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LONDON:
SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1840.

The 'Lords did nothing last night but listen to the
prayrJrs of the people. They received petitions chiefly
corxerning the Corn-laws and intrusion into the Kirk ;
hread and religion, the most vulgar and the most
ethereal of our appetites—the common aliment of every
day life, and the last result of all human knowledge,
were the widely contrasted, and yet proximate sub-
jects which their Lordships attended to. The bread
question, touching their Lordships' pockets, was the
occasion of a little talk. The Duke of BUCKINGHAM
hoped the League would meet with the defeat it
merits. We hope so, too ; and the result will be that the
stoney lands of Berkshire will not be made the pretext
for taking away the money of the poor to give it to the
Duke of BUCKINGHAM. Lord FITZGERALD was of
opinion that those who agitate for a repeal of the Corn.
laws have overlooked Ireland. Indeedthey have not. The
lumper-fed peasantry of a country which exports corn
to pay absentee landlords' rents, is one of the darkest
spots in Corn-law criminality. Lord FITZGERALD has
a great regard to the present tenures of Ireland, and
dreads lest they should be altered by the Corn-laws.
He may have a great love for the power exercised by a
BERESFORD and a LORTON of clearing their estates,
but if he can find no other argument against the Anti-
Corn-law League than that its success would alter the
tenures of land in Ireland, he will encourage them to
proceed, by promising them a double victory. What
greater blessing could be conferred on Ireland, than to
overthrow a tenure which makes the bulk of the Irish
no better than slaves?

The Lords put the Race-horse Bill through a Com-
mittee ; a labour, e presume, of love, for their Lord-
ships are all concerned more or less in racing.
The Commons also paid much attention to the
prayers of the people, who petitioned in favour of
PaosT and h;s companions, for the release of the
Sheriff, for the abolition of Ecclesiastical Courts, and
Church-rates, against and for an alteration of the
Corn-laws, for Church Extension, &c. &c. and for the
release of Mr. VINCENT. The last petition said—
•. That the confinement, close and rigorous, to which he
has been subjected (so far surpassing in severity and de-
privation that which your Honourable House has thought
fit to impose on Messrs. the Sheriffs Wheelton and
Evans) has had a most prejudicial effect on his health, and
your petitioner has just heard with the deepest grief and
dismay, that the life of Henry Vincent is exposed to great
danger, unless some means be immediately taken to re-
store him to health."

But the law will take its course, however many lives

it cuts dowo, while privilege, tinctured with humanity,
releases those who may be endangered by its exercise.
Sir. G. SINCLAIR announced his intention of moving,
on the third reading, the rejection of the Irish Munici-
pal Bill.

Lord JOHN RUSSELL stated, in answer to a question
of Mr. HOPE, that the Budget would be brought for-
ward immediately after Easter.

Mr. HuME complained of the absence for a year-
and-a-half from Upper Canada of the Chief Justice, and
thought if he were not required there his salary should
cease.

Lord JOHN RUSSELL excused the absence of the
Chief Justice by a death in his family. He is to return
to Canada in the Spring.
Sir JAMES GaAuAM implied that the Government
had kept back some dispatches relative to the block-
ade of Canton, but Lord JOHN RUSSELL assured the
Right Hon. Baronet that no official accounts had been
withheld. There were private letters in the country
from Captains ELLIOT and SmITH, but not official
narratives.
The debate on the Privilege Question was resumed
by Mr. O'CostiELL,who objected to making the House
of Lords the judge of the Commons privileges, and
protested against the mode of proceeding proposed by
Lord JouN RUSSELL.
Sir WILLIAM FOLLETT pointed out the insufficiency
of the means now at the command of the House to
vindicate its own privileges, and gave his cordial sup-
port to Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S Bill.
Mr. C. BULLER supported the Bill as a practical
means of putting an entl to au unsegmly squabble with
an obseen, bookseller.
Mr. GISBORNE expected tbat they must legislate to
secure all their privileges, if they adopted the Bill, and
he would oppose it in every stage.
Sir ROBERT PEEL vindicates! the House of Com-
mons for not having resorted to legislation till they had
tried other means. He was now satisfied that the powers
of the House were incomplete. A great deal of time
had already been wasted in discussion ; imprisonment
had been tried and failed, and be gave his cordial sup-
port to the Bill which avoided a (liscussion tv, to the
t privilege of the House.
1 Mr. kiumE was spiky to find the Right Ron Baronet

a backslider, and meant to go forward himself and give
his vote against the Bill.

Colonel SIBTHORP would support any Bill that would
release the Sheriff.

