The Sun.
London, England, 1830-03-25 00:00:00

NATIONAL REPOSITORY.

At the private view on Tuesday, the Chevalier Aldin)
was in attendance, explaining the nature and use of his
fire-proof dress. It is a contrivance perfectly adequate to
the valuable purposes of defence against fire, and will un-
doubtedly prove of great utility; its efficacy has already
been tried, as we have stated, by the New Police. The
asbestos, a thick fibrOus and flexible substance, is a slow
conductor of heat, and over it is to be worn a light ar-
mour of metallic gauze, capable of resisting the action c f
flame. Thus accoutred, and also provided with a shield
of wire gauze, a man is enabled to encounter and even
pass through the fiercest flame with impunity. Among
the other novelties was a sinking catch for gates, a contri-
vance which well merits attention. By rising or sinking
into the ground as the gate is closed or opened, it obviates
the inconvenience of the present plan as regards the feet
of horses. We observed a new and very ingenious move-
ment applied to the action of pistons, four of which are
in this model set at work by the revolutions of a globe
hung in gimbals, after the manner of a ship's compass,
and acted upon by a rotatory horse movement beneath.
The idea, as far as it at present goes, is perhaps more cu-
rious than likely to be practically useful ; but the ingenuity
of the inventor will so doubt enable him to accomplish
the requisite improvements. A mechanical contrivance
for racking wines, by means of which they may be trans-
ferred from cask to cask without disturbance of the lees or
injurious exposure to the atmosphere, is an invention
highly creditable to Mr. Wilton, of Regent-street. The
" shadowless lamp" is a very clever improvement upon all
that have hitherto assumed that peculiarity. We cannot
better explain its construction than in the words of the in-
ventor, 31r. J. Bright :—" In this lamp the oil is at all
times maintained at the same elevation by means of water
descending from a vase in the centre of the column (on the
principle of the bird fountain) and forcing the air from the
bottom up a tube, with an uniform pressure, into the re.
servoir at the top, keeping the wick constantly and equally
supplied." Some improved paddle wheels are exhibited :
a contrivance by Mr. Poole, for feathering the float-
boards, and thus oli;iating the impediment of the back-
water, appears to be perfect, and it is needless to allude to
the advantages which must result from its adoption. A
folding terrestrial globe, invented by Mr. Pocock, attracted
nisch notice. It is composed of pliable paper, and hav-
ing a circular aperture at the bottom, is readily inflated
with air by raising and sinking it vertically six or eight
times in succession. Though four feet diameter when in-
flated, it may be folded up into the compass of a thin
quarto volume. The oiled paper of which it is composed
is by no means so liable to injury as might be apprehended;
the inventor however proposes to construct them hereafter
in silk. The visitor will be much gratified with the su-
perb specimens of Porcelain, in the style of Dresden,
China, and Sevres, and, as far as we can judge, not at all
inferior to the celebrated manufacture of those places.
There are also some magnificent specimens of Manchester
silk, of complicated workmanship. A long extent of bas-
relief in plaister, representing the triumph of Alexander,
ornaments one of the rooms. A new manufacture in imi-
tation of gold, by Mr. Riley, of Sheffield, will probably,
with some further improvements, supersede the use in
some cases of that costly metal. In colour and weight it
closely resembles gold, anti is extraordinarily cheap. The
specimens here presented appear, however, to be deficient
in brightness. Ivory carvings, cutlery, &c., and various
curiosities, too numerous to be mentioned in detail, add to
the attractions of this Exhibition ; nor should we forget
the self-acting piano-fortes, which by their brilliant and
tasteful execution contribute not a little to the gratification
of the company.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF Loaus—(LAST NIGHT).
HAMERTON'S DIVORCE BILL.

