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      A 5 ECD 0 TB of BcRSS . —FromtheCbmsie Journal . —It is not probably generally jjtpown that the poet once paid our " merry city" a visit , though there is no doubt that hfi did once at least , get " nnco happy " "within our ancient walls . He had come into the city npon horseback , and his nag was tnrned out to grass for a few hourg . The horse ,, as may well be supposed , haring such a master , was a brnte 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 accordingly made good his lodgment there . The mayor impounded the horse , and next morning , when Burns heard of the disaster , he wrote , the following stanza : —

      Was e er pair poet sae befitted , The m&ister drunk—the horse committed—Pnir harmless beast 3 tak' tbee nas care , Thon'lt 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 stanza ' ras written ; it is said , that when the Mayor heard ¦ whose horse he had impounded , he gave instant orders for its liberation , exclaiming , " lethim have it , or the job will be heard of for ages to come . " CtraRA * ato the Miller ' s Dog . —CuTran had told me , with infinite humour , of an adventure between him and a mastiff when he "was a boy . He had heard somebody say , that any person throwing the skirts of his coat over his head ., stooping low ,

      holding out his arras , and creeping along backwards , might frighten the fiercest dog and . put him toiighu lie accordingly made the attempt on a miller ' s animal in the neighbourhood , which would never Jet the boys rob the orchard ; but found , to his sorrow , that he had to ce * l with a dog which did not care winch end of the boy went foremost , so as he could fcei a good bite out of it . " 1 pursued the instructions / ' said Curran , " and as I had no eyes save those in front , fancied the mastiff was in full retreat , but I wa 3 confoundedly mistaken ; for , at the very moment I fancied myself victorious , the enemy attacke-i my rear ; and , having get a reasonably good mouthful out of it , was fully prepared to take another before I was rescued . —Sir Jonah Barringion ' s Personal Sketches of his men Times .

      What is Ho . nocb . Hoi to be captious , nor unjustly fight ; * * Tis to confess what's wrong , and do what ' s right . " Polly , " quoth Prince Albert to . the wonderful parrot , " I hai" de mind to co shooting dis morning . " " A trulj mental employment , indeed , rejoined Poll .

      Of " give and take Queens know but little yet , They nothing " give , " and " take" all they can get ! A bepsal shopkeeper , in Dublitt , has a l&rga placard over his door , "Hatter , by special appointment , to Daniel O'Connell , Esq ., M . P ., and his Excellency , the Lord-Lieutenant . " Long fob this World . —There is a family of six brothers in Indiana , whose aggregate length is forty-three feet ; being an average ot seven feet two inches each- —A tnerican Paper . As inquest was held , the other day , at the M Cat and Mutton ^ " Hackney , on an infant " whose parents lived in . Steep V lane , and who had been suffocated hy " a bit of mutton . " The " innocent lamb" as one of the witnesses designated the chUd , was only sixteen months old .

      It is a fact that , on " the rest of the Royal family" being proposed by the Duke of Buckingham , * t the recens dinner of the Buckingham Conservative Association , some wag near the bottom of the sable was heard audibly to respond to the toast , ¦ with this trifling addition , " and may nothing occur to disturb that rest . " " Tat is my value , Poll ? " asked Albert , of the wonderful parrot . u The value of a thing

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      That cosf 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 . He was pale , confused , awe-stricken . Every one was trying to console him ; bnt in vain : —*' Her loss , " he exclaimed , " does not affect me bo much as her horrible ingratitude . Would you believe it , she died ¦ without leaving me anything in her will—I , who iave dined with her , at her own house , three times a week for thirty years > ' ' " Polly , " said Victoria , as she walked np to the cage to introduce the Archbishop of Canterbury to the wonderful bird , "bowimmediately ; have you no reverence for the church ! " " Yes , but none for the nave" concluded the witty bird .

      Good Rejoixdeb . — " If dat you saw me in dc crowd , Poll , you would know dat I vas a Prince , eh ! " quoth Prince Albert to his parrot . " Directly , " rejoined Poll ; " the black sheep in the iiock is always easy of detection . " Warm , Wabhes , Wabmest . —A house with a wife is often war © eaougu ; a house with a wife and fcer mother is rather warmer than any spot on the known globe ; a house wiih two mothers-in-law is so excessively ho ; that it can be likened to no place on earth at all , but one must go lower for a simile .

      MvsiESiotrs Pbopessjo . v . — " 2 \ ow , Tom , " said the ¦ printer of a country newspaper , in giving directions to his apprentice , " pat the 'foreign Leaders' into the galleys and lock ' em up—let ' Napoleon ' s Remains' have a larger head—distribute the ' army in the east '—take np a line and finish the ' British Ministers '—make ' the young Princess'to run on ¦ with the' Duchess of Kent' —move ' the Kerry hunt ' cut 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 vie is cleared np . "

      What we cm . Ditties . —Every man ought to pay bis debts—if he can . Every man ought to help his neighbour—if he can . Every man and woman ought to get married—if they can . Every representative to Congress and the Legislature ought to tell the constituents what they are about—if they can . Every man should do his work- to please his customer—if he can . Every man should rale his wife —if he can . Every wife should pleas © 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 cau . Every reader should add something to the above—if he can . — American paper .

