The Glamorgan Monmouth and Brecon Gazette and Merthyr Guardian

EXECUTION OF BARTLETT. The last sentence of the law was carried into effect on Saturday last, on Charles Samuel Bartlett, for the murder of his mother-in-law, Mary Lewis, at Stapleton, near Bristol, which has excited an almost unparalleled in this district. The erection of the scaffold was completed at a very early hour. About eleven o'clock last night Bartlett went to sleep, and slumbered apparently composedly until about three that morning, when he awoke, and asked his attendant the hour. The latter replied, about three o'clock on which Bartlett prayedbriefly, and said my hours are but few." He then turned round and fell asleep again, and did not awake until six o'clock. The prisonerattendeddivine service in tbe chapel of the prison at halt-past ten, when the sacrament was administered to him. Some time previously to the hnur fixed for the execution, a considerable th-ong of persons assem- bled, which gradually increased in density as the fatal period drew nigii. As ii,iial on tliese occa- sions, no stniiI portion of the spectators were females. Every avenue leading to the place of execution was densely crowded, and the number present must have amounted to at least 5000 persons-a larger number, we hel ieve, than ever assembled on a simi- lar occasion in this city. He left the room where he was pinioned about 20 minutes past 12, and proceeded with a theatrical step. He wore the same clothes that he did when on his trial. At about half-past twe've the wretched convict ascended the scaffold with a firm step, preceded by .he executioner who had previously placed the rope round his neck. About 1 1 persons accompanied him on the platform. He was extremely pale, but his countenance did not exhibit any particular trace of emotion. He had a bible and handkerchief in his hand. He then desired the executioner to request the spectators to take off their hats. This was generally complied with, and a dense stillness pervaded the vast assemblage below. lie then ad- dressed the multitude with a very firm voice to the following effect ''Englishmen and Fellow Countrymen,-I have a few words to say to ye, and but a very few, yet let me entreat of you to let those few words that I shull ay frike-strike deep into your hearts—but let them not only now you are witnesses of this sad scene, but take them to your homes-take them and repeat them to your children,—I do implore ye as a dying man,—one for whom the instrument of death is now prepared;—and these words are, that you may loose yourselves from that love of this idle world and its vain pleasures; think less of it and think more of your God. Do this-repent- repent, for be assured without a deep and true repentance and without turning to your heavenly Father you can never attaiti--yoti cannot hold the slightest hope of ever reaching those bowers of bliss and that land of peace to which I trust lain now fast advancing. I will say a few more words. AIL-all, good chritttians and repentant men that behold my disgrace here, sliiil I, as 1 trust they will, behold my glory hereafter.—And the last words are that-l am an injured man He delivered this address with marked emphasis, and it was a very remarkable fact, that when he came to the syilable "in" in "injured," there appeared 10 be a slight hesitation; but he pro- ceeded with the sainefirinnes, which he commenced his address. On the conclusion of his address the executioner pulled the cap over his facc, and after very slight delay the unhappy man was launched into eternity. He almost instantly dropped the handkerchief which he had in his hand. his arm even thrown back and his whole frame was convulsed for about two minutes. Thus terminated the earthly career of this wretched and misguided young man. From the con- clusive evidence adduced against him on his trial, we were induced to hope that he would acknowledge his guilt, and not rush into the presence of his Maker, as it may be presumed, with this awful sin resting upon his head. The end of justice is now satisfied, and we can in charity hope that he may receive from an offended God that mercy which was so justly denied to him by his earthly judge.— Gloucestershire Chronicle.

i .m ■■ The municipal council of this town have made every appointment a parly measure, the extreme of ult a-Radicalism being with them the only requisite for office. The appointment of over- seers for tIle wealthy parishes in Shrewsbury has fallen into their hands, and, following up their principle, they have elected several extreme Radicals who can" lIeilher read nor write" to those offices.-Stilopiati Journal. At the Donegal Assizes the following humer- ous cross-examination of a witness occasioned much merriment: —Mr Doherty: What business do you follow ? I am a schoolmaster. Did you turn off your scholars, or did they turn you off? — 1 do not wish to answer irrelevant questions". (Laughter.) Ale you a great favourite with your pupils? Ay, troth am I, a much greater favourite than you are with the public. Where were you, Sir, this night ? —This night! (said the witness) there is a learned mall-this night is not yet come; I suppose you mean that night. (Here the witness looked at the Judge, Kiid winked his eye, as if in triumph.) I presume the "schootmaster was abroad" hat night, doing nothing -Defi\le "notlll" said the witness, Mr Doherty did not comply. VVell, said ihe learned schoolmaster, I will define it-it is a footless stocking without a leg. (Roars of laughter, in which his Lordship joined.) You may <jo down, Sir.—Faith, I believe you're tired enough of me but it is my profession to enlightcn the Public, and if you have any more questions to ask, I will answer them. SI'DDEV DEATH OF Two WOKKMEN IN THE LONDON DOCKS.—A report. which has created no little alarm in the neighbourhood of the Dockseast of the metropolis, has been current within the last few days, relative to the death of two men labourers in the London Docks, and who were taken ill there, and from thence conveyed (o their homes in Vic. tory Row, White Horse Lane, Mile-end-road, where they shortly after died. The men's names were Harold and Lewis, and, from the circumstance of their being employed in or near a vessel lying on' the South Quay, which was discharging hi,r cargo of rags, suspicion has been excited that they had contracted some infectious disease. On inquiry it was found that the vessel which had brought the rags in question to the London Docks was the Podi, from Trieste and that she had been on shore on the coast of France, where her cargo was completely saturated with water- Ihe cargo is altogether composed of old rags ot the most filthy description, and as they are piled in heaps on the quay present to all the senses an object of disgust; in fact they appear to he undergoing a rapid decomposition. The arrival of a vessel from a part of the-world where the plague is at the present time making the most awful ravages, and discharging a filthy and heated cargo of old rags, is worthy of the most serious attention of those entrusted with the pre- servation of the public health. Since the Podi has unloaded hercargo another vessel from Trieste has been admitted into the London Docks.—Morn- ing Paper. ANOTHER CALCULATING BOY.