A brother of General Murray, who was one of the
witnesses to the marriage, proved the General's
hand-writing, and that he was unable from ill health
to attend at the bar.
Anne Hatton's examination continued—Mr.
Hamerton examined his wife's trinket case in the
presence of the witness, and found there some letters
from Mr. Bushe, and also a miniature picture of him.
In answer to questions by Lord WYNFORD, she
stated that Mr. Hamerton had examined the trinket
case alone before he desired her to attend, and had
taken out one letter, as he told her.
Lord WYNFORD—He might then have put
letters and portraits into the case as well as have
taken them out. It would be desirable to have
better evidence of the adultery than letters taken
from that box. A Noble and Learned Lord (Eldon),
who sat long on the Woolsack. expressed consider-
able doubt whether letters from the adulterer or the
adulteress ought to be received in evidence at all.
Some letters of Lady Ellenborough had been re-
ceived, however, the other day, and, therefore, he
would receive these letters in the meantime. What
effect they ought to have would be a question after-
wards to be considered.
The Postmaster at Cheltenham knew Mrs. Ha-
merton and Mr. Bushe when they resided at Chel-
tenham in 1826; Mrs. Hamerton used to call at
the post-office for letters addressed to Mrs. Go-
dolphin ; he identified some letters shown to him
us having been delivered to Mrs. Hamerton, although
addressed to Mrs. Godolphin. In answer to a ques-
tion by Lord Wynford, he could only say that he
delivered some letters to Mrs. Hamerton which
were addressed to Mrs. Godolphin, but whether
these were the letters he could not answer.
William Pitt proved that the letters were in the
hand-writing of Mr. Bushe, although Lord Wyn-
ford doubted whether, on this evidence, they ought
to be received.
Another servant-maid of Mrs. Mathews, at whose
house the parties were accustomed to meer, stated
that when they were there together she had orders
from Mrs. Mathews to admit no other visitors ;
Mrs. Hamerton and Mr. Bushe used to be together
by themselves in a room in the house for a consi-
derable time. The witness mentioned some appear-
ances from which she iHferred the fact of the adul-
tery. Mr. Bushe gave her money, sometimes ten,
sometimes seven, and sometimes five shillings ; he
was the only visitor who gave her money.
Examined by Lord WYNFORD—Mrs. Mathews
was not here; she was a Colonel's widow ; she was
accustomed to allow the parties to remain togetherin
the room with the blinds down ; she did not say to
Mrs. Mathews that it was discreditable to her to
allow such things at her house.
Lord WYNFORD—No, no; the ten, the seven,
and the five shillings, quieted your conscience on
that subject.
A person who, in 1826 or 1827, attended as a
waiter at the house of a Colonel Crowder, at Chel-
tenham, when he had a party, among whom were
Mrs. Hamerton and Mr. Bush, stated, that after
the party broke up, he saw Mrs. Hamerton and
Mr. Bushe kissing each other. The lady at the
time must have seen the witness, but the gentleman
could not see him.
Lord WYNFORD—The case must be carried a
great dell farther before this. Bill can be passed.
Further proceedings must be adjourned for thepresent
Lord DONERAILE took the oaths and his seat.

The Earl of SHAFTESI3URY moved that the
2d Report of the Common Law Commissioners
now laid on the table, in consequence of a Message
sent to the Commons fur• that purpose, be printed.
Ordered.

Mr. Irving, from the Custom-house, presented
an Account of Exports and Imports for the year
ending the sth of January last.
Mr. Danvers, from the East India House, pre-
sented papers relative to the affairs of the Company.
Lord HOLLAND presented a petition from the
Retail Brewers of Rochdale and Bury, in the
cou!tty of Lancaster, complaining of hardships re•
!lilting from the laws affecting their trade, and pray-
ing!or a revision and amendment of these laws.

-His Lordship presented another petition, to the
same effect, from the retail brewers of Manchester
And Salford.

The Earl of KINNOUL presented a petition
from die merchants, manufacturers, and other inha-
bitants or the royal borough of Perth, praying that
the trade to India and China might be laid open.
His Lordship also presented another petition, to
the same effect, from the Lord Provost, Magistrates,
and Town Council of Perth.
Loro STRADBEOOK presented a petition from
certain owners and occupiers of land in the county of
Suffolk,- praying for a repeal of the malt duly.
All these petitions were laid on the table.
Mr.Bobertpon, from the Commissioners of Woods

LONDON.
THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 25, 1830.

We received the following this morning from
our Paris Correspondent :

rants, afaacis 23.
It is no longer concealed, as I anticipated in my last
letter, that a dissolution of the Chamber of Deputies is
resolved on. Until evidence to the contrary be produced,
the Cabinet I conceive, are entitled to the credit of sincerity
in the belief which they profess, that they will be able, by
fair and legal means, to overcome the united phalanx of
their opponents in the approaching contest for the suffrages
of the constituent body. They have already sent fur M.
de Vllele, who is himself a host in all that relates to the
',league of this species of political warfare, and the ex-
Minister, who has so long lived in retirement in his ❑ative
province, is now daily expected in Paris. At the late
division in the Chamber on the question of the address,
the Ministers succeeded at the last moment in detaching
some forty votes from the ranks of that section of the right
centre which is obedient to the impulse of Messrs.
Martignac and Debelleyme. This circumstance arose
from a ruere difference of opinion as to the terms and the
language in which the address slsould have been framed ;
and if so slight a circumstance could thus materially af-
fect the relative strength of the parties, the Ministry
may be allowed to calculate on some advantage in delay,
from the influence which will naturally accrue to them as
dispensers of the patronage of the Government, as well as
from the accession of strength which may eventually arise
out of the mere chapter of accidents.
" To keep up the courage of their adherents the fair side
of the picture is set before theta in the most favourable
light. When M. de Villele was so signally defeated in
1827, it is argued, that his discomfiture arose from causes j
which are now no longer in operation. The Peers, who
are supposed to have so much influence in the electoral j
colleges, were for the moment excited to open hostility
against the party of the Minister, by the celebrated coup
d'etat which had just been performed in the addition of
76 new Members to the Chamber of Peers. The strength
of the Royalist party had also been divided by the numbers
who had gone over to join the Liberals. The organ
of this party, the Journal des Debuts, whose clients are
stigmatized with the name of " the defection," had suc-
ceeded in exciting a ferment throughout the country, by
preaching the terrors of Jesuitism. To these may be added,
the numerous indiscretions of their own party, the follies
of M. Montlosier, the phantom of a camp at St. Omer, and
the apprehension which arose that an attempt would be
made to abolish the Charter.
The fallacy of these considerations, is surely too obvious
to deceive the most zealous of the -Ministerial partizans.
If the royalist party did not gain snore than they lost
by the addition to the Peerage, the I:ncasure must
have been taken to very little purpose. At this mo-
ment, the Constitutional royalists are at least as
strong in the Chamber and throughout the country as they
were in 1827 ; and as to the terrors of Jesuitism and the
other arguments adduced by the organs of the Ministry, it
would indeed be strange if something much more efficient,
as an engine of agitation could not now be set in motion
by a party, not composed, it is true, of the most homoge-
neous materials, but perhaps for that very reason so much
the more conducive to the purposes of opposition, for which

