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intelligence before received from Greece. Miseolonghi
been provisioned by the Greek fleet. Another aval vie- The Marquis of Lansitswo enaertrikeis distinguished party ma elloaer
tory on the 3,1 February is mentioned in the Cannier yesterday, Lansdown Howse, Berkeley-square.
Mrs. Benyou entertained air/elect party yesterday, at her florae la Haug •
Francais of %Vs:tines:lay. In this MINIMS and Catiaels venue-square.
Lord Bexley enterteinect dbitlagutshed party dinner yesterds a
succeeded in setting fire to le sail of Turkish VerWelet hls honor In Urest George-street, It -eatable's,.
Titr,t,h.nirw-Szhope, Eat. had, a &ruler party yesterday, at his house aa
among which were three of their largest ships of war. Mr.
Mrear tennis CANNING had several interviews at Hydra Lord and Lady King had a grand dinner party on Thursday, *their.
house In Dover-street, among.whour were—We Karl of Caroarvoa, Lodi
with MittlaoCiiirDAT6. Immediately after the departure and Lady Elienborough, Lord Suffield, the Karl and Countess of Bode-
of the English Ambassador, a flotilla put to sea with 0000 Wanbeery, Lard l)udley and Lord Howard, Sir Jame 6:dam alb
troops on board, destined for Negropont, where a general by'rttlite. Countess
of Sit. Aitrlrbiann's,ear
Ldjyarp.,,toen, Tharsday
ed, Lady Eezrjuz was dancedad
insurrection has broken out against the Turks. Another Wrottesley, Lady Hamilton, Lord*. Helens, the VicelCisernmlatoey,,eactyr
Deering, the Countess Poulett, Lady June Houston Sir Charles Bowie
division of 11)00 men has sailed for Athens, to reinforce air W: Burroughs, Miss Hamilton, 211.* Wrottraley, Mrs. S. Oweg. 11111'
Long, Mr. Taytor, &e. Ste.
the corps of Col. FA net en. The Honourable Aln. Hope had an elegant assembly yesterday rimming
(Frotri the Etoik dated Thursday, March 9.] • au her house in Mansfield-street.
PARIS. 31 aami 8. Thy Countess of Charleville entertained a large party of the haat toe
Yesterdaylthe Baron de Pedro Bianca. appointed Charlie d'Af- yesterday eeenlng, at her house in Cavendish-enparr.
Theln Saturdaymkeand Duchess
chestiomf Nzu k Castle.rtwlttucutherlaitd and retells, are expected la
faires from his. Majesty' the Empero: of Brazil to the Court oftown o
France, was presented in abet quality' to his Majesty and their Mt Duke of St. nSt. Al ban's
ban's left town yesterday, fur Earl Ilaroutirt'w
Highnesses by Ramo de Lalive. seat IS Berks.
The Andrian Illwerver announces, that according to letters from Lord Grantham has left town for Paris.
Corfu, dated the 9:h ult., the Greeks succeeded at the end ti' Jan. Mr. quid Lady Caroline Capel have arrived at the Duke of St. /Mame
in St. James's-square, Prom. orfolk.
in throwing provisions into the fortress of 3lissolonehi, which has
ArNvals at Fenton's New Hotel, St. James's-street :—Colonel
Dal.-
been defended with tacit remarkable bravery and perseverance. On rymple,' from his seat In Surrey • Colonel Mateo from his seat In Kent
a first attempt their fleet was repulsed, but the second time, the Departures i—Colunel and Litly'Augu. a Pltsclarence, yesterday, for the
27th January, being favoured by the wind, they burnt a Turkish continent ; Hobert Vansittart, Esq."tbset bk *at in Berks. '
corvette ; and on the ',Nth detached !against the Turkish fleet six Henry Trevanlon, Esq. arrived yesterday at Jordan's Hotel, St.Jasnee's-
Ore ships. which threw it into conet.'s.on. The Greeks took &dram, street, from Bath.
James Wylie, El. arrived yesterday at Gottler Hotel, Jertaya-stellet.
tage of this opportunity to land both provisions and ammunition at
I Wassiladi, a small inland under the pins of ellissolongli.i. The front a tour ;and G. Macdonald, E.q. from Scotland.
cent
&list:lle:6g. left Miller's Hotel, Jermytt.street, yesterday, for tda'
a,-counts from Prevesa say that on the 2teli January great damage at in
was done there by en earthquake. Departures from the British Hotel, Jermyn.street..—Thomas Bernard,
In order to destroy among the students at Tobingen the recol- Esq. M.P.', Johit Getfiln, Esq., and M. Hamilton, Esq., for Ireland; Joho
lection of the associations which have been
notice of the King of %Virtemburg has just forbidden hats, caps, as the Royal Hotel, St. James's-street :—W. Bernahh, Esq.,
prohibited, an Ordi. HaAwntritsli,,Ease for his neat in Sussex.
ernainents of pipes &c. the colours of which recal the gasociations fiTtilelcrut.d,
from tflitatirtleetyt,
,ttE76.oand J. Bourn, tsqiitatronAtttegrs; Major
which have been 'dissolved. All such snide' shall he forfeited, Stevenson, liar. from tours. Depart'uresrn. —The' Bev.
Ateyf D: @lr-
and the student wearing them subject to 24 hours' impriamanent. neage, Esq. for Exeter ; thence. 0. Dealtry, for Oaltudatrougla.
(From the Courtier Pronto:: of Wednesday.)
TRIESIS. Fea.22.
Accounts from Corfu of the 12th of this month, which &aeons,-
dered here at official, state that on the ed February a decistvaactioo
had taken place between the Turkish feet; commanded by alseride-
pitan Pasha, and the Greek fleet, under NI iaulls. Among the
Greek combatants was the brave Canaria. They succeeded in set.
tang lire to three of the largest ships of war, a cut-down frigate, and
I I smaller Turkish vessels. The Capiran Fears, the remainder at
whose fleet was much damaged, retreated from Waasiladi to Pa-
tten. eltssolonghi is completely provisioned, and the ammuni-
tion, of which the garrison had made such good. use, but which was
nearly exhausted. has been replaced.
Mr. Stratford Canning stopped three days at Hydra, where he
was received with the greatest honours. Prince eleurocordato,
with whom he had long conferences, went to meet him with
a numerous 'mite. Inimeliately after the departure of the
English Ambassador, a flotilla, armed and equipped at Hydra and
Napoli di Romania, put to sea with two thousand troops on
board. It proceeded to Negropont, where, it. is affirmed, a ge-
neral insurrection against the Turks has just brokerroat. Another
division of Woe teen has sailed for Athens, and it is to reiaforce
tho corps of Col. Fahvier. All the Greeks at Corfu were kited with
joy, and congratulated each other on this good newt.
(From the Pilote.)
Faison°. FE*. 27.
A discovery of great importance to the history of Switzerland is
announced. It is a manuscript lately found in the Castleof Pegoet„
in the Canton de Vaud, which contains the moat interesting parti-
culars of the war between the Swiss and the Savoyarda, and of the
campaign of Henry IV. of Savoy.
PASTS, Maitow 7.
A gigantic project is said to have been formed by some mercan-
tile houses at Milan. It is nothing lets than to replace the long
anti difficult road over the Spulgen by s gallery through the
font of the mountain between Spulgen amt Isola. According to
calculation it would be a league and a half in length a new idea
is to light it by gas. The elilanese Houses are said to have writ.
ten to the Government of the Griaons, which will do nothing till it
knows the opinion of the Emperor of Austria. It is affirmed that
before the petition on the subject was transmitted to the Emperor,
subscribers to the amount of three millions of francs had been ob.
taMed. It is believed that five !tailbone in all will suffice to exe.
cute thle extraordinary project.
111301.pc ;enNtse.a96por..
40}C..K;E NTchliree}:puexr nein—t Cents. AI
;V. 1165(.3%1 rtlCSalin kB.S—toFckiv,e
litan Rents,.;2f. ; Spanish Loan, vri.. Exchange on Lon-
don :—.One month 25f. We. Three months 25f. •Lic.—Coors

