The Sun. — London, England, 1835-04-15 00:00:00

the station-house by a great number of persons, and 111 addressed them all the way on the present " critical point of affairs." Mr. BROUGHTON asked Mr. Hume what he had to say to the charge ? Mr. Hume was very sorry, but he was certainly a little exasperated at the time at finding persons so widely different in principle to himself. Mr. BROUGHTON ordered him to pay the usual fine, and he was then discharged. UNION-HALL. Yesterday Muc Coonse, the Michigan Chief, accompa nied by Mr. Gale and several of his friends, waited on the Magistrates for the purpose of soliciting their advice under the following circumstances :—Mr. Gale, who was the in terpreter on the occasion, stated that on the preceding after noon when the trial at the Central Criminal Court concluded in the acquittal of Mac Coonse, they left the neighbourhood of the Old Bailey together. They had not, however, proceeded far when the person who prosecuted the Chief came up, and abused them both in a very scandalous manner. To him (Mr. Gale) the prosecutor applied the epithet " You are a false sworn fellow," and other language of a tendency to excite him to commit a breach of the peace. He however kept a restraint upon his temper, not wishing under any circumstances to come into collision with the person who had so grossly insulted him. The prosecutor, not contented with venting his disappointed feelings on the applicant, also commenced abusing the Chief, who was exasperated very much, and as he was a foreigner and igno rant of the laws of this country, he (Mr. Gale) could not be responsible for his conduct if Mr. Morton attacked him under such circumstances. The Magistrates requested Mr. Gale to inform Mac Coonse that the best way was for him to keep out of the prosecutor's way, but should a repetition of it occur they would grant a warrant against the party complained of. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, APRIL 14. When the hearing of the appeals was concluded, at half past four o'clock, the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas gave judgment, on the part of the Judges, in the writ of error that was heard yesterday of Fetherstone v. Fetherstone, declaring the opinion of the Judges to be, that Wm. Fetherstone toc an estate tail, and not an estate for life. Lord BROUGHAM, at considerable length, stated his concurrence in this opinion, and advised their Lordships to affirm the judgment of the Learned Judges.—Judgmen* affirmed. SCOTTISH CHURCH. Petitions in favour of the Established Church of Scot land were presented by the Duke of Gordon, Lord Dundas, and the Duke of Richmond. OBSERVANCE OF THE SABBATH. Lord KENYON presented a petition from a parish in Derby, for the better observance of the Sabbath. Petitions were presented against any public grant for further accommodation in Scottish churches, by the Earl of ROSEIIERY, from Perth ; and by Lord BROUGIIAM, from Paisley, and several other places. POOR LAWS. The Duke of BUCKINGHAM presented petitions from High Wycombe, and other places in the county of Buckingham, against the union of parishes under the Poor Law Bill. IRISH CHURCH. Lord BROUGHAM presented several petitions from several parts of Scotland against (as the petitioners termed it) the monstrous and overgrown Irish Church. ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE. Te Duke of WELLINGTON stated, that as he had been informed the official business of the House required that it should sit tomorrow, he should not move its adjournment until then. He should, however, if it met with their Lordships', approbation to-morrow, move that the House at its rising adjourn to the 30th inst. Lord BROUGHAM said that there could be no ob jection to the adoption of the course proposed by the Noble Duke, as there were only two Scotch Appeals set down for hearing, and on those the parties were not ready ; and very few English, which were not pressing. The Duke of WELLINGTON then gave notice that he should to-morrow move that the House should, at its rising, adjourn to the 30th. The House adjourned at N minutes past 5 o'clock. THE EAST INDIA and C HINA TRADE Yesterday a numerous meeting of the merchants and others interested in the East India and China trade took place in the principal sale room of the East India House, a strong competition having been anticipated among the ca pitalists and the East India and other Dock Companies to obtain possession of the East India Company's warehouses in Crutched-friars and Billiter-street, which had been de clared for sale. The warehouses are the more desirable as they will be allowed by Government to be continued as bonded warehouses for East India and China produce. Mr. Hoggart was intrusted by the Directors of the East India Company with the duty of disposing of the property, and, on taking his place in the Court-room, stated in detail the nature of the property he had to sell. He first put up to competition the warehouses in Crutched-friars, which were built in the best manner by the East India Company, ex pressly for warehousing teas. The warehouses, he said, oc cupied an area of 27,286 superficial feet, and were capable of housing 12,761 tons of tea. The principal portion of the property was freehold, the remainder being held on lease for a term of 999 years. The land tax of the property was redeemed by the East India Company in 1800, at a cost of 2,295/. The auctioneer stated that, by a letter from the Secretary of the Trea sury, the Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's Trea sury had signified that these warehouses would be allowed a license as warehouses of ordinary security for warehousing goods imported from places within the limits of the East India Company's charter, if they became the property of persons whom their Lordships could approve of as warehouse-keepers under the Revenue Laws. The auctioneer stated the capacity of the ware houses, which the purchaser could have iina-s.