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diminish crime. .!r. Conolly, as the Cmrier most pro-
perly remarks, is now degraded to a level with the mur-
derer Hunt—a wretch who planned assassination in cold
blood, and afterwards betrayed his accomplices to preserve
his own infamous existcnc•.. On his tctuni to prison, he
'seas ironed and flung into his solitary cell, like a murderer
cast for death. His raw., we understand, will come, on pe-
tition, before the Privy Council. Mr. P: el, whose preuliar
province it is to watch over the administration of justice,
and who 11,s acted in his high office with the most credit-
able impartiality, will, we trust, cons:der Mr. Conoily's
situation worthy his interposition, and interfere to have his
dreadful sentence mitizated. We cannot regard the offence,
for which he is doomed to a felon's fate, as premeditated
murder ; there wrx and could he no previous malice : he
acted under the inquenm of ill-governed passions, aril
au unfortunate death ensued; but how many cases of
much more aggravation have we seen visited with a lighter
punishment ? Prejudice, we know, ran high against Mr.
Vona yin llcrtford. We do not attempt to insinuate that
the unworthy felirg reached the Jude who tiled the
case ; brat we do know the the annunciation of the Prim-
tene was received with universal astoni,dninut, and that
the public in general will be deeply disapp,:nted if it he
car ied into execution after an appal to the Privy Council.

We have received, front a British officer of high rank,
la:ely on service in the lonian Islands, di? substance of the
following communication, which cannot be made too public.
IY there be no other means of rescuing our gallant country-
men frcm a p?rticipation in such inummerks, we sincer.)y
trust that Parliament will take up the matter, end mark it
with its un rhea' reprobation :
About Easter every year, with the pretence of working miracles,
and curing all kinds of diseases among the ignorant inhabitants,
tbones of a certain Saint, known to the Coniiotes as Santo
rone.• are paraded under circumstances of disgusting pomp, ip_
• superb silver coffin, through the streets and churches of the
Island such British Field (Ricers as may then happen to be
In garrison arc 6:f a go:.-rtaiemt al d r rotap-q, d to attend, for the
purpose of carrying a canopy over the holy Saint's bones ! Afore-
ewer a Captain's guard is kept on duty during the whole of the
2t: in one of the principal churches, to protect the sacred
. Oa these facts, for a corroboration of which we may ap-
peal to our whole lonian establishment, it will be U11711CM?:-
miry to west,: many words, either in ridicule or in con-
demnation. But the death of Sir Thomas Maitland,
under whose administration the pantomime was got op
and protected, has induced these who are made aeurs
against their will in this huffeeN.ery, to deprecate its con-
tinuation under the government of the new Commissioner.
We arc assured from the highest quarters, that It is, and
long has been, a source of extreme annoyance and disgust:
indeed, the hitherto too preyeknt practice of mixing of the
British military with the ceremonials and religious exhi-
bitions of other countries, demands loudly to be abolished.
Sir Manly Power has discontinued it in Malta; and if
Sir Frederic Adam should not follow his example in
this lonian Islands, we treat that Parliament will sec the
peoesaity of interfering with its authority.
• Abbreviated for Spiridion, the Greek Saint.

The Ring's Levee, to-day, is expected to be very name-
totally attended. It will take place at one o'clock.
Yesterday afternoon his Royal Highness the Duke of
York, as Commander-in-Chief, held a military levee at
his Office in the Horse-guards, which was attended by
General Sir D. Baird, Lieut.-General Fuller, Lieut.-
General Sir J. Murray, Major-General Sir C. Grant,
Isjor-General Sir T. Dyer, Major-General hull, Major-
General Sir Andrew Barnanl, and about twenty others.
Yesterday morning between eleven and twelve o'clock,
the Duke and Duchess of Clarence came to town from
Bushy-park.
Yesterday the Duchess of Clarence, the Duchess of '
Gloucester, and the Princess Sophia, visited the Duke of
York, and partook of a dejtunewith their Royal brother. ,
Paine Leopold and the Duchess of Kent honoured the
Italian Opera-bouss with their presence last night.
Yesterday afternoon, about five o'clock, Prince Leopold
tame to town from Claremont. His Royal Highness j
stopped on his way at the apartments of the Duchess of
Kent, at the King's Palace, at Kensington, where his
Royal Highness, together with the Duke and Duchess of
Clarence, dined with the Duchess of Kent.
