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t o supply deficiencies, which ought to be filled up without is 'casual and unsure asststance?— Morning Post. Now or never is the time for members and friends of the Church of England to rally round our national Establishment and defend it. The moment expected has arrived. The Church-rate machination of the Melbourne Ministers has at length exploded, and the result is, that the O'Connell pro ject of the " voluntary principle," so long threatened against the Irish Church, has been actually launched against the Church of England in the very heart of England herself, and under cover of an adjustment of the Church-rates. From the instant of Mr. Spring Rice's pompous announcement, on Friday evening, of his own adhesion to the policy of an Established Church, and his abstract abhorrence of the voluntary principle, every man ac quainted with the hahits and character of the gentleman was quite prepared for what would follow upon the heels of such a declara tion. The whole House knew well that the substance of the " resolution" would give the lie to the speaker's words. The mea sure proposed, then, by the Whigs in office is briefly this :—lt sells the unquestioned inheritance of the Church Establishment for ever, to purchase with the price of it a six months' truce from a sedi tious body of Dissenters. We have the authority of Mr. Joseph Hume for saying that the consequence of carrying into effect this scheme will be merely a suspension of their warfare against the Church by the Dissenters, not a dereliction of it. But to come to details. Ever since there has been a national Church in England, whether Roman Catholic or Protestant, the preservation of the sacred edifices from ruin has been provided for by a levy upon all landed and rated property within the several parishes. The tax for that purpose has never been a personal one, as assumed by the political Dissenters. It has affected men only as incidental to their possessions, the liability of which possessions to the maintenance of the parish church has been coeval with the division of property, and totally independent of its transfer. Tithe has been payable from the soil ir;, no greater degree, and on no principles more recognized or more sacred, than the Church-rates. No Dissenter destitute of land or rated habitation is ever called upon to pay the rate. All the property on which the rate is levyable has been bought subject to the burden of a Church-rate, in like manner as the burden of a land tax. Does the political Dissenter press his exemption from the land-tax on religious grounds? When he does, he may with equal justice object to the Church-rate, but not till then. It is gravely taunted by Mr. Spring Rice, as one of the misfortunes belonging to the present system of Church -rates, that each requisition of them produces much bitterness and animosity on the part of Dis senters towards the Established Church, which spirit ought to be put an end to, and that each contest with regard to Church-rates, • even when followed by a victory for the Church, serves but to lay the foundation of fresh quarrels, and to undermine her security. All this was well answered by Sir Robert Inglis, who represented it as merely establishing for a rule of action, " resist the law, and yod will be sure to get it repealed." But we go further. Will Mr. Rice pretend to say that a spirit of rancorous bitterness against the Church of England would never break out in the acts of the Dissenters after the cessation of a Church-rate? Pray what do the intriguing portion of the Dissenters clamour for under the name of the " voluntary principle ?" Are they less disposed to attack the Church on the score of tithe than on the point now at issue, of a Church-rate ? What do they mean by telling us that every sect ought to pay its own clergy, as well as keep its own places of worship in repair ? Is not that a direct menace that when they have once abolished Church-rates, they will go for a confiscation of tithe ? Mr. Goring, heretofore a sup porter of the Ministry, tells Mr. Rice, that however he has var nished his tale, the present measure is " a most unjust aggression on, Church property ; ' that " it deprives the Established Church of one branch of her emoluments, giving her no equivalent but from her own resources—that the money now proposed to be seized is required to afford a sufficient maintenance to the working clergy—and, finally, that he will not enable Ministers to give, however they may disclaim it, a first instalment to the advo cates of the voluntary principle." This is the speech of a regular voter on the side of the Whigs! And what else is the whole scheme but a foul proceeding, by which the voluntary principle is fraudulently smuggled into our legislation ? But for what ? For religious peace ? No such thing ; no pace is expected ; no peace is even promised. What is the language of that revolutionary glutton, Mr. Joseph Hume ? He tells us that his 400 Dissenting dele gates would have nothing to do "at present" with any question but . the Church-rates. " They had no intention to ask for any thing more at the present moment. Dissenters at presene, put everything else" (what else) " into abeyance, in order that they might not embarrass Ministers on this question." These words are significant enough : one instalment at a time. They will not embarrass Ministers upon this preliminary question by pushing at the present moment others which they meditate, lest the first and introductory one might fail, through the alarm created by a demand for too much et once. See, then, how stupid and how abject are these Minis ters ! They exonerate the landed interest entirely from a charge which it has borne for uncounted centuries, and confiscate for ever the acknowledged property of the Church, not on the application or importunity of those who possess the bulk of the soil of Eng land, but under the threats of a particular faction, who resist the lawful claims of the Church Establishment, because they ehject partially to its discipline and doctrines, and who do not even pretend to be conciliated, scarcely indeed silenced for a day, by that which is, as against the Church of England, a perpetual and irretrievable sacrifice. Satisfy the Dissenters ! e need not deceive ourselves on that question. `Nil the abolition of Church-rates content them ? No. Will that of tithe content them ? No. So lung as there is recognized throughout the land the title of Archbishop, or Bishop, or Dean—so long as a surplice shall be worn, or an altar fixed, or an organ played, or a litany re cited, we have pretty strong evidence of the sort of religious equa lity which would reconcile these lovers of spiritual freedom to the existence of the Episcopalian Church, when we turn to the annals cf the 17th century, during a portion of which their predecessors were triumphant and in power, when an adherence to prelacy was treated as an atrocious crime, and when even the performance of public worship according to the rites of our national Church was tiot so much as tolerated by the crop-eared tyrants of the Corn men sealth. Heaven defend us from the resurrection in this country o their base, greedy, grinding, corrupt, and hypo critical dominion. This new manosuvre of the Melbourne tioverement professes to he forced upon them by the im possibility of continuing the law of Church-rates on its pre sent footing. We do not wish to see the present law perpe tueted. It appears to us a monstrous thing that the question should be left even no worse than doubtful where a parochial fac tion, composed-partly of Dissenter? from the Church, partly of politica; intriguers within her own b°s° ' should or should not have it at their option to refuse the sum neeeseary for maintaining the fabric of the Church, and thereby deprie g the poorer membe r s cf the Establishment of the comfort and benefit of public worshi p . We are not, therefore, f o r th e con ti nuance o f t h e present law ; o,n the contrary, it would a c c or d w ith our op ini ons to see the principle of Lord Althorp's measure of 1634 recurred to—a provision