The Sun. — London, England, 1841-03-24 00:00:00

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A NOVEL. sy" One of the most vivid, vigorous, and just pictures of Eng aristocratic society which has ever been given to the world, in means of one o f th e mos t ingenious, original, and intensely er estin; stories that has ever given vitality and interest to a w e r k of this nature. We have had nothing equal to ' The v:l r ! . !ls'ement ' since the appearance of Tremaine ' and 'Dc R v. '"—Naval and Military Gazette. Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THOMAS INGOLDSBY, ESQ. NOW READY, In 3 vols. post Bvo., SOME ACCOUNT OF MY COUSIN NICHOLAS. • By THOMAS INGOLDSBY, Esq., Author of " Ths Ingolchby Legends, &c. To which is added, THE RUBBER OF LIFE. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. u„ THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. 'OER th e MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS. THIS EVENING, MARCH 24 W ill be repeated the New Comedy, in Five Acts, entitled LONDON ASSURANCE. Sir Harcourt Courtly, Bart, Mr. W. Farren ; Max Hark- A lay, Mr. B art l ey ; M r . Ch ar l es C our tl y , M r . A n d erson ; ivir'Atiuewstdolphus Spanker, Mr. Keeley; Mr. Dazzle, Mr. C. iti; Mark Meddle, Mr. Harley ; Grace Harkaway, paerta, rne Vestris • Lady Gay Spanker, Mrs. Nisbett ; Mrs. Mrs. Humbv. After which the New Drama, in Three Acts, entitled THE EMBASSY. kbulte de Never s , Mr. Moore ; Viscount Rene de Rohn, r • Anderso n ; B aroness d u P on t, Miss Ellett Tree i Madame deiprissac Madame Vestris. °44o vrow, Loden Assurance, with The Embassy. D uo's to t e opened at half-past Six—the performances to . zZeor at Se . /en o'Clock. r.Dresess Boxes 7s. ; S econ d P r i ce , 3s. 6d. ; First and Second 23. r c•:, ss. ; S econ d P rice , 2 s . 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price. . Gallery ls. at iltkets and places for the Bezes to be taken of Mr. Grogan in the Box-office, from Ten till Fear, where Season Tickets toe had upon application. la !"rivate 130x t .. to be had steely of Mr. Andt ews, bookseller, w riond-street. Immense ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. se attraction. Mr. T. P. Cooke and Mr. Collins the !pane Evening. the last week of their appearance. " Poor a 6, " and another nautical drama, in conjunction with " Paul Clifford." THIS EVENING, MARCH 24. be acted a Nautical Drama in Four Parts, called j,,,'°,oß JACK ; OR THE WIFE OF A SAILOR. w ilich Air. T. P. Cooke, and the entire strength of the Company, will perform. After which, THE PILOT. Long Tom Coffin by Mr. T. P. Cooke. To conclude with Paul PAUL CLIFFORD. Clifford, with the Song of " Hurrah for the Road," Mr. Collins. M.,.. 1 ,1 1 G11 WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THlS_LLAN flumes' after Evening..—..DO'miliAtex alter 1. , l ' * t St • ew,„ , , ......" ... 4 , - . . .0 . mui , 4 A vr „, , it- ~.. c.,t7 - 1 . S • ,0. ' ~,4 1., o S . 4 ,1191 Hr o —#. c % ' . , ' Tht LONDON: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24, 1641. r i le Peers resumed the adjourned debate on the Ithe Composition (Ireland) Bill, and passed it. The Borough Improvement Bill was read a r° °lid time on the motion of the Marquis of e I lm.twuy. We believe the object of it is to u n able corporate towns to apply their funds to 13 1 , e , Improvement of the health of towns. The "I Was referred to the Committee on the Drain age Bill. b ( ln the motion to read the East India Rum llt ies Bill a secon d ti me , w hi c h the Marquis of LA I ' IS DOWN E recommended to the House in a neat speech,}L Lord ASHBURTON; erewhile Free-trade nlr O, made a furious attack on the Import Du es C ommittee, because, we presume, it sets in so ;near a light the wisdom of his former opinions, 1 , 1h : 1 the folly, as well as something more, of his tesent interested convictions. He denounced af ,, e C ommittee as one-sided, the evidence as ex `'crated, and the statements as absurd. • till Th at small statesman, Mr. SPRING RICE i a ,. tw as, Lord MOUNTE AG LE that is, followed the same track, and stigmatized as exag i;,r`lted, because he knows no more on the Corn 4t" than h e k new a b ou t fi nan ce when he was e t he head o f th e Exchequer, the statement at the Corn-law causes a charge on the people a c p o niv alent to 100,000,0001. For our own parts, we th üb t whether that or any known sum can measure 0 : e normous charge which the bread tax levies "r People; but it was worthy of this small Z e sman to follow in the wake of Free-trade It iNo round to the side of restriction. I -61. C1 ELLEN BOROUGH supported the Bill, which W as read a second time. TTheir Lordships adjourned till to-morrow. 'll th e C ommons two C o mmittees to try the St Alhan' s an d W a l sa ll e lections were sworn. L ? 4J• RUSSELL announced that he should, on 2( 6th, move, that the House adjourn till the th °f April, for the Easter holidays. `' 1 " 11 AlAtioN moved a resolution that it is in t'llledient t o con fi ne so many conv i c t s i n h u lks 100 :10. He stated that at present 3,500 were et l ' l nfined, 0,000 o f whom were now retained ko lne, 'whereas but, for a recent regulation of tr e Coloni a l Mi n i ster , th e y would have bee n 4 ! ls Ported. The Noble Lord objected to the 4 .gt eln of confining men in hulks, and to the votatl°f commuting sentences of transportation 'n o j t ll.ki rt Periods to that punishment. lie did to - N : 7 °l to resume the plan of sending convicts b e :ew South Wales, but he thought they might ntiti sent to Van Diemen's Land. We know p iin g vhich has more perplexed, or which is ie e ' ffl . ' eat er.reproach to statesmen, than the total ci eney of their inventions to repress crime, -l ents e ll go under the name of secondary punish . 4 4 14)11 Joux RUSSELL vindicated his own con et from the charge of hastiness in adopting the ei r l es eut plan, and reminded the House of the ily, (4 : 111 "us evils which had taken place under the ' • transportation. He moved the pre -48 TleStloll. Ofter a short discussion, in which Mr. Fox /1 4 : °1 " etated that Lord. J. RUSSELL contemplated m to take from the Secretary of State the th Wer of commuting a sentence of transportatio n , ti e Ho use divided, and Lora Mano N's resolu ;was carried, we believe, by 49 to 28. *CIIOLEFIELD then, in a thin House, (the tio `i"ers of b ot h sides being a b sent, ) move d a re ution in f avour of a property-tax , an d t o t a k e taxation off industry and off articles of general 1 1 , 11s urnption. Th e Hon. Gentleman groun d e d ~nutotion on t h e present condition of the peop l e, " t t showed how taxation pressed them to the earth, Muivrz - seconded and supported the me: tion; so did Mr. TURNER, Mr. WILLIAMS, and Mr. FIELDEN, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER though happy to receive any assistance in raising taxes, thought that the extensive change proposed by Hon. Members, would inflict so much derange ment on all the great interests, that he must re sist the motion. He begged leave to move the previous question. Mr. HUME supported the motion, and dwelt on the exemption of property from its fair share of the public burdens. It paid only 24 per cent. out of the whole revenue, while industry paid 76. If the resolution were carried, which he thought might have been better worded, it would be the duty of the Government to prepare gra dually to carry the change into effect. Mr. GOULDURN resisted the motion, as calcu lated to produce disturbance in all the interests of the country. The Right Hon. Gentleman was very learned, but not very clear, about taxing ca pital in masses, and taxing it when it is diffused through all classes, a distinction as to taxation we have not met with in our reading. As ex pectant CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, he took the fiances of the Tories under his pro tection. Mr. WAKLEY took the opportunity to renew what has been called his inflammatory harangues. He referred to the little disposition there was in the House to satisfy the people, and the still less disposition there was in the people to be satisfied with the House. They would require many acts of substantial benefit before they would believe that the House intended to do them any good, and that it did not care for their interests was plain by the few Members—not fifty at most—who had attended this important motion. In particular he missed from the House those testy Lords—though the' people could well spare them—who on other occa sions were so ready to harangue the House. None of them were present on this important question—yes, he begged pardon, there was one Lord present, but the rest, including the leaders of both sides, showing how little they cared for the people, were absent. So the Hon. Member, evidently addressing his observations more to the public at large than his littM audience, paid off those attacks, which were unwisely, we thought, made on the " demagogue " on account of his speech on the Poor-law Bill. Colonel SIBTITORP said a few words partly against the motion, but chiefly against the Whigs. Mr. MARK PHILIPS had been an avowed ad vocate of a property tax since 1834, but, looking at the very empty state of the House, he advised his Hon. Friend to withdraw the motion, and bring it forward on the night of the Budget, when the House would be crowded, and when he might elicit the opinions of the leaders of the House. If his Hon. Friend divided the House, he would vote with him. General iOHNSTON wished to know the num ber of his 'friends and his enemies, he disliked motions which led to nothing, and he recom mended his Hon. Friend to divide and try the strength of the parties on the question. Mr. SCHOLEFIELD yielding to a general cry of his friends for a division, divided the House, and found his motion supported by 27, and op posed by 40. Some other uninteresting business was trans acted, and at a Quarterbefore Twelve o'Clock the House Adjourned. We feel profoundly humiliated on learning that the House of Commons is engaged in a dis cussion, night after night, about giving the poor a little mutton broth, or a table-spoonful of wine, when sick. 