The Sun.
London, England, 1837-03-31 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar arrived at the Queen's
house, St. James's, on Wednesday afternoon, accompanied
by the Rev. Mr. Wood, from Windsor Castle. His Se-
rene Highness dined with Earl Howe at his residence in
South Audley-street, and afterwards was present at the
performances at Drury-lane Theatre. Yesterday morning
this Prince visited the Princess Augusta, at her residence
in St. James's Palace, and in the afternoon left town, ac-
companied by the Rev. Mr. Wood, on his return to Wind-
sor Castle.

Colonel Colebrooke (Governor of Antigua) had an inter-
view with Lord Gleneig yesterday at, the Colonial-office.
Sir Charles Grey transacted business yesterday at the
Colonial-office.

Dispatches from Sir Howard Douglas, Lord High Com-
otislioner of the lonian Islands, were received yesterday at
the Colonial-office.

Reshid Bey, the Turkish Ambassador, will give four grand-
entertainments, at his residence in the Regent's-park, in
honour of the birth-day of the Grand Seignior, to the Ciibir
net Ministers, the Corps Diplomatique, the Lord MayOr,
and the leading Citizens and Merchants of London, on the
3d, the 10th, the 17th, and the 24th of next month (April).

Lou and Lady Oranmore and Lord and Lady Dil-
lon, and their respective families, were expected to arrive at
Falmouth yesterday, in the Volcano steam, packet, from Gi-
braltar and Lisbon, in which city they resided during the winter-

Lord and Lady Robert Grosvenor have arrived at
Leamington Spa, from the Marquis of Westminster's scat,
Eaton Hall, Cheshire.

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The Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn and
family arrived in Carlton-terrace yesterday evening from a visit
to the Duke and Duchess of Bedford, at Woburn Xbbay, vvhcro
his Lordship hunted with the Marquis of Tavistock's hounds.

Lord NV hartichife arrived yesterday in Curzon-street
from Windsor Castle, where his Lordship paid his respects to
their Majesties.
Prince Esterhazy's friends affirm that no negotiations
have been set on foot for an alliance between the heir apparent
Prince Nicholas, and the youthful Mademoiselle de Peri-
gord, great niece to Prince Talleyrand, who was said some'
tithe since to be about to proceed to Germany to settle tha
preliminaries of the union, which the venerable diplomatist
wished to see accomplished.
The Duchess of Northumberland visits her illustri-
ous eleve, the Princess Victoria, almost daily at the Palace et
Kensington, returning to Northumberland House at five p.m-
Although her Grace will, as a matter of course, relinquish her
post of governess to the heiress presumptive in two inonths,
yet it is probable that the Duchess will accept an appointment
in the Princess's future establishment.

The Earl of Aberdeen was invited to meet his step-
son, the Marquis of Ahercorn, at Woburn, but Viscount Mel-
bourne, Mr. Spring Rice, and other Members of the Adminis-
tration having arrived at the Abbey, his Lordship did not go
there, but changed his route, and set off to join the Noble part!
assembled at Strathficldsaye.
Prince and Princess Polignac embarked for Ant;
werp yesterday, on their way to Germany. The proceeds 61
the sale of the effects of the Princess at Ham are said to bava
been given to the poor of the town.
The Right Hon. Sir Charles Vaughan, envoy to the
Ottoman Porte, was expected to arrive at Toulon on the 24t11-
,inst., and embark on the following day on board the Beresfeed,
• direct for Constantinople.
• The Earl and Countess of Dundonald, and the
younger branches of their family, intend to sojourn some time
in Paris, where her ladyship is superintending the ecitteatios
of her danghters the youthful Ladies Cochrane.
Baron Wedel Jarlsburg has been appointed seer')."
tary to the Swedish embassy, vice Baron Rehausen, who bas
returned to Stockholm.
Mr. T. Adams's grand ball, under the patronage of
the Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria, takes place on
Thursday twit, at the King's Concert Rooms, Hanover-squarc'
The Duchess of St. Alban's was enabled to take
the air yesterday, in a carriage- and-four, to Highgate.
The magnificent edifice now building for the Dui('
of Sutherland, in Staffordshire, will be one of the must sPil-
cious in Europe.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Anglesey and the
Ladies Paget intend leaving Paris on Thursday next for 1.1"
bridge House.
The Marquis of Lansdowne left town yesterday af-
ternoon for his residence at Richmond.
The Earl and Countess of Winehilsea are entertains
ing a distinguished circle of noble friends at their beautife
seat, Eastwell Park, Kent. 1 or n
The Earl of Burlington entertained the Counci„i,
the London University a few days since at his mansion in mic,
grave-square. The Cllancellor of the Exchequer was of t
party.
The Duchess-Countess of Sutherland entertained B'
family group last evening in Hamilton-place.
The Earl and Countess of Uxbridge arrived in ru-
ton street, Berkeley-square, on Monday last.
The Earl and Countess of Jersey were expectealtsrc.
evening at their residence in Berkeley-square, from Wilautis-x,
The Countess of Sefton and the Ladies MelYne.o at
who were stated to have left town for the recess, are stleno
their mansion in Arlington-street, and have not, in consecle,..
of the unfavourable weather, visited their country resideno
Lord Se crave and the Hon. Craven Berkeley ha at
arrived at the German Cottage, Cheltenham, to be present

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Count Servey and M. Marchesse arrived at for
vart's Hotel late last evening with important despatches;'-
the French Embassy.
The Hon. Stephen Lushington, his Lady,.,and,lvfro
Lushington arrived yesterday afternoon at Mivart's note-,
their scat, Norton Court, near Feversham.
Sir John Hobhouse, Bart., gave an eleoant dinner °
yesterday at his house in Berkeley-square.
Biwrit.—ln Mountjoy Square, Dublin, the 134 °f
Captain George M. King, RN of a son.
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Robert Bruce, Esq., of Kennet, has been aPe age
Vice Lieutenant of Clackmannanshire, in the room of vr.e.:
Baron Abercromby, now Lord-Lieutenant of Stirlingsl3,%;,
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Sir Brook Bridges, Bart., of Goodnestone roil dy
near Canterbury, has accepted the invitation of a large y at
of the Sandwich and Deal Conservatives to offer hirilee
the next election as the colleague of Mr. Grove Price. fesi
Mr. Stuart Mackenzie will leave town in ii: bind
days for the purpose of assuming the government a the 0
of Ceylon.

MONUMENT TO MUIR, &c.

