The Sun. — London, England, 1846-04-02 00:00:00

Governments, th e inhabitants of Lahore and Umritsur have nothing to fear f• om the British army. The Governor- General and the British troops, if the con ditions above ix !erred to are fulfilled, and no further hostile oppcoitien is ofi ered by the Khalsa army, will aid their en deavours for th e re-establishment of the Government of the descendants of Maharajah Runjeet Sing, and for the protec tion of its subjects. The inhabitants of the cities in the Punjau.'o will, in that case, be perfectly safe, in person and property, from any mo lestation by the British troops ; and thy are hereby called upon to dismiss apprehension, and t., follow their respective callings with all confide ce. By order of the Right Ron. the Governor-General of India, F. CURIE, F - iecretary to the Government of India, 'Kith the Governor-General. The official dispa.,ches from the Governor-General and the Commander-in-0412f of the army in the Punjaub fully con firm the favour able accounts which we published yesterday of the utter ` l ...efeat and dispersion of the Seikha. The victory was of the, most decisive character. After the bard-fought contest at Sabraon, near Hurreekee, where the Seikh chiefs put fe,rth their whole strength, and many of them sacrificed their lives, no attempt was made to rally the scattered forces; And as far as can be judged from the reports of their move ments, the greater part of them made the best of their way to places of safety, or to their own districts. It is rarely ghat we find, even in the history of Indian wars, sucha short with the campaign so full of stirring events and so pr eg nant destiny ;important results. Indeed it seems to be . of the Indian Government to go on e very y ear dominions, increasing in . strength and extending it not from any settled design of conquest, or a wis h to add one district more to its territory (with the exceptio n perhaps of Sinde), but from the force of circum s ta nces, n the inevitable necessity imposed upon them of prot e cting their allies, se curing their frontier, and, we may add of rescuing the oppressed inhabitants from the despotic thraldom of their native princes. In the interio r this has been almost the in variable course, and the entire of Hindostan is now quiet, either as forming a portion of the British dominions, or under the immediate protection of a people wbo may be reckoned in numbers as only one to five hundred of the Hindoo and Mahomedan population. The policy of the Indian Govern ment has been for some time not to extend its boundaries. They put down the B ur:nese, but left the Government, on giving proper security, to manage the affairs of the country AS usual. They tr i ,ated in like manner the Nepaulese, and according to 6'4 proclamation of tte Governor-General, the Punjaub is aiill to be left under the dominion of the legiti mate sue_ci.ssor of RUNJEET SINGH. With this we find no fault, but care must be taken at the same time that we have a dy nasty that can be depended upon, and that will act cordially, like the Old Lion of Lahore. in aiding us against invaders from the west. England wants not the territory. All she wants is security for the rest of her dominions in India, and a free intercourse for merchandise and traffic along the whole line of the Indus, and its tributary branches. These important paints cannot be lost sight of, and from the prudence, moderation, and firmness, hitherto displayed by Sir HENRY HARDINQE, we may anticipate that he will establish a barrier against the Affghans, and all invaders from the west, and at the same time not forget the arts of peace, the erAcouragement of trade, the security of merchants, and the full protection of the inhabitants against such a ruthless 'oanditti as the Seikhs, and corrupt and im becile rulers hie those which have succeeded each other in rapid succetsien since the death of RUNJEET Smart On a brief review of this campaign and its important results, it is impossible to withhold the highest praise to the Governor- General. He, evidently was not prepared for conquest when beset out from Calcutta. His objects were to encourage an amicable, establishment of a stable Government in the Pun jaub, and to protect the neighbouring states, under British dominion. But he was driven from his purpose by the wanton and unexpected invasion of the Seikh army; be was compelled to fight at great disadvantage, and to sacrifice a part of his scattered army to arrest the progress of these plundering hordes, that threatened to overrun the interior of Hindostan. This he did in the most effectual and [salient manner—he kept them at bay till he had mustered all the forces within his reach, and then, by one decisive blow, dashed them to pieces. He has thus obtained the right of complete con trol. over the Punjaub, and neither the French nor the americans, nor any other nation jealous of England, can 'Charge him and his army with the crime of aggression. It would be difficult to point out a system of policy so fair, so moderate, and successful ; and so striking has been its effect, that even his malignant revilers have been compelled to admit the fact, and, to save themselves from the scorn of their countrymen, now praise his deeds in the most fulsome strains. It might have been a matter of pure accident, that there were not a sufficient number of Members present to con stitute a House for the Commons on Tuesday. We know it is usually said that the Government ought to be respon aible whenever the SPEAKER is forced to adjourn the House for want of a competent attendance. Be this as it may, we are satisfied that the country will regard very discontentedly such remissness on the part of their representatives. Is it credible, that with the hundreds who have taken Upon themselves the duty of attending to our national concerns, not forty Members could be found sufficiently zealous to repair to their appointed Council Chamber, at a time when starvation is threatening millions of our country men in one direction, and the increase in the crime of mur der in another is represented to be so great as to require the prompt and efficacious concession of extraordinary powers from the Legislature for its suppression? With the greatest inflictions pending over us, and the most painful uncertainty as to their results, Parliament was convened at a very early period to deliberate upon what was best to be done. The Minister acknowledges himself to be perplexed as to which of two measures priority should be given, such is the urgency with which either is required. A direful exposition of the state of society in Ireland is offered by the Secretary of State for the Rome Department, following up with amplitude, supplied from intervening cir cumstances, the kindred statement tendered by his colleague in the House of Lords : Mr. O'CONNELL at once challenges, on Monday night, to reply to the Minister, but from the lateness of the hour, and the length to which his observations would run, suggests the propriety of an adjournment till the morrow. The leader of the House readily yield. to this proposition, conditioning that all other no tices for that day should be postponed by the different Members; and then, when the country would natu rally be looking with anxiety for any arguments by Mr. O'Cortstzt.t. against the Ministerial scheme for the prevention of assassination in Ireland—an anxiety emanating from the delight with which any reasonable demonstration would be bailed, that the suspension of the ordinary privileges of the Constitution is not necessary to be resorted to; an anxiety also, to which is superadded their conviction that the time to be consumed by the discussion of the Bill sent down from the Lords is hourly depriving an impo verished people from reaping the blessings of cheap food. and the concomitant benefits involved in the grand commercial policy of the Government--they are surprised by the knowledge that of between six and seven hundred representatives, not more than 31 could be discovered of suffi cient patriotism to facilitate, by their presence at four o'clock in the House of Commons, the progression of these several and all-absorbing matters of State consideration. This indiffer ence too, is aggravated by the recollection that the Wednes days have been by special arrangem ent devoted as au additional day to the relaxation of the Members, thus re ducing the number of actually working d ays to four in the week, upon the express understanding that there should br a greater degree of attention given to the ordinary business of the House on those days. No doubt some notice will be taken in Parliament of this dereliction of duty. All we can say is, that we trust such reprehensible inattention will nob recur during the present session. Very naturally indeed the agricultural gentlemen, or rather the would-be leaders of our agricultural population have been casting about them for some means of moderating their supposed downfal by the acceptation of the Corn and Customs Bill. They will not, or cannot, regard the commercial change now pending otherwisea d a e n s destruction an instrument foi of the whol e their personal destruction, and the ction agricultural interest. Hence they have been particularly earnest in their endeavours to discover some feasibles l che u n r t , , by the adoption of which their fall may in some measure be broken. Thi s a t l eas t i s th e i r ostensible object, i though w' shrewdly /inspect that their sole intention • s the temporary embarrassment of the Governm en t an d the negative obstruc ' - . tion of the Ministerial policy. They vainly e x p ec t t o tamp, with the operation of free-trade measures by the int tion of som e w il y propos i tion partaking somewhat of th:r, liberal character. 