      Psi > 'ce Albeut entered the presence of victoria one morniEg , 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 de vay from dis to dis , " placing , as he spoke , two chairs at about six feet apart . " Indeed J" exclaimed the Queen , " that is a long way indeed—but it is not a millionth part the distance of jour first leap . " "Inteed . " rejoined Albert , " Vy—vot for-vot first leap ! " " From a cabin of Saxe Gotha to Buckingham Palace ! " The Prince recognised the justice of the remark by a very formal bow . "We . es Qcin 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 .

      Poixt , are you 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 Away the Queen , " quoth Melbourne , ¦ w hile playing a family game of Whist at Palmerston ' s , " to make sure of the knave . " "Ah I brother , " exclaiejed Lady Cewper , " would it do ; have shewn more tact to have thrown away the knave to make sere of the Queen * " A Writer in a London paper speaks of a late cdebixted actress , " the once extraordinary Fanny Kembie < now the amiable Mrs . Bader )? ' Tie 3 iatarai transition , therefore is , from tbe extraordi nary before marriage to the amiable ifter marriage We guess some husbands will tell a different story .

      PAiittTiOH . — " Pray , sir s" said a Jamaica Cocamiffiioner to an insolvent brought * p to , be dis-¦ ebarged on hi 3 petition— "Pray , sir , " bow could you ¦ wilfully , with yopr eyes open , coatract such a nnmbef « f debts witboBt any visible meus of paying them ! " "My Lord , " Baid the petitioner , "Yob labour nader a great mistake—I have never in ms life irVf * Ui / contracted a debt ; on tbe contrary , have invariably done every thing to enlarge them . " A Prospect o ? Relief . —It i 3 not fair argument in bachelors to addnoe domestie strifes as the necessary resnlt of matrimony ; we have entered oar protest against this already ; but t&ese "incorrigibJes reqmie to be frequently reminded , that the fa< arise ? generally from the incongruous tempers , tastes , and habits of the parties , blinded passion , the inexperieace of youth , or a sordid oammon . - isng spirit of the parties contracting ; consequently , the * must Just , xs the proverb goes , Drink the

      browst that they h * e brewd . " An ill assorted pair had for forty years blistered each other , dsj after day , with jibes and taunts , and as often wished that the circumference of mother earth were imposed between them . The better half was of an infirm constitution , and the treatment from " the lord of creation , " was not calculated to invigorate her frame . Often had she proclaimed , that the -grim ijrant was about to remove her , and her consort as often Tjelieved , what he made no secret of wishing trere true . He had so often repeated to his acquain tane « B , ? . Tbai she wasna to be l&ng here , " thajhe y * at last ashamed of his prognostications , and geoerallj twed tha question with , " Ay ,- £ he ' s aye . ywriNrsytiraod I fcenna how she is , and I ' m thinViwj ; she ' a little wiser hersel . " However , iet yuppK' ^ t iadieated an immediate and fital crisis , aad'Sfer symp&thifiirgf-partner went to proclaim that bifi fears were about to 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 Baid that marriage is to a certain extent a prevention of suicide . 4 thas been satisfactorily established , that among -men , two-thirds who destroy themselves are bachelors ! Garrick . —Sir John Fielding , the magistrate , was so strongly convinced of the pernicious tendency of the Begpars' Opera , as to assert that it" Bends , every time it is acted , an addifional thief to tb « gallows . " He earnestly requested'Garrick to hang Mackhecuth , and even applied to him to suppress the piece , * to which Garrick consented , provided Coleman , the rival manager , would do the same . The latter deelined ; Sir John told Garrick "it was * 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 moraUtg 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 on « . ** Dr . Sandham , my orders are , that yoa take the wide gate of the chapel after this . " It is evident ftst the Earl himself has taken the wide gate and the broad way that leadeth to destruction He falls ia with the troop 3 . We are inclined to say a little good , however , of his Lordship . He ia the vert / best personification of a tyrant in her Majesty ' s dominions , or rather in the dominions of the people —that is , of the three tailors of Tooley-sfcreet .

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      " Look here upon this picture and on this !"

