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London, England, 1841-04-29 00:00:00

TUE StiN, LONDON, TITURSDNY, APRIL 29, 1841

his administration of the Federal Gev,rument. Scarcely
had he given the people by his acts asset-at:cc that th7ir
high wrought hopes would not be frustrated, when he is
called away to another destlay—to another world.
The late hour at which the account of this calamity
has reached us, forbids us indulging in the many re-
flections to which it would naturally lead, but we
may say that in the eaaracter of his successor, the
Vice-President, John Tyler, of Virgiaia, the na-
tian has a fall guarantee that wisdom, honour and
constitutional principle!, will govern the course of the
NatiJnal Government; and ab,ve all, that the presence of
the spoilers—of the miserable wretches who have fattened
on the public purse, under the. administration of Jackson
and Van Bruen, and who introduced a system alike at va-
riance with the iat.arests and liberties of the people, cr the
spirit of the ar.e—will never be abided by him.
The drags of a President of the United Sates while in
Office, is the first that has occurred in our short-lived his-
torY. Of the circumstances atteediag that of General
P.arrigm, we would refer to our private correspondence.
We tee informed that all the Heads of Departments were in
the Presit'ent's house, if not in pia room, at the closing
moment, and that, shortly before it came, he expressed his
I conviction that the Vice_ Pi ejident would carry out the re-
forms he had commeicedi and aft: policy of whiah he had
been permitted but to trace the outline:.
WAVIIi.GTON, April 6, 1841.
Mr. Tyler arrived here this rmanieg. He n.eL the
Cabinet, after a few hours of reaose, and expressed an
earnest desire that they would remain with him, and
assist him in carrying out the well-'known measures of
Gen. Harrison. N thing could he more grat fying to
the friends of the policy of General Hatrison tan the
Promptness of Mr. Tyler in declaring his contVenee in
its wisdom, both as regards men end measures. Mr. Tyler
and Mr. Webster.have long been in relations of the kind-
est perional intercourse. They acted toetLer harmoni-
ously in the Senate, and the country has not the least rea-
son to fear any change ia the policy of General Harrison's
Cabinet as settled by him and them.

(From the National Intelligenrer rf yesterday.)
THE NEW PRESIDENT.

By the extraordinary despatch used in sending the
official intelligence to the Vice- President, at Wil-
liamsburg, and similar despatch by him in re airing
to the seat of Government, John Tyler, now President
of the United States, arrived in this city yesterday morn.
ing, at 5 o'clock, and took lodgings at Brown's Hotel,

At twelve o'clock, all the Heads of Departments, except
the Secret-try of the Navy, "(who has not yet returned to
the city from his visit to his family) waited upon him, to
pay him the it official asd personal respect,. They were
received with all the politeness and -kindness whtch cha-
rac:erize the new President. He signified his deep feel-
ing of the public calamity sustained by the death of Pre-
sident Harrison, and expressed his profound sensibility to
the heavy responsibilities so suddenly d. volv,d upon him-
self. He spoke cf the present state of things with great
euncern and seriousnes, and made known his wishes that
the several Heads of Departments would continue to fill
the places which they now reipecthely occupy, and his
ecnfidence that they would afford ail the aid in their power
to enable him to carry on the administration of the Govern-
ment successfully.
The President then took and subscribed the fillowing
cath of office :

I do sol mnly swear that I will faithfully execute the
effice of President of the United Staves, and will, to the
be,t of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Con-
stitution of the United States.
April 6, 1841. JOHN TYLER.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA,
City and County of Washington. S SS.
1, William Branch, Chief Judge of the Circuit Court
of tbr, District of Columbia, certify that the above named
John Tyler personally appeared before me this day, and,
although he deems himself qualified to perform the duties
and exercise the powers add office of President on the
death of William Henry Harrison, late President of the
United States, without any other oath than that which he
has taken as Vice-President, yet, as doubts may arise,
and for greater catrion, took and subscribed the fore-
going oath before mr.
April 6, 1841. W. CRANCII.

COURIER AND ENQUIRER OFFICE,

We owe perhaps some apology to the public for the present
state of our reading columns, and to advertisers, for the
numerous advertisements we have for three days past been
compelled to omit. The cause, however, will, we trust,
readily occur to them. It is the notices we must necessarily
publish of the funeral ceremonies proposed to be observed in
cmunnemoration of the late veneiated President, and as these
close with this day, hereafter our paper will assume its wonted
appearance.

FUNERAL OBSEQUIES.
GENERAL ORDER.

CITY HALL,' FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 134).
The Aids to the Grand Marshal wlll assemble at the Assist-
ant Vice-Chancellor's room, City Hall, on Saturday morning,
at 30 minutes past nine precisely.
The Grand Marshal will receive his Staff at his quarters,
N0..501, Broadway, at ten o'clock precisely.
It is expected that the Staff will be punctual in attendance.
By order,
ROBERT BOGARDUS, Grand Marshal.

S. D. Jackson, Secretary.
The following named gentlemen compose the Staff:—Pros-
per M. Wetmore, Gilbert Hopkins, Wm. Samuel Johnson,
Wm. W. Tompkins, Matthew Keeler, Jonathan Amory, Daniel
Lee, Schuyler Livingston, John A. Mitchell, John Ridley,
Giles M. Iliflyer, Harman Teel, Fred. Pentz, Marshal J.
Btcon, Samuel D. Jackson, Wright Hawke!, John D. Van
Beuren, John W. Edmonds, A. Davezac, Garret H. Striker,
Rufus Prime, Geo. W. Heelas, Marcellus Fells, John A. Mor-
rell, William M. M'Ardle, Geo. W. Embree, Florence Maho-
ney, Minthorne Tompkins, James M'Cullough.
The Marshals will meet at the Mayor's office, this afternoon
(Friday) at four o'clock. A punctual attendance is particularly
requested. _ By Order of
ROBERT I3OGARDUS, Grand Marshal.
Samuel D. Jackson, Secretary.

New York, April 8, lB4l.