'With this view a public meet ing of certain agriculturists from the counties of Kent, Surrey, and Sussex, was held on Monday in Blackfrian, for the purpose, so intimated the document by which tin: meeting had been convened, of facilitating "the total an•' immediate repeal of the malt-tax." Everything in connexion with the assembly was in the nif.st symmetrical kect ing. There was Sit' CHARLES LAMB, Bait., in the chair . there was a letter, read by the Secretary, from Eat: STANHOPE, applauding the object of the meeting there were several significant resolutions proposed and seconded, condemnatory of that obsolete system of taxation of which the present impost upon malt was regard d as a glaring instance. We are far from wishing to squabble with the individual motives of those who agitate in this move ment ; we are only desirous that nothing detrimental to the interests of the country at large may be promulgated under a specious and delusive aspect. Of this nature we consider the proposed abolition of duty upon malt. We conceive that by the realisation of such a ch4nge the pockets of the inul (Buds would in no single part icular be b ene fi ted, while nearly five rling would be abatracted from the national revenue —the only good, and undoubtedl cant source of adva ntage y it might prove no insigniti resultin:.; to the b o d y of agricultural monopolists. In thi s maaner, an amount almost tanta mount to the proceeds of the income-tax is derived from the imposts levied upon malt, by destroyin: which the benefit resulting from the former extraordinary tax would be rendered whohy nugatory Nowt by this alteration would any decrease in the price of beer (or at least to any recognisable extent) acme as a recompense to the public ; with a greater demand for the article the price of hop* would ascend in proportion, by that means feeding the purses of the hop-growing protection party at the expene of the population, and at the expense of the national revenue. Such are our objections to the scheme of repealing the malt tax, and we conceivp those objections are based upou solid inference wad( logical truth. The matter, in short, resolves itself into the simple question, Shall nearly five millions sterling be withdrawn from the Government Exchequer, to benefit a mere intini- tessimal section of the community, without in any manner relieving the people from a burden ? We conscientiously think that common sense would agree with ourselves in giving that inquiry a negative. The intelligence from Madrid is to the 24th ult. The Tiempo, the only Opposition journal published, nobly main tains its character; and, though at the risk of prosecution and the banishment of the editors, sets NARVANZ at defiance. It calls him one of the Tom Thumb Napoleons, who have inundated Spain, and considers his conduct as a miserable parody, in which irascibleness is mistaken for firmness, force for arbitrary Government, and audacity for genius. The same journal announces that the Espectador, the Clamor Public°, the Eco del Comercio, and the Universal, would be prosecuted for having published that the Constitution was abolished, and that sufficient guarantees did not exist in the new system to allow them to de ;GI: Madrid e l do i i c it i d .a as At however,hneaide de-camp iddiaea:. de fend in a suitable manner their privileges. It adds : ‘‘ The excitement which prevailed in certain:provinces offered as yet but little cause for alarm. matters had assumed so serious a character that the Govern ment had thought fit to th re e m h o e v a e d D of on a contented, and particularly the Progresistas, were ende in a post d v e ° - u c a r i n m g p to of pl t a h c e e h lll m ini a s t ter of Marine l iiin e l f Elln t ov carriage on the night of the 22d ult., to the s convey al.n s t h o I t n h d e . In fante orders to set sail immediately for; It appears, from various accounts, th a t NARVA P ICZ and Queen CtinisTlNA are determ ine d t o carry t h rough the TZAPANI marriage at a t 24thallh t risks. eT les. and 32% for the 28th of hreepey Cents. closed at 32 1 4 for cash, April. The Five per Cents. were not quoted. I n the French Chamber of Deputies, on Monday, the monthly appointment of Committees on Bills took place. Both parties collected in great numbers, as several important questions, threatened by the Opposition, depended on the result; but they were signally defeated, for the Government had a majority in all the Committees. The trial of M. BEAU vALLow, at Rouen, for killing M. DUJARRIER in a duel, was brought to a close en Saturday, by the acquittal of the de fendant on the criminal charge, but he was sentenced to pay 20,000 f. (8001.) damages, as a compensation to the mother and nephew of the deceased. The Journal des Debuts strongly protests against the decree of the Austrian Go vernment confiscating the property of Prince and Princess CZARTORYSKI, and denounces it as an act of vengeance, as useless as it is unjust. The victory gained by the Anglo-Indian army over the Seikhs at Sabraon, on the 10th of February, was known at Paris on Monday, and appeared to come upon the good people of that metropolis by surprise. They did not expect that the warlike Seikhs, so well trained by European officers, would have been so quickly put down. According to letters from Warsaw, the Russian Govern ment has adjourned for four years the execution of the mea sures decreed against the Jews, and which had caused Sir MOSES MONTEFIORE to proceed to St. Petersburgh. A let ter from Naples, of the 17th, announces the arrival there of the Empress of RUSSIA. The Three per Cents. clritLel on the Paris Bourse on Monday at 841. sa; the Five per Cents., 120 f. ; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,302 f. 50c.; Rouen, 1,042 f. 50c.; Havre, 752 f. 50c.; Great Northern, 780 f. ; Avignon, 950 f. ; Vierzon, 7001. ; Bordeaux, 665 f. 50c. ; Bou logne, 515 f. ; Troyes and Montereau, 435 f.; Basle, 237 f. 50c.; Dieppe, 405 f. ; Paris and Strasburg, 536 f. 25c.; Tours and Nantes, 5621.10 c. ; Paris and Lyons, 601 f. 25c. ; Spanish Three per Cents. 36%. Ths following are the quotations for other lines:- Lyons and Avignon Railroad (Talabot). 108 f. ; ditto (Le cointe), 504 f. 50c. ; ditto (C ompagn i e Meridlonale), 50f. 50c. • ditto Delluitives, 547 f. 50c.; Bord eaux an d C ette (Mackenzie), 502 i. 500. ; ditto (Espeleta), 508 f. ; ditto Delhiltives, 5451. ; Charleroi, 4901. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TEE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Masai 31. Boulogne and Amiens, 11% -Dutch Rhenish, il4-East Indian, %-Louvaia and Jeuiappe, 1%-Luxembourg, 1% -Namur and Liege, 2-Orleans and Bordeaux, 12%-Paris and Strasbourg (Con stituted), 616-Rouen and Ilene, 29% -Tours and Nantes Consti tuted, 734 -West Flanders, 3. We are compelled, by the pressure of other matter' to omit our usual Parliamentary Summary. !eIONEY and COMAIERCIAL NEWS (From The Sun of Last Night.) At Messrs. Lamond's auction of Railway Steams yesterday after noon rather better prices were realised. Among the lots which found buyers were these: —Sheffield, Buxton, and Leek Potteries, 9s.— Reading, Guilford, and Reigate, 14s.—Reading and Reigate, 143. Waveney Valley, 13s. 6d.—Warwiek and Worcester, Mt.—lsle of Axholme, Gaineborough and Goole, If. 10x.—North Devon, 14s.— Midland and Eastern Counties, 14s. W.—Goole and Doncaster, it. 16s.—East Indian, 1 Is.— Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, 21. 7s. 6d.—Leicester and Birmingham, 6s. 6d.—Cambridge and Ox ford, Bs.—London, Warwick, and Kidderminster, 11. 1 1 s.—Rugby and Huntingdon, 1 fs.—South and Midland, 11. 6d.—Yorkshire and Glasgow Union, Its. 6d.—North Staffordshire, Churnet and Potteries, 41. 7s. 6d.—Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorset, 11. 7s.—Direct Northern, 11. 10s. 6d.--North Kent, 11. Ils. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday afternoon Were 4,000 bales, 1,000 being on speculation, and ISO for exportation. The market was very firm, and prices were fully supported. Shares were mre active, and quotations higher, with a prospect of a further ad- vance. The glorious intelligence received from the banks of the Sutlej yesterday, continues to be the general topic of conversation in the City, and it need hardly be stated, satisfaction is rendered by a careful perusal of the full and official details that are now open for public perusal. Is the military occupation of the Punjaub Is de cided upon, until the money demanded for the expenses of the army, &c. &c., be paid, and a settled and firm Government is established, it is expected that the army in the East must be much further aug mented than at the present moment appears to have been contem plated. It is, therefore, not improbable that further contracts will he taken for the transport service beyond those already announced. There are not any late Colonial arrivals in the city to-day. The Consol market has been pretty firm this morning at 9634 14 for Account, and for Money at 963( 16. Exchequer-bills are heavy at 265. to 28s. premium. Riot much business has been tsansa.cted this morning. Spanish Consols have this morning been rather heavy at 2534 the Three per Cents. at 36% ; the Four per Cents. at 98 ; the Four per Cents. at 92, ex. div. ; Portuguese, at 57% ; Brazilian, at 81%, ex. div. ; Danish, at 873 ; and Mexican, at 3114 The Railway Share Market is not heavy this morning. The latest prices are annexed. BRITISH FUNDS. ONE O'CLOCK. Three per Cent. Consols Annuities 96%5 M Long Annuities, Expire -Jan. h, 1860 . Ditto, 30 }ears, Jan. 5, 1860 .. . India Bonds, 1,0001. . Ditto, under 1.0001. . ionsols for Account . India Stock for Account Exchequer Bills. 1,0001... . 5001. . Ditto, Small CLOSING PRICES. 96% 10 7-16 ~ , , j 10% 28 p •• (;!' 96% •• •• .. 263 263 114(I. .... 26 28 pm. 22 .... 30 pin. 26 .... 30 26 pm. 28 ONE GLOSING O'CLOCK. PRICES. 81 14 ex div 81U .. 8734 ex div 87% Fomax FUNDS. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent Danish, 3 per Cent • .. • Mexican Bonds, 1837, i per Cent .. Ditto, for the Account 31% % Ditto, Deferred .. Portuguese Four per Cents .. • • 57 % Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent .. 25% % Ditto, for the Account .. 25% % Ditto, Three per Cent .. .. .. Ditto, for the Account .. . • • • 36 % Dividends on the above payable in Lendoa. Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cent .. 99 98 98 Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent .. 593% 594 Ditto, for the Account .. 59% 59% Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certifisates 92 ex div 82 BUSINESS CLOSING PAID. DONE AT PRICES. ONE O'CLOCK. 125 1 1% 87 PRICES OF RAILWAY SHARES. 31% 16% 67% 25% 25% Amber., Notting., Boston, and Eastern Junction .. .. .. 2%...• 1%.......... I linningh am and Gloucester. ..100 .. - 125% itirmingham and Oxford Junction 2 .... 1% .......... Bristol and Exeter .. .. .. 75 .... 87 ........ ~ Ditto, New .. .. .. .. 5 .... 9 ........... !tuckinghamshire .. .. .. .. 425. .... - •. • • •• •• ii dis ;Jaletionian .. .. .. .. .. 10 .. • • 7% %7. 7% Ditto, Half Shares .. .. .. 2% .... 1%4 - ...... 1% Derby and Crewe .. .. • • • . 2%.• .. 4% .......... 4% Direct Manchester (Remington's) 2 9 / .... y a .......... Ye drect Manchester (Rastrick's) .. 514 .... 2%4 • • ...... 3 1 , 4 Ldrect Northern .. .. • . 2%.... - .......... 1 % Dublin and Belfast Junction .. 10 .... 4% ......... 5 (:;astern Counties .. .. .. 141 . 1 65..... 21% .... . ..• . . 20% Ditto New .. .. Do. l'erpet., 5 per Cent. No. 1. 6/. 13s. 4d. - .......... Ditto, ditto, .. .. No. 2. 61. 13s. 4d. %p• ....... T Ditto, York Extension .. .. 105..... I • • ...... • • 1 East Lincolnshire .. .. • • • • 11 4 •• • • 7'. •• • . Edinburgh and Glasgow .. .. 50 .... - .........• - Ditto % Shares .. .. .. .. 5 .... 12% ... ... 12% toole, Doncast., and iheffleld,&c. 425..... - ••••• • • • • • % dis. • treat Southern & West. (I re l an d) 15 .... 16 ... • 15% treat North of England . ..100 ....210 211 211 Ditto, New .. .. .. .. 5 .... 51 ...... 5l treat Western .. .. .. .. 85 •• .. 143 ........ 144% Ditto Halt shares .. .. .. 50 .... 84 ... B4 Ditto, Quarter Shares .. .. 5 .... 16 15% 15% Ditto, Fifths .. .. • Liverpool and imildford, Fareham, &I'ortsmoth 5 .. 4% 4% London an , bull and Selby • • Lancaster and Carlisle •• • •••• :: 8 3 0 5 :.• :: 1 : ( 9 11 4 41 .. •: :: 1 4 °91! and Leeds Direct Ditto Quarters • • • • .. .. 16 2% .. i .... 6 2 114 % 5821Z Birmingham . • :100 .. 219 220. ...... 220 2%.... 4 Ditto, Ditto Thirela and Brighton •• Half s te ar k e , :all .. 