The Sun. — London, England, 1837-04-03 00:00:00

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(issued at 51 . pm.) 20 "I 21 v _eat Western Railway Company 4O 4-IN% rndon and Birmingham Railway Company 75 1 si io4anchester South Union Railway Company 5 3 Col u th Eastern and Dover Railway Company..., 7 3 , 4 o nial Bank lidon and Westminster Bank 20 2i) PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, APRIL 1. 3 Per Cent. Consols ....... ........ S9y 4 , Grand Canal Deb.. 6 per cent 87% Di tto Reduced ........ —........— I Ditto, 4 per cent 59 3 % per Cent. Stock 96% i Hibernian Bank 3, Oat ° New, 1830 b 4 Per Cent. Debentures 9 0 14 f National Insurance Co .... ..... .4111 c Stock l96Yi City Debentures, 4 per cent... 78 H AYaI Canal Stock Ballast Ohice Debentures, 4 tl , and Canal Stock 2714 ner cent — MAILS. Arrived. ,Due. Arrived. Due. , Arrived. Due 0 America.......... 0 2 France 0 0 Lision I 0 Brazil 0 1 °warn. &Jersey 0 0 Malta 0 DuenosAyres.. 0 0 Hamburg 0 0 Mextro I I) Carthagena . 0 1 Holland .... ...... 0 0 Ostend 0 2 Dublin... ...... 0 0 Jamaica 2 Flanders 0 0 Leeward Islands 0 2 Waterford ..... .. 0 HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning ......... '2Bminutes after 1. I Evening 51 minutes after I. The publication of THE SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day at 10 minutes past Three o' Clock. j , ‘t c (Til - LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 3, 1837. Scme of the Tory scribes, as might have been ex pected, have raised an outcry against Mr. O'CONNELL fOr calling on the people of Ireland to sign an address t° the Prin cess V ICTORIA on h er approac hi ng birth day No one can wonder at this, for while Orange- Ine n and th e more v i o l en t o f th e T or y p ar ty c l a i m th e , "°flour of being exclusively loyal, they cannot con ceal the fact that during the present reign they have given repeated instances to the contrary, and have l hown that they consider obedience to the SOVEREIGN Drily due so long as he promotes measures calculated to serve their selfish and corrupt purposes. Their Frantic conduct during the agitation of the Reform Bill ' 3 not forgotten ; and the speech of Mr. O'CONNELL ()11 PleS with the address another subject equally galltng to their feelings, because a timely discovery frustrated their treasonable scheme, and exposed to the world the nefarious design of tampering with the army for the purpose, if not of setting aside the succession, tt all events, of establishing a system of pure despotism. the most favourable construction of the plan can lead to 1 0 other conclusion. The leaders of the party of course %avowed any such designs ; but while they professed Ile purest loyalty to the SOVEREIGN, and declared 'heir only object to be the maintenance of the reformed eligion, the worthless agents they employed were bent >it designs of a very different character. The attempts nade to gain over the. servants of the Royal Establish nent at Kensington—to enlist the common soldiers in heir ranks —to form secret and illegal societies in every ?art of the kingdom, and their other plans disclosed )efore the Orange Lodge Committee, considering who v , as their Chief, can l eave no d ou b t o f t h e di s l oya l ty o f heir intentions. It must have been a 'discovery of no Irdinary importance which could make a society constituted and so bent on their purpose dis ''ilvl/4= itself ' by common consent, and they natu 41Y feel wrot h w i t h t h e l ea d er o f t h e I r i s h Catholics for refreshinc , their memory on the subject, k nd calli ng an his countrymf-.11 to testify their affection IV devotion to the rightful heir to the throne. Mr. "NELL's conduct on thi s occas i on d eserves great r r ra le, and hi s appea l w ill b e cor di al l y an d un i versally inesPonded to. Such an address will exhibit a gratify t° co ntrast to the feeli ng di s pl a y e d i n I re l an d f or cen ;les, and be a proof w h a t a b ene fi c i a l c h ange can b e p : d need by g oo d government and kind treatment on a toi t 'Ple so lo ng t ram pl e d on , an d hi t h erto f orce d b y I t less acts of oppression, to regard the Kings p a nd and the British nation as their bitterest Th- • - -oe third letter of " a Churchman," which we have jt q c : jet' from a Morning Paper, will be found in another There is no doubt that were the property co h , has bee n severe d f rom t h e Ch urc h by th e fraudu n,ae.' c "oivanc e , an d f or t h e persona l pro fit, o f Church fitetin: guardia ns f or t h e t i me b e i ng o f t h at proper t y , ;rf anything more would be required as a sub :vtitt!to for Chur c h- ra t es . B u t we are a fraid that a lat has b een sanctioned by Acts of Parliament of "g standi ng cou ld not now be disturbed. Lord rtilon-roN, and other grantees similarly si aCeu, 'would i mme di ate l y exc l a i m aga i nst t h e d anger t o w d e ll as th e i n j ust i ce o f depr i v i ng them o f property, 11 0 1,1 - - b Y t hem by the sam e t enure th a t l a y i m p ro priators their tithes, and the other owners of what was no " monastic property hold their possessions. a vaitie d teas received—at least no adequate value— t_l",,i, n „ °t new be sustained as a valid reason for making f (..sgome b Parli ament. 6 by the sticklers for the omnipotence would The great difficulty, we apprehend, t ( e ) ,: t th is distance of time, to bring home the fraud t i o '" e Parties implicated. It would be said such alienah ‘vin3 were believed to be advantageous to the Church th e t heY took place ; and under this pretext, an e shield of that which covers all defects of title—an p ct of Parliament--the delinquents would escape, gee investigation and exposure of such cases, bow eflhoot fail to do good, and we consider the 'much i eindebted to t h ose w h o, lik e " a Church fact, tak e the trouble to prove, by indisputable ,2 " , that the greatest spoliators of ecclesiastical pro '. y are ecclesiastics themselves. A. n 1 s 1., 411 Pamphlet h as j ust b een pu bli s h e d by Ridg t_4- Y . and Sons, entitled, " Will you h ave your Church . which we strongly recommend to pu b tahttentiOn.in lt states, i n a very s h ort com p as s, and of e Plainest Poss ibl e manner, the nature and objects the lt at Mini ster i al measure for the abolition of Church the and the improvement of the land revenue of ae,„, l4l reh of England. The author is thoroughly to li a inted with the subject, and has addressed himself 4 b s ' e discussion of it with a calmness of temper and N el '" of political bias, which cannot fail to give st j l . t to his reasonings with all men of sober under at e m-linn• who are in doubt, and really wish to arrive it g erta hity on a question that now agitates society to ticalere• The writer commences with a brief histo tofor`4e,tail of the mode in which provision has here tin e b een made for the repair of the Churches, quo gth