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COVENT-GA RD EN THEATRE..
in 4, SATURDAY. Mardi 4. will be performud the Opus of
AItrAXERXRS,__. .

Art.a est" lia+laae Veotrit i

.. Phillips; Arbor, Mr.

Brahma. .31antlar.e, Miss Patuu.
After which the Farce of
A ROLAND FOIL AN OLIVER

Mark (~.are. ;I;.Ya;cot ; Alfred Hlgheyer, Mr. Jonas; Flab"
Mr. Rayner. Dfaela Darliturton, Iladarne Vesta,.
To conclude with the Comedy of
CHARLES TUlt: SECOND.

.v:,rV.:o S ti Roche it • . Me. lone;
raiovial Copp, Mr. Fawcett. Mary, Miss fleime.
Oc Jlotiday, Itnb Roy ; and Giovanni in London.

ENGLISH OPERA-HOUSE.
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NB. Jlkl.lllfli'S AT HOME
On SATIItisAY NEXT. March 11,
-Fr AN ENTIRELY NEW ENTERTAINMENT,
parllra:ar 4 of 14 h;eh will be speedily announced.
the strand Entrance I; open dally, from Tun till Pons,
and Meade Bones may be ImmedLtely secured.

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.%T)ELI'HI THEATRE.
...g, S.\l I "ItDAY, March 4 will be performed
the Nautical Barletta of
111 I". PILOT.
The pr:a.i;al C',,racters by Me.eirs. 'ferry, Tates, T. P. Cooke, and .1
and Mita B,✓den.
atter atich the Barletta of
SUCCi:N"4.

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el ipol Chstacten by Mew.rs. Elll.4t.yates, J. Reeve, and T. P.

Cooke; fund Mr.. Fitzwili
To which 8111 be 'furled,
1-01*NO WIDOW.
To efuortnde with the liorleutque of
THE QUADRUPEDS.
Fritheif.en, Mr. Meredith ; Abrahanalden, Mr. J. Rem.

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(porter beton.: tec7l4k.

LONDON, SATURDAY, kiAacu 4. 1.96.

I,nra PA T.:11 F RSTO:4 brought the Army Estimates last
nigh: before the House of Commons, which gave Mr.
11I':t the opportunity of adverting to the general question
of economy in the various branches of the public service.
The MA I. Member moved, as an amendment to the various
resolutions proposed by the Secretary at iVar, that the
ustabiishn:ents of the country should, as nearly as possi-
ble, be minced to the standard of 1702, which was in
unison with the recommendation et the Finance Commit-
tee of 1817. Mr. L's amendment was negatived, after
a lengthened discussion, by a majority of 99.

The French Papers of the Ist of March are principally
taken up with the tlet)ates in the Chamber of Deputies.
The prcsecution which has been commenced against
S Lasuutir, for his article in the Journal du Commerce,

anti the discussions which have arisen in consequence,
Lave given a degree of importance to the subject which it
weld never have obtained of itself, and have exalted into a
grl at constitutional question, that which, without these
circumstances, would have suffered the usual fate of news-
piper paragraphs, and been speedily forgotten. According i
to the J.urnal eel De lids, the Chamber has in fact put on
the order of the thy for the Ist of March the question,
whether the majority which has ruled the Chamber for
three years has deserved well of its King and country, and
its decision in such a case would be of little weight.
M. Bonne AU made five propositions Vor regulating the
proceedings of the Chamber in this affair. The moat
important of these is the last, which fixes tire-eighths of
the Chamber as the majority, whose concurrence is re-
quired for the condemnation of the accused ; and the argu-
ment on which this regulation was founded was, that the
manner of proceeding necessarily precluded those forms
hy which justice is secured before the ordinary tribunals.
SIMONNOT observed that the case required deep con-
sideration, as they were here j
udges in their own cause
with a power of amercing the Maxima to the eaten,

