The Sun. — London, England, 1841-03-15 00:00:00

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To conclude with A DAY AFTER THE FAIR. Yu which Mr. Buckingham and Miss Martin sustain S:a diffe rent Characters each. HIGH WATER. AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS JAY. minutes after 5 I Evening 5 minutes after 7. f', S • '4lj4*l „col: Li I /r, „ A. - M 'OWST r etie UAL LONDON: MONDAY, MARCH 15, 1141. We succeeded in showing on Friday, we think, that the writer in the Morning Poe, who measured the value of foreign trade Aiy the amount of the exports, did us great injustice, as if he had measured the utility, of religion by the number of pulpits. That writer, and all those statistical writers who indulge in similar compa risons between the different brandies of national wealth, have not attained the smallest ele mental acquaintance with the phenomena of the production of wealth. Those who have looked at that are aware that territorial division of labour is as necessary to its progress as division of labour amongst indi viduals; that it would, for example, take several times as much labour to produce cotton or sugar in England as suffices to supply them front America or the West India islands, even if they could be produced here at all. Everybody who has locked into the subject knows, too, that the introduction of those and other commodities from abroad serves to extend tido division of labour at home, to call new arts into existence, alnd to promote, .n t merely the wealth, but the skill ,and ingenuity of mankind. We may slfely assert thcr..fore, thdt the writer who measures the uti lity of foreign trade to the community by the amount of the exports, is most lamentably igno rant of the whole science of the production of wealth. Where there is the greatest ignorance there is genemly the greatest presumption, and accord we find the writer in the Post, on Friday 1. st :ndalging in a condemnation of freedom of trade, and in an enlarged ambition of regu lating all the employments of society. He said— There are two leading circumstances in the present condi tion of Great Britain which deserve the especial attention of every patriotic politician. The first is the continual increase of the pi ee r ie beyond the increase of opportunities for providing them with piotitable empleymen'. This is coupled with a greater impatience at a life of labour and poverty than ever before existed, so that we have discontent continually spread ing from a double source. If the condition of the labouring people were not growing better they would be dissatisfied, be cause they have becomc embucd with a general ambition fur a better, or at least a more easy and refined, way of life. But instead of growing better, so far as regards the m 4 ans of pro curing subsieence, their conchtiun grows one of m 4 re difficulty, awing to the gradually increasing disproportion already men tioned. The te old circumstance is the prevailing dogmatism in fa war of hat i s un j ust l y called freedom of trade, but what - may truly be called the selfish de-ire to employ the population ,or other countries rathert n hy o i e the population of our own, if the can produce of their labour obtained at a cheaper rate. It is tolerably plain that these two leading circumstances have a very important connection po with ui one another. If they go on—that is to say, if the continues to over crowd, as it has latterly (kw, all i t l itl a w a n v ° l e n nu es of remunerative industry.? and if, at the same time, e 7 npio aw s should be made or t o e f th E e n England, tent of cheap foreign ald ones_rJpecled, to f t a o ci t l h it a a t people Why, and Ireland s they must labour, in preference ir in ri g ble state of distress. —what is to become of our an w d or te k fall into the most pinching The remedy for this want of employment , 'which inspires him with so much alarm, is this But when a nation becomes so th'ekly peopled that there are enough, and more tha n enou g h, both to produce rnanu fa tures far beyond the consumption of the country, andcorn far beyond what the country has ever consumed, then to econo mme labour is no longer a national object, though it may be a source of great gain to individual capitalists. The great danger of a nation in such a condition, as respects its popula tion, is th , t of the pcdp i e being unemployed, and uncomfort able because they ate unemployed, or too slightly remunerated for their labour. As the security of capital is owing to the protection afforded by Government, it becomes the duty . of Government, as a general protector both of property and in dustry, to make capital pay for its protection, by giving re munerative employment to the industry of the people, and to hinder it from seeking a larger profit through the cheaper la bour of foreign people. As specimens of the knowledge and the 'wisdom which aspire to govern society, these Passages are, we think, remarkable. The increase of the people is; at setting out, acknowledged to be natural, something beyond the control i of Catesmen. At least it is not implied that it is under the regulation of the State. But imme- _ - -- ----- diately afterwards we are told that " this in - - crease is beyond the increase of opportunities for providing them with profitable employment," im plying that the employment is to be provided by som2 other persons than the People, and making, in fact, the State responsible for their einployment. That error lies at the found a ti on of our Con temporary's reasoning. He knows that the State does not create the population ; bu t, nevertheless, he would have the State find employment for the population. The least acquaintance with the writings of Mr. MAtirgus would have informed our Contemporary that he requires the State to perform an impossibility. At the same time, as the whole of wealth is the produce of labour, and, as labour really pro duces more than the labourers consume—for an im mense number of idle and unproductive persons are maintained by the produce of labour—there is no reason whatever to suppose, if the Government do not interfere with employment, that the people will not find profitable employment for them seh e , . In fact, one labourer is, by his produce, ice. s X/ the market or employment for another labourer. The more the agriculturists are multiplied, the greater is the demand for cotton cloth, and the more the employment for cotton spinners is in creased. In like manner, the more the cotton spinners are multiplied., the greater is the demand for agricultural produce, and the more the employment of agricultural labourers is in creased. This is only the example of what takes place through the whole of the productive classes —one is the market for the other. It is clear, therefore, that the more the people are multi plied the greater is naturally the demand for labour, and the more does employment increase. Ultimately, and as the last result of analysis, the demand for labour is always to supply human wants; consequently, the more the wants are in creased, the more mouths that are to feed, and backs to clothe, the more employment there will be. In the system of nature, we beg the Post to remember that the appetite of hunger, and the means of gratifying it, are, as the rule, conjoined in the same person ; mouths are gene rally accompanied by hands, and consequently the faculties of production, and of profitable em ployment, keep pace with the increase of the people. We admit to the Post, and we complain of the Post for advocating the system which causes it, that the people do not now find profitable em ployment. It is true, as the Quarterly Review, which the Post quotes, says, "Our manufactur ing towns, which formerly drew off such large swarms from our agricultural districts, have pro bably ceased to do so to any great extent." It is true that " every avenue to fortune —every opening to employment—is instantaneously thronged with competitors. From the highest to the lowest— from literature and the arts, the learned profes sions, law, medicine, and the clergy, with their multiplying churches, commerce in all its branches, from the merchant princes of the City down to the small grocer and hardwareman, there