The Sun. — London, England, 1841-04-27 00:00:00

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HUN DRNEXT DISTRIBUTION contains FIFTEEN HUN utt-ED DIVIDENDS, amounting to £137,592, Tile Dividends being 425,000 £BOO £2OO £9O 5,000 600 150 80 2,000 500 120 70 1,500 300 110 64 ' 1,000 250 100 62 tiIiEINE BROTHERS having remitted, during a short T baei 25,000/., 18,0001.5,001., 3,600/. &c. &c., to tpkdon ; 3,6001., 8001. , and 700/., t o Edinburgh; 3,600/. to 1 . 1 ,,,... 1 Ain : 3,6001. to Beverley ; 3,6001. to Halifax (Yorkshire); iri. to Portleaven Harbi.ur ; 9001. and 6001. to Liverpool ; t• to Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; 900!. to Hull ; 900/. and 6, 1 7, , , to Manchester • 600!. to Bideford ; 600/. to Cork ; and ea to Bradford ; they shall feel glad to remit many Dividend' said Distributions to England, Ireland, and Scotland. The Di v id e nds falling unto the Securities can be cashed at t 1 I , L e rY Banker's connected with Germany in every mercantile . of the world. L'i - ostscurr. 9th March, 1841 . — HEINE BROTHERS ',lye the pl easure to state t h a t they remitted to-day, 9th March, nil, TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND POUNDS to L0n ..,....___4n and vicinity, resulting from the Distribution of Ist inst. _—_ . t r „ THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT G ARDEN. "'DER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS, THIS EVENING, APRIL 27, will be repeated the New Comedy, in Five Acts, entitled LONDON ASSURANCE. Sir Harcourt Courtly, Bart, Mr. W. Farren ; Max Hark rtrq, Mr. Bartley; Mr. Charles Courtly, Mr. Anderson; • Adolphus Spanker, Mr. Keeley; Mr. Dazzle, Mr. C. M athews ; Mark Meddle, Mr. Haley ; Grace Harka;vay, game Vestris ; Lady Gay Spange?, Mrs. Nisbett ; Mrs. liter which will be repeated, the Grand Romantic Fairy Ex travaganza, entitled BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. j o ,lleauty, Madame Vestris ; The Beast, Mr. W. Harrison ; " Quill, Mr. Harley ; Dressalinda, Miss Rainforth ; Mar p„Vid' a, Miss Grant; Queen of the Roses, Miss Lee. , 0 -morrow, London Assurance, with Beauty and the Beast. Doors to te opened at halt-past Six—the performances to ence at Seven o'Clock. t.uress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second bs. ; Second Price, 23. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price, Gall Is. 'ideas er an y d places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan ki th e Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets 1 11 11 De had upon application. fo rivate Boats to be had so l ely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller , New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. . tr NbER THE MANAGENIENT OF MR. DAVIDGE AND MR. WILLIS JONES. Altounding Novelty. The greatest attraction ever presented to the Public, supported by the most powerful Company in the I tletropolis. THIS EVENING, APRIL 27, will be acted a New Grand Historical Drama, entitled WARLSHA ; OR, THE SAXON SLAVE. The Ch ar acters will include the whole of the splendid Corn „._ of this Establishment, r: - .lagnificent Scenery, Costume, pr Appointments, in addit!,en to which a greater assemblage Percales than were evc,r engaged on the English Stage will (I N the Army of Am ;ions. After ',which, a Comedietta, called THE LAUGHING PHILOSOPHER. 14 Which 11Ir. J. S. Balls will perform the principal Character. To conclude with EL HYDER. Ben Tareb, Mr. 0. Smith. Unequalled Splendour and Effects, " THE CHINA SUN," WHICH WAS REPUBLISHED LATELY IS NOW ON SALE, With all the LATEST NEWS. YHE RAILWAY SUN ILL BE PUBLISHED IN A FEW s . DAYS. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. 7orning 41 minutes after 5 Evening 10 minutes after 6 LONDON: TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 1841. An important division took place last night 4 1 the House of Commons on an amendment ,proposed by Lord HOWICK to the Ministerial sill for settling the question of franchise in Ireland. The numbers were 291 for Lord !lowicK's proposition, and 270 against it, which ( eft Ministers in a minority of 21. Ministers then wished to take till Monday to consider What they should do ; but the House, influenced hY Sir R. PEEL, would allow them only till wednesday, and on that day the consideration of the Bill will be renewed, if Ministers do not, ip the meantime, take some other important step. The public demands from the Ministers a bold resolution. The franchise and registration ques tion is felt by the whole empire to be a mere party squabble or political humbug. It will settle nothing either way. Men are no longer to be Roverned by names and forms, and those who mean to be at the head of affairs must look at Things. Men are "everywhere the born enemies of lies," and want truth. The Peers, last night, received a considerable number of petitions, many of which were for a repeal of the Corn-laws. Viscount DUNCANNON, in answer to a question Put by the Earl of FALMOUTH, on Friday, stated that the Crown meant to try its right to the prc duce of all mines worked under the sea in the Duchy of Cornwall, even to those mines which belong to the Earl of FALMOUTH himself. The law did not give a prescriptive right hi those eases, as the invasion of the rights of the Crown has rot more than forty years old. We must ty that we shall regret to see any attempt to revive any old feudal claims of the lord para 410unt. The minerals really belon g to those by Who se un it e d labours they are brought to the Surfaci, of the earth; and, unless the Crown per -ortns some part of those labours, it has no right to the smallest portion of the produce. n reply to the Earl of SW r iNcHILSEA, Viscount .„I AiuticANNoN stated that it was the intention of her MAJESTY'S Government to open the whole of the grass part of R eg ent's Park, as far as was consistent with the ri g ht s of those who had laid out money in beautifying portions of it. Lord ASHBURTON thought it was for the in terest of the public to preserve these beautiful enclosures untouched. The Bishop of LONDON referred to the pro- Posed Park at the East End; and recommended It general measure—always keeping in view the 'vested interests of the priests in the cold remains of our departed friends—to prevent the inter ., gent of bodies in the churchyards of London. That nuisance, however, must not be put an end to without making compensation to the clergy. Viscount DUNCANNON declined to say what his intentions were about the Eastern Park, as /night baulk his scheme. The Marquis of NORMANBY approved of the Rev. Prelate's suggestion as to the interment, and said he had endeavoured in vain to frame a measure on that principle, but with the Rev. vrelate's assistance he hoped it might yet be done. The Marquis of NORMANBY in moving for a Committee to inquire into Sunday trading on canals, stated that he wished to give the people ,ngaged in that traffic relief on the Sunday. they were now compelled to labour seven days the week, which was productive of much the; e thougl it it would be necessary also to extend 'to railways any measure they might adopt as to Canals, so that railways might have no advantage. The Earl of LICHFIELD warmly supported the notion, which would be received throughout the country with great satisfaction. 1 49Td9 c914/IgSTER and HATLIERTON suggested 4 - • 0 , "us ;• h lett or ` C. / "1.•.