The Sun. — London, England, 1837-04-04 00:00:00

-- .--------- PRICES Ot , sTIx.:K , "THIS DA t A r UNE O'CLOCK. -Sank Stork. 3 per Cent. i‘ert. — Oitto Bon..is 1 ....1 per Cent. Cons . .. 9 lt ~ , i South Sea Stock _ fl;‘, per Cent........... —•........— OM Annuities — Ditto Red .......••• .. New Ditto — New 5 per Cert..... 48 3 i% , 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751_ Sew 5 per Cent... ............, Exch. Bills, .t:1,000 2l 37 pm. flank Lorna Annuities to expire Ditto .500.... .....34 36 pm. Jan. 5, 1 , rn —' Ditto Sma ll oct. i ~ 1859 — Ditto Commercial _._. —. pm. Jan. 5, 060 14% Ditto Advertise.' — Put Jan. 3, 851 1 ....... ....... --- Yank Stock for Account...— ..... April 5, leNt' Jan. 5, 187 ( ' Omnium — Consols for Account ............ 9014 —Pm 1 PRICES OF .1•OREION FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds .........-- ...... Peruvian Bonds .... .......... ..... Be- gian Bends , Ditto Account ...........»..... Ditto Account —' Portuguese 80nd5.,,........ ..... ... Brazilian Bonds .. 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M0rning.........4 minutes after '2. I Evening..... 35 minutes after 2. Preparing for publicaldon, in 3 vols. post Svo. TP P 0 . 0 S A I B; OR, THE FALL O.F SERINGAPAT ANL A RO MANCE. Richard Bentley, i yew Burlington-street. CAPTAIN CHAMIER':i: NEW NAVAL NOVEL. Nearly ready, int 3 Vv;ls., post Bvo. T H AAR E THUS A. NAVAL, STORY. By Captain CH AMIER, R.N. Author of " Ben Brace,"* " Life of a Sailor," Sze. "She is a vessel tight : ai d b rave As ever stemmed the , dashing wave, Her men are staunch to 'their fav'rite launch ! Huzza for the Arethusa." Richard Bentley, Ne w Burlington-street. THE NEW COMIC P ERIODICAL WORK. Embellished with a Portra' it of B. D'ISRAELI, Esq. COLBURN'S 'NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE Al "'ID HUMOURIST, FO' .1 APRIL, EDITED BY THY ZODORE HOOK, Esq. Contains, among other Cont . ibutions by the most Distinguished Writer s of the Day : _.— . . Continuation of the Gurney Pa pers. By the Editor. The Phantom Ship. By Capt. Alarryat. Original Lines, by Sir 'Walter Scott. Theatre Royal, Little Pe' llino on —Conflicting Criticis:. as. By the Author of " Paul Pry." A Widower's Wooing. B y Haynes Baylv, Esq. Pompeii—A Poem. 13;:y J. E. Ileade, Esq. A Day in the Neilgherr y Hills. Henr) Coihurn, Pt ,blisher, I 'The King of Clubs. By Alfred Crowquill. Tritons and Men of the Sea. Ey Leigh Hunt. Recreations in Natural History. No. 111. Three Extracts from the Diary of a Week. By Miss Landon. The Signs of the Times. A Scenc from the Desert. ' Baldwin and Judith. The Rule of Contraries. Memoir of the Author of " Vivian Grey," &c. 3, Great Marlborough-street. The publication of Whir, SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this dab , at 10 5. ni.tutes past Three o' Clock. .4- # ,"*) ). 0 11` LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 4,1837. Yesterday was the day agreed on for the reassembling of the House of Cr,mmons; but as only 36 Members were present, no He use was made. The Pluralities Bill, the Imprisonment. for Debt Bill, and the Registration fu - Voters' Bill, stood for discussion. On going into Com mittee of Fupply, Colonel TiloslesoN had given notice el his intenti'on to more " That the government of the army. as now c•mducted, is aga'nst law, and no man is held to obedience thereto ; and that no supply be granted till a re.. medy oe applied." The Tories must be driven to great extremity for the want of materials to support their cause, when they lay hold of such trumpery meetings as that which they tell us was held some day last week at Hastings, as proofs of the increase of their pattizans. We wer:. tempted by tli captivating tide " Conservative Manifestation," followed by a second hardly less inviting one, viz.—" Important Meeting at Hast ings," to look into a Morning Contemporari's ac ()lint of the said Conservative Manifestation, and a nicer hit of humbug it has not fallen to our lot to detect for a long while. This " impor tant meeting" turns out to be a euzzle, got up at the instance of the noted JosEPH PLANTA, Esq. The said Joszytt, it may perhaps he as well to inform cur readers, did not, as he himself soothinzly expresses it, " succeed" at the last election for Hastings, and beinp exceedin[dy anxious to " succeed" at the next—small blame to him for that, as Pat says—set his tools to wolk with his usual dexterous management to brine about this very desirable issue. There is, be it known, a little knot of Tories in Hastings and its nei7hbour l!ood, who have complacently dubbed themselves '' The Hastings and St. Leonard's Loyal and Constitutional Association," whereas their proper style and title would be " The Planta AsSociation." But to proceed. Jo- S EPII fancying that a dissolution is not very improbable, quietly gives the word—and 10, his Association as sembles with all the outward appearance of a sponta neous movement, and somewhat of the bluster of that mock independence which toad-eaters are so often com pelled to assume. To be sure, there is one essential par ticular omitted—there is no specific object stated for this " independent" meeting—but this oozes out in the course of the proceedings, when it comes to Mr. JOSEPH PLANTA'S turn to acknowledge the honour —quite unexpected on his part, of course—of having his health chunk by so respectable and constitutional a body of men. But it may be as well to notice the different speakers, at this overwhelming display of Tory strength in the southern parts of England, in the order in which they exhibited themselvee to the magnificent and imposine assembly, congregated -t the 6' Swan," in the town of Hastings. The person who was called to the high and mighty office of filling the chair on this ever-memorable oc casion is named SUTHERLAND GRJEME, Esq. Who or what this SUTHERLAND GRIEME may he—whether " his growth be like the tufted fir," as is told of his great namesake Sir JoHN the GRiEME, or whether his stature does not exceed that of the " small com pany warred on by cranes," we are totally igno rant. The only thing we can say of him with certainty is that which he says of himself— namely, that he was " utterly incompetent" to the duties of the situation in which his injudicious friends placed him. He contrived, however, to utter a " pretty considerable" quantity of the usual stuff of which Tory speeches consist; and what he wanted he made up from sources not his own, finishing his introductory address by reciting a goodly portion of the Litany of the Church of England, which, by the by, we may remark, would have come more ap propriately from the Rev. Gentleman who followed him. This was a Mr. STONESTREET, who, of course, roared out lustily the old cry of " the Church is in danger." Doubtless it is. And what is most to be regretted is, that it is in danger from the Clergy, and from them alone. This feeling, he says, haunts him wherever he goes, and no wonder when we find him confessing . , that the Church, as its affairs have been hitherto admi nistered—or, as he phrases it," the union of religion with 4 ., State affairs has done much for our private benefit." Et is the " private benefit" that is at the bottom of tale present opposition to the abolition of Church-rates, told to the settlement of the Ecclesiastical Establishment an a more Christian foundation. It is this