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Extract from a Return to an Order a the House
of Commons, dated 2d February 1841, for the
following London Papers, from the Ist of July
to the 31st of December, inclusive:— -
SUN ... 636,000
GLOBE .. . 526,000
STANDARD 505,000
COURIER ... 111,000

COURT CIRCULAR.

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NORTHAMPTON, FEB. 28.—The Northamp-
ton Spring Meeting promises to be the most brilliant in
the country, for on the first day the Grand Military Steeple
Chase takes pl ce ; on the second the Pytcbley Hunt
Races, the Chesterfield Handicap, established in honour
of Lord Chester field, and the County Ball; on the third day
a Grand Steeple Chase and Farmers' Steeple Chase. The
Northamptonians being determined to afford their military
fiends as much sport as possible, for having brought the
Grand Military Steeple Chase to Northampton, have
already subscribed about 4001. to the racing fund.
There is much complaint among the city bankers
of a glut of silver, from which they are not relived by the
public, and are not permitted, as heretofore, to send the
surplus to the Bank of England. Even in this affair the
bitter hostility against joint-stock banks shows itself, for
what silver the Bank of England is able to take the private
bankers have all the benefit of, while the joint-stock banks
are wholly shut out from any such advantage. But there
is no reason why the Bank of England, unless as the re-
presentative of the Government, should take any more of
this silver than its own wants require, and she is probably
the less forward on this occasion from having bad formerly
to submit to a heavy loss, produced by an accumulation of
silver. The reason of the case would appear to be this,
that if the Government, deriving, as is the fact, a profit of
10 per cent. from the coinage of sate-, issue more than
the public service requires, they
are bound to take back
the excess at the rate at which it was issued ; this conse-
quenceeri
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glut
thehlau tp
sobanking
interest
silver,hv
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will otherwise that a heavy and secret tax
may be levied,which
fittihtweowfualleidltbtfhealaldteetshhi
desirable
interest to sustain.
asonradesafmure
ther
elucidationproof also of the causes which have prc-
duced it.— Times.

SUPPOSED Mun.DEß.—Yesterday afternoon, as
a young man was standing on the timber, near Old Barge
House, Blackfriars, his attention was drawn to what aP
pared at first a bundle of clothes, but which on nearer
t
approach, proved to be the body of a gentleman, about
thirty years of of e. With assistance he removed. it OP
shore, and afterwards procured a shell from Christchurch
parish, When the body was taken to the Royal Humane
society receiving-haute, in Upper Ground-streete.rs 0
p and a
examination of the deceased's pockets,
resented a
silk purse, contaiLing some silver, were some phut
to lead to his name or address. The 1?a, Y
been nearly
frightful appearance, the forehead Y i.'g
ba-1 uries about his
severed in two, and there were otter 'tn.)
Ito Mr. Carter,
aliut notbi-g
hands and arms. Notice has been pen

Reeve,for t
vestrys i°ng
the coroner, for an inquest.
_ass.—On Saturday a
MEAnisU
ds_urmoorn 1 f St. Andrew's work-
coed before a Bench of
Megistrate?, at the boarne
number of EIGHTS
ilpeTrssonAa NwDere
offistehe
scales
sec octopi ofta measures.
Al
clerk of St. Pancras pa-
ahnodusem,
ebayialVrler,.,
Mr. M`Gahe.YL the several defendants resided, ob-
jected in which power- of the Magistrates to determine
inhabitants of the district he repro_
governed by a local Act, which appointed
were
sented f w(ights, ever whom the Magistrates of
inspector c
an ty bad no control. lie produced the opinion of
the coub
Campbell,wbicb bore him out in the view he had
sir John
jteheetedcastel th;3l,
The Bench said it was a great evil. Hero were
taken.
a number of fraudulent tradesmen detected by a duly
authorised inspector, and because of the opposition they
would go unexposed, and he permitted to continue their
imposition on their poor neighbours. The master of the
parish poor-house is the inspector of weights and plea-
sures, and it is an impossibility fur him to perform the
duties of both situaticns.