161. 13s. 4d. 8 ...... London awl is •• • • • • • • • • 2 27 % ••••• • • • • • 27 % London • • • • 50 .• .. G 3 62 .. - Ditto ditto Fifths • • • • • • London and Croydon :: 20 2B Loudon and South- Weste • • 13/. 15s. 9d. 21%. ....••• 2114 Ditto, New • Western„ 411. 63 10d, 76 77 •• -•• • • 77 London and South Essei - • • 12 %•••. 21% 2114 Loudon and York .. . • • •• • Pt". •• • • --;‘, ••••• • • • • ' 114 Ditto, Half Shares .•- • • ••- - 0•••• . re •• • • Manchester and Leeds .. . .: 82 - •• • • -74 • • 1 /nth, 11 alf Shares .. .. .. 20 , ..... •• 56 .. .. Ditto, Quarters .. .. .. - 2 •• - 10 %• • ••• ..... • Ditto, Fifths .. •• •• - 2 .... 11 , .: ••• •• •• •• I ancliester and Birmingham • • 40 . .. 75 c. ... - • Ditto, Quarter Shares (A) • • 4 .... 111: i i ... : ••• •••• ;It to, Quarter Shares (B) • • 2 .... , • Ditto, Quarter Shares (C) .. 1 .... 7 ::,lanchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425. .. • . i% p 3.4 1, Manchester and Southampton .... 100 :: :: 144 1'2 1 1 4 ' 1 . i 45 - .. 14 1% ; , !idland .. .. • • • • • • 29 , 4 1 y 29 • • 29 • • 30 2 Ditto, New .. • • • • • • 18 • • , 117 intto, Ilirmingharn and Derby 100 .... 117 • ... 4 . 5 . . 45 Newcastle and Darlington Juliet. ' 1 .5 .... 434 43 ... Ditto, New • • • • • •• • 1 •• • • 8 % • Ditto, Now, Brand Li.. 'ig .. 25 •• .. 42% •• .. Newcastle and Itcrwick .. .. 10 •• . . 181)1217N •• 17'4 .::,,, ark, Sheffield, and Boston .. 2 5 4.... 13:4.. •• - . North British .. .. .. .. .. 20 .... 24 4.•..• • .. • • 24 1 , 1 dtto, Halt Shares .. .. .. 6 .... 8 7 3 4 Ditto, Carlisle Extension .. 11 4.... 1% .orth Kent and Direct Dover • • 2%...• 13,, .... ••• • • • I 'aorta Staffordshire .. • . • • 425..... 21 4 %2 p 2 p Norwich and Brandon .. .. .. 18 .... 23 ...... • )xid.,Worcester, & Wolverhmptu. 12% .... 1,) 9% ~••.. 9% ittigl.iv and Huntingdon .. .. 2 .... - ..... ..... Scottish Central .......10 .... 1414 • • .... •.. 13 . 13 3 ,4 Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. 2y,. . . • 1% 2 1 % .... 1.34 south Midland .. .. .. .. 425, .... par 14 dis .. 1 4 dis south and Midlands Junction .. 425..... 1% di5....... 1% dis South E astern and Doror .. • • 33% - - 35 : 4 44 xd. Do., New (d 0.33/. 68.8 d.) No. 2. 10 .... 101 %id... Do., New (do 151.) .. 1 \ 0 .4. 2% ••.. 2 % •• •••••• 2% Staines and Richmond .. .. .. 1 .... _ .......... South Wales .. .. .• • • 5 .... - ....., • Wexford, Waterford, & Valentia 1% .... %.......... West Riding Union -. 42r _ % P I A; 5G 10 11 75% 11 • • • • .. s. I 7 4 p. 1 3 4 .Wilts, Somerset, and Weymo u th 2% .... I Vora and North Midland 5O .... 97 .... • • 9 - Ditto, Scarborough Branch .. 25 .... Ditto, .. • • .. 30 .... „ ..... Ditto. Extension .. • . . 15 .... 31% . Do. E. and W. Riding Exten.• • 1 • . 9 8% FOREIGN RAILWAY:. Boulogne and Amiens .. .. 12 .. 12% ..... Dutch Rhenish .. .. 5 .... 6% ... . East Indian .. tart. North. of France Constituted 5 .... 15.% .... it reat Indian Peninsular .. s s. Luxembourg •• • • .. 4 .... 1% •• „ „ Namur and Liege .. • • .. .... Orleans and Bordeaux 6 .... 12 ' ..... Paris and Rouen 2O .... 41 Paris and Strasbourg Constituted 5 ['ours and Nantes Constituted .. 5 ... Australasia London Joint-Stock • •• •• 4r.) 72 32 9% JOINT-S'TOCK BANKS. B ritish Iron MINES. .. 10 194 19 .. § Peal d.l Monte 'Unregistered • • "• • 3 % .. 336 144 1149 49 Cul% .. 10 .. 16 _ •• COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen had an evening party yesterday, at Buckingham Palace. The company began to arrive at nine o'clock, and passed up the Grand Staircase, and through the Green Drawing-room into the Pic ture Gallery. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent arrived at the Palace soon after nine o'clock, attend ed by Lady Augusta Bruce, Sir George Cower, and Captain the Hon. James P. Murray. Her Royal Highness the Duchess ofG th io e u T ce e s l t le er w w p as raw at i t n e g n - d roo ed m by , Lady Caroline Murray. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke of Cambridge and P r i nce G eorge wereT Hish e a s t ße t to e ey n el e attended b FamilyHighnessy a r , o v n tehr l eei conductede Hereditary to . Prince of Saxe Meiningen was where her Majesty received her illustrious relatives. attended by Baron de Reitzettstein. The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Royal Family, left the Yellow Drawing-room soon after half-past nine o'clock, and entered the Grand Saloon, where her Majesty and his Royal High ness received the distinguished company present. After the recep tion of the company, her Majesty and her Royal Consort, accom panied by the Royal Family, and followed by the distinguished visitors, passed from the saloon into the ball-room, where a concert was performed. Her Majesty's private band, including several other Instrumental performers, selected from the Philharmonic and Ancient Concerts, and from her Majesty's Theatre, attended. Madame Castellan and the Misses Williams were the principal perfotmers. The Misses Pyne, together with an efficient chorus, under the direction of Mr. Anderson, also assisted. The concert commenced at a quarter before ten o'clock. The following was the programme : PART FIRST. Overture—Song with chorus, " You spotted snakes," Miss A. Williams and Miss M. Williams—Notturno, March, and Finale— Chorus (A Midsummer Night's Dream)—Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Romance—•" Va dit elle," Madame Castellan (Robert le Diable)-- Meyerbeer. Chorus—" The calm of the Sea"—Beethoven. PART SECOND. Overture—(Der Preyschutz)—C. M. Von Weber. Chorus—" The fisherman's adieu"—Reber. Duet—" Two merry gipsies are we," Miss A. Williams and Miss 3/. Willlams—G. A. Macfarren. Festmarsch for two orchestras—Meyerbeer. Preghiera—" Col soriss," Madame Castelian (II Pirata) —Bellini. Chorus—" We praise, 0 Lord, thy name"—C. M. Von Weber. Alter the performance, her Majesty and Prince Albert were con ducted by the Lord Chamberlain and the Lord Steward to the supper room, followed by the royal and distinguished company. The party included all the nobility and fashionables at present in town. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the Queen yester day, and remained to luncheon with her Majesty and Prince Albert. A deputation respecting New Zealand, consisting of Capt. Cargyll, Mr. H. A. Aglionby, M.P., and Mr. Hutt, M.P., had an interview with Mr. Secretary Gladstone yesterday at the Colonial-office. Mr. Mbsquera,-New Grenada Charge d'Affaires, transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a general meet ing yesterday. There were present the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishops of London, Winchester, Bangor, Carlisle, Chester, Chichester, Hereford, i ichfleld, Oxford and Ripon, the Earl of Bess • borough, and the Right Hon. H. ilobhouse. 11r. P. Buchanan and Major Fagan had an interview yesterday with Mr. Secretary Gladstone at the Colonial-office. Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office from the Governors of Hung-Kong and Ceylon. Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from the Colonial office for the West India Colonies. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yesterday to vensider the petition of certain inhabitants of Cape Breton, against the annexation of that island to Nova Scotia. The Lords present were the Lord President, the Lord Chrncellor, Lord Cotterihatn, the Master ,f the Rolls, Lord Campbell, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall, and the Judge of the Admiralty Court. 111 r. Bliss, in support of the petition, was heard throughout the whole of the sitting. The Court rose at four o'clock. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. LONDON, APRIL I.—Wind this day at noon S.W., light breeze, with rain. PLYMOUTH, MARCH 31. —Wind S.W., strong.—Arrd. Druid, Thomas, Barbadoes. LIVERPOOL, MARCH 31.—Wind S.--Sld. Helena, Helton, Shanghae ; Chilena, Wylie, Singapore ; Highlander, Wheeler, Lima ; Polly, Birnie, Lima; Francis Barclay, Matthew, Valparaiso; Pauline, Jenson, St. Thomas ; Shakspeare, Henderson, Charleston ; Halcyon, Patten, Philadelphia; Reliance, Briggs, Staten Island, and St. John's, New Brunswick; Sir H. Huntley, Grant, Halifax; Sarah Barclay, Montreal; Rifleman, Hall, Harbor Grace. Off port, Sandersons, Naffs, Sylph, Kestrel, Adonis, and Pomona. SHIELDS, MARCH 29.—S1d. Aphelia Wright, Wright, Quebec, 30. Crown, Quebec. 31. Satisfaction, Quebec ; Hewson, Howson, St. John's, New Brunswick. PENZANCE, MARCH 31.—The Elizabeth, of Bridgewater, got on shore on the August this morning, was hove off, and into the Mount. DONAGHEDEE, MARCH 28.—The Mary, Murphy, from Cardiff to Glenarn, got on shore on Copeland Island yesterday, but assisted off at high water and proceeded. The Dora, M'Ghie, from the Clyde to Wexford, wer.t on shore at Ballyferris Point this morning, but came off at high water and proceeded. LEITH, MUCH 31.—The Oberon, Adie, from Lynn to St. Andrew's, New Brunswick, foundered at sea 10th inst. ; crew saved, and landed at South 131st. The Stirlinghill, of this pert, sprung a leak at sea 20th inst., and was rim on shore near Cape Wrath the following day. DEAL, MARCH 31.—Wind S.E., moderate.—Arrd. Eliza, Lepkes, Surinam, and sailed for Amsterdam. Arrd. from the River, and sailed, Amy Ann, Storey, Quebec. GUERNSEY, MARCH 30.—Sid. Laura, Le Messaurier, Havannah. BmsToL, MARCH 31.—Wind N.W., light.—Arrd. Mary Ann, Cum ming, Calcutta. Sld. Wilhelmina, Samson, Calla* ; Maria, Balsdon, Barbadoes. NEWPORT, MARCH 31.--Sid. Kron Prinz, Manner, Havannah. SWANSEA, MARCH 31.—Sid. Major-General Sir W. Nett, Cuba. DUBLIN, MARCH 28.—Christianea, Branston, Quebec. CARRICKFERGUS, MARCH 28.—Arrd. Broderick, Mamiltoa, for Lame, assisted in with damage, having been in contact. ABERDEEN, MARCH 21.-51 d. Pacific, Reid, Davis' Straits. ALLoA, MARCH 26.—Sid. Pomona, Templeton, THE GAUGE QUESTION. The Appendix to the Report of the Gauge Commissioners containing the evidence taken before them, will form a thick folio volume of nearly 400 pages. Forty witnesses were examined. many of them more than once. This number in cluded almost every individual eminent in the railway world, either as an engineer or a manufacturer of locomotives, a manager, a secretary, a carrier, or an amalgamator. The fol lowing will be found the only correct list yet published, and will give some idea of the mass of information on which the Commissioners founded their report. For eonvenisnce of com parison, the list has been divided into—" In favour of the narrow gauge, with national uniformity ;" " In favour of the broad gauge, with break of gauge ;" "In favour of an inter mediate gauge." IN FAVOUR OF NARROW GAUGE AND UNI FORMITY. 1. Robert Stephenson, civil engineer and manufacturer of locomotives (son of George Stephenson, the inventer of rail way locomotion ). 2. Joseph Locke, civil engineer (who compl e t e d th e G ran d Junction Railway) . 3. James Edward M'Connell, superintendent of the loco motive department on the Birmingham and Gloucester Rail way. 4. J. U. Rastrick, engineer of the Brighton Railway. 5. Albinus Martin, resident engineer and superintendent of the South-Western Railway. 