The Sun. — London, England, 1841-03-16 00:00:00

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In th e House of Lords last night no other busi .e.,. e get °t. importance was transacted than th get fur rl ti of the motion of the Bishop of EXETER Ilian address to the Crown to withhold its as etit to the ordinance for incorporating t St. Sul .ieeet We have elsewhere adverted this sub -114. 411 d shall only add here thatb to Right able Prelate supported his motion a long and as address, proving his consummate ability as tk a cattlt °r and an advocate. Like all advocates s he Weal ger ated amazingly, particularly as to the th e 4 ` (1 ,. of the Seminary, of sight it w a :tles to which that wealth an was devoted, that Vett;,,administered under the direction of Go- I llUx -44ent ) and that the surplus above a certain w as Th a ppropriated to the State. Nile Marquis of NorimANBY nswered the lout n t. It el". Prelate in a speech a full of matter, ta le s ' t P l aces somewhat personal, reflecting on eXe g i ° d faith of the Right Rev. Prelat_e_ On thei r e , rit Public grounds, however, he called on sishLordships to negative the motion of the TO' bY a large majority. Li p " 11 41 of RIPON and the Duke of WEL.. Or s Poke against the motion, and the 4 4 1 - " l ike recommended the Bishop to with as- g e.t : it. To this the Bishop of EXETER bein rc., 441) relYing, as he said, on the question being acg e°lil4'llsitiered, because there was some doubt, t he A in g to the Duke of WELLINGTON, whether it tlrl et ° I 'Union did not over-ride the ordinance tl , Thitlake it illegal. M arquis of NORMANBY, as , sured 41 4 I{4 t Rev. Prelate that the Ministers had C-roliv the opini on o f t h e law officers of the (4 1 the question, and that they are c t o his )(1 ) 1`t that the ordinance is legal. Thoug r_ atioh-tlation took away the hope of a re-conside the ( 4 , - ) the Bishop did not venture to divide , his pr es 4 ', but withdrew his motion; and so en of the jft b igoted opposition to the efforts DrD s Zlrs to secure the peace and promote the I n ' qty of Canada. Niai.!`e c ourse of the discussion some per -1 I .4a v tles Passed betwixt the Marquis of NOR d o fd the Bishop. There was also a little ."" ,a note from a Reporter of the Times tag fu tue Bishop out of a hobble, and there . tlr ther a conviction of the Bishop of mits th ;r nti llg a customary document, giving . 4 a I.,rtlau Catholic Bishop of Quebec his m tit r l u e (1.41 emanation of the Papacy of the au sel-`IOa.wANBY; but all these points are so con the ' en iii our report that we only mention Is,"` l e, re that our readers may have the pleasure ItC:;'ng them in another part of The Sun. \y le C ommons, Mr. Fox MAULE assured frog.l(.l.l:lL - , in answer to quest i ons, that there hr the ration w h atever to exclude the pub rlc Inslon.e C-reen. Park, or to alter the hours of s el _ 'dora;(2°/ um ittee on the South Australi a Acts, IlyssELL moved a resolution, guaran )P,-r)rdaki-n,,a lo an to that colony of 20,0001., and " 1 Provision for th e p a y men t ou t o f th e -.ld ated s Fund. Accordin g to the N o bl e t fr ttr aio•r at etuent the colony has been in a state of i (2at ‘' e r since it was esta bli s h e d . Th ere were. 4 shi ri '4itculties in construing the Act estab tl( t it, so that the several parties did sc.c,il_l4'w their franchise and duties. In coi.-i -ti,bviiee of the disputes which arose Captain con toe I% ' WaS removed from the Govern ;tlliB and Colonel GAWLER appointed in Etead, who found the whole colony t 4 11111°st deplorable state. To set it dept'h's,tri ther e xpenditure rose rapidly above the Yea p e ' `,..,r°111 20,000/. to 90,0001., and to 120,0001.. h "'bat co rrespondence then ensues whic 4 -oq "‘erday, published. The colony, the Noble l‘k s fo exPai 'ed, Was maintained by loans, an I; t l ll. , tied °II the Suppositionorn c s°ll ree would be inexhaustible, He +~'`~'` .~ ~~~~ ~~ • 7 4„to , " , b oril Asi4,_x• • • x . • M • m : • : rein 1 , 31'S °f ie c „d 10 of the Je M C. ,v 1 b blj Ve raNie . .10110. nt been ne at, Us° ) t" considered that the sale of lands at a certain price was a sound principle, and he regretted that the application of that fund to immigration should not meet with approbation. He attributed the failure to the faulty structure of the Act of Parliament. He would propose to place the colony under the control of the Trea sury, not under the control of Commissioners, and to give the Crown a direct agency in the ap pointment of its Governor. Though it was not his opinion, if the House decided that it shoul I have have a representative Government he would as sent to it. Lord STANLEY had thought that this subject was one which ought to have been brought be fore the House, on the responsibility of the Go vernment, before it was referred to a Committee. It was the duty of Government to come to Parliament with a definite proposition. He described the self-supporting principle as a bubble which had burst. The revenue of the colony was, he said 2a,0001. a year, the expenditure 100,0001. ; and the Go vernment House cost 24,0001. The Noble Lord was very severe on the whole scheme, particu larly of introducing all the luxuries of civilized life into the wilderness. He advised Lord JOHN RUSSELL to allow the Chairman to report pro gress, and postpone the measure for a week or two, till Lord JOHN could lay before them the details of the measure it was necessary to intro duce. Lord JOHN could not acquiesce in delay, be cause the colony was perishing. Sir R. PEEL suggested that the resolutions should express that the loan should not be im mediately passed. Lord Howicx explained that bills bad al ready been given, on the faith that the Trea sury would pay them. He suggested that Government s:lould receive the authority to raise some money to meet the present difficulties, and take time to adjust the affairs of the colony. Mr. HUTT defended the Australian Commis sioners from Lord STANLEY'S attack. Mr. VERNON SMITH thought the affairs of the colony were not so discouraging. Sir R. PEEL pointed out a contradiction between two statements of Colonel TORRENS, which shook his confidence in what was reported of the colony. Lord JOHN RUSSELL expressed his surprise at the course adopted by Lord STANLEY, who in Committee had proposed a resolution that delay would aggravate the evil. Mr. GROTE was for dispatch, that the news might go out to the colony. Lord ELIOT concurred with Lord JOHN RUS SELL in feeling surprised at Lord STANLEY'S con duct, and said that them was no difference in the Committee as to the necessity of immediate step. This is another example of the Tories quarrelling among themselves. Lord STANLEY is quite enough to set a whole country by the ears. Ultimately, we believe that a proposition made by Sir R. PEEL, that the Government should take up the bills due and receive the power to contract a loan, was adopted. The House resumed. On the Report of the Ordnance Estimates, Cap tain BOLDERO drew the attention of the House to the supplies we had furnished foreign States; when Sir H. VIVIAN assured the Hon. Gentleman that we had only furnished the SULTAN with 24,000 stand of arms, with ammunition. The Report on the East India Rum Bill was received, after an amendment had been intro duced including date-tree sugar. The Registration of Voters (Scotland) Bill was read a second time after a short debate. The Drainage of Lands Bill was opposed, and the second reading was carried by 31 to 19. On the motion of Sir W. RAE, leave was given to bring in a Bill to erect a monument to Sir WALTER SCOTT, in Edinburgh. Mr. Fox MAULE supported the motion, which has the consent of both parties. Some other matters of course were transacted, and at Half-past Eleven o'Clock the House Ad journed. We have to announce, which we do with very great pleasure, that the Bishop of EXETER last night withdrew his motion for an Address to the Crown not to give its assent to the ordinance for incorporating the Seminary of St. Sulpice. We are delighted at the result, because we are con vinced that had the Bishop of EXETER been successful, the conseqlences would have been very injurious in Canada ; because bigotry was defeated, and above all, because the