ecclesiastics principally as his authorities. He slid P roceeds to consider the present state of things, its probable consequences if continued, together with the various remedies which have been suggested at different times; after which, he enters upon his main subject ; namely, the explanation of the plan proposed by his MAJESTY'S Ministers, and this task he accomplishes with great ability. We cannot speak too highly of this little Pamphlet. Our notice of the Bungay St. Mary Vestry Meeting requires explanation on one point. We stated that Mr. SCOTT, the Churchwarden, declared he had no vouchers ; but we should have said that when asked for the vouchers of many items, he declared he had none for them. We since learn, that a considerable number of the inhabitants have refused to pay the Church-rate of last year, and that the present Churchwardens—(that is " the everlasting SAMUEL SCOTT," who sticks to his enviable office, and another,) have directed proceedings to be taken against them. They are resolved the Church-rate Bill shall not lack pressure from without. By the arrival of advices from Madrid to the 26th ult. inclusive, we learn that a political ferment pre vailed in the capital, occasioned by Deputy LUJAN'S account of the disastrous affair of the-16th. In falsely throwing the whole blame of the defeat upon the Bri tish Auxiliary Legion, Senor LUJAN awakened all the slumbering jealousies of the Spaniards—filled them with suspicions of the fidelity, and with fears of the ability of the English, to deliver them from the tyranny of Don CARLOS—and finally encouraged the old Camarillo faction to raise its head and bellow in favour of France. To make matters worse, no dis patch of any kind had appeared in the Gazelle; and it was affirmed that ESPARTERO had even neglected to forward a copy of the one addressed to him by Ge neral EVANS to his Excellency the War Minister. Really the Government may be proud of its functiona ries. But this is nothing to the extraordinary con duct of the Cortes. This august assembly, instead of taking the whole management of the war in to its own hands—instead of suspending for a time the functions of one branch of the Execu tive in order to save the kingdom—assembles day after day, with all the affected gravity of the Roman Senators, who awaited defenceless in the forum the exterminating entry of the triumphant Gauls—to deli berate upon the petty details of an already established Constitution I This stoicism is the very essence of consummate folly. In the present state of Spain it affords a lamentable -proof of how imperfectly the science of active Government is understood by the theorists, who for upwards of twenty-four years have been filling Europe with their clamours in favour of constitutional liberty. The Spaniards have now a Constitution ; and yet, with the experience of the events of 1812 and 1823 before their eyes, they, with their habitual sluggishness—which they would persuade the world to mistake for the gravity and collectedness of profound wisdom—are content to risk not only that Constitution but their heads, rather than leave a few insignificant problems in the abstract theory of repre sentation to be solved by the wisdom of their succes sors. Were the Cortes to do their duty to Spain— were they to exercise that sacred prerogative of saving the country with which their position invests them— Don CARLOS would not be able to maintain himself in the Basques for three months. Wlhy do they not begin by setting prices upon the heads of the Pre tender and his nephew ? ; There is no law to prevent them—for rebels in arms against their SOVE REIGN are beyond the protection of any law. What is the life of a convicted murderer and a notorious rebel like Don CARLOS, when weighed against the blood of the thousands of industrious innocent peasants who have been massacred in the Basques since the commencement of the civil war ? And who, looking to the dreadful effects of this san guinary fratricidal struggle upon the moral destinies of Spain, and its possible results as regards the peace of Europe—who, we repeat, taking these things into consideration, and with a patriotic Spanish heart in his bosom, would hesitate an instant to strike the blow that would give freedo - n and peace to his country We abhor the idea of private assassination ; but for a Government to set a price on the heads of rebels re fusing to lay down their arms, or to quit the country, is no more than an act of necessary self protection. We have received the whole of the Paris Journals of Friday and Saturday. We quote from the Debats the only authentic article of important foreign or do mestic intelligence contained in them : " It appears certain that a courier from Berlin brought on Friday morning the conclusion of the marriage between the Duke of Orleans and the' Princess Helena Louisa Elizabeth de Mecklcnbourg Schvrerin. The Princess, born the 24th of January, 1814, is the issue of the second marriage of the late hereditary Prince with a daughter of the Grand Duke of Saxo Weimar ; she is the sister of the reigning Grand Duke, who is nephew of the Emperor Ni cholas, and son-in-law of the King of Prussia." The marriage will be celebrated early in May; and in the interim it will be necessary to appoint the DUKE'S household. This will give rise to a world of intrigues. The disappointed courtiers will all crowd round the DUKE, so that the lost popularity of the SOVEIIIGN will in some measure be transfered to his presumed successor. How a King so jealous of supreme dominion as Louts PHILIPPE will look upon such a state of things may be easily conceived ; and yet he anticipates from the DUKE'S marriage the consolidation of his power over the whole of the French Representative body. It was rumoured and believed in the political cir cles of Paris on Saturday morning, that the Cabinet had resigned, and that the KING had authorised Count MOLE to form a new Ministry. The dissolution of the Cabinet took place on Thursday evening, but the Members, at the request of his MAJESTY, agreed to hold their respective Portefeuilles till the appointment ' of their successors. To remove a part of the main difficulty—the unlucky appanage question—=the KING has consented to accept for his son, the Duke of NEMOURS, the Castle and Park of Itambouillet, along with a pension of one hundred and fifty thousand francs—which, taken together, forms an allowance of something more than twenty thousand pounds sterling. This concession is made too late. The Deputies are exasperated beyond measure at the dishonesty of the KING, in sanctioning the previous false valuation of the estates demanded as an appanage for the DUKE. Besides, the French people see in this appanage system the revival of the worst abuses of the old regime. They cannot regard with indifference the apathy with which the KING beholds hundreds of thousands of industrious