6. Captain J. M. Laws, general manager of the Leeds and Manchester Railway. 7. John Braithwaite, chief engineer of the Eastern Coun ties (adopted narrow gauge in lieu of 5 feet gauge). 8. Captain William O'Brien, secretary of the South-Eastern Railway. 9. Thomas Buckton, secretary to the Brighton Railway. 10. Thomas C. Mills, manager of the goods department at the London and Birmingham Railway. 11. George P. Bidder, civil engineer, on branches of the London and Birmingham, and a friend of R. Stephenson. 12. George Bodmer, locomotive manufacturer. 13. William Fernihough, superintendent of Eastern Coun ties locomotives. 14. Wyndham Harding, late manager of the Bristol and Gloucester Railway. 15. Captain Mark Huish, general manager of the Grand Junction and Liverpool and Manchester. 16. Benjamin W. Horne, carrier, and partner with Mr Chaplin. li. Evan Jones, agent for Chaplin and Horne, carriers, at Camden station. 18. Thomas Whitaker, civil engineer. 19. Richard Creed, secretary to the London and Birming ham Railway. 20. Peter Clarke, manager of the Brighton Railway. 21. Janes Brown Head, of Sir Robert Price's iron and coal works 22. W. James Chaplin, chairman of the South-Wastetn, ancla carrier with Mr. Horne. 23. John Hawkshaw, engineer of the Manchester and Leeds. 24. William Bass, agent to Messrs. Pickford. 25. John Ellis, deputy-chairman of the Midland Railway 26. Joseph Maynard, of the firm of Pickfords, carriers. 27. Edward Woods, civil engineer. 28. James P. Budd, manager of copper works and coal mines, deputy chairman of the Welsh Midland. 29. Nicholas Wood, civil engineer (author of a celebrated work on the steam-engine). 80. George Hudson, M.P., director of a thousand miles of railway. _ _ OPPOSED TO BREAK,_ EXPRESSING NO OPINIOX ABOUT GAUGE. 31. Gen. Sir Willoughby Gordon, Quarter-muter General. 32. Major-General Sir John Burgoyne, Quarter-mute' General. 33. Major-General Pasley was opposed to break, but in favour of a 5 foot gaugo, if practicable now. lti FAVOUR Ok' BROAD GAUGE, WITH A BREAE OF GAUGE. 34. Isambard Kingdom Brunel (inventor of the broad gauge), engineer ot the Great 'Western Railway. 35. Charles Alexander Saunders, secretary of the Great Western Railway. 36. Seymour Clerk, superintend en t o f tra ffi c on Great Western Railway. 37. Daniel Gooch, superintendent of locomotives on Great Western Railway. INTERMEDIATE GAUGE. 38. C. Vignoles, civil engineer, in favour of a 6 foot gauge. 39. Colonel Landmann, late engineer to the Greenwich, 5 feet to 6 feet. 40. Edward Bury, locomotive manufacturer. 41. Benjamin Cubitt, engineer and locomotive manufac turer to the Croydon, Brighton, and Dover Railways. 42. Richard Roberts, formerly a locomotive manufacturer. 43. John Gray, locomotive superintendent of the Brighton Railway, 44. Richard Downs, contractor, against break. 45. Thomas Jackson, against break. 46. William Cubitt, civil engineer. MAJOR LAWRENCE'S ADVENTURES IN THE PUNJAB. —" The momentous intelligence which we have lately re ceived front the bankstofth.e Sutlej, renders any information interesting to the ae,,s in these stirring scenes eminently thank us for callin., Englishtheiratreader. Many, we feel sure, will relating to the chief interest iog and reely Valuableen attention, work o o ll n l a t jhoer Punjab,Lawrence's appaoninted to the charge of our in makiin Lawrence has been recently P , P ,f ei s t u tt e Tent as honourable patronage. tite Sir British lotions with Lahore— in that j srorlaworfendcie . 0 r eelection, to the beitower as to the recipienta Henry Hardinge has judged wisely for no man in India is so well acquainted as making with the S,ikh character, or Si) skilled plomacy which is requisite to carry out successfully political negotiations with the Lahore Durban His work is beyond all comparison, the best book which has yet been written about the Siekhs; full of valuable information, and yet as in teresting as any romance—lively, graphic, and most beauti ful."--2/lorning Herald. Baron You Z stwiek left London, early on Wednesday morning, by the General Steam Navigation Company's Marl steam ship, John Bull, for Hamburgh. Lord John Raisell is expected to leave Chesham-place early next week, to join Lady John Russell and family at Minto House, near Hawick, where her Ladyship is staying. VICEREGAL COURT IN IRELAND.— The Hon. Capt Robert Haly, son-In-law of Lord Heytesbury, has been appointed steward of the household, in succession to Captain Seymour, promoted to the household of Prince Albert. Wicks was executed on Monday for the murder of Mr. Bostock. In the evening he was the here of a doggrel poem, which was sung in the streets. Here is ens stanza : " Adieu, my friends and kindred, My tender mother dear, That God that reigns above will sooth Your pains, and dry your tears. I fear my tender mother I your peace of mind destroy, I am a wretched and forlorn Poor London apprentice boy." The ready pen of the poet, which so speedily turned his death to profit, the looks of the men who sung the dirge to the populace, and the awakened curiosity, for no higher feeling was apparent amongst the crowd, are tit pendants to and illustrations of the morning exe cution. It was really what the vulgar call it, a " sight," which they went to see, as they go to see the Lord Mayor's show, but return from it edified than from beholding the gaudy but innocent optetacl. et tin City king. THE MAGAZINES. BLACKWOOD. The manifestations lately made by the small republic in Europe, and the great republic—the "model repub lic" in America—have been of more service to crowned heads than their vast armies, and all the other safeguards of monarchy together. In Switzerland, scenes disgrace ful to any Goveintnent have been exhibited year after year, the inhabitants of one canton have been arrayed against another, w ith out an y su ffi cient c a u se Catholics and Protestants, plebeians and aristocrats. Jesuits have been plotting against the disciples of Calvin, and a civil war actually broke out, with much loss of life, because Lucerne preferred a system of education which some of its neighbours considered wicked and damnable. Great anxiety still prevails throughout the country, and the citizens are ready to rush to arms because there is no head, no executive Government, which can combine the heterogeneous elements, or control the factious and meddling cantons. The picture furnished by the great republic, however, completely eclipses its elder sist er . The Swis s pay their debts, they are content with their " area" of mountains and valleys, they do not quarrel with their neighbours, or abuse their best friends ; they do not appeal to the first chapter of Genesis as an au thority for sanctioning robbery, or a settlement in any rich country that takes their fancy ; and they do not at the same time encourage slavery, and commit blasphemy by offering up thanks for the blessings of freedom. Much might have been made of the late dis plays in these two republics by the advocates for absolute monarchy, as well as limited monarchy. But we have seen nothing worthy of attention till we opened Blackwood this month. In that number we find an article entitled " How they Manage Matters in the Model Republic," which has the merit of novelty, as w e ll as a very fair proportion of moderation. The writer dates his effusions from New York; and though his strictures are severe, and his language will sound harshly in the ears of Whigs and Democrats of the representatives of the Atlantic as well as of the Western States, they have themselves only to blame, for he quotes from the official paper published at Wash ington, and condemns them by their own words. He gives extracts from the speeches, as published in that Government paper, and certainly displays of oratory more disgraceful, ludicrous, and unprincipled, never ap peared in any reports of the proceedings of a legislative body. The public owe a debt of gratitude to the writer for these elegant extracts, not one-tenth part of which have appeared in any European journal. We transcribe one as a specimen. The speech was made by Mr. Kennedy, a democratic representative from Indiana, one of the insolvent States:— " Sir, ' says Mr. K., when the British lion, or any oth er lion, lies down in our path, we will not travel round the world in blood and fire, but will make him leave that lair.' . . " After this my sterious announcement, he inquires— " Shall we pause in our career, or retrace our steps, be cause the British lion has chosen to place himself in our path ? Has our blood already become so pale, that we should tremble it the roar of the king of beasts? We will not go out of our way to seek a conflict with him ; but if he cross our path, and refuses to move at a peaceful command, he will run his nose on the talons of the American eagle, and his blood spout as from a harpooned whale. The spectators who look upon the struggle may prepare to hear a crash, as if the very ribs of nature had broke r. . . . . " Once more into the lion —or lioness—for it does not ap pear exactly which this time! " We are one people and one country,*and have one inte rest and one destiny, which, it we live up to, though it may not free us to follow the British lion round the world in blood and slaver, will end in her tapulsion from this continent, which he rests not upon but fnollute " The writer thus sums up his character of the people among whom he dwells:---" If a man wishes to form a low idea of his species, let him spend a week or two at Washington ; let him go a mongst t h e lit t l e l ea d ers o f party in th at preposterous capital, watch their little tricks, the rapacity with which they clutch the meanest spoils, and wonder how political profligacy grows fat upon diet so meagre and uninviting. He will come away with the conviction, already indorsed, by the more re -peotable portion of the American community, that their Government is the most corrupt under the sun." We have in this number a continuation of the " Student of Salamanca,'? which we believe few read ; a good life and Instthlr of Antonio Perez, minister and victim of Philip 11. of Spain ; the " Crusades," founded on one of Michaud's works, and an interesting history of the Marquis of Wellesley's government of India. There is no political article, but, by some legerdemain, the opinions of the editor on the changes going on in the commercial relations of this country, are thrust into a review of the " Memoirs and Correspondence of the most Noble Richard Marquis Wellesley." After stating that the abolition of the corn-laws will throw a fourth part of the land out of cultivation, and drive all the gold out of the country, he thus foretels universal ruin:— " But the true conspirators see deeper. They know, that a revolution in the food of the people is the immediate fore runner of a revolution in the state. From the moment when foreign corn is admitted free of restraint, the confi dence of the farmer must be shaken. From the farmer, the shock will instantly reach the landlord; his rent must be di minished. To one-half of the great proprietaries of the king dom, a diminution of rent, even by a third, would make their possessors personally bankrupt. Their mortgages