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PRICES OF s'IOCK's TEII:3 DAY Al ONE O'CLOCK. interested Statesman, who speaks.from a sense of jus- Y.% nk Stoci, — !:kiln 3 per Cent. lied. per Cent. Cons .9'44 , intli Sea ......... ; •per ...... o:i Annnitics ......... I his own unbiassed conviction of their trust-worthiness. Plex. Red New Ditto 34^.0,3; 7 , er Cei t...»........ .5S 74 3 per Cent. Annuities, - 'We regard the triumphant display at Leeds as scarcely .ew 5 per Cent... Each. E CO " 3.1 pm. 23 , ..nk Lyn; Nnouiiiest . o . expire !Ditto ........».».• jam 5, 1 « . 0 ..... ...... D:tto smaa 3l 313 pm. - W yet.lo, 1559 Ditto Commercial pm. , arwick. Both united, will go far to break the heart Jan. 5, IHiO.. Jan. 5, :880 r'ank Stock for Account-- ..... 209% Or TorviSm. April .............. ;Jan. 5, 1870,„ ........ India Stock for Account-- ..... r iConsois for Acconnt ...... 90% if There is this important difference, among many Omnium those for the continuance, of Church-rates, that the former arc spontaneous, and the latter are not. We dare say that those who from factious or other equally improper motives are opposed to the Minis terial measure, will not be willing to recog nise this distinction, which must, notwithstand ing, be carefully attended to by the rational and sober minded—by all, in short, of whatever party, who wish to form a just estimate of the public opinion on this highly interesting question. With politicians of this cautious character, the great majority of the petitions praying for the continuance of an impost which presses on a large portion of the community with the twofold burden of a civil and religious grievance, will have little weight, because it is well known that the signa tures attached to them have been procured by the most unjustifiable means. Instead of being the result of consideration and reflection—instead of speaking the sentiments and convictions of those in whose names they are palmed off upon the Legislature and the public—they are in reality nothing more than the exponents of clerical intolerance, and we may add short-sightedness. The parson of the parish taking his cue - from his ecclesiastical superior, the Bishop, preaches a sermon full of misrepresentations of the intentions of the Government, and well-seasoned with abuse of the Dissenters. The priest-ridden people are told from that place, whence no thing but truthishould emanate, that the Churches are to be either pulled down or allowed to fall into decay, and that Popery is to be introduced as the national religion, instead of the Protestant faith. A petition is then concocted by the Reverend Gentle man, and hawked about the parish by him and his Church-wardens, which the ignorant, the unwary, and the dependent, are either betrayed or intimidated to sign. Such is the way in which a great many of the things jocosely called petitions are got up, and we ask what value can be set upon them ? None whatever—indeed, they rather tell against than for the cause they are intended to uphold ; for they prove the hopelessness of a cause that requires such means of support. It appears, too, that with all this un due influence, numbers of these petitions are signed by an exceedingly small number of persons—some by not more than three or four—as that from Brornsgrove in Worcester. Yet this counts as a petition against the abolition of Church-rates - ?a tcEs OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCIZ. Austrian. '..sconds ........... ....... —; Peruvtau Bonds 1 3 e'eian 'Bonds .. 10`21 Ditto Account .... ........... ... °Mr. Account — Portuguese Bonds —. rrazir lan Bonds — Ditto Accott, , t - DI? to Account . —l Dit.to New Bonds ...... .... 4B -,.% 'Sue los Ayres Bonds — Ditto Account • 47 'is, r , itto Account ............... 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Samuel Lover. Anecdotes of Sheridan. Richard Bentley, Ness Burlingto 1-street. Orders received by all Booksellers. The publication of THE SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this do?, at 10 minutes past Three o' Clock. -14,0 • - e , 4Te - 0.47 cf C Z 'I ) LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 30, 1837. Messrs. BA I NES and Sir WILLIAM MoLEswoßTtt —the Member that is, and the Member that is to be: for Leeds—made their triumphal entry into that town on Monday last. They were received in the inos enthusiastic manner by nearly fifteen thousand indi viduals—anothcr signal proof of that re-action whic! the Tories assure us is in prowess all over the country At the public dinner which was given in honour o these two s:aunch Reformers, the best possible feelin,:_ was evinced towards Ministers. Mr. BA IN ES said-- and his temarks on this suhjcet were rcceivcd wit tmaninnus chce:ing—" I consider the present di best Administration that ever governed this countr . I do say that you shall search through our histor from the earliest time to the present day, and yo:; shall not find a Ministry which has done so much to increase the happiness, and augment the proTerity the people, as the Administration which now exi s ts." This is high praise, but not a Nifhit more so than the objects of the Honourable Gentleman's encomium deserve. The Melbourne Government— though they are not without their defects —are, taken as a whole, the best set of men that ever swayed di,: destinies of England ; and did we need further proof of this, we should find it in the deep, implacable, un dying hatred borne towards them by the Tories. Pray. Heaven they may long continue in the full fruition► of this hatred, for it is only to be eat by unceas ing attention to the best interests of the people ! Mr. BAINES went on to say, " Ministers have given you several Bills of importance, and among thew the most prominent, one for the abolition of Church-rates. It depends upon you whether or no: that measure is carried, for I know that the feeling of the present Administration is this-- , ,hey say, we are ready to fight the battles of liberty, and if the people are ready to accompany us, we will go with them, and conquer for them. If, on the contrary, the people arc not so disposed ; if they choose to be bearded by the Bishops ; if they choose to be outwitted by these least trust-worthy of all public trustees ; if they choose to submit to the domination of men like these —let them submit to it, and pay the penalty of their w.int of spirit and energy." We trust the people wili bear these remarks in mind, for they are worthy of their most earnest consideration. Ministers, we doubt not, will stand firm to the cause of Reform ; but if the people do not assist them, their firmness will be wholly unavailing. The Tories, though shorn of much of their former strength, are still powerful--first, by reason of their close, compact union ; and, secondly, by their under-hand influence at Court ; and it remains with