The Sun. — London, England, 1841-04-09 00:00:00

EDITED BY THEODORE 1100 K, ESQ. Now ready, in 2 vols. small avo.,_ THE FRENCH STAGE, and the FRENCH PEOPLE. Edited by THEODORE HOOK, Esq. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13. Great Marlborough-street. • . 4 ' Orders received by all Booksellers. NEW WORK BY THOMAS CAMPBELL, ESQ. Just ready, in 2 vols. Bvo., with Portraits of Petrarch, Laura, &c. THE LIFE OF PETRARCH By THOMAS CAMPBELL, Esq. Author of " The Pleasures of Hope," &c. Heart'• Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Alarlborough-street. ".• Orders received by all Booksellers. EDITED BY MRS. TROLLOPE. Just ready, in 2 vols. Bvo., with Illustrations by Hervieu, ' A SUMMER IN WESTERN FRANCE; Including the Provinces from THE LOIRE TO THE DORDOGNE. Edited by FRANCES TROLLOPE, Author of " Domestic Manners of the Americans," &c. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Of whom may be had, in 2 vols. Bvo., with 14 Illustratrations TROLLOPE'S " SUMMER IN BRITANY." Just ready, in 3 vols. post SY°, with numerous Illustrations by Leech, &c., COLIN CLINK. By CHARLES HOOTON. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. On the 20th inst., in 2 vols. Bvo., with Portraits, MEMOIRS OF POPULAR BUBBLES AND EPIDEMIC DELUSIONS. By CHARLES MACKAY, Esq., Author of The Thames and its Tributaries, &c. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street, Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. IDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS ON EASTER MONDAY. APRIL 12, Will be repeated the New Comedy, in Five Acts, entitled LONDON ASSURANCE. Sir Harcourt Courtly, Bart, Mr. W. Farren ; Max Hark away, Mr. Bartley ; Mr. Charles Courtly, Mr. Anderson ; Mr. Adolphus Spanker, Mr. Keeley ; Mr. Dazzle, Mr. C. Mathews ; Mark Meddle, Mr. Harley ; Grace H arkaway, Madame Vestris • Lady Gay Spanker, Mrs. Nisbett ; Mrs. Pert, Mrs. Humv. Atter which will be produced, a Grand Romantic Fairy Ex travaganza, entitled BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. Beauty, Madame Yestris ; The Beast, Mr. W. Harrison ; John Quill, Mr. Harley ; Dressalinda, Miss Rainforth ; Mar rygolda, Miss Grant; Queen of the Roses, Miss Lee. Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to commence at Seven o'Clock. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second Circles. ss. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 35.; Second Price. 2g.; Gallery. Is. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets mty ne had upon application. Private Boxcs to be had sorely of Mr. Andress, bookseller, 167, New Bond-street. " THE CHINA SUN will be REPUBLISHED ON SATURDAY NEXT, with all the LATEST NEWS. MM=ll HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS OAY. Herning...... 41 minutes after 3 I Evening minutes after 3 LONDON: FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 1841. TERMINATION OF THE WAR WITH t' • p 47., • ' 4t. ° t! . ‘ ` 4 " . T 0 S -311101'..* Thit '-' CHINA. The Paris Evening papers of Tuesday brings the highly important news of the settlement of our long protracted dispute with China. The following telegraphic despatches are from the columns of the Messayer, the evening official organ of the French Government : TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCHES : " MARSEILLES, APRIL 4. " ALEXANDRIA, MARCH 25. 44 THE CONSUL OF FRANCE TO THE MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS. " Accounts from Bombay announce, that, after some hostilities, a preliminary arrangement was concluded at Macao, on the 20th of January, be tween Captain Elliot and the Chinese Plenipo tentiaries, and that the commercial relations were re-established." " THE CONSUL OF FRANCE TO THE MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS. " MARSEILLES, APRIL 4. " MALTA, MARCH 30. " The affairs of China are on the point of being concluded. An arrangement has taken place, by which the Emperor " 1. Cedes the island of Hong Kong to Great Britain. " 2. Grants an indemnity of 6,000,000 dollars, payable in six years. 3. Establishes the official relations between the two Governments on the footing of a per fect equality. " The circular of Captain Elliot announcing these results is dated the 20th of January. It has been brought hither by the Oriental." We are in hourly expectation of receiving the despatches and papers, brought by the Oriental, with the details of the arrangement of our affairs with China. Before their arrival it would be premature to express any decided opinion respecting our gain or loss by our recent transactions with the Government of the " Central Flowery Land." Neither can we determine with out these details what is meant by " some hostili ties ;" but as the arrangement was fixed to take place at Canton, we conclude that the Canton River was the theatre of any collision which has taken place between the English and Chinese since the occupation of the Island of Chusan. The island of Hong Kong, of which a description is subjoined, is but a poor affair. That Captain ELLIOT accepted this island, and about a million and a quarter sterling, payable six years after date, in exchange for the fine island of Chusan, And in liquidation of our heavy claims upon the Chinese Government, would not surprise us, inas much as no blunder he could commit would ex cite our wonder ; but we should be indeed asto nished were such an arrangement to meet with the approbation of Lord PALMERSTON and the rest of her MAJESTY'S Ministers. But it may possibly turn out that these dol lars have been inserted in the despatch for pounds sterling, and that instead of six mil lions of dollars we are to receive as many mil lions of sovereigns. Such a sum, with the island Whampoa, and an acknowledged equality with the Chinese, might remunerate us for the heavy losses of blood and treasure which we have sus tained through the duplicity of the Chinese Go vernment. But of the details we at present know too little to express any decided opinion. Twelve hours may serve to dissipate our doubts on the subject. HONG KONG. This island is one of the group of islands at the mouth of the Canton River. It is of granitic formation, and the land rises to some consider able height in the centre of the island. There are several good watering-places on the southern shores, and potatoes and vegetables are cultivated by the inhabitants to a great ex tent. The anchorage is the best between the Lamina island and Hong Kong, as there is from ten to twelve fathoms of water. There is also good anchorage in the Ty-tam Bay for small vessels, but the entrance is not good, and there are some dangerous rocks in the co u rs e . The e ntranceinto the Northern Channel is through theLy-ee-mun Channel into Hong Kong Bay, and a lthough several of our merc h antmen h ave wintered here, the approach through the Lamma Channel is very uncertain, as the depth is con tinually changing from the great deposit of mud. Ships from Macao pass through the Lantao Channel during the Northern Mo nsoon, b ut the navigation of these straits is exceedingly difficult and dangerous. Tyfongs, or gales of wind, pre vail along the coast at the equinox, and are very destructive to the native and foreign ship.. ping. This island is badly chosen as a position; it is surrounded by small clusters of islands, and our ships of war will be unable to act amidst these island groups. Small steamers will alone be serviceable, but these must be of very small draught. The cession of this island by the Chinese Government is according to their usual cautious policy, as they will be enabled by their river . junks to block up the and cut. off communication - en tran c es , from the outer ! waters. The island is ten miles long, and about five miles broad. The Chinese have two forts on the coast opposite Hong Kong Bay; and the small harbour of Cow-too is much fre quented by the coasting junks. An excellent Chart of the Canton River, with the Entrances and Islands (including Hong Kong), is published by Mr. WYLD, of Charing cross, Geographer to the QUEEN. So much is now saidin public and in Par liament about placing the education of the whole community under the control of the clergy, that we shall do some service by subjecting the quali fications of that body for the high trust to exa mination. We cannot conceive it possible that our Legislature should go on appointing chap lains to workhouses, and chaplains to gaols, and subjecting public instruction to their interfe rence and control, without first satisfying them selves perfectly that the clergy are the fittest body of men for that office. In the hope that we may attract the attention of Members of Parliament to the subject, we pen the following observations. The origin of the opinion that the priesthood are the proper instructors of the people, may be traced to the remotest antiquity. Amongst the Jews the Levites were the keepers of