—A most inte- resting exhibition of the power of mental calcula- tion took place on Monday evening^week, at a meeting of the Scientific and Literary Society in Cork. Mr Hall, Secretary to the Mechanics' In- stitute, introduced to the notice of the members a boy, of whom he gave the following accotint :-His name is John Flynn; he was born on Michaelmas- day, in 1824, and consequently has but lately com- pleted his 12th year. His father is a shoemaker, residing in Blarney-lane, Cork. and has five other children, none ofwhom have given any indications of the same powers. This boy has been partly educated at the Monastery School, and was con- siderably advanced in arithmetic before his extra. ordinary faculty of mental calculation manifested itself. Several questions were put to the boy by the members and others present, amongst whom he excited great astonishment by the readiness and correctness of his replies,leaving' ''los^ v*}'° solved the sama propositions on slates far behind. For example, he cubed the figures 315, and repeated every figure of each line of the process; he also found the fifth root of a very large number, which had been previously ascertained. He can raise any two figures to the fifth power "bile in money calculations he is truly wondertul, findln the interest or discount upon any sum, for any number of da^s, and the number of any smaller supposi- tiotim coin that may be contained in any number of a larger description. As an illustration, the ques- tion was asked him, How many 2s. 8 £ d. pieces will make 1,000 guineas ?" which he solved cor. rectly in a quarter of a minute, by the watch of a gentleman present. At the conclusion this pro. position was put, "Supposing that there were present in this hall 34 ladies, 9b gentlemen, and 28 boys that the ladies were each to give 5d., the gentlemen 4d., and the b, ys 3d., how much money would you receive? The boy was not long in sol- ving tiie qttestioii, though not so quickly as the hint was adopted by those present, who testified their gratification by collecting for him the sum of f2 19s. IOd. It is to be hoped that the powers thus early displayed by this boy may be turned to some useful and profitable accoll n t. -Sheffield Mercury,

G It EE NACRE. We have alluded to this miscreant elsewhere. His confessions, as recorded in the newspaper, are so con- flicting and contradictory that noj-eliance can be placed on anything he. say. The details in the various journals are quite disgusting. No one, we think, who peruses the following statement, can hesitate in his opinion what should be done with such a wretched creature:— Not half a dozen persons have seen Orecnacre since his commitment, and, with the exception of the Sheriffs and their deputies, only two individuals have been allowed access to the prisoner, to one of whom we are indebted for the following particulars, which Greenacre was induced to disclose under the influence of grateful recollections. The prisoner stated he ac- companied Hannah Brown from her lodgings to his own house, in Carpenter's Buildings, on Saturdav, (Christmas Eve), with the full intention of being married to her on the following day, as had been arranged. That they drank tea together, no other persons being in the house. In the course of conver- sation Hannah Brown expressed great relucfance to leave the countrv, and as he urged it, her determination became the stronger, and at length she declared her determination not to go to America, but expressed herself willing to redeem her promise of marriage, and to allow him to go thither to settle his affairs, and promised in his absence to look after his two tenements. "At this," said lie, the idea flashed across my mind that some sinister design or other was lurking in her bosom. I told her so. She rose from the table in a haughty manner, and declared empha- tically she would not go. I was excited, and at that instant I stooped down thus" the prisoner touched the ground beside him with his hand—" picked up a silk roller from the floor, and hit her with all the violence I cou'd in the eye. She fell. Her head struck against a block of wood behind with such force that it sprung away and spun round the room. I saw she was killed. I left the house and in great ex- citement and confusion walked rapidly away with the intention of immediately informing Mr Davis of what had happened. On the way my resolution failed. I suddenly immagined the conclusion that would in- evitably be drawn concerning the matter from previous reports which had been abroad derogatory to my cha- racter, and on a momentary impulse I resolved, rather than encounter the public odium, to put away the body. I turned back home. She lay there still, quite dead. So I pulled her up, put her head across my knee, took out my knife, and cut her throat. Aud," remarked the prisoner with the utmost com- posure, a tougher job I found it than you would imagine." Greenacre here spread out his handkerchief on his knee to illustrate the manner in which it WAS done, and went on to say, I put the head in my handker- chief, went out again, and took an omnibus to the Elephant and Castle, where I took another to Leaden- hall-street, and then got into one to Liuiehouse, carry- ing the head on my knee all the way. I got out, and walked on by the side of the canal. There was nobody about, so I went to the water's edge, and shook it out. I then returned home, and resolved to dispose of the legs. I cut down the thighs, sawed, and then broke them away but I was astonished to fiud how easily they came off." The unhappy man here observed, reflectively, that nobody could imagine how frail in this respect is the structure of the human frame. "All that night I remained alone in the house with the headless trunk, and early in the morning, before it was light, went down to Coal Harbour-lane, Brixton, with the limbs, which I left in the osier-bed, where they were found. Next day it was Sunday. I went to see Mrs Gales. Well,' said I, we have had a d-l of a quarrel, and Mrs Brown has left me, and gone I know not where with an individual who called for her. I do not expect to see her again. f stajed with her that night, and early on Monday morning, as the trunk yet remained to be disposed of, I put it into the bag as you have heard it was found in, and walked away with it on my shoulders. On the road I overtook a boy with a horse and cart, and asked him to let me put my load in. He wanted me to come in front, but I chose to have it behind. I told him I would follow it, as I was warm. At the Elephant and Castle I took some refreshment with the boy, and then shifted the sack from the cart and got with it into a cab, which drove me up the Edgware-road. When we came to what 1 thought was a safe place, I got out, and seeing that nobody observed me, deposited it behind the stone where it was discovered. I declare that Mrs Gale knew nothing whatever of what had taken place from first to last, and she took Mrs Brown's things in the end, because, as I told her, she was gone away in that manner, we could not presume that she would ever come back to fetch them." Greenacre further stated that at a subsequent period lie and Mrs Gale were at tea together. The head had just then been found in the canal took. "She had got the newspaper," said he, "and was reading the account of it. When she came to the description of the head she looked up into my face, and, says she, Greenacre—why this is Mrs Brown.1 'Do you think so?' I replied, Then, by G—d, to tell you the truth, I believe so, too. That," added be, was the very first suspicion ever she had of Vrs Brown's death." With reference to one of the medical witnesses, who deposed that the blow behind the head could not have caused the discolouration and swelling of the eye, and that the same must have been inflicted while the party was alive, Greenacre observed that "lIe was a very clever fellow. It is the real fact. That blow was inflicted ill the manner I have de- scribed." Throughout the above extraordinary recital the prisoner evinced the most astonishing composure and entered with an almost anatomical minuteness into details which almost made the blood of the hearer run cold. Though Greenacre refused the usual spiritual in. terference of the Ordinary he appears very anxious to repudiate the idea that he is entirely devoid of all religious i rnpressiolls.- True Sun.

