The Sun. — London, England, 1841-03-31 00:00:00

MORNING EDITION Now ready, in 2 vols. Bvo., with Portrait, 2S$. bound, SWINBURNE'S ~COURTS OF EUROPE." _Henry Colburn, Publishor. 13. Great Marlborough-street. LESSONS IN LIFE. Jest published, in 1 vol. Bvo., with Tw e elve Illustrations on Steel by Onwhyn, price 12s. cloth boards, AXIMUS AND SPECIMENTS .. OF M WILLIAM MUGGINS. By CHARLES SELBY, Comedian. 'This series of shrewd arid humourous delineations of real life originally appeared in the " Sunday Times," and from the numerous inquiries made for them Ire now offered to the public in a collected form. Printed and published by Chapman and Elcoate, Shoe-lane, Fleet-street, London ; and may be had of all Booksellers. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. U ‘iDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS. THIS EVENING, MARCH 31, 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 Harkaway, Madame Vestris ; Lady Gay Spanker, Mrs. Nisbett ; Mrs. Pert, Mrs. lILIMbT. After which the New Drama, in Three Acts, entitled THE EMBASSY. Duke de Nevers, Mr. Moire ; Viscount Rene de Rohan, Mr. Anderson ; Baroness du Pont, Miss Ellen Tree i Madame de Brissae, Madame Vestr is. To-morrow, Lo'.don Assurance, with The Embassy. Doors to t e evened at half-past Six—the performances to co :mew.: at Se7en o'Cloek. Dress Bnaes 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 61; First and Second Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 'ls. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price. 25.; Gallery Is. Tickets and plates for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may ye had spon application. Private- Bolt. to be had solely of Mr. Antic aws, bookseller, 167. New Bond-street. NOTICE. 4 ' THE CHINA SUN" Is again Out of Print, but will be REPRINTED shortly, with the NEXT NEWS from CHINA. E RAILWAY SUN Is now NEARLY COMPLETED. We shall announce in a few days when it will appear. In the meantime we shall be happy to hear from the Secretaries of all Railway Companies the Latest Alterations in their TIME -TABLES, and any other News of Pub lic Interest relative to their concerns. Also the PROSPECTIVE TIME when any of the LINES will be further OPENED, and their probable COMPLETION. Sun Office, 26th March, 1841. DIGII WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS GAY. Ifs rrung 5i inmures after 7 I Evening...... 42 minutes after F. LONDON : WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 1841. L or d ty;;DITURST last night gave notice that lea should, afi2r Easter, present a petition for an alteration hi the law relative to t heatrical repre sentations. In answer to the Duke of WELLINGTON, Vis count MELBOURNE Said: that he proposed, on Tuesday, the 6th of April, to move an adjourn ment to the 224 of April. Their Lordships transacted no business what ever, and adjourned till Thursday. In the House of Commons Lord ELIOT, as chairman of the Walsall Election Committee, repGrted that Mr. GLADSTONE was duly elected; that considerable treating, however, had taken place, 4vhich bad not been traced to the sitting Member or his agent. The Committee to try the Canterbury election - was sworn. Mr. MUNTZ gave,notice of two measures—one to compel medical men to write prescriptions and labels in English, and the other to regulate the safety-valves in steam boilers. In reply to an Hon. Member, Mr. GORDON, - the Secretary of the Treasury, stated that the collectors of taxes in Peebles and Selkirk had r aved no instructions to accelerate their col- stt k .,1 1 ,. t e es .. .Alt.,' •;:, „ i aiOr r • • 1 Church of England. It begins to be clear to the meanest capacity that there is no alternative between the voluntary system and establish ing the State Church, paramount over all the institutions of society. There is no halting at a semi-voluntaryism. Either there must be no State Church, or all men must submit to its des potic will. Mr. HAWES strongly objected to paying a clergyman of the Church of England out of the-parish funds. We wonder somewhat at• Sir R. PEEL'S inconsistency, who on Monday insisted on making the Dissenting rate-payers pay for the education of paupers in the tenets of the Church of England, or, if the Puseyites pre vail, the Church of Rome, in all things but the name. The House sat till Half-past One. The debate on Monday night concerning the education of pauper children, was extremely in• teresting. Our readers are probably aware that this. has been so successfully prosecuted at Nor wood and Battersea, that the hitherto neglected pauper hoys and girls have become models of actitity, propriety, and sagacity. The school at Norwood, according to e Report, is actu ally besieged by persons anxious to procure the children educated there for servants as they beCome fit, and the children themselves are said to exhibit towards each other, and towards their teachers and employers, the most • kindly affec tions and the most endearing behaviour. In truth, there are few parents, we believe, who have had any experience of the common schoolS, whether called public or private, of the metro polis, who May not wish, as they read the ac counts given by Dr. KAY of the. Norwood school, that their children could obtain the ex cellent moral and physical training which pauper children receive under Mr. Aumx. It is truly delightful to learn how much is made at Nor , wood out of children, supposed to be the most -brutified, by kindliness and care, while the teachers are equal'y benefited by their be nevolent task and its results. As . we read thoSe descriptions, we become half converted to Mr. OWEN 's system, and are ready to conclude that the mind of all human beings is but the reflex of the circumstances by which they are sur rounded, and that if these be kind, gentle, and beneficent as are all the works of nature, so will be the mind and disposition of man. Sir ROBERT PEEL, a person not easily kindled by the description of others, though, as Lord STANLEY has well expressed it, lie knows how to dress up a statement for the House, seems to have been excited by the description of Dr. KAY. The Right Hon. Baronet spoke of his Report as interesting, and expressed an opinion that it was only by congregating children in large numbers that they could be afforded a good and useful educatiOn Upon this principle, the Legislature, the Poor-law Commissioners, and the guardians of the poor will act; they will congregate the children of paupers into masses, and the State will provide for those who are neglected by their parents, or who have been unfortunate enough to lose them,. a far better education, both moral and physical—if there be any truth in the Re ports of - the Poor-law Commissioners " On the training of pauper children"—than can by any possibility be procured for . the independent and even the respectable classes. Of course, we are aware that education cannot supply the place •of friends, connections and rank, which will still en able the children of the middle classes. to start forward in life with some advantages which pauper children cannot command; but, confin ing our remark to early education, we are of opinion that the training at Norwood is superior, for its utility, to the training at most of our pri vate and public schools. We meant to have quoted some passages from the Report to confirm our statement, but a pres- . sure of other matter compels us to postpone them ; still we cannot neglect the duty of submitting to our readers some remarks, which are suggested by the debate and the Report. The Legislature is about to undertake the edu-• cation of all the pauper children of the empire on a scale superior to the education which can possibly be received by the children of independ ent workmen, and even of the respectable mid dle classes. Without grudging those unfortunate beings all the advantages intended for them', we cannot avoid concluding that taking so much care of them implies in the State, constituted to pro- Jectious. , mote the welfare of all , a responsibility to take In reply to Sir R. PEEL, the CHANCELLOR Oi . l _ ual an eq or greater care of the children of those the EXCHEQUER said he would ma ke his Ilium who are not paupers. Under the present system, .vial statement on April 30th. which proceeds on the principle of leaving as In reply to Mr. Hums:, the same Right Hon. little as possible to individuals; and engross- Gentleman slid that the Government had entered ing as much .as possible by the State, the into an agreement by which the mails were to be carrisd on six days of the week by railways, and perfection of training attained at Norwood will become a general test, and it will be on Sunt. l ay by coaches. We presume that this is limitea to Scotland, and regret to see so much disgraceful to the State to have any portion of .deference p. id to supercilious over-righteousness. the community worse educated than the paupers at Norwood. The girls are there taught domestic `The correspoin:ence on the subject is to be pro labour, and are so trained that they are already &teed. Mr. LAIICUCHERE persisted, in spite of a remonstrance from Si: R. PEEL, in his intention coveted as servants. The