it is organized.
" The 3linistry seem to forget the immeasurable strides
which France has been making during the last few years in
political knowledge. After the regeneration produced by
the crisis of the Revolution, the country seems to have
entered on a new career; the birth of freedom takes
its date from the Charter ; the period of infancy
and childhood have since elapsed ; and although the na-
tion now glorying in the youthful vigor of its gigantic
strength, has not yet attained that maturity of judgment so
necessary to the exercise and enjoyment with calm-
ness and discretion of the noble functions and
the free institutions bestowed and guaranteed to
them by the charter ; yet the ardor of the national
disposition begins already to be tempered by the
importance of the duties which the people are called upon
to perform ; and I have no doubt that, without the aid
of that comitj directeur, whose apparition still haunts
the Ministry in their dreams, although it has never
yet been made palpable to their waking senses,
the great body of electors will conduct them-
sat
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very most of
duringmos the approaching struggle with such
method and moderation as to make
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18V by the return of M. Royer Collard, the present Pre-
sident of the Chamber, on the same day, in different dis-
tricts of the country, from no less than seven of the great
electoral colleges.
‘. Having said so much in former letters unfavourable
to the ultra Royalist and unconstitutional doctrines by
which the Members of the present Cabinet are known to
he actuated, I think myself bound in justice to record toy
conviction, that in many respects, and particularly as re-
gards the foreign policy of the country, they are infinitely
wiser and more reasonable in their views—because better
instructed in international law, and more dispassionate
in action—than the advocates for liberal and ultra
liberal principles by whom they are at present op-
posed. On almost all the subjects with which the Ca-
binets of Europe are at present occupied, the administration
of the Duke of Wellington and that of the Prince de Po-
lignac are happily agreed. It was doubtless the conviction
of this occurrence which originally arrayed the conductors
of the British Press, with so much unwonted unani-
mity on the side of a Ministry so obviously unwelcome to
the great body of the French people. And here I think it
was that the error of the English Journalists arose. In
regard to foreign policy, it is clear that a very slight infu-
sion of political romanticism would be sufficient to cap-
tivate the French liberals. The late Mr. Canning has
always been the god of their idolatry; and if the tone and
manner be abstracted, I think you will agree with me,
that in the great principles of international policy there
was no substantial difference between the Canning Ad-
ministration and that of the Duke of Wellington. It
follows that it would not be difficult to reconcile the
French people to all that Englishmen have any direct or
immediate interest in peomoting,—a reasonable and con-
sistent system of foreign policy on the part of their Go-
vernment, whether royalist or liberal, as regards their
domestic concerns. The expedition to Algiers, for
instance, has, I cannot doubt, been undertaken in
opposition to the better judgment of the Prince de Polignac
and his colleagues, partly out of deference to the warlike
and romantic spirit of the people, and still more, perhaps,
for the sake of diverting the public attention from too
strict an examination of the principles which have pro-
duced their unpopularity. In confirmation of this idea I
may mention it as being reported, and very generally
believed at Paris this morning, that despatches have ar-
rived from the British Cabinet, announcing the inten-
tion of the Duke of Wellingten to use his influence
with the Dey of Algiers, for the purpose of producing any
concession which can reasonably be required, in requital of
the insult which the barbarian is supposed to have offered
to the French flag. In that case General Bourmont will
be disappointed of his Marshal's baton, and he and his col-
leagues will be prematurely shorn of the returning beams
of popular favour which a successful expedition was exs
pected to shed on the present administration.
In concluding this letter, I think it right to animadvert
on the imputation which a correspondent in the Times of
Saturday last has so groundlessly thrown on the character
of Charles the Tenth, by ascribing to him a declaration
that he would rather mount his war-horse than the scaf-
fold. The statement, I cannot doubt, is as destitute of
truth as it evidently is of vraisenzblance. There is not, I
apprehend, the most distant danger either of the horrors
which are thus indicated of a civil war in this country, or
of the scarcely less frightful alternative to which the ob-
servation imputed to his Majesty too plainly alludes. If
the party in power only adhere to their declared purpose
of pursuing a course consistent with the Law and the
Charter, there is little danger but that the impending
crisis will pass away without any violent convulsion ;
and I am fully convinced that, with all his political here-
sies, the Prince de Polignac is too loyal a subject and too
good a citizen to expose his King and his country to the
evils of a second revolution.

