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the Ministry, and the co-operation of which would be indis-
pensably necessary to enable me to support myself with advan-
tage. My painful refusal is, therefore, but the result
id. my
total conviction that my, entry into the
neithr beeefitfti: ;,.`e 'eptiti4y, nor to
As a iou TlV.conscienCe
E ill AVIA act's ,j‘,tipts: it-41131d be
1 Atit&oW, tit.2l:S L iiiSapproVe. Loncerning the thensLi-,s
you n:ay hereafter propose, you may rely on my7fullco-opyra-
tion; providing they tire qf lirvitrosiv.p to tale
uitinost poisible extey. tAs a fitcfail Atici cringrant,Copipinion
\AciSitlitteS, t trust t shall never deny the kindness
I owe to the affection you have always shown me.
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• The Madrid Gazette of the esOtv'tn; the follOW-
ing despatcb,t‘ddre4ed tht; nliiister or vv ar
M'At tX''cutient Sir,—The Mariscal de Campo, Don Juan
ralasea, Captain-General ad interim of this province and the
province of Valencia, under the date of last night, at half-past
o'clock, writes to me as follows from Cheste
" Most Excellent have to:day Complete)y deflated
the rebels united order the command of Cabrera in the high
(tad diracult rnotmtains on the right of the royal road going
from Chiva to itequena: The result of this brilliant day has
been to leave on the field of battle between 250 and 300 rebels
killed, with many wounded, whom they appear to have Carried
away, from the traces of blood, the rest dying shamefully.
Oar loss consists in four killed of the battalions of Lorca and
Ceuta, and some wounded. We have taken possession of
several horses, accoutrements, and a large quantity of arms,
which remain in our camp. We pursued the rebels for more
than two hours and a half, till at last our troops and horses
were unequal to greater fatigue.
" The troops of the line, as well the• National luard, per.
formed their duties to my entire satisfaction, which I hasten to
communicate to your Excellency, until I shall be able to extend
a more detailed despatch.
" I forward this to your Excellency by express, for the
satisfaction of her Majesty.
" Valencia, April 3, 1836.' "
The only other news in the Papers received consist of
rumours to which it would be idle to attach the slightest
importance. MENDIZABAL is now strong Id dim

We have received German and Brussels Papers, the for-
mer to the 10th, the latter to the 12th inst. The German
journals announce that a railroad is about to be constructed
which shall connect the cities of Vienna and Milan by a
direct line. This, indeed would soon alter the face of
Italy.

On the 10th inst. Messrs, BOWRING and THOMAS had
an audiende of the King of the BELGIANS, when his Ma-
jesty expressed to them the plaasure it would afford him to
assist in the construction of a railroad which would connect
London, Paris, and Brussels. Mr. Bowania had subse-
quently an interview with the Ministers, and several of the
most influential merchants, who all agreed that the project
was Mg JP.72:fable, and that they would contribute to its
a.qc‘":;ptishment by every means in their power. Mr. Bow-
RING immediately afterwards left Brussels for London.
- -

The Deputies of Cologne and Aix la Chapelle have also
resolved upon carrying a Railway from Cologne to the
frontiers of Belgium
The Government of Saxony is engaged in the formation,
or rather the revision, of a new penal code. The punish-
ments, in the opinion of the Augsburg Gazette, are too
mild. We are of quite a different opinion.
The punishments are death ; the house of correction in
the first degree, i. e. for life, and for a certain time up to
20 years ; the house of correction in the second degree
(15 years at the most) ; the workhouse (up to 10 years);
imprisonment, labour, fine, reprimand. As aggravation
corporal chastisement may be inflicted, but not more than
30 lashes, and only on males : weak persons and females,
instead of corporal punishment, may be punished by de-
priving them of warm food every other day. Criminals
under 18 years of age cannot suffer any more severe punish-
ment than confinement in the workhouse. Persons can-
not be called to account for- crimes after the lapse of 15
years, except in the case of those to which the penalty of
death is attached, and which are the following .-
1. High Treason—lncludinc, attacks on the indepen-
dence and constitution of the German Confederation.
2. Murder.

