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EVEN INU EDITION. NEW NOVEL BY MRS. MABERLY. Just ready, in 3 vols. post Bro., T HE LOVE MATCH By MRS. MABERLY. Author of " Emily." Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. MR. kfORACESMITH'S NEW NOVEL. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., H E MONEYED MAN; Or, THE LESSON OF A LIFE. By HORACE SMITH, Esq., . Author of " Brambletye House," &c. " We consider this novel as the best that the year has produced. The main object of the tale is to show that riches are by no means indispensable to felicity, and this useful moral is enforced through the medium of the hero's own confessions. The delineation ►of this character is admirably true to nature. • The Moneyed .Stan' is incomparably the most thoughtful, spirited, and entertaining novel that has yet appeared from the pen of Mr. Horace Smith."—Sun. Henry C,olburn, Publisher, 13 Great Marlborough-street. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols. post Bvo , THE ENGAGEMENT A I\ OVEL. " A novel of a very delightful and superior description."— Argus. " A very clever, animated story, forcibly and eloquently written."—Sun. " No novel of superior merit has issued from the press for several years past."—Age. " One of the most vivid, vigorous, and just pictures of Eng lish aristocratic society which has ever been given to the world. We have had nothing equal to it since Tremaino ' and 'De Vere.' "—Naval and Military Gazette. " In quiet simplicity, and accurate knowledge of hnman na ture, this work resembles the delightful tales of Miss Austin; bat it has more style and brilliancy, and aiTeals more power fully to the imagination. The story engages our attention, and interests our feelings, from first to last."—Britannia. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. FTIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA having AUTHORISED and GUA RANTEED several DISTRIBUTIONS of MONEY DIVIDENDS, which (thovih they,are NO LOTTERIES) o'er many possibilities of obtaining LARGE FORTUNES, HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, Are now SELLING BONDS for the saidDISTPUBU TIONS. Persons desirous to purchase for one of the next Distributions may re7eive, PREVIOUS to giving any orders, the PROS PECTUS and PARTICULARS, upon addressing, WITH OUT DELAY, a line to HEINE, BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH. The NEXT DISTRIBUTION contains FIFTEEN HUN DRED DIVIDENDS, amounting to £137,592, £25,000 5,000 2,000 1,500 1,000 Tiie Dividend; being £BOO £2OO 600 150 500 120 300 110 250 100 £9O 80 70 64 62 P. S. HEINE BROTHERS have remitted this day, (9th March, 1541), TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND POUNDS to Lcndon and its vicinity, from the Distributioa of the Ist of March. • THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. U DER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS ON EASTER MONDAY. APRIL 12, Will be repeated the New Comedy,.infive 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 ; Mack Meddle, Mr. Harley ; Grace Harkaway, Madame Vestris • Lady Gay Spanker, Mrs. Nisbctt ; Mrs. Pert, Mrs. Hum bv.l • Alter which will be predaced, a Grand Romantic Fairy Ex. travaganza, entitlek BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. Principal Characters by Mr. W. Harrison, Mr. Harley, Mr. J. Bland, Mr. Gilbert and Miss Bailin, Miss Fairbrother, Master and Miss Marshall, Miss Rainforth, Miss Grant, Miss Lee, and Madame Vestris. Doors to to evened at half-past Six—the performances to co mmectra at Se - sea o'Clock. Dress Boxes 7s. ; Second Price, 3a. 6J.; First and Second Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price. 2 , . ; 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 'y oe had upon application. Private Box& to be had so!elv of Mr, Ands ris, bookseller, 67. New Bond-street. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW ftf rnine...... 0 innit.tes after 2 I Evening .....'9 minutes after 2. The Publication of the Evening Elition of THE SEM com meneed at 20 minutes after Three. 44. cl 4. s tt gl, • i r e t , • • .• :O a -11.7411 . .. ‘.° ~.„21. 14 VA( 4' , wi za , • . 0 fa v ••• te. 11,1t4, LONDON: TUESDAY, APRIL 6, 1841. The Revenue Tables for the quarter will be found in another place. We regret to say that they present on the whole a considerable falling off. The deficiency on the Customs for the quarter, as compared to the corresponding quar ter of last year, is 54,115/. ; of the Excise, 44,526/.; and of the Post-office, 27,0001.; making in all, with the Miscellaneous and. Crown Lands reve nues, a total falling off on these articles of 133,1411. on the quarter. In the Stamps there is an increase of 19,2161., and in Taxes of 42,9871., and, deducting these from the decrease, the deficiency on the quarter is 70,5741. The decrease in the year as compared to last year is 309,2801., which, considering the increase which was last year made in the Duties and Taxes, and considering the great increase which has taken place in our expenditure, is by no means a pleasing circumstance. The falling off in the Customs and Excise debotes, we are afraid, that the prosperity of the country has reached its acme, unless some change of system can give it new life. That falling off points ,out one reason -why the reduction of the postage duties has not fully answered the most sanguine expectations. Since it was carried into effect, the trade of the country has not advanced ; there has been comparatively little stir or enterprise in the land, and that increase of correspondence has not taken place which would have accrued had the prosperity of the country gone forward with its former velocity The expenditure last year exceeded the reve nue ; we know also that it will be considerably in excess this year; and it is the duty of the Go vei nment and the Parliament to meet this diffi culty at once, and provide for the equalization of the revenue and the expenditure. h, _a the House of Lords last night the Marquis of BREADA MIA NE, as the organ of the Non-intru sionists, presented 112 petitions for the abolition of lay patronage, the prayer of which the Noble Marquis supported. lie described Non-intrusion as the fundamental principle of the Scotch Church, and quoted authorities to show that in spiritual matters she was all powerful. The Earl of C TJARLEVILLE moved for a copy of the criminal calendar of King's County for the last assizes, 1841, and affirmed that crime had much increased of late years in that county. He admitted that the Executive had exerted itself to assist the Magistrates, but he complained of improper persons finding their way on Juries, particularly in the case of COGLAN and DOHERTY, who were tried for attempting to murder Mr. BIDDULPH. The Marquis of NORMANBY resisted the motion, because it was prejudging the matter. He denied that there had been, as stated, the master of a Riband Lodge on the Jury, in the case referred to. He assured their Lordships that crimes of a. serious nature had diminished, and that the tran quillity of the country was increased. The Earl of GLENGALL complained of the diffi culty of procuring witnesses, and recommended that the Crown Solicitor should be sent to the Assize Circuit a short time before the Assizes, to prevent improper persons being placed on the juries. The Earl of CHARLEVILLE replied, vindicated himself from a charg e of being a firebrand, and withdrew his motion. Their Lordships then ad journed. In the Commons, Sir W. MOLESWORTII gave notice of a motion for a Committee to inquire into wag es, after the holidays. Lord J. RUSSELL, in reply to Lord TElGN 'mourn, stated that the Crown had appointed Churchwardens .m Marylebone, and intended to introduce a Bill for the regulation of the eccle siastical affairs of the parish. Means should be taken, he said, to indemnify the Churchwardens. The Silk Factories' Bill was put off till April .9.2, and the Administration of Justice Bill, No. 1, till April 29. On the motion for the House to go into a Com mittee pro forma on the Poor-law Amendment Bill, Mr. WAKLEY made several observations on workhouse dietaries, which he described as much better in the metropolis and its neighbourhood than in the country. The further proceedings with the Bill were postponed till May 3. In a Committee on the trade of the British possessions, Mr. LABOUCHERE moved his reduced scale of colonial duties, namely 71 ad valorem pp certain articles, 2s. on a barrel of flour, 4s. on a barrel of salt beef, 2s. on 1,000 shingles, 7s. on 1,000 oak staves, &c. The Right Hon. Gen tleman having before explained his object at great length, did little more than move the new resolutions. Mr. GOULBURN had no doubt the proposed scale would be beneficial to the Colonies, but it must be looked at in relation to the whole trading community. As far as that would affect them, the House had not sufficient information to pro ceed with the measure. He particularly objected to legislating on the subject while Canada was without a House of Assembly. Mr. LABOUCHERE