The Sun.
London, England, 1831-03-30 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Portsmouth Herald of Sunday.)
PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 26.—His Majesty's ship Belvi-
dera, 46, Captain the Hon. R. S. Dundas, fitting for the
Mediterranean station, is•expected to proceed thither about
the 10th of next month. Mr. Farm, appointed his Ma-
jesty's Consul-General for Syrit, and family, will go out
01 passengers.

The Navy Board steam-vessel Lightning, Mr. John
Allen, Master, is hourly expected from the River, with
Commissioner th,her and family, Sze. when they will im-
mediately embark on board the Sapphire, for a passage to
Bermuda.

We mentioned some short time since that his Majesty's
hrig Charybdis, lately launched in this dock-yard, was
being cut down within two feet of the deck; since which
,ime another ten gun brig, the Brisk, has been ordered to
undergo, and is now Lndergoing, a similar operation.
We understand it is in contemplation to erect a building
in his Majesty's dock-yard at Woolwich, similar to that
lately erected in this dock-yard, for the manufacturing of
steam boilers, &c. which confirms the idea, pretty generally
prevalent, that the Government are about to increase very
considerably our steam force.
Government have stipulated for the building of six new
steamers of five hundred tons each, to be built in private
yards, by contract. Mr. Sheffield, late a student in the
School of Naval Architecture in this dock-yard, is ap-
pointed overseer to one now in progress in Fearnall's
yard, at Limehouse, and the remaining five will be built
at the various private yards on the banks of the river,
each tinder the immediate inspection and superintendence
of some Government officer, in order to ensure a due execu-
tion of the terms of the contract.
One hundred male convicts have embarked on board the
Georgians for New South Wales, during the week, from
the Leviathan, and eighty-two from the York, under the
medical superintendence of Dr. Tarn. Among the whole
of this number there is but one who has attained his
thirtieth year, and he has been convicted no less than
twenty-six times. She is not expected to sail until after
the present week.
The Arab, Amity, and Orestes transports, sailed from
Plymouth on Friday, for the Mauritius, with the 87th
Royal Irish Fusileers.
PaosionOws, APPOINTMENTS, &c.—Lieut. G. Cu-
well, of his Majesty's ship Asia, is appointed to his Ma-
jesty's ship Pallas. Lieut. C. Walcott is appointed to the
Asia, vice Caswell. Lieut. W. W. Chambers is ap-
pointed to his Mijesty's ship Prince Regent, vice Wode•
house. Mr. J. Isatt, Supernumera, y Surgeon of his Ma-
jesty's ship Talavera, is appointed Surgeon of his Majesty's
ship Barham. Mr. W. Anderson is appointed Assistant-
Surgeon of the Chatham Division of Royal Marines. The
following Lieutenants are appointed to the Preventive
Service on the Sussex Coast, viz.:—F. Phillips, A. Kurt-
right, T. M. Williams, G. Howes, James Pratt, W. Max-
well, T. Eversfield, E. C. Earle, J. M. Alottley, R. Joa-
chim, W. Winniett, J. Rawstone, H. J. Carr, W. A.
Ferrar, A. M‘Tavish, J. Prattent, H. Courtnay, J. Con-
juit, J. O'Reilley (b), J. Stewart (b), G. J. Smyth, J.
G. Raymond, F. Hire, J. J. Nicholls, R. J. Woolver, J.
Hills, F, Collins, IL Leworthy, S. Connor, T. Penning.
ton, G. Palmer, C. M. M. Wright, E. Franklin, C. A.
Petch, J. Bowden, C. Servante, J. W. Crispy, W. Stone
J. W. Tomlinson, H. D. Foster, W. Ball, G. Mason, 11,

H. Bingham, and T. Carey. Mr. Geo. Clarke, Super
numerary Clerk of his M ijesty's ship Sapphire, is ap-
pointed Clerk to his Majesty's ship St. Vincent.
The fallowing removals and exchanges in the Royal
Marines have taken place, consequent on the promotion in
that corps, which was as fully and correctly detailed in
our last week's Herald as time would permit :—Captain
J. G. Richardson has been re-appointed to Woolwich on
his promotion. Capt. C. Morgan has been re-appointed to
Plymouth on his promotion. First Lieut. R. Carr has been
re-appointed to Chatham on his promotion, vice F. S. Ha-
milton, removed to Plymouth, in the room of First Lieu-
tenant Henry Savage (late of the Royal Marine Artillery),
whose appointment there has been cancelled in favour of
the Woolwich Division. Captain John Husband has been
appointed to the Chatham Division on promotion. First
Lieut. Edmund Nepean, of the Portsmouth Division of
Royal Marines, is appointed to the Plymouth Division,
vice Charles Robinson Miller, whose appointment to Ply-
mouth, from the Royal Marine Artillery, has been can-
celled, in favour of Pottsmouth Division.
On Thursday last Captain John Hewes, and First
Lieutenant Andrew Hendry, with a detachment of Royal
Marines belonging to the Woolwich Division, arrived here
in the Royalist tender, from Plymouth, fo► embarkation,
having proceeded thence from Woolwich, in the Exmouth
convict ship, in charge of convicts, where they were re-
lieved by a detachment of the 87th Regiment. The
Royalist returned to Plymouth the same day with First
Lieutenant Joseph Childs, late of the Thetis, and Second
Lieutenant E. W. Churchill, late of the Pallas, paid off at
this port, together with the Royal Marines late of those
ships, belonging to the Plymouth Division.
Extract of a letter from his Majesty's ship Winchester,
dated Barbadoes, 29th January, 1831 :—" We arrived
here on the 21st, in company with the Hyacinth, Capt.
Jackson, and Sparrowhawk, Commander Mayne, from
St. Kitt's, Augusta, and Martinique, on the way from
Bermuda. We found here his Majesty's ship Shannon,
Capt. Clement; Mersey, Capt. Ceturtenay ; Firefly,
Lieut. Holland; Kangaroo, Lieut, Shortland ; and Co-
lumbine, Capt. Gabriel ; which latter vessel had arrived
on the 18th, after a vieilant cruise in search of pirates, but
without success, although the slave trade is still carried
on to an amazing extent, and the American Archipelago
is not without a few piratical vessels. The Kangaroo
preceded us from Antigua. The squadron were re-
markably healthy. The Nimble schooner having been sur-
veyed at Nassau, New Providence, and found very defective,
estimates had been rent to the Admiral for her repair.
Her Commander, Mr. M‘Donnell, and crew, were turned
over to the Firefly, which vessel sailed from Nassau, 29th
December, and after a stormy passage reached Barbadoee
on the 12th January. The Sparrowhawk sailed again for
Jamaica on the 25th January. The Admiral goes all
sound the West Indies previous to returning to Bermuda.
He may be expected to leave Barbadoes about the Bth of
February. Several Courts Martial have been held on
board the Shannon, on junior officers, seamen, and marines
of the fleet. Acting Lieut. Stopford, of the Winchester,
has been appointed to the Mersey, vice Davis invalided.
Mr. Hallett, Mate of the Sparrowhawk, has been pro-
moted to the rank of Lieutenant, and goes to England in
a merchant ship; Mr. N. B. Lush, Secretary's Cletk, is
appointed acting Purser of the Rose."
Extract of a letter, dated Sydney, New South Wales,
Oct. 14, 1830 Accounts have been received by the
Comet, from the Swan River, which are of a favourable
nature, and represent the new settlement to be in a thriv-
ing condition. His Majesty's ship Success, 28, Captain
W. C. Jervoise ; Sulphur, 8, Commander W. T. Dance ;
and Cruizer, 18, Commander John E. G. Colpoys, were
in the harbour, as well as the Rockingham and Medina,
merchantmen, one storeship, and one brig. Mr. Peel still
remained at Cockburn Sound. The dysentery was very
prevalent, especially among the military, 35 of whom had
died out of 140. A new harbour had been discovered
near Basses' Straits, which had been named Port Augus-
tan. The Comet has brought three prisoners, being the
first convicts which have been transported from Swan
IRiver to New South Wales. The crops in the latter set-
lements are reported to be in the most flourishing condi-
ion."