is a busy, vehement emulation, in which many must fail, and many drag on with but a precari ous livelihood." It is true that profitable em ployment cannot now be extensively found in agriculture, in commerce, or in manufactures, and much we thank the Post for acknowledging that truth. But how and why is it, when the in crease of population necessarily carries with it its own demands and its own increase of employ ment, that this terrible restraint is felt, this ham pering in all directions, this great want—while the faculties of man are in full vigour—of the means of gratifying them ? Ask this question at Manchester, at Birmingham, at Sheffield, at Glasgow, at Leeds, at Hull, and what will be the answer? "We could employ hundreds, thousands more," the manufacturers, and merchants, and ship-builders of these places would instantly say, " if the Corn and Provision-laws, the timber duties, the sugar and coffee duties were abolished." But if they could employ thousands more, there would be a corresponding demand for the labours of the agriculturist, the phy sician, the lawyer, the engineer, and of every other profession. All would be alive, active, and enterprising. It is, then, the re strictive system, the accursed bread-tax, the abominable discriminating duties on sugar, and coffee, and timber, which prevent the people from labouring, and so enabling them to gratify their own wants, and which makes the whole Government, including the Legislature, a great curse to the people. The Post imagines that it all arises from em ploying cheap foreign labour. What does the Post mean ? Where did it learn that the un unskilled, slothful, vacillating labour of other people is cheaper than the steady, skilled labour of the English? The remedy it proposes is worthy of its knowledge of the disease. While the exertions of all men are directed to encourage labour, it would find more employ intent for the people by restricting improve ment and by taxing capital. It would by law hinder capital from seeking a larger profit. The Post, as it is wonderfully clever, may hold water in a sieve; but if it knew that cotton cloth may be capital, that skilled labour is capital, that a multitude of other things are capital, of which the exportation is allowed or cannot be prevented, it would never have talked of preventing capital from seeking larger profits through the cheaper labour of foreign people. At present when the skilled labourer of Man chester or Birmingham carries his talents to Belgium or Germany, because he is not allowed by the barbarous law to Employ them at home, he carries capital abroad to profit, not by cheap labour, but by the market which a com parative abundance of food there constitutes fur his peculiar labour. If the capitalist or the corn-merchant could buy the food abroad and bring it here, the capital, the skilled labour, would be kept in the country, and the capitalist would gain a larger profit by setting more of the skilled labour of England in motion. The real source of the greater profit which would accrue to the capitalists, as the Post cor rectly supposes, by the abolition of the Corn-law, is the greater adaptation of two sets of people to the work they would then be employed in. The in genious population of England would be more' extensively employed in manufactures, and the unskilled population of the Continent would prepare them food. Labour would be economized, yet more people would be employed, and profit would be greater. If the Post can say nothing more against free trade than that it would increase the profits of c.;pital, we would recommend it to hold itspeace, for that. increase—the increase of the fund which sets labour in motion—is really what the Post benevolently desires, though it is ignorant of the means of obtaining its own object. In this it resembles the Legisla ture. It has benevolently desired, we presume, to promote the public happiness, but it has been ignorant of the means, and it has embodied its ignorance into a multitude of laws, which are now the curse of the country. We feel' it in every path of life. Every parent feels it in the difficulty he experiences to provide for his offspring ; every industrious man feels it in the difficulty to obtain subsist ence. Whatever may be the vices and follies of individuals, the community can only have been brought to its present hampered and diseased condition by the errors or crimes of the law makers. If the public are not amused we beg to state that w e are, by the contest which has arisen in the bosom of the Church, and which is known tinder the name of Puseyism. Those who really love Ilke Church, and the political hypocrites who pre tend to love it, may weep and moan over this schism ; we own that we delight in it, as calcu lated to set the merits of the Establishment in a clear light. When those who are members of it and reap a large reward from professing its doctrines begin to impugn them and expose its practices, there is a great probability that the pub lic, however obtuse it may be, will ere long be made to comprehend the exact amount of the public utility in a r k d a m b t e about t h i n e t e P_ g u i s i e t y y, ts a TOise t o ih f lie t n h Fr e i C sop h vp u eory r n cl er i ne . ites. while theyare t honest, blame their enthusiasm. In f act, have be h e logical, consistent priests, w h o bred up in the principles of the e Church, have adopted them, and seek zealously to carry them out to their just conclusions. Be- Church, ,which the Anglica lieving in the dogmas of onnecChauthreohliccilianiiinvesrstaol he, honestly believing that its principles are true, they claim obedience and reverenceisfsoernt asit, a and, sia properly, on those principles, treat Dissent or a crime. Zealous advocates of the principles for which the Bishop of EXETER is a great stickler, and which the whole Church adopts, of the apostolical succession in the Anglican, or universal Catholic Church, they logically and necessarily deny to every other Church, whether Presbyterian* or Methodist, the possession of the real priestly power, and, of course, deny to their sacraments any saving or healing grace. On the same principle of apostolic succession, it is impossible to deny that the writings of the first Fathers, or those more immediately next in succession to the Apostles, and who collected and preserved their writings, and transmitted them to us, are works of very great authority, even if it be admitted t'iat they are not quite equal to the Gospels and the Epistles. For the value of those writings, or for the necessity of tradition to understand the Scriptures, the Puseyites are great sticklers; and to us they only seem to follow out the doctrines of the• Church to their legitimate conclusion. In like manner, when they contend for more candlesticks at the altar, further genuflexions oa approaching it, more bowings of the head, and more reverences by the priest, they only carry out the present practices of the Church of Eng land, and revive the traditions of the fathers. In truth, the logical, upright, and honest Pusey ites know that the Church of England—in intc lerance, in the substitution of dead forms for the living spirit, in an idle worship of names, arid in a disregard of things, in its claim of infallibility, in its substitution of the word of the priest for the word of GOD, and in its preference of the book of tradition for the book of nature, they know that in all the essen tials, except having a young woman for its head, instead of a venerable priest, the Church of England is in truth and substance a Papist Church, and seeing its decay in public esteem, they naturally essay to restore its power by car rying out its principles. The Popery of Puseyism cannot be doubted; the only doubt is how far that accords with the genuine principles of the Church of England. Those who wish to bolster up the Church assert that it does not, while we recognise the agreement, and rejoice to see the honest Puseyites, backed by some of the Tory Journals, carrying out the true principles of the Church. The doctrines of the Church imply that man needs something for his mind to rest on beyond the power of his own observation to obtain. They imply that he