CITE' OF LONDON LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC
INSTITUTION.

On Wednesday the ludf.yearly meeting of the rnernbettel chit
Institution was held at Albion Hall, Moorpte, Dr. Black hi the
chair.
From the Report of the Committee, it appeared that the In.
atitution had gone on prospermody—that extensive premises had
been taken in Aldedgate-street; where reading rooms, with a
library of reference, had been epened for the use of the Members.
A library of cireulition would, it announced, be opened for their
use in the course of a few days. The bahnce in the hands of the
Treasurer was 1,3(rb1., ar.d the present :name antounted nearly
to 1,0001. per annum; but it was expected that as soon as all Me
departments were in operation it wood. )e nearly doubled.
Courses of timaslng philosophical lechircs had been given gra-
tuitously daring the last six months—on physiology by Dr. Spier ;
on botany and natural history; by Dr. M•lntyre, of Stockwell..
' park • on education and taste, by Mr. Bankes ; and on topography
by lr. Cromwell. Mr. J. Black had given a gratuitous course
iof instruction to a class of nearly 300 pupils n the k'reuch
language, upon a system which had perfectly succeeded, and whiet
had proved that large classes might be instructed in much loss
time than ryas usually now ocrutriett. and that the attention of
the learners Might be kept cip solely by Me interest and amusement
derived froni the mode of teachirg.
A GENTLEMAN addressed the meeting at some length on the
injurious nature of the amusements resorted ti in the evenirg
by the great body of young men of t:c.re resyeeable classes in the
City ; and expressed his hopes that inch Anstitutioot, which at_
forded rational entertainment end the best instruction without
fatiguing the mind, smell be formed in every part of the kingdom.
After epeeches from Mr. J. A. Smith, of the firm of Smith.
Payne, and Smith, and several pristine of eminence- in the City,
thanks were voted to the Committee; to 'Mr. Black, for his syatetu.
of teaching languages; and to Dr. M•lntyre and the other heed
tunes, for their gratuitous and able services. The meeting theu,
separated.