Extract of a letter from a Naval Officer, dated " Bar-
badoes, Feb. 4, I831:—" A most interesting Court Martial
has been assembled on board his Majesty's ship Shannon,
at Barbadoes, by order of Vice-Admiral Culpoys, the Com-
mander-in-Chief on this station, to try Commander Charles
Hamlyn Williams, of the Racehorse, on charges preferred
against him by Supernumerary Commander William Old-
rey, who war ordered a passage in that ve,sel to join the
flag and ship of the Admiral, for a series of conduct tend-
ing to bring disrespect on Commander Oldrey, as an officer
of the Royal Navy. At this stage and time, the Court
having been sitting four days, and the prosecution having
now only just closed, I am unable to communicate to you
the result, but the general impression is," &c. As we
think it would in this stage of the business be exceedingly
unfair, and improper to prejudge the case, by giving " the
general impression," we shall for the present decline in-
serting the sequel of the letter, as far as relater to the
Court Martial. We give, however, the following brief
" The Admiral sailed at five o'clock yesterday,
with the 'Winchester, Shannon, Mersey, Hyacinth, Colum-
bine, and Racehorse, for La Guayra, and Jamaica, all ex-
cept the latter ship, which we suppose will return to Bar-
badoes in a day or two. The Firefly schooner, Lieutenant
M'Donnell, sailed on the 2d of Felruary for Bermuda, to
be hove down and repaired."
Extract of a letter from an officer on board his Majesty's
ship iEtna, dated Sierra Leone, Dec. 19, 1850:—" 1 am
sorry to tell you that our opinion of the coast of Africa is
very different to what it was when we left England, and
when you read what follows, you will not wonder that
we should have no great affection for the climate. We
passed ten days at the French settlement of Goree, and
two days at the English settlement in the River Gambia,
and arrived here on the l'ith ; during all this time we
have heard nothing but doleful tales. On leaving our
anchorage, several boats carne off to us ; and as many of
our officers had friends and acquaintances both in the fleet
and in the colony, we were naturally anxious to hear of
their welfare, but I regret to say the answer was al-

hi
most invariably of the same melancholy description, and
which I dare say you already anticipate. Mr. Quin,
ogland, ; named Tuite,bout a month
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natu-
rally
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de,uFwtreohni; nsta,
theirle
da di_
rpoaan:
co uEunlna g friend,
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frieiennddsp he
expected to see him on board by the first I.oat'
but like almost all oar other inquiries, the answer was
in three little monosyllables, he is dead.' But a
more horrible tale still remains. By an order from the
senior officer on that station, the Plumper, gun-brig,
Lieut. Adams, was sent to the River Pongus, to watch
ind endeavour to take some slavers; a duty which be per-
formed, and returned here three or four days ago, with six
white men alive out of thirty-five, and one of these six is
now dying in the hospital. The only return he has re-
ceived for this melancholy sacrifice of human lives, is, the
capture of thirty slaves. The Assistant-Surgeon, and
every thing in the shape of an officer, with the exception
i,f the Lieutenant commanding, was swept off. It will, I
think, astonish you to be told, that the British Govern-
ment have it in contemplation, as it is said, to remove
some part of this colony to Fernando Po; and the oldest
inhabitants here say, to a man, that they would dread as
much going from Sierra Leone to Fernando Po, as they
dreaded leaving England for Sierra Leone. lam happy,
however, to tell you, it is generally reported in the Fleet
that Commodore Hayes has humanely determined not to
expose the ships to such risks as has hitherto been the
custom."

POLAND.

EXTRACTS FROM WARSAW LAYERS OF THE ioTH.)

" Field-Marshal Diebitsch having, with his own hands,
pulled the different orders of merit gained on the field of
battle off the breast of Major Kiwerski, who bad been se-
verely wounded and made prisoner, the Major, in conse-
quence of such an insult, being hurt to the extreme, an-
swered, with di,nity to the Marshal. You may take
upon yourself to have us shot, but not dishonour us, for
when a nation declares war upon another, there are no
re!tel,"che Fteld-Alarshal, enraged at such an answer,
ordered his Cossacks to take the prisoners into the in-
terior. The General Gerstenzweig having met them,
added his insults to the former one; and his soldiers threw
mud and stones at them, and forced them into rooms
covered with blood, and were a number of dead and dying
itussians lay : there they were obliged to pass the night,
without any kind of assistance, and, after having given
them some few dry biscuits, without any distinction or
rank, they were driven along, on foot, to Minsk."
" WARSAW, Marten 14.—After the departure of the
corps under the command of General Dwernicki. the
Russians made a second entry into the town of Pulawy oi4
the 9th inst. Humanity is struck with the atrocious
horrors committed a second time by these Russians upon
the unfortunate inhabitants; after having pillaged and
completely destroyed Pulawy, they forced away with them
seven of the inhabitants, on which unfortunate beings they
committed the most violent acts of barbarism ever heard

of in the civilized world. Among those unfortunate
persons were Gniewkowski, and Szinidt, awl the deputy-
constable, Niestorowicz, and another, the name unknown
to the eye-witness. After their suffering the most dreadful
punishment, their eyes were pushed out, until death put
them out of reach of further torments, which otherwise
they would hare had to have undergone from the hands of
those barbarians."

