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      Anecdote of Brass . —From : the Carlisle Journal . ; —It is not probably generally jknown that the poet ' once paid oar " merry city" a visit , though there is J no doubt that he did once at least , get " unco happy" within our ancient walls . He had come inio the \ city upon horseback , and his nag was turned cut to j grass for a few hours . The horse , as may well be i supposed , having such a master , was a brute of ! taste , and took it into his head that the grass , in a field belonging to our worthy corporation , which adjoined that in which it had been put , was of a better ' and sweeter flavour than its own allotment , and an- j cordingly made good his lodgment there . The I mayor impounded the horse , and next morninsr , j when Burns heard of the disaster , he wrote the fol- i lowing stanza : — - " ! " Was e ' er puir poet sae befitted , The maister drank—the horse committed—Puir harmless beast I tak' tbee nae care , Thou'It be a horse when he ' s nae Mayor . " '

      His worship ' s Miyorality , we should have premised , "was about to expire on the day on . which the statin ; was written ; ic is ? aid , that when the Mayor heard j whose horse he . had impounded , he gave instant j orders for its liberation , exclaiming , " let him have it , or the job will be heard of for ages to come , " i Cu&bjln and the Mjlleb ' s Dog . —Curran bad told me , with infinite humour , of an adventure be- \ tween him and a mastiff when he was a boy . He i had heard somebody say , that any person throwing the skirts of his coat over his head , stooping low , holding out his arms , and creeping along back-1 wards , might frighten the fiercest dog and put him

      to Sight . He accordingly made the attempt on a : millers animal in the neighbourhood , which would j never let the boys rob the orchard ; but found , to his sorrow , that be had to deal with a dog which did ' no ; care which end of the boy went foremost , so ; & 3 he could get a good bite out of it . "I pursued , the instructions , '' eaid Curran , " and as I had no eyes save those in front , fancied the mastiff was in full retreat , bat I was confoundedly mistaken ; for , at the very moment I fancied myself victorious , the j enrmy attacke-i my rear ; and , Having , got a reason- j ably good mouthful out of it , was fully prepared to take another before I was rescued . —Sir Jonah Bar- \ ring ' . on ' s Personal Sketches of his own Times ' ,

      , What is Honour . Not to be captious , nor unjustly fight ; _ j * Tis to confess wiiat's wrong , and do what ' s right , j " Pout , " qaoth Prince Albert to the wonderful i parrot , " I haf de mind to co shooting dis morn- i ing . " " A truly mental employment , indeed , re-1 joined Poll . i

      Of give and take" Queens know but little yet , j They nothing " give , " and " take" all they can get !; A repeal shopkeeper , in Dublin , has a large ¦ placard over his door , " Hatter , by special appoint- j ment , to Daniel O'Connell , Esq ., M . P ., and his Excellency , the Lord-Lieutenant . " Long ros this Would . —There is a family of six brothers in Indiana , whose aggregate length is I forty-three feet ; being an average ol seven feet two < inches each- —American Paper , An inquest was held , the other day , at the " Cat : Mid Mutton , " Hackney , on an infant , " whose parents ' lived in Sheep ' s-lane , and who had been suffocated by " a bit of mutton . ' The " innocent lamb , " as one ¦ of the witnesses designated the child , was only sis- ' teen months old . !

      It is a tact that , on " the rest of the Royal family" being proposed by the Duke of Buckingham , at the recent dinner of the Buckingham Conserva tive Association , some wag near the bottom of the table was heard audibly to respond to the tcasr , with this trifling addition , " and may nothing occur to disturb that rest . '' " Vat is my value , Poll V asked Albert , of the wonderful parrot . " The value of .

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      a thing That cost much more than it will bring , " replied the impertinent bird . Ingratitude . —When Dachesnosis , the celebrated French actress , died , a person met an old man who was one of her most intimate friends . Ke was pale , confused , awe-stricken . Every one W 43 trying to console him ; but in vain : —*'> Jer loss , " " he exclaimed , " does not affect me so much as her horrible ingratitude . Would you believe it , she died without leaving me anything in her will—I , who have dined with her , at her own house , three times a week for thirty years ! ' ' M Poixt , " said Victoria , as she walked up to the cage to introduce the Archbishop of Canterbury to the wonderful bird , "bow immediately ; have you no reverence for the church ! " ' Yes , but none for the nave , " concluded the witty bird .

      Good Rejoinder . — " If cat vou . saw me in do crowd , Poll , you would know dai I vas a Prince , eh I" quoth Prince Albert to his parrot . . " Directly , " ' rejoined Poll ; " the black sheep in the flock is always easy of detection . " Warm ., Washes , Warmest . —A house with a wife is often warm enough ; a house with a wire and her mother is rather warmer than any spot on the known globe ; a house with two motheTs-in-law is so excessively hot that it can be likened 10 no place on earth a ; all , but one must go lower for a simile .

      Mysterious Profession . — " ! sow , Tom , " said the printtr of a country newspaper , in giving direction ? to his apprentice , " put the 'foreign leaders ' inro the gallei-s and locWem up—let ' . Napoleon ' s Remains' have a larger head—distribute the ' army in the east —take up a line and finish tha ' British Ministers '—make 'the young Princess' to run on with the ' Duchess of Kent '—move ' the Kerry hum ' out of the chase—get your stick and conclude ' the horrid murder' that Joe began last night—wash your hands and come into dinner , and then see that all the pie is cleared up . "

      What we caU , Duties . —Every man ought to pay Ms debts—if he can- Every man onght to help his neighbour—if he can . Every man and woman ought to get jiarried—if they can . Every representative to Congress and the Legislature onght 10 le ' il the constituents what they are aboai—if they can . Every man should do his work ur please his customer—if he can . Everyman should rule' his wife —if he can . Every wife should please her husband —if she can . Every woman should sometimes hold her tongue- ^ -if she can . Every lawyer should tell the truth—if he can . Every preacher of the Gospel should be a Christian—if he can . Every reader ghouid add something to the above—if he can . — American paper .

      Prince Albert entered the presence of Victoria one morning , after having completed his riding lesson , quite elated with the improvement he had made in his equestrian knowledge . " I- haf , mein teir Vic , made von grand leap all ds vay from dis to dis , " placing , as he spoke , two chairs ai about ^ ix feet apart . u Indeed ! " exclaimed the Queen , " that is a long way indeed—but it is not a millionth pan the distance of vour first leap . " "Intetdl" rejoined Albert , " Vy—vot for—vot first leap : " " Prom a cabin of Saxe Gotha to Buckingham Palace ¦ " The Prince recognised ihe justice of the remark by a very formal bow . When Quin was one day lamenting the ravages of time , a pert coxcomb asked what he would give to be as young as he was , to which our wit replied , that he would even submit to be almost as great a fool .

