The Sun. — London, England, 1846-04-06 00:00:00

• - rill! QUARTER'S, REVENUE. (From the Morning Chronicle.) When Sir Robert Peel brought forward his budget on the 14th of February, 1845, he submitted estimates of the reve nue which he expected for the year commencing on the sth of April, 1845, and ending on the sth of April, 1846. The accounts fer that year are now before us. They prove in the main the correctness of Sir Robert Peel's anticipations, and the soundness of the policy which he then developed. But they also exhibit traces not to be mistaken of the commer cial stagnation from which the country has for some time suffered. Sir Robert Peel's plan involved a reduction in the Customs duty of 2,418,000/. The actual loss upon the Cus toms is 2,512,113/. The expected changes in the tariff have prevented the liberation from bond of a large amount of imported articles. But for this circumstance it can 'lot be doubted that the loss upon the Customs would have fallen short of the estimate. The power of the revenue to recover itself after reductions appears in the fact that, whereas the less on the year is upwards of two millions and a half, the loss upon the quarter is only 440,588!., or not much more than one-sixth of that amount. The Excise, upon which a loss of about 900,000/. was estimated, shows in fact a decrease of little more than a third of that amount, or 338,822!., and of this nearly the whole belongs to the quarter just ended, which, as compared with the corresponding quarter in last year, sl.ows a decrease of 291,027/. After making full allowance for the fact that duties on glass and auctions continued to be received during a portion of the first quarter of last year, there will still remain a large deficit in this important branch of the revenue, of which the chief cause must be diminished consumption. There is in stamps an increase upon the year of 380,6811., but a decrease upon the quarter of 56,590/.—a proof of the severe check which com mercial operations have lately received. Taxes show an in crease upon the year of 6,291/., and the income-tax a de crease of 19,7071. Upon the quarter there is an increase in the returns of the income-tax of 53,171/. The only feature in the accounts which remains to be noticed is the Post office revenue, which still advances. The return for the year just ended shows, under this head, a total of 768,000/. This is an increase of 89,0001. upon the year, and, what is still better, an increase upon the quarter of 37,000/. There can not be a more striking proof than is afforded by the steady increase of the Post-office revenue of the value of bold and judicious financial reductions. The produce of all other taxes varies from time to time ; but the penny postage is more productive from year to year, and from month to month. The Exchequer thus gains continually; but a still greater gain is reaped by the public in increased convenience and facility of communication. (From the Times.) In estimating the finances of the empire at this moment, when the customary termination of the financial year has arrived, the inevitable stagnation of trade, consequent upon the suspended condition of the corn-laws, and of the many articles included in the tariff, was of course to be borne in leind. This paralysing ingredient has entered into the material of commerce fir more than three months, and we had to expect, therefore, as we anticipated on Saturday, a deficiency in those items which, in the quarter's revenue, represent generally the prosperity of the country. The Customs accordingly show a decrease in the quarter of near half-a-million ; and in the whole year of near two millions and a half. The Excise shows a similar deficiency of about 300,000/. on the year, and aliout 340,0001. on the quarter. Against this may be set an increase of near 400,0001. in the Stamps, and about 90,000/. in the Post-office, both which items may be placed to the account of the railway mania. On the total ordinary revenue there is a decrease for the quarter of a million, for the year of two millions and a half; on the total income, 1,100,0001. for the quarter, and 2,327,000/. for the year. Of the last-mentioned sum about 300,0001. is merely incidental, which, being deducted, leaves an actual decrease of a little more than two millions. These figures, however, exhibit merely the positive amount of receipts in the quarter and year ending the sth of April, 1845, as compared with the like period in 1846, The former year was one of unexampled prosperity, great commercial activity, and unprecedented spe culation. The present year, although it shows less of these signs of advancement, is nevertheless remarkable for that which is, after all, the true index of national prosperity—an excess of income over expenditure. This excess for the present year is about two millions and a half. It would he super fluous to particularise the many important reductions that were made in the Customs' duties in the years 1844 and 1845. Those of 1844 were but imperfectly developed in 1845, and both have produced more or less effect upon the results of 1846. The bold experiment of Sir Robert Peel has hardly yet received a proper trial. Great changes, of course, require a lengthened period to develope themselves, and it cannot be denied that the lapsed interval has been both naturally and politically unfavourable to financial prosperity. It would be equally superfluous to mention in detail the petitions lately presented to the House of Commons from the great com mercial cities of England and Scotland for a proof of the in jurious effect which the uncertain state of the Customs' department has exercised upon the relations of trade during the last few months. These, which are by far the most active months of the year in all departments of commerce, have been rendered flat and dull by the pro tracted decision of the House of Commons on the great question which now agitates the empire. There is ample evidence in the shape of trading circulars and petitions and Parliamentary papers, that the greatest injury has been in flicted upon the ordinary transactions of commerce by the stadium immune toquendi that has seized upon the chartered legislators of the lower House. These gentlemen may con gratulate themselves upon having put a drag upon the wheels of trade, and stayed the progress of the state machine. If they can find any satisfaction in this reflection, no one, we think, will be found to interfere with their perfect enjoy ment of it. But, with a view to check their pride, we must remind them that their powor is limited to a temporary check. The progress of improvement will go on in spite of them, and the next quarter will probably evince, by a sudden reaction, that the protectionist ris inertce is but a mo mentary gravitation, and that the onward impulse of nationa prosperity is happily far superior to their powers of ob. struction. (From the Morning Herald.) The accounts of the Revenue, for the year arid quarter ending yesterday, have been made up. The exposition is a discouraging one, and it proves that Sir Robert Peel's newly-- adopted Whig-Radical and free-trade policy must be followed by the same results that attended the adhesion to the same policy by his Whig-Radical and free-trade predecessors. The total decrease of revenue upon the year is no less than two millions three hundred and twenty-seven thousand pounds sterling. In the Customs the decrease is more than two millions and a half ; in the Excise 338,822'. These two items would by themselves account for more than the aggre gate decrease but that they are in part balanced by a casual payment of about three quarters of a million of ransom money from China. It has been stated, indeed, that the decrease in the Customs is to be accounted for by the antici pated reduction of duties on imports, from Sir Robert Peel's free-trade measures, but the returns will not bear out this solution ; for the decrease is least in the last quarter, when, only, the free- trade measures could be anticipated. In the last qaarter it amounts to no more than 440,5881. In that quarter there is, however, a fearful decrease upon the more important domestic sources of revenue ; beginning with the Excise, which presents a decrease on the quarter of no less than two hundred and ninety-one thousand pounds, the in dex to a future annual decrease of greatly more than one million sterling. The last year, too (the Premier has boasted of it), has been a year of unexampled manufacturing pros perity, with this result, that there has been a decrease in the property and income tax, though a small one. Now this de crease, whatever its amount, proves one of two things—viz., either the manufacturers who talk of having doubled their capital within the year, have made false returns to the Property and Income-tax commiseioners,—or the other payers of property and income-tax have lost in the year as much as the manufacturers have gained. There is no escape from this dilemma. Thanks, however, to the property and income-tax, and to the Chinese indemnity, :there is still a surplus of income above expenditure. But for the property and income-tax, and the Chinese indemnity, this surplus would be a deficiency—a deficiency as great as any that oc curred during Lord Monteagle's or Mr. F. Baring's ad ministration of the Exchequer. The country must therefore content itself with the consolatory assuraece that, if the free trade policy is to be pe r s evere d i n , th e p ro pe r ty and income-tax are rivetted on it for ever rivetted on it with a certainty of enormous au , gmentation. Let not men deceive themselves. in 1122 (when the policyfree-tradel was sn introduced d e b): No 3 v r. liuskisson) were able to a', without inconvenience, sixty four millions in taxes upon consumption, lio are now able to pay but forty five or forty-si x 1822 we made the foreigner Why ? Because before PaYl s, v ; i rr labour—because now the foreie-ner and the millowner d e ec t e lle fruit of our labour betweenqhem. Let not men, then, themselves with these facts before them, or complain that ' decei ve ceivesthem ; Sir Robert Peel can now deceiveßobert Peel de he said lust year that the property and income-tax no man. True, terminate wills 1841 ; but, look to the reven ue otne-tax should returns, and look to hi s free-trade projects , and there see the terms f his next proposition —for a renewal, aye, and a large augmenta tion of the proper t y and income-tax. These t erms are ex pressed in a familiar and even vulgar_ phrase— "No compul sion, only you must. " Sir Robert Peel makes the renewal and aggravation of the property and income-tax indispen sable to obviate a national bankruptcy. We may all now see the trick. (From the Post.) The statement of the quarter's revenue, made up to Satur day night, has just been officially issued. We regret to say that the result is a deficiency, as compared with the cor responding quarter of last year, to no less an amount than 1,121,5041. It is probable that on another occasion we shall discuss these returns in reference to the causes that may have Ad to the deficit, and the prospect that it holds out; but we cannot allow the present opportunity