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ters were of opinion that the Tories would not
vote for it, and their too great confidence on this
point led to their defeat.

We are happy to see that Anti-Corn-law meet-
ings are becoming numerous. For us the time
is gone by to argue the question; we have done
that months and years ago, and we have now
only to record the proceedings and sayings of
others. To begin with the least important part :
there was a meeting at Kirkcaldy on Monday
last, attended by no fewer than six or seven
hundred of the inhabitants of that small town,
the Provost in the Chair. The meeting unan
mously resolved to petition Parliament for tli
total and immediate repeal of the Corn-laws
The House of Commons must be told that this
resolution was accompanied by a declaration,
equally unanimous, that its conduct in refusing to
entertain Mr. VILLIERS' motion had tended to
shake the confidence of the country in its wis-
dom. Such opinions are almost universal in the
manufacturing districts, and they must have a
strange idea of human nature who dream that a
Legislature will preserve its power after it has
fallen into general contempt or become generally
detested.

On Monday, too, as we learn from the Leeds
Times, there was a great demonstration against
the Corn-laws at Bradford, and though it was
interrupted by those who wish for much greater
reforms than the Corn-laws (the new allies of the
Tories having demanded groans for the QUEEN),
it was conducted to a satisfactory termination.
This meeting was remarkable for the presence of
a great number of ladies, and no less than fifteen
clergymen, a minister of the Establishment say-
ing grace for the whole party. Throughout the
manufacturing districts, where the distress is too
much concentrated to be overlooked, the ladies
and the clergy of all denominations, but chiefly
the Dissenters, are enthusiastic in our cause, and
blessed by their united good wishes and prayers,
we cannot fail of success. The meeting at Brad-
ford is an important link in the great chain by
which we shall at length reach the total aboli-
tion of the Corn and Provision-laws.

On Wednesday the annual meeting of the
Anti-Corn-law Association of Rochdale was held
in that town, at which a great number of electors
were present, and a resolution was unanimously
adopted to petition in favour of the total and im-
mediate repeal. At Wigan, on Friday, a similar
meeting was held, and a resolution adopted to
elect no person in future for that borough
but one who would vote for the total and imme-.
diate repeal of the Corn-laws. At this meeting
the Rev. WILLIAM ROAF, a minister of the Inde-
pendents, took an active part, and made an ex-
cellent speech. He declared that it was a Bible
question, and that every one who took his stand
on the Bible must oppose the Corn-law. The
stern, uncompromising, unyielding principles of
religion and morality now dictate the conduct of
the Corn-law; Repealers. They have paltered
long enough, they think, with the guesses and
fancied statistics by which the lovers of injustice
have endeavoured to put out the light of truth,
and now, casting aside all these vain considera-
tions, they demand on the principles of morality
and religion, aye, and on the principles of com-
mon sense, the repeal of the landlords' bread and
provision tax. We can only say, go on and pros-
per. They have righteousness on their side, and.
they must in the end succeed. The longer the
unjust owners of rent protract the contest, and
resist the demands of justice, the more disgrace-
ful and ruinous in the end will be their certain
defeat.

If within a reasonable time we can find room
we shall publish a brief abstract of the proceed
ings at all these meetings.

The Madrid papers of the 18th instant have
reached us. On that day the debate on the Re-
gency question commenced in the Chamber of
Deputies, but up to post hour nothing was de-
cided. The only news brought by these Journals
is the following decree, which appears in the
Gazette of the 18th :

The Provisional Regency of the kingdom has adopted the
following decree :--

" I.t. The Archbishops, Bishops, Prelates, &c., are to
withdraw the permissions from priests to confess, to say the
mass, &c.. which were given to ecclesiastics who, after the
decree of the Bth of October, 1835, received superior orders
from foreign prelates, or from those who followed the Pre-
tender's party, if they have not been authorised by their
own diocesans. 2. They have to transmit to the Minister
of Justice information as to the circumstances which at-
tended the ordination of each priest. 3. The first article is
not applicable to priests who inhabited the Basque provinces
and the Navarre which were occupied by the factious.
Nevertheless, the superior ecclesiastical authorities will trans-
mit information on their behalf to the Minister of Justice.
4. The priests from whom the permissions will have been
withdrawn will cease to enjoy the immunities granted to the
clergy. They will be looked to as persons of the secular
order. 5. The Alcades are not to allow those priests to
perform the duties of their office 6. Amongst the priests
who are interdicted are some who wish to go abroad,
and passports will be delivered to them. 7. Are subjected to
the preceding measures, those priests who received superior
orders in infraction of the decrees and by virtue of dispensa-
tions and pontifical warrants not bearing the Royal exequatur.
8. Don s]anoel Diez de Tijada, administrator of the Bishop-
rick of Malaga, and the excommunicated D. T. Fernandez
Rebollier, and J. D. M. Munez will be banished, and their
temporalities sequestrated.—Herein fail not.
(Signed) " Duke de la VITTORIA.
" Madrid, April 11, HAL"
66 To Don Alvaro Gomez Becerra."