the people only to give Ministers the powers necessary to enable them to put down this despotic faction. It is the people, we repeat, who must do the people's work. Let them then declare themselves without delay on the subject of Church-rates, Irish Municipal Reform, and those other valu able public measures which are now engrossing the attention of Parliament. While they hesitate, the Tories are regaining confidence. Look, for instance, to the late conduct of the Bishops. What, but an idea that the people were indifferent to the aboli tion of Church -rates, induced these sturdy Prelates to take so decided a part against that important measure ? They imagined that they might bully with impunity ; now, therefore, is the time for the country to say—Church-rates shall be abolished, let the Espiscopal Bench and the whole Tory Aristocracy say what they will Sir WILLIAM MOLESWORTII, we are glad to see, expressed himself equally with Mr. BA INES in favour of Ministers. He said, " of the many Administrations which have ruled over this country for a long series of years, not one has been animated by such popular principles ; not one has had so earnest and sincere a regard for Government of Lord MEL should be borne in mind, is a Whig partizan, but of an cal Reformer. Sir W. MOLES expectant for place, but a dis- It is gratifying to find that the advocates of Don CARLOS are now showing symptoms of shame for the kindly feeling they have hitherto displayed towards him, and are becoming even more violent and more opposed to his claims than those who have all along denounced him as a bigot and a blood-stained pretender to the Crown. The only evening organ of the party makes no secret of the matter—it in fact denounces him as a rebel—:t denies that he is KING either de facto or de jztre—and applies to him the eleg,ant epithets of " murderer" and " amateur-hangman." HOW does it happen that this violent flame has been so long con cealed ? The Durango bloody decree is not an affair of yesterday, nu were the Englishmen murdered on the 16th the only English victims of his savage policy. Though he committed these crimes more covertly sine^ the mission of Lord ELIOT, it is well known that, with his usual pet;idy, he adhered to the decree, and that his followers took every opportunity of carrying it into effect, knowing that they could not perform a more agreeable service to their master. There must be some other cause the❑ for the change. Is it because they lied public feeling turned against them ?—because they discover that Englishmen forget party politics ‘vhen the laws of justice and humanity are openly violated and openly vindicated—and that if he should ever sue• cecd in his claims, Britons must regard as a national degradation an alliance with a man who murdered in cold blood so many of our brave countrymen ? Pos sibly they reckon on the speedy return of Sir ROBERT PEEL to OATICC, and on his disavowal of the pretensions of a Prince, who must be viewed by every humane being with the utmost abomination and horror. But, whatever may be the cause, every one, except perhaps Mr.'GROVE PRICE, must rejoice at the result, and fuel 'some alleviation for the stain inflicted on the coun try by his enthusiasm, displayed in a British House of Commons, in favour of a man who has well met ited the title of " the Monster of the Age." Will the worthy senator, in revenge for such dtriertion, establish an oil nosition Evening .Journal to advocate the cause of Don CA Rims and his twin brother in cruelty, Don M GUEL ? if so our Contemporary has nothing to fear— he wil gain friends without creating enemies, by for getting all political considerations in such a holy cause ; and so far from encouragement being given, we believe the time is at hand when those Morning Papers that still support Don CARLOS in his atrocities will out of defer.nice to public opinion be compelled also to abandon him. How unfortunate these Tories are in the Princes they take under their protection I The Earl of ABERDEEN, some years ago, could not find ,words sufficiently strong to describe the enormities of Don MIGUEL—he need not, however, be at a loss now. The picture of Don CARLOS, drawn by the Standard, will, with a little alteration, fit admirably. The Standard and the Post have, by mutual con sent, retired from the field of controversy, each hav ing failed to convince the other of the fidelity of his representation of the character and conduct of Don CARLOS. The Standard withdrew last night ; but the Post, acting on the shrewish principle of trying the effect of a last word, after a most pathetic appeal to the bygone reminiscences of an old ally, quitted the ground this morning. Our fashionable Contemporary has kept to the last within the nicest bounds of de corum, and even at parting only charges the Standard with the ladies-maidish offence of " hard heartedness !" Our readers may smile incredulously ; but to remove their doubts we quote the whole of the passage in which it occurs from the Post of to-day : " We have no pleasure in pursuing a controversy which our valued friend, the Standard, gives such clear indications of . desiring to di scont i nue ; b ut t h e manner i n which that journal took leave last night of the question compels us, most unwillingly, to say a few words more, in reply to its hard-hearted denunciations of Don Carlos. We need not tell the Standard that, from its previous station, the change in its opinions has been a matter of severe commentary in many parts of the metropolis, and a subject of surprise in all. The supporters of the Government and the advo cates of revolution openly express their satisfaction ; while the friends of order, the Conservatives, who have hitherto looked upon our Contemporary with affection and re spect, are alarmed at this unlooked-for tone, and anxiously demand why it is that the Standard has abandoned them ? These are indications of public opinion which no journal holding an elevated position can disregard. Our Contemperary may not perceive them, and, with an excu sable self-love, deny that they exist ; but we will refer it to the columns of the Morning Chronicle, The Sun, and the Courier, for the proof of one part of that which we allege ; and to the quantity of desponding Conservative correspondence now before us for the accuracy of the rest. Is not the fact that three Journals, the daily oppo nents of the Standard, and advocates for every measure that it arraigns as fatal to the Constitution, are now over whelming it with approbation, sufficient to induce our friend to re-consider the part that it has so unexpectedly taken ? We admit that on great questions an independent opinion must ever be expressed, and that principle is more power ful than party ; but why, may we inquire, has not this principle been advocated in the same warm manner before ?' It is not the principle