made out of the Land-tax for the due repair of Churches on the specific principle which the old law of England has immemorially recog nised, and on the main one which an " Established" Church sup poses and implies—viz., that the Church shall be upheld and pro tected by the nation. Lord Althorp, it must be in the recollection of ,our readers, declared that it was in su b serv i ency , no t to t h e members of the Church, but to tb ,exactions of the Dissenting body, that he gave up his plan. Hoe., ver,the outline of Mr. Sp r i ng Rice's proposition is this : H e some 7-les, by Act of Parliament, be tween the lessors of Church land and their lessees, as to render the property which supports them both more valuable in the money market, and therefore claims the right of turning the additional value thus ingrafted on that property to the benefit neither of the lessors nor lessees, but to that of a third party not connected with either—to wit, the murmuring Dissenters. Now this, upon the face of it, is a flagitious robbery. If it be pretended that the Bi shops, and Deans and Chapters, have not hitherto been enabled by law to administer their property to the best advantage, on the same footing as any other landlords, and if the defect of legal power to do so has been susceptible of a legal remedy, why was not that re medy, viz., an Act of Parliament, applied much sooner for the use of tSe Church herself, many of whose clergy have been sunk in the dreariest poverty, and many objects connected with her efficiency and welfare incapable of being provided for out of her own ecclesi astical property, because of the thriftless condition wherein the Le gislature had left it ? The fact, as now described by Mr. Spring Rice to the country, is, that Parliament—the great Trustee for the Church—as in a large sense it ought to be for every other national institution—Las grossly neglected its duty to the Church, the cestui que trust, and that from being a defaulter towards the Establishment it now becomes a robber. There is still a party which possesses an equitable interest of the most important nature under the present arrangement of Church property—we mean the lessees of the Bishops and capitular corporations. How are they dealt with by the Chancellor of the Exchequer? They have heretofore, for time out of mind, been morally certain of the continuance of their leases on the payment of an ascertained cus tomary fine, recurring at given periods, and constituting, together with a nominal rent, an easy pecuniary obligation. These leases have been regarded a s equ i va l ent to estates of inheritance, and have formed from generation to generation the subject-matter of wills, deeds, and marriage settlements. They are to be annihilated from this hour. There are to be no more dealings between Bishop or Dean and Chapter and their former lessees. The lands are to be wrested from the Church, and put in the hands of a Com mission. The payment of fines is at once to cease, and in lieu of them the tenant is to be called upon to pay twenty-five years' pur chase for the fee-simple of the land, or to obtain his perpetuity by the payment of a rack-rent to the Commissioners. If he should not accept either of these terms, the public are to be let in upon him as competitors, and there is an end of his beneficial interest. Will the lessees of Church lands like such treatment ? We suspect not. Will the House of Commons sanction it (we say nothing of the Lords)? It is extremely doubtful ; for the Act is an outrage property, individual and ecelesiastjcal, as it is a scandal to all public faith, integrity, honour, and enlightened policy. But sup pose theq, by some miracle, the Act should pass, and that, without any mira.lle at all, the bulk of the lesse es should' refuse to take new leases at within five per cent. of a rack-rent, or to buy the fee simple at twenty-five years' purchase, of that whi c h they have hitherto enjoyed on much easier terms. How - stands the mat ter? The renewal fines, mark you, are at an end, so that the 261,000/. per annum, or thereabouts, necessary for the support of the Bishops and cathedral bodies, is no where producable from the Church property. Why, the Consolidated Fund must be resorted to, and that for a period of twenty-four years, which, ac cording to Mr. Spring Rice, forms the average duration of the out 'sanding leases. Mark, again, the Church -rates, like fines, are espally at once put an end to. Whence then comes the 250,0001. requiced by this precious project for the repair of churches? Why, from the hard-bestridden and cruelly-belaboured Consoli datedaeai Fund, which will therefore have to come down— cot. Bishops, &c £261,000 In .ileu of Church-rates.... Total £511,000 per annum for a period of no less than 24 years (we believe we have underrated this annual outgoing by some thousands, but have not now time to look back), which yearly charge is equivalent to a capital in money of surnethin , more than 20,000,0001. sterling ! And what is all this for ? We are told by Mr. Hume, to bribe some hundred thousand factious Dissenters into a short relaxation of their fury against the Church, while it is en behalf of Ministers a _renewal fine towards prolonging their lease of Downing-street to tile end of the current Session ! Rat the country at large re quires no such abominable oppression as that the lessees of the t:hurci should be squeezed out of 250,0001. a year to quiet the ela.momrs and relieve the pockets of Messrs. Hume, Fox, and Co. ; nor, if isuch a sum could be equitably raised from such a source, would tlue people of England be blind to the fact so justly affirmed by Sir Peel, that there arc millions of our poor countrymen still to be acoommodated with church-room, and thousands of poor clergymen who:=e families have scarcely bread to eat. Is not theirs a prior claim to t,:,iat of the political Dissenters ? Tisnes. BELL'S LIFE IN LONDON AND SPORTING CIIRONIFLE of yest er d aT , M arc h 5 , conta i ned the most correct description of the eight fo.11own:(s steeple Chases : St. Albans, High Wycombe, Bath, Liverpoc!, Birmi ng h am , B roc kl eb b; _Hunt, Haverfordwest, and Tamworth. The price of Bell's Life in London is fivepence. Office, 170, Strand. Bell's Life can b,n bought every Saturday, after three o'clock i n th e a f ternoon, a t any of the newspaper Offices about the Royal E xc h ange. The number of songs in competition for the premium offe t ,ifiby the Melodisti Club, amounts, we hear, to about 213. COURT CIRCULAR. WlNnson, MARCH s.—His Majesty rode out yesterday morning, attended by Sir William Freemantle, in the Great Park. Their Majesties attended Divine Service this•morning in the private chapel of the Castle ; the Rev. Mr. Gossett officiated. The Queen is expected to attend the service at St. George's Chapel, this evening. The Rev. Mr. Gore, Minor Canon in residence, will officiate. The service is King's in B, and the anthem " 0 where shall wisdom be found ?" (Dr. Boyce). The Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria, and their Royal Highnesses' Household, attended Divine Service yester day. The service was performed by the Dean of Chester. Mr. William Maury and Mr. Oxley, deputed by the Ame rican Chamber of Commerce, and the importers of tobacco at Liverpool, and accompanied by Viscount Sandon and Mr. Ewart, M. P., also by Mr. G. Evans, M.P., Mr. W. James, Mr. Callaghan, M. P., and Mr. Thornely, M. P., had an in terview on Saturday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on the subject of a reduction of the duty on Tobacco. A Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign Office on Sa turday afternoon. It was attended by Viscount Melbourne, the Lord Chancellor, Marquis of Lansdowne, Viscount Dun cannon, Viscount Palmerston, Lord Glenelg, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Earl of Minto, Sir John Hobhouse, Mr. Poulett Thomson, Viscount Howick, and Lord Holland. The Council sat an hour and a half. Mr. A. Chisholm, Mr. C. Cumming Bruce, Mr. George Sinclair, Mr. J. A. Stewart Mackenzie, Mr. W. F. Campbell, and the deputation from the High Court of