and loans must be repaid ; and nothing would remain. The land , lord now pays the Church. If he is ruined, the whole Church income, independent of the small portions of glebe land, must perish with him. " Then will come the agitation for a still more daring pur pose. It will be asked, why must the system of English life be artificial? Because we have twenty-eight millions ster ling of interest to pay, and for this we must have taxes. But why not sweep the national debt away, as France did in her day of royal overthrow? A single sitting of the Convention settled that question ! Why not follow the example? Then will come the desperate expedient, and all will be ruin on the heads of the most helpless of the community; for the national debt is only a saving bank on a larger scale, and nine-tenths of its creditors are of the most struggling order of the empire. Of course, we do not anticipate this frightful catastrophe under the existing Government, nor, perhaps, under its im mediate successors, nor under any Government which knows its duty. But, let the " pressure from without" be once an acknowledged Principle; l e t agitation be once suffered as a legitimate instrument of public appeal ; let the clamour of the streets be once received with the slightest respect, and the game is begun ; property is the chase, the hounds are in lull cry, and the prey will be torn down." BENTLE Y. The present number opens with a short narrative of the manner in which the escape of Prince Charles Edward was effected by Flora Macdonald after the battle of Culloden. The paper, which is from the pen of Charles Whitehead, is illustrated by a portrait of "the heroine of 1745," engraved by Freeman, from the original portrait by Allan Ramsay. The amusing adventure s of Brian O'Linn are continued, and we have a valuable historical sketch of the Seikhs and the Pun jaub, by Dr. W. C. Taylor. The account of the rise of the power of Runjeet Singh, and of the anarchy which followed, upo n hi s d eath, i n 1 839, are p ar ti cu l ar l y in teresting at th e present moment. D. C anter continues his Outpouri ngs ; and in this, his twelfth libation, give s us his remi niscences of poor Li ston . "Th e Mermaid, from the Danish of H. C. Andersen, translated by Lady Duff Gordon," is a fantastic story, illustrated most fantastically by Leech. Alfred Crow quill continues the " Old Manorial Chamber," and in the pmsent number gives us the " Reflections of a Pier glass,"—reflections which are " Though deep, yet clear; though gentle, yet notitill The article on gaming, gaming-houses, and gamesters is concluded, and Mr. Albert Smith continues his " P o . pular Zoology" by an appendix on gents, and a sketch of the zoology of the ballet-girl. The number concludes with "Tipperary Hall, No. 3," which bids fair to rival the " Noetes Ambrosiante." Take for a specimen the following : SONG BY THE WHISKEY DRINKER.—" WHO'S FOR A SLIT AT THE SIEGE OF LAHORE, MY BOYS?". Aau—“Paddy O'Rafferty." Have you not heard of the fighting in India, boys? Sure 't was at Moodkee a beautiful shindy, boys. Better than hunting the fox from his cozy shaw Was hunting the Seikhs from their camp at Ferozeshah At Alival, too, we complately astonish'd 'em, , Over the water we coax'd and admonish'd 'em. Though bullets Ay fast as bad eggs at the pillory-- 0 we are the boys that can spike their artillery ! Chorus. Come to the Sutlej, where loud the guns roar, my boys ! Come ere the fun and the fighting's all o'er, my boys I Come where there 's honour and plunder galore, my boys; 01 who's for a shy at the siege of Lahore, my boys ? Hardinge 's a hero ; bowld Gough is another, boys, Don't they call Napier " the divil's own brother," boys? Ne'er in the East such a gallant commander was Sirce on the Indus the Great Alexander was. Under Sir Harry Smith foes we could thump any; Who'll ser ve the Queen and the East India Company? Shew them our soldiers the right sort of men are all; Fight for the Crown, and the Governor-General. Chorus. Come to the Sutlej, &c. Id n theh them ieir Ranee ntbeir over, Chorus. her Punts and her Pun c h es , b oys ! Servemouthful of lead fo r th e i r lunches, b , ys I S Do n we will not st a y l ong , my b oys ! smith ri,e r r eens their fine tete du-pong, my boys. Ve n once p s m w with al,e t a h e s lapat bayonet au ! tis at intot a of v 't is we'll If the powther scarce, and th e g . : .. fs t h ey won ' t play on it Try the could ste el, and hon camels, their ca s h an d their capital. Th e n come to the Sutle where loud the runs roar, my boys ! C o me where me ere the there's fun an hone th fighting's a ll o ' er, my boys! ur and plund er ga l ore, my boys! Oh ! who's for a shy at th e siege of Lahore. my boys ?" Their l camps and adre TAIT'S MA E. which is concluded in thi s number, forms The article on " The Life and C orrespondence of t p h a e v m id os il t u i m n e te ' ;esting featur e in the magazine. It is a topic suited to all tastes. Hume is well known to all classes, either from his history or essays, and though he has given great offence both to the political and religious world, there is still so much to admire in his works, a, well as in the whole tenou r of his lite, that no culprit ever found so many persons ready to forgive him. lie never brings forward his peculiar opinions merely for display, like Gibbon, and others of that class, whose ob ject seems rather and to be to off end public feeling than to ar rive at the truth, who delight e d in turning into ridicule principles of belief calculated to console the mind in the deepest distress, and raise the thoughts of frail mortals to another and a better state of existence. If Hume at any time off out those ends in this respe c t, h e appears to be only his genius oin was bent f pro losophical disq u i s i t i ons on which m to establish theories which his yo u th, and endeavouring him to believe were just, his reasonin g f acult i es led The review of his works by Mr. Barton does him full justice in this respect, and and able g a l toge ther is, perhaps, th e b est account not only of the life wonderfulmso man, b u t o f hi s varied me of his wr i t i ngs, he was one of the soundest thinkers on the p r i nc i p l es of commerce, and had he directed his attentio n more to the subject might have far surpassed his cont emporary and intimate friend Adam Smith, in his work on the " W ea l t h of Nations. " We are not aware of any p art o f that standard produc ro of s. this d tion where the evils of monopoly itucl the blessings of • rite trade are painted out with such force as in the fol lowing brief extract:—" National exclusiveness in trade is as foolish as it is wicked ; no nation could profit itself by stopping the natural flood of commerce between itself and the rest of the world ; commercial restrictions deprive the nations of the earth of that free communi cation and exchange, which the Creator of the world has intended, by giving them soils, climates, and geniuses so different fr om eac h ot h er ; told like the free circula tion of the blood in living bodies, free trade is the vital principle by which the nations of the earth are tobecore united in one harmonious whole." It would be impos sible to say as much for the principle for which he con tends in fewer words. " Antonio Perez and Philip the Second" contains a vivid picture of Spain during the reign of that cold-blooded tyrant, to whom we owe chiefly the horrible cruelties that disgraced England during the reign of Queen Mary. We may refer the reader also to the brief article on Scottish entails, in which the injustice and absurdity of the system are fully exposed. The "Politics of the Month" exhibits little novelty, and is deficient in that vigour and boldness usually displayed. The following contrast, however, is well drawn : " The great curse under which our agriculture has hereto fore laboured, is the want of that organization, and rapid cir culation of ideas, by which one mind influences others, and improvements are suggested, considered, and put in execu tion with promptness and decision. The agricultural mind of England is a sluggish cloddy mass. To excite it to energy and activity would have seemed utterly hopeless, without some such disturbance of all its elements as we are now about to experience. The manufacturer looks around among his neighbours to mark every improvement that can save a farthing per cent. on his outlay—he looks abroad over all the earth to find out any nation that will give him a farthing more than its neighbour for his completed fabric. The agri culturist has his eyes buried in the sod he treads. He leaves inventions and markets to other people. He desires states men, who know that world of which he is so ignorant, to pro tect him, in God's name, a poor peasant, and let him till the earth, as his father and grandfather did before him ; using the same plough with wheels and four horses, thrashing with his hands or a windmill, and expecting that thirty millions of people will require no more food in the present century than fifteen in the last." FRASER'S MAGAZINE. The Seikhs are now the lions of the day ; they are ,alked about in every society, their history and late deeds have formed topics for the newspapers for several months, and the magazines have taken up the tale, and published long dissertations on the origin of this warlike race. The account of them in Fraser is well drawn up, though we could have wished to have learned a little more about the Lion of the Punjaub, and the extraordi nary manner in which he, an illiterate man like Mehemet Ali, acquired such ascendancy over a turbulent race. In two respects these remarkable adven turers agree. They saw the defects of their native system of government, but still more the mili tary system, cast off their national prejudices, and employed foreigners to teach their troops the arts of war. In Runjeet Singh's case the experiment was completely successful. He raised, by that means, the most powerful army ever commanded by an Indian chief, amounting, independent of irregular troops, to 150,000 men, with 400 pieces of artillery, many of them of large calibre, and made according to the European principle. He thus was enabled to subdue all the Sirdars who claimed separate jurisdiction, take Mooltan from the Ameers of Sinde, Peshawur from the Affghans, and include the whole of the country, being the Punjaub or Five Rivers, under his dominion. Like Mehemet Ali, he also showed great prudence. He never ventured a serious contest with the English, but remained satisfied with what he had gained from his less warlike neighbours. Unfor tunately for them, his successors ',have departed from the principles on which he ruled the country, and the dispatches just published show the result. The history of this people, as given in Fraser, will be read with interest at the present moment. The history which is continued under the title of " The Italian Cam • paigns," is less striking, and from the great length to which it has extended, four numbers, is beginning to be tedious. But the writer, like Colonel Mitchell, evidently considers it his duty to point out the extravagant praises heaped on