'General James E. Underhill has beeen appointed Marshal in
Chief on behalf of the city of Brooklyn, who has designated the
following gentlemen as his aides :—Majors William Cumberson,
J. B. Clapp, G. C. Ball, Captains J. G. Hegeman, Seth H.
Low, J. C. Duryea, E. M. Smith, A. M. Greig, Me•srs. I. N.
Olney, F. M. Fisk, Joseph Van Nostrand, Jas. Hubbard, and
Jacob Phillips.
The Committee have agreed upon the following order of
procession
Ths procession will move from the City Hall at twelve
o'clock, noon, precisely, and proceed up Chatham-street, to
East Broadway, up East Broadway to Grand-street, tl.rough
Grand-street to the Bowery, up the Bowery, to Fourteen-street,
through Fourteen-street to Broadway, down Broadway to the
front of the City Hall, from whence it will file off under the di-
rection of the Grand Marshal.
The solemnities will be concluded as follows
Prayer by the Rev. Pr. Cox, of the city of Brooklyn.
2- Funeral Oration by the Hon. Theodore Frelinghuysen,
Chancellor of the University of the city of New York.
3. A Requiem written by George P. Morris, Esq.
4. Benediction by the Right Rev. Bishop Onderdonk.
The ceremonies to conclude with the firing of a volley by the
United States troops on duty.
The whole under the command of the Grand 'Marshal.

The persons having charge of the different churches and fire
alarm bells in the cities of New York and Brooklyn, are re-
quested to cause the bells to be tolled from the hour of twelve
o'clock, at noon, during the procession , and the owners and
masters of vessels in the harbour, and the proprietors of public
buildings, are requested to have their colors hoisted half-mast
from sunrise to sunset. It is respectfully recommended also,
that our fellow-citizens close their places of business during the
solemnities of the day, and that in the evening the places of
public amusement be closed.
It is directed by the Committee that all public and licensed
carriages and vehicles be withdrawn from the streets throlgh
v.hich the procession is to pass. The Superintendents of hackney
coaches, stages, and carts, are charged with the enforcement of
this order.
Ti:e owners of private carriages and vehicles are also respect-
fully requested to conform to the wishes of the Committee, in
this respect.
The Associations, Societies, and Citizens, to whom places
are assigned as below, crc requested to appear on foot.
The Committee have unanimously resolved, That no ban-
ners bearing political devices or inscriptions, shall be admitted
in the procession.
It is recommended that our fellow-citizens, whether in the
procession or not, wear the usual badge of mourning on the left
arm.
The various Societies, Associations, and other bodies, are
requested to assemble at such places as they may respectively
select, and repair to the places of rendezvous designated in
the annexed order.
The different divisions in the above programme, will be de-
signated by a white banner, with the appropriate number of
each in black.
The various civic Societies will walk six abreast.
ORDER OF THE PROCESSION.
FIRST DIVISION. .
The Grand Marshal ,
GENERAL ROBERT BOGARDUS.

Prosper M. Wetmore, Aids
Samuel D. Jackson, f •
Military escort in the following order :
Volunteer Corps of Infantry.
( The particulars not furnished the Committee.)
The Division of Artillery in the folio wing order :
FIRST BRIGADE.

Commanded by Acting Brigadier General Henry U. Slipper,
consisting of the
TWENTY-SEVENTH REGIMENT.
Commanded by Colonel William Jones.
NINTH REGIMENT,
Commanded by Lieut.-Colonel James L. Curtis.
SECOND REGIMENT,
Commanded by Colonel Thomas F. Peers.
SIXTH BRIGADE,

Commanded by General George P. Morris, consisting of the

THIRD REGIMENT,
Commanded by Major John W. Avery.
THIRTY- EIGHTH REGIMENT,
Commanded by Colonel Andrew Warner.
ELEVENTH REGIMENT,
Commanded by Colonel George Smith.
THIRTEENTH REGIMENT,
Commanded by Colonel Alexander Ming, Jr.
FIRST BRIGADE HORSE,
Commanded by Brigadier-General Storms.
SECOND REGIMENT,
Commanded by Colonel Bloomer.
FIRST REGIMENT,
Commanded by Colonel John Stewart.
ADjor-General Charles W. Sandford, Commanding the
Division of Artillery and Staff.
Military of the City of Brooklyn,
A Battalion of Light Infantry,
Under the Command of Colonel Tolford.
• SECOND
Gilbert Hopkins, Aid to the Grand Marshal.
Officiating Clergyman and Orator of the Day,
in a carriage.
The Reverend the Clergy.
Major-General Scott, Commanding the Military District,
and Aids.

Commodore J. Renshaw, Commanding the Naval Station
and Aids.
Band of Music.
A Detachment of the United States Marines, under
Command of Capt. Harris, U.S.A.
as a Guardß of Honour.

Borne by Sailors of the Navy of the United States,
and who have served on board the frigate
Constitution,
Undn the command of Commander Sands.
A Detachment of the Vnited States Army, under command
of Captain Dimmiek, U. S. M. C., ac a
Guard of Honour.
HORSE

Caparisoned, and led by William L. Nicholas, an aged
• Servant of the deceased Pi esident. -
The `allowing persons, as Pall-bearers (26 in number, cm-
responding with the number of States), in Carriages, viz. :
Gen. M. Lewis John W. Hardenbrook
Maj. Wm. Popham Peter R. Livingston
Stephen Aden Isaac Lawrence
Aaron Clark John Rathbone
Cornelius W. Lawrence EdWard Taylor
Walter Bowne Philip Hone
Chancellor Kent George Griffen
Richard Riker Sylvanus Miller
John Targee John I. Morgan
Peter A. Jay c Leffert Lefferts
John Wyckoff :.-,
Daniel Winship .w.- Jeremiah Johnson
27 William Furman
Peter Bennett Robert Bache.
Mayor and Acting Mayor of New York.
Mayor of Brooklyn, and Martin Van Buren, Ex- Presithnt o
the United States and Suite, in carriages.

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, APRIL 9.

