verdict by a majority, that the prisoners were guilty of the first, second, third, and tenth counts in the indictment. The Court sentenced them to seven years' transportation.

4. Great meeting at the "Crown and Anchor" to express sympathy with the insurgents of Lower Canada. Resolutions were proposed declaring, "That this meeting, while deeply lamenting the disastrous civil war now existing in the colony of Lower Canada, is of opinion that this deplorable occurrence is to be ascribed to the misconduct of the British Ministry in refusing timely redress to the repeated complaints of the Canadian people, and in attempting to sustain that refusal by measures of gross injustice and coercion." Mr. Roebuck spokefirst, he said, as a British citizen entitled to express his opinion on a great subject; and secondly, as an avowed advocate of Canada.

5.-The Canadian insurgents attack Toronto, but are repulsed by the Governor, Sir F. Head.

7.-Hard frost commenced.

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10. The Royal Exchange burnt. flames were first perceived issuing from Lloyd's coffee-room, in the north-west corner, about half-past 10 o'clock. Owing to the intense frost there was much difficulty in procuring water, and the flames were not got under till the fire had in a measure exhausted itself, at noon the following day. Two hours after its outbreak, the whole range of offices belonging to the Exchange Insurance Company, Lloyd's captains' room, and underwriters' room, were one mass of fire. The flames reached the new tower about 1 o'clock, and the bells, eight in number, which had been chiming during the destruction, fell one after the other, carrying along with them the roof, stonework, and arch over the central entrance. The Lord Mayor and several aldermen were present during the greater part of the conflagration. The police were assisted by a party of soldiers from the Tower and the Bank guard. The statue of Sir Thomas Gresham, the founder, which had escaped the Great Fire of 1666, was totally destroyed. So vivid and extensive was the conflagration, that it was seen at Windsor with the greatest distinctness. It was generally believed that the fire originated from the overheating of a stove in or below one of Lloyd's rooms.

13.-Died, in his eighty-seventh year, John Scott, Earl of Eldon, Attorney-General for six years, and Lord Chancellor for nearly twentyfive. He finally resigned the Great Seal in April 1827, but would probably have held office for some years longer, had he agreed to the policy of yielding to the Roman Catholic claims. His personal property was sworn under 600,000l.

14. Continuance of severe frost. Thermometer (at Chiswick) 4° Fahr.

15. The jury, in the case of Miss Neville, tried in the Irish Court of Queen's Bench, tind

that she was not capable of managing her own affairs. Her delusions were of a religious character.

15.-Sir Francis Head, having differed from the Home Government on one or two points of Colonial policy, resigns the office of LieutenantGovernor of Upper Canada.

16.-Parliament re-assembles. Lord John Russell, by a majority of 188 to 28, carries a motion for an Address to the Queen, expressing "our deep concern that a disaffected party in Canada should have had recourse to open violence and rebellion, with a view to throw off their allegiance to the Crown; to declare to her Majesty our satisfaction that their designs have been opposed no less by her Majesty's loyal subjects in North America than by her Majesty's forces; and to assure her Majesty, that while this House is ever ready to afford relief to real grievances, we are fully determined to support the efforts of her Majesty for the suppression of revolt and the restoration of tranquillity. Lord John Russell thereafter obtained leave to bring in a bill to make temporary provision for the government of Lower Canada. In the debate to which the Address gave rise in the Upper House, Lord Brougham said:-"If you will have plantations in every clime-if you will have subjects by millions in opposite sides of the globe-if you will undertake to manage the affairs of an empire extending over both hemispheres, over an empire on which the sun never sets--whether such a determination on your parts be prudent or impolitic, whether its effects be beneficial or detrimental to our highest interests, I will not now stop to inquire; but if you make up your minds to this, at all events it imposes on you the absolute necessity that you shall be alive, and awake, and vigilant-that you shall not sleep and slumber--that you shall not, like the sluggard, let your hands sleep before you, as if you were administering the affairs of a parish, or even of a kingdom near at home, to which and from which the post goes and arrives every day in the week." (Some laughter was caused among their lordships by this language, as it was understood to apply to Lord Glenelg's reputed somnolency.)

Earl of Durham appointed GovernorGeneral and High Commissioner for the adjustment of the affairs of the provinces of Lower and Upper Canada.

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Decision in the Court of Queen's Bench, that no steamboat shall navigate between London Bridge and Limehouse Reach at a greater speed than five miles an hour.

