The Sun. — London, England, 1841-04-10 00:00:00

[TI o; !i E. TA.IS ors, j 1841. ess to give' of the .o ne ote4 ar t ~.(°°,„ .arch,' :he tern i s t e nce• he more eS !iads bec ° s ske e klio* .I *e't ( e -hasl)qn. )f Haten 3 ' . , to §) / 1 ni !!ad ° ° ° e \ 'impinal ° - Ay bag .rtistg:ok." le e graiiti e .eaders 111 "41 )te o{§ ,!fio ated 10,!%adi coridese` ,f7s l .°f, 4ta' t 00' of jr. allivort ea le lll ls- its ' ore Jell - ;ey 7J I 1 tl° l craP de pee l be". fle e 1, r•N) d, ( IV allv i e the he ll re' its s siirre; 1,0 r ian° lled .$ 0 , out 1 • ' ,ber . voo - o. o to 1 ; or 4°- ; form e Od er ' ~v g itect 7bis I.e‘ awn i° quat' oor p „ leyos" b ri g s sa ri 11, 101" EV ING EDITION Jnst ready, in 3 vols. post Bvo., with numerous Illustrations by. Leech, &c., COLIN.CLINK. By CHARLES HOOTON. Richard Bentley New Burlington-street. MOn the 20th inst., in 2 vols. Bvo., with Portraits, EMOIRS OF POPULAR BUBBLES AND EPIDEMIC DELUSIONS. By CHARLES MACKAY, Esq., . Author of " The Thames and its Tributaries, &c. 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W ON EASTER MONDAY. APRIL 12, ill be repeated the New Comedy, in Five Acts, entitled LONDON ASSURANCE. Sir Ilarcourt Courtly, Bart, Mr. W. Farren ; Max Hark tlt%Air. Bartley; Mr. Charles Courtly, Mr. Anderson; Itiae d, lphus Spanker, Mr. Keeley; Mr. Dazzle, Mr. C. . ; Mark Meddle, Mr. Harley; Grace Harkaway, Pert "e restris • , Lady Gay Spanker, Mrs. Nisbett ; Mrs. Aue r Humbv. 1 /lich will be produced, a Grand Romantic Fairy Ex travaganza, entitled BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. doh ea u tY. Madame Vestris ; The Beast, Mr. W. Harrison ; r 9 ,Quill, r. Harley ; ressalinda, Miss Ramforth l t° s , Miss M Grant ; Quee D ; Mar n of the Roses, Miss Lee. r'rs to to opened at half-past Six—the performances to /Peace at Seven o'Clock. „,''Ss Boxe s , 7 s . ; Second Price, 3s. 6d. • First and Second ss. ; Secon d Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, is. ; Second Price, I ery Is. oche and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan liox-office, from Ten till Feur, where Season Tickets oe hd upon application. rivatea Boat+ to be had sol.ely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller, 7 . l Ve • Bond-street. " THE CHINA SUN" REPUBLISHED THIS DAY, with All the LATEST NEWS. ' &4 141 RAILWAY SUN WILL BE PUBLISHED 'MWARDS THE END OF THIS MONTH. 1 1, 1 R IG, a WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO.MORROW 50 minutes after 4 I Evening...-. 8 minutes after 5 } Publication of the Evening Edition of THE SUN COM menu(' at 40 minutes after Three. Ne , , 4, 4 - t . _*-. .- o• ~ ..i__44 , *, „...z,,2 a k .... .. ~, i c y .r: ,::::,t ~ ' , ~, i t• pi I- , ft E "A 0 .I . _L. ill . 0 F.. Q \ fro -1e more we reflect upon the news received cli s gt China, the more indignant we feel at the kl . --r aceful, mean, and pusillanimous conduct of at t : l t i Patentiary ELLIOT. Why such a man, ttqd the proofs he had given the Government V 4t w t % country of his utter incapacity, was ele , 4 t ( to the rank of a Plenipotentiary, is only H tolMally to be accounted for by supposing that I 'd PALMERSTON had no choice in the matter that . ,`he First Lord of the Admiralty and his kthily Were a bl e to di ctate t h e i r own terms to „ 1 * SOVEREIGN. Captain ELLIOT was not an 111 tried man. He had been weighed in the ilance and found wanting. The public I gment respecting his incapacity was nei let suddenly formed nor rashly pronounced. `bWas the deliberate result of a calcu ,ed series of blunders, in which the fee elless of almost every high and noble faculty sf tr le mind was successively exhibited. Phy lie4l courege is so common to whatever breathes . k ti f ti sh air, that there is little merit in attributing tilla air proportion of it to Captain ELLIOT. A hors es which Englishmen share with their I H earin and dog's is not to be denied to any officer . c o : ri ng her MAJESTY'S uniform. But of moral bi t Captain ELLIOT has throughout exhi ant the most deplorable deficiency. The pre ila h generation will never forget the circum 'ees under which Captain ELLIOT consented 4, 4 ,1 1 iver up the opium. We need not now at el l upon them. But surely they ought to have Q l3ll ee deprived him of the confidence of the ctPrnment, and produced his immediate re -4,h4 Why, after that disastrous exhibition of i 4 erity and tame submission, was he permitted ,`ther to degrade the British name ? For it o O l d not have escaped the penetration of Lord At 'kEnsTort that the Chinese themselves must k i „ v , e a' contempt for a nation represented by it a nincompoop as the British Superintendent. Pi r ° ll l the tone of an Edict of KESHEN, and t o a report addressed to the EMPEROR relative 111 find occupation of Chusan, which our readers find in another part of The Sun, we have Edina doubt that another expedition against h will be necessary at no distant period. e edict which was written after the capture b$ the forts proclaims the English " rebel bar -1,,„,,44115"—a style of denomination somewhat at fiance with the article in the ELLIOT Con , If' ion which recognizes the equality of Great il l 44 in and China. The repo:t demonstates I si e folly of our abandoning the fine central ' arid of Chusan for the contemptible Islet of li b T ll g Kong, and absolutely recommends the Il ost jealousy of us, and the wheedling us Iti l t of the country. It is impossible to read I l es e documents and not be convinced of the l il aderino• tendency of our whole policy, and bhow completely we have been - baffled and p, -41 boozled by the Chinese. This conviction is k ° ! l reral amon g the British merehantS at Macao, '4 • Is shared by the mercantile community of th' i tish India. In a letter from Bombay, dated 14 I st of March, a correspondent of. the Times T i t,: es as follows : 1%0 0 terms accepted by the British Plenipotentiary are Cs upon as unworthy of England. Hong Kong may be trer:• a good military and naval station ; but 1,000,0Q0 dollar: tk i , e ' Year for six years are considered insufficient even for the ''ti ro es. The opium compensation appears to have been overboard altogether. 6,000,000 dol:ars every year for ip :„`I . }ears ought to have been obtained to do justice prties.- The preliminaries do not speak of ft lter redreass for injury, or of any security tor . the except, indeed, the liberty of official inter -1141:;" be considered suet. There are no commerc'al arrange ,lo tariff, and Hong Kong is to be opened to all nations. h ttt D t elirninarit s may not have been sufficiently explained, ti o 4 4 far as they are known, they excite general dissatisfac tato; Captain grotesque imitation of European &plc.- 'l:;fraseology has thrown an air of burlesque ,m the whole. 'Oll4 u lends of Captain Elliot say, that his orders were to th e eleac e at all risks, and he has made one which will have c, eu eet of prwucing anoiher war in a very short tine. ' : . th' 'lllli lar. opinions are expressed in nearly all . ,' lndian Journals we have received. China ' fo r n ot made the shadow of a reparation for t 11( ti !e past,. nor given the slightest security tit lu ture. On the contrary, KESIIEN openly i n ~rOssly insulted Great Britain by the way ec l4l : i ch . he announced the convention to his N-e r r3rl nen. The English barbarians, he said, doc e noW obedient. to orders—that by an official .0 1 cillillent they had restored Tingliae (the capital '64,11 1 , 15a n) and Shaheo, and that they had k ra tstly invoked him to be for them Imperial po ten °7l and fa vour . Its fact the Chinese Pleni -110 ti arY, so far from acknowledging our na tial reb t , equality, treats us as a pack of barbarian . 's r educed to obedience, but whom it might e InPolitic to punish too harshly. Poor ELLIOT V*, ,;§lll4 LONDON: SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 1841. Ti l , ~~ was not the man to convince the Chinese of our equality with them. That is reserved for the commander of some future expedition, in which the ill-starred name of ELLIOT will not figure in a higher rank than that of Lieutenant of Marines, or Boatswain's-mate. And now that Great Bri tain has been for years kicked, and cuffed, and reviled, and spat upon by the Chinese, we sup pose it will be at last Idiscovered by her MAJESTY'S Government that the SOVEREIGN might be more worthily represented in the Celestial Empire, than by LIN'S officious coadjutor in the work of suppressing the opium trade. Lord MINTO must by this time have had a sufficient dose of the laurels with which his relative and protege the Plenipotentiary is likely to adorn the family escutcheon. The best thing the family could do would be to make the Emperor of CHINA a pr&- sent of the Plenipotentiary. " CHARLEY FRO THY," as the Middies call him, would make an excellent Mandarin, most of whom he at present rivals in the composition of that grave inflated bombast which so tickles the ears of the Orientals. The Church Extensionists, we see, are again actively employed in getting up petitions in flu your of their plan of levying additional taxes on the public. Sir R. Ixams, " whose ardour in the cause of true religion" it is said, "no temporary defeat can extinguish," has informed the House of Commons that he hopes, after Easter, to at tract its attention to the subject. In