      ' Pollt , are yoa not ver fortunate to pe in dis Palace—eh ! " asked Prince Albert of pretty Poll . " 2 >* o—but you are , " rejoined the impudent bird . " I Threw Aw at the Queen , ' quoth Melbourne , while playing a family g ^ me ef Whist at Palmer-Eton ' s , to make sure of the knave . " "Ah ! brother /' exclaimed Lady Cowper , " would it no : have shewn more tact 10 have thrown away the knave-to make sore of the Queen ' s" ; A Whiter in a London paper speaks of a late celebrated actress , " the once exiraordicary Fanny Kemb ' . e ( now the amiable ilrs . Butler ) . " The

      natural transition , therefore is , from the extraordinary before marriage to the amiable after marriage . We gaess some husbands will tell a different story , Pvt . t . ution . — " Pray , sir , " said a Jamaica Commissioner to an insolvent brought up to" be discharged mi his petition— "Pray , sir , " how could you wilfully , with your eyes open , contract such a number of . debts withoat any risible means of paying theml" "Mj Lord , "' said the petitioner , '' Vou labour under a great mistake—I have never in my life vVfullg contracted & 6 ebt 5 on the contrary , I have invariaWy done every thing to enlarge them . "

      A Prospect of Relief . —It ig not . fair argument in bachelors to adduce domestic strifes as the necessary result of matrimoay ; "w « have watered our protest against this already ; but these incorrigible * require to be frequently reminded , fhat the fault arises generally from the incongruous tempers , tastes , and habits of the parties , blinded passon , the inexperience ef youth , or a sordid mamnwnising spirit of the parties contracting ; eoaseqnontl f , they must just , as the proverb goes , " Drink ihe browst that they hae brewd . " An 111 assorted pair had for forty years blistered each other , day aftsr day , with jibes and taunts , and as often wished that , the circumference of mother earth- were imposed

      between them . The better half was of &a infirm con-Btitution , and the treatment from " the lord of creation , " was not calculated to invigorate her j frame . Often had she proclaimed , that the grim tyrant was about to remove her , and her consort as often believed , what be made no secret of wishing wwe true . He had so often repeated to his acquaintances , *• That she wasna to be lang here , " that he I got at l * st ashamed of his prognostications , and generally waved the question with , Ay , she ' s aye yonder yet , and I kenna how she is , and I ' m thinking she ' s little wiser herseL" However , her complaint indicated an immediate and * fatal crisis , ! and ker sympathising partiwr went- to proclaim-i that his fears were about t » be removed ; meeting a friend , he announced , " Fact , she's deeing noo . " [

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      A Hint to Bachelors . —In a late work on suicide , it is said that marriage is to a certain extent a prevention of suicide . It has been satisfactorily established , that among men , two-thirds who destroy themselves are bachelors I Gareick . —Sir John Fielding , the magistrate , was so strongly convinced of the pernicious tendency of the Beggar ' s' Opera , as to assert that it " Bends , every time it is acted , an additibnal thief to the gaUows . " He earnestly reqne 8 ted " Grarrick to hang Mackheath , and even applied to him to suppress the piece ; to which Garrick consented , provided Coleman , the rival manager , would do the same . The latter declined ; Sir John told Garrick " it was a struggle between his morality and interest ; ' to which David replied , " He was sorry he could not return the compliment , for Sir John ' s interest and morality were never at variance . " A keener retort has seldom , perhaps , been made .

      Why is the Earl of Cardigan a "very irreligious man ?—Because he prefers the wide gate to the narnow one . " Dr . Saudham , my orders are . that you take the wide gate of the chapel after this . " It is evident that the Earl himself has taken the wide gate and the broad way that leadeth to destruction , He falls in with the troops . We are inclined to say a little good , however , of his Lordship . He is the very best personification of a fyrantin her Majesty ' s dominions , or rather in the dominions of the people —that is , of the three tailors of Tooley-street .

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      " Look here upon this picture and on this . ' "

      Windsor , Jan . 12 , 1 S 41 . " In consequence of the continued severity of the ¦ weather , and the consequent diminution in agricultural and other employments , the poor in ihe districts surrounding Windsor are fcufiering severely from the combined effects of a dearth ef food and fuel . Half-starved looking creatures—the women generaDy with children in their arms , may be met with

      Windsor , Jan . 14 , 1841 . A new dog-kennel has either just been or is immediately about to be commenced close to Virginia water , for the sporting dogs of Prince Albert , consisting of pointers and sttters . His Royal Highness has secured an excellent breed , and much sport is anticipated by the Prince and his friends as soon as the weather becomes more favourable for the

      enjoyvrandering about in searctl of temporary relief , preftning the cbaaee chanty of ibe public , to the inhospitable shelter of a ¦ workhouse . Some days since a poor woman , -with an infant in her arms , both ia a state of extreme destitution , called at a publichouse in Egham , for the purpose of soliciting alms . Her statement to the landlady , Mrs . CHrie , was , that for several days she

      ment of the sports of the field . ' Twenty of the Queen ' s saddle-horses arrived at Windsor on the day before her Majesty , and it was expected , as the completion of the new ridinghouse was hastened in consequence . of the departure of th&r Court from Buckingham Palace for Windsor , that her Majesty would have occasionally

      had scarcely enough of food to support life , that , for the four days previous , she bad t * en an inmate of the Windsor union , and that she was at that time suffering from absolute hunger ; the wretched creature ' s appearance , being that of a ptTsun in the last stage of consumption , fully bore out her statement After receiving rditf and the price of a bed for thu night , she the next day crawled on to Staines ; here htr strength utterly failing she had to

      taken equestrian , exercise ¦ within the new building . The interior of the new riding-house is completely finished , with the exception of a small portion of the trails , wkich require plastering , and which have been delayed in consequence of the setting in of the frost Extensive stabling -will shortly be ertcted in the immediate vicinity of the course at Ascot-heath , for the express accommodation of the horses of her

      Mabe carried into the Three Tuns public-house , -where she remained until Saturday , tthen she expired . " " He found the poor family in the most wretched Btat « , without food or fire , and on 5 y tvo bits of blanket to cover them . Tbe mother , icho h ' js reccidly miscarried , iva * lying in a corner iriih one d / ju-jhter , and two children in another part of the room , in which thty had no furniture . " — Worship-street Police Report , Jan . 14 , 1 S 41 .

      jesty , when the Court proceeds from Windsor to the course . Further alterations and improvements are progressing at the stables at Cumberland-lodge , to accommodate the hunters artl other horses of Prince Albert The interior , -which his been thus far completed , is most coiiveni enVyfitted up . Convenient stalls have also been made for the sick horses , and other arrangements of a Bomewhat expensive natX 2 Ii .

