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LONDON :
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1839.

EVENING EDITION.

Talk begets talk, as art begets art. How beautiful
are the works of the painter, and the sculptor, which
spring from the conceptions of the poet ! We cannot pay
a similar compliment to the talking Parliament, and to the
contradictions which reputed errors in one place bring
forth in another. Viscount PALMERSTON the night
before last indulged in some comments in the Commons
on the remarks of the Earl of ABERDEEN on the Treaty
with Austria, and last night the Noble Earl, in the
LORDS, corrected the Noble Viscount. According to
the Treaty with Austria, British and Austrian vessels
are to be placed on the same footing on entering the
ports of the Danube, which the Earl of ABERDEEN
says Austria cannot stipulate because those ports belong
to Turkey, and Viscount PALMERSTON implies she can-
Viscount MELBOURNE seems to side with the Earl,
though probably as long as Austria is on a friendly foot-
ing. with Turkey Viscount PALMERSTON may be, in
fact, right. This little difference gave rise to a conver-
tion in the House, which may be read in our report.
Lord BROUGHAM, on presenting a petition from
Walsall, for the repeal of the Corn-laws, adverted to
the recent re-election of the Judge of the Admiralty
Court, for the Tower Hamlets, and objected to such a
judicial officer sitting in Parliament. The Judge, it
appears, has no salary, and is paid by an annual vote in
the Navy estimates. Lord MELBOURNE agreed with
the Noble Lord in strongly condemning this anomaly,
but dissented from the opinion that the Judge ought
not to sit in Parliament.

Petitions were presented for the abolition of the
Corn-laws by the Earl of DURHAM and Lord VRRNON
from Derby ; and against the abolition, from the Not-
tingham Agricultural Association, by the Duke of
NEWCASTLE.

A long and not uninteresting conversation took place
on the subject of Naval Schools and Education. It
was introduced by the Earl of HARDWICKE, and se-
veral Noble Lords took part in it. Nothing resulted from
it, except the conclusion, that we are the worst educated
naval people in the world, and have the most unscientific
shipbuilders, and yet practically our naval officers are
amongst the best in existence, and our ships beat and
take all others. The education is the theoretical part
that is undertaken by Government and is slovenly
done. The actually practical part is as it were left to
the people and it is.done tolerably well. No motion
grew out of this conversation, and at it conclusions the
the House of Peers adjourned to Thursday.
In the Commons a considerable number of petitions
t,l' and against the Corn-laws were presented. Col.
presented one from Wetminster, praying the
House to economise its time, ands not engage in useless
discussions.
magistrate
reference to Mr. FROST, the Monmouthshire
'magistrate and member of the National Convention
Lord JOHN RUSSELL stated that the correspondence
Which had passed must be produced, but it was not
moved for last night.
Sir R. PEEL wished to learn from Lord JOHN RUS.• 3,E.ru what course he meant to take with reference to
al • VILLIER'S motion on the Corn-laws, or, rather, he

wished, we think, to terrify Lord JOHN into his own
course. Lord JOHN declined answering till Thursday.
A long statement made by Lord JOHN RUSSELL on the
subject of education, followed by a number of speeches
from Hon. Members on the same question, occupied the
major part of the evening. We will not enter into this
important subject now, because we think it ill-timed
and misplaced. The people are too knowing al-
ready for the Government and the Legislature, and to
increase their knowledge is not that one thing which
is now most imperatively required. The Ministry and
the Legislature waste their precious time in now dis-
cussing plans of education. For our Parliament now
to trouble itself about schools is to act on a pre-con-
ceived theory, and to shut its eyes to the duties it is
imperatively required to perform. It proceeds to build
up a system, and fails to observe that it is not what is
now suitable to the wants of society. A system of edu-
cation might do, if the community were just breaking
forth out of the egg ; but it is fully fledged and
is escaping altogether from those who expect to bind its
feet and wings by school learning. At the same time
the long debate, particularly Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S
speech, may be read with pleasure from its enlightened
sentiments, and with profit from its numerous facts.
We shall be able to form a better opinion of the plan
proposed, when we see the papers which were last night
laid on the table, and are to be printed. At present
we shall only say that its principal feature is an unpaid
Board of Commissioners, to be presided over by the
President of the Council, the Marquis of LANS-
DOWNE ; which Board is to have the distribution
of the funds appropriated by the State for education.
We hope while these schemes are on foot care will be
taken to establish schools for country gentlemen and
parsons ; for we are not acquainted with any classes
who so much require moral instruction, or instruction
in the principle of meum and teum ; and also schools
for Legislators, for they, more than any other set of men,
in the country, require, in our humble apprehension, to
be taught their duties. The cotton-spinner twists a
most beautiful thread, the ploughman makes a straight
furrow, the printer sets up thousands of letters made
of little pieces of metal, into words, sentences, pages,
and columns, without one mistake, and each and all of
the industrious classes the Parliament is to educate, per-
form their duties so as to be creditable to themselves
and the country ; but we have Sir ROBERT PEEL'S
authority for saying that our Legislators are the
most slovenly in existence, and botch their work
more disgracefully than any gipsey tinkers. We
hope, then, if we are to have a grand scheme of
national education that the Parliament will not forget
its most wanted part, a school— a normal school—for
Legislators.
On the motion of Mr. Alderman Wool), a Select
Committee was appointed to take into consideration the
several plans for improving the Metropolis, including
the building of the Royal Exchange, which is to
be accomplished, it was hinted, without continuing the
tax on the people's coals, which, next, to the bread tax,
1 is the most scandalous of all taxes.

