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LONDON,
WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 1,1837.

In the House of Lords last night, amongst the petitions
on various subjects that were presented was one by Lord
BROUGHAM, from Birmingham, signed by fifteen thousand
persons, praying for the total abolition of Church-rates.
The Marquis of SALISBURY then laid on the table a
Standing Order for the establishment of a Police during
the construction of works by private Companies.
After the presentation of a petition by the Earl of
Wicszow, praying for the appointment of a Committee
to ascertain the result of the operation of the present system
of education adopted- is Ireland, and one also differing in
•sentiments, by the Bishop of EXETER, from the same
places, Lord MELBOURNE brought forward his motion
" for a Select Committee to inquire into the progress and
operation of the new system of education adapted in Ire-
land."

After a discussion, which occupied the remainder of the
evening; (on which we have made some remarks elsewhere),
the Committee was appointed : the names of the indi-
viduals composing it will be found in our Parliamentary
report.

In the House of Commons proceedings relative to Rail-
way Bills took precedence. We recommend to the notice
of such of our readers as are interested in these Linda.-
takings some highly important observations on the subject,
officially made by the SPEAKER.
Mr. D'EYNCOURT, in giving notice that he will bring
forward his motion on the IBth of April for the repeal of
the Septennial Act, declared his determination that the
souse of the House that day should -be taken on it.
The CHANCELLOR of tile EXCHEQUI;it stated that it was
not practicable positively- to name the day when the second
reading of the Poor Relief (Ireland) Bill would be moved ;
but that in any event he certainly should not bring on the
discussion of that measure at a later hour in the evening
than nine o'clock.

Mr. R9BINSON presented a petition for the reduction.of
the duty on marine insurance, and said that he shoidd move
a resolution to carry the prayer of it into effect.

- - in the course of a discussion on Railway Bills, the
CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, in reply to Mr. HumE,
stated that no advances had been made by the Commis-
sioners of Exchequer-bills to any of the Railway Companies.
Mr. LABOUCHERE obtained leave to bring in a Bill to
repeal and amend certain Acts relating to the Royal Mint ;
aril also the nomination of a Committee to inquire into the
sl stem of that establishment.

Mr. YOUNG obtained leave to bring in a Bill to amend
the law relating to mortgages on vessels.
On the motion of Mr. HALL, a return was ordered of
all sums of money paid into the Exchequer out of the an-
nuity granted to his Royal Highness Prince LEOPOLD, now
King of the Belgians ; in continuation of the return pre-
sented to Parliament in 1834.
Mr. BAUNEBY obtained leave to bring in a Bill to re-
move from counties the expense and liability of repairing
the highways over bridges, and 300 feet next adjoining to
any ends of the same.

Mr. F. MauLE obtained leave to bring in a Bill to amend
the Acts for the regulation of the Penitentiary at Milbank.
The discussion on prison' discipline which grew out of the

dun. Ginalen:lan's motion was brief, but interestin—'A
will well repay perusal.
After a Return relative to the appointment of Recorders
'awl been ordered, and a petition presented for an alteration
in the duties on Tobacco, the House adjourned, shortly after
eight o'clock.