‘,!iatelv at his command, and it was fully expected that by Michaelmas the stock of the Company's tea at present in the buildings would be cleared out. The premises, under the present sys tem of free trade to China, were a most valuable property. It had been stated that the trade of the port of London would fall off, and that the trade in tea would be diminished in this port. He was not enabled to contradict such state ments, made too by those well acquainted with the tea trade ; but he was in possession of facts relative to the ac tual condition of the trade at present. Already there had been imported under the free trade system from China 11,120,0001b5., and there were eighteen ships on their voyage home, containing 13,800,0001b5. more. Taking every chest to weigh 80Ibs., the importation of tea into the port of London would soon be about 25,000,0001b5., and con tained in 312,000 chests. The trade were well acquainted that the East India Company kept a stock of tea in their ware houses equal to two years' consumption, and they were there fore obliged to stack their chests. This large stock would not be kept under the new system, an more space would consequently be required. The total importation of the East India Company last year was 380,000 chests, which, in consequence of the mode of stacking the stock, would require much less space than under the new system. The buildings he had to offer would have the favour attached to them of being bonded warehouses, and if the usual rent charged by the Dock Company was considered, namely, one halfpenny per chest per week, a great return for capital invested in the property would be gained. The warehouses would hold 150,000 chests, and at one halfpenny each per week would, extraordinary as it must seem, produce a re turn of 16,250/. a year, and after deducting all charges, a net income would be left of about 14,000/. a year. If the warehouses were filled only nine months in the year, they would produce 9,5001. He therefore considered the pre mises worth 142,5001. After stating other particulars re lative to the property, the upset price was announced to be .36,0001. A strong competition took place between the agents of an extensive commercial firm and the East India Dock Company, and the biddings ran up to 69,5001., when a third bidder appeared. After some farther competition the property was knocked down for 70,500/., the purchasers being the East India Dock Company. The next property offered was the East India Company's private trade warehouses in Billiter-street, occupying an area of 11,050 superficial feet. These warehouses, the auctioneer stated, possessed every requisite for the accom modation of purchasers, were, like the other property, fire proof, and the property was freehold, except a dwelling house, built by the East India Company. These ware houses would also have the privilege extended to them of receiving goods on ordinary security. The warehouses were put up at 15,0001., and were sold to the East India Dock Company for 16,000/. The purchase of these premises by the East India Dock Company occasioned much gratification among the members of the tea trade, as it is considered that had not the Dock Company possessed up-town warehouses to bond goods, the produce of India and China, the trade to those places would not, as heretofore, be carried on in merchant ships of the largest class, for which the East India Docks alone possess ample accommodation in the port of London. It is, therefore, confidently expected tahe port of London will continue to the principal depO ha t r t teas. The sale at tracted much interest in the city. -----=--- ------ POSTAGE.—Anonymous letters are not chargeable with postage. If encosed to Sir F. eeling, he will direct the postage to be returned by the local Fr post-office. The star has risen in the North, and the hopes of England are upon that true reformer and consistent statesman —Lord Durham.—Figaro. PRICES OE , STOCKS TIIO.. dank Stock 2IBN 17 3 per Cent. Red' 91 1 404 I per Cent. Cons. 9N 2 O i per Cent. BB% B%Si tto lied. 9 99% New 354 per Cent. lOO Assented -- 4per Cent. I . —. ~ vissenteu —. flank Long A n nuities to expire Jan. 5, 1860 16% 15-16 16 11-16 Oct. 10, 1859 % Jan. 5, 18 8 0 l7g Jan. 5, 1880 -- April 5, 1880 -- Jan. 5. 1870 — PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS ' Austrian Bonds — Belgian Bonds — Ditto Account — Brazilian Bonds ... 86%% Dittc, Account Buenos Ayres Bonds — Ditto Account Chillian Bonds 57%% Ditto Account Cllumbian Bonds. — Ditto Account — Columbian Bonds, 1824...483 8 U% Ditto Account 48 1 h% Danish Bonds Ditto Account Greek Bonds - 15itto Bonds, 1525 Ditto Account Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent — Ditto Account Ditto, 6 per cent. MO Account 47W, Neapolitan PRICES OF SHARES THI Brazilian Imperial Mining Co. (Issue United Mexican (issued at 2/. pm.) Union Gold West Cork Mining Company PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, APRIL 11. 3 per Cent. Consols 90% Grand Canal Deb.. 6 per cent. 92 Ditto Reduced — Ditto, 4 per cent 61% 3% per Cent. Stock 9 8% Hibernian Bank Ditto New, 1830 9 8 ,4 City of Dublin Steam Co lO3 3% per Cent. Debentures...... 91 1 ,4 National Insurance Company 29 Bank Stock 223% City Debentures, 4 per cent... 80 Royal Canal Stock Grand Canal Stock 244, per cent. 92 MAILS. . Arrived. Due. Arrived. Due. Arrived. Due. 0 America 0 1 France 0 0 Lisbon 0 0 Brazil 0 0 Guern..SzJersey 0 0 Malta 0 Buenos Ayres... 0 0 Hamburg 0 0 Mexico 0 0 Carthagena 0 0 Holland 1 Dublin 0 Jamaica 0 0 Sweden 0 0 Flanders 0 0 0 Leeward Islands 0 1 Waterford 0 HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO.MORROW. Morning I 4 minutes after 4. 1 Evening 36 minutes after 3. The publication of THE SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day at 10 minutes past 3 o'clock. , AP , ' , `. 11 ), L . -- 1 3% Gt ' ' C., 3 •• iitk _ , iti:F.i . ki, . . i - ,_1. ,- -: , i e ~ •,. ( :,--,-.---- S-s, ," - i..:„ 1, 1'' .1 3 , .',' , - •.'ee /--- 2 - : - , .i ~..Tz' , c a Zl)t nn, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 15, 1835. The Ministerial arrangements are, we have reason to believe, proceeding as satisfactorily as the friends of rational reform and good government could wish : arid, whatever it may suit the purposes of the Tory faction and its malignant organs, old and new, to assert to the contrary, we have no doubt that Lord MEL BO URN E will be able to form an Administration stronger in talent, and in every respect more efficient, than that over which he formerly presided. It must be gratifying to every real friend of his country to learn that the splendid talents of Lord BRouGIIAM are likely to be again called into action in the public service. The Noble Lord, it is said, will take office under Lord MELBOURNE, but it is not yet finally determined whe ther he is to resume his former place on the woolsack or not. That, however, is a matter of no moment whatever. The paramount consideration is to secure to the cause of Reform the full benefit of his talents. This desirable end will certainly be better attained — indeed, can be effectually attained—only by such an ar rangement as shall place him in a situation in which he can apply the unparalleled energies of his mind to political affairs, without the distractions and interrup tions occasioned by the exercise of judicial functions, which are of themselves sufficient to occupy the un- divided attention of him who has to discharge them. That the judicial and political duties of the Lord Chancellor ought to be separated, Lord BROUGHAM has often declared ; and although he, with his un wearied industry, was able to perform both with as much benefit to the