20.-Thermometer in Hyde Park at 6.30 A. M. 3° Fahr. The Thames blocked with ice, so that people could pass from shore to shore below bridge.

21.-The Italian Opera House, Paris, burnt. M. Severini, the acting manager, was killed while endeavouring to make his escape from the fourth story of the building.

22. Mr. Roebuck heard at the bar of the House of Commons against the Canadian Bill. To establish its injustice he entered at length into a detailed history of events in Canada from 1763 to the present time, dividing thai period into four epochs, 1763 to 1810, 1810 to 1828, 1828 to 1834, and 1834 to the present period. Sir George Grey replied to Mr. Roebuck, and the debate was continued by other Members, the House at its close going into committee on the bill by 262 against 16, who supported Mr. Hume's amendment in opposi

tion.

24.-Nine persons drowned while skating on the reservoir at Hollinwood, Oldham.

Died in Kensington Union Workhouse, Charles Baron Kierrulf, a Swedish nobleman and brigadier-general in the army. He was discovered in a state of destitution in November last.

26.-Lord John Russell announces to the House in Committee on the Canada Bill that Ministers had resolved to adopt the amendment of Sir Robert Peel by striking out of the preamble of the Bill the words recognising the assembling of Lord Durham's Council of Advice, and the clause empowering the Queen in Council to repeal the Act at pleasure. These concessions were received with cheers by the Opposition. The bill was read a third time on the 29th.

29.-Lord Brougham, in the course of presenting an Anti-Slavery petition from Leeds, took occasion to speak at length, and with great animation, on that traffic, which he said flourished under the very expedient adopted to crush it, and increased in consequence of the very measures resorted to for its extinction.

February 2.-In the debate on the second reading of the Canada Bill in the Upper House, Lord Brougham strongly urged the necessity of sending out Lord Durham with powers far more ample than Ministers proposed to give him. He cited from the history of his "revered relative" (Dr. Robertson) the account of Gasca's mission to quell Pizarro's revolt in South America, a service Gasca performed by the vigorous exercise of the unlimited powers wisely given him by Charles V.-In reply to taunts thrown out against the Ministry, Lord Melbourne said he had for some time been expecting an ebullition of acrimony and acerbity from Lord Brougham. He knew it must come ; and the longer it was repressed and kept back, the more violent it was sure to become. Ever since 1833 that bitterness and acerbity had been gaining strength from its forcible suppression, and Lord Melbourne was by no means surprised that it had broken out at last. It was nothing more than what was naturally to be expected; but, unfortunately, people were generally so blind to all that concerned themselves, that they were often at a loss to perceive that which was quite plain and mani

fest to the rest of mankind. However, he thanked the noble lord for the active support which he had given him in 1835; he thanked him equally for his absence in 1836; he thanked him for the less active support which he afforded him in 1837; and he could assure him that he now felt no irritation at the very'altered tone and at the course of observation in which the noble and learned lord had indulged, and which no one could doubt that the noble and learned lord's zeal for the public welfare, his great patriotism, and his anxiety for the well-being of the nation, compelled him to adopt during the present session.

5. Mr. Roebuck heard at the bar of the House of Lords against the Canada Bill. He concluded: "At this moment every one of you must feel that war with the United States has been risked by this insane quarrel with our colonies. No greater calamity could happen to mankind than such a war; and yet have we heedlessly-may I not say criminally?—incurred the danger of it: and for what? To maintain a wretched band of hungry officials in the possession of ill-used as well as ill-gotten power to shelter a few peculating servants from the just indignation of their robbed and insulted masters. This, my Lords, is the real end of all our great expense, of all our loss of money, time, and blood-the magnificent object for which we have stayed all improvement in Canada-for which we now seek to outrage the feelings of the whole continent of America -for which we have already risked the chance of the most disastrous calamity which ignorance and wickedness combined could inflict on mankind! Is not this, my Lords, a magnificent requital for such a risk? And are we not, by our proceedings, exhibiting to the world a scene humiliating to the national character for sense, for honour, and generosity? To you, my Lords, as the supposed guardians of our ancient honour, I appeal to save us from this degradation and disgrace."

Navigation resumed on the Thames, the thaw having commenced on the 6th.

13. A meeting of women held at Elland, in Yorkshire, to protest against the New Poor Law Amendment Act. The measure was denounced with great fervour.

The question of trades' unions brought under the notice of the House by Mr. Wakley and Mr. O'Connell. Government promised inquiry.

