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have repeated opportunities of returning to the sul.- .
ject. Of the Report itself, cur favourable opinion is
already known to the readers of The .Sun„.. We con-
sider it as complete as any scheme for the amelioration
of the Irish people
.can possibly be. We do not
mean to say that there are no oinissions in the sum
total of its recommendatory suggestions—that some of its
leading provisions are not. open to much cavil on the
score of liability to abuse—that the remedial policy
and the principles upon which that policy. is based,
are never suffered to come either in immediate or pros-
pective collision ; but we are prepared to maintain that
it would have been impolitic to have .supplied :such
omissions—that to have sought to make the provisions
of the proposed change of system less liable to the
possibility of abuse, would have rendered the prospec-
t.
nye improvement of Ireland a mare delusion—and that,
in the words of the Report, " legislation"—(whenever
its main object is the removal of an immediate pres-
sing, and, from its nature, temporary evil)—"-should
he.ve reference to _circumstances, as well as to princi-
ples." Indeed, where the evil to be remedied is such
as afflicts Ireland—hunger and nakedness—the first
impulse of every generous mind must be to concede
relief on any terms But that the Commissioners have
not been wanting in a proper regard to principles, must
be evident to every person who will take the trouble to
examine the immediate and suitable remedies provided
against abuses of power under the new system. With-
out powers liable to be abused, the Directors of Ire-
I land's regeneration could effect nothing for her people.
All therefore that honest. men can in fairness ask is, will
the law provide a speedy, and an otherwise efficient'
remedy for the correction of all perversions of such
powers ? Most decidedly it will, if Parliament adopt the
sug7..stions of the Commissioners.
lqow is the time for the people of Ireland to bestir
themselves. Let them come boldly and manfully for-
ward, and we will engage them a victory over their
aristocratical oppressors. They are starving : they
want remunerative labour : this is the season for urging
their claims for a wholesale redress of agrarian griev-
ances. They may depend upon all the assistance that
we can render them in this struggle. Once let the
recommendations of the Commissioners be adopted by
the Legislature, and there will be an end of the serfage
which now disgraces the soil of Ireland. In the mean
time, we shall keep a watchful eye upon the enemies
of the Irish poor—belong to what party soever they
may. We care not what may be the cause of their
hostility to that deeply injured and cruelly oppressed
body. 'Whether, in the excessive tenderness of their
consciences, they object to the social improvement of
an idolatrous community—or, which is quite as pro-
bable, in the. universal diffusion of their philanthropy,
they cannot concentrate the beams of their benevolence
upon such a speck as Ireland—we shall be careful to
mark them as fit objects for the obloquy of posterity.

Our readers will see in another part of our Paper a
curious -and edifying Report of an action for libel,
brought by Mr. PETER- BORTHWICK, M.P. for Eve-
sham against the proprietors of the Bath Guardian.
From this Report it appears that the Honourable
Member is a perfect Proteus in intellect. There
seems, indeed, no end to his abilities. He is not one,
but Legion. He is as much at home, for instance,
behind the counter at Dalkeith, as in the halls of
Downing at Cambridge ; can write dramas and trea-
tises on the Advent ; and clear the Surrey Theatre by
his performance of tragedy, with as much expedition
as he clears the House of Commons by his per-
formance of farce. It must be a great com-
fort to the Conservatives, to have a partizan
so variously and richly gifted, as this myriad-
minded Member. Talk of Lord BROUGHAM I
Why, his Lordship is no more to be compared to
PETER, than the suet-dumpling on the top of Buck-
inaham Palace, to the cupola of St. Paul's. Can his
Lordship play Othello like PETER? Can he write theo-
logical discourses on the Advent like PETER ? Can he
write plays calculated to make one laugh, or speak farces
calculated to make one sleep, like PETER ? Not a
bit of it. 'His Lordship is simply a man of extraor-
dinary endowments, whereas PETER is a man of mi-
riii,dirciint,:.:oipulseltones, like his apostolic namesake before
oiLsnilimap:s:s:i!b:aeri to adopt tivi Horatian
towards such a "
.for Evesham.
vernal genius" as th,,
We cannot but admire him, even hi
si;:te of ourselves,
for he is the " Admirable Crichton "
century, and will flourish in the eves of Iwonlinc7'tll
112.
posterity long after his base and "-diabolical " detrac-
tors shall have been mingled with kindred clay. We
say nothing of his temporary rustication in a Cam-
bridge jail, for genius is proverbially eccentric, and_
who knows but PETER was qualifying for a Conserva-
tive in that classic and truly statesmanlike domicile ?