3. Arson—But only when an inhabitant has perished
and been mutilated, and the result might have been fore-
seen ; when fire is set to several places at once ; when se-
veral persons have combined together to commit arson ;
when the criminal has rendered the means of extinguishing
the fire useless (cutting the hose of the engines, &c.)
4. Perjury—lf an innocent person has suffered death
in consequence.

5. Robbery—When the person robbed dies in conse-
quence of the injury done by the violence inflicted on him.
Duelling to be punished with imprisonment for various
periods, from two months up to twenty years, according to
the case, viz.—from five to twenty years when one is killed,
and it was previously agreed to fight. till one fell ; from
three to six years when one falls without such previous
agreement ; front two months to one year when neither
party is dangerously wounded.
Cases of relapse are punished at the discretion of the
Judge, with, at the most, the double of the legal penalty.
In general, much scope is left for the discretion of the Judge.

BELGIAN FUNDS, BRUSSELS, APRIL 11.
Actual Debt, 2,,,.; per Cent.
itothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent. IOIN
Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent 9S%
Society of Commerce, 45c; per Cent. I2S%
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent ll6
—Brussels Papers, April 12.

New York papers to the 22nd ult. have been received.
The following accounts of the Indian war in Florida includes
all that is either interesting or important in their columns :

LATE AND IMPORTANT FROM FLORIDA.—BATTLE. WITH
THE INDIANS.—We learn officially that General Gaines was
attacked on the night of the 26th Feb., by about 1,500 Indians
as he supposes, and after two hours' hard fighting he succeeded
in beating them off. -The loss on our side is 4 killed and 20
wounded ; among the latter, two officers. Gen. Gaines is in a
dangerous situation ; to use his own expression, "his wounded
are increasing, and his horses decreasing." He is short of
provisions, and entrenched and surrounded by the enemy.
LETTER FROM FLORIDA—By the ship Lafayette, We have
received a Charleston paper of the 13th inst., from which the
following extract is made :—" General Clinch, with his forces,
in conjunction with the Alchusa militia, making in all about
800, had gone to aid General Gaines. He reached the camp
on Saturday last, and effected a junction with him. With
their united forces amounting to nearly 2,000 men, General
Gaines intended crossing the Withlacooche on Monday last.
His boats, floating bridges, &c., were all prepared. He has
four 12-pounders, with which to cover his landing, on the op-
posite side. The Indians will undoubtedly make a desperate
struggle to prevent his crossing. On Monday the firing of
cannon was distinctly heard. It is all over now, and we are
anxious to hear the result."