briefly defended his reso lutions. Mr. COLQUHOUN approved of them, but thought that they did not go far enough. Mr. HUME was gratified by them, and by the speeches of Hon. and Right Hon. Members ; but he wished all the duties to be "reduced and regu lated on the single principle of collecting the revenue. He defended the Import Duties Com mittee from the observations of Lord Asii- BURTON. Mr. HERRIES was for delay till the Canada Parliament had assembled. Lord J. RUSSELL eulogised the liberal poli c y of Mr. Husiossox and Mr. PITT, and spoke strongly against that vicious system which seeks the advantage of the few at the expense of the many. Mr. VILLIERS expressed his satisfaction at the resolutions, and justified the proceedings of the Import Duties Committee. On this subject a brief contention took place between Mr. BINGHAM BARING, who was more unmannerly than- discreet, and Mr. VILLIERS, which ended in much calling to order and mu tual explanation. A good deal of conversation took place on the Import Duties Committee, and on what had been said elsewhere. Though the CHAIRMAN stated that it was irrelevant, the subject interested the Members more than the Colonial Duties, and they followed the bent of their inclinations. The resolutions were agreed to. Mr. LABOUCHERE stated that they were to come into operation on the Ist of January, 1842. The Criminal Justice in Boroughs Bill, re lating to Manchester, Bolton, and' Birmingham, was put into Committee after some opposition and a division, but was not passed through the Committee. At One o'Clock the House adjourned. Accortling to the Oxford Chronicle, the Pusey ite controversy rages furiously in that city. That journal contains several letters on the subject, and it enumerates no fewer than four pamphlets, which have appeared since its last publication. Such clever, oily, and slippery priests as the Pusey ites, who are the very perfection of priestcraft, and whose great object it is to effect an alteration in the Church without going through the horrors of an ejectment, they having no inclination whatever for poverty or martyrdom, are not long to be silenced by a Bishop's frown, however obsequiously they may bow and bend before him. If the " Tracts for the Times" are to be discontinued, to avoid scandal, the opinions of the Tractarians will be sent forth by some other means, and as long as the public will attend to the controversy, there will be no want of mate rials to keep it alive. In fact, a regular schism is growing up in the Church, and neither side will want advocates. Dr.-HOOK, the Vicar of Leeds, a great Puseyite, has written a letter to the Bishop of RIPON, in which he points out that the Low-Church party have been the assailants in the case of the Pu seyites, and he advocates the formation of a High-Church party of priests, to resist the Low- Church party of priests. The Morning Post takes Up the cudgels for Dr. HOOK and his party, and while it extols the High-Church priests as possessed of the virtues of angels, it accuses the Low-Church priests as animated by envy, bit terness, hatred, and malignity. The Standard is ranged with the Low-Church priests. " They have sent forth," says the Post, " the ar rows of bitter words; lying and slander ing they have sent forth plenteously." There is no reason why the High-Church priests should bear contumely with patience. They are all extremely righteous and holy, and such men never yet lay down peaceably to be trodden on. Duty, not to themselves, but to the great cause they defend, forbids it. In the presence of a Whig Bishop, as they hope ere long to exercise episco pal authority, they may appear meek and hum ble ; but why should great writers, profound theo logians, and eloquent preachers like them, each of whom feels and knows that he is far wiser and better than the Bishop he submits to, allow his great light to be hidden under an Episcopalian bushel ? They are said to have taken away the congregations from the Low-Church priests, and to have destroyed all the profits of au thorship by which many Low-Church priests were enriched before the commencement of Puseyism. Many of them feel and know that it is only necessary for the Tories to be in office, with that promising young man Mr. GLADSTONE as Under Secretary of State, to have mitres showered on them, if they will accept them, as fast as they become vacant. Standing so prodi giously high, at least in their own estimation and the estimation of their followers, it is not at all likely that the High-Church priests will suc cumb and acknowledge the superiority of their Low-Church assailan t 3. They are supported, too, it appears, by some high functionaries. It was some time ago stated that the Puseyites were in possession of docu ments which would prevent the Bishops from at tacking them. The Oxford Chronicle states : While the press is thus active, and increasing interest ex cited through the country, nothing is yet done authoratively_ no official movement has yet been made to counteract the acknowledged evil, or to assert the Protestantism of the Church and University. The very extent of the mischief seems to prevent the application of a remedy ; and we have reason to believe that " Most Reverend," and " Right Reve rend," and " Very Reverend" persons are labouring privately to " hush up" and smother the matter; we have b e f ore stated facts which led us to express the opinion that this would be the course taken ; the Archbishop of Canterbury's Chaplain having originated the Tracts, and his present Chaplain and Librarian being their defenders, the inference is obvious : beside this, we are bold to say that the Archbishop. having been misled by members of the Tractite party several years since, became instrumental to their purposes, and the means of nursing them into strength and audacity : it is now very well known that this party, then working in secret, wickedly as ailed Dr. Hampden because he was not of them ; that by their machinations many were induced inadvertently to join in the unfounded, and, in part, mere wanton clamour against that eminent Divine, and, that when this great injustice and _..jury be was l e d s o se n n e e t d o sought to h D y r. ca H lu az y d , en t , he an A d rc h h is bi m sh o o r p al a i e n t flu . e nc p secret junta, even denied him the upon by the and examination. We are far fro- justice ri a heari ng Archbishop w i tt i ng l y entered . intending to say. that the tites : the position held b h oi - , h re by Dr. Pasty, Mr. Newman, *WI into the schemes of the Trac advantage, others, of itself gave - power and to and opportunity th tomrry out any design with . members of the Episcopal is to . _e traced their !n -nperho,maunidgetdhethraromuigfli; fluence upo; catioh.l'oy which their opinions have been thq press and from the pulpit. What, then, it' the Spiritual Head' of the Church should be a Puseyite ? It seems very natural that he and the rest of the Prelates having a strong conviction—growing from the delight which the large revenues of the Church afford them—that the Church is essential to the welfare of mankind, and witnessing its declining i n .. fluence, should readily lend an ear to any set of priests who propounded a means of re-establish ing it in public favour, while its revenues and its power should be increased. It is very likely, therefore, that the Most Reverend Pre late, and several other Prelates, have secretly cherished and favoured the High Church priests, and have encouraged them in their exertions to gain for the Church of Eng land all the power that ever was possessed over the hearts, minds, and consciences of men, by the Church of Rome. They will not bear, if such have been the case, now to be slighted and now to be disparaged. They accuse, therefore, the Low-Church priests of being guilty of all manner of theological vices, and they will continue to at tack them with all the vigour and rancour for which theological controversialists have always been famous. The public seem-to us to be more deeply inte rested in the inferences from this controversy than in the controversy itself. One of them is, that as there are Low-Church and High-Church priests and parties, there must be a Low-Church truth and a High-Church truth, a High-Church creed and a Low-Church creed, otherwise - them would be no dispute between the parsonS. In ad,. dition, then, to. Romanism, Presbyterianism, Lu theranism, ,Arminianism, Wesleyism, &c., there are also Low-Churchism and High-Churchism, TIC F. SUN, LONDON, TUESD Xr, APRIL 6, as distinct sects of Christians. When the isms are so numerous, and such large rewards are thrown into the lap of the most favoured ism, we cannot be surprised that the priests of each should ear nestly wish to secure the dominancy of their own ism by enforcing it on all men as a duty to em brace it, without examination. Hence their bit ter and slanderous attacks, according to the Post, on each other, and hence their fierce resentment against all who question their right to dictate the creed of mankind. Hence, too, their jealousy of power, and their determination, as in - the case of Church-rates, to keep hold of everything they can grasp. PRUSSIA wants to rest3re a Chivalrous order he must follow this example of the SULTAN. His new Knights may then think it worth their whi!e to make a display of spurious chivalry such as the age will tolerate. The SULTAN has granted a firman for the pro tection of the. Christians of Syria and Damascus. The French Ambassador at the Porte, and the Consuls in Syria, have received instructions to watch over the execution of this firman. Russia is adequate to the protection of the Greek Chris tians within the dominions of the Ottoman Porte. The Moniteur of the 4th of April has no official part. SwrrzEttl,AND.