DR. PARIS'S LIFE OF SIR H. DAVY.-
The rapidity with which the first edition of this memoir
of the greatest of modern philosophers has been sold, has,
we understand, induced the author to prepare a new edi-
tion in octavo, comprising much additional matter in cor
respondence and personal anecdote. The charac,er of
DAVY, both as a man and a philosopher, could not pos-
sibly have fallen into hands more competent to explain and
record it, than those of Dr. PARIS; and the world has
shown that it concurs in this opinion by the eagerness with
which it has received the author's biography of the late
illustrious chemist.

A son of Dr. PARIS, the eminent physician,
a boy little more than twelve years of age, has modelled
with his fingers, from a common stick of sealing-wax,
held before a lighted taper, a greyhound in miniature, of
the most beautiful symmetry, in perfect action ; a horse
leaping over a five-barred gate; and an equestrian figure,
I representing a warrior on a horse in full vigour. These
not only marvellous, but highly ingenious compositions,
are deposited in the museum of the Society of Arts, who
have awarded to the modest school-boy their medal for his
inventions.

As a proof that office does not always enrich
the possessor, it may be remarked, that the celebrate l Dote
of Newcastle, after holding the highest appointments fur
upwards of fifty years, died 300,0001. poorer than when
he first came into power.
The interest on FERDINAND the Beloved's
new Bonds is to commence, according to the proposals,
on—of all days in the year—the ,first of April ! Can
our capitalists refuse terms so tempting a, these ?
BOURRIENNE'S LIFE OF BUONAPARTE.—•
The forthcoming unique and cheap edition, to he pub-
lished by Messrs. COEBURN and BENTLEY, of this most
popular of modern historical biographies, will be esta-
blished by a series of nut less than 17 spirited engravings,
hy the first artists, embodying the most extraordinary in-
cidents in the career of BUONAFARTE, anion?, which are—
The Redoubt at Brienne—The Battle of the Nile—The
Assault of St. Jean d'Acre—The Revolt at Cairo—The
Battle of Aboukir—NAPOLEON at the Council of Ancient,
on the 18th Brumaire—The Battle of Marengo—The
Camp at Boulogne—The Evening before Austerlitz—The
Battle of Austerlitz—The Ilttle of Jena—The Death of
Marshal LA NNES, and the Departure from Fontainbleau,
besides beautiful Portraits of NAPOLEON, of the Empresses
JOSEPHINE and MARIE LOUISE, and a fac-simile of the
Act of Abdication, in the hand-writing of NArOLEON.
The Reform meeting which is to take place
on Monday next, is expected to be the most numerous ever
held in Warwickshire. Several Noblemen and the county
Members will most probably attend ; and it is reported
that Sir FRANCIS BURDETT, who has considerable pro-
perty in the county, and who made his djbut as a public
speaker at the celebrated meeting on Warwick Race
Course in 1789, will also be present. The requisitions
both convene householders, and we hear that a large caval-
cade of carriages and horsemen will proceed from this
town.—Birminyharn Gazette.
" ' The Pilot' for six shillings ! and what is
more, in one volume, and beautifully printed on good
paper. This is a phenomenon in the history of literature,
and augurs well fir the extension of liberal tastes and en-
tertaining knowledge. It is much to get a respectable
volume of compilation at this price ; but when classical
and highly-prized standard works are thus placed within
the reach of humble means, assuredly, before the lapse of
many years, there will not be a house which gives the
occupier a right to vote, that has not also its little library.
The Pilot' is one of the very best of the works of this
popillrr author. We may next expect Gonwtsi's r Caleb
Williams,' in one volume, at the same prig. Already we
have prepared a long range of the minor shelves of our
library for the reception of this well-designed project."—
Spectator.
It is stated in the report of a Committee ap-
pointed to investigate the expenditure of the parish of St.
James, Clerkenwell, that the beadles, who receive an
annual salary for devoting their whole time to the affairs
of the parish, receive five shillings for attending every in-
quest ; whilst the inhabitants, who are called from their
business to act as jurors, are allowed four pence! In the
parish accounts the expenses of some entertainments to the
parish authorities are placed under the appropriate head
of " Poor relieved."

NEW PUBLICATIONS.—The foll.owing intc•
resting Works have been lately published by Me.srs. Cot•
BURN and BENTLEY, New Boriington-street ;-1. Jou, -
nal of a Nobleman at the Congress of Vienna, 2 vols. pus
Bvo.-2. The Life and Correspondence of JOHN LOCKE,
by Lord KING; second edition, with considerable additions,
2 vols. Bvo.-3. Conversations of JAMES NORTHCOTE, Esq.
ILA., by W. BA ZLITT, Esq., 1 vol. small Bvo., with a
remarkable fine Portrait of Mr. NORTHCOTE—I. Mug:-
cal Memoirs, by W. T. PARKE, forty years principal
Oboist at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-garden, 2 vols.--
5. Captain FRANKLA ND'S Travels to Constantinople,
second edition, 2 vols. Bvo., with 38 En4ravinvs, price
245.-6. The Octavo Edition of Mr. BUCKINGHAM'S
Travels in Persia, 2 vols.-7. The Octavo Edition of 3lr.
Citit UFORD'S Narrative of a Residence at Siam, 2
S. A New and Revised E lition of Mr. CARNE'S Letter:,
from the East, 2 vole
It is calculated that the 122 black balls against
M. BAUDE'S proposition, when it degenerated into. t_htastidoc
M. DELESSERT, included eight or ten from the I
because
of the Chamber, who rejected the proposition,
in
view.
they thought it insufficient to attain the en.idw my;
There remain, then, 112 or 114 ulembaeirLa
50,1
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regarded as protesting in favour
rocfas(oC:r Afor di,paragng the
family. Is not this a sufficient
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contsii).
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legislative measures of C
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evident that such a Chaco
Francais.
large a number of eoenabees to our revoluo ? Is it not.

SPIRIT OF TIM PUBLIC JOURNALS.