mechanics perishing with hunger, while at the same time he is intriguing, night and day, to rob the nation only to glut the avarice of every member of his own family. Lours PHILIPPE is well known to be the richest individual in Europe. His private property is really immense. Is it not then scandalous to see him appear as a pauper before the Chamber of Deputies, laden with what may not be inaptly called his MAJEsTv's Baby-linen Bills? The only accounts from the North of Spain in the French Papers, will be found in the annexed extracts from them : The Journal de Paris contains the following article : " Prince Lubecki, whom Russia had sent to Paris to. claim the payment of what were called the Polish Debts, h as just left Paris without having obtained any thing, in spite of three years' uninterrupted negociations with four Ministers—the Count de Rigny, the Duke de Broglie, M. Thiers, and Count Mole." The Committee, of which M. Mounier, Peer of France, was President, has firmly rejected all the claims of Russia, which it has reduced to their just value. The sum in question was twenty millions. The journals of the frontier received to-day add nothing to what we have already published. The Sentinelle des Pyrenees publishes a letter from the frontier, in which are the following lines : " A new loan has been concluded, and already part of the funds raised by it has been paid into the coffers of the Pretender ; the Carlist army has received a large sum on account of its arrears of pay ; the articles last supplied have been paid for, and further supplies of all kinds daily pass the frontier, notwithstanding the additional number of custom houlLe officers. We have no Madrid Journals to-day." The news from the kingdom of Valencia, published by the Carlist Journals, is contradicted by the letters from Valencia, which are to the 18th March. A corps of 3,300 infantry, and 250 cavalry, are at Liria ; the garrison of Murcia had been reinforced, and the foreign battalion de fended the position of Castellana la Plana. It was said that 4,000 men, belonging to the army of Catalonia, were on their march to act in the kingdom of Navarre, and that Brigadier-General Narvaez, with a division of the Army of the Centre, was marching to Catlin. Cabrera, with 3,000 men, was on his way to Velturde l'Arzobispo, where all the factious were assembling. The Chasseurs of Oporto sallied from Castellan on the 12th, to attack the band of the Serrador, which, on seeing the battalion, fled with precipitation.—Journal du Com merce, April 1. FRENCH FUNDS.-PARIS, Mans! 31. Five per Cents., 1061. 60c. 55c. 75c. 70c. Four per Cents., 9.if. sc. Three per Cents. 78E 60c. 65c. 70c. Bank Actions, 2,407 E 50c. Rente de Naples, 981. 60c. Roman Five per Cents., 102. Spanish Actives, 23% 24. Spanish Passives, 6% Belgian Loan, Five per Cents, 103 q. Brussels Society, 1,552 f. 5Cc. 1,555 f. Portuguese Three per Cents. 30% 31. EXCHANGE ON LONDON. One month, paper, 25f. 47!(c.; money, 25f. 45 - Three mouths, paper, 25f. 27&c. ; money, 25f. 27Y. c -(bars Authenticue. FRENCH FUNDS-PARIS, APBIL I. Five per Cents.. 106 f. 70c. 65c. 70c. Three per Cents., 78f. 65c. 60c. 70c. 55c. Bank Actions, 2,407 E 50c. Rente de Naples, 9Sf. 60c. 55c. 45c. Roman Five per Cents., 102. Spanish Actives, 24 2434%!,,, Spanish Passives, 6%. Belgian Loan. Five per Cents., 103. Portuguese Loan, Three per Cents, 30% 31._ EXCHANGE ON LONDON. on r month, paper, 25c. 47!4c. ; money, 25f. 45c Three months, paper, 25f. 25e. ; money, 25f. 25c -Coons Authentiaue. LAST PRICES. File per Cents., 106 E 60e. Three per Cents. 78f. 45c., Bank Actions, 2,4071 50c. Bente de Naples, 98f. 50c. Roinan F ive per Cents., 102 Belgian Loan, 103. Brussels Bank, 1,347 f. Mc. Portuguese Three per Cents., 31. Spanish Actives, 24',j. Spanish Passives. 6%. LLOYDS' SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) DEAL, APRIL 2.—Wind N. N. W. to N. W.—Arrived the Lord Wellington, Tate, from Sierra Leone; Acorn, Wood, from Oporto ; Dream, Patterson, from Limerick ; and Trea surer, PLYMOUTH.—Wind E. N. E.—Arrived the Rochester, —, from Oporto ; and Pera, Gray, from London, leaky, and discharging—bound to Cape of Good Hope. COWES. APRIL 2.—Arrived the Jonge Slylke, —, from Bahia, leaky, and rudder damaged—bound to Amsterdam. JERSEY, MARCH 30.—Arrived the Nameless, —, from Lisbon ; and Ceres, Godfrey, from Cette. CLYDE, APRIL 31.—Arrived the Henrietta, Cheeres, from St. Michael's. SINGAPORE.—Arrived the Cordelia, Creighton, from Cal cutta, with damage in a gale 24th Oct., off the Anstamur Islands—bound to Canton. ROTTERDAM, MARCH 31.—A brig, of about 200 tons English timber, laden, water-logged, and abandoned, appa rently not long in that situation—she was coppered, her sides painted yellow, with painted ports, man's bust-head painted' white—was fallen in with 12th inst., lat. 48. long. 21, by the George Hervey, arrived here. ' RAMSGATE, APRIL 2—Thirty-three pieces of Norway tim ber, a spar and a new topgallant-mast, have been picked up near the Galloper. ANTWERP, APRIL I.—The Estell, bound to Pernambuco, got on shore yesterday near the Crugstans, but got off with the tide, and proceeded. ROSTOrK, MARCH Elenore, from hence to Liver pool, was driven back to Warnemunde ; the cargo has been inspected, and being in good condition, she will proceed this day. The Vigilance, from Gothenburg to Rotterdam, was driven on shore on Schcrunig beach, March 29. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLO r, /C. Our arrivals this morning are two French, two Ostend, and the Dutch mails, with ship letters from Sierra Leone. THE FUNDS. We have now arrived at another critical period, owing to a great weight of business to be settled during the present month in commercial affairs: Still, by far greater difficulties have been overcome, by the timely assistance of the Bank Directors, although the securities required by ahem were rather severe. It is now evident that great changes are about to take place in the commercial affairs in the City. Some of the large houses in the American trade arc ex pected to be reconstructed, and others will retire from bu-. sin ess. The alarmists were again busy in the City on Saturday, reporting failures of commercial houses at Glasgow and Liver pool, which had the effect to throw a damp on the Consol Market ; but there is every appearance that most of the ex isting difficulties in respect to the payments becoming due this month will pass over without doing much mischief to the com mercial community. Consols which closed on Saturday at 90} for the Account ; for Money soi- -4-; opened this morning at 90 1 3 / 4 1; Money 90-k. Exchequer Bills 32 34 prem. ; India Bonds 31 33 premium. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active left off 22i 4 ; at present may be quoted higher 22i ; Passive, 5:1; De ferred, 8k 9 ; Portuguese, 471/ ; Three per,Cents., 304 a ; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents., 5.2 i to 53k. Although we have a delivery of two post days this morning, the only arrivals are the usual foreign mails, and but one ar rival of ship letters. The American packet is anxiously looked for, as well as accounts from all parts ofghe West Indies. Five New York packets are due. HALF-PAST ONE. By a gentleman who arrived from Manchester last night, we understand there are no failures of late in that town, although the business was not in a very flourishing state owing to the scarcity of money. At Liverpool: there have been only two failures of conse quence, one of them supposed to be of considerable extent. Consols have been during the whole of the morning in a languid state at 901 for the Account; 90 to 90+ for Money. Exchequer Bills, 32 35, prem., improved ; India Bonds, 31 34, premium. In the Foreign market, Spanish Active reached in the morning 224, at which price they may be quoted at present; this improvement is owir g to their coming higher from Paris. Passive, 51 6; Deferred, 84 91 ; Portuguese, 474; Three per Cents., 301 4 ; Spanish Coupons, 40 ; Dutch, 524 53 ; Mexican, 24k. THREE O'CLOCK. Consols for the Account, 901. Lord and Lady John Russell arrived in Wilton crescent this day from Woburn Abbey. It is reported that a brigade of Light Infantry is to be raised almost immediately, in this country, for the service of the Queen of Spain. Funds will be provided for their pay and subsistence before they leave this country. The equip ments are to be of a superior kind, and great care will be taken in the selection of young and healthy men. It is not stated who is to have the command ; but he will be an English officer, and is to act independently of any other force. THE KI NGS THEATRE.—Belisario, a tragic opera, the music by Donizetti, was produced on Siturdai evening, being its first performance in this counfry. The chief characters were Justinian, Signor de A ngioli ; Belisa rius, Signor Inchinde, his first appearance in this country ; Antonina, the wife, and Irene, the daughter, of Belisarius, by Madame Giannoni and Mademoiselle de Angioli ; and Alamiro, a prisoner, but afterwards discovered to be the son of Belisarius, Signor de Val. The composition is after the usual manner of Donizetti, the stringing together of a series of faded musical phrases, generally inappropriate to the sub ject, constituting no distinct style, and when they happen to be good are invariably to be traced to some other composer. With a great respect for our recent English productions of this kind, we should say that Balfe or Barnet, are great when compared with this specimen of Donizetti. Inchinde, the the new singer, has an agreeable manner, without pretension, and is a good musician ; but to " achieve greatness" cannot fall to his lot. His voice is a barytone of good quality, but wanting in the inflexibility required for the rapid and intricate divisions of the modern Italian school. There was some good scenery in the piece, particularly a distant view of the an cient Byzantium, seen through the tent of Justinian ; and the choruses were numerous as well as in tolerably good drill. The receipts of the fifteen theatres of Paris made a gross total during 1836, to the amount of 6,910,123 f., being greater than within any twelve months during the last thirty years. The receipts of the Grand Opera were 1,170,877 1 . those of the Opera Comique are next in the line, followed closely by those of the Theatre Francais and the Italian Opera. One thousand seven hundred steam-engines, of the total power of 22,500 horses, arc now at work in France, ex clusive of those on board steam-boats. These engines are at work on an average 16 hours out of the 24, thus performing the daily work of 450,000 labourers. ABSTINENCE.-Temperance societies on total ab stineneC principles are formed and forming in various parts of the kingdom. We fear that the practice of some of the mem bers is not uniformly in accordance with their principles. Se veral dozens of wine were some weeks ago stole from the cellar of a distinguished member of a total abstinence society. In the Morning Chronicle of Wednesday last it was stated that four firms connected with the grain trade have suspended payment at Southampton within the last few days. Their liablities were not extensive, nor arc any serious results expected to arise from them.—We are happy to say that the statement was totally without foundation, and that no firm con nected with the corn trade in the town has stopped payment for a tingle boar, —.llatnpshire Independent, LITERATURE. ILLUSTRATIONS OF HUMAN LIFE. .-3 Vols. Colburn, London, 1537. These volumes are the production of Mr. Ward, father, we believe, of the Member for St. Alban's, and author of those justly admired novels " Trema-ine," ' and " De Vac." The present work will not derogate from his reputation. It consists of three short tales, one entitled, Atticus, or the Retired Statesman—the second, St. Lawrence—and the third, Fielding, or Society. Atticus is an exquisite composition, we mean, as regards thought and style, for it is most penurious in incident, and contains nothing sufficiently romantic - or outre to captivate mere circulating library readers. Its various disquisitions however, on literature and politics are in the best possible taste, nor have even Johnson or Hazlitt ever said more to the point respecting the character of Shakspeare's writings, than Mr. Ward under the mask of Atticus. It is little to say of this gentleman that he is a scholar ; his knowledge is his least recommendation ; he has taste, sensibility, and a sound, healthy judgment, on which his readers may unhesitatingly pin their faith. " St. Lawrence" is a curious collection of ghost stories, not got together for the purpose of creating a sensation, but of working out a moral end. Mr. Ward reasons on these attractive narratives—we say attractive, for we must confess to a sort of sneaking faith in ghosts—like a philosopher andd - a man of the world, who diligently sifts evidence, compares conflicting statements, and is thereby enabled to sober down and explain the supernatural portions of such narratives. On the subject, however, of Lord Lyttleton's famous appearance after death, to his friend Miles Peter Andrew, Mr. Ward is evidently staggered ; for it is impossible not to see at a glance that he is himself recording his own impressions under the soubriquet of St. Lawrence. The story is certainly a most startling one, and is supported by evidence nearly, if not quite sufficient, to hang a man at the Old Bailey. For our own part, after an attentive perusal of Andrews's statement, we can only say, wiTh Shakespeare— "']there are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamed of in your philosophy." If uniform grace and spirit of language—purity, ele vation, and variety of thought—and a shrewd estimate of character, can