the mean ti:ne the clergy and the friends of Church Ex tension throughout the land are to exert them selves, and pour in petitions to both Houses. In one House the prayer of such petitions will no doubt be favourably listened to ; but, fortunately for the public, the subject involves a grant of money, which must proceed from the House of Commons. We are not, indeed, sure, from the manner in which that House is now constituted, that it would not listen to the prayer of the Ex tensionists, were the Exchequer as overflowing as in the days of Mr. Prosperity ROBIN SON ; but the urgent wants of the State and the deficiency of the revenue will now effectually prevent the House of Commons from listening to the demand for more money to build churches and endow priests. We would not, under such circumstances, recommend the public to meet the Extensionists by counter petitions, if they be disposed to address either House of Parliament, but rather to petition for a redress of some grievance connected with the Church. We see for example, according to the provin cial papers, that a considerable number of per sons in different places have been summoned for Church-rates, and in some cases have been called before Ecclesiastical Courts. In the majority of the cases the people paid, and on that account the Tory journals have set up a cry of triumph. The Anti-Church-rate party, then, are mocked at and insulted for obeying the law. If the Dis senters have in them the spirit of men that ought to rouse them unanimously to demand that they should be relieved from the payment of Church-rates, and from the jurisdiction of Eccle siastical Courts. Here are great grievances to which the Dissenters are subjected, and for the abolition of which they ought to petition. Let them not petition for the abolition of Ec clesiastical Courts, because the members of the Church and the clergy may wish to preserve them, but let them petition to be relieved from the jurisdiction of those Popish tribunals, and from the payment of that Popish exaction, Church-rates. If the Churchmen like Ecclesi astical Courts and Church-rates, let them be gratified. The Dissenters can have no reason to prevent them indulging in so rational an enjoyment. All that they have to do is to protect themselves. It is no business of theirs to break the yoke of priestcraft for the members of the Church. To get relieved from the payment of Church rates and from the jurisdiction of ecclesias-' tical tribunals is their proper business, and seems to us a nobler object than to petition merely against the extension of the Church, which their wily opponents describe as petitioning against Christianity. We have long been surprised at the patience with which Protestant Dissenters, who have a conscientious aversion to Popery, submit to ec clesiastical tribunals, and to ecclesiastical taxes. The Dissenters must remember that Mr. Nicnoi. lately informed the public from his place in Par liament that the Ecclesiastical Courts are not the QUEEN'S Courts, but the Bishops' Courts, and were not affected by an Act of Parliament restraining the Queen's Courts. To obey them is, therefore, to obey the Bishop in spiritual matters; and we cannot reconcile the consis tency of the Dissenters in deserting the Church for conscience sake, incurring all the guilt of schism, and still submitting to the Bishop's jurisdiction, as exercised in the Courts which were established by Papal Bishops for Papal purposes. Such conduct is neither consistent nor conscientious. At various periods the Dis senters have stood out stoutly against the Church and State combined ; and it will be dis graceful to them, when the State will not take an active part against them, if they now submit to the Church alone, and humble themselves before the enthroned Bishops or their repre sentatives, when, by one spirited and unanimous remonstrance, they might cast off this remnant of the Papal yoke from their \ necks for ever. As to the Extensionists, the !House of Corn mons will probably think it their duty to in quire before they grant money to build churches, whether or not they are to be filled with that ingenious race of sophists who reconcile their consciences " to hold the tenets of Rome with the endowments of the Church of England," or by " those low-minded, bitter race .of priests," ac cording to the Post, who persecute the High- Church Angels. As Church Extension is advocated by Sir R. INGLIS and the Standard, we presume that the Low-Church party is the most active in the chase after the public money, and that their ism will find most favour with the patrons of the new churches, should any more be built. It is, however, for the Legislature to reflect, in so applying the public money, that they will either encourage mysticism and insin cerity, or bitter, persecuting, theological malig nity. Far better would it be to throw the wealth the law will take from the people into the sea. We are reminded, by seeing a brief notice of Lord ASHBURTON in the Anti-Corn-law Circu lar, that we have lately said some harsh things of that Nobleman. We have accordingly taken our conscience to task, and if we could honestly retract them we cheerfully would. But while our Parliamentary records prove that Mr. BARING, the merchant, having then much to gain by enlarged commerce, was a strenuous ad vocate for free trade, and a determined opponent of the Corn-laws, and that Lord ASHBURTON, the landowner, having left trade and in vested his gains in the soil, is the for ward opponent of free trade, and the sturdiest advocate of the Corn-laws--while our Parlia mentary records prove these charges against Mr. BARING, become Lord ASHBURTON, we cannot recollect one instance by which his private mu nificence has redeemed his public character. Europe has heretofbre had princely merchants, and many of them, both at home and abroad, have conferred honour on their country by employing their wealth in improving and I adorning it. The palaces of " Genoa, the Superb," built by her merchants, would confer honour on most of the Princes of Europe. The merchant Medici having first enriched their country became its sovereigns, and placed their descendants on the Papal throne. In like man ner our own GRESHAMS and BECKFORDS have conferred renown on their country by the muni ficent employment of their wealth or their de fence of our liberties. Lord ASHBURTON, as far as we know, has done nothing for the arts but build an ugly house in Piccadilly, and nothing for the national liberties but betray them. The name of BARING, WO, is associated in the public and Parliamentary records with one of the meanest pieces of petty oppression that has made much noise in modern times. In the pages of the • late Mr. COBBETT and the Times it will be handed down to posterity with anything but applause. We venerate the name and character of a true merchant. It is his great business to equalize the variations of the eusons and the diversities -, of climates. He brings the abundance of one clime or place to supply the wants of another. He enriches himself by conferring benefits on all with whom he deals. The wealth obtained by our commerce is not, in the eye of humanity, of one tithe so much importance as the civilisation which follows in its train, and as the friendly relations with which it binds together nations politically and historically hostile to each other. It was left for Mr. BARING, become Lord ASHBURTON, to degrade, in our estimation, the name and station of a princely merchant to the level of a money scrivener, seeking wealth at the expense of others by nefarious legislation. From creating employment, conferring wealth, multiplying food and conveniences as a merchant, to arresting trade, stopping subsistence, and starving the peo ple as a Legislating Peer, is one of the saddest instances of degradation from true nobility which the annals of mankind can afford. To have lost his fortune and become a pauper would have been a less degradation for Mr. BARING than the change from a useful merchant to a mischievous landowner. The French Journals of Thursday have reached us. The following are the observations of the National on the news from China : " The most important clause of the new treaty is that which stipulates for the cession of the Island of Hong-Kong to Great Britain. England thus realises her dream of two centuries. In 1760, after several fruitless attempts in the Chinese seas, she established a factory at Formosa. She then attempted to dislodge the Portuguese from Macao, and to create an establishment in the Island of Amoy ; but this project failed. The authority given to England in 1689 to establish a factory at Canton did not satisfy, and, come quently, she never ceased intriguing at Pekin in order to obtain permission to instal herself more solidly on the territory of the Chinese empire. In 1755, the English appeared at Ningpo, and, in the course of the same century, they set foot on the soil of Tchou-Chan (not Chusan) but they were soon compelled to abandon both. From that time they were unable to succeed until they called opium to their aid, and now they triumph. Hong-Kong, or more properly speak• ing, the archipelago of Hong-Kong, is situated in the bay of Canton, opposite the river of that name, and about three myriametres (rather more than six English miles) to the cast of Macao. This group occupies so small a space in the possessions of the Chinese empire, that we only find it in very large maps, and even there only the two largest islands are laid down. The largest of the two, that which gives its name to the archipelago, is only two myriametres long, taken at its longest part, and its mean breadth is about a myriametre and a half. These islands are barren, and are scarcely inhabited; their position constitutes all their importance. The English are not the first to appreciate the advantages which they offer in a military and commercial point of view. They have long served as a nest of smugglers and pirates. We can easily conceive the value of this new acquisition. In future the English will be no longer com pelled to place their ships under the protection of the Portu auese guns. Whilst nominally within the dominions of the Emperor of China they will be at home ; this is all they wanted. In 1611, they obtained permission from the Great Mogul to found an establishment at Surata. This served as their point d'appui for the conquest of India, and the Em perors of Delhi soon learned to their cost, that to surrender a single inch of ground to the English, is to furnish them with the means of stealing an entire kingdom. What the English did on the Banks of the Ganges, they will do in China. They know, to use the words of Lord Napier, that they have to do with a people who are without the means of defence, and they will lay hold of the first favourable opportunity for throwing off the mask. In the meantime they will continue to gain ground and strength according to their praiseworthy custom, until some fine day the anger of the Emperor will break forth, and give rise to a new war and new concessions on the part of the Chi nese. This is the history of all the invasions of the English.' , We are not quite so sanguine in our views as the National, nor would that Journal, did not the occasion afford an opportunity of strengthen ing French prejudices against this country. The France has a sensible article on the oppo sition of the English press to the fortification of Paris, but want of space prevents our quot ing it. There is no news of general interest in the French Journals'. A letter from Bologna of the 30th of March announces that Prince Baccioehi, the husband of Elisa:(the sister of Na poleon )is dangerously ill. There was a report in circulation in the same city that the Duke of Modena intended to retire into a convent of Jesuits. Marshal Vallee has left Nismes for Pau, where he will arrive the day after to-morrow. We have a letter from Algiers of the 30th of March, which says :—" We are all in motion to-day. The expedition, which is to revictual Medeah and Miliana, sets out this moment under the command of the Lieutenant-General Governor. The column consists of 10,000 men. —La ‹;azette de France. A letter from Vienna of the 28th of March says,—" Ihe visit of Prince Metternich to Johannisberg -will probably not take place so soon as had been stated. The continued ex change of couriers and the evident press of business at the Prime Chancellor's office, indicate the active correspondence of our Cabinet with those of the other Powers, and the Prince's journey cannot be seriously thought of till the political questions now pending are decided to the satisfaction of all parties. Meantime the political horizon is becoming more and more clear, and on the authority of letters from Paris we hear of an entire restoration of harmony between France and England, as well as of the declared return of the former to a participa tion in the measures of the other great powers for the pre servation of peace. The Journal des Debats says, it hasthe pleasure to announce _ _ hat Lord Granville is much better, and that he is no jonger La danger.—Le Commerce. BO URSE.....PARIS, THURSDAY, APRIL 8. First Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Pricy. Price French 5 per Cents 113 25 113 50 ... 113 5 ... 113 40 4 per Cents 99 1.0 ... 99 50 ... 90 50 99 50 3 per Cants 7B 80 78 55 ... 78 75 ... 78 90 Sank of nonce Latlitte Rant. 5,0001. St arcs 5155 ...5155 ...5155 meiglan Banc. ------ ---- 78 5 50 " --- 742 'n 785 ... 785 ... . ... , .- 5 pe• Cents lOl% ... 101 ... 101% ... 191% Spanish Act: ye 24 ... 24 ... 24 ... 24 Portuguese :I per Cents 204 ... 504 ... NM .. 20% Neapolitan 103 00 ... 104 ... 713 90 .... 104 Roman RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain72s ... 725 ... 725 ... 725 Versailles.R. B BBS ... 355 ... 395 ... 38i L. S. 275 ... 275 ... 275 ... 275 Orleans . . 485 ... 485 SOO 465 ... 485 slontpellier to Cette 250 ... 250 ... 250 ... 250 it sburg to Bale 238 75 ... 2'38 75 ... 237 50 ... 237 50 r, Rouen 452 50 ... 451 50 ... 452 50 ... 452 50 ______ WHAT IS POPERY ?—Priestcraft working out Clnistiality to its own purposes. The Pope at Rome, the College of Cardinals at Rome, the whole army of priests, of whom the heads and chiefs are in that city, which swarms throughout Europe, are all engaged in using Christianity and perverting it to their own profit, and . practis ing on the people. Disguise it how men may, this is the life and soul of Popery. In what re spect and degree does the Anglican Church differ from Popery so explained ? The archbishops, bishops, rectors, vicars, curates, heads of houses at the Universities, spiritual tutors, are one and all engaged in working, and, we will boldly add, perverting, Christianity to their own profit and purposes. They may take different means from the Romish priesthood, they may appeal to dif ferent prejudices, they may disguise, their object more artfully, but it is impossible to deny that all these men are engaged "in a conspiracy to work Christianity to their own profit. That we affirm is Popery, and we challenge the Anglican priesthood to deny or disprove our assertion. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Baron GURNEY and Mr. Justice PATTISON. ) MURDER.—Harriet Longley alias Harris, was indicted for the wilful murder of her female child, on the 19th of March last, by throwing it into the New River. No Counsel appeared for the prosecution. Mr. Clarkson defended the prisoner. A number of witnesses were examined, but the details are fresh in the recollection of the public, therefore it is wine cessary to repeat them. After Mr. Clarkson had addresied:the Jury for the defence, Mr. Baron GURNEY said that the simple question for tl e Jury to consider, was, did this woman wilfully throw the child into the water, and thus occasion her death. fie was afraid that he could hardly point out any evidence to support the assumption taken by the Learned Counsel, that at the time of throwing the child into the water she was not in a state to be morally and legally accountable. These were questions, however, fur Them to determine, and he should leave them to their ctn.. bideration. The Jury, after deliberating a short time, returned the following verdict :—" We find the prisoner Guilty, but we strongly recommend her to mercy, in consequence of ;he distressing circumstances which have appeared in evi dence before us." The COURT ordered sentence of death to be rccorded against the prisoner, and Mr. Baron G tiRNEY, who seemed much affected, address ed her as follows Harriet Langley, the Jury have re turned the only verdict they could return; but taking all the facts of the case into their consideration, they have earnestly recommended you to mercy, and my Learned Brother and 1, from a very anxious consideration of your case, trust we shall not be failing in our duty to the public in recommending you to her Majesty as an object for her merciful consideration. Olr that young women would take warning by your fate when they first listen to the voice of seduction—they little know to what dreadful consequences a first false step may lead." The prisoner, who had been in tears chain . ; almost the whole trial, was then removed from the bar. Pl-1 PI SUN, LONDON, SATURDA Y, APRIL ]O 1841. PRIVY COUNCIL.-(THIS. DAY.) The Jalicial Committee again assembled this morning The SOLICITOR•GENBRAL resumed his address in the case of WOOD ♦ND OTHERS V. GOODLAKE AND HITEDINGS. After reading the communication which had tbken place between the executors and his client respectirg the Codicil, he contended tha , , from their perfect knowledge of the hand-writing of Mr. Wood, and the probable disposition of his property, and from their conduct when they in. spected the document, at that time they had no doubt of its authenticity. When they inspected it they expressed no surprise. It was unfortunate that almost every step taken by the executors was open to sus pici o n. Mr. Helps desired to be present at the search among the documents of the deceased, but an application being made by him for that purpose, it was refused. 