About 750 shares Bank United States were sod at the First
Board, opening at 20 1-4 cash and closing at 21 1-2. At, the
Second Board the transactions were to the extent of 500
shares. A sale was made at 22, after which the price fell off
to 21 1.4 cash, and 20 7-6 n. w , an advance of 13•-4 i,er cent.
on the final quotations of yesterday. •It is supposed that the
news of the Relief Bill having been vetoed by Governor Porter,
was communicated to some Members'of the Board with orders
to sell, which may have caused the decline from the- opening
rate. We understand, however, that the Bank does not esteem
it a misfortune that the Bill' is vetoed, es fir: conditions of it
are such that she would not have accepted its tzrtn; had itbeen
signed by the Governor. The general feeling at the Board was
gool, and prices went up for most descriptions. Delaware and
Iluds,n improved 1 2 per cent ; Harlem R: It. 3-4; Vicks-
burg It. R. 1-4 per cent.
Money is abundant; and good business paper, which is
scarce, can be negotiated, in the street, at 7 to 9 per cent.
The legitimate wants of the business community are freely,
supplied by the Banks ; and we understand that enough prime
short paper • is not, offered to keep their discount lines at the
maximum. Indeed, the quantity of paper afloat at the present
time, based upon actral transactions, is comparatively so small,
that the plethoric state of our Money market may be ascribed
to this fact rather than to any expansion of the cutreney.-
The Repolt of the Committee •of Investigation' into the
affairs of the United States Bank, which goes out -by the
Queen, will doubtless 'create much excitement in' Europe.
We refrain at present from any•remarks upon this ltep;rt; in
the first place by reason that much of it is difficult to be en,
derstood, and in the second
,place that no doubt many of its
statements will be controverted by the parties interested, as
ha, already been done by several.
The transactions in Foreign Exchange for the Steamer have
been large to-day, and the market c:osed very firmly. The sales
of Sterling have been at 7 1-4 a 7 12; Southern Bills ti 3-4 a
7; Francs sf. 23 3-1 a sf. 30; en Amsterdam 39 1-2; Ham-
burg 33.3-4 ; Bremen 76. •

The demand for Inl'nd Exchange is fair. The rates are
Philadelphia 3 3-4; Baltimore 3 Mobile 9; New Or-
leans 5 1-4.

The 1 olluwing (potations for American securities may be con-
sidered in the main as nominal. The operations are not exten-
sive, although a growing feeling is evident among our capi-
talists, induced by the low rates and the prospeCt of improve-
ment, to invest their surplus funds in the best of these securi-
ties. That the credit of all the States will be inviolably main-
tained, Aespite the radical movements in some of the Western
and Southern portions of the country, no one who has studied
the character of our countrymen will for a moment donbt ; the
stigma of such a suicidal act of dishonour wool.' attach to every
member of the Confederacy, the powerful influence of public
opinion would prevent its consummation.

Offered. Asked.
N. Y. State Five and a Half 88 89
Ditto ditto 1855 g 9 83 1-2
Ditto Four and a Half 75 82
Ohio Sixes
Ditto
Corporation Fives, Fire Loan 86 87
Illinois Sixes (dollar) 1860 49 1-2 50 1-2
Indiana (Sterling) Bonds
Corporation Bonds 9") 100
Brooklyn City ditto 95 100
Delaware and Hudson ditto
Bank of United States, in Penna. 20 1-2 22
Bank of Commerce, N. Y. 93 98
Farmers' Loan and Trust Co 70 73
Ohio Life Insurance and Trust Co. ... ........ 75 80
Boston and Providence R. R 93 1-2 94
New Jersey R. 11. and Trans. Co. ...... 7O 70 1-2
Mohawk and Hudson R. R. 57 57 1-2
Utica and Schenectady R. R.
Syracuse and Utica R. R. l2B 1-4130
The influx of specie continues to a considerable extent, un-
attended with any demand for export, coasegnently the
accumulation at this point is at present large, larger than the
proportion to the whole amount in the country, which belongs
to New York. The croakers in the suspended districts, have
abandoned the idea that the New York Banks must also sus-
pend. The Banks of this city were probably never in a
stronger position than at the present moment. The specie
rates are for Spanish Dollars, 3 1-2 a 4 prem. ; Mexican do.-
par a 1-4 ; American halves, par ; Spanish Doubloons, $l6,
40; Patriot do. $l6, 60; Five,Franc pieces, 04.

(Correspondence of the Courier and Enquirer.)
UNITED STATES BANK.

PHILADELPHIA, APRIL 5, P. M.—STOCKHOLDERS' MEET-
INC.—The large hall of the U. S. Bank was, this morning,
crowded to repletion by the Stockholders, to hear the report
of the Committee of Investigation, appointed on the 4th of
January. As the Committee in whose care the Report is, did
not deem it expedient to have it published until Wednesday in
a pamphlet form, I am unable to give you any particulars, ex-
cepting that after making allowances of immense sums for loss
on stocks, notes. &c., the Committee came to the conclusion
that the stock of the Bank is worth about 46 1-3 for 100 del-
lars.—The Committee did not mention the names of indivi.
duals or firms to whom large sums hal been lent. out of the
usual order ; but they gave the transactions of the late officers
of the Bank.' These will all appear in the pamphlet, together
with most of the transactions which have been made the sub-
ject of out-door talk and animadversion.

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The meeting appointed a Committee, of which Mr. Soira,
of your city, is one, to take into consideration the whale Re-
port and accompanying documents,_ and report their opinion of
the best course to be pursued by the stockholders, at a meet=
ing to be held on Thursday next, at ten o'olock.
The stock transactions were exceedingly dull--there was no
sal's made at the Ist Board, and but few at the 2d Board.
United States declined about 73 cents a share.

At the 2d Board, 100 shares U. S. Bank, s. 30 ds. 18 ;
100 do. do. do. s. 9 ds., flat, 19 ; 34 do. do. do. 19 ; 25 do.
do do. 19.

After the [Board, 100 shares U. S. Bank, s. 19, b. 60
ds. flat.

Closing Prices.—U. S. Bank, 18i a 19.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

MOM VIE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.