make a work popular, then these " Illus trations of Human Life " will be generally read and admired. It is not a book to be lounged over in the boudoir, and then thrown aside and forgotten, but to be attentively read and meditated upon, for it abounds in curious and subtle speculations, the result of long ex perience, on points deeply interesting to the well-being of society. The following is the famous ghost story to which we have alluded : " I had often heard much, and read much, of Lord Lyttleton's seeing a ghost before his death ; and of himself, as a ghost, appearing to Mr. Andrews ; and one evening, sitting next to that gentleman during a pause in the debates of the House of Commons, I ventured to ask him whether there was any, and what truth, in the detailed story so con fidently related. Mr. Andrews, as perhaps I ought to have expected, did not much like the conversation ; he looked grave and uneasy, and I asked pardon for my im pertinent curiosity. Upon this, he very good-naturedly said, it is not a subject I am fond of, and least of all in such a place as this ; but if you will come and dine with me, I will tell you what is true, and what is false. I gladly accepted the proposal, and I think my recollection is perfect as to the following narrative : _ _ " Mr. Andrews, in his youth, was the boon companion, not to say fellow-rake, of Lord Lyttleton—who, as is well known, was a man distinguished for abilities, but also for a profligacy of morals which few could equal. With all this he was remarkable for what may be called unusual cow ardice, in one so determinedly wicked. He never re pented, yet could never stifle his conscience. " An imagination so strong could not but be active, in quiring, restless ; all which, added to his fears, made him harp incessantly upon the question of a future life. He used often to discuss it with his friend Andrews, to whom he at list said, Well ! if I die first, and am allowed, I will come and inform you.' This was but a little before his death. That death was attended with so many mysterious reports of ghosts, warnings, and prophecies, most of them such entire inventions, that I shall not trouble the com pany with them, but hasten to Mr. Andrews's part of the story.' " But,' said one of the ladies, when you say most of them, do you mean that any one was well founded?' " I can only tell, and indeed undertake no more,'- re plied Mr. St. Laurence, what I learned from Mr. An drews himself, who, I feel sure, is good authority. It is true that the night before Lord Lyttleton died, a fluttering of a bird was heard, and perhaps a bird seen on the window curtains. It is not true that Mrs. Humphreys, or any other departed lady whom he had Seduced, appeared and warned him of his end. It is true that he himself thought he was to die at a given hour, and the clock was put on, in order to deceive him into comfort. It is also true that he was found dead with his watch in his hand, at but a few minutes after the time he mentioned as his last. But it is equally true, that upon any great agitation, ho was subject to a swelling of the throat, which, without immediate assis tance, might kill him by strangulation. " Andresys was at his house at Dartford when Lord Lyttleton died at Pitt-place, Epsom, thirty miles off. An drews's house was full of company, and he expected Lord Lyttleton, whom he had left in his usual state of health, to join them the next day, which was Sunday. Andrews himself feeling much indisposed on the Saturday evening, retired early to bed, and requested Mrs. Pigou, one of his guests, to do the honours of the supper table. He ad mitted that when in bed he fell into a feverish sleep, but was waked between eleven and twelve by somebody open ing his curtains. It was Lord Lyttleton in a night-gown and cap, which Andrews recognised. He also plainly spoke to him, saying, he was come to tell him all was over. " Novr,it seems,' continued St. Lawrence, that Lord Lyttleton was fond of horse-play, or what we should call 'nauvaise plaisanterie and having often made Andrews the subject of it, the latter had threatened him with ma nual chastisement the next time it occurred. On the pre sent occasion, thinking this annoyance renewed, he threw the first things he could find, which were his slippers, at Lord Lyttleton's head. The figure retreated towards a dressing-room, which had no ingress or egress, except through the bedchamber : and Andrews, very angry, leapt out of bed to follow it into the dressing-room. It was not there. Surprised, he returned to the bed-room, which be strictly searched. The door was locked on the inside, yet no Lord Lyttleton was to be found. He was astonished, but not alarmed, so convinced was be that it was some trick of Lord"Lyttleton ; who he supposed had arrived according to his engagement, but, after he, Andrews, had retired. He therefore rang for his servant, and asked if Lord Lyttleton was not come. The man said no. You may depend upon it,' replied he, out of humour, he is somewhere in the house, for he was here just now, and is playing some trick.' But how he could have got into the bed-room, with the door locked, puzzled both .master and man. Convinced, however, that he was somewhere in the house, Andrews, in his anger, ordered that no bed should be given y a i s eg i , t a m y i , g h h e t g o never t o a a n p p i n e n a r , e o d r a s g le a e in p , i a n n t d h e A . s n t d a b r e v s . him — tha s t 'i ' went to sleep. " It happened that Mrs. Pigou was to go to town early the next morning. What was her astonishment, having beard the disturbance of the night before, to hear, on her arrival about nine o'clock, that Lord Lyttleton had died the very night he was supposed to have been seen. She immediately sent an express to Dartford with the news ; upon the receipt of which, Andrews, quite well, and remembering accurately all that had passed, swooned away. He could not understand it, but it had . a most serious effect upon him ; so that, to use his own expression, lie was not his own man again for three years." PEERAGE FOR THE PEOPLE. Carpenter, London, 183 7 . This is a u se f u l wor k, for it tells many startling home tr u th s respect i ng t h e or i g i n of many of our mo dem Pe ers , by which our readers will be able to ascer tain the exact amount o f venera tion due to them. Mr. Carpent er , the author—or rather compiler—though a sturdy Radical, does every justice to his subject, speak ing impartially of all the Aristocracy, and of the more enlightened and liberal portions of it, in terms of be coming respect. His book abounds in curious matters of information, many of which will, we suspect, be now to the generality of our readers. We subjoin an amusing anecdote : " The late Sir Edward Law, afterwards Lord Ellenbo rough, and father of the present Lord, was one of the most extraordinary men of his day. Ile was educated at