      Northampton , Jan . 17 . A traveller and his wife , in pregnancy , snd in great distress , applied for relief to a relieving officer of a pamh near Northampton , on Saturday night last , and after urging their suit for a considerable time without effect , tbe relentless functionary closed bis door ¦ against theunhappy couple , leaving them unprotected , houseless , and pennyless , to the mercy of the pelting

      Windsor , Jan . 24 . Upon tbe return of the Court , afterthe christening of the Princess Royal on the IOth of nest month , and which will be within two or three days afterwards , some magnificent entertainments will bB given by her Majesty . It is rumoured at the Cxstle that amongst the honours which will be dispensed by her Majesty immediately upon the

      snow storm . After remaining some time , the poor woman was seized with the pains of labour . — application was renewed , her state made known , but all to no avaU , no assistaTiue Wi 3 afforded , and hear it , ye mothers . ' j the miserable woman actually became a mother while standing in the keen , biting , pitiless storm of Saturday night last , close before the door of this

      -ffichribtening of tke Princess , Viscount Melbourne wiil be created a marquis , and that an English earldom will be conferred upon Lord P : vlmerston . It -will be remembered that about five or six months m ; o it wa 3 stated that her Majesty was then about to present to Lord Melbourne a splendid piice of plate of the value of 1 , 000 guineas , in testimony of the high respect and

      cvt . Tha man snatched the child from off the snow , and ran with it tovards the Tnion Workhouse . From his agitation and excitement , he actually let the poor little innocent fail twice , ere he reached that alniost last resource of human wee , where it ¦ sviis at length received alive . The poor unhappy woman was on Monday in

      esteem in which the noble Premier "was held by the Sovereign . It is rumoart-d —although so long a time has elap 3 trd since the report wa 3 first circulatedthat the presentation of the plate will not be deferred beyond February . Buckingham Palace , Jan . 25 . Mr . George Hay ter had

      a very dangerous Btate . Dclicncy f ^ rbi ^ ls us to depict tbe scene pres r . ted a : the door of this worthy on the following morning . This same individual 'man we cannoi call him ) refused relief to a poor starvine family residing in the village , and kept them without foo-l from Thursday afternoon until Friday evening Jast week . —Leiccs ' er Chronicle .

      the honour of submitting to bis Royal Hishneas Prince Albert , yesterday , a splendid whole length portrait of her Majesty seated on the Throne , in the Imperial Dalmatic Robes . At the opening of Parliament her Majesty was attired in a robe of white satin , richly embroidered with go ' . d . She also wore a tiara , necklace , and earrings of immense value .

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      A wife with Three Husbands ! — A womsn , aged 52 , died in this ; owa on Tuesday , who had three husbands living at the same time ; two of whom , an Irishman and a Scotchman , she refused to accompany to their respective countries , and was left behind by them . VVith her third husband she lived seven years . It is raid that she married a fourth , but that he died some years ago . —Leicester Chronicle . Circuits of Her Mjutsiv ' s Judges . — Home—Lord Chief « Justice D ? riman and Baron Parke . Norfoik—Lord Chief Justice Tindal and Justice Bosanquet . Midland— Lord Chief Baron Abinger and Justice Pattison . Oxford—Baron Gurney and Justice Coleridge . Western—Justice Erskine and Baron Rolfe . Northern — Justice Maule . Mr . Justice Liltledale ha 3 tendered his resignation , which has been accepted , but his learned successor has not yet bren appointed ; the Solicitor-General is talked of . Home—judge at chambers—Baron Alderson .

      Progeess of Repeal i . n Ieela . xd . —As to the Repeal progress , perhaps thi 3 may be best gathered : from the following statement , published by the Repeal Association on Saturday week , of the funds received since its formation on the 15 th of April . We have added to it the population of the several provinces according to the census of 1831 . The receipts stand thus : — Population . From Leinster and its counties , including Dublin - - £ 1 , 949 6 10 - 1 , 927 , 9 G 7 Munster , 256 14 8 - 2 , 215 , 364 Connaught , 104 15 0 - 1 , 218 , 977 Ulster , 2-20- 2 , 293 , 128 England and Wales - - - 355 14 C Scotland , 16 14 0 America . 3 0 0

      Total , - - - 2 , 688 5 10 Of this si sn » the account of expenditure sets down £ 1 , 078 93 . ' 2 d . for registry expenses . It should have been sta ** d whether this was for the purpose of registering rep ^ voters , or merely place-expecting Whigs . Here { m certainly not much appearance of national enthosi& ¦«*» fo ? repeal . £ 649 , the accounts tell us , were colle * ied in Dublin by subscriptions of members at £ 1 ea c * && upwards . So that the Repeal Fund is not nearly equal to what the poor Chartists collected fo » * * & «** Convention , besides supporting their delecak * in London . We fear the Irish people stand as m *< & *? ^^ ourselves of that definition of repea , ^ which is necessary for a fair discussion of its meri . ^• —Stalesman .

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      A Druggist , of Liverpool , has been committed to Kirkdale to take his trial for manslaughter for administering laudanum , by mistake , for cordial , to an infant child . Mr . Henry MjlCnamaua ( brother of Mrs . Nesbitt ) , of Ltncolu ' s-inn , has been the successful candidate for the prize of one hundred guineas for his essay " On the best mode for preventing war among nations . " The prefect of the Rhone has written to the French ambassador at Brussels , begging him to thank the English residents for the handsome subscription raised by them in favour of the sufferers by the inundations . I . n k single century , four thousand millions of human beings appear on the face of the earth—act their busy parts , and sink into its peaceful bosom .