It will be seen by our Parliamentary Report that the
consideration of the Tithe Commutation Bill, which
was to have been resumed in Committee last night,
has been postponed. To-morrow Lord JOHN
RUSSELL will state the alterations which Ministers
propose to make in the measure. The Bill will then
he reprinted with the new clauses and amendinentF,
and on thy.: 22d inst., the House will go into the dis-
cussion de novo.

What the proposed alterations may be we can,
of course, only conjecture. The two main ob-
jections to the Bill, put forward by the landowners,
are the great amount of the rent-charge, and the
inequality of its distribution. On the first of these
points we cannot believe that the Government will
make any alteration, but shall place the tithe-owner
in a worse position than he occupies at present. It is
surely enough if he surrender to the landowner all his
share of the future increase in the produce of the soil,
together with a bonus of from 25 to 40 per cent. of
his present revenue. Beyond this we think the tithe-
owner cannot in conscience be called upon to concede.
Indeed the whole concession—the whole sacrifice is
on his part. The landowner really gives up nothing—
he is undeniably a gainer, and a great gainer too, by
the plan, as we have already endeavoured to shew.
The proposition of the landowner, therefore, that the
tithe-owners claims shall be still farther cut down, is
a'tog:;ther
With respect to the second objection, that great in-
justice will be done by the manner in which it is pro-
posed to applot the rent charge, we can only say that
if any mode can be discovered more agreeable to tire
landowners, it ought to be adopted. Mr. BLAMIRE
has suggested that in the northern part of England at
least, it would be far more satisfactory to the proprie-
tors of land to be allowed to assess themselves pro-
gressively, than to have their r..mt.charges apportioned
by the Commissioners once for • all 'according to the
accidental state of land at the present moment. His
view, we believe, is that the Commissioners shall
estimate the value of the Tithe payable from a
district or parish, and that the landowners shal
ceortdhiengaptioiloittnsie
among
land themselves
productive
ofthe l atilviee
rent-chargete n
settle
on
value ; this applotment to be varied as changes take
place, by the conversion of grass land to tillage, and
vice versa, or as crops more or less valuable are
raised.

This plan, it will be observed, is perfectly unob-
kctionable as far as the tithe-owner is concerned. As
long as his amount' of revenue is secured (and in this
way it would be equally secure), it cannot matter to
him in what proportions the landowners choose it
should be 'distributed over their lands. Neither can
tddien g proposed in
the practical
there be any doubt that a much nearer approximation
it
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the anti
Bill.l s way,e A
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titcillelias distribution utc)tyui,iotiliet
li icialaty mode
accomplished
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to
execution of Mr. BLAMIRE 0 plan, we think it would
be hardly fair to say anything. The trouble and ex-
pense fall upon the landowners. If they do not object,
who else shad?

In the Paris Papers of Sunday we find the re port
of a debate in the Chamber of Deputies on Saturd
for the removal of the remain 3 of the Emperor NA-
POLEON from St. Helena to France, and the abolition
of the law of 1816 for the perpetual expatriation of the
BONAPARTE family. The debate arose on the pre-
sentation of petitions by several Members of the
Chamber, who have repeatedly exerted themselves in
defence of the memory of NAPOLEON, and the rights
of his family. The petitions for the recal of the
living Bonapartists were rejected on the motion of M.
-Tfluns ; those for removing the remains of N4PO-

LmoN to

linister,

Franco ti,ete referred to the Council of

The accounts from the North of Spain are unimportant.
General CORDOVA has addressed a new set of regu-
lations to the inhabitants of Navarre and the Basque
Provinces, the principal of which exonerates them
,
from supplying the army with the usual rations. This
charge will in future be borne by the Treasury. The
following is the substance of this document :
The war draws near to its close ; fatigued with the disasters
winch this species of warfare rendered necessary— although for
that reason not less to be deplored—it now commences to as-
sume a character of reconciliation ; for peace and reconcilia-
tion are the objects for which we. fight, and are the most ardent
desires of an innocent Queen and an enlightened Government.
But it is necessary that the honest and peaceful inhabitants do
riot lose by a guilty obstinacy the fruits of intentions as useful
as benevolent. That these happy results be instantly carried
_ _

into execution, I have ordered as follow :
Art. 1. In those villages in which the' troops penetrate un-
der any circumstances whatsoever, there cannot bo imprisoned
or disturbed any person for his opinions, unless such persons
have had criminal processes commenced against them, or
earry arms against the legitimate government of her Majesty