Lord HOWICK complained that the Bill was not in-
troduced till alter the House had committed the She-
riffs. The concession should have been made before,
and so the injuries the House had inflicted might have
been avoided. The measure now was humiliating and
degrading, and be would vote against it. The Noble
Lord ascribed much of the opposition to the privilege
to a hatred of the Reformed House. _ _ -

Mr. MACAULAY supported the Bill, and said if it
miscarried they wnuld be absolved. They had great
powers, by which they might the ow the country into con-
fusion, amct it would redound to their credit that instead
of using thse powers they had taken this mild means
of securing the exercise of a necessary privilege.
Lord MAHON, differing with great regret from his
Right Hon. Friend Sir E. SUGDEN, meant to support
the measure.

Mr. BERNAL and Sir S. LUSHINGTON expressed
determination to vote for the Bill. Mr. HOPE said, in
voting with the minorities, he had not been actuated by
any desire to lower, as said by Lord Howroc, the Re-
formed House of Commons.

After Lord JOHN RUSSELL had made a long reply,
in which he bore hard on his Learned Friend the SoLI.
CITOR-GENERAL, tbD Rouse divided and leave to in-
troduce the Bill was given, by 203 to 54.

Sir JAMES GR,VIAM'S motion to allow the Sheriff to
go out on bail v.as next brought forward ; and the Right
Hon. Barone' quoted some cases of persons formerly
liberated on. bail, to juitify his proceeding.
In the, course of the discussion which ensued, Mr.
WAKT,Ev described the conduct of the House as most
dast,ardly, in voting for the Bill, and he declared that
the Sheriff ought to he Immediately released, and that
ne would bring fomard a motion for the release of all
the parties now in custody, STOCKDALE, HOWARD, and
all, on the first opportunity.
A good deal of personal crimination and recri-
mination, as to the course severally pursued by
Noble Lords, Right Hon. and Hon. Gentlemen,
such as usually takes place when a party is defeated
and breaks up, enlivened the close of this now altoge-
ther farcical business. For that we must refer to our
report. The matter was wound up thus—Lord JOHN
RUSSELL suggested that letting the Sheriff out on bail
might give rise to another dispute with the Courts, and
he therefore advised that the Sheriff should be released
on his entering into an engagement to appear again at
the bar on the Gth of April. To this Sir JAMES
GRAHAM assented, and framed his motion accordingly,
assigning as the reason for discharging the Sheriff the
report of Dr. CHAMBERS on his health. Mr. HUME
treated that report as a pretext, and moved that the
preamble mentioning it be omitted. On this question
the House divided, and the words were retained by
124 to 47. The House again divided on the question of
releasing the Sheriff, to attend again on April 6th, which
was carried by 118 to 31. So the Sheriff is to be set at
liberty for the present, to go in a triumphant proces-
sion, as Mr. Warburton said, to the House on a future
day to be finally released. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL
and the .111(wning Chronicle will surely break their
hearts at such a lame and impotent conclusion to their
fostered privilege quarrel.

Mr. MORRISON, the Liberal candidate, has been
returned for Inverness, the forerunner, we hope, of
the return of Liberals for Perthshire, Helston, and
Lewes. Though Mr. Molt EtisoN succeeds a gen-
tleman whose Parliamentary career, not splendid
but useful, has met our approbation, we are glad to
see him restored to the House of Commons. His
extensive acquaintance with commerce in all its
ramifications, will make him a most useful Member
of Parliament. For his predecessor, Mr. M'LEOD,
who is far better known to the public by his
speeches on the hustings—which, under the peculiar
circumstances of the times and the country in which
they were delivered, were excellent—than by his
speeches in Parliament, we have always felt consi-
derable respect ; and had his boldness in public in
grappling with some popular errors, been frequently
manifested in the House of Commons, we should
have concluded that the House could now have
" better spared a better man." We say these few
words, unwilling that Mr. M•LEon should retire
from public life without a brief record of our regret
for his loss. -

There seems now a probability that the Privi-
lege question will be settled. As far as we under•
stand the Bill proposed by Lord JOHN RUSSELL,
the Speaker's certificate that any Report is pub-
lished by order of the House, will be at law a bar
to any action. That such a measure should be
favourably received by those who have been for
months and weeks bawling against the power
claimed by the Commons of publishing what it

likes, however libellous on individuals, seems to us
extraordinary. Yet such is the fact. The Standard
approves of it. The measure will be a pre-enacted
immunity. The Speaker's certificate is to take
away all hope of any legal redress for injuries
inflicted by libels published by the House of
Commons.

We have never objected to the power of pub-
lishing claimed by the House ; we think the House
ought to possess that power, but we have objected
to the means it has taken to vindicate its right.
We have said, let the House make a proper libel
law, and its publications, unless it should take
up' the trade of a libeller, and wantonly publish de-
famatory and uncalled-for assaults on private
character, will never be questioned. It prefers,
however, to leave the libel law 'as it is, a disgrace
to the country, and enacts that its publications shall
not be exposed to the harrow under which it places
those of individuals.

