The Sun. — London, England, 1841-04-08 00:00:00

CAC_ N \ . citealen t ; 1 0 N. race. g dos e q Learn o ti v o e , -a int° f ' iff ,raise 01 ceri o° ' e rg 'if' not bon 11 : 1 0 s Lpea The e l o th 11 let:0 11 Of gartictej MORNING EDI'T'ION• LAMBETH RATEPAYERS' A SSO- T ' • • ter • t A re, Leen 4.1 aik, Ch t:r wds take.) at F , te by Mr. II arr=eew, Desuty, Mr. Loetsnin, whe 111 Pward s o f 70 parishioners were prete: t. A good 14.er havi ng p een d iscussed, " Non nobis " was sung excellent style by Messrs. Bannister, Fry, and o The - saHAIRMAN, iu a very happy straie, eulogised - , ,e ll 'S!• meetings as affording bright spots in, the path of 4 !! i re , and proposed the toast " The penile, the source of 4 g l tenat e power." In doing so, be said, however I zight be denied by the Aristocracy, the Clergy, or 44 u . l , other cl ass , the sentanent embodied in the toast t i rr4 ed part of our Constitution, and was embodied iLeoretically 'a our awe. { If all had a. hearty e In'lon of all " Esatestr," as he had—( Hear, ' ar )--tl.ey would never again hear of such gross and I t liteniati e b ri b ery, as late occurrences had brought to P' t se-i Cheers.) He trusted the time was not far i t!hint w h en the people would fully leare the power tch actually was in their hands at elections—when e Y did so we would have a different House of Com te" than we had now. The toest was drank with all elLe honours. e he CHAIRMAN then proposed "The Queer." They 4i7 all interested hi her good go v e rn men t.— ,ii„" ar ".) Som e oajected to a wo:nan ruling over tee - "iel of a great empire like England, but he was ;e4 l those who th oug ht th a t it was b e t ter to li ve the reign of a virtuous Queen than under that of 14 1 1: gate King.—(Hear.) Ma n y am e li ora ti ons h a d , 1! I Place in our laws—the punishment of death was seldo m infli c ted t o w h a t it was i n hi s y oung d a y s — S e ? - !r> he ar )— an d lie trusted all present would live t o :( a b e t wh o lly r emoved fr om t h e S tatute boo k.— i le " h ee rts) The papers of last Monday must hasten a wished-for consummation to their wishes.- 4, a1. ') It was heart-rending to think that a man hii:Pit to d ea th i n s uch a horrid m anner , w h o , on t h e Ca lk of eternity declared his innocence of the crime against him. Let them hope that our gra p.: Queen, with he r w oman ly f ee li ngs , wou ld soon ie in giv i ng h er sanc ti on to an A ct a b o li s hi ng suc h o l3 bnient. The toast was dr an k w ith en th us i asm . The Queen's Anthem." th e CHAIRMAN CHAIRMAN then proposed " Prince Alb er t an d 4 41 44 of the Royal Family now in England," which ,e e s A t i was responded to most co r di a lly. t L e" Here's a health to the Prince and the Que en ." k w ' PALL then proposed, " The Asso c i a t e d Rate s,s of L inibctle" In doing so he said be supposed S‘2 o ast was put into his hands be ca u s e h e was th e '''c it hattl er for Reform in the parish, although not 1 !' 1 Ilest. He was always sorry to see parochial asso rh,;lll3 at all—the reason was that he thought all the li t ! ought to be united as one family— t h en th ere C eh be no necessity for associations.—(Cheers.) But eAl,,alsociations were formed on one side, it was gene to be necessary to form associations on the other is a After going through a hist or y o f th e assoc i a ti ons io;7' Parish during the thirty-thr ee y e a rs h e h a d li ve d r• le , he said he had no doubt there w as enoug h 11 , h blie principle in the parish as t o once more g i ve i ll be upper hand in the p aroc hi a l a ff a i rs , w hi c h lec s °4l Y wanted for the benefit of all. Th e wor thy k s 4han defended his condu c t w hil e filli ng th e o ffi ce o f le; °e Yor of the Highways, which had been grossly mis kttlented by the opposite piney. It was necessary that the boulcl exer t themselves, for the present guardians had l tt *lY doubled the rates, though the number of poor i tt e , th e same, and the contracts were male v e ry low 4 11 4 e outgoing Guardi ans . Th e y wor k e d i n secret , th the former Guardians threw their doors open. ih,"ale-payers must say on Easter Tuesday which t o j i b they liked best—one where everything was N EI to every parishioner, or one where if a servant of s ti house divulged one word of what took place ti c ,: i l lst the Guardians, the servants of the rate-payers l e ' be instantly dismissed. toast was drank with all the honours. is d I:* GRADY then proposed "Parochial Reform." He 11 4 t he sentiment of the toast entered more deeply into S 4 Poeket s o f t h e pu bli c t h an even genera l R eform, be lit:/e their po c k e t s ware reac h e d th roug h paroc hi a l to to in a vast variety of ways--through the thja-sate, watching,and lighting rate, the county rate, tt,,,;ewer rate, the police rate, and many others. H e tf b etillled Sturge s B ourne ' s A ct , w hi c h ga v e pl ura lit y Ve h ''eg; that Act was called for by they Church ; it Is it e l eut of the opposition to Church-rates in 1817 and itt the p a rish of Ch r i s t c h urc h, an d was b roug ht i tec i t hV the father of the present member f or L am - Theke result of it was, that Lord Brougham, when „ gti ,„ lWh-"Led them to pass the Poor-law, told th em th a t Ile s j t lestio n was whether they would amend the law or Ilk e h eir estates swallowed up; it was a just judgment .t eith l e ee p art y th o gave ex i s t ence t o th e pl ura li t y o f 1 % 1 They would never base any real re -1% ew 'li the parish until they had gat Sturg es I st 7 . 74 Act repealed, and Sir John Hobhouse's .7etip, - / s t taduced. He had before said that, col fi „• 7 end individually, the Protection Asso 144.'0Iounded in two qualities, lying and cowardice ; 1 4, S e had said, and that he again repeated, and he N e. Without any fear of the consequences. They V- ia 'Po:;ver sow, but the people of Lambeth could fi,gures. and at the end of the year they would the rates had been doubled, with the same 441 ' of poor, and soon they would be turned out ; th e y had Sir John C. Hobheuse's Act in ther e would be only:alternating parties in office, lip t il° fixed principles would govern the parish. The 11 4 3 1 , with which he acted bad always acted honestly in 1, 11 4 4 of the parishioners ; they had acted openly, and , ??Ped they . would soon be replaced. A lli s" toast was drank with enthusiasm and all the tie r , WILES proposed " Civil and Religious Liberty Vtis the world." He did so most cordially because ks, t , l loeeht if it existed at all it would greatly ame- VP, th e e coudition of mankind. It had never exieted even in our own country.—(Cheers.) §li it b e ; a :el that religious liberty existed here I t o Within a mile of where they were assembled a fas i w as incarcerated for publishing a book on a reli- N l ubject. He thought if bell could not prevail N d i t the Established Church, which was said to be I t : (1 on th e rock of ages, why then fear the designs p"„, ti ? He hoped the people generally would co- Y e and send better men to Parliament, and then lito, o lild get better laws. The toast was received ,ti t Qe tim e d honours and much applause. Nft P ' *Lem) then proposed " Tae Extension of the I tSs r „"te and vote by Ballot." He defended his as one of she late Board of Guardians for the t l ""n which office he thought they ought to have been telith N, (it any other control than that of the rate -1114,,,•1; In pl ace of assisting to reduce the rates, the Itrlioners had resisted them when they wanted to a sinecurist at their Board. Ittle toast was drank with applause. company were amused during the evening with Se p ß t 'od glees from the musical gentlemen. Noy e ral other toasts were proposed, and the corn , e njoy e d t h emse l ves till a late hour. to h t k-ROAD BRITISH SCHOOLS. 0 e 6 rst annual public meeting of these schools took ld epi 't evening et the Royal Infirmary for Children, 1 7 , 0 1. °O-road. Benjamin Hawes, Esq., M.P., in the 711, e 4 Mungst the gentlemen on the pktform were John Burret, of Camberwell ; the Rev. Geo. k li 4 "p th t Andrew White. Esq., .M.P.; Messrs. Dunn 111.4,4 fig, of the Parent society, and many of the ;t ett it'l,,nential gentleman in the neighbourhood. § 4 t t i l •i'eta r y read the report, frona which appeared ttr ) want of schools in that part of the , metropolis tritE9'eat, that w ithi n a few weeks of the opening of Nt kor , l 'h Schools, about a twelvemonth ago, they were some hundreds of the children of the 1 71 ; , 1 14 1 'sses. A considerable expense had been Vtt e ro lO the fitting up of the school rooms, &c.. 4 . Z aB n balance of above 100/. against the Institu• ‘..: t 4 h. tit "era' import•int stutistical facts, relative to the httteof education in London, were elicited in the ' l th e Evening. Amongst others it was stated, ' (14ittentary Returns, that in the City of West titit,t; at th e very f ounta i n h ea d o f l eg i s l at i on , ou t o f IN,i V . 0 ,000 an d 40,000 children of an age capable ► t ' 4r,lsiOg instruction in the fudiments of knowledge, Vi n 01 16,000 either had 1 , 0 education at all, or e tt 4. the habit of receiving w.ttat was worse than all, A , mongst the subs c riptions annoui2ced, was I, t i t lavves, Esq., M.P., 5/. additional ; ~Toshua 51, in a&ition to ten guineas I,st year. to, tri t i kh-,, ° ;'g the various parties biow , ht to Marlbo eet b, e _ uesday from the station-house, on charges drunk,;! .o,,c disorderly, &c., was Lord F. C. Beau wt,,t'eht:ith"dnacaaarsi,c,, ahrfser cabh a a nd ea a hz u n iti o n f „, the him name F of I ti hi x't a ° ,f . the ' couTplainant it appeared that while startiodm t fe l l d .2, on the preceding night in Queen -street, the th, ' l, , who was intoxicated, drove his phaeton l'%e t t e tted a b. and broke the shaft, and on his remonstrating (1, 1 14 - tr arl h !, 4 '. Police constable Flattery, 73 C, who wit ‘,,,age , r.tion, then took the defendant into custody. wou'plounted to 15s. Mr. Long suggested that the v . 1 , 1 / 4 le for the parties to come to an amicable ar les,t(l, h this suggestion Lord Frederick willingly ' t l'(' parties left th e office. It was afterwards ( :)li fir ne, at the cabman had received 255. for &images and kue DISTANCE OF A F IXED S TAR .