- • - - 4; K . • se 4 , n f.Vir r i • ir)-(0.,;„,,,,z,z,,Z,' Zb i t that there would be a difficulty as to estuaries and tide rivers, but the traffic on canals might be stopped on Sundays to the advantage of the public. The Committee was appointed. We hope their Lordships will examine the boatmen, as well as the boat-owners and the clergymen, on the lines of the canals. For our part we do not believe that the boatmen wish for their Lord ships' interference. Let them, however, at least, be asked. Perhaps the boatmen, taking our part, will depute some of their own body to ask their Lordships to hear them. The LORD CHANCELLOR laid on the table a Bill to remove doubts as to the liability of a Peer to be punished for felony. Their Lordships then adjourned. In the Commons Sir CHARLES GREY extorted a little explanation from Lord STANLEY as to a speech the Noble Lord made in 1832, touching the Irish franchise, in which the Noble Lord, as reported in the Mirror of Parliament, was made to speak throughout of a rent of 101., while he had really spoken, he said, as the Bill spoke, of an annual interest of 101. According to the Noble Lord, the Mirror of ,Parliament had committed an error throughout the speech, and made it un intelligible. Whether the reporters were in error or the Noble Lord's memory have failed him, is not for us to say. If the reporters were not in error, however, the Noble Lord, when he brought for ward the Irish Bill, must have meant to give the Irish a totally different franchise from that for which the Noble Lord now contends. The House went into a Committee on the Parliamentary Voters (Ireland) Bill. Lord HOWICK moved an amendment to the first clause, with a view to establish that the beneficial inte rest in a freehold or leasehold property shall be the test of the right of voting. The Noble Lord offered this amendment to the House with a view of settling the important question, and me diating between the conflicting parties. He spoke of the change proposed by the Ministerial Bill as very great, and he treated it throughout as upsetting the principle of making the franchise depend on property. Yet the Noble Lord voted for the second reading of the Bill, and then pro fes.sed himself pleased with the simplicity of the rate-paying principle. He has now come to the conclusion that the principle of the existing law is wise, but the manner in which it is carried into execution not so. He proposes that the value of the property should be ascertained by the assessment to the Poor rate. But were he to keep up the 10/. principle, he would make the franchise even more stringent than is contended for by the Tories ; he meant, 91erefore, to propose that the beneficial interest, as determined by assessment to the Poor-rate, should be 51. ; the 5/. being over and above the rent payable. He meant to propose, too, that being rated to the poor at, it was understood, 20/., though the per son had no lease, should give a vote, thus esta blishing in Ireland, as in England, a right to Tote in a tenant-at-will. The Noble Lord con cluded a long speech, by declaring that his scheme was just and fair to all parties. Just and fair, or not, it is one of those trifling, petty fogging arrangements, which are not adapted to the age and to the people, and will be laughed at, as if a doctor was to recommend a little sugar to man in a violent fever. Lord MORPETH opposed the amendment, and declared his intention to abide by his own pro position. He properly pointed out that Lord HOWICK'S introduction of a tenant-at-will fran chise was a total departure from the principle of the Reform Act, and as great a change in princi ple as the Ministers had proposed. He consi dered it moreover a delusion, and not calculated to enlarge the franchise. Mr. C. WOOD spoke in favour of Lord HOWICK'S proposition, and described it as an addition to the franchise. He mentioned that at present disfranchisement was at the rate of 1,000 persons a-year, and that in a few years the whole question would have to be again taken up. Lord MORPETH'S plan, he said, would dimi nish the number of electors to the extent of one-sixth. The leasehold franchise was one of sand, which was gradually falling away. Sir C. GREY said the amendment, far from a verbal one, would operate most injuriously. Lord STANLEY considered the amendment identified with the great principle for which he contended, and which the Government measure sought to destroy. Mr. O'CONNELL merely confined his remarks to telling the House that Ireland understood the insults it was heaping on her. Lord JOHN RUSSELL stated that he had made concessions for the sake of getting the Bill passed, and he was disappointed. He called on the Tories, if it was their determination not to allow the Irish to be represented, to take their stand on that ground, and openly adhere to that principle. Sir ROBERT PEEL wound up the debate, di recting his force chiefly against what Lord JOHN , RUSSELL had said, accusing him of seeking to divert the attention of, and indulging in decla mations against the intentions of, his opponents. After the Hon. Baronet resumed his seat, and Mr. O'CONNELL, Lord HOWICK, and Lord Jonx RUSSELL had given some explanation, the Com mittee divided. The result is stated above. The House resumed soon afterwards—the Committee to sit again on Wednesday—and then adjourned. Lord Howrcies first amendment, which in volves no consideration of amount, was adroitly devised to catch all the Tories, and it caught them. We are inclined to suppose that Minis ters were of opinion that the Tories would not vote for it, and their too great confidence on this point led to their defeat. The Scotch successfully resisted the attempt made in 1826 to put an end to the small note circulation in Scotland. The letters of MALA CROWTHER, some of the fruits of that attempt, written by Sir WALTER SCOTT, in the Edinburgh Weekly Journal, and the replies of JOHN WIL- SON CROKER, published in the Courier, then a journal of considerable circulation and character, made the attempt a part of our literary, as well as our political history, and will cause it to be long remembered. At present a somewhat similar contest seems to be approaching, and the Scotch have again taken to their pens and their tongues in defence of their Vanking system. A report of the proceedings of the Chamber of Commerce of Edinburgh, on Wednesday last, held to consider the subject, appears in another part of The Sun. Besides that, the bankers in Scotland have held a meeting, and have sent a deputation to London to confer with the Government, and oppose any plan which shall trench on their system. It is our intention to support their exertions as far as we can, because we consider the Scotch system to be the nearest approximation to a free trade in banking, which has ever existed, and no other system has been ever attended with anything like equal advanta ges. In the United States, the system is a legislative humbug, almost as bad as it is in Eng land, the several States sanctioning, by the grants of charters, and by making laws which are never obeyed, the fraudulent tricks of the different bunkers. In Scotland,—but we will borrow a de smiption of the system in existence there from the Edinburgh Weekly Chronicle:— BANK TINKERING.—The Bank of Scotland was established so far back as the year 1695 and began to develope the dis tinctive features of the Scottish system of banking nearly at the very first. In the year 1704 the first one-pound notes wet e issued ; and interest en deposits was allowed, and cash accounts were granted as early at least as 1729. The Royal Bank was started in 1727, and the British Linen Company in 1746, and both of these adopted the same course as the original bank. The gentlemen who first conducted these institutions had many difficulties to overcome, and much to learn, but they took their measures with great circumspection and judgment, and were eminently successful both in enriching the share holders and benefiting the public. The prosperity of the three banks above named, and the growing appreciation of their utility, in course of time led to the establish ment of many rival Companies, but not more than have proven beneficial to the country. Though a few of these, and only a few, resulted unprofitably, the loss fell chiefly on the shareholders, and not to any extent on the public. The insolvency of a Scotch bank has been so rare an occur rence that it is as little apprehended as an earthquake. The Scotch banking system has had the singular luck to escape, hitherto, all legislative interference, and hence has taken that form which exactly suits the circumstances in which it has gradually expanded itself, and become an important organ in the structure of society. Its nice adaptation to the purposes for which it exists, could not have been contrived beforehand by the most sagacious minds. Nothing but the lessons of ex perience could have enabled even the wisest of men to con struct the complex banking machinery, which is at ence so powerful, so delicate, and so safe in its operations. Yet, strange to say, there is too much reason to believe that this admirable system, which has operated to the signal benefit of the community, and been improved from time to time by the most consummate men of business the nation could produce, is menaced at this moment with destruction, or, what is worse, with the tinkering of the ignprant fox-hunters and conceited lawyers who sit in Parlia ment. One would have thought that these gentlemen would have been cautious of touching the banking system which has so long gone on prospero usly without interference, a t l east till they had managed to get the English system, which is the creature of their legislation, into something like a perfect con dition. But so far from that being the case, the only motive that can be guessed at for the threatened attempt to meddle with the Scotch Banking