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTES. tendon, Friday, April 14. BANKRUPTS. Peter Sangrouber, Old Compton Street, Westminster, licensed victualler, John Lee Stevens, Fleet Street, Printer. James Chapman, Tunhridge, Kent, grocer. J.icob Benjamin, Jewry Street, Aldgate, watch manu- facturer. S IIIlud Savaker. Great Ealing, and Colnbrook, Buck. iOihalllshire, linen draper. J hn Arthur, Colyton, Devonshire paper manufacturer. James Raaisav, Penrith, Cumberland, spirit dealer. William and William Bentley, Glasgow and Liverpool, merchants. Hubert Lynham Courtney, Walsall, Staffordshire, i: oumongfr. Charles Wynne Davies, Bishopscastlr, Shropshire, mercer. Nathan Gough, Salford, Lancashire, cotten spinner. Wi liam Pagett, Birmingham, hosier. James Threlfall, Leeds, stuff merchant. John Gillott, Masbrough, Yorkshire, timber merchant. Samuel Hodges, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, veteri- nary surgeon. Martha Miflin, Cirencester, innkeeper. George Wood, Lyme Itegis. Dorsetshire, linen draper. Walter Constable, Hay, Breeonshirf, and Dowlais, Glamorganshire, grocer, April 24. May 26. at one o'clock, at the Commercial Kooms, Bristol solicitors, Mcssro. White and W hitmore, Bedford How, Hobea Perry, Aston, Warwickshire, dealer. < Tuesday, A pr i 118. BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED. Henry Fiske. Walton, Norfolk, grocer. BANKRUPTCY SUPEUSE DKD. George Boys, Hodlev, Yorkshire, innkeeper. BANKRUPTS. Thomas Rankin, Epping, Essex, draper. David Patterson Stitt, Taunton, Somersetshire, linen- draper. John Taylor Bryson, London wall, and Little Bell Alley, baker. John Moore Adams, Strand, jeweller. John Carter, Great Baddow, Essex, wine merchant. Edward Alexauder, Mill-street, llanover-square, wine- merchant. Thomas Scott, Bow Church yard, commission-agent. Johu and Arthur Ltxiirett, Old Kent-road, market- gardeners. Joseph Halford, George Street, Lisson Grove, licensed. victualler. Henry Poulton. Torquay. Devonshire, cabinet-maker. Charles Kaisbeck Henzell, Aldermanbury, stock- manufacturer. George Seager, Cornhi)), tailor. John Webb, High Street, Southwark, linen draper. George Turnbull, Howdondock, Northumberland, grocer. William and Thomas rurnbull, Howdondock, Northum- berland, timber merchants. James Cooper and John M Leod, Liverpool, merchants. John Capner, Birmingham, maltster. Richard Henry Bowerman, W itney,Oxfordshire.dealer. Robert Cornes, Ashion under Line, Lancashire, iron- monger. Samuel Cjwan, Liverpool, tailor. James Lomax, Stockport, Cheshire, paper manufac- r I George Kent Pearson, Macclesfield, Cheshire, silk throwster. Junes Sandford Fletcher, jun., Portsea, Hampshire, grocer. Henry Francis Watkins, Bristol, corn factor. Thomas Spell Marston, Kenilworth, Warwickshire, carpenter. George Carthew, Uedenhall with Harleston, Norfolk, banker.