We presume that some measures will be adopted
for examining the papers of the House before they
are printed. At present, a Member moves that a
paper be printed, and the order of the House
which follows will be the foundation of the Speaker's
certificate. The Right Hon. Gentleman will
know nothing more of the publications of the
House, when he has to give the certificate, than he
knows now ; while the certain immunity of that
certificate may induce carelessness in Members in
moving that papers he printed.
As long as the House is sitting, some redress
may be obtained—an appeal may be made to it,
and it is open to the influence of public opinion.
Its privileges are, then, in the breasts of the Mem-
bers, and they may be affected by humane feelings;
but a certificate is a mere bit of paper; and, when
the House is not sitting, it will be armed with,
and will represent all, the privileges of libel, that
are now so noxious. On these grounds, we are
inclined to think that the certificate will make the
privilege more onerous than at present.
What, too, will be the case, after the Parliament,

the Speaker of which gives the certificate, is dis-
solved ? Is it still to be in force ? There may be
a new Speaker, a totally new set of Members, and
the new House may refuse to notice or redress any
injury inflicted by its predecessor. The certificate,
therefore, may give perpetual immunity to a mali-
cious libel. It will embody all that is noxious in privi-
lege into a law. As it is now exercised a House of
Commons, responsible to public opinion, and under

its influence, Calls it only into existence as the oc-
casion demands ; it ceases with the House, and
dies out when it is prorogued. By the new Bill
the privilege will be permanently fixed in a bit cf
unfeeling paper. We, like Mr. Sergeant WILDE,
prefer the old form. So far as the people are con-
cerned, nothing whatever will be gained by Lord
J. RUSSELL'S Bill.
We observe with pleasure that all party ties are
broken up by this
.question. Lord STANLEY goes
with Lord JOHN RUSSELL, who is opposed by his
own SOLICITOR-GENERAL. He is supported by
Sir W. FOLLETT, and opposed by Mr. O'CON-
NELL. The statesmen take one side, the legal
men take the other. This independence of indivi-
dual Members on one point, allows us to hope for
it on others. The thoughts as well as the votes of
he Members having once run out of the ruts of
party, will diverge on other occasions, and we shall-
have Members of Parliament expressing in the
House some of those extraordinary opinions,
neither Whig nor Tory, which are common out of
the House. If the privilege discussion—other-
wise, in our opinion, idle and useless—bring about
such a result, it will not have taken place in vain,
though thoe who originated it never intended nod
dreamed of its consequences. Nor is the breaking
up less remarkable in the Press than in Parliament.
The Chronicle deplores the blindness of the leaders
of the House of Commons, and implies that the
author of the Bill is afflicted with cowardice. The
Herald describes Sir ROBERT PEEL as " de-
graded and disgraced" by supporting Lord JOHN
RUSSELL. Of the Conservatives who have voted
with the majorities on this question, the Standard
says—" Their conduct is inexplicable ;" and the
Times, having hinted more than once that Sir
ROBERT PEEL " has taken a false, which may
be a fatal step ;" and the Right Hon. Baronet
rot having taken the hint, the Times doubts whether
a " man so morally weak be fit to be the leader of
; a are specimens enough of
av itil,d 1i.1.60,VC,11 LU

think for tbrinseives, 'at least on this one question
mil there will, no .doubt, arise others on which
their self-will, now that they have once i,.,1111-geu
will lead them to throw Rt;S,?..ELL and PEEL, the
Whigs and the Thres, overboard, and seek in
reason, principle, or in science, for that guide
which faction will no lonp-er supply them.

Among the almost innumerable congratulatory Ad-
dresses presented to the QUEEN at the Levee yester,
day, on the happy occasion of her MAJESTY'S Mar-
riage, the Address presented by Mr. lsAA.c. LYON
GOLDSMID, from the Jews of London, is the only one
which on public grounds calls for any observation.
The Jews are now the only class of her MA-
JEsTY's subjects labouring under civil disqualifica-
tions; and it must be gratifying to the feelings of her
MAJESTY to be made sensible that, if the Jews not
an equality of civil rights with the rest of her subjects,
they are neither less loyal nor less devotedly attached to
her person and Government. The friends of Jewish
emancipation must also see in the conduct of the
Jews upon this occasion another proof of the fact
that, whatever objection may be taken to the
faith of the Jews as unorthodox, their works are in ac-
cordance with the professions of the most zealous de-
fenders of all that is most moth-eaten, and, therefore,
of course most venerable in the established constitution
in Church and State. No other class of British
,subjects has such substantial grievances of which
to complain, and yet no class exceeds the
Jews in a ready obedience to the law, and a
quiescent submission to unmetited obloquy and indirect
oppression. We trust these circumstances will be placed in
their true light before her Majesty, and that she will be
thereby induced to signalize the commencement of this
new and auspicious era in her reign, by placing her
Hebrew subjects on a footing of civil equality with the
rest of their fellow countrymen of every religious de-
nomination.