defeat came in this instance from the better part of the Tories, who, as we expected, refused to hurl the firebrand which Bishop PHILLPOTS had pre pared into the peaceful and reposing community of Canada. Our readers will recollect that we stated on Saturday that " the Earl of RIPON, -the Earl of ABERDEEN, and Lord ELLENBORUGH would discountenance the attempt to represent the House of Lords as the determined enemies of all the Catholics of the empire." We were then aware that the Duke of WELLINGTON had pledged himself to support the Bishop's mo tion; and though we were unfeignedly astonished to hear his Grace give that pledge, after the plain, sensible speech of Lord MELBOURNE on Friday week, we did not expect that he would have joined his rational friends in opposing the Bishop of EXETER'S motion. It appears, however, that since Friday evening the Duke has looked into the question for himself. He was then capti vated by the easy, flowery elocution of the Right Rev. Prelate, and by his positive assertions. Forgetting much of the past history of these transactions, he had suffered his judgment to be hastily ensnared by the fervour and sincerity of the holy man. But on remembering that he had been in office with Lord BATIIURST in 1821, when the letters patent for incorporating St. Nicolay were issued ; and in 1834 and 1835, when Lord ABERDEEN adopted the despatch of the Earl of RIPON, he was at once convinced that he could not in honour throw overboard, as foolish and illegal, the acts of his own col leagues, and acts to which he had himself been a party. The Noble Duke, therefore, when he consulted his own judgment, came to a correct conclusion, and, beyond our expectations, not only combated some of the arguments of the Bishop of EXETER, particularly his wild assertion of-the enormous income of St. Sulpice, but de clared his firm determination to oppose the Bishop's motion. That was decisive of the question. The Right Reverend Prelate felt he had not the smallest chance on a division ; and, therefore, adroitly seizing hold of a staff held out to him by the Duke of WEL LINGTON, he crept out of the pool into which he had foolishly plunged, and withdrew his motion for an address. We were glad to perceive, by the reference which the Duke of WELLINGTON made to the Earl of ABERDEEN, that those two noblemen were acting with • one common accord; and that the Noble Earl would have accompanied the Noble Duke, had the motion been pressed to a division. The Earl of RIPON left no doubt on the subject, for he made a manly, sen sible speech against the Bishop's motion. He justified his own despatch of 1831, admitted that the Seminary had been virtually incorporated before, ridiculed the idea of taking away the pro perty from the -Seminary, which, he said, had never been thought of by any statesman, and, though he should have preferred his own plan of settling the question, he could not, he observed, for one moment think ofopposing the ordinance, which was based on principles to which he had previously given his solemn sanction. He pointed out, also, the inconsistency of the Bishop of EXETER, in first contending, on the high ground of pure Protestant principle against the ordinance, and then making it a matter of pecuniary consideration, leaving to the Papists a part of the sum, instead of the whole. The Noble Earl gave no quarter to the Bishop's assertion that such an ordinance was a national crime and contrary to the principles of the Constitution. Oa the contrary, he regarded the settlement of the question as essen tial to the prosperity of Montreal, and would on no account allow his respect for the Protes tant religion, which he professed to revere, to overrule his conviction of what was due to sound policy, The Bishop of EXEMB ) therefore, was TH V, SUN, LONDON, TUESDA Y, MARCH 16, 18,1. defeated by his own friends. He was opposed, certainly, by the Marquis of NORMANBY j but he was defeated by the Duke of WELLINGTON and the Earl of RIPON. As he accused the Minis ters of being favourable to Popery, he must henceforth class his own party as the enemies of Protestantism and the allies of the Papacy. What the Times and what the Standard will say to this heavy blow, inflicted on them and their party by their own friends, we can not possibly conjecture. On Friday the latter denounced Lord BATHURST as having done "many foolish things," and it included in them, especially, the letters patent for incorporating St. Nioolay, in Canada. Last night, however, the Duke of WELLINGTON stated to the House of Peers that he was in the Cabinet when these letters patent were issued, that he knew very well then what was going on, and that he must have been cognizant of them at the time, though he had forgotten them on Friday week, when the Bishop of EXETER made his first speech so that his race must also be regarded by the Standard as one of those foolish Tories who, in the good old Tory times, did a great many foolish things. Again our Contemporary pre pared his readers for the result of last night's debate by sneering at some " of those who call themselves Conservatives, and are sillily called Conservatives by others," whom he described as conservative of nothing but their own paltry titles. But now the Standard must class the Duke of WELLINGTON with those who are sillily called Conservatives by others, for he took the course which the Standard de precated by its sneer, though it then hardly supposed that such a course woull be followed by the Duke of WELLINGTON. Again, the Times has been labouring zealously in the cause of the Bishop of EXETER, and, like the rest of the bigots, was thrown overboard last night by the Duke of WELLINGTON. No longer ago than yesterday that journal drew a fine dis tinction between incorporating trustees, being officials of the Roman Catholic Church, alias " a certainßoman Catholic Bishop and certain Cures,' , and incorporating ecclesiastics themselves. We were astonished at this boldness of assertion, even in the Times, not to call it impudence but the Duke of WELLINGTON, after having had the benefit of this fine distinction, and after having heard the Bishop of EXETER endeavour to establish a perhaps still finer distinction between the purposes of the two incorporations, the one being to educate the people by Catholic priests, and the other to teach them the Catholic reli gion—the Duke of WELLINGTON, laughing to scorn the airy distinctions both of the Bishop and the public writer, declared that he saw no difference between the two, and that he, having been a party to the letters patent, could not oppose the ordinance. So his Grace threw overboard the bigots both of the Bench and the Press, and the good resolutions of his more vigorous days having been recalled to him, which he confessed he had forgotten, he .told the Bishop, and be manfully told the Peers, that he had been in error on Friday week. On former occasions, the Duke has given the bigots some severe back-handed blows, but never did the whole crew so reel and rock under his blows as they did last night. They expected they had caught him in their net, and were pre paring to show him about as their last great prize. Their hopes made their disappointment the more bitter, and his refusal last night to sup port an address, which was artfully described as intended to save Protestantism from the heaviest blow struck at it since the Reformation, will redound to the discredit of the bigots throughout the empire. We did not expect that the Post would an swer, though it notices, our article of last Fri day; and notices it to declare that it is wide of the mark. Our Contemporary, we are afraid, has forgotten what and whereabout the mark was. It was assumed by our Contemporary that the amount of exports was the measure of the value of foreign trade, and, taking that test, he treated with contempt the doctrines which would promote it, and insisted on statesmen cherish ing agriculture, to the ruin of trade. We showed that our Contemporary was thoroughly ignorant of the nature of foreign trade, which, we proved, gave value to agricultural produce, to which our Contemporary placed it in opposition. We en tered into the controversy for the sake of esta blishing