must have something to gratify the cravings of his heart beyond the suggestions of his own appetites and passions, or his own reason, which are deceitful and full of evil. Vanity, self-love, pride, and other pas sions, misinterpret what has been made known 4 1 lid preserved, and that which was given for guidance and consolation, thus becomes, it is said, a temptation and a sorrow. Hence the necessity of recognised interpreters ; hence the claims of an infallible priesthood; hence the assurance—not to gratify their ambition, but to soothe the heart of man—that they received or inherited a Divine commission to under stand and explain all things ; hence in former times the success of Rome ; and hence the hopes now formed by the Pusey ites, by insisting on her doctrines, of obtaining success in England. In this hard and sceptical age, intent only on making money or on getting bread, the Puseyites are not likely to succeed; but they are sure to rend (which is not what they wish) the Church to its foundations. The Bishops, it is said, are going to inquire into the doctrines of Puseyism, and happily they will be unable to keep the profane press from being made acquainted with all their investigations. Some proceedings have of late taken place at York, and charges of simony have been bandied about, which will by no means exalt the priest hood in public estimation ; the other proposed investigation will bring to light some similar conduct ; so that we can inform the priesthood that the first step to the recovery of their do minion is to retrieve their character. Mr. LABOUCHERE'S resolutions relative to our Colonial Customs Duties, which we publish, go to effect a considerable reduction on the duties now payable on several articles when imported into the colonies. They also authorise the intro duction of tea into Canada, and the other North American colonies, from the United States, on payment 'of the same duty as if brought from England, enhanced 10 per cent. To a trifling extent they will liberate the trade of the colonies and be an advantage to them. But when the colonies are so worthy of consideration, is, let us ask, the mother-country to be neglected ? Al Carlisle, as well as at Manchester, Liverpool, Glasgow, and Edinburgh, a strong opinion has been expressed against the present tariff, and in favour of a revision of the import duties. Will Ministers neglect or slight these towns? Though London still sleeps, they are awake, and make themselves heard. The metropolis, formerly so active on all such questions, is now so dull and stupid that it seems to have been hocussed by the Tories. We publish in another part of The Sun a Re port of the Committee on South Australia, on which a Bill is to be founded for taking out of the pockets of the public 210,0001. to provide for that colony. This is the result of the first specimen of the self-supporting scheme. Several others are in progress, and we must wait the re sult of them before forming a definite and certain opinion of what has been puffed off as the grand est discovery of economical science. We stated on Saturday, in answer to a remark in the columns of the Quotidienne of Wednesday, that injustice was done to Lord PALMERSTON in attributing to him any sanction of the article in the firman of the Porte, which claimed for the SULTAN the right of nominating to the Pachalic of Egypt any of MEHEMETALI'S children, who was willing to pay the highest price for the suffrages of the eunuchs of the Imperial Seraglio. It is with pleasure we repeat that statement, to the truth of which the Noble Lord himself bore testimony lust night in the House of Commons. In answer to questions put to him by Lord F. EGERTON, Sir ROBERT PEEL, and Mr. EWARTj the Noble Foreign Secretary assured the House that he knew nothing of the firman before the date of its appearance in the English Journals, when a copy of it was sent to him by the Turkish Ambassador—that it was the sole act of the SULTAN himself without the interposition of his Allies—and, what was still more to the purpose; the Noble Lord distinctly avowed that in guaranteeing to MEHEMET ALI the hereditary Pachalic of Egypt, the Four Powers understood the investiture to be a bona fide transaction. Now although the Noble Lord declined, during the pending of the negotiations, to say what the Four Powers thought of the finnan, or what they would do in the event of an appeal to them by the VICEROY, it is quite clear that lie is of opinion that the SULTAN was not only wanting in courtesy to his Allies, but that he has tried to steal a march upon them. Common courtesy required that they should have been consulted upon the terms of concluding a dispute which, but for them, would have terminated in the dis solution of the Ottoman dynasty. The Allies re stored to the SULTAN his fleet, they compelled the VICEROY to evacuate Syria, and now that MEHEMET ALI is no longer formidable, the Divan assumes the state and pretensions of an absolute, irresponsibie,andself-subsistingGovernment. This will not do. TheFourPowers will not be thus coolly and insolently stripped of everything bearing the semblance of a recognition of their services. In reducing MEHEMET ALI to a degree of power compatible with the safety of the Ottoman throne, it was never the intention of the Four Powers to place his deep-thinking head, and the heads of his family, at the disposal .of the Padischah. The very attempt, therefore, on the part of the Divan to entrap him into a submission, which would enable it to decide at any time upon his utter extermination, is dis courteous and unfair towards the Four Powers, and dishonest towards the VICEROY. o e n i a c r l ereally e Nvhwhich surprisedoccasionally so some Morning claim intelligencet o a Nvi Ch W 7 participation ila i i n fatte e f r r u om mbs ti o ): confidential tables in Downing-street, gravely attempting to defend the claim of the SULTAN to nominate whom he pleases of the VICEROY'S descen dants to the Pachalic. As a set-off against the constant temptation to rebellion, civil war, parricide, and fratricide, the Chronicle is satisfied with a provision being made to obviate the almost impossible difficulty of a minority ! Yes, the grand evil which the Chronicle would be prepared for is a minority— a minority in which some person besides the heir must be entrusted with the Provisional Govern ment.eur But ee in supposing the possibility of such an ren East, where the law san c ti ons the adoption of offsp r ing of any age, c annot a occurrence remedy be provided w ithout p ermanentl y inter fering with the rights and perilling the exist ence of the PACHA and his family ? Cannot the simple case of a minority be stated as the only :~...~ THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 15, 1841 one which shall justify the SULTAN in interfering with the regular order of succession? The fol lowing remarks are still more obnoxious to cen- sure : " It is said," observes the Chronicle, with an air of peculiar gravity, " that the conditions of the hatti scheriff are a vio lation of the conditions sanctioned by England, upon which the Pacha made his submission to the Porte. In what does this violation consist? The restriction proposed to be placed on the hereditary' grant. Do those who urge this com plaint forget that in Admiral Stopford's Convention no mention whatever was made of the ' hereditary' succession ? " This is the low, quibbling equivocation of an Old Bailey attorney. Why, in the Chronicle of the 2d of February, it is distinctly stated that the SULTAN had officially granted to MEHEMET Am the hereditary Government of Egypt— a grant of which England guaranteed the performance, and upon the strength of Which guarantee MEHEMET ALI, at once restored the fleet, and withdrew his troops from Syria. In Admiral STOPFORD'S letter to MEHEMET ALI, dated the 6th of December, off Cyprus, and en closing the conditions upon which the Four Powers engaged to obtain for the Viceroy from the Porte the revocation of the decheance and his " re-establishment in the Pachalic," the word " hereditary" does not indeed occur ; but will the Chronicle presume to tell us that the omission was other than an opportunity held out to the Porte to