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LONDON, TUESGAY EVENIMiI, MAY 6. l 8 ;n.

France and England, or calculate any longer on the
results of the interest of those governments, by every
means to avoid collision with a power before which
even those powers, though committed, compromised,
and insulted, have been obliged to recoil. 0.

A numerous Vestry of the Parish of St.
George, Hanover-square, was held yesterday, to consider
the bill for the amendment and better administration of the
laws relating to the poor, when it was resolved unani-
mously—" That this Vestry are of opinion, that in the
present state of the question it is expedient to suspend the
declaration of any opinion, on a subject of such vital import-
ance to the country, as the bill for the amendment and
better administration of the laws relating to the poor in
England and Wales, until it shall have been more fully
discussed, in its progress through the legislature.."
NATURAL INSOLVENCY.—AiI unfortunate
insolvent at Bristol, last week, stated that he was the
father of thirty children, and that a large proportion
of his creditors were of the medical profession I

Last week an immense pike was found at
the edge of one of the ponds at Mynde Park, Here-
ford, which from its appearance must have very re-
cently died. This fresh water shark weighed thirty-
six pounds and a half !—Cambrian.
Last week, at Sithney, near Helston,
wife of Richard Dunn, alias" uncle Dick," of a soil:
The father is in his 73d year, and the present is his
fourth wife ; by the three former he had nineteen chil-
dren, and he was desirous of having the twentieth.
This wish is now gratified.—Devonport Telegraph.
THE COURSE OF TRUE LOVE NEVER DID
RUN SMOOTH !—Last week, as a youthful and happy
couple were about to be joined together " for ever and
for aye," in the parish church of Aveton Gifford, in
this county, the father of the lady made his appear-
ance, and took her away, to the great chagrin of the
disconsolate swain, who was left thus unexpectedly to
pine in single blessedness.—North Devon Advertiser.
BulLTH.—Active preparations are making
for opening a bank in this place, of which due notice
will very shortly appear. We are given to understand
that the highly respectable gentlemen who intend
carrying this project into effect, will conduct their
business upon the most liberal terms ; and the great
advantage to the town and neighbourhood will be
duly appreciated by the community at large.—
Cambrian.

SUPPOSED MURDER AND SUlClDE.—Wed-
nesday Mr. Robert Brett, of Green-street, and his son,
a child three years of age, were discovered hanging
together in an outhouse, both quite dead. It is sup-
posed the father, who has for some time past laboured
under an unusual degree of melancholy, first hung the
child, and then himself by its side.— Canterbury Paper.

EXTRAORDINARY PERFORMANCE.—On
Friday last a respectable farmer of Kirton Lindsey, for
a wager of a few pounds, undertook to ride a pony up
two pairs of stairs into a chamber of the George Inn,
and down again, which he actually performed before a
numerous company, whose astonishment was height-
ened by the rider being upwards of eleven stone weight,
and his horse less than thirty.

The 21st of the month was singularly omi-
nous to the fate of Louis X VI. On the 21st of April,
1770, he was married ; on the 21st June, 1770, the
fete took place on account of his marriage, when about
15,000 persons lost their lives, being trampled to
death ; on the 21st of January, 1782, the grand fete
on account of the birth of the Dauphin, took place ;
on the 21st of June, 1791, his flight to Varennes ; on
the 21st September, 179'2, the abolition of royalty was
decreed : and on the 21st of January, 1793, his exe-
cution.—Mrs. Jameson's History of k'rance.
IMPORTANT TO FARMERS.—On Satur-
day, the Bth instant, Mr. William Rowe, of Christle-
ton, obtained a conviction before the county magis-
trates, against the gate-keeper at the Tattersall-lane-
end gate, for charging him toll on a load of draining
tiles. The demand, in direct violation of the act of
parliament, has been universally exacted. We wish to
give as much publicity to this circumstance as we pos-
sibly can ; and to inform the parties interested, that
no article whatever employed in the improvement of
the soil is liable to toll. Mr. Rowe, on this occasion,
did not press the fine of M., but merely the payment of
the summons and the return of the toll.—Mark Lane