IMP E R IA L P A Ii Ll A MEN T. (Continued from our lust paye.) HOUSE OF LORDS—MONDAY. The House was almost wholly occupied with peti- tions. One, presented by the Ivirl of Harewood, against tlw illtroductioll of the new system of Poor Laws into the parish of Gawthorpe, iu the West Riding of Yorkshire, led to a conversation of some length and considerable interest The Marquis of DOWNSHIRE postponed the presentation of a Petition from the Protestants of In,taml, of which he had given notice some time ago, until Friday, the 2Sth instant, in consequence of the absencc of Lord Lvndhurst, caused by domestic affliction. Lord ABING ER inquired whether there was any objection to have the second reading of the Irish Cor- poration Bill, already fixed for the 25th, postponed until Friday, the 28Lh instant, as he did not expect the arrival of his Noble and Learned Friend (Lord LYlidhnrst) in town belorc that period. It dues not clearly appear whether the suggestion was adopted. The Mutiny Bill, Marine Mutiny Bill, Trial by Jury (Scotland) Bill, and Commissions for taking Affidavits in Scotland and Ireland Bill, severally went through Committee and were ordered to be re- ported. ,"1"# HOUSE OF COMMONS—MONDAY. After the presentation of some Petitions, the debate on the appointment of a Select Committee to examine whether any false evidence had been knowingly and wilfully given before the sub-committee on Petitions for private Bills in respect of Stephenson's line of Brighton Railway, was, on the motion of Mr Curteis, resumed, but the motion itself for the Committee was negatived without a division. MrFAZAKERLEY brought up a special report from the Select Committee appointed by the House to inquire into the administration of the relief of the poor under the orders and regulations issued by the Commissioners appointed under the provisions of the Poor Law Amendmellt Act; it was to tlw following effect:—"The Committee have proceeded with ti)" investigation committed to them, and deem it to be their duty to make this special report to the House- that a part of tlw evidencp- taken before the Com mittee, and documents presented to the Committee, and which have not been reported to the House, have appeared in the True Sun newspaper of Friday and Saturday last." Mr Fazakerley thought he should best consult the convenience of the House by moving that this report be printed with the votes of tiie House, and taken into consideration to-morrow. Lord J. RUSSELL seconded the motion, wb ch was agreed to. Sir E. CODRINGTON then introduced a discus- sion respecting Sir P. Malcolm and himself. The conversation ended as such conversations usually do— in nothing, except that ampie justice was done to the high character of Sir P. Malcolm. When this subject was disposed of, Mr ROEBUCK asked when it was the intention of Government to proceed with the Canada resolutions? Lord. RUSSELL replied that he would endea- your to oil tile renwjllillg Rrsolutions to- morrow but that it must depend upon lion. Members who had motions giving away. If he were unable to bring them forward to-morrow, they should be the first business attended to after that evening. Mr LEADER gave notice, that he should move that the consideration of the Resolutions be postponed for six months, to give time for an amicable adjust- ment of the questions in dispute. AFFAIIIS OF SPAI. Sir H. HARDINGE said he would not trouble the House with any lengthened preface on the subjeet to which he was about to call their attention. lie did not even conceive it necessary to enter into any discus- sion as to the policy of the Quadruple Treaty. In all the discussions that had taken place, he believed that the Noble Lonl (Pal nwrston) had never justified the order in council as occasioned by the Quadruple Treaty. He did not view the question as one of interest or of party; he called on them to consider it, because the character of the country was at stake, and that he considered to be superior to every other consideration. (Hear, hear.) It did appear to him that Government had placed a large class of his Majesty's subjects in a situation and condition in whidl they were liable to the pains and penalties of out-laws and robbers. (Hear,hear.) He would say that the system on which the war was carried oil in Spain was, in his opinion, unsatisfactory and unjustifiable. (L<>ud cheers from the opposition.) The Noble Lord (Palmerston) had, by the order in council, implicated the national charac- ter of the country. (Cheers from the opposition.) He had tarnished the military reputation of Englishmen. (Ciieers.) It remained to be seen, whether his Ma- jesty's Ministers had allowed a certain number of their eoulltrynwlI to be trained up to scenes of blood and rapine. (Hear, hear.) He knew that the Noble Lord (Palmerston) felt ashamed, and deplored these scenes, as mudl as he did. But while he acquitted him as a man, he found fault with him as a Minister, for that ad had aggl"a velecl the miseries of tlle war.- It was an act for which there was no good motive. The safety of England was not endangered, the indepen- dence of Spain was not involved, the whole circum- stances were the voluntary act of the Noble Lord (Palmerston.) (Hear, hear.). The Noble Lord at the time accounted for the act. lie recollected that it was stated on the 1st of June, 1835, that eertain inha- bitants of the remote northern provinces in SjKtin were in a disturbed state. If that was the reason why the Noble Lord allowed ten thousand English men to enlist in the service ol the Queen of Spain, it was time that the people of this country should know with what class of people their countrymen were waging war. I hose who have lived among them know the people of the Basque provinces to be a brave, free, aud independent people. (i fear ) As to the mode of carrying on the war, he could quote the opinion of the Hon. Member for Bath, who had stated that the interference of Government in Spanish affairs was as "Ullligilifit!d IS it was useless." He could refer to a treatise. written by John Adams, for- merly president of America j—Speaking of that people, that gentleman said, "Of all classes of people ill Europe there were no class, having such claims on liberty as the people of the Basque provinces." (The Hon. and Gallant Member here read an extract.) He would ask the Noble Lord, then, what right he had to make war on the Basque provinces by allowing 10,000 Englishmen to leave this country for that purpose. (»ienf, hoar, and loud cheering,) If he wanted t(, ;til)po"t the opinion he had stated, he could still refer the House to the more recent pro- clamation of General Evans, dated 14th February last. What did he tell the people ? He said all Spain were desious of securing similar possessions. Was that not all admission