system, appears to be the unsatisfac tory operation of every system that has been tried in England. It would puzzle anybody to see the reasonableness of this. The people of Scotland rather object to being humbugged in banking or anything else, " for the sake of • • uniformity, " Two centuries ago they resisted successfully the THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 1841 imposition of an Episcopal Church, though the rulers of that day did all they could to force it cn them, " for the sake of unifor mity." Scotsmen were insensible to the glories of lawn sleeves, mitres, and shovel hats, and had a thorough contempt for " The kist fu' whistles that make sic a decry :" They spurned the Episcopal Church, and would have none of it, and they are as little likely to submit to episcopacy in banking. We do not maintain that the system of banking which exists in Scotland is perfect, or that the Legislature has no right in any case to interfere with it. But we do contend that it is the best which has yet been invented, and that it ought not to be subjected to experiments of a doubtful nature; nor, in short, be legislated on at all, so long as the true principles of monetary science remain as unsettled and obscure as they are at present. Why is the Scotch system to be altered ? Be cause, as the Edinburgh paper says, our system has failed. Here, in London and in England, we are all at sea about banking, and as the Bank of England is obviously mischievous, all sorts of contradictory opinions are afloat on the subject of the currency, and a variety of projects are broached to place it on a satisfactory footing. In Scotland, few or no such vagaries are known, the people are content with their banks, which is as complete a proof, by the concurrent testimony of many minds, as can be supplied of their utility. The chief project entertained, and which seems feasible to the metropolitans, is to have one bank of issue, and the contrivers of that Frenchified scheme would of course annihilate, for the sake of their pet project of one uniform paper circulation, the paper of the Scotch banks. But the rest of the community have not the same reason to be satisfied with this scheme as the moneyed cockneys. The centralization on which they fatten drains and impoverishes the extremities. At the same time it only bloats the heart and renders the whole unsound. The origin and real use of paper currency would satisfy the schemers, had they not a pecu liar interest in their projects, that they ought for the public good to set the trade of banking in Eng- land as free as it is in Scotland, not hamper it with new restrictions. The true natural origin or great natural fact on which paper currency is founded—we do not say its historical origin, for that might be a roguish trick of a conqueror —is the unequal times in which different corn• modities are produced. It requires nearly eleven months to bring wheat to market after it is sowed, while a suit of clothes for the farmer can be made in a day, and the whole process, from the clipping the sheep till the coat comes home, may be conveniently completed in a month. It requires nearly a year, too, be fore the merchant who despatches a ven ture to China can get back any re turns, but the operations of the baker and the butcher, by which he is fed, are perfected in a few hours, or at most, days. Those persons engaged in operations which ex tend over long periods, or who enter into foreign trade, rarely or never have wealth enough to continue their operations with success, and sub sist according to their rank, without borrowing of those whose labours are completed from day to day, or of those who have credit and make it a trade to lend money. Borrowing, therefore, or conducting the operations of trade on credit, to a certain extent is the natural and necessary consequence of commodities being produced in unequal times. Men borrow by bills or promissory notes, to pay at a certain time ; they pay for the goods, which they are to send to China, or for the stock they require for their farm, by bills, which they take up or pay when their ship comes home, or their corn is sold. Good and proper merQantile bills, then, the genuine offspring of trade, are always the representatives of commodities on their way to the market. But it is not found convenient to pay the small sums continually required by those whose labours are completed in very short periods by such bill; and for them there are substituted the bills or promises to pay on demand—(which are much more convenient than those bills which are only to be paid at a distant day)—of some known, and supposed to be, trust-worthy money-dealer of the neighbourhood. The banker exchanges his credit to be imme diately used, for the bill that is not to be paid for several weeks or months, or he discounts the bill by his own notes. As far as the issues of bank-notes are genuine commercial transactions —for such kites as Exchequer bills, and landlords' motes on their income do not enter into our con sideration, and are rather the excrescences or ungi of the system than healthy parts of it—a s far as bank-notes are issued to discount mercan tile paper, they, like the bills for which they are substituted, are the representatives of commo dities on their way to the market, and the just and proper demand for them can only be known by those who know the merchants and are well acquainted with the trade of the neighbourhood. On these principles it is plain that not general banks, not one bank of issue, but local banks, and private banks or Joint-Stock banks, like those of Scotland, are the most consonant to the principles on which all equitable paper currency is founded. Let it be noted and remarked, too, that the bankers who have credit in a neighbourhood, and who substitute the small notes payable on demand for the bills which are necessary parts of commerce, do a great service, both to those who are engaged in long operations, and to those whose labours are completed in short periods. Making payments between these classes is the main ground of their utility, which will always make bankers auseful class of men wherever and as long as division of labour exists. But if these principles be correct, what can scheming London money-lenders know of the commercial wants of Edinburgh or Glasgow, or what can the Legislature, or any Commissioners appointed by it, know of the quantity of paper promises to pay which will be required by any neighbourhood or by the empire At large ? They can know nothing whatever of this important fact, and the scheme to form one bank of issue is founded on the most contemptible ignorance of the natural phe nomena of commerce and paper money, or the most knavish design to draw more business to the metropolis, and enrich the jobbers here at the expense of the rest of the community. We re joice, then, that the Scotch mean to resist the Cockney money dealers and their toadies ; and whatever we can do to aid in supporting the freedom of trade in money in Scotland, and to introduce such a system into England, we will. Monopoly of every kind is a hateful monster, the curse of the country ; and whenever and where ever we meet with it, we will try to throttle it. We are happy to see that Anti-Corn-law meet.. ings are becoming numerous. For us the time is gone by to argue the question; we have done that months and years ago, and we have now only to record the proceedings and sayings of others. To begin with the least important part : there was a meeting at Kirkcaldy on. Monday last, attended by no fewer than six or seven hundred of the inhabitants of that small town, the Provost in the Chair. The meeting unani mouslx resolved to petition Parliament for the total and immediate repeal of the Corn-laws. The House of Commons must be told that this resolution was accompanied by a declaration, equally unanimous, that its conduct in refusing to entertain Mr. VILLIEns' motion had tended to shake the confidence of the country in its wis dom. Such opinions are almost universal in the manufacturing districts, and they must have a strange idea of human nature who dream that a Legislature will preserve its puter after it has fallen into general contempt or become generally detested. On Monday, too, as we learn from the Leeds Times, there was a great demonstration against the Corn-laws at Bradford, and though it was interrupted by those who wish for much greater reforms than the Corn-laws (the new allies of the Tories having demanded groans for the QUEEN), it was conducted to a satisfactory termination. This meeting was remarkable for the presence of a ()Teat number of ladies, and