The Bishop of EXETER disburdened himself of the usual
amount. of vituperation last night in the House of Lords,
on the question of Viscount MELBOURNE'S .motion for a
Select Committee to enquire into the progress of the
National System of Education in Ireland. The Rev.
Prelate did not oppose the motion ; but contented himself
with repeating all the often-refuted calumnies which he has
from time to time vented against the Commissioners. For
just twice the time that Falstaff fought at Shrews-
bury—that
is to say, for two long hours—did this
exemplary Bishop inflict on an unwilling House his
catalogue of charges against the Board of Education,
insisting on each with a spleen and bitterness only
to be rivalled by his attacks on Mr. CANNING, in
those notorious pamphlets, the principles set forth in
which. he afterwards, it may be remembered, made such
breathless haste, and saw such good cause, to recant. Dr.
PIIILLPOTTS is a wily, dexterous debater ; no man can
give to a sophistry such an appearance of sound argument
as he can ; but he speaks with invariable acrimony, as if
the loss of the rich rectory of Stanhope was ever gnawing
at his heart. It is fortunate that his flagrant inconsisten-
cies neutralize the effect of all his talents, and reduce him
to little more than a cypher in the estimation of the coun-
try. No man who knows anything of the politics of the last
few years cares one jot for the opinion of Dr. PHILI,
POTTS —thinking it far from improbable that the cause he
advocates to-day, he may oppose to-morrow, precisely as
ho did on the great question of Catholic Emancipation.
But had his influence been even as great as is his rank in
the Church, that influence would have been pretty consi-
derably lowered by the full exposure made of his specious
lophistries last night by the Archbishop of DUBLIN and
Lord PLUNKET, both of whom controverted all his reason-
ings, and speculated on his motives in a manner that must
have pierced through the thick coatings of his self-conceit,
and cut him to the quick. Lord PLUNKET was specially
vigorous in the application of the lash, and if the Rev. Pre-
late be not endued with the hide of an armadillo, he will
wince under it for a month to come.

Mr. LABOUCHERE last night brought a Bill into the
House of Commons, which has for its object to alter the
manner of conducting the business connected with the
Mint. The Honourable Gentleman has made himself tho-
roughly master of the details of that department of which
he is at the head, and the new regulations which he
proposes to substitute for those now in operation appear
to have been well digested, and to be every way calculated
to effect the purpose of introducing greater simplicity into
the management, and imposing greater responsibility on
the managers, of this great national establishment. It
is to be observed, that the reform intended to be applied
to the abuses in the Mint does not ,extend beyond the
modes operandi. Neither the question of the currency
nor the standard of value is at all affected by Mr. LA-
BOUCHERE'S Bill.

Two of the great questions—the Irish Municipal Bill
and the Poor Law Amendment Act—on which the oppo-
nents of the Government rested their chief hopes, having
been satisfactorily disposed of by the Commons, and another
added to the list by the Lords last night, the Tories have
only one leading topic left—the Appropriation Clause.
What a falling off within a few months ! For some time
previous to the meeting of Parliament all these topics were
urged at every dinner, as proofs of the cruelty and incapa-
city of the Ministry, and every one of them was considered
as a sufficient ground for ejecting them from office ; but
when they are discussed in an assembly where vituperation
and falsehood are not allowed to pass unanswered, or ad-
mitted as facts, all the mischief, nay, ruin predicted, dwindles
to nothing. What can be a clearer proof of the miserable
shifts to which the party are driven ? They make false
statements, and raise up imaginary evils, to deceive
the unthinking multitude, and when these are brought
to the test of reason, they have the mortification to
find the leading men of their party either silent or join-
ing with the Ministry in support of measures so loudly
condemned. The New Poor-law was held up to the people_
as a wicked device of the Whigs ; yet when the trial of the
question came, Sir ROBERT PEEL avowed his determination
to share in the responsibility. The Irish Municipal Bill
was fraught with every evil—when brought to the test, the
leader of the party simply doubted the expediency of a
step which might injure the Protestant Church, and many
of the Tories refrained from voting because they did not
consider themselves warranted in denying justice to Ireland
on the plea of a doubtful contingency. And when the
third great source of ruin—the system of Education in
Ireland—was di .cussed in that House where the Tories can
do as they like even with what is not their own—the Duke
of WELLINGTON, and Lord LYNDHURST the calumniator
of Ireland, uttered not a word against it—nay more, the Nar-
cissus of the party, the Earl of WICKLOW, who formerly op-
posed the plan, admitted that as the measure had been for some
years in operation, and it was impossible now to abolish it,
lie was anxious that it should be carried on in the best way
possible. Never were men so unfortunate in their projects
or so deserted in their utmost need. How mortifying to
those retainers who, at the dinner orgies in autumn, cheered
the rabid speakers to find that the dangers are considered
by the leaders of the party in both Houses as imaginary,
and that all their long concocted schemes for destroying
the Government have vanished into smoke. When so much
has been done in only one month, may we not with certainty
anticipate that party spirit and disappointed hopes will at
length yield to reason, and that a small portion of the vast
income of the monstrous Church Establishment may be set
apart with safety to educate the poorer classes of our
Catholic brethren in Ireland ?