Letters from Hanover, of the 29th ult,, state thq
the City of Osuaburg has refused to elect a Deputy to
the Second Chamber, and has resolved to abide by its
former protest. The KING, whose health was improv-
ing, had issued an order to the electors of the capital to
elect a Deputy according to the forms prescribed by the
Constitution of 1819. A similar order was addressed
to the other corporate towns of the kingdom, but with
what success we are not. as yet informed.

On the 10th of January an engagement took place
, between the Russians and the Kluvans, headed by the
KHAN in person, in which the latter were completely
routed, and driven to the very gates of Khiva. On the
25th the Russian General, PEROWSKI, was to attack
the town, unless it previously surrendered, which it
was expected to do.

There is no foreign or domest;c news in the French
Journals of Thursday of the slightest importance, ex-
cept the telegraphic desratch of the 29th ult., from
Madrid, which appeared in The Sun of yesterday. M.
THIERS'S speech is found fault with by nearly all the
Liberal Journals, as wanting in explicitness—a com-
plaint which it is unreasonable to make in the face of
the Ministerial declaration, that the policy of the new
Cabinet will be fully developed when the vote for grant-
ing the service-money is demanded, fixed at a shorter
period than a week from the date of the Minister's
speech. But the Journal des Debats, the organ of
LOUIS PHILIPPE, not only finds fault with the vague-
ness of the speech, but, with au impudence hardly cre-
dible, states that the King regards the accession of
M. TRIERS to power as the prostration of his Royal
dignity. We have not the least doubt of the fact, but
it was madness on the part of the King to make it
public at the moment M. TRIERS was informing the
Chambers that he enjoyed the entire confidence of his
Sovereign. M. THIERS is not a man with whom the
King can trifle with impunity ; and he must sec
in this conduct of the CoArt a design to ruin him wi:l,
the country. But now that he is in office, nothing can
be more useful to him than his being publicly known to
be in bad odour at the Tuileries. Let him only continue
what he is now considered to be, the representative of
the principles of the Revolution of July, and he has
nothing to fear from the hostility of the Court.
In the Chamber of Deputies on Wednesday the
Government monopoly in tobacco was voted for ten
years longer by a majority of 249 against 23.
The Te'nps states that the naval strength of France
at present consists of-46 ships of the line ; 56
frigates ; 32 corvettes ; 59 brigs ; 24 gun-boats ; 21
transports ; 31 gabares ; 55 smell craft ; and 36
steamers, making in all 350 sail, capable of opening a
fire of 10,000 guns. This is a formidable force truly
but we question whether the French tax-payers suppose
it absolutely necessary to the welfare of the country.
A letter from Algiers of the 22d ult. states than an
engagement took place on the previous day between the
French and the Arabs near Blidah, when the latter
were defeated with the loss of several thousand men.
This statement requires confit melon. To us it appears
worthy of no credit. The Kalifa, EL BAIKAIN, who
was reported to have been poisoned by ABD-EL-KADER,
was at the same date in the Province of Constantine,
raising troops for the service of the EMIR.
A letter from Alicant, quoted in the Gazette de
France, states that one of the Judges of that city wta,
assassinated for instituting an inquiry about the murde.
of the Alealde. Assassinations are every-day occur-
rences in Spain.
BOURSE.-.-PARIS, THURSDAY, MARCH 5.

1 irst Highest L,,,, est Last
Price I'rice. Price Price
Crench :t per Cents ll4 ... 114., 113 93 ... 13 05
4 per Cents lOl 20 ... iO4 20 .
... 104 20 ... 104 26
3 per Cents B2 80 .. 82 80 ... 82 70 ... 82 70
Rank of Prance
Liltitte Pa' k 5,0000. Sh 5197 50 ...5200 ...5197 59 —52,0
Belgian Bank 9OO ... 92. i ... 90,1 ... 912 50
5 per Cents lO4 ... 10414 ... 104 ... 10414
3 per Cents 73 80 ... 1.3 SO ... 73 73 ... 71 75
United States Bank Loan... 98% ... 11EN ... 11814 ... 0314
Spanish Ac, ire ~
Passive 7% ... 7% ... 7,. ... 7h,
New 11.ferred
Old Deterred 8 ... 8 ... 8 ... 8
u'ortitettese 3 per Cents
Neaolit.m
Roman HQ% ... 103% ... 1034 ... 163 h
RAILWAY :Ai AREs.
St. Oermai,

versafife;, it. 11 557 50 ... 557 50 ... 552 50 5:2 50
L.B 375 ... 376 2s ... 375 ... 375
Orleans ..
StratcHurg to Bale 340 25 ... 247 50 7.45 ;345
HAMBURG BOINENHALLE, MARCH 3.

