The Sun. — London, England, 1841-04-13 00:00:00

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POSTSCRIPT.-9th March, 18:J.—HEINE BROTHERS have the pleasure to state that they remitted to-day, 9th March, 1841, TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND POUNDS t 4 Lon- Son and vicinity, resulting from the Distribution of Ist inst. HEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. iJ •;ofit. - ; . 1 - ;e - lif7J.I.AGE7‘11,:.}..;•r of 3TADA.ME VESTRES. THIS EVENING, APRIL 13 "Will be repeated the New Comedy, in Five Acta, entitled LONDON ASSURANCE. Sir Harcourt Courtly, Bart., Mr. W. Farren ; Max Hark away, Mr. Bartley; 'Mr. Charles Courtly, Mr. Anderson ; Mr. Adolphus Spanker, Mr. Keeley; Mr. Dazzle, Mr. C. Mathews; Mark Meddle, Mr. Harley; Grace Harkaway, Madame Vestris; Lady Gay Spanker, Mrs. Nisbett ; Mrs. Pert. Mrs. Flornin. Atter which will be repeated, the Grand Romantic Fairy Ex travaganza entitled BEAUTY AND - THE BEAST. Beauty. Madame Vestris : The Beast, Mr. W. Harrison ; John Quill, Mr. Harley ; Dressalinda, Miss Rainforth; Mar rygolda, Miss Grant; Queen of the Roses, itliss Lee. . . 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After which, a Spectacle of Diablerie, called APOLLYON, THE GREAT FIEND ; OR, THE LOVE TOKEN. Apollyon, Mr. 0. Smith. To conclude with a New Farce, entitled THE UNIFORM ; OR, TWO MEN AND ONE COAT. Characters by Messrs. J. S. Balh., J. T. Haines, Neville, Buckingham, Ileslop, Mrs. H. Hughes, Mrs. W. Daly, &c. Entirely New Scenery and Dresses for all Three Pieces. "THE CHINA SUN," REPUBLISHED ON SATURDAY LAST, IS NOW ON SALE, With all the LATEST NEWS. TRH RAILWAY SUN WILL BE PUBLISHED TOWARDS THE END OF THIS MONTH. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORRO W ‘l, timig ti rninutss after 6 I Evening 37 minutes after 7 The Publication of the Evening Edition of THE Svx com menced at 10 minutes after Three. querors and the conquered into one friendly people, but subsequent and successive confisca tions have given to the soil new masters. The conquests and new partitions of the country in the reigns of ELIZABETH and JAMES 1., under CROM WELL and WILLIAM 111., went so far as to oust, we believe, nearly all the previous possessors, and has made historians say that the whole soil of Ireland was confiscated three times over. These latter confiscations, too, were all made from a religious as well as a political motive they were to convert the Irish, first into English, afterwards into Protestants. The result is, the soil has become Protestant and English, but the bulk of the population remain Catholic and Irish. Hence, for the last century and a half, while all the rest of the empire has been gradually amal gamating into one homogeneous mass, and differ ences of race and of religion are passing into oblivion, or attract no attention, a feud has been kept alive in Ireland, and is growing and ex tends to this day, and is now breaking forth in the cry for Repeal. As long, undoubtedly, as the present appropriation of the soil of Ireland is continued that feud will continue, which makes us say that the Irish, in now turning their atten tion to the relation between landlord and tenant, have got on a new and a right tack. Whether they will have political sagacity enough to carry their barqUe into the haven to which its prow points, we must leave time to show. It is well and truly said by the Southern Re porter, speaking of those who wrested the land by force from the original landowners : The Irish are inured to suffering and oppression. They would tolerate the monopoly and extortion of their ma,- tera—but then their masters have been for the last hundred years the law-makers! Statute after statute has been en acted, conferriag new and formidable latoweri, and these powers have never been allowed to be inactive. A deadly system of extermination has been adopted and worked out on cold calculation, so that, with a soil capable of main taining treble its present population. there are many hun dreds of thousands who eannet obtain, at any rent, haw_ ever extravagant, permission to live otherwise than on the roads or in a workhouse. There we see evidence that the wrongdoers have always laboured to keep alive the memory of their oppression. Should the landowners com plain, as perhaps they may, that the length of time they have held their land has now given them a prescriptive _ right, and that there would be no end to disturbance should such a possession not confer a safe title, they are answered by the assertion that, as law-makers, they have passed statute after statute conferring new and formidable powers, and so always keeping the people in mind of the original wrong, and of their perpetual slavery. In :act, these successive statutes were successive encroachments and usurpations, like the first, though not so outrageous, each of which prevented that return into the right path, by which nature, if not thwarted, sinks the minds of nations, in time, into forgetfulness of injustice, and converts a fierce usurpation into a beneficial holding. It