15. Mr. Grote's annual motion regarding the ballot defeated on a division, by 315 to 198 votes.

20. The House of Lords reject two sets of resolutions submitted by Lord Brougham,

having reference to the suppression of the slave trade and the early emancipation of negro apprentices. Speaking of the latter, he said: "The slave has shown by four years' blameless behaviour and devotion, unsurpassed by any English peasant, to the pursuits of peaceful industry, that he is as fit for his freedom as any lord whom I now address. I demand his rights. I demand his liberty without stint, in the name of justice and of law-in the name of reason-in the name of God, who has given you no right to work injustice. I demand that your brother be no longer trampled upon as your slave. I make my appeal to the Commons, who represent the free people of England; and I require at their hands the performance of that condition for which they paid so enormous a price-that condition which all their constituents are in breathless anxiety to see fulfilled! I appeal to this House-the hereditary judges of the first tribunal in the world-to you I appeal for justice. Patrons of all the arts that humanize mankind, under your protection I place Humanity herself! To the merciful Sovereign of a free people I call aloud for mercy; to the hundreds of thousands in whose behalf half a million of her Christian sisters have cried aloud, that their cry may not have risen in vain. But first I turn my eye to the Throne of all justice, and devoutly humbling myself before Him who is of purer eyes than to behold any longer such vast iniquities, I implore that the curse over our heads of unjust oppression be averted from us that your hearts may be turned to mercy-and that over all the earth His will may at length be done!”

20. Mr. Fielden, M. P. for Oldham, moves the repeal of the Poor Law Amendment Act. Sir Robert Peel stated that, considering the experiment had lasted only four years, it was as satisfactory as any man could expect. Motion rejected.

21.-Died at Paris, aged 80, Silvestre de Sacy, Oriental scholar.

Burnes receives intimation from the Governor-General, that the proposals of Dost Mahomed regarding Peshawur could not be acceded to, and that it must be left to the Sikhs.

23.-Colonel Bunbury, Provisional Governor of St. Lucia, issues a proclamation substituting English for the French language used in the courts of justice, in retaliation, as he explained, for the advocates refusing to appear before his judges.

25.-At Notting-hill, a pedestrian named Earle performed the task of walking twenty miles backward, and the same number forward, in eight hours.

26. The House of Commons discuss an alleged case of breach of privilege committed by O'Connell, in so far as he had stated at a meeting in the "Crown and Anchor" that foul perjury was committed by the Tory elec

tion committees. Lord Maidstone's motion, that the charge was a false and scandalous imputation on the honour and conduct of members, was carried against the Ministerial amendment of "the previous question" by a majority of 263 to 254. Next day the Speaker formally reprimanded Mr. O'Connell, when the latter reiterated his statement, and declared that he had nothing to retract.

26. In connexion with a motion made by Lord Lyndhurst for papers relating to certain cases of cruelty alleged to have occurred in Milbank Penitentiary, Lord Melbourne took occasion to contrast the course which would have been followed in such a matter by the Duke of Wellington. He would have given notice. "The noble duke would rather have cut off his right hand than have taken such a course as that taken by the noble and learned lord. The noble duke is a man of honour and a gentleman; the noble duke is actuated and governed by the feelings of a gentleman and a man of honour, and I feel confident that he would not have acted in this manner."-Lord Lyndhurst wished for an explanation of Lord Melbourne's remarks: "The noble viscount says that he wishes the noble duke had been here, because the noble duke is a man of honour and a gentleman. That observation, which is true of the noble duke, was employed by the noble viscount in such a manner as to bear a different construction as applied to others. I wish to know in what sense the noble viscount applies those terms?"-Lord Melbourne: "I beg to state, that when I referred to the noble duke, I meant to say that, from the studied and scrupulous care which the noble duke takes in advertising those opposite to him of any observations which he intends to make in regard to them -I meant to say, knowing the scrupulous care of the noble duke in this particular, that he would not have acted as the noble and learned lord has done on this occasion. What followed-what the words were I used, and what the manner was I used, I do not recollect. But I distinctly state, that if I said anything in reference to the noble and learned lordanything to the effect that he had acted unlike a man of honour, or unbecoming a gentleman, I most fully retract those words."-Lord Lynd. hurst: "I am perfectly satisfied.”

Various outrages committed on females during the past week by a character known as "Spring-heeled Jack," or "The Ghost."