public as if they had been performed by different persons, yet as there is no ne cessity for such a combination of offices having no na tural connexion, it is too much to tax the physical and mental powers of any individual to an extent that must in the long run prove destructive. We should, therefore, not be sorry to see Lord BROUGHAM relieved from the harassing labour to which he has been subjected of late years, and his whole attention devoted to objects connected with the improvement of our national institutions. Here is a field ample enough even for his range, and the cultivation of which will yield a rich harvest of fame to him, and of hap; iness to the community. But whatever situation Lord BRO UGIIAM may oc cupy (and we are sure he can occupy none that he will not adorn), it is highly satisfactory to know, that a champion so powerful—so well armed at all points —so ready either for attack or defence—is to be placed in the front of the Ministerial phalanx. The report about the House of Lords this afternoon was that Lord BROUGHAM has accepted the Seals. It is the wrongs and oppressions of Ireland which have made: Mr. O'CONNELL formidable. He is strong because they are great, and his strength will endure whilst they endure. Every act which shall have the effect of removing them will diminish his present commanding influence ; and if that were as dangerous as the Tories affirm it to be, the new Go vernment will be more than justified in disarming him of such influence, by doing justice to that distracted country. Ireland speaks by the voice of Mr. O'CON NELL : will tranquillity be ensured by treating him with contemptuous indifference ?—or will ignominy justly fall to the share of those who, by heeding and co-operating with him, give earnest of their desire to redress her grievances ? The virulent attacks which the Tory prints are daily making upon that gentleman, and the presumed Members of the new Ministry, are stupid as well as false. Mr. O'CONNELL must be consulted ; his position is too eminent to be disregarded, and Lord MELBOURNE and his friends have shown their wis dom in despising the censure of political malice, and openly courting an alliance with the only man on whom Ireland depends for succour. And what is there disgraceful in this ? Ireland has hitherto hung like a mill-stone round the neck of every previous Adminis tration. She has been governed by the sword, mad dened under coercion, insulted, and goaded into all but downright rebellion ; and now that a gleam of hope is beginning to shine upon her future destinies, her pacificators are arraigned as the destroyers of the kingdom of which she forms an integral and important part. On what ground has Mr. O'CONNELL been agitating the Repeal of the Union, but that of Irish misgovernment ? Let England but repeal Irish mis government, and no more will be heard about the se verance of the Union, or of the danger of agitation. Let justice be done to Ireland, and the AGITATOR (had be fifty-fold the treachery now ascribed to him) becomes innocuous. But there is a secret in all this display of holy in dignation at the alliance or the friendship of Mr. O'CONNELL towards the new Ministry, which it is not hard to discover. The tranquillity of Ireland DAY ATONE O'CLOCK, New 5 per Cent — India Stock.-- ........ ... Ditto Bonds — 18 pm. South Sea Stock 89% Old Annuities New Ditto 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1151 — Exch. Bills, £l,OOO 36 37 35 pm. Ditto .500 37 35 pm. Ditto Small ...............36 28 35 pm. Ditto Commercial — Pm. Ditto Advertised Pm Bank Stock for Opening — India Stock for Account Consols for Account .. . 92 THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Peruvian Bonds 37% 8 7% Ditto Account 3B Portuguese Bonds Ditto Account — Ditto New Bonds 98% 9 Sli Ditto Account 99 9 8 Prussian Bonds ____ Ditto 80nd5,1822 Russian Bonds, 1822 ........ Ditto Account — Ditto Metallic — Spanish Bonds 6VAM4 Ditto Account 6754 30(s Ditto Bonds, 1523 Ditto Accot - int French, 5 per cent. —f. c --- 4 per cent. —f —c. 3 per cent. —f. —c. Exchange —f. —c. Dutch, 254 per cent. 56% 53i 6% Ditto Account .5 6 1(3% Ditto, 5 per cent lol4i 1 Ditto Account llOl 3 DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share K 1 at 51. pm ) 20 43 24 3 40 % 7M 16}. 654% 25 25 THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 1835. would ensure the permanency of any Administration under which it were derived : sensible of this, the Tories can contemplate nothing but an exclusion from office equally permanent ; and the loss of hope makes them bitterly revile the men who snatch hope away from them. O'CoNNELL is reviled, because of the good he has it in his power to effect ; he cannot do harm if he would—the restraining power is too strong! When men have the worst of an argument they become eloquent in abuse ; we have only to point to the scur rility of the Tories upon this subject, and the exact value of their opinions may be inferred. There is no danger to be dreaded. If Mr. O'CoNNELL were sworn Premier of England to-morrow morning, he would be powerless to injure. The moral force of public opinion, speaking through a Reformed Parliament, will henceforth prove the shield of public safety. We have received the whole of the Paris Papers o Monday, together with private intelligence from Bayonne, to the 10th inst. The adjourned debate in the Chamber of Deputies on the Indemnity Bill, was opened on Monday, by several Members, who on all previous occasions were content with the privilege of cheering, and recording a silent vote. As most of the speeches were not spoken, but read, the Chamber paid but little attention to them ; nor have we been able to discover that such uncourteous conduct could be con strued into contempt for either learning, eloquence, or common sense. The Hon. Deputies who addressed the Chamber despised these requisites to oratorical dis tinction, or prized them too highly to fling them in clas sical profusion before such an assembly. M. GLAIS BEzoIN, for example, opposed the Bill, and yet with admirable consistency pronounced it little less than sa crilege to go to war with America, forgetting that France is compelled to choose one or the other of these alternatives. M. ANGUIS made, or read, a speech equally distinguished for its want, or its neglect, of every rule of logic, and every shade of common sense. He commenced by modestly styling himself the champion of French independence, and then recapitulated the leading events of the wars of the Republic, which, he contended, went to shew that the United States of America secretly assisted Eng. land against France. In particular, he dwelt upon the capture of seven French vessels by England, which could not have taken place but for the treachery of an American ship, which betrayed the French convoy into