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London, England, 1830-05-07 00:00:00

OF SIR JONAH 'BARRINGTON.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved
that the Order of the Day for the House resolving itself
into a Committee hereupon be read.
Mr. O'CONNELL had been intrusted with a petition
from Sir Jonah Barrington, praying that he might be
heard at the bar. That petition, containing some extra-
neous matter, he had thought it his duty to send it back
to Sir Jonah, in order that it might be amended. He
had since received a communication from Sir Jonah, stat-
ing that he was seriously indisposed ; and one of Sir Jo-
nah's family was, he believed, in attendance, to certify
that fact to the House. He thought it his duty to state
these facts to the House, before they went into a Commit-
tee upon this subject.
Lord F. L. GOWER had received a similar communi-
cation ; but from the importance of the subject, and the
absence of the certificate of a physician, he thought it
incumbent on the House not to delay going into Commit-
tee. At the same time he should wish to be guided, not
by his own view, but by the sense of the House.
The Order of the Day was then read, and the SPEAKER
left the Chair. _ _

Lord F. L. GOWER, in bringing this subject before
the committee, should first refer them to two documents
which had long been in the hands of Hon. Members.
Those documents contained the facts of the case, and the
grounds of the proposition he was about to submit to
them,—a proposition respecting the purity of the admi-
nistration of British justice, which, highly to the credit of
the country, had hitherto been unassailed. The first of
these documents was the eighteenth report of the com-
mission for judicial inquiry into the various courts of
justice in Ireland, which report regarded the Admiralty
Court of that country. That report of the Commissioners
had, upon a motion of his, been referred to a select com-
mittee of the House, and the report of that committee was
the second document to which he had referred. He need
hardly say, that the duty he had performed on this occa-
sion was not a pleasant one ; nor need he remind the com-
mittee- that, fortunately for the character of the country.
he had no precedents by which he could frame his pro-
ceeding.. He would begin by detalng, as briefly as he
could, the facts which appeared in these documents re-
specting the conduct of Sir Jonah Barrington. The
Noble Lord then entered into a detail of the cases in which
the alleged malversation took place (the leading parti-
culars of which will be found in the subjoined resolutions.)
Referring to the conduct of Mr. Pino, the registrar of
the court, who had paid the money by the order of Sir
Jonah, the Noble Lord observed, that though he did not
see how he could redeem his character from imputation
for having assented to orders which he must have known
were wrong, and which he ought, in the first instance, to
have set at defiance, yet it was but justice to him to state
that he had since done as much as he could to redeem his
error, by making the disclosures, and by the total absence
of all equivocation with which he gave his evidence. The
Noble Lord in conclusion observed, that the most un-
pleasant part of his duty remained—that of stating the
course which he thought ought to he taken with respect
to the conduct of this individual. He would read to the
committee the resolutions, and if they should be adopted
and reported to the House, it would be for the Pouse to
take what course it should deem proper. The Noble
Lord then read the following resolutions :
" 1. Resolved, That, in consequence of an Address from
the House of Common., his late Majesty was graciously
pleased to is•ue a Commission, under the Great Seal, for
examining the salaries, duties, and emoluments of the
several officers, clerks, and ministers of justice, within that
part of the United Kingdom called Ireland, and that the
Commissioner., so appointed, have laid before Parliament
eighteen several reports, the eighteenth of which relates to
the High Court of Admiralty in Ireland. That, on the
faith of such reports,
divers acts of the Legislature have
been passed and are now in force.
" 2. That the office of Judge of the High Court of
Admiralty in Ireland is an office of dignity and importance,
on the impartial and uncorrupt execution of which the
honour of the Cr',ovn and the protection of the rights and
interests of many, both of his Majesty's subjects, and of
foreigners engaged in maritime pursuits, greatly depend.
6' 3. That by letters patent under the Great Seal of
Ireland, bearing date the 23d of May, 1797, Doctor Bar-
rington, now Sir Jonah Barrington, was appointed to the
said office of Judge of the High Court of Admiralty in
Ireland, with power to depute and surrogate in his place
one or more deputy or deputies, as often as he should think 6 t.
" 4. That it is stated in the aforesaid 18th report, that
statements were made to the Commissioners upon oath,
and confirmed by documents produced to the said Coin.
missioners, by which it appeared that in two several de-
relict cases, which were adjudicated in the said High
Court of Admiralty, the Judge who then presided, the
aforesaid Sir Jonah Barrington, had appropriated to his
own use certain portions of the proceeds.
" 5. That it is stated in the aforesaid 18th report, that