is not iu Ireland alone that landlords, who have been law-makers, by passing statute after statute, conferring new and extraordinary powers or wealth on themselves, have kept con tinually encroaching on and continually usurp ing the right of others, so as continually to force back the public mind to the question of their original right. They have, unfortunately for themselves, done the same in England. Not contented with occupying the highest station in society —not contented with being far more,abun dantly provided with all the good things of life without labouring, than the utmost exertions of industry could command—not contented with the great honour and political superiority which were secured to them, they halie sillily, meanly, and basely made statute after statute to curtail the li berties, or appropriate the wealth, of the people; the consequences are, they are forfeiting the public respect, bringing all their rights into question, and making men turn their attention in England, as in Ireland, to the peculiar appro priation of the soil as a source of many political evils. We wish it were otherwise; but the ex treme and obstinate folly and injustice of the landowners are forcing on the public the ominous question, by what right do they hold their pos sessions and their power ? When we yesterday made a rough compariso n between astronomy and morality to vindicate the unfitness of those who are educated exclusively to honour antiquity, to preside over the moral education of the community, we understated our case. Whatever might have been the knowledge ofastronomy at anyparticularperiod, there can be, and is, no question,—since celestial phenomena, like eclipses, recorded in early Greece, have been verified by modern calculation—that the physi cal system of the universe has been the same since the beginning of history. Though -...---- m . en may have held very different opinions at The Irish seem to be putting their political different times, there is no doubt whatever that barque on a new and a right tack. We have t copied from the Southern R e p or t er an art i c l e on the earth has al ways revo l ved round the sun and d, _Landlord and Tenant, exp ress ly wr i tten i n a i d round its own a x i s , as our N EWTON demonstrate .of Mr. O'Co N s I ELL's grea t speec h on the same and we beli eve i t now revolves. But though the Physical laws w hi c h h ave regulated and deter :subject, a copious extra c t f rom w hi c h appeared . mined the multipli cat i on o f our species —expressed iri our Paper of Sat ur d ay . Th oug h .we differ shortly as th e re l a ti on b etween population and I very much from Mr. O'C oNs tErt. on the questio n •of absenteei s m, and thi n k th at w h ere the land- subsistence, lik e th e l aws o f grav i ty—havealways - lord spends his rent is of littl e importance coin- been the sam e , th ere seems to b e some reason pared to the amount he is a bl e to exact, we to doubt wh et h er t h e moral laws or moral have little doubt that one of th e ma i n sources relations ha ve rema i ne d unaltered. As the of the evils of Ireland is the mo d e i n w hi ch the progress of p o p u l a ti on h as gone on, and as soil is appropriated, and th e p ecu li ar i ty of the mankind hav e mu l t i p li e d , new moral relations relation which has, in conseq uence , grown up be- between them individ ua lly, an d between them :tween landlord and tenant. and the physical world, ha ve come i nto existence. So ill do we think of the p resent race of mere For example, whe n p opu l at i on was scanty, :landowners, whose re s id ence i n t h e country, a family mi g ht wan d er whither it would, and trespassed on no rights i n pit c hi ng its tent,s 'Where they amu se th emse l ves w i th dispensing where it pleas e d, an d i n felling the timber law after their own fa s hi on , an d k eep i ng and _killing game for th e i r own sport an d their te- which grew ar oun d. B ut when many families :a ants' grea t annoyance , t h at we regard their ab- came to require th e same conveniences, and sence as a far greate r bl ess i ng t h an their corn- when a rude app r op r i a ti on b y coming to a spot puny. W e are qu i te sure, to refer to Ireland for ensued, the first corner acqu i red a right to the soil, and it became wrong in other men to inter an example, that the Marquis of HERTFORD, who fere with that which, before his appropriation, is said never to have set foot in Ireland in his t i neir use as his. We, where he is a great landowner, is a far less was as freely given for Carrying our thoughts from that first great zinischi evous person than such resident Earls as change over to the -- ,resent crowded condition of where those of GLENGALL, CHARLEVILLE, and RODEN, whose presence is the nutriment of faction Europe, and 1 .;i" our country in particular, and strife. Wealth may not mere) ...y every foot of soil, but everything the be employed to fo ment divisions, to seduce honesty to pervert earth... Dears, has an owner, we must isee that, with the registers, to bribe and coerce ' crery