that prompts the zeal of the Bishops, and stimulates the servility of the L itignitaries—it is the " private benefit" which produces the cry of the " Church in danger," as it did of old that of " Great is Diana of the Ephesians." It i the craft that is in danger, and therefore the craftsr „ n squeak. We understand the County of Middlesex is . .about to znea to petition Parliament in favour of t',,, Ministe rial plan for the total abolition of Chu fell-rates. In fact meetings are now being held, or 'aught to be held, :111 over the country, for the same e - ...cellent purpose. We insert in another part e:f The Sun an Address to the Yeomanry of EnglP:nd, by Mr. HAMLYN, on the subject of Church-ittes, which will be found well worthy the. attention. of our readers. IThere is no political intelligence of any moment in the Paris papers of Sunday. During the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies on Saturday, MM. LA CROSSE, ODILLON BARROT, and MAUGUIN, took advantage of the presence of the Minister of Public Instruction, to state severally, that it was well known there was no longer a responsible Government, and that before the Cabinet was constructed on a firm basis it would be inexpedient to proceed with the examination of the African question. M. GUIZOT admitted that there existed difficulties, to which it could not be ex pected that he would allude more particularly, but that the Royal wisdom would soon remove them ; his col leagues, however, were prepared to assume the respon sibility of Ministers of the Crown, as far as regarded the Report on the Supplementary Credit, if the debate upon it were continued. Several Members opposed this, and maintained that the interests involved therein were of too grave a nature to be presided over by a pro tenzpore administration. Finally the Chamber decided that the further consideration of the Report stood ad journed sine die, so that in point of fact the real business of the Chamber is suspended till the KING decide upon who are to be his Ministers. The Liberal Journals contain curious accounts of the many conditions which the KING'S friends attach to their acceptance of office. Each has his hobby, and unless he be allowed to mount him in the Royal presence—nay, unless his colleagues are compelled to assist him in getting on at a brisk pace—he will have nothing to do with official responsibility. Of these political hearsays we shall only give insertion to the following, from the Nouvelle Minervc : " The following have been the conditions insisted upon by the different persons who have been solicited to form a part of the new Cabinet :—M. Humann has declared that he must have the conversion of the Five per Cents., his constant sine qua non, and the reduction of the apanage of the Duke of Nemours to 300,000 francs a year, as a simple dotation granted by the State. Marshal Soult has demanded to be President of the Council, and to have the absolute direction of the army. He consents that the elements of the doctrinaire policy should still exist in the Cabinet, but absolutely refuses to allow them to dominate. The Duke de Broglie is for an immediate in tervention in Spain. Upon this point there is a fixed agree ment between him and M. Thiers, whose mania this project is. M. Barthe refuses, unless his post as first President of the Cour des Comptes be reserved for him, and he receive an in demnification in honours to make up for his personal discom forts on the occasion. M. D'Argout makes the same specula tion upon his place as Governor of the Bank of France. He is, however, tolerably indifferent as to what portfolio he re ceives : his talent lies in every direction ; though, perhaps, he would prefer to be Minister of Finance ; and he would insist upon the repeal of the law passed relative to the savings' banks." The trial of MEUNIER by the Chainber of Peers will commence on Wednesday. Three tailors, seized last week by the police, and reported to be co-conspica tors with the suicide champioh, are to be tried at the same time. It is reported that the evidence against them would not suffice for their conviction by a Jury. Whether INIEuNt Ert will lose his head, or obtain a pardon on the occasion of the marriage of the Duke of Orleans, is very uncertain. The Queen of the FRENCH was preparing to leave Brussels, to congratu late the Duke of ORLEANS OH the happy termination of the marriage treaty. As a marter of course, the French Church and King organs are scandalized at the idea of an union with a Protestant Princess. The Cler. -, ,y and the old Legitimatists are exceedingly , uneasy, and the good old Tory war-cry of " the Church in danger" re-echoes through the central departments. Our fanatics at home might learn a lesson from this curious exhibition of intolerance. A letter from Bologna of the 24th March says—" The Cession of the Legauons to Austria. is again spoken of. That power, it is desires to fortify in the provinces of IZomagna a part called the Austrian Line. Austria has long courted these provinces, but it is not at all probable that it will succeed in obtaining possession of them. Rome daily excites snore and more the discontent of the inhabitsnts, both by its vexatious measures and by its incessant demands of money. The di,tress in the capital is dreaCul, and the T reasur y i s 'en tirely empty. It is :.aid that Cardinal Bernetti is going again to take p:trt in the Government as Secretary of State, and that M. Tosti, the present Treasurer, who is not liked toy Austria, will have a successor appointed." The a, counts from the ports of Italy announce that consign ments of arms and ammunition are preparing there. In certain letters it appears to be believed that there is an intention of favouring projects against France, but we believe that nothing further is contemplated than some assistance to the Carlist cause in Spain. The Envoys of Madagascar, immediately on their arrival at Paris, acquainted the Minister of Foreign Affairs with their mission, the object of which seems to be to establish an amica ble intercourse with France : but we believe that the Minister has given them no answer. He has probably thought it his duty to imitate the conduct of one of his predecessors to the last Envoy from Haiti, who, after a stay of three months at Paris, was obliged to depart without having obtained an au dience. Undoubtedly, before serious negociations are entered upon with these Envoys, it is proper to be well convinced respecting their mission ; but for that it is necessary to have some intercourse with them, and for that also their communica tion should not be left unanswered. Such has not been the conduct of the English Cabinet ; and even at Paris the kind attention of the British Government is continued to the En voys from Madagascar, for they received an invitation to an evening party at the Hotel of the English Legation, and we believe that they went to it.