it appelred, from the oral and documentary evidence be-
fore the Commissioners, in the first of these cases, the
Nancy derelict,' that Sir Jonah Barrington appropriated
to his own use, out of the proceeds, 482/ Bs. Bd., and
2001., making together 682/. Bs. Bd., and never repaid
any part of either, and that the registrar is a loser in that
cause to the amount of 5461. 11s. 4d., including his
poundage.
"8. That it is stated, in the aforesaid 18th report,
that, in the second of those cases, that of the Rabb-and
derelict,' on the 12th of January, 1810, the sum of 2001.
was paid by the Marshal into the registry, on account of
the proceeds in this cause; and, on the same day, Sir
Jonah Barrington, by an order in his own hand-writing,
which was produced to the Commissioners, directed the
Registrar to lodge that sum to his (the Judge's) credit in
the bank of Sir William Gleadowe Newcomen, which he
(the Registrar) accordingly did. That, subsequently, a
petition having been presented to the Court by Mr. Henry
Pyne Masters, one of the salvagers, Sir Jonah wrote an
order at the font of it, bearing date the 29th day of May,
1810, directing the Registrar to pay to the petitioner a sum
of 40/. ; and, at the same time, be wrote a note to Mr. Mas-
ter's, resquesting that he would not present the order for two
months, at the close of which period Sir Jonah left Ire-
land, and never since returned. That Mr. Masters, after
a considerable time (upwards of four years) finding fat be
could not get his money, prepared a memorial, addressed
to the Lord Lieutenant, stating the circumstances, and
complaining of the conduct of the Judge ; and, going to the
Registrar, he demanded payment of his money, otherwise
he would immediately present the memotial which he held
in his hand. That the Registrar, anxious, as he states, to
screen the Judge, on the Bth day of July, 1814, paid Mr.
Masters out of his own pocket, and produced to the Com-
missioners the receipt, and a letter of acknowledgment
from Mr. Masters for his good conduct in the transaction.
That under somewhat similar circumstances the Registrar
paid a further sum of 9/. 12s. 9d. to Mr. John Why.
cherly, another salvor, who came to Dublin to endeavour
to get his money, so that, including his own fees in the
cause, amounting to 15/., and his poundage on the net
proceeds, amounting to 71. lOs., the Registrar states that
there is actually due to him in this cause 721. 2s. 9d.; and
further that, as the sum of 2001. was never repaid by the
Judge, the loss of the balance between that sum, and the
sum of 721. 2s. 9d. fell upon the unpaid salvagers.
" 7. That it is stated, in the aforesaid 18th Report,
that Sir Jonah Barrington having represented his inability
to attempt a journey to Ireland, an extract from the mi-
nutes of the proceedings of the Commissioners was trans.
spitted to him, containing every thing at that time de-
posed to, by which his character might be affected.
That subsequently sundry communications were received
from him, which, with the several letters addressed to
him by the Commissioners in reply, are printed in the
appendix to the aforesaid 18th Repot t. That asser-
tions of general denial, coot tined in these and subsequent
letters, are the only contradiction or explanation of the
foregoing facts, given by Sir Jonah to the Commissioners,
which contradiction would have had much weight with
the Commissioners hail the alleged facts been supported
only by the parole testimony of the officer who stated
them ; but that when the Commissioners found the hand-
writing of Sir Jonah Barrington himself supporting the
statement of the witness, they could not avoid giving credit
to his (the witness's) evidence. That the Conunissioners
resumed the examination of the Registrar, and that the
said Registrar, though aware that the Commissioners had
been in communication with Sir Jonah Barrington, who
might, if he had sworn falsely, have suggested means of
contradicting him, persisted in his former evidence, and
furnished other documents tending to confirm his testi-
mony, which he had subsequently found.
" 8. That the said 18th report of the Commissioners,
so founded on evidence taken on oath, and on documents,
together with the depositions forwarded to the Commis-
sioners by Sir Jonah Barrington, and other papers con-
nected with the conduct of Sir Jonah Barrington in the
discharge of his judicial functions, was, by order of the
House, referred to a Select Committee in the last Session
of Parliament.