of 300 francs, and a month's imprisonment; but be
argued that the general principle of a majority was not
in any cue to be departed from, and M. CHIFMT
took a similar view of the question. M. de la Bounnon-
N•ve said the law of the 17th March, 11'322, relative to
attacks on the rights and the dignity of the Chamber had
been completely misunderstrxxl. De himself first pro-
posed that law in 1819, in consequence of the attacks on
the Chamber by the ministerial journals ill 1815 ; but in
the present case, the very essence of Representative Go-
vernment was attacked ; for without an opposition a Re-
presetitstive Government would be only regulated tyranny ;
it would be the Convention with a single bead. Compare
the attack in question, he continued, with those of the
ministerial journals, and it would be seen how much more
vehement, how much more injurious, were the latter.
He challenged the present Mininterialists to show their
discourses in ISIS by the side of those which they were now
accustomed to pronounce. The Royalists who have since
that periall taken their place on the opposition benches, might
ask what reason their accusers could have to question their
conduct and intentions, since the voncliela of their present
opinions were the sentiments professed in 7815 by those
very accusers themselves. M. de Plloosir asserted that
it was the nish of the minority to vilify the Chamber, in
order to degrade the Throne. M. lloeanr e replied to
these objections. M. Deno x opposed the regulation, and
observed that the Chamber of Peers had rejekted a similar
motion. The proposition of M. Hoe nos au Was then re-
jected by a considerable majority.
M. Pa an Esse s afterwards brought up the resort of the
Commission relative to the Projet de Loi for the distribu-
tion of the indemnity to the colonists of St. Domingo.
[From the Eloile dated Thursday. March 2.1
Letters from Berlin of the 111th Feb. say that the Catholic Bishop
of Dresden has made a formal complaint against a Prptestast mi-
nister, on account of a sermon preached by the latter. This awmon,
or which live edititms have been printed, is the more soeght after
because eotittiderable sensation has been exilic{ by the abjuration
of the Duke and Duchess of inhalt.Ccethea, who have embraced
the Roman Catholic religion. . .
We learn from C,oblentz that the Provincial Estates of the Rhine
are now atetembled. They had their first sitting on the 20th. Coon-
untie Hartung de Mayer is President.
[From the Couriitistionncil
Pawls, Ern. N.
A teport was spread yesterday in si;me circles at Paris, that the
city Ils Madrid had been the theatre of great disorders, and that
the Duke del Intintado had been dismissed from the Ministry. If
this news, which is not improbable, should be confirmed, the tri-
umph of the congregation in Spain is not doubtful, and we most
expect new disorders. %iliac an example is Spain to constitutional
France !

FRENCH FuNna.—PA ma. MARCH t —Five per Cehts.ollf. 6Sc.
Three per Cents. r4l. ;o•. Rente de Naples 71f. 20c. Spanish
ditto HIT. Royal Spqr.ish Loan diff. Exchange on London :
_One alonth 23f. 53e. Three months 25f. 25e.—Coors du-
then:bps.

CITY, Fninair Errwixa.

The excitement of yesterday was succeeded this morning
by comparative tranquillity. The rumours of CONSTail-
rt NI'S assassination, and the departure of Count LizvaP,
the Russian Ambassador, from London, had their effect
yesterday, and new versions of the old stories to-dty
failed in their intent. Console oßeited at 751 6, but they
almost immediately advanced to 761, at which quota-
tion the principal business was transacted. A retrogres.
sion to subsequently took place ; but that price was not
long reported, and at the conclusion of the market they
were done at 761 1, having previously, for, a very short
time, touched 76i. Exchequer Bills fluctuated between
Sts. premium, par Is. premium par. India Bonds were
Ss. Ss. discount.

Very limitgd business has beeii done in .be Foreign
Market, and the 'quotations have varied but little. Colom-
bian Bonds were 461 4 ; Mexican Six per Cents. 601 1 ;
Russian Bonds 73,1 4; Greek ditto 18 1 18 ; and Spanish
ditto 91.

It is stated that the Bank of England, in affording
relief to the merchants and manufActurers in the country,
will either take property or personal security. If the latter
is preferred, three persons of credit will he required to
become security for the smount borrowed, and put their
names, with the merchants requiring the aid, to bills at
three mouths, to be renewed if necessary. In this the
Bank follows the precedent of 1793, when personal secu-
rity, as well as the deposit of goods, was taken by the
Commissioners.