The following are extracts from the Gazelle
de France of Wednesday, and the Massager
des Chambres and Moniteur of Tuesday:—

(From the Gazette de France.)

" The King has gone to St. Germain. The Duke of
Mortemart was to quit St. Petersburgh on the 15th of
this month. He thus takes advantage of the leave granted
him to leave or remain, as he might think proper. There
is no longer any doubt of the Emperor of Russia's journey
to Ems during the next summer, after having opened the
Diet of Poland at Warsaw."

The Gazette places among the lies of the day the report
that M. de Alontbel had resigned.
The Gazette contains also the following sentence,
which is not very precise, though not altogether unintel-
ligible :
" We think it our duty to tell the Royalists that the
consequences of the late proceedings will be all in favour of
the monarchy (enonarchiques), and that the acts of the
Government will soon prove it."

" The Messager des Chambres, on the authority of a
private letter from London, states that new difficulties
arose at, the last Council of Ministers relative to the affairs
of Portugal and Greece. Prince Leopold is said to have
required a delay of three months, in consequence of having
received unfavourable news from his future dominions.._
This paper adds, that Ministers seem to repent having so
much laboured and intrigued as they have done for an
individual who turns out not to be altogether suited to
their views.

" A letter addressed by the Alinister for Foreign Affairs
to the Chamber of Commerce at Marseilles, makes the
following communication, with the view of quieting the
minds of merchants of that city respecting the state of
Government relations with the coast of Africa.

" We are (says the Minister) on a perfectly good un-
derstanding with Egypt, as well as all the other provinces
under the dominion of the Sultan ; but our relations with
Tripoli are precarious, since the Consul of his Majesty
was forced to remove frem this regency, in consequence of
insults which he had received, and because be considered
his personal safety in danger. He caused the French flag
to be taken down, which has not been replaced.
" We are at peace with Tunis, and the empire of Mo-
rocco. The King has determined on the adoption of vi-
gorous measures for putting an end to the war, which, for
three years past, has been carried on against Algiers. The
military preparations now in progress in the ports of
France are destined solely to act against the Barbary
power.
" The expectation raised on the coast of Africa by the
blockade of Algiers, arid the preparations for more active
warfare now in progress, together with the uncertainty of
our relations with Tripoli, seem to have excited in the •
Barbary States an agitation which should induct our mer-
chants to be circumspect in their transactions in that
qu irter. The same motive has induced his Majesty to
order the departure of two frigates, which are now
cruising off Tunis and Tripoli, for the protection of
French commerce.'

" PETERSBUGIT, MARCH s.—lt appears from the
arrangements that are making at the Turkish embassy,
that the abode of our Mussulman guest will be prolonged
beyond the time originally fixed.
" It is believed that this mission will have important
results for the future policy of the two empires, and that
probably it will become an epoch in the annals of their
history. It is said that our Monarch, in his high wisdom,
is thinking of giving to the Porte all possible facilities
for paying the debt contracted on her part by the treaty of
Adrianople; however, we are disposed to believe that his
generosity will not make him pass the limits prescribed
by the interests of his empire and his subjects.
" Reports are still circulated here about an interview
between several great potentates, in order to discuss some
questions of a high political nature. It is believed that
these questions will be connected with the interior affairs
of several countries which now appear to be rather in bail
condition, and to claim the whole solicitude of the
august personages whose duty it is to insure the tran-
quility and prosperity of nations.
" Several distinguished officers of our military navy have
received orders to go to different parts of the Black Sea.

It is pretended that the state of our fleet requires many
essential ameliorations, in order that it may be put on a
respectable footing, and adapted to the part it is to play
in the southern seas of Europe.
. _

" It is said that the Government intends to establish a
nautical school in one of the ports of the Black Sea, where
foreigners will be admitted, especially Greeks and Italians,
who are to be trained for the Russian service.— Constitu-
tionnel.

" Some persons pretend this morning that a note sent
Wellington was to offer his media-
and obtain sufficient satisfaction from the Dey. We
dfrootlinbtEfunl.glaTnhdereDmilkereedoftheexpedition against Algiers very
etiaonn,give no credit to this news; our Ministers are panting
for glory—they must acquire some at any cost or expense.
Even the influence of the Duke of Wellington himself can-
not bear up against such considerations. The expedition
will therefore take place, and even against wind and tide.
The remonstrances of the diplomatical corps will not be
more listened to than those of our Admirals.—Le Globe.