no less than fifteen clergymen, a minister of the Establishment say , ing grace for the whole party. Throughout the manufacturing districts, where the distress is too much concentrated to be overlooked, the ladies and the clergy of all denominations, but chiefly the Dissenters, are enthusiastic in our cause, and blessed by their united good wishes and prayers, we cannot fail of success. The meeting at Brad ford is an important link in the great chain by which we shall at length reach the total aboli tion of the Corn and Provision-laws. On Wednesday the annual meeting of the Anti-Corn-law Association of Rochdale was held in that town, at which a great number of electors were present, and a resolution was unanimously adopted to petition in favour of the total and im mediate repeal. At Wigan, on Friday, a similar meeting was held, and a resolution adopted to elect no person in future for that borough but one who would vote for the total and imme diate repeal of the Corn-laws. At this meeting the Rev. WILLIAM ROAF, a minister of the Inde pendents, took an active part, and made an ex cellent speech. He declared that it was a Bible question, and that every one who took his stand on the Bible must oppose the Corn-law. The stern, uncompromising, unyielding principles of religion and morality now dictate the conduct of the Corn-law Repealers. They have paltered long enough, they think, with the guesses and fancied statistics by which the lovers of injustice have endeavoured to put out the light of truth, and now, casting a s id e a n th e se vain considera tions, they demand on th e principles of morality and religion, aye, an d on th e principles of com mon sense, the repeal of the landlords' bread and provision tax. We can only say, go on and pros per. They have righteousness on their side, and they must in the end succeed. The longer the unjust owners of rent protract the contest, and resist the demands of justice. the more disgrace ful and ruinous in the end will be their certain defeat. If within a reasonable time we can find room, we shall publish a brief abstract of the proceed ings at all these meetings. SWIFT denied to the great MARLBOROUGH every virtue, and doubted whether he knew any thing of the art of war; in our own day a greater General than MARLBOROUGH has been mob denounced as the " stunted Corporal," and in the same spirit our pretended religious and aris tocratic Contemporaries the Morning Post and the Standard have discovered that it would be as easy to find subject matter for blame as praise in the series of brilliant exploits recently per formed by Commodore Sir CHARLES N APIER on the coasts of Syria and Egypt. That either truth or good taste suggest such questionings of the merits of men whose exploits have compelled nations to recognize their greatness, none but the most envious and the most prejudiced will admit for an instant. The spirit that carps at and attempts to detract from true greatness is the spirit of en vious malignity. But it finds no echo in the hearts of Englishmen who, whatever may be their other vices, are too brave themselves not to glory in the valour of their distinguished fellow-countrymen, and even cheerfully to recognize in the bravery of their enemies the strongest claim to their admiration and respect. It is not, therefore, because we suppose that the contemptible attacks upon Commodore NAPIER, suggested by envy and jealousy, in the columns of the Post and the Standard, will excite any other feeling than that of indignation in the minds of the people of Great Britain and Ireland, that we condescend to no tice them. Our object in doing so is to prevent gross misstatements of facts, and false inferences from them, from gaining credence among those brave companions in arms of the gallant Commo dore, whose distance from our shores prevents them from catching more than the faint echo of the joyous shout with which cities have hailed his return to his native land. Th,! Post and the Standard, who measure all excellence by ecclesiastical and aristocratical mo dels, are out of humour, because Commodore NAPIER, during his brief but brilliant expedition in the Mediterranean, contrived to signalize him self in so many different ways. They would have no objection to his acquiring the reputation of a distinguished naval commander, an able general, or a clever diplomatist, but they resent as an in sult to the aristocracy, whose profession is war and diplomacy, his discharging the duties of all three in a manner alike honourable to himself and advantageous to Europe. Hence it is that we find them endeavouring to prejudice Sir Ro- BERT STOPFORD and the other officers in corn mand of the Syrian expedition against him, on the ground that in his speech to the people of Liverpool he neglected to pay a proper tribute of respect to their gallantry. The following para graph is from an article in the Post of Thurs day : _ can allow much for the intoxication produced by popu far applause, yet it would have seemed incredible, but that the proof is before us, that, upon such an occasion, Commodore Napier should so far have forgotten himself, and so entirely have forgotten everybody else, as to enlarge upon the triumphant extinction of Mehemet Ali's power in Syria, without mention ing the name of his commander, Sir Robert Stopford, or of any other officer, and without yielding even the just and cus tomary tribute to the gallantry and prowess of the British sailors and marines. The characteristic generosity of his no ble profession seems to have been stifled in the heart of Com modore Napier.. by what should have fanned it to its warmest glow, the manifestation to himself, and in his person to his companions in arms, of public gratitude and admiration. Now it so happens that in the extract from the Commodore's speech at Liverpool, upon which the above commentary was written, Sir CHARLES NAPIER speaks generally of the conduct of the whole expedition, with the exception of what was done by himself individually in Egypt. He speaks in the plural number, and none but the merest word-catcher could understand him to say otherwise than " we the officers and men of the expedition did so and so." But the • Post finds fault with him for talk ing politics, and for ,daring to differ in opinion upon the merits of the Egyptian question from Lord PALMERSTON and the Represen tatives of the Four Powers. Had Commo dore NAPIER consented to abide by instruc tions from Lord PoNsoNav, instead of follow ing the dictates of his own sound understand ing, MEHEMET Am would have been still in pos session of Syria. And .since we are called upon to speak out, we must confess that the terms in which the Commodore's Convention was rejected by the British Admiral and the British Ambas sador at the Porte, evinced a feeling bordering on pleasure at finding occasion to censure the conduct of an officer whose promptitude reflected discredit on the tardy negotiations of official adepts in all the crooked arts of Court di plomacy. The Post says that Commodore NAPIER'S friendship for the PACHA outweighed his duty as a British officer and a British subject, when he advised him to reject the Firman of the Porte, drawn up in pursuance of the earnest advice of the Allies, including Great Britain. Here the Post is in error; the Allies all disclaimed form ally having had anything to do with the Firman. They officially announced it as the voluntary act of the SULTAN, and Commodore NAPIER would not have been just ified in lookin g at it in any other light than that of the sole act of the Porte. That he was right in the course h e adopted is borne out by the fact that Aus tria, Prussia, and England, are favourable to a modification of the Firman, and it is even said, in well-informed quarters, that Russia does not oppose it. The Firman was drawn up, not to settle the Eastern question, but to prepare the way for the Porte to destroy MEHEMET Au as soon as it could sow the seeds of mutiny in his army, and of rebellion in his family. Of the dishonesty of the Porte throughout the whole of the negotiations so many proofs are ,on record, that it is impossible they could have escaped the penetration •of so shrewd a man as the Gallant Commodore. One instance deserves to be cittd. After InRAHIM PACHA had received his father's orders to evacuate Syria, and hostilities' were suspended, Brigadier - General Jecnians re ceived orders from the Porte to examine carefully the state of the Egyptian army, and if he found it formidable, to observe the armistice ; but if weak and disorganized, to fall on it suddenly and destroy it.. This detestable proceeding was said to be