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London, England, 1844-04-24 00:00:00

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FOREIGN.

On Saturday evening the King of the French had a select
party to dinner, among whom were the Spanish Ambassador,
the Duchessof Dalmatia, and Colonel Fox.
The illimiteur announces numerous army promotions,
which are to take place on the King's birth-day.
The debate on the Education Bill in the Chambers of Peers
was to commence on Monday. A great number of speakers
for and against it had inscribed their names.
By the Neapolitan steamer Mongibello, which left Naples
On the 11th, we learn that the political prisoners in the Castle
of St. Elmo have been released,therebeingno charges against
tit em.
The new Austrian Minister, Prince de Schwartzenberg, had
arrived at Naples on the sth, and immediately obtained an
audience of the King.
Preparations are making everywhere in Tuscany for the
fetes on occasion of the marriage which will very shortly take
place between the Grand Duke's daughter and Prince Luit-
pold of Bavaria, who has already arrived at Fldrence..
On the 28th ult. the Porte added 8,000 men to its army ;
and it was said that a levy of 10,000 Armenians, 7,500
Greeks, and 3,000 Jews, was about to take place for service
in the arsenal, rope viorks, &c.; in order to strengthen the
naval and military force of the empire; 8,000 men being
about to be sent to Syria.
. The Gazette des Tribunaus announces that the Emperor
of Austria has published an Imperial ordinance, interdicting,
under the severest penalties of fine and imprisonment, any
Catholic subject of his Majesty to embrace Protestantism,
without haying previously obtained an express permission
from the Government.
• . LAW AND POLICE.
' Sentence was passed at the Old Bailey on the parties im-
plicated in the wills forgeries. Barber and Fletcher were
both transported for life, Saunders for seven years, Lydia
Saunders and Mrs. Dorey were sentenced to two years im-
prisonment each.
Edward Bathurst, the person who was brought before Sir
Peter Laurie on Saturday, charged with having endeavoured
to obtain 2,000/. Exchequer Bills from Mr. Joseph Davis of
the Stock Exchange, was re-examined- at the Mansion-
house. Mr. Borradaile and other mercantile men of eminence
were present. Mr. Davis not pressing the case the prisoner
was discharged on entering into his own recognizances to
appear again when called on.
A gentleman applied at the same office for advice under
the followine. circumstances :—He stated that about a month
ago he handed a bill of exchange for 1001: to a friend of his to
get discounted; that his friend handed it to a person who
was a clergyman of the Church of England, and repre-
sented himself as having control over large sums of money,
on account of which representations the bill was entrusted
to him, and that the address this money-agent gave proved
to be incorrect, as the house was uninhabiLd, and the
Rev. Gentleman was not known there. It was presumed,
as he had broken several appointments, promising to give
the cash for the bill, that he had obtained the money and
misappropriated it. A summons was immediately issued.
A young man, respectably dressed, was charged at Bow-
street with having committed a robbery to a large amount
upon Mr. Henry Mason, a publisher, at Brighton. The
prosecutor was staying at the Exeter Coffee-house, Strand,
and had taken out his purse, containing a considerable sum
in notes, to pay his 'bill before going to bed: The money
was then all safe, but he missed it about six in the morning.
Having called up the landlord he went for a policeman, and
the prisoner was takenwhile endeavouring to leave the house
with some of the notes on his person. He was remanded.
William Burton Newenham, charged with the abduction of
Miss Louisa Frances Wortham, a ward in Chancery, under
sixteen years of age, was again examined on that charge at
Clerkenwell, when the Court was excessively crowded. The
case was again adjourned.
Mary Pettigrew, an aged wit'ow, and her daughter, Mary
Ann Joblyns, were brought up for final examination at Wor-
ship-street, charged with having wilfully set fire to the house,
No. 21, Old-street-road, which had been tenanted by the
elder prisoner for nearly forty years. They were both com-
mitted for trial.
COUItT—PASECIONA33I..E. /
The Duke of Wellington gives his first Cabinet dinner
this evening at Apsley House. The Noble and Gallant
Duke dines with Lord and Lady Stanley to-morrow, at the
lull-dress banquet given by the Noble Lord and Lady in cele-
bration of her Majesty's birthday.
The Duke and Duchess of Norfolk, accompanied by Lady
Mary Howard and Lord Bernard Howard, have arrived at
Norfolk House, from Arundel Castle, Sussex, for the season.
• Viscount Melbourne is expected in South-street to-day,
from Brocket Hall, Hefts, to attend her Majesty's birth-day
drawing-room at St. James's Palace, on Thursday.
The Dowager Countess of Leicester and the Right Hon.
Edward Ellice returned to town on Monday from visiting
Viscount Melbourne at Brocket Hall, Herts.
The Countess of Jersey has issued cards for a grand ball on
Friday next, at. the family mansion in Berkeley-square. It is
to be on a very elegant scale. •
The Earl and Countess of Zetland arrived at their mansion
in Arlington-street, on Saturday, from Aske Hall, Yorkshire,
for the season. -
The Duke of Argyle and family were expected to leave
Rome at the middle of the present month, and are to arrive in
England early. in June.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry and the
Ladies Alexandrina and Adelaide Vane arrived at Holder-
ness House, Park-lane, at the end of last week, from Paris,
for the season. Lady Alexandrina has recovered from the
effects of her late indisposition.
Lord Brougham, who has been passing the iSarliamentary
recess at Paris, arrived at his residence. late °l's' Fiaay night
from the French capital.
TYIICE'LZAIVEOUS. -
On Monday the Marquis of Blandford was re-tirned for
Woodstock, Sir William Follett for Exeter, and Mr. -Baring
for Huntingdon.
The Marquis of Bute will be Lord High Commissioner at
the next General-Assembly of the Kirk of Seotland, for the
third time. The Assembly meets about the middle of next
month. .
On. Monday a special general meeting of the Society of
Ancient- Britons was held at the Welsh Charity School,
Gray's Inn-road, to adopt measures for. preventing the
amalgamation of the sees of St. Asaph' and Bangor, as con-
templated by a recent Act of Parliament. There were present
Earl Powis, Lord Kenyon, Lord Clive; Col. Powell,KP.
and about eighteen or twenty noblemen and gentlemen.
Earl Powis was called to the chair, and briefly opened the
proceedings, but declined making any lengthened remarks, in
consequence of the frequent expression of his opinions in Par-
liament and elsewhere. Lord Kenyon declared his conviction
of the inspolicy of passing any resolution relative to the pro-
posed union Of the two dioceses at present, and preferred
leaving the matter in the hands of Earl Powis, to whom it
had hitherto been entrusted. A resolution to that effect was
agreed to.
The arrangements for the exhibition in the St. James's
Bazaar, King-street, of decorative works, sent in pursuant to
notices issued in June, 1843, by her Majesty's Commissioners
on the Fine Arts, were completed at a late hour on Saturday,
and the exhibition was thrown open to the public on Monday
morning. The bazaar is well adapted for the intended pur-
pose, forming one extensive saloon, nearly 200 feet long by
40 wide. The exhibition ir eludes nearly 200 subjects, and
among the contributors whose names appear in the catalogue
are those of the most celebrated men in each department
of art.
- The equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington, to be
placed in front of the Royal Exchange, is completed, and will
be inaugurated, to use a foreign phrase, on the next anni-
versary •of the Battle of Waterloo.
Daily inquiries are being made at the Custom-house, since
the recent death of Thorwaldsen, after a statue of Lord
Byron by this celebrated sculptor, and which is generally
supposed to have been for years lying there in the vaults, un-
heeded and " cast among the common lumber."