A Public Meeting was held on Monday in tile. Waterloo
Itooms, Edinburgh, Baillie Millar in the Chair, to take
rneoures for erecting a monument to Messrs. Muir, Pal-
/near, Gerrald, Skirving, &c. Among the gentlemen present
At the meeting we observed—Bailie Millar, Bailie Taylor,
of Leith, Couucillors Howden, Russell, Stodart, Falkner,
Meudell, and Deuchar, Adam Black, Esq., William Tait,
Esq., John Johnstone, Esq., J. H. Burton, Esq., Dr.
Browne, Ralph Richardson, Esq,, William Moffat, Esq.,
William Muir, Esq., Leith, Thomas Muir Moffat, DI-,
Robert Phillip, Esq., Leith, Peter Campbell, Esq., James
Anderson, Esq., Alex. Watson, Esq., T. Hay, E,;(1., &c.
- The CHAIRMAN rose and returned thanks to the Meet-
4g. for the honour S'aey had done him in calling him to pre-
side. He was grati.fied to find that the citizens had at length
• met en an occasion of so much importance, and he only re-
gretted that had a century had been suffered to elapse be-
fore the coSentry came forward to state their feelings with
regard to ie;, When they looked back upon the years 1793
and 17P.et, and recollected that Muir, Palmer, Margarot,
`ic.rr.ald, and Skirving, had been made political sacrifices,
and for doing nothing but what all present felt proud and
41aPpy to have done, in struggling for the re-generation of
the country for a number of years past.—(Cheers.) When
they recollected all this, they could not but be happy that
the band of reformers in the sister kingdom had at length
been roused from their lethargic sleep, and had resolved to
bring before the notice of the whole kingdom the idea of a
Monument to perpetuate the memories of those great men
who had suffered and died in the service of their country.
lie was happy to think that they could meet in an open
'manner, and express their sentiments fearlessly, without the
risk of being carried from their families and firesides in the
middle of the night, to gratify the caprice and tyranny of
the party who then ruled with a rod of iron the destinies of
this country. We lived now in other days, and were proud
of a public prosecutor, who looked with mercy on cases
seven of crime, and who would never attempt to make crime
'where there was none.—(Grect cheering.) We had now
on the Bench a number of excellent Judges, one of whom
had pled the cause of the unfortunate, though he was sorry
?to say unsuccessfully. These days were now passed, and
he hoped the time would never again come when the so-
phistry or misdirection of the Judge would ever perplex the
Jury. He concluded by saying, that he hoped this Meet-
ing would only be one of many held in Scotland, to hand
down to posterity the memories of the patriotic heroes of
1793 and 94.—(Loud cheers.)
Dr. BROWNE was received with loud cheers. He said
that having been delegated to submit to the meeting the
basis on which they ought to judge of the reticulated
syatem of judicial iniquity, of which these men were the
victims, in justice to the memory of the illustrious dead,
as well as in justice to the cause in which they were all
engaged, he felt it necessary to trespass on their patience
at more than usual length. This cause had nothing but
its merits to recommend it. It was one from which the
timid shrunk with apprehension, and the time-serving
shunned as they would a viper—it was one which those
whose conduct was regulated by the safe maxim of worldly
Predystice, rather than by the principles of justice, or the
gen'erous impulses of humanity, would forget to attend
te, countenance ; and like the Priest and the Levite, they
'would pass by on the other side.—(Cheers.) These re-
!spouses told him that the hearts of those present were cast
In another mould—that they were not congealed by the
frosty spirit of worldly prudence to stand aloof from the
cause of truth and justice, because the names of the
aristocracy were not here to grace their assembly. They
Were engaged in the sacred, and he might almost call it
the holy duty of rescuing from the infamy of a judicial
sentence, the memories o men who had the forlorn hope
in the cause of liberty.—(Cheers.) One of those martyrs
exclaimed, after that sentence which doomed him to an
exile from which he was never to return—" My Lords, the
proceedings of these last two days will be re-judged ; that
Is all my comfort and my hope." Now, to these patriots
the meeting stood in the relation of posterity ; and it was
the high prerogative and attribute of posterity to act as a
court of review, calmly to re-judge those offences and crimes
which had been committed in past times under the influence
of temporary frenzy or temporary wickedness. They held
a portion of that appellate jurisdiction to which Judges as
well as Kings, and every.other human being were respon-
sible.; and now that the passion of the times had ceased,
and the temporary frenzy had passed away, it was for
them to say whether or not these men were—as he
trusted he should be able to prove they were, ju-
dicially sacrificed.—(Loud cheering.) He wished to call
their attention to the real question at issue, stripped of
every consideration of the hardships attending the sentence,
and of every other circumstance except this, what was the
crime of which these men were guilty, or were they guilty
of say crime at all ? Did they pursue a legal object by
legal means, or was their object legal, but pursued by illegal
breams, or were neither their object nor the means taken to
reach that object legal ? Now, he would undertake to
show that the objects they pursued were legal, and that
the means by which they attempted to carry that object
lirt re also legal—that was, that there existed at the time
00 law declaring them illegal—that the law by which
they were sacrificed was a judge-made law—made for
the occasion ; that the Jury by which they were tried
and convicted was a packed Jury, if ever a packed Jury
existed in Scotland ;—(Loud cheers)—and that their
Punishment was as direct and flagrant a violation of law
as ever was recorded in the annals of tyranny in this or
any other country. Before entering into this, the Learned
boctor referred, in terms of condemnation, to the position
'!aid down by Paley, that it were better to punish ten
innocent persons, than to let one guilty person escape.
In returning to the subject, he said, that it was said by
some that these men meant well, but that they acted with-
c'ut prudence—that they asked for what was unattainable ;
and it was added, that they even contended for annual Parlia-
ments and universal suffrage. Now, he was not there to ad-
l'ocate any political opiiiions,but he must say that he could not
conceive of greater enormities than these ; and lie thought
he could see signs in heaven and earth which seemed to in-
dicate that the time was not far distant when the means
which had lately been used to swamp the constituencies
hwould render indispensable an extension of the franchise.—
areat cheering.) But this was not the question. If they
;t committeira crime in this, who were their associates ?
bY, the Duke of Richmond was one, and a certain per-
;on called William Pitt was the other. In a pamphlet pub-
ithed by a Society of which these personages were members,
,„ was asserted that the right of annual election, and of uni-
PTsIII suffrage, were so clear that no sophistry could hide
im- But a change came o'er the spirit of their dream ;
at was a Reformer before he was a Minister, and like
be did
who said, when he swore he would die a bachelor,
did not think he would live till he was married ; so he,
"en he was a Reformer, did not think he would live to be
Alinister—(Laughter)—be became the persecutor of, and
associates
over to the tender mercies of Lord Braxfield, the
the of his ottrly career. Mr. Muir was a man of
int' Purest and deepest sentiments of piety, of the most un-
ahreuehable integrity, and who attempted to carry, by peace-
ttr4 means, that very Reform which has now become part
1;. Parcel of the law of the land—he was charged with
alreulating seditious books, and with making seditious
ette,ee,l'es—he supposed he was making a very seditious
had just now.—( Laughter.) One charge was, that he
th 4, circulated Paine's Rights of Man. Now he was not
ere
thin defend that book—( Hear, hear)—there were many
0t143 in
it
of
which he highly disapproved, but there were
but by ilings which, if they had been said not by Paine,
itself.--tbel) 'll.mself, were nevertheless as true as truth
n
eonde keheering and laughter.) After some remarks
aaill2natory of his infidel sentiments, which, however, he
the , were put down rather by Watson's Apology than by
the .'l','efilcios of the English Attorney-General, he ridiculed
uea
Thant i of a man being held responsible for every senti-
n
the ease any book which he might recommend, and instanced
of. ititof Gibbon's Decline and Fall, which few persons
nex, elligance had not
read, and fewer still assented to. The
I,.pe: Point against Muir was, that he had made seditious
tioe ehes. It was put to any man what constituted a sedi-
awe: speech, he suspected he would be much puzzled to an-
Inseth'fbeY might take the definition as given by the Rhada-
volei,,oB of the bench at that time—that it was a speech in-.g
sedition? But then came the question, what
aectsisteiodnitifn ? Till these men were brought to' trial,
n„
Pr nos
.always understood, in this country, to mean
Th:9se:iceeding accompanied by an attempt to excite
and commotion —(Loud cries of " Hear, hear.")
idea.dres,o of calling seditious any political argument ad-
tse the understandings of the people, was an enor-
niu! h was reserved for the fertile and inventive ge-
-3 13t- those judges who had resolved to pervert the law in
order to
drew
at stop the course of Parliamentary Reform. He then
judge ten icon to a contradiction in the addresses of the
case hen tbe cases of Muir and Skirving, where in the one
in SootlsaPn?lk oafnsde,dition as being the same in England and
6eotl d in the other, he spoke of sedition in
svh,taitnaras being a very different crime in Scotland from
as in England. The reason was plain—in Eng-
ils4nedatil:Y had no such crime as sedition in the abstract.
sedition referred to the chapter of Baron Hume's work on
.44 , and which he characterised as nothing more than
oiaoorate defence of the disgraceful proceedings of this
Period. condo Then with respect to the other victims, they were
de'erneed for being members of a convention which was
eaeeZid to be illegal. Now if there was any part of the
th aoKer than another, it was this. So satisfied were
e
ConedG
oivernment that their precedents were not sane-
arid 'Y existing laws, that, between that period
ie. "99 the
ae such Y passed no fewer than three acts, mak-
Ininey
of assemblies illegal. Such was the predo-
4colored the Reign of Terror at time, that Mr. Skirting
" well l'at a respectable agent stated to him, he might
surrender
utter to a_,
.at once all interest in his profession as
take up his case. Even Mr. Gillics and Malcolm