all the public records, and of necessity the teachers of the people in all matters of history, religion, and morals. The priests in Egypt seem to have filled a similar office, and to have possessed all the learning of the country. A similar fact was true of the Christian priesthood. On the breaking-up of the Roman empire, the knowledge of antiquity and many of the useful arts was exclusively preserved by the Christian clergy. They were respected by the barbarians, and became their teachers. They spread not only Christianity, but the arts of Rome and Greece over Europe, and were at that time to our Anglo-Saxon ancestors what our missionaries now are to the Sandwich Islanders. For several centuries the arts of reading and writing, the sciences of astronomy, ofalchymy, of geography, and the practice of medicine, were almost exclusively in their hands. At that period they were the only teachers of the people, and they hold their present office as teachers more from traditionary respect for what the early priests did than from a conviction derived from reason of what the present race of priests are ca pable of performing. The Legislature has now to consider—admitting as we most cheerfully do, the former great utility of the priesthood— whether they have any claims to hold the same high office in the present altered circumstances of mankind. We must first notice that they are now by no means the exclusive depositories of science and historical knowledge. On the contrary, lay men are perhaps greater cultivators of the sciences than the clergy. Reading, writing, and the other arts which youth learn, are quite as much taught by laymen as by the clergy. They are not in fact, as clergymen, any longer the actual instructors of the people. Many of them take part in the periodical literature of the day; they write books also, and so contribute to the public instruction; but the press has actually superseded the clergy as public instructors, and it is only as they operate through that, in com mon with lay:nen, that they now fulfil this office. The . great object of education, so far as the State is concerned, is to make man happy on earth. The State does not undertake to prepare man for Heaven. It must teach him to do his duties in this life. It must enable him to play his part well in the great earthly drama till its final denouement. Is the priesthood, as a body, calculated to teach men their duties ? Is their own education such as to fit them to be the instructors of other men in the duties of life ? Are their minds so formed, and drilled, in love, affection, and sincere convictions, that they can be relied on as models on which a wise states man would desire to fashion the minds of the people ? These are important questions, and, before Sir ROBERT PEEL and Lord STANLEY, and Sir ROBERT INGLIS, heap taxes on us to pay clergymen, they are bound to consider and an swer them. One of the foremost duties of every man, if not the first duty, is to provide for his own sub sistence and, in order to do that, he must learn some one of the many thousand of the wealth creating arts, to which successive division and subdivision of labour has given rise. He cannot dispense with that, and the fitness of the clergy to teach any of these arts must be at once flatly denied. Nor is their example, on this point, calculated to impress on men the great lesson that each man must earn his own bread by the sweat of his brow. For the behoof of the priesthood, a great portion of the annual produce of labour is set apart, and that is most unequally divided. Shares in it are not to be obtained by industry, by great ability or by great virtue, but by fawning, by family connections, by educating some great man's son, or by being, per chance, tutor to some youth who turns out a great statesman. Who can narrate the squabbles, quarrels, and intrigues of the clergy to get large shares in this property, as it is called, of the Church ? Who knows a tithe of the simony and other vices which now and then peep out, as at York, of which the clergy, for the sake of wealth, are habitually guilty ? While, then, they are utterly unfit to teach other men bread-winning occupations, their own means of obtaining subsistence is the reverse of that recommended by the Apostle, and calcu lated to teach the community to get wealth by any means in preference to daily labour. In common with opulent laymen they acquire much useful knowledge at school and college, but that is not essential to the performance of their functions, for which they receive a peculiar instruction. They are impressed with a know- ledge of the past, and taught to disregard the present. Their acquaintance with the latter is only an incidental acquisition, and is not a neces sary part of their instruction. To one narrow portion of antiquity, to one little trait in the history of mankind, their minds are held in strict obedience, and are bound and chained by ready-made formulas, which have very often little relation to the actual world. As they ennunciate them their conduct proves that they do not believe them. For example, they preach disregard of wealth, and struggle continually to acquire it. They preach charity and love, but they rarely exhibit them in their conduct. They persecute and ma lign their brethren like the most stupid of man kind. At present the whole community is shaken by their quarrels. They denounce am bition, and are the most domineering and ambi tious of men. They tell us to be humble, but set an example of arrogance. Between their doctrines and their conduct there is the most terrible incon sistency. They have few or no honest convictions of their own, and cannot convey honest convic tions to others. The great influence which they still have over the education and morals of the people is the source of that insincerity, which is the plague of modern time. But besides the perpetual conflict between their doctrines and actual practices, the distin guishing feature of their education, that it refers wholly to the past and disregards the present, suffices to prove their incapacity to teach men how they ought nowtoaclta.wsTehne pwehoipelhe the re quire to learn the natural preservation of health in a crowded , any knowledge of mercan tile community depends. Will le the lives and characters of the scattered and agricultural people of antiquity teach that Poverty is at present a great evil; the the na tural bulk of the people, therefore, require to learn h laws on which, in the present state of society, the progress of wealth and popula tion depends. To attain these great ends, to which laws are continually directed, it is essential that the teachers of the people study the present as well as the past. And be cause the priesthood are on principle taught to disregard the present, and are mainly instructed in the past, we conclude that they are no; the proper persons to be charged with the education of the community. We make these remarks only in relation to the State employing and paying the clergy as public teachers. With their influence over private life, and any voluntary deference paid to them, we meddle not. We place ourselves in the position of legislators ; we look at the clergy as employed by the State to instruct the people in the art of providing for their own and the public welfare; and for that great and important, and even vital, object, we pronounce them to be completely in efficient. The Morning Chronicle yesterday advocated the formation of Boards of Health, which, like Mr. EWART'S proposed Minister of Public In struction, is an importation from the Continent. Boards of Health exist in all parts of Germany and in France. Is the health of the people there superior to the health of the people of England? Do they live longer ? Is the rate of mortality less. Are their cities cleaner ? To all which questions we answer No ; and, therefore, we say that this importation is as uncalled for as Mr. EWART'S Minister of Public Instruction. We are not aware that this recommen dation is advocated in the public prints by the Commissioners of Inquiry into the Health of Towns, but it proceeds from them. It does not add to the force of the recommen dation, that some of these gentlemen are sus pected of wishing to create a snug place for themselves. Nor i s th a t suspicion weakened by the public knowledge that other gentlemen have succeeded in establishing offices from which they enjoy great advantages, whatever use they may be of to the public. Now that the avenues of com merce are almost blocked up, the professions overstocked, and legitimate enterprise without any adequate scope, it is not perhaps surprising that men of talents and and ambition turn their attention to serving the public. It pays well, and its wages are certain. They find out, by various deductions, that the public has great need of their services, and a variety of recom mendations ensue, against which the Ministers ought to be upon their guard. In fact they are beset with schemes of this description, and the more they yield to them, the more expense they will fasten on the country, and the less popular will they become. Such gentlemen may weaken but cannot strengthen the Government. 