MILLINERS.—We have to offer our meed of praise
to Dr. Hodgkin, for setting forth the unpitied lot of milliners.
Condemned, like glass-blowers, or those who work in metals,
or toil in manufactories, to breathe a heated vitiated air, they
are still more debarred from exercise, and they are even kept
longer at work. Almost daily experience shows the effects
of this system to medical men, in the ruined constitution
of young females. Inquire into their habits, and it is found
that they go to work as soon as they rise in the morning,
perhaps at six o'clock ; that their meals are hastily taken,
that they seldom or never walk out, but sit at work till
eight o'clock, often till ten o'clock, and sometimes, when fa-
shion demands more exertion from its slaves, till after mid-
night. Young as many of them are, they soon feel the effects
of this regimen, and the after consequences to their health
are very serious. Their first physical misery is indigestion ;
then follow amennerrhcea, debility, perhaps phthisis ; or, if
they survive, diseases of the liver, severe pains, anasarca, and
ulcers of the legs. When to this we add that they are, as
Dr. Hodgkin observes, deprived of the comforts of home and
domestic habits, that their occupation gives rise to a love of
dress, and that this increases the danger of temptation to
which they are exposed, we have a lamentable picture of what
may be suffered by one class of people in order to minister to
the extravagance of others.—From the British and Foreign
Medical Review, April 1836.
An old man at Pau, in France, having, after many
itatiortiimotitdblotfaht.ori
ergi
getopriltion:
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years of toil, amassed a sum of money which he considered
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returned
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hesitation e d
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the evening subsequently to his interview with the mayor, a
gendarme, who lodged in his house, returned home as usual,
stlpped with the old man and his wife, and then retired to bed.
About midnight a knocking was heard at the door. " Who is
there ?" was the question. " Friends I" was the reply ; and
the door was opened, when two men wearing masks rushed in,
and demanded of the old woman, whom they first encountered,
all the money In the house. She pretended to go and get it,
but at this moment the gendarme appeared at the top of the
u
staircase, and discharged two pistols at the robbers, who
tin-
stantly fell wounded on the floor. The officer, and
n
d immediatelyook
off
ran to the house of the mayor, but he was not at home. Be
their
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discovered to be—the
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A VEMAtt F.REEHOLDEIL--A good deal of cu-
riosity Was excited at our Quarter Sessions on Saturday last,
no reasonfemales
b al-
lowed by the fact of a maiden lady well known here (Miss. Jane
Quinton) having previously given notice of her Intention to
register as a freeholder of the borough, and presenting herself
for that purpose before J. Bessonet,.oEtso the e
Esq., Assistant-Barris-
ter.aa The Chairman refused to enter when Miss
jQuinton o
votvote addressed
at
vestries, andaod said,sh e
could' In
seeD üblin
should be debarred the same privilege at elections for IVle.mbers
of Parliament, nor was there any
if law
ou disqualifying thcm.,,
The Chairman—" Well, Ma'am, y yourself ag-
grieved, you may appeal to the going Judge of Assize." Miss
Quinton expressed her determination to
_do so, saying, " In
the mean time, it is one vote lost to the Protestant cause."—
Fermanagh Reporter.
,Elizabeth Armvtake, of Cal-
WILFUL IVIuRDER
verley, has been committed to York Castle, for trial at the
summer assizes, charged with the wilful murder of Joseph
years of
agTeh,eapadriseoanuesd
prisoner is an elderly woman, about seventy
the
death of the deceased, who
was her grandson, by strangulation,

HARLEQUIN DAN.

"The Grand Conpervative Festival that took place at C0.4n1-2,10.14,1eil 14.4 i i§ dn6 not likely to. be soon forgotten."
•LAlortng Paget

.allioed, o
hkw r6naell'sytlruuaenetr ftarnicckys she plays.
Last night, as "tinged in deee tJpdsei
hearing lils Grace Of liearkrt ~t'ty tit
Arid Sidneetal nerelfoqi jaUiering hard on,
In bigotry's praise, at Covent-OM:1n!
linocideld ay;7ay in a snug retreat,
At the baCit of thle pit; for §:knit-be). ineet,
I dreamed—bow odd at Vrie
'Twas the first new night of a Pantomime,
And each Tory Orator instead
Of playing the -statesman thorough-bred,
Was filayiag,---Ai idea on't makes site
The ogfe or giant In first-rate style,
And looking as tierce as that vile drefft
Whom Jack the Giant-killer slew,
tho; otherwise, reader, diftring fait •
From those with whom Jack Went id war.,
For they, like old Geryow, of Greece,
Had some of thetti get 111 ad head 4 azpiece,.
While these, tho' so swaggering, stdrn, arid
Had scarcely a head among them all.
Willie tinid they gthiggsrod, as giants should
About the stage, in loftiest mood,
Each acting his part with wondrous glee
And infinite rtropfiety,
In rushed, with Hibernian breadth of grin,
O'Connell in form of Harlequin
The giants eyed him with looks askance,
As though they could kill him at a glanCa,
iiut villisking out, amid the storm,
His wand-oli *Molt Wa4 wilt " Reform,"
He played such tricks that tOuf Anti foetal'?
Pit, box, and gallery, shook with laughter.
First he tapped Lord Winchilsea on the crown
And changed the giant into a Clown;
And then with another thwack full soon
Changed Beaufort into a Pantaloon,
And Clumber's Duke—his fiercest foeman—
Into a drivelling, dull old woman,
And the rest, according to Pantomime's rules,
Into quacks and mountebanks, knaves and fools.
Nor these Dan's wildest freaks, for ho
Waving his wand of glamourie,
The scene, of late so gay and jolly,
Changed to the solemn Temple of Folly,
Beneath whose well-filled, lordly dome
'Twas plain the actors felt at home ;
But oh, while low they bowed the knee
To the Temple's guardian Deity,
And made all sorts of apt orations,
Immortal Folly's own creations,
Dan waved his wand again, and 10,
The Temple, with all its pomp and show,
Blew up with a stunning crash, that broke
The bonds of slumber, and I awoke,
Just in time to hear the groanings strong
That burst from the frantic Tory throng,
As Beaufort bewailed, almost in tears,
The impending fall of the House of Peers.