sanctioned by Mr. Woon, Lord PoN SONBY'S dragoman, but General MITCHELL, and Captain STEUART, to the honour of the British service, so strenuously and energetically op posed it, that the Turkish Commander did not dare to carry it into effect. We are quite sure that there is not an officer or a man who served with Commodore NAPIER in the Mediterranean, who will not cheerfully admit that her MAJESTY has not in her service an individual less capable of appropriating to himself the glory appertaining to others than the Gallant Commodore. He has laurels enough, and to spare, without appropriating a sprig to which any of his brave companions in arms can lay the shadow of a claim. True valour is ever modest and self denying, and no one can call in question the heroism of NAPIER. When, there fore, he stated in his speech at Liverpool that the expedition had to work double tides, and that he himself was called upon to perform the duties of an Admiral, a Commander-in-Chief, and a diplo matist, he stated facts known to all the world, not out of ostentation, but because he could not suppress them on such an occasion. At Alex andria, at the head of a detached squadron, he was both Admiral and diplomatist, and at Bey rout he performed the duties of an able General with promptitude and success. But Sir CHARLES, except in the affair of the Treaty, never pre tended, or even suffered it to be surmised, that he acted otherwise than in conformity with the orders of Admiral Sir ROBERT STOPFORD, whose glory has been increased by his successes. An extraordinary express from Falmouth an nounces the arrival there on Sunday of her Ma jesty's packet Pandora, Lieutenant INrcls, from Mexico, with six passengers and 330,000 dollars on freight. She brings no political or commer cial news of any interest. The whole of the French Journals of Friday and Saturday have reached us, but they contain no political news of interest. We have likewise received Madrid Papers of the 17th, the intelli gence from which will be found elsewhere. The editor of the France was tried before the Paris Court of Assizes on Saturday for publish- ing the correspondence attributed to King Louis PIIILIPPE. He was defended by M BERRYER, and acquitted to the great joy of a crowded court. We are heartily glad of it. The following description of the trial is from the Paris Correspondence of the Morning Post:— M. Berryer appeared for M. Montour, the responsible pub lisher of La France, and M. Partarieu Lafosse, the Avocat- General, conducted the prosecution, which was for offence against the King's person, by publishing the letters, and not for the forgery of them, that charge having been aban doned. The trial lasted several hours, and the Court was crowded to excess by an assemblage in which I noticed several Peers, Deputies, Diplomatists, and ladies of distinction. The Gazette de France was acquitted, owing to the powerful speech of M. Berryer. I never heard a more splendid speech in the opening, and a more hard-telling one in the reply. The President had frequently to check the au ditory in its applause during M. Berryer's speech, but the ver dict was received with a burst of cheering in the Court which lasted some time. M. Partarieu Lafosse rested his case chiefly on the letter of La Cotemporaine, published in the London Sun. The Advocate-General attacked her character, to which M. Berryer replied by asking why she had not been prosecuted if she had publisLed forged letters, as it was asserted. M. Berryer produced the originals of the letters published by the Gazette de France, and throwing them on the table, demanded that they might be subjected to the severest scrutiny. The scene was here highly dramatic. Altogether the trial produced extraordi nary excitement from the commencement to the end. A de position of Al. Larochejaquelin, establishing that he had caused a careful inspection of all the original letters by persons thoroughly acquainted with the King's handwriting, produced considerable sensation. It appeared that there were 166 let ters altogether. M. Partarieu Lafosse argued very strongly that M. Talleyrand would never have committed himself by leaving such a correspondence in hands where they were likely to be made use of. The following additional particulars of Genera BUGEAUD'S late exploits in French Africa pre. sent a frightful picture of the inhumanity which characterises the conquests of France in that de voted region : General Bugeaud waited till the enemy was well grouped together on the heights, and then gave orders to the 24th Re giment-to attack them. The Lieut.-Colonel of the 24th (the Duke d'Aumale) commanded this attack ; but the Arabs could not be said to be routed, since they precipitated themselves down a deep ravine, and so steep, that after their fall it seemed impossible men could have tumbled from such a height without breaking all their bones. Our men stopped on the edge of the ravine, and fired down upon them. While this was going on information was brought to the General that a battalion of Arab regulars was concealed in the ravine which borders the plateau of the cross, upon which the Arab cavalry was commencing to form again, and the Moorish squadrons were ordered immediately to attack them. This charge was executed with wonderful sang froid. The soldiers fell with their swords and bayonets on the regulars, of whom they made great carnage, although the latter defended them selves with all the fury of despair. Men and horses strewed the ground. This battalion of regulars, which suffered so much, was that of Milianah,' commanded by El Barkani, ex-bey of Medeah, and was composed in great part of Ger man and Spanish deserters. The unfortunate people who had come, we know not from whence, were so much overcome with fatigue, that they had not strength to clamber up out of the ravine to escape from our troops. Some prisoners were taken who were killed on the road, be cause they could not follow the column. A Spaniard seeing one of his companions fall, preferred lying down by his side, and thus receiving his death, to make a single step further in advance. FORGERY.—During the last two days (says the Moniteur Parisien) false bills, to the amount of 160,000 francs, have been presented to the Treasury, as having been drawn from Algeria, but were refused payment, and have been pro tested. They were passed through the hands of some of the most respectable bankers of Paris, and yet they bear no re semblance to the regular bills engraved here for the army in Africa, and sent ever for use, neither in form nor in the quality of the paper. The signatures to the bills and all the endorsements are forged, except those of bankers at Gibraltar, Mahon, Cadiz, and London, who have negotiated and remitted them to their correspondents at Paris. They are made payable to the order of a Caissier-general, who is named, when, in fact, the army of Africa has only one Payeur-general. Every measure has been taken and ordered to detect the persons who have committed these frauds. The inventory which has been taking in the house of M. Le hon for this last fortnight past, and which was supposed to be nearly terminated, is now proceeding with increased diligence in consequence of the discovery made in the office of this ex notary of 15 boxes containing important papers. A letter from Rome of the 9th of April says, hopes are still entertained of inducing the Archbishop of Cologne to make the concession on which the Prussian government thinks itself bound to insist. The journey of M. Capaccion, under Secretary of State to Germany, has been put off for some days, in consequence of the difficulties that have arisen. I. Charles Francois Oudot, formerly member of the Court of Cassation, one of the Deputiel to the Convention, who was banished, and whom the Revolution of July, 1630, entitled to return to France, has just died, at the age of 86 years. The King and Queen of the Belgians arrived at the Tuileries, from Brussels. It is said that King Leopold will leave Paris on the 3d of May, but that the Queen would stop some days longer. Their Majesties are at the Palais Royal. It is thought that Queen Christina will be at Paris before the christening of the Comte de Paris. The apartments are pre pared in the Elysee. We observed, yesterday, in the streets and public promenades of Paris, officers and privates of forty regiments now in barracks at Paris and the environs. For some days past the Duke of Orleans has a conference almost every afternoon with M. Humann at the Pavilion Manau. It is supposed that the Prince wishes to make himself thoroughly acquainted with the French system of finance, with the real amount of the deficit, and of the debt, and many things which it is not for those to comprehend who are not initiated in the arcana of the Rue Rivoli. —Le Commerce. BO URSE.