the power of the British fleet. What the conduct of the captain of an American merchantman had to do with the question before the Chamber, ap peared only known to M. ANGUIS himself, the more especially as England was then at war with America. At all events, the Government of the United States had not entered into a solemn recognition of injuries sustain ed by France, nor signed a treaty for guaranteeing the the payment of a pecuniary compensation for them. Others, among the orators of Monday, contended that America would be content if the principle of the debt was recognized by the Deputies of France, and therefore that a grant of one hundred francs would answer equally well, as the grant for twenty-five millions. Now, really such chattering about principles as this, is a disgrace to the Assembly in which it is uttered. The Deputies of France know, or ought to know, that the sum at present demanded by America is not half the amount due to the United States, and that the reason why more is not sought, is because that a number of the original claimants, and their heirs, are now nowhere to be found. The American Government is not actuated by a wish to enrich the coffers of the States by the debt claimed. All it seeks is the restoration of private property to pri vate individuals. As a matter of course the longer the debt was left unliquidated the more it actually aished, in consequence of the disappearance of ne of the original creditors. This is a fact which appears to have been wholly overlooked by the Deputies of France. They, judging of American policy by that of their own Government, appear to have considered the sum claimed by the United States as a largess, which was to be left at the disposal of the PRESIDENT, or applied to the augmentation of a secret service fund, to be employed against the liberties of the people. The extreme tenderness, and paternal watch fulness over the interests of private individuals, which distinguishes the acts of Congress, seem above the comprehension of the French Legislature. Had the debt claimed by America, as due to her citizens, been due to France, it would never have diminished, because the Government would not have scrupled to constitute itself the only creditor, and consequently an undying one. It was evident from the speech of the Duke of FITZJAMES on opening the debate, that he regarded the question in this light. The Government of the United States acts not on its own behalf, but as the agent of its plundered citizens. Where it a dopts a different course by appearing as a principal, it founds its claim on having reimbursed certain of its citizens for the losses sustained by them, depending on its own powers as a Government to compel compensation to be made to it by the States which dared to dishonour its flag. But whatever clamour may be raised against the Indemnity Bill by a certain class of French Deputies, we presume to think it will be carried by a large ma jority. France is in no condition to go to war with America at the present moment, and even if she were, a victory would disgrace her under the peculiar cir cumstances in which the treaty of 1832 has placed her. She has herself acknowledged the debt, and profited to a large amount by the articles of the treaty for regulating the payment of it. America stands forth in the presence of the whole world without a stain upon her honour, whereas France appears in the cha racter of a swindler, who, after exacting the fulfilment of that part of the treaty which advanced her own in terests, now refuses to redeem the solemn pledge given by her to the Government of the United States. While she was shipping off her Wines to New York at a rate of import duty which secured to her a market in which she appeared without a rival, the payment of twenty-five millions of francs of just debt was never once complained of. If France wished to act honestly, and disapproved of the. Ministerial treaty, why did she not speak out then ? Why did she not oppose the treaty before she enriched herself by it ? Or even yet, if the intentions of the Deputies who oppose the law be honest, why is there not a motion brought forward for restoring to America all the profits which France has derived from the treaty, and so leave the affairs of the two nations in the same state in which they would have been had the treaty never been signed ? This would be some sort of guarantee that the French Deputies were actuated by just and equitable principles, whereas at present they stand in the position of men who only want the power to act with the most barefaced dishonesty. The evils which beset the KING on the approaching trials are every day receiving some fresh augmentation. The Bar of France is highly exasperated at the despotical violence of M. PERSIL, whom the Ministry, too late, find it necessary to discard without delay. The breach between the Peers and the Bar is likewise widening every hour, so that it is feared it will come to a trial of strength between them. This will upset the whole proceedings. It is quite clear that the members of the Bar cannot be compelled to plead if they resolve to hold their tongues, and it will not do to put them under arrest. In short there is no use in hiding the real state of the question. It is the French KING versus the French people. it is rumoured that Marshal MAISON has refused the War department, and that the office has been ten dered to Marshal CLAUZEL, who has not yet decided whether it shall please him to accept of it. CLAUZEL is the friend of MAUGUIN, and heads a party in the Chamber of Deputies. M. de RIGNY is reported to be ill. He has not attended the debates in the Chamber of Deputies for three days. It is confidently whispered that his dis temper was produced by a long lecture from his col leagues, advising him to be out of the way, for that Ministerial explanati-ms were constitutionally and effi cially dangerous. FRENCH FUNDS.—Paats, APRIL 13. Five per Cents., 108 f. 107 f. 90c. 108 f. Four per Cents., 99f. 50c. Three per Cents., 81f. 85c. Bank Actions, 1,925 f. —c. Rente de Naples, 98f. 50c. 75e. 65c. Roman Five per Cents., 102. Rente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 49 %N. Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 31 30h. Royal Spanish Loan, 39 48? g. Rente Perpet. d'Espagne, Five per Cents,, 49 487. Belgian Loan, Five per Cents, 102 1 4. Portuguese Loan, Five per Cent., 57% 98. Portuguese Loan, Six per Cents. 105. Haytian Loan, 390 f. 400 f. EXCHANGE ON LONDON. One month, paper, 25f. 45c. ; money, --f —c. Three months, paper, 25f. 3214 c. ; money, —f. —Coors Authentigue AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA APHID 8. Five per Cents. Metalliques lOl% Four per Cents. 