Isabella 11.
2. The military chiefs shall give their protection to those
authorities and inhabitants who remain peaceably in their
houses, paying them instantly, or within the term of fifteen
dabs, if it should not ho possible sooner, in the capitals of
the provinces, and by the treasurer of the deputation, the
value of all such matter as shall have been furnished to the
army. The tariff of process to be fixed by the deputations in
each province.
3. As an acknowledgment for these benevolent measures, I
desire frcm the Inhabitants that they remain peaceably in their
houses, and that they do not abandon them under any pretext
whatsoever at the approach of our troops, for nosy they have
no reason so to act. In default, they will be considered as
hostile and criminal. Therefore, all such who, notwithstand-
ing this order, and the,assurance of protection which I offer
them, render themselves guilty of this crime, shall have ac-
corded them as a just punishment the loss of all the property
which shall be found in their houses, and which can be of use
,to the army. It will not avail them to leave behind them their
wives and their children. It is also notified to all such, that
their cattle arid their grain shall be taken from them. They
shall not be paid for them, nor shall a receipt be given to them,
should they hereafter demand it, thus establishing an equit-
able difference between those who wait with confidence the
arrival of the troops, from whom they have nothing to fear for
their political opinions, and those who, guided by a bad spirit,
fly into the mountains, and provoke the irritation of the troops,
who, in protecting the villages, only seek and pursue its armed
enemies.

PARIS, APRIL 9.—No news was mentioned on 'Change to-
day, as having been brought by the letters from Madrid or
Catalonia ; but the subject of every conversation was the re-
capture of Plencia, a small maritime town in Biscay, by the
squadron under the command of Lord Hay. We must, how-
ever, tell our readers, that some circumstances accompanying
this intelligence make us consider it as very doubtful.
General Cordova has just addressed a proclamation to the
insurgents, which is distinguished by sentiments of humanity
and conciliation, very different from the character of the war
in Navarre hitherto. _ _ _

Cordova declares that Carlist opinions shall not be imputed
to individuals as crimes ; that the troops under his command
shall observe the strictest. discipline, in all the towns and vil-
lages of which they shall make themselves masters ; and lastly,
that none will be treated with rigour, except such as are
taken with arms in their hands.
Letters from the banks of the Bidassoa say that the Carlists
are increasing the number of their troops before St. Sebas-
tian ; they have also brought forward some heavy artillery,
which seems to indicate an intention of pushing with more
vigour the siege of that place.
Cordova is still shut up in Vittoria. There is reason to be
astonished that he does not attempt any thing to disturb the

operations of the insurgents, who traverse the country unmo-
lested in all direction, and threaten several important points.
Don Carlos remains at El Orio with his little Court. It has
lately been affirmed that a person of importance was expected
there.—Messager, April 10.

The Canton Register, which we have received to
the 12th of December inclusive, is filled with ac-
counts of the insolence of the Chinese Government
towards British merchants. On the 4th of that
month a vessel, called the Fairy Queen, arrived at
Lintin. The second Lieutenant was dispatched in a
boat to Canton with letters ; but before his arrival he
was seized by order of the Mandarins, cast into a
dungeon, and word sent to the Captain that he would
not be released, nor the letters given up, till the Bar-
barians. would pay a sum of 500 dollars. The resi-
dent foreigners immediately presented themselves 'at
the city gate, bearing a petition for the release of
the Lieutenant ; but they were threatened with the
terrors of his Celestial MAJESTY'S wrath, and or-
dered to humble themselves in silent astonishment at
his clemency towards them. The poor fellow con-.
tinned in prison up to the departure of the latest de-
spatches for England. The tea-trade was, however,
brisker than usual.

THE FETINTDS.-(THIS DAY).