—( From the private corcespondcnce of the Constitutionnet) 6 . BERNE, APRIL 1., FOUR , O ' CLCv IC IN THE AFTERNOON. —The first article of the project of the Committee has teen accepted by the strictly necesary majority of twelve votes." This article is conceived in the following terms :—" The decree of the Great Council of the canton of Argoyia, of the 18th of January. which supp ,. esse, a'l the convents in its territory, is declared to be incompatible with the 12th article of the Federal Com; act. When the painful conviction of so many errors in religion is forced on the mind, it cannot avoid remembering that in those branches of know ledge in which inquiry is perfectly free, such as geometry and natural history, there is no high truth and no low truth as opposed to each other—no Romish truth and no Presbyterian truth, but only one truth, which was the same in Greece, two thousand years ago, in the time of EUCLID and ARCHIMEDES, as in London at this day; and is the same now in Lon don, when propounded by Mr. FARADAY, as in Stockholm, when explained by i3ERZELIUS, and at New York, when it appears in the pages of Silliman's Journal. Mankind require to be satisfied how it is that there is only one truth in science, which men discover by successive ob servations,, while there are so many contrAtic tory truths in religion, which has been revealed in order that all doubt and error and con troversy might be at an end. The gentlemen at Oxford and elsewhere, who now wish, it is said, to hush up this controversy, will find the beginning of their strife is as the letting out of the waters. Four articles remain to be discussed, on t wo o f w hi c h i t i s thought there will be no majority.—Le Constitutionnet. We have received the following letter from Toulon of the 30th of March : "Yesterday evening orders were given to the Mediterranean squadron to prepare to put to sea with all speed. A great bustle was immediately manifested in the port. Every exer tion was made to deliver to the ship under the command of Rear-Admiral Hugon, tte articles of which they are in want. At this moment three ships of the line, the Ocean, bearing Admiral Hugon's flag, the Suffren, and the Scip:on, are ready. Only ten or twelve can be sent to sea, the others being on the coast of Africa, or under repair in the port." The squadron will go to exercise the crews off the Theres Islands. It seems that this measure has been solicited by Admiral. Hugon, in order to give some eclat to the impa-Lnt command which has been confided to him, and which is a real sinecure. When we reflect on the enormous expense abso lutely thrown away, which the maintenance of this formidable squadron cost France, and with which so much might be done for the honour and interest of the country, one is grieved to the heart. Our road hss been covered with ships for seven or eight months; one would say that our naval force hides it wit while the English squadrons act boldly at every point, to the great prejudice of our commerce and of our legitimate influ ence.—Le Courrier Francais. We insert a useful and important letter on public meetings, and entirely agree with the writer that we cannot forego our right to hold public meetings without endangering the public liberties. Perhaps, however, these words have no longer any charms for an Englishman's ear, and he seems not unwilling to barter liberty for ease. As a matter of calculation, that appears to us a mistake ; for no persons are less at ease, and less secure, than those whose lives and for tunes are held at the mercy of others. Our Correspondent suggests a method by which public meetings may be safely held, but they would derive a great additional safety, were the middle classes to feel any interest in holding them. They are numerous enough, and influen tial enough, to secure the peace of any meeting they may desire to call, if they will only attend; but the truth is, that the middle classes no longer take much interest in political matters, and de vote their energies to purstits which they regard as more agreeable. They see that on every public occasion there are too many orators, that too much is said and too little dune, and they will not waste their time to grace the triumph of a few practised speakers. We are afraid that till the whole machinery of public meetings is altered, till they are more local and more confined, each one to some small section of the community, giving a fair chance of distinction to each rival orator, there is but little chance of their being again a commensurate organ for expressing pub lic opinion. TORTONI'S—SUNDAY. The rise in the Paris funds on Saturday miy be attributed, in some measure, to the London prices of the preceding day having been known at the Bourse through the medium of pigeons. _ _ _ _ CAFE DE . PARIS—SUNDAY. Two.—There has been a good deal of business done. The Three per Cents. for the Account, after hating been done at 78f. 95c., are now 78f. 871 c. PRIVY COUNCIL,-(THIS DAY ). Madrid Papers, of the 29th ult., have reached us. They do not contain a syllable of news of any interest. The friends of ESPARTERO were ex ceedingly active in promoting the sole Regency. ESPARTERO'S command of the army will induce thany to vote for him for fear of some new re volutionary stir among the troops. Letters from Athens, of the 23d of February, confirm the news previously received of the ap pointment of M. MAVROCORDATO, the enlight ened and liberal Minister of Greece at the Court of London, to the office of President of the Council of the new Cabinet. M. MAVROCOR DATO is to be succeeded in the Embassy by M. TRICUPI, whose name is favourably known in this country. We rejoice for the sake of the people of Greece, at the appointment of M. MAVROCORDATO to the Presidency of the Coun cil. He is an honest and an enlightened man, and of such men there are few to be found at the Court of King OTHO. His task, if he dis charge his duty to Greece, will be indeed difficult. He must first drive out of the country the hordes of hungry Bavarians who devour, like so many locusts, every " green thing "—every place and appoint ment at the disposal of the Executive. He Perhaps some doubts may be entertained of the propriety of our Correspondent's suggestion, that the presiding Mayor, being a Magistrate, should cause those who decline to obey his de cision as to conducting the business of the meet ing, to be removed by the civil power. It would deprive public meetings of much value, if such a practice were to be frequently adopted. All public meetings like the House of Commons should be responsible for their own police ; and as the majority of that House can overset all rules laid down for their guidance, so in public meetings a majority should be, and necessarily must be, supreme for the time being. We will not enter further into the subject, but we hope that our Correspondent's letter will induce those who cherish the public liberties to take up the sub ject, and not allow public meetings, which are one of their best safeguards, to be put down, either by a lawless mob or an arbitrary Magistrate. must next take measures for breaking the abso lute sceptre of the Royal Idiot to whom modern statesmen entrusted the Government of Greece, by giying_and securing a Constitution to his country. He must utterly abolish the torture, and to the utmost of his powers suppress the Slave Trade. If he suffer himself to be made the dupe of the intriguers who surround his im becile Sovereign lie is lost. King OTHO'S grand hobby is absolute power —a power which he wants the capacity to employ other than mis chievously when in his hands. M. MAvuocou- DATO'S hour of trial is come. The steamer that has to convey him to Greece has already . arrived, and. it will be now seen whether he is adequate to the achievenients which his bleeding and oppressed country demands of Lis patriotism. Nowhere, save in Spain, is th 6 1 resence of a master-spirit more wanted than in Greece. MONEY and COLUMERCIAL NEWS In our City Article will be found an extract of a letter from Canada, which exaggerates, we are persuaded, both the inimical disposition, and the power of the American mob. We see in art Evening Contemporary, letters and remarks of a similar description, and we notice them here to caution our readers not to trust implicitly to the descriptions given in American papers, or in Canadian letters. As far as we see, every possible precaution has been taken by the American Go vernment, in despatching General SCOTT with • a force to the frontier, to ensure the due observance and the due execution of the law, which is all that we can ask or expect. Those who are in the neighbourhood of the events, hear and circu late and magnify a multitude of rumours, which become very mischievous when circulated and believed in England. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, APRIL s.—The Market to day has been in a very inanimate state ; the sales sf.arcely amount to 2,000 bales, without any change in prices ; the d•- scriptions purchased consist principally of American; the :pe culations or exports nothing to report. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, APRIL s.—The business's' the Stock Exchange this day has been toa considerable extent. The transactions reported with the prices are as follow : Chester and Birkenhead New Shares, 16 ; Eastern Counties, debentures, 74; Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock, 234; Grand Junction, 209 ; Great Western Half-shares, 64; ; Ditto Fifths, 11, ; London and Birmingham, 156 ; Ditto quarter shares, 23*; London and Brighton U. C., 46*; niidianil Counties quarter .shares, 214 ; North Midland, 75 ; Paris and Rouen, 5 ; Sou h-Western and Devon, 184 ; London and Bir mingham, 321. shares, 244. - MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL s.—Our mAr ket still continues very firm ; stock is but sparingly offered, and prices higher.—Lancaster and Preston New, 24; ; Lon • don and South Western, 56 ; Do. Tenths, 21. 3s. ; Midland 11* ; Lanca s t er Canal, 28*; Huddersfield C ana l, 26* ; B ank 78 4 ; Great Western Fifths, Counties, 83 4; North Midland, of Manchester, 74. The Liverpool letter received this morning states that the Margaret, from Liverpool, at the tare of Good Hope, for Sydney, New South Walea, had 40 deaths on the passage. THE FUNDS, The decrease in the revenue hag hot had any effect on the British Funds to the present time: Consols opened this itiorhing at the leaviiig off prates of yesterday, 894; for the &Kitint, and 89i 4 for Money. The Hebrews being absent from the market this m..rning owing to their holidays, consequently there is nothing doing in either of the markets as yet, nor is it expected that ally blislne§s or con sequence will be transacted. EkcheqUer Bills 911 prem. In the Forei,gn . Market the prices are nominal at present, it being in An inactive state. Stib.hisli A ttlft Mine as 1` left off, 234 4; Deferred; ,121 II; Passive, 54 ; ; Port uguese as t h ey tio-et ; 334 34; Three per Cents. 2u to * • Colombian the 224 23 ; Mexican as it left o ff ; 30 4 31 1 Bratilian, 69 70; Chilian 59 61 ; Dutch TwO-ant4a- Half per Cents. 514 4; Five per Cents. 974 94. Sitants.—Great Western 27i 28 Veit, i New 134 4 prein. Widen Mid Bilghtoh 43i dis. ; Blackwall 5 3 / 4 * dis. ; Birmirgharn 64 66 prem. ; Southampton 554 564 per sha . e ; Croydon 134 per sh re ; Greenwi, h 84 per share ; Man chester and Birmingham 154 144 distinint South Eastern and Dover 151 144 ditetluht. PRICES OF. SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Bald, Per Share. Great Western - • Gosport Janttlon Biriningham and Derby ........•100 ~.,; te -- Ditto ?sew . . ....... g London and South Western 38;. •• • 5t to North Midland RN • S'".-1 to PRICES OF IRISH ST ' OCkSS DUBLIN, APRIL 3: 3 per Cent. Consols • BO Bank Stock,— • Three and Half Stock,..., D6l Ghtlid Cahll 5t0ck,...:.:.::,. Ditto Reduced I Ditto Debs. 6 per cent... Ditto New, 1830 34 per Cent. Debs 0041110 AI C3li i Stt,ck We have received the French Journals of Sunday. Lord GRANVILLE continued seriously indisposed. His complaint is gout —one of those peculiar diseases which meet with more sympa thy in palaces than in parish-workhouses, not withstanding that the latter are by much the more numerous. Lord GRANVILLE is, however, exceedingly and deservedly popular in Paris, and at post hour on Sunday the British Embassy was crowded with anxious visitors. The answer to all inquiries was that his Excellency was no better than on the preceding day. We are happy to state, on the authority of a private letter, that the life of the Noble Earl is consi dered in no danger. The Chamber of Peers did nothing on Satur day but receive the Repo, t of the Committee on the Secret Service Bill, which was in favour of that measure. M. HVMANN then laid the Bill on their Lordships' table, when they adjourned. The mother of the Regicide DARMES, after an examination before a Commission of the Court of Peers, has been set at liberty. The French fleet at Touln, under the com mand of Admiral HUGON : received orders on the 29th ult. to be in reaa at an hour's- iness for proceedin g t o sea ..otice. The object of the expedition is to p-- ....iercise the crews. Immense masses of timber are floating down the Loire to Indret for the construction of atlantic steamers, The King pt PliussiA contemplates restoring the OAer of St. John of Jerusalem, of which an cient Order thirty-two Knights are still living. This is the age of steam and toinmette, not of chivalry, and when the spirit of such institutions as the Order of St. John is dead the resuscita tion of their externals is little better than a mockery of common sense. Chivalry; if indeed it can be said to be alive at the invention of gun powder, fell before the first shot of the match lock—its very ashes were pulverized to atoms, beyond the power of human indivisibility, by the machinery of the spinning jenny, and all the galvanism of all the Kings in the work! can not now so recompose it as to enable it ocofilisoiuorn w.riatihlroaadcso. mmoorndercsoal-otfrainKuu to stand up for one moment if brought in rg o h n t h o n d e have now little more than a mercantile value. They are sought by merchants because they ap pear to indicate the possession of wealth by the head of the firm. Sir JOHN RETAILTAPE and Co. sounds better at the head of a circular, or on a share-list, for which subscribers are wanted, than mere Mr. Jonsr RETAILTAPE, linen-draper and slop-seller, of No. 5, Mutton -broth -lane. The prefix of " Sir " is also a better passport to matri mony and a dowry than " Mr.," which may belong to somebody, every body, and no _ body, indiscriminately. But knaves are not made honest men nor rakes and blacklegs protectors of the oppressed, and guardians of female innocence, by wearin• the spurs and mantle of a Templ ar, a Hospitaller. The spirit of chivalry is extiu and is succeeded among all classes by the spirit of gain. This appears to be very well under stood by the SULTAN, who, in conferririg the Order of Merit the other day upon his Prime ; Minister, had the decoration set in br ith a h ts ; .and at • the same time accompanied 'a sub:. stantial gift in solid cash to the amount. of forty thousand pounds sterling. If the , Ki ng of HALF-PAST ONE. extract. of a letter at Lloyd's, from their agent, at Patras, dated Feb. 25 ;—" The Candtot refugee§ its Gt•tee having re solved to return to their oWil. country to raise an insurrection agoiutt the Ottemait authorities, have seized dpon several yes t 6 Modena, waters, and taken them to Carabuse in Candia,; whether for thii dr piratical pOrp6 , sei; is tinkuo•A n. An English Scliobn4 Was taken oft Sa.pieneia by a boat full h? armed Ca.:diots, and taken to Candia. "I he British Con sul at Navarino warns all vessels to give the Sapieneza Lies a wide beith, as the Isle of Schezza is the place %here the Can diots lurk. Although the iltithh Market as well as the Foreign conti nues inactive to the present time, the morning quotations con tinue firth. A I+o4 prevailed in the Stock Exchange that thfi Overland Mail from India had arilved, bringing very favouraMe informa tion from China. Had this been true no doubt.it would have caused some operations in the market, at present we cannot confirm the above report, 23 par * to Portuguese, Consols may be tooted at the prices in the early part of the morning, 894 fur the Account, Mnney, 89j, 4; Exchequer :nese Bills, 9 11 prem. ; Bank Stock, 69 ex div. ; India Bonds In the Foreign Market, very little doing, Spanish Active, Dutch Two-and-a 1 11 3 a 3 1 1 1 ; pe C r nt b s i r nothing l‘ d l o e n l e ic ; an iive 3O per ; Cents., 97k, Little doing in Shares, quotations rather lower, Great Western 931 1 ; Gosport Junction, 451 ;, London and Brighton, 45/ • ditto, New, 23 ; London and Western, 57; North Midland, 77. QUAI?TER TO THREE. Mexican, 30_l 31 ; P ortuguese , 334 34 ; Consols for Aceo u t, 8 , 34 ; ditto 25th May, 9011 i• Spanish, 23 Nothing tchatever doing. HONESTY AND GENEROSITY. - MILAN, MARCH confirmed, lately happ ene d ne ar the town of Wilmer, in 26. —The followirg event, which is sufficiently Livonia t—A clerk of the house of Rothschild, drove, on the Ist of F e b ruary , t h roug h t h a t town on his way to Et. Peteraburgh. Ab ou t th ree or four miles beyond the