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SDAY MORNING, MARCH 3, 1817,

to a great extent, effecter ted in an indirect manner,
and we conceive that an efficient poor-law will ope-
rate advantageously in reminding absentees that pro-
perty has its duties as well as its rights, and in con-
vincing them that tfieicannot, with impunity, con-
tinue to neglect residing upon the estates from which
their incomes are derived. With respect to the Irish
fisheries, and a scheme of emigration, they are both
of them subjects under the consideration of the Go-
vernment. Emigration to the North American colo-
nies, or elsewhere, must be a work of time, before it
can be sufficiently encouraged to produce any sub-
stantial effect upon the surplus and unemployed
labouring population of Ireland. For the present we
must content ourselves with deviting and pressing
on measures which will he more immediate in
their results. What is wanted in Ireland,
is rather a judicious migration within her
natural boundaries, than without. Reclaim
the waste lands, destroy the small holdings, and
transpose the tenants of the latter to become the
occupiers of the former, would savour far more of
sound policy, as well as be in better keeping with the
interests of patriotism. Besides, with regard to
emigration, it is ever found that those who are most
inclined to embark for distant lands, are of the class
the most desirable to retain upon their native soil.
The revenue police of Ireland is at once an expensive
and vexatious force. Happily, however, the develop-
ment
ot farof the
it an t principles of free trade renders the day
n when England, equally with Ireland,
distant
will be enabled to dispense with the necessity of
maintaining these Treasury sentinels : cessante ra-
tione, cessat

The remarkable contest for the Chancellorship of
the Cambridge University was brought to a close on
Saturday, when Prince ALBERT was elected by a
majority of 116 votes over those given in favour of
the Earl of Powis. From the vast number of votes
polled on either side, this memorable election must
be regarded as highly creditable, not less to the
nobleman who his been placed in a'rninority than to
the distinguished personage who has gained the pre-
ference with the sons of Alma Mater. Nothing could
have been more graceful than the manner in which
the Prince declined, in the first instance, to give his
personal consent to be started as a candidate. It
was, however, notwithstanding, perfectly and fairly
open to those members of the Senate House to register
their votes for his Royal Highness, who conceived
that in the person of the Prince Consort they
discerned most eligible qualities for filling the highest
dignity which they are empowered to confer ; and
now that their wishes have been consummated,
so far as the election is concerned, we
doubt not that Prince ALBERT will accept
the Chancellorship. The elevated and honorary office
will, under the circumstances, be presented to the
Royal Consort as a signal acknowledgment of his
public and private virtues; and can, at the same
time, be assumed by the Prince with satisfaction to
all parties, considering the extreme delicacy with
which he responded to the original requisition. The
attempt that was made to invest the election with
party and acrimonious feelings, has turned out to be
exceedingly futile. It• may be that a spirit of colle-
giate rivalry animated a few, more or less, as to which
of the candidates they should support; but, we re-
peat, that a review of the contest, regarded in all its
elements, cannot, and ought not, to result in a
feeling of disappointment on either side. On the
one hand, the maj3rity is sufficiently substantial to
engender sentiments of satisfaction to Prince ALBERT;
and, on the other, the minority must be esteemed
highly complimentary to the Earl of Powis,
,when,
apart from the private virtues which adorn the cha-
racter of his Lordship's illustrious rival, fa 4 allow-
ance is .made for the attractive influences derlivable
from the enjoyment of the highest position whitih can
be occupied by a subject of these realms. When
public attention was first drawn to the proposal
for electing his Royal Highness Chancellor of
the University, we conceived there were some
public reasons why it would not be altogether de-
sirable that the Prince should be selected to fill the
vacant dignity, particularly as it appeared that..the
election would not pass off with unanimity. But;
the contest having terminated in the mode to Which
we have adverted, our minds are chiefly relieved!from
the objections which we were originally displsH to
entertain, and upon which we are, therefore, not now
inclined to enter. It is sufficient to observe
that obvious advantages are likely to be
realised by both Alma Mater and the pub-
lic from the election of the Prince Consort
to the Chancellorship. His Royal Highness cannot
but feel a lively interest for the future welfare of
the University. Both Oxford and Cambridge require
to be extensively reformed in their academical insti-
tutions. The chief depositaries of learning in this
country, they necessarily exercise considerable in-
fluence with regard to the education of the highest
and most affluent classes of the community. For a
lung period past the system pursued at the Univer-
sities has not been commensurate with the require.