— th" r : M an astronom e r, h as ma d e o ne of the g re a t es t times, by havin g as i• er t am ed the paral -4,411,x r uadk. e f star 61 Cygni. lie found from repeated oi okr,,iici°l a c ~r ot .l l ugust, 1837, to March, 18-1, th the ,Lwhi el. •Yßlll did not exceed thirty-one hundredth- of :I: ( Y i; t• lt. ro,o, 3( .;' Places the distance of that star from us at 4 !1. .1) rnini I nes that of the sun, or which is nearly 40 ,00,-, ° " of sf (dictar motto nearly t t;i t'' ° ° o mil - • • Nved, e 5). This immense nce can bets tili s v when we state that if a cannon-bail were IN,,ati. ro wo u l d space at th e ra t e o f t wen t y miles a t"lth,,. °l 'ettlay more than six of yews . in 4 ourfrom star to our earth ; . and if a body could t),tile_arth to 61 C ygn i, at t hi rty m i les an hour w ould mule rate as th e carr i aces on ra il roa d s . ' 't kti,e, v. t . th . t rav j a uPY at l east n i nety-s i x mill:ons of ye , nts. Ur ce „ , r note than e l emeo naillu,ns of miles in a. rtl i.... l _l 7. ab . out twel ve years i n com i ng tram t h at. It " Queen. NEW CHURCHES AND RATES. - TO TilE EDITOR OF THE SUN. s ir ._ A 11,,, tile; he e•iu n of your catntv, t w the attenti,g of the inhabitants of the above parish to an at'e.npt to sAddle tue rate-payers with expenses for which tfiey ar.l not liable. A I.lv ica , s azo three churches a the above parish were erected by priy4te c,ntlibutions. viz., All Sdints, St. Stephen's, and St. Philip's. It will hardly be credited that in an acc. , unt of the churchwarriens' expenditure for l a st year, and for payment of which they look for a vote neat East 'r Tue,da), is a charge of several pounds for fonts for the th subscription churches! The church party, no doubt, want to smuggle these charges through, that they may form a precedent for other expenses con nected with the same edifices, and unless there is a good atendance on the part of the Dissenters there is no doubt that the Church party will gain their object. I an, Sir, your obedient servant, A DISSENTER. St. Mary, Islirkton, April 5, 1841. THE GEttAILAN LANGUAGE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR-1 have just seen in Tike Sun newspaper of Friday last your very proper and correct remarks in regard to that language, in reply to a sneering article that it appears had been made in the Morning Post as to the word translate, which the writer of that article, in his ignorance of the German. puts overset. Now I happen to know some thing of German, and I c , rrtaidly should never think of putting or translating the English word overset into neber setzen in German, but rather into neberstarzen or umtuerfen, if he ; and were I aakei to translate the German word neberretzen literally into English, I should put it passed into or over, or put into, or over into, and most assuredly not overset. But it is thus that many who have only a superficial knowledge of that rich and energetic, origi nal language, as the German undoubtedly is, are ever corn. mitting the greatest blunders in their display of it, or cri ticising it. . _ _ I some time ago saw the name of Rothschild translated Into English in the Globe newspaper by some would-be German scholar or critic, and his translation was Redchild, which at once shows his ignorance of the commonest names or wards. Rothschild is undoubtedly a compound of two German words, viz., Roth (Red) and' Schild, a sign, re presentation of anything, &c. Thus it' Rothschild is to be literally translated, it is Redsign, and not Redchild. It i 3 really quite irritating occasionally to see such igno rant and stupid distotti,ns of and criticisms on foreign languages by half-learned scholars ; but I am afraid I have occupied too much of your valuable time and attention. I am, Mr. Editor, your obedient, humble servant, Worcester, April 6. J. C. TRADE IN PAISLEY. We have received the following communication from one of the most enterprising and extensive manufac turers of Paisley. The facts therein stated are of a most striking and alarming character : " Having had occasion to visit France about the end of lest summer, I particularly remarked the proape-ity with which the various manufactures were carried on ; but when I was ioformed that the Government took such spe cial interest in the manufacturing concerns, I at once perceived the cause of such flourishing trade. The French Government are the best customers for led;aa shawls, for the purpose of affording patterns to their own manufac turers. But no private manufacturer is allowed to enter the India House in London, except it be by stealth. I myself was once in it, but was admitted only through the influence of certain persons connected with the establish ment. " I direct with a gentleman in Paris, who had come from England by way of Havre. He observed in Havre above one hundred ships from America, mostly ladon with cot ton, none of them less than three hundred tons burden. This gentleman also stated that while at Rouen, he went up to the top of a spire and looking round the country, he counted forty-five stalk vents where, a few years ago, you would not have seen one. From Paris I proceeded to Belgium, where I counted in less than an hour more than sixty stalk vents ; and here, as in Rouen, they have all been built quite recently. Some of the public works in Belgium are very extensive ; as for weavers' wages, they are considerably higher than here ; besides, provisions are much cheaper there than with us, there being no Cern-laws to contend with. It is about three weeks since I was in London, where I met with a gentleman from Paris, with whom I ,transacted business ; he asked me how we were going on in the north, referring to our manufacturing success. I answered that our trade was in a very languishing state indeed ; and when I, in turn, in quired how the trade of France was prospering, he lifted up his bands and said that trade never was better, and that the quantity of goods making for the London market was immense. Look at the goods exported from Paris to England in one month—Abe month of August last : Pure woollen goods and shawls £39,832 4 2 Mixed woollen goods and shawls 4,150 12 6 £43,982 16 8 ‘‘ Ten years ago, in Lyons, there were 27,000 silk-looms, and now there are 40,000, being an increase of ]3,000. What a contrast is this to Paisley 1 Within these two yea s the looms employed im this town have decreased from 6,000 to under 5,000, and they are still continuing to decrease. About 25 years ago, before the destructive Corn-laws were in operation, the making of shawls in Paisley for the Ham burgh trade was carried on to a great extent, but since that time it has gradually diminished, and is now altoge?her extinct. The town is now sunk in deep distress with no prospect of relief. Unless something be done to improve trade, and that speedily, the bulk of the population will be in the most deplorable state of destitution. Vast numbers are already in beggary and suffering heart-rending priva. lions who, from their industrious habits and skill, ought to be comfortable. R. K." We believe this picture is not overdrawn, but, on the contrary, is but a faint outline of the adverse circumstances in which not only Paisley, but almost all the other manu facturing towns are placed. —Edinburgh Weekly Citron. . MUSICAL PAitTIES AT DRESDEN. (Extract of a letter from Dresden, March 29th, 1841.) Among the chief ettrac:ions of our winter season, Cranes Lipinski's quartett concerts have been received with un reierved applause, kindling as they proceeded, into a gene ral enthusiasm. Our court, our fashionable world, and the distinguished foreigners here resident, proved this by attending them with exemplary as s iduity. The force and the purity of Lipinski's style have by this time deservedly become proverbial. Others may astonish fur a while with the brilliancy of their execution, by the rapidity of their passages, or adroit contrivances, and, if I may so, stage trickery for catching a momentary applause. But Lip_ inski's performance, always so classic, so pure, and s., well sustained, possesses this peculiarity, that having once suc ceeded in subduing the attention of the audience, it keeps it constantly on the increase under its irresistible charm, followstheattentive listeners home with its tuneful tenacity, blends itself with the dreams of the night, awakes with their recollections in the morning. In very deed, Ido not know any artist who, for vigour and force, could be compared to Lipinski. Paganini himself c.inceded it to him. O'e Bull, an artist so justly celebrated, arrivt d at Dresden about the middle of December, with the inten tion of giving a series 4 f concerts. Unfortunately for him th- day before his first appearance, Lipinski had given one of his quartett soirees, during which be executed the greatest works of Bethoven, Mozart, and Haydn. He met, however, with but partial support, and is gone to Chemnitz, Leipsic, and sonic other towns of southern Germany. I have only to add that if you wish fully to appreciate the influence which Lipinski has acquired upon the taste, and the progress of music on the Continent, you should read the opinions given of him by the best Journals pub tilled here, always keeping in mind that Dresden is the Florence of Germany, and that our present King may be reckoned himself amongst the first-rate virtuosi of the day. TILE NEW PUBLICATIONS.—The following interesting new works have just been published by Mr. Colburn, of Great Marlborough-street, and may now be had at all the Libraries : —l. De Clifford, or The Con stant Man. By R. Plainer Ward, Esq., author of " Tre maine," " De Vere," &c. -2. The French Stage and the French People. Edited by Theodore Hook, Esq. 2 vole, small Bvo.-3. The Book without a Name. By Sir Charles and Lady Morgan. 2 vols., small Bvo.-4. Tee Engage ment: a Novel. 3 vols.-5. The Personal History of George the Fourth. By the Rev. George Croly. Second Edition. 2 vols., small Bvo, 21s. bd.-6. Swinburne's Courts of Europe. 2 vols., Bvo.-7. The Moneyed Man, or The Lesson of a Life. By Horace Smith, Esq. 3 vols.--8. Granvilless Spas of England. 1 voi., with Map and Thirty Illustrations, 153. bound.-9. Society in India. By an Indian Officer. 2 vol:., small Bvo.-10. The Life and Letters of Beethoven. Edited by Ignace Moscheles. 2 vols., small Bvo.-11. Greville, or a &ason in Paris. By Mrs. Gore. 3 vols.-12. The third and concluding volume of the small paper edition of Lady Blessington's Idler in Italy. PARIS, APRIL 5.—1 am sorry to inform you that the health of your respected Ambassador here, Lord Granville, has recently undergone a change for the worse. His symptoms of gout had for some time been increasing in intensity, and a few days ago it was found necessary to abstract blood by means of eupping-glasses. Nothing, however, like danger was anticipated until last night, "hen his Lordship had a very severe attack, almost ap pro. ' c hina to paralysis, i n th e u pp e r ex t rem i t i es . I t wa s even that there was metastasis to the brain. The me dical retort this morning is much more fa v ou ra bl e; a nd there is re ,,, , 0n to hope that, with the return of fine wea ther, his Lor '.ship may soon be restored to comparative health. It has L.1(41 reported for some days that the h ea lth 4 - wen way. This, lam happy to say, is . of the King had not the cafe; to any extent ; but it is certainly true the: his Majesty has for some time exhibited symptoms of bilious deiangement. I saw bun yesterday, and remarked that his countenance was more than usually yellow, but he appeared to ile perfectly strong; And 1 understand, from nierical gent!. men, thas there is nothing about him to crei-ite the slightest apprehension.