The whole of the Paris Papers of Monday have teen
received. The Moniteur of that date contains the fol-
lowing official intelligence : •
" Bayonne, Feb. 25, INC-past 5, a.m.
" The Infante Don Sebastian, at the head of nine battalions,
a squadron-of cavalry, and four pieces of artillery, left Du.
range on the 21st, marching in the direction of St. Sebastian.
Twelve battalions remained before Biiboa. General Saars-
field was at Pampeluna on the 23d, with 12,000 men. tie had
been joined the previous day by three battalions of the division
of Mail.

The following is an extract from a letter from St. Jean-
de Luz, dated 22d ult.

" From the latest accounts received this day from St. Se-.
bastian, it is Lclieved that the expedition will not take place
before two or three days. We are assured that the English
have caused the military stores which they had at Passages
to be brought back to St. Sebastian. It is also stated that
disputes have arisen between Generals Eapartero and Evans
—that the latter had been placed by the General-in-Chief,
under the orders of Ceneral Saarsfield, to whom he had sent
the six thousand men demanded by General Evans. It is,
therefore, probable that no movement will take place at St.
Sebastian till General Saarsfield gives orders to that effect
from Pampcluna. A Spanish vessel, laden with stores,
left St. Sebastian a few days since, and has arrived at Socoa,
but she has not been allowed to land her cargo." The
grippe;or influenza, has made its appearance at St. Sebastian,
and caused great ravages among the inhabitants and the
troops. There are 1,200 soldiers sick, and considering that
3,000 men are required to guard the line from fiernani to Pas-
sages, and that 2,000 are indispensable for the garrison of
the town and citadel, there _remain no more than 5,000 men
for the field ; a number certainly insufficient to break the
Carlist lines, and besiege Irun and Fontarabia, where the
rebels have a collected force of seventeen battalions. This
is alleged as the principal cause of the inaction of General
Evans."

The Memorial Bordelais of the 23(1 ult. contains the
following paragraph :

" It is reported that General Espartero has resigned the
command of the army of the north, and that General Seoanc
is appointed to be his successor. Saarsfield has refused to j,,in
in the attack planned by General Evans, on pretence that his
division is sa destitute of necessaries, that it is difilenit to pre-
serve discipline. It would appear that the Spanish chiefs re-
fuse to acknowledge the supremacy of General Evans. Con-
sequently, the long-projected combined attack, from which so
much was expected, has been deferred."

The Sentinelle des Pyrenees of the same date has also
the following account from the North of Spain :
" On the 18th clothing and boots were delivered to the lan-
cers of Isabella 11. The corps of all sorts have received their
pay, as well as the Algerine legion. Saarsfield is about putting
himself at the head of a column composed of the battalions of
the Royal Guard and of the legion of Algiers. The legion
of Algiers assembled near Villava, and the men of the Com-
panies forming the battalions of the 2d brigade were incorpo-
rated amongst the corresponding companies of the battalions
of the Ist. The 3d battalion, 800 strong, has entered Pam-
peluna. All the men received their arrears of pay, and, be-
fore their departure, will receive a supply of clothing. Several
battalions from the garrison in the neighbourhood have arrived
here. The corps of operation will be from 8,000 to 9,000

strong. Each soldier will carry with hini 89 reunds of am-
munition and six days' provision."
The upshot of all this is that. the jealousies- ofthe Generals
present them from attacking the Carlists. As' for EseAa-
Tr.no, we cannot understand Wherefore he remains pent up
in Bilboa with an army sufficient to expel the whole of the
Carlist garrisons within two days' march of that city. Can-
not he move unless impelled forward by British marines ?
There is no domestic ne of any interest in the French
papers of Monday.