ments of the age. In the ecclesiastical as well as
the secular culture of the human mind, in regard to,
morals, in the extravagant expenditure of the youth.
committed to their supervision and control, and the
needless cost at
esatetvproesnesntfiiiinctihdeen:luti:o6:rc;llreggainati:
career, the glilversitiel AUf4ailifoit of the
legitimate
chaUies al"P"*(xl(ais4l6icid 'for,- awl 3404t4inki i s
,ic: ivcll et/me. Tesleo '4ll—alti*thesVbei
ec ffiet cignick4sl 1);
L2l Wro*t personiili
t with' 'Mtlobaisii d. •
"
weyersao
if th-e intelleetual,
economical, which prevail in
Universities abroad, Prince ALBERT, as the
future head of Alma Mater, will become intimately
acquainted with the defects by which our own are
impaired, and, discovering them with feelings of re
Bret, as he assuredly will, may efficiently interest
himself in promoting the reformation desired. His
elevated station will contribute much to strengthen
his hands in so good a work ; and it is, therefore, in
this light that we are exhilarated with the belief that
the consequences of the choice of Prince ALBERT for
their future Chancellor, will alike subserve to the
nt interests of
atlarge.
oftlte University of Cambridge,
apreidnnthanoseeofthe country

The King of BAVAItIA has commissioned Prince
IMETTINGEN WELLER/MEIN to form a new Ministry,
in the room of the Ministry which has resigned in con.
~equence of the determination of the KING to confer
Crown lands and the title of Countess on his latest fa
vourite, the Spanish danseasc, LOLA MONTER. There
have been reports circulated that it is not improbable
the Crown Prince may be proclaimed Regent, and
the KING himself put under rtstraint as incapable of
managing his own affairs, and it must be confessed that
the KING has, throughout his whole career, exhibited
more tccentricity than wisdom.

Madrid papers of the 23d ult. have arrived.
The Minister of War has laid on the table of the
Chamber of Deputies a Bill authorising the Gcvernment
to raise 50,000 men whenever, it may be deemed expe-
dient so to do ; and tbe. Minister of Finance a Bill for
a loan of 2,000,0004, at 3 per cent., with liberty to allo-
cate any portion of the public revenue that may be
deemed expedient for payment of the interest.
MADRID BOLSA, FEB. 23.—The Three per Cents. closed
on the Madrid Stock Exchange, on the 23d, at 31 cash; the
Five per Cents, at 20 cash ; Coupons, 17 cash ; Passive,
6% cash.

We have received the Paris papers of Sunday.
It appears that the differences between M. GUIZOT
and Lord NORMANDY have been arranged through the
intervention of Count D'APPONY, the Austrian Ambas-
sador, at whose residence they met on Saturday.
According to the National, this arrangement was
brought about by the intervention of the superior Powers.
" The superior Powers," says the National, " have in-
terfered, and it is said that the affair is to be arranged.
In the mean time Lord PALMERSTON pursues his course.
The SULTAN'S Envoy, commissioned to summon the
Bey of TUNIS to return to his allegiance, has arrived at
Malta, on board an English vessel. It is probable that
an English squadron will accompany him to Tunis. It
is now contemplated to act against Tunis as Egypt was
treated in the year 1841—that is, a new treaty of July
with the four Powers against us. M. FORNARI has
brought us back to the restoration, and England to the
coalition. We are in a course of progress. Matters are
not more favourable in Spain. Carlist bands are be-
coming more numerous, and considerable anxiety pre-
vails at Madrid, where a general insurrection in the
name of the Pretender is every day expected. In order
that no doubt may remain respecting our isolation, Lord
PALMERSTON has announced to Count ST. AULAIRE
that the treaty of the quadruple alliance no longer
"Ids. The Alcutpeusier marriage portiou bears iu-

principal and

terest, and we shall have t0M737)001 the
the arrears."
The M. FORNARI alluded 330v0 is the PorE's
Nuncio, the protector of the esuits, and the petted of
the Passe, who has just overruled the wishes of both
M. GUIZOT and the KING, and prevented the appoint-
ment of M. HEBERT to the Ministry of Justice. Is
France prepared again to see her Government taking
laws from the parti prctre, as in the time of the restora-
tion? It would seem as if the days of the Corbieres,
the Peyronnets, and Frayssinous, had returned.