'Tis pitiful, 'tis wondrously pitiful, to see the Assembly, which has been called the noblest collection of freemen on the earth— which votes, without remark or reflection, 70,0001. for building stables, 60,0001. for an ex pedition to the Niger to improve the blacks, hundreds of thousands of pounds to wrest Syria from MEHEMET Au, and maintain the integrity of Turkey, and even millions sterling a year for the household expenses of one person, and for pensions to the knaves of RoJalty—it,is, we say, Wondrously pitiful to see Ibis august Assembly, which squanders a nation's resources on trifles, engaged, as it were, in measuring out skilagalee to the poor with the parsimony and ill-temper of a Mistress SQUEERS To know that the Assembly so engaged is the great guide, leader, and law giver of the nation, the visible god of its idola try, makes us form almost as degrading and contemptible an opinion of the nation as of this renowned Assembly of free men. Self-respect leads men to despise a body engaged in such miserable discussions and squabbles. Why, there is not a decent housekeeper to one of the Mem bers of that Assembly who would weigh out her charity to an imploring beggar by grains and scruples, as this riotously and wastefully extra vagant body talks of doling out relief to the sufkring and industrious poor. This great and deep degradation—for such it is, and such it will be felt to be throughout the empire —comes of the House of Commons being the representative, and lending itself to he the instrument of the avarice, of the landowners. It has made a law on the one hand to declare that industrious people shall have neither work nor bread, without complying with the impossible condition of paying a large tax to the land owners ; and on the other, it has made a law to deprive of all sustenance those whom it will not allow by labour to earn bread, except on the hard condition of submitting to the workhouse test. It has adopted the principle of free trade as to the labourer, and told him to rely on his own resources, and it has maintained the prin ciple of protection as to the landlord, and under takes to secure him an ample allowance, whe ther it properly belong to him or not. Rates to add to wages have been done away, and rates to add to rent continued. To the industrious the law says they shall have no relief but merely to save them from starvation—to the rich it gives an exorbitant tax, levied on the poor, driving them to that starvation from which it will barely rescue them. The Legislature has converted the nation into a workhouse, and has become the exacting, despised, and hated over seer of the poor. The division on Mr. EASTHOPE'S motion, the language adopted by Sir ROBERT PEEL, the tone recently taken by some of those journals which were the most zealous supporters of the New Poor-law, indicate a considerable change in public opinion. Why is this The principle of the law—to which we do not object—of making the working classes depend on their own re sources, is unaltered. We do not believe any change has taken place in public opinion on this point; but last year and the year before there was great distress in the land, pauperism increased, those who had to relieve it naturally grew some what weary of their arduous work, and harsh in their behaviour ; numerous cases of individual suffering—of females driven by destitution to commit crimes—of aged persons and infants dying from starvation, were painfully paraded before the public ; and the accumulated misery of a suffering population thus enlisted the feel ings of the public against the law. No enactment could stand such a test. Had a similar scrutiny been at any time directed against the Old Poor law in a season of distress, it would have been at once enlarged or annihilated. The New Poor-law is of modern origin. A considerable party opposed it from the first, and have closely watched it ever since, exaggerating all its faults, and ascribing to it much of the misery which the carelessness or depravity of individuals have brought on drenaselves. For the first three years the law was in existence, its operations were facilitated by the low price of food, and by the comparative prosperity of the people. For the last three years the compara tive scarcity and dearness of food, and the vast distress of the lower classes, have impeded its operations, and strengthened its enemies. A portion of the press has ascribed the sufferings of the people to it, and as they have increase' l law has become odious. Thus has ar e- the ee tion ...den a change in th e p u bli c sen ti m ent, and a- g eneral being su pp ose d a t har:u, gives that changeweight in Parlia men t. The 1 char.ice =4 4 7 is S good as ever it was, but . a great has talien place in the price of fuod. In 1 - 1: 33 0 wheat was at 365, the quarter, in 1839 it f . i Wati at 888., and is now some where about 038, THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24, 1841 For the landlords the Poor-law was passed, and the Corn-law, which was also passed for them, is incompatible with it. Mr. GROTE, than whom there is no honester man in Parliament, is a consistent advocate for a free trade in corn, and for the labourer depend ing on himself; he was instrumental in enacting the latter—the landlords denied the former. He and the Radical doctrinaires, of whom we take him as the representative, committed a great error in contributing to throw the labourer on his own resources before they had released his loaf from the landlord's gripe. They should have made the repeal of the Corn-law precede the enactment of the New Poor-law. The latter would then have been just, while the compara tive small number of poor, and great public pros perity, would have rendered it easy ofexecution. Now, it threatens to bury Mr. GROTE, as a public man, and all his friends, under its vast unpopularity. The Ministers and the landowners are ter ribly inconsistent, for they insist on throwing the labourer on his own resources, while they withhold from him both food and employ ment. They keep him in slavery, and, more cruel than a West India planter, tell him to maintain himself. The two laws are incom patibilities, and the three years in which, since the Poor-law was passed, the Corn-law has been in active and full operation, have sufficed to make the public doubt the wisdom of the New Poor law. By itself and abstractedly the Poor-law may be benevolent and wise in conjunction with the Corn-law, it is a part of that terrible crusade which the aristocracy have long been carrying on by law—bringing all law into contempt and hatred, by making it the instrument to gratify their vices—against the democracy. It is said to be intended to make the labouring classes re spect themselves ; but, in conjunction with the Corn-law, it is only an instrument for starving them into submission to the idle landowners. We are less surprised, therefore, at its growing unpopularity than at the support still given to it by the enemies of the Corn-law. They make . themselves thereby the tools of the landlords, and contribute to support their gigantic and ruinous scheme of social oppression. We stated in The Sun of yesterday, on the authority of private letters from Paris, that France had agreed to sign the last London Pro tocol, and to resume her seat in the Cabinet Councils of Europe on certain conditions, which were frankly agreed to by Lord PALMERSTON. These were :—firstly, that the Porte should mo dify the Firman conferring. upon MEHEMET Am the Pachalic of Egypt, more especially as regards the line of succession; secondly, that the Straits of the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles should be open to all merchant vessels, and closed to all ships of war whatsoever ; which were followed by some minor points, among which was under stood to be implied the recal of Lord PONSONBY from Constantinople. As the answer of the Porte to the representation of the Four Powers demanding a modification of the firman, has not yet been received, France reserves the affixing her signature to the protocol till it has been officially communicated to the London Con ference. The French Cabinet Council at which this wise and dignified resolution was taken, was presided over by the KING, who has the great est reason to congratulate himself for having had the courage, at a time of such popular clamour and frantic excitement, to call such a cool headed and far-seeing statesman as M. GUIZOT to the direction of the foreign policy of his kingdom. The protocol of London, which is dated the sth instant, frankly and cordially admits that' MEHEMET ALI has performed with the utmost good faith all the condition s o f submission im posed upon him, and sanctions the return of the European Consular authorities to Alexandria. It likewise observes that the SULTAN has kept faith with his. Allies, by bestowing upon MEHE MET Am the Pachalic of Egypt; but it carefully omits the expression of an opinion that the first arrangement was such as ought to satisfy the PACHA. Of thin piutv,..