that the Basque people were possessed of liberties, and so substantial, that the rest of the Spallish Iwnple were anxious to have ,ive, a the siiiie'? (Hear.) He could not then conceive a state of things more unjustifiable than the conduct of his Majesty's government, or more impolitic than their interference in Spain. The order in council was not issued until tile 1st of June, 1835, and the con- vention was concluded on the 16ih of April previous. But what was the object of the convention? The first act of the Duke of Wellington, when Foreign Secretary, finding that the war in Spain was pro- ductive of great unnecessary bloodshed and misery, and acting on the principle that every nation was bound to exercise its good offices towards another, sent out Lord Elliot. That Noble Lord succeeded in his mission. When the Noble Lord introduced his order in council, 5,000 prisoners had been spared from the passing of the convention its effects were most humanising, and it was the duty of government not to have interfered in a spirit of hostility, but to have assisted, by every possible means, in alleviating the misery of the war—(hear, hear) but the mea- sure of the Noble Lord had impeded the working of the convention, aud brutalised the character of the war. (Cheers from the opposition.) He did not state so on light grounds. Creneial Evans, in a reconnoitering expeditioll, JI August, 1835, ap- proached the walls of Hernani, having in his army a body of Christino Biscayans, against whom the Car- list Biscayans have a bitter hatred. After some skirmishing", there was a retreat, and losses on both sides. And what was the fact? Neither party car- ried into effect the terms of the convention, and, in consequence of the presence of the foreign soldiers, the prisoners were on both sides put to death. (Hear.) The Hon. andGalknt Member then read a passage from Major Richardson's work on the operations of the British Legion, in proof of the accuracy of this statement. The same policy had subsequently been pursued, and all in consequence of the intervention of this country. The Durango decree was the conse- quence of that intervention. In speaking of that decree, the Hon. and Gallant Member declared that such was the abhorrenec in which he held it, that if "he thought any thing could disqualify a person from holding the ciown, it was the publication of that de- cree. (Cheers.) The Legion itself had also been contaminated and inured to a system of bloodshed unknown in the annals of civilised warfare. The Hon. Member then adverted to the sufferings of the Legion. During the first four months after their landing in Spain, forty officers and seven hundred men died solely through the non-fulfilment of the pledges and promises of the Spanish Government. (Hear.) The loss at St. Sebastian was double iu amount to the whole loss at Vittoria. (Cheers.) The Legion then went to Trevelio, and there their sufferings were in- describable, in consequence of the same indifference by the Spanish Government. About the middle ot April, the Legion returned to SI. Sebastian; but notwith- standing the promises that had been made, no pay was to be had, although it was five months in arrears. The troops showed a great disposition to mutiny. Here was another circumstance which showed the im- politic conduct of our Government. Ther<s could be no military discipline, unless faith was kept witii the soldiers. [I' wl",it ,t situation, tli(, was this, to p'a(.C ten thousand British soldiers? There appeared everv probability that the blood of one battalion would be shed by another. Major Hiehardson statpd that mneh of this discontent'arose out of tiie dispute as to the term of service for which the men had entered; they insisted that it was for one year, whereas General Evans insisted that it was for two years. Manyof the men stood out and were disarmed, after having threatened to go over to Don Carlos, if their arrears were not paid. (Cheers and laughter.) Could any- one be surprised at what had subsequently taken place in the Legion? Major that the officers were allowed to retire according to the terms of the engagement, although the men were not. But what a disgraceful state of things was this, and how degrading to the Government which alloXved it ? (Ciieers.) Was it surprising that tiiere had been de- sprtions of hundreds ] (Cheers.) Colonel Churchill who had eom lllalHkd one of the regiments of the Legion, had left the service, avowedly in consequence of the treatment to which the then were exposed, and the necessary result — military insubordination. The misfortunes of the Legion did not stop here, however After mutiny and insubordination had broken out, tli(, troops became so far deteriorated and ensanguined in character, that the war in the neighbourhood of SI. Sebastian was carried on in a way which rendered it imperative upon that House to interfere. (Cheers.) Such was the state of the troops in St. Sebastian, and such the exasperation of the officers, that previous to the assault upon the lines on the 5th of May, one of the officers, after drawing up his men, addressed them to this eitect Siiow no pity, give no quarter, sliver every man you meet."—(Name, name.) llow was that order carried into effect? Just as might be supposed. It was strictly and ferociously obeyed. Neither the Spaniards nor the Legion gave any quar- ter. The several battalions bayoneted all who came fie,ii- tiielii. (Ciieers.) He (Sir H. Hardinge) was ready to admit that General Evans had upon everv oceaion used every endeavour to humanise the war— (Hear)—and from his personal knowledge of that gallant officer he believed he was entirely ignorant of these orders, which one or two of his commanding officers had given. Tiiis was not honourable war. (Hear, hear.) This was butchery—(Hear, hear) — and butchery of a people, free and independent as ,,Ol ve, ourselves, and who had never done anvthing against us. (Hear, hear.) The British troops had lately suffered a defeat unknown to file Lritisli it-iiis for the last five or six hundred years. In every action General Evans and his officers had behaved with the greatest valour. But war, if made at all, should be made in a straight- forward, honourable, and manly manner; it ought not to be carried on in a way calculated to produce not only inevitable failure, but disgrace. (Cheers.) The Noble Lord ought at once to withdraw the order in council from which so many unfortunate conse- quences had followed. (Hear, hear.) He now came to the second branch of the subject—the employ- ment of the marines and artillery in the late en- gagement at Hernani. He contended this was not justified by the terms of the treaty. (Hear, hear.) It had been unusual for any part of the King's forces to be employed in warfare until a message