—. Journal du Commerce, April 2. A Pamphlet entitled " The Java Question ; a Few Plain Words addressed to the Justice and Good Sense of Great Britain—by a Dutchman," has just been published by M ACRONE. It is a laboured de fence of the conduct of the Dutch Government, in imposing a duty of 25 per cent. on British woollens imported into Java—conduct which has been de nounced in the House of Commons by the Noble Fo reign Secretary as a violation of the treaty of the 17th of March, 1824. The writer manifests an intimate acquaintance with that section of the Inter national code which regulates the interpretation of ob ligatory treaties ; and though exceedingly hurt that any imputation should be cast upon the proverbial good faith of his country, he argues the question with moderation, rarely permitting himself to recriminate upon the accusers of his Government. But much as we respect his ability, we believe that a perusal of the two first Articles of the Treaty of 1824, which he correctly quotes in his Pamphlet, can leave no doubt on the mind of any impartial person as to the soundness of Lord PALMERSTON'S opinion of the Dutch observance, or rather violation, of it. They are as follows : " Art. 1. The high contracting parties engage to admit the subjects of each other to trade with their respective posses sions in the Eastern Archipelago and on the continent of India and in Ceylon, upon the footing of the most favoured nations ; their respective subjects conforming themselves to the local regulations and settlements. " Art. 11. The subjects and vessels of one nation shall not pay, upon importation or exportation, at the ports of the other, in the Eastern Seas, any duty at a rate beyond the double of that at which the subjects and vessels of the nation to which the port belongs are charged. " In regard to any article upon which no duty is imposed, when imported or exported by the subjects, or on the vessels of the nation to which the port belongs, the duty charged upon the subjects or vessels of the other shall in no case ex ceed six per cent." The second section of Article 11. is thus observed by the King of HOLLAND ;--His MAJESTY, in the pleni - Aide of his power, decrees that no im port duty whatever shall be imposed upon Dutch woollem manufactures imported to Java ; but that EnglishsEnglishwoon ens,whether freighted in Dutch or English bot`iums,. shall be subject to the enormous duty of 2.5, 'per cent. The writer of the Pamphlet to which we are referring, defends this policy on two grounds : —First, the inherent right of nations to foster their own industry ; and, second, on the express words of the Treaty, in which articles to be imported by either duty free are not enumerated. Now, this is mere Jesuitical casuistry. The time for .na tions to reflect upon the injury which treaties may inflict upon their industry is before they sign them— not after. If nations might abrogate treaties with out mutual consent, on finding them opposed to the interests of a few commercial subjects, it would be a farce to enter into them. The second objection is equally unfounded ; for the Treaty ex pressly says that, " In regard to any article upon which no duty is imposed, when imported or exported by the subjects, or on the vessels of the nation to which the port belongs, the duty charged upon the subjects or vessels of the other, shall, in no case, exceed 6 per cent." German Papers of the latest dates have been re ceived. Their contents are unimportant, with the exception of the announcement of the gradual reco very of his Majesty the King of DENMARK. STocxnoLM, MARCH 24.—We learn that orders were sent on the 21st to the commanding Admiral in Carlscrona, to fit out the newly built frigate Josephina, and the corvette, Jurun ma, both for a voyage in the Mediterranean, both to exercise the crews and for a diplomatic riegociation, as, it is said, with the Government of Morocco. The expedition is calculated to take ten months, and the estimated expense is 150,0 . 00 Banco rix dollars. It is said that Commodore Gyllong r a n ct is appointed to command the expedition, which will be joined by a Norwegian corvette. COPENHAGEN, MARCH 28.—His Majesty has had some re freshing sleep during the last night, and his strength is in. creasing. —Hamburg Papers, March 31. HAMBURG BORSEN HALLE, MAsem 31. bills. Money. - Austrian Metalliques, 5 per cent lO3 10•::% Ditto ditto 4 per cent. — Ditto ditto 3 per cent 7 l l /4 7374, Ditto Bank Shares ...... .. ................. .......„ 1338 1335 An g lo-Russian Loan 104% 104 1 / 4 Paper Inscripticn, 6 per cent — Russian 5 per cents. Metal. Russian Inscription, Hope and Co., 3d and 4th Series Ditto, Certificates Portuguese Regency Bonds, 5 per cent 46;i Ditto, 3 per cent. 29% Dutch 9), per Cents. Ditto 5 per Cents — _ Polish Bonds, 3 per cents. New Tickets 15 4 1 /4% 153% 71 -- • - Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per cents 713 Norwegian Loan of 1&34, 4 per cents. Spanish, in piastres, 3 per Cents - 34 -- Cortes Loan, 5 per Cent 2tIN xtqi Greek 4 per cents. 1933, guaranteed by France 93 92N t EXCHANGES ON LONDON. HAMBURG, MARCH 31 —l3 P%; two months. 1371. CIIRISTIANIA. MARCH 22.-4 wee months. 5 $ BERLIN, MARCH 29.—Three mvnt hg, 6. 244. —Hamburg Papers, March 31. On Sunday evening, the 26th ult., a young woman who had come to Ticehurst, with the intention of proceeding to London by the Hastings van, complained of indispositi on and pain in her side. Medical assistance was immediately procured, but it Froved unavailing, and she shortly after ex- pircd. While a barge was lying in Chichester harbour on Monday last a bird was seen fluttering towards the vessel from the opposite side of the harbour, which fell beside the mast, and was taken alive. It proved to be a woodcock, whose eyes were completely closed by disease. Mr. Hougharn, a surgeon, living at Brookland, ter minated his existence on Monday last, by taking poison. It appears that on that morning his goods had been sold by auc tion, under an execution ; and this circumstance so affected his mind, that in a fit of temporary insanity, he destroyed himself. —Kentish Chronicle. The Pope has been lately cured, and within a very short time, of a dangerous cancer in the face, by a German surgeon. The people of Rome were already beginning to cry out a " miracle !" when it was discovered that the operator was a Protestant, and the enthusiasm cooled at once.—Ger man Paper. Since our last the weather bas been extremely cold, and the frost as intense as during the depth of winter; arid had it not been for the great length of the day, and the in creased strength of the sun's rays, we should have been suffer ing all the rigours of the severest winter. Occasional showers of snow have fallen, and on Monday there was one of some continuance, but on Tuesday morning snow began to fall in earnest, between five and six in the morning, and ere two hours had elapsed it was lying to the depth of four or five inches. So severe a month of March we have not had for a long period.