" 9. That the Select Committee, so appointed, did take
into consideration tie matters so referred to them, and that
Sir Jonah Barrington, having, in a letter to the Chief Se-
cretary of the Lord Lieutenant, expressed his wish to come
over to this country to be examined, whenever a Com-
mittee should be appointed to consider the report of the
Commissioners, the Committee did afford him that oppor-
tunity of meeting allegations which so seriously affected
his character.

" 10. That the Committee, after full investigation of
the whole subject submitted to their inquiry, and after exa-
mination of witnesses, and of documentary evidence, came
to a report, which has been laid on the table of this House
from which report it appears that, on the whole, the Com-
mittee were of opinicn that Sir Jonah Barrington, asJudge
of the High Court of Admiralty in Ireland, did, in the
years 1805 and 1806, under colour of his official autho-
rity, apply to his own use two sums amounting to
5001. 9s. 2d. out of the proceeds of the derelict ship
Nancy, then lodged in the hands of the registrar of that
Court ; and that he did, in the year 1810, in a similar
manner, apply to his own use the sum of 2001. out of the
proceeds of the Redstrand derelict.
" That it appeals to this Committee, that the opinion so
expressed in the aforesaid report of the Se'ect Committee is
folly warranted by the evidence, and is entitled to the con-
currence of this Committee.

" That it is therefore, the opinion of this Committee,
that Sir Jonah Barrington has been guilty of serious mal-
versation in the d•scharge of his office of Judge of the
High Court of Admiralty, and that it is unfit, and would
be of bad example, that he should continue to hold the
said office."

The resolutions were then put seriatim from the chair.
After the first three had been put and agreed to,

Mr. D. W. HARVEY suggested, that-as Sir J. Bar-
rington had expressed an intention of presenting a petition
to the House, praying to be heard by Counsel against
those resolutions, which he had up to this moment been
prevented from doing by illness, it might be better to
have them printed, and to postpone them for a short time
to give him the opportunity he desired.
Lot d F. L. GOWER could have no objection to have
the resolutions printed.
After a few words from Mr. C. W. WYNN, Lord F. L.
GOWER, Mr. OTONNILL, and Sir J. NISWPORT,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER thought
that if a proper opportunity for defence had not been af-
forded before the Committee, Sir Jonah would be entitled
to any reasonable indulgence before the resolutions were
passed, but as he had alretoy had ample opportunity, he
apprehended the best course would be t!) let the resolutions
pass now, and when they should have been reported and
printed, it would then be time to consider whether he
should have any and what farther time fur defence allowed.
Mr. R. GORDON expressed his surprise that no
Member connected with Ireland had evinced any indigna-
tion at the kind of system which it appeared from the re-
port of the Committee had been carried on in Ireland.
He owned be was astonished at a system of judicial ad-
ministration in any Court which could have prevented
such malversation as this from having been discovered al-
most immediately. From the evidence of Mr. Pino, it
appeared, that at the time this money was paid out it was
well known to him that it was for the use of the Judge of
the Court; and he added, that it was inserted in the ac-
count in large letters that it was taken out for the use of
his Majesty, but that this was done as a sneer at the use
to which it was to be applied,—not for his Majesty's use,
but for that of the Judge. The whole of the case evinced
a mode of Government of Ireland at which he owned he
was astonished, and still more astonished that it had not
excited the remark of any Member connected with that
country.

Mr. S. RICE denied that any inference as to the gene-
ral government of Ireland, or its judicial administration,
could be fairly drawn from the case, which ought to
be considered coolly and calmly on its own merits, without
making it a national case.
Mr. R. GORDON observed that that the Hon. Mem-
ber spoke as if no British Member had a right to inter-
fere or offer an opinion on questions affecting Ireland, hut
he must in.ist on his right, and he would repeat his sur-
prise that no Irish Member had expressed his indignation
at what had appea ed in the report of this matter.
Mr. S. RICE said that so far from objecting to the
interference of English Members in Irish questions, there
was nothing which he more desired, for there was nothing
more calculated to benefit the country.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said, that the Select
committee had come to a conclusion on this case, not so
much on the evidence of the Registrar as on the admission
of Sir Jonah Barrington himself. With respect to time,
be was disposed to consent to any time which could be
reasonably required ; but it would be necessary that the
resolutions should, in the first instance, be reported and
printed.
Lord F. L. GOWER, said, that to avoid any imputa-
tion on himself, he felt it necessary to state that he was
placed in a situation of some difficulty with respect to this
case. It was his duty to submit it to the House; but he
felt unwilling to aggravate the charge against the un-
fortunate individual—for unfortunate he must call any
man who had such a charge made against his character—
by any asperity of remark.—(Hear, hear.)—He was not
in the situation of a person who had discovered the cir-
cumstances ; his duty was to lay that which was proved
before the Committee calmly and dispassionately before

the House, leaving it to the House to deal with it as it
should think proper. I►
The other resolutions were agreed to, and the report
was ordered to he received on Alonday.