GLOBE.—Amid the dust and din of party strife,
it is truly refreshing to find that there are some sub-1
jests, the commending importance of which silences the
contentions of partisanship, and which obtain, by the
mere force of their acknowledged chime, the spon-
taneous advocacy of those who on most questions
are diametrically opposed in opinion, either as
to the objects or the mode of their accomplish-
ment. The appalling exhibitions which are of com-
mon occurrence in and the dangers to the public health
occasioned by, the crowded stete of the metropolitan
grave-yards, is one of those subjects. Without respect
to party, the public journals have recorded the horrible
spectacles exhibited in those repositories of the dead, oc-
casioned by the necessity of opening graves for new inter-
ments before the process of decomposition in those previ-
ously placed therein is complete. In many instances, while
the mourners have stood around the grave in which are
deposited the remains of a relative or friend, same
shocking relic of mortality from contiguous graves
is exposed to the view of the spectators, while
around, on every hand, lie strewed the fragments
of human bones—as though the only places in which
the feelings of the living are outraged, at the time
nod under circumstances which most require con-
, solation, and the remains of our departed fellow-men,
treated with ignominy and insult front which even
barbarians would abstain from an instinctive homage
to our common nature, are those which arc set apart
by the law for their decent and religious reception, and
to which the Church, both by its laws and ritual, re-
. quires that the notion of peculiar sanctity should he at-
tacked. It is fortunate for the public that a Prelate
should, by mere accident, have beheld one of these
disgusting spectacles. Doubtless his Lordship had often
read and heard of such things as he described with so
much feeling and- alarm in the House of Lords on
Monday night. The Bishop (of London) " had only
yesterday been called on to officiate in a parish in the
City, where thirteen skalls had been thrown out of
the grave in which the corpse was to he buried.
Not merely human bones were exposed in those
churchyards, but often much worse things occurred."
Way, the working clergy of the metropolis am com-
pelled to witness' dady similar spectacles to that which
shocked the sensibility of the Prelate with apprehensions,
and even the " much worse thing:," to which his Lord-
ship would net more distinctly allude in so polite an
assembly. - The public press had long describel and de-
nounced the constantly increasing dangers resulting front
the practice of heaping coffins tier upon tier, until they
approach within a foot of the surface, and of opening
graves so close to those. thus filled, that the coffins and
their appalling contents were exposed to view. These.
and even " much worse" spectacles, are common in the
church-yards of the metropolisthey have been met-
ters of common conversation and indigedet com-
plaint and' expostulation to the parochial autho-
rider, by the . relatives of those whose mouldering
remains ,hate been thus indecently exposed to public
view ; and yet the Bishop of London had never
heard—or if he had heard, had never believed in the
existence, of the evil! Providentially, his Lerdship has
had the subject pressed up on his attention through the
medium of his senses. He actually saw thirteen human
skulls thrown up from one rave--and now believed
that " much worse" exhihittions were frequent in such
places. In the case before us.the remedy is at hand,
and of easy application. The Dean and Chapter of
the diocsse of London arc known to possess land in the
vicinity of the metropolis wissch might he appropriated
for public. cemeteries. The 'clergy of the respective pa-
rishes, on the interment of their parishioners these
cemeteries, might rightfully claim the usual burial fee.
Taus their interests would lots preserved, and the public
be protected.
STANDARD.—Mr. Walter has been returned for
Nottingham by a majority of 293.- At the last cente;t
in the same borough four years ago, the Conservative
candidate: was defeated by a majority of 402
there has therefore been a change ill favour of Con-
servative principle on the part of nearly 800 electors.
This is gratifying ; but the mere fact of this change
is not all that we find to rejoice at. The House
of Coaernone has acquired an admirable member, in
every way qualified to protect the interests of the poor
there, where their interests stand in most need of pro-
tectors. Conservatives and Chartists have been brought
into contact, and, as always happens when sincere and
wellefisposed men are brought into contact, have been
taught to respect and to trust each other, and a
great lesson has been read tq public men of all parties,

- teaching them that the kind treatment of the working
classes must be their • firsteceres -if they would consul.
their own interests, as the well-being of.. those classes
is the only solid hash' of national prosperity and public
safety. 'The weekieg' clieeee of England are not
in the' condition in which they ought to he re-
latively to the. station of the country. England •is by
tar the richest country on the face of the earth, but it is
too certain that the working daises of Englishmen do not
participate in this pre-cminence—they are not the hap-
piest labourers in the - world, or nearly such. This
provss an undue distribution of the profits of labour,
which can be corrected only by rejecting. the prin-
ciple, together with the cruel previsions, of the
New Poor-law—that principle is to bring clown the
people
l to the lowest scale of living -upon which life
.
can be sustained. The very 'reverse would be the
-policy
,of a wise legislator for a country containing so
much wealth as England. - Such a legislator .wouldr try
to familiarise the working classes not only with COM.
forts, but with luxuries ; • not only as a means to their
moral and social improvement, but also as a means
of preventing the accumulation of wealth 'in the
hanos of a few—the greatest evil that can befal any
people. As a check to the danger el this fatal cola.
mity, nothing can' he so effectual vs the placing the
working classes in a position to extract, by peaceful
end legal means, a fair share of the profits of their labour,
as the System of the old Poor-law did. The moral improve-
ment of the population is, however, the first dell objects;
and tois is teany extent impossible under the new Poor-
law. You build churches and establish schools ; you do
well.in. this ; but to what end do you bulichurches and es-
teteish schools, when you pass a taw which first stigmatizes
poverty as: infamous, and then arrays the population in
tie gait) of .poverty ? Who -ever sees a ragged man
at church ? How many ragged children have you in
your public schools ? " Where are the mob ?" asked
the Czer A'exander, - when surrounded, by half a
' tniilion in Hyde Park ;." all, I see here are well-
dressed men."' And so it will always be in
Efiglanda Poverty hides itself alike from observation and
instruction. We can give men credit for mistaking the
teudeecy of the New Poor-law, but we cannot allow to
any one who is aware of its tendency the credit for wish-
ing to'improve the minds or the temporal happiness of
his fellew- creatures ; and even they who are mistaken
in tie.: tendency Of the law are not
,without blame.
Men always go wrong when they think themselves
wiser then their Bible ;. and the Bode teaches that the
tvan.s- o! the roer are to be relieved promptly and
direaly, without looking to consequences or casting
about for ' indirect contrivances. These are considera-
tions which ought never to be out of the minds of pub-
lic teen, but which the result of the Nottingham dee-.
tion will force upon them through their own interests.
COURlER.—Although not insensible of the imports
aece justly attaching to the ignominious exposure and de •
feat of the mean, pitiful, and treacherous trickery of
Ministers iu their Irish 13111,n0r blind to the contingencies .
it ought and would lead to,were their case that of honour-
able public men, we are nevertheless disposed to regard
the result of the Nottingham election as of much greater
importance still, inasmuch as that event cannot- be con-
strued into a mere party triumph, but must be accepted
as a decisive demonstration of public opinion—a delibe-
rate judgment of the people of England, upon which
execution should issue, and must—against the policy
and personnel of the most weak, worthless, and profligate
Government which ever betrayed the interests or
debauched the morale of this country since the
scandalous times of the Cabal. . The Ministerial
pipers are consoling themselves and their em-
ployers for this signal Nottingham disaster by the con-
sideration that, so far as•principles•are in question, it is
solely and wholly attributable to the inveterate hostility
of popular sentiment against the new Poor-law. We
have no objection so to construe this practical com-
mentary on ehe effects of that hateful law ; and, more,
now is the accepted time, we would say, for the towns
and parishes of England and Wales to speak as with
one voice, and pour their petitions as of one mind, upon
the Legislature for the repeal of that abomination, and
for the utter extirpation of that grinding tyranny which
has too long reigned supreme in Somerset House. We
repeat it, " now is the accepted time, now is the day of
salvation ;" now when the Ministerial crew is " flut-
tered" and flurried by Parliamentary discomfiture ; now,
when Nottingham has so gloriously led the van of the
new Poor-law reform ; now, when, on the eve per-
haps of the accession of other and better men to
office, it more than ever behoves the people, notwith-
standing, to make their bargain clear and distinct, so
that hereafter there neither shall be, nor can be, any
" mistake" about the terms on which popular support
is afforded, and by which it must be maintained. We
are the more earnest in this advice, inasmuch as there
has been some " tripping" among professing Conser-
vatives about the new Poor-law, arid more by far
indeed than will be tolerat:d for the future. Let those
concerned look to it well, or they may tarn and spin
and cry for help in vain, when another day of trial
conies, and the constituency must be faced from the
hustings. It is, and will be, no saving grace on that day
with the people, or with those, like ourselves, engaged
in the service of the people, to place on the record a plea
of general Tory or Conservative principles in abatement ef
the sin of voting for the New Poordlw Continuance B:1'.