FRENCH FUNDS.—Psats; FEW 27.
Five per Cents., lo1;1 71ic 63, 60e.
Font per Cents., 1001 95e.
Plin.e per Cents. 791 60e, 55c. 60c.
Bank Actions, 2,415 f.
Retire tie Naples, 981 90c. 70c. 75c.
Roman Five per Cents., 102%.
Spanish Actives, '.:6!,6 25:X :Al 25&14•7.,.
Spanish Passives, 714 7.
Belgian Society, 1,53:1
Portuguese Thret per Cents. 31,5.
EXCHAN.F. OV I.wsiMN.
One month, paper, —1 —,!.; money, 25f. SING.
'three months, paper, —f. —e.; money, 251
Authenti2ne.

BOURSE, HALF-PAST FOUR.—The French funds declined to-
day on account of the fall in the British Consols, and the
angry discussion to which it is expected the Disjunction Bill
will give rise in the Chamber of Deputies. The assurance
that the Government had abandoned all idea of undertaking a
new expedition against Constantine seemed to produce a bad
The Spanish Actives fell 11 per cent. No unfavourable
news, however, has been received from the frontiers, but the
progress of Cabrera in La Mancha, and the inaction of the
army of the North, were thought to be little calculated to re-
store confidence.

LAST PRICES,
Five per Cents., 7cc.
Three per Cents. 79f.
Bank Actions, 2,125 f.
Rente de Naples, UBf. 70c,
Raman Five per Cents., li}2N,
Brussels Bank, 1,4-15 f.
I'c rtuguese Three per Cents., 32N.
Spanish Actives, 25%.
Spanish Passives. 7.
SpAnith lliitcres, 81.4.
Belgian Society, 1,.5556

If the season, which is now rapidly advancing, be al-
lowed to pass overwithout an end being put to the civil
war, which for a period of nearly four years has filled Spain
with misery unexampled, and crime the most atrocious,
England and France will have cause to deplore a neu-
trality as inhuman in its immediate results as it will prove
impolitic in its consequences. Leaving the Spaniards to
cut each others' throats, when they themselves, by the
mouth of their Government, implore us to put an end to
the sanguinary fratricidal struggle, and when it is perfectly
in our power to do so without perilling our own safety,
neither accords with the principles of equity, the dictates of
honour, nor with the genius of Christianity. It is contended
that the Spaniards have an exclusive right to settle all
questions connected with their domestic Government ; and
that any interference on our part is an infringement of the
national liberty of an independent State, whose affairs
ought only to be settled by itself. We freely admit the
right of Spaniards to regulate their form of the social institu-
tions ; but we cannot allow that this principle incul-
cates indifference to the shedding of blood. The consoli-
dation of the Constitutional throne calls less for our inter-
ference than the giving peace to millions of innocent and
oppressed people, staggering on the very verge of ruin. If
we were not convinced, that the success of the QUEEN'S
arms is but another phrase for the tranquillization of Spain,
we should implore England and France not to adopt the
cause of either of the belligerents, but to set about bridling
the ambition of both. Forasmuch, however, as the cause
of the QUEEN is the cause of liberty and humanity—as it
is supported by the suffrages of nineteen-twentieths of
the Spanish people, and declared sacred by the Cortes of
the kingdom—and as we are bound by treaties to counte-
nance and encourage it, we cannot without a dereliction of
duty remain indifferent to its especial triumph.
The vast preparations made by the Government of
Madrid, and the Military chiefs, to put a speedy and final
termination to the civil war in the Basques, will, we fear,
end in smoke and empty noise, unless the French and
English Governments adopt measures for superintending
the direction of the campaign. The QUEEN has now a
noble army in the north, abundantly supplied with provi-
sions and military stores, but all threatens to go wrong in
consequence of the jealousy of the Generals. They mutu-
ally envy and distrust one another—each preferring the
gratification of his own miserable ambition to the welfare of
his country. A few of them care not how long the war is
protracted, fearing that its close will leave them in a state
of insignificance, from which it would have been happy for
Spain had they never emerged. It is singular that since the
commencement of the civil war, Spain should have thrown
up no military character, so fired with a love of freedom and
of national glory as to triumph over the vices of envy, of
avarice, of treachery, and of weak and divided councils,
both in himself and his coadjutors. Extraordinary events
have not produced extraordinary men in the Pe-
ninsula. When SAARSFIELD drew the sword towards
the close of 1833, the Carlists could not bring
300 men into the field capable of handling a mus-
ket. SAARSFIELD iS admitted on all sides to be an excel•
lent officer—indeed one of the best cavalry of in Spain ;
and yet he failed to put down the insurrection, though at
the head of 6,000 good troops. Astonished at this General's
want of success,. the Government sent RODIL to succeed
him, who for a time did wonders, and well nigh made a pri-
soner of the PRETENDER, whom he hunted through Portu-
gal ; but his barbarities soon lost him the confidence of the
people, and he too was disgraced. LLAUDER appeared
next, and, by his cruelties completed the estrangement of
the Basque population from the Madrid Government. VAL-
DES succeeded LLAUDLR, and, for a time, was rather popu-
lar; but he failed in effecting anything of importance, and,
in his turn, made way for the since unfortunate QUESADA.
At the solicitation of the Government, RODIL again ap-
peared as General•in•Chief, only to be replaced by MINA,
whose atrocities were more fatal to the Constitutional cause
than the arms of all the Carlists in the Basques. It was
now VALDES' turn to re-appear ; but, on finding that for-
tune attended not upon his arms, the QUEEN, in an evil
hour, bestowed the chief command on the braggart Cost-
nova. His treasonable career, and that of Rolm, who
again succeeded to the supreme command in the North,
must be still fresh in the memory of our readers. Their
treachery more than counterbalanced the bravery and the
zeal of an army which, if properly commanded, would, in
three months, have for ever rid Spain of the PRETENDER
and his followers.