Scotland, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Saturday, in Downing-street. _ _ _ The Hanoverian Minister and M. de Hummelauer trans acted business at the Foreign Office on Saturday. Lord John Russell gave a Parliamentary dinner on Satur day evening, at his residence in Wilton-crescent, to Lords— G. Lennox and Acheson ; Sirs—O. Mosley, H. Verney, C. Blunt, and J. Wrottesley ; Messieurs—D. Barclay, R. Etwall, R. Alston, J. Collier, F. Buxton, E. L. Bulwer, Townley, Hutt, and C. Buller, and Captain F. Berkeley. The Earl and Countess of Bradford have left Farrance's Hotel to take possession of their new mansion in Belgrave square. A deputation from some of the metropolitan parishes, ap pointed to obtain an equalization of the unredeemed land tax in England and Wales, bad an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Saturday. The deputation included Mr Evans, Chairman ; Messrs. Pugb, Wilks, Taylor, Marriott, Hall, Moore, Ammarson, Holt, Lott, Scorell, T. Walker, Tulow, Miller, Wagstaff, Barton, Tuck, Mayes, Lacey, Crouch, Jones, Tolley, James Hall, Shape, W. H. Walker, Burnett, Carrell, Forbes, Eden, Charles Warton, Thomas Murphy, Drummond, Thomson, Grant, Smith, Brown, Tap ster, Stanuard, and Daniel Lamont, Hon. Secretary. Lord L-Neson is at present residing with his rela tive, the Duke of Devonshire, at Devonshire-house. On Monday last the Earl of Chesterfield came up to town to attend the funeral of his aunt, the Hon. Mrs. Arthur Stanhope, who died in Tylney-street the preceding Tuesday, after two days' illness. His Lordship left Chester field-house on Thursday last for l3retby-park. Lord Francis Egerton gave a grand dinner to a party of the Members of the House of Commons on Saturday evening. • Lord and Lady Mahon will give a sumptuous din ner on Wednesday next, in Grosvenor-place. Lord Duncannon continues indisposed in Grafton street. Lord St. Helen's, who entered his 85th year on Tuesday last, is, we are sorry to say, in a bad state of health. The Speaker's Levee on Saturday on Carlton- House-terrace was very numerously attended by the M. P.'s at present in London. Viscount Southwell, an Irish Catholic Peer, and not the Earl of Kenmare, is expected to he the new Knight of the Order of St. Patrick, in the room of the late Earl of Fingal. Lord Leveson is at present sojourning with his uncle, the Duke of Devonshire, at Devonshire-house, Pic cadilly. The Earl of Alnlgrave, who was expected to arrive in town, from Dublin, before Easter, has postponed his de parture Gum Ireland sine die. The proxy of the Noble Earl is in the hands of the Premier, it is said. Earl and Countess do Grey, accompanied by Mr. and Lady Mary Vyncr, have arrived at St. James's-Equare, for the season, from Wrest Park. The Earl of Yarborough is building'a new schooner yacht, the lltstler, which is to be launched in May next. The new Spanish Minister, Don Manuel d'Aguilar, has taken a mansion in Win pole -street. The Earl of Chesterfield came up express from Butby, in consequence of the decease of his aunt, Mrs. Arthur Stanhope, of Tilney-street, Park. lane. The Countess of Essex has perfectly recovered from her severs illness. The naval Commander-in-chief on the North Ame rican station, Sir Peter Halkett, has just succeeded to the baronetcy of his brother, Sif Charles Halkett, Bart., of Pit tirrane. MARRIAGE IN HIGH LlFE.—Married, by spe cial license, on Saturday last, at St. George's Church, Ha nover-square, by the Rev. Henry Moore, Vicar of Rathcon nell, in Ireland, the Hon. James Hope, M. P. for Linlithgow county, second son of the l a te E ar l o f H o p e t oun , t o L a dy Mary Frances Nugent, youngest daughter of the late Earl, and sister to the present Marquis of Westmeath. Lord Lynedoch gave a most sumptuous entertain ment yesterday, at his house in Stratton-street, Piccadilly, to twenty-four General Officers, in honour of the battle of Barrosa. The Hon. Mr. B. and Lady Harriet Baring, gave a sumptuous dinner on Saturday, to the Duke of Devonshire and a distinguished party. Mr. Gaily Knight gave a dinner on Saturday last, in Lower Grosvenor-street. The Countess of Sandwich has issued cards for her first party for the season, on the loth inst., in Carlton-gardens. Sir Robert Peel entertained a numerous party of Conservative Members of the House of Commons at dinner, on Saturday eveninr , in Privy-gardens. The Dowager Lady Cawdor entertained the Duchess Countess of Sutherland and a select party at dinner on Sa turday, in Berkeley-square. The Marquis of Lansdowne gave a grand dinner party, on Saturday, at Lansdowne House, to the Foreign Am bassadors and Ministers and a distinguished party. Mr. Powell entertained Viscount Canterbury, Lord Lyndhurst, Count d'Orsay, Lord Allen, Hon. Henry Manners Sutton, Messrs. Auriol, Knight, C. Greville, &c., at dinner on Friday evening, in George-street, Hanover-square. The Duchess of Northumberland, who was ap pointed governess of the Princess Victoria by George the Fourth, is about to resign her functions--her Grace's eleve being on the eve of attaining her majority.• The Princess will be of age in May. Last Saturday night, just after the doors of Madame Vestris's theatre had been opened, and the people comfortably seated in the pit, an Irish fruitseller ran after a gentleman who had purchased a shilling's worth of oranges, and begged of him to change a bad shilling which he (the gentleman) had paid him. The Irishman having become abusive the stranger handed the man a shilling, of the goodness of which there could be no doubt, at the same time receiving back the "spurious" piece of money, which proved to be an Indian gold coin of the value of 1/. 15s. We have received the painful intelligence, that Mr. Davidson, the traveller, within fourteen days' journey of Tim buetoo, has been murdered. This event will produce a very great effect throughout the scientific circles of Europe, as the greatest hopes were entertained of his success. KING'S THEATRE.—La Donna del Lago was given at this theatre on Saturday for the debut of signora R. do Angioli in the part of Elena, and Signor Deval in that of Rodrigo. The other characters were allotted—Malcolm to Miss F. Wyndham, nerto to Signor Catone, Douglas to Signor Bellini, and Albina to Madame Castelli. Signora R. de Angioli is not without judgment, and there are qualities in her voice which in compositions of a quiet and unpretending character may obtain for her some standing as a concert singer —but for the stage, and above all for prima donna at this thea tre, she is altogether unqualified. In the songs she had not power enough to contend against the orchestra, and in the concerted pieces was overwhelmed with the other voices to the destruction necessarily of the harmony. In Signor Deval we cannot discover any talent for the stage, and should be equally at a loss to assign to him any place in which he might hope to appear to more advantage. His voice is thin and powerless, and his manner cold and unim pressive. We have hinted how much Miss Wynd ham was benefitted by the comparison with her nominal su perior in rank ; we never heard her, whatever the cause, pro duce so much effect or sing so well. The music suited her, and she was at home in it. Catone had his foil too on this occasion, and stood more prominently than usual on the mu sical canvass. Bellini got through his part creditably, and Madame Castelli discovered, as she usually does, notions of good effect, without being equally successful in realizing them. After the opera, the new ballet of Le Brigand de Terracina was repeated, and went off with great spirit. Her minis Eslsler was encored in her pas seul, and Monsieur Madille, one of the new dancers, distinguished himself, under a quiet unpretending style, by much agility and grace. Du vernay was at home in her part, and as clever as usual. The house was well attended, though not crowded, and there is an evident disposition to patronize this theatre, it' the lessee will but fulfil his share of the contract by providing genuine attraction for his subscribers. BURKE'S NEW PEERAGE AND BARONETA GE FOR 1837.