Bonaparte's military talents, and to reduce them to their proper level. He brings them, however, below that point, for though it cannot be denied that Melas lost the battle of Marengo from sheer German apathy, and most of the other battles were lost in con sequence of the sluggishness of the Aulic Council, still it cannot be denied that the French leader generally, if not always, knew when to seize his opportunity, and saved himself from dangers which he probably would not have incurred had he been pitched against more active and skilful generals. At all events he succeeded for at least ten or twelve years, and never was fairly defeated till over whelmed with numbers at Leipsic. Success, if not the most unerring, is certainly the most palpable test of a general's abilities. He failed, it is true, in the Belgian campaign, but all know how speedily he dispersed the Prussians ; and all know, too, that but for the imperturbable firmness of the English, and the timely relief of a Prussian division, which struck the balance, he would have protracted his reign for at least twelve months more. It is impossible to deprive such a distin guished captain of the highest honours obtained in modern times. We have a continuation of " Contempo rary Orators," which include two rising statesmen— Lord Grey and Lord Morpeth. Their characters are impartially drawn, and with vivid effect. The writer of these biographical sketches deserves great praise, not only for avoiding all political bias, but for giving the main features by which the speakers are distinguished with great correctness ; and instead of assuming the harsh functions of a censor, making every reasonable al lowance for defects or peculiarities. We give a sketch of Lord Morpeth as a speaker in 1840 ; and it may be necessary to state, that the writer states he has since then much improved in his style and manner : "He has begun to speak. He has delivered an ambitious exordium, stilted and high-flown in language, but elevated and generous in sentiment.. His voice is rather harshly high in its tone, and too uniform in its sound. But there is vigour and earnestness, and here and there a touch of manly feeling that almost startles by its contrast with the odd, overgrown-boyish, yet no unprepossessing, tigure and manner. The action, also, is too formal, it has too much of the schools; and there is altogether an artificial and ambitious effort at eloquence, that makes one wish Lord Morpeth would trust more to his own unfettered impulses, and not so much to the lessons he has learned of some elo cution master. who has tried to teach him what never yet was taught, and never will be. The style is too much that of the " young gentlemen's academies" on examination day. But the more you hear, the more you like both the speaker and the sentiments ; in spite of all his peculiarities he has warmed you up. If you don't think with him, at least you feel with him. You have forgotten, too, the little traits of the ludicrous, in the palpable moral integrity of the man before you, instinct with a consciousness of the deep responsibilities of his exalted rank and station." UNITED SERVICE MAGAZINE. Of the eulogium upon the Emperor Nicholas we can merely observe that it is a waste of chivalry in a most damning cause ! Not all the most artfully balanced " periods " in the world can obliterate the flaws, and the rankling blains, and unsightly darkness which render the autocracy a perfect bugbear to those who are free to-think and free-to-judge. Panegyrics have been writ ten upon Robespierre; Marat was apotheosized immedi ately after his assassination ; Catherine has not passed without her admirers ; Nero was beloved, as the flowers upon his grave attested ; and the gloomiest, fiercest, bloodiest despots earth ever beheld, have, in turn, each and all received commendation from some among their fellow-mee. It is not, therefore, so utterly incompre hensible that a biography of this eulogistic nature should be devoted to the present Emperor of the Rus sias. In endeavouring to cover foulness with tinsel, the operator stands a tolerable chance of getting mi serably daubed himself. What we more particularly object to in this instance is, that while one page of the United Service heaps benedictions upon the fair fame of the Imperial Majesty Nicholas, another has the audacity, or we should rather say the ignorance, to brand Napoleon with the guilt of crime in connexion with— (whom does the reader think ?)—the " Due d'Enghein, General Pichegru, Capt. Wright, cum multis aliis." Why history has long since proved that Pichegru and Captain Wright both committed suicide, and common sense has proved that the First Consul, far even from desiring their death, must have been most anxious for their evidence at the trial, aaterior to which they expired. With regard to the Duc d' Enghein, Hazlitt, our own English his torian, emphatically says, " If I had been in Napoleon's place, and if I could possibly have done so, I would have had him killed six times over." Humanity required it, the peace of France and of the European Continent re quired it, the perpetuation of a free Government required it ; so did every feeling of justice and of law. After these insinuations of the reviewer in the United Service, we cannot but look upon his corollary cum multis aliis as being tantamount simply to cum cceteris paribus— mere visions, idle, delusive, non-existant. What small powers of discrimination —what an inca pacity to appreciate the truly glorious—what a bias towards the truly ignoble —to applaud Nicholas and asperse Napoleon ! Hamlet's indignation recurs to us, "Leaving this fair field to batten on this moor." Mr. Keon continues his spirited narration of "The late struggles of Abd-el-Kader and the Campaign of Isly ; " the near termi na ti on o f w hi c h narrative we cannot but regret. "A Proposition for Manning the British Navy with Volunteers" is filled with judicious hints, some of which are exceedingly feasible. Too much attention cannot be directed to the subject, as it should never be forgotten that, " England needs no bulwark, No towers along the steep; Her march is on the mountan wave, Her home is on the deep." The voice of the Delphian oracle should ever reverbe. rate in the ears of the Legislature. " Your only de fence is in your wooden walls I" There are various other papers of more than average Merit. DOUGLAS JERROLD'S SHILLING. Jerrold is himself again. He begins this month with " St. Giles and St. James," and concludes with "Juni per Hedgehog," who discourseth in his own quaint sar• castic way on the blasphemous absurdities of the poor old dotard John Quincy Adams, who, as the cabman shrewdly observeth, " somehow or other reads his Bible upside down." To make up for recent laches, the Editor gives us three chapters of " St. Giles and St. James," and capital chapters they are. Our readers will recol lect that some three months since we left Mr. Tangle bereft of his box of gold, which had been stolen by Tim Blast and Jingo, on his way to join young St. James at the rectory. The robber and robbed, -Blast and Tangle, met at the barber's ; and, to Tangle's horror, it is sug gested by the barber that the fellow that had the keep ing of the money was the thief. Tim Blast, who is vastly amused at the idea, declares that there is nothing more likely, and an admirably drawn scene follows. St. Giles enters the shop as Tangle quits it, and recognises and is recognised by Blast. In order to avoid this hu man fiend, St. Giles goes into the fields, where he meets with Bright Jem ; and where, seeing Ji ngo i n a t ree , h e calls the boy to him (from Jingo's pocket 0 guinea fells as he drops to the groutat which guinea he declares he has found), intending to fesctie him from Blast and place him at school. In the mean time it is announced that the candidate opposed to St. James has withdrawn, and the young noble attends at the town hall, imagining that he is to walk over the course for the borough of Liquorish. Not so, however, had determined Bbenezer Snipeton the old u surer , the husband of Clarissa. lie at the eleventh hour proposes Mathew Capstick, Esq., of the Tub, (our old friend the muffin-maker), as a fit and proper person to represent the borough of Liquorish in Parliament ; and, as Snipeton was pos sessed of that necessary article in borough elections— gold—of which Blast had deprived Tangle, Capstick of course becomes the member ter Liquorish, and just as he was declared duly elected the Rev. Dr. Gilead announces the lost box of guineas had been found con cealed in one of his fish-ponds. The present portion of the novel concludes with the chairing of Capstick. We have devoted so much space to our old friends St. Giles and St. James, and Capstick, that we must content our selves with observing that the other papers in the pre sent number are good, and fully sustain she high cha racter of the magazine. We cannot, however, resist quoting the following admirable apology for philan thropic literature. from a paper entitled " Our Village as it ought to be :" " He, e we may just put in a word in reply to a charge which we have heard preferred against our modem philan thropic literature—that it would make social improvements a substitute for religion. This is not true; but we would measure the depth of religion by the extent of its benevolent operation ; we could conceive of it as not merely a shut-up doctrine, but as a spirit, with lif e an d l ove , ra i s i n g and re fining all life and practice. We propose social improvements as instruments to be swayed by such a spirit, and, with re gard to that form of religion which refuses to employ them" we say it may be very comfortable far an individual who is satisfied with it; but it is not the religion required in order to realise even Our Village as it ought to be." THE UNION. This is a good number of The Union. The opening article, a " Comparative View of the Rise and Pro gress of Liberty in England and France," is an admir able specimen of the philosophy of history. We look for its continuance with much interest. "Late for Lectures," is a good sketch. " Young Oxford and the Fair Maid of Meath," which is illustrated by Phiz, is an amusing legend of the Rsibuld Ireland." The Review, of Le•gh Hunt's Stories from the Italian Poets" is admirably written, and we are delighted to see the reviewer take up the cudgels in behalf of Dante, against the namby-pamby sentimentalism of Leigh Hunt, who, " Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike," would fain, "Damn with faint praise" the glorious old Florentine. We cannot, however, agree with the reviewer in his depreciating estimate of the " Gerusalemme" of Tasso. Notwithstanding the dictum of Boileau, we cannot but confess that we prefer— " Tout le clinquant du Tasse a tout I'or de Virgile," - - seeing that this much lauded Virgilian gold is about as genuine as German silver. The concluding article, en titled " The Holy Coat and German Catholicism," is a history of the most remarkable intellectual movement of the last two centuries—the new German reformation. Much misapprehension exists as to the tenets of Runge and the German Catholic