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF SUPPLY.

Sir A. GRANT brought up the resolutions of the Com-
mittee of Supply, which were read and agreed to.

USURY LAWS BILL.

Mr. P. THOMSON moved, that the House do resolve
itself into a Committee on the Usury Laws Bill.
Mr. HEATHCOTE opposed the motion.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL observed, that though
the Usury Laws had been made for the benefit of the bor-
rower, they were in effect injurious to him. It had been
once the desire of our ancestors to fix the prices of all
commodities ; but this erroneous policy had been wisely
abandoned by modern legislation. He saw no reason why
they should legislate for the use of money any more than
for the use of land or any thing else. Why should they
not limit the rent of a farm to so much per acre, or the
price of mutton to so much per pound ?---(Hear, hear.)
—Suppose a man wished to borrow 1,000/. to purchase a
house, which rented 100/. per annum, why should not a
man be permitted to lend him the money, receiving 75/.
for that which would produce the borrower 100/. ?
(Hear.)—Under the present law, a man might lay out
500/. in the purchase of furniture, and lend it at any
rate ; but if he lent the same sum in money he could only
take 5 per cent. This restriction rendered the situation
of borrowers hard. If a person wished to borrow money
without security, he would now have to pay from 5 to 7
per cent. more interest than if the Usury Laws were abo-
lished. If money were raised by annuities, which was
the frequent mode in such cases, 12 and even 15 per cent.
was paid ; and it was this system of annuities which hail
ruined thousands.—(Hear.)—He saw no reason why
money, like every thing else, should not be suffered to find
its own level.

Mr. SYKES supported the Bill.
Sir C. WETHERELL was of opinion that great pub-
lic mischief would result from a repeal of the usury laws.
This opinion was formed after a most attentive considera-
tion of the subject, in public disCussion and private lucu-
bration. There was one point in which the principle of
the Bill was very objectionable. By the abolition of the
usury laws, a person lending another a sum of money to
employ it in trade, at a high interest, though he, in fact,
ran away with a large share of the profits of the trade,
would be himself exempt from responsibility under the
bankrupt law. A man may advance 10,0001., for example,
to a brewer, and take a security upon his buildings
and stock-in-trade, receive 15 or 20 per cent. interest,
and yet be free from liability to creditors. In respect to
loans and incumbrances upon land, circumstances abso-
lutely prevented the owners, in many cases, from dispens-
ing with borrowing. One half of the entire rental of
England was paid in the shape of interest on mortgages
and incumbrances laid upon the land by the ancestors of
the present owners, who must of necessity borrow, and
who would be exposed to all the oppressions of such cre-
ditors as would take advantage of the fluctulitions in the
value of money. He should like to learn from a person
so skilled in questions at nisi pries as his Learned Ft iend
(the Attorney-General), how interest was to be adjudi-
cated in a verdict fir damages in an action on a Bill of
Exchange, if there was to be no such thing as a legal
rate of interest. After the most mature and partial con-
sideration which he had given to the subject, he felt bound
to oppose the principle of this Bill altogether, and he was
convinced that no Bill could ever be fi amed upon such a
principle that could be carried into force. He should op-
pose this Bill in every stage of its future progress.
Lord MILTON argued in favour of the Bill.

The SOLICITOR-GENERAL had been once as warm
an advocate for the repeal of the usury laws as any Hon.
Member of that House was at present, but ho had since
changed his mind, and though he conceived that the usury
laws required no revision, alteration, and amendment, lie
was opposed altogether to their total repeal. He thought
that they were productive of beneficial consequences in
many instances, when the market-price of money hap-
pened to be higher than the legal rite of inter, st.
After a few words from Lord Avrtroar and Mr. MAX-
WELL, the House divided upon going into the Committee,
when the numbers were,

For it .
Against it

The House resolved it,rlf into the said Committee ; the
report was brought up, and ordered to be flu they considered
on Monday next.
The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and
the House adjourned at a Quarter before Two o'clock
until Monday next.

THE GILMERTON MURDER.