POLICE INTELLIGEICCE.

MANSION-HO USE.

Mr. Bell, the newspaper agent of Finch-lane, appeared
befcre Sir Peter Laurie for the purpose of complaining
of an odd way of raising- the wind, which was resorted to
through the iott.omentality of his office. Upon a former
day Sir Peter Laurie directed that summonses should be
served upon the parties whose conduct was arraigned, but
no notice was taken of the Magistrate's authority, and the
complainant was called upon to make his statement.
Mr. Bell said that he was in the habit of allowing
letters on business to be addressed to his office. He was,
however, not a little surprised to find that without his
authority, the followinv advertisement appeared in the
imes tie xspaper :—" Wanted a Clerk for a merchant's
counting-house. Salary to commence at 1001. per annum.
Anly by letter f:ce, in applicant's own handwriting, with
a postage stamp, inclosed to R. J. S. and Co., Bell's
newspaper office, Finch-lace." Letters poured in, as
might he expected, to the nuarbera f about 500. At last
a young man, who stated himself to be clerk to an East
India merchant, called and said that the advertisement
was inserted through his interposition. Ile (Mr. Ball)
very sharply reprehended such a liberty, and, suspecting
that there was some dishonesty connected with the matter,
opened ore of the letters, which was as follows :
Croydon, April 14, 1841.
S;--Iu answer to the advertisement in the Times news-
paper of the 13th inst., respecting a cork in a merchant's
counting-house, at 1001. per annum, enclosing a postage-
sta up, I I),g- to tell 11. J. S. that your scheme or the con-
templated robbery with all your ingenuity is a stale trick,
an; for your better information I beg to refer you to the
cases on the point tried at the Central Criminal Court
lately, where Adey and several other persors hive been
detected and convicted, and a great many of them have
been transported, independent of wh:ch I shall feel it my
duty to fallow you up and trace who you are, and if not
successful expose the dirty work, by cautioning the public
,gains: you by a counter-advertisement.
I am, Sirs, your obedient servant,
To R J. S. and Co. THOS. JONES.

The letter just read completely opened his eyes, and
upon opening the other communications which still con.
tinned to pour in he found a postage .stamp in each, with
the exception of one, the writer of which nut being sup-
plied with a stamp enclosed sixpence.
Sir PETER LAURIE—Then it was in your opinion done
for the purpose of obtaining the peony stamp on each
I,:ttcr ?

Mr. Bell said that he believed the object of the adver-
tiser to be of a much deeper character. He had no doubt
that the fellow who corcocted the plan meant to turn his
unconscious correspondents to some advcntagc of a more
important nature. He (Mr. Bell) was well known in the
great commercial toNns of England, and the inference
which would be immediately drawn from the advertise-
ment was that reliance might be placed upon its authentic
character from the fact of the reference to his office. He
therefore felt that there was immediate occasion t.) expose
the deception.

Sir PRTER LAURIE asked where the clerk to the East
India merchant was?

Mr. Bell said be had every reason to suspect that the
younig roan was kept out of the way by the fabricators of
tine scheme, one of whom wore an enormoui pair of mous-
tachios, and bad what was called an imperial chin, being
completely covered with hair, and the very cut of a scamp.
The East India merchant attended for tha purpose of
stating that his clerk had no doubt been made the dupe
of two others in the office. He entertained a fAvourable
opinion of the young man, and believed him to he incapa-
ble of any deliberate ill conduct, but the two persons who
devised the plan were most certainly a pair of schemers.
Mr. Bell thought so too. One of the .persons called
upon him to justify this proceediag, acd spoke very high,
but he ( Mr. Bell) told the gentleman in very plain lan-
guage his candid opinion of such conduct, and felt disposed
to kick hi-n out of the house as a common swindler. The
fellow had the impudence to ee:lare that it was he that
wanted the clerk, and that be had written ar.swers to all
the applicants whose letters he had received. Of the art-
fulness of the design there did not exist the least doubt.
Tl:e East India merchant said that his clerk war, he had
every reason to think, kept out of the way by the two men
Wiese dupe he hail been. The young man stated, upon
e'eg spoken to about the share he hail in the mr,:tter, that
the parties alluded to had applied to him to know where
they could have letters directed to them, and he told them
that he dii not know a bitter place than Mr. Bell's, to
which references were often made in public advertise-
m‘eits. The unfortunate young man was actually ruined
'by this trawaction.
Sit PeTen Lareate said that in ell probability the object
of M.... B 11 would to fetiy answered by the public exposure
;h would be give, of the trick, which he was convinced
was meant to ech mote the -,ostage stamps.
'l73e depraved day showing
itself in new 'ed to put every
seeemer who al ins at the bar of
the Central C,

GRAT's INN, - ...).—The two following
gentlemen were this day called to the degree of Barrister-
at- Law by the Horsounble Society of Gray's Inv, viz.—
Benjamin Chiltey Campbell Pine, E.sq.,. and Benjamin
I3oothby, Esq. ; -and the untlemamed gentlemen having
been called to the Bench of the same Society, on Wedoe-
d last took their seats accordin2lythiS day, viz.— Sam.
Turner, Them,s Purvis, Archer Ryland, and Thomas
Green, M.P., Esqtti.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
1101.1 SE-OF COMMONS, APRIL-28,'

The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'Clock.