We are happy to say the Duche2s of Gloucesier is in the
enjoyment of mach better health than her Royal Highness
was some time since.

Yesterday Lord Bexley and Mr. Iluskisson transacted
business at the Foreign-office.
The remains of Viscount Carleton were interred on
IVeiltiesilay in llawstead church, rivir }fury, where they
remains of the second Lady Carleton were deposited in
1810. Ilis Lordship was appointed Solicitor-General tot'
Ireland in 1779, and Lord Chief Justice of the Irish
Common Pleas in 1787, created Baron Carleton, of Ames:
county of Tipperary, in 17..39, and Viscount Carleton its
1797. He was one of the reli.esentative Peers of Ireland.
Has Lordship was twice married, but has left no issue.
Liston has been engaged by the Taixotou rogiag,er for
a few nights. He will make his appearance oif ourloards,
in the course of neat week.—Dorset Corotly Chronicle.
Dr. Lushington has been appointed by the Bishop of
London to the Cominissaryship for the Fins of Essex and
Hurts within the diocese of London. _

Great credit is due to Mr. Pest. for having turned his
attention to the consolidation of our Criminal Laws; it is
a task. of great labor`, but it is one which, if effectively ex-
ecuted, will entitle him to live in the grateful remembrance
of posterity. Centiiiies ago the great Lord BACON said,
addressing hitaself to his Sovereign, " year people are so
ensnared in a multitude oterenal Laws that, the excettaion
of them cannot be borne." This great Judge complained
of the excessive accumulation of the Statutes in his day,
and yet they were then compri6ed is two volumes! The
'mere enumeration of the offences to which our penal enact-
ments relate would at present occupy more space. To ex-
tricate them from the confusion in whitli they now lie dis-
persed, and to reduce them, not only into a reasonable
compass, but into a rational order, is a labour from which
a mind of ordinary strength would shrink with dismay. But
great, however, as this service of arrangeinent will be,
there is a task of not less difficulty, but of infinitely greater'
importance, still behind—the revision of the Criminal Laws
themselves, the imperfection of which have long been a
subject of complaint by all our leading lawyers; statesmen,
and moralists, who have made our system of Penal Legislation
the subject of public comment. BLACKSTONE, after re-
marking strongly on the defects of our Criminal Code, goes
on to say, " these have chiefly arisen from too scrupulous
an adherence to some rules of the ancient Common Law,
when the reasons have ceased upon which those rules were
founded." When we consider how much the security of
property depends upon the perfection of this branch of our
Laws, it is manifestly of the utmost consequence, not only
that they should be methodized, but that they should re-
ceive that amendment which they so essentially require,
and which the welfare of the community has so long and
so urgently called for. We trust it is Mr. Net's inten-
tion to submit them to this philosophic survey. The task
cannot be entrusted to better hands.