—From an Evening Paper. The Havre Journal, in noticing the arrival of waggons and writ's men for the Paris and Rouen Railroad in that port, says that the waggons have ben hired front the Lo, , don and Southamt.ton Company at a much lower re ice than they could possibly have been in Fiance, and that the .v.orkreien, who have hero sent over, are all chorea from the most sober and laborious of their class that could be fauna in England. This Journal takes the opportunity of pointing out . the activity and energy shovsn by the English engire.rs, and the Paris and Rouen Company, and inaldis up their example to the novice of all engaged in France on !similar works. The Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn, who arrived at Dudley House from the Priory, on Saturday, the Noble Marquis being enraged to dine with the Duke of Wellingtun, raurned• to Stanmore on Monday last. The Hon. Captain and Lady Harriet Hamil on arrived on Tuesday at he Pri IT, on a visit to the ruble Marquis and Marchioness, om their seat in Scotland. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 8. 1841. PARIS FORTIFICATION BILL. SIMPLE CALCULATIONS. (From the Charivari.) In order to termina.e the interminaWe question of the fortifications one of the moat eminent statistical writers has just made the following calculations : By cutting out from the Moniteur the speeches that were delivered on that occasion, and by placing them one after the other, it will be seen that they would occupy a space of 70,000 metre , :, that is to say, twice the eircum fcrenc: of the enceinte continue. M. Thieri' , :pceches alone would make the fronts of twenty-two bastions, and ?hose of M. d'Argout might make detached forts. The naial ornament of the Noble Peer night occupy a half moon. Anoth - er calcufation, which is not less ingenious : If, instead of employing printed paper, the type which had served for the printing of the speeches hid been made use of,.tle following resolt would have, been obtliced:— With the bourgeois, long primer, nonpareil, small-pica &e., use i ou tl.e forificzitions, it is possible to obtain— A wall thiit . -two metres high by five metres broad, in a circumference of thirty-six metres, that it is to say the en tire enceinte with its exterior projectures. It is even calculved— That if each word uttered on that questlin bad been turned into stone, thera would have been sufficient moilon by that ewnomicAl means to erect the rampart as it is laid down in the Bill voted by the Chamber:. Intend of each word, if each le!ter is taken, a mass i 3 obtained, which, by cubing it c )rreztly, is equivalent to the gre ,t wall of China, that chef-d'auvre of AFiaic gefiius. The glasses of water that were drank on that occasion are equivalent, on an inclint , cl plane, to twelve-horse power, seven Vines more than the jet of the Artesian well of Gre noble. The bits of sugar that were used in preparing those glasses of water (eau sueree) would be sufficient to sweeten all the basins of the Tuileries, and to procure for the fish that are therein a delirious beverage. One hundred cambric and three hundred silk pocket_ handkerchiefs, without reckoning the chalets and Madras eLecks, a ere soiled in wipir g -he foreheads of the speakers. Sixty coat', patelots, or parliamentary great coats, expe rienced sedutons of continuity in consequence of the fran tic attitudes which the triton! es exh'bited. Medico. , statistics give besides, as the result of an exag gerated account, six pleurisies, twelve sore throat:, and f‘nty- two pulmonary complaints. We only cite hire the cases of lassitude and colds but as a memento. Eighteen catarrhs grew worse visibly, and are now in an alarming state. In short, in the crowds that were present at the first sittings, forty-five silk handkerchiefs and twenty-two snuff-boxes, not counting the rz:filards, disappeared. The total age of the orators who spoke for the fortifica tions amounts to eight thousand two hundred and thirty four years; that of those who spoke against, to nine thou sand seven hundred and twenty years. Total, seventeen thotpand nine hundred and fifty-four years. Three times the age of the globe. By calculati74 each breath at a deeagrarnme of pressure there has been sufficient breathing to make the windmills of Montmartre go round for sixty-two years and a half. Such are the calculations of our eminent statistician. We confidently hand them over to all the mondeux and inangiameles of France and of the Calabres. They arc in tricate calculations, if ever there were any. Just ask the Institute ! THE FIRST METHODIST PREACHERS. At the commencement of Methodism, they were chosen by Mr. Wesley on sec ,, unt of their knowiedge of Scrip ture, and powerful. though not often highly cultivated, minds. Samuel Bradburn (a man whose life, were it pub lished, would be one of the most interesting, and eten amusing of books) was remarkable for his strong mind and his unticiaried labours. Is wit and humour, few men ex celled Lim ; and the early annals of Methodi,m are brightened by the sparkling of his facetiousness. " See (said he ou one occasion, to one of the first chosen preachers), see the good that Methodism has dons'." Yes (was the reply), it has done a great deal for us." S , mething in this displea ed Bradburn, for he immediately said, pointing to a Mr. Ma;.s.den, " For us! Why, yes; you were a cobbler and I was a aid it has made us gentlemen; but brother Marsden was a gentleman before." " You should not have called me a cobbler (said the preacher in question); it would have been more civil to have said, a boot and shoe maker."—" Yes (added Brad burn); but I did not call myself a tin plate worker, but simply a tinker." Such were the men whom Wesley mode his first itine rant preachers. The writer of this has seo and con versed with many of them ; among others, with the three of whom the above story is told; and it must be acknow ledged that they were a class of men of great mental power--rough sometimes, and perhaps a little uncouth, but energetic, self-denying, indomitable. They were cft , m, too, men of great personal strength ; and there is current an anecdote of one who was much annoyed, on one occa. sloe, by the profanity and impertinence of a gigantic butcher. For some time be bore patiently with the man's ribaldry ; but at 1 tit his feelings were too much outraged, and, walking up to the fellow, he took him by the collar and the waistband of his breeches, as though be had been a little child, and bung him up by the latter to one of the meat hocks of his own, shop, where he remained dangling till the exhortation was concluded. —Church of E,ngland Revise'. TEST OF POItTER AND CO.'S PATENT ANCHORS. One of the most interesting experiment!, and one which cannot fail to prove of immense advantage to the navy, both in her Majesty's and the merchant service, took place on Saturday in the presence of Captain Phipps Hornby, B. C , Superintendent of her Majesty's Dockyard, Wool. wich ; Captain Percy Grace, R.N., Captain Thomas, of her Majesty's surveying vessel Maaiff; Captain Bowater, R. N., Captain Denham, R. N. and F. R. S., Mr. Wells, Master of the Mastiff, and a number of nautical gentle men. At half-past one o'clock one of Porter and Co.'a patent anchors having bean previously placed on the test ing frame au immense power was applied by an hydraulic machine invented by Bcamah and S )n, and the anchor, weighing 5 cwt. 2 q's. 241b5., which would have been considered ?rife, according to the adopted test of tit tons, actaally sustained additional strains until it reached 2O tons before it gave way under the application of that immense power—nearly 2i times greater than would ever be required under ordinary circumstances. A second anchor, weighing 5 cwt., was afterwards placed on the testing frame, and the power having been applied, it sustained a strain of 21i tons. given by jerks, before it gave way, although it would have been considered perfectly safe if it had stood 84 tone. There was another anchor by the same patentee on the spot, of still larger dimensions, but the experiments with the other two were so sati.,faa tory that it was not found necessary to prove its capabil - ties. It appears strange, and yet it is evidently the fist, that the more simple the construction of any article is, there is the greater certainty of success. The principal difference betwixt this anchor of Porter and Co. and those at present in use, is a projection on the outside of the fluke, which enables it to catch hold of the most diffi cult ground, and ensures its obtaining a firm hold and double power by the upper fluke descending on the shank, and acting as a fulcrum in the most effectual manner. By the kindness of Captain Denham, cf the Marine Sur veyor's department, we have been enabled to give the fol lowing details of the advantages of this anchor ;—" It is almost impossible to foul it. It bites quickly into the most stubborn ground. It holds on the shove t stay-peak. It cannot well lodge on its stock end. It presents no up per fluke to injure the vessel herself or others in shoal water. It cannot injure vessels' bows when hanging cock bill, as merchants find a convenient practice. It is not so likely to break off an arm or part in a shank as anchors with fixed flukes do, because the construction of these arms can be of continuous rod-iron, and the leverage is so much nearer the ring, owing to the pea of the upper ring closing upon the shank. It is a most convenient anchor for stowing on board, on a voyage, as the flukes can be easily separated, and passed into the held ; it can as easily be transported by two boats, when one would be distressed with the whole weight. Several of the officers who wit nessed the experiments stated their intention of applying to the Admiralty for anchors on this construction, as they were so satisfied of their advantages. The Marquis of Chandos Sir Hesketh Fleetwood, Bart., M. P., and other gentlemen were present, and appeared interested in what was going on ; and amongst others we observed Mr. Oliver Lang, Master of the Shipwri:hts, and other authorities in the Dockyard, who appeared highly to approve of tLo result of the experiments. THE AMISTAD. The decree of the Supreme Court of the United States, terminating the case, f the Arthistad, is con tamed at length in the list file of the New York pepers. The tacts of the case, it writ be remembered, were, that in June, 