Ilowever irregular might have been the discussion
a the House of Lords on Monday evening respect-
ing the Reform Bill, as yet before the Commons, it
was nevertheless of high interest and of great im-
portance. We trust that, both in numbers and res.
soning, what has now passed may be accepted as an
earnest and pledge of the approaching fate of the
Bill when brought before their Lordships. The
measure must triumph. It was on a motion for
papers connected with the plan of Reform, that
Lord Wharncliffe took occasion to treat of the whole
subject ; and -we put it to any impartial person
whether his speech were not more calculated to
prove the necessity of the Bill than to evince its
danger or establish its insufficiency. It is very true,
as his Lordship stated, that if the Legislature had
but been in reason disposed to impart the elective
franchise to the great and populous towns, the
country might have been content, at least for a
series of years, with these concessions. And
what does this prove but the moderation of the
aggrieved people of England, and the untoward
insolence of their enemies and oppressors ? Let,
then, what has passed afford a lesson for the
future. The people would have been perfectly sa-
tisfied with minor concessions for the sake of peace,
but not without the perfect knowledge and con-
sciousness that they had a right to much more. It
was the stupid refusal of the lesser demands that has
provoked the greater : so, also, at present the na-
tion is content—nay, it is delighted—with the pro-
visions of Lord John Russell's Bill. If these are
rejected, it will demand yet more; aye, and in the
end, it will seize yet more. Such things as univer-
sal suffrage and election by ballot have been heard of.
We hear no snore of them now, neither shall we if
the present reasonable Bill succeeds. It will root
out all these theories. Lord Wharneliffe spoke of
the influence which, should this Bill pass, the people
would exercise over the House of Commons. But
what class of people are they who are supposed
to exercise this influence? Not the lowest,
as is too frequently the case at present—not
a mere houseless mob; it is the tendency of
the Bill to diminish the nitmher of these :
and over the lowest class of the new voters,
those possessing houses of 101. a year, it cannot be
but that the higher orders, Members even of the
House of Peere, must, through their property, ex-
ercise great influence; so that influence will act cir-
cuitously and in a wholesome manner throughout the
general mass of society. The whole number of
persons to whom the elective franchise will be given
is estimated at only 378,000, from a population of
14,000,000. These, as we have before stated, are
to possess all of them houses worth 101. a year and
upweirds, whilst a vast mass, the number of which
has not yet been calculated, not possessing houses of
that value, must in time "go out,' —become ex-
tinguished as electors; so that both the quality (so
far as wealth is a proof of quality) of the electors
Nvill be raised, and the numbers probably diminished.
The Duke of Wellington acknowledges, that essen-
tially he was obliged to go out from an appre-
hension of the Reform question. He resigned
on the Civil List question; but it was because
" he did not wish to expose his Majesty and
the country to the consequences that might re-
sult f:ctn the Government going out on the
success of the question of Parliamentary Reform."
Weil, then, what would be the consequence
if this Ministry were to go out because they
cannot carry the Reform question ? Why, that his
Majesty and the country can have no Ministry what-
ever. Oh ! but it may be said, that a new Ministry
would propose a more moderate plan of Reform.
Moderate in what they conceded, we presume; and
immoderate in what they refused to the just demands
of the nation! With respect to the moderation of
such a class of men, let it be recollected that they
are those who have already refused to bestow on
'Manchester, Birmingham, and Leeds, the franchise
which had been forfeited by boroughs convicted of
corruption. We have only to say, that there is nothing
which such teen can bestow that will impart the
least satisfaction to the people, or will include them to
abstain one moment from carrying on, even with
increasing energy, their machinations for a real Par-
liamentary Reform : whereas the present project sus-
pends at once all such machinations, and has already
almost thrown the terms ballot, annual Parliaments,
and universal suffrage, into oblivion.—Times.
We recollect no instance in which any important
public measure was not attended with a vibration
and a tendency downwards of the funds, as tempests
always shake and depress the mercury in the baro-
meter; yet, in violation of this rule, the funds are
now said to have advanced, only, or chiefly, because
the success of the Bill which is to produce so im-
portant a change in the state of our representation
is becoming more certain. This should occasion
serious reflection on the part of those who oppose
the Bill, and induce them to adopt it, as we have
before urged, on the principle that its adoption is
the surest course ; for if the funds rise before the
success of the Bill is supposed to be certain, of what
nature is that danger which would result from its
rejection ? It is not the danger springing from a
mere Ministerial defeat within the walls of Parlia-
ment : it is the danger which would be occasioned
by the very great and general dissatisrattion of the
people, if their favourite measure were frustrated.—
The Bill, therefore, ought to be adopted as a
peace-maker. And let it not be supposed that
the present is no more than a temporary or
capricious feeling of the people of England.— •
Their zeal, ardour, and passions are, no doubt,
greatly inflamed by the apparent piBxity of the
object which they hope to obtain; but the necessity
of a Reform is the settled conviction of their souls,
which nothing can shake. It is a conviction, not of
yesterday, but of the last half century. Among the
apprehensions which have been entertained respect-
ing this measure, one is, that it is only a stage in
the journey, and that we shall not stop here. It is
very probable, in truth, that when the Bill is passed,
and its working observed, it may be found neces-
sary to facilitate its operation by some minor changes
or correction of its mechanism; but for our own
parts a e cannot see why the reformed Parliament is
not just as likely to adapt the measure to Tory prin-
ciples and feelings, as to the principles and feelings
of the Whigs and Radicals. it may be said, be-
cause the present Bill is a 'Whig and not a Tory
measure, that the power which has carried it will
be likely to assimilate it yet farther to the popular
taste : this would be true if the Bill were the act
of one party exclusively : but it is the work, or
when carried will have been the work, of various
parties. Are Lord Winchilsea and the Duke of
Richmond Whigs? When the Bill is once carried,'
it is no longer to be expected that the same coin-
bleeder) will exist to give it or its principles yet
farther extension. The Constitution will be left to
vibrate, as it has hitherto done, between the co-equal
powers of the state; and we may hope, we trust, for
getters' tranquillity.—Times.

It is now understood pretty generally, that several
Members of the House of Commons, who opposed
the second reading of the Bill, have announced
_their intention either of supporting Ministers on
the Committee, or of staying away from whatever
.tlivisiotis may be called for, and forbearing to vote
t all. The latter of these two proceedings would
be at once useless and. contemptible ;—contemptible,
for the want of manly resolution implied by it; and
usclessi, forsits inefficacy to screen from observation
a pitiful and sneaking motive. It is still just pos-
sible for some of those Members who have been, by
whatever feelings of party confrateinity or other
pardonable inducements,-"led to give a reluctant vote
against the great measure of Reform—it is, we say,
possible for them to re-dem themselves with the
country; and surely they cannot be censured by
'their political friends if, now that the principle of the
Bill is tarried, that Parliament has by a majority, and
the nation with unanimity, declared in favour of the
Bill of his Majesty's Ministers, those Members hence-
forth set themselves heartily to promote a cause
which, whether they serve it or not, is destined to
be.if down all opposition before it. These gentle.