Bills; Money.
Austrian 5 per Cents.
Bank :snares l';'. 03
An 10-Russian Loan P,9 I 081 ti
Russian 5 per Cent. Ist serer;, Certificate
Inscription, Ist Seri.3.; • lO s
Russian 5 per Cent. Hop, and Co. 3d and 4th
Se, i: s
Ditto in Certificates
Dutch ',dual Debt, pe ('cut 5:0,6 52
Ditto S per Cell' 9B
Polish Bond,
New , ickct
Anglo- I ;apish Loan, 3 per Cent 7a. 74
Norwegian Loan, ISO, 4 per Cent"... li,2,
Scanish, New 3 per Cents.
EXCHANGES Orit LONDON.
Id Ameutto, MARLS 3.-13. 7—Two months, 13 514.
S TOCKHOLM, FEB 25.—Seventy-five days, 12 2.
PETFRSBURGH, FEB. 21.--Two months, 39 —2O pence.
VIENNA, FEE. 22.—Three months, 9. •17%.
BERLIN, FEB. 29. —Three months, 0. 21

POST-OFFICE LONDON DIRECTORY.—A Second
Edition of the Supplement to this work has just been
published, containing the Post-office arrangements tot
carrying into effect the uniform Penny postage, and a
Directory of Parliament for the present Session, with
the town residences, and country residences of the
Members of both Houses. It gives minute details
relative to foreign postage, with the rate of postage
charged in London on letters to be sent to every part
of the world. The Lists are arranged in alphabetical
order, and embrace all the principal towns, and many'
of the smaller towns, thus :—the postage of a single
letter weighing a quarter of an ounce to Cairo, is
marked 2s. 3d.; to Coburg, Is. Bd. ; to Mantua,
Is. 7d.; to Maranham (Brazil), 2s. 9d. There is
some useful information for the Citizens of London, re-
lative to the posting and delivery of letters in the Lon-
don and Country district of what was formerly called
the twopenny and threepenny post, with the departure
and arrival of the mails in all the principal towns 01
the empire. The Supplement is a necessary accom-
paniment to the Directory, and the charge is very mo-
derate.

A strong disposition is manifested to resist the
adoption of the new Rural Police in Somersetshire. The op-
ponents urge that the principles involved in the measure are
unconstitutional ; that the state of the country does not re-
quire such protection ; and that by the introduction the county-
rates, now amounting to 20,0001. a-year, would be doubled.
Tom SPRING.—The Champion of England
begs of Mr. Black not to call him notorious, and has written a
letter to that effect, concluding with this pithy " P. S. I called
at your office yesterday, but had not the good fortune to obtain
an interview.' Of course not, "an interview" might have in-
volved " a Poorer" from the indignant fist of the pugilistic pro-
rietor of the Castle.

VETO ACT.—At the Perth meeting,on Friday,
Mr. Robert Steuart, one of the Lords of the Treasury, ap-
peared as the active supporter of Mr. George Stewart, the
Church-Liberal candidate. Mr. Robert Steuai t gave his
friend the benefit of a little side puff : Mr. George Stewart is
anxious to pass a Par lien entary Veto Act; Mr. Robert
Steuart holds out hopes that Mr. George's anxiety may have
its wish. He could not tell the intention of the Cabinet, not
being a member; but he could tell what Mr. Fox Maule, the
Lord Advocate, and himself, being members of the Govern-
ment, were prepared to recommend :—As the intervention of
the Legislature was necessary, they would advise a declaratory
enactment, fully recognising the rights of congregations to
of the acceptability of presentees, and of the
judge absolutely in all spiritual matters, C h judgeu
r
in-
clusive of the qualification of ministers.—Glasgow AN".
cehxcelouusrivoeltyo
DEATH FROM DESTITUTION.—Last evening
an inquest was held before Mr. Payne, in the St. George's
workhouse, Borough, on the body of Charles Greyson, aged
42, a casual pauper. It appeared that deceased had been very
poor for the last four months, but did not apply for relief, as he
expected to receive 501. left him by a deceased relation. At
length he applied for relief to the parish authorities of Christ
Church, Blackfriars-road, but was refused. On the 18th of
January he applied at St. George's workhouse for a night's
lodging, which he received, together with sufficient food, and
left next day, as he said, for Gravesend. In a state of extreme
destitution and emaciation he applied again on Sunday last ; he
was taken into the infirmary and treated with care, but he died
next day. Verdict -7" Died from natural causes, accelerated
by want and disease.
The spread of Mathewism has seriously affected
the revenue in those parts of Ireland where it has been intro.
duced. The Excise collection in Cork district is 23,000/. de-
ficient compared with the corrP3rnirlinz quarter ye,
rovi thr i,ermoy oc,llt,tll-1 - - • •
the same period.