a principle, and pointing out that dread ful combination of ignorance and presumption which is embodied into commercial restrictions. We have not the smallest intention of flattering the Post, when we describe it as much heaer informed, and much more careful in its reason ing, ignorant though it be, than the herd of country gentlemen, Right Hon. Members of Parliament, Noble Lords, and Right Rev. Pre lates, who have made, and now uphold, restric tions on the production of wealth, the vast, com plicated, and beautiful phenomena of which they are totally unacquainted with. To illustrate their still greater deficiency, we pointed out the igno rance of the Post on a subject which it neverthe less aspired to regulate. That our Contemporary can afford no answer to our remarks, is for us a satisfactory proof that it is not easy to answer them. Mr. HUTT, who last year so successfully ex posed the injuries to which our commerce in the Elbe was subject from the depredations of Hanover, has very consistently followed up his course of usefulness by performing a similar ser vice to our merchants, manufacturers, and ship owners in regard to the Danish exactions, called the Sound Dues. We have before us a pam phlet on this subject by Mr. HUTT, called " Sound Dues Considered," and we must say that till we had read the elaborate history of our treaties with Denmark, and of the Denmark method of practically observing them, we, could hardly have believed that so gross and pernicious an abuse remained to be redressed. " Sound Dues,' Mr. HUTT justly observes, " in any shape are an opprobrium, but Sound Dues aggravated by rapacity and bad treatment are surely intolerable in a 'country whose existence depends on the prosperity of her commerce and the moral influence of her flag." It was bad enough, God knows, and a pretty significant indication of what a parental Govern ment we lived under in the old days of Tory domination, to have conceded gratuitously to Denmark a right to tax our trade and navigation in the Sound, on any scale however limited, and under any restrictions however severe. Small dues for the lightage and buoyage of the narrow seas between the Cattegat and the Baltic, is all the tax that ever would have been granted to the Crown of Denmark, had our rulers in 1814 either considered or understood the importance of the trading interests of Great Britain. Without a struggle, a remonstrance, or a word, however, the memorable Lord CASTLEREAGH signs away the rights of his comitrymen to hold free inter course with the Baltic nations, and hands over to the King of DENMARK for ever, as a clear un bought advantage, the power to impose taxes and restraints on all British ships and cargoes passing the Sound. Such was Toryism in its hour of might ! We conceded to Denmark, as a right, the power to levy heavy contributions on all our commerce in the Baltic, and to inflict severe restraints and penalties on our mariners, in order to secure the payment of these contributions to the uttermost farthing. We agree to pay, in addition, the salaries of the Danish officers at Elsineur, who collect the appointed tribute; and beside tribute and salaries to pay lightage, buoyage, and beaconage on our ships passing the Sound, to an extent, that over and above defraying all the expenses of these works and establishments, brings a net income of considerable amount into the Danish Exchequer! Yet all this does not satisfy the majesty of Denmark. Natuat infelix angusto limit°. He craves for more, and obtains it by a profli crate violation of the Treaty by which he claims any right to the Sound tolls at all. The amount of the toll on each article is settled and deter mined by a formal tariff, which forms part of the Treaty between the two nations, and Denmark is therein forbidden to exact more than is pre scribed in the tariff, under any pretext what- William Hutt, Esq., "M.R Sound Dues Covisiderca) by Ridgway, Lon4bn. ever. Yet so little has this solemn injunction been respected, that there are but few articles of commerce on which Denmark has not exacted larger dues than the Treaty sanctions, and on many of them the dues arc augmented more than 500 vek cent. Other stipulations which the Treatiescontained, for the protection of commerce have been treated by the King of DENMARK in the same uncere monious manner. On our side there has been nothing but submission. "These unllwful con. tributions on our trade have been exacted," says Mr. HUTT, " with all the confidence and regula rity of an unquestionable right." And for six- and-twenty years this system of spoliation and injury has been going on without obstruction ! To have been the first to point out and clearly and earnestly to explain the economical and com . mercial evils which it has heaped upon our coun try, is a merit due to the Member for Hull. We trust that on Tuesday night he will complete, in the House of Commons, the useful and honourable task he has undertaken, and that, by insisting in Parliament on the same important truths which he has here placed befbre the public, he will at last compel the attention of Government to the wrongs imposed on the industry of our country. We cannot conclude this notice better than with Mr. HUTT'S OWTI words : "it may be said that after all this is only a question of amount of Sound Dues, that we have formally armed Denmark with a right to collect them in some measure, and that such right she is very unlikely to resign. Denmark would not, of course, gratuitously relinquish an advantage which she holds by an in expugnable title— a solemn Treaty—but the Sound 'lax is so obviously pernicious and oppressive, that it would be well for our Government to enter Into negotiation with the Court of Denmark for a fair commutation of it. The injury we suffer by the Sound Dues is not to be estimated by the 80,000 i. or 100,0001. per annum, levied on our trade at Elsineur for the benefit of the King of Denmark and his officers. The evils arising from our goods being enhanced in the foreign market and foreign goods in our ow n—ftom ships detained on their voyage, and in a difficult and tempestuous sea—from restric tions, trammels, penalties, on the free operations of commerce, are beyond all power of mca ure or computation. The very circumstance that our commercial intercourse with the north of Europe is checked and cramped by our own laws, and by the laws of other nations, whit h we (;4.,rtnot control, is, in it self, a powerful reason why we should not suffer the measure of exclusion and prohibi.ion to be completed by the acts of a fo reign State, which no man living can justify or approve. We cannot control Denmark in the collection of her legal tariff. That is true. But during the last quarter rf a century, Den mark has been acting on a tariff which is neither legal nor defensible, and Great Britain, as well as Sweden and Prussia, well know that the excessive dues collected at Elsi neur may be rightfully and reasonably , demanded back. In truth, Denmark is not in circumstances to hold any very haughty or unaccommodating language. It cannot escape the sagacity of her Government that the Sound Dues, which derive their origin from a period when every thing was settled by the rude instrumentality of force, are little in harmony with the principles which now regulate the affairs of the world, and that the Sound Dues have now no foundation whatever but in the faith of those Treaties, which have fixed the tolls to which commerce shall be subject on passing the Sound. These are not times in which any nation can be permitted to evade the execution of Treaties, or to abolish one part of the stipula tions they contain, and interpret others according to its interest. A Treaty from the moment that it is not faithfully and regu larly observed by the side interested in maintaining it, ceases to be binding on the other."