that the Post objects to ; it is the 'lard -hearted inconsistency of the Standard that 1 afflicts the compassionate bowels of our Contemporary. How harrowing to the feelings of so refined and sensi tive a mind must be the denunciation as a murderer of a Prince, who, without being a Sovereign de facto or de jure, merely kills every foreigner who falls into his hands. But as the majority of the people of England are not so tender of the character of princely rebels and murderers as the Post, we recommend our Con._ temporary to prepare himself for worse treatment of the Pretender—in words and deeds—than any he has yet experienced. Don CARLOS stands branded as a murderer—as a cool systematic murderer—in the face of Europe. This is a damning fact which can ❑either he controverted nor questioned. His hands are red with blood—with the blood of Englishmen taken without a weapon in their hands wherewith to de fend themselves. For the Post's allusion to ourselves, and to two of our Liberal Contemporaries, we care nothing. We are content with the approbation of the majority of our countrymen, who see in our exertions ample evidences of a desire to reform and consolidate our institutions—not a wish to destroy them. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) DEAi„ MARCH 29. —Wind S. W. fresh.—Arrived the Asia, from Palermo ; Margaretta, —, from Cadiz ; Clon mel, Davis, from Waterford ; Iris, Cuddy, from Belfast ; City of Limerick, ditto. FALMOUTH, Mallen 28.—Wind W. S.W., strong breezes. —Arrived the Volcano, steamer, from the Mediterranean, left Malta 10th inst., Gibraltar 17th, and Cadiz 21st; Falcon, Todd, from the Mauritius. PORTSMOUTH, Miami 29. Wind W. S.W.—The Busy, reported on shore yesterday on Riegate Sand, got off this morning, and proceeded for Dartmouth. CREEK, MARCH 29.—Arrived the Hebe, Segar, from Naples; Levant, Cundy, from Leghorn; Henrietta, Freeman, from Ibrail. MARGATE, MARCH 29.—Arrived off port the Jean, Goldie, from Calcutta. BRISTOL, MARCH 29.—Arrived the Flor de Fayal from St. Michael's. GLOUCESTER, MARCH 29.--Arrived the Trial, Pasmore, from St. Michael's. The letters from San Sebastian of the 24th and from Bayonne of the 25th instant, do not confirm the Carlist accounts received yesterday of the defeat of ESPARTERO. On the contrary they express the writer's conviction that no engagement took place between the Infante Don SEBASTIAN'S battalions and ESPARTERO'S division ; and that the rumour of a defeat was fabricated in consequence of the Commander•in-Chief's return to Bilboa on the 21st. A movement so unexpected, and which looked so like a retreat, gave great umbrage to the QUEEN'S friends ; but ESPARTERO excused himself by alleging that he was obliged to re-open the road between Bilboa and Durango to secure rations for his men, the Car lists having, by dividing their forces into two bodies, cut off the supplies which the villages adjacent to Du rango furnished to his advanced corps. It is further affirmed in these letters that ESPAUTERO, instead of having evacuated Durango and Elorrio, had given orders for strengthening them by the erection of several batteries, and that the works were not discontinued by his return to Bilboa. We give these contradictory rumours as they have reached us. We vouch not for the truth of one of them. A brig (name unknown) from Norway to Havre, is riding off Aldborough, about 4 miles distant from the shore, timber laden and water logged, was taken from the shore to assist her into harbour. The Express, Barrett, was wrecked in Sauger Bay, 9th inst. A courier from Madrid arrived at the Spanish Con sulate at Bayonne on the 25th inst. with 750,000 francs for the use of the northern army. He started from the capital on the 22d, after adviccs had been received by the Government of the defeat of General EVANS. The disastrous intelligence spread a gloom over the city ; but the inhabitants conducted themselves peaceably, and seemed satisfied that no blame was at tributable to the Ministers. It is impossible to speak with any degree of con fidence of the future movements of the QUEEN' S troops. General EVANS cannot take the field alone, and SAARSFIELD and ESPARTERO are too jealous of him to admit of a hope of cordial co-operation on their part. Lord JOHN HAN has addressed the following letter to Lieutenant-Colonel OwEN, of the Royal Ma rines, who shared in the engagement of the 16th inst. before Hernani:— " Sir—l have very great satisfaction in bearing testi mony to the well-merited praise which your letter of the 17th bestows on the officers, non-commissioned officers, and privates of the Royal Marine battalion under your com mand, for their gallantry and exemplary conduct on the 16th instant. " The service rendered to her Catholic Majesty's army on that day by the Royal Marine battalion was of the most important nature, and could only have been effected by such gallantry, steadiness, and determination as the batta lion displayed at the moment they were ordered to advance for the protection of the artillery. " A sense of public duty induces me thus publicly to express to yourself, the officers, non-commissi ,ned officers, and privates, my admiration of their conduct. And I will ak'• ' d that since 1 have had the honour to guide the co-ope ration of his Majesty's naval forces on this coast, the zeal, je,igment, and galantry with which you have carried my orders into effect hare been to me a source of confidence and sat isrdction. " I am, Sir, y9ur obedient servant, " JOHN HA 1", Co:Lnlod,re. To Lieutenant-Colonel Owen, K.H., Commanding R. M. battalion." The whole of the Paris Papers of Tuesday have been received. They contain ,no intelligence of the slightest interest. The Opposition Journals continue to speculate upon the probable changes in the Cabinet, but their surmises are North nothing. M. JARRET, a bookseller, was seized by the Police, as one of eight hundred conspiratois who had sworn to assassinate the - KING ; but the innocence of the ac cu6ed being proved, he was on Monday set at liberty. • FRENCH FUNDS.—Psats, Maajit Five per Cents., ROC floc. 65c. 70c. 75c. Four an d a !Taff tier Cents. 1601. 60c. (PIT per Cents., 9.tf. sc. Three per C,,nts. 7st. 53c. 70c. 73c. Bank Action, 2,415 f. Bente ne Nap!ea, lest Inc. oc, 61c. Roman Five : , er Cents., IniN?„ 102 . Spanish Actives, ?3 22%, .231,0 i. Spanish Passives, 6!6 (1 6%. B.agian I.oan, Five per Cutts, 103%. Belgian Society, 1,M6r1 Portuguese Th a et• per Cents. 30% Dutch Two anti a half per Cents., 5344. EXCOANGE ON LONDON. One month, paper, 2.3 f. 45c ; money, ZEl2li,e. three months, paper, 25f. 25c.; money. 23f. := 4i' . • ra Authen;:vec. LAST PRICES. Five per Cents , 1116 f. 76e. Three per Cents. ;St' The. Bank ~%el 2,115 f Bente de Naples, I.Y•if. 6(lc. Roman Five per Cents., 101 N. Belgian 1.03 n, 10:3•N. Brtic,ls Bank, I ,VP.f. Pertugui7se Three per Cents., 304. Spanish Actives, •2:4!,f, Spanish Pa , sives.64, Dutch Two and a Half per Cents., 516. Miguelites, CHURCH-RATE PETITIONS.