Mr. WALLACE, after making an able statement
as to the defects in the mode of administering justice
in Scotland, moved for a Committee to inquire into
the subject. The LORD ADVOCATE opposed the mo-
tion, which was withdrawn after a protracted discus-
sion.

Mr. WALLACE also moved that no Bill affecting
trade or commerce be introduced after Easter, unless
on special cause shown. Mr. HUME seconded the
motion, which was avowedly directed against a practice of
Mr. POULETT THomsoN of bringing forward important
measures towards the close of the Session, and getting
them passed without due sifting. Mr. POULETT THOM..
soN defended himself, and after some discussion the
motion was withdrawn.

Mr. Sergeant TALFouRD obtained leave to bring in
his Bill for amending the law of copyright.
Sir EDWARD SUGDEN obtained leave to bring in a
Bill for the better protection of purchasers against judg-
ments, &c. ; and Mr. Fox MAULE obtained leave to
bring in a Bill to improve prisons in Scotland.
Mr. BROTHERTON made his usual motion to prevent
business being commenced at late hours, but was de-
feated on a division by 26 to 19.
The LORD ADVOCATE obtained leave to bring
in several Bills to improve the administration of
justice in Scotland, and gave notice that he meant
to move for a Committee to consider of the propriety of
increasing the Judges' salaries in Scotland.

New writs were issued for Leitrim, in the room of
Lord CLEMENTS, deceased, and for Carlow, in the
room of Mr. MAULE, now a Baron of the Exchequer.
The House, though there were not many Members
present at any time, sat till past Twelve o'clock.

The state of the Supreme Court of Justice in
Scotland, forms a most singular anomaly in the
administration of the laws of the country. Mr.
O'CoNNELL in former days used to paint the Irish
Bench in most extraordinary colours—describing
one Judge deaf, others more ignorant of the law
than any Barrister of two years practice, and all of
them blinded by political prejudice ; but if we are
to believe the statements made by Scotch Members
last night, the mode of administering justice in
Ireland, or indeed in any other country, must sink
into the shade when compared with the system to
which the people of Scotland submit at present. On
reading the statements, a stranger would suppose that
the Scotch are such a well-regulated people, so
little given to litigation, and so versed in the law
themselves, that Courts of Justice are mere super-
fluities, and only kept up to fulfil one of the ar-
ticles of the Union. The Supreme Court sits at
an average 104 days, or three months in a year,
and only for an hour and a half or two hours each
day, which, supposing it were to sit as long each
day as the English Courts, would amount to about
twenty days in the year. One would conclude, that
Judges who can settle all the important suits of a
country in so short a period, must be men of great
quickness, and not broken down either by age orinfir-
mities. But what is the fact ? The Hon. Member for
Aberdeen gives an account of a casual visit to the
Court, when he heard one of the Judges deliver a judg-
ment, who was said so be ninety years of age, at
all events he has been 45 years on the bench ; he
was propped up by two of his brethren, one on each
side, with a person at his back—all the rest of the
Judges according to similar testimony, were from 65
to 80 or 90 years of age. One of the residents was
said to be in a state of mental imbecility, caused by
great age and infirmities—the other President was
labouring under a painful disease, and unable to
attend to his duties, a third Judge was stone
deaf—in short it appeared there were only four
Judges in the two divisions fit for duty. But our
brethren in the north are callous, passive, and con-
tented people, and their representatives are of the
same cast. They have but one member who calls out
for justice to Scotland, and that he does only at
long intervals, or at late hours. Were the Irish
bench in such a state the Member for Dublin
would give no rest either to the Government or the
House till the system was reformed and the Bench
filled with men—not deaf or decrepit, but in the
vigour of life, and fit to discharge the importan
functions of a Judge.