Laing, though second to few men in political courage, durst
not come forward to defend them till they had the autho-
rity of the Court for doing so. Nay, more, the judge him-
self, as was offered to be proved to his teeth, had prejudged
their case at the table of Mr. Rochead of Inverleith, stat-
ing that they would get fourteen years transportation, and
a public whipping, when a lady, God bless her for her in-
terposition—it is one proof that, when charity is chased
from the iron heart of man, it still finds a resting place in
the kind and generous breast of woman—a lady said, you
dare not do it, Sir, the very stones in the street would rise
up against 3 ou.—(Loud cheers.) But this wvs not all ;
the very man at whose house this conversation took place,

was one of the petty jurymen appointed to try them ; and,
as if that still was not enough, the meeting might know
that there was an association in Goldsmith's-hall, consti-
tuted, as they said, for the defence of the Constitution, and
who were familiarly known by the name of the life and for-
tuae men. Mr. Muir and his friends, who wished to im-
p.-ove the Constitution, but certainly not to destroy it, went
and subscribed their names on the roll of the Association.
But the other members, by a public and solemn act,
expunged their names, thus prejudging their opinions
ani pointing them out as the enemies of the Constitution ;
and vet these were the very men selected as jurymen to
try them. The judicial immolation was thus consummated,
but did these brave men despair ? Did Muir, the favoured
son of wealthy parents—the member of a liberal profession
—a man of cultivated mind—of pure and upright heart—
did lie sink under that terrible sentence, which to him had
a form more appalling than death itself? The guillotine
would have been mercy itself, compared with the sentence
he was forced to undergo, to a man of cultivated taste like
Muir, or to Gerrald, whose eloquence appalled even a pro-
fligate judge, who attempted, by a cruel refinement of ini-
quity, to turn even that against him by declaring, that
that man had eloquence enough to make the people rise in
arms—did they despair when they were fettered in the
hulks along with the vilest of criminals—with that mass of
pollution which society must cast off for its own preserva-
tion—did they despair then ? No ; firmly and fearlessly
they predicted that the time of deliverance would come.—
(Loud cheers.) At the conclusion of his trial, Muir said,
my mind tells me that I have acted agreeably to my con-
science, and that I have engaged in a good, and a just, and
a glorious cause, which soon or late will prevail, and by a
timely reform, save this country from destruction. Gerrald
held the same language. From the great, and pious, and
intelligent Skirving said, his hope and comfort was, that
the circumstances of his case would be rejudged, and the
purity of his motives recognised. Now the question came
again, were these men rightly connected or were they not ?
There was evidence enough, he thought, in the face of these
records, to prove that even in this country, the history of
which had been too often darkened and dishonoured by the
prostitution of law to the purposes of tyranny, there was no
blacker or fouler spot than the conviction of these men.—
(Loud cheers.) Such being the feelings of the meeting, as
they were his, the next question was, what was their duty ?
They would surely join with the London Committee in
raising a testimonial to show that the memory of these brave
men had been peaceably avenged. Edinburgh had been
called the city of palaces ; but it was also the city of. monu-
ments—of Tory monuments ;—look along George-street
and what did they sec—vice marching between tyranny and
oppression—George IV., between Henry Dundas and the
immaculate William Pitt. 'Was it not fitting and right,
that a monument to these men should be erected on that
glorious hill, where there was already one monument to a
man of science, another to a philosopher, and another to
our own immortal Burns, himself a political martyr—was it
not right and fitting that to the patriot, the philosopher,
and the poet, the cenotaph should rise, and on that hill
salute the glorious morn together.—(Loud cheers.) After
some farther observations, the Learned Doctor concluded
by moving the two first resolutions, which were seconded
by Mr. Philip of Leith.