--TARIS, SATURDAY, APRIL 24. list Highest Lowest Last , Price Price. Pricy. Price French 5 per Cents ll3 55 ... 113 60 ... 113 50 113 f 0 4 per Cents 99 30 ... 99 30 ... 990 3 99 30 3 per Cents 79 10 -. %S. 15 ... 59 39 15 Bank of erance: 3lBO —3lBO ...3175 ...3175 LAiitte Bank 5, , a;01. shares 5157 50 ...5157 50 ...5157 SC ...5157 50 I,ooof.sl.ares 1080 ..,ICBO ...JCS° ~.1080 Belgian Bank 5 per Cent lOl% ... 1111% ... ... 101% New Loan lOl% ... 1.1% 101% ... 101% Spanish Active 24% 24% 24 56 ... 2 5 Passive 54 ... 54 ... 5% -• Portuguese 3 per Cents 20% 20% ... 20% ... 20'4 eapol it an 10 3 490 9O 90 90 Roman IC34 104 ... 103% ... 104 MAU-WAY SHA RES. St Germain Versatile/IX B 365 307 30 ... 265 367 50 • ........... ... 242 50 ~. 142 50 Rouen 460 4 841 463 ... 4,0 Ittasour g to bale 238 75 ... 238 75 ... 237 50 .. 2.:8 75 ()deans . 485 . 4 1 487 50 ... 48i ... 486 25 Bourdeaux to La Teste 401 400 ... 400 400 Mulbausen to Thann s4s ... 445 ... 445 ... 445 DEATH OF THE BISHOP OF D STWORCER.—The Right Rev. Robert James Carr, Bishop of Worcester, expired tha Saturday evening, at nine o'clock, at Hartlebu ry, Worcester. He had been afflicted with severe illness for some time past, and from the commencement of the attack scarcely any hopes were entertained of his re covery. He was the son of the Rev. Colston Carr, and brother of the late Sir Henry Carr, K.C.B. He was conseer.tted Bishop of Chiches ter in 1824, and on the 'death of Dr. Cornewall translated to the See of - Worcester in 1831. The diocese consists chiefly of the counties of Wor cester and Warwickshire, the annual value of which is 6,5001., with the patronage of 17 livings. - - , MEETING AT SIR ROBERT rEEL s.—Yes terday a numerous meeting of the Tories was held at the residence of Sir Robert Pt el, in Whitehall-gardens. The object of their meeting was to oppose Lord Morpeth's Bill, and, according to the Standard, the utmost cordiality and unanimity prevailed. " This meeting," it adds, " must silence A nd for ever put to rest the fabrications about there being a split amongst the Conservatives, or that they have ever for a moment Wit coutidence in Sir Robert Peel as their leader." Wonderful change 1 The Times is to say nothing mote about the Scoundrel Tory leaders, Peel is not to be titre** overboard though he still adheres to the b ru t a l poor,law Bill," aad Stanley is yet to act as his lieutenant, though judged by all the ultra-T ories the only At man to lead them 3 4 . 10 MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, MONDAY EVENING. The state of general business in the City is anything but satisfactory, but there are hopes that our usual Con tinental customers will come forward when they find prices arc so much in favour of the purchasers, and thereby give a stimulus to trade. The German Customs Con - ference has not yet been brought to a close, from which it would appear that the system of exclusion adopted al most avowedly in order to cramp the commercial ener gies of this country, does not altogether work so well as could be desired by the projectors. The Funds have been declining to-day in consequence of the preponderance of sales. Consols for immediate transfer realised 901 to 90, and for the Account 901 to 908 ; Exchequer Bills keep steady at 14s. to I6s. pre mium ; and India Bonds at 2s. to 4s. premium ; the New Three-and• a. Half per Cents. were reduced to 99 and 984 ; and the Three per Cents. to 891 and 89; Bank Stock for the Opening was worth 1721. There was very little animation in the foreign securities. Spanish Bonds opened pretty steadily, but the accounts from the Paris Bourse, noticing a decline in the price caused them to become heavy ; the money value was 23i, and the Account price 23i to 4. Mexican Stock was marked 304 to 30k, and Brazilian 69k, being a shade lower for the former, and a trifle Letter for the latter. Danish Bonds were firm at 7E4 ; Russian Stock touched 1121 to 113; French Five per Cents. Rentes were worth 1131 50c., and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents, were dull at 521. Portuguese New Five per Cents. declined to 34 and 331. The Railway Shares in the course of the day underwent no material change. (From The Sun of Last Night.) A vessel has arrived at Liverpool called the Shanandoah. from Philadelphia on the 3d inst., and Cape Delawar on the sth. No information has reached Philadelphia of the Presi dent up to the 3d instant. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, APRIL 24.—The Cotton market continues exceedingly . depressed, and having a ten dency to further decline in prices. The sales this day do not amount to a thousand bales to the trade. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, APRIL 24.—The business at the Stock Exchange this - day has been limited, but the prices for Railway Shares generally are without alteration.— Edinburgh and Glasgow, 37i- ; Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock, 27 ; Grand Junction, Half Shares, 105 ; Great Western, New Shares, 641; 201. Shares, 11 1 ; London and South Western, 5/. Shares, 21. 4s. 6d. We have received a Cape of Good Hope Shipping List of the 23d of February :—" The works of the bowie (that eastward of Algoa Bay,) and which had been carried on for some time, have been brought to a successful termination, and the river declared navigable for vessels of an easy draught of water. . MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 24.—There is very little animation in our market to-day, prices rather lower : Manchester and Leeds, 64k ; Do. Halves, 271 ; London and South Western, 58f ; Do. Tenths, 44 ; Edinburgh and Glas gow, 37f ; Manchester Assurance, 9/. 6s. ST. HELENA.—The French brig Paella was taken, under Portuguese colours, by the French sloop-of-war Revoyante, and is about to be sent to France or: a charge of piracy. We have received the Journal of Antwerp of yesterday's date. They write from the frontiers of Italy, April 13, that the King of Sardinia has decided to make a tour with the Puke of Savoy in various parts of his dominions, to assure himself of their wants, and to provide a remedy for them . as the fears of a war with France have entirely subsided, the King has ordered a coupe of 6,000 of his troops. BOURSE OF AMSTERDAM, Aram 23.—The Bourse is very little animated, and without variation ; some of the National Funds continue firm, others the contrary, and could not main tain their prices; amongst the latter were the Integraler, of which some sales took place ; Ardoin's are more sought after, and are higher. No news of the President. We may expect on to-morrow the arrival of the packet-ship Independence, of the 7th instant, from New York, which, in all probability, will furnish us with some intelligence respecting the above steamer. The British Funds are rather heavy this morning. Consols, which left off on Saturday at 90g i• for the Account, opened at AO4 ; Money, 90h 4. This flatness of the market may be caused by the approaching Budget. The packet ship Pandora has arrived from Mexico, bringing a freight of 330,000 dollars ; she does not bring any news 01 importance. The above packet, on her voyage, had to contend with tremendous contrary winds. Exchequer Bills, 14 16 prem. ; Bank Stock, 172 173 ; India Stock, 2551 254. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active is a shade lower; left off, at 2314, at present 24 4 ; Deferred,l23 i 1 ; Passive, 51 ; Portuguese also left off 331 344, at present 33 3 ,E X 34; Three per Cents., 20 * g ; Brazi l ia n, 69 70 ; Colombian, 3i ; Mexican, 30 4 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 52/ i; Five per Cents., 991 100. SHARES.—Great Western, 28i 29i prem. ; New, 14/I prem. ; London and Brighton, 2* 2 dis. ; Blackwell, 5i chs. ; Birmingham, 69 71 prem. ; Southampton, 58 59 per share; Croydon, 131 14 per share ; Greenwich, 84 / per share ; Manchester and Birmingham, 15i 14i dis. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DA AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Y Per Share. Birmingham and Gloucester 100 76 Bristol and Exeter ... 60 .. ... to Great Western Ditto New London and Brighton London and Birmingham ... 90 London and South Western 3Bl Ditto Tenths ........ Midland Counties North Midland MISCELLANEOUS. General Steam Navigation PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, APRIL 24. 3 per Cent. Consols Three and Half Stock 97/ Grand Canal Stock „. Ditto Reduced ...... Ditto Debs. 6 per cent... 87a Ditto New, 1830 ...... 