'The Mayor of Gloucester, who was interested in the property merely as a member of the corporation, was to be present, but Mr. Helps, a re lation of the deceased, and one deeply interested in the search, was refused. It was not, therefore, a fair and open sea ch. The parties were well aware of the inference which would naturally he drawn from their conduct, for with re gard to the burning of papers: they had concealed facts; had they burned them believing bona fide that they were useless and of no consequence, vihen it appeared that they were of the utmost importance, they would have come forward at once and told what they had done. Instead of acting in that open and candid manner the evidence showed that Mr. Chadborn actually denied that any testamentary papers had been burned at all. The Learned Gentleman read theevidence given upon this point in the Court below, from which it appeared that although Mr. Chadborn had deposed that no papers had been burned, the fact was proved by the servants of the de ceased, and that the respondents rad afierwards admitted that they had burned papery, one of which was an iastruc don for a disposition of the property, and was not that a testamentary paper? Lord LYNDHURST—What led them to make such an ad mission—to admit that they had burned a paper of a testa mentary nature? The ATTORNEY-GENERAL—In answer to the general allegation, they disclosed the whole truth upon their oaths. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL denied that they had done so. The question was not whether the papers destroyed were useless or not ; in such a case it was requisite that every paper, if it was in any form, or in any way could be con strued to be, at all a testamentary paper, should have been preserved. The admissions of Mr. Chadborn had not teen brought out by any regard to truth—they were made in the first place in the fear that some other person had given some information, and he wotild put it to their Lordships whether Mr. Chadborn, who had been in the profession for 27 years in Gloucester, had trade the admissions in such a manner, and at such times as tl show that they were the promptings of an extreme desire that truth stionld be known. He confidently stated thst the whole evidence showed an anxious desire to conceal the fact of burning any papers ; and when that could no longer be kept in darkness, the admissions were made in such a manner as to show that much was kept back. Th case which these parties put forward, was that they were entitled to probate of these three papers, as bciog the last will and testament of the testator. They alleged that the papers marked) A and B were duly attested by three witnesses. Their Lordships would observe that the par ties who made that statement were deeply interested in the matte.r. The attesting witnesses positively denied that the paper was net producei in the presence of the par t;es. On the contrary, the testator was represented to have taken it into his band, and in the presence of the attesting witnesses, to have stated, " I publish this as my last will and testament." It was said that he then gave the paper to Chadborn, and said " Take Cate of this," and that it was put into a cashbox in _ _ ti,e room where the testator was in the habit of keeping gold and notes, and that with the sanction of the testator it was afterwards removed up stairs to his private bank ing-room. Now, their Lordships would observe that the servants who had in the first instance, before ten or twelve respectable parties, denied that any papers were destroyed or burned, afterwards on their oaths stated that they were, and the only object appeared to be to endeavour to throw discredit upon the testimony cf these persons. The Learned Counsel then proceeded at some length to comment upon the evidence of the subscribing witnesses. Now, the evidence of Mr. Hyatt as to the handwriting must he received with considerable caution. He received from Cbadborn a statement of the manner in which he had been seat for to receive instructions about the preparation of Vie will—that he was desired to come the following day for further instructions, but having fre gee qtly received similar directions which had come to nothing, he neglected to go; that, having been suddenly seat for, he left a party, dressed as he was, and drew up the will on the moment; and, in short, there was so much of detail given to lull suspicion that it was clear a very con siderable impression was intended to be produced upon the witness. It appeared that Mr. Hyatt had some rea son to believe that Mr. Wood would remember him in his a ill, but his name not having been mentioned in the codicil, it was' natural that he should view a codicil so drawn up with very great jealousy and suspicion, and state that " he hardly knew what to say, and could not tell whether it was his handwriting or not, and that it looked so badly he could not think it was his." The next uitnes to the handwriting, Flicks, said that be did net believe the signature of Mr. Wood to the codicil wi.s in his handwriting. Both these witnesses gave their evidence in such a way as showed that they were nut form ing an opinion merely upon the character cf the hand writing, but that they took it in connexion Faith certain other circumstances as to the probability of the testator having acted in a particular way. Such testimony must certainly be received with considerable caution ; and then they had the evidence of the engraver, who stated that fac-similes of the signature were made " for the purpose of discovering the author of the forgery." It would appear from that what the animus of the witness was. It was clear that be believed that a forgery had been com mitted, and the fac-similes were taken for the purpose of having it generally understood and believed that a forgery had been committed. The Learned Judge had commented very strongly upon the impropriety of allowing fac similes to be made of such a document; it was calculated to create a prejudice in the minds of the witnesses, and might have led to the destruc tion of the document itself. He (the Solicitor-General) challenged his Learned Friend to show any precedent for resorting to such a proceeding, and he thought it looked somewhatlike a deception upon the Court, because it com menced by a direct tampering with the witnesses. One witness otsbelieved the handwriting, because the word " council" was written for ' 6 counsel," another because a sum was written in figures instead of et length, aad in short, it was from corresponding circumstances, and not fr,,m any consideration of the character of the writing, that the evidence of most of the witnesses was deduced. All the witnesses, as the Learned Judge had observed, had come to the consideraiion of the handwriting of the codicil impressed with the conviction that it was, as Mr. Chadborn had designated it, " an at r ocious f orger y." Th e Court could, therefore, place no reliance upon testimony so given. Again, a class of witnesses had denied the handwiting, err the ground that the letters were not formed in the manner in which Mr. Wood usually wrote them. They relied upon the inspection and examination of other books and documents written by the testator, but when these . documents were reluctantly produced in Court they established the utter fallacy of the statements of the witnesses. Was he not, therefore, justified in asserting that the case had been get up by fraud, misrepresentation, and in breach of good faith, and that the difficulties of the case, as it at present stood, had been produced by the attempt to deprive' parties of :he property to which they were justly entitled. If their Lordships were insensible to the mode in which the c Ise had been brought before them—if they omitted t 3 look at the quarter from wl ence the witnesses were produced, and the bras that had evidently been given to their minds, they would forget all those points which could guide them to a proper consideration of the case. The case was proceeding when we went to press. LLO YD'S SH IPPING-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, APRIL 1 0.--Wind this day at noon N., fresh westerly breeze, and cloudy weather. DRAL, APRIL 9.—Wind W. N. W.—Arrived the Lady Ken neway, from Calcutta ; Reliance, ditto ' • Greenlaw, ditto ; Lady Hilda, Barbadoes ; Zante, T r i es t e; John Blake, Trieste; Tvso, Christie, Honduras. Arrived from the River the Pa cific, Coffin, for the South Seas ; Tync, New Zealand ; Bur hampooter, Sydney ; Elizabeth, Demerara ; Velocity, Que bec ; General Hewett, ditto ; John, ditto ; Lady Wood, Prince Edward's Island; Egham, Lisbon. Sailed the Science, for the Mauritius; St, George, Launceston; Lawrence, Foster, Calcutta; Dowthorpe, Cape of Good Hope; Protector, De merara ; Camerons, Young, Berbice ; Ruby, May, St. Kitt's ; Lady Seaton, Tann, Montreal; Hercules, Renaut, Quebec; Prince George, ditto ; Mentor, ditto ; Ed war d, ditt o ; York shire, ditto; Romanoff, Miramichi ; Naiad, Constantinople; Mercury, Valparaiso; Vestal, Mosley, Quebec. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 9.—Wind N. W. to W.—Arrived the John, Daniel, from Youghal ; Eleanora, Jackson, Calcutta ; Jane, Havers, Sydney, New South Wales. COWES, APRIL B.—Arrived the Doran, Loveta, from Ma nilla ; Victoria, from Matanzas, with rudder damaged, loss of sails, &c. ; Isabella, Blythe, Mauritius. DARTMOUTH, APRIL 6.—Arrived th e Ch ar l es, Q u i nt, f rom Havannah, leaky. Sailed the Maria, Cleet, for Quebec ; Buckingham, ditto ; Calypso, Millman, Richebucto ; Ame thist, Miramichi ; Malabar, Bombay. PLYMOUTH, Aran. variable.