March 6.-Sir W. Molesworth introduces a vote of censure on Lord Glenelg, Secretary for the Colonies, but withdraws it after a discussion of two nights, in favour of an amendment, proposed by Lord Sandon, declaring that the present condition of Canada was owing to the ambiguous, dilatory, and irresolute course of her Majesty's Ministers. Division-for Ministers, 316; against, 287.

6. --Destructive fire in Paper-buildings, Temple, presumed to have arisen from a candle left burning in the chambers of Mr. Maule, M. P.; Nos. 12, 13, and 14, three houses comprising about eighty chambers, were destroyed. The Attorney-General was one of the greatest suf

ferers.

8. Decision of the Court of Session in the Auchterarder case. The Lords of the First Division, having considered the cases for the Earl of Kinnoul, Rev. Robert Young, and the Presbytery of Auchterarder, find that the Earl has legally and effectually exercised his right as patron, and that the Presbytery, in refusing to take trial of Mr. Young's qualifications, have acted to the hurt and prejudice of the pursuer and contrary to the provisions of the statute, libelled on. The case originated in the exercise of an interim Act of Assembly passed in 1834, enacting "That it shall be an instruction to Presbyteries that if, at the moderating in a call to a vacant pastoral charge, the major part of the male heads of families, members of the vacant congregation, and in full communion with the church, shall disapprove of the person in whose favour the call is proposed to be moderated in, such disapproval shall be judged sufficient ground for the Presbytery rejecting such person, and that he shall be rejected accordingly.' The Earl of Kinnoul presented Mr. Young to the parish of Auchterarder; but the majority of the male communicants rejected him by exercising this veto. As the Veto Act proceeded exclusively from the General Assembly, and was not ratified by Parliament, the Earl and Mr. Young brought this action in the Court of Session against the Presbytery. The court now decided that the Veto Act had no force in law; that Mr. Young had a right to the parish, and the Earl to the emoluments, until the Presbytery should induct him in due form.

14.-Crowded meeting in Exeter Hall, presided over by Lord Brougham, to petition Parliament for the immediate abolition of negro apprenticeship.

15. Mr. Villiers moves that the House resolve itself into a committee to consider the Act relating to the importation of corn. In favour, 95; against, 300.

16.-Boiler explosion on board the Victoria, of Hull, when running an experimental trip from London to the Nore. Chief-engineer Allen, hearing the explosion when on deck, rushed into the engine-room and stopped the engines, but was so frightfully scalded that he died in a few hours. Three assistant-engineers were also killed.

17.-A slight earthquake felt at Shrewsbury.

19.-Owen Swift kills Brighton Bill in a prize-fight at Barkway, Hertfordshire, this being his third victim. At the inquest a verdict of manslaughter was returned.

19. Mr. Poulett Thomson obtains leave to introduce a bill for the establishment of a system of international copyright.

20.-Lord Palmerston informs our ambassadors at Paris and Vienna of certain outrages committed on members of the British Mission in Persia, and instructs them in no way to recognise the mission of Hoossein Khan, who had left Teheran, with the view, as was given out, of congratulating her Majesty on her accession, but in reality to obtain the recall of Mr. M'Neill from the post he presently held at the Persian Court.

21.-The Ameer Dost Mahomed makes a final and unsuccessful appeal to Lord Auckland to remedy the grievances of the Affghans, and to give them a little encouragement and power. Burnes soon after took his departure from the city.

24. Died at Chelsea, Thomas Attwood, musician, aged 72.

26.-Meeting at the Thatched House Tavern to organize measures for erecting a monument to the memory of Lord Nelson.

30. Sir George Strickland's motion for abolishing negro apprenticeship on 1st August of the present year, defeated by a majority of 269 to 205. Mr. Gladstone spoke with admitted ability on behalf of the planters.

Came on at Warwick Assizes the trial of Muntz and three others, charged with riot and "an affray" at a vestry meeting held in St. Martin's Church, Birmingham, on the 28th March last. The jury found two guilty of "an affray" only, and two not guilty.

The post of Grand Vizier abolished by the Sultan.

The Marquis of Chandos' motion limiting the expenditure on Lord Durham's mission to the 12,000l. allowed to the Earl of Gosford, defeated by 160 to 158 votes.

A supplement to the Gazette of this date contains a proclamation "declaring her Majesty's pleasure touching her royal coronation and the solemnity thereof." The coronation to take place on Tuesday the 26th June. The Privy Council to sit at Whitehall on the 28th instant, and afterwards from time to time as occasion may require to hear and decide upon the claims of individuals "to do and perform divers services" on the day of coronation. The day was afterwards changed to the 28th, on the ground, as was alleged, that the date

first mentioned was the anniversary of the death of George IV.