      Windsor , Jan . 12 , 1841 . "In consequence of the continued severity of the weather , and the consequent diminution in agricultural and other employments , the poor t « the districts surrowidwa Windsor are Euffering severely from the combined effects of a dearth ef food and fuel . Half-starved looking creatures—the women

      gene-Windsor , Jan . 14 , 1841 . A new dog-kennel has either just been or is immediatelyabout to be commenced close to Virginia ¦ water , for the sporting dogs of Prince Albert , consisting of pointers and setters . His Royal Highness has secured an excellent breed , and mnch sport is anticipated by the Prince and his friends as soon as

      rally with children in their arms , may be met with wandering about in search of temporary relief , preferring the ehanee ehanty of the public , to the inhospitable shelter of a ¦ workhouse . Some days since a poor woman , with an infant in her arms , both in a state of extreme destitution , called at a publichouse in Egham , for the purpose of soliciting alms . Her Rtiteiuent to the

      landthe weather becomes more favourable for the enjoyment of the sports of tbe field . Twenty of the Queen's saddle-horses arrived at Windsor on the day hefoie her Majesty , and it was expected , as the completion of the new ridinghouse ¦ was hastened in consequence of the departure of the Court from Buckingham Palace for

      lady , Mrs . Clirke , was , that for several days she had scircely enough of food to support life ; that , for the four days previous , she had been 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 person in the last sta ^ e of consumption , fully bore out her statement . After receiving relUf and the price of a bed for the night , she the next day crawled on to Staines ; here her strength

      Windsor , that her Majesty would have occasionally 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 -walls , wiich require plastering , and which have been delayed in consequence of the setting in of the frost Extensive stabling will Bfeortly be erected in the immediate vicinity of the course at Ascot-heath , for the express accommodation

      utterly failing she had to be carried into the Three Tuns public house , where she remained until Saturday , irhen she expired . " " He found the poor family in the most wretched Et&te , without food oi fire , and ouiy two bits of blanket to cover , them . The mother , who has reccnPy miscarried , was lying in a corner iciUi one daughter , and two children in another jart of the room , in vhich they had no furniture . " — Worship-street Police Report , Jan . 14 , 1841 .

      of the horses of her Majesty , when the Court proceeds from Windsor to the course . Further alterations and improvements are progressing st the stables at Cumberland-lodge , to accommodate the hunters and other horses of Prince Albert . The interior , which has been thus far completed , is most convenienVy fitted up . Convenient stales have also Veen made for the tick horses , and other aarraugements of a somewhat expensive nature .

      Jsorth&mpton , Jan . 17 . A traveller ano his Trjfe , in pregnancy , and in great distress , applied fur relief to a relieving officer of a parhh near Korthanipton , on Saturday night last , and after urging their suit for & considerable time without effect , the relentless functionary closed his door against theunhappy couple , leaving them unprotected , houseless , and pennyless , to the mercy of the pelting

      Windsor , Jan . 24 . Tpon the return of the Court , afterthe christening of the Princess Royal on the 10 th of next month , and which will be within two or three days after-¦ wards , tome maguificent entertainments will be given by her Majesty . It is rumoured at the Castle that amongst the bononrs 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 avail , no assistance was afforded , and ( hear it , ye mothers !) the miserable woman actually became a mstber while standing in the keen , biting , pitiless storm of Saturday night last , close before the door of this »

      ffichristeniBg of tfce Pnueess , Viscount Melbourne will be created a marquis , and that an English earldom will be conferred upon Lord Palmerston . It vfill be remembered that about five or six months ago it was stated that her Majesty was then about to present to Lord Melbourne a splendid piece ot plate of the value of 1 , 000 guineas , in testimony of the high respect and

      cer . The man snatched the child from off the snow , and ran "with it towards the Union Workhouse . From his agitation and excitement , he actually let the poor little innocent fall twice , ere he reached that alniost last resource of human vroe , where it was 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 rumoured —although so long a time has elapsed since the report was first circulatedthat the presentation of the plate will not be deferred beyond February . Buckingham Palace , Jan . 25 . Mr . George Hayter had

      a very dangerous state . Delicacy forbids us to depict tbe scene presented at the door of this worthy on the following morning . This same individual tman ¦ we cannot call him ) refused relief to a poor starving family residing in . the village , and kept them ¦ without food from Thursday afternoon until Friday evening last week . —Xejcester Chronicle ,

      the honour of submitting to bis Royal Highness 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 Batin , rich ' y embroidered with gold . She also wore & tiara , necklace , and earrings of immense value .

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      A wife with Thbee Hcsbands ! — A woman , aged 52 , died in this town on Tuesday , who had three husbands living at the same time ; two of whom , an Irishman aDd a Scotchman , she refused to accompany to their respective countries , and was left behind by them . With her third husband she lived seven years . It is paid that she married a fourth , bat that he died some years ago . —Leicester Chronicle . Decuits of Her Majesty ' s Judges . —

      Home—Lord Chief Justice Dpnman and Baron Parke . Norfolk—Lord Chief Justice Tindal and Justice B&sanquet . Midland—Lord Chief Baron Abinger and Justice Pattison . Oxford—Baron Gurney and Jnstice Coleridge . Western—Justice Erskine and Baron Rolfe . Northern — Justice Maule . Mr . Justice Littledale has tendered his resignation , which has been accepted , but his learned successor has not yet bpen appointed ; the Solicitor-General is talked of . Home—judge at chambers—Baron Alderson .