Express.
file robbers of Andalusia differ from the
otners by their manners and gallantry, especially to
the women, which are general, although exceptions
may be found. A lady whom I know was saved from
robbery by her presence of mind, and touching the
point of honour of this singular race. She was tra-
velling, and had halted to breakfast in a defile where
a band was stationed, who soon made their appearance.
With admirable coolness she invited them to join her,
in the frank manner usual in the country, which they
accepted, and then left her unmolested. This could
only have happened in Andalusia. Instances occurred
whilst I was in Spain of their returning the chattels
of ladies when they took every thing besides ; but this
romantic generosity is not always displayed.—Cooke's
Sketches in Spain.
DEAF AND DUMB.—The late Mrs. Jane
of Scottish memory, was equally remarkable,
for kindness of heart and absence of mind. One day
she was accosted by a beggar, whose stout and healthy
appearance startled even her into a momentary doubt
of the needfulness of charity in his instance. " Why,"
exclaimed the good old lady, " You look well able to
work." " Yes," replied the supplicant, " but I have
been deaf and dumb these seven years." " Poor man,
what a heavy affliction 1" exclaimed Mrs. W—, at
the same time giving him relief with a liberal hand.
On her return home she mentioned the fact, remark-

ing, " What a dreadful thing it is to be so deprived of
such precious faculties !" " But how," asked her sis-
ter, " did you know that the poor man had been deaf
and dumb for seven years?" " Why," was the quiet
and unconscious answer, " he told me so."—Literary
Gazette.

SIR C. M'CARTIIY-TIIE ASIJANTEES

—Amongst Mr. Holman's recollections of the Ashan
tee war, we find the following remarkable statement

66 HEAD OF A WARRIOR Soon after the battle
some of the Annamaboe people brought several heads
of Ashantees whom they had slain to Capt. Hutchin-
son, as a proof of their personal courage and indivi-
dual prowess. Some of these heads were recognised
by Captain Hutchinson as belonging to natives who
had been known to him. Amongst the spoils one
head was found by the Aquapim chief, which excited
curiosity, by the care with which it was enclosed in
wrappers, and Captain Hutchinson desired that the
covering should be removed. On taking off the first
wrapper, they found the second to be a fine parch-
ment, inscribed with Arabic characters ; beneath this
was a final envelope of a tiger's skin, the well-
known emblem of royalty among the Ashantees.
The evident pains which had been taken in the pre-
servation of this head satisfied all the by-standers
that it was the head of Sir Charles M'Carthy, to
which it was generally understood regal honours
had been paid by the natives. The gratification which
this discovery gave to our countrymen may be easily
conceived, and they lost no time in sending the
head to England, together with the first account of
the battle of Dodowah. The head, however, had

scarcely been forwarded to its destination, when some

prisoners who had been taken in the action made the
disagreeable disclosure that the head belonged not to
Sir Charles M'Carthy, but to the late King, Osay
Tootoo Quamina, and that it had been taken into the
battle in conformity with the prevailing usage of the
people. The effects of this information, though pain-
ful, were ludicrous enough. The head of the Ashantee
King had found its way to England as an incredited
relique of the lamented Sir Charles M'Carthy, and
was the first remains of an Ashantee that had ever, per-
haps, received the solemn rite of Christian burial ;
while, on the other hand, the head of Sir Charles
M`Carthy had been deposited with all the rude pomp
of their heathen ceremonies in a Pagan cemetery.
However disappointed the friends and countrymen of
Sir Charles M'Carthy must feel at the discovery of
this strange interchange of reliques, the Ashantees are
still more mortified at a circumstance which has
robbed their royal catacombs of one of its members,
and broken the line of death's heads by which the
chronology of the throne is perpetuated."

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, May 5.

Lord KENYON presented a petition from a place in
the county of Stafford, complaining of the working of the
New Beer Act. He would take that opportunity of sta-
ting, that the committee then sitting upon that act, ab-
stained from making any report until they knew the
result of the bill, upon the same subject, now before the
other house of Parliament.