-61 a, copy appears in - the - Augsburg Gazette of the 17th instant, of which the following is a translation : " Tke Plenipotentiaries of the Courts of Austria, Great Britain, Prussia, Russia, and the Ottoman Porte, have a-scm bled in order to deliberate on the reports received from Con stantinople to the date of the 4th of February, and on the com munications exi.hanged between the representatives of the four allied Courts and the Minister of the Porte. Frum the ensemble of those communications it results— " 1. That Mehemet Ali has submitted himself uncondi tionaly to his Sovereign, and that he had asked pardon. " 2. That, as an evidence of his submission, he has restored the Ottoman fleet, which, after having been handed over to the Commissioners appointed by the Porte, has already left Alex andria, and entered. Marmorice Bay. " 3. That ail Syria has been evacuated by the Egyptian troops. " 4. That the Sultan's authority has boen legally re-esta blished in Syria and in the Island of Candia. " 5. That his Highness the Sultan has condescended to ac cept Mehemet AL's submission. by granting to him, his chi!dren and his family, entire forgiveness. " 6. That his Highness, yielding to the councils of his ales, has at the same time deigned to make known the inten tion of reinstating Mehemet Ali in his functions as Pacha of Egypt, with the heirship (heredite) for his descendants. The conditions which the instrucions bearing date the 15th of October, and the memorandum of the 14th of Novem ber, have laid down, have consequently been fulfilled. The Paella of Egypt has submitted himself; he has restored the fleet, evacuated the district of Adana, of Syria, and of the island of Candia, given the necessary oreers for the restoration of the holy cities, and, finally, a pardon has been granted to -him after his return to his duty and to obedience. At the same time the hope expressed by the collective note addressed on the 30th of January to Chekib Effendi has heen The counsels which the representatives of the four Powers have given have been received by the Sultan with that very friendly confidence will which the efficacious co-operation of his allies had inspired him. In consequence of this council his Highness has expressed the resolution of publishing a fir man, by which Mehemet Ali was to be granted the heredi tary investiture of the pachalic of Egypt, based on the condi tions in the separate act of the Convention of the 15th of July. This firman has been duly communicated to the Ottoman Am bassador in London, and conveyed to the knowledge of the re presentatives of the Four Courts, after having received the sanction of his Highness. " In this state of things the Plenipotentiaries of the Allied Courts, consii'ering the circumstances which have given rise to the departure of the Consuls of the Four Powers from Alexandria, have deemed it a seasonable opportunity to send back those agents to their post. The Representatives a the Four Powers at Constantinople will come to an understanding with that view with the Porte, in order to fix the period when those agents shall proceed simultaneously to Alexandria. (Signed) " ESTE MAZY ______ • " NIEVAIANN. " PALMERSTON. " BULOW. " BRUNOW. " London, March 5, 1841. " CHEKII3 EFFENDI." With the above Protocol we have received ad vices from Constantinople, of the 24th of Fe bruary, which-bring deplorable, accounts of the actual state of Syria. The following extract from a letter of that date contains a summary of the News from Syiia and Constantinople : " The Syrian mountaineers, exasperated by the rapacity and lieentiotisness of the Sultan's troops, regular and irregular, but particularly of the latter, are everywhere n arms, and will shortly, it is expected, rise en masse to expel from the country the lawless and insolent intruders who have quartered them selves all over it, conducting themselves with the greatest brutality, and respecting neither the board nor bed of their en tertainers. For most of those ruffians are the Albanian mer cenaries, whose excesses are too shocking to be detail, d. One instance will suffice. A Maronite church at Beyrout was, during the celebration of Divine service, forcibly entered by a band of these miscreants. The male part of the congregation were driven out, and many murdered in the struggle which en sued. The doors were then fastened, and the woaien subjected to every species of cruelty and outrage. "The head-quarters of the Turkish army are now at Jaffa. Zachariah Pacha, the Turkish Commander-in-Chief, and General Joehmus, his military Mentor, are both at that place, and they have been joined there by Ibrahim Pacha, who was labouring under severe indisposition, and indeed not even ex pected to live. The Egyptian army, according to last ac counts, was still at Gaza, under the command of Solyman Pacha. It was said to be still thirty thousand strong, but in other respects a mere disorganised band. "The 'furkish fleet, with the exception of the Mahenoudieb, bearing Admiral Walker's flag, which is at Lampsaca, is all anchored off Mytelene. It is expected here with the first southerly wind. The batteries of the Bosphorus have, during the last three days, been firing salvos in honour of the birth of another Princess, already known by the name of Behiye. "In consequence of some suspicion of the plague having de dared itself near the village of Fanaraki, on the Bosphorus, Constantinople has been placed under certain sanatory restric tions by the board of health. " Hain Pacha s been once more received into the Sultan's favour. Under the pretext of visiting his sister Saliha, the wife of the ex-Minister, his Highness admitted him to an au dience at his palace on the Bosphorus ; so that his speedy return to office (much to the confusion of Resehid Park his party) is now confidently anticipated bv.•- vverb d o y." and The Paris Journals f•'. Sunday have been duly 1r e regret to state that the serious -.mess of one of M. GUIZOT'S children is a source of great affliction o that distinguished Statesman. Few who know the private life of that eminent man can refuse him in his sorrow the tribute of their sympathy, Of political news there is nothing of imppr tance in the French i - Journals. The Natio/fa/ reproducesfrom the traitorMncx•ExzlE'sGazette, published in New York, the litany for a war with England which, during the ill-starred Ad- received. "7 'ministration of M. THIERS, appeared in its co lumns. This litany, which runs in the follow ing fashion :—" In the name of Waterloo war with England," recounts eleven de feats of France by Englpd! Happily for ourselves, the National may safely defy us to retort upon France the composition of such a litany. The materials are wanting to us. We must, therefore, leave to the National the undis turbed glory of singing and re-singing such litanies, as long as it indulges a humour for such outpourings of patriotic piety. Count St. Aulaire is expected at Paris to-morrow. The sub-prefecture of Alais (Gard) 'has been ♦acant for eight months. Letters from that place inform us that this cir cumstance has a very bad effect there. The movement of the Sub•prefects continues to be effected without any publicity. Great changes are announced. All this indicates a project to dissolve the elective chamber, which is in vain disavowed or disemb:ed, but which becomes more and more evident even to the least clear-sighted.—Le Consti tistionnel. A letter from Berlin of the 14th March says:—" A courier of the Russian Court has just brought to our King the official notice that the Empress of Russia will arrive at Berlin in the first fortnight of the month of May, that is after the cele bration of the marriage of the Imperial Prince Alexan der. The King desiring to receive himself his beloved sister has deferred his journey to the Rhenish provinces till the end of the same month. Orders have been given to deft r till the autumn the grand reviews which were to have taken place in the southern provinces of the kingdom in the month of April. The solemnity of doing homage in the Rhenish provinces will take place at the end of May. A letter whi c h we h ave rece i ve d f rom Frankfort of the 16th of this month rays—" The German Diet, struck with the in conveniences in the composition of the army of the Confedera • tion which consists of about 40 contingents, all different in their uniforms, their arms, and many other particulars, has just brought forward a proposal to arm and equip these different corps in a uniform manner. This proposal was unani mously approved by the Members of the Diet, and in order to carry it into effect with as little delay as possible, it was re solved to begin immediately with the eight corps, which is to be assembled in the miring on the Rhenish frontiers for the grand reviews.