-The Seventh Re port of the Committee on public petitions, delivered yesterday morning, is almost entirely filled with the petitions presented on the 3d instant for and against Church-rates. The total number of petitions presented this session, to the 6th of March inclusive, for the abolition of Church-rates, was 774; to which 290,099 signatures were attached. The petitions against the abolition to the same date were 679, with 53,928 signatures. It appears, therefore, that the average number of sigl.itures to these petitions for the abolition of Church-rates is 373, whilst the average number of signatures to those in fa vour of Church-rates is only 77. Among the latter petitions we find some purporting to come from householders of diffe rent parishes, which have only 2,3, or 3 signatures ; and one petition presented by Sir R. Peel, purporting to express town the sentiments of the householders of the manufacturing of Bromsgrove, in Worcestershire, has only four names at tached. The two infant female orphans of the late Colonel Brereton, who was sacrificed at Bristol, are about to s a il t h e latter end of this month for the Cape of Good Hope. These children will carry with them the sword which was presented to their father by the officers of the 49th regiment. The truth of thy; observation that " men in a state cf intoxication generally see double," was proved at the Olym pic theatre on Easter Monday. Two exquisites of the first water were sitting together in the pit, at the time that Madame Vestris was singing a song, no other performer being on the stage, " I say, my dear fellow," said one of the exquisites to his friend, " I think that lady on the right side of the stage is quite as beautiful as the o ther, don't y ou ?" On Wednesday an inquest was held at Magliera, in the county of Louth, on Bridget Kirk, who was found dead in a bog-hole. She was the wife of a man named James Kirk, who is a servant, and did not live with her. On Monday night he was observed to sit up at his master's fireside ga aft om e f r a t na he nfe o am t m l a i e e lde r servant-men had gone to the barn where they all slept. The deceased left her mother's hou „ se je a mm li y ttl d e e b ar e , fo j r e e mt d mh a e r yr k ed o;:l p o r n mr - . Mon day evening, and did not return. About ten o'clock on the same voice night proceeding severa personsfrom the e heardbog. c \; v r e ial a on m di i s n M‘Ginnis heard the words, a drowning." Notwithstanding this, he ( M‘Ginnis) remained at his own door, merely calling out, Gartlan attended, and had a post mortem examination of de ceased. The Jury found that she came to her death by violence, and by being thrown into a bog-hole. There were a great many witnesses examined ; and after a lengthened inquiry, Kirk, the husband, has been committed to Dundalk gaol. It is strange that, although shrieking was heard by several persons in the neighbourhood, some of whom h ave admitted that they thought it was Kirk and his wife fighting, none of them had curiosity, or rather humanity, enough to go and discover the cause and render their assistance. There can be very little doubt if NPGinnis had gone down to the bog-hole he might have saved the life of the unhappy victim;— Newry Telegraph. the people, as the '.0.L1:511 - '4..i ." - his, it ft,A 1:: 44 ' 1 4 t t• . . . ' — g Madi ‘l .' ",.. 4: 4' • i ~, i. ( *:c .;J. ' •:-. :r. - (Try :,&* '''''.): 7. ---- ; • D V.? - 3: - .: - --. ---';---- . 46 ; 04 7 ' r . , THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Our arrivals this morning are the French and Ostend mails ; also a Malta mail by the Volcano—sailed on the 12th March, Gibraltar 20th March, and Cadiz 21st March. " MALTA, MARCH B.—The state of the plague at Tri poli, according to our last advices, is unmitigated. It is difficult for want of official returns to estimate the actual mortality ; but it is believed to be not less than 100 daily, and the number of persons who have fallen victims to the disease from its commencement is stated to ba upwards of 30,000. Many of the European Consuls have left the place, and among them Consul-General Warrington, who has brought his family to Malta for safety, although he himself waits only a favourable wind to return to Tripoli. The Board of Health continues to examine with strict scrutiny the condition of every vessel arriving from Tripoli." We have received the Journal of Antwerp of yesterday's (late, bringing accounts of the arrival of the Queen of France at Brussels on the 27th, with two of the young Princes. They do not bring the Dutch prices, owing to its being a holiday. THE FUNDS. Consols, which were during the morning of yesterday buoyant, receded towards the afternoon, and closed at 908 for the Account ; 901 Money ; opened this morning at the above prices ; Exchequer Bills, 31 33 prem. ; India Bonds, 30 32 prem. ; Bank Stock shut. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active closed at 22, at present 22+ ; Passive, 54 6 ; Portuguese, 474 48+ ; Three per Cents., 301314. HALF-PAST ONE. Extract of a letter in the French papers from Pampe luna, of the 22d of March :—" General Irribarren, after having taken the command of the army of Navarre, on the 18th inst., began to act with extraordinary activity, and marched his columns towards the defiles of Lecum berry. During that operation, General Conrad, by a manoeuvre on the left, placed himself on the road to Estella, appearing to have the intention to attack that town. This movement had for its object to aid the operations of the Army of the North. Irribarren having accomplished his object, entered the Valley of Bastan, and his advanced guard put to flight a strong column of the Carlists, after which he took possession of the passes of the Bastan, and the Valley of Ulzatna. His intention is to cut off the enemy from all communication with the frontier of France." Consols are not so firm as they were in the early part of the day, when they were 9011 for the Account, at present may be quoted 90a for Money, 901. Exchequer Bills, 31 33 pm. ; India Bonds, 30 pm. In the Foreign Market little doing ; the speculators are anxiously waiting for another express from Paris, to ascer tain the true state of affairs in the North of Spain, as well as in respect to the reported defeat of Espartero. Spanish, heavy at 22 ; Passive, 53 ; Deferred, 8i ; Portuguese, 47 ; Three per Cents., 30.1 ; Columbian, 241 ; Dutch 2.; per Cents., 531, The Batavicr has just arrived with the Dutch Papers of the 28th inst. Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 5 , 2 a to 4 ; Five per Cents., 1001 ; Spanish, 22 3-16 ; Coupons, 43. THREE O'CLOCK. , LOSING PRICES. FUNDS. ' Omni.im India Stack ........... Ditto R0nd.i.......... ..30 pm. South Sal Stock ... — Ditto Old Annuities Ditto Ncw Annuiticr..... Is. Bile, la tw .3.4d. .. 