The Earl of DURHAM presented a petition from a pa-
rish in Durham, complaining of the fines paid to the dean
and chapter, on the renewal of leases, and praying that a
clause might be introduced into any church reform bill,
limiting such fines to one year's rent; also one from
the occupiers of land in East Kent, complaining. of the
burdens they were now bound to bear, and stating that
while wheat was selling at 100 s., they did not much feel
them, but now, when it brought little more
,than
505., they were unbearable, and, therefore, it was
that they prayed for a commutation of tithes. Also one
from Cockermouth, praying for church reform; one
from Durham, praying for a repeal of the export duty
on coals ; and one from Hull, complaining of the
sixpence a month which seamen were obliged to pay to-
wards the maintenance of Greenwich Hospital.

Petitions from various congregations of-dissenters were
presented by Lords Mour.EY and BA LTIMORE.
Petitions for the better observance of the Sabbath were
presented by the Bishops of Lorinow and GLOIXESTE E.,
The Earl of ROSEBERRY presented numerously
signed petitions from the county of Fife, praying_ for the
abolition of the present system of church patronage.
Lord STRADBROKE presented a petition from the
occupiers of land near Stradbroke, complaining of agri-
cultural distress, and praying for a repeal of the malt tax.
Earl FIT ZWILLIAM presented a petition from the
hand-loom weavers of Lancashire, praying for the est a
blishment of a Board of Trade ; one for a disunion of the
church and state, and a number from dissenters, praying
for a redress of the grievances under which they laboured.
The Earl of WICKLOW presented a petition from
Raphoe, praying for the better observance of the Sabbath
Day, and that that house would address his Majesty to put
an end to all cabinet dinners and cabinet councils on that
day, and praying that he might order the Park-gates to be
kept shut on the Sunday. In the latter prayer of the
petition he could not agree, :for he considered that such a
measure would be most prejudicial to the inhabitants of
London. Though he saw no great fault in the holding of
cabinet councils, he thought that, for the sake of example,
it would be well to see how far they could be dispensed
with.

The LORD CHANCELLOR could not allow the pe-
tition to be presented without making a few observations.
Never within his recollection had there been less breaches
of the Sabbath than at the present time. He recollected
2.5 years ago, when he had occasion to attend his cham-
bers on Sunday, and there were very few men connected with
the law who had not been placed in a like situation, witnessing
that desecration of the Sabbath at which even he was per-
fectly shocked. But, at the present time, he knew of no
country (and he had been in a great many) in which the
Sabbath was so well kept as this, with the exception of
Scotland. With respect to the holding of Cabinet
dinners, of which the petitioners complained, no men
were ever under greater mistakes than were the petitioners
when they asserted that cabinet dinners were held on Sun-
days. He had never heard of such a thing, nor did he be-
lieve it ever took place. (Hear, hear.) That cabinets
were sometimes held on a Sunday he would not attempt
to deny ; and he could not see how it was possible to
avoid the adoption of such a course. Despatches came in
on a Saturday night or on a Sunday morning, and it was
not. to be supposed that any one minister would take
upon himself the responsibility of returning answers
to those despatches without consulting his colleagues.
It was a work of necessity, and as long as public
business was public business it would be necessary. (Hear,
hear.) He (the Lord Chancellor) recollected an instance
where the father of the present Vice-Chancellor having to
attend a consultation on a Sunday, was accused of so
doing, and he instantly stated that an ass of his acquaint-
ance had fallen into a pit (A laugh), and according to the
Scripture he was going for the purpose of endeavouring to
get him out. (A laugh.) He (the Lord Chancellor) '
thought that any measure of the sort contemplated by the
petitioners ought to be watched with the greatest
vigilance, and otieht not -to, be ii.,roduced unless it
was most judiciously and temperately framed. (Hear.)
Unless it was looked to with a most scrutinizing
eye it would do more harm than good to the object it had
in view, and would render the Sabbath, instead of being a
day of rest and happiness to the poor man, one of the
greatest misery and wretchedness.
The Bishop of LONDON was not prepared to dispute
the position laid down by the noble and learned lord
on the woolsack that the Sabbath was much better
observed than it was some years ago, but still it
must be apparent to every thinking mind that there
was a large class exposed peculiarly to temptation.
In the parish of Lambeth alone the prostitution
of the Sabbath was most frightful and disgraceful. With
respect to Cabinet Councils being held on Sundays, he
would not enter upon that subject, 1 't as to consultations
held on a Sunday by the hon. members of the law, he could
not but say that it had given him great concern to hear
that subject treated as it had been by the noble lord.
Earl FITZ WILLIAM presented a petition from Rush-
ton, in Northamptonshire, praying for a labour rate, the
prayer of which he entirely
dissented from ; and fromWin-
chilsea, in the west riding of York, against the Beer Bill.