conciliate the Viceroy by being more beneficent than Allies ? or will the Chronicle dare to deny that Lord PALMER STON'S influence was not powerfully ex erted to compel the Porte to insert the word " hereditary" in the Treaty which the SUL TAN addressed to the VICEROY ? England, then, has guaranteed to MEHEMET ALI the hereditary Government of Egypt, nor do we believe that any Government would dare to permit the Porte to fritter away a solemn engagement which binds the honour of this country. By granting to MEHEMET Am the bona fide hereditary Government of Egypt, in . the sense understood by EuroO and the Four Powers, the SULTAN restricted his own authority over that kingdom to the exaction of a certain amount of tribute annually. The claims which he now puts forth respecting a right to nominate Pachas according to his caprice, to fix the naval and mi litary strength of the Pachalic, and to appoint all officers above the rank of Lieutenant, are ini quitous and absurd. • The Divan at Constanti nople has no longer any right to control the en lightened policy of the More vigorous Govern ment at Alexandria. But while we acquit Lord PALMERSTON not only of all participation in the attempted humi liation of the VICEROY, but of the remotest in tention of sanctioning such a proceeding, we re gret that no inquiry which we have been able to institute would justify any mitigation of the severe censure which we passed upon the pro ceedings of Lord PONSONBY. That noted diplo matist is still said to leave no stone unturned to effect the downfal of the VICEROY, against whom he is reported to enter tain a grudge which has outlived all vicis situdes in his Lordship's public career. If there be but half the truth in these reports that the public suppose them to embody, it is the duty of the Government to lose no time in recalling him from a post where he is only capable of being mischievous. In fact his Lord ship's recal ought to have been simultaneous with the recal by the French Government of his quarrelsome colleague in diplomacy, Ad miral RousslN. Our Madrid Papers are of the 4th inst. At a Council of Regency held on the 3d, the Minister of Finance set forth the sad state of the Public Treasury, and stated that no loan could be raised before the conclusion of a commercial treaty with England. M. MENDIZABAL supported this view, but the .Council rose without coming to any reso lution. The Fives were at 28 at 60 days. There was a report in the City on Saturday that a Treaty had been concluded by the Great Powers for maintaining the integrity of the Ottoman Empire, signed by the Representatives of England, Austria, Russia, Prussia, and FRANCE ! Good news, if true. The state of our relations with the United States and the rejection of the Imperial firman by MEHEMET ALI, occupy almost exclusively the French journals of Thursday. With respect to the American question there is nothing new in the Paris journals. We have only room for a summary of the opinions of the journals respect ing the events in the East, followed by a few paragraphs of news : The Constitutionnel deduces from the firman of the Sultan, and the reported rejection of certain clauses by the Pacha of Egypt, the necessity for the maintenance of the French arma ments and for the system of isolation, which is the favourite theme of the Thiet s party, in order that France may be able to exercise a proper degree of influence in the still unsettled affair of the East. According to this Journal, Lord Ponsonby, on the one hand, has been urging at Constantinople the adop tion of harsh measures against Mehemet Alt, whom he detests, and Commodore Napier, who admit es him, has stimulated him to reject the conditions of the Porte, which are really not only with out magninimity, but are so framed as to leave it open to the. reigning or any future Sultan to revoke even the present limited concession, the faculty of dictating new conditions at a future period, which could not be accepted, being reserved, and the revocation of the entire grant being conditional, not merely upon the execution of the orders now imposed, but also upon those which may be hereafter issued. The Constitutionnel says the English Government is quite aware of the course pursued by Lord Ponsonby and Commodore Napier, and is availing itself of it so as to leave to Mehemet Ali no other resource than that of throwing himself info the arms of England. The National takes precisely the same view of the position created for Mehemet Ali by the Sultan, and of what it calls the double game of England, as the Constitutionnel, adding to what that journal says of Lord Ponsonby and Commodore Napier, it says that Russia has surrounded Mehemet Ali with agents who secretly counsel him to display firmness and independence. The Commerce has a long and rather violent article, in wLich it repeats all the arguments which it has brought for ward so repeatedly on the Eastern question. The Debats says it. is not surprised at the news of the non-accept ance of the firman of the Porte ; for, with the condi tions imposed by the Porte, the hereditary Government offered to the Pacha is a derision, and the authority left to him is a niece juggle. The Presse ob.erves that France has nothing to do with the dispute between the Sultan and Mehemet Ali, as to the degree of authority which the latter should possess, or with the form of government to be prescribed for Egypt. The only question, adds the Presse, with which the French have to du, is the integrity of the Otto man Empire. So long as the Powers make no attempt upon this, to their own profit, the French Government must remain aloof. A Morning Journal publishes the following fact : " Lieutenant-General Darriule has just signified to the troops of all arms composing the garrison of Paris, that on in formation received by the authorities th a t j ourna l s are intro duced into the barracks and guard-houses, he invited the at tention of the officers to this serious infraction of discipline and the spirit of the army. " In consequence, every officer on duty ;s expressly forbidden to suffer a single journal to be introduced into the guard houses, and in order to prevent the soldiers and themselves from being shaken in their fidelity and their sentiments by the ideas of disorder and the anarchical maxims which the enemies of the Government employ, the commanders of posts will be made personally responsible for the smallest fault which shall be imputed to them in this respect." It seems, that whi'e looking forward to the completion of the citadels, it is intenclect - 101solata - The army in the midst of the nation. The good sense of the public, therefore, does not err in saying that we are proceeding towards a military despotism. How shall he reconcile this order with the law which says 'that Louis Philippe derives his right from the will of the nation. —La Gazette de France, March 11. 1 : 8 0 FO ..:.• 1 9 s b ° l 7s 7C ".32 .• . ••• .: 76 50 . . . 4 6 5 The Duke of Aumale, u we have stated, sets out for Toulon to-day. The Prince, who has lately been appointed Lieutenant-Colonel of the 24th Regiment of the Line, now in garrison at Algiers, has received orders to join his regi ment. Yesterday and the day before, the Duke of Aumale at tendedheatndiaetd, two and heinatfeerltainizmateundtesntabynfptrhoefescsonruseguendaefr Henrywhom IV., of whom . he took leave. The Duke of Nemours is to set out for Africa at the latter end of the month.—Le Conetitutionnel. BOURSE.—PARis, THURSDAY, MARCH 11. First Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Lo we s t Last 110 65 ... 110 89 French 5 per Cents 4 436 per er Ce C n e ts n° • 11 75 ... 101 78 3 pet Cents 7B 70 ... 76 7- -. `12. 0 ... 0 ........ 101 75 ... 98 8 rik of erance "".... 3214 50 .012 50 ..... ...3. 0 ' 1360 ...I C6O ...wog Laffitte Bank 1,0001. Sh eelgian Bank -40 ••• '''''' - 101 101 5 per Cents lOl ... 101 ... 50 ... 3 per Cents 6O 50 ... „, 5 0 ... liS) ... t 9 50 " q .. 101 ... 101 U New Loan lOl ... 1 1 • . 6 6 ... :AWL Stares 5102 ° 50 .....5216,„2 50 ....5 0 1 7 6 7 0 50 . .....5 00 160 1 Neapolitan .. Passive 10 6 10 102 ••• 6 iir) 3 ... '" 102 i ••• WI % ••• 102 4 Roman .... 101% ... EACICWAY 311 AREs , ... ~ 60 712 50 ... 