It is said that John Smith, Esq., of Grosvenor-
square, and Dale-park, Sussex ; W. T. Copeland, Esq.,
M. P., of Lincoln's Inn-fields, and Leyton, Essex (the present
Lord Mayor) ; and T. W. Beaumont, Esq., M. P., of 144,
Piccadilly, and Hexham Abbey, Northumberland, are to be
created Baronets.
The University of Cambridge being in the See of
Ely, the successor of Dr. Sparke will be a member of that
body, for the Government could not inflict a greater insult on
the University than appointing an Oxford man ; but we believe
Dr. Allen is a Fellow of Trinity College, where his patron,
Earl Spencer, graduated.—Morning Paper.
There is no expectation, we believe at present, of
his Excellency the Russian Ambassador resigning his embassy
to Count Matuszewic, and quitting this country. Owing to
ill health the Count was a short time ago desirous of visiting
the Continent, for the improvement of his health, but be is
now quite well, and it is said he is not likely to leave England
until the close of the summer, when be will probably proceed
to one of the German spas for a short time.

The Russian Ambassador entertained Lord Burg-
hersh and a few friends at dinner, on Monday, and afterwards
went to witness the French performances at the St. James's
Theatre, where he has taken a box for the season.
The sum paid for the use of Covent-garden-Thea-
tre, for the entertainment yesterday, is 3001., a large part of
which will be defrayed by the money paid for admission to the
boxes.

The tickets for the grand Westminster Conservative
dinner on St. George's day, at Willis's Rooms, are in such
demand that the company will be much more numerous than
was at first expected. The Conservatives are increasing in
all d i rect ions. Korn ing Post.

Westminster Half is expected to be opened, the
first time since it has undergone a thorough repair, to-morrow,
preparatory to Easter Term being opened by the Judges.
The walls are lined with stone, similar to Bath stone, and has
a very fine effect ; and it has been newly floored. The
unique roof has been cleansed and repaired, and the repairs
of the grand gothic window were finished yesterday.
SPAIN.—One of Don Carlos's bravest officers, Don
Vincent Cordea, surnamed El Rojo de San Vincente, is dead
of his wounds. He was buried on the sth at Larranza.

EAST INDIA HOUSE.—Yesterday a ballot was
taken at the East India House for the choice of six Directors
to serve for the next four years, in the room of Wm. Astell,
Esq., Wm. B. Bayley, Esq., Russell Ellice, Esq., Richard
Jenkins, Esq., Campbell Marjoribanks, Esq., and John Mas-
terman, Esq., who go out by 'rotation. There was no oppo-
sition anticipated to the House list. The following gentle-
men were recommended by the Court of Directors, viz.
John Cotton, Esq., John Forbes, Esq., John Loch, Eft.,
Charles Mills, Esq., Henry Shank, Esq., and Henry gt.
George Tucker, Esq. At six o'clock the glasses were closed,
and the scrutineers having investigated their contents, declared
that the election had fallen upon the gentlemen named, after
which the Court adjourned.
Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East
India House, when the thanks of the Court were voted una-
nimously to Wm. Stanley Clarke, Esq., Chairman, and Sir
James R. Carnac, Bart., Deputy Chairman, for their great
application and attention to the affairs of the East India Com-
pany during the past year.
The contest between the candidates for the office of
Clerk to the Board of Guardians for the united parishes of
the Strand Union terminated yesterday by their electing Mr.
Corder, vestry clerk of the parish of St. Paul, Covent-gar-
den. The salary is 3001. per annum, and the attendance re-
quired is from ten o'clock in the forenoon until four in the
afternoon, every day in the week, except Sunday. There is
much canvassing in Covent-garden parish for the office of ves-
try clerk, the office having become vacant by the resignation
of Mr. Corder. There are four candidates in the field.
It appears from letters received from various districts
that the rain for some time past has been general throughout
the country, and has checked the labours of the agriculturits,
who complain of the saturated state of the soil and the effects
of the unseasonable weather in March, during the usual seed-
ing time.
It may concern the Prince of Capua to learn, that
the Milan Gazette of the sth publishes the royal decree of
1829, forbidding all Neapolitan Princes to marry without
the royal consent. Austria is thus adverse to the late Miss
Smyth's pretensions.
We hear that Sir George Tapps, the Member for
Christchurch, is about to lay out a large sum in the formation'
of an entirely new watering-place on the coast, between that
town and Poole.