M. DUVERGIER DE HAURANNE has laid on the table
of the Chamber cf Deputies a Bill for electoral reform.
He proposes that—
"l. Every Frenchman in the enjoyment of his civil and po-
litical rights, having completed the age of twenty-five years,
and paying MO francs of direct contributions, shall be an
elector, if he fulfils the other conditions of the law. 2. If the
number of electors in an electoral arrondissement does not
amount to 400, that number will be filled up by adding the
names of those who pay the largest amount of direct con-
tributicns under 100 francs. 3. Besides these, the following
to be eketors :—Members and correspondents of the iasti-
tute, officers of the army and navy having pensions of 1,200
francs or more, judges of courts and tribunals, whether in
active service er retired, titular professors of the faculties of
law, medicine, and sciences, and those of the colleges of
France and the Garden of Plants ; advocates of five years'
standing, doctors of medicane after five years' residence
in an arrondissement, notari‘ s and Groves after five years're-
sidence ; members of the Chambers of Commerce, of the
councils of manufacturers, arid of the councils EP fprzahitnintes,
and members of the municipal councils of the capital of the
arrondissement, or where the population exceeds 3,000. The
Chamber of Deputies to consist of 538 members, which is an
addition of seventy-nine to its present number. It is sup-
posed that the Government will oppose this proposition, ab
initin, and endeavour to get it strangled in the bureaux."
Orders have been given to fit out the steam frigates
Vauban and Eldorado, at present in dock at L'Orient,
with the utmost possible expedition. Two ships of the
line, the Friedland and the Jena, were to sail for Brest
from Toulon on the Ist inst.
The Moniteur Parisien states that the interest on
Treasury bonds is to be raised from the Ist instant to
3 per cent. on bonds which have from three to five
months to arrive at maturity ; to 3i per cent. on bonds
at from six to eleven months' date, and to 4 per cent. on
bonds at one year date.
The French Three per Cents. were done in the Passage de
l'Opera on Sunday, at 78f. 70c.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, 31Aacit 1.
East Indian, 16 —(treat Western Bengal, %—Luxembourg, 214
Namur and Liege, 5 ex div.--Northern of France, l3lA—Paris and
Bowen, SlN—Rouen and Havre, 27!* —Sambre and Meuse. 6%.

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Great Western .. _ • • .. 85 ••
Ditto, Half Shares •
.. 50 .... 69 ex 69 x.d.
Ditto, Quarter •Shares .. 12% —.19 1,34 cx div.. 18% x.d. Ditto, Fifths ▪
. 20 .... 27% cx div.. 27% x.d.
Huddersfield and Manchester .. lb .... 19%
...... 13
.... 12 • •
Lancaster and Carlisle 50 ...• •••••• •• •• Ditto, New
Leeds and Thirsk .• • 22% 21'4 ••••• • • • • •
Ditto, New. 5 4; 5.... Ditto, Preference 6 per Cent... ...• 5'4
London and Ithickwall • • 16/. 13s. 4d, 8%
Ditto, New, No. 2 .. • • 1/. 13s. 4(1. I'4 p• • ......
London, Brighton, and S Coast.. 50 .• . 56 55% x all ..
Ditto, Guarani-. Five per Cent. 9 .... 9% %.• • • •
London 3/1 North-Western ..100 .185 i 4 186% 185% 186
Ditto, 481. Shares M. &B. .. 40 72
Ditto, 10/. Shares Al. Sc it. (11) 5 —•••••• • • ••
London and zSotith•Western 411. Os. 10(.1.• • 64% x d • ....
Ditto, New Consol. Eighths
.. 40 . ••
•••• • • • •
Ditto, New ... .. .• • • .. 22% .... 25% x •
Ditto, Scrip..
London and York Exte,isi ▪ _ 51/
..........
on Scrip 2% ...• 2; •••••• • •
Lynn and Ely _
Lynn and Dereharn • • .. 15
17 .. • • ...•
Manchester and Leeds
.. .• • • 82 •• •• •• • •
Ditto, Fifths
Ditto, Thirds (Reg.).• S 11 11
▪ 848. .... 3p• • ••. • • • 3 P
Manchester find Southampton .. 2 _ 1% •• ••
Aliitand
••
_lOO
30 •• •• •• ••
Ditto, New 12134
Ditto, Itirinhigham Slat Derby 100 .... 96 ....