boys are taught to ask the assent of the House to his West trades and handicrafts—they are trained to use - India Customs' Resolutions on Monday ne xt. their limbs as well as taught morality, and are In reply to Mr. HERRIES, the CHANCELLO R of now eagerly sought after as apprentices.. Their the EXCHEQUER stated that the time w hich had superior education, therefore, obtained at the been taken from the public by closing the Post- expense of the rate-payers, now enables, and will enable, the pauper children to supplant the office earlier, to enable the accuionlation of let- , tt sto be sorted under the new sys tem, could children of the rate-payers in a competition for er 7201. be restored to it. The great inc rease of cor- employment, and probably reduce many of them res oidence, and the establishment of t h e Mon ey to .pauperism. To a certain extent the effect now Order Office, had prevented the return to the takes place, though it is not easy to trace it, and a sense of justice, therefore, as well as a due re old hour, of closing the Post . o ffice, but he ho p ed - the period of returning to it was not far distant. Bard to the responsibility the State is now as -We are bound to say that the public has reason sinning, will compel the Legislature to interfeu. to complain on this subject. The delay in sort- with the education of all classes and improir ing, and delivering letters in the metropolis is that of the rate-payers, so that it shall very great, which arises from an inefficient plan be made superior to that of the pau toe sorting the ietZ*!srs, which might, we are pers. Such a view opens to us an endless persuaded be much r ilitated by mechanical progression of social improvement of class above ,ze means. The public, by the use of box es for dif- class; we, however, are startled at the prodigious, ferent laces might be made td sort the letters - the immeasurable responsibility which it involves. - svithou p t trouble as they post the:'. Such an , The Legislature will necessarily be obliged to immense place as the metropolis shouLl take on itself, by educating pauper children in a ten or twenty districts, and the let" wide& into be di manner so much superior to the education which ters for the se di str i cts s h oul d be sorted when' the independent classes can now command, the Tut into the district post-offics as the letters for ut clucation of all the children of the community. Manchester and Liverpool, ' sent from London, O. ^s,ourse when the State becomes responsible in :are sorted before they leave the metropolis, and i -chole education of all the people, towns in one bag. We :are not all sent to both . -prely theirbook education, but their for the . cludino•not u. • *ear continued complaints on the score of late- and their bringing up to me ss of delivery and early domestic tr . a ll iniC !, b c responsible for their morals closing offices ; and, to promote animprovement the post- trades, it will also • • It must not, for ex in and for their subsistence. Ithese particulars_is to bring the or tailors, without a new and excel- ample, bring them up artists lent system into disrepute 1 'd clothes will be moral certainty that pictures al. Mr. TENNENT• postponed, to April 21,it Mil stand the wanted sufficient employ to-them. Copyright of Designs Bill. in the moral relation of a parent to ..t:: 4 people,_, Ir. PAKINGTON moved that a Select Com - and must frame its criminal code, its . t.ryl u e xtfittee be appointed to inquire into the state of ' code, and its system of taxation on that relation or banish. the colony of Newfound l a nd. He- g rounded his It mu st not hang men because they :motion on the number of petitions presented steal or commit forgery ; it must rather blame ou the subject; on the religious dissensions itself for the failure of its moral training, and which exist in the colony ; and on the strange conclude that its own teachin g was in fault when. use which the Legislative Assembly had made any o f its children fall into b a d ways , or become of its power. It took a medica l g entleman into criminal. It cannot e d ucate children to a bus i ness custody for a breach of privilege becau se he had of kind any vithOut ensuring them work, and some future generatio n f 1 quarrelled with a Member, and on a Judge re-, . 1 1.1 Is o land-loom weavers, - leasing him on a writ of habeas the House irn- or agricii tura a l otirers thrown out of work by pvisoned both the Judge and the Sheriff. The some new power-oom h or some new agrarian sys- Hots. Member also referred to some violent con- tem, will justly call ont e State which has brought then up and drilled . them to weave and Plongh, duct at the election for St. John's, and concluded . a long_speech by moving for a Committee. to-give them pensions or subsistence. • The proposed scheme, we admit, seems ex- Lord jonx RUSSELL did not oppose the mo tremely benevolent. It is delightful, unques tion, but stated that the course he should adopt would be dictated by the conduct of the Assem - tionablY, to the good men who are actively in the work, to see the . young raga_ -bly of Newfoundland, whatever might be the engaged converted into respectable opinion of the Committee. He dissented from muffins of St. Giles's .. hriving shopmen; but Bes re.ral of the general doctrines of the Hon. Mover. well-doing lads and t favourable responsibility in which that He was to free institutions in our colo-' when we trace the tniesansi.he quoted passages to show no twithstand- necessarily involves State, the first to provide at ing the a ppurent turbulence at Newfoundiandthat lest an equally good education for all the other the colony had prospered very much since 1830, classes, and next,• as a cons e q uence of training -when the C Ins titution was established. He ad - . tliem up to business, to prov ide them suitable iit:tted that disorders had taken Place, which did i employment, or to give them a subsistence, we not _allow him to object to the proposed inquiry, I doubt whether it be, on the whole, prudent to Au' ,a fs.w words from Mr. Hui and Mr. M. take so much pains to educate paupers at the J.. O'Cois:rEse the motion was agreed to, the ' expense of the rate-payers. It is hard—it is • i Committee to be nominated on Thursday. perhaps cruel to neglect them ; but one of the The House then a g ain w ent into Committee on strongest natural motives to good conduct is the the Poor-law Amendinent Bill, and was so occu- \ desire to see our offspring well provided for; pied the remainder of the evening. Considering , and it is rather a serious consideration whe -the vast consequences which, we think, are in- 1 ther that • great source of the well-being Ncslved in the undertaking to educate pauper of all .. families may not be weakened or chi:dren, the discussion which took place on the : altogether stopped, by the State . providing uppoAmtment of chaplains of the Church is ex- so much better for pauper children than indi tremeiz important. Even Dr. LuPHINGTON i s ' v ictuals ; can hope to provide for their children, fur a clulplain of th e E sta bli s h e d Ch urc h, to unless they he first made paupers. With ' all de educate pat:pers. If our views be correct, it will ference even to the . legislative. skill. of Sir R. not only be pauper children, but all other chil- PEEL and Lord J. RUSSELL . combined, we cannot dren, who Xl3 1;.8 placed dun er the control of the suppose that any laws, however exquisite, can be TI-1 E SUN. LONDON, W EDNESD Y. MARCH 31, tg 11 a useful or even a safe substitute for parental care. We have great doubts, therefore, whether the scheme of education, beautiful as it looks in some of its details, is what wise lawgivers should enact, or a wise public sanction. An amendment, the most 'important of all, is about to be proposed in the new Poor-law Bill—' important, because it will greatly conduce to the benefit of the destitute poor—important, because it will be the first step toward that sound com mercial policy which will do more than anything else to prevent poverty altogether;- and import ant because it will unmask those pretended humanity-mongers, who, after oppressing and impoverishing the people under PITT and CASTLE REAGH, during their long continuance in power, affect, forsooth, to be mightily indignant at the "cruel" operation of the new Poor-law sys tem. This amendnient is to the effect that all the corn required for the Poor-laW Unions (about 800,000 quarters annually) shall be allowed to be imported free of duty. If this be carried there need be no complaint of insufficiency of the " staff of life" at least, in our workhouses, for nearly double the present quantity may be had for about the same amount of money. There are abundant precedents for such an enactment. Thd rum required for the Navy is allowed a draw back to the amount of the duty. The Baltic timber for building churches is imported free of duty. The Legislature in both these cases has recognised the principle, and surely, such a principle . being recognised, none have a greater right to its application than the starving poor. What say you Mr. WILLIAM MILES? What - say you, Mr. HODGSON lIINDE ? It is