1839, the schooner Atnistad, being the pro perty of Spanish subjects, cle red out from the port of Havannah for Puerto Prin,lpe. On board the schooner were the c iptain, Rathol Ferrer, Jose Ruiz, Pedro Mon tez, and a certain number of negroes claimed by the former individuals, and stated in certain documents, signed by the Governor-General of Cuba, to be their property. On the voyage, and before the arrival of the vessel at her festinas ion, the negroes rose, killed the Captain, and took possession of her. On the 26th of August the vessel was discovered by Lieutenant Gedney, of the United States brig Washington, at anchor at t;e distance of half a mile from the shore of Lcrig Is land. A part of the negroes were then on shore, who were seized by Lieutenant Gedney and brought on board. The vessel with the negroes and other persons on board was brought by Lieutenant Geduey into the district of Connecticut, and there libelled for salvage in the District Court of the United States. Subse quently claims were put in by Ruiz and Montez to the negroes ea their slaves, and cert 'in parts of the cargo ; and the Attorney of the United States for the district of Clunreticut filed an information, stating that the Spanish Minister had officially pres-ntod a claim for the restorati,o of the vessel, cargo, and slaves, according to the tre between the United States and Spam, and pity rig that if this claim should appear well founded, such order should be made for the disposal of the vessel, cargo, and slaves, as would best agree with the terms of the treaty. On the 7th of January, IS4O, the negroes filed an answer denying that they were slaves, or the property of Ruiz and Mcutez, but asserting that they were nat:ve Afri cans, boon free, that they were unlawfully kidnapped and conveyed by a vessel engaged in the slave trade to Cuba, where a pretended sale of them was made to Ruiz and Mcntez, who were aware of the premises, and confederated with Ferrer to cause them to be trans ported to some place unknown, there to be enslaved for life ; that on the voyage they rose on the master and seized the vessel, intending to return there with to their native country, or to seek an asylum in some free State. On the 23d the District Court made a decree, allowing Lieutenant Gedney salvage on the vessel and cargo, rejecting the claims of Ruiz and Montez for the delivery of the negroes, but admitting them for the cargo, and rejecting the claim of the attorney of the United States in behalf of the Spanish Minister, for the restoration of the ne groes under treaty, rho were to be delivered to the President of the United States, to be transported to Africa. From this decree the district attorney ap pealed to, the Circuit Court, which, by a mere pro forma decree, affirmed the decree of the District Court, and from that decree an - appeal was brought to the Supreme Court of the United States, where it was de cided in a final decree that there was an error in that part of the decree of the Circuit Court which oriered the said negroes to be delivered to the Presidont of the United States to be transported to Africa ; and, in lieu of that part of the decree, the said negroes were de clared free, and to he dismissed from custody, and dis charged from the suit.—Times. SCOTCEI DEGREES.—Wifen the University of St. Andrew's sold her honours—a proceeding which pro. yoked Dr. Johnson to trll the beags of the college that they would get rich by degrees, and which has now b een long abandoned—a certain minister, who deemed that his ministrations would be more acceptable and more useful if he possessed what the Germans call the doctor-hat, put 151. in his purse and went to St. Andrew's " to purchase fur himself a good degree." His man -servant accom panied him, and was present when his master was formally admitted to the long desired honour. Oa his return " the doctor" sent for his servant, and addressed him somewhat RS follows :—" Noo, Saunders, ye'ii aye be sure to ca' me the doctor, and gin onybody Tiers at you aboot me, yell be aye sure to say the doctor's in his study, er th.. doctor's engaged, or the doctor will see ye in a crack." " That a' depends (was the reply) upon whether yell ca' me doctor too. (The revs rend doctor stared). Aye, its ju,t so (continued the other) ; for when I land that it cost sae Tittle, I e'en got a diploma myself; sae ye it just he good enough to say—doctor, put on some coals, or, doctor, bring me the whiskey and hot water; and gin onybody :piers at ye aboot me, ye'll Ire aye sure to say the doctor's in the stable, or the doctor's in the pantry, or the doctor's digginu potatoes, as the case may be.”--Church of E ng. land Review. OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE. , ..—The grand con test which is to take place next Tuesday, from Westminster to Putney, between the Cambridge and Oxford crews, is at present. the all-engrossing subject with the gentlemen of the two Universities, lovers of rowing. Both of the crews have been in active training for some time vast. Every day both Searle's upper and lower premises are oeewded by the nobility and gentry to witness the departure of the two crews to take their daily practice from Westminster to Putney and back. It will be recollected that last year the Oxonians kept the lead to Battenca, where the Cambridge coxswain managed to get his boat ahead, and arrived at Putney first, the bows of the Oxford eight being upon the, oar of the Cambridge strokes man. The betting is at present in favour of the Cantabs, but not at odds. Every eight-oared boat that could be got has been hired to witness this match, which no doubt will prove a splendid one. Several steam-boats have a:so hen hired to go up with the match, but it is to be hoped that they will ',rep well away from the rowers, in order for them to row on as smooth water as possible. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS. The Archbishop of Canterbury has licensed the Rev. Frank Hewson, 8.A., to the Incumbency of the Church of St. John, Scuthail, on the fornication of Henry Dobbs, Esq. On Monday last the Rev. Wm. Oxnam, M. A., of Wad ham Culiege. Oxford, was elected to the office of Lower Master of Harrow School, in the room of the late Rev. Henry Drury. The Rev. Henry Down Fussell, M. A., Curate of Eb beshorne Wake, Wilts, to the Stipendiary Curacy of Fifield Bavant, the adjoining parish. The Rev. Richard Shutte, Minor Caron of St. Paul's Cathedral, London, to the Perpetual Curacy of Taunton St. Jam The Rey. George Pickard, M. A., t o th e R tc t 3r y o f Warmwell with Pokeswell annexed, Dorset, void by the death of the Rev. George Pickard, sen. The Rev. John Phillips, of Ellesmere, has been pre sented by the Lord Chancellor to the Rectory of St. Law rence, Ludlow. • The Rcv. Edward Tottenham, M. A., to the Prebendal Stall in the Cathedral Church cf The Rev. Montague Hawtrey, M. A., to the Rectory cf Rimpton, Somersetshice. Tile Rev. W. R. Lawrence, to the Perpetual Curacy of Whitchurch. The Rev. T. Corfield, Curate of Btigstock, Northamp t inshire, to the Vicarage of Much Wenlock, Salop, vacant by the death of the Rev. E. Tcllet. The Rev. Thos. Johnea, Curate of St. Chad's, Shrews bury, to the Perpetual Curacy of Treg}non, Montgomery shire. The Rev. William Thomas, of Shrewsbury, to the Vi. earage of Loppington, Salop. The Rev. G. W. Brameld, B- A , Assistant Curate of [-lunslet, appointed Curate of the Parish Church of Louth, Lincolnshire. OBITUARY. At Alcrriot, near Crewkerne, aged 40, the Rev. R. A. Templeman. The Rev. W. J. Birdwood, 34 years Rector of Thraw. legh, Devon. - The Rev. Joseph Lancaster, 49 years Perpetual Curate of Thornthwaite, bear Keswick, aged 74. Aged 84, the Rev. Christopher Fleet, Rector of Dur weston and Bryanstone, and Lytchett Matravers. STATE OF TRADE. (From the Manchester Guardian.) MANCHESTER —There was not the slightest improve ment in our market yesterday ; on the contrary, the dull ness, which has prevailed f.,r some time past was aug mented by reports of failures in Germany, which, though not to any serious extent, were quite sufficient, in the pre sent sensitive state of the market, to produce a further decline in some descriptions of yarn, and the business done was very limited. In the cloth market there was no change to be noticed. The export trade, to all quarters, teems, for the present, to be almost suspended; and, not withstanding an active nome trade, goods of all kinds can tina. much depressed. ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, APRIL 5 There has been a dull market to-day : a very limited de mand for goads, with prices exceedingly low. The wool market has been no better than the piece market, and prices rather giving way. LEGISLATURE OF PENNSYL. VANIA. Every one acquaint n witn the ma Cery of the Bri tish Patliament knows that for many years nothing coull exceed the profligat e dereliction of all principle which characterized the action of the Committees of the House of Commons on private Bills. A gentleman who has been a Member of the Senate of Pennsyivania informed me, that the same mischievous machinery is et work it their Leg stature. There is extensive jobbing and treating roative to private Bills, or BiAs for the es• tablishment of public companies. The parties who ap ply for the Bill, or their agents, come to Harrisburg while the Legislature is in Session, and, under pretence of explaining the subject to the members, flatter them, give them suppers, and open their understandings by means of plentiful libations of wine. Many of the repre sentatives are men from country districts, of little edu cation and humble fortuue, but of unquestionable integrity, who would reject with indignation a money bribe, but who unconsciously fall before personal flattery and champagne. Toe technical name for these practices is " lobbying." In the legislature of New York, some years ago, " lob bying " was reduced to a systeni. The agents for the various Bills, public and private, concerted their mea sures together, and made up lists of all the members of the Legislature, specifying those whom they could influence absolutely, those whom they could probably carry, and those (a very small remnant) who were altogether inde pondeat ; and after " the order of the day," or list of business before the Chambers, was published, they nict in a tavern, and took the "yeas and nays " on every Bill in which they were interested, either pro or con. 