The whole of the Paris Journals of Sunday
have reached us. On Saturday the Chamber of
Deputies rejected the petition of the French re-
sidents at Monte Video against the Treaty of the
31st of October. The petition had been referred
to a Committee, whose Report upon it concluded
as follows :
A disposition peculiar to some of the French leads them to
meddle in the political affairs of foreign countries, where they
may have settled with commercial views. This conduct of
theirs has injured the authorities and the population of divers
countries in America. Our commercial agents, instead of
combatting this propensity, have, on the contrary, approved
and supported it ; and hence have arisen complications and
mistakes, which Government has deplored, and which have
cost dear to the treasury.
• These observations are just, sensible, and well-
timed, and their adoption by the Chamber does
credit to the moderation of that body. We do
not mean to say that Frenchmen are especially
obnoxious to the charge of meddling with the
political affairs of countries in which they form a
temporary residence. In this respect they are
no worse than our own countrymen abroad,
whose itch for politics, or whose ill-timed religi-
ous zeal, is a constant source of annoyance and
trouble to the Government.

The Archbishop of PARIS and the three French
Cardinals will assist at the baptism of the Comte
DE PARIS. On the day the Church receives him
into her bosom, the grave and dignified Magis-
trates of Paris are to present the youthful hero
with a sword with which to defend their liberties.
They ought rather to present him with a piece
of cannon, or, if in their wisdom they could
manage it, with the whole fortifications of the
city whose name he bears. What can Paris or
its Count want with swords, now that they have
walls to shelter them ?

The French Government has despatched a
frigate and corvette to China to demand the
establishment of direct relations with the Court
of Pekin on the same footing as those promised
to Great Britain. It requires no great foresight
to predict confidently that Commissioner Lix's
Franceproduce
insist a moral ourpal on
seizure of the opium will in a short time
redvioreluettion
in
relations C
with
t hlef
Court of Pekin, the if •
ruled States will do the
same, and their example will be followed by all
States trading with the Celestial Empire. Direct
communication cannot be Carried on without the
presence of Ambassadors, and an Ambassador's
household being an epitome of the manners and
customs of the country which he represents, the
presence of one or more must exercise an im-
mense influence among a people so imitative as
the Chinese.

The acquittal of La France by a Jury, for
pub,
lishing the alleged correspondence of Lo.cls
PHILIPPE, is much commented upon by thejour..
nals of Sunday. The legitimist organs regard it
as a great triumph, and they are unbounded in
the expression of their joy. The impre3sion that
the correspondence is authentic gains ground, so
that the object of the Court in authorising the
prosecution has been completely defeated. It
would have been far better to have advised the
KING to take no notice of such publications.

Prosecution but increases their circulation and
predisposes the public mind to' believe them au-
thentic. The KING who dreads libels so .much
as to seek to repel them by punishment consults
neither his fame nor his happiness in appearing
as the prosecutor in a Court of Justice. His very
susceptibility proves him vulnerable.
A letter from Algiers of the 13th brings us the copy of a
notice published by M. Guizot, Director of the Internal Af-
fairs of the Province, to put into requisition conveyances for
revictualling Milianah, a notice which has caused a great sen-
sation by the terms in which it concludes.
" If, notwithstanding this notice," says M. Guizot, " there
shouldbe found, contrary to expectation, refractory owners of
conveyances, the Governor-General will exercise towards them
the authority given to him, and they may expect to be punished,
if there should be occasion, even by expulsion from the colony,
e P since individuals who are not ready to bear their share in the
common burden ought not to partake in the benefits which
society affords them.
It is said that an English merchantman has been seen on
the coast, that it has a cargo of gunpowder for Abd-el-Kader,
and that information of the fact was given by the French Con-
sul at the port from which the vessel sailed.
Very severe regulations are imposed on the troops cantoned
in the barraAs of the fortifications. An order of the day
contains the following passage: " Every soldier belonging to the
garrison of the fortifications of Paris who shall be met in the
capital, without permission, shall be arrested and conveyed to
his corps, there to undergo severe punishment. The Colonels
of their regiments are to be very reserved in granting these
permissions, which cannot be for more than thirty-six hours.
'fo hinder the violation of this order, corporals are stationed
day and night at the gates of the several barriers, who do not
suffer any soldier to enter the city who are not provided with
a permission countersigned by the Commandant of Paris.,
Thus the isolation of the soldier begins before the fortifications
are finished.—Le Commerce.