the Charter House, whence he went to the University, and shortly after was entered of the Inner Temple. During the period that Mr. baw was keeping his terms, he formed an intimacy with Lloyd, afterwards Lord Kenyon, whom he succeeded as .Chief Justice of the King's Bench, in 1802. Both these young 'men distingbished themselves by intense application, and the practice of a frugality arnount.;ng to parsimony. Lloyd had been born in Wales, and, we be lieve, spent the early part of 3ais life in the office of some provincial solicitor. Though his literary education mug have been extremely defective, still the young man had high aspirations, and he determined, to quit his home , and try his fortune in London. In the c apital he encountered many 'difficulties, and at one period s vas about to, abandon the law for the church ; but his good genius; in the person of the late Lord Ellenboro,ugh, sweet by him, and he relinquished his intention. At the period, we write of, Lloyd, Law, and John Scott, now Earl of Eldon, and the only survivor of the three, used frequently to dine together at an ordinary, which, we believe,' is still kept at Bedford -street, in the Strand. The repast of the party was frugal, while they cooled their thirst, not with the waters of Helicon, but with the water of the river Thames. The average amount of each man's bill was about tenpence or tenpence-halfpenny, but it never exceeded a shiPting, even in 'the instance of Law, who was the most expensive of the three, The late Lord Erskine used to say that; Lloyd invariably bilked the waiter ; Scott sometimes gave her a halji)enny ! while Law alvv4s came down with his penny-piece. It is in trifles like these that the real characters of men are seen, and'we only mention the anecdote, to gixre the reader an insight into that of the late Lord Ellenho.!ough." THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) _CORN EiaTTANGE. Last week's arrivals of all descriptions of English Grain were good, and of Oats from Ireland were considerable. The trade during the week was rather cheaper for Wheat, and dull for every other article. This viorning the fresh supply of all sorts of Corn is moderate. 'Wheat comes in improved condition, but defective in colour, an'd our millers purchased with hesitation ; th?, prices have therofore 'receded Is. per quarter from last Monday's quotations. Barley exceeds the demand from the malsters, and hardly supports last currency. Beans remain firm at their former prices. Pease met little demand, and arc unchanged in value. Thero is a fair sale for good Oats, but the quantity being considerabie, the trade is scarcely so good as on this day xe'onight. The supply of Flour is large, and the trade remains dull, with a tendency to lower rates. PRICES ON BOARD OF SHIP. Wheat, Red (old) 545. 625. --White (old) 6Us. 6Ss. - Red (1836) 44s. 30s. Fine 525. 555. Superfi''P s(is. 60s. - White (1836) are. s?s. Fine s4s Ws. -- Superfine 60s. 625. -Foreign free Rye 345. 3,5. • Beans, Small ( ( new) 1 89.425. -- (old) 44a• - s(s. Tick (new) ws :Os. • (old) 4os. 4,'6. --- Harrow (new) - 15, Nis. (old) 425. 16s, Brank .. 345.355. Oats, Feed —.... New 225.25.5. Poland Barley .ss. '27s. - Grinding 275.23.,. ---- Malting 325. 3.55. Malt 46s 54s - Fine New Ms. Ms. Pease, Grey, New 325. 345. - Maple New `hts 365 . -- White 251. 3'73 - Boilers 3Bs. 40, NeW 2:33.275. Potatoe 258.30 New 'Ai. 295, Scotch Irish Pis. ' 218.25 , Flour Town per sack) 525.55+. seconds 4.35. 50 Neal] Country 408.44 Bran I.) II ARRIVALS UF GRAIN IN LONDON DURING LAS!' WEEK Wheat. Barley. Oats. I Fh) ir. Diglish I 8,430 qrs 9, 86 qrs. 11,324 qrs i 1 1 ack, Irish - - 22,212 Foreign 650 - 121 MARKET This day's supply was very good, and the sale was dull at little alteration from the prices last quoted : SMITHFIEL FRICFS.PER STONE OF tiL s. d..to 8.8. Interior Beasts Second quality ditto. 3 0 3 6 Prime large Oxen 3 8 4 0 Prilne,Scots, Large coarse Calves 4 2 4 6 :rime small ditto . 4 8 5 4 S•tckling Calves each l7 t 35 0 I. TO SINK TI3E OFFA LS. s. d. to 5.4 Inferier Sheep 2lO 3 0 Second quality ditto 3 6 310 Coarsq-wpolled ditto 4 2 4 4 Southdown Wethcrs Large Hogs 3 6 4 2 Small Porkers 4 8 5 0 Quarter old Pig teach) 12 V 20 .., Lamb . . its 4d. to 7s. Od. - SUPPLY, AS PER. cLEttE's STATEMENT. Beasts. 1 Sheep ~... I Calves. I , Pigs 2,4 0 19,301 168 332 About 100 of the Beasts carne up the St. Alban's road ; about 130 up the other northern roads; about 6t:o (inebitling ',rich) from the western a;o1 midland t istricts . about 2r,01.1 from Nm folk, Suffolk, &sex, and Cam bridgeshire ; about 110 from K-nt anti Sussex ; and most of the remainder fora the marches, &c. in the neighbourhood of Londini. DENHALL MARKETS. ,y the Carcass. NENVGATE AND LEA ' At per stone, 1 _ s d. to s d * s d to s d. P eel; inferior 2 6 2 8 Mutton; inferior --- middling ...... ~.,... 210 3 0 ----- middling 3 4 2 6 -- prime large -- prime small '3 6 3 8 Pork, large 3lO 4 4 Veal Lamb • 5s 4d to 6s. Bd. NEWCASILE.UPON.TYNE CORN MARKET.—ApriI I. 02 We had a large supply of Wheat, both coastways and from Vie country, at this day's Market, for which there was a fair demand at a decline of- Is. to 2s. per quarter on the prices of this day se'nnight. In Barley there is no variation in price, but inferior qualities are taken off very slowly at our quota tions. Oats were in fair supply, and a slow .sale at last week's rates. Rye bare!) supports our quotations. There continues to be no inquiries for Malt. In other Grain there is little change. The arrivals of Flour during this week have been unusually large from Norfolk and Suffolk, and prices have declined Is. per sack. • New. Old. Wheat, Northumberland 42.. 59,1, Norfolk and Suffolk ..... Z .- 5s 60. ...... 5S . 62.. - Berwick and Scotch ...... 49 —a: —s Le . Foreign Rye, Norfolk and Sudolk -s -s -S. -6. Barley, Malting, Norfolk And Stttliilk... 316. 39s • Grinding and Feeding 266 28;...... —s. —s. Malt, Norfolk and Snaillk 5 ~ 410 i ...... —a. —s, Beans, Small 381.. 42a —a. —B. Tick ltii. 40 - a . Pease, White 39s 41s. • —s. —6 --- Gray 33; 36s —s. —s. (tats, Northumberland, Potatoe 2.4. 26 ------- Feed 2os 21s. o2s 23, Foreign Flour (per sack) —s. —s 4ls. 465. DEATH.—At St. Leonard's-on-Sea, on the 31st March, James Burton, Esq., in his 76th year. Mrs. Wood's success has been such, that in order not to suspend the run of Fair Rosamond, it will be played to morrow after La Sonnambula. The French plays commence to-night, Monsieur and Madame Allan, Lafont, and all the company having duly arrived. The gentleman of fortune to whom, it is said, Lady Fanny Cavendish is about to be allied, is, we understand, anxious that her Ladyship, who has some hesitation in the matter, should be prevailed upon to appoint au early day for that wished for event, consistently, however, with her own convenience and happiness. _ . W. 0. STANLEY, ESQ., M. P.