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

.I,f, the news received from Paris this morning, it is stated
that the assembling of a Congress at Vienna is still on the
tapae,yvhi2h will have for its object the affairs of the East, and
those of /41-/PtiP. M. Metternich has given his consent to it,
and M, Tallqrand is a great advocate for its taking place.

Our arrivals this morning are the French and Hamburg
mails. No ship letters received.
The (Mears of the Foreign Legion in Spain, knowing the
importance of a corps of cavalry being attached to their divi-
si'm, are actively employed in the formation thereof,- and have
subscribed their arrears of pay, amounting to 52,0001. for that
purpose. On the 81st ult, 1,600 men to complete the above
corps, arrived at Pampeluna. from Catalonia,
The French papers, after giving General Bernelie's order
of the day of the foreign legion, not to give any quarter to
the Carlists, states as follows :
"The cause of this horrid retaliation—the atrocities which
have been committed by the Carlists is without example. The
fate of Licutenent Doumoustier, son of that brave General
taken in Catalonia withS 30 men by the Carlist division of
Guergue—these unfortunate men were promenaded, bare..
footed, with a halter round their necks, through several vil-
lages for eight days-. This horrid brutality was ended by de-
priving them of their lives in the graates torments i two of
them only made their escape. In the affair of Lectarosintre,
6th March, 1835, eight voltigeurs of that legion were massa-
cred in the same manner; five others on the 24th of last
month, in the affair of Zubiri, wore burnt alive."
Owing to there being so few arrivals this morning-, we are
deprived of intell;gence, which causes a great dulness in the
city, as well as in speculations in the Funds to the present hour.
Consols opened at the prices they left off yesterday, 91i
for the Account, at present may be quoted 9l buyers, with
little doing. Owing to its being the settling day to-morrow in
Consols, the brokers and jobbers are busy in rnaltina- up their
accounts. Exchequer Bills, 20 22 ; India Bonds, 68 ; Bank
Stock, 214} ; India Stock, 2.584 259 i.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Active, Bonds, 474 .1; ; the
market appears firm. Great anxiety is expressed to ascertain
it' the Spanish Dividend will be advertised on Friday next,
Passive, .1 ; Deferred, 214. ; Portuguese, 831 84 ;
Three per Cents., 1
53.1 4a ; Colombian, 32i. 331 ; Mexican,
35.? 36 ; Dutch Two and a Half per Cents, 564- # ; Five per
Cents., 1011
HALF-PAS? ONE.
We are still without any further arrivals, nor are there any
reports afloat to tile present hour.
Consols since the early part of the morning receded to
9111 but at present may be quoted 911;1; Exchequer Bills,
19 21 ; India Bonds, 5 6 ; Bank Stock, 213 i ; India
Stock, 2584.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Active Bonds, which were
in the morning buoyant at 474-, have rather given way and re-
ceded to 47i 4' • Passive, 141 ; Deferred, 21i Portu-
guese, 83:1,- 84 ; Three per Cents. 53} 54 ; Colombian, 324
33 l• • Mexican 351 36 • Dutch Two and a Half per Cents.,
564
ln.S. hares the most doing is in the minor ones ; in the others
there is little alteration in the prices.
We have this moment a report that some heavy ships are
going for the coast of Spain, and some more marines sailed
yesterday from Portsmouth. This caused the Consols to be
heavy.
THREE 0' CLOCK.
Consols for the Account, 914

RADNORSHIRE.--The county gaol (at Presteign)
does not contain one prisoner, and the doors are thrown open.
This fact so highly creditable to the county we arc happy to
record for several reasons. Radnorshire was the scene of one
of the'rnost arduous contests that took place in the last general
election. The Reform candidate Was returned,,and this ac-
cording to the logic of the Tories ought to have been followed
by consequences diametrically opposite to those which have
taken place. The absence of crime, proved by the fact above
stated, indicates not only the good moral condition of the
county,'but also the content and satisFaction experienced under
the present patriotic and popular government. The pros-
perous state of the country proves that social order and liberal,
honest political opinions, are legitimate cause and. effect.
ANTWERP, APRIL 6.—The only topic of con-
versation with us this morning wcs, a dreadful assassination
committed in the town yesterday evening. The circumstances
of this act, so foreign to our habits, and which would seem to
have proceeded from a feeling of revenge, are at present un-
known. All that has transpired is, that a young man, an in-
timate friend of the deceased, but with whom he had lately
had some misunderstanding, was apprehended at an early hour
this morning. This apprehension naturally gives rise to all
sorts of rumours and conjectures. It would be inconvenient
to repeat them here. We shall, therefore, withhold all fur-
ther details until a judicial inquisition shall have thrown some
light upon the sanguinary and mysterious business to which
we have adverted.—Antwerp Journal.
LITERARY DISPATCH. —Dr. Johnson wrote
Rasselas" in the evenings of one week. Scott completed
" Guy Mannering" in a month. Dryden's " Alexander's
Feast" was the work of two days • and it is told of Shak-
speare that he finished the " Merry Wives of Windsor" in a
fortnight.—The Parterre.