—Arrived the Hebe, Glenelg, Bombay ; Herond a l e , C oast o f Afr i ca. Stag, from Rio Janeiro ; Roslyn Castle, Queb ec ; T wee d, d o.; Asia, do. ; Arrived off the Lady Reboa, from - St. Michael's ; British a Queen, do. FALMOUTH, Aram B.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Lucre tia, from Bumos Ayres ; Andus, Bro c kl e b an k , P ernambuco ; Escot, Hall for Boston, after being in l ong . 26, very l ea k y , with pern a l m os b s uc o o f sails, ustdisch Elizabeth, discharge Barbadoe s . e; Amelia, Mullnolland, for OFF PORTLAND, APRIL 9.—Th e C onstellation, Leroce, from Calcutta. . _ _ Sailc an Sailed must e Burster, APRIL B.—Arrived the Coral, from St. Michael's. Sailed the Great Western, for New Ycrk ; Aurelian, Quebec ; Volumbario, sit. Übes. KING'S Roan, Aram 9.—Put back the Arabian, for Syd ney, New South Wales. .SCILLY, Amu. 2.—Sailed the Abeona, for Havannall. ST. IVES, APRIL B.—The Briton, from Newport, to Ply mouth, foundered about 10 E. N.E. off the Head last night. Crew saved. LIVERPOOL, APRIL 9. —Wind N. N. W.—Arrived, the Jackson, Jackson, from Laguna ; Countess Arran, Charleston ; Bradshaw, ditto; Franconia, J. Marks, Susqueliannah ; Phi ladelphia, Albtna, Sierra Leone Patrang, Palermo ; Despique, dos Amigos, Lisbon; Thoma s C ar l y , B uenos Ayres; Thomas Leach, ditto ; Charles Jone s , Cnba. Sailed the ; John Francis, Kent, for Quebec; Isabella, Granby, Gibraltar. Put back, the Llama; La Guayra. Sydney, for Jamaica ; Jo sephine, Miramichi ; Robert A. Park e , Q ue b ec ; Sapphire, Montreal; Penrith, ditto. Arrived off, the George Canning , Mauritius. The Mary Elizabeth, f rom Chi na, w hi c h wa s on the Skerries, and afterwards taken to Holyhead, has been towed in here. The Camilla has arrived from Rathlin Island, from the Matthew Bell, on shore there. The Sidney, which sailed for Jamaica on the 7th inst., has put back, having been on shore in the Victoria Channel, and must dis Charge. The Harvest Home, from St. John's to this port, which was ou shore on Heelsraouth,las been got off; and taken into St. Judetvall Roads. NEW COURT. Thomas Anderson was convicted of having stolen, from the House of Lords, one coat, the property of Mr B. S. R. Adams, one of the clerks in the Parliamentary Offices. Sentenced to three months' imprisonment. An interesting case of bankruptcy was discussed at the Bankruptcy Court a short time since, which hap pened as far back as the year 1796. The bankrupt, a Mr. Philip, of flungerford-market, went out to America in 1794; he and all his family died some years ago. The debts, some of them of more tnan forty years' standing, were some time ago paid in full ; and recently ten shil lings in the pound of interest was ordered to be p a il . There will remain a balance of nearly 5001. a-year, after satisfying all demands. A man in the employ of Mr. Oliver, of Aythrop Rootbing, last week having incautiously left his master's stable door insecurely fastened, three horses therein ob tained access to a quantity of wheat upon the barn floor unche , sed, and partook of so much of it as to cause the death of one of them valued at 30/. ; the others, whi c h suffered much, have bince recovered..-.Erse.v Herald, THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. There was a large supply of Meat at market, trade very dull, and prices inclined to go lower. Beef 3s. 4d. to 4s. Gd. ; Mutton, 3s. 4d. to 4s. Bd. ; Lamb, ss. to 7s. ; Veal, 3s. Bd. to ss. Sd. ; Pork 4 3 . t o s s. 4d . per stone of bibs. Game and Poultry in large supply ; prices were n3t lower, though trade was dull. Eggs dull of sale at previous prices. TEA MARKET. The market was in a very dull state, and so limited were the transactions that prices could not be quoted; Is. 4d. was the nearest quotation for Company's Congou, cash. TALLOW MARKET. The demand was good for Russian both on the spot and for arrival, and prices were firm at 483. 6d. for the former, and 48s. 9d. for the latter purpose. WH TEC H A PEL MARKET. Veal and Pork sold well ; Beef was no dearer, and Mutton sold decidedly worse. Beef, 3s. to 4s. 6d. • Mutton, 3s. 4d. to 4s. Bd. ; Veal, 3s. Sd. to s s . Sd . ; Pork, 4s. to ss. 4d. ; Lamb, ss. to 7s. Clover, 41. 15s. to 61. ; Meadow, 31. 10s. to 41. 15s. ; Straw, 1/. 17s. to 21. MONEY and CONI.MERCiAL NEWS CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. • The Liverpool letter received this. morning, dated half-past five, e. x. No news of the President. Another letter from Liverpool, received at the North and South American Coffee-house, dated eight o'clock P.:kJ., also states, no news of the President. The Hamburgh Papers arrived yesterday evening. The exchange upon London comes at 13 4 3 %, same as per last post ; Gold, 438}; Metal, 106; Bank Actions, 1630. Accounts from Sydney to the 9th of December, by the Over land Express, have been received, and the following are ex tracts : " Trade continues dull. Salt provisions received a very heavy shock on Saturday, on account of there being such large quantities sent out from England to Singapore. Tea re mains steady, a cargo being daily expected. " PORT Pistr.mr.—By an official notice in this day's paper it will be seen that so much of the Supreme Court Act, which was passed last Session, as regards the appointment of a Judge for Port Phillip, is to be suspended until after the Ist of March, 1841. Flour, first quality, 21s. ; second ditto, 16s. per 100 lbs. Wheat, Bs. 10d. per bushel ; first quality, 21s. ; second ditto, 16s. SYDNEY MARKET, Da:c. Flour, 21s. per 100 lb, second, 18s. ; Ration, Isis. ; Bread, 6d. per 2lbs Loaf; Bar ley, Gs. 6d. per bushel ; Barley, Cape, 75. per bushel ; Oats, 6s. to 7s. ; Hay, 91. Ios. to 121. per ton ; Straw, 21. to 21. 10s. per load. Provisions—Fresh Butter, 20. 6d. to 3s. per lb. ; Salt, Is. to 2s. 6d. per lb. ; Irish, Is. to Is. 6d. per lb. ; Cheese, I Id. to Is. per lb. ; Bacon, 10d. to Is. per lb. ; Eggs, 2s. to 2s. 6d. per dozen ; Lard, 10d. Beef, per carcase, 36d., per joint, 4 1 Ad. per lb. ; Veal, 10d. per lb. ; Mutton, per carcase, 3d. per lb., per j , ,int, 4 1 / 2 d. to sd. per lb. ; Pork, Iod. to Is. per lb. THE FUNDS. Although we are now in possession of the particulars, and official accounts, of the Chinese news, it has not had any further effects on the British Funds this morning. Consols, which left off on Thursday at 90 for the Account opened this morn ing at 89i 90 ; same for Money, with scarce a bargain doing as yet. Exchequer Bills, 10 12 prem. ; Bank Stock, 170 1%! ; India Bonds, par 2 prem. In the Foreign Market the prices are nominal at present, Spanish Active at the leaving off prices of Thursday, 23k; Deferred, 12i %; Passive, 5& ?,-; Portuguese same as they left off, 195 20 ; Brazilian, 69 70; Colombian, ; Mex ican, 301 1 ; Danish, 78 79; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 51 . 5 52k; Five per Cents., 98/ Shares—Great Western, 28 29 prem.; New, 13/ 14 prem. ; London and Brighton, 4124 dis. ; Blackwall, dis. ; Bir mingham, 68 70 prem. ; Southampton, 56/ 57/ per share ; Croydon, 13i a per share ; Greenwich, per share ; Man chester and Birmingham, 15/ 15 dis. ; South Eastern and Dover, 15i 14-1 di . PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. _ _ _ _ _ Great North of England 70 Fifths . Ditto . _ 4 lln .. to London and Greenwich - to London and South Western Ditto Tenths ,2A to Northern and Eastern - to 31 HALF-PAST ONE: Accounts have been received at St. Nab from Mon e Video, stating that Rosas was preparing a squadron to attack Monte Video, which has caused great inquietude there ; and the private letters state that he has issued an order that no vessel shall proceed beyond Buenos Ayres without his per mission. In general the terms made with the Chinese Government has not met the approbation of the public and speculators, which, report says, is attributed to the circumstance that when our Illinisteri expected a war with France in September last, they sent out orders to bring the Chinese affair to an imme diate settlement on the most reasonable terms. The British Market continues inactive, and the only feature worth notice is a sale of about 20,000 Consols during the morn ing' for Money, at. 895. Consols at present may be quoted as in the early part of the day, 90 for the Account ; Money 895 ; xchequer Bills lower, 12 10 prem. ; Bank Stock for opening 175 ; India Stock 254 ; India Bonds 2 preen. par. In the Foreign Market very little business ; Spanish Active a shade lower, 23; Belgian lower, 33k; Mexican, lower, 3in ; Colombian, lower, 22k; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 515 52 ; Five per Cents. nothing done. In Shares not much doing—qiiotations higher; Great North of England 67; Great Western Fifths 114 ; South Western 57 ; Northern and Eastern 34 to 31. QUARTER TO THREE. - Consols Account, 90 ; Ditto, 23th May, 90*i ; Mexicar., 304- ; Portuguese, 33 ; Spanish, COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, FRIDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert attended Divine Service in St. George's Chapel this morning-. The Royal Suite included Lady Barham, Lady Anne Maria Dawson, Hon. Misses Pitt and Devereux, Baroness Lelizen, Marquis of Headfort, Sir Robert Otwav, Col. Wemyss, and Col. Bouvcrie. The R , :v. 