--The new edition of this splendid work has at length appeared, and realizes in the fullest extent the antici pations which the lengthened period devoted to its revision led us to expect. We have no hesitation in describing it as the most complete and comprehensive work of the deicription ever issued from the press; for it contains within its pages the whole hereditary rank of the United Kingdom, ccmprising the genealogical histories of all families of eminence, interspersed with historical and biographical anecdotes of deep interest, and detailing their wide spreading connections, generation after generation, which embraces, as a matter of course, a great proportion of the untitled gentry. PARLIAMENTARY LOSS OF C RED IT.—The jority for the - further exemption of Members of the House of Commons from the law of arrest, will not get credit for their votes among the fashionable tradesmen at the west end of the town, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 6, 1837. Never was a measure more happily contrived to recon cile the conflicting views and angry passions of men in the settlement of a great national question, than that which the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER brought before the Le gislature on Friday last. The country already breathes more freely. The public mind is suddenly relieved from that oppressive load of anxiety and apprehension under which it has been labouring ; for what can be contemplated with more anxiety, nay, with more dread, by all who have the welfare of their country at heart, than the prospect of seeing the community involved in a contest, the issue of which none can foresee, and in the progress of which the firmest bonds that hold society together—the bonds of peace, brotherhood, and charity—are sure to be rent asun der ? From this greatest of all calamities an enlightened Government, ever watchful for the public welfare, has pro vided a means of escape equally unexpected and effectual. And how has this been done ? By sacrificing the interests or prejudices of one party to those of another? By giving a triumph to the Dissenter over the Churchman, or to the Churchman over the Dissenter ? No—this would have afforded no cause for public gratulation—but by relieving the one from that which he feels to be an intolerable burden, not only without imposing a single particle of it on the other, but by actually putting him in a better position than he was in before. The Ministerial measure extinguishes Church-rates as a tax on the community, and provides for the repair of the Churches and the maintenance of publi c worship -within them, without making an inroad either on the property or the principles of the Establishment. This is the coils ummation which we devoutly wished for, but which, we confess, we hardly expected to see realized. We know that this view of the measure will not please the Tories. We are prepared for the old cry o f " robbery," " spoliation," " sacrilege," and all the other cant terms; which political hypocrites employ to serve their own selfish ends. Indeed the cry has already been rvised, as our readers will perceive from the extracts -which we have given from the principal organs of that tur'bulent faction, which must be put down before this nation c: in hope to enjoy peace. It matters not what the propositi on is, provided it come from the Government ; that is r(tason sufficient to procure for it the hostility of this nest of vi'pers ; and this hostility is always venomous in pro portion to• the excellence of the measure against which it is directed, and to the credit which is reflected on the Adminis tration. It must, however, be a source of infinite satisfaction to the counC , ry to see how invulnerable by these " puny whipsters" . is the plan proposed by the Government for setting at r( .st the great question of Church-rates. What can even the 9:"imes bring against it but a few sophisms ? It endeavours, indeed, to lash itself into fury ; but where is the single t.) ring worthy of being called an argument which it advances ? It calls the new measure a " flagitious rob bery." Ar id why? Because a source of wealth which does not now es ist is called into being by the Legislature, and applied tot the support of the Established Church. Where is the rol Jbery ? Who suffers by this ? Who is deprived gY f a farthing which he possessed before ? Not one. The Times is fond of quoting authorities. What will it say rto the declaration of its favourite, Lord STAN LEY, oa •this point? When that Noble Lord brought forward ,e Irish Church Temporalities Bill, by which an additional value was given to Church lands, it was contended by Sir ROBERT PEEL and others, that this newly created surplus should be given to the Church. " No," said the Noble Lord, " I say to the STATE 1" The Noble Lord was correct in his logic. The surplus was entirely the creature of the State, and belonged entirely to it. But how much stronger must this argument be, in the opinion of all who look with horror upon any sem blance of an appropriation of Church property to secular pur poses, when it is applied to the present case. The cases are precisely similar, as far as the creation of the fund is con cerned, but there is this difference in the application of it, that whereas Lord STANLEY contended for a secu lar appropriation, Mr. SPRING RICE devotes the whole to purposes strictly ecclesiastical—to the repairs of churches, the maintenance of worship, the additional accommo dation of the poor, and to the augmentation of small liv ings. Can any man in his senses say—and be sincere when he says—that this is a " flagitious robbery" of the Church, or that it is not one of the best measures ever devised for the benefit of the Church ? The Times asks, " What do they (the Dissenters) mean by telling us that every sect ought to pay its own clergy, as well as keep its own places of worship in repair ? Is not that a direct menace, that when they have once abo lished Church-rates, they will go for a confiscation of tithe ?" Now, we will tell the Times, that there is no menace whatever in this against tithe, which does not in fact exist, and is therefore beyond the reach of menace ; and we will state further, for the information of our Contemporary, who luckily for the interests of truth is not blessed with a good memory, that what the Dissenters mean is exactly what the Times meant in 1834, when it indited the following words :—" What are Church rates but the most nefarious exactions, when levelled against our Dissenting brethren ? The ALMIGHTY has left man's conscience free, and it is therefore a rob bery in the eyes of Heaven to extort from a man support for that creed which he does not believe." There have been one or two small Conservative festival s held during the past week, and, among others, one at Beacons field, for the purpose of celebrating the return of Mr. HAR COURT for Buckinghamshire. We are surprised that the Conservatives can muster up the courage to look festivity in the face, at a period of tribulation like the present, when desertions are of such frequent occurrence among their ranks, and their faction is at the last extremity of decrepitude. The late majority of eighty against them— and on a question, too, on which they had put forth all their numerical strength, and exhausted every weapon -in the armoury of their logic—would, we should have supposed, have sickened them of the very idea of a festival. At Beaconsfield, however, it is but just to observe, there was merely the name of the thing : the spirit was wholly wanting ; for nothing could possibly be more dull—nothing more disheartening—than the speeches deli vered by the Tory adherents of Mr. HARCOURT—say, rather, of the Marquis of CHANDOS. There were none of the usual boastines, or parade of confidence. The spirits of the company were evidently at the lowest ebb ; and all they had to say was, a few tame, common-places, in laud of their newly-elected representative. How different this from the Bucks Conservative oratory during the recess ! Then the faction was all hope and confidence. No sooner should Parliament meet, than it would drive Lord MEL BOURNE from the helm ; annihilate the entire