The third resolution was moved by Mr. Burton, advo-
cate, and seconded by Mr. Smith.
Councillor HOWDEN, in moving the fourth resolution,
said, he had been summoned to the trial of Skirving, but
was rejected by the judge, who selected the jury on that
occasion ; and he always looked back on that period with
more complacency than he was able to express, that in
those days of darkness he was held unworthy, incompetent
or incapable, to do the work of such a worthless crew.
Mr. BLACK seconded the motion.

Mr. THOMAS Musa MOFFAT, in moving the fifth reso-
lution, stated- that although he expected a greater number
of the Edinburgh Whigs would have turned out, yet he
rejoiced to see so respectable a meeting assembled to do
justice to the memories of the illustrious martyrs of 1793.
He certainly did not expect the attendance of those " Jim
Crows" who " wheeled about and turned about and did
jis so." These gentry would have mustered and blown
their trumpets loud enough had there been any loaves and
fishes, or commissionerships, or sheriff-ships, or any sort
of ships to distribute ; they could then have sailed in the
same boat. But what was the cause they had met for?
It was not the cause of faction or of party, or of any indi-
vidual. It was the cause of every Reformer—of him who
thought that we should move at the speed of the Man-
chester Railway, or that of the " Long Coach" of the days
of old. The question for the meeting to consider and to
sanction was whether these martyrs were justly or unjustly
condemned. On this point he perilled his position in a
dispassionate and calm review of these unprecedented and
atrocious proceedings, which had no parallel except in the
time of Charles 11. in Scotland, and in the days of the
Star Chamber in England.—(Cheers.) He agreed with his
friend Mr. Burton, that the present Judges of the Court
of Session were upright and venerable, and to be implicitly
-relied on in all questions involving civil rights. He was,
however, jealous of all Judges or servants of the Crown in
political offences, especially of Tory Judges ; for the meet-
ing could not but recollect of having witnessed the un-
seemly spectacle of the President of the one Court re-
viewing a judgment in the morning, and troops in the even-
ing; and the President of the other, leaving the Bench, and
posting with breathless haste to vote at political elections ;
to say nothing at all of other Tory Judges being con-
cerned in the manufActure of votes with the view of
swamping the bona Ale constituency of the Reform Bill.
—(Hear, hear, and applause.) He therefore counselled
all those who were amenable to serve as Jurors, to
look into their rights and privileges as such, and to
stand unflinchingly by them ; not to complain by letter in
the newspapers, but to stand up and remonstrate in the
Jury box, when they conceived their verdict to be impro-
perly reflected on. The monument to the political martyrs
would be the only monument to liberty in Scotland that he
knew of. He hoped that all present would live to see it
erected on the Calton Hill, there to remain as a perpetual
beacon to, and a warning-to Judges and Juries to avoid the
iniquitous course adopted in 1793 and 1794.—(Cheers.)
Mr. TAIT, in moving the sixth resolution, stated that the
only one of the martyrs who returned from exile was
Margarot. He had been told within these few days by a
magistrate of Glasgow, that on his return home, three gen-
tlemen of Glasgow, either sympathising in his sufferings, or
anxious to hear about Botany Bay, invited him to dinner.
No sooner was this known, than warrants were issued by
the authorities for their apprehension, and one of the three
gentlemen was actually apprehended and imprisoned two
hours, till it was discovered that to invite a man to din-
ner who had suffered the punishment of the law was no
crime.---( Hear, hear.)
Councillor FALKNER scconded'the motion.

After the resolutions prepared by the Committee were
all proposed and carried, Mr. PETER, CAMPBELL, S.S.C.,
rose and moved the following additional resolution, which
being seconded by DAVID REDPATH, Esq., was carried
unanimously :
" That the thanks of this meeting are especially due to
the few original survivors of those individuals who first took
a conspicuous part in associating and avowing their senti-
ments in favour of Parliamentary Reform in 179'2-3 ; par-
ticularly to Mr. William Moffat, of Edinburgh, who acted
as one of the secretaries to the first Association at Edin-
burgh for Parliamentary Reform, during that period, and
afterwards as the friend and agent of Messrs. Muir and
Palmer, on their trials, in 1793 ; and was soon thereafter
compelled to expatriate himself and family for several years
from Scotland, to avoid the fate of the other political mar-
tyrs, and who otherwise suffered for his zealous and con-
sistent attachment to the cause of Reform."
Thanks having been voted to the Chairman, the meeting
broke up.

There is now, we believe, little doubt but that Mr.
Peter Greenall, of St. Helen's, will become a candidate for the
representation of the borough of Wigan, on the Conservative
interest.—Preston Chronicle.

1837.—The following is the House List of Gover-
nors and Directors of the Bank of England for the year en-
suing, viz. :

FOR GOVERNORS.
Timothy Abraham Curtis, Sir John Rae Reid, Bart.,
I
Esq., Governor. Deputy Governor.
FOR DIRECTORS.
Robt. Barclay, Esq. James Morris, Esq.
John Bowden, Esq. Sheffield Neave, Esq.
Wm Cotton, Esq. John Horsley Palmer, Esq.
Bonamy Dobree, Esq. James Pattison, Esq.
Chas. Pascoe Greenfell, Esq. Christopher Pcarse, Esq.
Abel Lewes Gower, Esq. John Henry Pelley, Esq.
John Oliver Hanson, Esq. Henry James Prescott, Esq.
John Benjamin Heath, Esq. Charles Pole, Esq.
James Maleolmson, Esq. Henry Porcher, Esq.
Wm. Mellish, Esq. Wm. R. Robinson, Esq.
Humphrey St. John Mildmay, Wm. Thompson, Esq., and
Esq. Alderman.
Rowland Mitchell, Esq. Thomas Warre, Esq.
The election for Governor and Deputy Governor will be held
at the Bank on Tuesday, the 4th, and for Directors on Wed-
nesday, the sth, of April next, from ten o'clock in the fore-
noon till four in the afternoon.

Tllli SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1837.

civil and religious liberty, that it required no argument
from him to induce them to accede to his proposition. It
needed only to be suggested in order that very numerously
signed petitions should pour in from all parts of the country
on the subject.
Mr. REDMOND seconded the resolution, and it was car-
ried by acclamation.
THE PRINCESS VICTORIA, AND TNF. IRISH PEOPLE.