-00 K WITHOUT A NAM.
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TUE 11 E—We are
requested to state that " The Book Without a Name," by
Sir Charles and Lady
Morgan, in 2 vols.. small Slo , with
Portrait, is published this day by Mr. Colburn, of Great
Marlborough-street, and may now be bad of all bookseller!.
the
Mr. Colburn has also this day published the second volume
of the newly and revised edi•ion of Agnes Strickland's
" Lives cf
Qw.ens of England," price 10s. 6d. bound,
with illustrations, and " The Courts of Europe, at the
Close of the Last Century,.'by the late Henry Swinburne
Esq., Author of " Travels in Spain, Italy,' &e., iu 2-volf
Svo., with Portraits.
EXTRAORDINARY AFFAIR.—We hear that
an i,,ve!tigalion is going on in the Bank of Ireland on 0
most extraordinary circumstance, which was this morning
discovered to bare occurred. It would appear that on
closing the cash-room, after business, yesterday, some
person or persons had contrived to secrete themselves
there, and had succeeded in breaking open the door of
the safe in expectation of a good booty, but found them-
selves impeded by a second door, which resisted every ef-
fort to force it open. The whole affair is involved in the
greatest mystery, and, of course, has produced great ex-
citemento—Dublin .Evertin .Poit Mira*.