97a Ditto 4 per cent St,- per Cent. Debs. ...... Royal Canal Stock The British Funds still continue rather heavy. It is the opinion of the monied interest that Ministers will require more money than was generally anticipated, but whether by loan or funding, is not as yet ascertained; at all events, the speculators are preparing for the result, by abstaining from entering into any operations of magnitude before they ascertain the amount required by the Finance Minister in his budget. Consols are at present 904 for the Account; Money, 90; they have receded 4 per cent. Exchequer Bills, 14 16 pre mium ; Bank *tuck, nothing done ; India Bonds 3 2 prem. In the Foreign Market little doing. Spanish Active, 2311 ; Passive, ; Portuguese, 34 ; Braz ilian lower, ta9i ' Danish, 78 1 / 2 ; DutchTvvo-and - a - Half p er Cents., 521; Five per Cents. 991. In the Share Market scarcely anything doing. Birmingham and Gloucester, 76; Bristol and Exeter, 37 ; Great Western, New, 63:4 ; London and Brighton , 47 / ; London and Bir mingham, 160; North Midland, 81. It is reported that the West India mail is off Pl)mouth. Consols, Account, 90* ; Mexican, 30* ; Portuguese, 331 ; Spanish, 23a.Markets heavy. L CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. .._ _ B3,nk Stock ... India Stock 3 per Cent Red.......... 89A Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent C0n5......... 90 Ditto Old Annuities 31 per Cent Red........ 97a Ditto New Annuities — New 3i per Cent......... 98i ,Ex. Bills, 1,000/....21d 16 pm New 5 per Cent Ditto 5001 l4 pm Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small l6 pm Jan. 1860 ... 124 Bank Stock for Acct...l 72. i Oct 1859 l2 11India Stock for 0pg.... 1 Jan. 1860. — Co nsols for Acct 9Ol FOREIG FUNDS. . Austrian, 5 per cent.... Portuguese, 5 per cent. 62 Belgian, 5 per cent • .Ditto, New Ditto — Brazilian 80nd5.......... Prussian, 5 per cent. Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent 'Russian, 5 per cent ll3 Chilian, 6 per cent — Ditto, Metallic Colombian, 6 per cent... ISpanish, 5 per cent 231 Ditto, 1824. — Ditto, Deferred — Danish, 3 per cent 7Bi French, 5 per cent.ll3f. 50c. Greek, 18:45, 5 per cent — Exchange —f. —c. Mexican, 5 per cent.... French, 3 per cent —f. —c. Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825 . Dutch, 2 per cent. ... 5 2} Peruvian, l 825, 6 per et. Ditto, 5 per cent 99 SHA ES. Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (100 p) 76 Bristol and Exeter ( 60 pa id ) ... .. 37 Great Western Railway ( 65 p aid) 93i Ditto New Shares (5 0 paid 64 London and Brighton (50 paid).. London and Birmingham Railway (90 pd) 160 Ditto New Shares ( 2 paid) 241 London and Greenwich Railway (20 pd) Ditto New Shares (20 paid) London and South Weste rn Ditto Tenths 2it 14h London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) Midland Counties Railway ( 100 paid) •... ..... 89 North Midland Railway ( 100 p aid) COLLEGE LIFE AT CAMBRIDGE. —Wearing a gown in the day time is the characteristic at Cambridge of freshmen and reading men, no one else does it, and yet, every one is liable to a fine if caught without the academical dress. At Oxford they used to inflict the fine. It was a feat to be performed twice a year to take a " hat walk," for it is impossible to take a long walk with the ordinary cap and gown hanging about one. A student w o a n s , to staynce met by his tutor wit h his hat on during a violent wind. What do you mea n, Sir, b y coming out without y our car, Sir ?" said the tutor. " Because the cap w on in this wind, Sir," said the pupil. " Well, Sir, and don't I keep mine on well enough ?" exclaimed the tutor. The next mome nt the tutor's cap was fl oa ti ng d own th e Isis. It is told, we believe, of the father of a peer now living, that presuming on his intimacy with the- authori ties, be ventured to appear in the High-street without his gown. " What do you moan, Sir, by this conduct ?" said the Proctor, meeting him,. "take care I never see you again out of academical dress ;—the statutes, Sir, must be enforced, and we shall not suffer you to disobey them." Away went the ungraduate to his tailor, and ordered a dress precisely in conformity to the statutes, consisting of a scarlet gown of a most extraordinary make—the statutes, be it remembered, are many hundred years old—and several' other appendages equally extra ordinary. With these ho paraded the High-street. The Proctor, when be met him, seemed to distrust his own eyes, and could only stammer out an indignant threat. " You will find, Sir," said the tindergraduite,- " that my dress is in the strictest conformity to that'ordered by the statute." The Proctor was a sharp fellow, and saw that it was best to enter into the joke. "No such thing, Sir," said the Proctor; " )ou have not got your bands on, and I shall fine you accordingly." — " I be g y our pardon, Sir," said the undergraduate, " for here they are." He pulled up his scarlet gown, and disclosed a pair of im statute tnse bands hanging down about the os sacrum. The did not specify where they were to be wore. been despatched APRIL 24.—A courier haseen despatched to Paris to the King. Sir George Hamilton,al Se cretary to the British Legation at. Berlin, w hosr! arriv at Brussels we announced yesterday, left us this m orning with the first train by the Railway to Ostend to embark for London. ters ß bu E rg it h L s l a N y lha A t B P a ß ro l 14 1-' Vlo4n.T7.tListe•htetffe, s the fr ß o us m sian S A t . m l b 3 :s - - sador at the Austrian Court, will not return to Vienna. Count W or ouzoff is spoken of as his successor ; some however say that Mr. Van Lewas,off, or M. de Rebranssiene, will proba bly be appointed to succeed him. AUGSBURG, APRIL 20.—Our letters from Tur key today, without any late mails from Constantinople, com municate various opinions respecting the real grounds of the fall of Resehid Pacha ; one of these conjectures that Rese,hid will be sent as Ambassador to London. The Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry have arrived at Marseilles, from Italy, with a 'suite 0(17 PeT5OllB. MORNING EDITION. HAMBURGH MAIL. ST. PETERSBURG, Arita 10.—Great numbers of peasants belorigitig to the Crown in several populous Governments in the centre of the Empire are now being sent to settle in the lontlaern provinces. .By an Imperial order of the 29th of De cember last year many , of these peasants from' the Govern ments of Riasan, Tamboro, Kursk, Orel, Kharkoff, Pultawa, arid Tschernigors are removed to unoccupied lands in the Go vernments of Saralow, Orenburg, Ekaterinortaf, and the pro vince of Caucasia, with the privileges secured by law to all new setters. STOCKHOLM, APRIL 16.—The Dagligt Allehanda says, " We hear that his Majesty has been indisposed during the Easter holidays, and is not yet quite well, and the Aftonblad King po (o s f e t d c- f d or ay sk ! im s , a le : id s : h uys i it s .,G. AL li a H j o es aus t m y t t u h Nr e righALP Lap:haraAss,pAbileipLern,2ll32a3ga. in indis- Bills. Money Austrian 0 per Cents. ........ ....... ............. 107% 10 71 A Bank Shares 166 An g lo-ltussian Loan lO. % 100 Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate ....„ 103 102% Inscription, Ist Se.:l , lO2 Russian 5 per Cent. Hop., and Co. ad and 4th Series irr, 9- Ditto in Certificates New 4 per Cent, (1540) B';',. i...; % Dutch Actual Debt, 2;4 per Cent s l4i 51 Ditto 5 per Cent Polish Bonds New ticket Anglo-Vanish Loan, 3 per Cert 75) 75% Norwegian Lean, 1534, 4 per Celt... — Spanish, New 5 per Cents. 16% EXCHANGES ON LONDON. HAMBURG, APRIL 23.-13 O.—Two months, 13 5. STockiim.m, ;IPRIL its.—Seventy,fire days, 12. 0..: . . BREMEN, APRIL 10 —Two months, 6 14. isELt.l AN k U N Ds—isauessz , s , APRIL t Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent lo;t% Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent 'A :,,i 3 per Cent. ..... ------ 7u% • (1a40) llO% Loan of City, 1832,4 per Cent bl % _ Societyot Commerce, 4X,per Cent lOO Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent tf% National Society . ... — Exchange on London (short) —Brussels Papers, ,April 24. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.....VIBMNA, APRIL 13 five per Cents. Metalliques Four per cents• •....... .......... .... ....... ... ........ Three per Cents. Bank Shares 1056 --Allgemcine &Ming, April 21 Thirty.seven FINE ARTS. NFW SOCIETY OF PAINTERS IN WATER COLOURS. to the This popular exhibition was opened. public on Wednesday last. It contains upvords of three hundred paintings in water-colours, some of which appear on a first hasty glance to have all the breadth and substance of oils. The col lection, as a whole, is hardly so good as its last year's predecessor, but there are several clever pictures in it, and two or three that may be pro nounced to be of superior excellence. 