—Le Commerce. Madrid Journals of the 15th instant have come to hand. The Gazette of that day publishes the following decree of the Regency : " Art 1. The revenue-of the different administrative branches of the department of the MiniSter of the Interior will be com prised in the general chapter of the rentei cf the State, on which the Minister of State will receive 20 per cent. " Art. 2.—The altninstration of offices and corporations comprised in the Department of the Interior nil render monthly a legal amount of receipts and expenses. " Art. 3. '1 he printing of documents relating to the retri bution of the Department of Protection and Public Security will be at the expense of the general direction of the rentes, which will render a statement to the Minister of the Interior of all the accounts of that administration. " Art. 4. 'I he revenue of the branches dependent on the department of the Minister of the Interior, will be included in the general amount of the funds which ate distributedmonthly, only reserving to itself the sums absolutely necessary to meet its special engagements, in conformity with the dispositions of Art. 2. " Art. 5. It will be the same for the revenue of the dif- ferent branches dependent on the department of the Minister of Public Instrue:ion. Art. 6,7, and 8, are relative to measures of a purely regu lating nature. " The Ministers of the Interior and Finance are charged with the execution of the present decree. " Given at the Palace, March 13, 1841. (Signed) " Duke de la VITORIA. " To Don Manoel Cortina." The following account of a disgraceful scene in a church in Madrid is front one of the Journals of the lath : Yesterday the church of the convent of the Carmelite Friars was profaned by unheard of scenes of violence and disorder. It being the funeral service for Senor Safont's family a:consider able number of persons, bent on curiosity, gained admission to the church. Towards evening it became necessary to send for a detachment of troops, in order to restrain the multitude. But the five or six soldiers placed in the church were not sufficient to keep down the crowd which was increasing every minute, and it was necessary to send for some National Milit►a. But the latter could no more keep within bounds the dense mass, than prevent the cries and vociferations. When the service for the eead had reached the second stanza, the music was obliged to stop, the people having begun to cry out that music was not necessary, that tor Safont the sound of the ♦oices alone was sufficient, and it became imperative to finish the service in a hurry. Senor Posadas, Archbishop elect of Valentia, who presided at the ceremony, was so frightened at this disturb-. ance that he fainted away, and he was obliged to be carried to the Sacristan. It is needless to add that numerous rob beries were committed in the church. At the hotel Safont, distributions cf alms are being made in the name of the son who escaped him. Hamburgh Papers of the latest dates have just reached us. We subjoin extracts from them : HAMBURGH, MARCH 17. —The Leipsic Allgetneine Zeitung publishes a circular issued by Baron Von Bodel Schevingh, Chief President of the Province of the Rhine, in which he an nounces officially to the censors of political jonrnals, that his Majesty (the King of Prussia) has been pleased to allow the proceedings and results of the Provincial Assemblies to be suc cessively.published during] the session, by means of official ar ticles in Journals qualified for the purpose, in the place where the Assembly meets, or in some place in the neighbourhood. Though the ordinance of the 12th of May, 1826, by which no communication whatever of the proceedings of the Provincial Estates is allowed to be considered as hereby revoked, it is, however, to be understood, that except those official articles and thust - wtrtermay appear - I - tribe - drum - eari-etec, tirc prititing of all other unauthorised accounts of the!discussions in the As semblies is strictly prohibited, and the imprimateur is in no case to be given to such articles. FRONTIERS OF GALICIA, MARCH 4.—Emigration still continues from Russia to Galicia, on the froniiers nearest to Limburg. There unauthorised emigr an t s o ft en succee d i n clan destinely conveying their, property, even their cattle, across the frontier. The Russian Government has complained of these irregularities to the Austrian Government, which is no more aisle to prevent them than itself. One of the most recent notes from St. Petersburgh states the number of these emi grants at 3,000, and very earnestly prefers a remedy for th's abuse. But such persons have been frequently arrested and sent by the Austrian authorities to the frontier, where the Rus sian authorities have refused to receive them. HarlsuKGH, MARCH 19.—The obstacles occasioned by the ice are as geod as removed, and the navigation is open ; for yesterday, besides the steam-boats, some merchantmen came up to the Cite, for instance, the Eliza, Captain Breckwoldt, which was the first this year ; twenty-seven sail weighed an chor this morning at Cuxhaven, and a little fleet may be ex pected to reach the City to-morrow morning. Two Green land whalers, and the Hamburgh Packet, Gillespie, bound to Leith, dropped down the river this morning ; the first that have sailed this year.—Hamburgh Papers,'March 19. - - - HAMBURG BO'ISENHALLE, MARCH 19. Bills. I % , ""eY Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares. ...... ..• .. Ainclo-Russian Loan 1063 106( Russian 5 per Cent. ha series, Curtilicate Inscription, Ist Se:les lOl3 101% Russian 5 per Mut. Hopc and Co. 3d and 4th Sei ins ». 96% Ditto in Certifi ca t es Dutch Actual Debt, 2% pe. Cent 49 Ditto - 5 per Cent , rob!) Bonds Ncw ticket Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent 133 73 . 4 14.-twegian Loan, 1834, 4 per Cent....... — Spanish, New 5 per Cents. lSli EXCHANGES ON LONDON. HAMBURG, MARCH 19._13 514.—Tw0 months, 13 3%. PETEnsimitan, MARCH 9.--Two months, 3S pence. BERLIN, MARCH 16. —Three months, 6. 1834. VIENNA, MARCH 9.—Three months, 9. 45%. TRIALS FOR MURDER IN IRELAND.—The verdict of the jury iu the ease of Hughes, who was teed last Tuesday at•the Armagh Assizes for the murder of Mr. Powell, is freely commented on and condemned by the Mail; while the a cqu i tta l o f t h e no torious S a m Gr a y a t the Monaghan Assizes is regarded with equal disfavour by the Dublin Evening P os t, t h e M a il's political antagoni s t. Speaking cf Hu g he,' s tr i a l, the Mail, amongst a mass of angry sayings, has the following :—" Another farce, similar to diet enacted at Tullamoore. has just been played off at Armagh, and another person, charged with a most re volting murder, has been enabled, for a time at least, to frustrate the ends of justice, through the weak and per nicious policy of the Crown. Mme. Powell was murdered in cold blood, at his own door, in the presence of his daugh ters, ore of whom clearly identified the prisoner as being act;ve in the perpetration of the foul deed. • Another wit ness saw the same man retiring from the scene of slaughter immediately after—and, on his capture, his clothes _were at first donie to be his. The conclusiveness of the case may be found to Lear the traces of recent blood,tind these clothes he jugged of from the fact that, although the Crown, as usual, declined to exercise their right of challenr, one individual only was found true encugh to the popular system to hold out against the conviction of his companions, The construction of the Jury, however, was sufficient to make it notorious, from the moment it was sworn its, that there would be no verdict. Before a word of evidence was given, it was known to every one in the Court-house that a conviction was hopeless. We do hope and trust that this gross case will have the effect of compelling the Crown to return to their old and constitutional exercise of the right of chal lenge. It is the grossest case that has yet occurred. The Government should send down special commissions for the trial of those cases in which the Julies will be selected front the grand panels of the country. This we say will be the duty of the Goverarneet ; but, at the same time, we are bound to declare our conviction that, unless the Jury boxes cf the country be purged cf itibbonism, no case that human testimony can make will ever be sufficient to prom cure a verdict in prosecutions of this description." In a letter to the Bolton Fi ee Press, Colonel Th ompson , one of the earliest and most e ffi c i ent opponents of the Corn-laws , says the opini on of your correspondent that "there is no scarcit y of foo d in England or Ireland, but there is a scarcity of work and wag es , wheressi h to: purchase the food," I fear may be likened to the same .as sertion made in the ease of a b eE i ge d town, or one where the gates were voluntarily closed with the patriotic mot've of raising the price of corn. Of the corn that should be grown on the house-tops or in boxes a t th e windo ws, there would 'always be a f urt..,er quantity which would be grown if men would give an increased price for it. Whereon your correspondent would say, the want was is the work or in the waged. It was some defeat of management on these points, which did not give men as much abundance off flagstones as out cf a ploughed field. For it is clear "'item, is so ma wor k and some wages, which ifsr". 