Ne.yeastiv and Berwick .. •• 20 .. • • 32/ 34 331 i .. 3314
Norfolk
.. • • •• 100 .• .. 139 141 x dlr... 140
Ditto, half Shares .. .• .. 10 . 13% x • 13%
Ditto, Extens!en • ••.. 6 ...• 6% • ••• • • • 6
Northern Counties Union• 2%.... 11,4 i • ..... North British
.• ••
• .• 25 .. • . 35%....• • . 35%
Ditto, Half Shares .• • • 12% •.••17 6% . 16%
Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 21,4 .... 4 % . 4%
Ditto, Thirds •
.. •• • . .• 1 .... ... • • 3%
Northern and Eastern .• .. 50 .... 58
North Sienlordshire . • •
Oxford,Worcest.,& Wolverhmptu. 1734 .... 11% .......• • • 11%
Preston and Wyre .. ••• . 25 .... 35 34% 15%
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate 5 .. • • 5 ..
...• • • 5
...• • • 11
Sheffield, Rotherham, & Goole .. .... 2% •
• 2%a Shrewsbury and Birmingham
.. 3 .... )4 • . •
Shropshire Union .. •• • • 425..... dis . •
...... • •
South Staffordshire Junction clip
..11.1,5.4 d
South Eastern and Dovor .. • • 33)4 ...• 39 38•1-, •• •• • • 39)4
Do., New (do. 151.) .. No. 4. 33i .... 4%34 4)4 South Wales •• •• .. 10 .... ......••
South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and
Swans. & Loughor & Cameron's.. 2 3
Vale of Neath
..
.. • • 2 .... . %
Waterford and Kilkenny .. 11 .... 4
West Riding Union .• •• 423. 2 p..
Windsor, Staines, &S. Western.. 425.
York and Newcastle .• • .. 25 .... •
Ditto, New.. .. .. • • .. 5 .... 11% --•
Ditto, Preference •
.• 4 ... . .. •
York sad North Midland
.. 5O .... 86% 871,4• . •
•• ••
Ditto, Extension .. 20 .. •
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens .. 14%34 •• •• •••• Louvain la Sambre . •• 6
.Northers
•France .• •• 8 ... 13 ..
.... ... • •
.Rouen £lll4l Havre . .. • . .. 20 .. 27% ... •
Sambre and Meuse .. • . . 12 .... 7%
MINES.
Real del Monte, Unregistered • •• • ..... •• •• 331
COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—(YESTERDAY.)
Amsterdam •12 334 Gibraltar....... ...... .
Ditto, at sight ...... 12 1 Leghorn • ••• • • • 30 21)
!totterditin •• 2U.12 4 Genoa ••••.. 25 85
25 80 Milan .. ..... .......
• .
Hamburgh .... • • M.B. 13 10;', Venice.
....
Altona. .
Paris, 3 days' sight ...• 25 45 l'alermo, peroz
Ditto, 3 months...... 25 75 Lisbon.. .• .• 53
Marseilles •• 25 85 Oporto,. .••• .. • • Al%
80urdeaux.......• • • • •25 85 Rio Janeiro • • 25
Frankfort on Alaino.... 121 Bahia ... ...... ...•
Petersburgh, 3 Cs— ' Buenos Ayres
Berlin •• • • New York, 21 days' sight
Vienna, effec.f10.....• 10 3 Philadelphia ••
Trieste, ditto.... • • 10 3 MOBS OF BULLION, PER OZ.
Madrid
Foreign Gold in bars...£3 17 9
Cadiz ••• • . : •• • . 364 New Dollars .... •• 0 4 103
Bilbao.. •. • • ..... Portugal Gold Coin .•0 0 0
Barcelona •• •••• •• •• Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0
•• •• •• •• "•• Sliver la bars ••••0 5 0%
SALE OF FEE-SIMPLE ESTATES
IN THE COUNTY OF KEIU Y.
On Thursday last Mr. W. W. Simpson, of London, offered
for sale by auction, in several lots, at the Commercial
Buildings here, valuable freehold estates, situate in the
county of Kerry.