Mr. O'CoNNELL said, I will now move another Reso-
lution of which I had given notice relating to the Heiress
to the Crown.—(Tremendous cheering, which lastod far
several minutes.) I make this motion as well in respect
to her as a tribute to her illustrious mother.—(Cheers.)
It is well known that the Princess will attain the legal
age for governing in a very short period ; so that if
any accidnt should happen to the reigning Monarch,
she would immediately become Queen of these realms,
free from the controul of a regent or protector. This,
then, is the period when we, as a people, attached to
the monarchy as a protection against anarchy, should
pay some marked compliment to the successor to it.
Many had attempted to prejudice her young mind against
the people of this country, and many will continue to
do so. I am not afraid of their attempts. Her father
was a steady friend to Ireland, and to several individual
Irishmen. They obtained his confidence, and they en-
joyed his friendship. He was also over the past friend and
steady supporter of the principles of civil and religious li-
berty.—(Cheers.) His daughter has been exceedingly
well educated under the directions of his illustrious spouse,
and her mind has already been proof against all Tory false-
hood or artifice.—(Loud cheers.) Much praise is ydue to
the Duchess of Kent for the style in which she has had the
Princess educated. Notwithstanding that vile report, that
had its origin with an obscure country print in England, was
endeavoured to be used to the discredit of the Duchess by
the Tory journals ; yet it may be safely asserted that she
has escaped all censure, and that the use made of this re-
port merely shews how anxious that party is to have an op-
portunity to blame her even upon the slightest ground.--
(Cheers.) The Princess Victoria will be of age, I believe,
in May ; and it would be becoming of them, as Irishmen,
to draw up an Address declaratory of their allegiance and
fidelity to her and her family, and five or ten persons se.
lceted from each part of the country, should be appointed
to present it to her Royal Highness. This Address
should be most numerously signed. -If I should have
the honour of being appointed one of the persons to
present the Address, I would wish it to be one that
the five or ten. delegates would not be able to
carry.--(Loud cheers.) It was denied by the Orangemen
that they had any intention of affecting the suctession to the
throne. I know that many of them had no such intention,
and that many of them could not be induced to join in a
plot for such a purpose ; but I also know, and I here openly
declare it, that a very considerable number of them had in
view the preventing the rightful heiress from getting the
throne, and placing a Don Carlos in her stead.—( Hear,
hear.) I had possession of the papers, and I know that
from them such an intention was obvious. There was also
a great deal of private information given, and this went far
beyond the printed documents. From every circumstance
that has come to my knOwledge I have not the slightest he-
sitation to declare, that there does not rest on my mind the
slightest doubt that the intention of the majority of the
Orangemen was to place the Duke of Cumberland on the
throne.—( Hear, hear.) I move, Sir, that an address from
the people of Ireland to the Princess Victoria, on the occa-
sion of her coming of age, be prepared, and that a deputa-
tion be appointed for the purpose of presenting it to her.
Mr. FINN, M.P.----There is one thing with regard to the
Princess Victoria and the Orange Society, which seems to
me to have escaped public attention. I had the curiosity
to examine the papers of the different Orange Lodges, and
I found that in the list of toasts, the health of the Princess
Victoria was studiously omitted, while that of the Duke of
Cumberland was invartably placed at the head of them.—
( Hear, hear.) Was there nothing in the introduction of
Orange Lodges into the army, a fact of which the Grand
Masters, the Grand Secretaries, and the Grand Duke—
( Laughter)—seemed so perfectly ignorant ? It is a singu-
lar fact that when the Duke of Cumberland heard for the
first time that there were such things in the army, he was
perfectly horrified, and called for the names of the regiments,
in order that the warrants might be withdrawn. I ask
whether they were in good faith withdrawn ? I know many
good and honourable men who were glad of the pretext for
withdrawing themselves from the Society ; but this was far
from being generally acted upon. I can give the names of
regiments in which lodges are still held ; and I can prove
the existence of lodges even in Dublin.—(Hear, hear.)
A time will, however, come for that.—(Cheers.) In the
North of Ireland the existence of lodges is openly -a&
mitted, and I myself have seen receipts belonging to them,
dated in the February of the present year.—( Hear, hear.)
I have the honour, Sir, of seconding the resolution.
The question was then put from the Chair, and carried
amid the enthusiastic acclamations of the meeting.
The meeting then adjourned.
Mr. O'Connell is to attend a meeting of the Trades'
Union to-morrow, when he is expected to address them on
very important topics.

DUBLIN, MARCH 29.

GENERAL ASSOCIATION.—This body held its usual
weekly meeting yesterday. After some correspondence had
been read, and several new members admitted, Mr. Barret
addressed himself to the correction of an erroneous impres-
sion entertained by Dr. Wade. The former gentleman
explained, that in using the phrase " rascally Radicals," he
did not mean to designate the great body of the Radicals,
but that his expression applied only to specific individuals
for a specific mischief. Mr. Barret drew a distinction be-
tween the practical Radicals and that section of Radicals
who seem so enamoured of their abstract principle, that
they advocate it as if only with the view that it should not
be carried into effect.

Mr. O'CONNELL here rose and remarking on Dr. Wade's
complaint, that the Rev. Gentleman was entirely in error,
said, " My friend, Dr. Wade, and I am proud to call him
my friend, has ever proved himself the uncompromising
friend of every measure connected with national freedom.—
(Cheers.) That gentleman has been frequently attacked
by the base and corrupt press of England for his exertions
in the cause of liberalty. That fact was, perhaps, the best
test of the excellence of his principles, and the boldness with
which he undeviatingly performed his duty in the great cause
of the people. In order the more effectually to disabuse the
mind of this excellent gentleman, as to the mistake he has so
causelessly fallen into, of any disrespect having been ever
intended towards him or any of the honest Radicals of his
country, I mean to move that his letter be inserted in the
Minutes of the Association, and that a letter on the subject
be written to him. My friend, Dr. Wade, takes it into his
head to suppose that he and the rest of the honest Radicals
of England have been insulted in this Association ; but by
the proceedings of this day he would be informed that when
Mr. Barrett used the terms " rascally Radicals" he did not
speak of the English Radicals generally ; he did not mean
the Radicals of the South ; he did not allude to the Radi-
cals of York, of Bath, of Sheffield, of Birmingham. No ;
he merely applied the term to those who called themselves
Radicals in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. And here I would put
it to Dr. Wade to inform us as to what service was per-
formed to the cause of freedom by these Radicals of New-
castle ?"