'item, Would enable diem to pay our raising cern on ilag.stones; what more plain therefore, than that if it is not done, it is for want of taking measures to secure this work an d wa ges ? Wh et h er after all, the. e is not excuse for thinking, that the wages and the hours worked for them, will have some connexion with the quan tity of corn to be divided, is what must be left, as hereto fore, to the judgment of the public. In despite of your correspendeat's barring the plea of impossibility, there are tougher, when once effectually set up. The fact is, few thata ft er after all, that it is as impossible the gates of the besieged town are opened, wages. should be reduced till men starved as before —as it was that they should rise when the gates were shut, till they gpe every man as much out of no corn as out of an abundance. The impossibilities are preCisely'the co unterparts of oue another." The furthpr consitierati9n of the Railways' , , Bill is deferred to F! idly, Vd Qf April. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TUESDAY EVENING. The Funds were depressed all day, owing, it was gene rally believed, to the avowal of the Chancellor of the Ex chequer last night with respect to his having made sales of Savings Bank Stock to cover the deficiency in the re !enue. The jobbers are much annoyed at this course, as it destroys thei r h o p es o f any n i ce p i c ki ngs an d commis sions that might otherwise be got out of a new loan. Tho expedient on the part of the Chancellor of the Exchequer is, in this respect, no doubt a good one, as he creates a certain amount of floating debt which he is empowered to do, and which he can at any time fund without disturb ing or acting violently upon the market for the Public Se curities. Mr. Hume, do doubt, looks only to the evil pre cedent that might be established. Money Stock receded k per cent., while the Account price went down / per cent. ; the former being marked 88i to 88k, and the latter being at 88i to 88k. Exchequer Bills were dull at ss. to 7s. premium, and the New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. at 97k to 961. ry little business was done either in Foreign Stocks or Railway Shares, which were heavy in value. The Spanish Active Bonds brought 23-,k to 23 ; Portuguese New 301 ; the Three per Cents. 181 t, i ; Mexican 29k ; and Colomb'an, 22k ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. were a' 50i. Great\Vestern Railway Shares were at 23 ; the Fifths at 5f to 1 1;; and the Birmingham Thirds 191 prem. Brigh ton have been 7 to 74 ; Eastern Counties 15 ; Midland Counties 211'; Manches'er and Birmingl am 15 to 15k, and North Midland 28k discount. Australasia Bank Shares woe 14, and London and Westminster 2k prom. National Provincial Bank of England New Shares were at par. The Foreign Exchanges were firm this afternoon. The rates for three months' Sills were these :—.Paris 25t. 65c. to 67kc. ; Hamburgh 13 84 to II; Amsterdam 12 31 to k ; Antwerp 12 24 to 3 ; Fiatalif)rt 149 . 1 to s ; and Tricete 10 1 to 2. '1 he following are the official returns of the exports of bullion from the port of London, for the weak ending Thursday last:— Silver Coin to Cuxhaven 32,000 oz. Silver Coin to Hamburg!), Silver Coin to Canton 46,600 oz. Silver Bars to Cuxhaven 4,000 oz. Silver Bars to Hamburgh 26,000 cz, (From The Sun of Last Night.) LtvEaroor. _COTTON MARKET, MARCH 22.—The s a l es of Cotton ibis day have been entii-ely confined to the trade, and the Market is reported firm at F ri d a y' s p rices . U pwards of 3,000 bales have changed hands. Speculators and exporters are inactive. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, MARCH 22.—The prices in the transactions reported at the Stock Exchange th s day— Birmingham and Gloucester, 78 1 / 2 ; Chester and Birkenhead, New Shares, 16% ; Lancaster and Pre,ton Junction, ex. div., 31 ; London and South Western, 5/. Shares, 40s. ; Midland Counties, 78; North Midland, Half Shares, 35.1. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 22.—Hu1l and Selby, 441 ; Manchester and Leeds, Halves, 30i , Edinburgh and Glasgow, 28 29 ; Manchister and Birmingham, 24a; Eastern Counties Debentures, tip 6i; Bank of Manchester, 7 1 , 7 3-16ths 7 1-sth and 7; Manchester and Liverpool District Bank, 10L ; Manchester Assurance, 9. The Hamburgh mail has arrived of the 19th instant, n•i , h papers of the same date. Exchange upon London comes the same as per last post, 13 3i ; Gold, same, 425 ; Metal, 105 ; Bank Actions, 1610. We have reeei‘ed Cape of Good Hope papers to the 17th of January. LOSS lIT FIRE OF THE BRIG AUSTRALIA, FROM DUNDEE. —" Clanwilliam, Jan. 12.—A communication has been re ceived to-day from Field-cornet Frazer, that a party of men (twenty-six) had been shipwreeked, and landed in two boats, 16 miles on the north side of the Oliphant River's mouth ; they had been nine days in the boate, and said they belonged to the brig Australia, from Dundee, which had taken fire about 600 miles to the westward of the Cape, and was con sumed in two hours and a half." (Front the Graham's Town Journal.) GREAT MEETING OF THE CAFFRE CHlEFS.—Several of the Chiefs again expressed their approval of the new arrange ments, hoping they would have a better effect than the old ones ; and Umkye declaring his willingness to sign the amend ments, the other Chiefs signed with him. His Excellency hereupon again addressed them in a short speech, at the close of which the Chiefs signed the treaties, and the meeting broke up. The papers also contain an extract of a letter from Swan River, giving a favourable account of the coleny. It is dated Feb. 5, 1840, and therefore possesses no interest, as we have had intelligence irom that quarter much later. The British Funds this morning are not quite so firm as they left off yesterday, IA 88i buyers for the Account, opened at 881 3; Money 88* left off 88a I. This may be attributed to the anxiety for the arrival of the President from New York, which may be lookod for on Saturday or Monday next. Ex chequer Bills, 5 7 prem. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active, which left off 23k is a shade low, r, 23k i; Deferred 12i; Passive 511 ; Bra zilian 71 72 ; Portuguese same as they closed, 30} 31 ; Three per Cents. 14- 19 ; Colombia* 21i 22i ; Mexican not quite so good, left off at 291 30*; at resent, 29k 30; Dutch Two• and-a-Half per Cents. 503 ; live per Cents. 99i 100. SHARES.—Great Western f23i 24k prem.; New 11 prem. ; London and Brighton 7k 61 dis. ; Blackwall 5 dis. ; Birmingham 60 62 prem. ; Southampton i 44 55} per share ; Croydon 12i per share; Greenwich 8 per share; Man chester and Birmingham . l6_ls die. PRICES OF — SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. P.id. Per Share. Great Western Ditto Fifths London and Brighton Narth ~ JOINT STOCK BANKS. National Provincial of England... 35 Ditto New lO - MINES. Copiapo The British Funds have become heavy since the earlier part of the day, in consequence of the question of Mr. Ilume to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he was applying money belonging to the Savings Banks to carry on the expenses of the country; to which the Chancellor of the Exchequer said that a portion had been taken by Government. fills has rather alarmed the Stock Exchange speculators, ending that the Chancellor of the Exchequer has other means of cbtaining money than making loans. Consols which were 88% for the Account had receded to 88ii. at present ma) be quoted 88i ; the Money Market also appears heavy. The business done during the course of the morning has not been to any extent ; Consols for Money, 88t, have been 88i ; Exchequer Bills 5 7 prem. In the Foreign Market very little doing, Spanish Active, rather lower, 23 ; Portuguese 303 ; Three per Cents. 181; Mexican 29a ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. nothing done ; Fivd per Cents. the same. The Share Market continues inactive ; Great Western Fifths 9i ; London and Brighton 43 ; North Midland im proved to 7 l Consols, Money, 88-1; Account, 134 ; Mexican, 29i i; De ferred, 9i ; Portuguese; 30% %; Spanish, 23 I. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock lndia 5t0ck ...... — 3 per Cent Red 'Ditto Bonds dis 3 per Cent Cons BBl Ditto Old Annuities ... 36- per Cent Red — Ditto New Annuities... New 3i per Cent 96i Ex. Bills, 1,000/....21d spm New 5 per Cent ' Ditto 5001 7pm Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 9 pen Jan. 1860 Bank Stock for Opg. ... Oct 1859 Jan. 1860. — Consols for Acct BBl FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent — !Ditto, New Ditto Brazilian 80nd5.......... :Prussian, 5 per cent. Buenos Ayrei, 6 per cent 'Russian, 5 per cent Chilian, 6 per cent...... Ditto, Metallic Colombian, 6 per cent... 22 'Spanish, 5 per cent 23 Ditto, 1824. 22h Ditto, Deferred Danish, 3 per cent French, 5 per cent. —f. -c. Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Exchange —f. —c. Mexican, 5 per rent.... 291 1 French, 3 per cent —f. —c. Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825. Dutch, 24 per cent. ... 503 Peruvian, 182 b, 6 per et. Ditto, 5 per cent SHARES. Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid ... 