Thus, from the very outset, the jealousy, treachery, or
incapacity of the QUEEN'S Generals, was the chief obstacle
to the pacification of Spain, and we greatly fear will prove
fatal to the gallant army now assembled in the Basques,
unle..is provision be made against the possibility of such a
misfortune. Now, therefo7b, is the fitting time for Eng-
land and France to interpose their authority. The loss or
demoralization of such a body of troops as are now ready
to take the field at a moment's notice, would be irreparable
in the present state of the QUEEN'S finances; The Consti-
tutional army in the Basques is now seventy thousand
strong—a force large enough, if well officered, to drive
every Carlist north of the Ebro into the sea. But no hope
can he entertained of such a triumph so long as Generals
are allowed to command, who arc less indifferent to every
gratification than that derived from the mortification of
each other. ESPARTEIIO is jealous Of SAARSFIELD
and EVANS, and it is thought declines, or at least de-
lays to• act, because the plan of the campaign ori-
ginated With the ex-Commander-in-Chief. ALAIX will
not act at all, if not entrusted with a command equal
to that of EVANS. SAARsFIELD cannot move, for lie has
not a force under him capable of making an impression
upon the Carlists. With so little unanimity of action
among the officers, it is impossible for any army to be vic-
torious. Now, then, we repeat, is the proper moment for
British and French active interference.
.Let them inter-
pose at once, were it only to enable the Spanish Govern-
ment' to weed the army of such commanders as ALAIX,
and some others whom we need not take the trouble to
name. The Cortes are too factious, too loquacious, and
too theoretical to be longer left unassisted in effecting the
triumph of freedom and peace in the Peninsula. France
and England may soon have other concerns to attend to
sufficient to engross all their attention, and to strain all
their energies, so that the war in Spain cannot be quickly
enough terminated. Should our fears prove well-founded,
we know of no calamity that would be "more injurious to
us than a civil war in the Peninsula.

The Carlist Chief, GOMEZ, has been shot, by command
of Don Cantos. The sanguinary and cowardly ruffian
could not have committed a more suicidal atrocity than
that of murdering the only officer in his service capable of
successfully coping with the QUEEN'S Generals. To GOMEZ
the Pretender owed his life, and in his fate his fellow-
soldiers will not fail to see the reward of playing Clytus
to the brigand Alexander of the Basques. It is now

generally noderstood that ZUMALACA::LLUI was poisoned,
if not by the orders, at least with the knowledge, of Don
CARLOS ; but the Pretender is now powerful enough to dis-
pose of the lives of his faithful followers without having re-
course to indirect modes of execution. GOMEZ was personally
a brave man, and his treatment of Brigadier ]LINTER and
the garrison of Baylen, proved that be was not destitute of
humanity, nor unmindful of the usages of civilized warfare.
His conduct towards LorEz, and his fellow-prisoners, is
also a redeeming point in his brief marauding, rather than
military career. The murder of GOMEZ, will not fail to
make a deep impression on the Basque peasantry.