_ The most contradictory reports are in circula- tion respecting the terms of relationship upon which the great Powers at present stand with regard to the Eastern question. We on Saturday gave currency to a rumour that France has joined the other Powers in signing a new Treaty for maintaining the integrity of the Ottoman empire. This rumour is given in the following form by the Morning Herald of yesterday : We have reason to believe that the protocol agreed to by the conference of London for regulating the affairs of the east, and for terminating the quintuple treaty of July, as well as the treaty of Unkiar Skelessi, has been accepted by the French Government. _ We have also reason to believe that it is the intention of M. Guizot to make a communication of this nature to the Cham ber of Peers in the course of the debate on the Fortifications Bill. The result to he expected from this circumstance is, that France, Austria, and Prussia will proceed to a gradual, if not immediate disarming. ___ On the other hand, the Morning Post pub- lishes a letter from a Correspondent at Paris, which expressly states that France has refused to sign the proposed Treaty. As this letter is as recent as the rumour of Saturday, and enters into some details in themselves highly interesting, we quote it without curtailment:— "PARIS, MARCH 13. " At ten o'clock last night Count Harteg, an Attache of the Austrian Embassy in Paris, left post for Vienna, via Frank fort on the Maine. This young diplomatist is bearer of im portant despatches sent by the Count d'Appony to his Govern ment, after a long conference which his Excellency had on Thursday last with M. Guizot at the Foreign-off ce, relative to the last firman of the Sultan, dated February 13. In this con ference M. Guizot explained the motives which would prevent the French Cabinet from signing or adhering to the protocol of London, dated the ....II instants,. which Itzd just been conimu nicated to him by the English Government. This protocol re presents,rs es, the fir man as the result of the combined eff or t s o f th e Pow ers which the 15th of July Treaty. But M. Guizot observed that he had reason to believe, from despatches that he had received from M. de Saint Aulaire (French Ambassador in Vienna), and from the Count I'ontois (Constantinople), that Austria and Russia were far from being satisfied at the form of the firman, because—to make use of Prince Metternich's expression, which was in ac cor.lance also with the complaints of Baron de Sturmer and M. de Titof (Austrian and Rus'ian Ambassadors inConstati _ - - tinople)—this document had been forced by Lord Ponsonby from the weakness of Reschid Paella. M. Guizot, it is said, further remarked that the right reserved by the Porte to choose Mehemet Ali's successor from his children was a manifest contradiction with the principle of the absolute heirship already recognised by the Sultan, and further more was at direct variance with the casus beiii placed in M. Thiers's memorandum, which had been accepted as the bisis of policy by the 29th of October Cabinet, now existing. France, therefore, Guizot stated, must maintain her isola tion until the Austrian and Russian influence succeeded in ob taining a modification of the firman, so that the right of suc cession of Mehemet Ali's children might be laid down as ex pressed in the two memorandums of the 3d and Bth of October. " Count d'Appony, who appeared to have hail his instruc tions in this respect, replied that he appreciated M. Guizot's motives in refusing to sign the London protocol of the sth instant, and he added that he hoped that the combined efforts of Austria, Prussia, and Russia would obtain the modification claimed by the Tuileries. "It was consequently agreed between M. Guizot and the Count d'Appony that the latter should communicate to Prince Metternich the conference in question, and that the French Cabinet should make no reply to Lord Palmerston's despatch, dated March b, until Count d'Appony has received from Prince Metternich fresh instructions as to the result of the proceed • ings at Constantinople, to satisfy France as to the point at issue in this new incident of the Eastern question. " Count Hartig will wait at Vienna for the definitive reply of the Austrian Cabinet, and on his return to Paris, which it is expected will be in about a month, it is hoped that this ap parently interminable dispute will be arranged, at least so far as regards Mehemet Ali." Whether France has or has not signed the new Treaty, it is satisfactory to be able to state that the cause of peace and civilization is making sure, if not very rapid progress. If France has objected to the damn in the Imperial Firman which reserves to the .Sultan the right of nomi nating MEHEMET ALfs successors to the Pacha lie of Egypt, the people pf England will tell her that she is right in doing so. Lord PONSONBY must rest content with the eon" of having driven the VICEROY out of Syria. .Europe will not tolerate the playing of that game io Egypt. terday hi% report on the project of law relative to the fortifica tion of Paris. He will read it to-morrow (Saturday), and it is thought that it may be read in a public sitting on Tues day next. 0n occasion of the resolution adopted by the Diet of the German Confederation to fortify Ulm and Rastadt the Gazette de France exclaims with reason, " Thus it is not Berl n and Vienna that are to be surrounded with bastions and citadels. The reasons alleged by M. Thiers for fortifying the capital, have not imp ose d on t h e goa d sense o f Germany., A letter hich we h ave rece i ve d f r om Florence, d ited March 1, informs us that the Austrian Government, with the consent of the Grand Duke, has just established a Cabinet noir in the capital of Tuscany. Florence has long been the quiet re sidence of fo-eiguers from all countries, who resort to it for the enjoyment of tranquillity, and for the benefit of their health. The Court of Vienna has calculated that by this means it may be informed of every thing that is passing in Europe, and as the Grand Duke is only a vassal of Austria, the execution of this project has been attended with no difficulty. All letters coming from abroad, are not only unsealed and read by the Austrian police, but they are irrevocably kept if they contain the slightest equivocal phrase however important the contents of the letter may be to the person to whom it is addressed. Le Commerce. NAPLES, FEB. 27.—Her Royal Highnets the Duchess of Cambridge arrived here yesterday af ernoon, and put up at the Hotel de la Grand Boulogne. Immediately af er her arrival, a company of the Royal Life Guards was sent as a guard of honour, which however she declined. POLISH FRONTIER, FEB. 28.—The ten Russian prisoners who were at Cracow were taken yesterday with an escort of the police to Kielce on the Russian frontier, where they were deliver. d into the hands of the Russian authorities. BOURSE.-PARIS, SATURDAY, MARCII 13 first Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Pricy. Price trench 5 nee Centl llO 93 ... 111 10 ... 110 93 ... 111 10 4% per Cents lOl 30 .. 1111 50 ... lal 50 ... ICI 50 4 per Cents OB ... 98 ... 98 ... 98 3 per cents 76 65 :6 85 ... 76 65 ... 76 85 B mt. of trance ... Liflitte Bank 1,0001. Sh llh 5 —1065 ...1065 ...1015 3000 f. Shares 511:3 ...5165 ...5165 ...5116) Belgian Bank 5 p.er Cents... 3 per Cents 69 65 ~. 6') 65 ... 119 63 ... 19 65 New Loan... ..... Neapolitan Roman .._ ... ! 0 _ . ..t ____••• 102 ... RI ... 1(2 FAILWAY SHARES. -- St Germain Ve . sailles,R. B 39) ... 342 50 ... 390 ... 3 2 50 L. 8. 3 1.7 50 ... 310 31.7 50 31.1 Orleans . Strlftmirg to Bale louen 4si ...455 ... 455 ... 