(EXTRACT crs A COMMERCIAL LETTER.
" LEGHORN, FEB. 29.—Yesterday the Tuscan Govern-
ment announced officially to the commerce of our town,
that according to a convention between England, France,
Austria, Russia, and Prussia, different measures are to be
taken for the destruction of the three Barbary States of
I ripoli, Tunis, and Algiers, and that the Sublime Porte
consents to their incorporation with the possessions of the

Pacha of Egypt. empire of Morocco would there-
fore be the only remaining Power of the same kind, and
we may at last expect to see the navigation of the Mediter-
ranean rid of all the apprehensions with which it has
hitherto been encumbered.—.Le Temps.
WaLLacnia, MARCH 2.—New orders have arrived
from St. Petersburgh to accelerate the organization of the
military forces of the Principalities. In the present situation
of those provinces, especially after such a rigorous winter,
men will not be wanting, and the number requisite will
soon be found. One may infer from the celerity of the
military organization, that theßussian troops will not remain
so long in the Principalities as had been stipulated by the
treaty of Arianople, and their evacuation is attributed to
the negociations opened at Constantinople and Petersburgh.
Generally speaking our politicians give themselves up to
consolatory hopes for the future. They say that the Porte
has been taught by the events of last year that her pros-
perity depends on her amity with Russia.
" In consequence of the treaty of peace, the state of our
commerce has much revived since last autumn. Our mer-
chants flatter themselves especially that they are to share
the advantages granted to the Russian commerce by the li
treaty of Adrianople. A deputation of merchants of Bu-
charest, Jassy, and Gallatz is to set off, in order to obtain
this privilege from the Turkish authorities and the Russian
Ambassador. It is also asserted, that to revive the com-
merce of the Principalities as much as possible, an un-
limited liberty will be granted to it in all the places along
the Danube. —National.

" 'The following is from the Augsburg Gazette of the
19th instant Letters of the 4th instant from Ancona,
mention the passage of several couriers from London to
Greece, with despatches for the agents of the Allied Courts.
A letter from the Prince of Saxe Coburg to Count Capo
d'lstria is also spoken of, in which he informs the Count
of his having accepted the Sovereignty of Greece, and
requests him to continue to direct the affairs of the State
till after his arrival. Many persons doubt whether the Pre-
sident, with the best inclinations, will he able to comply
with this request; fur upon the first report of the allied
Sovereigns' resolution to appoint a foreign Prince over
Greece, the President perceived, to his regret, how little
gratitude he could expect from his countrymen for his sa-
crifices in the organization of the State. It is therefore
presumed, that Count Capo d'lstria will shortly retire
from state affairs, and take up his residence in Italy.'
" The .Nuremberg Correspondent of the 18th instant
states, that in the ensuing spring a General Congress will
be held at Vienna, to take into consideration the present
state of the East, the state of Portugal, that of France,
and lastly the definitive settlement of the South American
States with respect to Spain. The Correspondent adds,
that this idea of a general meeting had been in agitation
for some time among the leading Cabinets of Europe."
FRP:NCH FUNDS.—PauIa, MARCH 23.—Five per Cents., most
80c. 65c. ; Four per Cents., 102 f.; Three per Cents., B:3f. 75c.
80c. 70c. 75c. 80c. ; Bank Stock, 1,005 E ; Rentes de Naples,
92f. 85c. 80c. 85c. ; Rentes d'Espagne, 124 IS 12.4 ; Royal Spanish
Loan, 80f. I.‘ ; Rentes Perpetuelle d'Espagne, 74 ; Haytian
Loan, 530 f. 527 f. 50c.—Exehange on London—One month, pa_
per, 25f. 65c. ; money, 25f. 65c. ; three mouths, paper, '2sf. 50c. ;
money, 25E 50,:.—tours dullsentique.

The Dia?•io Flurninense, to the 25th January
inclusive, and Lisbon Gazettes, to the 13th of
March, have been received this morning, from
which the following are extracts :

(From the Diario Fltaninense.)
RIO DE JANERIO, DEC. 30.
. We learn from good authority that his Majesty the Em-
peror, being nearly recovered, intends to remove on the Ist
of next month from the residence of the Marquis de Canta
Gallo to the Imperial country seat of Boa Vista.

DEC. 31.

DECREE—(OFFICIAL).
" It being incompatable with the sentiments of huma-
nity, and with the national honour, that the Portuguese
emigrants should be suffered to perish with want, who
corning to this empire, have obtained an asylum in it, and
it being urgently necessary to afford them speedy assistance
without prejudice to the national revenue, which must not
be diverted from its legal object, I think fit till the Na-
tional Aassensbly shall have provided otherwise, to grant
four lotteries of 100 centos of rein each, from which 12 per
cent. shall be deducted for the benefit of those emigrants."
—(Here follows the plan of the proposed lotteries.)
JAN. 2.—Yesterday morning at nine o'clock their Im-
perial Majesties left the residence of the Marquis do
Canta Gallo, and went to Boa Vista, with a numerous
suite, and followed by a great number of persons eager to
express their joy at the recovery of their Majesties.
The Emperor, on taking leave of the Marquis de Canto
Callo, honoured him with an Imperial letter, expressing
his deep sense of his signal services, and conferring on him
the honour of Grand Dignitary of the Order of the Rose,
of which he presented him the most splendid insignia.
The Empress also presented to the Marchioness her por-
trait, richly set in diamonds.
JAN. 22.—•0n the 20th a grand ball was given by the
Court and Household of the Emperor on his happy reco-
very. The Emperor and Empress, his Most Faithful Ma-
jesty, their Royal Highnesses Don Parala and Donna Fran.
cisco, and the Pi ince of Leuchtenburg, were present.—
We shill describe in a future number this brilliant enter-
tainment, and content ourselves with adding, for the satis-
faction of our readers, that his Majesty the Emperor ap-
peared to be perfectly recovered, and by his cheerfulness
arid affability enchanted all those who were present.