We arc requested to state that the signature of Mr.
Maiming, M.P. Agent for Grenada, was attached to the
Colonial Agents' petition, presented by Lord Dudley and
Ward to the House of Louis on Wednesday evening,
though omitted by mistake in the copy fiirMalled to us.
Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East
India House, when Henry Alexander, FAN. took the usual
oaths, and his seat as a Director, in clip room of John
II udleston, Esq., who bad disqualified.
Cast mune E.—The Chancellor's gold medals for the
two best proficients in classical learning among the
commencing Bachelors of Arts, were on Friday last ad-,
judged to Mr. Thomas Stratton and Mr. John Hodgson,
of Trinity College. The Rev. Henry Anson, M.A., bas
been licensed to the perpetual curacy of Bylaugh, Norfolk.
on the nomination of E. Louibe, Esq. The Rev. J. Bow•
man, second minister of St. Peter's Mancroft, Norwich,
was last week elected to the office of first-minister of that
parish, vacated by the death of the Rev. C. J. Chapman.
A meeting of the friends of A. Baring, Esq. took place
yesterday evening at the Bell Inn. It is supposed thas
that gentleman, after declining to become a candidate at
the next election for the borough of Taunton, will not now
be induced to come forward at the solicitation of a few
individuals.—Dorset County Chronirle.
Mr. Shepherd, of the Botanic Garden, has received a
splendid present from the Emperor of Russia, in acknow-
ledgment to him of certain kindnesses and obligations con-
ferred on Dr. Fisher, who, in the service of the late Empe.
ror, had paid a visit to England for the pitrpoSe.of inspecting
the Botanic Gardens of this country, and who in his Bo-
tanic inspection had visited the Liverpool garden, under
the care of Mr. Shepherd. The present is a diathond ring
of very considerable value.—Liverpool etrfeertrver.
N. C. Daniel;• Esq. of Westbrook House, Cpway, has
communicated id the most handsome tenni; to the Com-
mittee in the island of Portland for erecting a bridge at the
ferry, his readiness to advance 1,0004 towards this import-
ant and desirable work.—Dorset County Chronicles.
There are at present upwards of .10 masons employed In
the carving of stone for the splendid addition.. to Hempen
Palace. The labourers are employed in levelling and
trenching the grounds in the vicinity of the Palace. Hi•
Grace the Duke of Hamilton is to arrive in the month or
May, to observe the progress of the building, and super-
intend further improvements.
PoTATOES.—This useful and necessary vegetsble,which
has hitherto been at an exorbitant price, has fallen in the
wholesale market within the last week upwards of 21. pee
ton. lininense quantities are now warehousing at the
water side, and as there are but few buyers, a further re-
duction may be calculated upon on the next ioarket day,
Monday.—Globe.
The Directors of the Chamber of Commerce, at Man-
chester, are authorised to act as agents in this district, to
receive deposits of goods or personal security, and to all-
Vance the necessary sums, and we doubt not that we shall
soon see this town resume its usual busy and active appear-
ance, and the poorer classes wear contented and happy
countenances. Indeed, although we learn with regret that
one of the most extensive printing establishments in this
neighbourhood has this week reduced the number of its
hands, yet some of the cotton spinners have rather increased
the hours of labour at their factories : and we understand
the intelligence of the Bank having consented to extend
relief, arrested the purpose which one or two manufactuftrs
in this town entertained of still further decreasing the em-
ployment of their weavers. It would seem that the de-
pression is at this moment most severely felt by the printers
and bleachers ; for, in additicm to the circumstances above
noticed, we are told that the village of Damen, which him
within the last few years, been extremely prosperous and
increasing both in extent and opulence, is now in a melan-
choly state ; a great part of its inhabitants, wbo were em-
ployed at the printing and bleaching establishments there,
tire unemptpyed—the weavers in a most wretched condi-
tion—and, in consequence, the shops, almost entirely de-
eer ted.—Blackbarn Mud.

CITY, FanmY Evexixo.

As the City has been without reports, so has the Stock
Exchange been withoot agitation. Consols have varied
but little during the morning. They opened at 78i, and
closed at the same price, having once, in the course of the
day, reached I ; but the transactions were extremely li-
mited. Bank Stock for the Account was 2041 ; Exchequer
Bills is., 25., Is., premium; and India Bonds par to 2s.
dia. Tho letters from the country received to-day vary
according to the different opinions of the writers as to the
actual sta►e of the commercial community. Some think a
little improvement has taken place, others that business is
stationary ; but all agree that it is not worse.
The busim as in the Foreign Market was nearly at a
stand, and prices a shade lower. Brazilian Bonds were
53, 6; Chilian do. 46 ; Colombian do. 471; and MexiCart
6 per Cents. 62i.; Creek Bonds were itili; and Spanish
do. 10. 9i.

Real Del Monte Shares were IS dia.. end the Share
Market still continues in a state of stagnation.

We are sorry to have to announe" the failure of one of
our large Manufacturers, Mr. G. T. Lister, of Shipley-
fields, against whom, we understand, a commission of
bankruptcy has this day been issued.—Bratifitrd en4trier.
MISSRS• SIKES, SIKES, AND 'WILKINSON'S BANK-
nurrev.--,Thursday being the day appointed for the extra
proof of debts, the creditors to the estate met in consider-
able umbels at the Commissioners of Bankrupts' Court,
Basingitall-street. The Commissioners were the Hon. R.
If. Eden, John Pensam, and Nathaniel Clayton, Esqrs.
The Asaigneett, Messrs. Wray, Adams, and Powell. The
outstanding debts are computed to exceed 350,000/.; to
meet these are general assets to the amount of about
200,0007. providing the securities shall ultimately realise
the value at which they were estimated when this balance
was struck.
A new banking company has been opened at Chelms-
ford, under the firm of M'Lachlan and Gepp, for deposits
and agency ; they do not intend to issue any lams,