      A Woman Beheaded on a Railway . — On Friday week , as Betsy Angrove was proceeding from post to her residence , imprudently choosing to walk by the railway , which shortens the distance , she was overtaken by one of tho trains proceeding to Portreath , and , being thrown down with her uock on on © of the rails , her head was instantly severed from her body . — Oxford Herald . An Ingenious Device . —A newspaper correspondent says— " Going the other day into my cellar , for the purpose of drawing some ale , I was much surprised at seeing three immense rats sitting on one of the barrels , putting their tails down through the bung-hole and afterwards sucking them . They had taken this ingenious method , as the hole was so small and the ale too low for them to get at it by any other mean : ? . "

      Fatal Accident from Fire . —Saturday morning , between nine and ten o ' clock , a little girl , aged four yearr , named Sarah Harradine , whose parents are poor people , living at No . 53 , Fashion-street , Spitalfieldis , was carried into the London Hospital in an excruciating state of agony , having been burnt almost from head to foot while left alone by her mother , who went out upon some trivial errand . The poor child expired shortly after her admission . Too much Alike . —A correspondent sends us

      word , — " that when Marshall's New 'Mill was about completed , a flick of geese was placed upon the nat roof of the said mill , which was laid down with grass . So soon , however , as it was determined to hold a meeting there of the Leeds Parliamentary Reform Association , ( and it had secured the cognomen of the Fox and Goose Club , ) the geese were . instantly removed—for what reason I will leave you to guess ! It would not have done for the geese above to have been peeping through windows at their other brethren below .

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      After the show was over , and the interlopers had departed , the " Upper House" resumed , when Lord BeaVMONT tlate Mi . Myles Stapleton who has made good bis claim to the dormant peerage of Beaumont ) , took the oaths and his seat Viscount Melbourne laid the Convention entered into between her Majesty and the Emperor of Austria , the Emperor of Rossia , the King of Prussia , and the Sultan , for the pacification ef Turkey , on the table .

      The Lord Chancellor then read her Majesty ' s speech , daring the reading of which Lord Brougham entered the House , and , waiting up to the Conservative side , shook hands with toe Duke of Wellington , and then took bis seat ia his nsu&l place . The speech having beea read , Lord Ducie rose for the purpose of moving the Address . Uesaid—

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      " It appeared to him that it had been the custom to fix on the moat inexperienced person in that House to move the Address in answer to the Speech from the Throne ; and on the present occasion Lord Melbourne had certainly not shown himself a reformer , but had adhered closely to the old custom . " After this a ppropriate introduction , the " noble lord" hobbled along with a very wise say , in the course of which he asserted that we had " P « ace at home , and our arms had been victorious abroad . Peace at home had been secured by the strict enforcement of the law , and the results that had taken place in the East were attributable to the admirable policy that had been adopted by her Majesty ' s Foreign Secretary . " Ho concluded by moving the address , which was , as usual , a mere echo of the 6 pecch . Lord Lorgan seconded the address , and said that

      " He felt conscious of his deficiency to do justice to a subject of such importance . " He truly said , — " Tho Address was but a dull copy and spiritlesa echo of the communication from the Throne;—( a laugh ) , but he did not think the worse of it for that . The session commenced under very auspicious circumstances ; and he wished lie could state that any of those auspicious circumstances had diffused any of their bright beams through the nature and composition of the

      Address ; but proud as he was at having the honour of standing sponsor to the Noble Lord ' s production , and a very promising production he fully anticipated all their Lordships , without exception , would pronounce it to be ; and naturally disposed as he wus to take upon himself that sort of after-birth paternity that was put on tbe seconders of tbe Address , still , with all his feelings of partiality for it , he confessed that he could not discover in it any of those sentiments that would have made it more agreeable to himself . —( Suppressed laughter ) .

      Lord BROUGHAM saw enough in the tone of the speech to fill his mind with the most gloomy apprehensions . It was true that our arms had been , owing to British -valour , triumphant ; and it was possible that the wars we had engaged in were defensible ; but if defensible , it could only be upon the strict ground of absolute necessity . He could not concur in the opinion entertained by some people—that this country should , on no account , interfere in continental politics ; but there was a great differenco between keeping aloof altogether and eternally intermedliug and keeping up a sort of ubiquity , always acting , negociating , and intermeddling everywhere , as if each country in Europe was part and parcel of Great Britain . The Noble Lord then adverted to the singular policy pursued by this country ~ with the professed view of

      preserving the integrity of the Turkish empire . The only power of whom there was any apprehension , as regarded Turkey , was llussia , and yet England united with that very power to carry out the recent policy in the East ; and he intimated that Russia was very unlikely to have entered into any such scheme— a scheme apparently opposed to her own interests and to her designs on Turkey , unless she could perceive greater advantages in perspective , and these advantages lie thought her policy would foresee as an inevitable result of & breach between France and England . He thought also that if France had any real desigus on Egypt and the East , this country had more to fear from an alliance between that country and Russia to carry out their respective objects , than she could have to fear from either , while the good understanding with France was preserved .

      Viscount Melbourne waj unprepared to enter into a defence of the foreigu policy of the Government , move particularly after the effects which it had produced . The Duke of Wellington defended the policy of Ministers in reference to the East In justice to Russia , he must say that , on a former occasion , no power could be more anxious than she was to induce the maritime powers to prevent the invasion of Syria by Mebeniet Ali , in arder to obviate the necessity of her sending an army to Constantinople . He

      believed that no person bad done more than himself , since ho had the honour of serving the Crown in 1 S 14 , —nay , no one had done half so much to preserve tbe peace of Europe , and to keep up tho best understanding between this conntry and France , and to place France , as such a great nation ought to be , in the councils of Europe ; feeling convinced that if France did not hold her proper position in those councils , there would be no security for the peace of Europe , or for justice or souud decision upon any subject .

      Lord Brougham thought that , in drawing that laat statement from the Noble Duke , he had rendered most essential service to t ! - e peace of Europe . Tho address was then agreed to , and their Lordships adjourned .

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      From the London Gazette of Friday , January 22 . BANKRUPTS . J . Exley , Riches-court , Liine-street , Feb . 5 , at one , March 0 , at eleven . Atta . Teesdale and Co ., Fenchurchstreet . W . H . Cooper , and H . Ayre , Manchester , calicoprinters , Feb . 1 , March 5 , at eleven , at the Commissioners'Rooms , Manchester . Atts . Law , Manchester ; and Adlington and Co ., Bedford-row . J . Young , und G . BenUey , Wolverhampton , ironfounders , Feb . 4 , March 5 , at tweive , at the Swan Hotel , Wolverbampton . Atts . Bennett , Wolverhamptou ; and Clarke and Metcalfo , Lincoln ' s-inn-fields . G . Ellis , Stoko-upon-Trent , earthenware manufacturer , Feb . 5 , March 5 , at twelve , at the George Inn , Stafford . Att . Barlow , Stone , Staffordshire .