had been sent down to the House of Commons by his Majesty, ex- plaining the reasons for taking such a step. (Hear.) rhe sooner the House prevented th Ministry from pursuing their present system of policy with regard to Spain the better. (Cheers.) As a Member of that House, deeply interested in the honour of the country, he conjured the House to demand the withdrawal of the Legion, and the British marines and artillery, from the contamination of the warfare in which they are now engaged, and to compel the Government to con- fine their interference in the affairs of Spain strictly within the limits of that treaty which his Majesty had unhappily been advised to ratify. (Opposition cheers.) (n eonelusion the Right Hon. Gentleman moved his amendment, wlilel wa.; -,is follows:I'i",It an humble address be presented to his Majesty, praying that his Majesty will be g-raeiously- pleased not to renew the order in council of the 10th June, 1835, granting his Majesty's royallieellse to Biitish subjects, to enlist in the service of the Queen of Spain, which order in council will expire on the 10th June next; and pray- ing also that his Majesty will he graciously pleased to give directions that the marine forces of his Majesty shall not be employed iu the civil contest now pre- vailing in Spain, otherwise than in that naval co- operation which his Majesty has engaged to afford, if necessary, under the stipulations of the treaty. The Gallant mover was seconded by Sir S. CAN- NING. The principal speakers were Lord Leveson, Mr C. Wood, Lord F. Egerton, and Mr O'Connell. The debate was adjourned till to-morrow. In the course of his speech, Mr O'CONNEL stated, that at the assault on Buenos Avres an order was issued to give no quarter, and quoted Colonel Thomp- son as his authority. Sir B. Vere and Sir H. Hardinge denied this state- ment, which, however, was supported by Colonel Thompson. Where is the record of this order ? Indeed, Colonel Thompson does not I)retell(i that such an order was issued from head quarters. HOUSE OF LORDS-TUESDAY. A large number of Petitions was presented, chiefly relating to Church Rates. Lord RADNOR gave notice that on Monday se'n- night, he will move for the appointment of a Select Committee, to inquire into the management of the colleges and halls of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, so far as relates to their statutes, and to the oaths which individuals are bound to obey. Lord DUNCANNON laid on the table a report on the subject of rebuilding the two Houses of Parlia- ment, aud stated that the estimates had been prepared by Mr Barry, and the parties were ready to undertake the building on Mr Barry's estimates. The Mutiny Bill, the Marine Mutiny Bill, and tiie Penitentiary "(Millbank) Bill, were severally read a third time and passed; and the I rial by Jury (Scot- land) Bill, and the Affidavits Commission Bill, were reported. The House adjourned till Thursday. HOUSE OF COMMONS—TUESDAY. After the presentation of Petitions, Lord JOHN RUSSELL brought under notice the publication of evidence taken before the Poor Law Committee. Mr D.W.HARVEY, in answer to an allusion which the Noble Lord made to him, admitted that he was the party really responsible for the publication complained of. Lord J. RUSSELL then moved the following reso- lution:—"That according to the undoubted privileges of this House, and in order to afford due protection to the public interests, the evidence taken by any Select Committee of this House, and the documents presented to such Committee, and wlufth have not been reported to the House, ought not be published by any Member of such Committee, or by any other person." The discussion of the resolution was post- poned till Thursday, Mr O'CONNELL giving notice that ho would (if nobody else did) move, as an amendment upon the resolution, that a full and bona fide publication of the evidence taken before Committees of the House would be useful to the public." The remainder of the evening was almost exclu- sively oceupied witll the adjourned debate on Sir H. Hardinge's motion relative to the employment of British troops in Spain. The debate was again ad- ( journed till to-morrow. The speakers were Mr Maclean, Mr n. Bulwer. Sir R. Inglis, Mr Warde, Lord Malion, Dr Lushington, Mr G. Price, MrSheil, and Sir J. Elley.

NEW HOUSES OF PAKUAMENT.—Mr Barry's estimates for the New Houses of Parliament have been examined and approved by the Board of Works, and the total amount is a trifle under the rough Calculation of £ 800,000. Of course we like to see, in all national undertakings, that vigilant care is taken of the public purse, but we would not strike off a single turret of this magnificent pile of building out of any scrupu- !ous consideration of mere cost. The people desire only to have their whistle for their money —to have a noble structure that shall add some- thing to the architectural splendour of their capifal-give them that, and there will be no cavilling whether it costs a hundred thousand pounds more or less. A love of architecture, consequent on knowledge, is certainly spread- ing among us; few things are more likely to aid the good cause than the example set by Earl de Grey, the President of the Institute of Ar hiiects, who, on Monday last, threw open his house for the reception of the members of the Society, and the patrons and friends of the art. This is the way to awaken a feeling for, and, by the inter-communication of mind, to diffuse a knowledge of, architecture; and on this broad basis alone can the fame of the artist he securely built np. We were happy to see, that not only many noblemen, but many noble ladies, were present——Ailiwc?uni.

LA TEST INTEL I AG ENCE. HOUSE OF LORDS- WEON ESDA v. The House (tid not sif. ,,I>#6>#JI' HOUSE OF COMMONS-WEDNESDAY. After the presenlatioll of petitions, the ad- jonrned dehated on the Spanish question was resumed, and was concluded at half-past 0 o'clock. The number of voters for the resolu- tion of Sir H. Hardinge was :242, against it 278; thus giving the Ministers a majority of only :36. ROSS-SHIRE ELECTION. SECOND DAY'S POLL. Majority for Applecrosa at- Tain 63 Cromarty 6 Dingwall 21 Janetown I Ullapool 21 13 Expected majority in the Lewis for Muirton, say 36 Majority for Applecross 96 THE RECORDER'S REPOIlT- Yesterday after- noon the Recorder made his report to his Ma- jesty ill Coullcil of the prisoners nnder selltence of death in Newgate. Phoebe Taylor, alias Rugg, for burglary; Charles Cockite, for bur- glarv; and Washington Yarrow, fur burglary- April sessions John Buckhouse, for burglary Thomas Waters, for burglary; John Davis, for hurg-Iary; and Edward Thomas, for highway roblwry-all of whom his Majesty was graci- ously pleased to resl)ife.-It was expected by many that the case of Greenacre would also be reported, which was not the fact, nor can he be until the question shall be decided as to whether the application of Mr Price to the Secretary of Slate will be granted—that the case of the convict may be argued before the Judges-