We arc happy to say that Dr. Bowring is reco-
vering from his late severe indisposition, but we regret to
state that he is still confined to his bed.

A large conservatory, or floral temple, has recently
been erected between the palace and the Duke of Cumber-
land's residence at Kew.

A most mischievous attempt was made on Thurs-
day last to set fire to the Cupar academy. Some wicked
enemies of education had gained admission into the class-
rooms by the window, shortly after the doors were shut for
the evening, and put burning coals into one of the
desks. Before it was observed the flames had gained conside-
rable height. The incendiary has not been discovered.—
Fifeshire Journal.
Petitions to both Houses of Parliament are in the
course of signature at Soham, Cambridgeshire, for the better
recovery of small debts ; we earnestly hope that similar peti-
tions will be got up in other places to the same effect.—Cam-
bridge Press.
What may be the nature and constitution of the
sun's inhabitants, it were idle to conjecture. It is possible
that they surpass the human race as much in physical and
moral excellence as that glorious orb is superior to ours : sur-
rounded as it is, by a sky of ineffable effulgence, where dark-
ness cannot be known ; not depending, as do all the planets of
the system, for existence, on as much light as, in proportion,
the point of a pin might catch from the rays of a candle held
at a great distance, but surrounded by one eternal blaze of day.
—Chester Chronicle.

All the present Judges in law and equity, except
four, were educated at Cambridge.

It has been decided that, is implements of agricul-
ture, thrashing machines are exempt from toll on passing
through any turnpike gate, conveyed by the farmer's horses
who have had the same in operation.

The last scion of the family of Corneille has just
died in Paris without heirs. He was employed in the office of
the indirect taxes, and, a short time since, was present at the
inauguration of the statue erected by the city of Rouen, in
honour of his illustrious ancestor.

Some time ago the city of Brussels was infested by
a gang of miscreants who went about the streets with sharp-
pointed instruments, wantonly piercing passers-by of both
sexes. The Brussels journals announce that this atrocious
system has just been renewed.
On Monday the anniversary for the execution of
Fieschi, Morey, and Pepin, three individuals were arrested in
the act of placing chaplets on the tomb of Pepin, in the ce-
metery of Mont Parnasse. They were immediately handed
over to the civil power. This manifestation of feeling acquires
a degree of seriousness from a circumstance which took place
the day before. A funeral ceremony in honour of Pepin had
been demanded at the French church of the Abbe Auzou.
Letters of convocation addressed, as the text sufficiently indi-
dated, to the " brothers and friends" in the capital, were
couched in the following terms :—" You are invited to assist
at a funeral service in honour of citizen Pepin, beheaded by
the Thermydoricans, in the 44th year of the republic. Health
and fraternity." The authorities were informed of the cir-
cumstance in time, and the service was not allowed to take
place.
The auditors for all the boroughs in England, and
the assessors for each ward, are to be chosen on Wednesday
next, the Ist of March. As no burgess can vote for more than
one candidate, these elections are possessed of very little
interest.

Thursday, the manufacture of the longest rope on
record, in one unspliced piece, was finished in Sunderland.
Is is upwards of 4,000 yards long, seven inches in circum-
ference, and 12 tons weight, and will cost about 4001. It is
for the use of the London and Birmingham Railway.
A married woman, of the Shawanee Indians, made
this beautiful reply to a man whom she metin the woods, and
who implored her to love and look on him. " Oulamen, my
husband," said she,• " who is for ever before my eyes, hinders
me from seeing you."
Mr. Coltman, the new Judge of the Common Pleas,
was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took
the degree of Bachelor of Arts, in January, 1798, as a senior
optime. He practised for some years as a special pleader
before he was called to the bar, where lie has been much es-
teemed by his professional brethren, but he has never attained
any professional eminence. The new Judge will commence
his judicial career next week at the Old Bailey, and in the
following-week will proceed with Mr. Justice Park to fulfil the
duties of the Norfolk circuit.
On Saturday evening, about five o'clock, a market-
boat, returning from Youghal, in which there were upwards of
30 persons, to the county Waterford, was by a sudden squall
upset within a few feet of the Ferry-point, and upward! of 17
persons met with a watery grave. It appears that only eight
of the bodies have been as yet found.—Cork Paper. .