1 We beg it may not be supposed that we deny the advantages of wide, open, well-drained streets, and clean, well ventilated apartments, about which we see several of our Contemporaries expatiate with great eloquence, in contrast to the dirty hovels, fetid alleys, and murky closes in which the people now dwell. We - are quite as sensible of the benefit of a change from filth to cleanliness as the greatest lover of whitewash, large windows, and free circulation of air, in ex istence. But we doubt whether their recom mendations to establish Boards of Health, and drainage laws are precisely the means to effect the much desired improvement. They cannot be carried into effect without causing consider able expense, which somehow or other, like all other taxes, will be thrown on the labourer. But the labourers are already steeped to the lips in poverty; and, in our opinion, whatever adds to the public expense, and takes the smallest fraction of the QUEEN'S coin out of the pockets of the labourers, to put it into the pockets of surveyors, commissioners, clerks, &c. &c., increases the evil—namely, the po verty, and with that the dependence and recklessness, of the people, which it is so desir able to cure. The existence of the disease we ad mit equally with our Contemporaries, but we differ from them as to its cause. They think it arises from too few regulations, and they propose to make more. We think it arises from too many, and wish to see them lessened. The evils they complain of prove to us that the Legislative authority, which has long had almost unlimited power, and has not remedied them is - not to be trusted ; and we decline, therefore, like our Contemporaries, to ask it continually to extend the sphere of its operations. The Madrid papers received are of the 30th ult. The Minister of Justice, Senor BEERRA, was reported to have resigned rather than coun tenance the appointment of a single Regent. The Chambers had not met for two days. No thing was doing. The Five per Cents. 25f for cash, and 26f for 60 days. The French Evening Papers of Tuesday bring the result of the debate in the Chamber of De puties upon MM. PAGES and MAIMUIN'S mo tion, for excluding public functionaries from that assemblage of sage legislators. For the debate itself, in which the orators on both sides infused as much personality and as little sober reasoning as possible, we cannot make room in our columns. Personalities, however stinging, lose much of their raciness when transplanted to countries in which the vituperators and the vitu perated are equally unknown. Moreover, it is no unusual thing for legislators, both in France and elsewhere. to be offensively personal without being witty ; to indulge in sarcasms without point; and to apply epithets without anything like a clear impression of their appropriateness. If we take this as a general rule the debate in the French Chamber of Deputies, on Monday and Tuesday, forms no exception to it. The only really clever speech made against the mo tion was delivered by Colonel LIADIERES, one of the KING'S aides-de-camp. This gentleman entered the arena of politics —as a genuine Irish man, before the days of Father MATTnEW, would have entered the pugnacious precincts of Donny brook Fair—determined to have a shindy with the first person he met with, whether friend or enemy. M. LIADIERES laid about him lustily, attacking indiscriminately those who sup ported and those who opposed the Fortifications Biil, with several other matters equally foreign to the question before the Chamber. He was happiest in his attack upon the lawyers, whom he tomahawked without mercy. On a division, at which 373 votes were given, the motion was only lost by a majority of 203 against 170, being a relative majority of 33, and an absolute majo rity of only 16 votes. With so trifling a majority upon such a question, it may be doubted whether the Ministers can get on without having recourse to a dissolution. The news from China had no marked effect upon the funds. The Three per Cents. were done at 78f. 60c. The Duke of Nemours, on his departure for Africa the day before yesterday, was accompanied by his aide-de-camp, General Boyer, his orderly officer M. Borel de Bretizel, and byCount lierthrer and M. de Larne, orderly officer of the King. A letter from Constantinople, of the 17th of March, says that the Porte has laid before the Ambassadors of the Four Powers, the answer which it is to make to the demands of Ale hornet Ali. The conferences are held at Lord Ponsonby's. It seems that these demands will be acceded to.—Le Con stitutionnel. We have the following letter from Toulon, of Ist April : "If the squadron had been ordered to ea yesterday the ships would return to port in a few days much damaged. We have had in the night strong gales from the north-west, and the weather is still very bad to-day ; accordingly the squadron re mains at anchor in the road. The following is the list of the ships which were to have sailed this morning, but will not leave the port till the wind has abated:— The Ocean, Vice-Admiral Hugon ; the Souveraine, Rear- Admiral Casy ; the Suffron, the Scipion, the Inflexible, and Santi Petre, all of the line. . The Medea and Venus frigates . _ _ It was by a telegraphic despatch that the squadron received the order to put tu sea. We hear that the Montebello, Neptune, Hercule, and Ville de Marseille, of the line, was to wait in the roads for further orders. The Velnce steamer, is, we hear, to be attached to Admiral Hugon's squadron. Ihe Cameleon •reamer is engaged in conveying the sol diers of the Nth regiment of the line from Port Vendres to Boras, where the Trident and Marengo are at anchor. We learn this moment a piece of news of importance. We are to have in future two mails from Africa every week instead of one. Of course, there will be the same number from Toulon to Africa.—Le Commerce. TUESDAY, Anil, 6. t led Highest Lowest Lad Price Price. Pric e . Price r rencn .5 p er Cents «.. 113 ... Ha 35 ... 113 ••• 112 i 0 4 per Cents ............ I 9 10 90 10 99 10 .. 99 10 3 per teats 7B 65 .. 78 ilO ... 78 65 ... 78 75 .:,na 01 trance Lade Rank 5,000 f. Skates 5150 ...5150 "4150 ...5150 cigian Bank S per Cent 5....... ... um% ... 10114 New L0an .......... , 101% ... 1 15g ~. 10i % 1015, ipanush Active ..... 5 3 4 ... ... 5% Portuguese 3 per Cents 2O ... 20 ... o ... 20 N eapolitan lO3 80 ... 103 95 ... "33 80 ... 03 95 Roman ......... ..... 103% ..• 103% ... 103 ... 103% RAILW AY SHARES. „itt 6ernlav 7 _25 725 ...725 ... 725 Versaillcs.R. ••• _385 ... 380 ... 385 ....... •••• Zl4 • 275 275 275 485 ... 485 ... 485 ... 485 Orleans ..••• . to 4 23 4 10 7 3° 452 23 51;i 0 42450 50 50 50 20 ... 420 ... 420 ... 420 Rulhausen to Thann WINDow DUTIES.7—A return recently moved for by Captain Pechell, 111. P., is before us, from whi c h i t pears that the total amount of window duty charged oq. hos a l? - tals in England during the year 1840 was 1,221 0 L 2d A; duty on windows assessedfor the 12 following towns in Engl and (which contr:bute the largest amount) is as follows Bath, 18,8561. - Birmingham, 7, 9051 . ; Brighton, .11,823 C. Bristol, 12,6461 ; Cheltenham, 5,3822.; Clifton, 5,3771: Leeds, 5,6021. ; Liverpool, 22,5511. ; Manchester, 12,983/..; Norwich, 4,8701. ; Plymouth, 7442 i. and York, 0034 MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, THURSDAY EVENING. The Funds closed firmly. Consols for immediate transfer real/zed 90 to 891, and for the Account 90k to 89k. At the termination of business there was no difference between the Money and Account prices, the settling day being, in fact, very near at hand. Exche quer Bills realized 9s. to 12s. premium ; India Bonds par to 2s. premium ; the New Three and-a-Half per Cents. 98/ to i l the Reduced Three per Cents. 88/ to 89 ex-div. ; Bank Stock 169 f to 170} ex-div. ; and India Stock for the Opening 2.53. The Foreign Market was dull all day. Spanish Active I3onds realized 23 to k; Portuguese NeN Five per Cents. 33f to j ; Three per Cents. 