At the "gathering" of the Radicals, which took place some little tillle since at the Mermaid Tavern at Hackney, for .abolition of Church I Rates, the assembly was addressed by the Rev. VIr Aspland the >Oeinian Minister; the Rev. Dr- Pye Smith, the Independent Minister; and the Rev. Dr. Cox, the Baptist Minister. The union of the b'asphemers and professed worshippers v I of the Saviour is, in this case, as holy as the cause to which their united exertions were devoted—namely, the overthrow of the Esta- blished Church. Ministers would appear to have lost another county. Mr IackeHzie. of Applecross, has a majority of ninety on the first day's poll for itos, a', ov-er liis tiiiiiis tt!riti coin- petitor. Mr Mackenzie, ()f Mujrtown. We are especially pleased at this, on account of tlje bold and open language used by Applecross f\,i the nomination Applecross said, that how- ever gentlemen on the other side might disguise their sentiments, the real struggle now going on was between Protestantism and Popery and it was to the Prottstanls of the county that he appealed for support." This is tile true ground on which to rest the quarrel, and on this ground success is never found to fail. There is scarcely a parish in the metropolis which has not at the present moment its Green- acres in religion—Greenaeres in politics- Greenacres in the mad career of agitation— Greenaeres in reforming the state-reforming the rhurch-—reforming everything upon earth but themselves, To all these we should sav- look at Greenacre! To them may be left the task of "adorning the tale'' as they may—we "point the moral.Herald. THE WEATHER.—The accounts from all quar- ters of the country still represent the weather as dreadfully Severe. In some parts of Aberdeen- shire the snow is lying five and six feet deep, hut in the Northern Highlands it is much deeper- Aberdeen Herald. A patent for 10 years h ,s just been granted by the Emperor of Russia to one of his Aides- de-Camp, for the invention of a new species of road, which it is calculated will excel all others. The plan is to place the wheels (mere friction rollers.) tiot iipoii tite carriages, but upon the rails of the road itself, and to have it travelled over by sledges drawn by horses. The experi- ment has been tried in St. Petersburgh, and it is said that a horse can gallop at the top of his speed, and draw a great load after him,-Frullk- fort paj.er. BISHOP o "Noitwicii.rii(. Rev. Edward Stanley, son of Sir Thomas Stanley, Bart., of Cheshire, has been appointed Bishop of Norwich, in the room of Dr. Bathurst, deceased. We regret to learn that Mr Justice Park is pre- vented from attending the Court of Common Pleas by severe indisposition, having been confined to his by the advice of his medical attendant, since his return last Monday week from the circuit. Literary men," says Mr Bulwer, have not with us any fixed and settled position as men of letters. We have, like Mr Cooper's American lady, no precedence. We are, in tact nobodies. Our place, in turf language, is nowhere Like certain birds and beasts of difficult classification, we go without any at all. We have no more caste, than the Pariahs. We are on a par—according as we are scientific, theologie, imaginative, dramatic, poetic, historic, instructive, or amusing—with quack doctors, street preachers, strollers, ballad singers, hawkers of last dying speeches, Punch- and-Judies, conjurors, tumblers, and other '-divart. ing vagabonds." We are as the Jews in the East, the Africans in the West, or the gipsies anywhere We belong to those to whom nothing can belong. I have even misgivings—heaven help us—if an author have a parish! I have serious doubts if a work be a qualification for the workhouse! The law apparently cannot forget, ortorgive, that Homer was a vagrant, Shakespeare a deer-stealer, Milton a rebel. Our very cracks tell against us in tfle -;tatiite,-Poor Stoneblind, Bill the Poacher, and Radical Jack have been the ruin of our gang. We have neither character to lose nor property to pro- tect. We are by law—outlaws, undeserving of civil rights We may be robbed, libelled, outraged with iiiil,tinity-. -being at the same time liable, for such offences, to all the rigour of the code. I will not adduce, as I could do, a long catalugue of the victims of this system which seems to have been drawn up by the Lord of Misrule," and sanctioned by the "Abbot of Unreason. E,rli-acte(i.fi-ont a Letter addressed by T. Hood to the Editor of the A thenreum. POWERFUL GAI.VANIC BATTERY—The most pow- erful combination that exists, is in the laboratoryof the Royal Institution. It consists of 200 instruments, connected together in regular order, each composed of ten double plates, arranged in cdls of porcelain, and containing in each plate thirty-three square inches; so that the whole number of double plates is -2000,and the whole surface f 28,000 square inches. This battery, when the cells were filled with sixty part of water, mised with one part of nitric acid and one part of sulphuric acid, afforded a series of brilliant and impressive etfects. When pieces of charcoal, about an each long and one-sijtb of an inch in diameter, were brought near each other, (within the Sdth or 40th part of an inch), a bright spark was proiticed, and more than half the volume of the charcoal became ignited to whiteness; and, by withdrawing the points from each other, a con- stant discharge took place through the heated air, in a space equal at least to four inches, producing a most brilliant ascending arch of light, broad and conical in form in the middle. When any substance was introduced into this arch, it instantly became ignited — platina melted as readily in it as wax in the fhmeof a common candle quartz, the sapphire, magnesia, lime, all entered into fusion; fragments of diamond, and points of charcoal and plumbago, rapidly disappeared and seemed to evaporate in it. Such are the decomposing powers of electricity, that not even insoluble compounds are capable of resisting their energy; tor even glass, sulphate of baryta, fluor spa' &c., when moistened and placed in contact with electrified s irtaces from the gal- vanic apparatus, are slowly acted upon, and the alkaline, earthy or acid matter, carried to the pole. in the common order. Not even the most solid aggregates, nor the firmest compounds, are capable of resisting this mode ot attack; its operation is slow, but the results are certain; and sooner or later, by means of it, bodies^re resolved into sim- pie forms of matter. -Aliiiing Journal.