Mr...T. PARKER presented a petition from the
Manehestur. aid Ashton-under-Line Railway CompanY
against certain provisions of the Railway Bill before the
House.

Mr. HOME DRUMMOND presented a petition
from a Scotch Presb:tery against railway travelling on
Sundays.
Mr..PARKER presented petitions from the Corpo-
rations of Ludlow and Sheffield, praying for a revision
of the Commercial Tariff.

An HON. MuMnEit presented petitions from various
railway companief, whose names did not reach us, against
the Bill before the House for the regulation of railways.
Mr. AGLIONBY presented petitions from Suffolk
against Elelesiostical Courts and. Church-rates.
Mr. BRISCOE presented a petition from. Bath
against the Dog' Carts Bill.
Colonel VERNER presented a petition from the
Grand Jury of the county of Artnazh in favour of
Lord Stanley's and against Lord Morpeth's Irish Re-
gist'ation Biil.

Mr. BAINES prevented several petitions from
places in Yorkshire against• compulsory oaths, Eccle
siastical Courts, and Church-rates.

Mr. COLQUHOUN presented several petitions
from Manchester, Derby, and other places,- against
lay patronaze in the Church of Scotland.
Mr. GROTE presented a petition from several
hundred merchants and traders in the City of London,
praying for a revkion of the Customs duties.
Colonel RUSHTON presented a petition agiost
the grant to Maynooth College. but the designation of
the petitioners was not heard in the gallery. -
Sir WM. MOLESWORTH presented a petition
from persons connected with South Australia, against
the alienation of the emigration fund.

Mr.:. HAWES presented a petition from a place in
Cambridgeshire against Church-rates.
Lord CASTLEREAGH presented a petition from
the Elders of a Presbyterian Congregation in Scot-
land, praying for the abolition of Church patronage in
Scotland—in the prayer of which be heartily concurred..
Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD presented a petition
from the North of England Medical Association,
complaining of the manner in which the medical of
were appointed to Poor-law Unions; also, a petition
from the chemists and.droggis.ts of Reading, agdnst the
Medical Reform Bill ; rho a petition from the Protest-
ant Dissenters and others residing in the neighbourhood
cf Abingdon. praying for the abolition of Church-rates.
Mr: HUME -presented a petition from a place the
name of which we could, not catch, praying for the
abolition of Church-rates and of Ecclesiastical Courts ;
alio from Kerrymain, ptaying for the abolition of the
bread tax and a free trade in corn and provisions gene-
rally, and for a reform of 'the tariff ; also petitions to.
the same effect, from the tool-makers in Warwick,had
from the inhabitants of Whithurn.

Sir It. INGLIS preiented a petition from the
rector, churchwardtne, and other inhabitants of Stake-
upon-Trent, against a further grant to the Coliev of
Maynooth ; Coin the county of Stafford, against Sun-
day trading on railways, and from the county of York,
in favour of Church Extension.

Sir R. PEEL presented a petition from Avon
B►ssett, in the county of Stafford, in favour of
Church Extension ; from a hundred in Lincoln, praying
that the County Courts' Bill may not pass into a law ;
or that if it does, the Ccurt established there may be
exempt from its operation ; and from Tamworth and
places. in the counties of Warwick and Leicester,
in favour of the Bill for preventing the use of dogs as
beasts of burden.

Mr. LITTON presented a petition from a congre-
gation of Dissenters in Coleraine against Church pa-
tronage.

SUNDAY FLOGGING.

Sir R. H. INGLIS wished to know whether it was
the intention of the authorities at the Admiralty to
issue an order to the officers of the navy similar to that
lately issued from the Horse Guards against flogging
on Sunday. Ile asked the question as he understood
that a case, of fl tgging on Sunday had lately occurred
on board of one of her Majesty's vessels.
Mr. MOORE O'FERRAL said that although it
was not usual to take such a step, the Board of Ad-
miralty had issued a circular to the officers of the navy
for the purpose referred to by the Hon. Member.
Mr. GROTE gave notice that in Committee on the
Bill for rrgul sting trade in the British Colonies he
would move an amendment to the effect that the pro-
vinces of Upper and Lower Canada should be ex-
empted from the operation of the Bill until the duty
on tea imported into those colonies should be reduced
from fourpence to one penny.
REGENT'S PARK.

Mr. EWART begged leave to ask the Under-
Secretary for the Treasury whether it was the intent on
of the Government to open the whole o: that part
under grass in the Regent's Park to the public ; and
whether they were resolved on making a commu
nication from the park to Primrose. hill ; further,
whether that part of the park opposite Hanover-
terrace was to be also open to the public ;
and finally whether the Government was prepared to
lay before the House. a map which which would indi-
cate the alterations that were to take place.

Mr. E. J. STANLEY said that it.was the inten-
tion of the Woods and Forests to open the whole of
the grass part of the Park to-the public. It was also
intended to open a road by means of a bridge from
Hanover•gate to the Grass Park ; but it was not in-
tended to make any bridge over the Regent's Canal,
to Primrose-hill, which would be accessible in the ,J3ui.l
manner. With respect to the last question of the Hoe.
Gentleman, he begged to state that it was the
intention of the Government to lay before the
House, in the course of the week, a plan of the
Regent's Park, for the purpose of showing the contem-
plated arrangements.
➢lr. Sergeant JACKSON wished to ask the Noble
Lora; the Secretary for Ireland whether it was his in-
tention to prccced with the Irish Court of Chancery
Bill on Friday next ? lie wished the Noble Lord to
postpone, until a more distant period, the further con-
sideration of the measure, as some officers connected
with the Irish Court of Chancery were anxious to be in
London during its progress.