8 Great Western Railway (65 paid) Ditto Fifth (4 paid) London and Brighton (50 paid) London and Birmingham Railway (90 pd) Ditto Thirds (32 paid) Manchester and Birmingham (40 paid) ... 24fr Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) ..... 78; North Midland Railway (100 paid) 716 COURSE OF EXCHANGE—( YESTERDAY). Amsterdam CF. 12 6fr'Gibraltar 4S Ditto, at bight -- l2 3i Leghorn Rotterdam ...... ...2 U. 12 7 Genoa 25 65 Antwerp l2 6 Hamburglt hl. B. 13 H Altona Paris, 3 days' sight Ditto, 3 gionths 25 75 Marseilles Bourdeaux 25 80 Frankfort on Maine... 1501 Petersburgh, 3Us ... 37i Berlin... 6 26 Vienna, effec. il. 3 M lO 2 Trieste, ditto lO 5 Madrid ... Cadiz Bilboa 35 Barcelona Seville Milan Venice Naples 4O Palermo, per oz 119 Lisbon Oporto s2} Rio Janeiro 2B Bahia Buenos Ayres New York, 21 days' sight 461 Philadelphia 46 PRICES OF BULLIOPt, PER oz. Portugal Gold Coin £0 0 0 Foreign Gold, bars... 3 17. 9 New Doubloons 0 0 0 New Dollars 0 4 10 Silver in Bars 0 5 0 It is stated, in quarters . likely to be well in formed, tint, in the event of a military exi edition being required to proceed to America, the command of the troops will be intrusted to Sir George Murray. We, however, hope that the next accounts from that country will be of a nature to obviate the necessity fa this or any similar or. pointment being made.—. Glasgow Argus. HIBERNIAN MILITARY SCHOOL.—The ma terial alterations are three. First, all children who do not belong to the Established Church are exempted from at tending public worship in the Institution. Secondly, the children of Catholics and Dissenters, in case of illness, certified by the medical attendant of the Hospital, can be visited by the Clergymen of their revpective communions within the Hospital. Thirdly, Catholics and Dissenters will be at liberty to attend their peculiar places of worship on all fitting occasions. —Dublin .Evening Post. The Times is on the qui vive for mares'-nests ; and has found one in the arrangement by which Sir W. Parker, one cf the Lords of the Admiralty, proceeds to Chins, as successor to Admiral Elliot, to whom our Con. temporary assigns the seat at the Admiralty, to be thus vacated. We have authori.y to contradict this statement. —Evening Paper.: 13AD MI NT 0 N, MONDAY.—The Duke of Beau fort, AC are happy to hear, hal nearly recovered from 'the effects of hi 3 accident last week. His Grace purposes s taying here unt . ). after the 15th of the ensuing m ou th, w i t h his amiable Duchess and family. There is to be a meeting of the Noble Duke's hounds on the lawn on Wed nesday next. Dutinitli, HERRING F I SHING, MARCH 13.--- The take of herrings this morning was still successful, some of the boats having about twenty crans, Several curers from Leith igtve taken up their residence in the_ town, in the expectation of rea p ing a good harvest; and, in consequence, prices have risen considerably since yes..er. 1 day ; 20s, to 255. per crap hav i ng been given. Tnere are no beats incepting atm bolongng to Dunbar at thy fishing. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen had an evening party on Monday at Bucking ham Palace. The Company arrived between nine and ten o'clock, and were conducted to the Throne Room, where her Majesty's private band were in attendance during the night. Refreshments were served to the company in the Picture Gallery. Among the company were the Belgian Minister, and Ma dame Van de Weyer, the American Minister and Mrs. Ste venson, Baron de Moncorvo, the Portuguese Minister ; M. de Montezuma, the Brazilian Minister ; the Duke of Wel lington, Marquis of Hertford, Countess of Tankerville, Lord Ossulston, Earl and Countess De La Warr, Lady Elizabeth West, Lord Cantalupe, Earl and Countes s o f Rosebery, Ladies Primrose, Earl and Countess of Erroll, Lady Ida Hay, Coun tess of Uxbridge, Ladies Eleanore and Constance Paget, Lord Paget, Lody W. Stanhope, Earl of Morley, Earl and Countess of Minto ' the Ladies Elliot, Earl of Euston a n d L a d y Fitzroy, Earl and Countess of Jersey, Lady Sarah Vil liers, Honourable Captain Villiers, Lady Adelaide Pa get, Lord George Paget, Viscountess Torrington, 'Vis count and Viscountes Palmerston, Lady Frances Cowper, Lord Jocelyn, Lard Sandon, Lord and Lady Ashley, Lady Elizabeth Fielding, Miss Fielding, Lord Adolphus Fitz clatence' Lord and Lady Robert Grosvenor, Lord John Rus sell, Lord Dalmeny, Count Esterhazy, Lord and Lady James Stuart, Miss Stuart, Dowager Lady Rivers, Hon. Captain Pitt, Hon. J. K. Howard, Sir George and the Hon. Miss Anson, Hon. Berkley Paget, Hon. Miss Paget, Hon. William Cowper, Hon. Miss Lister, Mr. George Edward and the Hon. Mrs. Anson, Mr. and the Lady Theresa Lister. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the Queen yesterday. The Marquis of Normanby and Viscount Melbourne had audiences yesterday of her Majesty. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Mr. George Edward Anson, Hon. C. A. Murray, Hon. Major Keppel, Sir Edward Bowater, Cai tain Francis Seymour, and Dr. Prcetorius, went to Deptford yesterday afternoon to inspect the vessels fitting out for the Niger Expedition. His Royal Highness and suite went on board the Albert Steam-packet, and immediately proceeded to Woolwich, where his Royal Highness went on board and inspected the other vessels pre paring for the expedition. His Royal Highness and suite returned to Buckingham Palace soon after six o'clock in two open carriages and four with outriders. Lady Anne Maria Dawson has succeeded Lady Fanny Howard as the Lady in Waiting on her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent. The Duchess of Gloucester visited the Duke of Cambridge yesterday at Cambridge House. The Ashantee Princes had an interview with Lord J. Rus sell yesterday, at the Colonial-office, to take leave. The Princes were accompanied by Messrs. Hutton and Nicholl, and the Rev. Mrs Pyne. Mr. Wyse, 111-1). Mr. Ewart, M.P., the President of the Society for' PrOintitiitig Practical Design, and Alr. Anthony Crosby, the Honorary Secretary, had an interview with the Right Hon. H. Labouehere yesterday, at the Board of Trade, respecting the establishment of Schools of Design in England Mr. Cochrane, from Gibraltar, had an interview yesterday with Lord John Russell, at the Colonial-office. Sir Bruce Chichester and the Bight Hon. G. S. Uyng had interviews with the Marquis of Normanby yesterday, at the Home-office. Sir John Rac Reid, Bart., and the Rev. J. H. Mayers, had interviews with Lord John Russel, at the Colonial-office, yes• terday. FASHIONABLE IN TELLIGENCE The Marquis of Downshire, in Hanover-square, from East hampstead Park, Berks ; the Earl and Countess of Carlisle and Lady Mary Howard, in Grosvenor place, from Castle Howard, Yorkshire ; Sir Thomas Dyke Aeland, Bart., M,P., in Jermyn-street, from Devonshire; Lord Harry Vane, in St. James's-street, from the Continent ; the Earl and Countess of Louth, at their villa at Richmond, from Louth Hall, their scat in Ireland; Sir Bruce Chichester, Bart., from Arlington Court., Devonshire ; Sir R. H. Inglis, Bart., M.P., from Bedfordshire ; General and MrA. Maitland, at Mivart's Hotel, Brook-street, from a tour ; Lady Louisa Kerr, at ditto ; the Hon. Capta n and Lady Mary Hood, in Hanover-square, from a visit to Lord and Lady Bridport, at their seat in Somerset shire ; the Earl of Devon, in l3ryanston-square, from Powder ham Castle, Devon; Sir Alexander Grant, Bart., in Lower Grosvenor-street, from Cambridge ; Sir John Yarde Buller, Bart., in New-street, Spring-gardens, from Devonshire ; the Marquis and Marchioness of Ailsa, in Whitehall-gardens, from St. Margaret's, Isleworth ; Edward Griffiths, Esq., at Fladong's Hotel, from New Court, near Ledbury, Hereford shire ; Rev. H. Griffiths, at ditto, from ditto ; Charl• s Kaye, Esq., at ditto, from Teignmouth, Devonshire; Ruddell Todd, Esq., at ditto, from Brighten. DEPARTURES. The Earl of Jersey, from Berkeley-square, for Middleton Park, Oxon; the Earl of Lincoln, from Park-lane, for East Retford ; Sir Edward arid Lady Kerrison, from Great Stan hope- street, for Brighton ; Colonel Conolly, M.P., from Up per Grosvenor-street, for Ireland; Lord Braybrook, from Bur lington-street, for Audley-end, Essex; Lord Charles Welles ley, from Apeley House, for Winchester ; Viscount Holmes dale, from Grosvenor-street, for Montreal, Kent ; Lord Charles Russell, from Belgrave-spare, for his seat in Bed fordshire ; Lord Clifford and Hon. H. Clifford, for Ughbrook Park, their seat near Chudleigh, Devon ; the Dowager Lady Trimlestown and Lieutenant-General Sir Evan Lloyd, from Regent-street, for their seat in Shropshire ; David James Har mer, Esq., from Fladong's Hotel, for the Continent ; Colonel Barrow, from ditto, for Cheltenham ; Sir -Tucker Clifton, Bart., from ditto, for Clifton Hall, Nottinghamshire; Edward Henry Chad, Esq., from ditto, for Pinckney Hall, Norfolk ; Admiral Sir James Whitshed, the Lady Whitshed, and Miss J. Whitshed, from Nerot's Hotel, Clifford and Cork-streets, fur Holbrook; Mrs. and Miss Grove?from ditto, for Shenstone Park ; Captain Cotton and Miss V. Cotton, from ditto, for Cheshire. CHANGES. Sir John and Lady Mary Hamlyn Williams, at Dublin Castle, on a visit to Viscount Ebrington, from Clovelly Court, Devon ; Sir Robert and Lady Fitzwygram, at