HAvaF, APRIL 24.—Judgment has been pronounced by our
Tribunal of Commerce to-day in the ease of the Phenix against
the Britannia, belonging to the Stem Navigation Company.
It is well there lies an appeal against this decision, for, truly,
it is as severe as any Shareholder of the Phenix Company,
expecting a large dividend, could desire. The Britannia Com-
pany are condemned to pay to M. Guillon, the Macag-
ing Director of the Company of the Phenix, the sum of
700,000 francs, or 28,0001., with interest from the date
of the demand being made, allowing in place of said
sum, the delivery of the said ship Britannia, and lwre
freight to Monsieur Guillon, on behalf of his company, or that
the amount of such freight shall be paid before the expiration
of fifteen days. It furthermore condemns the English corn •
pan), to pay all the expenses, costs, and charges incurred by or
arising from this action, and that in case the Britannia shall
be rendered up, she shall be in good order, and free from any
lien or debt whatever upon her.
Our cotton ,market has been extremely dull during the
week. The sales have amounted to 2,658 bales, feeding the
consumers at the rate of from 400 to 500 bales per day, at a
decline in the prices, but the sales have been so limited that
the decline has not had much effect; it has ranged from two
to three centimes. The arrivals during the past week have been
6.769—the sales 2,658, and the stock in hand is about 60,b00
bales. •••

In coffee little has been done. We have received 300
tierces by the Emilie, from St. Jago : part has been Eo'd by
public sale, from 133 to 140 ; 159 sacs from BAhia, at 55
francs, E.F. We have had, by Rotterdam, 400 sacs fi out
New York, 12 from Bourbon, 36 tierces from Martinique, and
660 sacs of Java.

In sugars the markets have also been dull, 130 ban iques
have been sold at 62f. for the refiners of our town and the
environs.

We have received by our first arrival from Bengal for this
year 218 cases of indigo, but which having been sold for de-
livery remains in second hands. There have been sold on the
Place 16 cases of Bengal from llf. 10c. to 13f., and one case
Java at 11 francs. The steamer from Rotterdam on her last
voyage brought 155 cases of Java, which is destined fur the
interior.

DIVISION OF LAST NIGHT.
The division last night came on very unex-
pectedly for the Liberal party. They looked for
an adjourned debate, but the Tories, who knew
the completeness of their own preparations, hur-
ried on the division. Hence we findno less than
thirty-two Liberals absent and only eleven
Tories. Several of the Liberals could not attend
on account of illness in their families, or of the
death of relations; so that had the division been
postponed, and the absent Members on both
sides, the numbers would have been equal, as
stated below :

Tories and pairs
Absent

Liberals and pair
Absent

317

- 328
296
32

328
Leaving the casting vote for the Speaker.

COMMON PLEAS. -(THIS DAY.)

THOMPSON P. LEWIS.
It Will be recollected that the defendant in this action being
a judgment creditor of a person named Holder, proprietor of a
well-known gaming-house in the Regent's Quad, ant, seized in
execution several horses supposed to be the property of that
person. These were sold by the Sheriff of Middlesex, against
whom Thompson and the niece of Holder separately brought
actions, as for an illegal seizure, they claiming certain of the
houses as their property.
The Sheriff, under the Interpleader Act, paid the money, the
produce of the sale, into Court, and made Lewis, the plaintiff in
the original action, deendant in those brought against him.
The ea, of Thompson v. Lewis was tried in London, at the
sittings after Trinity Term last, and a verdict found for the
plaintiff. A rule nisi, to compel the defendant to pay plaintiff the
money paid into Court by the Sheriff, and taken out by him
(Lewis) with the costs in the action aid of this application,
was obtained this term, against which Mr. Sergeant Talfourd
now showed cause, when the case was ordered to stand over
until to-morrow.