to pass with out protesting against the obvious unfairness of a Govern ment article put forth on Saturday in the columns of a morning Contemporary, by way of anticipation of the official statement. We can see the convenience of break ing a fall—of letting down as easily us possible a Cabinet, of which the chief merit in `public estimation had hitherto been, that it possessed the faculty of making the income of the country equal at least to its expenditure; we cannot, however, understand that the most honest way of concealing a large deficiency is artfully to mix up "Receipt and Expenditure" with "'Revenue" merely, and thus to convey an impression that the falling off in the latter is merged in the surplus of the former. The melancholy truth for the public to look to is, that the quarter just completed has produced less by above a million sterling than did the corresponding quarter of last year. and that a lar t ge item of the deficiency is one that implies a diminished consumption of the comfnrts of life by the industrious classes of the com munity. (From the Advertiser.) We publish, in another part of our paper, the revenue re turns fur th e quar t er and year ending April sth, 1846. Our readers will see w ith regret, but not with surprise, that there is on t h e year, as compared with the veer ending sth April, 1845, a defalcation to the extent of 2,32;,2191.; and en the quarter, as compared with the corresponding quarter of last yea; a decrease of 1,121,5041. Here, then, we have the natural results of that stagnation of trade, which has been produced by the factious opposition to the free-trade ineasuresof Sir Robert Peel. No better proof could be given of this, than is afforded by the fact, that the two branches of the revenue —the Customs and Excise —which constitute the best test of the trade of the countr, and the condition of the people, are those in which the greatest falling off has taken p r p eople , Tr deficiency in the Customs, on the veer, is 2.512,1131.; and on the quarter, as compared with the cor respondirg quarter of last year, of 440 5881. The defalcation in the Excise on the year is 33 8,8221., and on the uarter 291,027/. We trust that the state of the revenue will q not be on t h ose who have hitherto so pertinaciously opposed the lost Government measures. l lf they persevere in their present they will not on y seriously embarrass the financial course, a ff a i rs of the country, but they will put in imminent peril in stitutions of the realm, which, of all o th ers, they are most an xious to see preserved • • • (Froth the Daily News.) The stagnation of trade throughout tfis country by the uncerta i n ty which attends the fate of the measure s no fore Parliament affecting comme rcial o p er ations, ha:pro duced the usual effect upon the revenue of the quarter just closed. The real value of the indi cations of n ational de pression gathered from these accounts, is, however, not to be fairly estimated, till we take into account on the o ne hand the effect on the revenue of the recent repeal of cer tain duties, and on the other the rapidly advancing pros perity of our manufactures and commerce down to the closing months of the last year. Something is to be allowed for VAIN9II of r9youg9 relinqui4be4, before we can Mato the net results of Parliamentary delay and commercial depres sion in the diminution of the national income. It is neces sary to observe that an allowance must be made also for an extraordinary iocrease which took place in the quarter ending 10th October, 1844, in the amount ofCustoms duties paid upon corn, wine, and one or two other articles, which added nearly 500,000/. to the revenue, as compared with that of the same quarter of 1843; and also for the circumstance that the October quarter is uniformly the heaviest one of the year. After allowing for these circumstances, it will be seen that the decrease upon the April quarter is very much greater in proportion than on any of the three pre ceding. And if we also take into consideration the fact that during one-half of the April quarter of last year, the same duties were virtually in operation as in the same quarter of this year, the decrease of revenue in the latter becomes still more striking. In short, the diminution of the revenue from Customs and Excise, in the first three months of 1846, as compared with the same period of 1845, if taken as indicating the diminished rate of consumption per head of the articles taxed, and with regard therefore to the increase of population in the interval, cannot be estimated at less than 700,0001., or from ten to fifteen per cent. And this is precisely what might have been anticipated. A more than corresponding diminution has undoubtedly taken place in the average earnings of the manufacturing population, from the relaxed state of trade; and neither wages nor profits have furnished to the people nearly the same means of purchasing articles taxed to the Customs and Excise, since all commercial ope rations of any magnitude were suspended, some three months ago, in anticipation of the measures which are still held in doubtful suspense by the Legislature. COMMERCIAL NEWS. (From 7Villmer and Snath'b European Times) The commercial accounts from all parts of the country are desponding and gloomy. With the solitary exception of the iron trade, in which great activity prevails, owing to tem porary causes, there is not a branch of manufacturing in dustry which is not suffering more or less under paralysis. In many of the manufacturing towns there are thousands of workmen out of employment ; the markets for all descrip tions of produce are in a state of stagnation; stocks are daily on the increase, with sinking prices and a diminishing consumption ; and, in short, a condition of things exist which threatens to suspend all the ordinary functions of commercial and manufacturing industry. It is hardly neccessary to state that this depression, which every week renders more galling and ruinous, has its primary origin in the uncertainty which still hangs about the fate of the tariff. Other causes, undoubtedly, contribute to fetter the wheels of trade, but the great impediment is the one at which we have glanced. A panic appears to be impending. The despondency is daily on the increase; and many per sons in business, influenced probably by their fears, labour under the impression that the measure will yet be strangled in one or the other House of Parliament. So potent is this prestige of evil, that Sir Robert Peel, on the evening of Wed nesday last, felt bound to renew the assurance of his desire to carry out his commercial policy with the least possible delay. We have alluded more in detail to the subject in another column, and we notice it here for the purpose of in dicating what we sincerely believe to be a groundless appre hension, and to point out, at the same time, its blighting ef fect on every description of business. In order to give as much freedom as possible to the opera tions of the commercial world, under existing circumstances, Ministers, as most of our readers know, issued recently a Treasury older for the payment of the reduced duties, the parties giving a bond that, if the Peers threw out the Bill, the old scale of duties would be paid. This was a wise and a liberal move in the right direction, and advantage to some extent has been taken of it. But the risk involved has been too great to allow its general adoption. The public have derived little or no benefit from the arrangement ; for the in ducement to increased consumption has been neutralised, by the retail price of the various articles being little below their former level. Indeed, all such temporary expedients par take of the character of gambling—speculation is, perhaps, a more legitimate phrase. For the risk encountered, the profit must be correspondingly heavy. The gloom which hangs over business has ,been gradually deepening during the last six weeks—the last fortnight being the darkest of all. Under the mod favourable circumstance, there seems ,little chance of seeing the new tariff on the statute-book before the end of May ; and it will be at least the middle of that month before the critical stage—the second reading—can have passed the upper branch of the Legislature. If, unhappily, the measure should be thrown out, the summer will be consumed in the turmoil of a general election, and autumn will hardly see the new Parliament assembled. Then the war of words will recommence, em bittered by disappointed hopes and individual suffering; and even supposing the free traders to have a majority, their policy cannot come into play before the end of the present or the commencement of the following year. But if, on the contrary, a Protectionist Ministry is formed, and attempts to govern the country, the battle will be still further prolonged, and the intensity of commercial and national sufferings fearfully increased. While we hope for the best, it is just as well to glance at the dark—at the worst side of the picture ' • and his must indeed be a bold he irt that can, without shuddering at the temerity, be a party to convulsing this great commercial nation by a struggle so intense, that all the elements of society would stand a chance of being reduced to their chaotic condition. The stoutest hearse may stand appalled, when it contemplates the consequences which must inevitably result from the re jection of a policy, to which every man in the kingdom, who has the least pretensions to the character of a practical statesman, is irrovocably wedded ; a policy which is opposed solely by the heavy country squires; by a sporting lord or two, whose knowledge of arithmetic is confined to " making a book" at Newmarket and Epsom ; and by a flashy orator, clever at rounding a period, and manufacturing excitable works of fiction, whose dreamy enthusiasm scorns all ap proach to the practical. An important trial took place at Exeter lately, in which the directors of a projected railway brought an action against a party to whom, on his own application, they had allotted a number of shares. The allottee refused to take up the shares or pay the original deposit, which amounted to some 21. or 3/. per share. As the company had con tracted engagements, they offered to compromise the affair on payment of 3s. per share. The party refused, the action was brought, and the jury gave the directors a verdict for the full amount of the shares. This decision has spread uni versal consternation, for thousands upon thousands of parties, suspended between respectability and ruin, are in the position of the defendant in this action. Like rats in a cage, they are preying upon and devouring each other. While upon the subject of railways, we may be permitted, en passant, to glance at those connecting. the British pro vinces with the United States, respecting which a consider able interest is felt by many persons on this side of the water. We regret to find, in our advices by the last arrival from Halifax, that the war of words had been raging in the House of Assembly at Halifax, N.S., on the subject of the projected line of railway from that city to Quebec and Montreal. We fancy these differences