town a violent jolting o f ti e s l e d ge i n posing a bri d g e t h r ew out the passenger's bgegage without his perceiving i t. A pee_ sant named Heider, passing toon after, saw a broken chest, some large books, and a canvas bag, bes i d es 12 tubes, as h e supposed:' As an'this was far too heavy to carr y be got another peasant and a woman, who were t ravellin g on ~ '' i eaßk to assist him, and to take them to the.town and deliver the whole to the Magistrate. They were, however, -The value of it mcmot overtaken , by the clerk, who, in hii joy, fell on I:j4 : a rreebied 511 his property, including •the bag. which was full 11 : i n ive tli r e ru r i o v a e d s a(nadboluiftte9d..h6isi.haEnicidt4sitilH)eaven: Having dniai s , t e generouvly rewarded fie honest peasant with the whole would not be less thin 175 000 to 100,000 silver i utiles. The gold bare weLl'ieti. each, between 40 and 501133 (According to our laws, the fii,der Ras entitled to one-third of the property found.) lerman Wciti4 had taken an active part; and it wont' teeth hat his exertions silefe tiptiielved et by Miss, Wood, the sister of he testator, who on that account deiiised td him a house in the city . of Gloucester. It w a s, th en , f of the first Wile Alderfnaii Weiftl became acquainted with James Wood, the testator. The testator becaiite ultimately much attached to him, and through hit instrumentality Mt. Alder man Weidd wiii crude itiember df the Corporation of Chin cester. Two of this gentleman's claugliterS bad tifilsequently married in Gloucester, one to a gentleman named 3laddy, acrd the testator becafhe godfather of , one of her children. The testator was so much pleased w ith Mb AklermFn Wood, that 'he assigbed td hire an estate called ifitbetiery Court, near Ohiiict,.Aer; and there Alderman Wood had re sided at the time of testator t istaw it was allowed on all hands that these four persons possetied the prine!pel Confidence and affection of the testator. On the 2d December; 1834, the first testamentary paper was signed by the testator: it was not,attested by any witness, but it was afterwards refrirtql id. by a dOentitent that vim§ attested. That document was in the handwriting a felt, Chiciboiri,iinel there lure was thrown upon him the onus of showing that the t. , stator .was acquainted 3vith its ebtitents. , but their Lordships wouldsee lhat in this case it was impossible that any prufesSional man could have been em ployed besides Mr. Chadborn. This doetifrlet Wits indorsed " Instructions for the will of one James Wood, of Gl. ucester." Their Lordships would allow him to observe that althoiigh ‘i IttittfietiOns 4 " thjs,deaument was of itself a subs!antive will. By this &actin - Alt teltator desired the four gentlemen above named not only to take pegiaiien of his property, but to retain to themselves all I.is Money and. senurities fur money, subject to payment of his just delfts; sled ifuch legggiei at he tfi;ght thereafter mak e . This was a perfect will of the peisonal protieity d the, teststor. It had never been alleged that this was not the gentiind dociiL ment. It happened that on the day after the d a t e o f t hi s docu ment the testator Was considerably indisposed. There was a person named Ann Lewis, in 4hqm reposed great con tidence, who had resided many years in th 6 iervidi of his cousin, and who had promised him at any time lie was seriously indisplsed to come and take care of him. •he happened to be in his house on the 3d of December, and testator desired her to go to Mr. Chadbora and fetch him to hie house. She went accordingly, arid Mr. Chadborn came, and at his reqtiest testator signed the second document of the 3d of December, 1834. • It was attested as " signed and pub lished by the said testator, as and for his will in our presence, Edward Swan, Ann Lewis, William Veile." These other persons were the clerk and coachman of Mr. Chadborn, and were calved on as subscribing witnesses, the testator having twice read over the document in their pre sence. He should shortly show their Lordships repeated re cognitions of this testammt, even up to the SaturJay previous to the death of the testator on Wednesday the 20th of April. There recognitions, which were proved beyond all suspicion, were confirmed by Mrs. Goodlake, who was that day re presented by his Learned Fr:end, Mr. Wigram, and un less his Learned Friend wo u ld s ta'e th a t hi s c lie n t . _ was perjured, he knew not how this thTea;conTd — be controverted. Things went on in this manner until the 17th 1834. On that day a letter was written by Mr. Os borne to Alderman Wood, informing him cf testator's illness. he case wan proceeding when we went to press.. Aristocratical emigration is at this present time going on rapidly. Ihe Fetters of credit. granted to English continental travellers by the two principal banking houses at the west end of London, exceed this year, both in number and value, by more than a half those of any preceding year, as far as the number of months have gene by. THE CONFESSION OF A PRIEST.--Tie Bishop of Angers having appealed to the Royal Court of that place against the decree of the Tribunal of Firit Ins!ance, which had condemned him to a fine for refusing to give evidence con cerning fee's which had come to his knoeledge in the exercise of his eccles.astical functions, the Court has quashed the d - cree, and declared the Bishf p discharged of the fine. One of his dergy, who had al , o refused to pe evidence in the lame case on strallar -grounds, and had beon fined, and who had lodged an appeal, was judged by the Court not to hive esta blished sufficient cause for overturning the decision of the info, tier Court, and the fine was therefore maintained. • EVENING EDITION'. TEIEREVENUE FOR THE YEAR AND QUARTER ENDING APRIL 5, 1841. No. I.—An Abitract of the Net Produce of the Revenue of Great Britain in the Years and Quarters ended sth of April, 1840, and sth of April, 1841, chewing the Incr .° or Decrease on each head thereof. dedT# QUARTERS ENDED YEAR QUARTERS ENDED YEAR Year ended April 5. Quar ,........ tn ._ 5 ., ended c..---..,______...-....._______.,_.....7...\ ended , Jan. 5, 1 • 'July 5, Oct. 10, Jan. 5, i April , April 5, July 5, I Oct. 10, April 5, April 5, • Increase. I Decrease . Increase.' D ecre°6 _,„. 18.3 J 18:3J 1810 18:0 1840 1811 1810 1841 1841 1841 ........"-- :•ustorns.-Consolidated Duties 3' 8258'71 ' , 4,484,752 3,965,719 3,499,30 - 3,985,998 4,562,048 3,644,292 3,537,82 , - - - - Sugar Duty applicable to Consolidated .--- Fund - - 540,135 - . 1,151,036 Sugar Duty applicable to Supplies - 1,293,254 973,585 73 '0 59 - - 1,100,829 736,614 990,6E2 - - - -, --- - --- -- -- 51, 113 Total Customs 4,871,33.3 5,778,0(6 4,779,305 4,8,12,ct 3 20,001,267 5,117,934 5,1162,577 4,380,90 G 4,518,509 19,700,225 301,04! ...... 40 .26 Excise... - Stamps 1,647,423 1,6,9,721 1,557,081 1,65Q,15s 6,5t.,2,3,6 1,729,681 1,751,417 1,514,516 1,677,404 6,755,118 162,122 Taxes 1,6311,312 311,281 1,58 1 ,f 1 97 119,038 '3,714,412 1,• 47,908 332,607 1,786,771 1 22 ,045 3,918,431 275,019 ..- 42,687 27: (: ' 5° Post Ottice 369,000 407,001 331,000 . 1.0,009 1,247,010 10 ~ 000 1::3,000 18,000 9 3 ,000 414,000 ( 33,00) ...... 7,5° 3 Crown Lands... 40,060 40,000 40,1 0 41 ', 4 (16 160; 00 42,500 45/1 0 4 0 ,000 32d00 160,000 . Miscellaneous . 4,117 24,1382 12,437 49,1 : 6 60,062 1,817 11,946- .....r . , ... 3, 141 ---- --.----- - --.- • Total Ordinary Revenue 11,152,030 12,368,826 11,768,136 8,537,04 - ) 40,811,0,7 11073,961 11,855,7.2 1 1,i , 31,1-6 8,477,053 4,638,872 928,957 1,134/42 74,149 -- Imprest and other Moneys 3Ol/25 41,126 41,992 31,913 410,976 217,F80 8'4°99 3 7 ,546 32 151 445,576 29/,0.0 238 1 ~,I ~..„....'' Re-payments of Advances ........... - 234,845 176,800 110,7 6 7: - .4,1:' , 3 195,093 172,109 123,918 98,996 591,438 ..... - 132,715 1 .. , ---- 620 8 609 -- -- --..-. Total Income 11,656,137 12, 61.2 , 997 jl2 ,0.7 , 018 8,679 , 714 I ,' 44 ,9-5,166 I 11,86 7 , 836 12 , 111 ;30 12 , o t - '7,,,200 : 44, 675 ,886 951,477 1,266,757 74097 1/4'1.10. - - - .. Ile Amount applied to the Consoli. ' Deduct In dated Fund 6,002824 9/.91,5E4 8,772,3)0 7,483,t 39 32,232,767 6,898,530 8,68?,179 6,037,023 7,390,901 31,608,633 crease 957,477 Deduct i. 74,3 7 Ditto, as Advances, and to pay off Ex- Increase. .............„, chequer Bills, issued as A dv;in ces ... 172,460 23 ',761 99,682 279,850 781,763 11',050 70/00 20,004 :82/50 493,100 Ditto, as part of the Ways and Means • of the Year t l h )e c cr ( 7 $ the Year.... 20928; Total 11,135 0 ,137 I 12,64 4 /97 I 12,00 i,OlB I 8,679,714 114,85,166 II 11,417,836 12,111,230 12,087,6 . -0 8,609,200 t 44,673,8 M No. II -Ineome and Charge of the Consolidated Fund, in the Quarters ended the sth April, 1840, and the bth April, 1841. li ls ' 1 Quarters ended April 5. I • ‘P 'N , INCOME. 18i0 1811 I CHARGE. . ....._....----• a , 7,1, . ‘ t v l a e r t ° e l r ' ... > °'sl ustoms.-Consolidated Duties 3,19.',32) 3,527, , ,1, - .6 I Permanent Debt Sugar applicable to the 1,39 ,532 . 