The Learned Gentleman's motion was seconded by Mr.
Barret, and being put from the Chair, was carried unani-
mously.
PACIFICATORS.-After some further proceedings Mr.
'O'Connell again spoke, saying—l rise, Sir, to bring for-
ward my motion with respect to the Pacificators of Ireland,
the nature of which is that monthly reports should be got
from every pacificator in Ireland.—(Hear.) Although in
the instructions first given the pacificators by the eleventh
resolution in these instructions, that they should report
every fact to the Association, yet no definitive period was
fixed for so doing, and in order to remedy this defect I
bring forward my present motion. The resolution to which
I allude is as follows. Mr. O'Connell then read the follow-
ing:—" That it will be the sacred and most indispensable
duty of such pacificators to discountenance, detect, and
denounce all secret or exclusive societies, clubs, lodges,
meetings, combinations, or associations whatsoever, and to
expose to the people the folly and the guilt of all such so-
cieties, and to report to this Association every fact that
can be collected respecting any such society, in order
that they may be totally extinguished and put an end to."
The Hon. and Learned Gentleman dwelt at considera-
ble length on this and some kindred topics. He then pro-
posed " An Address to the Princess Victoria." I rise
now, Sir," said Mr. O'Connell, " to move a resolution that
relates to the illustrious heiress of the British throne.—
(Loud cheers.) With respect to her illustrious mother, she
was entitled to the everlasting gratitude and affection of
the people of Ireland.—(Cheers.) It is well known that
in the present year the Princess Victoria will attain the
legal age for governing ; and that if any accident happen to
the reigning- Sovereign, she will ascend to the British
throne, and govern these great realms,. without the aid of a
regency.—(Loud cheers.) It is, therefore, a period that
the people of Ireland attached as they are to Monarchy,
as the only safeguard to rational liberty, ought to approach
the throne with sentiments of respect and affection to the
illustrious heiress.---(Cheers.) Sir, I am not afraid, not.
withstanding the pains which have been taken to prejudice
her young mind against the people of Ireland, that
she will act up to the advice or insinuations thus thrown
out.—(Clieers.) Her father was the steady friend of li-
berty and Ireland, and many Irishmen had the honour of
possessing his confidence and esteem.--(Cheers.) For
the rights of this country, as well as liberty of conscience
generally, he was always a decided advocate, and so I augur
will his illustrious daughter prove herself to be, more parti-
cularly when set so good an example by the conduct of the
Duchess of Kent. An attack was lately made in an obscure
English provincial journal, against this illustrious Princess

and her daughter. That, though it effected no other ob-
ject, showed the malevolence which actuated the faction
in 'traducing the intentions of. this distinguished lady, and
the heiress apparent to the throne. The Princess will
attain her majority on the 18th of. May next, and I think
it is absolutely necessary that an address should be pre-
sented from the people of Ireland, expressive of their alle-
giance and attachment on this occasion. I would also
propose that a number of gentlemen, say five, six, eight,
or ten, should present it. I expect that the address on
this occasion will be numerously signed, so much so that
hope who may be honoured with its presentation may
not be able to carry it into her presence'.—(Cheers and
laughter.) I know well there arc those who would wish
to place another illustrious individual on the throne—a
most amiable' and accomplished prince—(laughter)—in fine,
a second Don Carlos. There can be no doubt whatever
apon this subject, for the documents which were elicited
In the examination before the Committee on Orange
Lodges proved it beyond the possibility of a doubt. Sir,
we izave been the means of defeating that •conspiracy, and
I must: say there is now no real danger.
Mr. ZtrlN spoke with great force on the subject of the
motion, which was put, and unanimously carried in the
affirmative. ‘-

CHINA .

The meeting s:iortly afterwards adjourned.

SPAIN.

The Spanish Consul at Bayonne has sent to the Spanish
Minister at London the following official communication,
dated 25th March, at nine o'clock in the morning --
" I have received letters from Pampeluna and the fron-
tiers. of Navarre, informing me that General Iribarren kept
the loiitions of Larrainear, and was occupying that vil-
lage, as well as these of Lans, Lizazo, and Olague, where
he intended remaining 'until the weather would allow him
to continue his operations, in combination with General
Evans. He had beaten the Carlists on the 21st and 22d,
and obtained several advantages. I have prepared 90,000
rations of all sorts fur the forces of General Iribarren, and
forage, &c., for his 400 horses, at St. Jean Pied de Port
awlat Avroa, that he may want nothing should his opera-
tions bring him to the Bastan. I have likewise every thing
ready to convey rapidly those provisions.
I have communications from General Evans, who sends
me his general order, dated the 21st, which I enclose ; he
assures me that the discipline of his army was totally re-
established, and that as soon as the weather became better,
he was determined to commence his operations.
" Communications from Bilboa of the 21st, in the af-

ternoon, which I have just received, state that that very
morning 200 Carlist prisoners had arrived in that town.
They belonged to the garrisons of the fort Vrigoitia, in the
place called- Cobacion de Bedra. Fifteen hundred men
who were at Bilboa, in the hospitals, had entirely reco-
vered, and had left in the morning of the same day for the
army. It is, therefore, absolutely false, the report spread
by the Carlists here, that they had obtained a victory at
Durango on the 21st.
" At two o'clock this morning I received, by express, de-
spatches from the government of her Majesty at Madrid,
dated 22d, in the morning, with a remittance of 750,000
francs for the use of the army. This is the third remit-
tance I have received in the short space of a month for the
same object, amounting together to 2,250,000 francs. I
have great satisfaction in stating the fact to your Excel-
lency, and not less that the provisioning of the three divi-
sions of the army is completely provided for to the end of
April ; and I know likewise that they are fully equipped
and shod. It is therefore to be expected that their military
conduct will repay the maternal cares with which her Ma-
jesty provides for their wants in the midst of all the sorrows
of her government. In the application of the funds thtis
sent to me, I take a particular care that a preferable share
should fall to the use of:the British and French legion.
The Ministers tell me that the untoward occurrence
of the 16th had not produced in the capital effects of the
least consequence.

" May God preserve your Lordship many years.
" A. FERNANDEZ DI GAMBOA.
To his Excellency the Spanish Minister
Plenipotentiary in London. '

6' Bayonne, March 25, 1837."
ST. SEBASTIAN, MARCH 23.—1 f the. intelligence brought
in here this morning be true to its fullest extent, then
must all idea of a combined plan of.operations vanish, and
any further attempt at a forward movement from this with
a practicable or useful view be given up. The intelligence
brought by the Rhadamantbus steamer from Portugalette,
which she left last night, is that Espartcro had returned
with his large army of '23,000 men to Bilboa, thus aban-
doning Durango, a strong and important position, which
he might have rendered tenable, and compromising the in-
habitant; of those towns and villages in Biscay who had
come forward to offer him-rations and money, and who no
doubt will be speedily visited with the wrath of Don
Carlos. Though this intelligence has come here in an
official shape, yet some of the principal Spaniards
affect to disbelieve it in its fullest extent, probably from
motives of shame at such an instance of dereliction on the
part of their countrymen, and assert that he has returned
to Bilboa only with a portion of his army, and but for a
short time, the main body being still in possession of Du-
rango. A very short interval will soon decide which of
these two versions is the true one. Another misfortune,
but only resting on the authority of the master of a Spanish
launch, which came in this morning. The master of this
launch, which came in this morning from Santander, states

that just as he was about leaving that town a powder ma-
gazine blew up and destroyed the houses of nearly two
streets, besides occasioning a considerable loss of life ; he
adds, that as he came away the conflagration was still pro-
ceeding.
This morning the Court-martial, before which Colonel
Harley, of the 4th Regiment, was on trial on charges of
peculation and dealing in military stores,. brought against
him by Major and Paymaster Peyton, of the same regi-
ment, re-assembled to proceed with the trial, which had
been commenced some weeks back, but had been inter-
rupted, first by the illness of the accused, and afterwards
by the recent operations in the field. On the sitting of the
Court Colonel Harley was called, but did not appear. The
following copies of a communication made by the Court on
the instant to General Evans, and of the General Order
issued immediately by hini in answer, will best explain the

" St. Sebastian, March '23.