arise out of political feelings, which, in such matters, should not be allowed to interfere. Our Nova Scotia friends must settle their dif ferences soon, or we shall be travelling to Montreal, vid Boston, Fitchburg, Hartford, Montpellier, Burlington, and St. Johns; and by a branch from Burlington to Kingston anti Toronto, rid Plattsburgh and Odensburgh. We under stand, from a letter just received from a Boston friend, actively engaged in that undertaking, that great progress is making with this line of railway. We have more than once recently referred to the popularity which Indian Corn, as an article of food, is attaining in this country. It will prove, ere long, a valuable export. The Government is most anxious that it should supersede, to a great extent, the potato amongst the labouring poor, and the recent scarcity of that esculent is favourable to its introduc tion. Cargoes of Indian Corn are daily reaching the British ports from the United States, and large quantities have been released from bond, duty free, under the Treasury order already mentioned. Shops for its exclusive retail sale are being opened in many of the large towns, and the American mode of using it is generally adopted. The Corn market, pending the discussions of the Govern ment scheme, is, like all the Produce markets, in a complete state of stagnation. Prices vary but little, and parties merely purchase front hand to mouth to satisfy their immediate require ments. The generul belief is, that if the measure is passed the article will rise in value, but to this doctrine there are, of course, some dissentients. Lord G. Bentinck pressed Sir R. Peel, some time ago, to fix the price of corn under the operation of his new scheme, but the speculations of the Premier, on this head, having been falsified by facts, he was naturally unwilling to commit himself by another guess. But what the Minister declined to do has been done by an authority which stands high in the estimation of the agri culturists. That authority is the Mark Lane Express. The publication to which we refer declares emphatically, that under the new arrangement the price of corn will oscillate between 455. and 48s. per quarter. Without entering into the minutia of the question, we may observe, that if this calculation prove accurate, it will leave an ample margin for the profit of the United States' and Canadian exporters. But the British farmers are getting . up the steam in the race of competition, and e v e ry improvement in tilling, draining, and the most scientific application of capital is being pressed into year their service. Our Bamberg correspondent, under date of the 28th ult., have say s , t h e . gratiboeneafroNm,er3, Germanygregreat, i if it t h h a e d U n n ot it b ed ee S n t States this he Oregon question would e question deters many from going, as they fear a war. The uncertainty about the new tariff i n th e U n it e d St a te s duties Prevents g oo d s going forward, an d w ill great l y l essen the receipt of in the Unit e d St a t es f or t h e fi rst h a lf o f this year, so that the apprehension of war i s a l most as b a d as war itself. Th ere is a is very probable thisyincree duties on American tobacco, and it in creasing considerably Government refuse to ratify the that the Zollverein intend will take place if the Amercian graineof the Zollyerein treaty. The price of wheat andof y very kind is falling in Germany, as there is every prospect large crops this season. BRICKLAYERSofte STRIKE I THE t is expected that the ;nen BinuINGIIAM, SATURDAY. —lt trade, in c sl g e n d advance engaged the various branches this town, will very soon be all out on strik n e il g a i r n n have struck an of wages. The bricklayers have already vance of 3s. per week, and most of them o ad- ; The strike is said to be the result of an understanding w m' r i k tl . l the men in other parti of the country. It seems that there has been a considerable demand for men at the Birkenhead works and Manchester, and that this demand has led to an inducement on the part of the general committee of the build ing trade to effect an advance of wages throughout the king dom. The master builders held a numerous meeting of their body on Thursday night, at the Acorn Inn, Temple-street, in this town, for the purpose of considering the demands of the bricklayers. Mr. W. Smith having been called to the chair, and the notice convening the meeting read by Mr. J. Davis, secretary, the assembly was addressed by several masters, all of whom concurred in describing the present eemand as unreasonable, and greater than the present contracts would enable the masters to give. It was stated that there was at present a great scarcity of bricks, owing to the fact that there were only three pieces of ground in the borough from whence bricks could be obtained, and that the works of the new gaol were partly stopped for want of this portion of the materials. In addition to the above reasons, it was stated that there were only three works of any importance in course ' of erection in the town, namely, that of the Norwich Union Office in the Temple, the new gaol, and the intended erection at the corner of Temple-street, New-street, by Mr. Beilby, stationer. It was eventually resolved that the present de . mands made by the bricklayers are greater than the price of provisions or the state of trade warrant, but that the builders composing this meeting are willing to advance the brick ; layers one shilling per week upon their present rate of wages, t on condition that they comply with this offer on or before 1 Monday next, the 6th instant. Thanks having been given - to the chairman, the meeting separated at ten o'clock. FILL OF A RAILWAY BRIDGE.—On Tuesday morn ing last, about six o'clock, the principal pillar of the stone bridge across the Caldew, near the Long Island, belonging to the Newcas tle and Carlisle Railway, and which leads to the Canal Basin, gave way, sinking nearly two feet—the centre arch and roadway sinking to the same extent. The foundation was raised upon piles, which had probably not been driven " home " to the rock, and the gravel having been washed from beneath, the fall became inevitable. The bridge will have to be entirely taken down ; but by using a tempo rary railway fixed upon planks, the coal waggons have been passed across with but lit t l e i nterrup ti on ; an d thus the business of the canal has be en b ut little impeded.—Carlisle Journal. The priz,; of 501. offered by t he Royal Agricultural Society for the best report on the farming of Cambridgeshire, has been awarded to %%rout %I r mo Esq Ickleton, near Saffron Wald 46.— Zing #ffindar4. THE SUS; LIONDON, - 0 ~J ~ THE REVENUE FOR THE YEAR AND QUARTER ENDING A RIL 5, 1846. —An Abstract of the NA Produce of the Revenue of Great Brit Dainecrease in the on each head Years and Quarters ended sth of April, 1845, an d sth of or thereof. April, 134 G, showing the Increase QUARTERS ENDED YEAR QUARTERS ENDED YEAR ! Year cmled April 5. Quarter ended April 5. ..-----1 ended , 4 , ended 1 Customs .. . _. , I r---- --4----, /------ r July 5, Oct. 10, Jan. 5, April 5, April 5, July 5, . Oct. 10, Jan. 5, i April 5 April 5 1844 1844 1845 1846 1845 1845 1845 1 1846 i 1846 Increase. 1 Decrease. Increase. Decrease. - - m . 0 . :G . 81 2,512,115 - ----. • -- ------ ----- 1----- ! -- 3 -- , 1 9 8 6 4 1,:18 17,f,f4,618 I X X X X X X X I . X . Customs .............. 4,869,235 6,002,855 4,902,135 4,402,506 20,176,731 4,499,548 4,848,363 4,354,789440, 588 E x th e „.. . 3,115 , 592 3,960,890 3,230,940 1,917,485 12 , 224 , 907 2,965,684 3,955,106 3,338,837 i 1,203,88-1,i26458 1 5 1 :0 8 8 8 4 6 7 0 4 85 1 i i E r x . c p i e s i e t . y ... T . a ............. •• • - 53,i 822 .... 291,027 s tamp .. ~ ............ 1,705,033 1,665,688 1,601,658 1,742,461 6,714,840 1,837,076 1,780,175 1,792002 1, 685 , 8 C 8 7,095,521 stamp s . .... ..... .. .... .... 56,393 1 989 374 201,430 1,880,490 145,945 4,217,748 2,000,567 201,279 1,876,051 146,142 4,224,039 Taxes 19,707 58,171 - Property Tax.. - - .... 732,435 1,958,711 487,541 1,905,711 5,104,448 909,991 1,823,883 386,98 5 • •• . - p os _mu ce .,... _ ...... 155,000 200,000 146,000 178,000 679,000 155,000 209,000 189,000 215,000 768,000 Post-office ...... ... 89,000 .... 27,000 - Crown Lands ••••• • • • .. 30,000 10,000 50,000 35,000 125,000 30,000 30,000 25,000 ' 45,000 130,000 , Crown Lauds ... 5,000 -• • 10,000 - Miscellaneous. •••• • • .. 422,187 220,961 9,190 415,016 1,067,334 13,652 465,102 369,471 91,522 939,747 : Miscellaneous ••• : :: 127,607 •• • . 323,494 ----. • • • • itepai T ii :t t a . l or . A . d .. v . i . ie . s .. 4 7 11) 7 1 /7 13 2 2,.993246 100,368 1,111,702 9,735,790 47,792,751 Total Ordinary Revenue 13,039,406 14,220,544 12,307,954 10,742,124 50,310,028 12,411,518 113,312,908 112,332,535 I I Imprest Moneys, &c. .. 49,018 28,117 146,759 206,007 429,901 , 29,262 24,591 , 64,084 52,909 170,846 , Imprest Moneys, &e. 209,03.. • ... 103,008 Repayments °advances 271,557 123,692 250,980 418,545 1,067,774 1 182,351 473,881 : 404,179 456,473 1,516,887 , •• • 37,928 - - - Total Income. .. 13,362,981 14,372,353 1 12,705,693 11,366,670 51,A07,703 12,623,134 13,1311,380 '12,800,793 j 0,245,172 I 49,480,484 1 Total ...... • • 920,035 3,207,304 143,296 1,264,800 1 '-- , Amount applied to Con- I , Q , i Deductl Deduct / ~,,,. ~,,-.. solidated Fund ...... 8,994,078 11,264,625 9,83 0 ,7 58 7, 2 73, 0 77 37 , 362 , 538 , 8 , 255,562 8,869,973 7,859,997 ' 5,468,355 30,45 3 . - ! increase , j 930,085, Increase. 1 " -"- Ditto, as Advances .•• • . 177,276 184,225 262,001 380,000 1,003,502 i 101,501 I 550,000 615,077 ' i Ditto, as Ways & Means 1 140,000 1,406',578 1 Decrease Decrease , of the Year.. -• • .... 4,191,627 2,923,503 2,612,934 3,713,599 13,441,663 4,266,071 4,391,407 4,325 724 , 4,636,617 17,620,019 1 , on 2,327,219 on the 1,121,504 . the Year. Quarter. Total .- - 13,362,981 14,372,353 (12,705,693 11,366,679 1 51,807,703 t 12,623,134 13,811,380 12,800,798 10,245,17 2 1 ---------------_ 49,480,484 I . No. ll.—lneeme and Charge of the Consolidated Fund, in the Quarters ended the sth April, 1845, and the sth April, 1846. Quarters ended April 5. "• ' P INCOME. 1845 1846 1 X. X. Customs Excise .. • . ..... ..... ..... . ••. ........ 1,934,471 1,641,800 ! Terminable Annuities .. ... Stamps .• . • 145,945 146,142 i ' Sinking Fund • ............ ~ , Property Tax .. • ... . Post-office . • • .. 178,000 215,000 1 Other Charges on the Cor.solk Crown Lands • • . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 35,000 45,000 To pay off Exchequer Billy, rah Miscellaneous •• • • • • • • • 12,951 91,52 For Advances • • • • • • ......., , Produce of Silver received from China 392,065 Imprest and other Moneys • • • • Repayments of Advances .••••. • • • • • • 418,545 456,473 ' 10,862,002 10,260,514 To Cash brought to this Account to be The Amount of EVOlCquer-bil applied to pay on' Deficiency Bills . 100,000 Jan. 5, 1846, f..md paid oft - after deducting 280,000/., 10,982,002 10,260,514 The Amount issr ed In the , the Consolidated Fund fox The Surplus of tne Consolidat . i The probable amour Quarter ende CHARGE. Permanent Debt ............... - • • • Terminable Annuities .. .