Lord 11101113ETI-1 did not think it would be possi-
ble to bring in the Bill on Friday next.
PARLIAMENTARY VOTERS- (IRELAND).
Lord J. RUSSELL said it was his intention to
move the Order of the Day for going inio Com-
mittee on the Parliamentary Voters (Ireland) Bill, and,
as it stood somewhat low upon the list, he should pro-
pose, if the gentlemen who had orders on the paper
had no objection, that they should be mid over far the
purpose of postponing them.
The preceding orders were then read over, and
fixed for other days.
Lord J. RUSSELL—In rising to move the next
order of the day, 1 beg leave to state the course I pro-
pose to pursue. I asked the House to adjourn for a
short time for the purpose of considering the effect
which the words added to the first clause would have
upon the Bill, considering them as of very considerable
importance. I attached such importance to the words
chiefly because of what occurred in the debate, inferring
from the statements then made that it was intended
by affirming those words to exclude the franchise
proposed by my Noble Friend the Secretary for Ire-
land. The importance of the debate and the impor-
taiee of that vote I cannot exaggerate, but the Govern-
ment could not feel at all justified in considering that
vote as conclusive on such a subject. On the second
reading of the Bill the principle of the franchise
proposed by my Noble Friend was affirmed in
a very large House by the votes of 301 Members.
We have now had the amendment moved by
my Noble Friend the Member for Northumberland
also affirmed ; but it was not moved with the view of
negativing any of those franchises that were proposod
by my Noble Friend, but with a view of aiding those
franchises. That franchise, if added to those proposed
by my Noble Friend, will be an addition to the fran-
chise, and not a diminution.—( Hear, hear.) We will
be quite willing to accept that addition in the hope
that the House is prepared to adopt the franchise
of the nature we have proposed, and arc prepared
to support. We therefore think it is our duty
to proceed with the Bill, and ask for the sense
of the House upon the franchise proposed by us.
That franchise formed part of the all, and was dis-
cussed upon the second reading of the Bill ; not cer-
tainly with respect to the amount of 51., but with re-
spect to the nature of the franchise. I do not consider
teat it is necessary to say anything further. I will,
therefore, conclude by moving the Order of the Day
for the House resolving itself into Committee on the
Registration of Voters (Ireland) Bill.
Lard HO WICK said that his Noble Friend (Lord
J. Raissell) having explained to the House the course
he purposed to pur,ur, it might be for the convenience
of the House if he (Lord Howick) also stated what was
his intention with reference to the amendment of
which he had given notice, in consequence of what
took place on a former evening. lie (Lord Howick)
still held the opinion which he had then expressed,
that the county franchise of Ireland n
gut be
most satisfactorily settled on the principles which he
had endeavoured to state to the House, namely,
by retaining the existing franchise in to :;cot of
the beneficial interest, providing a simple and easily as-
certained test of the eNistence of that interest, and
affording a further means of securing the right of voting
by the creation of an occupation franchise analogous to
that possessed in this country by the 501. leaseholders.
lie (Lord H.) still continued to hold that opinion.
Certainly nothing that had passed in the debate on the
former evening had contributed to alter it ; on the con-
trary, with reference to the first amendment, the House
had affirmed the expediency of
.maintaining the.,prinel-
plc of a property qualificati9p,, and his Noble Friend
who had just sat down, in a manner which inade him
(Lord Howick) at a loss to comprehend his pressing
the question on a former evening to a division, had
stated that. to the franchise, defined in the manner he
(Lord Howick) proposed in addition to soma other.
franchise, • he had •no objection ; except as an ad-
dition to some other franchise he (Lord Howick)