      R . Bainbridge , Leeds , Yorkshire , woolstapler , Jan . 30 , March 5 , at ten , at the Commissioners' Rooms , Leeds . Atts . Atkinson and Co ., Leeds ; and Hawkins and Co ., New Boswell-court , Lincoln ' s Inn . J . W . Wainwright , Bridgewater , Somersetshire . lbuilder , Feb . 4 , March 5 , at twelve , at the Clarence Hotel , Bridgewater . Atts . James , Glastonbury ; and Adlington and Co ., Bedford-row . W . Willis , jun ., Manchester , bookseller , Feb . 3 , March 5 , at tivo , at the Commissioners' Rooms , Manchestir . Atts . Birch and Saunders , Manchester ; Makinson and Sanders , Elm-court , Middle Temple . J . Winks , Sheffield , Yorkshire , iron and stoel-mercbalnt , F « b . 2 , March 5 , at eleven , at the Town Hall , Sheffield . Atts . Jervis , North-street , Sheffield ; and James , Basinghall-atreet .

      ii R . Berry , Cambridge , wine-merchant , Feb . 5 , March 5 , at ten , at the Hoop Hotel , Cambridge . Atts . Gunning and Francis , Cambridge ; and Bircham , Bedford-row . E . Tyler , Birch Hills , Staffordshire , iron-master , Feb . 3 , March 5 , at eleven , at the Swan Hotel , Wolverhampton . Atts . Bird and Saunders , Kidderminster ; anil Micli . iel , Red Lion-square . % R . Howe , Kilpin , Yorkshire , corn-factor , Jan . 28 , at twelve , March 5 , at eleven , at the Guildhall , York . Atts . Blanchard and Richardson , York ; and Williamson and Hill , Verulaiu-bu . ldings , Gray ' a Inn .

      FARTXEHSHII'S DISSOLVED . T . Wrightou , J . K . Stevens , and R . T . Cadman , Sheffield , Yorkshire , typographic letter-cutters . —S . H . Andrew and \ V . Wilson , jun ., Manchester , architects . -j-T . Wihlon and J . Brigham , York , rag merchants . — J . Stott , J . Stott , sen ., aud J . Stott , jun ., Wardie , Lancashire , woollen carders . —H . Tyson and J . M'Lellan , Ciiorlton-upon-. Medloek , Lancashire , plasterers . — J . and T . Cross , Bolton-le-Moors , Lancashire , bleachers . —\ V . Bruw and J . P . Jones , Liverpool , painters . —J . Brown , W . B . Jones , and J . L . Crane , Liverpool , shipwrights . —J . and Q . Whiteley , Halifax , Yorkshire , card-makers . —C . Bacon , T . Ashford , and W . Bacon , Manchester , boue-button-manufacturers . —J ., J ., T ., and C . Brook , J . Wood , and W . L . and C . Brook , jun ., Meltham Mills , Yorkshire , cotton-spinners . * i . .

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      SECOND LETTER TO LORD PALMERSTON . " Two thousand souls and twenty thousand ducats , Will not debate the question of this straw . " I SlIAKSPEARE . Mt Lord , —You are one of those -who will not let well alone . You must be meddling , nor will you take a plain course , but choose an intricate one , to display your talents for diplomacy , to out-devil the devil , Like the fool of Hamlet , you are not content -with the duty that is set down for yoa ; bnt must play off some extra fooleries of your own . " This is villanoua , and shows a most pitiful ambition in you . " You must adjust the balance of power in Europe , as if it would

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      not come to an eauilibrlo of itself ! and yon must do this after a fashion peculiar to yourself j that is ,- by going to war to preserve peace ! Egypt first liberates itself from Turkish tyranny , and then rescues Syria's " land of roses . " The Pacha pays England the compliment to make our institutions his models for civilising his newly-reclaimed people . France , the friend of freedom , favours him ; but England , the land of liberty ! joins the most despotic countries in Europe , to prevent the progress of his humanising policy . We join with the Russians , the Austrians , and the Turks against one poor old man , and incite his half-civilised subjects to revolt and relapse into barbarism . The French would not join against him ; the French would most gladly have rushed to bia rescue ; but their king forbad .

      Overgrown power weakens itself ; but , suppos ; n ' g , for argument ' s sake , that the balance of power -was really threatened by Mehemet Ali ; are there not other nations more nearly concerned in the matter than we ? Why should England be the foremost to sacrifice blood and treasure in this foreign quaarrel ? Anferica did not interfere ; no , America knew better ; she is a Republic ! and which of the powers , now allied with us , attempted to force America back into our gripe ? What had we to fear from far-distant Mehemet ? We had everything to hope . He admitted us—headmired ushe imitated us . But , what if he had hated us ? Are we

      not masters of the sea which surrounds us , which separates us ? Could we not have kept him , and all the world , at bay ? Oh , but we had to dread French inftuence in Egypt ! Why , we have gone tbe direct way to increa 3 e that influence , by acting the e , nemy to one disposed to be our friend ; by thrashing him in a fit of jealousy to make him love us , we have increased the sympathetic power of the seducer . We have rendered his alliance necessary to retaliate tbe injuries we have done him , and to procure a restitution of the property we have wrung from him . Yes , Syria will again be restored to Mehemet and something more .