'Mr. Knyvett read the first part of the service. The Rev. Dr. Canning and the Rev. Dr. Keate officiated at the altar. The latter Rev. Gen tleman preached an excellent sermon from the 28th verse of the 22d chapter of the Gospel according to St. Luke, " Daughters of Jerusalem weep not for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children." The Hon. Mr. Murray attended Divine Service this morning at the parish church. • Her — Royal Highness the Princess Royal was taken out for an airing by her nurses, about one o'clock to day, for the first time. Hor Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Anne Maria Dawson, took an airing in the Park this afternoon. The rest of the Royal party at the Castle have not ridden out to-day. Their Royal Highresses the Duchess of Gloucester and the Duke of Cambridge attended Divine Service yesterday morning in Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley street. The Duke of Cambridge attended Divine Service yesterday afternoon in St. James's Church. The Duchess of Gloucester and the Duke of Cam bridge paid visit; to his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, on Thursday, at his residence in Kensington Palace. A deputation, consisting of Mr. Thornton, Chairman, Mr. Thomas Thornton, Honorary Secretary, Major- Genera) Sir Henry Pynn, Major-General Alexander, Charles Cochrane, Esq., G. A. Young, Esq., George Westby, Esq., and Gerirge Ernest Britten, Esq., had an interview with Viscount Palmerston on Thursday at the Foreign-office. Toe Marquis of Lamilowne had an attack of gout during the last few days. The Noble Marquis was a little better yesterday. Purittant to a regulation of the Council of the Zoological Society, the gardens were open to members and the public yesterday, after one o'clock, they having been closed previously as well as on Christmas days. As liitle notification was given very few persons availed them selves, however, of the privilege. In an orchard in the occupation of Mr. Joseph Sheen, Lear Great Malvern, may now be seen a skylark's !test, with three or four young 01.C3 in it, an unusual cir cum.rance at this time of year. The annual tea meeting of the City and North of London Society for the Suppression of Intemperance took place yesterday at White Conduit House. Between 700 and 800 persons of both sexes sat down to tea, and the large concert.reom not affording sufficient accommodation another room was opened, anti in a short time nearly crowded. A public meeting was held afterwards for the inculcation and diffusion of the principles of temperance, "which was presided over by J. S. Buckingham, Esq. A DEEP WELL.—The present object of ex citement in Paris is the Aitesian well at the Abattoir of Grenelle, which has been successfully completed by M. Mulot and his son, after seven years' labour. The people flock in crowds to the spot, provided with bottles to taste and bring away tome of the water that issues front such an immense depth. The hole is four times as deep as St. Paul's Cathedral is high. It is stated, that when com pleted, the water will rise to the height of thirty feet above the surface. DREADFUL ACClDENT.—Wednesdaymorning, an inquest was held before Mr. Marlin, coroner for the bo rough of Windsor at the New Inn, in that town, upon the body of a child, named Robert Vickars, three years and a half old, the son of a lady of fortune residing in Park-street, who died on the evening of Monday last, in consequence of falling down while playing in the drawing-room, and a drum-stick, with which he was amusing himself, penetrating his head through the right eye. Mr. Henry Brown, surgeon., deposed to having been called in to attend the deceased, immediately after the accident, whom he found with a stick projecting from the orbit of the right eye, which had passed completely through the orbital bone into the head. The stick was extracted with d,fficulty, and the child died in consequence of the injury on Monday. Mary Ann Truman, servant to the mother of the deceased, stated that the child, who was playing with a doll and other toys, fell upon the drum-stick, which she found, upon entering the room (hearing his screams) sticking in his head. The deceased, who was perfectly sensible, said to her, , 4 0 ! Truman, I was running across th e room, and the drum stick went into my eye." Witness found him lying on the carpet, and attempted to drag out the stick, but could not. She then went for a surgeon. The Jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death." THE STAG —The E tag's age is partly known by the horns, which he begins to shrd about the end of February, en t e te v horns are complete and polished in July or August. AL six years the antlers amount to six or seven on each side ; their number is uncertain, nor can the years be precisely ascertained beyond tint period, as the new horns come like those last shed. The eye of the stag is peculiarly beautiful—soft and s parkling—and is, for these attributes, frequently alluded to in Eastern poetry ; he hears quickly, and his sense of smelling is highly per fect ; his powers of leaping are often astonishingly exerted during the chace and in the New Forest is a celebrated spot called the Deer's Leap, where a stag was once shot, and in the agony of death collected his strength, gave a bound which so surprised those that saw it, that it is com memorated by two posts fixed at the extremity of the leap ; the space between them is something like 18 yards. —The Sportsman for April. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS, FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YRSTERDAY. (From the Globe.) It is nothing more than natural, and in the every-day way of business, that the organs of the party who are out of power should find all grapes sour that are plucked by the party who are in—and which the Tory vulpine sagacity had imagined, or feigned, to be out of reach. This is done, however, by the several morning malcon tents " with a difference." The Times is not stupid enough, though the Herald is, to suppose it can suc cessfully dissemble the great advantages procured to this country by the conceded arrangement of the Chinese affair. The latter has discovered that there is a very much larger island ( Lan-to-oo), to which it infers, we presume, that we should have accorded a preference. No doubt, had such been the case (and Hong-Kong is in all conscience large enough, besides its great advantages of anchorage, so absurdly depreciated), we should have been told of the folly of taking possession of a station embarrassing by its extent. The Times takes a more correct view of the local advantage conceded to us :—" This arrange ment, if bona fide carried into effect, will certainly be most beneficial to our mercantile interests. The si tuation of Ilona-Kong is infinitely more convenient for the purposes of trade than that of Macao ; a settle ment formed there will be capable of maintaining itself independently of the Chinese, and the recognition of a territorial right in the British Crown, as well as the terror of the British name, will give our countrymen advantages which were never possessed by the Portu guese in China." It being, however, as we have said, all in the way of business that holes should be picked, or seem to be picked, somewhere in the announced arrangements, the Times affects to find a flaw in the silence upon the question of the opium trade, which it describes as having been " the reel cause of the war." The cause of-the war was the violent spoliation and coercion of British subjects, and the insolent disre card of the rights of the representatives of this country. For reparation of these wrongs, and not for the opium trade, or any ether trade, we showed ourselves in arms on the coast of China. It is true that the same con c:ssions which secure the future rights of our func tionaries will secure the advantages which will naturally flow from those rights to our commerce. And the ter ritorial position which we have obtained as further in. dernnity and security, will confer advantages of the most important nature on our commercial interests. (From the Courier.) The Non-intrusionists in Scotland are preparing to play their last card. By dint of agitation they have gathered around them a goodly number of silly old women, and, as the late Dr. Andrew Thomson, of Edinburgh, happily expressed it, "sillier old men and if they do not obtain from Parliament the recc', nition of their " fundamental principle," as demanded and the eacrificc of the Ministers of Strathbogie, as vic tims on the altar of the Church's independence, they, along with their congregations, are to secede! and, being the majority, to break up the Establishment ! The plot is developed in n " Letter to Dr. Cook and the Mo derate Brethren," who, in order to save the Kirk from this terrible calamity, are very coolly called upon to sacrifice all the principles that uphold the Reformation itself ! In our paper of the Ist of March, we warned our readers of this plot, which is now maturing. It is, no doubt, thought " a good plot"—" an excellent plot :" but we venture to say, that it will not succeed. Since Dr. Forbes, of Aberdeen, published his" Considerations,' the points at issue in this Scotch-kirk-controversy are standing forth in broad relief ; and the contest is resolving into the narrow field of civil or spiritual su premacy in this land of Protestant light arid liberty. The issue