19i ; Mexican Bonds 30i to ; Colombian 22/ ; Brazilian 69/ ; Belgian 102 ; and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 52 to 51i. The Share Market, although it has been somewhat deficient in buoyancy, owing to the partial cessation of speculation at Liverpool, has not yet shown any down ward tendency, the following having been the more cur rent prices to-day. Brighton Railway Shares brought 4 to 41 dis. ; Eastern Counties 13/ dis. ; Manchester and Leeds 3 dis. ; and South Eastern 15 div. ; Lon don and Birmingham were 66 to 67 ; the New 22 ; the South Western 17i ; the York and North Midl ind 30 ; and Great Western 281 prem. ; London and West minster Bank New Shares were 2 1 prem. The Foreign Exchanges w e r e s t ea dy this afternoon, all business usually transacted in them on the Friday having been arranged this afternoon, in consequence of the occurrence of the national holiday to-morrow. Paper at three months' date was negotiated on the following terms :—Paris, 25f. 70c. ; Hamburgh, 13 9} ; Frankfort, 150 ; Amsterdam, 12 4to ; Antwerp, 12 3,1 to ; and Trieste, 10 2to 3. An unusual degree of excitement was produced to day in the T , a market, by the receipt of news of the re-opening of the trade with the Chinese, and the set tlement of the differences between this country and the Celestial Authorities. As might have been anticipated, the value of Tea in the wholesale markets immediately fell, and they must, it is thought, still go lower, as most of the speculative holders must bring their stocks to market. The losses that have been sustained by the holders of Tea are very considerable. In other branches of trade there has not been much lite dis played this week. The Colonial Markets have etised for the Easter holidays, West India, East India, and other principal articles of produce remain at very nearly the same prices as last week. (From The Sun of Last Night.) LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, APRIL 7.—The sales of Cotton to-day amount to 2,500 b oles, of which exporters have taken 900; in prices there is no alteration. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, APRIL 7. —An extensive busi ness has been done in the Share Market to-day. The trans actions comprise the following :—Chester and Birkenhead New Shares, 17 3 / 4 ; Eastern Counties, 9; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 34A ; Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock, 24A ; Grand Junction, 211 ; ditto Chester and Crewe, 52i ; Great Western New Shares, 64; ditto 20/. Shares, 1 li; Liverpool and Manchester Quarter Shares. 46%; London and Birmingham New, 156 ; Manchester and Bolton and Bury, 54i; Midland Counties, 88; New Shares, 22 1 4. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 7.—London and Birmirgham, 156; Lancaster and Preston, 33 3 A ; Manchester and Leeds, 66 1 ; Ditto Halves, 284; London and Simth Western Tenths, 43 ; Great Western Fifths, 114 ; Chester and Birkenhead New, 17A ; Stafford and Rugby, 38s. 9d. ; South Lancashire Banks, 5/. 6s. 3d. ' • Union Plate Glass, 10 1 / x . Thirty Minutes past Six.—No news of the President. We have received the Journal of Antwerp of yesterday's dare. BOURSE OF AMSTERDAM, APRIL s.—Our National Funds are getting up to-day, assisted by the higher prices from Lon don and Paris. A great many purchases were made to cover the preceding sales. Ardoin's continued firm, and remained at 20i. Accounts from Frankfort, Ist April, state, that the whole sale business at the Easter Fair commenced on the above day, in which there was great activity in the articles most current, although the numbers ofpurchasers were not as yet considerable. The important intelligence received by the telegraph from Paris from Marseilles, of the date of April the 4th, and from Macao of the 20th January, stating that preliminary arrange ments had been concluded with the Chinese on the 20th Jan. on the following terms, that the Chinese cede the island of Hong-Kong to Great Britain, also granting an indemnity of 6,000,000 dollars, payable in six years, has given great satis faction to the public, but it has not had that effect on the British funds generally expected, owing to its being antici pated. The speculators and the public are anxiously waiting fur the papers and letters by the Overland Express, to learn further particulars. Consols opened this morning at 90 for the Account, and at present may be quoted 59i 90 ; Money 88% ; Exchequer Bills better, 9 12 prem. ; Bank Stock, 169 171 ; India bonds, 2 disc. 2 prem. In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active left off, 221 i 23%, at present 23% %; Deferred, 121- %; Passive, 5% %; Portu guese closed at 32% 33%; at p r e s ent, 33%; Three per Cents., 19 3 / 4 20 ; Brazilian, 69 70 ; Colombian, 22% 23 ; Mexican, 30% 31 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 51% 8 ; rive per Cents., 98%. Shares—Great Western, 27 28 prem. ; New, 13% prem. ; London and Brighton, 4% 3% dis. ; l3lackwall, 5% % dis. ; Bir. mingham, 65 67 prem. ; Southampton, 56 57 per shire ; Croydon, 13% % per share ; Greenwich, 8% per share ; Man chester and Birmingham, 15i 14% dis. ; South Eastern, a...d Dover, 15% 15 di . Consols may be quoted at present 90 to i, for Money 90. The China intelligence has had an effect on the Tea Market. Congou Tea very flat at Is. sd. to Is. 5-id. ; yesterday it was at Is. 7icl., with a firm market. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. London and Brighton London and Birmingham Manchester and Leeds ... 70 Ditto New Shares South Eastern and Dover PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, APRIL 6. 3 per Cent. Consols Three and Half Stock 97/ i Grand Canal Stock ...... ... Ditto Reduced ... 974 Ditto Debs. 6 per sent... Ditto New, 1830 ......984 Ditto 4 per cent . . 84 per Cent. Debs. 9Ol Royal Canal Stock The Chinese news has had but little effect on the British Market to the present hour —about 4 per cent. Some doubts prevail respecting the articles acceded to by the Emperor, which causes much anxiety for the arrival of the official docu ments, which may be expected in the course of the evening. To the pre s ent time it is ascertained that Messrs. Wakefie:d's deficiency amounts to 66,0001. The President steamer has been insured this morning at 35 per cent. Money has been rather tight in the course of the morning. The Dutch mail has arrived of the 7th inst., bringing the prices from Amsterdam of the 6th. Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 51 5-16 : Five per Cents. 994; Ardoin's, 20 11-16. Consols, which were in the morning 904, for the account, at present are 90, with very little doing ; Reduced 884 ex divi dend; Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Reduced 9754 ex di vidend; New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. 981 ; Exchequer Bills 11 9 11 prem.: India Bonds 2 prem. 2 par. In the Foreign Market very little doing. Spanish Active 23 ; Portuguese 331 ; Three per Cents. 198 ; Colombian 224; Mexican 308; Brazilian 694; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 52 518 ; Five per Cents. 954. In the Sha-e Market scarce a bargain doing. London and Brighton 454 ; London and Birmingham, 157 ; Manchester and Leeds, New Shares, 29; South Eastern and Dover 17%. Consols for Account, 90 ; ditto 25th May, 904 A ; Mexican, 304 31 ; Portuguese, 335 4 ; Spanish, 234 4. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock ... 1704 India Stock 3 per Cent Red B9 Ditto Bonds 2 par 3 per Cent Cons 9O Ditto Old Annuities ... 34 per Cent Red.. New 34 per Cent 9B/ Ex. Bills, 1,000/....25d 12 pm New 5 per Cent ' Ditto 500/ l2 pm Long Annuities toexpire Ditto Small l3 pm Jan. 1860 ..• 124 Bank Stock for 0pg....1744 Oct 1859.......... 12 9-16 India Stock for Acct.... 253 Jan. 1860. Consols for Acct 9O FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent.... Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent lO2 Ditto, New Ditto . Brazilian Bonds. . 694 Pru ss i an , 5 per cent. — Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent — Chilian, 6 per cent...... 'Ditto, Aletallie Colombian, 6 per cent... 'Spanish, 5 per cent Ditto, 1824. 224 Ditto, Deferred .. Danish, 3 per cent — • 'French, 5 per cent. —f. —c. Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Exchange -f. —e. Mexican, 5 per cent. ... French, 3 per cent —f. —c. Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825. Dutch, 24 per cent ... 518 Peruvian, 1825, 6 per et. Ditto, 5 per cent 9B SHARES. Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid ...........94 Ditto Debentures ( 4 paid) 74 Great Western Railway (65 paid) . . 934 Ditto New Shares (50 paid) London and Brighton (50 paid) London and Bo mingham Railway (90 pd) 156 Ditto New shares ( 2 paid).... 24 London and South Western Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) .. 67 Ditto New Shares (30 paid).. South Eastern and Dover (33 paid)... EXCHANGE—(YESTERDAY). 18 York and North Midland Railway (50 pd) 80 Amst T da U m ß SE O C F F E . X I C 2 HA 7 N i 48 Ditto, at sight Rotterdam ...2 U. 12 74 Genoa . 25 85 Antwerp Hamburgh M.B. 13 124 1 Venice Altona Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 60 Palermo, per oz 119 (Gibraltar Ditto, 3 months 25 80 Lisbon Marseilles Bourdeaux 25 90 Rio Janeiro 27 Frankfort on Maine... 1504 Bahia Petersburgh, 3Us ... 37 Buenos Ayres , .... 8er1in........ 7 0 New York, 21days sight 464 Vienna, effec. fl. 3M. 10 3 Philadelp hia 46 ... Trieste, ditto lO 5 PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ. Madrid ... 