We have good authority for stating that the Tories,
in the expectation of a general election, are busily employed
in making arrangements for a secret canvass of the Western
Division of Cornwall. Their forlorn hope in this case is to
be that " splendid example of the strict union of Church and
State," Lord Bosettwen, as Lord Falmouth's " Right Reve-
rend Friend," Parson Le Grice dubbed him at the late Truro
dinner. The result of this silly attempt, if persisted in, may
be easily foreseen.— West Briton.

On Saturday forenoon last the steam boiler belonging
to Mr. Peter Large, spindle and fly manufacturer, exploded.
The engine-house was blown to pieces. The top of the boiler,
after going up into the air, fell upon the workshop adjoining,
going through the roof, in which were several hands at work.
The proprietor was so much injured that on Tuesday morning
he expired. A boy named Fitzpatrick was so severely scalded
that he died in a few hours after the explosion. Another boy
named Welsby lies in a dangerous state. An was held
on Tuesday, at Mrs. Joggers', before W. Pemberton, Esq.,
Coroner for the Mancr and Liberty of Prescot, when a ver-
dict was returned of accidental death on Mr. Peter Large and
Fitzp3trick.— Liverpool Mercury.
At the Brighton police-office, on Thursday, John
Edwards, who recently held the situation of surveyor of taxes
at Worthing, was charged with forgery. There' were two
cases against him. The first was a charge of having forged
the receipt of Mr. Hopkins, of Arundel, a remitter of taxes,
and with uttering the same to Charles Reed, with intent to
defraud the latter of 171. 2s. 7d. The other charge was of
haiing uttered a forged document for 15/. to William Walker,
with a view to defraud him. The evidence in both cases was
of a conclusive nature, and the prisoner was fully committed
to take his trial at the next assizes.

The following return appears on the back of an exe-
cution issued by a justice not far from this place ; the execu-
tion, it will be recollected, commands the constable to levy the
debt and costs on the goods and chattel; of defendant, but for
want of sufficient distress to take the body to the gaol of the
county Went to house of defendant and found no pro-
perty, but there being sufficient distress in the family I did not
take the body to the gaol. So answers , Constable."
—Ticya Gazette.
The most afflicting visitation that we have seen re-
corded, connected with the late epidemic, has just come to our
knowledge. In the course of one week in January, a young
man, living at Gosfield, named Samuel Everett, lost his father,
mother, sister, uncle, and aunt, who were all previously strong
healthy people. The person who has suffered this dreadful
bereavement is now lying dangerously ill, from a second attack
of the same direful malady.—Essex Herald._