Yesterday the Duke of York transacted military business
at his house in South Awlley-street.
On Wednesday the Princess Augusta arrived in town
from her seat at Frogmore. Her Royal Highness re-
mained about two hours at her residence in the Stable
Yard. On her return to Frogman her Royal Highness
called at the King's Palace, Kensington, on a visit to her
Royal Sister the Princess Sophia.
Yesterday Viscount Melville transacted business at the
Foreigu Offiee. _

Orr Thursday morning a Russian courier arrived at the
Russian Ambassador's house, in Lover-street, Piccadilly,
with despatches from St. Petersburgh. In a short time'
after his Excellency went to the Foreign Office, in Down-',
ing.street, where he had a long conference with Mr. Se-
cretary Canning. Yesterday, a little before one o'clock, his
Excellency left hls house in his own travelling carriage and
four, to proceed to St. Petersburgh. His Excellency wet
not to proceed by Paris but by Ber!in ; he was not accom-
panied by his Countess or any of his suite.
It was expected that one of the King's messengers would
be sent of last night with despatches tor St. Petersburgh.
Yesterday the Bishop of Chester and a numerous party
of the Clergy and Common Council of the Wards of All-
gate, Bassishaw, Bill ing,sga te, Bishopagate, and Candlewick,
dined with the Lord Mayor.
11 General Lord Combermere, G.C.8., was sworn in a
Member of the Supreme Council, at Bengal, and assumed
the Command in Chief of the Indian Army on the 12th
of October.

MACCLE,FIELD, Titettansv MonwiNn.—(Extract of
a letter.)—" I have great pleasure in informing you that
tranquillity is entirely restored. A few hundreds of noisy
boys were in the streets last night, but they dispersed
quietly. This morning a division of the 6th Dragoons,
which marched in here on Tuesday morning, returned to
the head-quarters at Manchester. I have just heard that
the operatives purpose having a field-meeting on the ques-
tion of the Corn Laws."

We understand that it is in the contemplation of his
Majesty's Government to send immediate assistance to the
distressed workmen of Macclesfield. This measure is, of
course, altogether unconnected with the loan to merchants
from the Bank of England.
The advices from Batavia that were received yesterday
are to the 23d October, and only confirm the intelligence
that we had previously given respecting the success of the
Dutch troops over the natives, and the return of subordi-
nation in the island.

The Brazil mail that arrived yesterday brought Rio de
Janeiro papers to the Bth of January. Intelligence had
reached that capital of the Treaty with Portugal having
been ratified by the King, at Lisbon, en the 1 tth of Nov.
On the 2.1 of January the Emperor and Empress of Brasil,
accompanied by their two daughters, went to the Church
to present the Imperial Prince, and to implore Divine
Providence to take him under itr protection. The ceremony
was performed with great pomp, and made a strong im-
pression on the numerous spectators who witnessed it.
These papers do not contain any news whatever respecting
the military operations in the Banda Oriental. _

NORTIIjNBERLAND COUNTY ELECTION:EIGTITUI
DAY.-At the clove of the poll on Wednesday afternoon
the numbers were as follow :—Mr. Liddell, 1102; Mr.
Bell, 1094 ; Msjcrrity in favour of Liddel, 9.
Devizes ELECTlON.—Yesterday, at 12 o'clock, Mr.
Watson Taylor was elected, without opposition, Member
for this B:irough, in the room of Mr. Bucknall Estcourt.
Devi;:ei Gazette, March 2.

Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East
Indic House, when Sir Robert Townshend Farquhar, Bart.
took the usual oaths and his seat as a Director, in the room
of William 'Taylor Money, Esq., who had disqualified.
Yesterday the despatches for Madras and China, by the
ship Castle Huntly, Captain Drummond, Were closed at
the East India House, and delivered to the purser of that
ship.
It is generally considered that the day's work of a horse
on a rail-roail will he about seveA times and a half its work
on a turnpike-road.

THE BRITISH PRESS.