LISBON, MARCH J.

To-day was carried into effect the sentence passed upon
the individuals guilty of the horrible excesses committed
in one of the churches in the Island of Madeira. They
►ere conveyed to the Caes do Jodie, where they were
strangled. Three of them were brought to the place of
execution on hides, drawn by horses, their bodies burnt,
and the ashes thrown into the sea.

We have received this morning German
Papers to the 19th inst. The Nurernburg
Correspondent gives an extract from the Bigen-
horde, published at the Hague, to the effect, that
the Project of Law on public instruction having
met with considerable oppositition in the Sec-
tions, will probably be withdrawn. "It is
affirmed," adds the same authority, " that the
Law on the Press will have the same fate":—

TIIE HAGUE.
SITTINGS OF THE SECOND CHAMBER OF THE
STATES-GENERAL, MAncit 19 AND 20.

The debate on the Code de Procedure Criminelle was
continued ; the result was as follows :

Chap. 6 adopted by 70 to 25
7 ditto by 92 to 8
8 ditto by 80 to 13
9 ditto Unanimously.
10, 11, 12 ditto ditto
13 ditto by 86 to 10
14, 15 Unanimously.
16 by 65 to 31
17 by 91 to I
BRUSSELS, MARCH 22.

A Russian Cabinet Messenger passed through this city
yesterday afternoon, with despatches from London for St.
Petersburgh.

MARCH 23.—An Austrian Cabinet Messenger arrived
here yesterday evening from Vienna, with despatches from
London.

The Biymkorf, published at the Hague, contains the
Following article :—.

" The project of law on public instruction has met
with so much opposition in the Sections, that it is said it
will be withdrawn. It is affirmed, that the law on the
Press will have the same fate."

The Ilandelsblad says, under the head, " The Hague,"
—" It is said, that the law on public instruction will be
withdrawn by the Government, because in the Sections
the majority of the Members were of opinion, that the
time is not come to introduce new legislative regulations
on this subject.

BERLIN, MARCH 12.

The loan contracted for paying off the preceding Eng-
lish loans is a financial operation advantageous to the state,
and beneficial to the contractor. The house of Rothschild
takes the Four per Cent. Loan above par.
The inundations which have again ravaged the Prussian
provinces give reason to fear a farther diminution in the
revenue : however, the damage done this time is not so
great, because the corn fields, being still hard frozen, could
not be so much injured as last year. It appears, too,
that the falling off in the gross amount of the revenue of
last year will not prove so great as there was reason to ap-
prehend.

sTurrGARn, MARCH 14.
In yesterday's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies, M.
&Alma) announced, in the name of the Government, that
it intended to convoke an Extraordinary Assembly .)f the
Diet, to deliberate on various important matters relative
to the administration of justice, the penal code, &c. The
Chamber has now closed the debates on the budget for
the next three years.

VIENNA, }LARCH 13.
An Engl6ll, a French, and a Russian Courier, coming

from London, have hastened through this city on their
Way to Constantinople.

ST. PRTERSRURCH, MARCH 10.

It appears from the annual report of the Board of Fo-
reign Commerce that the total amount of the importations
into the Russian empire last year, on which duty was
paid, was 202,648,313 rubles, aed the total exports
253,934,164 rubles, being a difference of above 51 mil-
lions in favour of the exportation.
The greatest increase was in the exportation of tallow,
which amounted to nearly four and a half millions of
poods : the quantity of hemp exported was considerably
less than in preceding years.

Despatches were received at the Foreign-office
this morning from Lisbon, dated 14th March ;
from Rio Janeiro, dated 28th January; and also
from our Ambassadors at Paris and Brussels.

At the Colonial-office, despatches have been
received from Malta, dated 9th February ; from
Gibraltar, dated 3d March ; and from the Go-
vernor of Barbadoes.

Although Mr. M. A. TAYLOR has dropped
the Bill he introduced for diminishing " the
" inconvenience and expense of Commissioners,
" in the nature of writs de lunatic° inquirendo,"
its introduction has not been without benefit,
since it has occasioned the practice regarding
Lunatic Commissions to be looked into, and
the LORD CHANCELLOR has, in consequence,
declared that he has the power to direct these
Commissions to a Judge of Nisi Prius, a
course which we fervently hope will hence-
forth be invariably pursued. His Lordship,
when speaking in the House of Lords
on the proposed amendments in the law, ad-
verted to this subject, and stated, " that in
" general the expence of a (Lunacy) Commis-
" sion was very trifling, although there had been
" cases where the costs were most enormous,"
and referred particularly to the cases of LORD
PORTSMOUTH, Mr. DAVIS, and Mr. BOWLES.
Expence is, no doubt, a matter of great import-
ance ; but the open, fair, and honest administra-
tion of justice is of still greater importance.
Few Commissions may be of such importance,
from the station of the parties, or the course of
the proceedings before the Commission, as to
attract much public attention, divided as it ever
must be with so many other passing events ;
but it is never to be forgotten that to the
humblest individual, whose fate is decided
by a Lunatic Commission, it is a ques-
tion not only of privation of property,
but of every enjoyment which renders life de-
sirable, including personal liberty, in most cases
for the term of existence, and too frequently
under circumstances the most distressing and