EXCHEQUER.--(THIS DAY.)
HARRIS V. ()BEARD.
This was an action for negligence, which was tried before
Lord Abin4er in London, when a verdict was found for the
Plaintiff, damages 201. In the early part of the term Mr.
Platt, on the part of the defendant, obtained a rule nisi for a
new trial.

This morning his Loanstur read over his notes of the evi-
dence, from which it appeared that the defendant resided
in Noble-street, Falcon-square. It was a narrow street.
The defendant used a truck in his business, which
was frequently left standing opposite his door. There
was plenty of room for waggons to pass when the truck was
drawn up on the pavement. On the day in question it was so
standing, and a waggon had passed safely on two occasions;
on the third, the plaintiff was passing at the same time, the
fore wheels of the waggon had passed the truck safely.
but the plaintiff, on some ground that was unexplained,
put his hand upon the handle of the truck which turned the
wheel of it round—the .hind wheels of the waggon caught the
truck, knocked it round, and pressed the plaintiff against the
wall, whereby his shoulder was hurt.
Mr. HAYWARD appeared in support of the verdict. He
contended that the defendant was guilty of negligence, first, in
putting his truck upon the footpath, which was a place for
foot passengers, but he further contended that it was even then
improperly placed, because a part of it was placed over the
carriage way.
The COURT were decidedly of opinion that the verdict was
against the evidence, and there must be a new trial on pay•
ment of costs.

Mr. HAYWARD was proceeding to argue the case when I
Lord ABINGER, said it was a rule of the Court that there
must he a new trial when the Judge who tried the cause cer-
tified that he was dissatisfied with the verdict.
Mr. HAywa RD would not trouble the Court further.
Mr. PLATT, for the defendant, said they had no ill-feeling
towards the poor man who had been hurt by his own folly.
He was willing to consent to a stet processus.
The COURT-It must be on payment of costs.
Mr. PLATT—No, I can say nothing as to costs.
'1 he rule for a new trial was made absolute on payment cf
costs.

The COURT intimated that the new trial paper would he
called on Thursday, and rose at MG o'Cloek.

INSOLVENT COURT.-THIS DAY

IN THE MATTER OF WILLIAM VYSE.
The insolvent, who carried on business as silk-mercer and
lace•dealer in bath, applied to be discharged under the Act,
and was opposed by Mr. Nicholls on the part of the-detaining
creditor, Mrs. Anne Cooke. It appeared that the insolvent
was intitled, under his father's will, to a reversionary interest
in certain freehold property, situate in the town of Trowbridge,
Wiltshire, which was mentioned in the special balance sheet.
He was also entitled, under similar circumstances, to certain
mortgages, effected by his father, but Rhich was not accounted
for in the s chedule.
Mr. NICHOLLS applied for a remand, in order to afford his
client an opportunity to make inquiries into the existence and
nature of the latter bequest.
The insolvent, in reply to the Court, said that before he
signed the balance sheet it was read over to him, but he never
observed the omission, although he had given full instruetiens
to the clerk of Mr. Spencer, his attorney.
The Clerk stated. that the mistake must have arisen in the
engrossing of the schedule.
'f he COURT decided upon remanding the case, as it was the
duty of the insolvent to state fully the nature and amount of
all his available assets.
Mr. Cooe. seeing the two Learned Commissioners on the
Bench, made application in the matter of an insolvent named
Gaily, who had recently passed through the Court, that he be
allowed to take from the Court, with the consent of his as,ig_
nee, the lease of certain premises he held previous to his in-
solvency, which was now of no value, and, unlike the case of a
bankrupt, an insolvent was still liable for accruing rent, unless
the lessor got possession of the lease.
Mr. Commissioner REYNOLDS said that he always observed
great caution in applications like the present, 'lest there might
be collusion. Were there, then, any affidavits affirming the
facts on which the Learned Counsel grounded his application ?
Mr. Cook having put in the necessary affidavits, the Court
acceded.
A great manyper:ons were discharged during the course of
the morning, being unopposed.