A smart shock of an earthquake was felt through an
extensive district in Shropshire about 8 o'clock on Easter
Monday. The workmen in the coal and iron mines of Mr.
Botfield, at Old Park, and Dawley, were terrified from their
labour, thinking that it was an explosion of fire-damp. The
same was felt through Colebrook-dale, Wellington, and Apley
Castle. It extended also to the opposite side of the river, to
Bridgenorth, Wenlock, &c. It is somewhat remarkable that
a similar shock occurred in the same neighbourhood at about
the same season two years ago.— Worcester Guardian.
The Hon. Captain Gordon hesitates not to assert
that the Aberdeen Schools Bill is very objectionable in princi-
ple. This is just what might have been expected from a
thorough-paced Tory hack. He can see nothing good in a
measure which deprives his county supporters of a snug sum of
money, that they would gladly have employed in improving
their estates, and which appropriates it to increase the means
of spreading knowledge. He has good reason to be Opposed
to the Bill. It was right that so distinguished an individual
as Captain Gordon should add to his condemnation of the
Schools Bill, a laudatory notice of the Tory Association of
Old Aberdeen, as nobody else would have thought of bearing
testimony to the merits of that wonderful body, and of bringing
it into such prominence.—Aberdeen Herald.
While the London papers state that Nina Lassave
is displaying herself at a Coffee-house, in the Strand, a Tou-
louse journal announces her arrival in that town.
ANCIENT RELIC.—On Monday last, in a ploughed
field, at the bottom of Marygate, York, belonging to Mr.
Priestman, a boy of the name of William Hughes found what
at first appeared to be a large copper coin, but which, on ex-
amination, proved to be made of lead, covered with a strong
copper-coloured pigment. It is in a high state of preserva-
tion, and of about the size of the oldest coinage of penny-
pieces, but a little thicker. On the obverse are two faces,
three-quarter fronts, and looking towards each other; be-
tween them is a mace or sceptre, with the figure of a cross,
and a little ball terminating it ; and above are the letters,
S P A S P E, in Roman capitals. The reverse presents,
in bold characters, in three lines, NICO LMUS P-13.
There is a kind of circumflex above the PP. A strong beaded
line encircles each die of the coin or medal, and both the faces
on the obverse are similarly surrounded,—,Leeds jneelligencer.

DUBLIN ELECTION COMMITTEE.

THIS DAY.