At one o'clock the sale was opened by the particulars and
conditions being read, when
Mr. Sitnpson said—Gentlemen, there are observations
which I request to make, and probably I may
,say more than
you may deem expedient, because so many of
the gentler, n
present are intimately acquainted with the locality of the
property which I have the honour to offer to you for competi-
tion this gas . You are also conversant with the condition
of Ireland in general, as well as the prospective indications
touching the well-being of this country; if, therefore,
I trespass on your endurance, my apology must rest on that
of duty towards my employer, width may engender a
zeal beyond knowledge. My sincere desire is to avoid
misrepresentation, not alone for my own sake, but also
for that of the gentleman for whom "I have this time
the honour to act. On these occasions the auctioneer is vir•
lushly bound by certain limits, at the same time he has a
certain license for bringing the subject treated of before the
" mind's eye," through the intervention of that varnish which
will throw its best pointa into relief without altering the pic-
ture. For the last thirteen years I have had the honour, at
short intervals, of addressing myself to Irish proprietors and
capitalists; and I trust that those ..gentlemen who have
known and heard me during that period will -do me the jus-
tice to say, that it I have been guilty of sins they have I
been venial, and partaking more of those of omission than
of commission. 1 will first, gentlemen, touch on the circurn-
et:instance of a Bill recently passed in Parliametit, relating
to free trade in corn, and in doing so will take the liberty
to read a small portion of a speech made by me to a very
large assemblage of gentlemen and highly influential per-
sons (the majority of whom were Protectionists), at Nor-
wich, in the month of April last. On that occasion I said,
that," although I had been a thorough-going Protectionist,
I was proud to say that sliding and all other scales had now
fallen from my eyes," and that it was my honest convic-
tions that rents which have been fixed on fair and liberal
principles within the last seven years will be permanent;
also, that the years' purchase on such rentals has risen
within the last six months, and ix all probability u ill
continue to rise; the increase of population (viz. 1,000 per
day) will, no doubt, form a counterpoise for any iniportation,
present or prospective, and thereby insure in ordinary seasons,
nut excessive, but steady and remunerating prices fOr the
cultivator, as well as ample revenue to the landed proprietor;
and the assumed addition of sixty millions annually to the
actual wealth of the country, will contribute to a higher
years' purchase on the sale of land—the only property,
indeed, which can be considered essentially permanent
under adVerse circumstances and political events. Instead,
therefore, of the motto--" Agitate, agitate," it will be better
policy to substitute that of—" Cultivate, cultivate." And
let landlords assist improving tenants by making advances of
that additional capital which may be required, in the nature
of drainage and other improvements, charging fur the seine at
the rate of 5... Per cent. on "such outlay and expenditure which
may be judiciously applied. Hence the tenant farmer will
reap a benefit in litany instances 0/ 25 per cent., and a
permanent improvement in rental, quasi landlord, will super-
vene." I further observed that, "in adopting free-trade
measures, Sir Robert Peel bad proved himself to be one of
the most talented, tore-sighted, and fearlessly holiest Minis-
tc rs that ever lived in the tide of times." The present aspect
of the United Kingdom fully justifies the opinion here ex-
pressed of the eminent talents and courage displayed by sir
and it is stated by the most competent judges
Wise measures of free- trade had cot been carried
4ite;-4er-pliceP of corn and produce would have risentto•4
In conclusion, I said, I cannot refrain 'front
alluft opinion -of that eminent man, the late Sir
Cliao Wetherell, on this subject. A high Tory and Min
11,Otectionist, the fears he entertained as to the probable re-
sults ofethe-repeal of the corn-laws induced him to deternlinp,
on selling all his landed property; but his better judgirient-
prevailed, and he not only retained possession of it, but was
in the course of making further investments when he met his
lamented fate. The Protectionists—where are they? Where
are now your prophets which prophesied unto you? Gen-
denten, you must remember I made these observations in
April last, and up to the present time I have been
fully borne out its my predictions. The Government are
now in good earnest, and we shall see the small farmer of
this country rising in the grade of society. It is not because
that in this country we now see a peasantry poor, and chat,
in mean hauiliments—it Is not, I say, because of this that
we cannot perceive that foundation of intellect on which a
noble superstructure may be raised. Bath not Shakspere
said—

" For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich ;
And as the sun breaks through the darkest clout's,
So honour peereth in the meanest habit.
1% hat : is tile jay more precious than the lark
Because his kathers ate more beautiful?
Or is the adder better than the eel
Because his painted skin contents the eye?"