'The first Bill, for instance, was named (probably one for a charter to a bank) ; the roll of the repre sentatives was Voea called, and the different agents answered " or " nay " for the members re spectively whose votes they could command. When they ha r ;i done, the independent members were next distr : :outed, according to the best estimate which the ar. ems could form of their probable course of action ; the balance was then struck, and the announcement regularly made, the " yeas" or the " nays" have it. So complete was this machinery, and so perfect the saga city with which the opinions of the independent mem bers were guessed at, that the decisions of the Chambers became ludicrous echoes of those of' the " lobby !" At last a check was given to the practice, but much of it still exists ; and it will exist until a higher education of the people shall raise the standard of their moral and intellectual perceptions. As a stream cannot rise higher than its fountain, so, in social life, if the public mind be blind and -se;fisle the representatives of that mind will never rise into the regions of truth and jus tice.—Combe's Notes on the United States. DESTRUCTION OF A COTTON MILL NEAR `ROCILDALE. —On Thursday morning, abaut three o'clock, a fire was db.coyered in the cotton factory, known as the Old Mid, at Shawt'orth. A man was immediately sent on foot to Rochdale, a distance of five miler, to fetch the engines ; and the alarm bell being rung on his arrival, the superintendents, nith their men, were speedily at the station, and, yoking two pair of horses to each of the engines, the Niagara and the Extinguisher, they proceeded at a rapid pace to the spot ; and, although the fire had teen raging during an hour and a half, they succeeded in saving the steam engine end the water wheel. The s everal ilian c i s i e m s t a e l r l building, which was of an irregular form, and part of it very old, wan, with it:; machinery (a few steam looms ex cepted), burned down to the ground. The building was th e property of Mr. Edmund Lord, and was insured in the LTeds and Yorkshire Office. The machinery, which was for spinning and weaving, belonged to the manufacturers who rented the rooms under Mr. Lord, and wps, with the above trifling exception, destroyed. Th e building was of consideraole length, and three stories high ; the machinery was 'mot ked by a steam-engine of 16 horses' power, and a wheel of about 18 horses' power. The loss will probably be about 2,000/. Guardian. The Rig Hon: Sir Robert Peel, Bart., M.P., accompanied - by Lady Peel and faa lily, left town yesterday for Drayton Manor, Staffordshire, fol.; the holidays. POLITICAL SUMMARY OF THE MORNING JOURNALS. The Morning . Post observes, in the course of a leading article on the subject of the revenue :—" We are glad to lea= that the ratification of the commercial Treaty with Frande (that is, provided it be a good Treaty) is daily expected. We did not know that it had yet been signed, or even that its terms had been finally adjusted. The last we heard of the matter, only ti few days ago, was to the effect that negotiations on the subject of the commercial Treaty with France had been sus pended, in consequence of the recent state of our relations with that country, and were not yet renewed. To be sure this was only from Lord Melbourne, in his place in the House of Lords, an authority which we would not think of comparing with our well-informed Contemporary ; yet we venture to suggest to the latter that the information may not be strictly and literally accurate which has led him to announce to the commercial world that the ratification of the Treaty is daily expected." The Morning Herald, alluding to the subject of Ireland, says—" What compensating prospect has the country at large in the present state of Ireland? Nothing more satisfactory than the permitted incendiary harangues of O'Connell and his faction; and the issue of addresses to the Irish people, exhort ing them, in the case of a war breaking oat, to abstain from their duty as subjects to their Sovereign —as Britons to th e i r fellow-countrymen—as members of a free State and a Chris tian community to the institutions they are bound by every principle of natural allegiance and civil obligations to defend. We hope that some Member of Parliament, who may find his strength and powers sufficiently renewed for the task by the re freshment of a long Easter vacation, will not fad, directly Par liament shall have re-assembled, to move for a Committee of Inquiry into the present state of Ireland, and of the law in Ireland with respect to the matters submitted the night before last to the House of Lords by the Earl of Charleville." The Times thus alludes to Mr. Tooke's late letter to the Editor of the Britannia :—" Ecce iteruni Crispinus !—be bold again Mr. William Tooke ! That singularly self-satisfied specimen of humanity, ex-Member of Parliament, ex-Trea surer of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, and ex-Manager of University C o ll ege , L on d on , b ut not yet ex-Candidate for Finsbury, has thought proper to circulate a latter addressed ' To the Editor of the Britannia,' upon the occasion of his late expulsion from the Gower-street Commit tee of Management. It cannot be denied that, in the present great dearth of topics of political, ecclesiastical, or general in terest, the publication of this letter is extremely seasonable. An explicit exposition of the. principles' to which Mr. Wil liam Tooke ' has steadfastly adhered from his youth up,' is the very thing which the world for some time past has been anxiously and impatiently lookina.. for. Public men h a v e be come so changeable, and a high tone of principle so scarce, that we want some faultless model to fix attention, and chal lenge universal imitation. Mr. Tooke condescendingly, but with a master-hand, sketches out the portraiture of such a man." The Morning Chronicle puts forth the following remarks on the subject of Dr. Wiseman's letter to the Editor of the Tablet: ---.‘ In the letter of Dr. Wiseman, which was pub lished in last Saturday's Tablet, the Oxford question is treated with great meekness and piety. This eminent Papist regards Puseyism as a struggle of noble minds to break through chains that have bound them for years, ' and adores the power of Providence in ' the revival of atholicity in England,' and the ' movement towards Catholic ideas and Catholic feel ings' of the ' Theologians of Oxford.' The whole affair, in deed, except perhaps the late pitiful submissions, must have been, as it evidently was, highly gratifying to his mind. To see the English Clergy, after centuries of separation, hostility, and Protestant pride, thus returning to the rock whence they were hewn,' is a sensation for whic Dr. Wiseman and every other zealous Catholic might well be envied." FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. t From the Globe.) The rapidity with which Opposition bas retraced its course on the Education question, is as unexampled in the history of parties as it must prove gratifying to the Government, and satisfactory to all who desire to see the poorer classes of the community supplied with the means of intellectual and moral improvement. Sir Robert Peel's address to the members of the Tatnworth Institute, and more recently in the debate on the Poor-law Continuance Bill, in which the ques tion of pauper instruction was largely discussed, may be regarded as a formal and specific recognitio❑ and adoption, by the leader of the Conservative party in the House of Commonc, of the principle features in the plan of National Education, which was assailed and denounced by the same party in and out of Parliament as pregnant with danger to the national religion and lesigned to sap the foundations of morals, by omitting to enforce instruction in the creeds and catechism of the Church en the children of parents who are members of other religious communities. We may now, therefore, regard the Government plan of National Education as placed beyond danger of further opposition. The tempests of unreasonable wrath, which at one time threatened to overwhelm and destroy it, have tended to its advantage ; they have dispersed the clouds of prejudice, and dispelled the vapours which had collected, and which prevailed for a time to obscure the visual organs of many well-meaning persons, thus enabling them to discern clearly what they had previously apprehended imperfectly. 'Fix annual vote for educational purposes, which, we hope to see gradually but largely extended, will henceforth be re garded as an essential part of the national expenditure ; and though we expect and desire that the mode of its application shall be watched with careful jeal anAy, whoever may be the Ministers of the Crown, we trust that there will be one supreme effort by the Committee of Privy Council for Education, to render the plan truly effective for the benevolent and patriotic purposes of its original projectors. (From the . Sthndard.) _ _ If we allude to the treasonable menaces of the O'Connell party in Ireland, it is not that we have the sllghtest expectation that these menaces will ever be realised. IV° are well aware that the persons who employ them contemplate nothing but the making of a little money. We regard the braggadocio as likely to prove mischievous only by lowering the character of the United Kingdom among fo reigners, and thus, to the extent to which credit is given to it, in diminishing the force of the Conservative principle in every country. It is a cer tain truth that the traitors and Jacobins of France, and of most of the European nations, have been taught to expect the signal of anarchy from Ire land ; and thus the common interests of civilization are concerned in showing that there is no chance of that signal being given, loudly as the O'Con nellites may swagger about it. We do not, however, expect that anything we say can shame the absurd blusterers into silence ; but we are not without a hope that others may be shamed from giving any atten ton to them. It is quite manifest that the O'Connellite party feel this ; otherwise the increased violence and acrimony of their threats would be difficult to ac. count for—as men who are in pursuit of an object which they believe themselves strong enough to achieve, never magnify unnecessarily the difficulty of the enterprise, by challenging honourable pride, and a just resentment of insults, to enlist among their opponents. The strong man is very rarely an insolent bully the strong and prudent man never. We are willing to illustrate this truth by the example of England. The power of England is never spoken of at home but when she is threatened ; abroad one hears of little else but complaints of E agland's power from the ill-disposed—exultation at it from the friends of order throughout the world. Like the hero of the Italian narrative, her trophies are the subject of wondering observation everywhere but in her own house. Even the O'Connellite claim to a share in building up the fabric of British power and renown, though rather extravagant in its amount (for setting what