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TH.EI MA(KETS-01141N DAY.)

COVENT- GA RDEN.
Supplies were good, except of Foreign Fruit ; prices high.
and trade good. Plants 3s. to ss. per dozen bunches. Celery
6d. to 2s. per bundle. Onions ss,' to bs. id. per sieve. Car-
"'s 6s, to lit. per dozen bunches. Turnis 2d. to 6d. per
bunch. Oranges 4s. to 14s. per hundred. Lemons 6s. to 10s.
per hundred. Apples 4s. to 40s. per bushel. Cucumbers 10s.
to 12s. per brace. Savoy Cabbages 3s. per dozen. Spinach
2s. to 2s. 6d. per sieve. French Beans 4s. to 52. per hundred.
New Potatoes 2s. to 2s. 6d. per pound. Scakale per punnet
3s. 6d. to ss. Strawberries ss. per ounce. Asparagus Bs. to
12s. per bundle. Old Potatoes-White 60s. Blues 655.
Yorks 80s. Devons 70s. Scotch 70s. per ton.
NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.
A good supply to-day, a proportionate demand ; price un-
altered. Beef 2s. 10d. to 3s. 10d. ; Mutton 2s. 10d. to 3s.
101 ; • Veal 3s. 81 to ss. ; Pork 3s, 2d. to 3s. Bd. per stone
of 81b. ; Larks 2s. per doz.; Pigeons 9d. to Is. ; Gold Plo-
ver is. to Is. 6d. ; Surrey Capons 6s. to 9s. ; Turkeys ss. to
7s. ; (Cocks) Bs. to 12s. : Pin Tails Is. to Is. 6d. ; Pea Fowls
Bs. to 10s. ; Ducklings 3s. to 4s. ; Wild Rabbits 9d. to Is. ;
Tame do. Is. 3d. to Is. 6d. • Guinea Fowls 2s. 6d. to. 3s.
bd.; Fowls 3s. 94.• to ss. ; ehickens 2s. 6d. to 3s. 6d. ; Hares
3s. ; Goslings 7s to 10s. ; Eggs ss. 6d. to 7s. pzr 120.
HUNGERFORD MARKET.
Fish plentiful and reasonable. Turbot, 6s. to 21s. ; Soles,
101 to 4s. 6d. per pair ; Lobsters, 2s. to ss. ; Salmon, 3s.
per lb. Butchers' Meat in good demand and supply. Beef,
71,44. to 81,44. ; Mutton, 71hd. to 81/3d. ; Veal, Bd. to 9d. ;
Pork, 71/d. to 81Ad. per lb. Vegetables tolerably plentiful,
prices high, and much as at Covent-garden.
BILLINGSGATE MARKET.
Supplies good, except Lobsters, and a fair demand, prices
stationary. Turbot, ss. to 21s. ; Cod, 3s. 6d. to 12s. ;
Salmon, 2s. 6d. to 3s. per lb. ; Oysters, 245. to 60s. per
bushel ; Soles, 9d. to 4s. per pair ; Lobsters, 2s. to ss, ;
Mackerel, 6d. to 10d. each ; Haddocks, 61 and Bd. to Is. 2d. ;
Whitings, 4d. to Bd.

HAY MARKETS.
Supplies good, and so was the demand. Hay, 70s. to 88s. ;
Clover, 90s. to 120 s ; Straw, 345. to 425. per load.

TALLOW MARKET.
P.Y.C. very quiet at 51s._6(1.___

TEA MARKET.
Parties with money pick up here and there small p3reels in
the hands of needy holders. This was the only kind cf trade
doing, and will be until the arrival of the next overland mail.

310NEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, TWELVE O' CL CK,
Arrivals this morning—French and Brazil mails, the latte►
by the Skylark, sailed on the 10th January, front Rio Ralik
22d December, Pernambuco 17th December. No ship letter:.
received.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, FRIDAY.—Our market
continues in the same inactive state noticed in our last, with a
very moderate extent of business doing, but as we have no im•
port of moment, owing to adverse winds, our stock is compara-
tively small in all kinds, save India and Egyptian, and holders
have, therefore, been enabled to obtain the full prices of last
week for the short stapled descriptions of American and Pa-
ranams ; other kinds are heavy of sale at last Friday's prices.
The sales to-day are about 3,000 bales of all kinds. Of 820 Sea
Islands off.red at auction to-day there were only 210 bales
sold at 93/4 to IS, and of 180 ditto ditto ; b 0 bales sold at 5i to
91A, being much upon a par with previous prices by private
contract; 1,000 bales of American have been taken on specu-
lation, and for export 800 American, 400 Bengal, 120 Surat,
and 30 Bahia.