1327 Bank Shares —Allgemeine Zeitung, April 9. Intelligence from the north of Spain to the 10th inst. has been received, which represents the bellige rents in nearly the same state in which they appeared during the last month. The Election, a Parisian journal, states that it has good authority for asserting that Russia, Austria, and Prussia have resolved to co-operate with England, in putting an end to the war in Spain by the adoption of measures similar to those which secured the independence of Greece. It adds that Lord ELLIOT has been vested with full powers to that effect—that the first thing proposed is- the Union of the Flags of Don CARLOS and Queen ISABEL—and the second, that a marriage shall take place between the eldest Son of the Prince and the Young QUEEN. Lord ELLIOT has sent despatches from the Duke of WELLINGTON to Don CARLOS and General MINA, but as yet none of them have granted him a safe con duct. He is at present at Bayonne waiting answers from both parties. Brussels and German Papers have been received. The Belgian Chambers have been occupied since the birth of the infant heir to the Throne in preparing ad dresses to the KING, on an event which appears to have well nigh turned the heads of the inhabitants of Brussels. The two Chambers seem to have vied with each other in the length and eloquence of their addresses, and his MAJESTY was so delighted with these demonstrations of loyalty to his house, that he repaid them in kind for their zeal, talents and patriotism. The addresses and answers thereto were printed by order of the respective Chambers, as it was judged that their distribution among the people would have a pe culiarly happy effect. The German Papers state that the SULTAN has ordered his great officers of State not to wear arms for a month, out of respect to the memory of the late Emperor of AUSTRiA. This in Turkey is equivalent to going into mourning for that period. We learn from the Liverpool Times of yesterday that the cotton-market in that place is unusually active, • and the manufacturers in full work, and that such is the demand for new machinery that one of the chief houses in that line has received as many orders as it would take two years to execute. Business is steady at ' l A.%lds, but neither there, at Halifax, nor at Brad there any particular alteration. Wools are in iity.nand at Bradford, and the Yarn market is rather un- At Halifax lastings have advanced 55., goods \-Arlis are sold as fast as made, and the manufac , trir , :; are generally busy. The Blanket trade is brisk in consequence of large orders from America. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Our arrivals are of — a very scanty description ; only one French mail, with the express from Paris, and no ship letters. Owing to the great dearth of intelligence, and the suspense respecting the appointment of the new administration, we are in a very dull state this morning, both in respect to the opera tions in the Funds and commercial affairs ; but it is generally expected that this state of things will not last long, and that this evening or to-morrow the newly appointed Ministry will be officially announced to the public. TIIE FUNDS. Consols continued during yesterday firm, and left off at 92 for money, and 92i sellers for the account ; opened this morn ing at 924 A• for the Account. Exchequer Bills have receded Is., 36 38; India Stock, 2571 ; India Bonds also lower, 16 18 ; Bank Stock for Ac count, 2164 217. It is generally supposed that the Bank has resumed its former operations in selling Exchequer Bills. The Foreign Market left off rather heavy yesterday, owing to its being settling day to-morrow in the Foreign Securities, as well as the great scarcity of money, which is at the rate of 5 per cent. discount ; the Hebrews being still absent from the Market also has an effect. The following are the quotations of the opening prices this morning :—Spanish Bonds, 671 ; Spanish Scrip, 81 ; Portuguese, 98i a ; Columbian, 48 to 484: Peruvian, 37 8 ; Differes, 321. PARIS, BOURSE.-The French Funds are improving, and the Spanish Differes are receding, owing, it is said, to unfa. vourable accounts being received from the theatre of war iu Spain. Latest prices, Five per Cents., 108 35 ; Three per Cents., 82 5 ; Cortes Bonds, 491; Coupons, 31i ; Differes, 23 fr. HALF-PAST ONE. We continue still without any information respecting the Administration, and the only report we have on the subject is, that Lord Brougham is to be the Lord Chancellor, with the seals put into commission. Up to the present hour we have no political information from the Continent, and the Funds continue steady with little or nothing doing; money very scarce. Consols may be quoted at present at the opening prices of the morning, 92 for Money and 92i for the Account. Exchequer Bills lower 35-36 ; India Bonds, 18 ; Bank Stock, 2164 17. In the Foreign Market the chief business doing is making up their accounts against to-morrow, settling day. Spanish Stock, 67i I; Spanish Scrip, Bh. I , Portuguese, 98 ; Columbian, 48 to f;; Mexican, 47 to f ; Brazil, 86 to ; Dutch 24 per Cents., 55i 6 to*. THREE 0' CL 0 CK. Consols for the Account, 92 THE FUNDS.—C BRIT'S} Bank Stook 216%1 3 per Cent. Red. 91%1 3 per Cent. Cons 92 'i% per Cent. 3% per Cent. Red 9-% New 3% per Cent. 1:99% 4 per Cent. Assented Dissented Long Annuities to expire D.A. 1660 l6 15-16 Oct, 1859 16% 3,, 1 1560 17% kOREIG A; ,, tri.tn, 5 per cent — 80;lian, 5 per cent 10 4 14 6railian Bonds ;:ueo ,, s Ayres. 6 per cent 4O twhan, 6 per cent 57Y4 olumbio.n, 6 per cent. Ditty , , !824 4952 Danish Bonds, 1825.5 per cent -• . Greek _ 0 per cto Mexican, 5 per ceat., 1825 36;4, Ditto, 1825. 6 per rent 4B Li ; Peruvian, 6 per cent Love is the epitome of our whole duty, and all the endearments and all the sweetnesses of society that can bc, long as they are lawful and honest, are not only consistent with it, but parts and expressions of it. SECRESY.—What is mine, says Sir P. Sydney, even to my life, is her's I love ; but the secret of my friend is not mine. LONGEVITY.—On Tuesday, the 31st March, there died at Ruthven, parish of Kingussie, in this county, Duncan Cameron, at the advanced age of 101 years. He enjoyed ge neral good health, and the possession of all his faculties, till within a few days of his death, and had been ground officer on part of the estates of the Duke of Gordon, for upwards of sixty years. There is at present in the same parish a man, John Macpherson, aged 98, who is in good health, and is still able to support himself and wife by his daily labour.—lnver ness Courier. POPULAR ERROR.—It is a most foolish idea to retain indirect taxes, and take off those which are direct, such as the Assessed Taxes. * * ' l ' One great good would accrue to the people by direct taxation : they would be sure to let the Chancellor of the Exchequer know when he charged them too much for his commodity. An immense saving, too, in the collection of the revenue would accrue. —Agric. and Indust. Magazine. OSING PRICES FUNDS. India Stock Ditto Bonds.