712 50 St Germain ...... « ..... 712 50 ... ~ ,,•1 ... 3,.).2 Si) Versailics.R. B 307 50 ... 3, '• ' - ' - .. . . Orleans ..- Str_iff,nrg to Bale *. 455 ... 455 «. 455 Rouen 455 ... 437 50 .. . 482 . 50 .. . 485 40 . .. . 24,Vt CORN-LAws.--In compliance with a requisi tion most numerously signed, the Mayor of Manchester has called a public meeting of the inhabitants of that borough, to be held in the Town Hall on next Thursday. The requi sitionists say they 64 are strongly convinced of the injustice of those la ws which re duce the food of the people , and which, if not repealed, will overwhelm the country with ruin." The men of Manchester well deserve the gratitude of the country,. for the energetic and persevering manner in which they have followed up this all-important subject. May success crown their exertions. MONEY and COMMERCiAL NEWS (From The Sun of Sant , ' .v EVenirg.) LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MARCH l2. —The business done this we,l is large, amounting to 36,570 bags, of which specu'ators have taken 7,500 balesof American and 3,000 Surat, and exporters 100 bales of American and 50 Surat; the rest to the trade. The accounts from America received here on Sunday last being of a more hostile nature, caused considerable excitement on Monday, inducing many of our holders either to withdraw their Cotton, or become indifferent as to effecting sales, and causing a more general disposition to purchase on speculation than the state of the trade warranted. The prices of American of ordinary to lair quality are l/ t higher than Fri day last ; other qualities barely ; and Surats are somewhat dearer ; other descriptions without any change. The sales to day are about 4,000 bales of all kinds, and a quieter market. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 12.—Liverpool and Manchester, 188 ; Londo n an d Birmingham, New, 321. Shares, 20* ; Lancaster and Preston, 32* ; London and South Western, Tenths, 16s. ; Eastern Counties, Deben tures, 4a. We have received Jamaica papers to the 51 February at the North and South American Coffee-house. A West India mail has arrived this morning, brought by her Majesty's packet Hope, sailed from St. Tho m as ' s Feb. 4; Cape Henri, Feb. 9 ; she brings a freight of 70,000 dollarii. On the 28 h December, his Excellency Sir Henry M‘Leod °pew(' the combined Court at British Guiana, with the fol lowing speech:— " Gentlemen,—la my short address to the Court of Policy, on the occasion of my being sworn into the office of Gov: rnor, I acquainted Ton with the particu'ar service on which I had been commissioned by her Majesty. In furtherance of that duty I am now prepared to bring into the Court of Policy, and therefore submit for your consent, an ordinance for the purpose of settling a Civil Li s t on th e C rown . U pon th e pro- Nisions of that ordinance I have reason to believe that there will be little, if any, difference of opinion ; for I think it will be seen that although I have placed the salaries somewhat below what were originally proposed, I have not overlooked the interest of the public officers. Be fore we proceed to the consideration of the Civil List which properly belongs to the Supplies of 1841, I propose that you shouLl first dispose of the Estimate of 1840, and provide in the regular manner for the means to meet the expendi ture of this year. For that purpose, and in order that no further loss may be sustained by the Celonial Treasury, it might be desirable, and I shall have no objection first of all to introduce an ordinance reviving and continuing the Tax Bill of 1839 for the years 1840 and 1841 We are informed that the final settlement of the Eastern question was signed here on Thursday evening last, as amended by M. Guizot and the Plenipotentiaries of the Powers. France is among the number. Consols, which left off yesterday at BSa for the Account ; Money, 87i buyers, opened this morn.ng at 83i a ; Money, 87i 88 ; little doing as ;yet. Exchequer Bills, 912 prem. ; Bank Stock shut; India ditto. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active a shade better, 23i ; Deferred, 12§ ; Passive, 54 6 ; Portuguese same as they left off, 304 31i; Three per Cents., 1b 19; Brazilian, 71 72; Colombian, 22k; Mexican, 27k; Dutch Two•and-a-Half per Cents., 50i ; Five per Cents. 99i SHARES. —Great Western, 21 22 prem. ; New, 10i prem. ; London and Brighton, 7a dis. ; Blackwall, 5i 5 dis. ; Birmingham, 74 76 prem. ; Southampton, 15 56 per share ; Croydon 11$ 14 per share. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Piid. Per Share. _ Great Western Ditto New London and Birmingham Ditto i Shares 5 ..... 26 Manchester and Leeds The British market is not quite so firm as in the early part of the morning, when Consols were 884 f for the account, at present may be quoted at 884 money, 874, with very little doing. Exchequer Bills 125. premium. Bank Stock at 169 for the opening ; India Bonds 20 18 for the diccunt. In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active 23i, Deterred 12k, Portuguese 304 ii, Mexican 27i, Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 50k, Five per Cents. 998 A. In the Shares very little doing, and no material alteration in prices. Great Western, 87 ; Ditto, New, 60%; London and Birmingham, Quarter Shares, 26 ; South Western, 55%; Manchester and Leeds, 671,4 CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. India Stock Ditto Bonds Ditto Old Annuities ,Ditto New Annuities — .Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2id 12 pm Ditto 5001 lO pm Ditto Small lO pm Bank Stock for Opg 169 India Stock for Acct 247 A Consols for cct. 818-/ FUNDS. • Portuguese, 5 per cent. IDitto, New Ditto 3oi Prussian, 5 per cent. Russian, 5 per cent llO Ditto, Metallic Spanish, per cent 23i Ditto, Deferred l2i French, 5 per cent. —f. —c. Exchange —f. —c. French, 3 per cent —f. —c. Dutch, 2a per cent. ... 50i Ditto, 5 per cent 99a SHARES. Great Western Railway (65 paid) Ditto New Shares (50 paid)..., 60% Ditto Fifth (4 paid) Gosport Junction Atailway (40 pa)' 44% London and Brighton (50 paid) London and Birmingham Railway (90 pd) Ditto Quarter Shares ( 5 paid) ...... 2(3 London and South Western ........ 551 Ditto Tenths Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) 6B Manchester and Birmingham (40 York and North Midland Railway (.0 pd) 79 Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red. 3 per Cent Cons B7i 3i per Cent Red.. — New 3i per Cent 963 New 5 per Cent Long Annuitiesto expire Jan. 1860 ... Oct. 1859 Jan. 1860 . FOREIG Austrian, 5 per cent 109 Belgian, 5 per cent loo} Brazilian 80nd5.... Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent 22i Chilian, 6 per cent Colombian, 6 per cent — Ditto, 1824. 22i Danish, 3 per cent. Greek, 1825, 5 per cent. Mexican, 5 per cent. Ditto, 6 per cent, 18l 5 — Peruvian, 1825, 6 per ct FLANDMIS AND HAMBURGH MAILS. BRUSSELS, MARCH 11.—Those who reckoned on the Senate to accomplish the work, in which they have failed in the Chamber of Representatives, have deceived themselves. We have before us the, report made by the Committee for examining the Budget of the Mi. nister of the Interior. It is remarkable for the wise and elevated views on which the Committee founds its assent to the articles that were the most contested in the Chamber, such as the sum of 100,000 francs for the exhibition of 1841, and the funds for encouraging manufactures and commerce. The Co►nmittee of the Smote justly observes, with respect to these funds, that " economy does tm t always consist in not spending, and that, on the contrary, na tions as well as individuals often improve their situation, by knowing how to make use, apropos, of a sum of money." BRUSSELS, MARCH I2.