      If my Lord loves interference , why did he not interfere in behalf of Greece or Poland ? Alas ! lie does not , love liberty ; and therefore it is that he allies himself with the tyrant-rulers of those unhappy countries against the rising dignity of Egypt . But , the independence of the Ottoman empire must be maintained ! —the integrity of the Sublime Porte must be upheld ! —and Lord PalmerBton ' s method of doing this is by shaking the independence of England , and by-forfeiting his own integrity . Yes , my Lord , you were pledged to peace ; your lust for war was curbed by a sacred pledge . I trust France will judge England by the pledge the people required of you , and you by your

      dishonourable breach ol it . But , then , France may ask , why are you allowed to retain your place?—and this question we must answer satisfactorily , or expect the consequences of your vile policy . It were nothing , had you merely committed yourself ; but you have committed England along with yourself . How could we prevent it ? You kept us in the dark , intending to astonish us by a fine streke of Machiaveliem , and what have you done ? You think you have settled the Eastern question ; why , that was a matter of no moment to us , whatever way it was settled ; and , for this question of a straw you have involved England in a probable war with the whole world . '

      Was it not enough that you should send a fleet out to China to massacre an innocent people for a crime , ( if it were nat an exemplary act of virtue , ) which their governors had committed ? That you should revenge a robbery ( if it were not a just confiscation ) by endless murders , instead of giving up the smugglers to the law which they had broken ? AVas not this sufficiently herrible , sufficient to render the name of Englishman odious throughout the globe , but you must take a mean advantage of the defenceless and unprovided condition of an old man , " As full of grief as age , wretched in both . " . -. '

      You outwitted his only friend by a trick of ¦ rascality , such as he could not stoop to meet , could not dream of . You took external force , four against one , whose internal difficulties required all bis care and strength ; and , like a bully , you boast of having knocked him down . You have broken the two greatest laws on earth ; the law of nature , which is the law of God ; and the law of nations , which is the law of . universal man . Most unwarrantably , and roost insolently , you have provoked France to please Turkey , and formed a hollow alliance with Russia , whichshe will break , as soon as , through your baseness and

      blunders , she can have England " on the hip . " V You have sown dissension where there should be peace . " With France , we could have preserved the peace of all Europe ; without her , we cannot preserve our own . Our motto should be , —" Peace with France , though we havfl war with alf the world . " Franee wished to pursue the path of freedom and civilisation , coupled with us : and is this the nation which you have gone out of your way to disgust ? which yeu are driving into an alliance with Russia , or with hell , to be Tevenged on us ? The demon of war had fallen asleep , gorged with victims ; you have roused him with the roar of cannon , and now , evil exorcist ! lay him if you

      can . Say , that you wished to display the power of Great Britain ; ^ ity that it was not in a better cause ! The Turkish Government is the most despotic in Europe ; and , though it is said that the subjects under such a Government are always kept the quietest , insurrections are more rife in Turkey than in any other country . Turkey alienates ) her own provinces from herself ; and England , forsooth ! must force them back under her hard yoke . What have wo to do with the independence of the Ottoman empire ? Let her maintain it herself , or take tha * just consequences of

      her despotic conduct . Why should Christians fight to uphold Mahometan tyranny and bigotry ? Victoria , the reputed head of the Protestant Church , is made to league with Romanists , Greekists , and Mussulmen . The Queen of a free couutry is allied with foreign despots , and fights upon the Holy Land to destroy those principles which Jesus Christ died to save . The Pope styled Henry VIII ., " defender of the faith , " for writing a book in defence of Popery , and the Sultan is to present a diamond necklace to Victoria , for supporting Moslem integrity . Had she not better turn Su ltaness ? :

      My Lord , you have gone so much out of your way in this " bloody business "—it was so plainly the in . terost of this country not to interfere , except , indeed , on the other sidc-r-that we cannot but suspect the Grand Turk won you over by motives of a private nature , which outweighed your regard for the public good . Or were you overcome by the importunities of relations , who besought you for an opportunity to distinguish themselves in a safe service , that they might procure promotion ? Or , lastly , shall we say that , fearing your date of office was out , you were resolved to gratify your spleen before you retired and give you successor

      a red-hot wand to handle ? Brave men have been sent on services only fit for the vilest cowards ; the British flag has been tarnished with guilt and sent round the globe to show its shame ; an angry feud has been ex ^ cited in France ; passion 3 , long laid , wantonly provoked into action ; the indignation and contempt of all humane and honest men excited ; and all this because our foreign Minister happens to be a busy-body , a mischief-makav , a second marplot , who rouses the very objections which he seeks to allay . We must brew our tea with blood , because , in returnfor that cheering

      herb , -we are determined to make the Chinese take a poisonous drug ; and we must bring all Europe about our ears , because we could not let Egypt alone . Nay more , it is likely that Turkey , for whose sake we have made so many enemies , will itself join them against us , because we do not compel Egypt , as well as Syria , to submit to her bow-string . The morality of the action is not affected by its success . And this is the boasted Palmerston policy—your policy , my Lord . The wise Lord Bacon says that Christiana should wage a war of extermination with books , you have fou&ht for the Koran , like a good Islamite .

      You have alleged several reasons to excuse your folly and turpitude ; the most flimsy of all is , the pretence of regulating the balance of power . France , with us , throws a weight in the scale that makes all the other nations kick the beam . France neutral , it fluctuates in uncertainty ; France opposed , and we find our equal at sea , our superior on land . Another reason is , the integrity of the Porte—he is the legitimate sovereign" fine word that legitimate ! " and you sympathise with him , while M . Thiers sympathises with the Pacha , who is certainly more fit to be a sovereign . But the strangest of your reasons is , that Mehemet was ill-using his subjects ; as if the Sultan -would use them better . My

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      Lord , how happens it that you can spy tyranny boj , off , and be so indignant at it , and yet not see it home , or be indifferent about it ? Your foreign wr is not less detestable than the domestic policy of * colleagues . I believe that the true reasen of y ou * mity against Mehemet , was envy of his fame , a nd , aw , to that , a desire to vex France , if it could be done ' wj impunity . Mehemet is a second Napoleon—he to liberatehe lives for

      queTS — posterity— : the tl character of a great politician . You , my Lord , iiTe 7 j the present only , and sacrifice permanen t interesti * gain a temporary triumph . Think not that " to snju is to secure success . " The French have got their K peror With them again ; though dead , his spirit refo and deposes the living king . You need not fur , g them with ca $ us belli ; you will shrink from the jj when he crosses your path , although you have daw like a cur , to snap at a fly that buzzed across your a *

      The evils which Meaemet may have done iu gjw and Syria , were promoted by the necessities of his siV tion , and were done to avert greater evils—were d , * . for the good that would follow . I would not jm ^ this ; but the evils which you have voluntarily dontt ! him , were for the sake of evil—you have said , «< » be thou my goad . " The friendly feelings which 3 / hemet entertained towards England and the Engijj , and of which he has given us many flattering pT ^ were not so much as interrupted by your most uu ^ voked sent his

      aggressions . He sons to be educsy here ; he paid particular attention to all English tta « lers , and he constantly employs English brokers to ifc . him every scientific improvement made in Engljw How barbarously , how monstrously he has been quited . ' whatever reason he might have to expM hostilities from Russia , Austria , and Tuil » England would be the last country that he wouid a pect to see in the ranks of his enemies—and 4 was the foremost . Well might he exclaim , Mth K prototypethe great Csesar"Et iu Bmlci" ww % vJl& 4 htM /(