Bath, from N utwell, Devonshire ; the Earl of Carnwath, at Stovington, from Brighton; the Earl IColsnn, nt "piton, Devon, from hi s scat, Trafalgar House, Wilts. TREATMENT OF THE INSANE POOR. A pamphlet with this title, published by Ridgway, contains much useful information on the want of reme dial treatment for the poor of unsound mind in England, and on the proposal to confine them in the wards of workhouses. The writer, a medical man long acquainted with the treatment of the insane in rural districts, ob jects to the clauses in the New Poor-law BM transfer ring the insane to the care of the Poor-law Commis sioners, as well as to certain clauses in an Act for the treatment of paupers renewable this Session, and recom mends that in each county or in certain districts of two or more counties lunatic asylums should be erected distinct from the union workhouses. " As under these Acts," he says, " the treatment of all paupers of unsound mind not in public asylums is regu lated, and as by the Parliamentary return in 1837, it ap pears that of 13,667 lunatics and idiots on the parish books, 2,780 only were in public asylums, while 1,491 were in private institutions, and 9,396 were subjected to no reme dial treatment, but under the care and management of the guardians of the poor were maintained as in or out of door paupers,' the present time seems highly favourable far obtaining more effective laws, and a more humane treatment, for this most destitute class of socie:y." In another place he adds— " The cure of lunacy seems to depend almost entirely upon its being immediately dealt with. Lerd Lyndhurst in his invaluable speech on the subject, Dec. 23, 1830, sets down the ratio of cures under ordinary circumstances, where no pains are taken as to early treatment, as lin 2 1-. 6th and 1 in 2i ; but the testimony of asyluni keepers as to success where immediate measures arc taken, is far more gratifying. Dr. Willis declares 9 lunatics out of 10 recovered if they were placed under his care within three months from the et ack ; Dr. Burrowes has reported 221 cures out of 242 recent cases ; Dr. Finch has stated that 61 out of 69 patients have recovered, who were received into his asylum within three months after the first attack of this disorder, and at the Retreat, near York, 7 out of 8, or perhaps a larger proportion of recent cases have ter minated in recovery. It has been found.' says the Gloucester Asylum Report last year, 'that thirteen fif teenths are cured, if sent within the first eight weeks." Tne following extracts expose the absurd tests of sanity too often acted upon in Courts of Law and Com missions of Inquiry into Lunacy : " A man otherwise save thought Dr. Sims our Saviour, and a person likewise intelligent ordinarily imagined he corresponded with a princess in cherry juice, and the judges, the visitor, and jury , respec tivel y in each case, thought' the patient deserving of confinement. On the second, Mr Blundell's will cause, a b.rrister is said to have quired, He entertained strange opinions as to the Corn laws?' The witness replied, Most strange, very like what I have read in the House of Commons speeches,' Then a gentleman misspelt the word through in a letter, threw,' and found it labelled this is lunacy.' In another instance, a man's sanity was to be tested by his knowledge of the multiplication table ; and Dr. Pritchard mentions a Case cf a person of property, who imagining Queen Char lotte was in love with him, the Chancellor granted a Com mission against hien, and when declared a lunatic, his accounts were found by his committee so intricate that they could not unravel them. But the lunatic enabled his sane friends to surmouet all difficultie', and became actually, if not formally, the steward of his own estate. The ab surdity, because a person has a delusion on one point, of assuming that he is altrgether of unsound mind, has been exposed in all ages, and yet we are daily acting as though no experience bad warned us on the subject." England has done less in this respect (the treatment of' lunatics) than most other countriez, and it is painful to compare the institutions for mental diseases in the poorest Roman C.itholic communities with those of rich and Pro testaat England. The proposal to shut the poor up in ards of workhouses, if adopted, will not only inflict long years of pain and suffering on those upon whom w .o e have already imposed sufficient torment, but must degra de the country in the eyes of those other European nations 1 estimate highly the discharge of this undeniablewedr ke our neighbour. The plan of inclosing in o t ne cac . furious and the fatuous, mutually to tormen t th a e °g a er . for the rest of their i:yes, seems borrowed r • tion of some Dante, gina learture. A recom which should influence a Cbristiaa L egssisould bo mercy in mendation to destroy these sufferersut sash an existence. comparison to leaving them to drag o agti not gaili ed from sources The proposal a of baiting between two the Magistrates in issioners leaves the airy; of the Poor-law Comm opinions. The cry is loud for2Fcit b e authorities, Combo, Government no longer the pow Middlesex petition for it ; ea u nv Dr. Conolly, in the last Browne, Pritchard, and to the deplorable state of many Haswell Report, agree s. I a d; and Mr. Perceval's bo o k h a l of the asylums in Rag on which bears a strap t • rally read, getestimony been very gene on the subject. kept for gain, with thr ee public asylum not The _the ad officers, the chaplain, superintendent, and the head attendant, wholly independent of each other ; and the Magistrate, not as a mere visitor, but as proprietor of the house, engag i ng , paying, and discharging the per sons employed, and yet with no pecuniary interest therein, is the true remedy for the existing state of things. The Madhouse Bill might p erhaps be advantageously submitted to the following changes. The erection of asylums made compulsory, and the clause retained allow ing the junction of counties. Of these asylums it should be directed that the plans before budding, are passed by the Metropulitan Commissioners Board, or by some other competent body, in order to insure that all contingencies are provided for, and indeed to prevent that lavish caper,. I~7lv ;. • T ., ~. .. ._ MO R N IN G*DI,IIION diture which has done much to'Olts tbecicing - lhornefeaso of these asylums. The rich pal/liiialkittiti te-eicluded, and a junction with other, and anomalous, bodies, is very undesirable, such as subscribers, or City Magistrates, &c. Patients residing in the county, if there is room after the public paupers were provided for, might be admitted, to be treated in every respect as the poor, and paying, as is now the case at Lancaster, such a weekly sum over and above the board, as would defray their debt to the county for the use of the buildings. The cost of such a public asylum, when compared with that of wards provided with the conveniences Parliament would insist upon, if stated, would show immediately the ineligibility of the latter plan. NATIONAL STORE AND DOCK BANKS. This is the title of a pamphlet by Mr. Enderby, intended to recommend the establishment of banks issuing paper on the goods deposited in stores. We will, however, allow the author to explain his own scheme : The capital of the Bank of England is all lent to Govern ment, and it is not payable on demand • it can only be consi dered as a se cur ity, an d no t as available assets, of which we have evidence; for, under the most pressing difficulties of the Bank of England in 1825, the Government, so far from relieving them by repaying a portion of their debt, actually increased the circulation, by loading the country with Exchequer Bills; and on a former occasion (acting a more just part), they sanctioned a suspension of specie payments. The public would have, as I have before observed, a security in the valucof the Dock premises; and, if we provide sufficient accommodation for the trade of London, and the sphere of the Bank of England operations at Manchester, Liverpool, Bir mingham, &c., the amount would infinitely exceed the capital of the Bank of England lent to Government. In the issue of their notes, the Dock Banks would have the same facilities of purchasing or receiving gold on deposit, as the Bank of Eng land ; and their other securities would be better, and more profitable. My project, therefore, briefly, is to establish Na tional Store or Dock Banks throughout the kingdom; as a guarantee for the credit afforded in the circulation of Bills of Exchange, or the notes, their substitutes. To carry tkis pin into operation, the Directors of the Dock Banks should advance their notes on the produce deposited with them, taking in addition bills payable at a fixed date for the amount borrowed ; by doing which, they would add the personal security of the parties requiring assistance. Mean while, there can be no doubt but that three or four times the value of goods is often advanced by the Bank of England on bills professedly for the same commodities, and which have been consumed before such bills became due. Incases where the pledges-vir goods deposited are not re deemed within the period spegified in the/ bill, the Dock Bank should be at liberty to dispose Of the commodities, and call on the securities