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in a conjunction of still greater splendour,
The interests of the Netherlands and of Holland
require more than those o f any other country
the maintenance of peace. The junction of
those two nations under the beneficial sway of
the House of Orange is yet recent, and has
hardly beta' afforded the time necessary for con-
, sohdation. There are spirits, bold and influen-
tial spirits in France (we speak not of the exist-
ing Government), who view with impatience a
junction effected at the expellee of name, and
constituting a lasting memorial of the defeat of
' the French arms, A g titi-al war in Europe
would bring feelings into plan, perhaps give them
all Akciidancy, decidedly inimical to the present
settlement of Belgium. The various consi-
derations :it which we have briefly glanced, com-
bined with the tact, that a family alliance of
the most intimate !latent, subsists between the
House of Orange and the Emperor of Russia,
traitor& it must be admitted, sonic sanction to the
conjecture, that the mediation of the Govern-
ment of the Netherlands may be exerted with a,
better prospect of success than that of any other
Government to praent a rupture between Eng-
land and Russia---a rupture which would nut
laq to produce the most disastrous results, not
merely to the Powers immediately engaged but
to the whole of Europe.—Morning Pest.
Au attempt was made last night to postpone
the consideration of the all-important question
of the Corn Laws, but it was not persisted in,
and the resolutions, as previously arranged, will
be moved simultaneously in the House, of Com-
mons and House of Lords on Friday. It
would appear to be the intention of the agricul-
turists to imitate the example set at Maidstone,
not to move until the intentions of Ministers are
known. This is a piece of courtesy to which
the Ministry are not unentitled, but it unfortu-
nately leaves them uninstrzzcled as to the wishes
of the great interests which their resolutions are
so materially to affect. We believe that
the agriculturists of the country at large are
as much at a loss. It is evident) we thinly
that :the old law cannot stand and that it
ought not. It is replete with absurdities,
and, in a cast of occasional scarcity, would
prove most injurious to the party it is meant to
I protect. Equal, if not greater, objections, we
conceive, may be urged against the cumbrous
mechanism of the law proposed last i'.._;es.sion. lii
treating of the question ecru' weeks ago, we
made a very obY',ons remark (though the in-
ference, which is equally obvious, has not been
so often drawn as might be expected), that there
was but one cause of high prices, namely, bat!
crops ; and, vice versa, onlyablindant crops
could lead to low prkes. We speak, of course,
of perniatent high or low prices. New, it is
allays assumed in legislating for the landed
interest, that when prices are high the farmer
needs little, and when they arc low he needs
much protection. But if we were to say that
the very convent was the case we should perhaps
be nearer the truth. In fact, when the farmer
has a scanty crop, hardly any price which be ha;
tile remotest claim of realienig can be called re-
munerating, wher-eas, when his crop is plentiful,
a gory small price is sufficient to afford a fair
profit. On this principle it would not be asking
any thing unreasonable to ask for a higher pro-
tecting duty, when corn was dear, rather than a
lower, as was proposed by Mr. Canning; and, a
,fbrtieri, it it just and reasonable that there should
be an equal protection extended to the agricul-
turist, when he has but few quarters of grain
wherewith to pay his rent and taxes, as when he
has many., There is besides so much gained on
the side of simplicity in a permanent duty, that
it naturally recommends itself to general adop-
tion, whereas the ascending and descending table
of duties is so cornpikated, and the advantages
of it so mnote and so difficult to be seen by
common capacities, that we know no one to
whom it carries a single recommendation, unless
to those who are fortunate enough to hold ap
pointments under it,- Netti Tithes.

The whale ships, Advice, Dorothy, and Prin-
cess Charlotte, left the river yesterday forenoon fur Davis's
Straits —Dundcc courier.

LOSS OF THE OtM-PACKET:-----
We regret to have io announce this lamentable catas-
trorhey ,-hich occurred du,ring the dreadful storm of
Thesday.night, and by which seven persons have lost their
lives. The Venus was one of the must beautiful vessels
of its kind : it stranded at a place called 915-ni a little to
the southward of Courtowt, bn itS way to Dublin from
Waterford, which latter place it kft oa Tuesday night.—
k.S'a.t-iticrs's News Letter.