Her Majesty and Prince Albert, and her Majesty the
Queen Dowager, attended Divine Service yesterday morn-
ing in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The Bishop of
St. David's presched the sermon, taking his text from St.
John, chap. 13, vore 38. The prayers were read by the
Rev. 'W. Hall ; the Lessons and Litany were read by
the Rev. Dr. Wesley, and the Alter Service was read by
tl.e Bishop of London, the Rev. Dr. Sleatb, and the Rev.
W. Hall. The Chant was Beckwith's in B flit ; the
Te Deum and Jubilate in B Flat (Dr. Smith); the
Sanctus and Responses, D:. Smith ; the Anthem " As-
cribe unto tl e Lord" (Travers) was sung by Messrs
Hobbs and Walsh. Sir George Smart presided at the
organ.
The Bishop of Norwich, Clerk of the Clerk, was in
waiting. In attendance on the Queen and Prince Albert
were the Marchioness of Normanby, Hon. Miss Paget,
Hon. Miss Anson, Lord Patimore, Lord Geerg4‘77.'ao4;
Sir Freieriek Swvin, Colonel Wernyss, ••
and Captain I'aancis Seymour. In attendance on the
Queen Dowager were the Countess of Mayo, Hon. Miss
Eden, Hon. Miss Mitchell, and Earl Howe.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert walked in the garden
of Buckingham Palace 3esterdav afternoon. • •
Baron Bulow, the Prussian Minister, had an audience:
his Royal Highness Prince Albert. -
The Duchess of Kent visited the Queen on Saturday,
and remained to lunch with her Majesty and his ft,,,al.
Highness Prince Al'oer.
Viscount Melbourne had an audience of her Majesty on
Saturday. • .
The Royal dinner party on Saturday ceening incluakil- '
the Marquis of Normanby, the Earl of Errol, the. Earl
Uxbridge, and the Hon. William Covape-.
The Band of the. Royal Regiment of Horse Guards was
in attendance at Buckingham Palace on Saturday evening.
His Royal H Witless Prince Albert, attended by Lord •
Robert Grosvenor, Groom of the Stole ; Mr. George Ed-
ward
Anson, Treasurer ; Lord George Lennox, Gentle-
man in Waitirg; Captain Frances S ymour, Groom in
Waiting ; and Colo: et Wylie, Equerry Waiting, ho-
nourci the Corporation of the Trinity House asi.sli his
company a-. dianer on Saturday evening.
Her M j:-sty the Queen Dowager attended Diviner
Sc vi, e yesterday afternoon, in the Chapel Royal,
St. James's.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent attended
Divine Sers:ee yesterday morning at the Chapel in Ken-
sington Pal.ce. Lady Fanny Howard was in waiting on
her Royal Highness.
The Duke of C.imhti 'ge attcnde I Divine Service yes.
terday morning, in Grosvenor Chapel. Baron Knesebeck
and Major Stephens, were in waiting on his Royal
Highness.
The Duke of Cambridge honoured the Viscountess
Palmerston v i:h his company on .Saturday evening, at
her residence in C:trlten Gardens. M.-jor Stephens was
in waiting on his Royal Highnes,..
A Cebitet Council was held on Saturday 'afternoon at
the Foreign-office. It was attended by all the Ministers
except the Lord Chancellor.
The Council sat two hours and a half.
Mr. Mark Philips, M. P., and a Deputation from Man- •
chaster had an interview with the Marquis of Normanby
on Saturday at the Home.,,ffiee.
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POLITICAL SUMMARY OF . TI
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The articles of cur Morning Contemiries are for the
most part on subjects to which public attention has ceased to be
very earnestly dtrecteil. The following areihe, observations of
the Times on Lord John Russell's English Registh:ihin Bill :-- ,
" The erection of a court of appeal is the one desiderattii'd in.
English registratiini. An act of four clauses, empowering the
three Chief Justices to appoint three barristers of ten, years
standing•to sit as a court of appeal in London, would-give na
all that is really important in Lord John Russell's Bill. And
this would of itself effect all the saving which his Lordship. .
we fear most mistakenly, promises. Only -''settle •the disputed
points, and one barrister would easily revise..the-listsleri)lid- - ,
rilesex, Essex, and Hertfordshire.We speali,,,a4 site**, _ ~ c - •
and with a full knowledge of the facts of the::eases The ece,"'s, T '.
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nomy, therefore, which is set forth as a recommendation, of , -
Lord John Russell's Bill, is mere clap-trap. The real drittr.of ~, ~:.
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the whole affair.evidently is, to get the registration of England.:
altogether into Whig hands. Even supposing that the present . ,
Speaker could entirely divest himself of party bits„-is at :aitokii," a
gether certain that we shall never have an unscrunulous partisan - r.-,
in that chair? ',And is it safe, then, to deposit the key of the
representation in suth hands ?"
The Morning Chronicle thus. demonstrates the fatal error
committed by the Tories in .supporting Lord Stanley's Irish
Registration Bill:—" The blow has recoiled on their own
heads. Instead of ejecting the Whigs from office Lori Stanley's
Bill has led to a division which decides the question of a majo-
rity in their favour, and proves to demonstration that, in a fair
trial of strength in the House of Commons, the Tories are air
weaker party. Instead of crippling the strength of the Libe-
rals in Ireland, it has given it fresh vigour, identified their cause
with that of the Liberal party in England, and rendered it
for the future ten tiates more hazardous and difficult to attack
their rights. Instead of creating divisions in the Liberal
patty, it has healed old disrensions and united Liberals of
every shade in a compact body ; while it has exposed differences
in the ranks of the Torres themselves, which it would have
been more prudent to conceal. And what is of more import-
ance than all, it has opened the eyes of the people of England,
and placed the two great parties of the State once more face
to face upon the ground of broad, intelligible, universal prin-
ciples of civil and religious liberty."
The Morning Post, which delights in the exhibition of a
w aitiorr-womani,li contempt for whatever is vulgar, advances
the follow:iv, reasons for withholding political rights from Ire-
land :--- What does Ireland really want ? Not certainly addi-
tional political power for political agitators, but civilization—
comfort—order—cleanliness—independence—on the part of her
large population. The Irish peasantry are by no means suffi-
ciently advanced for the judicious exercise of political privileges.
They are in a state of thraldom to wild and savage habits.
'Hie word savage may seem offensive, but we mean no offence.
We mean but to signify the opposite of that state of civiliza-
tion and comfort which gives a man an interest in the national
institutions and in their maintenance and defence."