revolting.
The LORD CHANCELLOR, when addressing
the House on the occasion before alluded to,
stated it was "desirable that the business of the
Courts of Law should be conducted in the
presence of the public, and in the open view
of the whole profession." It is with
feelings of the highest gratification we record
that such is the avowed opinion of the highest
legal functionary in the kingdom, which inspires
a general confidence that no Commission of
Lunacy will again be issued by his fiat to any
but a Judge of Nisi Prins, and that the fate of
alleged lunatics will not in future be permitted
to be decided upon in holes and corners, before
Juries suddenly, though it may be, not surrepti-
tiously assembled, often in a pot-house, upon
evidence that would not be listened to, or dared
not be adduced in a public Court of Justice.—
We should nevertheless have much preferred the
enactment proposed by Mr. M. A. TAYLOR,
since, as past Chancellors, who, it seems, pos-
sessed the power to direct Lunatic Commis-
sions to a Judge of Nisi Prins, in practice,
invariably directed them to private Commis-
sioners, the public have no security without some
such enactment, that future Chancellors may not
recur to the like practice.

We know of no case in which the high func
Lions of a Judge of the land are more impe-
riously required to be exercised, than where the
property and liberty of au individual are at stake,
and to be decided on by the same verdict, or
any in which an individual has a higher claim to
the protection of the law, than in a case of al-
leged lunacy, when, if the allegation be well
founded, he is suffering under the heaviest of
human calamities ; and, if groundless, the mere
imputation deprives him,—if not of the personal
ability to defend himself,—yet deprives that
defence of the respect and attention to which it
would in other cases, and under other circum-
stances, be entitled and receive, while in many
instances he is deprived by the parties who
bring forward the charge, of the means of
obtaining effectual legal advice and assist-
ance. We cannot imagine the course pro-
posed is likely to add in any material degree to
the business of the Judges, since, when it is once
known that every Lunacy case must be argued
in open Court before a Judge of Nisi Prius, a
Commission will seldom be sought that cannot
be honestly and openly supported.

BENEFIT OF THE LAW.—A man named
PETER WALSH was tried and acquitted, at the Sligo As-
sizes, on a charge of stealing ten pounds of straw, alleged
to be the property of a Magistrate of that county. The
straw, it appeared, was worth but two-pence, and on sus-
picion of stealing it, the unfortunate man was confined in
prison for sixty-three days. This is one of the beauties
of the Irish system.—hublin Morning Register.

ELOPLMENT.—A youthful pair, flying on
the wings of love to the haven of their wishes, were
arrested at Galbally, county Limerick, last Wednesday,
by the police. The young lady was supposed to be a ward
of Chancery, and those faithful guardians took her from
the chaise in which she was posting with her intended.
The names of the parties and their destination is yet a
mystery.
- - -

Died, suddenly, on Saturday morning, Mr.
N. LAMB, blacksmith, of Tonbridge. He went to bed
between 11 and 12 o'clock, in good health, and about four
his wife was awakened by his struggling, and before she
could procure a light he expired. He has left a wife and
a large family, who must now be supported by the parish.
—Mu idstone Journal.

r;4`An inquest was held on the body of THOMAs
BRADLEY, a journeyman silk-weaver, 61 years of age.
Ile had,heen afflicted with fever, and was compelled to re-
ceive relief from a benefit club, to which he had been a
subscriber upwards of 25 years. From some unexplained
reason the stewards had resolved to scratch him off the
books, and this circumstance operating upon the weakness
induced by illness, disturbed his reason, and, taking ad-
vantage of the temporary absence of his son, he hung him-
Insanity.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.)

FROM LLOYD'S.

Dem., MArtcrt 24.—Wind W.—Arrived from London,
the Claude, Sergeant, from Demerara. Arrived, the
Southworth transport, from Valparaiso ; the Admiral
Cockburn, from the South Seas ; the Antoine, Harwood,
from Lisbon ; and the Rosanna, Forster, from Berbiee.
PORTSMOUTH, MARCII 24.—Wind N. W.—Arrive
his Majesty's ship Spartiate, from the Mediterranean ;
and from London, the Richard and Sibella, for Jamaica.
FALMOUTH, MARCH 24.—Wind N.W.—Arrived the
Cygnet packet, from Rio Janeiro, sailed 26th January ;
the Emulous packet, from the Mediterranean, sailed from
Malta the 9th ult., from Gibraltar the Sd inst., and from
Cadiz the 7th ; the Stanmore packet, from Lisbon, sailed
the 14th inst. ; also arrived tke Harding, Gibson, from
Pernambuco.