      Pboghess op Krpzxl iy Ireland . —As to the Repeal progress , perhaps this may be best gathered from the following statement , published by the Repeal Association on Saturday week , of the funds received since its formation ob the 15 th of April . We have added to it the population of the several provinces according to the eeasas of 1831 . The receipts stand thus : — Population From Leinster and it * counties , including Dublin - - £ 1 , 949 6 10 - 1 , 927 ^) 67 M « uster , 256 14 0 - 2 , 215 ^ $ i Coanaught , 104 15 0 - 1 , 348 , 977 Clster , .... . .. 2 2 0 - 2 , 292 , 126 EngUcd uvd Wales - - - 355 14 0 Scotl * Dd , 16 24 0 hmpTi *!* 300

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      Total , - - - 2 , 688 5 10 Of this eum . the account of expenditure Bete dawn £ 1 , 078 9 s . 2 d . for registry expenses . It should hate been stated whether this was for tbe purpose of rexistering repeal voters , or merely plaoe-expecfcing Whigs . Here is certainly sot mnch appearance of national enthusiasm for repeal . £ 649 , the accounts tell us , were collected in Dablio by subscriptions of members at £ 1 each and upwards . So that the Repeal Fond is not nearly equal-to what the poor ChartiBts collected for their Convention , besides suppor ting , tbeir delegates la London , We fear toe Irish people stand as much in need ar ourselves k of that definition of repeal which is necessary for a fair discussion of its merits—Statesman .

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      A Dedggiot , of Livhbpool , has been committed to Kirkdale to take his trial for manslaughter for administering laudanum , by mistake , for cordial , to an infant child . Mr . Hrnry Macnawaka . ( brother of Mre . NesbiU ) , of Lincoln ' 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 pkefect of the Rhone has written to the French ambassador at Brussels , begging him to thank the English residents for the handsome sub-¦ ecription raised by them in favour of the sufferers ¦ b y the inundations . In a 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 Railwat . —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 the trains proceeding to Portreath , and , being thrown down with her neck on one 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 tbe ale too low for thorn to get at it by any other means . "

      Fatal Accident from Fire . —Saturday morning , between nine and ten o ' clock , a little girl , aged four years , named Sarah Harradine , whose parents are poor people , living at No . 53 , Fashion-street , Spitalfields , 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 Now Mill was about completed , a flock of geese was placed upon the flat roof of tiie 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 brethreu below .

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      After the show was over , and the interlopers bad departed , the Upper House" resumed , when £ -ord Beaumont ( late Mr . Myles Stapleton who Lac made good his clain to the dormant peerage of Beaumont ) , took the oaths and bis seat Viscount Melbourne laid the Convention entered isto between -he * Majesty and the Emperor of Austria , tbe JBaaperor M Russia , the King of Prussia , and the Ssitao . for th& > pacification of Turkey , on the table .

      The Lord iChancellor then read her Majesty ' s jpeeeb , during the reading of which Lord Brougham entered the Hoa *« , and , walking up to tbe Conservative aide , « hook bands with the Duke , of Wellington , and then took kia veat in his . usual place . a speech 4 » tjl ng $ een read , ' Lord Dccie rose *" for the purpose of moving the Addrtse . He said- ' ** *

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      " It appeared to him that it h » d 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 appropriate introduction , the " noble lord" hobbled along with a very wise say , in the course of which he asserted that ire had "P « ace at home , and our arms had been victorious abroad . Peace at home had been secured by t&e 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 ' * Foreign Secretary . " He concluded by moving the address , which was , as usual , a mere echo of the speech . Lord Lorgan seconded the address , and said ihai . ¦ ' ¦ '

      " He felt conscious of his deficiency to do justice to a subject of such importance . " He truly said , — " The Addres * was but a dull copy and spiritless 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 be wished he could state that any of those auspicious circamatances 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 was to take upon himself that sort of after-birth paternity that was put on the seconders of the Address , still , with all his feelings of partiality for it , he confessed that he could not discover tin 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 anus had been , owing to British valour , triumphant ; and it was possible that the wan 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 woe a great difference between keeping aloof altogether and eternally intermedling and keeping up a sort of ubiquity , always acting , negociating , and intermeddling everywhere , as if each country in Europe was port 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 Russia , and yet England united wifh 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 conld perceive greater advantages in perspective , and these advantages he thought her policy would foresee as an inevitable result of a breach between France and England . He thought also that if France had any real designs on E ^ ypt 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 was unprepared to enter into a defence of the foreign policy of the Government , more 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 Mehemet AH , in erder to obviate the necessity ot her sending an army to Constantinople , He

      believed that no person had done more than himself , since he had the honour of serving the Crown in 1814 , —nay , no one hod done half bo much to preserve the peace of Europe , and to keep up tu « best understanding between this conntry and France , and to place Franco , 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 sound decision upon any subject