Yes, Gentlemen, the hands of Government are on the plough,
and they must not look back, fur whether it be a Govern
ment or an individual doing so, the penalty of unworthiness
must attach. The Government is now moving on with a
projectile force; and I tell you, Gentlemen, with such a pa
ternal Government, this country, at no distant time, wilt
rise to that high scale which is her natural position amongst
the kingdoms of the earth. With respect to the ten millions
proposed by Lord John Russell to be lent to this country at
per cent.—it has been mooted that should Government
make these advances they will take precedence of the en-
cumbrancers, and that the present mortgagees would be
placed in a false position. This mode of reasoning appears
to me the height of folly; for I opine the loans contem-
plated by Government, instead of weakening the se-
curity of present incumbrancers, will place them in a
much more secure position, for the value of the
estates will be increased in an inverse ratio. God Al-
mighty, in his infinite and inscrutable wisdom, pours afflic-
tive dispensations on the earth; and I will venture to read
some former observations I made on this subject. I said,
" that the All-wise and Omnipotent Disposer of human events
has visited that country (Ireland) with the potato scourge,
for the purpose of stimulating the Government and landed
proprietary to form plans and make such advances of money
and by fur.
as will immediately tend to production and reproduction,
and thus at once improve the condition of millions of the
Irish
risking
poor h
apten, peasantry and
oarid the tenantry generally;
fiich wiig v e
bread to
the eater'—superseding the cultivation, and feeding solely on
a vegetable yielding twenty-five per cent. only of food nutri-
tious to the human frame—they will thus be enabled to grow
and consume corn crops in all their variety—produce which,
under a fair course of husbandry, does not, like the potato,
exhaust the natural power of the land ; and, at the
same time, the feeding and foddering, the straw of their
crops will give an incalculable quantity of manure, whereas
the potato plant will afford comparatively little." In con-
clusion, gentlemen, I will venture to repeat a few more lines
from Shakspeare, as applicable to the position of the govern-
ment and landed proprietary of Ireland :
" Come—l have learn'd that fearful commenting
Is leaden servitor to dull delay ;
Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary :
Then, fiery expedition be my wing,
Jove's adercury, and herald for a king l"
Mr. Enwaap Dar &WU. observed that the present par-
ticular of sale was the fairest and best he had ever seen pub-
lished in Ireland.
! Mr. SIMI'S() —I am much obliged to you, Sir. I consider
it a great compliment coining from a gentleman of so high a
character, and one so intimately acquainted with the nature
and circuinstances;of the estates.
Some very spirited competition then ensued, when the fol.
lowing gentlemen were declared purchasers of the several lots
which were sold;--
John Hickson, Esq., Deputy-Lieutenant, 'The Grave,
Dingle.
John Leahy, Esq., South Hill, Killarney.
The Rev. A. B. Rowan, Belmont, Tralee.
E. B. Hartopp, Esq., Dalby House, Melton Mowbray, Lei-
sestershire.
James Butler, Esq., Deputy-Lieutenant, Waterville, Cahir-
civeen.
The average rate of purchase was twenty-seven years;
none of the lots (whereof several appeared to be let at their
full value) fetching less than twenty-three years' purchase.
The sales being concluded,
Mr. SPlrs,ni returned thanks for the kindness and ur-
banity he had met with, aud, in doing to, took occasion to

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HER. MAJESTY'S THEATRE,—There were
yesterday evening at Her Majesty's Theatre
Lady'ther',,,ilr'o?
and Marchioness of Clanricarde, and the Lady'
Burgh, who occupied her Royal Highness the P'", „.calott
Cambridge's box; the Viscountess Falkland, Lady
Egerton, Sir Stratford Canning, and the Misses '-'apilefic;
Occupied her Majesty Queen Adelaide's box ; his l':cifsP;
the Russian Minister, the Baroness de Brunnow, ~
inoiselle Olga de Lechner, the Marquis ofAilesbury, th„e-„ro, tb
of Sligo, the Marchioness Blandford, the Marquis of l'„°,,"ocls',",i.
Earl of Fahnouth,the Earl of Cardigan, the Earl of ;$
the Earl of Aboyne, the Earl of Munster, the C°',1Ari,„06,1b,,,,
Blessington and the Misses Power, the Viscount C/„a";afiit.'