      , , o . f V * WVJ ^( V ) *^ Q'VKW XSIS «« f J-V M \ I ,. /* t n looked in vain for succour from France . The FrejA could only express useless pity lor him , and indina , tion against us . They have been vilified for tLis , jj j their " fine frenzy" ridiculed ; but you , my Lord . m incapable of appreciating their generous character , ^ the high-minded designs of the man they aynipat . ^ with . There is poetry in that people ; and Gml fuifoj that they should ever csass to detest and despise tin cold-blooded policy of a Goth and Vandal , such as j w

      have shown yourself . Honour , honesty , and humanijj were all forgotten or trampled upon by you ; and ft ) chance of Christianizing Egypt , which , under tfe tolerant sway of the Pacha , was more than probable under the intolerant Sultan is all but imp ss ' . blft Though these things will not « frieve you , nor the eartt devils , your middle-class Whig supporters , yet hoi will you answer to them in a matter of far grey * importance in their eyes , the loss of such a , good e * toiuer as Mehemtt has ever been ?

      You are a cunning gambler , my Lord ; you make s-hi of -winning before you play . You send an aruiaimst against one nation that cm be killed—but knows n * how to kill ; and you take overwhelming odds agaiojj another . The easiness of the conquest shows the dis honour of it . No brave men can boast of it ; altuon | li the gasconading Napier has received additional honooj for not refusing to " embrue his hands in innocent blood . " But why resort to force at all ? He ia butt poor politician—he is the worst of politicians—tty cannot arbitrate without arms . It was expected Cat your wisJom would preserve us from war ; but ya foolishly and wickedly plunge us into it . How crui , how vulgar-minded it is in you to sit coolly in tla cabinet , and transmit common-place orders , by whitk the

      " Inhumanity of man to man " is licensed and excited . " What countless thousands " you have made to mourn ! How many boys and giili have had their little limbs shot off by the guns whi « 5 you commanded to be fired ? How many infants kin been killed at their mothers' breasts ? What devastatios and horror not to be spoken of , not to be thought of , hare you spread among families that never did you jay harm , that do not so much as know the reason ubj . The very devils , engaged in this hellish work , sfefcened at tho sight of what they had done . Ah , my Lovd , hd you been anything but a Whig , every cannon ball fired at the houses and homes of the poor Chinese ml Syrians , would have knocked at your heart . I fiiis that , instead of sitting at eaae , in your arm-chair , wti

      the wines of France within you and around you , you had bees present to see and hear the effects ol \ m parson-praised policy . The Tories love you became you are like them , and your middle-class partiaa care not what cruelties you commit ; to spite the Cto tists , who alone pity your victims . True , you hm the power to meddle and make mischief ; but the im * povrcr you hare , the more mercy you should have . IViif should you needlessly provoke the turse of God oii tla country ? Can tho friendship of Turkey compensTi tho enmity of France , or even of Egypt ? England like a turtle on the ocean , safe while it keeps withiniii own shell : but you have thrust out its head intoi foreign quarrel , and thereby endangered the wln' . J body .

      All honour to the manes of Lord Holland ! though J member of a Whig cabinet , he took the enlightened view of the E : istern question , which M . Thiers tafei Tho French are in advance of their government—sow the people of England of theirs . May they unite hand ! across the channel in spite of the heads that would separate them , and may they form a mutual alliance for the progression of that good cause which you bre striven to check—a pleasiDg spectacle of peace will each other , and of good-will towards all other nations . Tcnder-conscieneed religionists scruple to pay

      churchrates . Can they , as consistent moralists , pay war-nta ? Our present government , both Church and State , iJ founded on force and fraud , and equally deservesth « reprobation of all pious men . To pay for the waisis worse than to pray for them . Yet where are tit Quaker-protests against them ? Wars more unjustisi more unnecessary were never waged , and , if the fate a Sodom and Gomorrah was to befal this country , » & > shall say it would not be fit retribution ? Alas ! the worldly spirit of these Whig times has corrupted erea the most unworldly men .

      The little -wars which you have waged , and whicb are likely to prove the signals for great ones , will h »» tho usual result . " The service of the State demands more money-Just Heaven ! of what service is the Stite ? " As those mean wars were undertaken accoriisl to Palraerston policy , you , my Lord , ought to p . iyfor them , and not in purse alone . Blood , innocent biowi cries from the ground against you . God will hear it , K mm does not . You have acted the part 0 ! Cain , * b « shed his brother ' s blood from motives of envy . H 8

      shed the blood but of one . —thousands have been »*• ficed by you , not one of whom but waa more worth ! to live . As you have shown so little regard for ths lives of others , how can you expect any regard to W shown to yours ? It is said that you are a great dandy , and that in your alliance with the Three Poweis jo « have merely consulted your peraonal ambition > Ku 833 will supply you with bear ' s grease ; Austria w * beavers ; Turkey , with opium to smoke ; and En ?

      land—what must England do ?—sfce must impeach yoa . to show to France , and to all nations , that the deings i " China and Syria were not in accordance with her will- " were in opposition to it . She has an excellent plea , you kept her in the dark about your intentions , lest * hould prevent you . Only by impeaching you can *« avert the just doom that hangs over our devoted ce »«* —the justice , the vengeance dne to your deeds from * world that cannot forget nor forgive them . You m «« be made our scape-goat .

      I hope that what you have done will be a lesson » ths country , proving the necessity of the Charter . -H » the Chattsr been in force , you would neither have bw the power , nor been permitted , to disgrace and eniH ^ ger England , by your crusade against freedom and Winanity , to lessen our influence by lessening the resp «» of other nations . And what will those misjudge persons , who affect to fear their own countrymen , w to an invasion from the French and Russians ? C * they expect the Chartists to defend them ? I trust the Chartists will be better employed . 1 trust that none ol them can be hired to butcher their fellow-men at tW bidding of a Government that denies them their rig&f * I trust that , looking neither to the right baon M * * the left , they will steadily pursue the one dear obje «

      of their lives—Universal Suffrage ! JCNIUS RVST ICVS . Village , January 6 , 1841 . - [ This letter has been lying over several week * will appear from the date . Ed . ]

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      ^ From the London Gazette of Tuqsday , January 2 ( 5 . BANKRUPTS . J . Dauncey , cattle-dealer , Baltonsborough , Somersetshire . W . Conyer , T . Ridsdale , J . Senior , R . Stapteton , J . Hainsworth , B . Turner , E . Bailey , J . Milnes , WMayman , R . Shaw , J . Oldroyd , J . Brearey , J . Denton , A . Ellis , J . Howgate , J . Bromley , M . Healey , J . Bailey , A . Foiird , and J . Clegg , woollen-millers , Batley Curr , Yorkshire . J . Poulter , sen ., bricklayer , Leoininster , Herefordshire . J . Hewitt , merchant , Liverpool . R . Tilburn , auctioneer , Doncaster .