      Lord Brougham thought that , in dmwing that Ifwt statement from the Noble Duke , he had rendered most essential service to the peace of Europe . The 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 , Lime-street , Feb . 5 , at one , March 5 , at eleven . Atts . 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 Adllnjton and Co ., Bedford-row . J . Young , and Cf . Bentiey , Woiverhampton , ironfounders , Feb . 4 , March 5 , ftt tweWe , at the Swan Hotel , Woiverhampton . Atts . Bennett , Woiverhampton -, and Clarke and Metcalfe , Lincoln's-inn-fields . Gh Ellis , Stoke 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 . VT . Wainwright , Bridgewater , Somersetshire , | builder , Feb . 4 , March 5 , at twelve , at the Clarence Hotel , Bridgewater . Atts . James , Qlastonbury ; and Adlington and Cp ., Bedford-row . W . Willis , jun ., Manchester , bookseller , Feb . 3 , March 5 , at two , at the CommiBsioneis' Rooms , Manchester . Atts . Birch and Saunders , Manchester ; Makinson and Sanders , Elm-court , Middle Temple . J . Winks , Sheffield , Yorkshire , iron and steel-merchant , Feb . 2 , Match 5 , at eleven , at the Town Hall , Sheffield . Atts . Jervis , North-street , Sheffield ; and James , Basinghall-street

      J . 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 HUla , Staffordshire , iron-master , Feb . 3 , March 5 , at eleven , at the Swan Hotel , Woiverhampton . Atts . Bird and Saundera , Kidderminster ; and Michael , 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 , Verulam-buildings , Gray's Inn .

      I PARTXiEBSHIPS DISSOLVED . T . Wrighton , J . K . Stevens , and R . T . Cadman , Sheffield , Yorkshire , typographic letter-cutters . —S . H . Andrew and W . Wilson , jun ., Manchester , architects . —T . Wildon and J . BrigUam , York , rag merchants . — J . Stott , J . Stott , sen ., and J . Stott , jun ., Wardle , Lancashire , woollen carders . —H . Tyson and J . M'Lellan , Cliorlton-upon-Medlock , Lancashire , plasterers . — J . and T . Cross , Bolton-le-Moors , Lancashire , bleachers . —W . Brow and J . P . Jones , Liverpool , painters . —J . Brown , W . B . Jones , and J . L . Crane , Liverpool , shipwrights . —J . and G . Wbiteley , Halifax , Yorkshire , card-makers . —C . Bacon , T . Ashford , and W . Bacon , Manchester , bono-hutton-manufaefcurera—J ., J ., T ., and C . Brook , J . Wood , and W . L . and C . Brook , jua ., VIeltnatu Mills , Yorkshire , cotton-spinners .

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      From the London Gazette of Tuesday , January 26 . BANKRUPTS . J . Dauncey , cattle-dealer , Baltonsborough , Somersetshire . W . Conyer , T . Rutedale , J . Senior , R . Stapleton , J . Hainsworth , B . Turner , E . Bailey , J . Milnes , WMaymon , R . Shaw , J . Oldroyd , J . Brearey , J . Denton , A . Ellis , J . Howgate , J . Bromley , M . Healey , J . Bailey , A . Foaird , and J . Clegg , woollen-millers , Batley Carr , Yorkshire . J . Poulter , sen ., bricklayer , Leominster , Herefordshire . J . Hewitt , merchant , Liverpool .

      R . Tilburn , auctioneer , Doncaater . Forbes M'Neill , general merchant , Clemont ' s-lone city . J . and E . Butt , linen-drapers , Mortimer-street , Mid dlesex . , C . R . Guy , grocer , Helston , ComwalL W . Wilson , inn-keeper , Stanley Ferry , Yorkshire . G . James , druggist , Bangor , Carnarvonshire . J . Snowcroft , scrivener , Haverfotdwest J . Porter , caltenderer , Barnsley , Yorkshire . J . Edwards , licensed victualler , Salferd , Lancashire E . PutUnd , ale merchant , Manchester . E . Proud , grocer , Sunderland . J . Hounslow , baker , Birmingham .

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      SECOND LETTER TO LORD PALMERSTON . " Two thousand souls and twenty thousand ducats , Will not debate the question of this straw . " SHAKSPEAB . E . My Lokd , — -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 four talents for diplomacy , t « out-devil the devil . Like the fool of Hamlet ; you are not content with the duty that is set downfoxyou ; Twt anust play off some extra fooleries ot your own . " THa is villanous , and shorn a most pitiful ambition in yon . " You niust adjust . the balance of power in Europe , . as if it would

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      not come toan equilibrio of itself ! and you must do this after a fashion peculiar to yourself ; 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 ol 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 relapsa into barbarism . The French would not join against him ; the French would most gladly have rushed to his rescue ; but their king forbad .