— Stirling Observer. There are upwards of 3,500 inhabitants of St. Ives, in the county of Huntingdon, and one parish church. On last Good Friday, the church was so ill attended, that the small number there were compelled to wait in silence whilst the Vicar changed his vestments for sermon. There was not a soul in the gallery, nor one to set a tune or sing a psalm. The sublime poetry of Tate, Sternhold, and Hopkins, was un heard, and was supplied by the bewailings of the Vicar over he sad and continual deoreise of his congregation. Motik Lewis was fonder of great people than he ought to have been, either as a man of talent or a man of - fashion. He had always Dukes and Duchesses in his mouth, and was pathetically fond of any one that had a title. You would have sworn ho had been a parvenu of yesterday, yet he had lived all his life in good socii ty. • * * Mat had queerish eyes—they projected like those of some insect, and n ere flattish on the orbit. His person was extremely small and boyish—he was indeel the least man I ever saw, to be strictly well and neatly made. I remember a picture of him by Saunders being handed roand at Dalkei:h House. The artist had ingeniously flung a dark fold;ng mantle around the form, under which was half hid a dagger, a dark lantern, or some such cut- throat appurtenance ; with all this the features were preserved and ennobled. It passed from hand to hand, into that of Henry Duke of Bucelauch, who hearing the general voice affirm that it was very like, said aloud—" Like Mat Lewis Why, that picture's like a man." He looked, and to I Mat. Lewis% head was at his elbow. This bo) ishness went through life with him. He was a child, and a spoiled child, but a child of high imagination; and so he wasted himself in ghost stories and German romances. He had the finest ear for rhythm I ever met with—finer than Byron's.—Sir Waller Scott. Some extraordinary evidence was given, it is said, before one of the Parliamentary Committees, as to the means used to obtain the amount of subscriptions required by the Standing Orders of the House of Commons. A Jew, whose name bore a resemblance to that of a great capitalist, signed his name for 23,000/. This individual had neither house nor lodging; he received 41. for signing the deed. Persons were employed to procure signatures who received ss. for each, giving four to the signer and keeping one for themselves. The names of clerks were put down fur 500 shares each. One man's name appears for 32,0001., and another for 20,0001. A news.agont signed for 10,000/., and his son for 3,0001, and one of the solicitors for 1,000 shares. One of the secretaries to the Company procured signatures to the extent of 215,0001., another to the extent of 86,0001., and a third to the amount of 260,000/. Several of the directors, whose names stood for 10,000/. each, caused the figures to be altered to 20,000/. on the day before the deed was sent to be deposited in the proper office. THE PRO-CHURCH-RATE DECEPTION. —We have received a vast number of communications exposing the manner in which the Clergy of the different parishes have got up the petitions in favour of Church-rates. All agree that these prayers for a tax are obtained either by misrepresenta tion or by fear. In several parishes in which petitions had been numerously signed against Church-rates, many of those who signed them, signed also the petition in favour of Church rates, being, as they avow, afraid to offend the Parson, who has some power over them as the tithe-owner, or their land lord to whom they are still more subject. From the parishes of Currey Rivet and Othery we hyve received information that the signatures in favour of th e t ax we re o bt a i ne d b y the grossest misrepresentation. One man writes to us that he signed it, because he was told that it was to prevent the Church being pulled down—another, because the person who brought the petition told him that it was to save the Church from the Dissenters, wholly concealing the fact that it was to support Church-rates, to which, he adds, he is most hostile. In another parish the same sort of fraud was transacted, and the farmers, having now discovered the true state of the case , and that the Ministerial p lan not on ly relieves th em from a heavy rate, but makes a be tter provision for the support of the Churches, have requested us to prepare counte r pet i t i ons.— Somerset County Chronicle. A PARAGRAPH OF PLAGUES.—+AI I elderly l a d y , residing near Stratford , w ishin g to visit a friend in the city, placed herself in an omnibus, having a small wi re b as k et in her lap containing some new-laid eggs, a present for her friend. The " buss" reached Bow. " Town, s i r ?" cr i ed i the conductor—" Hold hard I" and n came a bulky gent l eman, who with considerable di ffi culty navigated his way to a va cant seat ; but ere he reached his destination on went the buss, and down went the stranger plump in the lap of the unfortunate Mrs. T., squash. The eggs were perfectly fresh. "Set me down at Aldgate-pump, conductor." The buss stopped. M rs . T. stepped out, but very incautiously stood upon the l as t s t e p w hile she received her chan ge ; w h en " What is the r eason t h a t the drivers don 't ascertain whether everything is settled before they start ?" Off went the ve hicle, and down wen t th e l a dy. She might have been hurt, but luckily was not ; so she gathered herself up and wended her way to her friend, where she discovered that her pocket, containing a sovereign, a bunch of keys, and oth er art i cles of small value, had b een cu t from her side, and that she had taken a bad half-crown among her change, which sh e for tunately had placed in a small bag she carried in her hand. This was bad enough; but on arriving at home she learned that her husband, who is considerably younger than herself, had packed up every portable commodity and decamped accom parried by her maid of all-work. LLOYDS' SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) DEAL, APRIL 3.—Wind W. S. W.—Arrived the Princess Victoria, —, from Newcastle ; Russel, Plullis, from Poole. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 3.—Wind W., fresh breezes.—Ar rived the Nymph, Erwuher, from St. Michael's. His Majesty's ship Pedrus has . gone out of harbour to Spithead. PLYMOUTH, APRIL 2.—Wind N. W.—Arrived the Reform, Leader, from Alicante. FALMOUTH, APRIL 2.--11 7 nd S. to S.W., moderate breezes.—Arrived the Iberia, steamer, from Gibraltar, left, the 21st ult., Cadiz the 22d, Lisbon the 29th, off Oporto the 30th ; St. Aubin, --, from Malaga ; Robert Brant, from Messina. KINSALE, APRIL 2.—Arrived the Catherine, Marseilles. BELFAST, APRIL I.—Arrived the Enterprise, Gibb, from London ; Regatta, Blaney, from London. HARWICH, APRIL 3.—Arrived the Mary, Blacklock, from Goole, leaky, having been on shore, bound to London. GLOUCESTER, APRIL 3.—A click of brandy picked up in longitude 6. marked "W GPM& BR E L LIE EE Mousnicr 3 & Trobin Cognac," has been picked up here. The Incertus, from Newcastle to Dublin, sank off Fair leigh yesterday, having been in contact with the George Weeks, from Exmouth to Riga. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. This being the day for the payment of numerous commercial bills, the Alarmists (of whom there are many in the City, as well as those who are anxious to depress the funds for their own sinister views) have been anticipating some destructive blow in mercantile matters ; but we are enabled to state, that the general opinion in the City this morning is, that the croakers will be disappointed, and that commercial affairs will pass off much better than was expected. In the course of yesterday, we only heard of one failure in the Brazil trade, which is scarce worth notice, being of such a trifling description. This morning a ballot was opened at the Bank of England, for the election of a Governor and Deputy- Governor. Mr. J. A. Curtis and Sir John Rea Ried are the only parties for candidates, and will of course be elected. The express from Paris does not bring any news of conse quence respecting the operations of the war in the north of Spain. The change in the French Ministry is not yet settled. A courier left Paris for Madrid, with important dis patches, which have not yet transpired. Lisbon papers have been received to the 26th March, from which we extract the following : " BULLETIN.