Viscount Duncannon, Lord W. Lennox, Lord
Lady Foley, Lady Grenville, Lady Lister Kay, 1474. so-
Oeveaux, the Count Koudriaffskv, Count D'OrsaY,
Lady Augusta Wentworth, Hon. Col. Me rick Col•tr•C
Colonel Wildman, Capt. Lyon, Sir H. Webb, Sir .„"f,.*
loughby, Capt, Greville, Mr. and Mrs. TrelawnV. Itirr
Mrs. Wheeler, Mrs. E. Phillips, Mr. and Mrs. -D°
Mr. and Mrs. Stuart, Mr. FortleMr. Mills, &c. ecri,a e.h $llO/'
TILE SOCIETY OF ANCIENT BRITONS.--"-vailij
rersary festival of this society took place on Monday 1101-3
at the Freemasons' Tavern, and notwithstanding .t, for
years have now passed over the society's head, earning tbtte
the character for antiquity to which its name asPirejt 00gt
was no want of youthful rigour in the proceeding's. bo i
o "
surely be a popular fallacy which historians hare driVe'„
i
such pains to preserve, that the ancient Britons were •ijote
woo into the sea by their Saxon conquerors, and ex--.to-•,1
where the inaccessible mountains of Wales did not rindsd;
a shelter. Certain it is, that last night they aPeepttell;
alarming strength, each wearing dauntlessly in his,;casliti
hole the leek, that time-honoured badge of 113"01101
which Captain Llewellyn compelled ancient Pistol to 0
Lord Robert Grosvenor presided last night, in the re ot it
t
Lord l'owis, who excused himself on the roan%fter.,!„,
would be painful to him to appear in public so soon TD:
recent contest for the Chancellorship at Cambridg.e•
proceedings of the evening were of the usual characte':, FPO;
customary loyal toasts were drunk, and then earne„otopsl3/d
perity to the Society of Ancient Britons." which the. 0134
most warmly responded to. " The Army and M't.'o'astS:a
"'The Principality of Wales," were also among the,, Ara, tr
the evening. There was a procession of the entld'o-reri
recipients of the Society's bonnty, whose clean an to, ,find
appearance attracted general sympathy and appropat.nritab,,t,
who sang with great taste an ode appealing to the c`land
feeling of their audience. The Bishops of Worcesteelling
Asaph were present, and in the course of the ev_.;,;cts
of
pressed the warm interest which they
the charity. At the close of the proceedings a"tba 001:
subscription was announced by the secretary, and obic"_
pally separated highly delighted with the manner !ci. The
felt in the ,7'dotne
they closed the natal day of their patron saint, Da,v,!,
gallery of the Freemasons'. ball was crowded w„nZave
spectators of the festive scene, and if they coule!__eio the
engaged their thoughts from the temptations to alo_ifojeyea
good things spread before the company, must h.o:_nshed
by
the spectacle of so excellent a dinner as that far:„.auge;
Mr. Bacon, the proprietor of the tavern. The otherfed 00
meats were excellent, and altogether the evening P"'
most pleasantly. • at the
commencement of the past week, and the thaw
_t winte.t;
INFLUX or SIIIPPING.—The change of wind fel'
lowed the lengthened and continued frost of the Past vessel
had conjointly the effect of causing a vast infinn____ber from
from all parts, including, in addition to a great crap Tie
the Dutch and German ports of Europe, very Bir7h, virorin;
East Indies, China, and other distant parts 1_
eL"_,ast de;
This influx of shipping into the docks has caused
of the P°7
of bastle to exist, affording employment to many
n t en the she
labouring men attached to and solely
dependent
was MT
establishments for casual engagement, and which
__d inc e*:
so great _ the
thee
needed on their part in the present time of severe pt
ment weather and dearness of all sorts of prso
AT; vcide
some of the dock establishments,
pressure of business, that the discharge ofi the
made fort oe
aYI hours fort
p permitted,rpo se,
b applicationefore
aft havingh e u beenu a l
asnpdecii;
into bring theme
dispatch to trade, and enable the importers
attendance of the officers of the Revenue,
•
chandise into the market with the least possible u
tasted s"3.
A correspondent says he has seen and %yaw:o,
specimens of bread, made under the directione Lattet
of Tiverton, partly of carrot. Its flavour,
elx ra
t_
good as that of wheaten bread, and as h
less, be thinks it would prove an adn2irablo supsutu
Journal. -g order to R.