Whig phalanx ; and instal itself snugly and securely in Down ing-street. The Conservatives put forth no such boasts now. They hold occasional festivals, it is true, but the heart of festivity is wholly inert, being paralysed, and past the power of healthy action. It is Tor the Reformers to rejoice now ; as for the Conservatives, the best advice we can give them, is to put themselves into a state of sad and solemn preparation for attending the obsequies of Toryism, now at its last gasp. The Paris Journals of Friday and Saturday have been received. The Mani!cur of Saturday contains the following telegraphic despatch from Marseilles, dated March 2, half past four o'clock, p. m. " The French Consul at Valencia writes that the 2d brigade of the division of the Army of the Centre, destined to cover the plain of Valencia, has ceased to exist. The officer who commanded it has blown out his brains. The cavalry took to flight ; the rest fell into the power of the enemy." Upon this official communication the Constitutionnel of the same evening has the following commentary :-- " The Telegraphic Dispatch, published by the Government, might alarm the friends of the Queen of Spain if it were intel ligible ; but its obscurity; the vagueness of the statements, the absence of names and dates, suffice to prove that it is of little importance. It is doubtless one of those insignificant epi sodes so common in the Spanish Chouannerie, and which, for what purpose we know not, endeavours are made to mag nify into important events." The latest accounts from San Sebastian are to the evening of the 28th ult. All is ready for the grand attack apon the Carlists, which only waits for the co-operation of EOPARTERO. Eight men belonging to the 6th Regiment fell into the hands of a party 'of Carlists, as they were straggling from their quarters at Lugariz, in the vicinity of San Sebastian. They were without arms of any kind, and after a desperate struggle five of them were taken and carried to Hernani. The other three escaped. The five taken by the Carlists were instantly condemned, and on the 25th were publicly shot in sight of the British troops ! We have received a communication from San Sebastian relative to this affair, which throws great blame upon Ge neral EVANS ; but though from the pen of a British officer we decline to publish it. In the letter alluded to, General EvANs it charged with having sent the men to father wood without their arms, and with not sending to exchange them, which he could have done, when taken. We would not easily give credit to a statement so much to the discredit of the Hon. and Gallant Member for Westminster. In Paris the only topic is the Disjunction Bill, which continues to engage the Chamber of Deputies. Its principle has been so fully explained in this Journal that we may pass it over without further notice. FRENCH FUNDS.-Psots, MARCH 3. Five per Cents., 109 f. 65c. 60c. 55c. 50e. Four per Cents., 100 f. 85c. Three per Cents. 79f. 55c. 35c. 40c. Bank Actions, 2,400 f. 2,395 f. 2,40011 Rente de Naples, 9Sf. 70c. 80c. 75c. Roman Five per Cents., 102% 102 102%. Spanish Actives, 26U 14%. Spanish Differes, 11,4. Spanish Passives, 7%U. Belgian Loan, Five per Cents, 103. Belgian Society, 1,550 f. Portuguese Three per Cents. 3171 U. Hay tianaLoan. 365 f. EXCHANGE ON LONDON. One month, paper, -f. -c.; money, 25f. 32%c. Three months, paper, -f. -c. ; money. 25f. 12%c. -Coors Authentgaue. FRENCH FUNDS.-Paats Marten 4. Five per Cents., 109 f. 55c. 45e. 50C. Four per Cent., 100 f. 75c. l'hree per Cents., 79f. 35c. 30c. 35c. Bank Actions, 2,400 f. Rente de Naples, 9Sf. 700 65e. Roman Five per Cents., 102% q. Spanish Actives, 25% 26 25k. Spanish Passives, 7 7% 7. Brussels Society, 1.5601. Portuguese Loan, Five per Cents., 50%%. Portuguese Loan, Three per Cents, 31%. EXCHANGE ON LONDON. Onemonth, paper, -c. -c.; money, 25f. 32%c. Three months, paper, -f.- C. money. •251. 12%c. -Cours Authentiaue. LAST PRICES. Five per Cents., 109 f. 70c. Three per Cents. 79f. 55c. Bank Actions, 2,4006 Rente de Naples s 99f. 95c. Roman Five per Cents., 102 U. Brussels Bank, 1,425 f. Portuguese Loan, Five per Cents., 50%. Portuguese Three per Cents., 31%. Spanish Actives, 25%. Spanish Passives. 7. Miguelites, 11%. Madrid Journals to the 26th ult. inclusive have been re ceived. Their contents are by no means of a satisfactory nature. In Arragon, the rebel bands have been guilty of the most atrocious outrages—scouring the country in all directions, without fear of encountering a Constitutional force able to offer them the least effectual resistance. A band, four thousand strong, entered and sacked the town of Utiel on the 12th, and afterwards proceeded to Mengla nilla, Iniesta, and Jara, which severally met with the same fate. On the 18th, they were attacked near Bunol by two thousand regulars, whom they put to flight at the first charge, with the loss of several killed and wounded. Against these hands, Brigadier LOPEZ marched from Cu enca on the 16th at the head of about three thousand troops of all descriptions —infantry of the line, infantry of the National Guards, cavalry of the line, and mounted Na tionals. Of the BRIGADIER'S success nothing was known at Madrid up to the 25th ult. Great complaints are made of the conduct of Senor RonaiceEz VERA, the present War Minister. His in competence is now proved to have all but ruined the army. Of the duties of his office he is as ignorant as a babe. His removal is certain, but the difficulty is to find an efficient successor. There is no lack of candidates, for in Spain there is no appointment which every man does not con sider himself well qualified to fill ; but it would be a hard task to select among them one man capable of conducting the military affairs of Spain with ability. It is, however, likely that Count ALMODOVAR will be selected as possess ing the largest share of public confidence. Senor CALATRAVA, the Prime Minister, is labouring under inflammation of the intestines. It is doubtful whe ther he will recover, so as to be able to resume the duties of his office. This is a most severe blow to the QUEEN'S cause, which never stood in greater need of his patriotic services. We regret to find that the most serious complaints are made against the present administration of Senor MENDIZABAL. For the last two months he has been sinking rapidly in public confidence. The civil ser vants of the Spanish Government are all in arrear, and it does not appear that any money is forth coming to pay them. In the Eco del Commercio of the 23d of February, we find the following official remonstrance, addressed to MENDIZABAL, by the Minister of Grace and Justice, at the instance of her Majesty the QUEEN REGENT. We cannot doubt but that it was intended to be private, and that it was only published when the Finance Minister appeared to treat its severe but just strictures with utter neglect : " Most Excellent Sir,—Most painful is it to me to hear the reiterated complaints of the heads of nearly all the tribu nals of justice, who, submitting with resignation to a state of honourable poverty, and content to suffer the reductions in their scanty stipends required for the salvation of the country, nevertheless must have the means of subsistence, of which they are totally deficient. The authority of their station forbids the idea of their borrowing ; and yet, by an inconsequence in our customs, the public, who exacts with reason a severe decorum from those who axe entrusted with judicial functions, withdraws its consideration when they appear with the outward signs of misery. But, although they might tolerate misery so long as they possessed the bare means of going on, however inadequate, the absolute default of pay for many months obliges me to notice their complaints with the determination of making their voice heard ; for the evil has become so urgent, that if a re medy be not promptly applied, the tribunals one after another will be closed. The ministers and subalterns of the tribunal of Pamplona, for example, have remained for eight months without pay ; payment of the estimate of interior expenses of the tribunal at least has