The influenza, though not quite extinct, is still ra-
pidly declining. The weekly account of burials published in
the Medical Gazette, states the number of deaths from this
complaint in the week ending Feb. 21, at 20 only. The im-
provement in the general health of the metropolis is even more
satisfactory, the total number of deaths in the same week being
210 less than in the week ending the 14th ult.
Sir Andrew Agnew has given notice of , his ever-
lasting Sunday Bills. Will he propose any regulation for
keeping the fashionable clubs in order ? We read in the trial
of Lord de Roos v. Cumming, that the principal blow-up took
place on the 24th of April last. Now, turning up the alma-
neck, we find that in the year of grace 1836 the 24th of April
fell upon a Sunday. But none of our modern saints ever dis-
cover anything improper in the conduct of persons of high
rank. With them " a saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn."
Interfere with the gambling clubs I Bless your silly heart
Their frequenters are both by birth and education the " na-
tural guardians of religion and morality." Would you judge
a Noble Lord or a Baronet who can sauter la coupe, by the
same rules with a low thimble-rigger, who sits at the road-
side with a board on his knee ?-__Glasgow Argus.
DEATH FOR DEBT.—It is stated in the Pilot
that Lord Kingsborough died last Sunday in the Sheriffs' prison
at Dublin, and that this unfortunate debtor makes the fourth
victim to the system of imprisonment for debt within only the
last six weeks. It is even said that the number would have
been much greater but for the humane attention of the Go-
vernor, Mr. Cuoney, whose conduct is above all praise ; he
has on more than one occasion given money out of his pocket
to relieve the necessities of the wretched beings who arc con-
fined in the lower cells of the prison. What a mass of misery
is created by unwise legislation ! The picture of human
suffering presented in this one prison alone is heart-rending.
Four debtors doomed to a lingering, protracted, and painful
death—suffering from the inclemency of the season, and
dying at last, exhausted nature being no longer able to bear
up against the privations of the prison in which the victims
were entombed. The ratio for the year in one prison alone
is upwards of 34 persons thus sentenced to death for debt.
On Saturday night something like a S.W. storm
was gathering till about ten o'clock. The rain had been
heavy and the wind high; suddenly it ceased, and a beautiful
clear sky exhibited a nearly full moon with countless stars; a
moderate breeze prevailed ; and apparently from the moon
diverged a splendid rose-coloured cloud, in a funnel shape,
which spread east and west, and for three quarters of an hour
lessened and increased, raised and depressed itself in a variety
of shapes, and eventually disappeared to the northward. Al-
though we have called it a cloud, it was so transparent that
the stars were unobstructed to the vision.—Bristol Mercury.

MAGAZINE DAY.

BLACKWOOD' S MAGA ZINE.

The heavy press of Parliamentary and other matters
compels us to be brief with cur Magazine r;otices this
month. A few lines, therefore, must suffice for each.
Blackwood's is a Number of average merit, containing, how-
ever, one article—namely, a review of Miss 13owlcs's
" Birth-day"—:which developes critical faculties of the
highest order, interspersed with bright gleams of humour,
and touches of pathos. We have been struck with the
truth and heartfelt earnestness of these sentiments :
" 'Tis a cheerful poem the Birth-Day, and the heart of its
producer often sings aloud for joy—yet 'tis a mournful poem
too, and we can believe that her fair manuscript was now and
then spotted with a tear. For. have you not felt, when look-
ing back on life, how_its scenes and incidents, different 2S they
may seem at the first glance of recognition, begin gradually
to melt into each other, till they are indistinguishably blended
in one pensive dream I • In our happiest hours there may have
been something in common with our most sorrowful—some
shade of sadness cast over them by a passing cloud, that,
on retrospect, allies them with the sombre spirit of grief.
And in like manner, in our unhappiest hours, there tra.y have
been gleams of gladness that in memory seem almost to give
them the character of peace. They all seem to resemble one
another now that they are all past—the pleasures of memory
are formed of the pains of reality—feelings indifferent, or
even distressing, receive a sort of sanctification in the stillness
of the time that is gone by, and all thoughts and passions be-
come then equalized, just like the human beings whom they
adorned or degraded, when they too are at last gathered to-
gether in the bosom of the same earth."

Mr. Chapman's Translation of the " Eumenides" is ani-
mated and poetical, and if not quite so literal, is, in spirit,
far superior to either Potter's or Franklin's versions. The
translation of a Greek tragedy is an intellectual achieve-
ment of no mean order. It is something to boast of—
something to take one's stand upon. It is not laid
aside with the last new fashionable novel, or small
poem, in a small Annual ; but is talked of among
scholars, and remembered to the translator's credit years
afterwards. The " Prospects of the Session" is a most
truculent political diatribe, disdainfully regardless of facts.
The writer observes that Lord Lyndhurst's last speech, at
the close of last session, " withered the Cabinet, and wi-
thered they have since remained." This is droll enough,
considering that it is not a week since that same " withered
Cabinet" had a flourishing majority of eighty in their favour
on that very question which Lord Lyndhurst so fiercely de-
nounced! " Leila" is a pleasing, unaffected tale : and the
review of " Landor's Works" marked by justness and dis-
crimination.