1, 2 v4, Consolidated Fund 340,133 L e t r e m re i s n t a o b i l i e E t x n A u eg it t i l e e s r Bills issued to mdet the charge on the Consolidated Fund 22,90) , Sinking Fund . _ tl - ,0 11 Total Customs 3,93 . 1,46i 3,527, 1 -26 1 The Civil List ...._.1.... ed .,,, ,', : 1 ini 96, 'CI 001 1 Other charges on the Consolidated Fund Excise . 1.950,212 1,90 - •;048 i Charge on account of Advances, the repayment of which are crried to Consolidated Fund Stamps 4 1.63 ,188 1 ,677,46` 4 ' ------ ---,77,,1) Taxes . '.9 . ,.1,/ Post Office • Crown Lands 4 ,.„ .1 0 32,503 ....-- a ,iv , - . _,_,..--, -.0 Miscellaneous 37,1-0 49,F6 I • 8,196,771 ›... ---/ Imprest and other Monies 31,913 82,151 . ------ Repayment of advances The Amount of Exchequer Bills issued to meet the charge on th e Consolidated Fund for the Quarter ended Jan. 5, 1310, 4 0, 0 7,966,771 7; 33,0,6 and paid off out of the growing produce of that Fund for the Quarter ended April • 11=41 • The Amount issued in the Quarter ended April 5, 1811, in part of the sums granted by Parliament out of the Consoli- To Cash brought to this Account I dated Fund for Supply Services 9'6,249 i i!1r2, 1 to be applied to pay off Deficiency ' IThe Surplus of the Consolidated Fund, Quarter ended Al ril 5, 1841 Bills 230/80 2:0,600 1 --.-----. 15 The probable amdtint of Exchequer Bills required t o mee t th e c h arge on th e C onso lid a t e d F un d, Q uar t er en d e d I 4, 9 1;2 8,191 1 ,771 7,55 , ,0 6 I Ap it 5, 1811 / • -- COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (THIS DAY). NAVAL INTELLIGENCE• The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat to-day in the Council Chamber, Whitehall, for the purpcse of hearing the important appeal from the decision of Sir Herbert Jenner with respect to the will of the late Mr. James Wood, of Glou , cester. The Lords present were—Lord Lyndhurst, the Master of the Rolls, the Vice-Chancellor, Mr. Baron Parke, and Sir J. Littledale. Among the legal gentlemen emp!oyed are the Attorney- General, the Solicitor-General, Sir Wm. Follett, .Sir F. Pol lock, Mr. Wigram, Mr. Pemberton, Dr. Phillimore, and several other gentlemen. The case, it is generally understood, will occupy to the first day of Term in argument. WOOD AND OTHERS 0. eoonLARIE ARn nITCAINOS. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, at the sitting _of their Lord ships, proceeded to address them on the bekalf of the appel'aets. The case, he said, came before their Lordships upon appeal from the decision of the Prerogative Court. In tie year 1836 there were propounded in that Court three testamentary papers, dated Dee. 2 and 3, 1834, purporting to b e th e w el o f M r. James Wood, ' of Gloucester, by which he nominated four persons as his exe cutors of his personal and real property. Those papers were propounded by his executors as containing the last will arid tes tament of James Wood. There was afterwards propounded a codicil bearing date in April, 1835, but there was no day of that month named. These papers led to lengthened proceed ings in the Ecclesiastical Court, and the Learned Judge by his decree pronounced against the papers. The Learned Counsel, after expressing the satisfaction he felt at the present constitu tion of the'Court,:and protesting against its being supposed to be the law of England that a party who had been the Counsel in a cause could not sit as a Judge in that cause; proceeded to say that he felt the difficulty of the task he had to per form, namely, that of impugning the judgment of a Judge of such learning, patience, .andability as Sir Herbert Jenner,butlebelieved,notwithstanding those difficulties, he should be able to show their Lordships that that Learned Judge was in error, and that the conduct, the highly improper conduct, of some of the parties had led him in his indignation to pronounce a judgment that he otherwise would not have done. It was now necessary to see what the questions were which their Lordships were called upon to de ter mine. There was no question as to the competency of the testator ; it - was admitted that he was in full Possession of all his faculties, that he was a shrewd man, and that down -to the last hour of his life he was perfectly capable of managing his own affairs. 'l here was no question, either, of undue influence ; all the papers that had been propounded. were, if genuine, voluntary and spontaneous, and the only question, therefore, was, whether the documents that had been presented for pro bate were genuine or not, and what, in point of law, Was the effect of them. If they were genuine, and prima facie made a wid, of which his client was entitled to probate, the question then would be,:were there any rebut them ? He thought he should be able to show, beyond all controversy, that these were genuine dicuments signed by the testator, w ith a full knowledge of their contents. He would now lay before their Lordships a short outline of the facts of the case. The testator James Wood was a native of Gloucester ; his grand father had settled there in 1716. Ho opened a bank theme, called the Old City Bank. 'He was succeeded in that business by the father of the testator, who carried on the same business there down to 1793. The testator afterwards carried on the same business there, but in a peculiar manner, and he was a little shopkeeper at the same time. He' was a barker, a draper, and an undertaker, and. down to the last year of his life, when he was worth a million of money, he attended rs un dertaker at the performance of funera's. He died a bachelor, and the only relations he had were two sisters, one of whom was married and the other not. The testator was of the most parsimonious habits, hie establishment consisted of two maid servants, an apprentice, and a shopman. It appeared that the master and men slspt in the same bed-room, and that all the family eat together. Bylthese habits, and the we lth left him by his father aid grandfather, his own wea'th become enorm - ,us, and at the time of his death his personal pr.iperty amounted to upwards of 800,000/, and Ifs real to more than 100,000/. Both the sisters of the testator and a cousin named Ellis died before the testator, and upon the oc casion of the death of Ellis, the; testator had been h ear d to declare th a t he had no relation then left but thirty-third' cousi-.s. There was one cousin on the mother's side, of the name of Mrs. Good!ake, whom he recognised, and wi , h whom he was vert intimate, and there was also another cousin, named Hitchings. Carrying on the business of a banker; and having no partner, and being acikaneed in years, some of the customers who kept aeectints ith him were a little uneasy at the pros pect of his death, because einbarrasSrnents might arise if he left no representative. This was urged upon him, and it was possible that, if it had not been for the supposition that he should lose one or two accounts, he would have died intestate. Under these circumstances, and being indisposed in December 1834, he made the testamentary disposition which their. Lord ships were now called upon to decide the validity of. The principarobjects of his affection at that tithe wore the four individuals whom he afterwards named his executors. Josiah Osborne had been aid apprentice of his, and had resided with h:m ler more than forty years. The testator placed the most unbounded edntelence in him, and was greatly attached to hint. AnOthee apprentice was the testator's cousin, Mr. John Surman who was, up to th e ti me o f hi s d e a t h, a tnern , ber of his family, and who was the second executor. The third was Mr, John Chadhorn, an eminent solicitor hi Glou cester, Whd had lean for rugby years the confidential attorney and agent of Mr. Wood, who had 111antigeti all Ifs business, ,nd had ingratiated himself with the testator, .how or to what extent it Mattered net; that pit being the question, but whether Mr. Wood did make him his executde arid rigt4rit. The fourth executor was Mr. Alderman Wood, a gentleman who, although of the same name, was no relative of the testator, who had never seen him Until thd yel4 1824, Irethe year 1820 there • had occurred what was now an historical evfiiit, iii which Al. (Before Mr. Commissioner Hotßoyn.) IN TOE MATTER. OF MESSRS. ROBINS AND WILLIAMS The bankrupts were the extensive and well known carrier.; of London-wall. The case had been already frequently inves tigated before the Court, and proceedings touching the estate were perid;ng in Chancery. A long discussion was entered into concerning the transfer of certain debts due to the bankrupts, and effected by them to Me,srs. Dixon, bankers, of Chancery-lane, for moneys ad vanced, in which the solicitor to the fiat, the official assignee, with several creditors and their legal advisers, took part, but it was without public interest. Mr. edwards, the official assignee, haVing stated that he considered the balance sheet now before the Lord Commis sioner to be as perfect as circuTstances sduiitted, the bankrupts were allowed to pass their final examination, the dividend being adjourned sine die, as the - Chancery suit prevents the assigr.ees from interfering with the bankrupt's assets. (From the Devonport Independent.) ollift PLYMOUTH, APRIL 3.