FURTHER-PARTICULARS.
(From the North Briton of Wednesday.)

Debbie, we hear, has offbred to peach. This we were quite
prepared for. In the smithy at Green-end, as stated in our last,
he attempted, in the presence of one Paterson, a labourer, and
the smith, to represent the lad Thompson as the principal delin-
quent, and there can be little doubt, we should think, that the
disposition to screen himself by inculpating his accomplice has
not been lessened since he fell into the hands of the law.
In renewing our inquiries and investigating into this most
lamentable case, we have learned that the carters and the
woman did not remain above two hours in the public-house near
Grayfield-toll ; that they entered sometime after seven, and de-
parted between nine and ten o'clock, taking, as we formerly
stated, the Craig's-road. When they entered the public-house,
which is kept by one Pentland, the woman " lit her pipe at the
ribs of the grate," in which was a fire, and one of the men
saying that they were " gaup" (hungry), asked if they could get
a herring. During the time they remained at Pentland's, it is
alleged that they had only three gills of whiskey, for one of
which the woman paid 3d. ; but Margaret Paterson, on her
death-bed, said that they had four gills, and that in all she paid
10d. The people in Pentland's, however, say that she seemed
to have got a dram before she came to this house, although she
did not appear " in any way cut or intoxicated," but, on the
contrary, " quite sensible." Whilst they remained in Pent-
land's the men treated her well, and there was nothing particu-
lar in the conduct or conversation towards her.o On leaving,
they said to Pentland, that " they were going to give the woman
a ride in their cart."
From thi, statement several important conclusions appear to
be deducible. In the first place, supposing the party to ha c left
Pentland a little after nine o'clock, and connecting this with the
fact, that Thompson's cart and horse reached Gilmerton some
time after midnight, it follows that three hours were consumed
in travelling over a distance of little more than two miles. Se-
condly, the Craig's-road, which is a cross-road connecting the
Dalkeith and Newbattle-roads, is the only part of the way on
which the crime could have been committed without detection,
supposing the woman to have made any resistance, and to have
cried out for help when she was assaulted, as it is probable she
did, until she was rendered insensible by the maltreatment she
, received ; for at the time when the party set out from Pentland's,
and even much later, both the public roads are as much fre-
quented as at any period of the day ; whereas, the Craig's-road
must then, like all bye-roads, have been comparatively, if not al-
together solitary. Thirdly, as the carters made no stop at any of
the public-houses at Greenend, but passed through that village to
Gilmerton, it seems pretty evident that the locus &ilea must
havebeen somewhere on the Craig's-road, the only place where
it could have been committed with any degree of safety, if indeed
a locus can strictly speaking be applied to the crime which it is
more than probable from the circumstances was consummated, in
all its parts, in one or other of the carts in which the unhappy
woman happeuedto be riding, when thedevil took possession of the
wretches in whose company she was, and tempted them to per-
petrate two capital crimes at once, attended moreover with cir.
cumstances shocking to humanity, and unprecedented even in
the long black annals of human guilt and iniquity. Fourthly,
we think it likely enough that the solitary nature of the first
part of the road they had to pass along suggested to the ruffians
the idea of rapus vel constupratis; and as one criminal act natu-
rally leads to another, the inhuman monsters followed up the
first outrage by others still more horrible, which have been al-
ready severally indicated in another tongue. Lastly, some of
the circumstances are nevertheless very peculiar, and not easy
to be accounted for in a satisfactory manner. We have already
enumerated the articles found by Dingwell in Thompson's cart,
and afterwards claimed by Margaret Paterson as her pr perty.
It is singular, however, that a bone, such as is used in the stays
or corsets by none of the class of the deceased, was discovered
on the Sunday morning by one Simpson, a mason, in Gilmer-
ton, on the top of the dyke or stone wall, close by the spot where
Margaret Paterson had been found by Banbury and his compa-
nions, which bone was, on inspection, found to be covered over
with blood, as also was a pair of scissars, found near the same
place.
It may serve to give some idea of thetotal absence of any thing
like moral feeling in the Gilmerton carters generally, who, indeed,
are nearly all of them of the same mark and likelihood, if we
state, that they continue to treat this matter very lightly ; think
ing that, because the two members of their fraternity, charged
with this atrocious crime, were " the waur o' drink, they will
not be held responsible for what they may have done under its
influence. Indeed, they look upon it altogether as a drunken
frolic, which can scarcely entail upon those concerned in it, any
heavier visitor than a short period at hard labour in Bridewell ;
and hence, while Dobbie and Thompson were confined in the
lock.up house, the wife of the former came in front of the build.
ing, and called out to her hopeful husband, who was at one of
the windows, " keep up your heart, Robin, she was a -
' Deeper moral depravity than this it is scarcely pos-
sible even to imagine.
A Sheriff's officer was out on Monday afternoon making in-
quiries respecting the tobacco box, which, as mentioned in our
last, Margaret Paterson stated on her death-bed to have been in
her possession when she went into the cart, after leaving Pent-
land's, and which, besides some tobacco, contained two pawn.
broker's tickets; but we have not learned what success attended
his inquiry...;. Mr. Pentland, itseems, did not observe the tobacco
box, although, as already stated, he saw Margaret Paterson
light her pipe at the fire when she first came in.