DUBLIN ELECTION COMMITTEE.

THIS DAY.

The Committee mot this morning, at twelve o'clock.

It baying been decided yesterday that the wide-street tax
was a municipal rate within the meaning of tile Reform Act,
an objection was thereupon taken to the validity of the assess-
ment on various points, which was partly discussed on Monday,
and adjotirned when the Speaker was announced to be at
Prayers.

This morning Mr. AITSTEN for the sitting member resumed
his argument, contending that the voter, William Henry
Curly, objeCted to in thiS class, could not be disfranchised for
the non-payment of the wide street tax assessed at 'Michael-
mas, 1834. As a matter of evidence it had not been shown
that the Michaelmas rate was due and payable at the time of
the election. In the second place, and Ile thought this
most decisive, it no where appeared that the assessment
made in 1805, end the purposes contemplated in the
Act had not expired, because if it had so ceased, there
could not continue any assessment . on the citizens of
Dublin ; and, in the third place, that it was only
due • by virtue of an assessment to be made by
the .treasurer, and collectable by virtue of a warrant
to be delivered to the Collector. There were other
points arisinc, in this case, but he felt those which he
put forward' were so strong, that lie could not antici-
pate any decision of the Committee, which would make
it necessary for him to resort to them. In order
to deprive the voter of his franchise it was necessary to shoW
that two half-year's cesses were due and payable, as in the case
of the other municipal rates; and it must be shown that the
rate in the assessment was not paid, as they would be obliged
to do in an action for non-payment of it. The Learned
Counsel at considerable length proceeded to show that the
assessment in this case was not made according to the provisions
of the Act of Parliament, and that the warrant by which alone
it was collectable, was not signed in sufficient time to make
it due, and payable at the time of the election. That warrant
was not dated till the 10th of January, three days after the
commencement of the election, and he submitted that the Com-
mittee were bound to preserve their own consistency, by making
a decision similar to that come to in the Grand Jury Rate, where
it appeared that the warrant was not delivered till the sixteenth
of January, and the voter had polled before. But for all
legal purposes, the election should be taken as one day, and the
document in question not having been perfected. before
the 13th day of January, the day on which the nomi-
nation of candidates took place, any subsequent perfec-
tion of it could certainly not make the rate payable, si.)
as to disqualify at that election the voters who had not paid it
from exercising their franchise. He confidently looked for
the decision of the Committee in his favour, which, perhaps,
would save Hon. Members further trouble.

The COMMITTEE, having deliberated, announced their reso-
lution as follows :—" That it is the opinion of the Committee
that no proof has been adduced that a rate was made for Mi-
chaelmas Term, 1834, but that W. H. Curly having two days af-
ter he voted paid the arrears of wide-street tax for Michaelmas,
1833, and also for Easter, 1834, was in arrear at the time of
voting more than six months' amount of a municipal tax, and
must therefore be struck off the poll."
This decision against the validity of the Michaelmas rate is
most favourable to Mr. O'Connell.

On Friday evening last, Lord and Lady Granville
gave a splendid fete at the Hotel of the British embassy in
Paris, which was attended by not less than 2,000 persons.
The long and numerous suit of lofty and magnificent apart-
ments, forming the ground floor of this once gay palace of a
favourite sister of Napoleon, all opening as they do to an ex-
tensive and adjacent orangrie, which is provided with sofas,
chairs, and an abundance of wax lights, afford facilities for
imparting splendour and brilliancy to such fetes as the one
given on Friday, which no other private mansion in the French
capital possesses. A remarkable omission in the throne room,
however, is still suffered to exist. It is the absence of a por-
trait of his present Majesty, the place of which is filled up by
one of his royal consort. In a room adjacent, there is still a
full-length portrait of George IV.—Paris letter.
The Duke of Wellington's agent at Lisbon has
protested, in the name of his Grace, against the suspension of
his Portuguese pension.