Church, and as both have been purposely misrepresented, it may not be, perhaps, out of place to give the following short extract, showing what those tenets really are : " The great principle announced by the German Catholic Church is that of 'freedom of opinion and the right of pri vate judgment.' The proximate cause, as has been seen, of this announcement now, is a flagrant outrage by the Roman Church on Common sense and common decency, from which men, who could exercise private judgment, and whose power of forming opinion was not annihilated, revolted so utterly that even a tacit acquiescence in the monstrous claims asserted by the Church could no longer be enforced. " One great doctrine which German Anti-Romanist Theology teachers profess, and to which the new body of noncon formists hold, is, that theology as a science is, like others, subject to improvement, and must yield to change; and, further, that religious forms are not independent of the state of society and progress of civilisation." DUBLIN UNIVERSITY. Whilst thousands have been expended in the endea vours to discover a north-west passage to India, which, like Gratiano's reason, when you have found it is not worth the search, the valuable Indian islands, Borneo and Celebes hare been entirely neglected ; and at the present moment we are actually better acquainted with the geography of the uninhabited and uninhabitable Mel ville Island than we are with that of the largest and most fertile island in the world, which is situated in the midst of the Indian seas, the Island of Borneo. We are delighted to find, however, that public attentiv is becoming gradually awakened to the importance of this fine island, and the country is indebted to Captain Keppel and Mr. Brooke—to the former for his interesting narrative of the recent expedition of the 1)ido to that island for the suppression of piracy, and to the latter for his philantrophic endeavours to introduce amongst the inhabitants the two main elements of civilization, Chris tianity and commerce. The opening article of the Dublin University Magazine for the present month is devoted, to a review of that portion of Captain Keppel's work, which relates to the labours of Mr. Brooke. Those labours have been crowned with great and deserved success. Piracy has been suppressed, and the " Son of Europe," as the natives call Mr. Brooke, is now Raja, Prince, and feudal proprietor of a considerable portion of the country, and is the agent of Great Britain in his adopted home. The fol lowing description will give some idea of the importance of Borneo in a commercial point of view : " The soil of this island is one of the most fertile in the world, producing rice and sago of the best description, nut megs, and every kind of spice; it has also camphor of the first quality. Antimony is one of its staple commodities; and it possesses iron, lead, gold, diamonds, and—more valu able still—coal. The climate, though near the line, is, like that of Ceylon, temperate; and Captain Keppel reports it as healthy." We have a third paper on the " Insurrections and In surgents of Italy," bringing down the history of the struggles for Italian freedom to 1831. " Glintings of the Shannon," the third of the series on Irish rivers, gives us some graphic pen and ink sketches of the pic turesque scenery of that most magnificent river, and this paper is followed by some pleasant recollections of the Burschenshaft of Germany. The concluding ar ticle is a review of Mr. Butt's book, entitl?d, " Protec- tion to Home Industry," in which all the old exploded fallacies of the protectionists are reproduced, as if they were new discoveries, and of course lauded to the skies, TESTIMONIAL TO T. S. DUN COMBE, ESQ., M.P. We subjoin a description of this really exquisite produc tion of art, now on view at the Parthenium. The grouping of the figures, the extraneous ornaments, the limning of the features, everything in respect to this graceful memento of the affection and esteem with which Mr. Duncombe is regarded by his fellow countrymen, is worthy of the deli cacy and refinement of the feelings in which this testimo nial originated. We congratulate the Honourable Member for Finsbury on this assurance that his public character has afforded the fullest satisfaction, not merely to his constitu ency, but likewise the mass of the labouring classes: it must prove a source of the most earnest pleasure to Mr. Duncombe, to feel that his course has been fraught with blessings to the multitude, and that he is repaid with their love. His is no mere clap-trap popularity: it lives deep in the heart's core of thousands. The design of this "piece of plate" about to be presented to Mr. Duncombe is exquisitely beautiful : it is the work of Mr. Grant, by whom it was modelled, and executed in silver by Messrs. Garrard. It weighs 800 ounces, is mounted on ebony, measures in height three feet two inches, and cost the sum of 6201. On the top a figure, representing the spirit of British liberty, is seen rewarding the rights of her cham pion for defending the rights of her country from oppression and injustice; and in two of the panels of the base are bassi releivi, representing on one side a mechanic in pros perity, and on the other a mechanic in adversity. On the third panel is beautifully printed the following inscription : ".Presented to Thomas Slingsby Duncombe, Esquire, ALP., by many of the working classes of Great Britain and Ireland, as a mark of their affection and gratitude for his patriotic, manly, and consistent advocacy of the rights of the people." Ou the angles of the plinths are groups of boys, emblematical of trade, commerce, and the fine arts, directing attention to the following patriotic votes and motions of the Hon. Mem ber in the Housp of Commons : " 1828. Voted for the repeal of the Tests and Corporation Acts. " 1829. Voted for Catholic Emancipation. 1 18 4. 32 1 . Moved for V)tedfor an amnesty heßem Bill. Bto all Political Prisoners (which motion was lost only by the casting vote of the Speaker.) " 1842. Presented the Great National Petition, signed by 3,340,000 of the working classes, praying that the People's Charter might become the law of the land, and moved that the petitioners be allowed to set forth their grievances at the bar of the House of Commons. " 1842. During the progress of the Income and Property Tax Bill, established the right of the people to petition against a tax pending its discussion in Parliament, of which right they had been deprived upwards of 150 years. " 1843. Moved for an inquiry into the judicial conduct of Lord Abinger, and certain Magistrates, in reference to politi cal and other prisoners. " 1844. Moved the abolition of the Ecclesiastical Courts. " 1844. Strangled the infamous Masters and Servants Bill. " 1845. Moved for an inquiry into the conduct of the Home Secretary, relative to the Post-office espionage. "Advocated the principles of Religious Liberty, Commer cial Freedom, and Equality of Civil and Political Rights throughout the British empire." OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE BOAT - RACE.--Both crews have arrived at Putney, where they have taken up their quarters, in order to train over the course selected fir this great aquatic event. A SERGEANT OF THE 18TII FOOT SHOT.—On Tuesday afternoon a detachment of the provisional battalion left the garrison for ball practice firing at Ilpnor, the usual place the troops resort to for practice, there being an extensive range of hills bounding the river Medway. Three targets were placed at equal distances, for the line of soldiers to fire at ; a volley of musketry having beett fired, Sergeant James M'Collison, of the 18th Royal Irish, ens of the sergeants in charge, advanced a few paces, for the pur pose of examining the penetration of the bullets, when one of the privates in the line, whose musket was loaded, fired off his piece, and the ball striking the sergeant, he instantly fell. On being raised, it was found that the ball had passed through the fleshy part of his arm, end entered the side, coming out under the shoulder blade. The Meer In charge of the detachment had the sergeant carried off the ground, and conveyed to the detachment hospital, where the' poor fellow lies in extreme agony; some of his clothing, it is supposed, has lodged internally, and the bladebone is much in jured. The soldier who committed the act had no intention of Wriest ing the Bel geant, his aim was at the target. FRENCH RAILROADS.—The Commerce announces that the railroad from Amiens to Abbeville may be opened to the public in the course of this year, as the chief eng i neer h a d promised that i i! should be, a few works only remaining to be completed, andiic i cannot require much time. From Abbeville to Etaples the e mban k ments are considerably advanced, and much of the landreui treaty, without y the remainder of the line has been purchased by private permit a ll the works without the intervention of a jury, and which will F--i - roin Etap j es t o on that section of the line to be completed this • Boulogne, the nature of the ground h t yj e e i a „ ri gl4r erm egn i a tt t e ed d with 1 1 contractors to advance so rapidly, the eart . l , i ning humidity. We have, however, hopos i o n f Abbeville in 1646, and to Boulogne announces, that the preparatory Northern Friday. her'l functionaries and the person s Experimental arras, and Dou f the North,the line opened to 1847. The Journal ck Lille uration of the section of the together with as place the principal employed on the line, repaired on that returned to Lille in the evening. Railroad The hoprc:fnert comprised between aug that city and Arras took ay and Valenciennes, to test day to Arrasibytraainspsecdt train , and e a rs nd edthedistance between Lille and the good condition of the road, and regalate the service, which Is to commence on the Ist of Sprit! IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS, April 1. The SPEAKER took the Chair at Twelve o'clock. NEW WRIT. A new writ was moved for the borough of Richmoq, In the county of Yorkshire, in the room of the Hon. Ridley Colborne, deceased. SECOND READINGS. • The following Bills were read a second time, and ordered to be committed, viz. Preston and Wyre Railway Harbour and Dock (New Dock and Railway). Preston and Wyre Railway Harbour and Dock (Longridge Junction). Bridgwater and Taunton Canal, Railway, and Harbour. Chard Canal Railway. South Leith Church. Kilmarnock and Ayr Direct. Hull and Lincoln Direct Railway. Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham Railway (Stamford to Wisbech). North Wales Railway Herculaneum Docks. Darwen Waterworks. Chorley Waterworks. REPORTS. The following reports were brought up, the amendments and alterations agreed to, and the Bills ordered to be en grossed, via.:— Scottish Grand Junction Railway. London and Brighton Railway (East Grinstead Branch). Electric Telegraph Company. Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway (Amendment and Branches). Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr Railway Amend ment and Branches (No. 1). Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr Railway Amend ment and Bran No. 2). South-Eastern Raihr (No. 7—Extension of stations at Ashford). Ma'don, Witham, and Braintree Railway. Eastern Union and Hadleigh Junction Railway. Liverpool Docks. Middleton Gas. Edinburgh and Northern Railway (Pettycur and Perth Har • hour Branches and Deviations). Eastern Union Railway (Ardleigh to Colchester). Scottish Midland Junction Railway Brandies. East Lincolnshire Railway. London and. South• Western Railway (Farnham and Alton Branch). London and South-Western Railway (Epsom Branch). THIRD READINGS. The following Bills were read a third time and passed, viz., Bromsgrove Improvement and Small Tenements. Monkland Canal. Sunderland Gas. Sunderland Waterworks. Mr. FORBEgmoTedthat the Caledonian Northern Direct Railway Bill be removed from Group No. 5 of Railway Bills, and referred to the Chairman of Ways stad Means, and the Members ordered to prepare and bring in the Bill. Mr. GREENE objected to the:motion, on the ground of irregularity, and it was withd rawn . Mr. GREENE moved that the East and West India Docks, and Birminghlm Junction Railway Bill, be read a second time on Monday next, notwithstanding such second reading will be more than seven clear days after the first reading of the said Bill. The motion was agreed to. Mr. DENNISTOISN presented a petition from the mer chants add bankers of Glasgow with respect to the proceed ings in railway Bills, complaining of the serious injury which had been done to the money-market by the with drawal of large sums to be employed in railway speculation. The petition also prayed that no railway Bill should be al lowed to pass unless it were by the consent of the majority of shareholders. Capt. PECHELL presented a petition from Captain Pike, a barrister, complaining of various acts of hardship which he had suffered, in consequence of his having reported for the public press while engaged on the Home Circuit. The I3enchers of Gray's Inn, in consequence, brought several charges against him in order to destroy his prospects. He was tried by a sort of court-martial of the benchers, attired in black gowns, who could bring no accusation of moral guilt against him ; but notwithstanding all that he urged in his defence he was disbarred and disgraced. The petition concluded by requesting that a Committee of the House might be appointed to inquire into the circumstances of his case, with a view to the restoration of the rank and privi leges of which he had been unjustly deprived. Sir GEORGE STRICKLAINZD presented six petitions from Preston, in favour of a Ten Hours Bill. Mr. PALMER iresented a petition from Berkshire, praying that poor-law officers may have allowances for superannuation. Lord MORPETH presented a similar petition from the officers of the Halifax Union; also petitions in favour of a Ten Hours' Bill. NOTICES OF MOTION. Mr. O'CONNELL gave notice that to-morrow he should move for the production of the report which was made to the Government on the subject of an alleged attack upon the house of Mr. P. B. Ryan. Mr. SMITH O'BRIEN gave notice that he should to morrow awe for an address to her Majesty, praying her Majesty to institute inquiries into the case of eviction on the Gerrard estate in Ireland. THE ARMY IN INDIA. Sir IL PEEL said that he had a notice which he would give for to-morrow. Two or three days ago it was his grati fying duty to announce his intention of proposing a vote of thanks to Sir H. Smith and the army in India, for the very signal and glorious victory that had been achieved under his direction on the banks of the Sutlej. Since that time accounts had been received of another victory, not perhaps more glorions, but more important in its results. It would, therefore, be his duty, and he was sure that it would meet with the universal sanction of the House, to propose another`vote of thanks for the second victory. The British army was now within a few miles of Lahore. In order not to diminish the effect of their tribute of respect to Sir Henry Smith, he should pro pose two votes of thanks for the two victories.—(Cheers.) DROPPED NOTICES. - . . Mr. SMITH O'BRIEN said, that u only ten Irish Members had voted for the Coercion Bill, and thirty-four against it on Monday, he hoped the Right Hon. Baronet would not press the Bill at present, after such an un equivocal expression of opinion on the part of the Irish Members. Sir R. PEEL said he was very unwilling to revive the discussion of Monday upon this subject. The Hon. Gentle. man did not appear to recellecr what the discussion of Mon d 4y was upon. They had not_ yet come to a discussion on the merits of this Bill. The HOB. Baronet who made the motion on Monday distinctly stated that he meant only to call fur a discussion as to whether the Irish Bill ought to have precedence or not. The main question had not been dis cussed at all. The Hon. Gentleman seemed desirous of having a decision on this. Why could they not take it on Friday next? Mr. S. O'BRIEN said that the Irish Members had un equivocally given their opinion that the Irish Bill ought not to have precedence of the Corn Bill. Sir R. PEEL said there were two Bills of the utmost im portance to Ireland ; one was the Corn Bill, and the other the Bill for the Suppression of Assassination in Ireland. The first and second readings of the Corn Bill had been taken, and the Government felt it their duty to take the first reading of the other Bill at once. Why could they not take the first reading, and reserve their opposition for the future stages of the Bill, ample and frequent as those opportunities would be ? After the Corn Bill was disposed of, the Government would go into the fullest discussion of the Irish Bill in aU its stages. Sir J. GRAHAM, in moving that the order of the day for the first reading of the Irish Bill be postponed till to-morrow, wished to explain an inaccuracy into which he had fallen in making his statement on Monday. He referred to the case of Mr. Wilson. He had stated that Mr. Wilson was com pelled to leave his home and the improvement of his estate in consequence of threatening notices which he had received. He (Sir J. Graham) had stated that an address on this sub ject was made from the altar of the parish chapel before the first threatening letter was sent. He should have said after. He had also stated that Mr. Wilson knew the parties who had sent the threatening letters. This was an error—he did not know, for if he had it would have been his duty as a magistrate to cause them to be appre hended. In every other particular the statement which he had made was correct. Mr. H. GRATTAN objected to this Bill, because it would not give protection to life. The Bill was a libel upon Ireland generally. He could assure the Government that they had been much misinformed upon the subject of this Bill. State ments had been made only to frighten old women and old Ministers. All that was required was to make the gentry of Ireland do their duty. After a few words from Mr. D. BROWN E, with respect Sir R. PEEL said he felt the deepest anxiet y to the distress into which the people of Ireland had been thrown. He had given ample p ro of as a public man of the sincerity of his feelings. He had done all in his power to al leviate the distress which must inevitably attend anything like scarcity. Having given that proof, he thought he might ask Hon. Members to read the Bill a filet time, and reserve their opposition fur the future stages of the Bill. Mr. O'CONNELL would not like to be ungrateful to the f ß a i m g i h n t e H in o l n. rel ß an a d ro . ne n t e fo a r ck th n e ow s l te ed p g s ed he m h o a s d t r t e Lt a k gy, en t o an avert i rt e might add, most gratefully, the plan the Government had adopted fur the relief of the people of Ireland. Ho was, however, compelled—reluctantly, he would admit—to op pose this Bill in every stage, simply because he believed that it would deprive his countrymen of the rights of the constitution. He vituld ask why not postpone the Bill to Friday and not till to-morrow, as to-morrow the notices of motion must occupy the whole night. He would also ask the Right Hon. Baronet whether he had any objection to lay before the House the documents which be had used in his speech on Monday evening. Sir JAMES GRAHAM said it would be impossible to go into the Bill to-morrow it was true, but he thought it would be as well to place the note es on the book, in order that if the notices should be disposed of in a reasonable time, they might go into the adjourned de bate on the Irish Bill. As the documents to which the Hon. and Learned Gentleman had referred were hemcial docu ments, he could have no objection to lay before the Mouse. Mr. O'CONNELL said that the motion he contemplated would not in the slightest degree affect the vote of thanks to the Indian army. ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE. Lord DUNCAN inquired for what period the Hon. Ea Eronasettienr ec t r end eu , ed to move the adjournment of t he House for the circum stancesSirß O w ß ha E t ß ev T er, P h E e E w L otil ob d se n rv ot e m d o t v h e at t , he un a d d j e o r urn an m y House before Thursday week; and the longest period h 3 p w r h e re a l; e e Y -(1 o tuol dall owof about would l eleven t n h d e as shortest that was ever given. e hanipton Chronicle, against whornan for the publication of brought by certain private individual, House the case of Mr. Wood, the p r o tto p t r io ie n to r r or of lih th e e lb W ad o h /re ee e n . security the srahl shouldie G ct v o e b f r t h e mg Lichfield evnetnh a tod pproer.. s a ch G o o o r s e . r H nm e e w n i t sh r e cro th rt at u so p m on e ag to esa fine of brought e for ° Mr Wo d agsonasinpsutblwisihioinnig athuethseicnattioicndoicivadmebnetes.n whichtee d the the jpourh3l,i foundshcr o f t a h a e m report s t thimaed a p n ub dhe been subjectedp ins a h id er t , the h d i a l e m the same publication in his newspaper, Mr. CA RD W tis E w.hte L ioer L oi odpt s fa a wthb i hdolaiu would t aTd h nt r a biooe t eauc t sel the tw o Treasury pursuancet, w , it e is phasoi nn 501. for costs, which the Government refused to liquidate. casest nh w eyo entitled. f e echoi sv ( lboeuar Government, quite o o rd inarytdest- ai t t l i i ve o n o n c hc , t aa ; v w t ii t o h n he ug i e ; n p M b u ae b d r s i . ie i prin ciple, that the Government should pay the damages found against every person who was made answerable for the publi cation of Government reports, which often necessarily con tained some unintentional libels. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said he felt it due both to the situation in which he was placed and his duty to his clients to act in the manner he had done. Mr. CHRISTIE thought that the Noble Lord had acted perfectly right in bringing the subject before the House. He begged to differ from the opinions of the Learned Attorney-General upon the subject, and considered that the proprietor of a newspaper should not be held responsible for publishing in his , papar copies of any official reports. Lord UNDO thought it not surprising that the editor TEE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY MORNING. APRIL 2,184 A