—The Senate will commence to-day the discussion of the budget of the Department of the Interior. We are entering into Chaos. A repast is in eircuLtion that the Senate will do what the Chamber has not dared to do—refuse the budget and overthrow the Ministry. We do not be rev,: any such thing. The Senate is composed of men who are too reasonable to join in the rancour of some disappointed ambitious persons, and embarrass the pub le service ; besides it would be a thing hitherto un heard of in Parliamentary history to a Ministry overthrown by a Chamber of Peers, and Upper Cham ber, or Senate ; accordingly, we take the liberty to doubt the existence of such a plot. If there are citizens who ought to desira tie mainte nance of the status quo, and tear convulsion, it is evi dently the Senators ; they know better than any others that the country which sports with portfruilles, is not so far off as may be imagined from sporting with heads ; thr.t is to say, that the instability of Government leads directly to anarchy, and that anarchy is the republic of the gui lotine.—Courrier Belge. LIEGE, MARCH 10.—The sale of Mr. Cockerill's establishment, comprising two lots; the first, Seraing and its dependencies; the second, the house at Liege, and those of Spa and Tilleurs, could not be effected to-day, as had been announced, no buyers having appeared. VIENNA, MARC:I 3.—Count St. Aulaire has not yet been ablo to set out for Paris, he is confined to his bed by a severe attack of the grippe. The Russian Ambas,ador, Von Tatischeff, will set out next week for St. Peti,rsburgii, on .6 ive of abseree. M. Von Kudri ,,ffsy, first s.cr, tary of the legation, is to accompany him. TURKISH FRONTIER, FEB. 24.—We learn from Bucharest that Prince Ghika is not satisfied with the address of the Wallachian Representatives, or with the choice of the secretaries. The General Assembly manifest but little concern for the danger to which the family of the Prince was exposed, and ascribe all the intrigues exclusively to foreign influences. Accord ingly, all the copies of the National received from Paris have been subjected to a most vigorous censorship. One of the secretaries is a well known ex- Colonel, son of the great Logothetes (formerly a candidate for the dignity of Hospodar) ; a second is Emanuel Baliano, son of one of the principal Boyars of Wallachia, and both are personal enemies of the Prince, who is said to have found means to coun teract thtir intrigues, OSNABURGH, MARCH I.—lt may be remembered that the Provi nc i a l E states, a f ter they had protested against the new Constitution, resolved to address a respectful representation and petition to the King. The petition was for the convocation of a General As sembly of the Estates in formality to the Constitution, and for protection against violations of the Consti.Aitien a number of which were annexed to the petition as grievances of the Estates. This petition was forwarded to his Majesty lit Hanover by the post on the 24th of last month, and has just come back, sealed with two iargo seals, and the word refused written on the cover. C OBEENTZ, M ARCH B.—Private letters from BA vi,ria confirm the account from Munster, given in the Frankfort Journal of 26th of February, that the ve nerable Dean Diepenbrock, in Ratisbon, is chosen co adjutor, with gee the jus succ esen di, t o t h e A rc hi ep i scopa l See of Coo. BERLIN, MARCH I.—The commercial convention with Hull Ind, its spite of the remonstrances of the com mercial world, is renewed, as we hear, for six years. HAMBURGII, MARCH B.—Every hour more portions of the Elbe are free of ice. The directors of the tele. graph have published a notice stating that when the ice in the Elbe is breaking information shall be dis patched by the telegraph at every turn of ebb and flow, and at other frees when a change takes place of the state of the river, which information is to be posted up at Cuxhaven, that the captains of the ships at Cux. haven may not leave that harbour till they have notice that the navigation of the river is quite free. More ships continue to arrive at Cuxhaven, where they find sufficient room in the port.--Hantbargh Papers. iiELtil AN I. IJ NDS—BetisraLa , MARCH 12, Actual Debt, 2.4 per Cent. Itothschild' Loan, 5 per Cvut. ...... :4) Loan of Thirty Millions,; per Cent B9 3 per Cent --- --Thirty.seven------ 68% (lit'4n) 98% Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent BB Society of Commerce, 4% per Cent lO2 Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent... .............« B7 NationalSaciety, . . — Exchange on London (short) —Brussels Papers, March 12. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Vienria, MARCH 3 Five per Ccnts. Metalliques Fear per Cents...—. ............. ........... ........... Three per Cents. Bank Shares ... ........ . ....... .................. ........ « 162714 --411gemeine Zeitung, Mareh Et HAMBURG BOBSENHALLE, MARCH 6 Bills. Money Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares l6 0 1 610 Anglo-Russian Loan 106% 106% Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate lo2x 102 Inscription, Ist Seies lOl 10.l} Russian 5 per Cont. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th Series a•-• •••• 96 % ...' Ditto in Certificates Dutch Actual Debt, 256 per Cent 4P 49 Ditto 5 per Cent Polish Bondi New ticket Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent. 1'13% 733 j Not wegian Loan, 1834, 4 per Ciin:.. ..... — Sp_nish, New 5 per Cents. lE3s EXCHANGES OK LONDON. HAMBURG, MARCH 9.-13 s.—Two months, 13 3i BREMEN, MARCH 5 —Two months, (115. PETERSBURGH, FEB. iO. —Two months, 39 pence. LEIPSIC, MARCH s.—Two mo .ths, 6. 183¢. LITERATURE. LECTURES ON HEROES. Fraser, London, 1841. " The accomplished and distinguished, the beautiful, the wise, something of what is best in England, have listened patiently to my rude words," observes Mr. Carlyle, with modest pride, alluding to the present series of Lectures which were delivered some five or six months since, if we mistake not, at one of our public institutions. We are not surprised at the favourable reception which the Lecturer's discourses met with, for they are marked by a vein of strong original thinking , on points of vital interest to the social commu nity, and are calculated to excite attention by the very eccentricity of their style, possessing, as it does—and this, we fear, is its chief recom mendation-41 the charm of novelty. Mr. Car lyle thinks weal, and thinks deeply too, on many of the great questions that are now agitating so ciety, but he has such a strange, uncouth way of expressing himself, and involves his thoughts at times in such a cloud of quaint, hazy, half developed metaphors, that he becomes not merely perplexing, but absolutely unintelligible. His diamonds are of the first water, but the setting is very inferior. He scorns to express things in a plain manner, but seems purposely to hunt about for the most startling and enigmatical•forms of expression. There are hundreds, no doubt, who think this a convincing proof of his genius, and who frequent his Lectures for the sole purpose of being excited by something—careless what that something may be—that wears the aspect of novelty; but we are not of this class of Mr. Carlyle's admirers; and therefore while we pay all due homage to his manly and original powers of thought, we most earnestly protest against the manner in which he enunciates those thoughts. We are quite satisfied with our lan guage as it stands, and have no desire to see it half-Germanized. Thus much by way of objec tion, we proceed now to a more pleasing theme. If there be one thing more than another for which Mr. Carlyle deserves praise, it is for the earnestness and sincerity, and, above all, the utter absence of cant, with which he discusses questions which many people would handle with timidity and hesitation. He sees and feels the truth, and speaks out boldly, like a man. There is no flinching—no shilly-shallying about him. He_ gives no quarter to prejudice; laughs at the common-place and conventional in thought and sentiment; and, like Wordsworth, writes with an apparent indifference to the world's opinion. Though a stern and searching observer, yet his worldly experience has not taught him to dis trust humanity; on the contrary, he is full of fi►ith in its capabilities; and holds the cheerful doctrine that it is fast advancing —despite the stumbling-blocks that are con stantly thrown in its way—along the road of social, moral, and political improvement. To a certain extent, therefore, he is a Perfecta bility man, and derives hope from the very cir cumstances that would induce others, less san guine, to despair. He has many strange crot chets, however, which detract greatly from his value as a moral teacher; and one of them is, an admiration of Rousseau, whom he alludesdto as one of the leading spirits of his age, ranking him as such with Johnson and Burns. Was ever in fatuation greater than this The most heartless, affected, and egotistical of men, placed by the side of the most kindly, sincere, and unaffected ! Who but Mr. Carlyle, would ever dream of coupling Johnson with Rousseau—the gaint with the dwarf—the man of strong common sense, with the crazy, maudlin, sentimentalist = the grave, majestic teacher of moral wisdom, with the advocate of licentiousness disguised under the flimsy mask of philanthropy ? "We name him here," says our author, " because, with all his drawbacks, and they are many, he has the first and chief characteristics of a hero—he is heartily in earnest." In his admiration of ex ternal nature, Rousseau—as he shows throughout his " Confessions"—was unquestionably in ear nest, but in no other instance. He had no faith in his fellow-men ; and wanting this, he wanted all the elements that constitute the true heroic in the intellectual character. THE ENGAGEMENT. 