Madeinoiselle Giulia Grisi, the youthful cantatrice,
is a niece of the once celebrated Madame Granilli, and is now
in her twenty-fifth year, having been born at Milan July 28,
1811. Her father held an appointment under the government
of the then existing kingdom of Italy. At the age of eleven,
Giulia was placed in a convent at Florence, where her musical
education commenced.

It is rumoured, in a Ministerial quarter, that Dr.
Turton, Regius Professor of Divinity in Cambridge, is to be
raised to the Episcopal Bench—an appointment which will be
hailed with considerable satisfaction in the learned world, this
eminent Divine being a singular instance of the same indivi-
dual having—during his University career—first raised him-
self to the Chair of the immortal Newton, and subsequently
to that once filled by Bentley, and other eminent theologians.

It is understood that Dr. Butler, of Shrewsbury,
will be the new Bishop. There is also a report (but this we
give at present as a rumour merely), that Dr. Shuttleworth will
be the next Bishop after Dr. Butler.
•

We understand that the Admiralty have it in con-
templation not to withhold much longer the anticipated in-
crease of half-pay to that most deserving and ill-paid class of
naval officers—the pursers. An increase of a shilling a day
in their allowance, it is understood, has been all but de-
termined on.

The elevation of the Right Hon. Dominick Browne
to the Peerage by the title of Baron Oranmore, will appear in
the Gazette of this evening.
The place of Yeoman Usher of the Exchequer, to
which the late Mr. William Godwin was appointed about two
years ago by Earl Grey, it is said will be abolished, as being
considered a sinecure office.

Mr. Stephenson has arrived at Kensington Palace
from Holkham Hall, and reported to his Royal Highness the
Duke of Sussex the state of Mr. Coke and his family. It ap-
pears that Mr. Coke was more alarmingly ill than the Lady
Mary ; and since Thursday two of her children are dead, and
a daughter of Lady Cecilia. The disorder is a fever or jail-
z a.
The Arai de la Char* notices as a singular pheno-
menon, that at Mauriac, near Clermont, on Monday last,
during a heavy fall of snow, the atmosphere was illuminated
by vivid dashes of lightning, accompanied by tremendous peals
of thunder. _ _ .

MADRID, MARCH 30.—Accounts` from the army
are unanimous in declaring the cheering effects produced by
the publication of Lord John Hay's communication of the di-
rect naval co-operation decided upon by the British Govern-
ment, The bells rang merry peals, and the city wore the ap-
pearance of a grand fete day. General Cordova is in high
spirits, the army full of enthusiasm, and the British Legion
are beginning to be treated with due consideration. The wea-
ther has again Iv9ll drP4aftll at Vittoria, but the bad season is
breaking up, and we shall soon sec the good effect of well-
digested plans and efficient British co-operation.
ROME, MARCH 26.—The failure of the Neapoli-
tan firm of Falconnet has made a deep sensation. Its creditors
have. scarcely any thing to expect from the liquidation. For
some days past strangers are flocking in for the holy week so-
lemnities,--Atigsburgh Gazette.
Moscow, VEL 28,--The last winter has been
excessively severe. Great misfortunes are apprehened from
the melting of the snow. On the 23d of January, the coldest
day, a sentinel was frozen. Qn the second day a sledge drawn
by four horses arrived, the two travellers and conductors had
been frozen on the road.—Augsburgh Gazete.
ST. PETERSBURGII, MARCH 26.—The Grand
Duchess Anna Michaelowria, daughter of the Grand Duke
Michael, died on the 22d inst., in the second year of her age.
It is expected that there will be inure applications
this Term for young gentlemen to be admitted attorneys, than
were ever before made, the new rule of Court, which will in
future subject the applicants to strict examination, taking effect
from the last day of next Term. The rule will apply, not
only to those who have never commenced business in the pro-
fession, but to those gentlemen who have been practising as
attorneys in the Court of King's Bench only; consequently,
unless they take up the necessary qualification next Terns in
the Courts of which they arc not Members, they must go
through the same examination as the articled clerks.
During the late tempests a vessel laden with iron for
St. Maloes, having sprung a leak, was abandoned by her cap-
tain and the whole of her crew, except one of the cabin boys,
who, to save his life, kept the pump going till she was driven
into the bay of Granville, when he hoisted his shirt as a signal
of distress, and some boats went out, and brought the vessel
safe into the harbour.