SEWERS CO URT—(T HIS DAY.)
This day a Special Meeting of the Court of Sewers was
held at the office of the Commissioners, Greek-street, Soho,
for the purpose of considering the following letter from the
Solicitors to the Board, and giving such directions as should
be thought necessary thereon:—
" 16, Southampton-street, Bloomsbury-square,
April 23, 1841.
" Sir,—Agreeably to the direction of the Chairman, we
attended on Saturday last, at Chelsea Hospital, to meet Mr.
Bicknell, the Solicitor of the Hospital, and the Collector of the
Commissioners, that the warrant of distress might be executed.
- `°lt was found that Mr. Hall did not reside on any part of the
premises rated, and that he had no goods en such premises ;
and the Collector made a distress in the chapel, wards, and
hall, by levying, on a table in the wards, a pensioner's scat in
tho Chkeel, and a dining-table in the Hall, all which Mr.
Bicknell stated were the property of the Commissioners of the
11:spital.
" The Collector, Mr. Wrather, has called and left with us a
writ served on him, at the suit of Mr. Neave, Secretary of the
Commissioners of the Hospital, for the trespass in seizing the
goods of the Commissioners in the Hospital.
" Mr. Wrather will be bound to appear to the writ on the
29th instant, and we wait the order of the Court of Sewers
presented by the
1-11)0n the subject. " We are, &c.,
" Mr. L. C. Hertslet, Clerk." " SMITH and SON."
Commissioners
It appeared that the Hospital having been
°rnTrussioners of this Board, the Jury found that Me. Richard
Hall was liable tor the rate to be levied on the hospiaal, and
thewarrant was issued and distress levied as stated in the let-
ter of 111:ssrs. Smith.
Mr. Auxv moved that the solicitors to the Commissioners
be instructed to defend the action brought by the Hospital
against Mr. Wraxall, and to apply to the solicitor s for the
plaintiffs to waive all technical objections) gq that the question

of the liability of the Hospital should be the more readily de-
t rJrmined.

Captain BAGUE seconded the motion.
Mr. LESLIE wished to know what was meant by technical
objections? It was important that the letter of Messrs. Smith
should go before the public, that the real facts of the case might
be known. The Jury were led by the Commissioners to find that
Mr. Hall was liable; a person who was not rated, and the goods of
persons not named in the warrant were seized. He con<i.dered
the proceediegs of the Commissioners, whose acts these we, e,
exceedingly irregular. If they were illegal, the costs should
be borne by those Commissioners themselves, and not by the
public. He wished to ask the solicitor if he knew of any pre-
cedent for seizing the goods of one person under a warrant
issued against another.
Mr. ADEY objected to the question.
Mr. LESLIE said he was satisfied with the refusal of an an-
swer, as it showed that the gentlemen who had acted in this
matter were afraid to have the legality of their conduct in-
quired into.

The question was then put; and the Resolution was carried
by a majority of eight to two—the dissentients being Mr. Les-
lie and Mr. Fuller.

After the disposal of some routine business the Court ad-
ourned.

THE LEVANT *MAIL.

We have received as summary of the news
brought by the Levant mail on the 22d to Mar-
seilles. The dates are Constantinople the 7th,
Smyrna the 9th, Alexandria the 7th, Candia the
3d, Malta the 16th, and Naples the 18th.
The health of the Sultan was improving, al-
though rumours had been current of his being
poisoned.

- The Echo de l' Orient and Journal de Suer; me
of the 9th state that the Porte was waiting for
the advice of the London Conference, in order to
conclude definitively the Eastern question.
Our private letters are confident that the hatti
scheriff of Turkey will be modified.
The Smyrna papers assert that there were to
be no changes in the system of reform in conse-
quence of the fall of Reschid Pacha ; but our
correspondence contradicts this statement, by
announcing the dismissal of the Board of Admi-
ralty and the Commission of Public Utility.
The Angsburgh Gazette of April 22, announces
thatßeschid Paella will be Ambassadorin London.
Colonel Hodges, it is asserted in the Oriental
Observer of the 9th, is to return to Alexandria
as Consul-General when official relations are re-
established with the Pacha.

- - ---
Mr. Wood's appointment as Consul at Beyrout
is denied.

Lord Ponsonby, according to our letters, will
probably resign, being dissatisfied with the con-
cessions to the Paella, against whom his Lord-
ship is said to bear " an unaccountable antipathy."
General Jochmus arrived from Syria on the
Bth, at Smyrna, on his way to Constantinople.
The British fleet was at Marmorice and Malta,
and the Austrian squadron at Smyrna.
The insurrection in Candia was not over on
the 31st ult.

Rear-Admiral Sheppard died at Malta on
the 4th.

The plague still existed in Egypt.
The letters from Alexandria of the 7th state
that the Pacha's armaments continued.
ibrahim's health better.

Accounts from Corfu, dated 30th, state that the
Senate had voted an Address of thanks to Sir
Howard Douglas, who made a suitable reply.
His bust in marble is to be placed in the Senate.