-- South Sea Stock ... Ditto Old Annuities Ditto New Annuities Ex. Bills, 101t0/.......„, Ditto 5001 Ditto sth' Bank Stock for Opg. India Stock for Act Consols for Act. ...... .. FUNDS. Portuguese Bonds, 5 per cent. Ditto, Now Ditto 99 Prussian. 5 per cent. Russian Bonds, 5 per cent Ditto, Metallic Spanish, 5 per cent Ditto, 1823 French, 5 per cent , Exchange French, 3 per cent Dutch, 23 per cent. Ditto, 'I per cent LI SKETCHES OF A SEA-PORT TOWN, 3 Vols. Bentley. London. 1835. Mr. Chorley has here got hold of a good subject, fertile in novelty, and abounding in opportunities for incident and description. That he has worked it out in a master-spirit we will not say, but at any rate he has written three very readable volumes, which will serve, as well as most others of the season, to amuse an idle hour. Their prominent feature is the strong relish for external nature which they everywhere deve lope. Mr. Chorley paints landscapes, with the prac tised skill of the artist, combined with the fervour of the poet. The chrystal streamlet murmurs in his pages—we hear the merry matin songs of the birds, and the crisp rustling of the wind through the trees. In this heartfelt love of nature he reminds us of Miss Mitford, though he cannot sketch the minutia of cha racter like her ; nor make them appear as the real, bon'd fide Indigetes of the place in which he plants them. His personages for the most part might just as well belong to the metropolis—to a cathedral or mar ket-town, or even to a village, as to a sea-port town. But bating this defect, Mr. Chorley's volumes are very light, agreeable reading. The best tale in them is " Parson Clare," which displays in portions proofs of very considerable power, and which would have been still more effective had more pains been taken with the analysis of the clergyman, Mr. Herbert. But it is too much in mere outline—evidently unintentional on the part of the author—and too fragmentary in all that s essential to the proper keeping up of the propriety of nature. LODORE.—Bentley ; London, 1835. This tale possesses one recommendation, which is by no means of frequent occurrence among the fictions of the day. It excites attention at the threshold. The very opening chapter prepares us for a mystery. Mrs. Shelley does not stand dallying with her subject, but plunging into it at once, with a bold confidence in her powers, introduces us to the hero, Lord Lodore, in something of the same abrupt and startling manner that imparts such a charm to Byron's Lara. In this respect she is the reverse of her celebrated relative, the author of Caleb Williams. He seldom begets an in terest for his personages, till the reader has half con cluded his tales ; and even then is not always success ful—chiefly by reason of his metaphysical abstractions —in awakening the requisite degree of attention ; but Mrs. Shelley puts our curiosity on the mettle from the very first moment she gives us an insight into the na ture of her hero's character. He comes stalking be fore us in a sort of dim twilight, with nothing but an imposing outline visible ; but even this first vague glance we obtain of him, is enough to convince us that he is one whom it is worth while to know more about. Mrs. Shelley introduces us to Lord Lodore among the woods of the Illinois, where, it seems, he has taken refuge, with one only companion, from some deep and inscrutable sorrow which he would fain, but cannot, even in the depths of an American solitude ; forget. This companion is his daughter Ethel, whose portrait is thus sketched, with a grace, tenderness, and delicacy unattainable by our sterner sex : " Her earliest feeling was love of her father. She would sit to watch him, guess at his thoughts, and creep close, or re cede away, as she read encouragement, or the contrary, in his eyes and features. Except him her only companion was her servant ; and very soon she distinguished between them, and felt proud and elate when she quitted her for her father's side. Soon, she almost never quitted it. Her gentle and docile dis position rendered her unobtrusive, while her inexhaustible spirits were a source of delightful amusement. The goodness of her heart endeared her still more; and when it was called forth by any demand made on it by him, it was attended by such a display of excessive sensibility, as at once caused him to tremble for her future happiness, and love her ten thousand times more. She greiv into the image on which his eye doated, and for whose presence his heart perpetually yearned. Was be reading, or otherwise occupied, he was restless, if yet she were not in the room; and she would remain in silence for hours, occupied by some little feminine work, and all the while watching him, catching his first glance towards her, and obey ing the expression of his countenance, before he could form his wish into words. When he left her for any of his longer excursions, her little heart would heave, and almost burst with sorrow. On his return, she was always on the watch to see, to fly into his arms, and to load him with infaritine caresses. " There was something in her face, that at this early age gave token of truth and affection, and asked for sympathy. Her large brown eyes, such as are called hazel, full of tender ness and sweetness, possessed within their depths an expression and a latent fire, which stirred the heart. It is difficult to de scribe, or by words to call before another's mind, the picture so palpable to our own. The moulding of her cheek, full just below the eyes, and ending in a soft oval, gave a peculiar ex pression, at once beseeching and tender, and yet radiant with vivacity and gladness. Frankness and truth were reflected on her brow, like flowers in the clearest pool ; the thousand name less lines and mouldings, which create expression, were replete with beaming innocence and irresistible attraction. Her small chiselled nose, her mouth so delicately curved, gave token of taste. In the whole was harmony, and the upper part of the countenance seemed to reign over the lower, and to ennoble it, making her usual placid expression thoughtful and earnest ; so that not until she smiled and spoke, did the gaiety of her guileless heart display itself, and the vivacity of her disposition give change and relief to the picture. Her figure was light and airy, tall at an early age, and slender. Her rides and rambles gave elasticity to her limbs, and her step was that of the antelope, springy and true. She had no fears, no deceits, no untold thought within her. Her matchless sweetness ol temper prevented any cloud from ever dimming her pure love liness : her voice cheered the heart, and her laugh rang so true and joyous on the ear, that it gave