• ... . Interest on Exchequer-bills is sue d t o mee t the charge on th e Consolidated Fund . Sinking Fund ............ ••"•••••••••••"••••••••••••••••••• The Civil List • • •• •• • • • • • ~.... Other Charges on the CoLsolidated Fund • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • " • • • • : • • • • : • • • • • • • • : • • To pay oil' Exchequer Ilillv,, raised per Act 6 and 7 Viet. c. 87, for Opium Compensation For Advances • • •• • • ......- - Total Charge .... • Quarters ended Aptil 3. The Surplus ......... . 5,704,180 1,307,0:,9 The Amount of EV - Aieqtter-bills Issued to meet the charge on the Consolidated Fund for the Quarter ended Jan. 5, 1846, told paid off out of the growing produce of that Fund for the Quarter ended April 5, 1846, after deducting 280,000/., p a id o ff ou t of the Sinking Fund •• ...... ....................• The Amount issr ed In the Quarter ended April 5, 1846, in part of the sums granted by Parliament out of the Consollda ted Fund for Supply Services. •• •• •••••• '• •" . The Surplus of the Consolidated Fund, Quarter ended April 5, 1846 • The priJbable amount of Exchequer-bills required to meet Quarter ended April 5, 1846 480 839,026 97,785 331,473 the charge on the Consolidated Fund, Two portri its are the engravings for April, one of them a " Counterfeit Presentiment" of the Duke of Beaufort's huntsman, honest William Long. We re commend the number to all frequenters of our field sports :IA readable. MAGAZINES_ (CON'T'INUED.) NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. Strong in his own powers as a poetical translator, John. Oxenford dares a comparison with John Gibson Lock hart, by a new version of the renowned " Spanish Bal lads relating to the Infants of Lara." And although it is deficient in that barbaresque beauty and lambent en thusiasm which gained Mr. Lockhart's book of Spanish ballads such a deserved popularity, the present transla tion is eminently good, because it is so eminently cha racteristic. It is no paraphrase, but, on the contrary, adheres as closely to the original as symmetry of metre would permit. The more we dip into ancient ballad literature the more are we impressed with the sagacity of the philosopher in selecting it in preference to all other means of governing the populace. How the" Ranz des Vaches " fires the patriotism of the Switzer ; how the " Marselloise" kindled the democracy of Frenchmen; and how that superb outburst of our brave Robin's love for fatherland, and reverence for the heroes of Scotland, "Scots wha ha'e wi' Wallace bled," thrills to the bosom's core of every Caledonian ; are only individual instances of a principle which pervades all nations and animates all generations. Ballad literature is thus potent in its influ ence, because it circulates through the whole mind of the people, and appeals to the tenderest and noblest feelings of the million. Precisely what the ditties relative to Robin Hood and his merry men in Lincoln green where, in relation to our English forefathers, responding to their affection for freedom, and their partiality for valour, are these olden songs of Spain in reference to the inhabitants of the Peninsula. Their every sentiment breathes of that sunny clime—they are most apposite as addressed to the land of the Cid—they are tinctured with that exalted spirit of chivalry, the annihilation of which Cervantes seemed to regard as his peculiar mission. And excel lently well does this version of Mr. Oxenford typify these emotions in English verse. The five ballads are suffused with a delicious combination of intrepidity and pathos ; and, if we might permit ourselves to select one among them as the more preferable, we should almost be tempted to choose the most melancholy-toned of the collection—that descriptive of the destruction of the infants " Salienda de Canicosa." It is exquisitely conceived and charmingly transcribed. A better paper could hardly have commenced this number of the New Monthly. Those readers who have literary appetites, somewhat in accordance with the taste of many would-be conneiseurs in painting, who will not eulogise a landscape until they have traced it to a Cuyp or Claude, nor a pieta until it is proved to be a Caracci, nor a battle piece until it is shown to have proceeded from the easel of Wouvermans, will find a rich banquet of additional chapters in this magazine, graced with the names of G. P. R. James, Captain Marry at, and W. H. Maxwell. " Echoes from the Backwoods" are repeated by Captain Levinge as pleasantly as the hill sides do those on the margin of Killarney. A nameless old man (we do not allude, mind, to the venerable gentleman in black !) becomes very garrulous in his " arraignment and defence of Time." It is a quaint conceit, however, and not un worthy of perusal. We pray Mr. Jolly Green to desist from horsing the public any further, either with his tra vels or his opinions. Ile is rather a superficial pilgrim with a very enticing pseudonym. " The last Ball at the Tuileries" is smart and agreeable enough ; the tracing of the temperaments and futurity of the Duc de Nemours, the Due d'Aumale, the Due de Montpensier, the Prin cesse Clementine, and the Princesse de Joinville, from their stile of dancing! is a very happy eccentricity. There is much wisdom, we conjecture, in its very flip pancy. In the tale, however, which the authoress has em bodied in this article, she has forgotten to express her obligations to that right-clever novel " Cyril Thornton." The story is absolutely identical—it is a most egregious and intolerable specimen of plagiarism. " A sketch of the Lives of Lords Stowell and Eldon" introduces us to the latter venerable personage in a more pleasant cha racter than usual, namely, as the partaker of the frolics of children. It reminds us of a picture ever dear to us —Charles James Fox lying upon the carpet among a pile of toys. Charles Hooton gives us a very common place narrative in ryhme about a Captain Blackstone ; there is only one redeeming point in the contribution — the suicide of Melicate. The April number is con cluded with not the least interesting paper, " The Loss of the Great Liverpool," described by one of the passen gers in that luckless vessel, over whose destruction such a mournful interest has been cast by the recent felo de se of her unfortunate Captain. The New Monthly for his month is altogether an improvement uron many of s predecessors. THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND QUARTERLY REVIEW. No. XXXVIIL Very miscellaneous, very well-timed, anti very judi cious, viewing them collectively, are the contents of this Quarterly. " Newman's Developement," with " Dr. Pusey and the Confessional," are very laborious commentaries upon the so-called Tractarian movement ; and although these commentaries are occasionally well spiteited, they are also very frequently too bitter in their la.nguage, too expletive In their manner, and too self settisfied in their tone for sober theological discussion. Nicknames are still unhappily in vogue among contro rersialists. We are sanguine, nevertheless, that the time is not so distant when such adjuncts will be spurned on all hands as derogatory to the holy theme of religion. The "no popery 1" cry should have expired with the confinement of that fanatical madman, Lord George Gordon, in Newgate. And the words of John Grueby, as i sported to us by " Box," in his charming tale of " Barnaby Rudge," should be inscribed in letters of staring gold over the Corinthian portal of Exeter Hall—" Lord bless you, leave that unforenate bloody Mary alone !" Words tinctured in any manner with bitterness are scarcely compatible with those divine doctrines which were inculcated first in Palestine in gentle accents, and in parables of tender significance. " Scriptual Geology " is generally regarded as a theme rather difficult for the peu of a Christian reviewer. Not so : the prodigious and startling discoveries of science are only fresh proofs of the veracity of' the Book of Books ! The gradation and duration of geological strata can be rendered—are rendered—consonant with the first chapter of Genesis. Revealed religion is far from being subverted by the leverage of natural philosophy; it is enforced, and illustrated, and authenticated (if we might so speak) by the new revelations of astronomy and cosmogony. The earth in this way becomes a glorious index to the Heaven : the reality of the hereafter is verified by the Now. What sublime thoughts flood upon us at the reflection ! position of the " Anti-Corn-law League and the labour ing classes," the reviewer looks through a clear medium and expresses himself with much solid judgment and much laudable candour. Where, however, he attempts to cast a stigma of discredit upon Sir Robert Peel, we perceive a flaw in the prism, his sight is bleared with that flood of vituperation which has latterly been lavished so ungenerously upon that most illustrious statesman. How absurd—yes, we repeat it, how utterly absurd, to scorn a political convert because—of "his time of life !" An old adage saith, " Never too late to begin!" That is a good saying, and a sensible one. And regard ing the Premier in this light alone, his change (call it what you pleased, " tergiversation," " ratting," or what not) is admirable. When, however, in a retrospective snrvey of his career, we see a clear tendency towards that pinnacle of legislative magnanimity, the summit of which Sir Robert Peel has now reached, namely, the good of the people ; when we observe throughout his whole political life a manifest effort to seduce the aris tocracy of landlords into just concessions to the multi tude ; when we perceive his gradual progression from fixed duties to a lenient tariff, and from a sliding scale to a free trade, we cannot but acknowledge in him a consistency more massive and more splendid than in that dogged adherence to principles long since obsolete and exploded, which, with a very singular adaucity, claims the same epithet. Consistency indeed I surely it is the consistency of duncehood ! The remaining moiety of ,he Church of England Quarterly, is of ordinary ability. THE PEOPLE'S JOURNAL. We congratulate th e m illi on on posses sing an organ so earnestly alive t o th e i r i nterests . They cannot com plain that their p r i nc i p l es are una d vo cateti in a literary way—their c h amp i ons of t h e p en (not to speak egotistically) are powerful and numerous. William and Mary llowitt are doing their utmost to advance the cause of their countrymen, and the former here pays a deserved tribute t o Mi ss Martineau, at whose recovery from illness we are no less amazed than delighted. Mr. Fox, too, labours bravely under the same banners: his lectures on " living poets," on " the study of history," and on " the common interests of Great Britain and America," are animated at once by an eloquent affection for freedom and integrity. He does well in contemning belligerent rivalry between the United States and Eng land. Peace is indeed the panacea for all national ills. Nevertheless, in our reverence for this divine quietude among nations, we must never forget that a manifesta tion of pertinacious