• • :

men have satisfied the point of individual honour ;
they see how abortive have been the calculations of
their political leaders,—that a more dogged and
pertinacious resistance would, even if for the mo-
ment successful, produce an instantaneous dissolu-
tion of Parliament, or a general convulsion through-
out the realm ; and therefore that nothing can be
gained by efforts tts fritter away the Bill, but that
something may be recovered towards their own re-
demption in the eyes of the people of England, by
an earnest endeavour to facilitate its future progress.
As for the course to be adopted by Ministers, the
choice is clear, and the pursuit, in our opinion, easy.
If the Cabinet be sot assured of a powerful majority
they ought at once to advise the Crown in favour
of an immediee dissolution. A small majority in-
fers a tatmerous minority; and a minority strong in
numbers, arid acting under men who have already
shown that despair has few scruples of con-
science, and moreover with the Means of gaining
time, and taking their chance for the numberless
Godsends incidental to a system of manoeuvring for
the sake of procrastination,—such a minority, though
it cannot in the end succeed, may, before its final
overthrow, entail inevitable embarrassment and mis-
chief on tht country. The career, therefore, of a
strong minority ought to be cut short at once, and a
dissolution would effectually destroy it. Then it is
not to be questioned that the fate of the measure in
the House of Lords may depend, riot merely on its
passing the Committee and the third reading in the
other House, but on the amount of the majority
which there supports it. The public must recollect
how their Lordahips formerly thought fit to treat
the Bill for Catholic emancipation, after it had
passed the House of Commons. The public and
the Ministers ought to be aware, that their Lord-
ships in Parliament assembled, if slow of apprehen-
sion 0-4 to Matters of reasoning, are less incompetent
upon matters of fact,—that they are more given to
the exact than to the speculative sciences ; and al-
though they may be perplexed and lost in the vastness
of that inquiry which seems to have so bewildered
the Duke of Wellinglon respecting the precise value
of petitions, exhortations, public- meetings, &c. &c.,
from most parts of Ergland in favour of Reform,
they can be brought, without much difficult study,
comprehend that a majority of 100 in the House
of Commons is a majority of 100;—that such a
majority in an assembly so constituted, could not
have arisen from any intrinsic or self-acting virtue
of those who are called (ironically) representatives
of the people, but must have been produced by the
external pressure of the people themselves, and
therefore my Lords will be apt to say, " If the ma-
jority of Members of the House of Commons have
voted against the borough system, it is a proof that
they have been frightened into such a vote, and
therefore the people must be strong, and it might be
dangerous for us, any more than for the House of
Commons, to oppose tbem." Now we verily be-
lieve that we have not much over-rated the un-
derstanding of many of the Peers of the realm, in
ascribing to them some such language as the above.
They may not themselves, as we have said, feel
quite " up to" a fair appreciation of the force and
value of public opinion throughout England, when
brought to bear directly upon their own resolves;
but, as most people, unused to free arid strenuous
discussion, are apt to be swayed by arguments from
authority, the Lords make out their notion of the
probable power of the national spirit upon them-
selves, by getting a third quantity—viz. the House
9f Commons, wherewith to compare and measure
it. Let Ministers, then, by all means insure a large
majority either in the present House of Commons,
or in a succeeding one, for the support of Parlia-
mentary Reform. It will be a " reading made
easy" to the noble optimists of the aristocratic
chamber, who, reposing on their bed of boroughs,
can see nothing but the incomparable parts of the
Constitution, unless they be roused, by some poli-
tical earthquake like this, to a more just and accu-
rate survey of the dangers and the duties which en-
velope them. The more we reflect upon the sub-
ject, the stronger is our conviction that the prospect
of a bare or feeble majority ought not to satisfy
Lord Grey, but that he ought to reinforce himself
by such a power in the House of Commons, as may
launch the measure into the Lords with an impetus
riot there to be resisted.—Times.

The Duke of Wellington's eulogy of Parliament
since the peace, reminds us of the anecdote of the
horse, which died just when its owner was about
succeedin, in getting it to live without food. " As
to the present House of Commons (said his Grace),
I maintain that it is as complete and perfect a legi-
slative body as can be required. I assert, that espe-
cially since the peace it has shown itself the most
efficient guardian of the stability of the Throne, the
interests of the nation, and the rights of the people.
1 say further, that it has done better service as a
legislative body than any assembly of the same cha-
racter at any former time, and for an equal period,
and that this beneficial course was only interrupted
by the introduction of this discussion.—( Hear,
hear.)" Now let us hear what his Grace himself
says of this present Parliament. Speaking of the
early parr of the Session, he says, " Then came tl:e
question of the Civil Lis'. 1 do not assert that
there was actually a combination of parties on that
occasion against the Government ; but I certainly
heard it ; and whether it were or were not by con-
cert, parties certainly did unite, Ministers were left
in a minority, and we thought proper to resign.
This I bet, leave to state, however, that the
question ofrPorliamentary Reform had no more
to do with our resignation than it had to do with any
other part of my conduct. We were out-voted on Mon-
day, and next morning I resigned ; and for this reason,
I would not expose his Majesty, and the country,
to the inconvenience of being outvoted on 11w subject
rf Reforms in Pailiament. There is the truth. I
repeat it : we resigned on Tuesday, because we
did not choose to expose the King and the country
to the inconvenience of our being defeated, as we
probably should have been on the question of Re-
form." So that this admirable Parliament, which,
as a legislative body, answered its ends far better
than any other that the wit of man ever devised, at
the very time when its merits were at the highest,
were about to commit fclo de se! Did it never
occur to his Grace, that the very circumstances
mentioned by him, as reasons why Parliament ought
not to be reformed, are among the chief causes of
the disposition to Reform in the Parliament ?
When the means of corruption arc lavishly distri-
buted, majorities in Parliament will be large.
But the nation after the peace began to show an
" ignorant impatience of taxation ;" and retrench-
ment having been forced on Ministers, their in-
fluence, in the bad sense of the word, experienced a
decline. Every vote for retrenchment improved,
of course, the character of Parliament ; but it
brought matters nearer to the crisis, which has at
length arrived. To govern by influence means to sup-
ply Members with other motives than mere cogency
of arguments for their votes. To govern by influence
and to retrench are, therefore, objects counteracting
each other. All those who are not iVuenced, must be
convinced; every diminution of the influenced adds:to
the number of the to be convinced; and when the
latter are so numerous as to find themselves prepon-
&rant, they do riot w ish to he disgraced by associa-
tion with corruption. It requires no great penetra-
tion, therefore, to discover that it is precisely be-'
cause Parliament has, since the peace, been improv.
ing, that it wishes to improve itself still farther.
The honest part of the House of Commons, who
seek conscientions'y to discharge faithfully their duty
as guardians of the public purse, must always look
with an evil eye on the expenditure of money, not
f ,r the Nvants of the State, but for the purpose of
commanding majorities in Parliament ; and they
must always be disposed to countenance a Reform
which should flee the Government from the neces-
sity of purchasing venal votes with meal or malt.
Besides, retrenchment, as far as it goes, diminishes
the ability of the boroughmongers to keep up the
machinery by %VIM) Members ure manufactured.
There are few patrons of boroughs who are not
under the necessity of expending considerable sums
n Co:porations and voters. They must draw from