boasted that you and a hun dred other Tories vote against the Government, and against your own leaders, solely from your compassion for the poor—your indignation at the treatment to which they are subjected. Here is a golden opportunity to proVe your honesty, your consistency, your public and unfactious motives ! You may never have such another opportunity during the whole of your political lives.. Be honest for once. Let no quibble or quirk, or real or affected apprehension of letting in the wedge upon your darling Corn-law system, diVert you from the straightforward path. You do hot wish to " grind the faces" of the poor— not you—and you will show it. You will let in those 800,000 'quarters of wheat per annum for those destitute objects of your loudly expressed sympathy. You will not subject yourselves to the otherwise well-founded charge of hypocrisy— of political trading in spurious humanity—en trapping votes, and shout's, and cheers by false pretences, which will assuredly be your 'fate if you refuse to vote for this motion. No, no, you are honourable men, " all honourable men," and you will prove it upon this occasion, or else upon Poor•law Bills, Poor-law Commissioners, Poor laW severities, Poor-law cruelties, you must " for ever after hold your peace." The Madrid papers received are or the 21st inst. At a meeting of the Deputies to deliberate on the Regency question, sixty-one Members declared themselves in favour of appointing three Regents. In filet, the dread of intrusting all the power of the State to the hands of ESPAR• TERO was becoming general. • The condition of Spain is truly deplorable. A country which, if properly governed, would teem with wealth is declared too poor to defray the ordinary expense of administration. And yet nothing is done or proposed to be done which is at all calculated permanently to improve the finances of the country. The civil war has not thrown up one really great man in Spain. It has brought some clever men into notoriety, but it has not produced a single states man capable of elevating Spain to her proper rank among the European family of nations. In stead of introducing agricultural improvements of which Spain is in tad want, and fostering into profitable growth the little commerce that is left to the Kingdom by the abolition of restric tions on imports and exports, Spanish patriots employ themselves in devising wire-drawn theo ries about the first principles of Government. It was rumoured on the 21st that the Spanish Government intended establishing a line of tele graphs from Madrid to Cadiz, Badajoz, Barce lona, and 'Bayonne. The Paris Journals of Sunday have all reached us. The Chamber of Peers was occupied on Sa turday with the Fortifications Bill. The only speakers were MM. GAUTIER and DUPIN, who spoke against the Bill, and MM. LEBRUN and BRESSON, who supported it. The speech of the latter, who is Ambassador at the Court of Berlin, will have great weight with the Peers. The 'Court calculates on having an absolute ma jority of twenty-five votes on the Bill. The following account of the conspiracy at Marseilles, which formed the subject of the tele graphic despatch which appeared in The Sun of yesterday, is from the Sud, a Marseilles paper, af the 25th inst. For several days past the coming and going of groups of men attached to secret societies attracted the notice of the au thorities. Several circumstances gave reason to expect an at tempt at insurruction. Anonymous letters, or half-confidential communications, made it understood that the conspirators pro posed nothing less than setting fire to the shipping in the port, with the intention doting the agitation caused by such a ca tastrophe of getting hold of the Bank, the Receivers General, and other public and private places of deposit. The conspirators were informed that assistance would be given from Avignon, Nismes, Carpatras, Montpellier, and Car .. ea ssane. The day chosen for this abominable project was the 23d or 24th instant. The conspirators calculated on their receiv ing substantial aid from the workmen on the canal, who had been treated with. The authorities took their measures in consequence. Gendarmes were placed on the roads leading to the canal, and agents of the police in disguise watched the house known as the rendezvous of the leaders. This house is a tavern knoWn under the name of the Polonais. At II at night the leaders commenced assombling in groups of five or six, and soon after at least 300 were united in the garden in the house. The police proposed, by means of a large sumunding force, to catch the who!e of the conspirators as in a net, but in con sequence of a gendarme being tired at point blank by a group of five or six of the people, the order to act was obliged to be given sooner than was intended. As soon as the report of fire-arms was heard, a general pa nic seized the conspirators, and before the troops of tl:e line could come up, a general panic had taken place, and the greater part attempted to escape. The troops found the door of the cabaret closed, and by the time that admission was ob tained, the conspirators had contrived to get off. The gen darmes and troops, however, did not relax their activity, and they laid hold of fourteen of the band, all armed with pistols and poniards, and provided with an abundant supply of am • munition. —.....-... While this was going or. at La Villette, the police arrested three individuals forming part of a large band that had sought admission at the Ginguette of the Ascension, the .whole of whom were armed in the same manner a ith those taken at the Villette. Yesterday morning further arrests were made, and in all 21 persons, belonging to the lowest classes of society, have been taken up. The examination of the prisoners is now going on. One of them is 54 years of age, the others are under 30. One only is a native of Marseilles, the others have 'iced here for some years. _ _ • A majority of the Commission of the Chamber of Depu:fres appointed to examine the commer cial treaty - ~yl.l- t i Holland have approved of it. • There is no pollaral news of any interest in the Journals of Sunday. The Chamber of Deputies rejected on Saturday a petition for restoring the effigy of NAPOLEON 011 the Cross of the Legion of Honour, and praying that his family might be allowed to return to France. CURIOUS ARREST OF A SOI-DISANT ASSASSIN OF TUX DUKE OF WELLINGTON. The Courtier du M idi states that the police had arrested at Beziers an individual who according to his account was the sub-officer Cantilion, who was tried at Paris in 1815 for an attempt to assassinate the Duke of Wellington, and was ac quitted. tie - pretended Cantillon was thd d t opinion that Cantillon had bearer of an extract, said Napoleon bequcatheilii Ney • contrary t p e re b s e se ta_k ti en from . Napoleon's will, in vi,L'Ali the Emperor ea t is oligarque had to send smate Wellington as h . • as much n o ~,,,, keine pretender Cantillon had forged General to the the rock a St. Helena, or to shoot Marshal leon) to perish on capitulation of Paris, and for this reason l h i i t ßme t o it a ,a_ s n s a , do s , ,-. from the Emperor in the he be longing to the Mayor of Ch et the e other , , documents name to this extract. which he had affixed to th session of a decoration hundred days. The official seal whichhis individual was likewise in pos session to have received alms was found in his possession, ~ nis affair," continuesC ourie rdu A i i f d o i u , n ,, d p i r n om h his ~p romises to produce interesting ievelations. The bpanish Generals, who sequen 1 t.y to the abdication a Q emigrated from Spain sub ueen Christina, to Xing Louis Philippe on Friday eve a, Here presented was unusually formal. They were attired in Their reception forms, and decorated with all their orders. their grand uni • • • hed were Generals Count de Q distinguished Amongst the most de Meer Francisco N onard, O'Donnell, Espeleta, Baron , arvaez, Ramon Nar vaez, C. uz Pavia, Ste. The presentation took place at the express desire of the King. According to official returns, published by the Minister of Marine, the people of colour emancipated from 1830 to the latter end of 1840 in the four French colonies of 'At --artinique, Guadaloupe, Guiana, and BouFbon,.amounted to 37,186_,,i, 20,575 in Martinique, 11,016 in Guadalou p e, 1,696 Mman G • " Guiana,' and 3,869 in Bourbon. The Moniteur has spoken of a printed circular of t h e Ministir of Finance, dated 25th February, 1841, which orders , a general and immediate re-assessment in all the communes of the kingdom, of buildings, doors, and windows, as well as a more complete statement of all persons liable to the personal tax ; the tax on house rents, of those paying the tax in licences (patentes), &c., which serve as the basis of the pro portional tax, and which rnii=t be taken out to enable a person to exercise any profession or trade whatever. 