We have received Buenos Ayres Papers to the 15th Dec.
Two smart actions took place on the 22d and 24th ult., be.
tween detachments of the hostile armies in the province of
Cerrentes, in both of which the troops of Governor Lopez
were victorious. Don Ricardo Lopez, who was taken prisoner
in the affair on the 23d, was brought into town on Saturday
last in custody. His arrival has caused considerable curiosity.
The Gazette of the 7th inst. contains the particulars of the
proceedings in the House of Representatives, on its sitting of
the Bth and 9th, when the note from the Government relative
to the late insurrection, was taken into consideration. The dis-
cussion was long, and the conduct of the French severely com-
mented upon. It was imputed to them that they had stained
the glory of France by allying her flag with the rebellion.
The weather has been seasonable during the week.
This day, the 14th instant, completes the' 627th day of the
blockade.

Exchange on England during the week, 3 3-16 d., being LI e
lowest price. Highest price of doubloons during the weeie, 2E6
dollars, lowest 290 dollars.
The papers from Rio Janeiro by the mail, are of the same
date as received yesterday, of the 9th_January.

ROME, FEB. 24,

(FROM A conitesros-nztvr.)
A young woman, celebrated for her beautl, and belong-
ing to the lower class, was guillotined here on the 19th
lost., together with the wretch whom she hired, for the
mall sum of ten crowns, to assist her in murdering her
ousband, that the might have, without restraint, illicit in-
tercourse with a paramour. She has since confessed that
,he was instigated to the commission of the deed by her
partner in guilt ; the murder was effected under circum-
stances of atrocity unparalleled, and is of too revolting a
nature to allow of being mentioned. The wretched woman
had been attended for some time past, and at the time of
her execution, by the Sisters of Mercy ; it is said she
?rayed with much fervour for intercession at the judgment-
seat of a more awful tribunal, where she was about to ap-
pear; but the unhappy assassin refused to ask pardon of
a justly offended Providence, and died miserably impe-
nitent. Her paramour, who was compelled by the law to
witness their execution, is condemned to the galleys for life.
The carnival commenced on Saturday morning, and the
weather is most propitious ; the sky is cloudless, and the
.un's genial rays cheer the festive scene. The grassy dale
and woodlands have been invaded to procure violets to
,hower down on the favoured fair ones. The winter has
wen so mild that green peas, asparagus, artichokes, and
other esculent plants, have been for some time abundant ;
strawberries arc found in the woods ; the myrtle, the ar-
bute, and guncestirs, are there in flower; 'the fruit trees
are putting forth their blossoms, and the birds are singing
as in Spring.
The Count Hawks le Grice has been recently invested
with the insignia of the Pontifical triple tiara of the three
ttingdoms, as one of the Chamberlains attendant in the
Court of his Holiness the Pope. The Count presented
the other day Mrs. Janet Taylor's works on navigation,
when the Pope bestowed a silver medal on the learned
uthoress. and ordered her books to be deposited in the
library of the Vatican.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

VICE- CHANCELL URNS COURT, MARCH 6.

ARCHER V. SLATER.