MESSAGE FROM THE COMMONS.
Mr. H. LAMBTON and others brought up the Durham
Railway Bill. Several other private bills were brought up.
Lord STANLEY presented a petition from the dis-
senters of Warwick, praying for relief.
The Bishop of EXETER moved that there be laid be-
fore the house copies of certain portions of the statutes and
rules regulating the university of Cambridge.
KING OF OUDE.

Lord ELLENBOROUGH said their lordships were
aware, from the correspondence now lying on their table,
that on the 31st of January last the Attorney-General
moved in the Court of King's Bench, for a Mandamus to
compel the Directors of the East India Company to trans-
mit to India a letter prepared by the Board of Control, di-
recting that the Government of India should use itsutmost
efforts to induce the King of Oude to pay a sum of money
originally secured by means of a bond of 40,0001. to cer-
tain natives of the country. A few days ago the rule for
that Mandamus had been discharged on the application of
the Attorney-General. Under these circumstances he
should have abstained from drawing their lordships' atten-
tion to the subject if he had understood that the object of
that letter had been altogether abandoned, as well as the
letter itself withdrawn. He should think it not proper
to press fora censure when there was an admission of
error, and further, knowing how important it was for
effectuating the objects of the Government by which
the affairs of India were directed, that the differences
between the Board of Control and the Directors
should not be unduly made the subject of public
discussion, he should have abstained from drawing their
lordships' attention to them ; but understanding, as he
did, the explanations that felt from the noble and learned
lord on the woolsack, taken in conjunction with the papers
upon the table, he saw that other measures were now under
consideration by which the object of this letter would be
equally attained, and thinking, as he did, that these mea-
sures, if correctly understood, were full of danger to the
Government of India, and injurious to its character, he
could not but feel bound to attract the attention of their
lordships to the subject. There was upon the table of
their house, in an appendix to the report of the committee
of,the House of Commons upon the affairs of India, a mi-
nute dated January 30, 1831, in which the Governor-
General stated in strong terms his opinion of the conduct
of the King of Oude, and the system of misgovernment
for a long time pursued by him. Attached to that minute
was a report of Mr. Maddock, that the country of the
King of Oude never was in a state of greater disorder—
and not more than two-thirds of the revenue could be col-
lected, and that these were inadequate to the expenses.
When the President of the Board of Control commenced
his correspondence with the directors, he must have seen
that minute and that report. He must, therefore have
known that it was inexpedient to press any private claims,
so as to introduce anything that could interfere with nego-
tiations already so arduous. Upon a former and similar
occasion Lord Wellesley had written a letter upon the sub-
ject of the King of Oude's affairs, and Mr. Grant might
have drawn from the statesman-like reasons of that letter
the grounds for not pressing this matter upon the King of
Oude. He was satisfied that government had no intention of
assuming to itself the right to control the affairs of the
Rajah. But let the British Government take care how
they interfere. If they are to interfere, let them take care
that they be not guilty. of cupidity and extortion. (Hear,
'hear.) If the name of a European stands first to take
money from that impoverished country, it would be dis-
graceful to the character of England. You do that which
no former government ever ventured to do. There never
was a question of greater importance than that involved in
assuming the government of that part of India. If you do
interfere, he (Lord Ellenborough) must repeat, that it is
essential that it does appear that this interference does
originate in purely disinterested motives, and that not even
the shadow of suspicion attaches to those motives. (Hear. )
They had been told that a new era had, since the passing
of the Itt form Bill, dawned on India : but if the course
contemplated in this case should be persevered in, he must
entertain a very different opinion. He (Lord Ellenborough)