the public enough to enable them to meet this ex-
penditure, otherwise the borough would be to them
a losing concern; and if the Corporation and voters
be not bribed according to their expectations,
they will pretend to a conscience of their own,
and return honest Members. Thus the cha-
racter of Parliament improves more and more,
and thus the difficulty of managing the honest Mem-
bers throws the Government naturally on the availing
itself of the honest to free itself from the importu-
nity of the corrupt. The Duke of Wellington
might have learned, from the history of this country,
that whenever the means of influence have been
wanting, the Government has been obliged to give
way to the people. Sir Edward Walker tells us,
" that that which e'sentially was destructive (to
Charles the First) was, that the King was not in a
capacity to gratify all his Parliamentary claimants,
which had this effect, that some of them grew
envious, others factious, because they were not ems
ployed; others ungrateful, because denied something
they aimed at, how highly soever obliged. .
They being numerous and not all to be satisfied,
have done more mischief by becoming factious and
affecting popularity than could have been appre-
hended from their ambitions." The Duke of Wel-
lington,,es he is opposed to Parliamentary Reform,
ought, if consistent, to have opposed economy !
But, instead of that, he and all the Ministers for
the last ten years have forced economy on an un-
willing Parliament. How often have we not heard
Mr. Herries and other Ministers, when hard pressed
by opposition Members, urge in their defence that
they were disposed to go further in the way of eco-
nomy than Parliament was disposed to go with
them ! And is it not well known, that in order to
be able to resist the importunities of interested
Members, Ministers of late years have had re-
course to Committees composed generally of the
more honourable and disinterested part of Parliament,
whose recommendations to retrench they have opposed
to the claims for place. All this was very proper on
the part of Ministers, but all this was undermining
the governing by corruption. The Duke's allusion
to the recent history of France indicates the same
inability to take a comprehensive view of a subject,
which he displays in his astonishment at the dispo-
sition to Reform growing with the improvement of
Parliament. " He adverted (he said) to what, of
his own knowledge, had occurred in France on the
subject of the election law, since 1817. Two changes
had subsequently been made in that law, and two
general elections had taken place,each more unfavour-
able to the Gov, rnment ; and this result had been
the formation of a Parliament with which it was im-
possible for any Ministers to co-operate. He denied
that he had been in any way connected with the
French Ministers; that he had ever written to
Prince Polignac; to Charles X.,previous to his abdi-
ca,ion; or to any member of the French Cabinet,
without the knowledge or participation of his col-
leagues. He would, therefore, tell the Noble Lord
on the Woolsack that he had no more to do with
the French Government than the Noble Lord him-
self—perhaps not so much.—(Laughter.) These
proceedings in France rendered a revolution inevi
table." His Grace here a.sumes, that the business
of a Parliament is merely to register edicts. The
people of France and their Government thought
differently almost on all subjects. No representa-
tion, therefore, which at all expressed the sense of
the nation, could avoid coming into collision with
the Government. But if the French Government
had chosen, instead of lending itself to the views
of a small minority, and becoming the tool of a
bigotted priesthood, to govern in accordance with the
views of a great majority of the nation, the revolution
might have been avoided. The Duke of Welling-
ton, we see, would, like Prince Polignac, have been
for making short work with the Parliament; for if it
was impossible to govern with the Parliament—and
men must have some Government—why, he would
have been for governing without the Parliament. In
short, his Grace's notions of government are very
good for an army, but by no means adapted for a
free country. With him it is command on the part
,of the Government, and blind obedience on the part
of time Parliament. After all, however, the Duke
of Wellington is the only consistent opponent of
Reform. He thinks that Parliament ought to be
controuled, and of course the more the representa-
tion approaches perfection the more difficult it must
be to controul it. He opposes effectual Reform, be-
cause opposition is more likely to be successful now
than after partial Reform. As for the bit and bit
reformers, they are quite inconsistent with them-
selves. They object to the Reform of Ministers,
because it cuts up corruption by the roots, and yet
they would concede some Reform, which would not
sati'fy the people,while it would give to them power
to obtain more. " The people, disappointed of their
just expectations (said Earl Grey eloquently), would I
be inflamed with resentment, and would eventually
demand, with a voice of thunder, that which it
would be found impossible longer to deny; but the
granting of which would not only be unattended
with the advantages that would now accompany its
concession, but in the strong excitement that would
then exist might be productive of evils which no
man could foresee—evils that might throw the whole
country into irremediable disorder.—Morn. Chron.

The debate in the House of Lords on Monday
night was full of interest. The two classes of op-
ponents to the Reform Bill were well represented
by Lerd Wharncliffe and the Duke of Wellington.
Lord Wharncliffe is one of the reluctant moderate
reformers, and the Duke of Wellington a thorough-
going Anti-reformer. Unquestionably the principle
of the Bill having been established by the vote of the
House of Commons on the second reading, its effi-
cacy runs more risk from men who profess the prin-
ciples, or who, rather, express the contradictions of
Lord Wharnchffe, than from the downright and
soldier-like opposition of the Duke of Wellington
and Sir Henry Hardinge. These pretended mode-
rate reformers admit the voice of the people to be
unanimous and irresistible, they further admit that
no paltry Reform will do—nay„ they yield to the ne-
cessity of disfranchisement ; but to the first clause
of the Bill, which favourably responds to that
voice, which puts all paltry Reform out of the
question, by a disfranchisement co-extensive with
the necessity, they are inveterately opposed.
The irresistible and unanimous voice of the
people calls for an extension and improved distribu-
tion of the elective franchise ; but to all and each
detail by which the demand may be satisfied, they
apply every objection that hatred can suggest cr
sophistry express. Because common sense and na-
tural justice point out uniformity of qualification as
the basis of the elective franchise, they are ena-
moured of variety ; as well might they assert, be-
cause one uniform colour is naturally most suited to
the robe of a divine or a lawyer, that the motley
garb of a Harlequin can alone secure orthodox reli-
gion and legal knowledge. Lord Wharncliffe ob-
jects to leaseholders for twenty-one years, because
they are few in ember; and he objects to copy-
holdees because they are too many. His Lordship
regrets that the right of sending Members to Par-
liament was not long since granted to Birmingham
and Leeds, but he deplores the influence of such
towns on the representation of the country, by the
proposed introduction of leaseholders and copy-
holders into the electoral body. He admits that
canvassing a county is a great source of ex-
pence; but he asserts that their division into dis-
tricts, which must narrow the range of canvass,
will increase the expense. He knows that the
duration of an election adds to the charges
of the candidate ; and vet he maintains that
the limitation of the time of polling will have
the same effect. The uncertainty of the right of
voting, produced by the so much extolled variety of
franchise, has been a fertile source of litigation, and
consequent expense, before Committees of the
House of Commons ; but Lord Wharncliffe is spe-
cially opposed to the details of the Bill by which it
is intended readily to ascertain the right, and to
prevent the dispute. In short, Lord Wharncliffe is
a reformer in words, but a strenuous upholder of the
present system in practice. Perhaps, in saying
this, we go too far. His Lordship and themgde