      Overgrown power weakens itself ; but , supposing , for argument ' s sake , that tbe 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 ? America'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—he ad mi red ushe imitated us . But , what if be had bated ns ? Are we

      not masters ef the sea which surrounds us , which separates us ? Conld we not have kept him , and all . the world , at bay 1 Oh , but we had to dread French influence in Egypt ! Why , we have gone the direct way to increase that influence , by acting the enemy , 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 the 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 . ' he does notj love liberty ; and therefore it is that he allies himself with the tyrant-ruler 3 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 Palraerston's method of doing this is by shaking the independence of England , and by forfeiting Ms own integrity . Yes . wy 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 of it . But , then , France may ask , why are you allowed to retain your place ?—and tbis 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 dork , intending to astonish us by a fine stroke of Machiavelism , and what have you done ? You think you have settled the Eastern question ; why , that waa 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 net an exemplary act of virtue , ) -which their governors had committed ? Taat 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 ? Was not this sufficiently herrible , sufficient to render the name of Englishman odious throughout tho 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 his care and strength ; and , like a bully , you boost 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 most insolently , you have provoked France to pleaso Turkey , and formed a hollow alliance with Russia , which she will break , as soon as , through your baseness and

      blunders , she can have England "on the hip . " " 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 have war with all the world . " Franse wished to pursue the path of freedom and civilisation , coupled with us : and ia 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 revenged 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 ; pity that it was not in a better cause . ' The Turkish G overnment 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 we to do "with the independence of the Ottoman empire ? Let her maintain it herself , or take the 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 country 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 Sultaness ?

      My Lord , you have gone so much out of your way in this " bloody business "—it was so plainly the interest of this country not to interfere , except , indeed , on the other side—that we cannot hut suspect the Grand Turk won you over by motives of a private nature , which outweighed your regard for the public good . Ot 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 yon 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 excited in France ; passions , long laid , wantonly provoked into action ; the indignation and contempt of ail humane and honest men excited ; and all this because our foreign Minister happens to be a busy-body , & mischief-maker , a second marplot , who rousea the very objections which he seeks to allay . We must brew oar tea with bloed , 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 ire have made so many enemies , will itself join them against ns , 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 . Th » wise Lord Bacon toys that Christians should wage a war of extermination with books , you hare fought for the Koran , like a good Islamite .

      You have alleged several reasons to excuse your folly and turpitude ; the mvst flimsy of all if , the pretence of regulating the balance of power . France , with ns ,. throws a weight in the scale that makes all the other nations kick tbe 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 ia the legitimate sovereign" fine ¦ word ^^ that legitimate i "* and you sympatbiBe with him , -while M . Thiers sympathises With the Pacha , who is certainly more fit to be a sovereign . But the ' straDgM of your reasons is , that Mehemet was * ill-usingi his subjects ; as if the Sultan would use them better . My

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      Lord , how happens it that yon can spy tyranny * , t off , and be so indignant at it ,. and yet not see iu home , or be indifferent about it ? Your foreign miw isnot less detestable than the domestic policy . of w colleagues . I believe that the true reasen of yo ^ r ,, mifcy against Mehemet , was envy of his fame , and ^ ta to that , a desire to vex France , if it could be done « a impunity . Mehemet is a , second Napoleon—he tm quers to liberate—he lives for posterity—the b ^ character Of a great politician . You , my Lord , lii , j ? the present only , and sacrifice permanent intereitik gain a temporary triumph . Think not that "tosmu .

      is to secure success . " The French have got their C perbr with them again ; though dead , his spirit j ^ and deposes the living king . You need not fn ^ u them with cams belli ; yon . will shrink from tb » K » when he crosses your path , although you have djw like a cur , to snap at a fly that buzzed across youT ^ J The evils which Mehemet may have done in in ^ and Syria , were promoted by the necessities of his i ^ J tion , and were done to avert greater evils—were ( W for the good that would follow . I would not jm , this ; but the evila which you have voluntarily d ^!? him , were for the sake of evil—you have said , —" m t A & 1 * rt «* v «^« 4 mm J % . n * l It fT ^ l * « ^_ ± ^ . Jtte , tft * ' * bethou goedTh