" Sir—The court-martial, of which Brigadier-General
Fitzgerald is President, having assembled, pursuant to ge-
neral orders, for the trial of Lieutenant--ColOnel Harley,
and the prisoner not having appeared before the Court, I
am directed to acquaint you, that on inquiry at his lodgings
for him, the answer given is, that he has left St. Sebastian.
Under these peculiar circumstances, the Court awaits the
decision of the Lieutenant-General as to the course they
are to pursue.

W. A. CLARKE, Judge Advocate-General.
" To Lieutenant-Colonel Hireman."
" GENERAL ORDER.

" Head-quarters, St. Sebastian, March 23.

" A court-martial having been convened to try Lieute-
nant-Colonel Harley, of the 4th Regiment, on certain
charges preferred by Major and Paymaster Peyton, of the
same corps, and Lieutenant-Colonel Harley having ab-
sented himself without leave, he is in consequence dismissed
the service, and his case -will be submitted to the special
consideration of the Spanish Government.
" By command, B. T. HIREMAN."
Poor Colonel de Lancey is no more ; he, breathed his
last yesterday evening at six o'clock, after lingering the last
24 hours in a nearly insensible state from the 15th instant,
the day on which he received his death wound. A more
intelligent and deserving officer, or more amiable and gene-
rally esteemed man, the Legion did not possess. He has
but too soon followed in the same foreign grave as his first
cousin, the brave Colonel Tupper, who fell on the sth of
May, 1836.
The day before yesterday was also sadly marked by two
other officers of the Legion, Captain Fielding, of the Rifles,
and Captain Mostvn, of the 4th Regiment. The number of
noncommissioned officers and men who have died in hospital
of wounds received in the recent engagement amounts, up
to this date, to 80. _ _

To show that the soldiers of the Legion have not been
urged, even by an almost excusable spirit of vengeance,
to follow the barbarous conduct of the Carlists in
massacreing their prisoners, it is only necessary to state,
that a party of the Gth Scotch Regiment, five of which
Regiment had been but a few days before tortured
and murdered at Hernani, found on the 16th in khouse which
they took 13 wounded Carlists, and left them there without
offering either injury or insult. Colonel Monteagudo, of
the Carlist Lancers, who was taken on the 16th by Cap-
tains Burke and Jennings, and three or four men of -the
Ist Lancers of the Legion, and who is now a prisoner in
the castle, is, it is said, about to be sent up to Madrid in
custody, there to have his fate decided, he being one of the
27 Carlists taken on the coast near Santander about 18
months back, and who afterwards escaped from Porto Rico,
to which place they had been banished. When taken, on
the I6th inst , he had 72 ounces of gold or doubloons
(about 2501.) in a belt round his waist, and which he is
still in possession of, the men not having been permitted to
strip him when taken. In his first alarm at the attempts of
the Chapelgoris to. bayonet him between the lances of his
captors, he offered 1,000 dollars to save his life, and at
every succeeding thrust of a bayonet he cried out "
quenta vies," " fifty dollars more."

Mr. Gaily Knight gave an elegant dinner yester-
day at his house in Lower Grosvenor-street.
The most correct particulars of the Northampton
Steeple Chase, with the Pytchley Hunt, will be given in
" Bell's Life in London and Sporting Chronicle" of Sunday,
ttpril 2. The price " Bell's Life" is five pence. Office,
170, Strand:

By the Mediterranean' mail, with di arrived yesterday, We
have received India papers to a
.- very late date, of which
the following are extracts :
The Singnpore Chronicle of Nov ember 26, says—" The
Co wasjee Family arrived here Jim
.n Chian on Tinit..stlay
morning, and by her we have rece: ved our Canton tilt s to
the B,h instant, from which we have taken an extract. Our
advices to the sth November, info.= i us that the recont
terruptions in the tea and opium f;Nade had not been rc-•
moved, and that much inconvenienex -t'and vexztt:onliad been
experienced by foreigners, from the ti the e
iffieultix, the
el.trhari,::: onotin
way of the shipment of silks. vri
the
finer descriptions of cotton, the artier= was difficult of sale,
and totally impracticable for cash.
" The black-tea-men were still stucli:vrn, and were not
disposed.to_ lower the rates demanded for their eongos ; and
as the Hong merchants had contracted with the foreigners
at some five or six taels lower than they could obtain the
article from the tea-men, great perplexity had con sequently
arisen, as the prices in England would scarcely war:rant the
contract price in China, much less any increase, al,d it is
stated no fewer than fifty ships were now lying idle, and
were likely to be so for an indefinite period. Much uncer-
tainty still prevailed as to the intentions of the Chinese
Government ; whether they would legalize the importation
of opium, or, what -seemed equally probable to many upon
the spot, attempt the force of authority in entirely prevent-
ing its being smuggled into the .country. In the apprehen-
sion of-this latter measure being tried, every Chinese dealer
in the article had fled from Canton, and the trade was in a
state of entire stagnation.
" Silk was very abundant, unusually soy and not less Than
12,000 bales had arrived at Canton ; but the vexatious re-
gulation of the Chinese Government, which prevents the
shipment of any quantity beycnd MO bales in one ship, ex-
cept on payment of a ruinous duty, opeeates as an effectual
check upon shipments, and the more p trticularly so as the
usual channel of transmission through Macao is not permit-
ted, nor were thesie impediments likely to be removed at any
early date, as it is stated a recent petition from the foreigners
on the subject has been refused, and that no probable pros-
pect of any amelioration existed.