We stated last week that a man named DREW,
alias PENSER, had been apprehended in Bath, on suspi-
cion of being concerned in a burglary at Enfield, Middle-
sex, for which offence two of the parties were executed.—
It appears that DaEW, after he had been confined in Bath
gaol, endeavoured to make his escape, by breaking up part
of his bedding, then attaching it together, and throwing it
to the top of the court wall, where it fastened to the spikes.
Having succeeded thus far, he drew himself to the top of
the wall, and then let himself down on the other side, by
the same means. Fortunately, however, he was soon
missed by the turnkey, who immediately caused a search to
be made, and in the course of a short time he was found
secreted u nder Bailiwick New Bridge, partially immersed
in water. He has since been conveyed to London.—Bath
Chronicle.

PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS
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Brazilian Bonds
Buenos Ayres Bonds
lian Bonds ... 2914:9
(7iilonibian Bonds
Ditto, 1824 ofp4
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Ditto, :925. 46 534
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Vitt 1825 3S

THIS DAT AT ONE O'CLOCK.
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• Russian
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LONDON,
FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 7, MO.

lIIS MAJESTY'S HEALTH.

The following Bulletin was issued this morn-

mg :-

" Windsor Castle, May 7.
" The KING has passed the last twenty-four hours under
a continued mitigation of his symptoms.
(Signed) " HENRY HALFORD.
" MATTHEW J. TIERNEY."

The French Papers of Wednesday contain no
news of any interest ; the expedition to Algiers
is now the great object of attention.

YARN:CU FUNDS. —PA RIS, MAT 4.--Five per Cents., WE
70c. 7Cc. 65c. 60c. ; Three per Cents., 82f. 65c. 50c. 60c. 75c.
80c.; Bank Stock, 1,910 E ; Rentes de Naples, 931. 30c. ne. 30c.
15c. 25c. 15c. 20c. 25c. 40c.1; Rentes d'Espagne,ls%; Royal Spanish
Loan, 89%; Rentes Perpetuellcs d'Espagne, 82;4 % %IA 82
81 I 4 % 82.—Exchange on London, One month, paper, At: 60c. ;
Money, 25f. 55c. ; three months, paper, 25f. 45c. ; Money, 251. 40C
—Coors.luthentiiire.

The following are extracts from German,
Dutch, and Prussian Papers:—

FRI`.II THE WESER, APRIL 23.—According to RC'.
counts that are worthy of credit, the money which the
Duke of Brunswick took with him on his journey to Pao
probably amounted to some millions of dollars. This great
sum is partly the fruit of the savings of his Majesty during
the six years of his reign, and partly the produce of the
sales of &mins which have been effected during the same
period, but the validity of which sales is contested by the
Committee of the Estates. The amount was gradually
converted into gold, and put into tln cans, closely soldered
up, each containing 5,000 dollars, all of which the Duke
took with him. As the last resolution of the Duke, rela-
tive to the affairs of Brunswick, was taken on the 2d A
this month, and it is understood that the time fixed for
compliance was only four weeks, we may expect important
events at the close of the presentmonth.
Len -sic, /trim 24.—The fair promises well, part!y
on account of the great number of Greeks and Asiatics
who appear here for the first time, some of than
with their own brokers, and partly on account of
the large sums for which they have credit from foreign
places. Hitherto they have mttrely looked about them
and consulted together, bat made few purchase'',
so that we cannot yet say what goods are likely to
be particularly in demand for Asia. We Lave also man?
Poles and Russians here, from which we infer that the
late reductions in the duties of customs in both States
will give commerce a little liberty.
The march of Saxon troops for a certain purpose is
still enveloped in mystery. It is conjectured that should
nutters come to extremities the cause of the march will
soon he removed. As this march of our troops has been
frequently announced without taking place, we do not
believe that it will be t ffected on the 26th, as some per-
sons now affirm.