In the unprecedented space of 40 days we have,
by the extraordinary activity of Mr. WAGHORN,
been put in possession of Bombay papers to the
Ist ult. The Atalanta left Bombay on the 2d
January, and arrived at Suez on the 20th ult.
His Highness RAGOJEE ANGRIA, of Colaba,
died 26th December. It was rumoured that a de-
putation of Government officers had been sent to
take possession of his territory, and to annex it per-
manently to the British dominions.

The arrival of the Maingay from Maulmain at Madras, puts our
contemporaries in possession of intelligence from Burmah up to the
14th ultimo. The Resident was still at Amerapoora in the most
humiliating condition, and all applications made by Col. Benson
with reference to the unsettled and degraded state of our diploma-
tic intercourse with the Burmese Court were met with shuffling
and evasion. War seems to be inevitable, and as a shadow cast
before the coming strife her Majesty's 62d Regiment are under or-
ders for the field, and the whole of the Military departments at Ma-
dras are in a state of active preparation.

The Lord Hungerford arrived at Calcutta the
17th December, all well ; the Robert Small, ditto,
14th December.
Colonel Worseley, 28th N. 1., died on the 2d
December, at Meerut.

It has been thought necessary to organise a force
of five regiments of infantry, one of cavalry, a de-
tachment of artillery, and the whole Scindian con-
tingent, for the reduction of Jhansee, the fort of
which is garrisoned by 15,000 fighting men.—
Agra, Dec. 6.
The Rajah of Kolapoor died the 29th Nov.

George Hay Boyd, Esq. died at Ceylon on the
21st November. The Ceylon Papers also contain
a report of the death of Miss Wedderburn.
The whole of the Scinde force arrived at its
destination, and disembarked without the slightest
difficulty on the 23d, 27th, and 30th of November
and December 1. The camp is formed five miles
below Vikkur.

The remainder of the European Regiment, the
24th N. 1., 30th European Artillery, and a troop
of Golundauze, the whole under the command of
Col. Bagnold, have been dispatched from Bombay
to take possession of Aden.

Half the army of the Indus (from Bengal) is
remanded.

Major-General BROOKS is appointed a Brigadier
of the first class, to command at Mhow.

Major-General FEARON to command at Poonah.
Brigadier GIBBON to command at Deesah.

Ahmednuggar is abolished as a military corn-
mand.

Head Quarters, Camp, Ferozepore, 14th Dec., 1838.
1. The head-quarter camp will be struck on the morning of the
16th instant : and the head-quarters staff will march, according to
a route to be prepared by the Quarter Master General of the Army,
to Meerut.
2. The Commander--in-Chief intends to proceed on the same
morning, by boat, down the Sutlej and Gliarra to the Indus, and so
to Bombay.
3. The time has therefore arrived when his connection with the
Bengal army must cease; but he cannot allow it to be severed, with
first bidding the army farewell, and offering his best wishes for their
prosperity and happiness.
4. The support which he has received from the general officers
holding commands, and the generally excellent conduct of all ranks
in the army, European and Native, have for some time past ren-
dered his command a task of great ease; and he offers his best ac-
knowledgments and thanks to all, for this gratifying result.
5. He feels that he cannot adequately thank the general Staff of
the bead quarters •f the army, for the able and friendly assistance
which they have rendered to him on all occasions ; and he now takes
leave of them with regret, and with feelings of cordial esteem and
regard. _ _

By order of his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief,
J. E. LUMLEY, Major-General,
Adjutant-General of the Army.
His Highness RAGOJEE ANGRIA, of Colaba,
died 26th December. It was rumoured that a de•
putation of Government Officers had been sent tc
take possession of his territory, and to annex ii
permanently to the British dominions. H.M.S.
Cruizer was despatched to sea, on 28th De-
cember, with sealed orders, and so suddenly that
several of her officers were left on shore.