LuXUtJS .l/o.v H Y MAKKKT. CLOSING PRICES OF BRITISH STOCKS—THITKSDAT. Bank Stock 20.i, 3^ per cent. Reduced.. 07'^ India Stock 259*134 per cont New 3 percent. Consols 90r'-l per c.-nt. Id26 — Consols tor Account 90j India Bonds 30 3 per cent. Reduced 90 Exchequer Bdls 42 PRICES or FOKKIGN STOCKS. Brazilian Bonds 5 per ct bl J1 Greek Ang. Bds 3, r. ct. Chilian, 5 per cent. — Mex. Bonds, 6 net ct. 2t Colombian Bonds,6 prct 21 Portuguese B<!s. 5ptr ct 45 Uanish Bonds, 3 per ct. 7;\1' Portti-icse R, B,,titis 31 Ou ch'2J per cent 535 Hu-s an Bonds.5porct 108* Ditto > per cent 100 Spanish UiSH), 5 perct 2 b iencfi Rentes 5 per ct. — Belgian Bonds, 5 per ct!02J

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)lEUTUYli TYDVIL, SATURDAY, April 22, 1837 The convict Grecnacre still continues to en- grosji the popular attention. The publications of all shapes and sizes which appear day by day with his portrait, memoirs and confessions, are boundless, and the number of the last Sunday's papers which owed their chief interest to long, minute, and extravagant details of his life and crimes, amounted to hundreds of thousands. But we must vindicate our countrymen. This avidity arose from public astonishment, alarm and horror. The shouts which were given by the multuude in the streets on the return of the verdict, were actually a tribute to humanity, and the interest which will pursue every inci- dent of his career till is is closed, will be the mere operation of a rude love of justice. But in the conduct pursued by higher persons we think that the hope of obtaining fuller confes- sions of his guilt is defeated by the very means adopted. He is made the object of frequent visits. He ought to be left wholly in the soli- tude of his cell. Sheriffs, and the other func- tionaries of the law and office, make formal enquiries of him of what portion of his proceed- ings it may be his will to acknowledge: not a syllable should be spoken to him, especially in this formal manner, which naturally stimulates him to falsehood. He is taught to believe him- self au object of national solicitude. He ought to be left to the impression that he is tolally forgotten by the world,—that he is looked on already as in the grave, and that the only business of life is, not to fabricate histories of himself, or write memorials for posterity, but to make the best use of the few melancholy hours left between him and the scaffold for opening his heart before his Maker, and imploring mercy for his heavy sin against God and man. y t, It has been observed, as a remarkable matter, that Greenacre was a stirring personage at Elections,t prodigious advocate for Reform in all its ways,—an inflexible enemy to the abuses of the Church,—a first-rate friend to Liberty—Property Universal Suffrage, and so forth in short, a Radical so prominent and promising, that he was appointed the public proposer of one of the popular Candidates (Mr Murray) at the Southwark. Election for 1832. On the contrary, we regard it as by no means a remarkable thing. He had received just the education for a Radical-Vice and dis- content, inflamed by idleness and utter want of principle. When this model of patriotism was thus flourishing away in metaphor before the applauding rabble, and giving them his cheap lessons in political virtue, he was cheating the Revenue, robbing his creditors, and it is not improbable that his hands were embrued in blood. If a Revolution had been effected in England, this man would inevitably have been in power. For in all popular Revolutions, the lens principle the more success. After the whole impotent tribe of gouty feeders at the feast of lazy party had been swept awav,—after the undertakers covering the corpse of the Consti- tution with their tarnished escutcheons, and escorting it with formal and frivolous decorull1 to the grave, had been flung into the tomb along with it, then the true Radicals would have been the true men of authority. The bolder the rabble politician in his defiance of justice; the more grasping in his lust of robbery the more furious in his revenge on all that had hitherto restrained his appetite for destruction the more reckless, precipitate and insatiable in his thirst of blood, the surer he is to be the ruler. in all instances, the more arrogant, brutal and headlong the Radical, the higher he inevitably will be lifted up on the shoulders of triumphant faction, until the stern penalty of the national guilt is paid, and the country is either extin- guL.ied or left to look back with bitter penitence on the follies and frenz es of a passion for change. A brawny ruffian like Greenacre, would have swept before him like flies, the coxcomb crowd that lisp Revolution among \1S. The cold realities of the man of the knife would have flung scorn on the tribe of well-dressed theorists of appropriation clauses," Dissenting consciences, and Church REFOIIMS He would trample theories and theorists alike into the mire and, ridiculing the affectation and strip- ping the hypocrisy, would have irresistibly asked his hundred thousand financiers in the street, his hard fisted sons of freedom," 89 that incendiary Cobbett called them, whether the shortest way to subversion was not to sub- vert at once; whether any man could keep his property after his head was rolling on the scaf- fold or whether a Church could subsist after its walls were embers, its property sacked, and its priesthood' covering the soil wit^ their bones or flying round the world ? We are within sight of great political cliange,-every,tneastire of that faction, before wlqcli the Cabinet especially trembles, is revolutionary. They are strikillg blows at every vital organ of England, and any one of them may he fatal. The Peers-tbe Church—the—Franchise—the Laws-the Army —the Throne,—all are assailed alike, and all together. What is to be done? At this hour there are individuals in England equal to the blackest atrocities of the French Revolution. Men who would betray with the desperate duplicity of the Brissots and Rolands,—who would urge on massacre with the headlong ferocity of the Marats and Dantons, and who would sit in grim exercise of the prerogative of universal havoc, with the tiger subtlety of Robespierre. GOD, and the Religion that he has given to its, have hitherto preserved Eng- land. But what Englishman, iu the common use of his faculties, can doubt, that the per- petual infusion of afiocious principles into the national mind, is for a purpose of direct evil. The cauldron is not so filled nor so surrounded, but for the invocation of sp rita th tt shall pro- phecy evil alike to People and Kings.