      Forbes M'Neill , general merchant , C 2 emcut ' s-lane , city . J . and E . Butt , linen-drapers , Mortimer-street , Middlesex . C . R . Guy , grocer , Helston , Cornwall . W . Wilson , inn-keeper , Stanley Ferry , Yorkshire . G . James , druggist , Bangor , Carnarvonshire , J . Snowcroft , scrivener , Haverfordwesfc . J . Porter , callenderer , Barnsley , Yorkshire . J . Edwards , licensed victualler , Salford , Lancashire . E . Putland , ale merchant , Manchester . E . Proud , grocer , Sunderland . J . Hounslow , baker , Birmingham .

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      FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT . Tuesday Evening , Jan . 26 th . The Queen opened the Session of Parliament this afteraoon in person . Tho line of road through which her Majerty passed , on her way to the House of Lords , was much more crowded by ppectators thau on any former occasion of a similar nature ; but the plaudits of the peoplo were not nearly so general , uor so enthusiastic as on many previous occasions ; nor was her Majesty ' s reception any thing like so hearty as most persons anticipated . The Queen's husband sat in the " royal coach" with her ; and as soon as the cortege had passed the horse guards , a divertisemeut took place , which was deemed equally as good a bis ^ ht as that which had drawn so many hundreds of spectators together . Two boys hero

      amused her Majesty ' s lieges by standing upon their heads , and in that situation singing t !* e popular air of " Xix m ^ dolly pals , fake away ! " accompanying themselves by a--pec \ es of chorus , produced Ly striking the soles of their feet together , as flatly and with as much noise as could possibly boproduced by the palmy of their bauds . I 11 this situation they continued for fully a quarter of an hour , goiog though really astonishing evolutions with their f » et upwards , and were regarded with a plentiful harvest of " tin . " The procession returned to the palace amid a still more apathetic display of popular estimation ; in a word , it is evident , that royalty , although impersonated by a young and interesting woman , is at a discount , excepting among those who fatten on the extravagance of royal and aristocratical institutions .

      In the interior of the Upper Trap , great preparations had been made to make the affair look big and imposing . During the recess the throne , footstool , and canopy have been regilt and decorated ; the steps covered with a magnificent purplecarpet . embroidered with a Norman rose ; aud on the left of the throne was placed a splendid chair of State for the £ 30 , 000 a-year boy to sit in . A vast number of the tax-eaters were present , anxious to see , and be seen , iu the show ; many of them beiug those interesting little deard , who , for peculiar services , have been piaced on the pension list . So disorderly did the meeting conduct itself , that scarcely a word of the "Speech" could be heard . Tho following was intended to have been delivered to the " two houses , ' had the "' two houses" had manners to listen to tho little woman , while * he read it " in her usual clear and distinct manner . "

      "THE SPEECH . " My Lords and Gentlemen , I have the satisfaction to receive from Foreign Powers assurances of their friendly disposition , and of their earnest desire to maintain peace . The position of affairs in tho Levant had long been a cause of uneasiness , and a source of danger to the general tranquillity . With a view to avert the evils which a continuance of that state of things was calculated to occasion , I concluded with tho Emperor ol Austria , the Kiug of Prussia , the Emperor of Russia , and the Sultan , a Convention intended to effect a pacification of the Levant ; to maintain the integrity and independence of the Ottoman Empire ; and thereby to afford additional security to the peace of Europe . I have given directions that this Convention shall be aid before you .

      I rejoice to be able to inform you , that the measures which have been adopted in execution of these engagements have been attended with signal success ; and I trust that the objects which the contracting parties ha-. l in view are on ihe eve of being completely accomplished . In the course of these transactions Hiy Naval Forcas have co-operated with those of the Emperor of Austria , and with the Land and Sea Forces of the Sultan , and have displayed upon all occasions their accustomed gallantry and skill . Having deemed it necessary to send to the coast of China a naval and military force , to demand reparation and redress for injuries inflicted upe-n some of my subjects by the officers of the Emperor of China , and for indignities offered to an Agent of uiy Crown , I , at the same time , appointed Plenipotentiaries to treat upon thtse matters with the Chinese Government .

      These Plenipotentiaries were , by the last accounts , in negotiation with the Government of China ; and it will be a source of much gratification to me , if that Government siall be induced by its own sense of justice to bring these matters to a speedy settlement by an aniicab ; e arrangement . iSeriuus differences have arisen between Spain and Portugal about the execution of a Treaty , concluded by those powers ia 1835 . for reguliting the navigation of the Douro . But both parties have accepted my mediatioB , ar . il 1 hope to be able to effect a reconciliation between them upon terms honourable to both . I have concluded with the Argentine Republic and with the Republic of Haj ti , trt aties for the suppression of the Slave Trade , which I have directed to be laid before you .

      Gentlemen of the House of Commons , I have directed the estimates for the year to be laid before you . However sensible of the importance of adhering to the principles of economy , 1 feel it to be my duty to recommend that adequate provision be made for the exigencies of the public service . My Lords and gentlemen , Measures will be submitted to you without delay , which have for their object the more speedy and effectual administration of justice . The vital importance of this subject is sufficient to ensure for it your early and most serious consideration . The Powers of the Commissioners appointed under the Act for the amendment of the laws relating to the Poor expire at the termination of the present year . I feel assured that you will earnestly direct your attention to enactments which so deeply concern the interests of the community .

      It is always with entire confidence that I recur to the advice and assistance of my Parliament I place my reliance upon your wisdom , loyalty , and patriotism , and I humbly implore of Divine Providence that all your Councils may be so directed as to advance the great interests of morality and religion , to preserve peace , and to promote , by enlightened legislation , the welfare and the happiness of ali classes of my subjects .

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    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 30, 1841, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct364/page/6/