1\ o. 19 represents " A Dinner at Page's House ;." the scene is taken from the first act of the "Mei.rY Wives of Windsor," and shows us Falstaff seatet.: at table in all his glory, filled with sack • and all sorts of dainty viands, and chucking Mrs. Page under the chin, who submits to his famili arities with a truly philosophic equanimity. The figure of the fat knight is perfectly characteris tic ; his attitude is one of voluptuous indolence ; and .his face has that good-humoured, oily ex pression which the late Stephen-Kemble used to hit off so admirably. Bardolpb, who stands be hind " plump Jack" is easily to be recognised by that erubescent enormity which he called a nose. The picture is spiritedly painted, and the artist is Welinert. No. 60, " The Oath of Varges," ib by Hagha, the subject is historical, and repre sents the furious Spanish fanatic, Jean Varges, who lived in the sixteenth century, pronouning, in the Council Chamber of the Duke of Alva, an oath of extermination against all heretics. There is considerable vigour in the drawing of the figure, as also in that of the bigoted monk who stands near him. No. 75, " Rebekah at the well of Nahor," is chiefly remarkable for the grace and picturesque beauty of the group ing of thq figures round the well. Rebekah, however, is very tamely drawn, and one would never guess, from her countenance, that she was a Jewess. No. 83, " Dausenau, on the Saline," is a pleasing landscape sketch by Robertson, some of whose water-colours have of late attracted much attention. No. 91, " The Bombardment of St. Jean d'Acre," by Campion, is a cleverish picture—especially that portion of it which depicts the explo sion of the powder-magazine. Here, there is some forcible and judicious colouring, the artist having resisted the temptation to overcharge his • colouring. No. 108, " Old Mortality," by Wei ' gall, is a fancy portrait of the enthusiastic old. Covenanter whom Scott has pourtrayed so mi nutely and beautifully in one of the " Talcs of My Landlord." He is looking down pensively on a rude, mouldering tomb-stone, with his pony by his side. The expression of the benevolent zealot's face is full of appropriate meaning. The mountain back-ground is well defined. No. 156, " The Battle of Agincourt," is the joint produc tion of Warren and Weigall. The chief per sonage in the picture is of course Henry the Fifth, who is shown in the act of defending the life of his brother, the Duke of Gloucester, after he has been unhorsed, and thrown to the ground by the Duke D'Alencon. There is much of Cooper's vivid colouring iu this pic " ture, which is replete with animation: No. 17Z), Valley of the Rhone, Switzerland, with Castle and Village! I of Martio.ny," is one of the most effcc:ive paint ings in the Exhibition. It is from the pencil of Oliver, who-has handled a difficult perspective with consummate skill. No. - 177, " Sunset, View on the Tyne," would have been better, if the artist had not thrown too much yellow into his colouring. Of the remaining pictures, the cle verest is No. 214, " Mary, .Queen of Scot? Farewell to France," which shows the. unhappy Queen looking-fondly from the deck of her gal ey towards the fast receding shores of that land o which she was destined never again to return. COURT CIRCULAR. His Royal Highness Prince Albert was yesterday invested, at Buckingham Palace, with the Ensign of the Order of the Golden Fleece. His Grace the Duke of Wellington, being a Grandee of Spain, and also a Knight of the Golden Fleece, was nominated by her Majesty the Queen of Spain to invest his Royal High ness with the Insignia of the Order. The Noble Duke ar rived at Buckingham Palace soon after three o'clock, and Vis count:Palmerston, her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and his Excellency General Maya, the Spanish Alinister, also arrived at the Palace soon afterwards to be present at the ceremony. His Grace then invested the Prince with the Ensigns of the Order of the Golden Fleece. His Royal Highness was attended by the Groom of the Stole, Lord George Lennox, Gentleman in Waiting ; Capt. Francis Seymour, Groom in Waiting ; and Colonel Bouverie, Equerry in Waiting. The Queen and Prince Albert went yesterday morning to the Hanover-square rooms, and attended the rehearsal of the Concert of Ancient Music. The Royal suite consisted of the Duchess of Bedford, Hon. Miss Cavendish, Mr. Rich, Lord A. Paget, Colonel Bouverie, and Captain Francis Seymour Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the Prin ces= of Leiningen yesterday at Buckingham Palace. Viscount Melbourne had an audience of her Majesty yesterday. The Royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace last evenin g included her R o y al Highness the Duchess of Kent, their S erene Highnesses the P rince and Princess of Leiningen, Earl asAerno Anson. t s s e r o : d a ' g Amongue a h r Guards s d t a ah t et dinnerc n o d m e attended and Countess of Surrey, Lady Mary Howard, Earl of Uxbridge Lady Anne Maria Dawson,. Viscount Melbourne, Baroness e 'l yhi Spaeth,sel aßs a N to n l ye d r a e o G r f ki gg E e h . R na a te o c s y d s a ct l t ha l RegimentimlHD Cambridge eooHf Mrs.oc House. at the Palace during dinner. were her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, pparnHty at tended by Lady Caroline Legge, his Highness Prince Ester hazy, Earl of Pembroke, Lord and Lady Fitzroy Sonier sewto,mLboNrydellA, C do o l r p n h N u ya s u l , ?it s ze t l a a n r d e i n s c h e , , an Lo d rd cu ß l e li a n u g m s e m nt, ith A , les co s re. ion ti e f s Keate and Jones, Major Stephens, and Capt. Macdonald. The Duke of Cambridge visited the Duchess of Kent yester— day at Clarence House, St. James's, and she Prineesi of Leiningen, at Buckingham Palace. Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal was taken an airing yesterday morning in a carriage and four. His Royal Highness the Mr. Duke of Cambridge, attended by Lieut.-Colonel Jones , did Hayter the honour to sit to him yesterday for his portrait in tne picture of her Majesty's marriage. ltahset.MihniissteEr ioefetihieeneNyetwhieirarrrecitus,rnleuftyfothr eHmolildirilde of n t A A S l l . a a t ij y ti .. e rd d a e y i' The Rev. J. Prowett, Colonel O'Reilly, and Mr. Bellender Ker, had interviews with Lord Juhn Russell yesterday at, the Colonial-office. . Muntz, had interviews With the leose.ai t he Attorney-General, the Mayor n of the Excise, had an interview with yesterday, at the Home Office.. of Marquis rr.l I D ir o e . n Dons of a s o t r o e g r r u : i o s a cr m n o h d f aa nb l n y r l g .. the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, in Downing,street. Despatches fr om the Governor of th al e Off Cape of Good ale wer e received yesterday, at the Coloni TAFF VALE RAILWAY.—On Wednesday last we witnessed, by the invitation of some of the Di rectors of the T aff Vale Railwa y Com p an y , a p roud triumph of Cambrian enterprise and spirit, in the opening tlitooghout its entire length, of this very interesting and important undertaking. r t t b b y e r, im an m d en c s o e nn i e ro c n ts wwoirtkhsinhopan;2fhotuhre's interval of It is now: completed fronv Cardiff great outlet, I, ttwroiatnhsiiet its proofs of the irtepressible energies of our country, whiltt f..c. port of Cardiff, bringlinginttP:ileitarY to the tourist it urSulis the roost romantic and picturesque scenery in the kingdom.—Monmouth shire THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. —This magnificent line of railroad is fast approaching completion. The most strenuous exertions arc being made for the ac complishment of that desirable object, and the opening of the line in June or July, so conducive, it is to be hop.3u, to the prosperity of Bath and Bristol.—Bristol Mercury. the T a ff h a e i r Co of lco,Lunet DCicamzeiatotefrsconnmcirrrmiegse tiht.evinnaccboeuennteox! plained to the satisfaciion of the Emperor Nicholas, an d says that his Imperial Majesty has given the Count leave to return to Paris. It now affords us much gratification to commu tate to the' army our belief that Captain Anthony Rey. n old?, of the 11th Hussars, will nest week be brought to full pay of the 14th Light Dragoons, selling out in tho wine Gazette t 3 Lieutenant Touge.—Natal and 31i1itary Gazette. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston received a distinguished party to dinner on Es:tnrday evening at their mansion on Carlton-house terrace. rol es, t ya 41,