'You have seen from the statement which accompanies the project of law for the budget of 1842, that the revenue is not equal to the ordinary expenditure, and that it is absolutely ne cessary to take measures to obtain from the existing taxes the revenue which we have a right to expect from them according to the laws by which they are regulated. With respect to the direct taxes, it appears from the information received by the 'Ministry, that there is a considerable number of new buildings which escape the tax, for a large or shorter time. It is also certain that the law on licenses is very unequally applied, and that the proportional tax is l ev ied in some com munes en the real value in others on values more or less re • duced, which leads, to disproportions equally contrary to equity and to the interest of the. Treasury, Another circular, dated 26th February, and signed by the Director-General f the administration of the direct taxes, prescribes the mode of executing these measures, and impresses on the collectors of taxes that the state of the finances requires that the_existing taxes should be made as productive as by the laws they ought to be. This is what we are come to.— L a Gazette de France. (From the Courtier Francais of Sunday.) Yesterday the King sent for M. Auber, the c , tmposer, and gave him an order to prepare for the Ist of May, the day fixed for the christening of the Count of Pari.t, 400 musicians, to f a r t om 4o 3 f. o p t e o r annum. execute a concert monstre in the great gallery of the Louvre. Four thousand persons are to be invited to this fete, which will take place in the midst of the exhibition of paintings of our modern artists. The rate of discount, at the Havre Bank, upon the paper m fro o m ne9o days to run, is fixed, It is announced that the will of INladame de Feucheres is yMoofndPaayl,isilarch havingd, definitively declared invalid. Some time before her death she wrote it and signed it, but forgot to put the date ; in conse qw•nce of which the succession, which amounts to nine millions of francs, will be divided into three parts. The Indicateur de la Correge of the 24th of March fore tells a new incident in the tt ial of Madame Laffarge. It an nounces that on account of certain words spoken by the witness Denis, a complaint has been made to the procureur du roi, and that the first information taken by this Magistrate will bring on searches. The Indicateur adds, that the inventory made at Glandier has caused the discovery of incredible facts of such a nature, as to attract the attention of justice. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TUESDAY EVENING. We have still no news from America, and many parties think the next advices will bring us intelligence of the amicable adjustment of all difference=. The public securities have been brisker to-day. The current value of Consols for immediate transfer was 884 to 884, and .for time 884 to 89. The Nlirket closed firmly. The New Three-and-a Half per Ceti:F. were at 974 to 974, and Exchequer ails at 7s. to ss. premium. East India Bonds advanced to 7s. and 103. discount. A tew dais back they were as Law at 20s. discount. The speculators, in the absence of any later intelligence from America, arc quite at fault as to how. they shall operate. Money was easy to-day. • The Foreign Market was heavy. Spanish Active Bonds were marked 23 to 23*; Portuguese New Five per Cents. 33 to 323 ; the Three per Cents. 19k to 191 ; Mexican Stock 294 to 291 ; Colombigr, 22 to 221 ; Brazilian 714, and Dutch Two-and-a- Half por Cents. 504. In Shares a good business was done. The Great Western brought 241 to 25; the New 12 to 111 ; the Fifths, 64 to 64 ; the London and Birmingham 64 ; the Quarter, 17: . tt.e Thirds 20; the New, 214; the Greenwich Scrip, lf ; and the South Western, 163- premium. Brighton Shares were 54 ; Cheltenham and Great Western, 21 4 ; Croydon. 1 ; Mar cheater and Birmingham, si; Midland Count le), 17 ; Northern and Eastern, 23 ; North Midland New 24 ; and Birmingham and Derby, 284 dis. ; Colonial Bank Shares ware 81 to Bk, and Union of Australia, 74 prem. Tire Fore . go Exchanges were well supported this after none. We may give the rates for three months paper ihug:—Hamburgh, 13 91 ; Paris, 95f. 65c. to 70c. ; Am sterdam, 12 3a ; Antwerp, 12. 24 ; Frankfort, 150 to 4: and Trieste, 10 14 to 10 2. The following are the official returns of the exports of bullion from the port of London f. r the week ending Thursday last : (.5. Silver coin to Hamburgh 289,800 Belgium Calais Mauritius 8 4 .300 Bars Hamburgh Gold coin to'Ccy lee 250 (From 'The' Sun of List Nigh.) By the Bamburgh mail; arrived, the exchange upon Lon don comes a quarter of a shilling higher, 13 4 ; gold same as per last arrival, 425 ; Meta.l3, 105; Bank Actions, 1,610. Liv Elt POOL COTTON MARKET, MARCH 28.—The sales of Cotton to-day amount to 3,500 bales, of which 500 have been taken on speculation. Prices remain steady, and the market quiet. _ _ _ LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET.-The following are the transactions : —Eastern Counties 7 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 344 ; Grand Junction, half shares, 1021 ; ditto, quarter shares, 28 ; London and Birmingham, 172 i ; ditto New Shares, 234-; London and South Western, 55i ; ditto W. shares, 42. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 29.—Our market is firm, with a fair inquiry. Edinburgh and Glasgow 34 3-16ths ; London and South Weste• n, 55i ; do. Tenths 2/. Is. ; ; Lancaster and Preston, Ndw 24 ; London and Birmingham, 171 172 ; Ditto, New, 321. Shares, 21 ; South Lancashire Banks, si. By a private ship from Rio Janeiro we have received Pa pers to the 24th January. Exchange upon London, 303 to ; Stock, 743 to 75. We had accounts via. France of same date. '1 he Paper by the above conveyance contains a private letter from l'ernarnbuco of the Bth January :—. • The object of this is to give you . the disagreeable news of the risng of one rsf the principal towns, Parahyba, in which a fam ly of the first distinction of that province is at the head, 'and their obiect is against the President. If the Alinistry does not change the present system, the whole of the north will be in flames. " P.S. The news from Ceara very bad, and we are afraid of a general insurrection against the President." _ Consols, which left off yesterday at 89 for the Account, opened this morning at 881 89 ; for Money 881 ; Exchequer Bills 5 7 prem. In the foreign market SpaniQh Active as it left off, 231 1; Deferred 121 1 ; Passive 51; Portugues also as it closed 321 33 ; Three per Cents. 19 20 ; Brazilian 71 72 ; Colombian 211 22i; Mexican lower, 291 8. left off 291 30i ; Dutch Two and-a-Half per Cents. ; 50/ ; Five per Cents. 991 1008. SHARES.—Great Western 24 25 prem. ; New 111 121 prem. ; London and Brighton 651 dis. ; Blackwall 6 51 dis. ; Birmingham 61 63 prem. ; Southampton 54 per share ; Croydon 128 1 per sh re ; Greenwich 74 81 per share ; Man chester and Birmingham 16 15 discount. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. London and Brighton London and Birmingham ...... ....90 Ditto Thirds London and South Western 3Bl 551 .. to Ditto Tenths 11anchester and Birmingham ... 40 To the present time we have no intelligence of the arrival of the President steamer from New York, or the Britannia, from Boston and Halifax, which are anxiously expected. The British Funds were 'firm during the most part of the morning at 89 for the Account, alternately buyers and sellers. Since which an influential broker sold some Consols, which had the effect rather to flatten the market, although the sale was not to any great extent. • Consols may be quoted at present 881 for the Account. No other feature in the market worth notice. Money, 881 a ; Exchequer Bills, 7 5 premium; Indian Bonds, 7 10 cLs. In the Foreign Market Sphish Active 23i, have been 231 ; Passive, 51 %; Portuguese, 321 33 ; Three per Cents. 191; Columbian improved, 228 ; Mexican, 301 ; Dutch Two and-a-Half per Cents., nothing chine ; Five per Cents. 991. Deferred, Account, 888 Scarce anything doing in the Shares—Great Western, New, 62; London and Brighton, 44/ , South Western, 551; Man chester and Birmingham, 241. 8 1trtuguese, 32% ; Me C: i n ca so n l , s, 2,4 Mon 3 e o y, ; Columbian, 22* 1; Spanish, 231 1. No intelligence from America at Liverpo4 by the afternoon train. $• CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. India Stock Ditto Bonds lO dis Ditto Old Annuities ,Di tto New Annuities — Ex. Bills, 1,000/....21d spm Ditto 500/ 6 pm Ditto Small.-- 9 pm Bank Stock for Opg• ••• India Stock for Opa — Consols for Acct 89 FUNDS. Bink Stock ... 3 per Cent Red 3 per Cent Cons B5l 31 per Cent Red — New 34 per Cent 971 New 5 per Cent Long Annuitiesto expire Jan. 1860 ... Oct 1859. Jan. 1860. FOREIG Austrian, 5 per,cent Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent — ; Ditto, New Ditto 32i Brazilian 80nd5.... ..... . 711 Prussian, 5 per cent. Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent , Russian, 5 per cent Chilian, 6 per cent.— Ditto, Metallic Colombian, 6 per cent... 22 'Spanish, S per cent 23 Ditto, 1824. 221 Ditto Deferred - Danish, 3 per cent 791 ;French, 5 per cent. —f. —c. Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — (Exchange Mexican, 5 per cent.... 29/ :French, 3 per cent —f. —c. Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825. Dutch, 2i per cent. ... 