354 Portugal Gold Coin £0 0 0 Cadiz Bilboa Barcelona Seville ... .. 35 Silver in Bars ' 05 0 THE QUEEN'S GARDEN. —It is not generally known that in the garden attached to Buckingham Palace there is a mound of earth upwards of eighty feet high, the summit of which commands an extensive view of the surround ing district, with the Surrey hills in the distance; her Ala. jesty having expressed a wish to enjoy the view from the top of the hill during the summer, workmen have been, for the last week, actively emplosed in foring a ravel walk u the side, and when that is finished a m small pavilion is to be erected for the accommodation of the Queen and her Royal Consort on the summit I'HE ARlt4Y.—The 14th Light Dragoons, now on the march to Canterbury, will embark for Bombay about the 15th of May. ' The tenders for shippingwill be opened to morrow at the India House. Abou t 500 rank and fi le from Limerick district are ordered to joi n their cor p s on foreignservice. The Queen's Bays leave P iershill, Edinbu rgh , this week, for Sheffield and the 29th mov e shortl y from t he Castle for Glasgow barracks. The Bays w i l l be re p laced b y the 4th Dratooll Guards, and the 29tliby the Beth Re g ime n t . Thalberg and Ole Bull aars . ms:, where their concerto are most nuramualY atteided: THE lONIAN ISLANDS. A Correspondent informs us that the fami lies of Metaxa Anzolato and Cesare, who distin guished themselves two centuries back in fa vour of the Venetian Government, were re warded by that Government with the title of Count, and with many privileges. At the time the Russians, and again when the French held possession of these islands, this family proved themselves good patriots on all occasions. During the revolt in Greece in the year 1821, part of their property was confiscated by the lonian Go vernment, in consequence of some of the family having raised men and furnished ammunition to aid the revolt, but the lonian Parliament has lately reversed the sentence as regards the title, and passed the following decree : UNITED STATES OF THE lONIAN ISLANDS. P. PETRIZZOPULO. On the part of his Highness the President and the most Excellent the Sen‘tors of the United States of the lonian Islands. Having read the peti'ion of the Noble Signor Giorgio Metaxa Antelato for himself, brot era and cousins, from the Island of Cephaloci4, dated Ist February inst., with which he submits the documents whereon be founds his claim to the title of " Count." Having seen the original decree, in virtue of which, from the year 1691, the family of tt e said Counts Metaxa has bi-eli i❑vested and decorated, in perpetuum, by the Venetian Government with the title of " Count," Considering that the said gentlemen and the:r families have a just right to that title: With due attention to what is established by the Reso lution dated 3d June, 1840 : The Senate Decrees, The Noble Signori D r Giorgio Battista, D r Anasta sio and Niccoliuo Metaxa, sons of Spiridione Anzchto, and the Noble Signori D.r Cay. M trino Govanni, D.r Rocco, and D.r Costantino Mer , x , t, sons of Ni.2colo An zulato, of Cephaloi A, aro authorised to continue styling themselves " Counts." Such title may also be assumed by the legitimate des cendaLti of the said Counts Mitota, in perpettium, agree ably to the decree that confers it upon them. Given from the Palace of St. Michael and St. George. Corfu, Feb. 10, 1841, By order of the Senale, T. J. GISBORNE, St c. to the Senate for the Geo. Dep. DUTCH MAIL. THE HAGUE, APRIL 57—It is Affirmed here (says the Haarlem Courant) that his Majesty the K!ng wid go to Amst•rclam on the 13 h of this month. LUXEMBURG, APRIL 3.—lnformation has lately been published in this city that the King, our Grand Duke, intends to pay us a visit in the course of next month. This news has caused great joy here. Our city has never been honoured by a visit from any of the Royal and Grand Ducal family. It was reserved for King William 11., to give us that pleasure. Both the Magis gistrates and private persons are doing their utmost to give his Majesty a brilliant reception, and to prove our gratitude for the bent fits which his Majesty has con ferred upo.. us since his Accession to the throne. ROTTERDAM, APRIL s.—Letters were received on the 30th of last month at K•eO, coming from Copenha gen, at which time it was expected there that the Sound duty would be reduced to 1 per cent. of the value on all goods, with a deduction of one-fourth on importation into the ports of the BAltic. We learn from Mayence that on the 28th of March, the fine steamer the Waal, belonging to the Nether lands Steam Navigation Cornpany,performed the voyage from Cob!eotz to Mayence in seven hours and fifty minutes. Tnis is the quickest passage ever yet made by a steamer between these two cities. The Weal passed the Victoria, belonging to the Cologne Com pany, and the Guttenburg, belonging to the Dussel dorff, which had lighted their fi es an hour, or an hour and a half beiure it.—Dutch Papers, April 7. BRUSSELS and GERMAN PAPERS. BRUSSELS, APRIL 4.—The only thing that we can affirm respecting the Ministerial crisis is that it is not true, as as ' serted by a Journal celebrated in Europe for its unauthenti. rated intelligence, that the ordinance appointing new Ajinis ters will appear t o-m or. ow in the Moniteur. Nothing will be done before the end of the Session of the Senate, which is sum moned for the 6th of Apr I. We foresaw that the King's erdinance would not act with precipitation in a state of things of so serious a nature, and which require mature reflecti.n., However desirable and ne cessary a speedy solution may be, it is better to wait a few days tit. people's minds have become calm, than to enter rashly on a course, from which it might perhaps be difficult to depart. An address to the King for a dissolution of the Chambers was voted unanimously by the Municipal Council of Ghent on the 2d, in the evening. BRUSSELS, APRIL s.—Baron Honnenty the Saxon Mi nister Plenipotentiary at Paris, arrived at Brussels yesterday morning, on his way to Germany. The Moniteur Belge does not contain anything relating to the Ministerial crisis, not even as much as an allusion to the subject. ROME, MARCH 18.—The Russian Prince Gallitzin is build ing a splendid palace here in the style of the Palace de la Cansellaria, not far ,from the College i Chmentino. It is probable that the Prince means to fix his residence in Rome. The accounts from Syria are very melancholy., '1 he fresh murder (connected with that of Father Thomas) is confirmed by letter from Aleppo, so that the fir man which the English and French agents obtained from the Sultan as a declaration of the innocence of the Jews of Da ascus, in respect to tie clearly proved murder of Father Thomas, appears to be considered by them as a license for the perpetration of new atrocities against the Christians—at all events, the Christians in the East will probably need more powerful protection than the Porte can afford them. In Aleppo already they suffer severely under the government of Ibrahim Pacha, and we hear the bitterest comilaints of losses of property. On the whole, the representations which we re ceive of the situation of the Christians and of the tyranny ex ercised towards them are truly afflicting. DUICts l'UNDs.—Amsmituard, APRIL 6. klohey. . [11,4. tctual Debt, , 24 per Cent Ditto, ditto S per cent. A mot t Syndic,o.4 percent' r9% 8:04 Ditto, ditto, 3!,,, per cent 72 - .2 Commercial Company, 4 , , per c.rit 1,,, ,4 ~7 Ditto (i 335 and 11,37) 5 per cent. Loan 1e37, 5 per cent. Exchange on London, Dire month l2 ON Two mnntha Dutch Papers, Papers, April 7. BELGIAN I! U NDS.-.131111118/1.1,, APRIL 6, I.etlir., Dr, , ,, ,S, pet l.ei11. tiothschild's Loan. 5 per C4nt Loan 01 Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. :i per Cent. Thirty.seven 71 (1 40) ICO)4 Loan ot City, ISlit.t, .i per Cent b )4 'Society oi Cortan,tee, 4), per cent 9 7 34 Hank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 7B National Society . Exchange on Lon(ling (short) t) iirussels Papers, April 6. AUSTRIA N FUNDS ....) , Itt•lNs, MARCO '29 i i e per Cents. Metalnuiteit ki - iti per Cents. I hree par Cents. I.nli Marts ...Allgenteine Zraung, Aptil 3 PRUSSIAN FUNt,s.— BERLIN, APRIL 3 tints Morey St, Schuld. Sch., 4. 9 per cent Prussian English Loan, 16:10, 4 per cent 111 , 1% % E.xchange on Landon, three months 0 19% —Prussian Slate Gazelle, April 4 MR COLQUHOUN, M.P.—Mr. Colquhoun, of Kil:ermont, M P., has again published a disclaimer of his Presbyterianism. He is much afraid of being thought member of the Church of Scotland, and most anxious to clear himself of the charge of communi at with her humble fold. It was once otherwise. We remember him a pro fessing Whig—certainly only a nominal Whig. He is now a High Tory. We remember him also a professing Presbyterian, and a member of the General As.embly of the Church of Scotland—he says now he wns only "a nominal cldar," and that he is notwithstan. i g a thorough Episcopalian. At all evens, it is pinin that Mr. Colquiwun has been nominally ,ne tiing and really another; and this is no recommend-tion.