creedy, Bart.

Poot.r, Frs. 3.—We are sorry to say that the owners of
the Mary, for this Port, have received intelligence of the
loss of that vessel, which was mentioned in last week's
paper. All heads unfortunately perished.

COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.

The fullest house of this season, indeed of any season
within our experience, was assembled on Saturday evening
at Covent-Garden. The play was the Belle's Stratagem,
but the performance wsa not the attraction; the overruling
anxiety was to be present at the reappearance of Miss
Foote. A more intense interest could net have been dis-
played : it was without parallel in the records of thtstrical
history. For many weeks past every seat in the boxes—of
the dress-circle—of the first circle—in the skips--all were
engaged, and would have been engaged had the Theatre
been double its dimensions. Even part of the orchestra
was appropriated to the accommodation of visitors, with
guinea tickets; and an additional doucear, we understand,
was, in the course of the evening, given for even tolerable
sight-room. A few minutes after the opening of the doors,
hoards were raised at the entrance, with the inscription,
" Boxes full." The other parts of the house were in the
same condition—not the fraction of a seat to be had ; and
before the rising of the curtain, the whole' interior of the
Theatre was crowded almost to suffocation. During the
first scenes of the performance little else was heard than
the din and hustle consequent on the adjustment and regu-
lation cf places: we could only observe that Mr. Jones,
Mr. Ketnble, Mrs. Gibbs, and Miss Kelly, were moving
on the stage; they were greeted on their respective en-
trances with that applause which usually attends per-
formers so deservedly popular. At length, at an ad-
vanced period of the first act, Miss Foote appeared.
The utmost stillness prevailed in the house immedi-
ately previous to her expected entrt ; site at length
appeared, and was received with a burst of loud,
continued, and enthusiastic acclamation, such as we
really never remember to have heard, or known to have
been equalled at any theatre, or in any public assembly. All
the persons in the pit, and—with scarcely an exception—in
the boxes and other parts of the house, stood up and wel-
comed her return to the stage with the most marked and
emphatic kindness. The waving of hats, handkerchiefs,
and the other usual demonstrations of popular feeling,
were resorted to, to testify the gratification given by her
reappearance on the stage, of which her talents had long
been a leading and most attractive ornament. There was
something, too, in the manner of her appearance, which
contributed greatly to enhance, while it seemed to entreat,
the indulgent consideration with which the audience were
inclined to receive her. She advanced with downcast look
and faltering step to the front of the stage, and became'
affected even to tears. There was a diffidence, a timidity,
and a truly distressing embarrassment in her mode of com-
ing forward, which, together with her beauty and the re-
collection of her suferings, was calculated to " shake the
saintahip of an anchorite," and compel him to feel
for, and to pity her. It was a scene which did equal honour
to the audience, who duly appreciated the distress of her
situation, and to the object ut their sympathy, who gave
such a pathetic attestation of her consciousness of it.
Many ladies—and there were many present—could not
refrain from tears. It is painful to pass from such a topic
to one of a less agreeable or creditable character : the
notice of a slight expression of disapprobation which fol-
lowed the burst of acclamation that gretled her entrance.
The ungracious cry of " off, bff!" escaped a few persons,
in ejaculations scarcely audible front fear and shame, and
which displayed a manifest dread of coming out in any-
thing like a tune of clear and articulate enunciation. One or
two persons in the two-shilling gallery, with somewhat of a
bolder note, vociferated, " Nuyne, !Jayne," which was
answered by a general shout of " 2 urn the rascals out."
The order was no sooner given than " the action was
suited to the word," and the distill hers were ejected, vi et
armes. This practical proof of a determination by the
audience—