of this context cannot be doubted ; hut independent of this we venture to say, that the discoveries that will be made under the search ing ordeal of • judicial decisions will astonish " the weak capacities"' of our Presbyterian friends, on " the north side of the Tweed " They have been indulging in a dream of spiritual independence, from which, thanks to their own folly, they arc about to be awakened with a witness ; and if at the Re formations in 1560 and 1638, and at the Revolu tion in 1688, it is found that this dream was very far from being realized, the chances in its fa vour are wonderfully diminished in 1841. In the meantime we venture to predict that, whether patronage is to be sacrificed to Non-intrusion, or to what extent the monster is to be muzzled, the Strath bogie ministers will never be sacrificed to the indepen dence of the Kirk; and if this is the tenure on which the dominant faction are to remain within the Estab lishment, the sooner they secede the better. It would indeed be a pity if the Church of Scotland should fall with them ; but, " Fiat juslitia, real cceluni." FRENCH STAMP ACT. The following Stamp Duty Bill was presented by the Minister of Finance to the French Chamber of Deputies during the sitting of the Gth inst.:— Art. 1. From and after the promulgation of the present law, it will not be permitted to make use, either in public acts, or befoie any tribunal or constituted authority, of bills of exchange, or bills payable to.bearer, or to order, or any other negotiable Wilt-, or of any other bills or obligations not negotiable, unless stamped according to the laws now in force. Att. 2. Notarie , , huissiers, or other public officers, or experts (appraisers), are not to be permitted to draw up any act in virtue of bills of exchange, bills to order, or other hills or obligations negotiable or otherwise, which may he in violation of the laws relative to the stamp duty. They may not notice them in their acts or minutes, cr receive them in depot. And this, under a penalty of I.ooofr. for notaries, 500 fr. for huissiers and other public officers, and 300 fr. for experts. Arbitrators arc not be allowed to deliver any judgment on such bills or obligations under the penalty of 300 fr. Art. 3. When in the minutes of public, legal, or extra ordinary acts, there shall be any mention made of bills of exchange, promissory notes, bills to order, or other obliga tions, the amount of the said bills and obligations, and of the stamp on v;hich they are given, shall be expressly stated, and every violation of this regulation shall be pu nMied with a tine of 300 fr. Art. 4. The penalty of six per cent. for all violations of the lams relative to the stamp duty upon bills by the law of May 24, 1834, against the drawer, acceptor, and first endorser, is equally applicable to all who may have received payment for the bills, or endorsed or receipted them. Art. 5. The dispositions cf Articles 1,2, 3, and 4, are declared applicable to ail bills of exchange, promissory notes, or other obligations, whether from foreign countries or from the islands or colonies where the stamp-duty does not exist, and which shall not have been stamped previously to their being discounted, negotiated, or paid, conformably to the existing laws. Art. 6. When an extraordinary summons, cr a demand in order to obtain payment on delivery, or the execution of any other agreement of which the title or character has not been stated, or which shall be stated as having been merely verbal, shall be presented for enreyistrement, there shall be the same duty levied as if the title or character had been stated in writing. Art. 7. Every agreement or understanding, with a view to dispense with the necessity of protest in case of non payment, shall be considered null and void. Art. 8. The preceding clauses and dispositions shall only be applicable as regards hills of exchange, promissory notes, or bonds which he signed after the promulgation of the present law. The laws previously in existence shall be applicable to all engagements anterior to the present law. Art. 9 and last. All clauses and dispositions in exist ing laws which are not in contradiction with the present, are . and shall bo maintained. THE WAR IN FRENCH AFRICA. Extract of a letter from Algiers, 23d ult.:--The Duke d'Aumale was on Sunday received by the 24th Re giment as its Lieutenant-Colonel; a military ceremony which attracted a crowd of spectators. The Prince was met with acclamations from both officers and men. Having assumed the command of the c.aps he directed its manoeuvres with remaikable skill and steadiness. In the evening the Colonel gave a dinner to the Prince and all the officers of the regiment. . . . . _ The health of his - Royal Highness having been given hp chef de bataillon, the Duke returned thanks, and concluded by proposing the health of the Colonel in the following terms:—" To the brave Colonel Gentilt he wounded Cock of the 24th 1 May he live to receive—mo re t wounds! He will find strong arms enough to support him, and generous hearts enough to defend hi m 1" These words, uttered with feeling, were loudly ap plauded, and followed by shouts of " Vive le Roi 1" Vire Ic Duc d'Aumale 1" Oa the 23.1 the Royal Duke, accompanied by the Intend an t-G enera l , C omman d ant Jamin, Captain Neip, and a great many other officers inspected the hospitals. M. Joachim Ambzrt, a distinguished officer, who has made scientific observations on the savannahs of America, has arrived here with the charge of investigating the dif ferent districts, and pointing out the best means of bring ing the lands into cultivation. I - Ic is also commissioned to examine the question of forming corps of native troops. The Moorish gendarmes of Colcah lately made the fol lowing coup de main. Divesting themselves of their uni forms, and putting on the garb of Arabs, they went before break of day towards Kelaour Donnie, beyond the retreats of the Hadjoutes, who, seeing them come from a direction opposite to that of Colcah, took them for some of their own people, and were not on the alert. They were thus enabled to seize and drive off 150 head of oxen and seven mules. Two Belgians (brothers) lately arrived from the disbanded army cf Don Carlos, had a few days ago the imprudence to go cut shooting beyond the Aratch. They. were taken by a party of Bedouins, deprived of their guns, and bound. One of them was immediately beheaded, and the other left in charge of one of the party. This man, viiihing to take advantage of the absence of his fellow brigands to strip the prisoner, loosened his bonds. The Belgisn, taking wivantage cf t.is lilerrr, drew a pi.A,2l he happened to have in his pocket, shut the Arab, and made Ihis escape back toKottb?. • EDINBURGH ANTI-CORN-LAW ASSOCIA. TION. We are happy to be ab!e to state th at t h e Edin burgh Anti-Corn-law Asscciation Lye resolved on Iltga n petitioning Parliament for a repeal of the Corn-l aws . like wise have likeie issued a eircular, urging on the parties to whom it is sent the propriety of atrengtheni ng the hands of their friends in Parliament by i_etitions from thoir sLve. rat neighbourhoods.—Scolsmun. POPE'S ESSAY ON MAN. --Mr. Abijah Pope, of .liniLti, has been found guilty and fined 220 dollars for an assault and battery on l'bilemou H. Mann, New Y or k Paper. EVENING EDITION. " 7 1111 _i._ _- STEAM NAVIGATION-EGYPT. • So much has been done of late in the Levant by steam, that everybody is now alive to its capabilities as an element either of war or peace, and is ready to ask, " What will it do next ?" Ibrahim Pacha can only ac count for his loss of the coast of Syria in a week, by confessing that the " steam-boats conveyed the enemy here, there, and everywhere, so suddenly, that it would have required wind to keep up with them! One might as well think of fighting with genii !" Commodore Napier, on the other hand, seems to think that steam is only in its cradle on the ocean, and is still swathed and bandaged down in many ways by the old-fashioned mid wifery of our " naval architects." It is many years since he advocated the systematic introduction of war steamers as a branch of the service, to form, as it were, " the cavalry of the navy ;" but they have never yet launched the kind of vessel he re• commended ; capaciour, to hold a months' fuel, instead of a mere ten days' supply, as at present ; shallow and broad-bottomed, ti skim over the water (instead of ploughing throueli it) with the least expense of fuel; and furnished with cast iron tanks or reservoirs for coal, so that as it was expended water might be pumped into them, and the best sailing line he preserved or re-esta ; Wished at pleasure. These broad bottoms, he con fesses, might roll about more than the Cyclops and Stromboli, but what would that signify ? There could be no danger where the centre of gravity was properly arranged ; and they would be thrice as effective in a blockade, as transports, or in any long voyage, or lengthy service. The Commodore has lost money enough, and won renown enough, in the employment of steamers, to entitle him to give a good practical, opinion in the matter ; and it is to be hoped, for the sake of all concerned,. that it will not be further postponed. The Commodore declares that he has never seen a river