•Testertlay, at two o'clock, a Cabinet Council was held
at the Foreign Office, Downing-street, which was attended
by the Lord Chancellor and most of the Cabinet Mini-
sters, who continued in (dose deliberation till about four
o'clock.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer has been indisposed
with a severe cold since Sunday. The Right lion. Gen-
*aunt is confined to the house, and does net see any
body on public business, with the exception of yesterday,
when be went across Downing-street, from his house, to
the Foreign Office, to attend the Cabinet Council.
The Cabinet Ministers will dine this day with Mr. Secre-
te:7 Peel.
The Speaker's last Parliamentary Levee for the pre-
beCtteession will be on Saturday next, the 13th instant.
era from Paris mention a rumour of Mr. Itotbs-
add having concluded a contract for a new Neapolitan
Loan.
WIMILEY.—The following is an extract from a letter,
dated St. Petersburgb, February 1.5:—" The Emperor has
received despatches from Constantinople, which are said :o
be of a more satisfactory nature than those which he had
for some time. Lord Strangford is said en write that the
Otead Vizier has positively pledged hhnsto: to comply with
the demands of Russia, and to grant a general amnesty to
the Greeks, which is expected to appear in the course of
February."
ALGERINE CRlASEltS.—Extract from a letter, dated
Barcelona, Feb. e.3:—" The inhabitants of the coast of
Catalonia arc in the greatest alarm, from the appearance of
the Algerian. Two days ago a large three-masted Algerine
vessel appeared off Palermo; and the Captain of the,
Chamois French ship, of 91 gnus, which is just arrived at
Barcelona, reports that off Cape San Sebasttan he saw I
two Alt, rine ships, of large site, healing down for our
F.9est. A inesseuger from the capital brings us orders to
equip all our disposable craft; but no money is sent for
that purpose, and here our funds are completely exhausted.
Awn the Custom-bouse officers have been without pay j
these two months."
The Choi ',Aron Courier of the sth Feb. says:—" Don !
Manuel Jose Aria, who came to the United States last year
as a Commissioner from St. Salvador, Spanish America, is
bow President of the Republic of Guatemala, and is ne-
gociatini; a treaty of alliance with Mexico."
rimer tlys, Fee. 17.-4)n the .sth inst. Sir Henry Lush-
ington, our Consul-General, sent a circular to the British
merchants estaldislied here, informing them of our rupture
with Algiers, and el our fleet having sailed from Malta to'
blookad, that place. Particulars of which lam as yet
ignorant wiil motet probably rcash you before this letter.
The report here iv, that the lky not only refused to make
ary aptlm.:y or concession to our Consul, but ordered him!
sway. and tired on the Glasgow fritmte, the vessel he end-;
Larked it). !t is said that one of his corvettes has already
felt the u...,1it of bridal metal.—This eovcrnmeut has
just ch.: i.notlor hem for six millions of ducats, at $7.4.
1 um/. ..:,:*l:d this will be M. Mt:list...6l,l's last financial
operation in this country. Ile leaves Naples in April nest. j
The March:loess of Dewnshire ;rise; a graml ball this
evenims. lite:JUL/11 has issued invitations to a Bat
ci: tl,e I,th in-taut. lln Selm:a, the day that
orr war :it choices was made public, gessini's Opera
.1/4i,ett was broty,iit out at the Royal
Theater died rondo.
The er.'7P.(' a:110Ullt of the balances of public money in
the of the Bank, during the list year, was
I: app..trs i y a paper laid before Parliament, that the
Puns paid at the Ilank of England for the management of
the pub!is debt during the last year, aniounted to
267,9311. ;s. Sd.
In Om j, or ending the Stli of January last, 2,660,032
gallons of si ;tits were distilled in Scothm.t.
CuAl •.-- I 'curing the last year there were imported from
England owl Scotland to Ireland, 373,414 chaldrons, 17
bulthcis ; 11:d 11,6,131 tons of coals and cinders, as well
as o,:tis chat:lrons of cults.
A new line of packets has been established in Phila-
delphia, to sail from Liverpool for that port on the 20th
day of every month throughout the year.