— Caledonian Mercury. We much rejoice to find that the staple trade of our city, upon tie prosi.erous stare of which so large a portion of our working classes depenri, continues to receive the countenance and patronage of the highest per sonages of the Court Mr. Li'ln gt:in, of the Cross, lately forwarded to the Queea Dovra A er, pursuant to or der, a large parcel cf of various sorts, the mate rial of the whole beirg of the best description, and the cutting and make genet aly most excellent, A like order has also been ju,t exeetat. d by Mr. Litlington fur our most gracious Queen.— Worcestershire Chronicle. ANTRIM ELECTION.—A contest is threatened here. We have ourselves soni, thing to say upon the sub ji et, but we shall wait a more fi ting opportunity. The two candidates are Mr. M‘Donntll, of Glenarm Castle. and Mr. Nathaniel Alexander, rt . Portglenone. The Mail supports the former--the Packet the latter. We copy the following from a Belfast paper :--" We understand that the majority of the leving int( rt sts in the county have signified their intention of supporting Mr. M'Donnell. Amongst then, are the Hertford, Palt , tribam, Mountcashel, Dungannon, Ferrard, and Machaughten fan Dies. Mr. M•Donriell arrived 0 is morning in Belltst, by the Falcon steamer, from Liverpool, and has commenced his canvass. —Ulster Times of Saturday. EXCISE COLLECTION AND MANAGEMENT BlLL.—.This Bill, introduced by Mr. R. Gordon, and Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, proposes, 'amongst many other provisions, to cruiet as follows, viz.-1 That none but such as were market-towns at the time of the passing of the 7th and Bth of George IV., c. 53. shall be (teemed market-towns within that Act. 2. That no ki cpers of ex cise offices shall, on that account, be deemed office , •si of excise, &c. 3. That all mactiines, vessels, &c., not duly entered, and all goods, Sto., f .und ir, unentered vessels or premises, shall be forfeited. 4. That managers and dire tors of ji,int stock compao c. sh mak, entries on behalf of their respective companies, &c. 5. That ti e Lords of the Treasury may appoint a controller and auditor ef excise, &v. 6 'Tat all the revenues, &c., of toe excise shall he pa'd over t the Roceiver- Gener:.l of Excise at the chief antic of Excise, &e., to be paid by him into the Bank of Eng land. 7. Th.:t all such money shall be placed to the ac count of the Exchequer, under the provisions of the 4th of William IV., c. 15 8. That all goods sub.p.ct to duties of excise, and all matt rials, &c , used in their manufactures, shall be Icahle (with certain exceptions) tr all duties, arrears, and ptuaAies. iocurt ed whist in the possession of the trader. 9. That persons aggrieved by arty judgment of the Commissioners of Excise, may ap pc.l to tie Barons of the Exchequer &c. 10. That the Registrar of the Corcrni.siern r: of Excise sh: 11 bo the Registrar of the said Barons of the Exchequer, on appeals, &c. 11. That all seizures under the value of 15/., unless claimed within one month after the seizure, shall be con demned, &c. By this ruessatcyortiQua of several fizzier Acts are repealed .' — •-' "`" • LITERATURE. THE FLUCTUATIONS OF TRADE; or, the Secret of Foreseeing when Prices are goin g to Rise or Fall, with an Exposition of the Pow er and Workings of the Bank o/ England in reference to those important subjects. By IL J. WRIGHT, Esq. If this pamphlet completely answered its title page it would be invaluable. The faculty of fore seeing when prices are going to rise or fall, if possessed by a few, would be to them a mine of wealth. Mr. Wright is of the same opinion, and he discreetly recommends his readers not to use the knowledge he conveys to them with the hope of making inordinate gains, but rather as a means of protecting themselves. He discourages avarice, while he instructs the world how to grow rich. But we are bound to say that Mr. Wright's lore is of a very limited nature, applied mainly to the effect on prices of changes in the quan tity of the currency, and, Ca particular, to changes in the currency of the Bank of England. To such causes of a rise or fall in prices, or a scanty or abundant harvest, a new invention or a new market, Mr. Wright does not advert. Of course there is nothing novel in his teaching that the contraction and expansion of the currency will cause a fall or a rise in price, and the only secret worth knowing is when that expansion or con traction is about to take place. We will inform Mr. Wright and the public of a short way to get at this great secret. Let him obtain a seat in the Bank Parlour, let him if possible become Go vernor or Deputy-Governor, and he wilt learn more speedily than by a thousand indications when the currency is going to be expanded or con tracted, and he might buy or sell accordingly. Here, however, are some of the indications, which are probably made known to the public when the Governor, Depu overn or, and Directors have made their bargains When the Ba , ,kof Ergland increases its issues it em ploys some or al of the f lowing means for that purpose: it lowt rs the rate of interest, discounts merchants' bills of exchange more f. eely, accommodates the public with loans of larger sums of money on the deposit of Exchequer-bills . and India bonds, and buys Exchequer-hills, stock, and other securities. The London and country bankers speedily fol low its example. The bill broker, in like manner, be comes more literal, and the merchant, in his turn, eves more extensive, if not longer, credit ; a spirit of con mer cial confidence is thus diffused. the facili ies of obtaining money are increased, private hills of exchange get into more general circulation, more checks are drawn, and prices advance. When the Bank of England pursues an opposite course, the withdrawal of a portion.ef its notes mates a partial void in the London circul.tion ; the country banker's paper flow s up t o th e metropolis to supply its place, a here it is presented to the London ngent. for payment ; the country banker's balance de creases in his agents' hands, and he is called on to supply additional funds, or rec ivis a hint to curtail his i-sues. This reduction of its paper by the Bank of Engl.nd is usually accompanied to, a cont' action of its ciscounts and a raising of the rate of int...rest : the same t• ing is done b 1 the HI breke.s and London and co .ntry bankers ; fewer bills of exchange are now discounted, aid tame at a higher rare of iaterest ; the inferior descript , ons arc rejected ; 'no overdrawing of accounts is permitted ; money becomes scarce ; goods are forced into the market to enable the holders of them to meet their engagements; bankruptcies ensue; confidence is shaken; trade is at a stand-still, and that which before had b. en considered us legitimate trading, is now sivisatized by the appelLttons of "..vertrading" and "excessive speculation," • After an attentive perusai of Mr. Wright's pamphlet, we have not learnt from it the art of foreseeing when prices are to rise or to fall, but our mercantile readers may find out a secret that is hidden from our unmercantile eyes. Mr. Wright, like all other persons who have investi . Yatea the matter, does not approve of the con duct of the Bank, as he tells us that the quantity of paper put into circulation is more likely to decrease than increase. Tuat is bad news, if true, for Bank Stock holders, whose gains arise, in a great measure, from borrowing a sum from the public at no interest which they lend to individuals at a high rate of interest. On theii promises to .pay on demand, they borrow sixteen or eighteen millions sterling from the public, for which they do not pay a farthing in terest. It may even be supposed that the public, by destroying the promises of the Bank, and so releasing the Bank of its obligation, almost pay all the expenses of lending their money to the Bank. By that means the Bank gets rich, and the greater the sum it can borrow by issuing its notes, and the higher the interest it charges to the individuals who borrow it 3 credit, the greater will be its annual gains. By what right the Legislature confers on the few hundred or thousand gentlemen and ladies who own Bank Stock the exclusive privilege of borrowing with out paying any interest, we know not. It is one of those inscrutable mysteries of legislative au thority which we are bound to believe, like all its other decrees, benefits the public, while it enriches the Bank Proprietors. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, THURSDAY.