—On Tuesday last the announced gatherin. of the. Reformers of Anglesey took place at Llangefni, and without the slightest doubt it must be regarded as the most important political meeting that has taken place in that county within political memory, and affurded a practical answer not only to the assertion that " Anglesey was a Tory county," but also to the others, equally groundless, that the wealth, weight, and respectability, and the yeoman force, were on the Tory side. When we say there was a gathering of 320 Constitutional Reformers, men who, knoWing the value of freedom, dare be free, we think it is a sufficient answer to those who with the fraud of a defective registration on their lips, would cajole their dupe that another registration circuit will place the county at their command.—Carnarvon Herald. On Thursday, a meeting called by circular was held in the Hopetoun Rooms, Edinburgh, to consider the pro priety of awarding to Mr. Sheriff Wood some mark of the estimation in which his services in the cause of Education arc held by the community of Edinburgh, and by the country at large. The meeting was highly respectable, and consisted of many of the friends of Education ; among whom were the Lord Justice-Clerk, Lords Moncrieff, Mackenzie, Jeffrey, and Cunninghame. We learn that Mr. Charles Kean has subscribed ten guineas for the relief of the distressed inhabitants of the Highlands and Islands ; and a similar sum has also been sub scribed by our worthy Manager, Mr. Murray, of the Theatre Royal. Eight ladies have been named as Guardians for the parish of Trowbridge, for the ensuing year ; but, through an informality, the list was rejected by the Overseers. Sir George Staunton has declined standing for the county. He is too unstable for a Conservative, and too -ho liest for a Radical ; and finding neither party willing to take him up, he very wisely retires : we have it on undoubted au thority. Admiral Napier also declines standing , again for the borough, unless the Carter party will put him forward, in the event of Mr. Bonham Carter's retiring. —Portsmouth Herald. The Board of Guardians have determined to abolisi► the use of the treadmill, which has been hitherto used for the paupers to work on in Bulcamp workhouse, for which reason they have ordered it to be sold by auction. —Bury Herald. Between three and four o'clock on Friday afternoon the shop window of Mr. Jackson, No. 56, Rupert-street, was cut with a diamond, and four valuable gold watches abstracted, worth upwards of 1001. The situation of packet agent at Milford has be come vacant by the death of Mr. Anson. tWe hear that the Admiralty, to whom the management of the packet department of the Post-office has been recently transferred, deem it unne cessary to appoint a successor to Mr. Anson, under the impres sion that the Flag- Lieutenant on that station can perform all the duties heretofore executed by the packet agent.— Observer. There is more of elasticity in the New York mer chants than in any other body with which we are acquainted. Nothing else will stand a pressure so long without breaking. If the Government should ruin them for everything else, they till do for coach springs.—New York Journal of Commerce. When Kean first appeared, many contradictory re ports were abroad respecting his education, and a Mr C—, resolving to put it to the test, wrote:to him one morning in Latin, requesting some tickets for his benefit. " Well," said R—, " and how did Kean construe it ?" " Into an in sult," was the reply. The same gentleman, who was always a warm partisan or Kean, being once hard pressed on the sub ject of Kean's academic deficiencies, exclaimed, " Surely, Sir, a man may have drunk at the well of learning without being expected to-swallow the bucket." SPOILING THE Soup.—The late Sir Walter Scott's father, though an amiable man and an excellent parent, was a Presbyterian of such rigid and ascetic habits, that " I have hoard his son tell (says Mr. Lockhart) that it was com mon with him, if any bee observed that the soup was good, to taste it again, and say, Yes, it is too good, bairns,' and dash a tumbler of cold water into his plate." . BRUSSELS, APRIL I.—The bulletin of yesterday from the Palace of Laeken, is fully satisfactory. Te Dewn will be performed on the 9th of this month in all the churches of the diocese of Malinei, en occasion of the birth of the young Prince. Te Dean: will be performed likewise in the churches of the diocese of Bruges. The Dukes de Aumale and de Montpensier, accompa nied by their preceptors, and the Count do Arschat, vi sited the Town - Hall, where they were received by the Burgomaster, who conducted them into the several apart ments where the really curious antiquities are kept. We learn from good authority that the works on the iron railroad, are proceeding' very rapidly on the sections from Malines to Louvier. Her Majesty, the Queen of the French, is to leave Brussels tomorrow (Sunday) for Paris. ELSINORE, MARCH 20.—A report (but which is not authenticated) has been spread here that Prince Frederick Charles Christian (commonly called Prince Fritz) has in his place of exile, Frederica, murdered his gentleman in waiting. The latter, it is said, was writing a private letter —the Prince, who perhaps looked on his gentleman as a spy, desired to read the letter, and this being positively re fused, attempted to get 'possession of the paper by force.' Failing in this the Prince drew his sword and killed the gentleman. We hope this report will not be confirmed. MILAN, MARCH 23.—Bankruptcies arc increasing in Itlly in an alarming manner. Besides those which have taken place at Trieste, and some of which are important, Benda Bras, at Como, had failed for three millions of livres. A house of this city is a creditor for 400,000 livres ; and one at Como for 300,000 ; some Eng lish houses also are considerable sufferers. The as sets consists of 1.10,000 lbs, of silk. Besides this, the house of Tcrannco, also of Como, has failed in this city ; Fr. Gudio and Croce, at Vienna, and G. F. Corse and Co. The embarrassments of our merchants fnay be easily imagined. MUNICH, MARCH 27.—1 t is said that Prince Polignac intends to fix on Munich for his future place of residence, and to purchase a house there. Allgemiene Zeitung, March 29. • 'FRANKFORT, MARCH 29.—Accounts from Genoa, say that three of the principal corn merchants in that city have resolved to send between 155,000 and 170,000 bushels of wheat to New York, where wheat has risen to the price of 39 francs per hectolitre, whereas it costs only 131 francs at Genoa. These consignments cause a greater sensation, as formerly, before the increase took place, large quantities of wheat and flour being imported into Genoa from New York. BERLIN, MARCH 24.