for any deficiency. The solvency of such& Bank could not be shaken, as any run on it could only be for the re demption of the pledges. It may be argued that the above scheme would tend to ens courage gambling speculations ; and admitting such 'to be the case for a short period, yet, it would have the effect of storing the nation with produce, sufficient for two or three years' con sumption, when speculatim would cease : for short importations of produce would but slightly influence prices, and high prices would stimulate increased produce and importation. And taking rent, interest, &c., into calculation, no advance could be obtained to meet expenses sufficient to induce a specteator to attempt to monopolize the market. We might, indeed, under all circumstances, expect a more regular price for commodities, --whereas, our present monetary system subjects them to great fluctuations of price : for, money may he very abundant when the quantity of produce is small, which must have the effect of enhancing its value; and, again, when produce is abundant, money may be scarce, which must tend to its depression. These operations we have, to our cost, experienced; but should my proposed views be entertained and generally adopted, such difficulties could not occur : for, as commodities became limited or increased in store, so would the circulation of the notes be extended or contracted. _ . _ The plan suggested would require no capital beyond that for the construction of the Dock, which of itself would be of great value, and exceed the paid-up capital of other Joint-Stock Banks ; whilst. the liabih' ies of such a Bank can only be great when the Dock is full of goods, and, consequently, paying best. Thus, then, such an establishment wouldpresent all the benefits of any other Joint-stock Bank, with increased security. If individuals choose to engage in the scheme thus recommended by Mr. Enderby, we see no objection, nationally speaking, to allow them to do it. At the same time the scheme does not appear to us to require national encouragement. It might be advantageous to holders of goods, but why should the consumers find means to en able the holders of goods to keep them out of the market ? The interest of the consumer lies in an opposite direction ; and as Mr. Enderby's scheme is avowedly intended to enable holders of goods to keep them out of the market till the market rises, the consumers—the great body of the public—have no motives to encourage such a scheme. We are inclined to think that Mr. En derby has overlooked the essential principle of a bank which is to lend and borrow money, or circu lating credit, and thereby enable manufacturers, merchants, and others to continue and extend their operations. Mr. Enderby's bank would have no money, it would have only goods (without the power to exchange them) and. fixed capital. Such a scheme might answer to a limited extent, where there were money banks with which to exchange the notes of the dock banks. But we cannot suppose that it would be of much service, beyond ministering to the convenience of those who have bought and hold large quantities of goo's. THE EDUCATIONAL TEST. A sensible pamphlet has appeared, entitled, "A Letter to W. Lovett, sometime resident in War wick Gaol, by a Non-Voter," which contains a number of shrewd remarks on political topics, which all political students should read. The writer is very caustic on the Church, describing it as "hostile to human progress and human good," and counselling the people " ever to cherish a lively sense of the injuries which the State Church has inflicted upon the country." We must content ourselves, howevier, by passing over his out-spoken remarks on " this unswerving foe of popular rights and popular happiness," and with quoting his acute observations on the educational test. This is a subject on which the popular stream sets in a direction adverse to the writer, but he knows this, and he breasts it and forces his own way a-head in the following language:— Whatever hollowness there is in finality, there is much appa rent plausibility . in the educational test. Those who argue that it is a rational safeguard against the voter's mal-exercise of the trust reposed in him arc listened to with eagerness, and too often with conviction. But who is to decide in what this test consists, and by whom it is to be app'ied ? Mere intellec tual training is not education in anything like a complete sense of that word. The educational institutions of this coun try, from the lofty university to the humble palish school, are conceived in too narrow a spirit to send forth men able to un derstand rightly the richest or the poorest privileges of citi zer.ship. But they believe themselves educated, and the bulk of society, especially the labouring classes, uneducated, and hencet . h e Theadoption working ofth e tnen educational are, I test know, it on means th eir guard of ex clusionagainstnard this sophistry, and remembering what these self-styled educated men have done, dread what they may do. "Educuted men" have hitherto had the monopoly of the Government of this great country, and from one end of the land to the other, co mplaint, bitter, energetic complaint, is daily growing louder and louder. It is " educated men " who have, in the course of the last century, imposed upon us the enormous debt of eight hundred millions of money, to pay the interest of which every article of the poor man's food and the poor man's cloth ing is taxed to an extent unknown in the most despotic coun tries of Europe. It is "educated men" who by their restric tions have nearly ruined trade and commerce, and who now, supporting the infamous Corn-law, are d r iv i i s ncr emtt o uhp u ele r oydy m ealard. a ley n w u api f t a efh e r.ar - - turers, our artizans, and our capitalists abroad ' , whilst they air , inflicting starvation upon us at home. It is "educated men who have planted in Ireland a Protestant Church amid a Catahnod -1 moreoii n c red population , nearssoet pii,e)fer.r:ue,nt_i:iser eedh. 1 :a l sie v vcd h ehnu. who o intercoursehavee a 2. upheldgera ti withon t ot societyha t Church eby have force acted massacre, and who in doing this, believe Christianity. upon the pure and in principles theyy lt is '. edu cated,"simpletruthprofound aye, "highly educated men, " °l : h C iv , c h h i r w i i s n L h v e e r Y b p l e ri s n se e d i p u le s s m a i n th d a Protestant Church in England, pretend d th e t h u a n t s c A r u t p e l u i: P I o r u i v s ri n e lto t hwe l : 6( 'ol j au e prr s ert u oss sp and nor o tdy r ps that e the s, a r p e r e t a h c e h d e e r s practice is the most Popish instiwtution in Christendom, de bisho bishops s a m o n f e d n a ß f o i e s f h lo o n t p h , s : tens and twenties of thousands, religious teachers of a civilized i av r titi l dth ibe wth r h tk ir : I - e o f ea hebdomadal roaring ot sm theiroa of the amitred sermons rntr neoe kfr,oanorti is "educated men —but ' why need I unroll community. It wrongs h e aped upon the people of England by the catalogue of atd, and who only arrogate the charac terwont to claim superior sanctity, in i cbe t ce u n i m pose upon the rest of mankind. The is NO account taken of that large class duties supply. The character of a man is assert acquaintance of t i n b il e u i n e " gc o e ; : u r" , c o i u se ith th o e las el s e i t c tiv o e r franchise seiontifio per formance .ed upon by these than by the barren studies of his is, estEsoditY.the term "educated" eri criterion o to n of the t i h n e te r l i l g e h c ! fohrtn.ttinigf,.:yzrach'hlfiws'tueosnfiuttdlnda fitness thisinlntioteblye thepreferable (4flav A l° v ilu e al k fi t e t a o t N i v on ;lothing of the author, but his pam phlet indicates both an inquiring• and a fearless mind. It will do good b y " defecating the stand ing-pool" of th e pu b lic mind. ABSENCE OF MIND.—A small fanner at Chew Magna, finding a portion of his sheep in a different field from the other part of his flock, impounded them, and did not discover the mistake until celled on for the expenses. —Bath Journal. oft inst., s o t w lei n Lx e ce 7 lles, * editor A vacancy is created in the list of Benchers of Esq., who died on Friday, the i the Middle Temple, by the deatho I was the Ponte of the year of his age. Mr. 1, c c o o n f tseveral n y ot d b d c , r a n 'o e r a k r e. Libor Hammier, the property of Mr. Lewis Mr. Dodd, miller, bitch, which whelped twenty-one ypool, bas a I p.9)9. A f . - ", " er , of Lianithe}, about three weeks since Richards, gr which, with the mother, are doing well. yenned four iambs and, 1 ik e u r t , ti n a p :* A FTER YOUR FORT '' 'A gi LoOK FORTUNES. " —An .. n img"l3:tain nWer in dustrious and reicoab l e working ra„, named Richard Hardman , i n the employ of Messrs. Walton; Oates, and Simpson a t their extensive bleaching premises at Crimple, P year Kuaresborough, received a letter a few days, ago, re questing him to go and take posiession of landed estates, &e., to the amount of 30,0001., left to him unexpectedly by a relative in Lancashire. —Halifax Guardian. It has been decided to open the Cheltenham and Great Western Union Rail Mom, all gireliceoer On April 26, —Cheltenham tiktiotte, 1_ / , ~,, „..... „....., , ,t. ,,........„, to) L.- , ' 1 0 ' lZ:411 ~..