not yet been commenced; the dependants already begin to abandon the tribunal, nor can persons be found under any circumstances to take their place ; so that either must a remedy be found, or the tribunal will be closed without its being possible for the presiding ministers, with all their zeal, to avoid it. And your Excellency well knows that this state of things is not peculiar to that Court ; there are many suffer ing under similar arrears. That of Madrid, even the supreme tribunal, is seven months in arrear ; the department of the Minister for Grace and Justice is also in the same situation. It is not necessary that I should dwell upon the motives that exist for not neglecting so respectable a class of functionaries ; it is satisfactory to me to be able to state with confidence that they will resist every trial, that corruption will find no entrance into their virtuous breasts, although assailed by.hunger and nakedness. But justice mill not permit that virtue should be thus abused,nor does prudence consent to subject integrity to such severe proof, especially when the neglect referred to extends to subordinates, to whom are entrusted suits in which are involved the security of the state, and the custody of persons capable of endangering it. I have already said that the magistracy submit with resignation to the evils of their condition ; and I venture to affirm that they do not seek that preference to which the rigour of their situation might entitle them, and that they will be content to receive their stipends with the sane regularity as is observed towards other classes, and with the deductions which the state of the country during the continuance of the wale requires ; the which, by Royal order, I bring under the attention of your Excellency, that you may take it into con sideration, and adopt the requisite means for placing this de partment upon the same footing as others, and the magistracy in the same situation as the other classes of civil functionaries, giving me an account of your proceeding. " Madrid, Jan. 31, 1837. (Signed) L ANDE R O." On the 20th ult. the Cortes gave a grand dinner to Mr. VILLIERS b the British Ambassador at Madrid, and Captain MAITLAND of the Royal Marines, of which a full report will be found in another part of The Sun, copied from a Morning contemporary. Ambassadorial speeches at public dinners are too rare not to attract attention, and we have no doubt Mr. VILLIERS' conduct on this occasion will be severely censured by the Tories. But his Excellency need not give himself much uneasiness on that score. If for a moment he departed from the strict rules of diplomatic etiquette, the occasion well justified the aberration. On the 24th ult., a draft of the Spanish Constitution, as amended by the Committee, was presented to the Cortes. It differs but little from the Constitution of 1812, which recently appeared in our columns. It provides for a second Chamber to be called a Senate, the members of which are to be appointed for life. They are to be named by the KING, out of a list prepared by the Cortes, containing thrice as many candidates as there are vacancies, thereby conceding to the SOVEREIGN a limited right of choice. The Senators must be all above forty years of age, and are not to exceed in numbers three-fifths of the Chamber of Deputies. They must also be possessed of a sufficient competence to be enabled to support their rank, without dependence on the KING or his Ministers. There is no other news of any moment in the Spanish Journals. Brussels and German Papers have been recived ; but they contain not a word of news of any general interest. The Belgian Chambers are wholly occupied with the Budget for the ensuing financial year. BELGIAN F UNDS—BRussELI, MArtmi -4 Actual Debt, 2Y, per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent. Loan of Thirty Millions... 921,/, Loan et City, 1832, 4 per Cent 09% Society of Commerce, 4 L. per Ccnt 134 % Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 136 Brussels Papers, March 5. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, Fes. 9 4. Five per Cents. Metalliques Four per Cents. Three per Cents. Bank Shares - —Allgemeine Zeitung, March 1. DUTCH FUNDS—AMSTERDAM, March 3. Money. Bills. Actual Debt, 2 per Cent Ditto, ditto 5 per cent. Anioi t Syndic, 444 per cent 1.1344 93 3 , •4 Ditto, ditto, 3N per cent 7f% 771. Commercial Company, .t!, i per cent 18 5 14 18644 Ditto (1532 and 1833) 5 per cent. Lechange on London, One month l2 Two months LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY. DEAL, MARCH s.—Wind N.N. E.—Arrived the Brothers, from Swansea; and Crescent, from Liverpool. Off Dover the Olive Branch, Ruffin, from Hamburg. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH s.—Wind N.N. E., fresh breezes.— Arrived the Elizabeth, Whitmore, from Jamaica. The Avon, Clarke, stranded near Fort Cumberland, has been got off, and towed into this harbour. PLYMOUTH, MARCH 4. —Wind E. N. E.—Arrived the Are. thusa, from Jamaica, leaky ; crew sick. JERSEY, MARCH 3.—Arrived the Mary, Price, Honduras. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Our arrivals this morning are the French, Ostend, and Dutch mails ; with ship-lettersi from Jamaica, Honduras, and Singapore of Nov. 1. We extract the following from the Singapore Papers to the 28th October, received this day : " The Manilla market has not been heavily supplied with Cotton manufactures, and extensive sales of grey and white shirtings, and fine cambrics, had been made at fair prices." PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock. — 'lndia Stoek.••••... 000000 •••• 00000 .•• 3 per Cent. Red. --Ditto Bonds 23 25 pm. S per Cent. Cons 89%i(5 South Sea Stock ....... .......... 3% per Cent........................ Old Annnities Ditto Red............... ...... .. New Ditto . ..... ...- New 3% per Cent......- ...... .97%%Ne 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 — New sper Cent... .. .. . ..... Exch. Bills, .£l,OOO 28 26 28 Pm. Bank Long Annuities to . e . x " p . ire Ditto ..... .........500 28 6 2 8 pm. Jan. 5, 1800 — , Ditto Small 2B 26 28 pm. Oct. 10, 1859 Jan. 5, I£6o — .l Ditto Advertised.. .... ...... pm. Jan. 5, .88' ..-.... ..... ... i sank Stock for Acc0unt..„.....Acc0unt......... April 5, 1880 —llndia Stock for Account — Jan. 5, 1670............... ..... Consols for Acconnt Omnium pm. PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austnan Bonds ..... —.,, Belgian Bonds ......... . 102,4 Ditto Account Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account Buenos Ayres Bonds ...... Ditto Account Chillian 80nd5... . THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Peruvian Bonds ........... ..... — I Ditto Account — Portuguese Bonds — Ditto Account — Ditto New Bonds .. 45% Ditto Account .1814% Ditto, 3 per cent .31}04 Prussian Bonds ...... ... ...... — Russian Bonds, 1921 Ditto Account ..—........ ...... Ditto Metallic — Spanish Bonds — Ditto Account ..... ........ Ditto Bonds, ISBI 254 4% Ditto Account 254 47,i% French, 5 per cent.......... —L —C. 1 4 per cent. ...... —.. —I. --c. --- 2 per cent. —' —c. 1— Exchange — f. e. Dutch, 2!4 per cent. 52 %x/ 3;p , 1 Ditto Account 53 Ditto, 5 per cent IO2N A, —I Ditto Account Ditto Account Columbian Bonds riitto Account ......... ..... Columbian Bonds, :824 2 5, Ditto Account Dankh Bonds ........... Ditto Account ....•••• ...... Greek Ditto Bonds, 1825 Ditto Account Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent —; Ditto Account Ditto, 6 per cent. Neapolitan PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK Paid. Dublin and Kilkenny Railway Company 24 Great Western Railway Company 4O Brighton Railway Company Brighton (ltennie's) London and Birmingham Railway Company 75 London and Greenwich Railway Company 2O South Western Railway Company 1 Colonial Bank London Caoutchouc Company Per Share .2 1% 45g 4% 54% 102 5 4 22U 2 PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, MARCH 4. 3 per Cent. Consols B9 i Urand Canal Deb, 6 per cent. 88 Ditto Reduced Ditto , 4 per cent 59 Si Bo- 3% per Cent. Stock - . 