33 pm ditto am/ 9 3 pm. Ditto 5001 33 pm :lank Stock for Opg. India Stack tor Act. ...... — Cotisolt for Act. (10 3, ii.. Consols for the Account, 90 3 THE I' U N DS.—C' uItITISI-1 Sink Stock 3 s:er Cent itcd 3 per Cent Cons OO :14, per Cent. 3,4 rer Cent. Red. New per Cent. 9 ,% per Cent. Assented Dissented Long Annuities t. exi•tre JAR 1601 Oct !WA.) IsSrAl FOREIGN FUNDS. P 5, t net& .e Bonds, 5 per cent New Ditto 17% Prt.ss;an, 5 per cent. Russian 13. - 11,1 s, 5 per ce.d. lO9 Ditto, Meta'lic Spinish, 5 per cent Ditto. (70n,01i lated Feench, 5 per cent Ex,hangq ...... ....... --c. l'itnch, :3 per cen• Dutch, 2 3 per cent Ditto, 5 per cent. kustrian, 5 per cant ?',c!,iari, 5 per cent 1 0 .2!4 firziiian Rends Ruen, Ayres, ti per c.nt — (:I;iiitin, r per cent 374 Colo:ninan, ti per cent Ditto, 1834 Danish, 3 per cent 75 Cheek Bonds, 1:;25,5 per cent — Mexican, 5 per cent. — Ditto, 6 percent., 1&25 reruv.an, 1825, 6 licr cent. Sil A 3 ES. London and Brighton Railway (Stevenson's) London and (lreehwich Railway London and Southampton Railway l9s, London and Croydon Railway No other variations in the Prices of Shares since our One o chck List. The Bishop of Norwich was much better this clay than for some time past. We have it now ascertained, upon official authority, that the Dissenters of the Scotch capital are considerably larger in amount than the members of the Established Church of Scotland. A sensation has been created in the village of Lewisham, Kent, by the elopement of a lady with an elderly man who has been for many years in the service of the family in the capacity of gardener. The lady's father (a gentleman in the city, connected with the India House) is lately de ceased, leaving her a handsome property ; but in part she is subject to the controul of her brother, who has been sojurning in Paris. The long-talked-of monument to the late Duke of York is soon likely to grace our metropolis. The Victoria steamer has brought from London the pedestal of this under taking. It is of wrought bronze, and measures eight feet in height, with an inscription to the memory of the late Com mander- in- Chief. No site being yet fixed upon, the artist has not transmitted the statue, which is now finished, and of the same material, until the Committee procure a suitable situation for it. The pedestal, which must weigh from two to three tons, arrived in Edinburgh on Friday.—Caledonian Mercury. The railroad from Brussels to Antwerp, eleven leagues in length, cost only 3,375,000 f. or 306,000 f. per league, all the locomotive materiel included. The railroads projected in Belgium are on still more favourable conditions ; the average prices on the different lines will be 500,000 f., or a little more. In France, the valuations are about a million, although the private railroad of Epinac has cost scarcely 250,000 f. Santa Anna had a narrow escape for his life on his passage through the interior to Washington. Had he gone by way of Cincinnati, as he contemplated, a father of that city, who had lost a favourite son in the massacre of Fannin, had determined to shoot the President at sight. Fortunately for our character as a people, the ice prevented the boat from reaching its place of destination, and he went by way of Lex ington.—New Orleans Paper. STEAM AND SAILING VESSELS.—The great ad vantage in point of safety which vessels navigated by steam possess over sailing vessels is, perhaps sufficiently evinced by the diminished premium at which insurances can be effected on them, being about one-third less than on sailing vessels for si milar risks. The last autumn and winter, however, afford a striking proof of this advantage. The immense loss of life and property by the shipwreck of sailing vessels has been such as to call the attention of the Legislature to the subject ; while, notwithstanding the very large proportion of the carry ing trade now conducted by steam vessels, and that they are generally employed in the most dangerous branch of navigation —the coasting. trade—it is a remarkable circumstance that, during the period alluded to, which has been so disastrous to sailing ves sels, not one steam-vessel h as b een wrec k e d. On Saturday last a respectable family at Axminster were thrown into a state of great excitement in consequence of the second daughter, aged 17, having attempted self-de struction by swallowing laudanum. It appears that the un fortunate child was severely chided by her mother for having delayed on an errand, and on this account committed the above rash deed. Medical assistance was sent for, and Mr. Maddock promptly attended, and immediately dislodged the contents of the stomach, after which she recovered. RAILROAD STATISTICS.—The number of pro posed railways, including diversions, extensions, and branches, in England and Wales, for which plans have been lodged in the Private Bill Office in the present session, is seventy. five, of which only forty-eight are under the consideration of Par liament ; these amount in length to twelve hundred and thirty three miles, and are estimated at the sum of nineteen millions three hundred and fifty-two thousands seven hundred and twenty-six pounds, or fifteen thousand six hundred and ninety five pounds per mile. The whole length of tunnelling is twenty-five miles ; and the number of bridges, exclusive of viaducts and culverts, two thousand eight hundred and twenty five, or nearly two and a third per mile. The weight of iron required for the rails is one hundred and ninety-three thou sand five hundred tons ; and of stone for the blocks, two mil lions six hundred and seventy thousand tons. The area of land required to be taken is upwards of fifteen thousand acres; and of felt for the chairs, one hundred and thirty acres. These railways, if carried into execution, would employ at least five thousand men and fifteen hundred horses for three years, for the earthworks alone,— TVhitshaw's Analysis of Railways. LITERATURE MEMOIRS OF SIR J. SINCLAIR. 2 Vols. Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1837. Those who imagine, from the title of this work, .hat it is merely the domestic biography of a well- known statistic and agricultural wrier, will find them- selves agreeably disappointed ; for there is scarcely a name of any eminence here or on the Continent, for the last half century, of which it does not contain some characteristic record. We have rarely met with a book—we will scarcely except even Boswell's Johnson—that is fuller of various, piquant anecdote, and those brief gossiping reminiscences which consti _ . . ute the charm of the old French memoirs. Here we find cursory details of the private life of the well- known Dundas, afterwards Lord Melville—of the notorious Catherine of Russia—Joseph of Austria— Stanislaus of Poland—Gustavus of Sweden—in fact, personal recollections of half the crowned heads of Europe. Descending in the scale of society, we find mecdotes of Johnson, Wyndham, Adam Smith, of ,hat eccentric humourist—now nearly, if not altoge• they, forgotten—Old Bosville, Warren Hastings, and the celebrated Macdonald family. Sir John Sinclair seems, throughout his long and valuable life, to have been smitten with a rage—a truly laudable one by-the- bye—for knowing all the celebrated folks of his time ; and his tastes, as appears by this interesting biography, were gratified to the fullest extent. Without being a man of any extraordinary reach of intellect, he was yet shrewd, well-informed, acquainted with all the various forms of society here and abroad ; and being " of gentle blood," and irreproachable character, he was ever a welcome guest at the tables of the Illustrious. In early youth Sir John was intimately acquainted with many personal friends of Dr. Johnson, and was of course full of anecdotes respecting the " whims and oddities" of that great man. The Majority of these have found their way into Croker's late admirable edition of Boswell ; but the following are new, and therefore we extract them : " A young friend of my father travelling one night to Lon don by the Devonshire mail, found a talkative old lady by the side of a stout old gentleman in a large wig, whom she tried to engage in conversation, but who discouraged all her attempts by answering in monosyllables. At last she desisted, and the trio journeyed on in silence during the remainder of the night. When morning appeared, the old gentleman pulled out a small pocket volume, and placing it close to one of his eyes, began to read. His tormentor seized the opportunity to in terpose a salutary caution. Sir,' says she, won't reading with so little light be apt to give you a headache ?' Her gruff fellow-passenger replied with a loud voice, ' There are some people, Madam, to whom reading always gives an headache.' The tone and manner of the speaker could not be mistaken, and the young traveller at once demanded, ' Pray, Sir, have I not the honour to be in company with Dr. Samuel Johnson ?' " When the Doctor, during his Scottish tour, reached St. Andrews, he was much put out of humour by observing the dilapidated state of the ancient ecclesiastical and collegiate buildings, formerly among the noblest specimens of Gothic architecture in North Britain. After inspection of the ruins, he dined in company with the professors, to whom he stated, in no measured terms, his indignation at the sight of these neglected monuments, ' faithful witnesses,' as he termed them, of the triumph of Reformation.' Overawed by the frow❑ of the great English moralist, the professors hardly ventured to open their lips. After a distressing pause, the youngest of them took courage, and expressed a hope that Scotland had answered his expectations. Sir,' replied the Doctor, with great vehemence, I came here expecting to see savage men and savage manners, and I have not been disappointed.' I may be allowed to add one further anecdote, in which my father took great pleasure. Dr. Johnson, descanting upon the bleak and treeless aspect of Aberdeenshire, remarked to a native proprietor, that if he searched his whole county he would not find a single tree older than the Union. 'At all events," replied the Aberdonian, we have no such era in Scotland as the Conquest.' " Sir John Sinclair, on his first entrance into public life, was honoured by the acquaintance of Lord North, one of the most kindly-natured of men, but as a Mi nister, incompetent to his office, by reason of his too ready subserviency to the crotchets of George the Third. His Lordship was, it is well known, remark able for his ready wit, as the subjoined diverting story will show : " Harassed by the increasing difficulties of the war with America, Lord North was sometimes heard to wish that Con tinent had never been discovered. He in part escaped the sarcasms of his opponents by falling asleep during a long de bate, leaving to Sir Grey Cooper the task of noting down what he would afterwards be called on to answer. During a debate on ship-building some tedious speaker entered on a historical detail, in which, commencing with Noah's ark, he traced the progress of the art regularly downwards. When he came to build the Spanish armada, Sir Grey inadvertently awoke the slumbering Premier, who inquired at what era the Hon. Gentleman had arrived. Being answered,' We are now in the reign of Queen Elizabeth ;' Dear Sir Grey,' said he, why not let me sleep a century or two more ?' " In the year 1786, Sir John Sinclair set out on his travels, and visited in succession almost all the Courts of Europe. He visited Russia, where he had an in terview with that Northern Messalina, Catherine the Second ; Sweden, Denmark, Austria, and many of the minor German Principalities ; and took up his abode for some time at Warsaw, where he attended many of the debates of the Senate. Here is an amusing sketch of the old Polish method of bringing noisy Members to order : . . 1 When Sir John attended the Diet, he observed that each of the four Grand Constables had a long and powerful baton. When the Diet assembled in a ball, if any disorder arose, they used to beat the floor so violently with their batons, that nut a word could be heard. and thus they enforced silence. But when the Diet assembled in the fields, two of the Grand Con stables with their batons knocked down any refractory member. Our traveller procured a baton which had been used in 1786, and sent it to Mr. Speaker Addington, to show bow different were the means employed in maintaining order in the Polish from the British Legislature." We recommend this instructive anecdote to the particular attention of Mr. Speaker Abercombie. It : would be a capital practice to introduce into the House of Commons, and would soon put an end to the Tory brayings and cock. crowings. Imagine a vociferous Conservative knocked down at once by the butt. end of Mr. Deputy Sergeant's baton ! Such a broad hint would be attended by the most useful consequences ; and as Reform is just now the order of the day, we see no earthly reason why this Reform also should not be introduced. There are many more attractive bits of gossip in these volumes, which we shall extract as occasion may offer ; but at present, being pressed fo r space and time, we must content ourselves with saying, that the work well deserves perusal, for it contains scarcely one dull page. SPAIN IN 1830. BY HENRY DAVID INGLIS. In 2 Vols. Second Edition. London, Whittaker and Co, Few of the ordinary ills of life affect good men so sensibly as the early death of persons greatly distin guished for philanthrophy, literary ability, or a success ful prosecution of studies, tending to the advancement of the liberal arts and sciences. Setting