      . __ _ ^ my . " e friendly feelings which j hemet entertained towards England and the Eiuu * and of which he has given us many flattering 2 were not so much as interrupted by yotn most o ^ voked aggressions . He sent his sons to be edn ^ y here ; he paid particular attention to all English taw lew , and he constantly employs English brokers to ^ him every scientific improvement made in Eugijj How barbarously , how monstrously he has be ® .. quitedi whatever reason he might have to ap * hoitilities from Russia , Austria , and Twu England would be the last country that he would ^ pect to see in the ranks of his enemies— -and » & was the foremost Well might he exclaim , -with ^

      prototype , the great C ® sar , "Et to Bru ( e 1 " < looked in vain for succour from France . The JW could only express useless pity for him , and in % j , tion against us . They have been vilified for thi » , ^ their " fine frenzy" ridiculed ; but you , my lord , ^ incapable of appreciating their generous charaote ^ nj the high-minded designs of the man they sympatiij , with . There is poetry in that people ; and God form that they should ever ceasa to detest and despite yj , cold-Wooded policy ot a Goth and Vandal , such ai job have shown yourself . Honour , honesty , and hurainit ? were all forgotten or trampled upon by you ; andthj chance of Christianizing Egypt , which , under tin tolerant sway ef the Pacha , was more than

      probablounder the intolerant Sultan is all but impossible , Though these things will not grieve you , nor theeartj . devila , your middle-class Whig supporters , yet hm will you answer to them in a matter of far gm ' « importance in their eyes , the loss of such a good eutoiner as Mehemet has ever been ? You are a cunning gambler , my Lord ; you make tm of winning before you play . You send an armamal against one nation that can be killed—but knows not how to kill ; and you take overwhelming oeds apimt another . The easiness of the conquest shows

      thedishonour of it No brave men can boast of it ; alftoo $ the gasconading Napier has received additional hoEosa for not refusing to " embrue his hands in innorai ) blood . " But why resort to force at all ? He is bati poor politician—he is the worst of politicians-tint cannot arbitrate without arms . It was expected that your wisdom -would preserve us from war ; batyw foolishly and wick « dly plunge us into it How cruel , how vulgar-minded it is in you to sit coolly a tin cabinet , and transmit common-place orders , by whidi the

      " Inhumanity of man to man " is licensed and excited . •¦ What countless thousmdj " you have made to mourn ! How many boys andgislt have had their little limbs shot off by the guns whicti you commanded to be fired ? How many infant * Irnj been killed at their mothers' breasts ? What devastate and honor not to be spoken of , not to be thought d ; have you spread among families that never did you uj barm , that do not so much as know the reason * hj . The very devils , engaged in this hellish work , Bickesed at the sight of what they had done . Ah , my Lord , hid you been anything but a Whig , every cannon ball find at the houses and homes of the poor Chinese ni Syrians , would have knocked at your heart I wish that , instead of sitting at ease , in your arm-chair , with

      the wines of France within you and around you , job had been present to see and bear the effects o ( joa parson-praised policy . The Tories love you becaua you are like them , and your middle-class paitou care not what cruelties you commit to spite the Chi ! - t ^ sts , who alone pity your victims . True , yon h » vs the power to meddle and moke mischief ; but the more povrer you have , the more mercy you should have . W&J should you . needlessly provoke the curse of God on tbij country ? Can the friendship of Turkey coinpaisite tho enmity of France , or even of Egypt ? Eugl&uiii like a turtle on the ocean , safe while it keeps within it < own shell : but you have thrust out its head into * foreign quarrel , and thereby endangered the whole body .

      All honour to tbe manes of Lord Holland ! though > member of a Whig cabinet , he took the enlightensd view of the Eastern question , which M . Thiers tata The French are in advance of their government—so an the people of England of theirs . May they unite hands across the channel in spite of the heads that wold separate them , and may they form a mutual alliance for the progression of that good cause -which you ban striven to check—a pleasing spectacle of peace with each other , and of good-will towards all other nations .

      , Tender-conscienced religionists scruple to pay churchrates . Can they , as consistent moralists , pay war-ntw ' Oar present government , both Church and State , a founded on force and fraud , and equally deserreg tin reprobation of all pious men . To pay for the w « s ii worse than to pray for them . Yet where a » toe Quaker-protests against them ? Wars more unjust aid more unnecessary were never waged , and , if the fats » Sodom and Gomorrah was to befal this country , * to shall say it would not be fit retribution ? AJas ! the ¦ worldly spirit of these Whig times has corrupted eren

      the most unworldly men . The little wars which you have waged , and which are likely to prove tho signals for great ones , will ha « the usual result .