—The public appearing anxious to know whether any symptoms of pregnancy were manifest in her most faithful Majesty, it has been deemed proper to hold a consultation among the physicians and surgeons belonging to her Majesty's household upon so important a subject. Their opinion is as follows : " It is highly probable that her Majesty may be in a state of pregnancy ; but the probability will augment when such phenomena will occur as generally appear, and are to be expected from the fourth to the fifth month forward." "We take advantage on this occasion of the physician's knowledge with regard to her Majesty's indisposition, which partakes of the character of influenza, to state, that her Ma jesty is much better." We have seen a letter from Lisbon of the date of the 24th ult., stating that there was no political news, and Lis bon was in a state of tranquillity ' • but the partisans of the charter of Don Pedro were in hopes to effect a counter r evolution. THE FUND!. Consols, which closed yesterday at 904 Money, for the Ac count 90i 4, opened this morning at 90} 4 for the Ac count, Money, 90A-. Exchequer Bills, 33 35 prem. ; India Bonds, 32 34. In the Foreign Market little doing. Spanish Active closed at 224 23 ; at present, may be quoted at the above price ; Passive, 54 6u ; Deferred, 84 94 ; Portuguese, 47i 48 ; Three per Cents., 304 31 ; Dutch Two-and-a lialf per Cents., 521 33 ; Colombian, 231 244; Mexican, 241. HALF-PAST ONE. We have the satisfaction to state that up to the present hour we only hear of one failure in the Portuguese wine trade, and that not of an extensive nature. It is expected that they will resume business again. Consols are a shade better since the morning, and may be quoted 901 for Account. Money, 90k, with very little doing. Exchequer Bills, 35 37 ; India Bonds, 35. In the Foreign Market no speculations of consequence; Spanish Active reached 23, at present 22i i ; Passive, 6 ; Deferred, 8i; Portuguese, 474 49; Three per Cents., 30k-; Dutch Two- and- a •Half, 52i: 53 ; Columbian, 23 241 ; Mexican, 244. THREE 0' CL CK. Consols for the Account, 90; THE FUNDS.—CI BRITISH .()SING PRICES. FUNDS. OMIIiJM Intlia Stock Ditto Ponds . South Sea Stock Ditto Old Annuities Ditto New Annuitic' Ex. Bills, 10,P/ "Nd. 37 um Ditto 500/ 07 pin. Ditto 5001 37 pin. Bank Stock for Opg. ....... ..... India Stock for Act. Consols for Act rank Stock .- 3 Der Cent Red. 3 per Cent Cons 9J'';/ 3i, per Cent. rcr Cent. Red 99 Sew 3% per Cent. 93% 4 eer Cent. Assented Dissented Imng Annuities to expire Ja a IWO Oct INS(] Jan. IHCiO l4 FOREIGN FUNDS. P;)rtugue:ie Bonds, 5 per cent. Ditto, New Ditto 4 7 1,4 ' Prussian, 5 per cent. Russian Buds, 5 per cent Ditto, Metallic Sp:midi, 5 per cent Consolidated 2174 Feencti, 5 pet cent Exchange l'ictich, 3 per cent r —c. Dutch, l x per cent. 6•2 Ditto, 5 per cent. ........ ....... VI/N tES. Austrian, 5 per cent ntlgian, 5 per cent Br.zilian bonds Unenos A yres, 6 per c•:nt. Chilian, 6 per cur clo:nlnan, 6 per cent :)itt6, 1'34 Rinish, 3 per c.lt. 73% Giet, I.3•Hitts, I',Q5, 5 Fer cant. %iexican, 5 per cent. — Ditto, 6 per cent., Ins ....... ecru vian, 1925, 6 per cent. ... 17 SH A ~ (:trsqt Western Railway London and Brighton Railway (Stevenson's) London and Birmingham Railway London and Greenwich Railway 20% London and Southampton Rai1.% ay Louth Eastern, Brighton, Lewes, and Newhaven No other variations in the Prices of Shares since our One o cleck List. BIRTH.—On the 2d inst., at Ormond Grove, Bath, the lady of C. C. Elves, Esq., of a daughter. THE WEATHER.—The winter continues to linger on the lap of the spring, and the country in every direction has been covered with snow, which came down thick and fast on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, and the night frosts were particularly severe. The index of a self-registering Faren heit's thermometer, in rather a sheltered situation, stood five degrees below the freezing point on Friday night, and in places more exposed the thermometer was eight degrees below that point, so the fall of snow was a most providential circum stance, shielding the wheats and pastures from the effects of the biting frosts, and conferring benefits in some degree com pensating the temporary inconvenience occasioned to the flock and stock masters, though from the shortness of keep, the in clement weather, and consequent want of pasturage, must be seriously felt by them. The cold and frosty visitation will be beneficial to the orchards, by retarding the blossom, and the trees we hear in many situations look remarkably well, pro mising a fine bloom. The blossoms on the forward wall fruit trees, particularly apricots, have withered before the wintry blast. The deep fall of snow of course retarded the different mails and coaches, and we fear on the hills in Wales many lambs must have perished. ,The intensity of the cold on Thursday and Friday nights we believe has not been paralleled in the vernal equinox during the last half century.—Hertford Journal. Extract of a letter of the 6th inst. from Warsaw : " A remarkable event has just occurred in our country. The Emperor Nicholas, not content with establishing a system of noblesse, which excludes the pretensions of those who wish to prove their nobility, has ordered that none shall be recognised as nobles whose titles have not been of 200 years' standing. Those who cannot furnish this proof arc to be regarded as be longing to the class of peasants. The nobles of the palatinate of Kalisch, with the exception of a few aristocrats, have loudly declared that they will not submit a single document to the re vision of the heraldic Committee. This democratic spirit has given great offence to the Imperial Government. The sur veillance in the Palatinate of Kalisch and on the frontiers has been doubled, because it is believed that the inhabitants of Po land are excited against the Government by letters from the emigrants. In spite of these precautions, the authorities of the Czar will not succeed in eradicating the spirit of democracy, which is too widely spread amongst the Polish nobles, who are always ready to sacrifice every thing for country snd liberty. The Emperor has issued an ordonnance changing the denomi nation of the wayvodics of Poland into that of civil govern ments." _ _ _ YOUNG NAPOLEON.