—We again hear of grand reviews to take place in the autumn, for which 50,000 are to be assembled. Besides other distinguished visitors, the EM peror and Empress of Russia will be present. Should Russian soldiers come, as reported, this will be no expense to the country. The Empress of Russia is expected in August. It is probable she will first visit some watering places in Silesia on the Rhine. The coming of the So vereigns is so certain that the actors, who have leave of ab sence in the summer, have all received directions to make use of it in the first month of the year, as uo leave of ab sence can be given them at a later period. Prince Charles is expected by the 15th of next month, so that he will not spend Easter either here or at St. Petersburgh.—Frank fart Paper, March 30. BELO' AN I. UNDF—BEUSSELS, APRIL 1 Actual Debt, *.i per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent. 10036 Loan of Thirty Millions.— .... . ........ ....- 91% Loan of City, 18 3 2, 4 per Cent 9B Solietyof Commerce, 454 per Cent. Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 135 Brussels Papers, April 2. - DUTCH FUNDS—Amsi ettaast, Mare 31. Aloner. lidls. Actual. Debt, 2% per Cent Ditto, ditto 5 per cent. A MO, i SV!lllie, 04 per cent.. Ditto, ditto, 314 per cent 75% 76 t Commercial Company, 4.:, per colt 1821,4 183 Ditto (183:2 and 1833) 5 per cent. -03 ' 90% Exchango en London, One month 1.2. 1,15 Two months AUSTRIAN FUNDS.--VIENNA, MARCH'.'. '. Five per Cents. Metalliques Four per Cents. Three per Cents. Bank Shares 1370 —Allgemeine Zeitung, March 251. The Princess Augusta, the Duchess of Gloucester, and the Princess Sophia, took an airing together yesterday, in a zarriage. The Duchess of Kent, the Princess Victoria, and the Prince cf Leiningen, •honoured the performance of Beli sario with their presence, at the King's Theatre, on Saturday evening. At a General Assembly of the Academicians held on Thursday, the 30th of March, at their apartments in Tra- . falgar-square, William Wilkins, Esq., R. A.,' was elected _Professor - of Architecture in the Royal Academy. "In the article which we extracted from the Times of Saturday on the Money Market, the names of Try and tightfoot were misprinted Fry and Lightfoot. Sir George Staunton lia3 announced to his consti tuents in South Ilants that he means to. decline bein a can didate for that division of the county at the nest election. Sir George states his reason for retiring to be that he finds some of his supporters do not coincide with him in opinion as to the expediency of the Irish Church Appropriation clause, and he is unwilling that any act of his should lead to disunion among the Reformers of the county. .0n Saturday information was received by the police that Wortley hall, near Sheffield, the seat of Lord Wharneliff_i, had been twice burglariously robbed of late, and that 1001. re ward was offered for the apprehension of the parties. The first - time, a quantity of plate, numerous articles of jewellery, and about 301. in notes and gold. On the 11th ult. the stew ard's office was entered, and the iron chest forced, from which 60 sovereigns were stolen. The Weymouth Race Committee have intimated their intention to offer, in addition to their usual Plates, Purses, &c., a Town Plate of Thirty Sovereigns, for horses bona fide the property of inhabitants of Weymouth and Mel combe Regis. CRIMINAL COURT-(Tj:IIS DAY.) These Sessions commenced this morning. The RE CORDER, in the course of his address to the Jury, adverted to the Paddington murder, and observed that as the cas3 was not at present quite ripe for committal, the Magistrate before whom the prisoner was in a course of examination had communicated to the Court that the depositions would be ready for the Grand Jury to hear evidence on Thursday next, and he would obsbrve that he hoped they would not be biassed by anything they had heard or read on the subject, but be guided by the evidence which would be brought be fore them. After other remarks upon other cases, his Lord ship requested the Grand Inquest to retire to their chamber. SUMMARY STATEMENT, DESCRIPTIVE OF THE VARIOUS °PERCHES WITSI WI7ICII THE PRISONERS SEVERALLY STAND CHARGED. Murder - 1 -, Uttering and having Collator felt Burglary Larcenies Bigamy Cattle-stealing Housebreaking...... aking... - Fraud Conspiracy 3 Receiving stolen goods .. 5 Embezzlement • Obtaining goods under false pre- Forgery - .- .pretences L i I Robbery ,„., 155 Sheep-itealing dfisdenleanour 4 Perjtiry London prizoners , Middlesex ditto Essex ditto Kent ditto Surrey ditto -199 STATE OF HIS MAJESTY'S GAOL OF NEIVGATO, MADE UP TO SATURDAY EVENING. Males. Females Prisoners under sentence of death Prisoners under sentence oPtransportation for life 0 4 - - 14 years 0 6 7 years .... 2 23 Ditto, under sentence of confinement :' 0 Ditto, for trial at the present Sessions Ditto, remanded from last Sessions Ditto, whose judgments arc respited 2 0 Total SIR WILLIAM MOLESWORTH AND THE MINISTRY. TO THE EDITOR - OF THE MORNING CHRONICLE. SIR—I should feel much obliged to you if you would be so kind as to insert this letter. I find on my return from Leeds that an incorrect and exag g erated report in your newspaper of one of my speeches has caused the greater part of the London press to accuse me of having changed my opnions with regard to the present administration, and of having renounced those contained in a numberrof the Lon don Review. No such change has taken place. When called upon to express an opinion respecting the conduct of the present administration, I certainly made use of laudatory torms, but not such as to justify the inferences drawn from them. I Said, " The present administration is far more liberal and, conseqUently, better than those which for a long period of time had preceded it ; and that, with regard to the ques tions chiefly referred to by Mr. BaineS (the Irish Municipal Bill and Church-rates), ministers on the whole had acted up to their professions." I denounced strongly in every speech I made their proposals with regard to Canada. In my ad dresses to the electors I blamed " the conduct of the Go vernment with reference to the Ballot, the Repeal of the Rate-paying clauses," &c. &c. I condemned their " con tinual junction with the Tories in oppositiOn to the Radi cals, who have placed them in office, and who retain them in power." These positions are not different from tfibse which I expressed in the pages of the " London." The January number of that review, however, contained my opi nions merely with reference to the then state of political af fairs ; the April number states my opinions with reference to ,the present aspect of politics. For any supposed ineonsis tenciek in those articles "I am responsible. I disclaim, however, being committed to any of the inferences drawn from an imperfect version of my speech. I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant,__ • W. MOLESWORTH. 80, Jermyn-street, April 2, 1837. BRUSSELS AND GERMAN PAPERS. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 3, 1837.