altogether aside the feelings which originate in vague and fanciful estimates of the loss sustained by society—in the dreamy musings on what a long life might have effected—every re flecting mind is in some sort conscious to itself of a void in its very affections, as if the grave had robbed it of some greatly admired, though personally unknown, relative. We cannot dt all times readily reconcile with our no tions of the Divine economy death in the prime of life ; and, without the aid of revelation, it would be quite impossible to do so, when the morning of that life has been passed in giving the world an earnest of a mature age of benevolent usefulness—as was that of the highly gifted author, now no more, of these volumes. Mr. Inglis's Travels in " Spain," in the " Tyrol," and through " Ireland," are imperishable records of his great powers of observation, his keen insight into character, the maturity of his judgment, and the good ness of his heart. As the volumes before us were the subject of a critical notice in this journal on their first appearance, we must confine our announcement of their having reached a second edition to the making of a few extracts from them. Our first is descriptive of the ceremony of " Taking the Veil," that sole ro mantic incident in the lif e of a Spanish nun : " How many strange, wild, and romantic associations are connected with taking the veil I' The romances of our earlier days,—the tales, that professed to reveal the mysteries of the cloister, crowd upon our memory : we see standing be fore us the creatures of our imagination—the _inflexible lady abbess—the trembling nun—we hear the authoritative ques— tion, and the timid reply—we see the midnight procession, and hear the anthem of sweet and holy voices—and a crowd of mys— terious and half-forgotten dreams and visions float before us. Some of those early visions I had learned to doubt the realty of—l had already caught occasional glimpses of those myste rious creatures who inhabit convent walls, without finding any realization of my vision of charms more than mortal. I had learned to know that nuns grow old, and that the veil does not always shadow loveliness ; but having understood that the victim about to sacrifice herself was scarcely seventeen, I dis missed from my mind all the realities that warred with my ro mantic illusions, and recurred to the dream of my earlier days. " At the hour appointed, the abbess entered the room on the other side of the grating, accompanied by all the nuns, and by several ladies, friends, and relatives of the novice. She en tered a moment after ; and immediately knelt down, with her face towards the grating, so that I had a near and distinct view of her. She was attired in the novice's robe of pure white, and wore a crown of flowers upon her head. She seemed scarcely mere than sixteen. Her countenance was gentle, sweet, and interesting ; there was an expression of seriousness, but not of sadness, in her face ; and a skin, fairer than usually falls to the lot of Spanish women, was sensibly coloured with a fine carnation—the glow of youth, and and happiness, yet lingerinc , on her cheek ; and connecting her with the world of and life, and freedom, about to ei , nse upon her for ever. " The administrator now entered by the chapel , an , .p placed himself close to a chair where I was stationed , and at ti:e side of an opening in the grating of about a foot square. The novice then rose, and walking forward to the grating, presented him with a paper, which he read aloud : this was the act of ret.'uo elation of all property, then and for ever ; and during this cO remony the novice retired and knelt as before, holding in her hand a long lighted taper, with which the abbess presented her. The preparatory service then commenced by reading and chanting ; and this, although monotonous, was pleasing and impressive, according well with the solemnity of the scene that had introduced it ; and in this service the novice joined, with a clear sweet voice, in which nothin g of emotion could be distin guished. When this was concluded, the novice again rose, and advanced to the grating, and pronounced slowly and dis tinctly the three vows that separate her from the world-- chastity, poverty and obedience. Her voice never faltered ; nor could I perceive the slightest ',change of countenance ; the colour only, seemed to be gradually forsaking her. The lady abbess, who stood close by her side, wept all the W hile. Ah 1 if each tear told why it flowed, what a history might have been unfolded. Indignation was the feeling produced .in ray mind. I wished for the cannon of the eonstitutionaliso, to throw clown these most odious of prisons ; and even to the priest, who stood by me in his crimson and gilded surpl:ce , I could not restrain myself from saying, half audibly, Qu'c iiffamia P " When the vows that could never be recalled had been pro nounced by this misguided child, she stepped back, and threw herself prostrate upon the ground,—this is the act confirmatory of her vows—symbolical of death, and signifying that she is dead to the world. The service was then resumed—a bell continued slowly to toll ; and the priest read ; while the nuns who stood around their new-made sister, responded,—' dead to the world—separated - from kindred—bride of heaven 1' and the nun who lies prostrate is supposed, at the same time, to re peat to God in secret, the vows she has already pronounced aloud. When this was concluded, a slow organ peal, and It solemn swell of voices rose, and died away ; and the abbess then raised the nun from the ground, and all the other nuns and her relations also embraced her. I saw no tear upon any cheek, excepting upon the cheek of the abbess, whose face was so full of benignity, that it half-reconciled me to the fate of the young initiated who had bowed obedience to her. When she had cm- , braced every one, she again knelt for a few moments, and then approached the grating along with the abbess ; and the priest handed to the abbess through the opening, the vestments of a nun. Then came the last act of the drama :—the crown was lifted from her head ; the black vestment was put on, and the girdle and the rosary ; and the black hood was drawn over her head ;—she was now a nun, and she again embraced the abbess and all the sisters. Still I could not discover a single tear, excepting on the cheek of the abbess, who continued to weep almost without ceasing to the very end : the countenance of the young nun remained unmoved. The crown was again re placed upon her head, to be worn all that day ; the sacrament was admin'stered, and one last embrace by friends and rela tions terminated the scene." While in Madrid, Mr. Inglis had frequent opportuni ties of seeing the late King, the Regent, and Don Car los. He relates several anecdotes of them, some of which are sufficiently