We learn from Quimper that the storm at the end
of'March occasioned most deplorable disasters on the shore of
the Commune of Camaret. Three ships were totally lost at
sea, five have been cast on the rocks and gone to pieces, and
three others are stranded but may be got off. Upwards of 20
sailors have perished.
The bench of the Nisi Prius Court, at Liverpool,
recently presented the novel spectacle of three Judges sitting
at one time in the same Court. Two of them, however, were
robeless and wiglcss, being merely spectators ' • we mean Lords
Cockburn and Fullarton, Lords or Judges of the Scotch Court
of Session. We understand that the object of their present
visit to this country is to visit the working of the English Con-
stitutional system of Trial by Jury in Civil Causes.—Liver-
pool Chronicle.

THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF CAPUA,—FIis
Royal Highness Prince Charles Ferdinand of the Two
Sicilies and his bride (late Miss Penelope Smythe) have
taken up their residence, pro tern., at Mivart's Hotel, Lower
Brook-street, where the Prince was visited yesterday by Count
Ludo!ff, the Neapolitan Minister; Count d'Aceto, Captain
Bailie Hamilton, R.N., Mr. Ogle, &c.• We understand that
the Prince and his Lady, having been united according to
the Catholic Church, encountered many perils in their journey
from Madrid to Paris, having travelled for many miles along
roads rendered nearly impassable by the snow, and through.
the territories occupied by the hostile armies of the Carlists
and Christinos. His Royal Highness, who is High Admiral
of the kingdom of the two Sicilies, is the second son of tho late.
King Francis by his second marriage, with the present Queen
Dowager, daughter of the late Charles the Fourth of Spain,
Ho is in his twenty,fifth year, and is brother to the Queen
Regent of Spain, the Grand Duchess of Tuscany, and to the
Consort of the Infant Don Sebastian of Spain, and nephew
to the Queen of the French, and brother by half-blood to the.
Duchess de Berri. The happy pair travelled to England un-
der the name of Count and Countess Marscalli, but we be-
lieve they are not at present incog. His Highness has not
been indisposed, and he will attend, it is expected, the entree
Levee to-morrow, when he will be introduced to his Majesty,.

r
CENTRIL CRIMINAL Covitr.

(THIS DAY.)

tmihearPchoisltaot,ffioenee, OLD R
✓arms Barnes, the late President of the Foreign Onlec of
the second count, the. money was laid as the property 0'
sovereign
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afioers sotfeaolui nr gL,
Lord
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WEII2III Sproule YoUg
Mr. Shepherd, Mr.n Adolphus, and Mr. Scarlett again ap.:
•
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hB od) ki to,
ofeorr,the pp r
leaded r .
not
peared for the prosecution, and Mr. Price, Mr. Phillips, and
M IT e
l r
After two days of great mental suffering, and of bodily fatigue,
lie could scarcely beexpected to be prepared to go on to-day•
He was, h •
road.
owever, so conscious of innocence, that he was re
to take his trial, but he' hoped for the indulgence and COrn-
passion of the Court.
Mr. Justice PATTESON said he might have a chair, or did he,
want the trial postponed for an hour or two? The p!'is°Pcdr
wwioschileddtthhaenknahsoistLo ogrodsoho? for the indulgence of a chair. a'n
addressed the Court.
Evidence was given onrt
this occasion by Mr. Young and Mr.
Arrovrsmith. It was in a great measure of the same parP°
as that given on the former,: trials, with the addition of thes...(-
facts :—that on the 4th March "these two clerks and the prlble
soner were the only persons on duty in the Foreign-office. •
witnesses had counted the money, which was in the box at the win"
slow. About four o'clock Mr. Campbell of the Secretary's- In
came to the window. It was opened by Young, andthe P';'"
soner seeing who it was, said he would go and speak to hwt
i
himself. The two witnesses retired to the fire-place, oat
left Mr. Barnes in the window room. When be came
ucnud
they went in, and again counted the money, when they f°
one sovereign gone. No one had been in the place but hio-
self.
The two witnesses were under examination for uPward6' ,°„f
three hours. The prisoner then asked and obtained icor°
go out. The Court adjourned for a quarter of an hour.
Campbell was then called, and proved that he called at
the time stated by the other witnesses. Ho
The prisoner was then called upon for his defence.
said he had been ill durin the night from the excitement he;
hsoalclicibtoer forina, quarter
t beggedor of
an tohn
hour,
re allowed lo‘v
ordered
to to
arrange retire lNhigth his
note 3
ald collect hiraself.
The Learned JUDGE said be did not think the practice
cox
good one ; but under the circumstances of this case he had n
objection to grant the application.
The prisoner accordingly retired, and had not returned
when our Reporter left.