injustice must not be tolerated on the part of another government. By succumbing to the insolent demand of any Power, however near or how ever remote, however strong or however feeble, we should merely be extending rewards to additional en croachments, and by such a misjudged policy be placing the peace of mankind in yet more imminent periL If we are really desirous of maintaining tranquillity we must hold a scourge above legislative insolence and sus tain our rights by a plenitude of honesty, and dignity, and determination. From the poems of Miss Barrett we cannot restrain ourselves from quoting a few frag ments; they are fired with such a noble _detestation of the turpitude of our ministry in 1815. " Napoleon ! years ago, and that great word, Compact of human breath in hate and dread And exultation, skied as over head — An atmosphere whose lightning was the sword, Scathing the cedar of the world,—drawn down The burnings, by the metal of a crown. Napoleon sages with high foreheads drooped, Did use it for a problem; children small Leapt up to greet it, as at manhood s call : Priests blessed it from their altars , overatooped ' By meek-eyed Christs—and widows with a moan Spake it, when questioned why they alto alone. • • • • • • France kept her old affection, Ah, deeply as the sepulchre the corse, Until dilated by such loves remorse To a new angel of the resurrection, She cried, ' Behold, thou England ! I would have The dead, whereof thou wettest, from the grave!' And England answered in the courtesy Which ancient foes, turned lovers, may befit— "fake back thy dead! and when thou burriest it, Th ro w in all former strifes 'twixt thee and me, ' Amen, mine Engla nd 1 'tis a courteous claim, was ia n n d o i t mi well, st, well, it N But ash a little ro om, r ßecause tuneful,i was too —for thy shame Among the Ocia nides—that heart To bind, and bare, and vex with vulture fill. I would, my noble England, men mi g ht see k; All crimson stain s u p on th y brea st — not cheek ! o I would that hosti le fleets had scarred thy bay, with g th not e i i te Instead of the lo ve shi p whi ch waited moored U n til thy princely purpose was assured, Then left a s hadow—not to pass away— Not for to-night's .moon, nor to - morrow's sun! Green watching hills, ye witnessed what was done! " We would willingly transcribe further, but for th, space already occupied. When completed, the first volume of the People's Journal will be a choice one ; we can predicate it from the three parts already published. AINSWORTH'S MAGAZINE. " Old St. Paul's" is incorrigible in the pertinacity of its continuation, but we have already spoken so plainly upon this subject that we shall desist from further re monstrances. The two most prominent features of Ainsworth for April are, like our minor dramas, " taken from the French;" alas ! for our paucity of originals, alas ! for our sneaking reliance upon the fecundity of the imaginations of la belle France. However we must swallow our chagreen and be as grateful as possible for the good things vouchsafed us by our neighbours. And good things they are too of a vengeance—absolute dain ties in their way. " Piquillo Allia,ga," by Eugene Scribe, and " The Count of Monte Christo,' by Alex andre Dumas. Both are as interesting as romances could well be, with the assistance of all those extrava gant adjuncts, of all those thrilling improbabilities and outrageous vagaries which the Parisian novelists know so well hew to blend with their characters, so as to form very palpable fictions. As the story by M. Scribe is only commenced in this Number, we shall defer our opinion upon its merits to a more favourable opportunity ; though we must acknowledge it evinces a freshness of description which promises largely. " The Count of Monte Christo," gains somewhat upon our attention in its present portion. Dudley Costello utters a variety of piquante remarks on " How they make Love over the Water," a title, which at first sight suggested to 'us a teetotal courtship. Mr. Costello, we opine, has no small partiality for Roche foucault; the reflex of his sarcasm, and his pithiness glimmers in the lucubrations of the former. A con tribution by Thomas Wright, is a third peep into the mysteries of " Sorcery and Magic:" and another by Charles Hooton, is a second chapter of his " Imma terialities, or can such things be ?" consequently the lovers of the marvellous may here obtain a dish precisely to their liking. We are rejoiced to find the " Life and Writings of Nimrod" drawn to a conclusion, as the series had already exceeded all allowable limits. Mr. Roscoe narrates some " Incidents in the Life of a French Soldier," the gist of which is somewhat hacknied. And, when we mention an Irish legend about the " Banshee," by Mr. Forrest, we have enumerated the entire contents of Ainsworth, which, but that it is tarnished by a miserable steel illustration by Franklin, would be suitable for the table of any drawing-room or boudoir. THE SPORTI N G MAGAZINE. Harry Hie'over furnishesthe first article, and a most acceptable and valuable one it must r prove . to all tyroes a i ll or a s Vmtious of becom ing the stables, to all those who ,, Purchasers, and ( l )f us eful iln)ugrcahuifsiinilga,'t' i s s P° it i a tin tit a l n e s , b b i u P t . so full is the hints as to the physiognomical and physicfl a o l ic r charac ter of this noble animal that we consider ga ta title as not sufficiently comprehensive. The cynic t in Shakspere's Timon of Athens, pronounces a long grace upon a miserable atom of very unsavory root : the direct conver se of this is the behaviour of Harry Hie'over. He presents to the reader a bountiful repast of information with a very meagre introductory phrase. Altogether the paper before us might be re garded as AR exposition of the renowned stain's in " Venus and Adonis," descriptive of a perfect steed. We trust the writer will contribute a series of articles, somewhat after the same fashion, in the pages of the Sporting Magazine. In this manner he might favour us with a dissertation upon each description of horse, racer, hunter, draught, and so forth, with a supplement upon the diseases incident to the entire breed. The subject, no doubt, would be old in the abstract, but the manner wonld be novel and agreeable. Let him meditate upon our recommendation. " Recollections of a Griff," afford us a very preposterous and over-wrought incident. The situation is so unlikely that, notwith standing its absurdity, a laugh is completely out of the question. A Mr. ChesElyre 'writes a sensible bundle of remarks about the " Operation of the Game-laws ;" we presume, however, from their nature, that he has dipped largely into Miss Martineau's recent stories up on the same theme. " A Visit to Newmarket" is trite and common-place ; " The White Hare" little better ; and " A Few Words about Greyhounds," too frivolous and petite to be examined even by a literary microscope. THE FREEMAS OARTERLY RE- In this closely-printed periodical th ere i s a remarkable accumulation of the sayings and d o i ngs current among the nt i vsterious fraternity. The contr ib utions, though T; E .. 1 iv. not of first-rate excellence, are usually selected with dis crimination, and are replete with sound sense. We can cordially recommend the Review to the masonic bro therhood. Therenearly EDINBURGH JOURNAL E CCLESIASTICAL Wh a t we have already reverted to i n a preced i ng no tice is now parti cularl y a pp l icable to this publication— we approachi ng t o th a t o f is an at ra bili ous t one about the disquisit ion u p on what is f a l se ly ent i t l e d " Th e Marian Superstition. The composition o f thi s art i c l e i s most reprehensible. T o say the least of it, la e consci entiously believe , as calm and dispassion a t e o b servers , the faith of the Rom ish Church is misconstrued by the sectarian a intolerance. spirit verY. writer. We cannot induce ourselv es t o t hi n k t h at so many grea 4-minds as have been n um b ere d amongst t h e children of that creed could so far &base their intellects as to pay supre me idolatry t o a mere creature. Such a ..notion is repugnant to our common sense ; it ap- 380,000 8,710,003 2,171,999 10,982,002 4,636,817 1,783,308 5,631,01 1,314,235 954,410 98,085 338,785 140,000 8,477,206 1,783,308 10,260,514 2,853,509 2,853,800 pears'to us a sheer impossibility. Several pieces of criticism in the present Number merit a perusal, and the " Record of Missions" deserves a similar word of commendation. WANDERINGS OF A PEN AND PENCIL. Our two pilgrims, Alfred Crowquil and F. P. Palmer, have a rare appreciation of the picturesque. Witness that " Yarnton Manor House," flecked with shreds of sunlight and its lattices curtained by green boughs I Just the spot in which to pore over Holinshed of a dark night, or to carol a madrigal of Christopher Marlow in the summer-time ; and " Godstone's Nunnery," all crumbled away, and strewn with ivy, and suffused with an aspect of desola tion—a very outhouse to the moated grange of Shakspere's and Tenneyson's Marianna, " Fair Rosamond" is, of itself, far beyond the price of the whole number, with its fantastic marginal illustrations. We can speak of these Wanderings with unaffected satisfaction ; they will form a pleasant addition to the historiography of our merry England. • HEATH'S NEW GALLERY OF BRITISH ENGRAVINGS. Parts IV. and V. The six engravings before us are beautiful specimens of art ; two portraits ; two domestic scenes ; and two interiors of churches. In the first of the likenesses, the proverbial loveliness of our fair countrywomen is ex quisitely represented ; an effect which is doubtless owinc , to the combination of three things—the charms of the delicate original, the pencil of the artist, and the finished skill of the engraver. The altar scenes at Leigo has a most entrancing effect, every scrap of the gothic orna ments upon the groins, the roof beams, and the mullions coming out with crispness, and yet with softness, in the pool of sun-light streaming through the stained windows. If the future parts of this series are only equal to the present specimens, the work will not be un worthy of the supervision of Mr. Charles Heath ; and that is no mean encomium. THE KIVIGHT OF G WYNNE. Nos. 111. and IV By Charles Lever. Harry Lorrequer progresses but slowly in the en tanglement of his plot—a sad failing in so experienced a writer of fiction, since but little interest is excited until the characters are in a tolerable state of confusion. Darcy, the Knight of Gwynne, is very happily con ceived and very aptly delineated, and, considering that his patrimonial estates are threatened with irre parable destruction, there is a promise of incide nts such is will enthral the attention, and arouse the sympathies of the reader. Captain Forrester makes extraordinary advances in the estimation of Lady Eleanor, the hostess of Gwynne Abbey, and loses his heart—that truant of all love-tales!