THE IRISH STATE TRIALS
(From the Morning Herald.)
By en extraordinary express, we are enabled to lay before
the public most important affidavits, sworn yesterday in Dub-
lin, by the town clerks of that city, Messrs. Archer and Dick-
inson, and of their chid clerk, Mr. "Magrath, in answer to Mr.
Pierce Mahoney, who had sworn
" That a gross, wilful, and corrupt suppression of the names
of the said persons and others qualified to be placed on the
Special Jurors' List for the year 1844, had taken place."
And, in an affidavit filed 19th April, 1844, this gentleman
further undertook positively to depose that " the omission of
the names of several persons from said special jurors' list was
not by accident, but was the effect and result qf design and
contrivance, to prejudice the traversers."
The affidavits of the Dublin town clerks, which we now
present, rebut this charge of Mr. Pierce Mahoney in the most
solemn manner, and cannot fail to remove from the mind-of
even the most prejudiced person any impression that unfair
means were resorted to in the matter of these jury lists
about which we have heard so much. Nothing can be more
clear or satisfactory than these replies of Messrs. Archer and
Dickinson, and which are brought forth in consequence of
a notice served on those gentlemen by the Crown
solicitor, requiring them to answer the charges made
against them by Mr. O'Connell and the other • con-
spirators. There was the greatest anxiety in Dublin to
learn the purport of these 'affidavits, and all sorts of rumours
were indulged in with reference to them. It was very gener-
ally reported that the town clerks would not file any affi-
davits in reply to the gross charges of the conspirators, but
we are happy to remove every such impression, and to place
the entire documents themselves in the hands of the public.
It will be seen that these important affidavits at once de-
stroy the only hope the traversers could have had of sustain-
ing their motion for a new trial.
LHere follow the affidavits referred to, which' fill more
than three columns of the Herald, and abound with those
endless repetitions, and unintelligible and involved sentences,
for which documents of this kind are remarkable.]

DEPARTURE OF TIIE DUCHESS OF KENT FOR
GERMANY.—Her Royal Highness took her departure
from town yesterday morning about nine o'clock for
the Continent, proceeding to the terminus of the
South Eastern Railway, and travelling to Dover by a
special train. Her Royal Highness embarked yester-
day afternoon at Dover for the Continent.
ERRATUM.—In the third line of the second para.
graph of a leader in our paper of yesterday, relative to
the Wills Forgeries, for " this year," read " two years."
REVIEW OF TIIE ROYAL HORSE ARTILLERY, &C
AT WOOLlVlClL—Lieutenant-General Baron de Stjeruerona,
Aide-de-Camp of the late King of Sweden, accompanied by
Baron Charles Bjornstjerna, an officer in the Swedish Horse
Guards, and the eldest son of General Count Bjernstjerna,
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary for Swe-
den at the British Court, with Count Rosen, arrived at Wool-
wich on Monday, and at twenty minutes past two pro-
ceeded from the residence of Lieutenant-GeneralLord Bloom-
field, G.C.B. and G.C.H., to view the different departments
of the Royal Arsenal. At twenty minutes to four o'clock
the three troops of Royal Horse Artillery in the garrison as-
sembled on the common in review order, under the command
of Lieutenant-Colonel Cobbe, Ind on the arrival on the
ground of the distinguished party, the troops passed at a
walking pace, a trot, and at full gallop, to the evident admi-
ration of the gallant officers who had come to Woolwich to
witness the proficiency of this fine corps. The troops then
went through the whole of the evolutions of a review-day,
which occupied upwards of an hour, and when they dis-
mounted their guns and rested upon them, the Lieutenant-
General went up to Lieutenant-Colonel Cobbe; and expressed
his entire approbation of the whole lie had witnessed. The
troops, after remounting their guns, fired in an incredibly
short space of time, and then returned to their quarters.