455 REPORT OF THE IMPORT DUTIES COMMITTEE' We understand that this now for-ever-cele brated document, or some abridgment of it, has been reprinted at New York., and is circulated in America very largely. We are heartily glad of this, for the knowledge of the inutility, or rather the mischiejousness of what is calledprotection, is as much required in the United States as here. It may reach that country in time to warn the people by our example against the commercial suicide, by a tariff, which they are meditating. We are much pleased also to learn that the abridgment of the Report, published by a weekly Contempo rary, has been reprinted at Carlisle, and sold to a very large amount. The very useful informa tion supplied by that invaluable Report is spread ing all over the country, indeed all over the world, and is producing an effect such as never Parliamentary document of that nature produced before THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE* GERMAN OPERA. The German Opera season commenced at this theatre yesterday evening. Herr Schumann, en couraged by the success of last season, has left the Prince's Theatre and taken Drury-lane, so that he will no' longer be prevented from giving the fullest effect to the most splendid produc tions of the German operatic school, many of which he found it hitherto absolutely impossible to produce in consequence of want of space. The opera chosen for the opening last evening was Weber's masterpiece, Der Freischutz. Madame Stoeckel Heinefetter was the Agatha, a character in which she won " golden opinions" last season. This lady is one of the most finished artistes that we ever heard, critically correct in her singing, never attempting more than the composer has set down for her—(would that other artistes, English and foreign, would, in this point particularly, follow her example)— exact in her observance of tone and time, she throws a pathos and an energy into her singing which produce an effect the more intense from being without effect, and which contrasts strongly with those twins de force in which some other artistes indulge, and which, while they create astonishment, but too frequently shock good taste. Her grand seena in the second act was perfect. It was the triumph of correct taste and sound judgment. Herr Haitzinger, of whom the frequenters of the German Opera of last season still retain a very favourable impression, was Max, the Rudolph of the English translation ; and Caspar found an able representative in Herr Sesselman. This gentleman, who is from the Court Theatre of Hesse Darmstadt, made his first appearance be fore an English audience last night. He possesses a fine, clear, powerful bass voice, and, like all Germans, is a thorough musician. He gave the -drinking-song in excellent style, and was lewdly applauded. The great feature, however, of the German Opera is the chorus, which is ad mirably directed by Herr Baerwolt. Those who have never heard a chorus of Germans can form no idea of the oneness, if the term is al lowable, of the effect produced. It is as if the sounds and modulations p:•oceeded from one mighty organization, at the will, and under the control, of one mind. We have heard well drilled choruses in England, in France, and in Italy, but never have we heard any which can at all approach a German chorus. The audience last night seemed quite electrified by the Jager chorus, which was twice encored. We have often and often heard it with delight, butnever until last evening did we fully appreciate the beauties of that noble composition. We cannot close this notice without paying a tribute to the exquisitely na tural acting of Madame Schumann, in the little character of Annchen. The part did not afford her any great opportunity of exhibiting her vocal powers, but she made the most of that which was afforded her, and in the duett with Madame Stoeckel Heinefetter, at the opening of the second act, she was warmly and most de servedly applauded. After the opera " God Save the Queen" was sung by the whole com pany. Madame Stoeckel Heinefetter and Haitzinger taking the solo parts. The orchestra, which was complete in all its parts, was excel lently directed by Herr Ganz. Mr. Bunn, we perceive, still continues his services as stage manager. Amongst the engagements we are glad to see the names of Madame Schroeder Dev rient, Staudigl, Marschner, and Meyerbeer, the composer of Robert le .Diable and Les Huguenots. This promises well. The house was crowded last evening, and there is every prospect of the present being even a more successful season for the Germans than the last. COURT CIRCULAR. Her Majesty and Prince Albert took an airing yesterday afternoon in an open carriage and four. Her Majesty was /Mended by the lion. Miss Paget and the Hon. Miss An son, Maids of Honour in Waiting. Sir Edward Bowater, Equerry to Prince Albert, attended on horseback. Viscount Melbourne hal an audience yesterday of the Queen. The Royal Dinner Party at Buckingham Palace last evening included her Royal . Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Fanny Howard, Baron Stockmar , M r . Ge o r g e The latest Madrid Papers receiv,d are of the Edward Anson, and Colonel Wyldc. 6th inst. Reports were in circulation of a speedy The Band of the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards was change in the composition of the Ca binet. ft in attendance at the Palace durin g dinner. was afirmed on the Bourse that after We settle- Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the DuessofGloue of Canterbury Gloucester yesterdayeteeery and m at Gloucester Holmes,loucesterH use. ment of the Regency question the Niiniotry The Archbishop , would he composed us follovrst—M. OLOI. 7 .AttA7 had an intervievr with Lord John Russell yesterday at the Minister of Foreign Affairs and 'President of Colonial-Alec.: the Council; M• MAIIV E L CANTERO, the present Mr. T. Duneotnt:e, M.P., hal an interview with th e Marq uis from the of Nor r ni o anblycg o aday at the 11 . Hoene-otEce. lb ltar were re nance ;M. SANCHO, Minister of the Interior; ceived yesterday at theColoctirAnlo.r of Gibraltar M. LABottuo, of Grace and Justice; M. CAPAZ, i ........--_ of Marine; and General ALArx, of War. Accounts of general dissatisfaction in the pro vinces were daily arrivin g at Ma drid. But little business was doing on the Bour se. The Five per Cents. were at 27 i for cash, and 282 at 00 days. THE WEATHER. Ezo YAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE. STREET. NOON, MARCH 15 30'19 In. Barometer.. Yhermometer The Paris journals of Friday and. Saturday have all reached us. The Moniteur officially announces the resignation of the Spanish Mi nister of Finance, M. GAMBOA, and the appoint ment ad interim o f M. FERRAR to discharge the duties of that office. These at present are not :13:traction by thi eves o f a doors open all n i g h t w i t h out very onerous. T he S p anish Fina nce Minister n iay dreading the leave hisli (4n e single dollar. T here is the d evil to pay n and not a shot in the locker. T fact,- the Trea sury is person absolutelytate empty, the army in arrear, and no from the Spanish Govern ment or State can beg, borrow, or steoA cash enough to defray the ordinary expenses of t.he Administra tion ! Such is the frightful pass ,! - o which des potism, priestcraft, and civil war, ha 7e brought this once fine and opulent country ! The probability of a contest between. Great Britain and the United States ,is the subject Of leading articles in all t he Paris P apers. A syno - sis of the best of them will be found in another l-b column, to which we dire ct th e attention of our readers. t We are informed - that a proposal , signed by two Honourabl e lt e Deputies of bureau the The object of this proposal is to realise the rec ommendat ion of AL Jaubert, to decla r e the incompatibility of the Legislative. functions with of ie the constitutionalchamber o opposition, tne on potieswas laid y es t er d a y . paid offices. It is thought it may be submitted to the exami nation of the bureau on Ifonday next. Baron Nounief did not commmicato to the Committee 7evv, Highest • 61'5 - Lowest Wind W.—Freezing Point 32 Deg. The andrtorship of the Duchy of Cornwall hav ing b ccorn „.,,•.ant by the death cf Sir George Harrison, that office ba3 Lve en conferred on Mr. James Gardiner, a barrister. We h •arn, howevzr, tire the emoluments of the office, which were 1,2001. a year, whilst in the hands of Sir George Harris( an, have been reduced by Vis. Duncan non to somewhat ab nut 400/. a year.—Sunday Paper. E LO PEMENT.— —On Saturday last, a respectable plumber and glazer, in the village of Adwalton, well on for seventy years of age, eloped wi h the wife of an honest cobbler, drawing n ear the meridian of thirty. Old fools are the worst of all fools. _Leeds Times. On Tuesday,, the river Exe formed for itself new channel, b; carrying away nearly an acre of fine mea dow land, at joining Old Abbey (formerly St. James's Priory), partly belonging to the Earl of Devon. The mills at .James's weir and Countess weir were stopped for want of water, and, in addition to the loss of .the land, more thane: 71,000/, must be extended to rest( re the river to its aueie nt course.