rale reformers would indeed admit Members from
Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, and Sheffield, to
the House of Commons—they are ready thus far
to strengthen the popular party in that House, for
the Members of the close and rotten boroughs
would gill remain a band of immortals to vindicate
the irresponsible
y and " illegal authority of the Upper
House.' The proprietors of these boroughs are
to be the trustees of the British Constitution—but,
alas, they are irresponsible trustees; they may
traffic with their trust—they avowedly, in many in-
stances, have done so. In some the trust has been
honourably exercised, but it is a trust not recognised
by common sense—not known to the law of the
land; and now that the continuance is claimed,
not upon sufferance, but upon positive right,
it must be set aside. The Duke of Wellington ap-
pears determined not to flinch from his declaration
against any Reform whatsoever. He takes a plain
military view of the question. The people of Eng-
land are the common soldiers of the national array,
and he only wonders how they ever should have been
allowed to have a voice in the ordering of the battle.
His Grace, forsooth, cares little for the composition
of the electoral body. " Tell me," says he, "how
you mix up your House of Commons." " I want,"
says the Noble Duke, " a House of Commons that
will carry into effect the views of the King's Go.
vernment. I never wish to hear of the people,
during peace, but as shopkeepers, artisans, and pea-
sants, and, during war, as soldiers and sailors." The
affairs of eivil Government, even in the Duke's opi-
nion, require the machinery of legislative bodies;
but those should be, as he thinks, utterly beyond
popular influence. The representation of the people,
quasi people, is nonsense; lout there is some use in
knowing the opinion of lawyers, bankers, merchants,
manufacturers, and machinists, in their respective
occupations; and there is no disadvantage inabring-
ing them together, provided their exuberant
knowledge and vulgar pretensions be restrained
within bounds by the superior numbers and awe.in-
spring presence of their Aristocracy. Direct nomi-
nation by borough proprietors to seats in the Lower
House appears to the Duke of Wellington to be the
wonder-working principle of the British Constitu-
tion. How it got there he does not trouble himself
to inquire, but he believes it to be the key of our
civil position, and if that be carried by the reforming
enemy, he considers the battle lost; for it is strange
enough that the Duke of Wellington, and all the
opponents to Reform, will never view the people
but as the natural enemy of all rational government,
that is to say, they confound authority and des-
potism, and therefore conclude that the one, like
the other, has no security but in the fears and want
of combination among the governed. The Duke
flatters himself that the people of England will
submit to the rejection of the Reform Bill without a
" murmur."

"Rn‘ticus expectat dual tran‘eat ainnis."

The Duke is not speaking to diecoreented and re-
monstrating soldiers—their duty is to place unli-
mited confidence in the justice and talents of their•
commander—civil life and free institutions know no
such confidence, and no such submission—personal
rights, and political franchises, transcend the claims
of authority however ancient, or the respect due to
names however illustrious. The petitioning Com-
mons of Great Britain will cahnly, but certainly,
attain the object, and it will be for the Duke of Wel-
lington and his anti-reforming friends to witness an
effectual change and improvement in our represen-
tative system without a murmur.—Morn. Herald.
It is now currently reported that there has been
a very considerable ratting from the anti. Reform
ranks since the second reading of the Bill, and that
if Ministers are defeated in the Committee, or on
the third reading, it will be but a very trifling ma-
jority. We believe such to be the fact, from infor-
mation which has reached us, that the loaves•and-
fish men are scampering with as much haste, and
as much fear and trembling, from the tottering walls
of Toryism, as they lately clung to them as their
only means of subsistence; but still the public must
not be thrown off its guard by the conduct of such
prties. The zeal which has been manifested for
Reform must not abate,—the energy which has
been exhibited must not be diminished,—unanimity
must be cultivated,—and to every other virtue in
the maintenance of the great cause, must be added
perseverance. Thus, and thus only, can we finally
triumph over the selfish few, who, not contented
with having plundered us of our rights, our trea-
sure, and our blood, would still,—if they could,—
persevere in their oppression, and hand down their
tyranny as an heir-loom to their descendants.—
Morning Advertiser,

It has been ascertained that upwards of fil yof
those Members who voted for the second reading
of the Reform Bill are determined to destroy its
character in the Committee. Ministers will there-
fore will be left in a wortil minority when the first
clause comes to the vote. No wonder their Journals
urge a dissolution, but the King positively refuses to
grant one; so here again Ministers are impeded in
their revolutionary course. It is quite true that the
Duke of Gloucester is deeply impressed with a
sense of the danger which the country would incur
by adopting Earl Grey's Benthamite Constitution.
The Queen is also known to entertain a very natural
antipathy to it; and a Noble Earl, whose Lady is at-
tached to her Majes'y's Household, has expressed in
dutiful but energetic terms his apprehensions of the
dangerous ,consequences which must result from the
establishment of a Democratic Legislature. To the
appeal of these able Councillors his Majesty has,
we are assured, listened with characteristic kind-
ness, and the baneful officious meddling of a person
whose weakness is only equalled by that of his
friend Lord Goderich is, we believe, beginning to
be appreciated by his Royal Master. To that
gentleman we sincerely recommend a reference to
the sentiments and opinions of those in the sunshine
of whose royal favour he se long basked, by the
breath of whose nostrils he once lived and had his
being. Their familiar friend and servant whom
they trusted should mark his:respect fortheir memory
by acting the part of a go-between with Whig Re-
formers and Revolutionists against the political
supporters of a Wellington,—that he of all men
should thus throw discredit upon their patronage, is
indeed a fearful sign of the timed. We have al-
ready once warned him against the course he is
pursuing, and we now repeat that warning.—Morn-
ing Post.