4.-The Sirius screw-ship leaves Cork for New York, being the first vessel of this class which ever navigated the Atlantic. She arrived at her destination on the 23d, St. George's day. The Great Western left Bristol on the 8th, and arrived at New York also on the 23d.

6.-Robert Miers, tried at the Central Criminal Court for setting fire to his house in Marylebone, with intent to defraud the Union Insurance Company, was, on the third day, found guilty, and sentenced to transportation for life.

Mr. M'Neill, the British Minister at the Persian Court, arrives in the camp of Mahomed Shah, to remonstrate against the continuance of the siege of Herat as a violation of the treaty with Great Britain. He was admitted into the beleaguered city on the 21st, and endeavoured afterwards to negotiate a peace between the contending parties, but without effect. On the part of Persia, Mahomed Shah said: "Either the whole people of Herat shall make their submission, and acknowledge themselves my subjects, or I will take possession of the fortress by force of arms, and make them obedient and submissive."

9. Came on in the New Court, before Mr. Baron Parke, the trial of Thomas Williams, a person of high position in Carnarvonshire, charged with forging the will of his late fatherin-law, Mr. Panton of the same county. The specific object of the prosecution was to set aside a will in which a large sum of money was left to the prisoner's wife, by proving that the prisoner, who practised as a solicitor, procured the signature of the deceased to pencil writings, which were afterwards erased, and their place supplied with different instructions; also that the will was forged. The trial lasted an entire week, and to the great delight of a crowded court resulted in a verdict of Not Guilty.

- James Burke, a Catholic priest, and three brothers named Crean, convicted at Cork assizes for conspiracy in attempting to prove the murder of the father of the Creans, in 1834, against Wright, a tithe proctor, who was tried and acquitted on the charge.

11.-The Camden sails from Gravesend having on board the Rev. John Williams and a party of missionaries with their wives and families, for the unexplored islands in the South Sea, where they desired to labour for the conversion of the natives.

18. The poet Wordsworth writes from Rydal Mount, to Serjeant Talfourd, expressing the gratitude of English authors for the exertions he was making in Parliament to protect their rights against the claims put forth on behalf of printers and publishers in connexion

with the proposed alteration in the Copyright Act.

25.-The second reading of Mr. Talfourd's Copyright Bill carried in a small House by a majority of 5. This measure was withdrawn later in the session.

Under the auspices of the Religious Influence Society, Dr. Chalmers, of Edinburgh, enters upon a course of lectures on Spiritual Independence, at Hanover Square Rooms. The remarks of the Rev. Doctor on Church Establishments gave occasion to a violent attack by O'Connell, at a meeting of the Church Rate Abolition Society, held in the City of London Tavern.

26.-Shipwreck of the Margaret of Newry, transport, off Cape Clear. The vessel was caught in a snow-storm about midnight, and struck on a rock two miles from the shore. Of forty-one hands on board, only two were saved.

28. The estate of Worksop sold by the Duke of Norfolk to the Duke of Newcastle for 370,000l., the rental being set down at 10,000l. a year, and the wood at the gross value of 150,000/.

30. A Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the system of pensions and retirements in the army and navy.

May 1.-Mr. Hume's motion to stop the pension of 21,000l. per annum granted to the King of Hanover when Duke of Cumberland, on the ground of his inability to support the British Constitution, and the possibility there was of his using the money to the injury of his country, negatived by 97 to 62 votes.

Died in Bethlehem Hospital, Jonathan Martin, the incendiary who fired York Minster on the 2d February, 1829.

7.-Trial commenced at Paris of the individuals charged with being concerned in a plot against the life of the King of the French. The principal actor was one Hubert, a currier, who, when arrested in December, had concealed in his hat the plan of a machine resembling Fieschi's, but more scientifically constructed. A letter written in cypher was also traced to him, which, after much study, was deciphered, and detailed the plan of attack. "We intend to hire an apartment in the neighbourhood of the Chamber of Deputies, and a stable in the same house, where we will place the material necessary for the construction of the two machines, which will be put together the day before the opening of the session. When the King shall have reached within a certain distance we shall bring out the machines from under the gateway, and in three minutes I pledge myself to have foudroyé the King and the whole of his staff. In the meantime, two men stationed on the roof of the house will throw Congreve rockets on the Chamber of Deputies, which will be in a blaze