never should have thought of proposing a beneficial
interest to .he defined in the manner suggested. If
therefore the House hereafter should discover some
other franchise by which the parties he sought
to enfranchise would be admitted to the right of
voting, he should then propose the amendment
which was in part adopted by the House: But, per-
haps, a more important amendment was that he w.se
about to propose, since that went to alter the nature of
the occupation franchise of his Noble Friend, and to do
away with the necessity of a lease in order that electors
might obtain the right of voting by occupation, and in
consideration of the beneficial interest. It appeared to
him.that what passed in the House an a former evening
did not give him any reason to think that he was wrong
in the proposition which he laid before the House, and
which had been adopted by it. His Noble Friend on.
that side of the House had on that occasion refused to
enter into any argument on the subject. He made no
attempt to show how it was possible that they could
with a franchise founded on a leasehold qualdication,
or obviate the diminution in the number of electors that
was avowedly going on under the present system, and
which was mainly attributable to the unwillingness of
the landlords to grant leases. The arguments which he
had advanced relative to the disadvantages arising from
holders of small properties, and claiming the franchise on
account of their leases, were not disapproved. He had
shown that persons possessing small holdings were gene-
rally more needy and dependent than tenants of a
higher class. On the other head, the Hon. Member
for North Lancashire, if he (Lord Hotvick) correctly
collected the import of what fell from him, had not
merely admitted that he had no objection to the
principle which he (Lord H.) advanced, but even
went so far as to say if that principle had been adopted
and embodied in the measure by ter Majesty's Go-
vernment, he would have been prepared to give it his
acquiescence, at least he would be prepared—he
thought the expression of the Hon. Member for Lan-
cashire -was —to give it respectful consideration.
He would be sorry to misconstrue the words which fell
from them on that occasion. He clearly understood
them to disclaim giving any opinion whatever as to the
details, as to the amount of occupation which might be
required. But although to this extent the principle
was admitted by his Noble Friend and the Right Hon.
Baronet opposite, it was stated by theirs that they
would not be prepared even to consider the
details of such st- • :measure, unless it were
brought forward by the aothoeity and on the respon-
sibility of her Majesty's 'Governmeat.—(Hear, hear.)
That being their opinion, it was plain that in moving
the amendment of which he had given notice, he had
no support to expect from the other side of the House.
—(Hear,.) On his (Lord Hosvick's) side of the House,
he was equally unable to expect any support, because
although his Noble Friends did not think proper at
that time to enter into the agreement, they distinctly
stated their intention to resist the amendment which he
had in contemplation. Tee result of the division on
the former night proved to them that he could
not calculate on any support from. • that side
of the House, even from those Gentlemen with
whom he generally concurred in opinion. Such being
the case, it would be manitestly.useless to bring forward
the amendment, and he would not waste. the time of
the House by proposing an. amendment, though
he was convinced that it would tend to a satisfactory
adjustment, if this much disputed question had nos the
least chance of meeting with . acquiescence. Of
course, with the opinions he had expressed, this
amendment fell to the ground. It would be
impossible for him, however anxious he was to
co-operate with her Majesty's Government in
placing the franchise on a satisfactory footing, to
support the clause which they were going to bring un-
der consideration of the House. He would not trouble
the House by repeating the arguments in opposition to
that clause which he had used on a former occasion ; he
would only say that he Lad heard nothing which had
led him to believe that he had attached an
undue weight to those arguments. He could
not, however, support the clause as it was about
to be propoised—(Hear, hear, from the Opposi-
tion)—and he must confess he could not bet feel sur-
prised that her Maje ty's Government should call upon
the House to decide on it, for every man who knew
anything of political affiirs, of the state of parties in
Parliament, and the country, must be aware that, al-
though the clause proposed might or might
not pass that House, still there was no
human probability that a franchise, founded on that
principle, could possibly pass into a law.—(Loud cheers
from the opposition.) He thought there was not the
remotest probability of carrying it, and he considered
that the further debating the subject would tend merely
to the increasing the party excitement in that House ;
and, what would be still snore unfortunate, would in-
crease the party excitement and the party animosity
which now prevailed on that subject in Ireland. He thought
the result must he, that the sehject must continue anotaer
year without any effectual attempt being made to re-
ice,fy these evils. He believed that the franchise
required definition and explanation before they could
apply any remedy to the present state of things.
He believed the system of registration to be faulty, but
he also believed, and could show from the information
before the House, that almost the faults of the
system of reoisteaften- in Ireland, - all the abuses,
and all the evils which had besu complained of;
flowed mainly from the present undefined state of the
franchise.—(Cheers.) They did not define whet. was
the means of obtaining the franchise, and that was the
real cause 'of ail the evils.—(Hear, hear.) He
did not attribute those evils which were admitted
to exist on all sides, to the defective tribunds
for registration, nor to the deficiency of an an-
nual registration; The reel cause of abuse was
tin the franchise -itsilF. It was based on a fact
which they had no certain means of ascertaining ;
and to prove this fact, lie would merely allude
to certain Returns
,which had been moved for
by the Hon. andiearned Member for Bendier:. Ti.e
Hon. and Learned Member had moved for a return of
the number of claims put in; and of the number allowed
in,-different parts of Ireland. Among other parts in-
troduced in the returns. was the county of Cork. In
that, the largest county in Ireland, 12,000 claims
had been made, and only -1,000 established, so that
for every single claim estaUlisned twelve had been put
forward for discussion. In twelve case they had all
the litigation and all the discussion.—(" No, no," from
Mr. Sergeant Jackson.) He knew to what the Hon.
and Learned Member ailuded—he meant that every one
of the twelve was not carried forward for litiga-
tion. But the return, at all events, showed
how great must be the uncertainty when twelve per-
sons could be led to believe that they had aright to the
franchise as well as es cry one who established it. That
was a monstrous and crying evil, and one which must
continue at least for another year, because it arose
entirely from the uncertainty of the franchise.
He thought his Noble Friend could obtain no object in
pressing forward his Bill, and any attempt of that kind
on the other side ie resisting the further progress of
the Bill would be attended with precisely the same
effect. It would keep up existing animosity, and make more
difficult at some future period a settlemeat of that ques-
tion. He was persuaded that such would be the effect of
pressing forward the Bill at present, and he could not
help asking the Right Hon. Baronet and his Noble
Friend whether, if it were not fit to deal with the franchise,
and attempt to accomplish that highly necessary reform
unless that reform was taken up by her Majesty's
Goovernment, proposed upon their responsibility and
by their authority —if that principle held good
with respect to the reform of the franchise,
did not the same principle hold equally good with le-
spec to the reform of the tribunal ?—(Cheers.) Did
it not hold more than equally good when it appeared
from the facts elicited in the course of the debate that
the first step towards the accomplishment of that
object was a clear definition of the franchise. He was
persuaded that such was the case—it was impossible to
deal with the subject, except as a whole, and, unfortu-
nate as might be the result of leaving Ireland to suffer
another year under the evils of the present registration
system, and the present inadequate franchise, he thought
under the circumstances in which they were now
placed, that such was the inevitable result.
He did think, that if the House was actuated by a real
and earnest desire to legislate for the public good, and
net for the purpose of party and faction, a differ-
ent result might have been obtained. The country had
a right to inquire, and would inquire, why so im-
portant a question had not been settled. He did not
wish to lay blame on either side, but this he must say,
that if her Majesty's Government had proposed a mea-
sure retaining as much as' practicable of the existing
law, and supplying any difference in the number of elec-
tors, !, at the same time establishing a clear definition
of the beneficial interest —if they had proposed
a measure of that sort founded upon a careful investi-
gation of facts, and supported by full and satisfactory
information, he was certainly bound to believe from tire
declarations that were made on the other side of the
House, that in point of principle, at least, no objection
to such a measure, so brought forward and so sup-
ported; would have been urged. Even upon
the details of such a measure, it was not im-
possible that an agreement might have been
come to. He supposed that any hopes of thatsort were
now at an end. He would conclude the few observa-
tions he had thought proper to make to the House, by
expressing his hope that in declining to persevere in an
amendment of which he had given, notice, the House
would give him credit for not acting on hasty and instil-
ficient reasons, or in not having brought forward an
amendment which might have been the means of recon-
ciling conflicting parties,—and on the ether hand, when
he found that the proposition was net received in the
manner in which be had hoped, the House would think
he hail acted right in not persevering in it,—( Hear.)
Sir R. PEEL—The few observations I have to
make on the present occasion will he etclusively confined.
to a statement of the course I took on Monday
night, when this Bill was last under discussion,
and the position in which we now stand
with respect to any future proceedings on
the subleetr..-Toirder3tooti-hiar Majesty's Government,
as a Government, as the executive administration en-
trusted with the confidence of their Sovereign, and

produ-...e much ore thlti.thept
ingenuity of ..an Was ever'
shapes, -and h ties resoivei
should be bre ht before him
!riminal Ceurt.
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