has been done against the empire by rebellion and " the state bardering on civil war" in one scale, aad the services of O'Connellite soldiers and sailors in the other, it is doubtful which will preponderate)— even the O'Connellite claim to a share in building up the power and renown of the empire is a confession that such exist to an extent in which it is desirable to par ticipate. Yet, powerful as England is, she threatens no one ; and even vihen she answers the ridiculous threats of others, it is as one slightly whips a trouble some dog out of the way with the kind design of saving the noisy animal from a more serious punishment by the heels of a tormented horse. _ (From the Courier.) The attention of the Legislature will shortly be directed at an early period of the present session to the present system of the new Post-office scheme, which, in spite of every sort of trick, misrepre sentation, and subterfuge resorted to for swelling or falsifying the real returns of revenue from it, is generally understood to have disappointed miser ably all the pompous pretences of its projectors and all the sanguine anticipations of its popularity-hunting pa trons, the Ministry. The public—for revenue, as our Paris contemporaries would say, enters into the pub'.ic domain—have been saddled with a grievous loss in the bargain of grossly enhanced new taxation, to which universally subjected, in order to make up the defi ciency caused by the remission of old fiscal charges bearing exclusively on the rich and commercial classes, and so lightly as scarcely ever to have formed tho sub ject of complaint. Aggrieved moreover as are the in dustrious masses by the aggravation of imposts on all articles of necessary consumption, in favour of class in tere: its neither injured, nor affecting so to be, until the Pen. ay-post philosophy was broached, and excitement sedulously propagated in behalf of a clap-trap plausibly adapt ed for the party exigencies of the moment, yet the evil is rendered more intolerable still by the certainty that I.he State, which also was to be a gainer by the change, is quite as much damaged by the result as the peopl ,t individually. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. T:CMES.—Scarcely any attention has been drawn in the City to the quarterly return of the revenue, and it seems to have been wholly without effect on the prices of public securities. These documents have, indeed, long been considered quite valueless as to any practical result, because they exhibit a one. sided account, in which the whole of the receipt, but a small portion only of the expenditure appears, and not to possess the merit even of good statistics by which the fluctuations in the commerce of the country may be determined. The only fact of a - ay importance deducible from the present return is, that all, the increased taxation has not maintained the income of the country at its old rate. Notwithstanding this, however,_ the moneyed interest do not appear to indulge in any notion of a loin, since they are utterly unable to form any judgment of the extent to which the same purpose may not be answered at the Treasi iry by the application to public purposes of the stock and mone3 - belonging to the savings-banks. If the returns were omittr:d altogether, there would be very little inquiry after therm in the City, though an improved form might be adopted in wbiich they would be very generally useful. The premium on gold at Paris is 7 1 /. z per milk, which, at the English illint price of 3/. 17s. 10%d., per ounce for ste ndard gold, gives an exchange of 25. 33, and the ex change at Paris on London at short being 25. 42k, it follows that gold is 0 38 per cent. dearer in London than in Paris. By advices from Hamburgh the price of gold is 4281 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 10id. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13. 64, and the ex change at Hamburgh on London at short being 13. 6i, it fol lows that gold is 0.12 per cent. dearer in Hamburgh than in London. The course of exchange at New York on London is 107 per cent., and the par of exchange between England and Ame rica being 109 23-40 per cent., it follows that the exchange is 2.33 per cent. against England. But the quoted exchange at exchange at New York being for bills at sixty days' sight, the interest must be deducted from the above difference. Considering that this was the first day of private transfer, very little business was transacted in the Government securi ties ; the prices of which fluctuated but slightly. The committee of the Stock-Exchange met to-day for the consideration of the question, whether the quotations of the converted Portuguese stock should be marked or not in the official list. They adjourned the question for a month, and therefore it is evident that the quotations cannot be marked during that period, but that they consider that, according to the present aspect of the matter, their reguiation prevents them from esteeming the converted stock as one agreed to by the bondholders, so as to justify its recognition in the Stock- Exchange. To remove apprehension that business has been transacted in converted Portuguese bonds, a price for which was posted in the market yesterday, it is now explained by the jobbers that they deemed this the readiest mode to make known their estimated value, and it was to this end alone that the announcement was made, to save inquiry on the subject. It is now withdrawn. CHRONICLE.—By a communication received by Mr. Thornton, the Chairman of the Committee of Portuguese Bondholders, from the Secretary of the Committee of the Stock Exchange, we are informed that the Committee, at their meeting held this day, came to the following resolution : " That the further consideration of the memorials on the sub ject of marking the prices in the new Portuguese Bonds be ad journed till Tuesday, the 4th day of May next." This we look upon as a very proper measure, lair and impar tial to all parties, giving time to the bondholders to obtain better terms from the Government of Portugal, if they deem the recent financial decree finally unacceptable; or of enabling the Government of Portugal to remove the objections entertained against it, if they have good arguments to advance in its support. The great obstacle to the acceptance of the decree in its present shape arises, we pre sume, first, from the notoriety of the fact that the home credi tors of Portugal have, under all circumstances, been paid in full out of a separate fund appropriated to their exclusive use, while the English bondholders were totally neglected ; and, secondly, from the breach of the original contract of loan, whereby the whole revenue s o f P or t uga l - were pledged and hy pothecated to the bondholders ; so that the payment of the home creditor, to their prejudice, was a palpable breach of faith, and an act of which they have most cogent reasons to complain in terms of the principles set forth in Lord Palmer ston's instructions to Mr. Adams as regards the debt of New Grenada. It will be incumbent on the Government of Portugal to meet these objections and to justify the basis on which their conversion rests. There can be no doubt that Lord Howard de Walden will bring the subject forward, and use every proper exertion to effect a satisfactcry arrangement. Abuse of the Portuguese Government, however, will do no good, and add anything; except weight, to the proceedings of the Committee. By their violent and inconsiderate language they have done much to injure their own cause, and to embarrass their friends in affording them efficient assistance. HERALD.—The Foreign Market remains in a quiet state. The new cut-down Portuguese little goes were not quoted to day, for reasons to be seen hereafter. It appears that a deputation of ten members of the Com mittee of Portuguese bondholders was deputed to manage an interview to-day with the Stock Committee of Capel-court on the subject of the proposed conversion fraud of the Por tuguese Government. The parties so deputed by the Por tuguese Committee were gentlemen of social standing and con sideration, some of them officers of rank, but lest by chance they should assume to conceive themselves entitled to the de cent observances of society as such, the Stock quorum, with the democratic spite of brief authority which delights in bringing down all above to its own more lowly level, are said to have kept them for some considerable space dancing attendance and K ait ing for audience in their ante-chamber. At length, after grave deliberation a gracious intimation was conveyed from the Stock conclave that Jr. Thornton with one or two other mem bers of the Portuguese Committee would be admitted, but that the Stockroom—what a queer pretence for these Stock grandees of the first class—was net large enough to contain the whole ten of the deputation in waiting. It is said, however, that the little room might easily have accommodated some two dozen more individuals. However, Mr. Thornton, who by way of proving his qualification as a bondholder, and his right to a voice in relation to the decision of any question respecting Por tuguese bonds, had taken the precaution of being accompanied with a waggon load of credentials in the shape of Portuguese bonds, with another gentleman of the deputation proceeded to the interview with these " potent," if not grave and gracious seigniors of the Stock House. What transpired it is of no consequence to refer to, as the following document subsequently addressed to Mr. Thornton involves the gist of all that was said and done : " Committee-room, Stock Exchange, April 6, 1841. " Sir,—l arts directed by the Committee of the Stock Ex change to inform you that, at the meeting held this day, it was resolved,— " "That the further consideration of the memorials on the subject of marking the prices in the new Portuguese Bonds, be adjourned till Monday, the 4th of May next.' " I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant, "JAMES VAN SOMNER, Secretary. • " To Richard Thornton, Esq., Chairman of the Committee of Portuguese Bondholders." So closes this business, so little discreditable to the Stock Committer!, for the present. It. may be added, however, and we have the authority of the most respectable Members of the House—of Members ranking higher for character, and quite as high in the breeches-pocket sense,•as any one of the thirty members of the Stock Committee, a list of whose names is now before us, that the course of these proceedings has been viewed with infinite disgust in the Stock Exchange itself, as tending greatly to damage the character of, and to impair the confidence of the people in, that establishment whose credit, and the interests rf the community as con nected therewith, it