better adapted to steam navigation than the Nile, nor one worse furnished. The Pacha lent him his best and newest on the trip to Cairo lately, and the deck took fire on the way. The Paella wiil not pay for the boat, and ha;, I hear, returned it on the hands of the builders. He is very anxious to hate some good steam boats on tie riser, at d gave an order for one recently on the principle of the screw-propeller ; but withdrew it on hearing that this construction required a greater depth of water than the ricer could maintain ; as it does in the dry season, to feet in some parts. He Las granted the Peninsular and Oriental Company per missimi to place one steamer thereupon far the conveni ence of their passengers, and the boat destined for that purpose is now making the best of its way out, coasting carefully along the shores of the Pe n i nsu l a an d t h e Medi terranean—a dangerous trip for a river-beat drawing only :24 inches. This Company has also undertaken to bring nut to Alexandria, in one of its monthly steamers a double-bottomed iron track-boat, to be drawn by horses et a rapid pace, on the Mahmoudieh Canal, whereby travellers may be expedited to and from the Nile and Alexandria. But there is much yet to be done to fulfil the wants and wishes of travellers be tween England and India, and to render Egypt a de s:rable place of residence, even en passant, for the Hon. Company's officers en furlough. As far as the Penin sular and Oriental Company are concerned, I am as sured that no exertion will he spared to accomplish everything that can be desired. Their managing Direc tor, Mr. Anderson, way lately here, and took a trip to Cairo and Suez, inspecting everything connected with the teansit of travellers, and noting what might be re quired for their better accommodation. In going over the Desert, he found a few miles of it rendered rugged and unpleasant for carriages by loose stones that en cumber the surface ; and naturally began to inquire how many men and how many dollars would suffice to have them thrown aside. The Paella, who is now par ticularly inquisitive .about English sayings and doings, beard of the passing inquiry, and jumping to the con clusion that the English were going to reform his De sert as they conquered Syria, sans phrase—sent word there to say that whatever was wanting should be done by himself—that is, as soon es political affairs were settled, and he had leisure to attend to it ; so that, in short, his ways are as fer from being mended as ever. As soon as our treaty of " freedom of commerce and navigation" is worked out, and the Nile is thrown open, I understand that it is the intention of the Peninsular and Orie.ntel Company to place a second steam-bovt on it, so as to enable passengers to ascend as well as descend the river at the same time, and thus accommodate both travellers to England and Indio, who now, very inconveniently, cross each other en route between Suez and Alexandria. A little five-horse power steamer, employed by Mr. Hill, has hitherto been the only available steam-boat for passengers on the Nile. This is nosy refitting with a 10-horse power engine, and will probably be the first in the flood ; but it only holds 14 persons. The Pacha long since promised the Bombay Fund Committee to build a station, or reception-house, at Kennah or Luxor, and another at Kosseir, so as to enable travel lers arriving from India to enter Egypt at the latter port if they pleased, and (by an easy journey of four days across a country well supplied with water) pro ceed direct to visit Thebes and the most interesting ruins in Upper Egypt. Passengers proceeding to India also might, if this route were available, enjoy a trip up - the Nile, indulge their curiosity with a sight .of those far-famed antiquities, and finally embark at Kosseir on board the Victoria, Berenice, or Cleopatra., But, alas, there i. , much yet to be done era this can be counted on. The station-houses have yet to be built and the second steam-boat placed on the river ; but the Pacha shows no inclination to permit either to be ,done until his own affairs are settled favourably at Constantinople (a great mistake on his part) ; then the three steamers on the Red Sea must be replaced by larger ones, ere passengers who stop at Kosseir can expect to find ac commodation. Last month the Berenice sailed away, leaving four at Suez, having all her berths and sofas full, filled by 20 passengers, and 20 more besides stowed on the open deck, hopeless of any better accommodation in the is ay of couch or canopy I But, above all, and before all, voyagers from England to India want an extension of accommodation in the time allotted to perform their voyage through Egypt. It is killing work to hurry through the desert night and day to keep up with the mails in their transit from Alexandria to Suez. Each passenger takes eight horses at present to perform the 90 miles between Cairo and the Red Sea. Ladies complain bitterly, and with justice, of the continuous driving, hurrying, loss of rest, &e. But the mails must go through at the quickest rate. The public service cannot stop for the comfort, the health, or even the lives of ladies and gentlemen ; and the steamer at Suez must sail as soon as the mails are on board ! The fact is, that travellers require some days in advance to cross the Isthmus safely and properly, without leaving their baggage behind, or worrying themselves into a fever. This will require an interme diate steamer from England, properly a passengers' steamer. The present boats (Oriental and Great Liverpool) ate mail steamers, and the bags and boxes they bring must go a-head, whoever may be left be hind. General Sir Colin Campbell looked very much surprised, the other day in Cairo, when he saw a lot of forty-die camels provided to carry the baggage , of his party, seized on tout-a-coup by the Governor of Cairo to expedite the British mail; However, the Governor subsequently seized as many more from somebody else to oblige Sir Colin, other wise he and his friends would have been left be hind and been too late at Suez, notwithstanding the Pacha had lent bite his own steamer to ascend the Nile with expedition. Travellers in Egypt are always liable to these things, and the only way to avoid the ill consequences (such as being left to stay a month at Suez, as Mrs. Turton lately was, with her nine children and servants) is to enter Egypt some days in advance. The British and Indian public ought at once to put their shoulders to the wheel, and help the Peninsular and Oriental Company to do this, otherwise the French will do ite They have been beaten out of the Neapolitan line, and will, they know, be soon beaten out of the Grecian and Turkish line (for both Austrians and English are setting to work in competition with them-the fmer t t o he re l s a u t m t e its lucrative occupation of carryin galre pi lgrims , adysuecessful efforts e in r by the mare extension of shortlyAs own " French Lake " b ut despatches to and from Algiers : an d the Mediterranean) , and nothing will r ema i n for them to do in their to carry AlexanfriTh e y cannot continue to flounder on i n the wretched state we see them at present, th rowing w'at the friction e the axles of their 160 horse-engin es , to pre vente friction setting the v essel s on fire. They must e itner retire or imp rove. The y sa y that they are building steam-ewes in Toulon, to b e f urn i s h ed with and then that they will run d i rect s' A '- l e a n r g s i e n il e l s e ' s and Alexand r i a , b r i ng i ng hither passengers from England for India 48 hours before the arrival o f our monthly steame rs , an d h astening back t 2b o reortio t vwbai o e cher 'Toeing telegraela with whatever fait accompli ma y be crafted on the wings of steam from India or China. . . This undertaking would certa i nly be very desirable for voyagers to ludic, who will, therefore, doubtless en courage it, it the B r i t i s h pu b lic do not step forward i n time to remedy th e d e fi c i ency for their own profit, and as their own afrair,—Letter j.OOOl illexatidiia, 4 March 16th. A death o l i ) a UT s i o r id u i fSON. - ---A letter has been received ----- in town duiii:g the v.tek m!) from Chu, mentioning the g n e ati V ve al o eti r ti p n a e isi b e e i lon g in g t o t h e 26;h Reg iment, Ile has b e e n a so ldi er about nineteen years, fourteen or fifteen of which Le has spent in In dia . Durin g that named and G a Geor ge time he has transmitted money at various times to the with very affecti onate arn"nt of 73/. , a ccompailizd lett , ,rp, to his aged vidowed mother. On leaving India he hag in one of the savings banks 101., whi c h, with proper consideration, Le inane over by will to his mo ther before sailing on the Chinese ex p editio n. The sale of his ei r,.. ets produe2cl 101. 10s., for payment of which the letter contains an order. One article alone he on his as a t o ken of affeei,nate remembrance. —Paisl ey —P • 1 death-bed forbade being sold, and that was his Bible, which is to be sent borne by first opportunity to his mo er, Majeqy's Buck-Hou d • I" I or. ;srer. au ey o N c V w ill ten years, ar m s meet on t t A s : ei c nlri. o ' t heath on raster Monday i , l as S Stoke Common. It is not expected that hor Majesty will ba present. I