token in itself of the sympathizing and buoyant spirit, which was her great charm." The cursory sketches of the scenery of the Illinois, and more especially the highly-finished descriptions of the occupations of the father and daughter—of the soul -absorbing affection of the one, and the filial love and reverence of the other, will remind the reader ol the opening stanzas in Campbell's " Gertrude of Wyoming." Yet the imitation—if imitation indeed it may be called—is no servile one; for truth and pathos, springing up warm from the heart, abound quite as much in the prose of the novelist, as the verse of the poet. We shall not mar our reader's pleasure by any elaborate analysis of the plot of Lodore ; enough to say, that it is the history of one whose feeling has ever out-run his judgment; whose means throughout life have been applied to disproportioned ends ; and who pays the penalty of such an ill-regu lated temperament in an utter bankruptcy of hope and happiness. This moral, though not remarkable for originality, is worked out with consummate skill. The reader is not put to unnecessary pain in its en forcement ; but is taught, as he progresses, that, if rightly estimated, this world gifbrds the materials of quite as much joy as grief. In delineating female character, Mrs. Shelley is eminently successful, though perhaps her tone is a little too elevated—particularly as respects " Ethel," who partakes rather over much of a beautiful idealism. But "Lady Lodore" is a ably sustained personage throughout, inheriting the strength equally with the weak ness of her sex. We have little doubt the tale will be popular, if only from the uniform polish of its style, which flows on like some broad, steady stream, smooth, and without a wrinkle on its surface. -1. 25f. 40c. 82f. 50c. 56% 101 TEN YEARS IN SOUTH AFRICA, 2 VoLs. Bentley, London, 1835. Mr. Moodie is a traveller who has seen much ser vice in his time, and is no niggard of the information with which his experience has furnished him. His present volumes show the hardy adventurer, to whom no vicissitudes come amiss. He has even been trod den under foot by an enraged elephant, in the heart of an African wood—an anecdote which be recounts with a sang-froid that proves he thought it quite a common-place affair, scarcely descrying more than a passing mention. Thirty years ago a work like this would have procured for its author a celebrity little in ferior to that which Bruce acquire d after his return from the fountains of the Nile. But now we think nothing of books of Voyages and Travels --all of us being, in a certain sense of the term, cosmopolites, and as such, accustomed to strange matters—unless cannibals abound in every page, and sliips' crews are wrecked on unexplored lands in every chapter. But though Mr. Moodie details no marvels-- unless the unavailing assault and battery made on him by an elephant, who had it all her own way for an hour or so, be considered one—yet his volumes will be welcome to the reader, from the ample materials which they supply respecting the condition of our more recent colonies in South Africa. The climate there, it seems, is by no means inhospitable ; the soil, is tolerably well watered ; the opportunities of living in comfort less stinted than would be imagined ; and the face of the country remarkable, if not for boldness, at least for graceful and picturesque beauty. But it must not be concealed that the wild elephants are sad plagues ; perpetrating a world of mischief; addicted to all manner of bad habits—vagabondising, without the fear of the tread-mill before them, in all directions and resolutely refusing to take any hint short of a bul' let from a blunderbuss. Our experienc'ed traveller details his adventures (in the wa y of bunting) with these pertinacious nuisances, with considerable spi rit, and apparently - without any attempt at exai," geration. But the most amusing part of his volumes is that which describes the character of the old Dutch settlers at the Cape, and through' out its vicinity. These have all the merit of freshness, and call to our mind Geoffry Crayon's racy sketches of the same piquant oddities. FINESSE. 3 Vols. Bentley. London. 1835. We conclude that this is the production of a female pen, first from the nature of the incidents, and m ore especially of the conversations, which in the o p ening chapters show much of that minute power of observased tions on trifling matters which Jane Austin posses in such perfection, and which none but a woman c all adequately display ; and secondly, from the dexterous h manner in which the female Finessers are drawn. Te tale sets out with much archness and spirit, but beg ins th e to flag, with the introduction of a Miss Mush on but t stage, who is a sort of a country - t own gossip, _ whose trite common - places the wr iter knows not lvr to impart whim or humour. There is no character Su common, yet none so difficult to draw, as that of a P r°. vincial Bore. The authoress of " Pride and M u ; dice" is the only one of late days that we kno w ° who has mastered the difficulty. Her Bores a re irr e ' sistible, from the ludicrous unconsciousness they P s ' Who le r sess, of their utter dullness and fatuity. gets the inimitable Mrs. Norris , c ountr y born and bred, with her long stories a b out her neigh, bours ; and her good opinion — as in duty she„ bound to entertain—of the clergyman of the ?f r . s . ss ' simply because he is one " having authority ?" Mush is no bore of this description. She is Sinlof it dull and prolix, with no better or mo re naive tra hers character to set her off. We neither laugh with p o nor laugh at her ; but listen to her chit-chat with en , other feeling, than an ardent wish that she would °P the drawing-room door, and walk out. Luckily, s he . * not unduly prominent in these volumes, for assorrio we should never have got through them . They wevitb have been our death, from excess of ennui. o f the mention of this failure, we drop our censnrereo " Finesse." It is a lively tale—though the auth ° a is too much addicted to moralizing—not del°loosl satire, nor barren of incident. The happiest an d f the consistently maintained characters , are those ti all two sisters, Ellen and Maria Forrest er, who, wit Ale N 55 their little " finessing," are really a very 10siesby couple. But why, in alluding to these " twitt- speak the Zephyrs blown apart," does the authora-ss . f l o so contemptuously of " romps ?" A " rom ', 1 0 0 1 be young and pretty, is worth a whole boardi.ne riot' of grave sentimental misses, who affe et t r l to y brn ness and decorum, with " Don Juan" t,s for der the sofa pillow. We have a great fa l4 e b i 5 " romps." True, they are apt to quiz on bad ; and laugh when they should look gra v e ' a g irls/ is worse ; but they are, in the main, fine-he; and make capital wives. We protest, therei koc , ' p od the authoress's rebuke of these laughing, ,V;i ad sl er creatures, and hope in her next edition abl e :e it. The Grampian Hills are still clothed in, sn ° E XTRAORDINARY UNDERTAKINC 1.4 known Member of Parliament, who represen Is t ic - Da e rno t, agricultural constituency in the Emerald Isl 07 “;„, i e w o g himself for a considerable sum, to hop on t bousoa be two hundred and fifty feet, in thirty successiN 7°,,.;:pm.arf equal to si feet for each hop. The feat is to b O 11 "; - r sor c ' the course of next week, and is considered an e l ' sporting undertaking. rter ell sil The celebrated lion Nero has, it se emso -ebablY,) ing under " a severe bilious attack 1 " We shalt.