The Beloochees and Scindians are collecting in
large numbers to oppose our march, although there
is as yet no manifestation of an open opposition.
The Ameers are also fortifying Hydrabad.
The accounts from Sauwun Warree state that
disturbances had again broken out in that State : a
detachment of the 16th Regiment, under Captain
Duff, had been sent to suppress it.
The Carnatic, with Sir Jasper Nicholls on board,
arrived at Madras 20th Dec., and landed the fol-
lowing morning, under the usual salute.
The retirement of Sir H. PANE from the com-
mand of the army had been announced in general
orders.

DELHI, DEC. 4.—Sir Henry Pane, accompa-
nied by an A.D.C., Captain Hay and Dr. Wood,
were expected to go on board their boats at Fero-
zeepore, on the 15th, in progress to Bukeer, and pro-
ceed via Bombay to England. The Head
Quarter-staff would commence their march

from Ferozeepore under the senior officer,
General Torrens, for Meerut, on the 16th, via
Kurnaul, which place they will reach on the 2nd
January, and Meerut on the 9th. General Hon.
John Ramsay will act as Commander-in-Chief
till the arrival in India of the officer appointed
from home to succeed Sir H. Fane.
The following passengers proceed to Suez by
the Atalanta on the Ist January.—Mr. and Mrs. Stubbs and
family; Mrs. Onslow and five children ; Sir Herbert Compton ;
Miss Compton ; Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Malcolm ; Major George
Lee, of H. H. the Nizam's service; Dr. Smyttan ; Spencer Comp.
ton, Esq. ; Hon, P. Anstruther and Lady ; J. W. Whitehead,
Esq. ; Mr. W. Young ; Mr. Theophilus Heale, as Deck Passenger ;
Commander J. H. Rowband, I.N. as Do.; Robert Jump, Esq. ; Mr.
Paulo de la Girounere; Mr. Francis Van De Paul ; Mr. Van Den
Bosch; Don Mathies de Meer; Monsieur Barriot ; two European
Servants of the two last-mentioned gentlemen ; two Native Servants
of Mr. W. Stubbs ; one European and one Native Servant of Sir
Herbert Compton ; one European Servant of Rear Admiral Sir
Charles Malcolm ; one Native Do. of Spencer Compton, Esq.
Letters from the Camp of the Indus army state
that intelligence had been received by Government
from Cabool, to the effect that DOST MAHOMED
and his brothers had finally come to the reso-
lution of co-operating with the Indian Govern-
ment in effecting the restoration of Shah Shooja,
on condition of jagheers or pensions being guaran-
teed to them. This, it is alleged, is one of the
most probable of the reports lately circulated, as
the arrangement is one the Affghan chiefs are most
likely to come into.
The meeting between the Governor-General and
RUNJEE►T SINGH had taken place. Lord AUCK-
LAND arrived at Ferozepore on the 27th of
November, on which day RUNJEET SINGH
also made his appearance, and joined his
troops encamped on the opposite bank of the
river. A complimentary deputation was sent to
the MAHARAJAH, who received it most gra-
ciously, and desired his son, KURRUCK SINGH, to
to return the visit, and convey his " salaam" to
Lord AUCKLAND. RUNJEET SINGH waited on
the Governor-General on the 29th Nov., and Lord
Auckland returned the visit tin the following day,
and thus the tumasha ended. A grand review of
the whole force took place on the 3d of December.
Things appear to remainjn statu quo, in the
Burmese quarter, and no mention is made of the
Napaulese.
The Agra Ukhbar of Dec. 6, states that a dis-
turbance of rather a serious nature had broke out
at Jhansee. For the reduction of the Fort—occu-
pied, it is said, by 15,000 fighting men—it had been
thought necessary to organize a force of five regiments
of infantry, one of cavalry, a detachment of
artillery, and the entire Scindeah contingent. The
whole to be commanded by Sir T. ANBURY.
There were two opposite parties at Jhansee ; and
as Mr. FRASER, the Commissioner, had declared
in favoui of neither, they are united in determina-
tion to oppose us, under the impression that our
object is to annex the disputed territory to our own.
Singapore Papers of the Bth November intimate
that the Dutch and the Bugis are at loggerheads,
and the former have invaded the Bugis district
Bonarattee, destroyed the villages, and devastated
the country. The Dutch schooner Maria Frede.
rika had been captured by the pirates on the coas
of Borneo.