PARLIAMENTARY SUIViDIAB,
Parliament met yesterday, for the first time after the Easer
Recess.

In the Loans' there was no sitting yesterday. , 13i11,
In the COMMONS', the Dundee and Arbroath Railway
and the Dundee Water Bill were read a second time, an",;tecl
mitted. To enumerate all the petitions which were prea` co,
would be but a repetition of our Parliamentary intellig•eino_,,
patitaal!
published in another part of our Paper. Two of the
however, claim particular notice--we mean that from Badh we"
Berks, for the abolition of Church-rates, a measure which
have have long advocated—the other is from 12,000
weavers of Lanarkshire, praying for relief—which we hope
of
Legislature will be enabled to extend. The Marinab-
Ch;Lndos intimated his intention of bringing forward toe The
ject of agricultural distress on the 29d of this month. a or,
Tithe Commutation Bill was committed, pro forma, au
Ouse
dered to be re-committed upon Wednesday next. The/ 08.1
having gone into a Committee of Supply, Sir A. '-"„sred
brought forward the Ordnance Estimates. When ear,r6lol.
with those of last year, they exhibit a diminution of
The whole of the resolutions were agreed to without oPr,:„e the
Some conversation succeeded on the subject of exbibno of
plans for the new Houses of Parliament, at the cenelu,sio. of
which the Chancellor of Exchequer declared his intel3ians
still adhering to his original undertaking, that all the Pto A
should be exhibited. Lord Morpeth stated, in replYe of
question from Sir G. Sinclair (whose talk about the atil"-iy,'
the monarch of " glorious, pious, and immortal I'o.ll yet
drew down bursts of laughter), that no official report Da eles
been received relative to the blowing up of the Collegolo.
statue. Major Fancourt gave notice that he would, on the
nesday (to-morrow), move a resolution, declaring it to bei„,eld
opinion of the House that the punishment of flogging alh'of
be entirely abolished in the British army. The Chancellor 4
the Exchequer informed the House that, on the 29th lastest.
he hoped to bring forward his financial statement for they o of
Mr. Robinson said it was his intention to mov'a a reductl;ell,
the marine stamp-duties. It was stated by Lord J. gu;„tbe,
that the Lord Chancellor would this day give notice, '-t of
other House, of a measure for the re:form of the e° cut
Chancery. In reply to Mr. Hume, a hope was belt' Be'
that the Commissioners of Ordnance would lay their the°
port before the House this session. The House the
the
went into Committee on the Army Estimates. i.'„" tho
motion that 106,211/. be granted to delr,ial
charge of the volunteer corps, Mr. Hume oppos.eu' 104
unsuccessfully divided the House upon it; rightly rna'ata-eses-
that these yeomanry corps were used only for party Pal' thc
There were also some other objectionable items whicnbeivi,„
Hon. Gentleman discountenanced. The resolutions Aoti
finally agreed to, the House resumed, when the StarnP
ad tp
Consolidation Bill was read a second time and ordel ai
be committed on the 29th instant, on which day the 1111,3,12; t
statement for the Year will be submitted by tine Chanceu°i:d
the Exchequer. 'Mr. Lynch postponed, till this day tb°
reading of the Roman Catholic Marriages Bill. Mr. "filie-
g.ave notice that to-morrow (this day) he would make a'„; o-
tton on the subject of the Metropolitan Police. The re
nue Departments Bill was reek a third time. The
Licences (Ireland) Bill was •zead a second time ; to ba
•ii
mitted on the 27th of Apr.,.
The Irish Bankruptcy 131
then read a second tine, d the House adjourned.