The speeches of Lord Wharncliffe and the Duke
.of Wellington in the House of Lords on Monday
night have made a deep and happy impression on the
public mind. Even in the improbable event of the
revolutionary Bill passing the House of Commons,
the fair and calm discussion of the question by the
House of Peers will tend to satisfy the artfully ex-
cited portion of the people, that in the passion of
the moment their true interests have been neglected,
and the peace and happiness of the country disre-
garded, in the mischievous designs of faction, and
the insane projects of an imbecile Ministry. Hope
the most cheering .therefore remains to the nation
that through one branch at least of the Legislature,
we shall be saved from the direful effects that would
inevitably result from the adoption of the re-
volutionary measure now in progress in the
Lower House. Already has the sensation pro-
duced by the French and Belgian revolutions
subsided; and the people of this country, see-
ing their ruinous results, have become sufficiently
Nvorned by the severe sufferings of their neighbours.
But the friends of radical change in England argue
that those deplorable consequences were produced
from the want of Reform, and even go the dan-
gerous length of insinuating that in the event of
Reform being denied, similar evils must ensue in
this country. Now without stopping for the pre-
sent to observe Upon the toral disregard; manifested
by our reformists of the woeful effects arising to our
neighbours from their blind adherence to infamous
faction, and of the important and useful lesson they
have received from them, we shall content ourselves
with denying altogether the assumed fact of the
Revolutions in France.and Belgium having resulted
from the denial of Reform: In the former country no

, .
Reform had been called fer ; the people had uttered
no complaints; and the only innovation committed
(until the ill-advised Monarch was driven to extreme
measures for the maintenance of his due power
in the State) was that so long and so stu-
diously planned by the revolutionists,—who by
the most vile means had attained an undue iathience
among the multitude,—for the overthrow of the
legitimate Bourbon throne, and the consequent vio-
lation of one of the most prominent principles of
the Constitution. In Belgium, the people uttered
no complaints, for they had in reality none to make
—they were merely seduced by the worthless revo-
lutionists to follow the baneful example of the fac-
tions of France ; and the frightful results of each,
as we have already observed, have read salutary
lessons to the people of England, who will he careful
how they permit themselves to become the dupe;
and slaves of the prevailing factions among us. We
repeat, then, that the melancholy effects of revolu-
tion in France and Belgium were not produced by
the denial of Reform, for no such demand was ever
made by the people of either country. They were
the obvious fruit of mischievous design, such as is
now daily making the most fearful strides in Eng-.
land, and the full accomplishment of which cannot
fail to be produced, in the event of the plan of Re-
form now before Parliament being s: tiered to become
the law of the land.—Morning Post.

FROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT.

St. James's Palace, March 23,
The King was this day pleased to confer the honour of Knight-
hood upon Captain George Francis Seymour, of the Royal Navy,
Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order.

War (Mice, March 24.
MEMORANDUM.—His Majesty has been pleased to nomi-
nate Lieut.-Col. T. Lord Grantham, of the Yorkshire Hussar
Yeomanry Cavalry, and Lieut.-Col. E. Baker, of the Royal Wilt-
shire Yeomanry Cavalry, to be his Majesty's Aides-de-Camp for
the service of his Yeomanry Cavalry.

War-Office, March 29.
MEMORANDUM.—The half-pay of the under-mentioned
Officers has been cancelled from the Y9th instant, inclusive, upon
their receiving a commuted allowance for their commissions :
Ensign D. Costello, half-pay Unattached
Ensign \V W. Leslie, halfpay 59th Foot
Assistant-Surgeon R. Macleod, half-pay 100th Foot
Ensign J. Birney, half-pay 49th Foot
Assistant-Surgeon T. Howell, half-pay- Hospital Staff
Lieut. R. Gregory, half-pay 49th Foot
Lieut. E. Lewis, half-pay Unattached
Ensign T. W. Craig, half-pay 35th Foot
Ensign J. Atkinson, half-pay Unattached
Lieut. J. Warner, late of the New South Wales Veteran Com-

ponies
Lieut. M. Fitzgerald, half-pay Unattached
Ensign T. K. Holmes, half-pay Unattached
Surgeon J. G. Playfair, half-pay Hospital Staff
Lieut. K Armstrong, half-pay Gth Dragoons
Ensign H. H. Slade, half-pay 43d Foot
Lieut. W. Warren, half-pay 37th Foot
Lieut. J. Currie, half-pay 60th Foot
Lieut. A. G. Lewis, half-pay 68th Foot
Lieut. J. S. Kelly, half-pay 4th Foot
Lieut. A. Macfarlane, half-pay 57th Foot
Lieut. C. Irwin, half-pay Royal Waggon Train
Lieut. C. de Merwede, half-pay Light Infantry Battalion
King's German Legion
Assistant-Surgeon R. Moorhead, half-pay Light Dragoons
Assistant-Surgeon J. NAshwood, half-pay liith Foot
Ensign F. de Ronne, half-pay 3d Line Battalion King's German

Legion
Lieutenant A. W. Honne, half-pay Ist Foot
Ensign W. Constantine, half-pay Bth Foot
Assistant-Surgeon D. Browne, half-pay lit West India Regt.
Lieut. R. H. Dwyer, half-pay Unattached
Lieut. Hon. E. S. Pery, half-pay 7th Light Dragoons
Cornet J. Sparrow, half-pay 17th Light Dragoons
Ensign and Lieut. Sir T. E. Croft, Bart. half-pay Ist Foot Guards
Lieut J. F. S. L'Ecolier, half-pay Bourbon Regiment
Assistant-Surgeon W. Moffatt, half-pay 49th Foot
Lieut. R. S. Amiel, half-pay 25th Foot
Ensign R. Blake, half-pay 4th West India Regiment
Lieut. R. Dering, half-pay Royal York Rangers
Ensign J. C. Probe, half-pay 21th Foot
Staff:Surgeon J. Beresford, half-pay Hospital Staff
Ensign J. De Courcy, half-pay 2d Greek Light Infantry
Ensign Sir G. Rich, half-pay sth Garrison Battalion
Lieutenant J. Canny, half-pay 30th Foot
Ensign G. A. Hill, half-pay 27th Foot.

Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Somerset.
To be Deputy Lieutenants—The Right Hon. H. J. G. Herbert,
commonly called Lord Porchestcr ; W. E. Pickwick, Esq , dated
March 9, 1531; and W. Clark, Esq. March 15.

Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of the West Riding of the

County of York.
To be Deputy Lieutenants—H. Roughsedge, J. W. Foster, and
M. Wilson, jun. Esqrs., Feb. 4.
Yorkshire Hussar Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry.
E. H. Reynard, Gent. to be Cornet, vice Toulson, resigned,
Feb. 8.

Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Renfrew•
Renfrewshire Regiment of Militia—A. Speirs, jun. Esq. to bj
Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Mure, promoted, March 19.

Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Kent.
West Kent Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry—G. Albert, Gent.
to be Adjutant, with constant pay, March 21.

Whitehall, March 25,

The King has been pleased to present the Rev. David Bell to
the church and parish of Kennoway, in the presbytery of Kir-
kaldy and county of Fife, vacant by the death of the Rev. Patrick
Wright.

Whitehall, March 28.
The King has been pleased to grant to Christopher Hodgson,
of Great Dean's-yard, Westminster, Esq., the joint office of
Secretary and Treasurer to the Governors of the Bounty of
Queen Anne for the augmentation of the maintenance of the
poor Clergy ; the office of Treasurer having become vacant by
the death of John Paterson, Esq.