501 Peruvian, 1825', 6 per et. Ditto, 5 per. cent 991 SHARES. _ Birmingham and Derby Railway (100 pd)... 711 Cheltenham and Great Western (62/ paid) 41 Great Western Railway (65 paid) .... 9O Ditto New Shares (50 paid) 6ll Ditto Fifth (4 paid) London and Brighton (50 paid) London and Birmingham Railway (90 pd) 154 Ditto Quarter Shares ( 5 paid) ... ...... 22 Ditto Thirds (32 paid) .................... 52 Ditto New shares ( 2 paid). London and Greenwich Railway (20 pd) Ditto Scrip. (3 paid) London and South Western ... ........... Ditto Tenths ....... London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) 12/ Manchester and Birmingham (40 paid) Midland Counties Railway ( 100 paid) CO N v o ß rth i e E rn; Eastern (50 paid) ...... .• - North Midland Railway (100 paid) • ••• 1 1,;:. New Shares (40 paid) . ........ ... 37 Amsterdam - (nibraltar ...... — ........ 48 Ditto, at sight 12 3 !Leghorn .................. , Rotterdam ...2 U. 12 4' Genoa —. ...... ........ ... 25 85 . C Ff.'cia:Nis...GE--( YESTERDAY). 31 Antwerp Paris, 3 days' sight 12 0 5111P4) „ ... ,r, , . it" • . • 47 Hamburgh M.B. 13 12 ,- enieg ?1•12 Wittft MI, 1 Altonall9 Ditto, 3 months 25 80 Lisbon Marseilles ............25 85 Oporto 521 Bourdeauz 25 85 Rio Janeiro 23 27 51521 Palermo, (.)., . per..... 0„ ; .. •• .. „. 4(4 Frankfort on Maine... 150/ 1414 ••,,,,,, . Petersburgh, 3Us ... 37 Buenos A yrgs ..„~ Perlin.— Vienna, effec. 11. 3M. 10 3 Philadelphia Trieste, ditto ditto lO 6 ?RACES OF BULLION, FEB. OZ. Madrid ............. .... Cadiz , . - 351 Foreign Gold, bars... 3 17 9 Bilboa Now DOubloolo r tt•••0 0 0 7 0 New York, 21 days sight 44 Barcelona Seville ...,„ ...... ____—.......---,.._ JOINT-STOCK BANKS. --IL is not, perhaps, so gcitann Independent . ertsailyk uowoft ought to b e that all persons can pro cure,copies o r e ' stared lists of sh archc l eers in any of the joint-stack banks, for a nominal gum, applyinii at the Stamps and T ax Department of So merset House, I. NEW INVENTED PROJECTILE. Since the invention of gunpowder, which ef fected such an extraordinary revolution in modern warfare, nothing has been produced for the destruction of human life, the reduction of a fortress, or the explosion of a ship of war, equal to a projectile invented by a French nobleman, which was subjected to examination on Monday at Woolwich, under the direction of a Com mittee of Military Officers appointed by the Master-General of the Ordnance for that pur pose. It consists of an explosive composition enclosed in a ball, which being discharged from a shell or cannon, produces the most destruc tive effects the moment it reaches the object against which it is directed. Such is the terrific character of its explosive qualities that a single ball properly directed i:7; capable of damaging or even destroying the largest ship. The test to which the invention has as yet been submitted . has been conducted upon a small scale, which, however, was so satisfactory, as to induce the Committee to direct arrangements to be made :or trying its capabilities in a manner to enable the inventor to display its extraordinary power, so as to leave no doubt of its efficiency as a mi iitary engine of destruction. In the present stage of the investigation we abstain from pre senting to our readers the details of the experi ments which took place on Monday, further than to state our opinion, from what we witnessed at the initiatory examination, that the further trials will realise all that the clever originator of this extraordinary invention has alleged of its stupendous force and power of destruction. LITERATURE. SOME INQUIRIES INTO THE EFFECTS OF FERMENTED LIQUORS. Simpkin, London, 1841. The author of tnis pamphlet, the first edition of which was published nearly thirty years ago, Mr. Basil, Montagu, who assures us in his title-page that he is a water-drinker ; and, by way Of appropriate frontispiece, embellishes his work with a small vignette, representing a goblet, out of which springs un a shower of cold water, the very sight of which :s enough to give one the cholic. We perused Mr. iNfontagu's pamphlet with some at tention, but cannot say that we have been much edified by it, though we will acknowledge that it is put together with considerable tact, and that the iireffice contains some ingenious and forcible rea soning. The author is not merely an advocate for moderation in the use of fermented liquors, but insists on the necessity of total abstinence, and brings forward a lost of medical authorities for the purpose of showing that the juice the grape is little better than poison. We do not hold with this sweeping. dogma, but, on the contrary, we are persuaded that wine, if not indulged in to an undue extent, is favour able to health and longevity—always supposing it be not that composition of ink, vitriol, and sloe- Mice, which goes by the name of tavern-port, and is apt to be quaffed in large quantities by patriots at : iublic dinners. At any rate, if wine be a poison, it must be an uncommonly slow one, for it was ::earl`' ninety years killing the celebrated Cap tain Morris, one of the most ardent votaries of .Bacchus that modern times have known. MORA.' Saunders and Otley, London, 1841. There is some sweet ve rsitication in this poem, ;nit we fear it is not one calculated to excite at tention in the present day, when the reading public turn a deaf ear to the strains of the poet, " heed not the song of the charmer, charm !ie never so wisely." 'Thirty years ago " Mora" might have found many admirers; but now, it has fitllen on evil days, and must consequently -; . .)0a pass into oblivion. COURT CIRCULAR. Her Majesty had an evening party on Monday at Bucking ham Palace. The company began to arrive soon after nine o'c!oc,k, and were conducted, as on the last occasion, up the Grand Staircase to the State Rooms. Her Majesty's private band was in attendance during the night in the Throne Room. Among the company were his Royal Highness Prince Ester hazy, the Prince .Nieholas Esterhazy, the Netherlands Minister and Madame Dedel, the Russian Minister and Baroness Bru now, the Saxon Minister, the Spanish Minister, the French Charge d'Affaires, the Duke and Duchess 4f Somerset, Mar quis of Normanby, Countess of Lichfield and Lady Ann Anson, Earl and Countess Cowper, Countess of Uxbridge, the Ladies E!eanora and Constance Paget, Lord Paget, Countess of Erroll and Lady Ida Hay, Earl and Countess of Verulam and Lady Jane Grimston, Countess of Surrey and -Lady M. Howard, Earl and Countess Cawdor and the Ladies Camp bell, Earl of Morley, Earl of March, Viscount and Vis countess Howick, Viscount Palmerston, LorA Ipswich, Lady Cottenhatri and the Hon. Miss Pepys, Lady Haiherton, Lord Killeen, Lord and Lady Robert Grosvenor, Lord Foley, and the Hon. Ai i!ses Foley, Lord and Lady Duncan, Sir Henry and Lady Wheatley, and the Misses Wheatley, Lord and Lady Drum la.nrig, Hon. Charles Gore and the Ladies Gore, Hun. Hugh Fortescue, Hon. Berkeley Paget and the Hon. Miss Paget, Hon. Mr. Bloomfield, Count and Countess Zichy Ferrari, Hon. R. H. and the Lady Hi , rriet Clive and Miss Clive, Sir George Anson and the Hon. Miss Anson, Mr. G. E. and the Hon. Mrs. Anson, Mr. and Lady M. Stanley and the Misses Stanley. Refreshments were served to the company during the evening in the Picture Gallery. Her Majesty wilt bold a Privy Council to-morrow (Thurs day) afternoon, at Buckingham Palace. Their Roy al Highnesses the Duchess of Kent and the Duke of Cambridge visited her Majesty and Prince Albert yesterday. Viscount Melbourne and Lord Hill had audiences 3 esterday of the Queen. Her Majesty and Prince Albert attended by the Hon. Miss Pitt, Hon. Miss Devereux, Marquis of Headfort, Sir Robert Otitay, Lord Alfred Paget, and Sir Edward Bowater, ho noured the English Opera-House with their presence last evening. Lady Barham has succeeded the Countess of Mount Edg cumbe as the Lady in Waiting on the Queen ; and the Mar quis of Headfort and Vice-Admiral Sir Robert Otway have succeeded Viscount Torrington and Major the Hon. George Keppel as the Lord and Groom in Waiting on her Majesty. The Duke of Cambridge visited her Royal Highness . the Duchess of Kent yesterday. The Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt had a meeting yesterday at the Treasury. The ( han ceilor of the Exchequer, the Governor of the Bank of Eng land, and the Deputy-Governor of the Bank of England, were present. Mr. Higham, Secretary tc, the Commissioners and Comptroller-General, also attended. Mr. Bigot had an interview with the Marquis of Normanby yesterday at the Home-office. The Agent for Jamaica, the Agent for Dominica and the Virgin Islands, and a Deputation, had an interview with Mr. Labouchere yesterday at the Office of the Board of Trade. Mr. Wood, Chairman of the Excise, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday. The Earl and Countess of Lichfield, and Lady Anne Anson, left town yesterday for Belvoir Castle. Lord and Lady Stanley and family leave town o-morrom for Knowsley, the seat of the Earl of Derby. The Noble Lord and Lady return to town for the season on the 120th of the ensuing month. Lord and Lady Bridport and the Hon. Misses Hood, who are at Cricket Lodge, near Chard, are shortly expected in town for the season. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent gill remove from Ingestre House, Be'grave-square, to Cidrence House, St. James's, tho residence of her late Ro3 al Highness tl.e Princess Augusta, about the middle .if next month. Her Royal Highness, when st Windsor .luring the autumn and winter, will occupy Frogmore Ledge, which has been purchased by the Commissioners of Woods and Forests for her Majesty. The Duke of Wellington gives a sumptuous hanquet at Apsley House this day to her Majesty the Que..n Dowager, and the members of the Royal Acade :ny cf Music. The Archbishop of York, Earl Howe, Earl of Cawdor, Viscount 13urghersb, and a distinguished ..ircle arP invited. The Duke of Beaufort, we are happy to hear ha& qui e recovered horn the effects of his late accident, glad .vas able to go out with bis hounds on Saturday last. 'rite Chief Commissioner of the Insolvent Debtors' Court ag:da on Monday condemned Loan Societies, saying, • Ile beteved he had scarctly taken up a schedu'e for ,Orne time but Loan Societies appeared in them, and that the insolvents had either borrowed money of them or be. come sureties for others." IMPROVEMENTS IN HYDE PARK.--The Woods and Forests have, at last, given their sanction to ‘lr. Cubit,'s plan for the improvement of Knightsbridge. The '• Alien Gate" into Hyde Park will be in the centre )1 a double crescent; but, as the ground to be occupied is Church land, an Act of Parliamentmust be first obtiincd. Cubist's plan is to erect magnificent edifices of Port -1 :nd stone. The removal of Goding's brewery will take place immediately, and the site will afford ample space for he exercise of the talents of the architect. BOTANIC SOCIETY, REGENT'S PARK.-A meeting of Fe lows was held at the Society's garden, on S.turday, Sir George T. Staunton, Bart., in the chair. Af er the recerian of some valuable donations from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Dublin, and Sir Thomas Acland, Bait., a bellot took place for new members, and the Earl of Mint', the Earl of Clarendon, and Earl Cowper were .added to the &ciety. During tl.c prefect mouth consi derable prcgress has teen made in the formation of the gardens, and it is expected that, by the end of Apri!, they wt!l be available to the subscribers. 14ppovioN OF POSTAGE TO lIAMBURGH, CUXHAVEN, AND Li 4 - ap,—liy arr odor issued from the General Yost-office it has teen determined, Unit 'on and after the 6.h of Al,r3 next the postage of all letters posit(' in the Uri ed Kingdom for either of the above pLces l i e ri.‘42ed from le. Bd. and Is. 10,1 to an uniform r , ate cf 6 , 1, the half ounce fpid la. the ounce, and so on. rAuction does pot apply tp letters Tor the above p'aces wien sent via France, which will only be done in cases where specially diyeetcd. M I SSING SHIP'S CREW DISCOVERED.—We are glad to annoisr‘e ; 1 4e safe arriv al of Captain R. Cp. ton and crew, of the sloop Matilda, of IpsWich, who were BUppaed to have nerishel, the vessel having sailed from Lisbon on the 23d . of December last, and not since been heard of. The Matilda was run down by an American bound to New Orleans, to which place Captain IJsston 4. ad his (-few were taken, with the exception oi one scivnan, who went down with the vessel. PROGRESS OF RUSSIA. Whilst ycu are talking of war in Paris, and making fools of yourselves, with fanfaronnwle and useless ex penditure for war, the Government here is doing every thing in its power for domestic improvement, and in the encouragement of trade and manufactures in ad parts of the empire. You will be surprised, perhaps, when I tell you' that the Emperor Nicholas, whom you are in the habit of representing as a cc'reeau bride, and breathing nothing but ambition and war, passes two hours every day in conference with the heads of the commercial and manufacturing departments, on the different projects which are presented for the develop meat of these important sources of national wealth. Thera is no country in the world in which more hieral encouragement is given to rational schemes of public ::melioration than in this, so far at least as regards the Government ; but it is a lamentable fact, that there is still so much chicanery in the laws, and so niueh corruption in those sslio administer them, that foreigners dread embarking their capital in specu letion here. A friend of mine, an Englishman, who established a large factory here in partnership with a Russian nobleman, has had a lawsuit with his part .er, which, after having been nearly six years be fore the Courts, is only just decided finally in his favour. He has had previously four verdicts in his favour ; but the system of procrastination and ap peal is such that frequently cysts tem years may elapse before the final decision is pronounced, and, in the mean time, the fortune of the suitor is swallowed up by law xpences and bribes, for without bribes even justice cannot be obtained. The Minister of Justice has been desired by the Emperor to present to him a report on the present stele of the civil law, with a view to its being reformed ; and as Nicholas is very determined, when he once takes the woik of reform in hand, we may expect a beneficial change. There are very cheering accounts from most of the commercial porta of Russia as to the improvement of the trade. This is particularly the case with Odessa and Archangel ; ,and some of the large towns of the interior have made strides which surprise those who knew them only a few years ago. 1 was at AL.scow in the early part' of February, and was pet fcctly astonished at the deve lopernent of that city. Manufactories are rising up in every quarter, notwithstanding the difficulty of procur• ing and the cost of fuel, for the timber has been cut down for a distance of 60 miles round Moscow, and the Russians, with their usual imprudence, have neglected to plant other trees. There arc, however, immense peat grounds in the neighbourhood, and the Emperor has received an offer from a M. Ponteau, of Moscow, to turn tham to profit, provided he has a privilege for ten years, which there is no doubt will be grautel The object is to compress the peat according to the plan of Lord Willoughby de Eresby, but greatly improved ; means having been discovered of compressing it one , third more than by his Lordship's patent, and also to convert the peat into cake on the grounds, so that both peat and peat-coke may be had in Moscow at a small ~x [ ease of carriage. A Company is forming in antici pation of the privilege being granted, ar.d capitol is offsrel to any extent. Should the Company go on, one of its plans is to light Moscow with peat gas, a speculation which promises great results. I saw some experiments on this subject whilst I was in Moscow, and they appeared to me to be very conclusive. Peat in its crude state is now extensively used in Moscow for the burning of brick, lime, &c , and also for a few steam engines, but it doss not answer so well as m'ght be wished, owing to the bulk, which makes the carriage come very dear."—Letlerfiemz St. Petersburgh. CUSTOMS OF THE JAPANESE. The following are extracts from a work entitled "Man ners and Cu,tams of the Japanese in the Nineteenth Cen tury," from recent Dutch visitors of Japan, and the Ger man of Dr. Von Si bold " Children of both sexes, and f all ranks, are almost invariably sent to the inferior or primary schools, where they learn to read and write, and acquire some knowledge f the history of their own country. For the lower orders this is deemed sufficient education; but of thus much, it is positively asserted that not a day labourer in Japan is des titute. The children of the higher orders prcceed from these schools to others of a superior description, where they are carefully instructed in morals and manners, in cluding the whole science of good-breeding, the minutest laws of etiquette, the forms of behavi.)ur, as graduated to vc ards . every individual of the whole human race, by rela tion, rank, and station ; including also a thorough know ledge of the alrnanack, since it would be as vulgarly dis graceful as it ciuld be disastrous, to marry, begin a journey, c.r rake any other important step, upon the un lucky. day. . "Everywhere the opperhogfd (or ebiLf of the Dutch factory) is received by his host in full-dress, with the national compliment of welcome ; and finally, men, women, and children, upon the road, either perform a salutation closely resetnhl , ng the Chinese hobo in his honour, or turn then back upon hirr, a somewhat singular Japanese demon stration cf reverence, desigiiei to iniimate that the person so turning away is unworthy to look upon the person turned from. This last mark t,f reverence is described by the Swede Thunherr, who adds., that the highest possible expression of respect is, first to kotoo, and then to turn the Lc k." " Of the ragilus festivals, it may suffice, omitting numbers, to say thit, in eery month there are two, some what analogous to our Sunday ; that the grandest annual festival is N w Year's-day, ptecAed by the imperative payment of (very debt tn New Yeai's-eve ; that the hr ttiest is one in wt ich lighted lanterns are launched r.t night upon the t ay, to a-:certain by their fate, the destiny of the souls if deceased relatives and ft ionds ; the quee.