—to Helen Darcy. Bagenal Daly—al ready one of our familiar favourites—developer his ec centric nature more and more in every successive scene. His summary way of dealing with the postboy, by taking a streak of nap off his beaver with a pistol bullet, is almost as characteristic as his clearing the fence with " his reins in his mouth and his hands be hind his back." The epoch in which the story is situ ated is a most attractive one to all lovers of Irish romance; being no less important a time than that of the legisative union. On this very account, however, the difficulties of the narrative are enhanced: the writer must avoid any evidence of party feeling, while, at the same moment, his pages must reflect the most bitter party politics of that stormy and eventful period. We shall watch the development of the tale with much curiosity. OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE RE VIE IV. After a hiatus of one month, the Oxford and Cam bridge Review is revived. From the circumstances of this interval, one might reasonably have anticipated a new infusion of vigour into its lucubrations, but such an anticipation would, on the perusal of the present number, have proved thoroughly erroneous. Far from any additional ability being incorporated in this really clever periodical, there is a mournful deficiency of that ability which has hitherto decorated its pages. The gap in its publication has virtually deteriorated its merits. A non-issue of a month has, as it wore, salivated a very healthy constitution to the most remarkable stage of debility. Two articles only are at all compatible with its reputalion, " Horace Walpole's Memoirs— George III.," and "A Chapter of Roman His tory"—the latter of which is terse and erudite. For one paper, however, we cau express our cordial thank fulness to the reviewer, we mean the notice of Thomas Carlyle's " Oliver Cromwell." It is indeed more than a satisfaction to us when we see a great, bold, muscular effort like that of Carlyle recognised and appreciated. We acknowledge there are obstacles to such a recegni tion and appreciation in the case of that strange biogra pher ; the obstacles of diction almost his own ; the obstacles of a quaint and startling mannerism. Carlyle indeed is apart from all writers, and all thinkers of which there is any record ; he is neither German or English in his style, wholly; neither is he a combina tion of the two. He is, as Gilfillan has said, " above us like a star—apart from us like a spirit." In rolling for ward the great, solid body of his thought to a conclu sion he seems like some vast Titan groping his way on wards through the darkne3s of a moor—stumbling con stantly—shaking the groand with his footsteps—yet striding ever towards the lights of truth that blaze up in gleams upon the horizon. i3is words are harsh and dis onant, but they burn with intellect : his books are in defiance of the commonest rules of rhetoric, but they are luminous with something above rhetoric—they are glorious in this very deformity. Before we conclude our remarks upon the Review, we would utter our protest against another of those unseemly personalities which occasionally bespatter the arena of letters with anything but harmless ink. What we allude to is a most irrate diatribe upon a gentleman whom one would have imagined common delicacy, not to say common decency or common gratitude, would have forbidden them alike to attack — namely, one of the former contributors to the Review, and one whose "most successful essays," according to the acknowledgment of the reviewer himself, " have ap peared in its pages 1" To the habitual readers of this Periodical we need scarcely say t hat the gentleman in question is Mr.Keon—one of whose papers in the Oxford and Cambridge Review attracted such general and de served attention to the publication. On this account, to say the least of it, the present unaccountable ebulition of spleen is indicative of absolute ingratitude. That there is something exceedingly like spleen in the so called criticism must be evident from such expressions as—" satisfied apostacy," " ferocious audacity," " a rich mixture of folly and fustian," " exotic impertinence," "itinerant writer," and so forth: phrases which go for less than nothing in argument, and are scarcely con sonant with the character of a gentlemanly critic. Though we cannot coincide with Mr. Keon in regarding the writings of Carlyle as " rugged nonsense" (and why we do not, the foregoing paragraphs will testify), we are not inclined to asperse Mr. Keon on that account, in the terms of the reviewer, as an " arrogant author." Surely writers may indulge in a diversity of opinion without descending to sheer abuse ! THE BANKERS'. The article on " Banking for the Poorer Classes" is deserving the attention of the philanthropist, the finan cier, and the statesman. Our present banking system offers to the rich either eligible investments or pecuniary accommodation, on the most advantageous terms ; whereas the poor man, if he seek a safe investment, can find it only in the savings' bank, where he gets but three per cont. for his money, and if he wants accom modation, he must have recourse either to-the pawn broker or the loan society, and then he can only obtain it on ruinous terms. Having thus described the situation of the poor man, the writer proceeds to propose his plan. " It will be seen from what has been already stated, how completely the poorer class of borrowers are left in the hands of unprincipled sharpers, and pettifogging attorneys. We think it is deserving of consideration7-whether the present system of savings' banks might not be so far modified, as to render available a portion of the fillies invested with them, for loans to parties who can give satisfactory security. If this could be done, it would protect the borrowers from the rapacity of these' loan societies,' and would realise for the savings' bank depositors a much larger rate of interest than they can at present receive. The chief objection would, of course, be that the savings of the poor depositor would not be so secure as at present; but we think there arc few depo sitors who would not give up some portion of this security increased rate the great advantages he wo uld derive f rom the rate of interest, The objections, too, might be altogether avoided, if the present savings' bank system was continued for those who de , ired it; allowing others to invest their money in a new institution, which should combine the savings banks' with the loan societies' plan." The plan seems to be a feasible one, and should it succeed, it will do much to raise the social condition of the labouring classes. At all events, it is worth ati ial. OUR 0 WN TIME S. Illustrated by George Cruikshank. And where can " Our own Times" find an illustrator more graphic ? Who is there who combines wit and wisdom, grace and grotesqueness, fun and pathos, with the truthfulness of Cruikshank ? Tho annduncement alone is t utlicient to give the world assurance of a treat. Cruikshank has secured the services of a host of littrary collaboratrurs, and we hope that he and they will continue every month to give gs illustrations of " Our own Times," as long as " Our own Times" they continue to be. THE ALMANAC OF TUE . 111 ONTIL Edited by G. A. A'Beckctt. This pleasant record of the fun and follies of th? ria , nth still continues its career with unabated spirit. The following hit at the dwarf mania is not bad : " - A HrxT TO PLAYGOERS.—AS there seems to be a taste recently sprung up among the public for seeing dwarfs on the stage, we beg to offer. a suggestion by which people may experience this gratification at any of the metropolitan theatres :—By reversing the opera-glass, and looking through the wrong end of it, all the performers at Drury-lane, the Haymarket, or the Adelphi, will appear as diminutive as the most enthusiastic admirer of littleness could possibly desire.' LITERATURE. The PUIVJAUB, being a brie Account of Country of the Seikhs; BiLieutenant • Colonci Steinbach. This is a second edition of the work published last year, bringing down the history to the present time, and including a narrative of the recent campaign of the Sutlej. Great events have occurred during the brief space, but even these will not strike the reader more than the history of the changes that had taken place in the Government since the death of Runjeet Singh, in 1839. It exhibits but one continued scene of murder and usurpation. The Old Lion was succeeded by his son, Kurruek Singh, who was soon deposed by his own son, Noo-Nehal, and afterwards died of poison. Noo-Nehal, in returning from his father's funeral, mounted on an elephant, met with a fatal accident, believed to have been the work of assassins : th e e l e ph an t on w hi c h h o rode, i passing through the g a t es o f th e p a l ace , p us h e d against the brick-work, when th e w h o l e came d own and, fracturing the skull 9f the Maharaja, he expired in a few hours. Shore Singh, a twi n son o f Runjeet by his wife 21ebtab, after bombarding Lahore, succeeded to the throne, and shortly after murdered the mother of Noo-Nehal, who had , opposed him, and for some months acted as regent. The army rose against Shere, compelled him to dismiss all the European officers, and f i nally became reconciled to his Government; but other enemies sprung up, who soon cut off his head, to make room for Beera Singh, who met the same fate. More murders and usurpations fol lowed, till the nation acknowledged the present Ma hara j a Dhuleep Singh, a youth of ten years of age, and reputed son of Runjeet, who is under the tutelage of his mother, called the Ranee. The work contains besides a brief account of the climate, the military forces, the state of manufactures, the origin of the Seikhs, and other par ticulars, which are far too much compressed. Lieut.- Colonel Steinbach had serred ten years in the Seikh army, and must have had many opportunities of obtain ing information, which we regret has been so sparingly communicated. That would have ben much more acceptable to the reader than copies of the late dis patches, which arc to be seen in any newspaper. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert, the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Court, and the domestic household, attended Divine service yesterday in the private chapel, Buckingham Palace. The Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenar, officiated. her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester visited her Majesty yesterday. Her Majesty and her Royal Consort took their usual early walk yesterday. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice were taken airings yesterday in the garden of the Palace. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager had a dinner party on Saturday, at Marlborough House. The Queen and Prince Albert, attended by the Viscountess Jocelyn, Lady in Wait ing, Lord Rivers, Lord in Waiting; Mr. R. Ormsby Gore, Groom in Waiting; the Hon. Colonel Grey, Equerry in Waiting, and Lieutenant-Colonel Seymour, kquerry to his Royal Highness, were present. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent (attended by Lady Augusta Bruce), her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, and his Serene Highness the Hereditary Prince of Saxe Meiningen, were also present. A select party had the honour of meeting the august circle. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Prin cess Royal were taken an airing in a carriage on Saturday, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, and visited her Royal highness the Duchess of Kent, at Clarence House, St James's. The Queen and Prince Albeit inspected two newly-finished engravings from the State portraits of her Majesty and his Royal Highness, after Winterpaltees pictures, on Saturday, at Buckingham Palace, which were submitted by Mr. Moon. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her Ma jesty the Queen Dowager, yesterday, at Marlborough House. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent attended Divine service, yesterday, in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The sermon was preached by the Bishop of London, who took his text from the First of Peter, chap. ii. ' and verse 21. The prayers were read by the Rev. Dr. Dakins, and the lessons by the Rev. Dr. Wesley. His Royal Highness Prince Albert's " Te Deum"—Jubilate —"Sanctus," and " Responses," were performed by the fol lowing gentlemen of the Chapel :—Messrs. Bennett, Brad bury, Barnby (for Roberts), Chapman, Clarke, Francis, Hawkins, Hobbs, Horncastle, Sale, Shoubridge (for Sal mon), Wylde. and ten boys. Sir George Smart presided at the organ. The anthem was, '! Who is this?" (Arnold.) Lady Augusta Bruce was in waiting on the Royal Duchess. The Rev. John Vane was the Deputy Clerk of the Closet in Waiting. Among the nobility present were, the Earl and Countess St. Germans, Lord and Lady Ernest Bruce, Lords Pomfret and Canterbury. The Bishop of London administered the Sacrament. The Duke of Wellington, Lord G. Poulet, and Sir Fred. Tread', attended the early service, yesterday, in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Mr. _Strong, and the prayers were read by the Rev. Dr. Wesley. The Bishop of London will hold a confirmation of the juvenile nobility, on. Thursday next, in the Chapel Roy al, St. James's. The Dean of Westminster will preach on Good Friday ; and the Sub Almoner, the Rev. Dr. Jelf, will preach in the Chapel Royal on Sunday next. Mr. Drouct, Belgian Charge d' Affaires, transacted business on Friday at the Foreign-office. The Lord Advocate of Scotland had an interview with the Earl of Dalhousie on Saturday at the Office of the Board of Trade. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—You will do me the justice of inserting the fol lowing paragraph into your valuable paper. Your humble servant. JOSEPH WOLFF. TO THE RELATIONS OF CAPTAIN CONOLLY. "Halifax, April 2, 1846. "My dear Friends?-1 have been informed that some of you have heard that I entertained doubts in my own mind about the death of Colonel Stoddart, Captain Conolly, and LieutenlntaWyburt. All I can say to this report is that the death of those officers is not with me a matter of opinion—but a matter of fact—l know that those officers are dead, and those who try to throw any doubt upon it, act, tho least to say, most injudiciously and cruelly against the relations, and that I hope that no body will give the least credit to the report that I had the least doubt of their death! I have requested the friend who arranges and edites the third edition of my narrative, that he should not by any means add one single word to the said narrative by which the fact of the death of the officers may be doubted. I also declare herewith, that I have not the least - right - to claim a pen sion from Government, or any other remuneration, and I most sincerely hope that none of my friends will ever petition to Parliament to obtain any remuneration for me, for I have not deserved it, as I have not brought back the prisoners. All I want from my friends is not to mention the subject again either to the relations or to me in a way injurious to Government! " JOSEPH WOLFF. " Vicar of Isle Brewery, near Langport, in Somersetshire." --- SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. HAMPTON SPRING RACES—(Tms DAY.) The Hurdle Stakes of 5 &ors. each, and 25 added, for gentlemen's horses. Two miles. Bonny Lass 6 yrs, Mash, aged, Blantyre, Symphony, The I'ope, Barite)) , nudge, Yorkshire Lass, Paddy, Brunette (late Duenna), Foxberry. Sweeps of 10 soya each, 5 forfeit, and 25 added, for officers' horses.. Two miles, &c. Hyrcanian, Prairie Bird, John Davis, Mavourneen (late St. Swithin). The Handicap Hurdle Stakes of 10 soyaa, each, half forfeit, and 30 added. About three miles. • Carlow, list 41b, Boxkeeper, list, Limerick, lOst 101 b, Brunette, lOst 71b, Adrian, lOst, Wilton, 10st. The Flat Races did not fill ; two other races close at the post. (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) BIBURY (OLD COURSE) RACES—FnIDAT. The Bibury Stakes of 10 sovs. each, 5 ft, for five years old, llst 71b ; six and aged, 12st. Two miles. (5 subs.) Mr. J. Griffith na bc by Stockport, out of Raffael, 3 yrs 1 Sir L. R. Cockerell's Flirt, 5 yrs The Aldsworth Handicap of 10 sovs. each, h ft, with 2i added. One mile and a half. (8 subs.) Sir C. R. Cockerell'a Niobe, 5 yrs, Ilst 1 Mr. Wall's Minus, 5 yrs, list 5 1 b Mr. Parr's Jack ade, 5 yrs, lOst 121 b The United limiters' Stakes did not fill. The Hack Stakes of 5 sovs. each, list 101 b each ; half-bred allowed 10Ibs ; winner to be sold for 401. About three quarters of a mile. (3 subs.) Sir C. 11. Cockerell's Flirt ...(Captain Pettat) I Mr. Wall's Zela, 5 yrs Mr. E. B. Codrington's Copper Cal) (h. b.) The Handicap of 5 sous. each, I ft. One mile. (5 subs.) Mr. Soutthby's Toni Tough Mr. Wall's Minus BATTLE OF SORRAON.— Mr. 011iviPr, of Pall-mall has just published a lithographed plan of this battle, which clearly shows the respective positions of the British and Seikh forces during every portion of the glorious battle of the 10th of February, from the commencement of the attack to the final overthrow of the enemy. SALMON FISHERY ON THE NESS.—Mr. D. A. Nicol,_ a young gentleman only . sixteen years of age, on the 25t1 ,. 1 (Af last month, succeeded in killing with the rod the lari,n ; clean salmon that has been killed this year in the ,,, N%s• hooked the fish in the Lagan Pool after risine, on the times, and in twenty minutes succeeded in bit gives it 0 snow. It weighed twelve pounds and a givCS us great ADVANCE OF WEAVERS WAGES. and Co , Stone Cross pleasure to state that the drill 9r rfesstb• eldlllt . hat Th t i i s tey ad w v e a r n e c i e w ill i make have consented to give their wearearbsie3anba:esysialinnege under the t p h e e r QAttal to or eight and on per cent. upon their previous wages, for all wthoo rt ,a g g iv e e s n ot. ou th t e on .p a e n r d ati a ft ye e : n 1339, and, we doubt not, will prove a season 4 high price Of provlSions.— ll'istmorclan Grantle. 1ar4,6 Ivemworo.oo4 RAILWAY SHARE', MARIthl S MANCIIESTER, Mitt/. 4. STOCK EXCIIINCIE.—The sales are—Derby and Crew:, I t 4 p. 0. — Eastern Counties, Perpetual (No. 2), 7—East Lancashire, No. 2, 4 p.—Grand Union, 18s. d:s.—Lancashire and North Yorkshire, 1 3 -16 —Leeds, Dewsbury, and Mar.eicster, 1 1 4 p.—Liverptol, \\*Arrington Manchester, and Southport, 1! e.l d. ilis.L-Mauchester, Buxton, and Matlock, Is. p.—MliichcAer and. Birmingham, 75--Ditto, Quarters (1 1 ), 6 i p.—Ditto, Quarters (C), 1,74 p.—Mancbcptcr and Birming ham Continuation and Welsh Junction, F die.—Manchester and Leeds, Fifths, 8 3 A p.—North Staffordshire, 13 P• ld and Lincolnshire Junction, !,/, dis.—South Eastern and Dover, Halves No. 4, 5-Id—West Riding Union, 24s p. LEEDS, APRIL 4. STOCK EICIIANGE,—The share markets continued to improve in the early part of the week, and a further impetus WM given to the trade by the receipt of the intelligence of the triumph of the British arms in India, but the higher prices realised for a day or two caused sellers to come forward, and on Thursday and Friday it became appa rent that to effect extensive sales lower rates must be accepted. To day, however, appearances are rather more favourable, although the small =mutt of business doing makes it difficult to g'.ve an opinion with confidence, yet if, as is believed, the increased demand of the early part of the week was chiefly met and supplied by Bear transac tions, the close of those speculations Independent of other circtun stances, will tend to enlnnee prices I;;r the Account. The American MAYA is looked for with mach anxiety, and If of a pacific character -- as is strongly hoped—will no doubt exercise a beneficial influence on the marhets. We are glad to obzerve tha: the holders of scrip ht le:- successful schemes are evincing a determination to have the Lalance of dclioslts returned to them. The ahandunraent of a mass of these undertakings will Idieraw a large amount of money amiefe a (last of holders by whom the money pressure is most severely f it, a d will no doubt relieve the markets in a degree ; and If the number of Mils for new railways obtainable this , session should prove t' be but few (and we apprehend the number at present possessing a eroapect of success will be very materially lessened), the general relief frent this 'cause also will aid in producing a better and more healthy state of things in which sound old ii/ICs, which arc su unduly depressed, may rally and be again enabled to reach sometlfng like four per cent. value. l'he sates are—Eastern Counties, York Extension, I Is. Sd. p. —Manchester and Leeds Extensions, 2.; ; p.— East Lancashire, NO. 2 (late Accringten), 10s. p.—lludderslield aunt Manchester, 10s. ills. —lladderstield and Sheillehl, 2 p.—Leeds and Itrahibrd, 21 p. — Leeds and Dewsbury, 255. p.—Leeds and Thirsk, POs. dis.—Liver pool and Bury, a p.— London and York, al s . di s .—Li verpuo l, Orms kirk, and Preston, 10 s. p.—West Kiting Union, 3—Pradford Wake field, and Midland , 228 . 17s. 63. di, Leeds and Liverpool Direct, Cs. dis.—Leeds, Wakefield and Mid land, lie. fxd. his.--Leicester :no Bedtbrd, Iss. dis.—Northentber land and Lancathire .lunction, 235. dis.—North Staffordshire, It. 13s. tid.—Nortlf Western, 2e. bd. dis. ILULL, Arm 4. . _ STOCK EXCHANGE.—ThetliSiiellOttthlt to abandon evinced by several of the Committees promoting new schemes, has caused less demand for scrip ; it is, however, hoped the Legislature will inter fere ud prevent the reckless expenditure of money upon schemes, the subscription contracts of which, were the Committees to take the trouble of examining, would easily slmw the impossibility of suffi cient tbnds being raised to carry Ilion 'out ; and unless in some of the best lines few holders of scrip will permit their names to lie put on the register in the event of the lines passing. The sales are— North British, Carlisle, 325. 6d.—Boston, Newarli, and Sheffield, 2:is.— East Coast, 155.--(lraud Union, 9s. 611.—Great North and South Wales and Worcester, Bs. clipped scrip —HO and Barnsley Junction, 25s,—London and : Manchester (Rem.), 19s.—North Staffordshire, 3/. 19s. 6d.—West - Biding Union, 3/. 3s. SHEFFIELD, Aran, 4. . STOCK Exert ANGE.—The sales are—Eastern Countics, 21— C rltnshy and Sheffield, Extension, 1/. Is.—London and York, Extension, 11. 4.9. —Manchester and Lincoln Union and Canal, I}i —Sheffield and Lincolnshire, 238.