AURORA BoREAms.--,—Oti the evening of
the !?Oth February, just before the rainy weather, which
concluded the month, an Aurora Borealis (if remarkable
appearance was noticed br au observer at lierryhole, near
Newburgh, There was first a luminous area in the foret
of*. segment of a circle, occupying the whole hotitoh from
north-east to north-west, anti ritint iii elevation at its
vertex perhaps 10 deg, From this body of light (and it
was sin,gularle brilliant) long quivering eornscationa shot
up at intervals, darting in bright flashes to the zenith.—
Th-e observer bad turned away from this appearance for u
moment to look at the moon which was shining in the
opposite quarter of the heavens, when tin trAti4 his eye
again to the north he was attrr.rhed by seeing an orb of
light as large an the *anon, and more brilliant, resting on
the summit, uf the shining arch which he had before noticed ;
in colour and splendour it resembled the sun when obscured
through a glass tinged with the prismatic blue. This
singular body continued at rest on the vertex of tte
nous arch for a perceptible instant, and then began to de-
scend rapidly,—whielt it. did apparently perpendicular to
the horizon, As it descended (whether from being now
seen surrounded by the lin2inous matter of the Aurora
Borealis, or front its distance becoming greater us it shot
away) its brilliancy gradually decreased, till it annl/4 in the
horizon. The phenomenon altogether was sitsgetrP,-
tiful ;—and such as has not, the: is recollect, been noticed
in any former appeaeancee of the Aurora Borealis, striking
as many of them have been.—Fife Herald.
EFFECT OF TERROR.—We have heard of
many instances wherein fright, it is said, has produced
very strange effects upon the human system. The follow-
ing account we give upon the authority of r. hiBMy ieapect
able medical gentleman resident- in tondon. At the time
of the funeral of his late hoyal Highness the Duke of
l'orts;, a gentleman well known for his antiquarian re-
searches, s' hose name we withhold, descended int.) the
Royal cemetery at Windsor, after the interment had taken
place, and busily engaged himself in copying inactiptiorss
from various coffins. While thus engage 4, ,19 olViothed
in thought, he heard the door .'f tfte. cemetery close with
an appalling sound, the taper fell from his hand, and he
remained petrified by the knowledge of his awful situation,
entombed with the dead. He had not power to pick up
the taper, which was soon extinguished by the noi-
some damp, and he imagined that the cetteteYv
would not be re-opened until another royal itit*N-',
ment should take place; and that this arson,
from the effects of famine, he nornbeted with the dead.—
lie swooned, and remained insensible for sonic time. At
length recovering himself he rose upon his knees, placed
his hands upon a mouldering coffin, and to use his own
words, " felt strength to pray." A recollection then darted
across his mind, that he had heard the workmen say, that
about noon they should revisit the cemetery and take away
some plumes, &c. which they left there. This somewhat
calmed his spirits. Soon after twelve o'clock he heard
the doors turn upon their grating hinges, he called for
assistance, and was soon conveyed to the regions of day.
His clothes were damp, and a horrible dew hung upon
his hair, which in the course of a few hours turned from
dark black to grey, and soon after to white. The pain
which be felt in the scapula, during the period of his in-
carceration, he described to our informant to be dreadful.
This is, perhaps, the best authenticated account upon re-
cord of a rnan's hair turning grey from fright.—Maccles-
field Courier.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

YICE•CHANCELLOR'S COURT.-11IALcH
HURST Al'lll ROBINSON'S BANKRUPTCY.
TOLE AND OTHERS v. SPOTTIstvoODE AND OTHnts.

Mr. Twiss resumed his argument on the part of
the defendants in this action shortly after the sitting
of the Court. As a proof, that it was never the
intention of the purchasers to deceive or defraud the
assignees, it would be found, that shortly subse-
quent to the purchase, it was ascertained by Boys
and Great that the complete sett., of the copies of
the Encyclopaedia Britannica might be increased by
breaking up some of the bound volumes and adding
portions of them to the other parts. Far from keep-
ing this from the knowledge of the assignees, they
immediately acquainted them with the circumstance,
and desired that they should take it into their con-
sideration before they closed the bargain. The
great object of the defendants in this action, how-
' ever, was to show that they had given the fair
value for the property ; for if that fact were
established, he contended it would afford a com-
plete answer to the charge of fraud. In the first
place, then, it would certainly be necessary to con-
sider iehat the real value was at the time of the sale,
and in directing the attention of the Court to that
point, he would beg of it first, to take into its cos-
sideration the great depression in trade at that par-
ticular time, when, from a succession of bankrupt-
cies of persons eininent in the trade, the market for
books and prints was so completely choked and
glutted that no sale could be effected. His learned
friend had produced affidavits, in which it was sworn
that this stock of prints alone was worth from
27,000/. to 40,0001. even at a forced sale ; but by
whom ivere theseaffidavits made?—by Mr.Rayment,
a pocket-book maker, whose only knowledge of
plates or prints was gathered from the representa-
tions of the castles or noblemen's seats which he
might have obtained to embellish his pocket-
books,—by Ml. Spooner, a clerk, who had
been discharged by the assignees,—hy a Mr.
Colnaghi, who had unsuccessfully offered his ser-
vices to dispose of the property as a commission-
agent : and by others alike interested or prejudiced
in what they stated. In opposition to these, he
should produce the affidavits of mane individuals,
who, from I,mig oxperlence, were well able to speak
with ateuracy as to the real value of such property
as that which now formed the subject of dispute, and
who, as strangers to the parties, would of course be
perfectly unprejudiced. The defendants had admit-
ted that as, for a gradual sale, the property might
be worth 41,000/., it was therefore incumbent on
them to show that that was a sum which they
ought to realires by the sale of property which had
cost them only 14,800/. It would be first neces-
sary to consider that it had been calculated that .a
gradual sale could not be effected in less than four
years, and it had already been stated that the ex-
pences of conducting such a sale, had cost the as-
signees 5,0001. a rears--a eirrumetance which ought
nOt to be forgotten. But to go more immediately
to the point, it must be ascertained what the gross
proceeds of the stock would be likely to produce.
He had before-mentioned, that about one-third of it
had been disposed of for a sum of 14,500/., for which
7,000/, had been received. in cash, the remaining
7,500/. being sold on credit. Upon the principle,
therefore, that the remaining two-thirds would be sold
for the same sum, the gross proceeds would be 43,500/,
From this must be deducted the etpentes of the
establishment attd conduct of the business, which
at the very lowest calculation, would be 2,100/. a
year, amounting, in four years, the time specified, to
the sum of 8,4001. To this must be added the ori-
ginal purchase-money, 14,800/.; then the outlay and
necessary expellees to complete many of the works
amounted to 5,000.1.; and in addition to this was
the 3,000/. paid for the plates to illustrate the En-
et/c/o/media Britannica. Lastly, the. interest, at
3 per cent., upon the capital for four years; amounted
to 2,900/., making in the whole a sum of 34,1601.,
which deducted from 43,500/., the sum which it
was supposed might be reulited, would leave a be-
lance of 9,340/., the fruits of four years' labour and
exertion, to be divided among three persons, pro-
clueing therefore only about 700 t. or 800. a year to
each ; and in this calculation, no deduction had
been made for the maintenance of the parties, or
for the bad debts, risks, and hazards, to which all
engaged in trade are liable, and which it was hardly
probable these defendants would be so fortunate as
to escape. He asked, therefore, if the profit left to
them at the enh of four years sees too much,—
Whether it was not such as they might fairly be con-
sidered to be entitled to ? He contended that it
was, and upon that ground he insisted that the
14,8001. was a fair price for the property.
Mr. Cos was proceeding to read some of the affi-
da,its filed by She defendants, but was interrupted
in consequence of his Honour':. being summoned to
attend the Lord Chancellor. The reading of the
affidavits was therefore adjourned until to-morrow.