—Exeter Flying Post. HE,I;`,TH OF THE METROPOLIS.—The great c : , ange in tle weather, and the unusual warmth of tl:e ativ zolles . e, that have prevailed during the last . ten . days, have pnQd need an equally astoeidiing change in . y ue g nz .- . reraF scat a of health throughout London. I h nahated, has Lcarly disappeared; low . f..vers . have and ink,:tit 'us diseases, peculiar cbdihriesnm, malady is much deeliffEng, eept heoping-cough,.ancl n a 'r u e c alto d s back, in n at was ten ay l ess v i o to it 4 c its symptoms tha t ri winds that bare pre ', vaned,' MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, MONDAY EVENING. Tho•advices by the Columbian steamer were anxiously expected alt day, and most parties were indisposed to enter into specuhtfvo operations in the Funds. Consols for money realized 88 to 87i-, closing at 87k; and for time they ranged from 88-1 to 88k, which were also the latest prices of the day, Exchequer Bills brought I Is. to Bs. rem.; India Bonds 20 ; the New Three-and. a. Hall per Cents. 96/ to 961; and South St a. Stock 95,i. The business done altoge,her was upon a most tr.- vial scale. The confirmation of the news of M. Gamboa's resigna din had a very unfavourable effect upon Spanish Stock, and produced a fall of per cent. The Deferred Binds were t.t 111 to 12, and the Active at 231 to 221. Tee difficulties encountered by the late Finance Mi..isier were, it would seen?, too great for his health, or his inclination, perhaps both, to contend against, and it remains to to seen whether his succe4sor will get on with that which Gamboa Lal well b:gun. Portuguese Bonds were not favourably influenced by the accounts cf the Bth instant, for although the diviread it seems has btea scrap' togctm:r, the miserably 1)w con dition to which the treasury is reduced, rondo-4 it ex tremely doubtful wh, ther this may not be the Alpha and Omega for some time to come. For the sake of tLe poor bondholders we hope we may be deceived. The New Five per Cents. were at 301 to and the Three per Cents. at 181. Colombian Stock was dull at 221 ; Mexican, at 271 ; Buenos Ayres, at 211 ; Brazilian, at 701 to 711 ; Freu.:h Five ime Cents. at 111 f. 25c., and the .Ditch Five rer Cents. at 99,i to 1. The Share Market was duel, but pfc:s were suppot tcd. Great Western Railway were 22 ; the New, 11 ; the Fifths, 51 ; the Birmingham, 54, ex New shares ; and the S•luth Western, 01 prem. ; 13riglitin Shares were 71 disc. (From The Sun of Last Night.) The Lisbon mail has arrived, brought by the Iberia steamer, which sailed from Lisbon on the Bth of march. The inteii gence Ly the above conveyance states, that the instalment due on the Ist inst., on account of the claims of the Duke of Wellington, Lord Berzsford, and others,_ was paid with punctuality to the amount of 160 contos. It also appears that the Government had raised a loan of 500 contos for the bank on the mortgage of some banker of the revenue, for next April, for the express purpose of meeting the payment of the dividends on the foreign debt in London.—(This is most wel come intelligence for the bondholders.) We refer our readers for further particulars to another part of our paper. The Hamburg mail has arrived of the 9th March, bringing the papers of the same date, Exchange London 13 31; Gold 425, Metals, 10.11, Bank Actions, 1610. _ LIVERPOOL COTTON MA ItNNT, 111AaCH 13. —There con tinues to be a good demand for cotton. The tales this day amount to nearly 7,00 u bales, 2.500 of which have been by speculators. Prices are firm, and remain at yesterday's quo tations. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, MARCH 13.—A very mo derate business has been transacted at the Stock Exchange this day. In prices no alteration. Present rates are—Eur Eastern Counties, Debentures, 4i; Great Western, 86k; ditto, New Shares, 60f f ; ditto, 201. Shares, 91; London and Birmingham, Quarter Shares, 26 ; London and South West ern, 51. Shares, 16 ; Midland Counties, 77.1. The steam-ship Colombia had not arrived up to the post hour. She will, in all probability, be up by the next tide, in time for the three o'clock train. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 13.—There is nothing particular to remark in the Share Market, and the sales to-day are—Manchester and Birmingham, 24 1 7 1 ; Eastern Counties, Debentures, 4/. Is. 3d.; Manchester and Liver poolbis tt ict Bank, 11/. and , lo/. 19s. ; Manchester and Salford Bank, 10/. 6s. 3d. ; London and Birmingham, 1661 ; London and South Western, stii. We have received the Antwerp Papers of yesterday's date. BOURSE OF AMSTERDAM, MARTH 12.—The affairs in the national funds were very limited to-day, and the prices but little varied. There prevails an incertitude among the specu lators, owing to the getting-up of the funds in London,• para lyzed by the fall in Paris. The Bourse remained undecided : they are waiting for further intelligence on the event of affairs. In the Foreign Funds there is nothing of consequence. Ar doin's Spanish remains at 21i ; Coupons, 21 3-16. The British funds opened this morning at the same quota tions as they left off on Saturday, 8S to for the Account ; Money, 87i to BS, with scarce anything doing as yet. Ths speculators arc waiting for the arrival of the Colombia steamer from Hal:fax with ti:e intelligence from New York which is expected to be of some importance. Exchequer Bills, 9 12 prem. ; Bank Stock shut, India Stock also. L In the Foreign Market Spanish Active not so good as it left off on Saturday at 23a %, at present 23* 4. Deferred, 12k; Passive, 54 6 ; Portuguese same as they left off, 304 3U ; Three per Cents., lti- 4 ; Brazilian, 71 72; Buenos Ayres, 22 24; Colombian, 22* 4 ; Danish, 77 78; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents., 50* I; Five per Cents. 99* 4. SHARES.—Great Western, 22 23 Fern. ; New, 10 11 prem. ,• London and Brighton, 7* 7 dis. ; Blackwall, hi 5 dis. ; Southampton, 55 56 per share ; Croydon, 114 12k per share. PRICES OF SHARES TIES DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. ' 1 3 .. id. Per Share. Eastern Counties Ditto Debentures London and South Western 3B& 56 ... .. to Ditto Tenths North Midland PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, MARCH 13. . - 3 per Cent. Consols Three and Half Stock 9s* i Grand Canal 5t0ck......... Ditto Reduced ..... .... i Ditto Debs. 6 per cent... . . Ditto New, 1830 ...... 958- Ditto 4 per cent 36 per Cent. Debs. We have very few arrivals to the present time, and those re- ' ceived by ship letters are of an old date, consequently we are dull in the City. Consols at present are a shade lower than in the early part of the morning, when they were 88? i for the Account ; swim which may be quoted at 88k ; Money, 873, have been 83, with very little doing. Exchequer Bills, 109 11 I rem. ; Bank Stock shut; India Bonds. 20 die. In the Foreign Market, - Spanish Active is also lower, have been 23k, at present 23; Deferred, 117 g ; Portuguese also not so gocd as in the morning, 30 1 1.; Danish, 774 ; Dutch Two and-a- Half per Cents., 50i; Five per Cents. lower, 994, have been 99g. In Shares scarcely anything doing. South Western, 56 . ; Ditto, Fifths, 2b ; North Midland, 7t►. This is settling day in the Foreign Market, the brokers and jobbers arc chiefly employed in paying and receiving their va rious balances. Up to the present hour we do not hear of any mischief having occurred. A report prevails that the Colombia is off Liverpool, but as yet it requires confirmation. Consols for Money, 874 ; Account, 8S i; Colombian, 2 ; Mexican, 27i fi ; Deferred, 9 ; Portuguese, 314 ; Three per Cents., I 8 i; Spanish, 23 6 ; Account, 23k. No intelligence of the arrival of the steamer from Halifax CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bulk Stock ~. India Stock 3 per Cent Red — 'Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent Cons B7l Ditto Old Annuities ... 31 per Cent Red — Ditto New Annuities... New 31 per Cent 963 Ex. Bills, 1,000/....21d Bpm New 5 per Cent Ditto 500/ lO pm Long annuities to expire Ditto Small l2 pm Jan. 1860 ... Bank Stock for Opg. ... Oct. 1859 — India Stock for Acct.... Jan. 1860. FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent.... Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent --Ditto , -New Ditto 3OB Brazilian 80nd5.......... 711 Prussian, 5 per cent. Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent 211 Russian, 5 per cent Chilian, 6 per cent...... 'Ditto, Metallic Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent 221 Ditto, 1824. 223 Ditto , Def erred l2 Danish, 3 per cent 773 French, 5 per cent.lllf. 25c. Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Exchange —f. —c. Mexican, 5 per cent.... 271 French, 3 per cent —f. —c. Ditto, 6 per cent, 1625. Dutch, 2/ per cent. ... 50/ Peruvian, 1825, 6 per et. Ditto, 5 per cent 993 SHARES. Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid ... ....• Ditto Debentures ( 2 paid) ...• . ...... ... 4 Great Western Railway (65 paid) ... 57 Ditto New Shares (50 paid) 6l Ditto Fifth (4 paid) London and Brighton (50 paid) London and Birmingham Railway (90 pd) 144 London and South Western ... ........... Ditto Tenths ...... OA Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) ...... Ditto Quarter Shares (10 paid) . 141 North Midland Railway (100 paid) ...... SUICIDE OF A TAX-COLLECTOR. —On Sun day afternoon the body of an elderly man in mourning was taken out of the New River, at Hornsey, and it was pre sently ascertained that the deceased was Mr. Matthew a who had been known many years as a tradesman carrying on the business of an oil and colourman in the Kingsland road. He had not long since, however, relinquished that business, and retired to live at Dalston, where he buried his wife about a fortnight ago, since which he has been in a dejected state of mind, in consequence of his recent be reaven cot and pecuniary difficulties. He was a collector of land tax, and had of late been repeatedly called upon in vein for a settlement of accounts, which be evaded from time to time, and it is feared that a serious defalcation will be discovered. He had been missing since last Wednesday, and was last seen on that day hovering about the ricer at Hornsey. WARWICK STEEPLE RACES.—High expecta tions have been raised, and we have no doubt will be gr-- tified to the fullest extent, by the announcement of not only one capital steeple race here, on Friday next, but another on the same day, and over the tame ground, by farmers' and traders' horses, the Race Committee having very liberally offered 20/. in addition to the subscription arising from the entries. Ti is double attraction a ii, no doubt, bring to the fied a large concourse of spe w:vole, who will hav, a' excellelA view of the running, as she r h er of the exciting display w i'l be atlieirably adapted tobtinetr convenience—the starting and toe close of c acti race t. g at the front of the Grand Stand. THE ATTEMPTED MURDER AT tqn ted —Misters, who will shortly take his trial for the a a s t p w c e hear LUDLOW. murder of I‘l ,- . M-tckreath, is likely ktoofct6licealr‘ 'A ngel" ion, that the 1 rineipal witness, Mr. Ludlow, is unfortunately on succeeds the Commander John Washl of the survey of the late Captain Hewett in prosecute) an ininl;:rotf Gloucester As)luni. North Sea. N GAIN ST FIRE.—In the erec '• G lion of tat mo Pit EuCAUTder l n prison A in Copenhagen- f i e ldst :e overt'_ fatally destruc tive to so many of our pullic buildings within me s nt are adopting those precautions , a ne g lect of whi At ha proved . offices and cells wi ll be heated with hot air, and the latter the last fe w y ears. The whole of the have brick and asphalte floors, which am built on iron gir ders, and t' - e offices and apartments of the turnkeys, w i t h all parts where timber is exposed, are being covered with a fee-proof cement, so should a fire break out it would h a e- co nfined to :he apar tment in which it originate !. ROMNEY MARSH, MARCH 13.—Thi s extel site it eel, the most im p ortant shee p -far t hin g diArict, baps, in all England, from the beneficial effects cf' ttl - the late fine weath er, has s p read its c arpet of ve, - dant grce -,- , An d the cattle and sheep, which have passed a most try ingly severe winter, with but a scare supply of fodder. are now, thanks to an all-bount fill s o p i ri . ng, of ' y Providence, much . a better grat i i f i y r i e r v g i de promise,i would early ld be which we have flocks this seasoit, after the r va ens benefit to our We have not ' e ,r P.l ti en dured, ns they have lately mot in iiio minu n ~ct that the epidemic has raged ring the ohcep, MORNING EDITION. LICENSING IN THE CITY. Yesterday being the eay appointed for the hearin g o f the opposed applications to the City Magistrates for licenses, the Court at the Guildhall was crowded by many anxious visitors. In Portsoken Ward, Wil iam Lake applied fir al:cense for his house, No. 73, in the Minoiiei. Deputy TYARS (of the Ward of Psrtsokcn), assured the Court that the e was no occasion for any new house, as the neighbourhood swarmed with public-houses, there being no fewer than 21 of them within a very limited com pass, and actually starving each other out. L;eense refusei without hesitation. Mr. PAYNE, the barrister, app!icd for a license for George Malkin, cf No. 3, Noble.street, Aldersgate The petition in favour of the licerre was signed by 82 persons, 37 of them were connected with the Post offico, and the 'Tense was oily opposed by one individual, and he was a publinn—Licensext fused. Mr. CLARKSON applied for a license for John Neigh bour, of Nc'. 56, Cannon-street. Tike applicant's peti tion stated that his house was an eating-house, at which on the aver ge 130 persons dined daily, and that a great many of them were very reluctant to leave it after dinner withcut partaking of wine or spirits. The recommenda tion was signed by 75 Fersons, and stated that the house should not be comei - ted into a gii shop.—License mimed. Mr. CLARKSON apilied for a license for Samuel Muline, of No. 11, Ironmonger-lane. Mr. LAURIE opposed the application. He considered that necessity was the only ground of application, and ti ere existed no necessity for additional nuisances in that et ighbourhood, in which there were sire Ady thirteen all c!oicly packed irgilther.—Licease refused. Mr. PAYNE applied far a license for Francis Jones, of No. 11, Poul , ry, and No. 36. Bucklersburv, caned the Albion Hattl. It d d net appear t, the Court that the ownership was satiJactorily proved, and Mr. Payne is it's cw the application for the preseir. Mr. JAMES applied for a license for Eliza Ann How, of No. 52, Mom - gate stiezl. The house is a respectable house.—Liccnse refused. - A license was granted to John Belton for the Fountain Tavern in Redcross• street, the old house having beers pulled down. A license was applied for William Lowis fir the 11)1 ag Horse, Milton-street, the old house having been pulled dowr. Sir MATTHEW WOOD (the Alderman of the Ward) said that I.e by no means objected to re-licensing the house, but he was sorry to say that V-e:e were many public homes i t the \Vara which were not gct:ing a living for the propric'ors. 111-. LAURIE said that there was no petition against a license to the house in quciti)n, but he submitted that Oa evidet.ce first given by the Alderman of the Ward ought to to conclusive. There ste.-c already too many public houses in the re'glabourhood, and, therefore, it would ho charitable to those hnuscs, as well as to the owtier of the Flying Ifirse, to rtitse to allow a house, under such cir cumstances, to be re-opened. Mr. CIARKSON—For ‘whonl do you at'end? Mr. LAURIE— For the Licensed Victuallers of the ward where the house is in. Mr, CLARKSON-1 he I let some of your clients give up their nui , aneeF.—( Laughter. ) Sir P. LAuruE-The Beach are of opinion that it h a fit home to be lieens( ( 1 --License granted. Mr. Woot.Ea applied for a 1 c•mise fnt Thomas Jordan, for No. 99, Holborn-hill.—License refused. The LicenseF, which were posToced at the General Meeting on the Bth of March, were then, after some ani malversions upon the proprietors for the violations of the law of which they had been guilty, and for which they had been fi - el, wcr3 Arm renewed. A few applicaticns wero ordered to be repit 2cl on the apped day.