—The Queen rode out this afternoon in a poney phaVon, attended by Lad) Bar ham, Hon. Misses Pitt and Devereux. His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out nn horseback uttended by Colonel B uverie. the Marquis nt Wadfort, and Colonel Wemyss. The Royal party took the direction of the Great l'ark. Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. G. E. Anson arrived yes terd-y at the Caitle, oe d visit to nijrsty. It is expected that. her Maj , sty and his Royal High ness Prince Alberi, with the Iti:yal suite, will attend Divine service to St. George's Chapel to-morrow. Prince George of Cambridge left town at half past nine o'clock yesterday morning for Dublin. The Duke of Camb- idge attended t the Chapel Royal, St. James's, yesterday morning, where the Bishop of London held a confirmation of the juvenile nobility and gentry. MAUNDY THURSDAY.—Yesterday the usual distribu tion of her Majesty's Royal M toady took place at Whitehall Chapel. Thee wete present 22 aged women and 22 agei men, heir g the number of years of age of her Majesty. These patties r eeived the Royal bounty with great apparent thankfulness ; they were all abuse the age of 70, and some of them totally blind. At two o'clock the rt-cipieots assembled at Whitehall Chapel, and at three the customary procession walked to the chap.l, consisting of six children from the ha tion.d shoots, who were selected for their good con duct : to these were g,v,'n the linen cloth which they wore ;:s a scart, and a small donation of a crown. Four of the childt en came from the nationol schools of West minster, and two from the schools in the parish of St. G:rorze, Hanover-square. The Rev. Dr. Hodgson, Dean of Girlisk who oflietwed as Sub-Almoner, at tended by Joseph Hanby, E,q., Secretary and Yeoman of the A,moury, and other officers of the Lord Cham berlain's department ; the Rev. Dr. S;eath, Sub• Dean of thy• Chapel Royal ; Rev. Dr. V.v an, Rev. J. Hors ley Dakins, Rev. Mr. Packman, Rev. Clarke Haden, and others of the clergy. The Yeomen of 61'e Guard attended in their statc. , costume, one of the corps carrying the Gold asn which contained the Roy,:l The distributions were made between each Anthem. the most striking of which was " Who is this who cometh from Edom," sing by Me srs. H ,we., Hubbs, J. B. Salo, and oth.-r gentlemon of the Ruyat Chapel. S r Geo ge Smart p esich,d at the organ. The dirrinution cons me I of 1/. 15,. to each woman as an equiv..lont for tl)thing. and each man receiver sufficient woollen acid linen cloth, shoes and stockii,gs, to indie him an entire suit. Both men and women also recei%ed 11. 10s. each as commutation money in strad of provisions formerly distributeti in k nd, and a further sum of 1/. and 22 silver pennies, the latter being the number of the years of age of her Majesty. On Monday and Tuesday last the Royal M nor Alms were distributed to upwards of 900 persons, who ris. ceived ss. each, and also the R.iya. Use Charity of 13s. eac.:, to 168 persons, all above the age of 60 years, ex cept in a tew cas , s of a special nature such as blind ness and great affliction. These distributions were wade by Mr. H Secretary and Yeoman of the A knonry, ut der the immediate directi,n of the Lord High Almoner. APPROACHING MARRIAGES IN HIGH LIFE —Saturday, the 17th inst., is fixed for the marriage ot Sir Walter James, Bart., M.P., and Miss Ellison, (taught, r of Mr. Cuthbert Ellison, and sister of Mrs Bedworth Lambton and the late Viscountess Stormont. Lord .s;onteagle is to tie mar ried to 'Miss Marshall in the course of the eosuing week. The nuptials of Viscount Jocelyn and Lady Fanny Cowper are on the eve of being solemnised, but the day has not yet transpired. Viscountess Palmerston, mother of the fait fiancee, will give a grand dejeuner on the inlet esting oci asi to toe Earl and Countess Cowper, Viscount Melbourne, Earl an:: Countess of Roden, and Lady M. Jocei n, Viscount and Viscountess Powerscourt, and a large circle of the members of both families. 'We can positively state the following para graph, which appeared in a Brighton paper, to be without the slightest foundatii n:—" It is repotted that the Hon. Henry Chelmondeley, eldest son of Lord Delainere, is aliout to be married to the eldest daughter, of Sir Robert ''eel." We understand, Mr. Coore, of Scruton Hall, Yorkshire, son of the late Colonel Coors, is about to lead to the hyrni neal altar Miss Milbank, daughter of Mr. and Lady Augusta Mil bank, and grand-daughter of the Duke of Cleveland. The Dowager Lady Colebrooke. widow of the late Parnnet, is to be married its the course of the present, month to Mr. J. T. Bremridge. The day is not yet fixed for the marriage of Mr. Bushe and Miss Smyth, daugh•er of Ludy Elizabeth Smyth, and grand-daughter of the Dukc of Gr4ton. The approach ing marriage of the Duke of Dorset and Nliss Montague is confiden'ls- spoken of in the higher circles, but not a word is mentioned as to the dry of union. We hear the pre liminaries are already arranged fur the marriage of Mrs. Wes:enra, widow of the late Hon. Richard Westenr a , thi r d son of the Earl of Rossmi re, with Captain Lewis; Mrs. estent a was left wiih a family of three daughters ; the gallant Captain is, we believe, Provost of Monaghan. In the course of the.present season Lord Walpole will be mar -ied to Miss Pellew, daughter of the Hon. Sir Fleetwood Pellew. eldest son of the Earl of Viscount Ipswich , Euston, N.P., and grandson of the Duke of Grafton, who has recently been appointed attache to the British Legation at Naples, loft town last week for Italy, to assume his diplumatirs THE PENNY POSTAGE• TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUS SIR,—As subscriber to sour valuable jouro•!, would much oblige me with the following irisero,t It being more than twelve months since their' Postage came into operation, it would would interesting to the public to know the good or attending it, and for such information we wtor‘' : 7 l debted to the Post-office authorty, though ir ,, 4 general opinion of many that the revenue has fe l far mere than what was anticipated, notsvithstso the large increase of letters, &c. Rowlaid fol way be very sell, but the repeal of the Corn•latO be far better, for what with the high price of prof* and the scarcity of work the frowns of hes% en w, or later, fall on this country or on those who so OPP"I the poor, however light they may think cf . it, for 3 . 4 changes will be manifeit ere Ling. 1, Among all the situations or places of trust I P ° . no other class of men worse paid than those t r ii , Post-office department, and the letter-carrier Bio (o 3l cular claim our serious consideration ; both eli A s/00 late we see them fulfilli ng their laborious li n ri g e worthy employment, exposed to the changes of perl sons, with a small pittance not sufficient , to Igoe nature ; and let us hope that their rulers will :1, 0 0 honourably to them, for the y should not be la; re in whose hand s our property is entrusted. 11401 muneration can be granted them for their ou gl ol labour, why not more me n em pl o y e d, which : c icoir ° is required b o th i n t own and country, for it is 1 1" - to to see men with three deliveries a-day ; an d $ 1 a a ir evening employment this is usclesF, cruel, 1 1 00 honourable, as the few hours rest previous to .00 now taken from them. I would strongly Nall sof public to take up their c a u se , an d then sotoo r %; fir be done, and if so , th tn , an d no t t ill then, agcy tern work wolf or anst , er. Yours, &e. 2. A FRIEND TO Hit" Portsmouth, April 7, 1841. THfi EAST) RN QUESTIO -...z. e iTh r . TO THE EDITOR OF THE ,-- r .. r —Ads Sta,—Just and enlightened friend o f liberty, al ii ) :Pr, f rally are, you have, in my opini on , i n res pect to o fjite,; # question being led astray from y our usua l course q a_ .1 0 4 1 You have defended Lord Palme rs t on ' s po li c y in t 1 I.llyo and highly blamed M. Thiers ; but excuse lye Is e a t i o confess that your arguments, as we l l i n d e f en ding i ' t hatl blaming the other, have bee n so wea k an d feeel e 'Ota ior have proved that you are a far less skilful advocate OA are forwarding a wrong cause than when you are 0 : 04,,, . J O a just one. When M. Thiers refused to agree to the TreatY li • of July he acted as it became the honour of FraP •10ili, France must have been degraded in the eyes blie_es. she had cowardly consented to the humiliation d .. kri .,,,,' who s.lely reLed upon the friend-hip and prorniel o lr a tli The Russian Ministers were also quite sure that; J O' is then Premier of France, would never sign the n it and, therefore, by persuading L or d P a lmerston e'- o ii o l that Treaty, they were sure t o gain their hue -4 f ob break the friendship between England and Ert n i ol! i d will have war, but in the eyes of the world she ~.. Aro to app-ar as having caused it. Therefore her ar,Tifitt work in darkness, and deceived Europe will, Wil e '. ,- ; li , / $ haps too late, discover its real enemy. ell ie f t. M. Thlers's actions prove that he has never be rt oll s il concerning the real intention of Russia, which e e t ol e " destroy all liberty, and perhaps that he though,' sto 0 not quite impossible that, even in 1838, during tu, e 4 ,olSe'll visit to that most sagacious politician, the King of ''' ice 00,4 Trea.y of the 15th of July was planned. At least o f 04 persuaded that it was n o t en m i t y t o th e noble On' c rse to r Britain, not vain ambition after doubtful glory._ n ot bat I , of / sire to stain Europe vs ith the blood of its warrio rs le 01 nanimous resolution to defend th e cause o f the let to 0 ,41 the promises of France, which eauseti 111. lhi — „ it aiv, f e ol the wavering King of France to arm—not to wake . % to I c or against the nations of Europe, but to be prePt — b s se w them it the Kings and Aristocrats should possibly 0 ~of ti cret intention again to subdue all liberty. T r ep t z. And if we look upon the consequences of the 15th of July, we must, at least, confess that thie ‘ ; 701 done much mischief, and nothing which can be Prt vo o lt has mankind gained by all the human blood that 1 , .. 