-- est, one in which men, holding high official situations, and of adv.inceJ years, busy themselves in flyirg kites, the strings being thickly elvered with broken glass, and great interest at ached to the cutting the string of a rival's ki.e. " In crt'.er to divert the company, sh: uld conversation flag, and thr it own inu,ic pall on the professional mu ►ictans, jugglers, posture-makers, and the like, are hired fur the day. To these are added a variety of the story telling genus, very different in charac er from the species ordinarily fsund in the East. There persons make it their especial business to learn, not romances, but all the gossip of a neighbourhood, which they retail for the en tertainment ot their employees. SOM , 2 cf these traders in rcindal arc frequently hired to rel'eve the teoium of a sick-room ; but those ergaged to liven a party of plea sure, have a second and sorne.vhat startling duty—it is, to set an example cf politeness and high breeding, to improve the tone ot the so, iety that requires their seiVieeF. These several, and not very homogeoecus functions, they arc said to combine in a most extraordinary manner. We are as sured that, al , hough, in their c qacity of amusers, they in dulge in extp.v.ig,int buffoonery, rudeness, and impudence, they remain pert. ctly self-possessed, and, at the proper mo m nt, resuming tier polished demeanour, recall the whole company to order and good breeding." WHAT FAVOURITISM CAN DO. We ierc&ve by our military intel igence, that a draft of the 74th Regiment, consisting of six officers, tour ser jeants, and 170 rank and file, is ordered to Le held in readiness to rearth from the depot in Waterford, for Cork, fur embarkation for Canada, to join the service companies. This announce:meat might, as an every day affair, a mere matter cf military detail, be supposed as liable to no fur they notice; there is, however, connected with it that which afleets the service generally, and loudly calls fur refarm ; and we believe that in no department of her Ma jesty's service is reform so imperatively required as it is in that now under notice. On running our eye over the list of officers who leave this city to join the service companies in Canada, we find the name of Capt in Alves, a soldier in the strictest sense of the word, who, after thirty. two yea* hard service in every quarter af the globe, the warrior of many a cell fought Sold, is ordered to rejoin his corps, a second time, on foreign ser vice as—Captain I while, by the London Gazette of sth inst. we perceive that a beardless Et ipling, a Subal. tern of no seivice, the Hon. E. A. Keare, of the 37th, has been appointed to a Brevet Majority. This is too bad: in direct opposition to every principle of justice, and such as, if persevered in, will brand the Military Service of Great Britain as the most ingrate to her scarred defenders on the face of the globe. Of the lung list of veterans over whose -heads Major Keane has been thrust, we take leave to select the service of Captain Alves, as one who is ell known to our fellow-cif z::ns as a man and a gentle man; and we are fully aware that to no individual except to the gallant and worthy officer himself, need we apol , gise for repeating them. Well, then, Captain Alves served the whole of the campaigns of 1810, 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814, rot iAt the 74th regiment, in the third division in the Duke of Welliugton's army, in the Peninsula, including the battle at Busaco; actions at Pombal, Redinha, Fez d'Aronce, Guarda, and Sabugal ; battle of Fuentes d'Ouor ; actions of El 13odein, and Aldea de Ponte • siege of Badajos ; in June, 1811, siege and storming of (2iudad Rodrigo, siege and storming of Badajos; battle of Sala manca; capture of Madrid; battle of Vittcria ; blockade of Pampeluna; the battles of the Pyrerees (27th, 28th, and 30th July), Nivelle, and Orthes ; the conflicts of Vic Bigorre and Tarbes, and the battle of Toulouse. What a contrast does this form with the actions of Major Keane, whose only service that we have on record is that of being attached to his fa•her's Staff—who never saw service as a Captain—and who was just thirty.five hours promo ci as a Captain when he obt:ined his ma_ jority. Captain Alves has been thirty-two years on full pay, and two years on halflay, having been promoted to an unattached company of five shillings a day, an indulgence granted t-e him after twenty years' aervice as a subaltern officer. He has served seve ral years in the West Indies, and yet ye find him going out (again as Captain ; while thp Gozeite records tLe promotion, to a majority, of a youth who has just served ight years, without being in any way qualified for this ad vancement. Shame, shame on such a system ! What is there in the Britiah service to induce pipe of worth and valour to spend bcit str,ngth, and exert thtir every energy, when they meet with such an ungrateful re eompense—wlaen such a system of favouritism ] in shame., ful opposition to recorded re!guiatioria, in observed rl. ? .'incerely tryst that this matter may be b rou g htm er con sideration in the j.roper qua.ter, ttod mss crying ev il, a disgrace to the country, may be done away with, As regards the gallant gentleman whose name we have taken the libertl thug t 9 uitucle r F a, we shall only further add, that by aad Itis broil= officers leave our city attended b the good tv:d respect of the public in general. Y Walefid Lord and Lndy Fr ancis hgellon and family ' have left Belgrave-squar ,, for Worsley Hall, hi s Lordshi s seat in Lanca hire, wi:ere they purpose staying until after the Easter holidays, MORNING EDITION-- A t q .. A WORKING MAN ON CHAR,TIM! TO THE EDITOR OR THE SUN. Slll,—lf the Charter is a truth, and people acknowledge its consistency, they arc not obliged to agree to :11 tha t may fall from its advocates The << People's Charter" ill one thing and Chartism another. The former is aW e block of principle unwedgible and indestructible, and r ound which some future generation may gather to do homage; but Chartism, on the. contrary, as developed by the speeches and actions of its leaders, is devoid of all principle, tib e c r of justice or expediency, having fa.len away to were se; tarianism, and is now felt but as a clog on the actions of the movement party. The Chartists may be powerful as a sect to work IT• easiness to their friends, but never, until allied to the large liberal party cf the country, can they be of the I ‘ l ., they— annoyance to their foes. In act, it may an be questioned occupied with their ree f totalism d other shallot theories—may now, in a strict sense, be called a pel iticl, party. For a political party, as distinguished from a s e t , t ic (the mere propagators of a creed), must act on the Pa u ' e , mind by means of an active and tolerant intelligew" amongst its leaders, applied to the passing every-daY uc; currences of the time, whilst the sectarian, led by : b pi blind fire of feeling," fierce and intolerant in the he'' 'd that he alone is right, and tl.at to giblet the feelings, a n . hold up to the ridicule of au excited mulftude, all t h r who in any degree differ ens him in opinion, is a 1 3°44 duty which in no case can by him be overlooked. - • t Where, I ask, is there to b e f oun d i n the Cha r rb rank that large-hearted and charitable strength 5 ,,1 c e alone can overcome the obstacles of interest or prekT i . opposed to them? Where the English spirit and liv e i e buoyant intelligence which bespeaks a confidence in wel d tried principles? Is it.. in the puerile end leaky ia . ."l which, child-like, says--" If you don't give me o bi % want by a certain day, I will newel ask you for it aga i l but will sulk for a month ?" What but these self- 6 W e leaders of the people has made the Chartist ridiculeas' and his name a bee-word of contempt. It is not in the & niAse of there who have taken a n 11 s terest in their proceedi ngs , i n tire reviling cf all the et 7- sures which have helped us to th e presenttrge of ou r s P e ; provernent, that these men can h o p e f or a id or symPt,' from the majority ; nor in dealing broad and sweer: . anathemas against the institi.eions of the country, motiiuun: at the word sacred as applied to th em , an d ell 3t their eyes to the principle of freedom, which enables theirt to talk with impunity, as they do, that, which if was not nonsense, would be sornetliog worse, that th e ir can hope to convey a conviction to the mind that tha l principles arc just and honest. Do these men, in the r senseless opposition to the por t i r A netre themselves, ever t ofl ec t on t h e amou nt of Pu se l in we.lth and intelligen c e o r, e y e d aga i nst t h em as dea; foes to their Charter ? Fi rs t, as hi g h est intellect e.,11 the elements of teal power, stand the Pusevites, a sal but rapi ily.iereeasing p, d rty, one that will eventuallY l - the ground is narrowed Leteeser aristocracy a ed deo% cracy, absorb the majority of the Ilieh Church and S'Bl party, as Inc ss:ty forces them to combine for the P r i ; seiv:tion of their privileges. N e xt ma y be named t clergy of the Establishment, which. f,r corn' inatian a n d the spirit of party, is unrivalled, wi It great wealth , as t : by aid of its ca ling, immense influence ; then th e ari d tocracy of privil‘ege, the nobl e r, th e owner s of the 1 1; many of these insignificant as a n d v:duals, many On ~° O l high chivalrous spirit, but the who've united Ili elle 1 " . 