The Committee re-assembled this morning at 11 o'clock,
and remained in deliberation till near two o'clock, when the
following Resolution was read by the clerk :
" That although the Treasurer''s warrant for the Wide
Street Tax for Michaelmas Term, 18.641 Tits not been
consideringproduced ; yet, the legal prestirtiption raised
by
-Le obligations of the Act, and connecting tint.
Cott trect
teas.._ of Johnston the Collector, and the
eorroboratiori iiikriN4l. by tit, block receipts, it is the opinion
of the .Committee that in of suela a rate having been
made is sufficiently proved. 3
`lit atey th.q, 1-2 th section of ilite het 47th Geo. 111.,
chap. 74, the rlst df fi'Oibsliable to be rated must tie made by
tlic proper officer within 21 driolkeole the sitting4lay of Easter
cam Old transmitted to the Treagfit'ei'? and as it doss not ap-
pear that mlthority exists for any alteration therein' until
the succeeding Easier; MI houses included in the .list which
the first instalment of the raid trm'Yided by the 10th lotion
was charged must have continued etd-rgeßble with the
coed, or Michaelmas instalment, for the Payne year,
and that the house No. 111, New- street, being includedis the
Easter applotment, was therefore, together with the owner ttfld
occupier thereof, so chargeable.
" That Garret Doyle registered for the house No. 111,
New-street, and voted on that qualification on the 15th of
January, 1835, thereby admitting himself to be the occupier.
" That at the time or voting, the Wide-street tax for
Easter Term, and that for Michaelmas Term, chargeable on
No'. 111, New ,street, remained unpaid, and that Garret Doyle,
being i!v4itf(sl-6 in arrears more than six months amount of a
municipal tax, .104 vote cannot be allowed."
This placed Mr. O'Connell in a minority of one, and
Counsel on his behalf struck off two of the petitimer's voters
who were proved to be insolvents.
The Counsel for the petitioners then proceeded with their
scrutiny.

THE FUNDS.--(THIS DAY).

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK

• New 'Vorl4 Papers to the 22d ult., Philadelphia to the 20th
ult., Charleston to the 12th ult., Washington to the 20th ult.,
New Orleans to the sth ult., Norfolk to the 12th ult., Boston
Id itOth ult., Montreal to the 16th ult., and Quebec to the
12th ult., hale been this day received.
Of the war in Merida the following intelligence is extrac-
ted from the Washington Telegraph:—
" The accounts from Florida are of the most intcresting
character. From a slip received last evening from the office
of the Charleston Mercury, we learn that General Clinch,
with 800 men, joined General Gaines at his encampment on the
4th inst, and that Gaines intended crossing the river the next
day, to attack the Indians. He had his boats and rafts all
ready, and six twelve pounders, to cover the landing of his
men on the opposite side. It is said that the Indians
are encamped about four miles from the river, and that
they are protected by a breast-work which they have thrown up
of egt tlt, and their principal force is on that point. The
firing of catnliM was distinctly heard at Fort Drane on the sth
inst., and we hate no doubt General Gaines has before this
succeeded in passing the river, and has completely beaten the
Indians. To prevent the Indians from learning his strength,
General Gaines showed no more than 200 men. By all his
movements he has showed great skill."
SENATE.—ADJOURNMENT OF CONGRESS.

Mr. King intimated that he would move to fill up the reso-
lution with the words "on Monday, the 80th May," for the
adjournment of Congress.
The navigation of the Delaware is now open, and several
vessels reached Philadelphia on Thursday.
The Montreal Papers are not of much importance. They
had received the English Papers, containing the King's
speech. They state they must again point out to the Consti-
tutionalists the necessity of employing a political agent at home
during the ensuing season, as the English inhabitants of that
province have to shield themselves against the paid emissaries,
both of the French faction, and of the Frenchified Cabinet—
against Lord Gosford and Co., as well as against Mr. Roe-
buck and Co. _ . .

............... _._.
The Quebec Papers state—" The inclement winter, it is
hoped, is just about to close. It has brought with it a variety
of diseases. Scarlet fever, limited however to the young
branches of families, has been very prevalent, though the
cases arc diminishing ; it was remarked that they were seldom
fatal."

We have received the Journal du Commerce of Antwerp
of yesterday's date, bringing the Dutch Journals of the 12th
inst. It appears that the papers from Java of the 30th Dec.,
state that, on Nov. 1, an earthquake took place, which caused
terrible disasters in the islands of Motuara and Amboine-58
persons perished by the blowing up of a Caserene in the inte-
rior, and 66 were wounded. The Chinese camp was inun-
dated, and the new mole was destroyed. They were anx-
iously waiting for further details, concerning this disastrous
event.