96% IHibernian Bank Ditto New, 1830 3.i per Cent. Debentures ....., 90!4 !National Insurance Co 3O Bank Stock 197 , City Debentures, 4 per cent... 7Sh Royal Canal Stock 3t I Ballast Cgrice Debentures, 4 Grand Canal Stock - I per cent. - Arrived. MAILS, Due. I Arrived. 0 America. 0 0 Brazil •••«••••.• 0 0 Buenos Ayres.. 0 Carthakena...... 0 2 Dublin... 0 :2 Flanders U Duel Arrived. 2 France 0 1 Ouern. & Jersey 0 0 Hamburg 0 1 liolllnd 0 Jamaica 0 Leeward Islands I 0 I:iii>on 0 Malta 0 0 Mexico 0 0 Ostend 0 Sweden 0 2 Waterford 0 HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE 10-MORROW. M0rning...,.....45 minutes after 2. f Evening 4 minutes after 3. This day was published, Part I , price 4s. 6d. of the Republica tion on smaller Paper (with all the Armorial Bearings, &e.) of MR. JIURKE'S HISTORY OF E LANDED GENTRY. To he completed in SIXTEEN MONTHLY PARTS, at 4s. Gd. EACH, Comprising a Biographical and Genealogical Account of ALL the EMINENT FAMILIES in the KINGDOM and up wards of ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND INDIVIDUALS con nected with them. 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HAMBURGH, FEB. 24, 1837. ALL those having to remit to us 201., before the 15th of March, are requested to avail themselves of the next mails, as else it might become too late for reaching us in due time. HEINE BROTHERS. HAMBURGH, FEB. 28, 1837. • ALL those who may have to write to us are re quested to be particular in directing, HEINE BROTHEUS, I:C ITAMBITRGII; but neither the denomination BANKERS, or LOTTERY CON TRACTORS, or MERCHANTS, nor any other, is required on the Address ; and Letters directed HEINE BROTHERS, IN HAMBURGH, without any further remarks or description, will do for any Branch of our multifarious Business. We beg further to cbserve, that a Later with one enclosure doubles the postage only, but several en closures would by far increase the same; thus 251. 501, or 1001., for instance, if remitted in one Bank of England Note would only cause double postage ' but 201. remitted in two Ten-pound Notes, or Four Five-pound Notes, would be liable to a ranch higher charge. It is, therefore, most advisable for those having to remit money to Hamburgh to forward the amount, whenever possible, in One Note, or One Check, or one Bank Post Bill, &c. &c. The same is advisable on receiving Money from Hamburgh. Of course, large sums, amounting to some or many thousands may rather be remitted in Bills of Exchange. All those having to give any Orders for such Branches of our Business as must be executed early in MARCH are requested to lose no time in forwarding the same. HEINE BROTHERS. The publication of THE SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day at 10 minutes past Three o'clock. 4. - !."7l ' t - Zhie -I.ltll-+ Till FUNDti. This is the day we are to hear of the bills protested on the houses who could not honour their acceptances on Saturday last. If we can judge to the present hour, by not hearing of any failure of consequence, we may presume that the alarm has nearly subsided ; and the commercial community will not experience so fatal a blow as the alarmists anticipated. Consols continue steady at the leaving off prices of Satur day, 90 to 90k for the Account; Money 894; Exchequer Bills 26 28; India Bonds 23 25 ; Bank Stock shut. Spanish has receded 1 per cent., from 25-i- 26 to 25+-; Pas sive 7+ ; Deferred 101 11 ; Portuguese 481 491; Three per Cents. 31i 32; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents 524 53; Colombian 251; Mexican 251. HALF-PAST ONE O'CLOCK. The Singapore papers received this morning contradict the statement that the Captain and crew of the vessel Fairy had been destroyed by the Chinese on the eastern coast. The vessel had struck on a reef, and gone to pieces. The Captain and all on board, excepting nine persons, had been drowned. By the Dutch mail this morning, the Funds from Amster dam come rather higher. The trade sale of coffee had gone off brisk, but at lower prices. The East India Company's sale of Tea is going off heavy this morning at lower prices. To the present hour we are very tranquil in the City, and do not bear of any more failures. A number of bills had been protested Saturday evening, most of them of small amounts, and which arc expected will be taken up in the course of the week. Since the early part of the morning, the various funds have become heavy and receded. Consols, which were sq for the Account, may be quoted at 90 ; Money, 89:3- ; Exchequer Bills 28, 26, 28 prem. ; Indi a B on d s, 23, 25 ; Bank Stock shut. In the Foreign Market there has been some sales of Spanish Stock, in consequence of which Spanish Active has receded from 251 to 24 25. The expose of the state of the Spa nish finances has somewhat alarmed the speculators in the above stocks; Sp an i s h Active2s ; Passive ; Deferred, 104 11 ; Portuguese, 4 Sk- ; Three per Cents., 31k h ; Colom bian, 25 ; Mexican, 25k ; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents,, sr)i The Share Market is rather steady, with little doing. THREE 0' (,'LUCK. Consols for tho Account, 90. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. • In the past week there was a considerable arrival of all kinds of Grain, and a good quantity of Flour. The trade generally was very heavy throughout the week, and prices of all kinds of spring corn were lower. This morning, the fresh supply of Wheat is small, and other grains moderate. The best samples of Wheat, very scarce, have obtained ls. per quarter advance on the terms of last Monday ; other qua lities sell slowly, and unaltered in value. Barley continues to meet a heavy sale, and is Is. per quarter cheaper than this day se'nnight. Beans and Pease are each Is. per quarter lower than last Monday. The immense supply of Oats has greatly depressed the trade, but after a further reduction of ls. per quarter, the sale has been rather more free to-day than on Friday last. In the Flour trade, transactions are still difficult, and last quotations are hardly maintained for ship-samples. PRICES ON BOARD OF SHIP. Wheat, Red (old) Us. 628. -White (old) (10s. 6's. - Red 1536) 44s. 50s. -- Fine 525. 555. Superfine 965. 60s. -White (1836) 463. 52e. Fine 545.58,,. Superfine 605. 625. -Foreign free Rye 345. 3's. Beans, Small (new) 385.425. (old) 44:.5 '1 Tick (new) 32, 244. (old) Harrow (new) ' 5 36g. --_— (old) 425.465. Brank Oats, Feed =s —s. New "2- 253. Poland s -73 Barley 0 5s. 17 ~ . - Grinding 27s 2Ss. - Malting 32,.35,4. Malt 465. :4 - Fine New 56;. 58s. Pease, Grey, New 325. 3-Is. - Maple New :IC 365, - White 38s. 40s - Boilers 4os. 495. New 23s - Potatoe 28; New 26A - Scotch 29 --- Irish ' 0 22 Flour Town (per sack) 5.2 s - Seconds 4114 - North Country 40 Bran to ARRIVALS OF GRAIN IN LONDON DURING LAS! . WEEK Wheat. Barley. Oats. I Finit r. English Irish Foreign 2,305 1,920 1,:95 SMITHFIELI This day's supply was very goo( alteration from the prices last quol D MARKET d, and the sale was dull at littlo oted PRICES PER STONE OF BLI I. TO SINK THE OFFALS. ..... s. d. to s. d. s_ d. to s il Inferior Beasts 2 4 2 6 Inferisr Sheep 2lO 3 0 Second quality ditto 2lO 3 4 Second quality ditto 3 6 310 Prime large Oxen 3 6 310 Coarso-weolled ditto 4 4 4 8 Prime Scots, Szc. Large coarse Calves 4 6 410 Large Hogs 3 8 4 2 l'rime small ditto 5 2 5 8 Small Porkers 4 8 SSO S.lckling Calves each ...17 i; 36 0 Quarter old Pig teach, 12 u 20 0 SUPPLY, AS PER CLERK'S STATEMENT. 82,850 easts. I Shee 2,650 165 p. I Calves. I Pi" 340 About 400 of the Beasts came lip the St. Alban's road; about 650 up the other northern roads; atomil 6,0 (inciAding Irish) from the western and midland districts ; about 870 from Norfolk, Suffhlk, Essex, and Cam bridgeshire ; about 200 from K nt and Sussex ; and most of the remainder from the marches, &c, iii the neighbourhood of London, NEWG ATE AND LEA At per stone, _ s. d. los. d. s a tos ri. Beef, inferior. 2 4 2 6 Mutton, inferior ......... 3 0 3 4 ---middling 2 S 210 - middling '3 6 2 8 -- prime large - prime 'I 10 4 2 - prime small 1 4 3 6 Pork, large Veal 3 6 s_„o -small 4 8 5 0 DENIIALL MARKETS. ly the Carcass. NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE CORN MARKET.