1 5 p o li o in Syria? or is it possible to think that corntuer ci • n gs ' ' r i? it indeed very uncertain, can repay the suffel,l4 0 0 0 0 civilised Europe has inflicted upon the towns a t"., 0 0 0 110 What has mankind gained by Mehemet Ali be i l ti ltse' o s;! , to restore the Turkish fleet to the semi-barbarian odd liss io pt perhaps will soon be a prisoner o f Russia ? The v i o f the yi d been taught that the promises which, in the now i Ali: A0o0 great European Powers, have been given to Mehete_ e o f 170 , shamefully been broken, and only the remonstranee",ioo4 seem to have prevailed upon the Four Powers to r_et tbe ts e ; palls of justice. I think, without deviating fr e fg er etit e sil that we may say that armed France Las quite at:7 o.oo, e it upon the resolution of the Four Powers, than if t he se tt been in the same unarmed state as it was bef lw ro bs t o efforts of M. Thiers, for which the English nev6Pa tila ti°n O ° much blames! him, for putting France in such a: 1 0f ate $ her will could have a due influence in the canna/ 4, European Powers. rt ll4lv t el Therefore I think we may hetsly saY s'on by signing the Treaty of t 15th July, redly i ., g k co o the peace of the world, and that Si. Tillers, by to i l e t Z'but b ol not only did put a stop to the war in the ° h r .., as 0 .4 1° fettered the arms of the despotic Powers, i . f . t ` j' r the rot! that ° ci i s, t il or io l i berty 0 bu t c i great reason to believe, aimed a blow at the __ e l v es- t .e of Europe. Let us, however, not deceive nu" d that the P e ifr we, with history before our eyes, clearly ee, a jan d,hecae",st rt Europe depends not upon France but apt rinowers, titl e ,I , ' latter country continues to join the despoti,c 1 , d r eturn tl t r iP l sooner or later, is inevitable, but if Ellkt ra nish, as the once with France, then fear of war kill - favor I hope that you even now will - ffi" ‘. 111 1 tter sun disperses the fog of the night. .• -' e - the same • i n So ur /t . you formerly have done, by inserting io• e val have the er greatest honour, with th e luable pap. tGobec,Soil': . . . humble servant, ~ London, April 5, 1841. .. fl ALE AND PORTER of com 0 :1 4 An account has been laid before the House of - 000t rief o : the quantity of ale and porter exported to foreign for their the british colonies, from the United Kingdorn,o,4o 1839 and 1840, distinguishing each year separatelY,',, re tar d countries to which exported. The following are, the of the quantity exported to the princ;pal places, Wi t „ e ar o be s quantity for the two years. It will be seen that 13s i , ao y et was exported to the Australian settlements than i ° part of the world. 18.39—Barrells. 18 " ° 35" 3 4 Russia 3,63(3 ......... Pru,sia East Indies and China Austrian sett:ements 37,919 ...... '• 4' - . ) British North American colonies ... 3,2 . 93 ••• ... 3 7, T B riti,h West Indies 36,997 ....... •• 3,... ii Un:ted States 6,t441 ••••'" .. W Brazil ;4,6 --- .. 11' Total 157,593 ofa rJ 8e 0, Lord Charles Russell, M.P., and A riso c ibe . ford, M.P., have consented to act as Stewa rds oi t ' Races of the present year. 6 11 10 11' It 1- ;e THE LEICESTERSHIRE HUNT. 11, 11. is t °,llf settled that Henry Greene, Esq.. of Rolleston ' the management of the above celebrated cor' e r ;ril e be n' rangement has not only met with the unaniinoui,„ of r „ of toe noblemen and gentlemen of Melton, but a 'oreel' e , 5P tletuen and yeomen of the county generally, Al r ",periqa c e re 3j . known to be a first-rate sportsman, with great e c 00 51 ,0 6 ' . a resident in the country, which latter 15 P°'iui,lll"'- sine qua non with all parties for a master of the llich ate as it obviates the tear of those frequent change s ret tirri e f curred of late in it. a • t , e DUBLIN WIDE STREETS.--Fr CTI the lately moved for by Mr. R. Hutton, 31.1 3 . f° e r vala e iaof Dublin, we find, amongst other things, tha t t aking 55. 7, thr, cporioipveerritiyenbelonging i t n o t t p i e u i C a o i n m m i s i toorigeertsh or o tnft i t f o . whilst their deJts and liabilities (in c luding th e :L e l : t ment, &c.) amount to 69,6621. 15s. 9d., le ac ' np 3 Pi e debt amounting to 1,7011. 10s. 2d. 2 1)0 0 le' SUICIDE —On Tuesday niorning geort,;ir o'c!ock, as a labouring Man named Adams. t : e f ft Mr. Wise, of Hendon, was proceeding across on' r r t o, ter's fields, he observed a man suspended hY 3 1) ,1 - boa ~e!; a tree; he cut him down, and conveyed - the de ' - t f0r .5.- t;,„ 3 l ' adjacent inn, when a surgeon who had been ' et l S to as his opinion that life had been for many h ( J ut ' v ea.f, subsequently turned out that the deceased, h aP 5 4 °11° If f about 30 3eais of age, was a Mr. Leach, wlia tor ft h o s o re upnastAhainddrae3s,idmedorinninCgo,papiiiede-hriosw,laCmil:irykehnel'erdli; h e g n “thw a ,,„o him until made acquainted with the discovery 35 les scribed. A A A " ii BANKRUPTS' ESTATES—OFFI CIto NEEs.—On Monday, the House of Commons o wle t lo 0 1 1 ., ve , prepared, a return of the amount of monies in t h i rtli te) s each of the official assignees of the Court of 13a° 0 14 1 1° ' longing to bankrupts' estates on 31arrh 16 4 i ,; ob lt ,ol' ll , turn of the names of any of the official assign(l.s•lol`,oeo been defaulteis, or have absconded with max; ° A St bt De t° estates in their possession, and how much ; 0 . 15° give of the ann.unt of security the official assigaes ieceiving office. se cO ,r , The Marquis and Marchioness of partied by the Earl of Altamont and the Latik s t t he o Cll :1 o xi ected to return to this country, from NaPles' Colo ) 10; this, or early in the snsuing month. 'I he 1i0n",,,i 5 5 0- te if Lady Louisa Knox retutn with the Noble 3 1 , 311 ;, -- ori e ` - o f chio ess trout Italy. The Marquis's health Is stored. 0 51/(III PP The Lord Mayor has appointed th e Woo ° Ripon to prr acts the Sp;tal Sermon on Eae e i, r at and the Rev. Dr. St. [thing to preach the by o on Tueschij, at Christ Church. je one or On Tuesday the Orwell steamer Ma ° i 5 r or t the most rapid ‘ 0 , ,, ges between London a nd th bri k e oo r has ever yet accon.p.islicd—leaving Lond°`,:e, eight o'clock and striving bee at half•pot tuf, - 0 1 0 of her passagehour los t r o e r s m s. ed at the 0 3 " i lt milesparts A a lolig .c oo' The quantity of minerals conveyeo die s e North Alithand Railway is almost outstrqifing 1 0 modations of the Conti any Another railroad (the second) is about tYc i commenced in the Island f Cubs. 5t a l v t i s 1 1 ) 8 , 4 s 0 0 ,:. 1 1 1 5 , oe eiLegrs,oit:::gr r r i a c , 0 ( 1 4 i m hl e b , at 120.000 a year. rig' 4i' • w eNr • An English surveying corps is no 11 t 11) gare't rio` 11/'5 : shot s e V: o a ( f t w t h i l i e l7 lea e d to i t t o S u e m t a h ' e o p:r i j o t e fi h u t s ab b n i: i s it t e turn a 010 f stia , te inland Foss will shorty receive a valuall,.• addition in Al r at Pe: l ilt extensNe and cut io ounce; ion of fossil,. riot__ are d f` ico t o in L:intashire, and which has been recctitlY " ko sb fur them n. ton. pplicati , dis had been Par:s and Vienna. is stated that the Brit_ishotlibleti,stlooo.: rick, have left for Suffolk. • so tarn. to The Honourahle H orace Pitt, and Cc'l°l'acicoe,:,-1; A inan lately died in Kenttic )9 _ ac h We. 4 . tall, that it took tvvo cleraymen and a boy to pre serrnon• M( _ ALExAN Zia acraiatuents. F YI ,b etwe n e s n a.e a 1 1? ; Ali returne ip Cairo."'Plague .case t I • 16 41. A N! ) 6, tthe v h h " ift rnakin; i ges or an an have d t , ;; 00 tro ol "•re Wind. 1 110 :131 tt,;"erf'd a mud b phi The A u ktd will s} it he t 1 E ay r Malt v ct und con p o le, th °blige7Pto' MORNING EDITION r TH E SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 1841. MORNING EDITIO.S.