" To scatter her enemies,
And make them fall,"
prevented any further efforts at interruption, had this been
intended—which we believe it was not—and the play
was permitted to proceed without further disturbance.
That female is an object of public sympathy, whatever
station she may fill, or in whatever sphere she may move,
who in the first fervour of her yontliful feelings stakes her
whole sum of earthly happiness on the fidelity of one,
who, under the disguise of an ardent and honourable at-
tachment, wins her to his purpose, and then casts her
aside, to add one more to the many victims of perfidy
which have preceded her. They are but ill-read in the
real history of female nature, who do not know that all the
kindliest feelings of the heart, and all its most exalted
principles, may survive the unmanly triumph of the traitor
that seduced her into guilt. There is enough of frailty
interwoven in the best nature to make forgiveness more of
a duty than a virtue. The present was a trying moment
to Miss Foote, and the audience felt that it was so.
During the last scenes of the play she (lid not sufficiently
recover from the embarrassment under which she had at first
laboured, to impart sufficient vivacity to tine gay and
volatile Lelitia Hardy. However, as the play advanced,
she became cheered and encouraged by almost uninter-
rupted applause', and she went through the third, fourth,
and fifth acts, with almost perfect composure. The part
is, perhaps, of too bizarre a character for the style of acting
suited to that mild and ladylike deportment which so well
becomes her. She performed it throughout, however, with
extreme propriety, and the latter scenes particularly with
much arch vivacity and animation. Those parts, and
there arc several throughout the play capable of being ap-
plied to Miss Foote's peculiar situation, were seized on by
the audience, and followed by loud plaudits. Of these, the
most apt and approprhite was the song, in which she was
rapturously encored, " Where are you going my pretty
maid," &c. At the delivery of the lines—
" What is your fortune, my pretty maid?
My face Ls my fortune, Sir, she said,"
a burst of acclamation was sent forth, almost equal to
that which greeted her entrance. The two lines which
succeeded were, if possible, still more applicable to recent
events, which have occupied so much of the attention of
the Bar and of the public.

" Then I'll not many you, my pretty maid,
There's nobody asking you, Sir, she said."
The good-humoured approval that followed these lines,
which was in no degree abated by the arch air with
which Miss Foote gave them, cannot be conveyed by
verbal description. At the expression of the sentence—
" This moment is worth a whole existence," Miu
Foote bowed to the audience in grateful acknowledge-
ment of the reception she had met with. Too much
eagerness, and an indiscriminate desire to connect every
sentence of the part with Miss Foote's case, was manifested,
and this anxiety was not unfrequently exercised, in pas-
sages where the suppres►ion of applause would have been
more considerate and more judicious. Altogether Miss
Foote's re-appearance has been most gratifying. She has
been hailed as a favourite of the public, nho has been
basely lured aside from virtue, but who is not on that ac-
count treated as an alien from its path. Every humane mind
will rejoice that she should have found, as she has done,
in the kindness and sup port of the public, some consolation
for the treatment she has sufKred in a quarter where she
had treasured up far other expectations ! C. Kembla played
Dorieourt. Whatever requires spirit, and the expression
of natural feeling, he hits efF to perfection. The other
parts were well sustained, and the Play was given ont for
repetition, amid general applause, for Tuesday evening. It
was rumoured that Mr. Ilayne sat in a private box, ac-
companied by Mr. Jackson, of bruising celebrity.

Mtss Foova AND MR. HAYNE.—We have, on more
occasions than one, stated, that no animosity existed be-
tween these parties, and, if rumour speaks true, they have
already shaken each other cordially by the hand, and have
had a friendly interview. The damages and costs in the
late action have been fully discharged.—Sunday Paper.
The Grand Jury of the Court of King's Bench have
found a true bill of indictment for conspiracy against
Elizabeth Virginia Perrot, a French milliner, and Victor
Bertrand, formerly a grocer in the Rue Grenelle
in Paris, who, it will be in the recollection of our readers.
preferred a bill of indictment against Mr. James Askew, of
the firm of Askew
.and Normanville, late proprietors
of a French millinery establishment in Oxford-street and
Cheltenham, at the last September Sessions, at the Old
Bailey, for an alleged robbery of money and jewellery to a
large amount, when Mr. A. was acquitted on the evidence
given for the prosecution.
It is said that a ballot for the militia of Exeter end
Devon will take place in the ensuing spring.

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