—March 4. Our supply of Wheat at market to-day from the farmers was large, but there were no fresh arrivals coastways, and the trade was firm, last week's rates being fully supported. Bar ley, though in small supply, continues a slow sale, and prices have again declined Is. per quarter. Oats met a dull sale at the prices of last Saturday. Malt is in very limited request at our quotations. In Rye there is no alteration. Beans and Peas support the late rates. Flour is a free sale, at our quo tations. New. Old. Wheat, Northumberland Norfolk and Suffolk sss. 60, Berwick and Scotch 505. 3 —l 533. Foreign Rye, Norfolk and Suffolk r'oreign —s. —s —s. —s. Barley, Malting, Noriiilk and Suffolk... 02s. 37s —s. —s. Grinding and Feeding 2ds. 285...... —s. —s. Malt, Norfolk and Suffolk 'iss. Ws. —s. —s. Reans, Small 'itis 425. —s. —S. -- Tick 363. 405 —s. —s. Pease, White 39s 425..... --S. --6. --- Gray Oats, Northumberland, Potatoe 24s. 265. 2ss. 275. ---- Feed 214, ills. o2s 0. —s —s •—•4l. •—.{. -- Foreign Flour (per sack) —s. —s 4ls. 465. MINING INTELLIGENCE Tens. Cwt. Qrs. Quantity of Copper Ore sold o,i 92 0 6 417 21 0 ' Quantity of tine Copper Average Produce 7% Amount of Sale, 14,684/. 56.04.—Average Standard, 111/. 176. 0(1. CRIMINAL COURT-(THIS DAY). OLD COURT. John Disson was indicted for stealing on tke 24th of Feb., 100 yards of printed calico, the property of I. H. Hanscombe. The prisoner was seen in company with another person on the 24th of February, near the shop of the prosecutor, in Cur zon-street, Mayfair. The latter was observed by a policeman taking a bundle out of Mr. Hanscombe's premises, and hand ing it to the prisoner, who immediately ran away with it, but being pursued by another constable, he dropped the parcel in the carriage way, and was shortly afterwards taken into custody. —Verdict--Guilty. _ Ellen Newman - was indicted for stealing a handkerchief, a pair of gloves, and a bottle of wine, the property of John George, her master.—Not Guilty. Margaret Newman and Julia St. Clair Newman were next put to the bar, charged upon five several indictments, with various acts of felony. Their appearance seemed to ex cite a great sensation in the Court, which, from an early hour. was crowded to excess, principally by respectably dressed fe males. The prisoners were very plainly attired—they did n ot appear to feel much the distressing situation in which they were placed. To all the indictments they pleaded severally Not Guilty ; and one of the witnesses for the prosecution not being in attendance, they were removed until all would be present. Spingate was indicted for stealing a mare, a saddle and bridle, the property of Thomas Harvey. It appeared in evidence, that the prosecutor resides in the county of Essex, at a place about fifty miles distant from Lon don, and that on the evening of the 20th of Feb., the mare, bridle, and saddle, were safe in the stable, but next morning were missing. The prisoner, who is a near relative of liar ♦e,yy's, brought the mare, &c., in a day or two to the stables of a Mr. Bateman, in Kingsland-road, where he sold them for 71. to the brother of Mr. Bateman.—Guilty. Margaret Newman and Julia St. Clair Newman were again called upon to take their trial. The first indictment charged them with having stolen, on the 15th of November last, a dressing case, a ring, two pair of ear-rings, a brooch, all emerald stone, six sovereigns, and a Bank post bill for 1010 the property of the Rev. Thomas Heathcote. Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Doane conducted the prosecution, and Messrs. Phillips Dowling and Clarkson appeared for the defence. The circumstances of this case have been so recently before the public in the police reports that we deem it unnecessary to repeat them fully. It appeared that in November, 1836, the prosecutor, with his lady, as well as the prisoners, were lodging at No. 42, Allsop's-terrace, New-road, and that on the 15th of that month the dressing-case containing the other property named in the indictment was safe in the bed-room of Mrs. Heatheote, who had gone out to dinner, and returned at about half-past eleven o'clock. While she was away some circumstances occurred which afterwards led to a suspicion of the prisoners' honesty. On the next morning the dressing case was missing, and search was made, but without effect. The prisoners expressed great indignation at being subject to an examination, and shortly afterwards left the house, and went to lodge in Hyde-street, giving a different name there, and saying that they were so annoyed by a large circle of acquaint ance, that they wished to live retired and unknown. No truce was had of the property until within a few days ago, when, 10 consequence of what had taken place with reference to other transactions, a dressing-case bearing the name of the elder prisoner was searched, and in a secret drawer were found thirty seven pawnbrokers' duplicates, for property afterwards proved to have been pledged by the younger prisoner. The Jury consulted at twenty-minutes to one, and at a quarter-past they returned a verdict of " Not Guilty" against both the prisoners ; and the Recorder refused to allow the ex penses for the prosecution. The Hon. W. Best, the eldest son of Lord Wyn" ford, proposes, we hear, to become a candidate for Weymouth , at the next general election. ODESSA, FEB. 10.—Our harbour is covered with ice, and the cold seems likely to continue. This weather , which we did not expect, interrupts our communications with foreign countries, and we f ee l very sens ibl y h ow necessary the , use osteam-boats between this place and Constantinople have become. A fortnight since a dog, supposed to be mad, was observed to come from a flock of ninety sheep, belonging . t? Mr. Pring, of Cornish farm, near Taunton, several of which appeared to have been bitten. On Thursday unequivocal signs of madness appeared in nine of the animals, which vier ° immediately slaughtered and burned ; and on Monday sev en more were destroyed. Mr. Pring cannot yet ascertain thei, extent of the injury done to this extensive flock.—Ba Chronicle. On Thursday, as about thirty gentlemen belonging to the various colleges in this University (Cambridge) w ere crossing the river in a ferry-boat for the purpose of gainiag their own wherries, it being one of the boat-racing days, the chain of the f err y-b oa t b ro k e, an d t h e vessel upset, an d the gentlemen were struggling together in the water. So a large a n um b er o f p ersons b e i ng i n the r i ver at one time , and the fearful efforts of those who could not swim to save the n ''' . selves by clinging to those who were escaping, produced most agitating spectacle. We are happy to state that a ' were saved, although some of the party were so much Cl" . hausted, that rea n i ma ti on was f or some time doubtful.—Can'" bridge Chronicle. The daughter of a drum-major of a regiment of line quartered at Toulon pretended to be possesse d bs; the devil, and about mid n i g ht b egan to utter the most I: r ightful , shrieks, declaring that she was being severely beaten,_ and ° A the point of being mass acre d. Thi s naturally attracted crow ds to the house and r oun d t h e d oor. On the Igth instant sh° stated that she expected another attack. Her bed was sur rounded by numbers of armed men. and all the doors a nd av e e i nues leading to the house were equally guarded. The tto,' l ,' hour of midnight arrived, and the girl, as before, Tenewnd " I ; o r outcries and distortions. A poor decrepit ad w oman, "' t i t happened to be on the quay on which the house was situated was accused of kin. the sorceress who had bewitched the Pr i e le tended sufferer, and she would have been ill-treated, had silo not been tak en i n t o t h e guar d-h onsa. The repet i t i on of ti?, c scandalous scenes induced th e aut h or i t i es to i n terfere. . 1 " girl and her f a th er we re ca ll e d b efor e them, and being threa tened with punishment if th e tr i c k s were renewe d , t he wf ) , l ;_ ~ thy drum-major undertook t o d r i ve the devil cetAt o f tiro of his daughter.—French Paper, THE SUN, LONDON,, MONDAY, MARCH 6, 1837.