—The news of Napoleon's death was brought to Vienna by one of Rothschild's couriers. The Count de Dietrichstein (the superior governor) being absent from Vienna, the Emperor char ge d me to commun i cate the melancholy intelligence to the young Prince. He was then 10 years of age. It was the 22d of July, at Schoenbrunn, in the same place and on the same day on which h e hi mse lf, 11 years after, was doomed to die, that I announced to him the death of his father . He wept bitt er l y , an d hi s sorrow con tinued for several days. "M. Foresti," said he to me, "my father little thought that when he died you would be the person from whom I should receive such kindness and affection." This alluded to an anecdote which the tutor had told him. M. Foresti had been taken prisoner by the French, and at head quarters was treated with some harshness by the Emperor. Austria and the Austrians. Mr. Duke, the celebrated cricket-ball maker, has lately invented and hoisted at his manufactory, at Penshurst, a very novel weather.cock, composed of the bat, ball, and wicket, which has a very striking effect. As Frederick Mansell, Esq., and his lady were tra velling from Durham to Newcastle, on Monday last, in a double-bodied phaeton, with post-horses, when they got near Chester-le-street, they met a steam-engine going to one of Lord Durham's coal-pits, travelling on the, turnpike-road. As the carriage passed the engineer let off some of the steam, which frightened the horses, and the post-boy losing all com mand of them, they ran off, and came in contact with one of Pickersgill's waggons. The carriage was broken to pieces, and Mr. and Mrs. Mansell were of course thrown out. Mrs. Mansell was found lying insensible, and Mr. Mansell bleeding profusely from a severe cut over the left eye. They returned to Durham in a chaise procured at Chester-le-street, and, on obtaining medical attendance, found that Mrs. Mansell's left arm was broken, and that she had received a cut over her left eye. The poor post-boy had a thigh broken. After remain ing two days at Durham, they returned to Stokesley, and are now, wo are glad to learn, both doing well—Berwick Warder. CHANCERY COURT.-(THIS DAY.) This being the first Seal previous to Easter Term, the Lord and Vice-Chancellor sat at Lincoln's Inn, and took motions to-day ; but none containing any points of interest came before either of the Courts previous to our Reporter leaving. The Lord Chancellor, the Master of the Rolls, and the Vice-Chancellor, will sit in Lincoln's-inn Hall to-morrow, for the purpose of hearing the further arguments in the part-heard case of Downing College. ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.) His Lordship the Master of the ROLLS this morning re sumed his sitting at the Rolls' Court, Chancery-lane, and was occupied with hearing motions, none of which possessed any interest. MIDDLESEX QUARTER SESSIONS. These Sessions commencedthis morning before Mr. Ser geant ADAMS and a full bench of Magistrates. ASSAULT.—Wm. Spicer, who had been convicted at the last Sessions of an aggravated assault on Louisa Ivory, was brought up for judgment, when the Court sentenced him to pay a fine of 301., or to be imprisoned till such fine be paid. Maria Dapps, Susan S'nith, and Anne Beasly, were in dicted for stealing, on the 18th March, .561 b. of coals from the Great Western Railroad in the parish of Staines, the property of Hugh Mackintosh. The prisoners were de tected by a watchman gathering coals and cinders along the line, but having received a good character from the Magis trate who committed them, they were sentenced to pay a fine of one shilling and be discharged. CRIMINAL COURT-(THIS DAY.) OLD COURT. (Before .the RECORDER. ) Thomas Johnson was indicted for stealing on the 31st of March five shirts, the property of William Stevens Goolds. The prisoner took the parcel from the shop door of the prosecutor. lie was seen, followed, and the goods found upon him. Verdict—Guilty. Joseph Holden was indicted for stealing on the sth of March last 8 lbs. of pork, 2 dead rabbits, a black pudding, &c., the property of his master, John Symes, of Lambeth walk. The prisoner had been in the employment of the prose cutor for six months. On the eveninc , in question he left his work. The prosecutor was soon after sent for to the station-house, where he found the prisoner with the pro perty in question. He had no right to take any thing out of the shop without his master's leave. Wm. Goose, a policeman, stopped the prisoner on Lam beth-green, about 200 yards from the prosecutor's premises. He denied that he had any thing except a great coat, but on putting it aside he found the property named in the in dictment. On being told that he must go to the station house, he said it would ruin him, and he would give all the money he had in his possession to the policeman if he would let him go. The prisoner said he had worked hard and late for very small wages. He had been 23 years in one employment, and never had been in custody before. He had a wife and family, and had only 7s. a week. Verdict—Guilty. Sentence, three months imprisonment and hard labour. _ Thomas Hughes, a very little boy, was indicted for steal ing a pair of shoes, the property of his master. Daniel Roberts said the boy was in the employ of the prosecutor. On the 13th March the prisoner was sent down to the cellar for coals. When he came up, he went out, and was followed by witness. He went to a pawn broker's shop and offered them in pledge. The policeman who took him, said the boy told him he took the shoes because he was hungry. Roberts said the boy had 3s. a-week, and had to find to find himself. The prisoner said he had a lame father, who had been ailing for four years, and his mother had to support him (the prisoner) and two sisters. Roberts said all this was true. Verdict—Guilty. Sentence, one nsonth's imprisonment and hard labour, with an intimation that should he appear there again he would be sent out of the country. NEW COURT. Thomas Jordan, 18, was indicted for stealing a hand kerchief, value 25., from the person of William Godden, on the 12th March last.—Guilty. The record of a former conviction of the prisoner for a similar offence was then put in. John Jackson, 47, was indicted for stealing on the 29th March, 421bs. of lead, the property of Alexander M'lntosh. The prosecutor, who is a printer, residing at 20, Great New -street, deposed, that he missed the lead from his house on the morning of the 29th March. The watch man of St. Bride's found the prisoner with the lead in his possession at four o'clock on the same morning, within a few doors of the prosecutor's house. Wm. Jenkins, a plumber, identified the lead as being a portion of that affixed by him to the prosecutor's house.— Guilty. William Jefirson, 28, was indicted for embezzling three sums of 9s. 21. 145., and 31., the property of Mr. Wilson, his employer. The prosecutor is a stationer, carrying on business at 115, Cheapside, and deposed that it was the duty of the prisoner to account with the clerk for the money received by him every day. The clerk is not in attendance. The COMMON-SfidGEANT — And how, then, are we to know that the prisoner has not paid the clerk ? In com pliment to the Magistrate (Sir Peter Laurie), by whom the prisoner has been committed, I shall go on with the case, and in the meantime the clerk may be here. The payment of the money to the prisoner by three customers of the prosecutor, was then proved, and the Clerk not being in attendance, the jury, under the Learned Serjeant's directions, returned a verdict of acquittal. Mr. Rawlinson has received no less than 400 notes from gentlemen and ladies to he admitted to hear the further investigation of Greenacre, and to hear the deposition read. In Clonmel the Liberals have had in the last session a majority of 14 out of 19 registered. The borough was safe before, but this makes assurance doubly sure. The Liberals of Carlow town have a majority of 13 to 6 on the late registry ; this will help to secure the ejec tion of Mr. Bruen whenever there is an opportunity. We are glad to hear that it is likely the Duke of Somerset, not more distinguished for his constant support of liberal principles than ai a patron and friend of literature, will get the