was their first and bounden duty to up hold, with utter disregard of selfish views and sinister in fluences of their own, or of loan jabbers' connections out of doors. There are names on the Committee which suggest at once a solution of much of the paltering, equivocal, and dis graceful manoeuvres by which the recognition of the fraudu lent conversion was attempted, was actually decreed, and lastly rescinded in very sneaking deference to the expressed sense of public opinion, which could not safely be defied for reasons which were coming home, and would have been driven nearer home to them with the journals of every morning. There ought not to have been one moment's hesitation from the first in rejecting the application for " marking the prices " of the dishonest conversion bonds, that is of legalising the dealings in them, by whomsoever such application was made, or by whatever dishonourable influence supported underhand, in respect of which on another occasion something more may perhaps be said, when a certain ministerial morning journal extraordinarily allied somehow for years past with Penin sular loans and finance will not be forgotten. The Stock Committee knew well that the Portuguese Committee of bond holders could not represent less than eight or ten millions of Portuguese stocks, and therefore their intimation of dissent from the proposed conversion confiscation of a large proportion of so immense a property should have been received and acted upon as final at once, founded too as it was on a recorded and binding regulation of the Stock House itself. They had moreover publicly challenged, and were in possession of the proof to which their character as a great public body was pledged, the calculated perpetration of a system of fraud, by which it was sought to be made ap pear that a vast majority of Portuguese bondholders were anxious for the conversion, and had so sent in names, claims, and large amounts for registration, as if bonds were held bona fide to the amounts, whereas no such bonds were held, the parties pretending being little better in many instances than a better class of paupers ready for any dirty . work for a consi deration. Bonds may however make their appearance to be converted, and it behoves the Portuguese Committee to be vigilant lest a second edition of Mendizabal's surreptitious issues of Spanish Bonds should be attempted front Portugal, and so foisted on the market in the shape of Conversion Bonds, by which the treasury at Lisbon might be conveniently and unsuspectedly replenished, to the greater damage still of the interests of the bondholders. These, however, are matters on which more re mains to be said yet. The conjoint confederacy here, at Lis bon, and Madrid, for plundering the British public must be waited upon with such constant and assiduous care that perhaps at length the unholy league and covenant may come to be broken up and the parties to it brought to justice. No thanks for that, however, to the very accommodating friends of the loan jobbing interest in the Stock Exchange Committee. POST.—Ten of the members of the Committee of Portu guese bondholders waited on the Committee of the Stock Ex change to-day, for the purpose of getting a knowledge of the intentions of the latter body with regard to the conversion which the Portuguese agency are attempting to thrust upon the English people in behalf of their Government. The gentle men of the Committee of bondholders demanded, as the parties appointed to watch over interests amounting to ten millions of pounds, exclusive of four years' accumulation of dividends, an unreserved conference with those of the Committee of the Stock Exchange. The latter, however, demurred, and a considerable time :being taken to deliberate upon the sub ject, it was at last decided that two or three only of the number should be admitted, on the ridiculous plea that the Committee-room was small. Mr. Thornton and his friends appear not to have been able to make much impression upon the Stock Exchange authorities. It is not convenient to them to lee regulated by the declared wishes of a public meet ing in 1841, as was the case in 1834, because those wishes are opposed to jobbing in a spurious security. They have, nevertheless, exacted a promise that no immediate recognition of Ferrer's Two-and-a- Half per Cent. conversion shall for the present displace the legitimate bonds. Although the Committee have not yet authorised the quota tion of the new bonds, prices for them, real or fictitious, have been put upon the board of the house, and the wonder among the members generally is who could have taken that liberty. The Committee are bound, wr think, to put an instant stop to such a proceeding, as, otherwise, they may be themselves sus pected of dabbling in them The continued absence of the steam-ship President is be ginning to be viewed with very great, though we cannot but hope unfounded, apprehension. It has been reported that a vessel resembling her was seen making for Fayal, in the Azores, where the Company to which she belongs are under stood to have a depot of coals. If she went to Fayal for coals or put back to Bermuda to refit, after the heavy gale of the 14th ult., it is hardly to be expected that she should reach Liverpool for a day or two to come. Yet as much as 15 gui neas per cent. premium was paid on her at Lloyd's yesterday, and to-day the rate was increased, we hear, to 20 guineas per cent. She may not improbably be coming slowly on under canvas. Although the commercial, and still more, if poFsible, the financial advices brought from the United States by the North America are, on the whole, of a gloomy complexion, there are, nevertheless, here and there points to be found in them which present an agreeable contrast to the mass of discourage ment. It may not be uninteresting to our readers to know the re ports going out from hence to the United States on business matters. The subjoined is extracted from the circular of an eminent house at Liverpool, as transmitted by the last steamer The present quotations of the price of cotton vary little from those at the close of last month ; that little, however, is against the importer, and the advices from the manufac turing' districts are exceedingly discouraging, with a con stant tendency towards decline throughout the month. This feature is the more remarkable when we look around and behold the prosperity which pervades the manufactures of our neighbours, the French; when we consider that grain will not be wanted ; that the Continental exchanges are so much in favour of this country as not only no longer to cause the Bank of England any alarm for their gold, but to give an almost certain assurance that it must now flow back into their coffers at too groat a rate to maintain the present rate of inte rest. When we see such evident signs of prosperity it is really disheartening to think upon the present state of England's most important branch of national prosperity. In fact, it tan no longer be doubted, and it is no longer doubted, even by some of these interested in the maintenance of the present regulations MORNING DITIONI affec ing the necessaries and comforts of life, that, by pursuing 1 er present course, this country is gradually debarring her po pulation of the means of living with comfort, closing foreign markets against her, and thus causing an over-production of her manufactures. Unless, therefore, the present expectation of the community be fulfilled in regard to the removal of pro hibitory duties, we cannot anticipate the prospect of a speedy termination of the existing distress." LAW INTELLIGENCE. PRIVY COUNCIL, APRIL 7. WOOD AND OTHERS W. GOODLARE AND HITCHINGS, The Court opened at a few minutes past ten. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL resumed his argument on behalf of the appellant. The Learned Counsel proceeded to read and comment upon portions of the judgment of Sir Herbert Jenner. That Learned Judge had laid down the doctrine that the instructions were superseded by the will. He (the At torney-General) contended that the instructions were to be considered as a will until they had been revoked. There could not be the least doubt that it was the intention of the testator to leave his property to the four individuals named in paper A. It was contended that it was revoked by B. So far as B was inconsistent with A, that doctrine would hold good, but no further. By A a joint tenancy was created, by B a tenancy in common; so far the latter was a revocation of the former. He submitted, however, that the Learned Judge was entirely mistaken in the character which he had given to A. Although it was headed instructions, its character must be determined by its contents. There were numerous cases to show that a will remains unrevoked until another will was executed. The Learned Counsel was pro ceeding to refer to several cases in support of this view, when he was interrupted by an intimation from the Bench that they were satisfied upon the doctrine. It was said that B had no operation ; that it was a nullity on account of the uncertainty as to who should tak r the beneficial interest. If B were a nullity then A stood unrevoked. The doctrine for which he contended had been acted upon, not only in the Courts of Com mon Law and Equity, but also in the Ecclesiastical Courts. The Learned Counsel then proceeded to refer to the case of Eagshawe p. 43, in which, there being five scripts propounded, Sir John Nicholl pronounced for three of them, as containing together a will. In this case the Learned Judge ought to have pronounced for B and A, as containing together the Will of the decease]. The Learned Counsel then referred to the case of Forsyth and Jones, 3d Phillimore, 485, which had been cited against his clients; contending that it was clearly distineuislsable from the present case. In that case Sir John INiichoesaid he considered the instructions in some de gree ambiguous. Here there could be no doubt as to the in tention of the testator. The Learned Counsel then referred to several other eases on the same point, from which he con tended that probate should have been granted of B, and of so much of A as related to the executions, in order to constitute a perfect will. The Learned Gentleman then cited the cases of Molyneux and Mol y neux Smith v. Milb ur n, &holes v. De Fleur, Hodges and liorsfall, and several o hers, in order to show that a will, signed according to the Statute of Frauds, and recognOing another paper, although the latter was not signed, still the Courts would adopt it as part of the first, it being imported into it by the recog nition. That was the case in the cause before their Lor dships. There was the testamentary paper appointing the executors; but who were to be the