characteristic of the Spanish Court, to account for much that has since taken place. After carefully examining whatever was worth seeing in the capital, he visited the Escurial, of which he has pre served the most faithful description that has yet ap peared in our language. Want of space prevents us it, from quoting but to make some amends to our readers, we extract a no less faithful description of the ancient cathedral of Toledo : " I was not long in Toledo before visiting its cathedrals which has no rival but the cathedral of Seville, in its clairnS to be the greatest and the most magnificent of Gothic temples. All the cathedrals I had ever before seen, shrunk into insigni ficance when I entered the cathedral of Toledo. The follow ing are the dimensions of this majestic pile: the interior of the church is four hundred and eight feet long, and two hun dred and six feet wide; and the height of the aisles is one hundred and sixty feet. The columns that run along the aisles are forty-five feet round : there are sixty-eight painted win dows ; and surrounding the choir, and the Altar Major, there are one hundred and fifty-six marble and porphyry pillars. I was not able to see the Precioci[lades the first day I went to the cathedral : to be so specially favoured, a separate order was required ; and I returned accordingly the following morn ing by appointment. Ido riot mean to enumerate the different articles that compose the riches of the cathedral of Toledo- - the richest in the world—but I shall mention a very few of the most remarkable. I saw the Virgin's mantle—one mass or precious stones, especially pearls, of which there must have been thousands, if not millions : I saw many images of pure gold, studded with precious stones : I saw the Virgin's crow] , also of pure gold, but entirely covered with the largest and most brilliant jewels—sapphires, emeralds, rubies, and dia monds ; and surmounted by an emerald of most extraordinary size and beauty ; the image, which upon high days is arrayed in all this finery, is of silver. There is another room, called the cztstodia, in which I saw innumerable urns of pure golds most of them studded with precious stones ; and which contain relics: these I did not ask to see, but • I was informed that there are few saints in the calendar, of whom this, the relic:ll of Toledo, does not contain something. The value of the gold and silver might be easily ascertained ; but the value of jewels is more capricious : I was told, however, that every ar ticle is inventoried and valued, in a book kept for that pur pose; and although my informant did not state to me the precise amount noted in the book, he said it exceeded fort) millions of ducats (10,000,0001. sterling): whether the value of the relics be included in this estimate, I cannot tell- This is a melancholy waste of property ; and when, in con nection with this, we view the deplorable condition of Spain' we naturally inquire whether the judicious employment of thiis wealth could materially better that condition. Undoubtedly It might accomplish much ; and had the whole inert wealth or SPain been directed a hundred years ago into useful chew: nets, Spain would at this day have been a more enlighten ed and a more flourishing country, but Spain could never hays been made one continued garden, as some writers have s o r_ posed ; because the wealth of the world could never ch ar g o Castilian skies with rain-clouds; force springs to bubble ftl f sandy deserts ; or clothe with soil the rocky sierras that cover the Peninsula." n the course of his journeying through Spain M r ' Inglis had ample opportunities of noting the corruption which prevailed in every department of the Govern" ment, and of convincing himself of the fatal in' fluence of such a system upon the morals and th e social happiness of the people. We shall con clude our notice of this invaluable work on SW"' with a brief extract illustrating the scandalous extent ° to which corruption prevailed in 1830—premising that the same practices prevail now as generally and as openly as they did then, in every part of Spain ex cept the capital While at Seville, I learned some very gross instase es ig injustice prdctised by the Government in its dealings , its subjects. My authority could not be more autheritic_t because my informant—an old and highly respectable mer cha a —was himself the person who bad suffered. A debt of 1, 6° . 0g was due to him by Government, upon a contract for suPP l) c i l l i e cartridge boxes ; this debt had been some years due, a n „; o g had applied for payment often, and in vain. At length , h a ' 2 . o .. some other business in Madrid, lie resolved to attempt the covery of the debt, by preferring his claim in the prort q. be ter, Day after day, he went to the Minister; sornetit ne- ae d was denied admittance—sometimes he saw the Minist er, as was always treated by him with the utmost rudeness : th' icar it his first transaction with Government, and he had yet to ' t he its way of doing business. One day, when he was leaving e n. Minister, and slowly passing towards the stair, a reverend : t he tleman touched his sleeve, and begged to know what v t l to ld cause of his frequent visits to the Minister : the merchant him his business. And do you expect to receive P a Y er ,iied of the debt?' demanded the priest. ' I despair of it,' mould the merchant. Then,' resumed the priest, Y° ll _„, „woo probably sacrifice a small part to obtain the rest ;' a n " t hig ' the merchant admitting that he would gladly d° dpr tslte u ' Come,' said the priest, 'to-morrow early, and I'll n ;i s ap that you shall have your money l"fhe merchant kep t eaff he ; the priest was waiting—the merchant lie ..t into the minister ; and in less than half an hour the priest g" o y il ie; his hands an order for 1,2001., upon the treasury at mini sacrifice the remaining 4001 . being the perquisite of the nun_ sacr ifice, his emissary :—yet even after this, it was necessary t o o _ bta inea another 100/., before payment of the order could h settle at Seville. All this is according to usual practice : w ithout ment of any Government account can be obtaineo third' cr making a large sacrifice ; sometimes as much as a the 1 , - even a half. The system of bribery is univer a is minister to the lowest official : sometimes the ins l l ; l i e be.; robbed, sometimes the treasury. If the transaction an d tween the Government and an individual, the rnirl b b e d. I f go-between are the gainers, and the contractor i rw effice rs the affair lie between individuals and employers- -as _ w ont the customs—a false return of duties is m ade to Gore e an u the Government merchant s an d robbed ed : employed th i s is a regularpocket the p a el r i t ff u e s 'e ttle the meat of every custom-house transaction." THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1837