garter left at the disposal of Ministers by the death of he Marquis of Bath. Mr. George Robins, in addressing the Dorsetshire capitalists, uses the following seductive phrase. He recom mends the estate in question to all those who agree with him that land is unquestionably the best security ; that the funds being at an exceedingly high price, a re-action must and will take place, that good sense has at length prevailed, and the visionary and delusive schemes of the last year are for the greater part gone to the tomb of all the Capulets, and con cludes by a gentle hint in respect to the influential powers which near 700 acres of land adjoining to a borough town will give at the next election for Bridport—nous verrons. Saturday last, as some workmen were employed in pulling- down an outbuilding forming part of the premises lately occupied by Mr. Ashbee, baker, in St. Dunstan's, Canterbury, they discovered a human skeleton about three feet below the surface, which is supposed to hare been there more than 150 years, and of course no clue can be had to the identity of the individual, or to the cause of its being found in an unhallowed grave. The teeth were perfect, but whether the body was that of male or female could not be ascertained. - - - The narrative just published, under the superinten dence- of Lady Mary Fox, of the wonderful discovery of a great and highly-civilized nation in the interior of New Hol land, has stimulated conjecture as to the authorship of this volume. The very name of the region wherein the discovery is stated to have taken place, seems to furnish a sort of clue to the writer ; for whether the singular statements in the work are of actual verity, or whether the story be a covert satire on existing manners and institutions in England, we suspect that its production might be traced to the neighbour hood of Holland house. MR. AINSWORTH'S POPULAR ROMANCE, " CRICHTON."—" What (observes the Literary Gazette). could be better chosen than the Court of Henry 111. of France ? There was every passion in full activity—ambition, pleasure, love, hate, profligacy, and fanaticism ; while the in trigues of the Court were subtle and varied as the most theatrical plot of Spanish ingenuity. There chivalry wore its most pictureque shapes. Such is the ground-work of Mr. Ainsworth's spirited Romance ; it carries you on like the high-mettled racer of his own Turpin.' The scenes are singularly dramatic ; they have all that air of reality so diffi cult to impart, yet so fascinating when given. The female characters are sketched with a rich prodigality of beauty, but the gem of the work is the character of Catherine de Me dicis. This is a masterly delineation. We congratulate Mr. Ainsworth on the production of a Romance equally brilliant, interesting, and original."--Literary Gazette. We may with strict truth say of the woollen trade during the present month, that it would be impossible to name a corresponding month in any year for the last twenty years back, equally flat, gloomy, and dispiriting. Few, very few buyers, either wholesale or retail, have frequented the mar ket ; and the continuance and increase of the difficulty felt in the money market have led all parties, manufacturers and mer chants alike, to contract their operations with a still firmer hand than throughout the preceding four or five months. Since February came in finished goods have been regularly falling in price, nor is there any very s t rong ground for th i nk i ng t h at the fall will stop at the present quotations. The influx of re tail buyers during the present month will, perhaps, check the tendency downwards for a s h ort t i me, b ut t h e near a pp roac h of the clip, and the probability that the existing difficulties will not be obviated in time to prevent a general fall of prices at the fairs, will prevent every prudent manufacturer, woActapler, and cloth merchant from holding any larger stock than he can possibly help.—Leeds Mercury. LITERATURE. AU STRIA AND THE AUSTRIANS. 2 Vois. Co!burn, London, 1837. The author of these volumes is evidently a gentle man who has seen and observed much in the course of his various peregrinations, and given his own Im pressions of things. His opinions of Austria and the Austrians are, on the whole, favourable. The Go vernment, he says, is a sort of mild, paternal despotism, and in general favour with the community, who are " peifectly content with their condition, and have no other ambition than the certainty of always enjoying their present manner and means of existence." Of the present Emperor he s peaks in terms of eulogium, as being a quiet, un assuming man, fond of retirement and tranquillity, and who will take care to make no changes in the form of Government, except such as may be impe►'a tively called for by " State necessity." The author furnishes us with some deeply interesting details of the domestic habits and national peculiarities of the inha bitants of Vienna, who, provided they do not trouble their heads with political matters, are allowed almost uncontrolled freedom of action. The Government supplies them with all sorts of public amusement ; the magnificent Prater is embellished and kept up for them ; the military bands are always at their command ;—in fact, it seems to be the chief policy—and excellent policy it is—of the Austrian rulers, to make the people as contented as pos sible with their lot. "I do not know any town," ob serves our author, " not even Paris, where the citizens of all classes have so many pleasurable resorts as those of Vienna. The many public ''toffee-houses, ball rooms, pleasure-houses, are all open to them at very trifling expense ; the tradespeople, high and low, amuse themselves once a week, or oftener, at a ball or concert, and the military bands play to them every evening for nothing." To those who desire to get an insight into the real Austrian character, this work will convey mu "h Lnstructive information. It abounds also in anecdote ; is graphic in its descriptions, and, judging from inter nal evidence, is the production of the same writer who a short time since contributed an able article on Aus- tria to the pages of the British and Foreign Review. The sketch of Prince Metternich may perhaps amuse " Prince Metternich is a remarkably handsome and healthy looking man. He walks and stands erect. His cowl-. tenance is open, intellectual, and agreeable, without any for mality, and without any fascination in his manner farther than being courteously polite and frank, in a plain, unostentatious, well-bred way, to all who approach him. He dresses like a well-conditioned, unaffected English gentleman. He talks a good deal, but I think seldom so as not to interest. He be lieves that he has not a personal enemy in the world. Nor can lie conceive how he should—although I should be sorry to swear that he has not—were it from no other cause than the jealousy which weak minds, and often able ones, entertain to wards those who have attained so elevated a position in the world's affairs." PHILOSOPHY OF MORALS.