Advices from Bangkok to the 15th of Septem-
ber state that the Siamese were very busy making
preparations for war against the Quedah Malays.
The KING had been extremely vexed at the loss
of Quedah, and had vented his resentment in
extensive decapitations ; the late Governor of that
province is among the number of victims who have
suffered from his MAJESTY'S anger. Trade was
dull, munitions of war being the only saleable
articles.

Madrid Papers of the 4th inst. have reached us
this morning, but they merely bring reports of pro-
vincial contests at Municipal elections. The pro-
ceediugs against General CORDOVA and NAR-
VAEZ are understood to be dropped, greatly to the
annoyance of General ESPARTERO. The pro-
gramme of the New Premier was hourly expected.

Accounts received this morning from Spain,
dated Logrono, the 9th, state that 9,000 men, com-
manded by GUIBALDE and GA VIN, had assembled
at Ciremgur. MAROTO was marching with all the
troops under his command to Estella, where Don
CARLOS and his Court were expected on the 15th.
It is not yet known whether this division of the
army intends crossing the Ebro, and, if so, who is
to protect the passage of GUIBALDE'S troops. As
the roads are becoming practicable, it was expected
that a battle would shortly take place.

The Paris Journals of Monday have all been
received ; but to such as care nothing about the
electioneering pasquinades of rival candidates ; they
contain little news of any interest. The Constitu-
tionnel states that all correspondence from the elec-
toral departments announce the certain triumph of
the Opposition. The Courrier Francais has dis-
covered that we have abstained from celebrating
the French victories in Mexico out of sheer jealousy
at the success of France in rivalling us as a naval
Power. This is yet somewhat premature. The
following paragraphs include whatever there is in
the way of news in the French Journals :
The following are the latest accounts from the squadrons in the
Mediterranean :

" The English fleet is still at Malta, where it will paps the winter.
The Ottoman fleet has returned to the Arsenal at Constantinople.
The Egyptian fleet has returned to the Arsenal at Alexandria,
with the exception of some vessels which are stationed at Candia
and on the coast of Syria.
The French squadron under Rear-Adrairal Lalande has quitted
Ourtac ; and on the 17th of January the Hercule and Santi Petri
of the line, and the Bounainville brig, anchored in the road of
Smyrna.
• ' •

The Austrian division, under Commodore Bandieta, is cruising
about the coasts of the Archipelago, except the Montequeule brig,
which was at anchor in the road at Smyrna.
TOULON, FEB. S.—Detachments of troops, destined for Africa,
arrive here every day. The Agathe corvette is to sail to-morrow
with 450 to Bona, and will bring back a battalion of the 12th of the
line. The Diacleme, of the line, will sail on the 10th, with 1,000
men for Algiers, and will bring back to France an equal number.
The Accounts from the Levant, brought by the Minos, are not
interesting.—Le Commerce.
It is not only the Prefects who are summoned to Paris. A
multitude of Sub-Prefects are sent for to receive electoral Firrnans.
It is not only the Ministerial Journals of Paris that are thrown
away with profusion even in the public roads; an extraordinary
use is made of all the Journals of the Department which repay in
columns the subsidies which they receive. They are regularly
forwarded to the electors, under cover of the Prefects. This is
considered as a public service.
What enormous expences. The cost of this general election is
estimated at two millions. It will be paying rather dear for the fall
of a Ministry long since condemned, but in its incredible infatuation
it flatters itself with obtaining a Chamber which shall pass a sponge
over such enormities, and augment the secret funds to pay for secret
manoeuvres.—Le Constitutionel.
In the year 1831 the number of births at Vienna was 16,295 (645
more than in 1837) ; the number of deaths 14,399 (1,241 fewer
than in 1837); marriages 3,337 (124 fewer than in
1837). According to the last census the population of Vienna,
amounting to 334,500, not including strangers, who make but