0 . against the Charter. The aristocracy of wealth are o f ambitious, unscrupulous class, from which the ranks the above classes arc recruitr,d, physically and fieea tiallY! all of these hostila to the Charter. tbs To the middle classes, then, comprising tha , scientific, the pre fessional, a n d t ra di ng c om munities, 80 %, the Charti-t leaders mere particularly ci eot 4beir att i e o g tion ; this is the num e rous an d i s el eent i a l b o dy oceePY'es the station midway betwcen the two contending Pl e - a . in the country, holding the balance telvveen thstee Fable, at any time a s i n th e case o f t h e R i f am Bill, of deciding, by the weight of its influence, any treasur e v ol t fore the country. They are our sareguard agains t : t est wars, protecting each party alt erna t e ly ag ainst the %Ire by the aid of public opinion, aw a k ene d th rou gh the P ° press in favour of pe a ce and th e r i g h ts o f b o th perst ) 11 0 property, Now is it just or e xp e r imt the Chartists ' 6 level their most virulent abu s e a g l i ns t thi s party, th6er It• by whose ; H alone they can p eacea bly ga i n their ew and to talk of gaining it by force, with this party 41 1 1' 4 sition, and the whol e arr ay o f ar i s t ocracy to boot, i3ssun against both reason and experie.ree. e'ag The above must b e tak e n as th e opiriions of a we' r e ! e a man and for what they are worth. • It is tut an attesP:tte6 the part of one who is fsveurable to the People' s-Char m , r to show ..hat all its advocates are not alike hostile to middle classes. I air, Sir-, your oLed'ent servart, A POOR \YEAST"' Spitalfields, March 29. THE WEATHER. -..- ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADEL AI STREET. _. NooN, MABc O 30. 134rometvr 2 9 .95 11). Thermometer Highest sB's LoAest 4l Wind W. by S.—Freezing Point 32 Deg° Sir Robert, Lady Fitzwygram, and family rived yesterday at Connaught-place from Torquay. er ly One day last week Mr. John Briggs, f ori n n jog a garnekeepir to the late arl ef Durham, alas AP ba. ncsr to the Fatfield station E of the Stanhope an d ,;$4 l. Rairoad ; aad, seeing a child in danger of being ro l ,. e b it by a train of cosy- w , ggon3; h e rushe forward V) e ra ,,:,et; from imp en di ng d estruct i on, H e succeeded in t h a t n' l l - be but one of his feet g. Hag fist below the of the r an g e d could not get himself c l ear la fore the train ca m- 00 passed over his leg, mang li ng i t so d rea df u ll y that sela`eirlg Lion uas Nicessary. He is, we are h a ppy to Lear , - tolerably well.— Tune Pilot. Atli The Earl of Devon return e d t o town in th otl Fart cf last we e k from Powderham Castle. L ord s oel Lady Courtcuav y left that seat last week to visit his D A to lency Vi-c oun t Ebrington at Dublin Castle and W er t .; t , f have. left yesterday f o r th l f am ily estates i n the col' f e ar Limerick, where the Noble Lord and Lady P a " weeks previous to their returning to Devonshire. p Noble Earl does nct i n t en d to go to Ireland this s P r . l , li 0 11 LIVERPOOL A SSIZES.—There are s : l b e en special Jury causes, th oug h a pp o i ntments have asl e :o l ° made in only two, viz., Acton v. Blundell, which - star for to-morrow week, and Davidson v. Sir Thenl a !„,. is ley, which is appointed f ur F r id ay nest. The in t l. - i n tr.( case which excites great interest in this and the aue - e eisi county of Chester. It is an action by the Cornl3.o. Bank of Chester, against Sir Th. mas M. Sianiev' o oo) on certain Bills of Ex c h ange ( to t h e amo unt 6f 7 ' .00 drawn in the name of Sir Thomas by a person:" isai Bluodcll, who was formerly his steward, and w i n : la.ety sentenced to transportation for embezzling t a ." ll - 0 00 perty of his master. The question is, whether Sir a sal • can be rendered 1 ahle upon the se bills by sb o c . 'F b ,foh° authority in Blundell to use his name as droner. a i o r oc eis! Campbell (the Attorney_General), attends nn, a r d' o il ' • retainer on behalf of the defendant. The 1 3 " 11- a i e rillia li t case (Middleton v. Sherbouree), in which Sir t _litni Follett attends on behalf of he plaintiffs (the heirfla io dal has not been positively fix e d f o ra l)/ day, though b te tt the Bth of April, and Mond a y th e 12 t h, have lA t da y named. It is probable that the former will be the in aerc .l timotely chosen. The cause excites the greate st . e cog' T iu Lancashire, especially th ro u g h ou t the Cashe l ' OO munity, to which both parties belong. Liverpoo rood INQUEST.—An inquest was held oil afternoon at the Goat, Pimlico, before H. Maneing' oo Cr tamer for the precincts of the Royal Palaces, g o ys' stablest George Hayter, aged 42, a helper in tr he , who hung himself last Friday Light. t artiaf' titulars of the case appeared in The Sun ut ' 3 ,„ e rlf It was deceased who first discovered Flicker, fo r- 7 ttf ° coachman to her Mjesty, days after her Majesty's visit to Guildhall, on t h :„jed' same peg from which deceased was found inn ) " who hanged himself in 1 83 ' f ed. , Ve-dict, '' Tempt n ar y I nsan i ty ." Vt.", A correspondent of the G aze tt e de Ilan ° WO' Be lin, March 15, says. apropos to the fair of Fran, i , f o r sur-l'Oder :—The last f a i r had the m ost fatal restllOf some of our manufactu- erg. Berlin calico, which gl cr sold the: e by hundreds of thousands of pieces, inn ° t bee° tale. The length and severity of the winter had T or favourable to the retail, and, consequently, 511 °P could not come forward to buy." -ja the BAD BREAD.—Captain J. Payne being de bit° House of Commons the other day, during a bill rtlativc to the navy, Lad a note conveyed up so from another Member, desiring him to get._ we° explain to the House c?rtain sea terms vibiethos evidently misunderstood. The note began c of ta: ll- " Sir, as you are bread to the sea," &c. zige• sa ri Payne took out his pencil, and answered , u P °D i a t b " re d paper, "I am not bread to the sea, but tne sea elf o f rre, and d—d bad bread it is."—Swinburne's Co o Europe. if'°•• FIRES, AND DREADFUL LOSS OW fir e On Monday information was received at the differer?..tornetira. surance offices in the metropolis of the following de s 0, 0 , and deplorable fires :—On Thursday last, b et ' en d and six o'clock in the morning, a dreadful fire 11 ":1 , 1 ) the village of Leekl,ampstead, near Newbury, in Be r re the which wholly destroyed four houses, Il e premises v e l oge! property of a farmer named Coulton, residing i n the O lb' who, together with his tenants, is unfortunately uninsu r ; 01 0 • fire was occasioned from accidental ca uses. Of' t morning a most distressing a n d fatal fire oc curred a, to th • ford, in Kent, by v hit% Three houses were bu rn yes ere ground. It appears to have originated on the Pre i r j d ve te 1, co pi e d by a poor labouring and hi s hank, s aota t 5 11 the top of Crockton .11, a n d to h ave b ro k e n out at 5 90 ° : o'clock. 'fhe husband had left home with two ef to go to their work about t wen ty rainutes Wor 0 0 his wife, who was deaf, and four children in bed asi e r fear a , the alarm being giaan the elde s t daughter, a fine ' teen }ears :.f age, flung herself out of the back ro°l ° 00' of the first floor, with the youngest child in l e o ih e ! and the other two were about following the examP e one of them . , named Aug. tamed back for th , oi a of arousing her Msather, who slept in the front rnas, o at and they Peilshads Both of them were observed at fron t ren t disappeared,asistauce, lou T t b s e oo s n to after rt•- •_, flooring gave . , for nearly two hours, and sa - W 4 ke it aoyed. held a!" gob , on Fridaa ' air. Carttar, the coroner, Ila Ye , te' . in the vi cast at the Chequers' Arms,, he r da. are , yet o"f the sufferers, Mary Bisliman arta sever he Ma nn Hishman. The investigation lastedto hod ther !i, es "- as not ' ,urns d o o t ;a d with e l a t i..h v s_ i:Y. e le i re q : i s e e bse : but no information could be obtained as re l 2 l fd o ye s T e , originated. The Jury, esdaY aisrlf of "Found burned to deOn i r ! _ n we* lo p struetive fire, supposed to be the work I °belonging aro' took place on the farming establishment hire, a p l ey Samuel Witt, at Swaffan Prior, in . CZr ld S n es Tuead a s got in consequence. d.t t perty was consumed to the extent of r new fls , mg a portion of the cotton factory at the l v eer :hire, the property of Messrs. Roach 0ad ...a. " . _ a 0 ,- . 7 r afe stroyed. 't he damage is estimated at /aovY' of z• t o • houses fell a ton, in Warwickshire, and three flames. The loss is upwards of I,ooty. ) day (Tuesday) a terrible fire broke out in t vses'eriaee to ( 9 i .., $l, fro; % . 11( .01 (1 % . tej