-An attachment to literary pursuits—a desire for the acquisition of knowledge in general—will, for the most part, be found to co-exist with & virtuous turn of mind. Every species of literary, as distin- , guished from scientific composition, is directly or indirectly didactic; for, though vice may be propagated by books as welt as virtue, there is no branch of literature of which this is the nature, though it may be the perversion : and he who has a relish for immoral productions, has not a taste for literature (any more than a merchant, in calculating his profits, has turn for mathematics), but merely for literature, so far as it 1s a means of pampering his debased propensities. A taste fo r literature, then, is, in general, a taste for the lessons of virtue. But whoever takes pleasure in what teaches virtue, takes pleasure in virtue itself. The number of complaints made during the last two years in the different London police-offices, against proprietors and drivers of stages, omnibuses, hackney carriages, and ca briolets were 3,536, being at the rate of eighty-five Cosa' plaints or prosecutions a-month against the drivers or owners of public vehicles, of every description, which throng the streets of London. In about two-thirds of the entire number of cases, the offending parties were prosecuted to conviction, and fined in sums varying from one shilling to three pout/asp and in a few instances as high as five pounds. The other eases of complaint were either not proved or abandoned. The general character of the offences is—insulting behaviour, overcharges, drunkenness, obstructing the street or road, fu rious driving and racing with each other. It is admitted by Kant, whom no one will suspect of a servile submission to the authority of antiquity, that, in moral philosophy, the moderns have not made greater progress than their ancient masters. Indeed, there is no science or department of human literature which has come down to us from a distant age so perfect in all its parts, and so little sus ceptible of further improvements as Ethics—almost every ques tion connected with which is handled in a most masterly man ner by Aristotle, in his Nichomachean Ethics. Any add i • - tional interest which the subject has acquired in modern times is derived rather from the metaphysics of the science than from the science itself ; and, even in the former department* it must be aeknledged that, in the dissertations of Epietetug• and the Alexandrian Commentaries on his works and those of Aristotle, we find specimens of a subtlety of reasoning and pro fundity of investigation which it will not be found easy to surpass. —Aberdeen Herald. • WEST KENT.-The electors of West Kent, at the coming crisis, can scarce more signally show themselves wanting in common sense, or more plainly evince to the w orld a pitiful destitution of all decent regard for good government and their own political rights, than to return two Members of opposite principles. It is obvious that for all practical pur poses—for all the use the franchise is to that constituency which sends two men to Parliament, where the vote of e ach Member is sure to be neutralised by that of the other, they might just as well have no representative at all. We cle• therefore, confidently hope that the truly honest and indepe" dent electors of this important division of a county, second to none in its resources, will, whenever an opportunity occurgo make a vigorous and determined effort to regain the freedons of election which the Tory landlords so basely tampered with. We trust that when the day arrives we shall see the honest constituency of West Kent rise up as one man, and boldly as: sert their electoral rights. We trust we shall sec them s en " to the right-about the young gentleman Sir William Gem" ? ' whom at the last election a clique of Conservatives, sin" curists, and state-pensioners—the Chapmans, the Berensq, the Sydneys, and the Dykes—put forward to protect the l , r own private, sordid interests—to uphold by their nominee s vote that system of misrule of which they are the crea t u res--1 prop up that mass of corruption on which they have been tv°ll,, to batten. Sir Wm. Geary may be, nay, he doubless is, a / el ..' pretty young gentleman. lie would be highly ornamental Id a drawing-room ; but the bare mention of an intention to so f again such a person as a representative into the Parliame nt Great Britain, is eminently absurd and ludicrous. Mr. Hodg'l should have a colleague willing and able to co-operate him in promoting wholesome amelioration, and in efficientl supporting the practice as well as the principles of cheap an,„ good government. Is Sir William Geary—the'supple sap of the sinecurist Conservatives, the wretched tool of trading Tories—such an one? Last night, shortly after ten o'clock, a very cones siderable °11; siderable sensation was produced in the neighbourhood of 11 Compton -street, Soho, in consequence of an alarming I . if i c breaking out at the extensive manufactory of Messrs. Cr isco % and Ryan, compo and picture-frame makers. The flames el, first discovered at the upper part of the building, af tert he workmen, consisting of more than 100 men, had left. ' 2 ., destructive element made considerable progress before the rival of the engines • when a plentiful supply of water o'l ' : fortunately obtained from the pipes of the New River COlT'of pany. Soon after the commencement of the fire, a Piq ue • t the first regiment of Grenadier Guards, stationed at Chsr u l tv o i cross barracks, arrived at the scene of conflagration, an d , i r . ; 1 11 off the thousands that had assembled. The F and C divisiooa of police, under the superintendence of inspectors Rock the and Medlicott, were also early in attendance, and assisted i 0 military, who were under the command of Captain Lorrensald, preventing numerous robberies from taking place. M r. n „ r p tial wood and a strong body of brigade-men were also of et°ll, the service by their great exertions. At half-past ten e'cl ec whole of the manufactory was gutted, very little of the Prl n iedl contained therein being saved. The adjoining houses , oe;IL $ by Mr. Parkens, patent card-maker, and Mr. 801.0131,1, fire Jew salesman, are greatly damaged. At eleven o'clock !frther was so far got under as to leave no apprehension of n.' essr s. mischief. The amount of property destroyed is great. oi_Aces. Creswick and Ryan were insured in the County and Sun y en ta We have not heard how the fire originated. N o ace happened, but numerous robberies took place. Yesterday the we2ther was unusually boisterou_se,atieloat the river during the whole day was a scene of the ge`coeti confusion : the vessels going up and down the pool wer e . 0 i n , nually running foul of each other, and several accident to dividuals occurred, though not of a serious nature. T h a e , and blew a hurricane. At Blackwell there was quite a s e e rs rod°, the small craft were unable to weather it. Th e steam . r boo out the gale well, but many coming up after high vret_ e tr ;,,gti! some difficulty in contending against the breeze and the. z ' e a, sad of the current. Several boats and lighters were 00 1 their cargoes lost. that The public meeting held in Bradf ord, on T e t le w s o cia tl: last, to petition Parliament for Household Sitcl4' complete failure—there being not more than r_s Of fort r 200 persons present ; while at the same time, a$ B ' e _ r grean tire, at an adjoining house , was attended by the g number: a eireu r n,tanec which plainly shows t1_7,4 Fur p.:opte of Bradford are more in favour o f House, ow Cure, than Household Suffrage.—Halffax ExPre ss. • 'E StIN, LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 4,