—Her Majesty's ship Cc' tri m . l° 72, was towed alongside the sheer hulk on kl° l ',l l - '. lave her masts put on board, and to be fitted wi t Ha-ris's lighthing conductors. ( 00 The Tortoise, lighter, arrived on Sunday I° , " Holyhead. Capia'n Sir W. Symonds, Surveyor of the Na v Y r j CO Captain Brandretb, R. E., arrived at this dock ) Wednesday, from Pembroke, on an official visi'. a lcd The Diligence, naval transport, . Martin, master, 6 on Friday, with stores for Woolwich. The Lady Fitzherbert barque, from Sierra Leone' timber for this yard, arrived on Friday. In Harbour—Caledonii, 120, C a pt a in H.E 00' Josef, 110, Captain Tayler, C.B. ; Avon, 10:4 , 1 . St • am-vessels. CRIM)NAL COURT.-(THIS DAY OLD COURT. (Before the RECORDER. James M Carthy, 17, described as a labourer, and John M' Carthy, 44, wine merchant, were indicted for having c)n spired to derraud several parties of goods under false pretences. Mr. Clarkson appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Jones for the prisoners. The case was somewhat similar in its nature to the one tried yesterday. It appeared, from the evidence of a large number of witnesses. that the elder prisoner had taken the premises, 14, Queenhithe, in the month of July last, f rom a p erson name d Cox. Het:2d a counting-house, and the younger prisoner, his son, acted apparently as clerk. Several tradesmen had re. ceived orders for goods, ranging from 305., to 4/. or 51., and in one instance, .where a shawl and muff had been obtaim-d from a tradesman, it was immediately afterwards pawned by the elder pri , onor. The goods had been sent to the counting.. house, where the younpr prisoner received them by a statement that Mr. M'Carthy had gone to the docks, and that it was all 'right, generally inducing the parties to leave the goods. The apprehension of the prisoner took place under rather singular circumstances. He had been found in the street in a state of drunkenness, and was taken to the p dice office, where he was recognised by a policeman at the party for whom he had been some time on the look out, and was given in charge for the present offence. Mr. JONES addressed the Jury at considerable length on be half of the prisoner. • The Learned RECORDER having summed up The Jury immediate'y returned a verdict of—Guilty a ga i ns t both the prisoners. _ _ _ Forr o4 The Learned JUDGE said the prisoners hsi been severally found guilty of a conspiracy, and there could be no moral doubt o f their guilt. With regard to the youngerprisoner, he appeared to have been a very zealous and active partisan of the eider pri soner, although necessarily somewhat under his influence. .fhe ser.tenee of the Court was, that the elder prisoner be co n. mitred to Giltiipur street Compter for nine calendar months, and the younger for three calendar months. la the Sound—lmpregnab'e 104, Captain T " C. B.; Belleisle, 72, Captain Toup Nicolas. ;„ C. Her Majesty's ship Bellerophon, 80, CaPt a— ., t o Austen, C. B. is ordered from the Mediterran ea " cap te! paid off at Portsmouth ; and the Implacable, 74.. d t; E. Harvey, is also returning home, to be P al Plymouth. Wittiam Evans, aged 16, was indicted for stealing a pair of trousers and other clothe;, the property of a seaman, r.hich were lying on board a brio - called the Jane, in the Illy, r. The prisoner pleaded guilty, and was Fenteneed to twelve months' imprisonment in the House of Correction. NEW COURT. (Before the COMMON SERGEANT.) • William Rose and Henry White were indicted for stealing eight bust,els of mixed feed, called horse provender, the pre rerty of James 13m , 0n, their ma-ter. Air. Ballantine stated the case for the prosecution. ➢lr. Payne defended the prisoners. • 1 he evidence went to show, that the prisoners were carters and had the charge of valuable horses, who-e quantity of feed was regulated according to the length of the journey they had to per:orm. On the day named in the indictment two sacks• containing each four bushels of feed, were found in the posses sion of the prisoners, beyond the ordinary delivery. The evidence appeared to be conclusive, and the prisoners were found guilty. Mr. BALLANTANE said that he was fearful the system had been carried on to a great extent, for the horses which cost from fifty to sixty guineas were almost starved, and rendered incapable. Ihe COURT observed on the enormity of the offence to wards their employers, as well as its cruelty to his cattle, and expressed a doubt whether the sentence it was about to lass would be an adequate punishment. That sentence was that they be kept to hard labour for six calendar months in the House of Correction. SOUND DUES. v u tt, The following is a copy of a Leiter from M r ' tbi° M.P., to the Dundee Chamber of Commerce, ° important subject : THE MARKETS.-(THIS PAY.) i 4g 1. London, March 20, ' g pre " Sir,—You will hive readthe accou nt of the pre" °. cf ccedings in the House of Commons on the 0 4 the Sound Dues. e ;I OP c 4 It will be satisfactory to know that th e re • nr e• every prospect of these dues being abolished. 'Peirce! sent proposition is to reduce the whole tariff to it rt of dimensions, and to collect the dues either at theP°,ces' departure . or of destination, so as to abclish all "0 ,08 s:ty for stopping the ship on her vo 3 rge o r for exp el the ship's company to tioablesome ceremonies as strictions. " But, t ut, in addition to this, there is a disPelli'doei the part of the Northern States to buy UP fre e altoge'her, and have the pas sa ge of the Sound the commerce and navigation of the world. , tr ot " This will be a great improvement, and I fee' satisfaction in•having contributed to effect it. 4 " I have the honour to be, your obedien t se lf , (Sigred) " WILLIAM ".To the Secretary of the Chamber Of Commerce, Dundee." PELL; I A DM—Mmes.!, 3 , APRIL w t. actual Debt, *, per Ccnt. Rothschild', Loan, 5 per CAA io Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent 3 per Cent. ........ • 70% ...... 9 914 An) IS Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent Society of Commerce, 4 54per Cent .......... Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent...... ....... National Society . Exchange on Lando,: (short) —Brussels Papers, April 3. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VisPtsA, MARCO rice per Cents. Metalliques ........................... vs, ..? Oft Foozr per (enCents 7is .. . ..................................... : .......... 011 ... .................. Y 4 11 'tank Shares ........................... -4 fik'e-"rine Zn i nfig. March 31 2. .L 7 itod HA MBU RG BORSENHALLE, AVM'. 4 gills. I A jog t wo, Austrian 5 per et nts Bank shares 1074E 0:0 An4o- Russian Loan lOVi ...- Russian 5 per Cent. !st series, Certificate Inscription, Ist Se: ic:s Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th 9 6 97 pi P Series Ditto in Certificates ...... ..................... ......••• 4 9 ~„ Dutch Actual Debt, 2% pea Cent ......, ~... Ditto 5 per Cent 14` . 3,0 ••••• Polish Bonds New picket .... ....• Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cer. -- ....• N twegian Loan, 1834, 4 p er C:'.... Spanish, New 5 per Cents. EXCHANGES ON LONDON. st HAMBURG, APRIL .-13 6%.—Two months, 13 47 . PETERSBURCaI, MARCH '43. —Two months, 36% Pl' , STOCKHOLM, MAncil .6.—Seventy-five days, 11. 43' COLONIAL MARKET. DEATH OF THE HON. BEEKEI O - 1 ,, t e -14° .; vans NOEL.—lntelligence of the death of the °l t " 0 1 %a Gentleman has reached this country from Brussels, S e d gy 1 00 1 capital he died on Sunday the 28th ult. The (free ., a e ot , was seventh son of the late, and brother of the P re 'd 01 0 " 1 . of Barham, was born on the 3d of December, 1 7 9 4, ' - i ,ee te t jal' on the 22d of June, 1820, Letiiia Penelope, only 'Area' the late Mr. Ralph Adderley, and widow of Mr. A kett, by whom he leaves an only son, Mr. Berkeley c 0 i l i a born 29th of July 1821. In consequence of the d it c la i g otY family, Lady Barham, who was in waiting on her t Queen, is succeeded by the Countess of Mount EN; ,g. : r AFFAIR OF HONOUR.—Saturday En °r oe ; ° e t day-break, an " affair of honour" took place in FO-'11; Notting-hill, between Captain B---n and It Esq. The principals, accompanied by their respec ts and a medical gentleman, arrived at the grou nd 1 ° at coaches. A dispute arose ,respecting the distanc° the gentlemen were to be placed, Captain ed t Ohio having the usual ten paces, while Mr. G----- "'"i o r g placed at eighty paces, with the option of advan c : — iftsP al' ten paces. The dispute was adjusted by lot, and th e u wipe tied at ten paces. On the signal " Sre" being gi v , e ..ato lant Captain teceived opponent's shot in the right wag e re , and fe his own pistol having missed fire. The ba b e K e n ? traded on the spot, and the wound pronounced to wite - 0( h b a u v t i n fl o g t. d c a o n m g e ero to us a . ny ßo am th ic p a a b r l i e ies ar t r tn ge le m ft en th t e gr oos '_ oa tr i :e rol , o The I dispute was a bet which the Captain reused to P a i l ' i be t e ground of its being unfair, in consequence of whtc" blackleg" had been applied by Mr. G.