3 VoLs. CoThum, London, 1841. Like most novels, whose chief personages move in the higher walks of society, the " En gagement" abounds in scenes of love and senti ment, admirably calculated to recommend it to readers of the gentler and more susceptibl e sex . The hero is Lord Halsingham—a tall, romantic, mysterious Peer, who stalks through the three volumes like a phantom, appearing arid disap pearing with all the formal gravity and signifi cance, of Mr. Cooper when playing the part of the ghost in Hamlet. This remarkable aristo crat, who of course is as handsome as an Anti nous, encounters, on his return from Vienna, a young girl by name Horatio Mornington, to whom, with her father's permission, he pays his addresses, and by whom he is favourably re ceived. He is soon, however, summoned back to the Continent, hut previous to his departure, he extorts from Horatio a promise that she will marry him the instant he returns to England. Unfor:unately, the girl repents her engage ment, avid scarcely has her affianced Lord turned his back, when she meets with a relation of his, one Captain Coningsby, at a friend's house in the country, whom she falls desperately in love with; and the passion being duly reciprocated, a very pretty scene of embar rassment ensues; both parties become perf'ectly miserable ; the Captain can think only of Horatia ; Horatia can think only of the Captain, the ne cessary—indeed, inevitable consequence of which is, that one fine morning the enamoured couple are caught kissing each other at an awful rate by an officious fellow, one Chadwick, who, as a friend of Lord Halsingham, takes the ear liest opportunity of his Lordship's retna, to ac quaint him with his untoward discovotk. Mad dened with rage, the Peer vows vengeance against Coningsby, but on an explanation taking place between them, - previous to a resort to arms, Lord Halsingham findS out that the Cap tain was after all not so much to blame, for he had made every honourable effort to struggle against his weakness, and had, besides, been in duced to believe that Horatia was not in heart attached to his Lordship, but was anxious to break the engagement between them. On further explanation, it transpires that though Miss Morn ington has no great affection for him, a Miss Belle isle—h er friend and neighbour—has,which greatly comforts the Peer, who had always suspected that Coningsby had supplanted him in that quar ter, too. Ultimately, it turns out that the Cap min, so far from being his enemy, had always been his best and most disinterested friend, and that the cause of the estrangement which had long existed between them, was owing to the manoeuvres of Chadwick, whose projects of poli tical advancement Coningsby had on one occa sion been the means of thwarting. Of course, after this explanation, a reconciliation takes place between the parties, who are both, in the fullness of time, made happy with their respec tive iDulcineas. Such is a slight, hasty sketch of some of the chief incidents in the " Engage ment," which is a clever, animated story, though there is no great novelty in its construction ; forcibly, and even eloquently written, as regards style; and not deficient in its delineation of cha racter. BEL GI UM. 2 Voz.s. Bentley, London, 1841. One of the chief objects which Mr. Emerson Tennent proposed to himself in writing these volumes—as he has stated in his dedication to Lord Stanley—was to show the injury that has occurred to Belgium from the repeal of its union with Holland, and thereby to convince Ireland of the peril in which she would place her best and dearest interests, were she to be infa tuated enough to follow the same example, as regards her connexion with Great Britain. As this is a political, rather than a literary question, we shall hot discuss it in this place, but content ourselves with remarking upon matters more ac ceptable to the general reader. As a traveller, MORNING EDITIOI11• Mr. Tennent evinces much laudable curiosipr,? and W though his • road lies through countries w ith which few Englishmen are unacquainted, yet he frequently contrives to entertain us by desc rib . ing things —as in the instance of some of ho sketches of Ghent and Bruges—which have es' caped the researches ofother travellers. There are many pages in his work, however, which are dull and tiresome in no common degree; especially where he speaks of the agriculture an manufactures ofßelgiurn, which have alreadyb ee a described so often that the subject retains no t the slightest vestiges of novelty or interest. 01 Bruges he tells us that " it is unlike any pit o! that one has been accustomed to before, and 1. certainly the most perfect specimen of a town of the middle ages on this side the Rhine. it: houses have not been rebuilt in modern time'' and with their ample fronts; vast arched en trances, and sculptured ornaments, and fantastic gables, are all in keeping with our stately pressions of its feudal counts, and affluent b u turbulent burghers. The squares maintain the same character of dignity and gravity, over A f. dowed with old ancestral trees, and flanked 0 , their municipal halls and towers, the monunieatb of a time when Bruges was the Tyre of Western, Europe, and her counts and citizens combin. ei the enterprise and wealth of the merchants the fiery bearing of the soldier." Our author'' notices of Ghent—hackneyed as is the theme -- are amusing enough; but he is far too leng t h in his descriptions of Brussels ; and in his see% volume becomes positively prosy in his accou nt of joint-stock speculations in Belgium. COURT CIRCULAR. • Her Majesty and Prince Albert and the Duchess (I ! Kent attended Divine Service yesterday aPernooe, the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The service was rea 13 by the Rev. M r . P ova h. Th e c h an t was the . . v. 0 Phocien Henly's ; the mus i ca l serv i ce was Roger s 1 , D, and the anthem " Keep, we beseech thee" (Travers" Mr. J. B. Sale presided at the organ. o f the The Rev. Dr. Short was th e D epu ty Clerk Closet in Waiting. Th e Royal suite c onsisted of the ; Countess of Charlem on t, Hon. Miss P. get, Ho n. Anson, Earl of Uxbridge, Earl of Morley, fi ne Sir - William Lumley, Lord Alfred Puget, Sir Edw ard 13°' water, and Captain Francis Seymour. Lady Fa n° Howard was in waiting on the Duchess of Kent. h e Her Majesty the Q ueen D owager , attended by of Countess of Mayo, visited the Queen on SatUrdaY ternoon, at Buckingham Palace. His Royal Hi g hnes s P r i nce Alb er t, a ttended by S• 1 Edward Edward Bowater and Captain Francis Seymour, v isite her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent on Saturday' at her residence Ingestre House. ,as 'esti 'Viscount Melbourne had a n au di ence of her m.