lIIVISE DA RMSTADT. —The Suabian Mercury say',
that Mijor-General the Prince of Wittgenstein, who is
gene so St. Petersburgh to announce to the Russian Court ,
the death of the late Grand Duke, is also commissioned,
on his return through Berlin, to ask the hand of the
Princess Elizabeth, daughter of Prince William of Prussia
(the King's brother), for the Hereditary Grand Duke
Louis, born 1806.

(Flom the Commercial Journal, St. Peter burgh, Apri111•)
if -

UKASE TO THE DIEXCLING SENATE.

" The Minister of Finance hastepresented to us that va-
rious circumstances are observed, on an attentive con-
sideration of the manufactures and trade of the empires
which prove on one aide the insufficiency of the duties on
various articles for the protection of the national manu-
factures, and on the other the injury that arises from the
prohibition to import several articles, the admission of
which, on payment of a proportionable duty, would excite
emulation in our own manufacturers ; approving theSe re-
presentations, we have given our sanction to a new table
approved by the Council of the Empire, of articles, the im-
portation of which is to he again allowed, as well as of
those the duties upon which are in some instances in-
creased, in others diminished. We transmit this table to
the Scntve, commanding it to be carried into effect.
(Signed) " NICHOLAS."
" St. Petersbusgh, March 26 (April 7), Ib3o.

The Commercial Journal add.; the following ob,cr-
vation..

" The changes in the tariffhave the following objects--
" 1. To reduce the number of prohibited articles as
far as can be done without injury.
" 2. To lessen the temptations to smuggling.
" 3. To afford to our manufacturers (with sufficient
protecting duties) new patterns, to make them sooner ac-
quainted with the improvements of other countries, to ex-
cite their emulation, and in general to enlarge their idea..
" 4. To procure them a more extensive sale ; for if a
small number of articles of luxury, which come into the
empire by various means, must for the present be obtained
for the capital from foreign countries, yet our manufac-
turers have the market of all Russia open to them; new,
more elegant, and all articles for the fashions, must of course
be longer in reaching the distant provinces. The notion
of preventing luxury has not been taken into consideration,
but at all events the Russian manufacturers will be able to
supply the public with such superior articles on reason-
able terms.

" 5. The duty on some articles is augmented, because,
experience chews that our manufacturers could not other-
wise subsist ; the duties on others are increased or dimi-
nished, in orer todo away with inequalities in the tariff.
Pecuniary advantage has not been sought, and as the
changes relate only to the admission of prohibited articles,
or t objects of small importance, it does not seem neces-
sary to make this ordinance known earlier.

ODRS3A, APRIL 10.-From the let of this month to
yesterday thirty-eight ships have arrived here and thirteen
have sailed. Among yesterday's arrivals was the .1-101. V
Trinity, a Greek brigantine, the first vessel with the nevi
national flag of Greece that has entered the port of
Odessa.

SECOND CHAMBER OF THE STATES GENERAL•

THE HAGUE, MAY 3.—Various petitions were pre-
sented to the Chamber.

The President announced that he had received from the
Minister of the Interior a report respecting the public
schools, drawn up by the Committee appointed for that
purpose.
The Central Section presented a report on the project
of law relatwe to the compositidn of the Chamber of
Accounts, for whom it appears many members persisted
in their opinions, and do not consider the answer of Go-
vernment as satisfactory.

It presented also a report on the project of law for re 4
deeming the interest of the 44 per Cent. Bonds of the)
Syndicate. The Section disapproved of this measure.
FRANKFORT, Ar ail. 30.—We learn from Wi, shade'',
that her Royal Highness the Duchess of Nassau was safely
delivered of a daughter the evening before yesterday.
AMSTERDAM, MAY 4.—Exchange on London, 12 21
5-10 ; two months, 12 20.

It has constantly been the fate of the Bills rc.•
lating to the Revenue to be prepared by persons
little conversant with the principles of finance,
and to he taken up by the Government with
almost implicit reliance on the advice of the
framers, and without devoting to their details
that due consideration which all Acts intended

to drain the pockets of the people are entitled
to receive from the highest fiscal authority. We
have at all times been taxed hastily, inconsidv