—Sheffield, Buxton, Leek, Potteries, and Crewe, I Is. YORK, AiniL 4 chester, B E i c x X t e o li ii r 3 o r E a . t - ioe T k l : e rin sal d e 3 s tm a i r a e n - d, L 2 o 7 l . l( 2 lo s n ... it N i! e d w l e " a o s r : c le , anti her- IG SToc %' -North British, Carlisle Extension 1/. 125.-Welsh 31id- land, 1-West Riding Union, 3iB-York and ' North Midland, New (East and West Riding), 7.1.4, EDINBURGH, A ram 3 . STOCK EXCIII.NCE.-The sake are-Aberdeen, W.- -Aberdeen, Banff, and Elgin, U. IN.-Airdrie and B a th gate, 2/. 25.-Arbroath and Forfar, 271.-Ditto, half Shares, 15/. IN.-Ar mag h an d Port rush,loB.- Ayr and Galloway , 1 /. 125.6d.-Ayrshire an d B r id ge o f ex new, 71. 10s. - I s e io d n o , n , Gd caw. nia Weir, Ss. Q.-Banffshire, 11 . - Belfast and County Down, 21.-Bri tDisihttoa,nsd Union, ios._e 0 15 n s is . n C(I i - xt e et a i n and Dumbarton, It. 10s.--Caledonian and Northern Direct, 11. 15s. - Carnwath and West Linton, IL 25.-Chelmsford and Bury, 155.- Clydesdale Junction, 13/.-Cornwall and Devon Central, 11.78. 6c1.- Deesidc Railway, 41. 45.-Direct Northern, 1/. 12s. Gd.-Dublin and .-Ditto I Enniskillen, 31. 10s.-Dundee and Arb roath, 391. 5s , New, 221.-Dundee and Forfar Junction, 11. IN.-Dundee and Perth, 10/. 10s.-Ditto, Kinross Extension, 21. 2s. Ckl.-Eastern Counties Exten sion, 1/. 2s. 6d.-East Indian Railway, Ss. 3d. -East of Fife, It. iSs.- East Lothian Central and Tyne Valley Junction, U. Ss. -Edinburgh and Bathgate, 21.-Edinburgh and Glasgow, 721.-Ditto, Half Shares, 131.- Ditto, Quarters, 171. 10s.-Ditto, ditto, New, 151. 10s.-Edin bargh, Glasgow, and Dumbarton. 18s. -Edinburgh and I.eith Atmospheric, 1/. 55.-Edinburgh, Leith, and Cranton, 171.-Ditto, Preference, 19!.-Edinburgh and Northern, V. ss-Ditto, Newport, N. 6d.-Ditto, Lochgelly, 12s. 6d.-Edinburgh and Peebles, 11.25. Gd. Edinburgh and Perth, 2/. 7s. 6d.-Edinburgh, Portobello, and Mussel burgh. 1/. 10s. -Forth and Clyde Junction, 11. IN.-Glasgow and Ayrshire, 70/. 10a.-Ditto, New Stock, 241.-Ditto, Quarter .shares, 171. 105.-Glasgow Belfast Union, I 1.-filasgow, Durnirhn, and Cwlisle, 17. 7s. 6d. -Glasgow and Dundee Junction ' 1/. IN.-Glasgow and Garnkirk, 40/. 10s.-Glasgow and Greenock, 191.-Ditto, New Stock, 10/.-Ditto, Preference, 1/. 155.-Glasgow Harbour Grand Junction, H. IN.-Glasgow Harbour Mineral, 1/. 155.-Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan, 1/. 105.-Glasgow, Strathaven, and Lesmahagow, 1/. 125.-Granton Junction, 1/.-Great County Down, 1/. 10s.-Great North of Scotland, H. 101. -Great North and South Wales, Ss. 10.1. -Inverness and Elgin, 175.-Lanark and Lothians, 11. 195.- Larne, Belfast, and Ballymena, I/. Ss. -London and Hounslow, 1/. - London and Manchester (Rastrick), 21. 155.-London and Manches ter (Rem.), 11. 2s. 6d.-London and York, 11. 155.-Ditto, Half Shares, W.-Midland and Eastern Counties, 11. Bs.-Morayshire, 21.-Newcastle and Berwick, 19/. 10s.-Newry and Londonderry, 1/. 78.-North British, 241. 2s. 6x1.-Ditto, Halves, 8/.-Ditto, Ex tension to Carlisle, 11. IN.-Ditto, Extension to Dalkeith, 61.- North Wales Mineral, 13!.-Ditto, New, 3/. 55.-Perth and Crieff Direct, 1/. 12s. 6d..-Perth and Inverness, 1/. 55.-Scottish Central, 131. 10s.-Ditto, New, N. N.-Scottish Central and Caledonian Junc tion, 11. 6s -Scottish Orand Junction, IL-Scottish Midland, 6/. -Scottish Southern, IL 13s. 6d.-Shrewsbury and Hereford, 10s. -Sinewibury, Oswestry, ant Chester, 31.-South Midland, 11. 165.- Stirling and Dunfermline, 1/. Stirling and Midland, 2L 45.- Strathem Junction, 1/. 2s. 6d.-Surrey Grand Junction, 55.-Teau and Dove Valley, 153.- T Wishaw andColtness. 47/. 10s. GLASGOW, APRIL 4 STOCK EICKANGZ.—The sales are British and Irish Union, 375. —Caledonian, 7 1 ,E —Caledonian Direct Northern, 40s.—Carnwath and West Linton, 23s.—East Indian Railway, 7s.—Glasgow General Ter minus, 9 1 4 —Glasgow and Belfast Union, 225. Gd.—Glasgow, Dum fries, and Carlisle, 21s. 6d. —Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan, 235. 6d.—Glasgow and Dundee Junction, 34s.—Great North and South Wales, 9s.—Kilmarnock and Ayr Direct, 28s.—Lesmahagow, 33s.—Perth and Inverness, 25s.—Scottish Central, 13 tA —Scottish Southern, 335. 6d.—South Midland, 365. 6d.—Stirling and Dunferm line, 23s.—Wishaw and Coltncss, 475. HAMBURGH and FLANDERS MAIL. BRUSSELS, APRIL 3.—A letter from liamburgh of the 27th of March says, the modifications in the English tariti permitting the importation of cattle and of all kinds of meat into Great Britain free of duty, have had an effect on our market. The prices of meat have risen in liamburgh and its environs to such a degree that the middle classes feel the effects, and the poor can scarcely make any purchases. Merchants engaged in the transatlantic trade also experience the consequences of this rise, for the price of salt meat is 30 per cent. higher than last year. Ileuntincon.—llamburgh exported to England between 6,000 and 7,000 horned cattle. The departure of M Van de Weyer for London will take place, as we are assured, before the meeting of the Chambers, consequently he will not be present when the explanations respecting the Ministerial crisis will be given. Yesterday. the King received at „Lackeu, Mr. John Barnes, the President; S. J. Capper, Vice- President; and the other directors of the iron railway, from Louvain to the Sambre. His Majesty bad a long confer ence with them, and complimented them on the activ►ty with which they had commenced the work, the great improve ments which they had introduced in their plan, and the great advantages which Belgium and the company, might expect. BRYSSELS, APRIL 4.—The very large supplies of potatoes, beans, peas, of every description, have had the satisfactory effect of causing an unlooked-for reduction in the prices, so that the difference in the prices of some kinds of pulse is 40 per cent. BELGIAN FUNDS.--Baussns, Ann. 4 Actual Debt, 2% per Cent ..... ••••• • • • • - Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent • • • • • • • • Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent • • • • Ditto Three per Cent . ................. • • • • • • • - • • • • •• • • Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto • • • • • • Ditto, ditto, 1840 . • • • . • . • • • • • • Ditto, ditto, 1842 • • • • • • • • • • . • • • • - Ditto, 1844..• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Ditto, 1836.. •••. • • • • •••.••• • • • • • • Ditto of the City, 183 2 •• ••.•••• • • • • • • • Ditto, 1843 • . . Bank ofßelgium • • .• • • ••• • • 902 Et BonsENHAT.T.E, Aram 3. -Brussels Papers. iwuApßrulln4. 0 Bills. Money, Austrian 5 per Cents .• •••• . • • ....... 113 Bank Shares .. •• • • • ....... ..... ....• 1600 Anglo-Russian Loan . ...... . 107 Russian 5 per Cent., !lamb. Certificate. 102% Ditto Ist scrieslnscription. •••.•• • • • • • Ditto, Hope and Co., 3d and 4th series.. 66 Ditto, in Certificate.. • . • • • • • New 4 per Cent., Hope and Co. .• • • 89% Ditto Stieglitz • • •••.• • • • • ......... 88 1 A Spanish New 5 per Cent.. ••• • • • .... •• 17 17 Ditto 3 per Cent Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 2% per Cent • • ^ Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent .• • Ditto 3 per Cent. ...... .......• • • Polish New 4 per Cent. Loan, 1844 Bl Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent •• • 8631 National Bank Shares • •• • • - 112 5-16 'VIENNA, MARcn 28. 5 pe A r ti C S en T t j2 . lAN Metalriq U u li es p .! . . — .. 4 3 p p e e r r C C e ei n it t. . d d l i t tt to o:: .......... : Loan, 1834 .• •••••• • • • • • • • •• . Ditto, 1839 ••••••••• • • • • • • • Bank Shares • • E s terhazy's Loan •••• • • •• • .• ••• • • • • • RAILWAYS. ( T ; l i i e o ggn No i r tz tlr . ... • .. 1 19 3 t Vienna—Milan l2O Leghorn 113% Sienna ••••• • • • • ....... ..... ......., 95 • Pestoja ••••••• Apeiminen — Pesth Bridge ... -Allgemelne Zeitung, March 31. DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, APRIL 3. Money. Illlls. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent...• .• • • 601( 60% hitt°, 2 per Cent 73 734 Ditto, 4 per Cent •. • • ........ 94% 95 Amort Syndic, 4% per Cent • 99% 99% Ditto, 3% per Cent • • • Commercial Company, 4% per Cent East India Loan, 4 per Cent • ..• .• 94% 94% Exchange on London, at sight •• • • Two months..• • • • • • On Hamburgli, at sight .. • Two months. ..... ..• .• 35 43 —Dutch Papers, April 4. PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, .AraE t 2. Bills. Money. 9t7 , . 96% .... 101 .... 105 ... 993( 154 ..... 12234 ..... 1570 St. Seiml3 Sch., 3 1 ,4 per Cent • • • • • • • Pruss• English Bonds, 1830, 4 per Cent • Foreign Exchanges• • • • • • • • • • • • • • .• " .• • • " Exchange on London, Xi Sterling, 3 Months. 6 251;, 6 245 Ilarnburgh, 300 Marks, 2 Months. 149% Paris, 300 fr., 2 Mouths •• . • On Paris ... ••••.. • • . • • " Twomontlis• . • • • • • . • • • • • .• LTnlverzal Prussian Gazette. April 3. SERIOUS ACCIDENT TO Mn. ITERAPATEL—We regret to state that on Wednesday evening, our respected fellow-citizen Mr. Ilerapatli, the celebrated analytical chemist, met with a severe acci dent, which threatened to be of a very dangerous character, while pursuing COME chemical experiments in his laboratory. pears that at about seven o'clock in the evening, Mr. Hera ing upon some fulminating silver, which is a detonatingizmpound of the most dangerous character, when it suddeniy explo , , and burnt path was operat- Mr. llerapath's face very severely—lacerating the tunics conjune va h T w i o le ul i d nj be ary de w r a l s vra that the pupil of the that s o c f r t i l o l e u s le t ft h n e t y f e o , r a a nd ti m a l e so i t I N ilur f l e n a g re t d ho lu r r l . g i l confident hopes are entertained 11 te r beay a P l ea ' il .t of the sight of the lett eye at least. We are appy, however, to p learn the sight will not be destroyed. t; r i . i Morris iit g, c presided, olleg e sc h a o o n d l tt!)teth,36l ir).7.lfloeuranpaattoh titse pur,olitrieusrseian,gelfarvisoti<l;a jtiol:,mar. SOCIETY OF ScuoOWIASTERS.—The annual general ie to. report, t h I e ,t i niectit otifi.etloierrecer obferus,cofttilielsrarSo;rieutyndw Association,a s held ;NN ,taohsne supportedßiil,. G. J.reSaturdayafter noon,astpyyl.t ell: sise: joy. Dr. Russell, rector of St. Botolples, Bishopsgate ; the Rev Dr gentlemen. Mr. t i tsl t ier i: lj er . co osirt t: e i t e d vie r:e t t el i nt a o . :1 , 1 1 : t o l n i f l andeb e ab t sl a a i lt ii s o a D oe f lgive a satisfactory account of appeared that the receipts of the society, including a donation of 50 Queen, and 501. from his Maje sty guineas from her Majesty the the King of the French, were 5971. 14s. The expenditure , • 2781. 145., had been 4081. 4s. T Including 37 grants amounting to This Society, which has The report was unanimously adopted. been in existence many years, was esta blished on theprinciple subscrib ing members, being masters . v hcileepyin e n and e of life assurance, for the benellt of of endowed or boarding schools, with their widows and orphans. THE MURDER OF A FEMALE IN CORNWALL.—Her Majesty's Government have offered a reward of 100/. for the appre hension of the murderer or murderers of a young female - name i Somerset Ann, who was found d ea d in a p ool of water inm a tie v i of Ttequiltou, near Boatnin.