The arguments in this case -were concluded yesterday, with
the exception of Mr. K. Bruce's reply, which was postponed
till this morning, in order that his Honour might consult.with
the Lord Chancellor as to the point of jurisdiction which was
raised with the course of the argument. The facts of the ease
as stated by the plaintiff's counsel, appeared to be as fol.ow :
The bill was filed by the plaintiff who had been a pauper during
his minority in the workhouse of Woodford, in Essex, and the
deir-at-law of a blacksmith named Thomas Wakefield, who
died at Epping in the year 1788, leaving considerable freehold
and copyhold property, in the county of Essex, ti his widow,
.Vary Wakefield, for her life, with remainder to his daughter,
Johanna, in fee. The bill prayed that a decree, made by the
ilaster of the Rolls in 1823, establishing the will of Anne
Wakefield, the testator's sister, disposing of the copyhold pro-
perty, might be set aside on the ground of its having been ob-
,ained by fraud and misrepresentation, and that an assumpsit
be directed to try Airs. Anne Wakefield's state of mind
at the time of making the will. The bill alleged
that previous to 1705 the daughter of the testator Jo-
henna Wakefield died under age, and unmarried, leaving her
aunt Ann Wakefield her customary heir; that the latter made
a will in 1798, devising her reversion to two persons, named
Archer and Surridge, in trust to sell and divide the proceeds
into moieties, one of which was bequeathed to Surridge, and
,he other to be divided bet Ween two of the other testator's rela-
tions. Ann Wakefield died in 1799, and Archer, one of the
trustees, in 1813 ; and at the death of Mary Wakefield, willow
of the testator, and the tenant for life of the property, in 1820,
Surridge, the surviving trustee, sold the property ty auction.
One portion was purchased by a gentleman named Banbury,
and the other by Mr. Slater, the defendant. At the time of
the sale the plaintiff, who was the customary heir, and heir-at-
law of the testatrix, was an infant in the parish workhouse at
Woodford, and in consequence of rumours of an intention to
4uestion the validity of the will by the plaintiff when he
attained his majority, Mr. Surridge consulted a solicitor at
Epping, named Windus, who advised an equitable suit to
,siablish the will. Accordingly a bill was filed, and set
down for hearing at the Rolls, and a decree was pro-
nounced in December, 1823, establishing the will, and that
decree it was the object of the present Bill to set aside. Since
;hat decree Slater had completed his purchase, but Banbury
obtained a surrender from the lord of the manor, as in the case
of a possession vacant for want of an heir, while the decree was
pending. The plaintiff became of age in 1826, but was unable
to institute a suit until ten years afterwards, when he filed the
present bill to set aside the decree, alleging- that it was frau-
intently obtained, as 'no evidence was given as to the sanity of
the testatrix; that neither the decree or the registry-book
showed that the will had ever been produced to the Court,
end that no day was given to the infant to show cause
against the decree when he came of age.
Mr. K. BRUCE, Mr. WAKEFIELD, and Mr. K. PARKER
appeared on behalf of the plaintiff, contending that the
,:nurse pursued in obtaining the decree at the Rolls was against
all precedent and the practice of the Court, and that even if
the proceedings had been regular, the decree establishing
the will ought never to have been made, inasmuch as
t was clear from the evidence adduced that Ann Wakefield was
tittle better than an idiot—that she was well known to be a person
of imbecile mind in Epping, where she was called the silly
woman—that she was incapable of entering into natural conver-
sation, and therefore totally incapable to make a will.
Mr. Jacob, Mr. Norton, Mr. Richards, Mr. Goodeve, Mr.
Betel, and Mr. H. Parker, appeared on behalf of the different
defendants interested in supporting the decree of the Master of
the Rolls, and contended on their behalf that the proceedings
by an original Bill on the part of tho Plaintiff to set aside a
deuce pronounced at the Rolls on the ground of error, was al-
together irregular, and that the proper course would have been
that either a Bill of Review should have been filed, or that an
appeal should have been presented against the decree of the
Lord Chancellor. As the devise was of copyhold, it was not
necessary that the original Bill should have been produced,
the probate being quite sufficient ; and that probate, it was
clear from the evidence, had been produced.
The VICE-CHANCELLOR said it was a singular thing that an
entry had been made in the Registrars' book of the production
of probate, and that entry was crossed out.
Mr. JACOB observed, that there was evidently some mistake,
for in a book kept by the clerk in Doctors' Commons, there was
an entry stating that the clerk had attended the Court with
the original will. Then as to the sanity of the testatrix, it was
said it had not been shown, but as the subscribing witnesses
were all dead nothing more could be done than to prove their
deaths and signatures. As to the question of giving a day to
the infant to show cause, it had been settled that it was not ne-
cessary, except in foreclosure suits where a conveyance was
necessary, and the evidence of the capacity of Mrs. Ann Wake-
field, to make a will was perfectly ridiculous, and had been satis-
factorily contradicted.
In the course of the argument the Court threw out a doubt
as to its jurisdiction to set aside a decree pronounced at the
Rolls, but the arguments were allowed to go on.
Mr. K. BRUCE, before he replied, wished to know whether
the Court still doubted its jurisdiction to set aside a decree
inade at the Rolls, because if it did it would be useless for him
to reply, inasmuch as he had stated at the time the Court threw
out the doubt as to its jurisdiction that his client asked for the
reversal of the decree, and nothing less.
The VICE CHANCELLOR considered, if he was asked to
reverse the decree for error, that he had not jurisdiction to do so,
but he thought he could so interfere as to prevent the defen-
dants from taking the benefit of the decree they had obtained.
Mr. JACOB objected to this course, thinking the argument
ought now to be concluded, leaving it to the Court to pro-
nounce whatever opinion it thought proper.
Mr. K. BRUCE had no objection to go on, provided it was
understood among all the parties, if the Lord Chancellor would
allow it, that any decree pronounced by his Honour should be
treated as the decree of the Lord Chancellor.
Mr. JACOB and Mr. RICHARDS could not consent to such a
course being adopted. _ . .

The VicE-CliANcELLoit said he would refrain from hear-
ing Mr. K. Bruce's reply till to-morrow, when he would con-
sult the Lord Chancellor on the subject. His Honour, on
taking his seat this morning, stated that he had mentioned the
subject to the Lord Chancellor, who entertained the same opi-
nion as himself, and his Lordship thought, considering what
had been done in the cause, the right thing to do would be to
let the case go on before him (the Vice-Chancellor), and that.
he must determine it as well as he could.