ALDIRNEY, Aliacn 20.—A wreck having been seen
yesterday off this island, some boats went out, and succeeded
in bringing her into Linge Bay. She proves to be the
Despatch, of Exeter, no person on board, and both masts
gone; she is laden with brandy; 33 hhds. and 9 pipes are
already landed.

The Eliza, Brewer, from the Mauritius, has arrived og
Dover.

The Charles, Hart, from Oporto, has arrived off Porte'
mouth.

Vessels spoken with.—The St. George, from Batavia to
England, on the 3d inst., in lat. 25. long. 36 ; and the
Helena Christina, from Batavia to Rotterdam, i❑ lat. 127.
long. 36., by the Fanny, arrived off the Wight.

THE FUNDS.—(THIS DAY.)
CITY, T WEL O'CLOCK
A Mail has arrived from Lisbon, brought by the Stan-
mer, sailed 14th March.
A Mail from Malta, by the Emulous, sailed on the 9th
February, and from Gibraltar 3d March.
A Mail from the Brazils, by the Cygnet, sailed from
Rio Janeiro 26th January.
Some late advices have been received from Chili, stating
that a general dissatisfaction prevails in that country ; the
Intendant had marched into the capital at the head of 600
foot and 1,000 cavalry to upset the Government.
There has been a great failure at Martinique to the
amount of 100,0001. sterling.
Accounts from Servia state that the Grand Sultan was
expected in the month of May at Adrianople, to organise
that province.
Admiral Mallet, of the squadron of Algiers, was on the
point of his departure for Toulon, to superintend the at,.
liniment. One thousand head of cattle were 'on the waY
to Toulon, to be embarked. It is said the fleet is to be
provisioned for six months. The brig Alacrity has at'
rived at Toulon from Navarin—left the Ist of March.
She brings accounts that Admiral Rigny had sailed for
Poros, where he found the English Admiral and Admiral
Heytien, and, after a long conference with them, departed
for Egina, and had a long interview with Capo d'lstria.
Accounts front Madrid, of the 11 th of March, stale
that the Queen was pregnant. The King has prohibited
all religious books from entering Spain.
THE FUNDS.
The Express from Paris, arrived this morning, does 11°t,
appear to be of much interest; all was quiet there, o'l
not the least fear of disturbances taking place. M. Villele
has arrived in the above capital, supposed to take an ac-
tive part in the present state of affairs. The French Renter
have come lower ; in consequence of which the Consul
Market is not so good as yesterday, when they left off
92i / for the Account, and opened this morning at 921,
and 94 for Money; at present they are 92-g, alternately
buyers and Fellers, with little doing. The reduction of
the Four per Cents. has not had any effect on the Market
as yet, although it is the opinion of the well informed that
the Ministers' plan will succeed.
In the Foreign Market Greek Stock has improved one
per cent. Brazil Stock has declined about one per cent.
ENGLISH FUNDS.
31 per Cent.
New 4 per Cent., 1021
4 per Cent. 1826,
India Bonds, 78 79
Exchequer Bills, 78 '79
FUNDS.
Greek, 401 41
Mexican, soi 11
Peruvian, 20 1
Portuguese, 681 91
Prussian,
Russian, 110
Spanish, 141

Bank Stock,
India Stock,
3 per Cent. Cuns. 921
Do. for Account, 92 t
Ditto Reduced,

FOREIG
Brazilian, 704 71
Buenos Ayres, 31 33
Chilian,
Colombian, 204 21+
Danish, 751
French, 5 per Cent. 106 7
Ditto, S per Ceat. 83i 4

TWO O'CLOCK.
Up to the present hour there is a dead calm in the Como!
Market, and scarce a bargain has been done during the
whole of the morning. Consols have continued at 921
for the Account, alternately buyers and sellers. It is
holiday at the Bank, consequently no money transaction)
have taken place for this day.
The private accounts from Rio Janeiro are not of 0
favourable nature. The Government have been endes
vouring to raise a loan to take from circulation the bank
paper, but hitherto they have not succeeded. Their trey'
sury is rather in a sickly state, and the Six per Cent. Loan
has fallen from 69 to 641. Exchange, 231. We do net
hear of any political information having occurred.
The town of Leipsic, which raised a loan during the wart
intend to pay it off, if the bondholders will take 3 per cent;
We also understand that the Grand Duke of Nassau, al
Ensinghen, who has his bonds out at four per cent., in'
tends paying them off at 31 per cent.
In the Foreign Market there is more business going for'
ward than in the British, particularly in Greek Bond
which have improved per cent., but Brazilian securities
have gone down about one per cent., owing to the unite
vourable accounts from Rio Janeiro of the inability of the
Government to raise money.
Up to the present hour we have no political informatioO'
7 HREE 0' CL 0 CK.
Consols for Account, 92k.
FOUR O'CLOCK.—CLOSING PRICES.
Consols 92} - Danish
Do. for Ac. 924 I Greek, 1825 40
Brazilian Bonds 71 Mexican, 1825 30i
Buenos Ayres 3-f, Peruvian 19,1
Chilian Do. Russian 1101
Columbian, 1824, 21 Spanish 144