" The above state of affairs had also rendered the ad-
vances to be made by the Company upon tens and silks to
the extent of 2,000,000 dollars entirely =available, as the
dollars arc conditioned to be payable on the production of
the hills of lading, and this, with tha puesent state of the
opium trade bad caused a most unprecadented sci:rcity of
cash. The Company treasury was open £or Bills on Bengal
thirty days' sight, at 220 Company's rupee;. Exchange on
London unsettled, but was expected to approximate ss.
Articles of all descriptions imported were s.old with great
difficulty, as returns were only attainable in tt e barter."
THE BRIG FAIRY.—We have been favoured with the
following details by Captain lladley, who has just returned
from the east coast in the Aurelia. They may set ve to throw

some light on the fate of the Fairy, about which so many
ieports have lately been afloat :
" On the 23d of last month the Aurelia touched at Dans-
borg Bay, and spoke three China boats, from which Captain
Hadley learnt that five 'lascars had landed in a broken
boat from a vessel wrecked between that and Amoy, and

that they were begging their way to the southward. It
was supposed they had conic to Tong-sham A man from
Amoy told Captain Hadley that he had been informed
by the people of a junk, that a vessel ran on a rock off Hoo-
too-shan, and was broken into three pieces. The junk
passed the spot on the next day, and saw fishing boats
all round the place. Captain Hadley- gave his informa-
tion to Captain Rees of the Colonel Young, who forthwith
proceeded to Dansborg Bay to obtain more circumstantial
information, and Captain Hadley, touching there on his re-
turn; was informed by Captain Rees that a mandarin had

:old him that there were at that time twelve men, all

.lasears, in Shapoo, a town about a day's journey from Tong-
shan, in consequence of which one of Captain Rees's men
bad been dispatched with a wei-yuen to see these men ; but
before their return Captain Hadley was.obliged to set sail.
" It is but too likely that this ship wrecked is the Taira;
but since part of the sailors have been able to save them-
selves, it. may be inferred that the officers and other Eu-
ropeans on board have done the same, and perhaps re-
mained near the wreck to see what might be saved. We
wait with anxiety for further particulars."—Canton Piess,
Oct. 8.

Captain Rees of the Colonel Young has since arrived,
and, as far as we have learned, his information is to the
foll Owing effect, viz., that a mutiny occurred on board of
the Fairy, in which Captain M'Kay and another Eu-
ropean officer lost their lives. The men who came on shore
were mostly badly wounded, having taken the part of the
Captain. They
.are said to be twelve Lascars and one
European or white man. The Fairy, it appears, was not
wrecked ; but that the mutineers (Manilla and Macao
Seacunnics) set sail after they had killed Captain M'Kay
and his officer, and succeeded in expelling those friendly to
him from on board the ship. Much remains to be ex-
plained of this most murderous affair, and any doubts on
the subject will probably be cleared up on the men, who
are said to be now at Fuli-chow-foe, reaching Canton.—
Ibid.

EXPULSION OF MERCHANTS FROM CANTON

A most extraordinary edict, dated Taoukwang-, Novem-
ber 23, 1836, appears in the papers brought by the Hellas,
which has arrived at Dublin, ordering the barbarian mer-
chants, Jardine and others, to quit Canton within half s
month. We have not room for the document, which is

addressed to the Hong merchants ; the following extracts
will show the cause of offence, and the order for departure :
The said barbarian merchants, Jardine and others,
have many years resided at Canton—and can it be for no
purpose? It is mate clear (by your statement) that there
arc receiving-ships in the outer seas ; that there is a clan-
destine trade carried on, and treasure is oozing out of the
country ; that many native vessels go out to sea (to the
receiving-ships) ; and that there arc also smugglers em-
ployed in the trade. Now if the evils are without (the
boundaries of the empire), how is it that formerly there
have been so many cases detected in this city ? You affirm
that there are instances of seizure of opium ; but that
many are without, and few within, our jurisdiction.
" The orders are the most peremptory ; when they
reach you, instantly transmit them to the barbarian mer-
'chants, Jardine, Innes, Dent, and Turner, and to those
come more recently, Framjee, Merwamjee, Dadabhoy,
Gordon, and Whiteman, that they may all obey. If their
business be very important, half a month will be allowed
them to pack up and move out of the provincial city, and
embark in one of their own, or some other ships going to
sea, and return home. They are not to be permitted to
loiter and linger. If they have any business that cannot
be completed witkin the half month, they at the expiration
of that period must go to Macao for a little time, and
their accounts be loft in your hands, and as soon as
all their affairs are settled, they must return to their
country. They must not be permitted to stay at Macao
as long as they please in opposition to the existing laws ;
if they presume to be insolent, and act haughtily, and will
not listen to our kind words, and obstinately refuse to go
the path we mark out, the Celestial dynasty will not heed
the consequences. The laws will be maintained ; asd
there is reason to fear the said barbarians will find it hard
to get back to their country. The houses in the Creek
factory and in several other bongs will be taken and sealed
up. There must he no failure."

THE EDGEIVARE-ROAD MURDER.

Within the last few clays the police have been engaged
in endeavouring to discover what has become of an in-
fant, the offspring of Greenacrc and the woman Gale,
which it is strongly suspected has been murdered. From
the inquiries already made on the subject, it has been as-
certained that the woman Gale was delivered of a child at
Greenacrc's house in _Carpenter's-buildings, in the month
of December or January 1835. Greenaere himself offi-
ciated as accoucheur on the occasion, and no profesbional
man was called in until after the birth of the child. Mr:

Hairby, the surgeon of Walworth, was the gentleman
who then attended, at the request of Grcenacre, and he
subsequently heard the report that the child was miss-
ing. A man named Bamoo, a carpenter, lodged in
Greenacre's house •at the time the woman Gale was in
the habit of going there, and he remembered that when
he saw that woman was in the family way, having spoken
to Greenacre on the subject, and remonstrated with
him on the impropriety of his conduct in encourag-
ing the visits of a woman in 'that condition, and hiss
(Greenacre's) reply when asked what be intended to do
with the child was, that he intended either to make away
with. it, or else to leave it on .the step of some gentle-
man's door. Soon after the birth of the infant, which
took place in Greenacre's house, the neighbours, on miss-
ing it, inquired of the woman Gale where it was, and her
reply was, that it was at a cousin of her's in the Kent-
road, and that she was advised by the doctor not to' suckle
it herself, as she was so weak. Subsequently to this Green-
acre himself gave a different account as to where the child
was sent, and the contradictions given by the parties led to
the supposition that the infant had been made away with,
and hence the report circulated in the neighbourhood that
it had been murdered. To a Mrs. Brown, Greenacre said

that the people in the neighbourhood accused him of mur-
dering his child ; he &Med that such was the fact, and
added, that it was doing well at a relation's house in trit
Edgeware-road. There is no clue, however, as yet, to dis-
cover what has become of the, child, and it is the intention
to have the garden of Greenacre's house searched, and also
the privy, with a view of ascertaining whether there are any
grounds for the alleged rumour of its having been mur-
dered.

Lord Canterbury left the Clarendon Hotel on Wed-
nesday, for Paris.