-Pr° e S ae • hear of a tiger's " nervous headach," or a " dystslP- tO It b yfe Among intended improvements none Se' e ' - bicl' E c4 4 more failed in their object than the alteration ,'tll6 lately taken place in the periods of holding th e d ire ° arid country Sessions. Thus we have the Easter io year occurring a fortnight before Easter, and dntinceficin, of holding the Assizes ; and Easter Term co.o ri; Passion week, making business take the place • g .„‘ one week, and of relaxation in the next. 11,/". t On Saturday an inquest was held at girlfaer Hospital on the body of Hannah Simpson, a fine. IV' only s ixteen, nurserymaid in the family of Dr . ot liao*: Harley-street, Cavendish-square. On Tuesday l e iltg„e4; l 3 ter heard violent screams in the kitchen, and ott p ct c elOr stairs he was shocked at discovering the girl 'e n et iot, flames. Mr. Riodore seized some pieces of n' s e 'P e edo l t i ,c throwing them over the poor sufferer, succeeded I„dingo ing the flames, but not before the po or girl vl•'7,• Ace burnt. She died on Thursday. Ve rdict, i 5 Death." ,the .1J ~41 11 . 0 O fie lt TOKEN FLOWERS INTERPRETED.' dor; something very pleasing in the idea of enduirhl 1 ; fro e licti t t sentiments appropriate to their forms, colours a %P aa o at ile e a and thus making them the means of conveyin' A ( 0 , 11 D ee d, impressions to another, of which even the grea'stof 10 - 4,11 1 , of spoken or written words is incapable. All ti povO to most admirably effected in a little volume, latO each entitled " The Language of Flowers ;" not °nil ° dill ° , flower is the attribute given, but the combinatio, of :4 one group renders the present of a nosegay as. ' 11Y 4 as it is of fragranceand beauty. f A e l , " 0 t i ler FINE SENTENCES IN HOOKER.---.- - - .4 ° 0 0- e e t ) " Ecclesiastical Polity," says—The time will CO ' - r eC eil ,co i(1 words, uttered with charity and meekness, shall scrit' more blessed reward than three thousand v oluou ' 5 e CO, disdainful sharpness of wit. all ) To DESTROY THISTLES, FE,RN, , 0 , 1; fie 00T. —A gentleman having occasiQn to nul l t j a otnoilv i tie portion of land lately, the carts bearing. the I a of petit, through a field that appeared one entire be tots 0 0 01 1 . 4 thistles :it was observed that wherever the c tb d thistles were completely destroyed. He then / 0 ja y, ° j oy f at . field with a cast-iron roller in the latter end of r‘ perfri• $ 4 l in the beginning of June. This field has be , ' '35. 1": 0 0 from thistles ever since. The expense was it1Y . 6.0 5 A Fern and coltsfoot have been extermi nated to itc" if with the most complete success. v ei o je EDUCATION.We spend millions a r the working classes down when they are in iglWrr- e 0 1 prove and make them happy would surely se i' et l trifling cost.—Agric. and Indust. Mag azine. Pr ef THE APPROACHING EPPING /ZUNI' e f se o Ai j weeks past the livery-stable keepers 'nave been bo )5 , in proving the soundness, wind, and limb of th e F ort o r t lii have engaged to intrust to the heroes of EPP ir tey ? n ,O eg il e j the riding-schools have been filled with C° c- order t e o who have recently made visits to Hyde_park in v A t iiii d!, of deer, to enable them to identify th© Epping stag, catch a glimpse of him on Monday, the 20th 1 y e have read nothing lately but " Daniel's an a sce_gy rt eOO " Beckford on Hunting." The precaution eu_e( whether a stag is a bird or a beast has beconle; goicP since a Lord Mayor of London, who, ia ista ) ‘ g? times" headed the Epping Hunt, made a ' II , e f f „ J o poet has thus recorded : 1, bob -; "My Lord he takes a staff in hand to beat ac n e .0 4 1 I must confess it was a work he ne'er had dt' ne °'/`,s A creature bouncing from a bush, which glad% so - s; et , My Lord he cried ' a stag ! a stag !' but it pravw FUNERAL OF A DRAGOON 11°14,4„g t0,,, t fel brated " crack" horse, called " Jack," belony e woe Royal Irish Dragoons, after a period of serv ic d a y. oa tlO d m e e a n t h t o b f e 2 n 4 g years, died in thee bdarrargaocokoonasslelruebtseie, with each other on the loss of their old fav ° , ti o jacl‘• Constitution. pay a tribute of respect to the m emory 01 dtetl',l,,,ctfl/4* .258% Is pin. 36 pm. 36 pm. 37 pm. tiOUs E tO4 Lordspien_avflegn4l3i eitb e r no o c. u de ! hanged int to tal expected S t appeal da' ,gittltents in th: as e log days tc tad ta 'ght be Peree uPon the _ tot ready the name j oRN c name of tb 9uene e o th ere lire ceet C .no The with. Peal argutnE of .; A oeeu PY the wh eI IANC n al e w 111°Yell 3:11 erobl:tfdeti Courts () halo t' ° t oo ft a i lle R e o c 11 1 : 1 e the LA"ual T Ds , I‘ 'ltPellSed wit] XIN( %1 114 bei ng , 17' 14 at h a ] 4 e . kdges ittl Zulerid a ~o wdect L •anidk dale ,1„81 case on th ave th e e Part o f the verdi ct s • g r ound Irlattist the oP, t r , °I pass genera ail ed his arl 4 , A e i: d , r a!l e e'e t t h e ti nidad fto tn ;at P ` ne rivc g °llll sfou rosT-oppi 14 14 the I 5 t n h ',4t e ward Isl is ev, , o f u +sta t op v " ut4 ba, L tv,. tro r .-RPo o 1 441 1 L k rt 44 ,lPoit 1.4e 00 CO WES,toa ea; 407, _ym o , G„ ei with _ 41 . 4 _, Or ioff u r 'ed i 61 e Ts te ndet ton L lik nPion c f ro - r‘tehes tic" tker n , e oe _ s o The Lor -- stores , T h h ,e Su; rso —e Ha Ie Ca/ Haitians Hata . tr lo satin ere I: th at ; it tl r it shoOt ) te —iirk s per sonal tt i, ti to h I ee sa o a i bets will I f " °ecs , I th id, it " () W it • t o n lthe all d 4 "adniii a _ ri til lit ati un ve s iss 1 . 0.01 10 as i t ilto eas , peopl es vw 4 auce, (The 4 elu s i o 10 4 ,0 Il lare litt e k , at v irY dull ea rls itre fx44:l tpifhlish ~ Poreli;l... ego kney liah la, 1 Iti o, Iv P;:rr, a , ° ti tters thenlural Dr tl eg lorn fix ed 4-iroc 0 11; 40 al of til clan ( Frill 15d. 14; 14 BY THE AUTHOR OF " PAIJL PRY." Just ready, in 2 vols. post Bvo., with a portrait of the Author, SKETCHES AND RECOLLECTIONS By JOHN POOLE, Esq. Now first collected. Agents for Scotland, Messrs. Bell and Bradfute, Edinburgh for Ireland, Mr. John Cumming, Dublin. Published for Henry Colburn, by R. Bentley. Orders received by all Booksellers throughout the kingdom. e n a ralin