—Adjourned. Sir Ronald Ferguson has been suffering rather severely from the prevailing epidemic, at his house in Boltor-row • but we are g'at to learn that the worthy Baronet's indisposition is not of a dangerous character, al though he is still far from being well. We regret to have to announce the death of Arthur Browne, Esq., cf G!encorrib, father c;f Mr. R. D. Browne, .ti 1. for this county. The deceased was a gentleman of the best private charcetcr, and his &Atli will be much regretted.—Mayo Constitution. We have this day learnt that our Government, in of der to prepare for any emergency that may slating out ' of the case of M`Leod (and if tie republic execute him, we do not think there is a man in this Ur.i ed Kingdom but nil! demand justice), have directed six regiments to hold themselves in readiness to embark for Isl,rth Ame rica—two of which a-e the 19:h and 84th regiments, now in ham , . It is also stated in pr:vate letters from the first circles iu Pa , is, that Lord Granville, on the 27th ult., officially announced to M. Guizat that the English Government would find it necessary to send t,:n sail of the line to the same quarter. Of course a fleet of steamers will form part of such an expedition. —Banpshire Tele graph. _ At the recent Quarter Sessions for the county . of Hertford a man named David Sams, about two and twenty years of age, was tried before the Marquis of Sa lisbury and sentenced to be transported far life for felony. Although so young in years the career cf crime of this individual has been of an almost unprecedeited character, and his case will show how unavailing are the most solemn warnings t ) the mind tatutaily addicted to crime. The first offence alleged against Sams was that of the robbery and murder of an old pensioner named Benntt', at Tewin, year Hertford. Ile was tried with two other young men, named Roach and Fletcher, at the Horts Assizes, when, although there appeared to be very little moral doubt that ho had been the original concoctor of the scheme, and had aet:vely assisted in the Perpetration of the berrible crime imputed to him, owing to a failure of the necessary evidence as to his identity, he was acquitted, and Lit two unhappy companions were convicted, and sub. sequently executed. Abnost immediately after this awful warning Sams committed another robbery, and was tipsorn.smonemntent. I-ad tried . and convicted, and sent ence d t o s ix months' in Shortly y th ou is ng m period of im prisonment named Thomas Taylor, who had also b een c h arge d with being concerned in the robbery and mu r d er o f t h e o ld man , pr i was taken into cust,dy, and upon his trial Sams was ad mitted as witness for the:Crown, and he then detai'ed all the circumstances of the murder, and stated that it was committed by the two men who were executed, Taylor, and himself, and that they divided the money between them atter the dreadful deed had been committed. Upon this evidence and oche) corroborating testimony, Taylor was convicted, and he was also executed. It would have barn thought that such circumstances as these would have induced Sams to change his wicked courser, the more spccial'y as some of the gentry of the neighbourhood of Hertford intereFted themselves in his behalf, and obt-i red him employment, whereby he night hive earned a reTeet tile subsistence ; but he speedily took to his old course of life, and his employers could keep him no longer. He then left this part of the country, and it has been ascertained that he was afterwards tried and convicted upon two charges of felony. lie then returned to Heitford, and in a very short time he and two of his companions broke into a farm-house, near Ware, and for this offence be t,ok his trial at the Quarter Sessions as above stated, and the case being clearly brought home to him, the Ju:y found him and his companians Guilty. The Marquis of Salisbury, in pa‘sing sentence upon Saw, observed that he never knew an instance of so hzrderied a criminal as he ap. peered t..) be. He had had the most dreadful warning on a former occasion, but it appeared to have bad no effect upon him, and he had gone on his career of crime until jus tice bad at length overtaken him. The Noble Marquis then observe 1, that he thought be should be neglecting his duty to the public if he did not pass upon him the severest sentence of the law, which war, that he be trans. - ported for the term cf his natural hfe. The convict heard the sentence w . th the greatest coolness, and at its conclusion he nodded to one of his old companions in file body of the Court, and then walked away laughing from the bor. ..... LOCIIGILPHEAD—THE DEAD ALIVE.—OIL the ,week bcf.rre last Allan M'lleugall, mason there, re• c(i,e'l a lelter from Captaia David Morgan, of the Sir John, of Newpor , , doted Kingston by Dullia, the 6th February, informing him that Cohn 1111310ttg..11, his son, was emplo3el along with tome ethers in lashing the long-boat in the midst of a heavy gale, when a tremen dousa sea broke en board, which tore the boat . f a rom wh t n fro taings and drowned all therein—inferm of course plunged all his friends in g a l l ; morn the deepest grief. About one o'clock .I°_ 'alarmed wi th a ing of Friday last, the family werewithin inquiring who knock at the door, and on those within .n t the voice iof was there, the answer was" given. drowned. On. tha mourned as at irhead in the son whom they r fainted away, believing doer being opened, the inotwbeand on recovering k Loc n b she was that it was a phantom she Ea son in life till she had felt not satisfied that it was lee Colin and two others had ppo red that him all over. It a— deck of the Sir John in the boat. he 2n carried off tha rail or oar, food or water, borne away They were, withoutience 2 cf the wind, it requiting unre mitting baling " ,atinued for thtee days, when they were c.mdition they c v ' essel bound to Bordeaux, from whence ' picked up by dto Fngland, and last Friday - were transferred , Colin they his ! d o me with no covering but a shirt aid , dat arrive tro userr. Ab o ut six months ago, t h e same lad and another we re the only persons saved f rom a vessel which was wrecked on a leo shore. T HE RAILWAY FROM PARIS TO ROUEN. -- The Cuurrier de l'Eure sa3s the Paris and 'town Corn ra,,y have commenced the works. Thu Company have just mada . a contract for th e construction of every part of the rarh-o 01, from Possy to Afarier . where, as is known, it nil le,r,orcli off on the, road of St. Germain. This line comprises the ellistruction of two large bridges over the Seine, one to Besons, the other to [liaisons. A zee and line is also under taken on similar terms for the com pletion of two of the most important and difficult works in the whole line ; the tunnel of 3,000 metres, between Rol lebohe and Bonnieres, and the excavation bt Vennbles (in the arrondissement of Louviers). A third contract is going to be enteted into immediately for the portion in Poissy and Mantes; indeed all the plans are bo arranged,_ old every preparation mad e f o r commencing..the_ road from Mantes to P ar i s i n th e y ea r 1842, that is in th will o.corx . rse of 15 months ; and it is expected that the whsle line finished in 1843. amount of duty paid last year ToßAcco.—The miaow . , earl 2,359,0001. Of the on this article nmounted to three kingdoms, the England, v073,000r. ; , 273.000/. The Temps says proporli , ins of duty are i rrsPe l L r l land, 613,0001, ; Seotland, , . .., . that the Prince tle Joinvitie is t h e Chinese seas, whet e it i s necessary t h at t th o o be sent to French flag should be in a sta'e of observation. EXPECTED NEWS FROM THE UNITED STATES,—The Ro) al mail at( amer Columbi,, shish would sail from Baton on the Ist an d H a lif ax on t h e 3d instant, is expected to arrive every tide. No intelligence o f her apyroaeb Lad been received at the hour at which, to secure the transmission of our papers to the country by the early mail, we a7e compelled to put our journal W prom —Liverpool Albion. C . c 'u gh.) s et of I.c f‘ lt .t th e ottotfP 3t cri e 0 w ith i 'Owe an iv upon 13111, ,Bill, ) t, the f u !' to be i Wa° , cis,' mod nod thi , bee" ould 111 3 . c sri CO; ler* 41- r 4.1 IM