d-visees ? that was clearly pointed out by another paper referred to in the instrument signed by the hand of :he testator. They were to be the executors who were appointed by that paper. In the very voluminous papers ex hibited in the cause no other will had been propounded. The Learned Judge in the Court below, had in his judgment cited no cases in support of the law he laid down. He had quoted no authorities whatever in support of his pcsition. But their Lordships were not bound by anything. done by him. They would exercise en independent jurisdietton. They would look at the law of the case as laid down in the books—at the deci sions come to by those who had adorned the bench, and in doing so lie hail no doubt they would cc•me to the conclusion that the Learned Judge of the Prerogative Court had erroneously refused probate to his clients. Now Sir Herbert Joiner had not referred to one single authority, or rule, or practice, in support of the decision which he had pronounced. Although his clients had not proved all that they had alleged, vet lie contended that they had proved enou g h hearing exactly as if none of the allegations had been made, which were now complained of. But what were their Lord ships to do in the present case? If they came to a similar decision, it would be tantamount to saying that Mr. Wood had died intestate. It appeared to him that their Lordships could not avoid coming to the saute decision as Sir H. Jenner with regard to the codicil dated July, 1835, and if that were so he apprehended that the codicil could not be set up in any other shape by the parties taking interest under it. There was no instance of such a proceeding in the records of the Ecclesias tical Court, and he did not think that such a course could be sustained on any principle of ecclesiastical or common law. He should now proceed to consider the various charges that had been brought against the executors, and he thought he could show, either that they were wholly unfounded or that they did not bear at all upon the question their Lordships had to decide, and could not influence their judgment. One of the charges was, that there was an attempt on the part of the executors to evade the payment of the duty, and with regard to that and many other of these charges of misconduct, lie would observe that they invariably arose from the admissions of the executors themselves, and it should be recollected that these admissions could nut be taken without the accompanying explanations, to which he should again refer. The next. charge was one of a very foul nature, and almost amounted to a charge of murder. It. was alleged that Mr. Wood, the testator, was extremely ill—that they would not call in a medical man to see him, and that consequently he died. Now he need not remind their Lordships that it had been given in evidence that Alderman Wood arrived on the Tuesday—that he earnestly entreated to be allowed to call in a medical man, and that he subsequently went for Mr. Corder, one of the most eminent medical men in Gloucester, who attended him to his death. The next. charge referred to the destruction of a document which had been executed by di:: testator in 1831, and that charge was founded upon the statements of the executors them selves. It had been done at the suggestion of Philpots, who said that, as it was of no use it might be put in the fire. The evidence of the executor Osborne as to the document was, that it contained no demise or bequest of any property to any party. Another document of the same nature was destroyed a few days subsequently, and they solemnly denied that any other papers or documents had been destroyed or made away with. That was the history cf the transac tion, and it amounted to nothing, because if there had been any fraud intended Mr. Philpots never would have dis closed the transaction ; and it was only from his s t a t emen t that the other party ha d any knowledge of it. Lord LYNDHURST inquired how that act was charged ? The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said it was charged in a general way, without assigning any particular object which the par ties bad in view. He then read over the evidence given in the Court below as to the assembling of the executors on the morning of the day on which Mr. Wood died, and contended that it was inconsistent in all its facts. He would ask their Lordships whether, if the executors had been about the business which was charged against them, would they have allowed the servants free access to the room in which they were ? A fac-simile of the document was made, which seemed to have greatly offended Sir H. Jenner. Now he (the Attorney-General) remembered being in a case of forgery at the Central Criminal Court, where Mr. Baron Parke directed fac-similes of the alleged forged docu ment to be furnished to both sides. He was sorry it had been made without the special leave of the Judge, but surely there litas no occasion for so much ire. Lord LYNDII Er itsT—He probably disliked the exhibition of the fac-similie, as creating a prejudice in the minds of the witnesses, which would operate on them when they saw the original. . _ . The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said, it was not exhibited to the witnesses. Now, he would ask their Lordships, on con sidering the whole of the case, what ground there was for even a suspicion that there had been a former will. He would then come to the question of the codicil. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said he must interpose here. His client was with the Attorney-General as appellant against one portion of the judgment of the Court below ; but, with respect to the codicil, he was an appellant on his own account. He claimed the right therefore to open his own case. Having saved to himself the right to open his own case, and to have a reply upon that part of the case, he would be happy to hear ail that his Learned Friend had to say with respect to the codicil. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said by analogy to what took place in the House of Lords on appeals, he had a perfect right to proceed with respect to the codicil. The Learned Gentleman then proceeded to read and comment upon the evidence given in the Court below respecting the hand writing of the testator to the codicil in question, and con tended that there was a very strong body of evidence of the most respectable kind against the codicil either being written or signed by Mr. Wood. He also cited many cases in which it was laid down that the mere proof of handwriting would not be held as conclusive. Their Lordships would remember many cases in which even the clerks of the Bank who signed the notes had been deceived, even where their own rames had been forged ; and that during the war papers were plentiful which were so well counterfeited rs to deceive the Custom-house officers all over the world. The rule requiring some circumstances concomitant with the writing was a most wholesome one, and he hoped would not be depart e d f rom on t h at occasion. His learned friends supported the Codicil on the ground of the probability of some or all the bequests. The parties fabricating such a document would take care to have probability on their side, but let him ask was that the case here? There was a bequest of 200,0001. to the Corporation of Gloucester—that was dated in 1835, and it was in proof that at that time he was very angry, be cause he had always been passed over in respect of the office of Mayor to which he aspired. Ile apprehended that there was abundant evidence to destroy the probability of the va lidity of the evidence. Where an instrument was intended to be burnt, although it was not destroyed its operation was gone; and the parties would be in the same po,ition as if it had never been brought forward. The Learned Counsel said that he be lieving that if he had omitted any important p oint his Le arned should not occupy any more of the attention of t he Court, Friends would not fail to supply the deficiency. Mr. PE.MBERTON then proceeded to address the • Court on to read a in the same side. The Learned Counsel commenced his addr ess h eee b di 3 n fr . Ilitchings ocument was aparty, by reading extracts from the judgment delivered b y S ir Her some J fe e i n .m ne e r r . p H re e ee t e v e a d s i t o l g ie s n to pr l o ,ic when Sir F. POLLOCK objected to the reading of the document for the purpose of influencing the decision of the Court. The Learned Judges overruled the objection. Mr. PEMBERTON resumed. The Counsel for Mr. Hitch ings had not called in question in the least the fact of the sig nature to paper, A being the signature of the testator. Upon what ground then was that Chadb Paper question e d? U pon r the ground that Mr. on, who w ro t e t h at paper, was beneficially interested under it—if t h e signa ture were good ; if the competency were good ; if au ne undue suggested ; it mattered not o when he sign e d t h e paper, was acqua i nte d w i th i ts faitbing influence wrote it. It was only necessary to prove that t h e testator, contents, and aware of their effect. The Learned Counsel then cited the ease of Barrett and Britlin, Ist Vol. of Curtis, p. 613. In this case there was the most conclusive testimony of the only fact necessary to be proved, intention to benefit Mr. Chadborn. The Learned Judge had made the fact of Mr. Chadhorn being an executor beneficially interested a ground for looking with suspicion upon the will. The question was, did B refer to A. He (Mr. Pemberton) contended that if there were no sig nature, no proof whatever—if it were sufficiently established that B referred to A, then A was as completely established as if B itself had been established by two witnesses. Upon this part of the case he must protest most strongly against the deci sion of the i earned Judge. It was in contradiction of the principle universally acted upon. The rule was that you must have a distinct reference to some paper or writing; von must have a paper already produced which tallied with that description, and then if there were no other paper or writing which also tallied with that description, the reference was sufficient. That was the principle acted upon in all the cases which had been cited by his Learned Friend the Attorney- General. The Learned Counsel was proceeding to refer to the case of Wood and Wood, Ist Phillimore, 357, when it being Four o'Clock the Court adjourned the further hearing of the argu ment until to-morrow. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Arlin 6. (Before Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQUE.) IN THE IkikTTER, or KEASLEY, BItCIHERS. This being the day fixed for the final examination of the bankrupts, who carried on business, in Bermondsey, as tan