      " The service of the State demands more money-Just Heaven ! of what service is the Stite 1 " is those mean wars were undertaken accoritii to Palmerston policy , you , my Lord , ought to p » y ^ them , and not in purse alone . Blood , innocent blo ^> cries ' from the ground against you . God will hear it , man does not . You have acted the part of Cain . * to shed his brother's blood from motives of envy- *« shed the blood but of one—thousands have been sac" - ficed by you , not one of whom but was more worttl to live . As you have shown so little regard f <" lives of others , how can you expect any regard to shown to yours ? It is said that you are a great danM

      and that in your alliance with the Three Powers ?<» have merely consulted your personal ambition . Eu ^ will supply you with bear ' s grease ; Austria 11 "" beavers ; Turkey , with opium to smoke ; and E" *' land—what must England do ?—she must impeach 7 ' 5 to show to France , and to all nations , that the ( Setog 5 fl | J China and Syria were not fa accordance with h « ^ " fg were in opposition to It She has an excellent p' «*> * i you kept her in the dark about your intentiens , led •* " 1 h ould prevent you . Only by impeaching ? ° J ^ 1 avert the just doom that hangs over our devoted he | | -r-the justice , the vengeance dne to your deeds fro ^ x | world that cannot forget nor forgive them . Y ° ^ ' i

      be made our scape-goat . . ?; , lliope that what you have done will bealesapnw , ¦¦"' * '¦ ¦ ' . ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ , hW " : " the country , proving the neeestity of the Charwr . » 3 the Charter beefl in , force , you would neither bate I * 1 the power , nor been permitted , to disgrace and en ** | ger England , by your crusade against freedom and ^ ^ manity , to : lessen our influence by lessening the Tesp *" ^ of other nations . And what will those mf ^* 11 * : persons , -who affect to fear their oirn countrymen . * to an invasion from the French and Russians ? , they expect the Chartists to defend them t I trurt »* : Chartists will be better employed . I trust that none them can be hired to butcher their fellow-men '•» . * J bidding of a CroYernment that denies them their w I trust that , looking neither to the right hsffrta * the left , they will rteadily pursue the one dearwf ^

      of their lives—Universal Suffrage ! $ j ¦¦ - ;¦ ¦¦ ¦' ¦ ¦ . - •¦ . - jumps Rws « f ; I Village , January' < 5 , 1841 . ¦ " [ Ttia letter has teen lying over several * # ** 1 will appear from the date . Ed . ] g

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      fi THE NORTHERN STAR . "

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      FS 0 M OCB LONDON CORRESPONDENT . Tuesday Evening , Jan . 26 / A . The Queen opened tho Session of Parliament this afternoon in person . The line of road through which her Majerty passed , on her way to the House of Lords , was much more crowded by spectators than on any former occasion of a similar nature ; but the plaudits of the people were not nearly so general , nor so enthusiastic as on many previous occasions ; nor was her Majesty ' s reception any thing like 80 hearty as most persons anticipated . The Queen ' s husband sat in the " royal coach" with her ; and as soon a ? the cortege had passed the horse guards , a divertisement took place , which was deemed equally as good a sit ; ht as that which had drawn so many hundreds of spectators together . Two boys here

      amused her Majesty ' s lieges by standing upon their heads , and in that situation singing the popular air of " 2 S ix my dolly pals , fake away ! " accompanying themselves by aspecies of chorus , produced by striking the soles of their feet together , as flatly and with as much noiseas couldpossibly b « produced by the palms of their hands . Iu thi 3 situation they continued for fully a quarter of an hour , going though really astonishing evolutions with their f « et upwards , and were rewarded 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 011 the extravagance of royal and aristocr&tical institutions .

      In the interior of the Upper Tra p , great preparations had been made to make the affair look big and imposing . During the recess the throne , footstool , and canopy have been regtit and decorated ; the steps covered with a magnificent purplecarpet . embroidered with a Norman rose ; and 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-eatera wore present , anxious to see , and be seen , in the show ; mauy of them being those interesting little dear ? , who , for peculiar services , have been placed on the pension list . So disorderly did the meeting conduct itself , that scarcely a word of the "Speech" could be heard . The following wa 3 intended to have been delivered to the " two houses , ' had the " two houses" had manners to listen to the little woman , while she 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 aflairs in the 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 occasien , I concluded with the Emperor of Austria , tbe King 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 had in view are on the eve of being completely accomplished . In the course of these transactions my Naval Forces 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 accuttouied 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 upen some of my subjects by the officers of the Emperor of China , and far indignities offered to an Agent of my Crown , I , at the same time , appointed Plenipotentiaries to treat upon these matters -with the Chinese Government .

      These Plenipotentiaries were , by the last accounts , in negotiatioa with the Government of China ; and it will be a source of much gratification to me , if that Government shall be induced by its own sense of justice to bring these matters to a speedy settlement by an amicable arrangement . Serious differences have arisen between Spain and Portugal about the execution of a Treaty , concluded by those powers in 1835 , for regulating the navigation of the Douro . But both parties have accepted my mediation , and I 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 Hayti , treaties 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 ef the importance of adhering to the principles of economy , I feel it to be my duty to rec » mmend that adequate provision be made for the exigencies of tha 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 tbe amendment of the laws relating to tbe 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 ia 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 all 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-ncseproduct534/page/6/