` v o on Saturday. The Duchess of Kent visited her Majesty Ye sttrj ,lo . Her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended bY t io Countess of Charlemonr, Hon. Miss Anson, 1 - 1"' Paget, Earl of Fingall, Hon. Sir W. Lumley, Lord r, Paget, Sir E. B owater , an d C apta i n F ranc i s SW' S. honoured the Italian Opera with their presence on turday evening. l i r A' His Royal Highness Prince Alb er t h on oured IT", ',k. Penley with a s i tt i ng on S atur d ay morn i ng , at Du ing ham Palace. th ° Her AL jesty the Queen Dowager honoure d v e r Zoological Gardens with a visit on Saturday. gee , Majesty was attended by the Countess of Marlf o rep Earl Mis s Eden, Hon. Mi ss C our t ney B oy l e , E a and Sir Andrew Barnard. The Duke of C am b r id ge atten d e d Di v ine Se re ;, yesterday mornin g i n G rosvenor Ch ape l, South Mdcleed street. In the alternoon his Royal Highness Att en bee s Divine Service in Sr. J ames ' s Ch urc h. M a j o r Step ' was. in waiting on his Royal Highness. ste r Their Royal Hi g h nesses t h e D uc h ess o f OW% ti and the Duk e of C am b r id ge h onoure d Visceu°:;:er Viscountess Palmerston with their company 8t on Saturday evening at their residence in Carlto" eyes race. A Select p ar ty were present to meet - Ro A yal Highneves. f wen Cabinet Council was held on Saturday lu te ' DP at the Foreign-office. It was attended by all the . 1 s at nisters exec pt the Lord Ch ance ll or . Th e Counel three hours. Liat A Deputation from th e I n h a bi tants o f La t°,-7 0 . consisting of Mr. Benj am i n H awes , M.P., Mr•J• Y ik - Ir• son, Mr. :Thomas Lett, Mr. Dix, Mr. 1-1 1 4 4 Grady, Mr. Harriso n , M r . W oo d war d, Mt. ?°", ' o rd Mr. Shields, and Mr. F.ll had an interview wit,' " ' O.l Duncannon on Saturd a y a t th e Offi ce o f Wa''' 00 on the subject of the Metropolitan Improvement'. the Lambeth side of the River. of .160 f A Deputation or. the Window Duty, consis,„i"--, Messrs. A'Beckett, Walker, Abbott, Ewen. . 1 / 1 ,.,,,. t rt, Graham, Carroli, Wilton, C• nden, Evans, DaV n ic,i, and Woods, and Mr. W. J. Newt)n the See v re ( t e - he bad an interview with the Chancellor ' of the ' - or quer on Saturday at his official residence in Dow° street. h The Bishop o f Fler.ford had an i n t er view wA de nee count Mrlbourne on S a t ur d a y at h i s official rea l in Downing-strte'. v ial Despatches were rece i ve d yester d ay a t the C ° ol Office from the Governor of Newfoundland. g e ji , A Deputation from the Vendors of Patent 40 cues had an interview on Saturday with, the Chan' of the Exchequer. . iga , FASHIONABLE INTELLIGE- - ARRIVALS. tba The Duke and Du c h ess o f A rgy ll, accom panied b ,.d s ce, , Marquis and Lord and L a dy C am pb e ll, i n Connaug ht Zis West, from Inverary C as tl e , A rgy ll s hi re ; the Ma r l, ldr, j ' Bute, at Camden Hill, from Cardiff Castle, Charles, and Lady Elizabeth Dickens, at the 3 I al ter' Northampton's, Piccadilly, f rom St o k e P ar k, n ear Chi c "i the Hon. Mr. Ken n edy, f rom Bri4hton; the E ar Countess of Antrim, in Grosvenor-square from Ha , , Earl of Macclesfi e ld, i n C on d u it- s t ree t, f ro m , i ttst e( Castle, Oxon; Viscount Villi ers , .M.P., in BerkeleYjaite' from Middleton-Park, Oxon; Lord Adolphus F'ff a ;, t from a visit to the Duke a n d D uc h ess o f B e aufort , 'Lodi minton; Captain and the Hon. Mrs. Congreve , a Hotel, Bond -street, fr o m O x f or d s hi re; L or d Clonb r " - trot" ditto, from ditto ; Mr. and Mrs. Scurfield, at dif f() ; 0 0? Gibraltar; Mr. Schuler, United St a t es Consul, a t t , C from Liverpool ; Mr. Westropp, a t ditt o , f ro m Ireland'so t? , Lewis (Coldstream Guards), at ditto, from '.lr. Stade,Xiadook- Wales ; and Mrs. Farrel, family, and suite, at t Hotel, Oxford -street, from Ireland; M rs . Sheldon, a t dittp.t from Leamington, Warwi c k s hi re; N ev ill e , -E,(1•'; dicta from Neville Hall, Leicestershire ; R. Smith, lE' f l;; -- liton' from Dudley ; Ruddell Todd, Esq., at ditto, from o. 'g DEPARTURES. Cds'arl The Earl of Denbigh, for War w i c k s hi re ; Sir John Bart., for Doloorgan, Montgom er y s hi re; Major C ue 'ftaff'' M.P.. for his seat, in Staffordshire ; Sir J. MordaunfLbire; M.P., from Eaton-place, fur Walton Hall, Lord Morison, for Brighton; the Marquis of Downshairwl Hanover-square, for Easthampstead Park, Berks ; „t ll _,, k Def Chesterfield, from Chesterfield House, for Bretby byshire ; Sir Eardly Wilmot, Bart., M.P., for. Ins sea, f l,,, — e itor wickshire ; Sir R. Nag:e, Bart., M.P., for Jar r - stair House, county Westmeath; Sir Robert Heron, Bart, '1 ) p. Warvi - ic , ;(01 ton Hall, Lincolnshire ; Mr. J. S. Pakin,gton , Lod Westwood Park, Droitwitch; John Hardy, Esq.!,fr () ,!,..ha Hotel, Bond-street, for Leven H ous e, I s l e of Wi ti ffu lt " r y o‘ o , Jones, Esq., from ditto, for Llandovery ; the Hon. 14'14 Rogers, from ditto, fo r K en il wor th ;D. J. H a rmer , t; Flationg's Family Hotel, Oxfo r d- s t ree t, f or the Confiner' frog Dorrien, Esq., John Steele, Esq., and J. Corry, Esq'' ditto. V O de ; GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.--A e , stand that the Governmeut Commisions ra sc" l ,, eoP Y report on Mr. Gibbs' proposed tine to York. " l b tLe menees at Cletkenwell, London, or by a juoction:rt'ford; Northern and E as t ern Railway, at Bishop's; S t b, aej thence to Cambridge, Li nco l n , and Gainsbor eoe cg laa, terminates by a junction with the Great North of 'shorte r Railway, near York. It is said that this lino will h e LO Ol Oll by 35 miles than the present route by railway frog to York, he° THE RE V. J. R. STEP H NS .—Mr.SOP toed has been released from confine men t, has already I; e0 a u (ths his agitation—and has already attack e d an assoc iat ri oe r Anti-Cora-law League) whi c h ba s for its nhiT c a g eesg e profitable rmp'oyrnent of capital and labour, P llu a abundance of food for the pe o pl e . —Manchester iothing THE GREEN PARK.--It is proba bl y i n tito. 3ll more than natural that the public should he `e n aa lth se susceptible on a subject so s it a lly affecting the t ora. the enjoyments gene ra lly o f th e i n h a bitants of t7_ to tb",. polis as the appropri a ti on o f th e P ar ks, and it u ': foo deu only that we can attrib u te th e ver y hasty and , late re. ' surmises which have been so fr ee ly hazarded cu be G r een specting the alterati o ns n o w i n progress in t , a nirna t Pa-k. We hare made inquiry as to the real ass a d the re. object of these so much deprecated alterations, an,.. bat tiee, suit is this : that t'iere is no intention whatever or ar o! , up any portion of the park, or of erecting 10e.g:jctginee. planting it, to the exclusion or to the slightest Or r. It ° of the comfort of any party, be he rich or th e whole object of these proceedings is to lead an d . t e e surface of the Park, which has heretofore been p ath° than a swamp; to improve the herbage, to gy a nd, .! l a which shall be dry and ava il a bl e a t all seasons; site I short, to realise the many advantages of wh ich _, ass es.' admitted to be susceptible for the benefit o f all o; Observer. 0111 49 j FARMERS AND MASTERS OF -----, foo rte,' I. Hodgson, Esq., of Quorondon Hall, bass it:, gantise deters rued on disposing of his pack of bounds u i n eo-a c , stud, immediately after Croxton Park r aces, j° a sin i quenre of the humorous insults received by l hise c caFiurj of himself from the farmers of the district on ti roi9, Sea' the pack passing over their grounds. Mr* Ito ha ve O ar ; grace, farmer, and Mr. Hodgson, are sal I . a fa rt lied on this subject. On Tuesday, tOe Ho e r being drlyen it:to a slate pit at Swithland, a [woe tos. , accoidiog to the usual custom, lcf: a guinea at the vi::aa e f or tie men to drink. Notwithstanding i ra number of the taco who pretelded t give no cre dt t° relkatet! sneer that he had le.“; fr p the money , ' • a bt that u , him for a considerable diitance, shouting t he 4- ° keep his ina to buy him a new coat., u k ae r a fired at Lord Hot Gardiner toa, o cu a i a e s d f b u y l L th a , o,c e s y r , ar !ct e .sa c rbseva :S r assaulted by Mr. Lacey's soy, and flamed with a _nog. - sLeicester upm, e th s e u y eh so w b e e a l r bo r, ure S d o i m ,im e o u f it t h he th o e th h e a r nd h ie u:t o l v t a be ir as to cause him to require surgical as.:i twee. shire Mercury. ld _l • the Shrewsbury Races are decided to be tru e s ion week in September, notwit h s tandin g the intru he o i n of the Lichfield meeting on the ensuie * A git. ./ /1 —/( • ) '7 r~