NELSON AND OTHERS V. MITCHELL.

Al!% SCODEPf in the course of the day moved for
an inlunaion hi this tfisei tti restrain the defendant
from working a certain tin mine in the cciunt. of
Cornwall, and from disposing of any of the ore that
may have been extracted, and to prevent him from
interfering in any way in the management of the
mine.
His 11u:bait:It graiited the injunction.

icutiO.

JANE SCOTT, THE PARRICIDE.

LANCASTER, MARCH V.—Upon no former occa-
sio't do we recollect such a concourse of persons
having assembled, u?, there were upon the execution
of ths7. milv:rable :zoting and there
was less commiseration felt for the fate of any
human being. Soon after eleven o'clock, Mr. Baron
HuHock having disposed of all the causes, left the
Castle for his lodgings on the Castle-hill, and imme-
diately after the Church-yard of St. Mary, and the
Cattle-ttrtaEb; thinmanding a •iew of the fatal
scaffold, were crowded in every part by country
people from Preston, her native place, and from the
different villages and towns adjacent, who had
arrived here yesterday.

The tnis,_Table wretch passed sleepless night,
and her int±aningt wete lotld aiid eolii!inett tll
morning, when she was to pay the forfeit of her life.
The Rev. J. Rowley, the Chaplain, was early in at-
tendance upon the wretched creature, and conversed
with her for some time upon the necessity of turning
all her worldly thoughts to her fature salvation, by
!eeiting tlaj rodemption of her soul through Ow
it*rit:i., Of her Redeerni4. She seemed to be tiirile
lost to all sense of understanding or feeling, and in
this state she was carried between two females, her
fellow prisoners, from the dungeon to the Chapel,
where her arms were secured by ropes. Her pale
and haggard features presented a very considerable
contrast triiVhal: tii,y aid tirzt yids brOngtiL
to the Castle. Her demeanour then was the most
thoughtless and unbecoming. As might be expected,
numbers of persons upon the arrival of the post-chaise
in which she had been brought in custody from
Preston, flocked around, anxious to catch a view of
her who had eommiqed one or the foulest murders
that tvie; evtt beard of in the history of crirde, fe-
i,olting to human nature. She gazed with a harden-
ed grin upon the spectators, and walked carelessly
up the hill leading to the Castle, and upon finding
the peojsle stare at her, the monster said, " What
are you all staring at?" and her unnatural conduct
upon that occasion excited the disgust of all classes
of society, which they maintained towards her till
she ceased to exist.

St. Mary's clock having struck the hour of twelve,
the prison bell began to toll mournfully, which served
as a signal to the multitude that the miserable woman
was on her way to the scaffold, and all eyes were
in a moment rivetted upon the door immediately
ontside of which the fatal platform was erected.
Shortly after the Castle clock struck the fatal hour,
the miserable wretch was seen, supported by her 0.0
attendants, in a state of apparent exhaustion and in-
senaibility—her lia.;=,-,1 drooping over her shoulders,
and her fact of the poleness of death, and the rope