—John B j ot ) ; The Shetland ponies' intended for the, l ' i st ,ted i o tian equipage of the Princess Royal were erroneoll, for t hey- the papers of last week to have been 66 pUrCha!eq.on of the. purpose.. They were, with the gracious perrn , ; (i i ho ess ho e Majesty, presented, for the use of her Royal 11 Princess Royal, by Mrs. Cox, of Lawford , Es l a nd 03 , little animals, of scarcely larger size than a Newfu un i,ite a-e beautifully marked black and white, and of exu_.ought.ate, mctry. They are five years old, and have been 10,00e.03 almost like domestic- animal , , being accustomed -e 0( 0 t he the House, and to feed out of the hand. Th e y w e i bc rtl° by her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince - gardens of Buckingham Palace on Saturday last. is s'rr t PRESENTS TO THE UNITED SERvi" Ar0(1 1 0 TUTION. —SIR JOIIN MOORE'S MILITARY SASH: O 6OO _,,re the presents lately made to the United Service Johni 51(red'' the military sash which was used in carying Sir vi roo°, o 3l‘ from the field of Corunna, after he had been fatal dal "sir The men in the hurry attendant upon that disastrnonrch4oo, the sa,h from the General's Aid-de-Camp, and c 1 c o al" John Moore with it held the ends of the sash. a 7 t s c u r w ar il: „re veyed the wounded soldier to the town , and ,_„ t , c a the help of it let the lifeless body into the grave tr 1"; ga ol il ) i f pared for it on the ramparts. Lieutenant-General.eniej `his` derson, the gallant Aid-de-Camp of Sir John , l' re act ion h o interesting relic to the institution. Previous to thecreve John Moore made General Anderson promis e that , Ts h „oar A fell there he should be interred. On the day the sented, the following were also given to the bottle of wine from the Royal George ; a roP e fr r . b n ;le gar, sunk in 1711 ; two Karbyle swords (the 8 , 1 t . - , ,acc al°"at Inhabit the mountains in the rear of Algiers, an ,i kes . use' at at been independent of the Bet s); three Chartist P l of ari ns, l e the attack on Newport ; , and a complete collectil.,_ hoa r ; implements of the Nagas,,a tribe inhabiting theandll:r, nipoor, India. The donors were - 31 jor a f' iii Captain Michael Quin, Captain Howells, and Burns, son of Robert Burns, the poet. sll ll%--- THE GREAT WESTERN STEAM - i e % A ti e follov c ,- !0 0 0 • NERAL POST-OFFICE NOTlCE. — Ye ster " av •'g tice was posted at the Chief Post-office, St. "31e . letter re'; —" Ship Letter-office, General Post-office. --3 . - 3 " t he; 4 : _ e y , will be made up.for New York, to be forwarded by„ I s' e un„, office twill 1 , 0 institu the Western steamer. Letters in time at this wil l a 11 a rhe public arc 1 1611 T it c bCf r° f d o a r y w e ,, v ri e le n ( i i n b g y n th ex is t, co t n h v e ey e a th nc o e f . Nevvsl r 'al ) . T t il ,l4 ,Y qursted to take notice. that the Great Wes arr-" • ric r , Hilifax as heretofore." Should the President the departure of the Great Western, niu ' ll ,__ a s a u s " taine d veni, nee, not.to say immense anxiety, will be ek ° I mercantile interest. The w" oar THE 'GOVERNOR FENNER.-- o,jeces if cast up on no less a space of shore than V e ,'_' . l . „ hig to r:iiecoa, this -fatedhsa,evsesehLeiatrdistnhoawt portions of o h f as h_e g_ r ole :iieril L sb.e l " rs l i ar coast. raw, amongst other articles, a chest nl e u n "4, n, Thom', one of the passengers from Cava „, • I 114 . t The coincla_ _ 3 1, PRICE RE' FRENCH CORN "-"' to tir_goo banedencfoonutnadm.i_ngcwa•eranrairnvgonapip;_erreal,ldb.ooks, n 601. in mo ney hie of the prices of corn in French markets. _tn . ? .. .r . "..!„, r 1 2Fre t to . shGss that the highest priG , • was 2 n ll and the lowest 14f. 80c, in those of in - the markets of Gray St. - Laurent ville and Soisson. alkletz, -sGrerrdanti-0, Char, Very little business done, and the prices cif most articles still depressed, but it is presumed that a re-action will take place immediately after the Easter holidays. B. P. Sugar was taken off very slowly to meet the wants of the grocers, but with out further reduction in prices. The grocers were, however, rather free butlers of Refined Sugar, and full prices were paid : good Lumps brought 9-is. 6d. Coffee yet very dull of sa'e, and prices going down ; the chief part of the parcels put up to public sale Were bought in. Spires very dull, and inclined to be lower, except Cassia Lignea...___ TEA MARKET. The demand for Free Trade was firm on account of the encouraging deLveries, and the reducit ' , stock In prices, however, no advance could b e got, except for Company's Con gou, wh eh rcal:sed at is. lid. to Is. 74d. per lb , being id. per lb. higher. TALLOW MARKET. The transactiOng were fair and prices were maintained with great firmness by the principal holders, who supply the market with sufficient only to meet the demand. The price of 1 3 ‘ Y. Candle on the spot, was .17s. to47a 6(1 per cwt. WHITECHAPEL HAYMARKET. _ We hi 4 a goad supply at marl,:.;i, the demand pretty brisk, considerittg the large cowkeepers are commencing green meat which lessens the demand considerably, but no reduction in price took place. Clover 4/. 125.t0 - 61. ; Meadow Hay 31. 10s. to 41. 15s. ; Straw, 3tis. to 405. LLO YD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) LoNnort, Aral t ft.—Wind, this day, at noon. N.N.E.. light breeze, fine clear weatlier. DEAL, APRIL 5.--Wind E.,—Arrived from the River, and the Pearl, Burrows, for Sydney ; Eagle, Donkin, Ottebce I Imogene, ack, ditto ; Clara and Emma, Tate, ditto; Ellen, Brown, ditto; Volusia, Fitit , yson, ditto; Go veri,or Harcourt, Ady, ditto; GeneralCairos, Dare, Madeira; Allkion, Chainpi6ri, Cadiz ; Ocean, Itice, Qu,bec ; Beil, ditto: Sailed all the outward bound except the Bruns wick. for Queb4e, PORTSMOUTH, Aral'. ti.. Wind S.W. to S. S.E.—Arrived the Horat . o (transport), Colerfiao, from Jamaica. FA LMOUTII, APRIL 4. —Wind 5.5. W., fresh gales.—Ar riVOri tlig fiteAll (steamer), from • Gibraltar, left 27th ult., Cadiz 28th, L istitin 30th, Oporto and Vigo Ist; Tagus, (steamer), for V:go ; Hope packet, on a eruize. PLYMOUTH, Aram 5. Wind s.W.—Arrived the Sou dan (steamer), from Sheerness for Africa ; Rapid, Sell) , ; Ergo, smith / For Malta; Hirondelle, for Africa. Da armouni, Aram 3.—Saiied the Fox, Fox, for New foundland; Colombia, Clarkson, Havannah; Ladd, Charleston. COWES, APRIL s.—Arrived the Thomas and Mary, from bottdOtt, for Restigouche, with loss of Main top-mast ; Wind=hond, Dttelios Ayres; Aelss, Jansen, do. PENZANCE, AllltiL 4,—A fourteen feet clinker-built boat, with two oars, two handspikes, and check of windlass on board, marked " Victoria, Le Tessier, of Guernsey," has been picked up and carried to Porthleven. A fifteen feet caravel-built boat with five thwarts, four rowlocks, iron fastened, and painted black out and green inside, apparently not long in the water, has been picked up off the Eddystone 25th ult. BRISTOL, APRIL s.—Arrived the Thomas Wood, from Odessa ; Cheatab, Malta. Sailed the Britann.a, for Quebec ; Susan, Penton, Demerara. PORT TALBOT, APRIL 4. —The main boorri'of a brig, about 200 tons, apparently a long time in the water, has been picked off the Smalls. Mx eroRD, APRIL 4.—Arrived the Terrier, from Cuba. • CORK. APRIL 3.—Arrived the Westmoreland, from London for St. John's, New Brunswick, with loss of main, maintopsail yard, fore and main topsails, &c., having bare up from long. 17. SUNDERLAND, Aram 4 —Sailed the Defender, Duncan, f,,r Quebec; Orion, Steele, ditto; Wan,tock, Hay, ditto. LIVERPOOL, APRIL s.—Wind S.—Arrived the Heart of Oak, Nl , Donald, from Mauritius ; Joaquin and Jane, Haven nab ; Robert Isae, Trueman, Mobile ; Atlantic, Savannah ; Pere, Dawe, Terceira ; Columbia ' Cromac, New Orleans. Arrived off—the N or th Star, from New Orleans. Sailed the Waverley; Snow, for New York ; Litherland, Freeman, Singa pore ; Anne Jane, Rigby. Singapore ; Mary Somerville, Lan eliqer, Calcutta ; Mary Hai tly, Webb, Calcutta ; Queen of the Isles, Rio Janeiro ; Elizabeth Wood, Crosby, Barbadoes ; Syra, Swan, Trinidad ; Arid, Montreal ; Benjamin Hart, Montreal ; Columbus, Cowny, Quebec ; Emma, W ee k s, Quebec .; Celia, Ody, Quebec. ; Tamerlane, Fisher, Quebec ; Sarah Barry, Robson, Newfoundland; Cornelia, Hetford, New fouqdland ; Samuel, Kelly. Newfoundland ; Credo. Hum phreys, Newroundlanivd;, Perritt,Wallace, sTt Michael's ig,St. ; Pa ragon, Halifax ; Quiver, Ba.ibadoes ; Tomlinson, Kirkes, Constantinople; Sara cen, Poiley, Ada.—A quarter to ten.--We are still without any news of the President. YArttrouTz, 4.—Arrived, tha Twede, Brodie, I" rao. am ; Ellen and Maria, for Malta, with loss of ra , ir.mast. The Margaret, from Liverpool to Sydney, arrived at the ape of Good Hope; had forty deaths on the passage. • +1 r 1 / 4 t 44 °IIV Sp( 5 to 1 5 t o 1 61 0 1 Ito I a to 7 t o ice.