successive change between these two ex electors, as well as to heal disorders and give encourp_ ge tremts, new relations between man and man, and ment to virtue. In Ireland, the Orange r - - between man and the soil ) tam come into esident landlords, exercising the offices f 1 existence. At present, tiS one consequence of 0 1. ne Magis 'eh;t , tract', were long a great curse to made to the great multiplication of the species, a and an approximation was firs: c violence, when minute division of labour, both territorial and order, individual ) Drevails, of and. to substituting law f.or ' the that which the cons equence is, Stipendiary Magistrates and a S t i pendiary produce of labour whether agri cu l tural Y 2olice superseded the autho r ity of the or manufacturing, belongs in right and in fa to landlords and their armed retainers. But several different persons, who assist in its pro duction. It has to be divided the bulk of the landlords are Protestants that the price of apiece at least into and Orangemen ; the soil is said to be exclusively IN ages,profit ) , and rent. So far is this now carried, sh c a . re ~ in order to reward the many persons who of fire muslin has to be Protestant, and a body of resident Protestant landlords would be, with all deference to Mr, a. : _s st m producing it, amongst a greater nuinber than we can tell, including the Glasgow weaver O'CoNxErr, a sore plague to Ireland. The pre sence of the landlords then, without a change of at one , end of the long chain ) and at the other, the tenure, would be of no advantage, and it is the cotton-grower of Atabama, with all the inter to the latter, ais g uised, however, under phrase-mediate assistants rat sailors, merchants, carriers, c logy less calculated to excite alarm, rather shipowners, &t!.. Vic. We know that this elabo than 'to the former, that the Hon. and Learned 1 rate division and appropriation is easily and uni- Gentleman and his friends now look. o*.:ner, He spoke, for example, of there being about versaily made by the " huxtering of th e mar , relations i kets ;" but surely the several relations in which 710,000 landed proprietors in Ireland, " wh•T as," he said, " if there were the ,aacTrie-e these various workmen stand to each proportion as in Holland, there would be 1,137,000." He and to the web or doth, are moral which had no existence in the earl y ages. ..e wants, therefore, not that the present landlords should reside, but that We might Ct tend the dec ll :.ction, and the great 1,137,000 frugal, independent farmers such as use now made of pape: money would be rich in own and cultivate Holland, shou l d 'He wants, therefore, a change in supply their illusthttions; but we only wish to indicate u place. Principle, a , a show that while the lairs, Whieh the tenure of las he wants to substitute r egulat:i the solar system hate b•eeti the same the cultivators for th e present landowners sin: htnnan knowledge, the .:e •the beginni ng of and we are bound to say, so far as ti moral moral relations a mankind have undergone happiness of his country is • concerned, that great alterations consequent - on that which may we think Mr. O'CONNELL is not far wrc- iig. ife be called a new physical fact, the filling of the should, however, speak out, in orcler that 1 • ' surface of the earth with human beings. Now, meaning may be known and weighed in Ee,r as it must be plain . to the . meanest capacity that the land, a n d th e p u bli c here be enabled to Jud e knowledge which is necessary to our earthly Whether or not they will support him. and ail happiness is a knowledge of these new relations The appropriation of the soil in other parts oftheir consequences, not a knowledge of Europe may be lost in the night of time, and a whichlhe d ifferent relations and their consequences Jong day of prescription may have given the pre- a pres ailed in antiquity. The natural es profit, sent possessors as good as an oriainal title • ; but laws, for example, which regulate wages and 0 'the appropriation of the soil of Ireland coni es grow out of them, and we need not re mind our readers that a knowledge of these laws within the compass of modern history, avid W; know, as well as w e 's now of know the geographical 1 . essential importance to the peace of society. The State, we have already said, aspires position of the country, that it was founded in conquest and usuration. ..or the earthly happinezA of the ill - te ore' ids f' The first conquest by .°: - -. ' England in the reign o f 1%1, 4 enough ago to HENRY 11. took pl ace ' people -- it has ne po und nor means to have blended the con- I promote their salvation • , and the State conse- 4 A N • 1 ' , gp-, ; ;Ni .41 , 0 P.O The laitt LONDON: TUESDAY, APRIL 13, 1841. THE SUN, LoNa'ot, TUE ;DA V, APRIL 13, 1;x-11. quently commits a fatal error when it confides the control of education to men who disregard these new relations, and the important laws which grow from them, and study only the relations of a past age. We are almost afraid to offer such considera tions to our readers; but the great exertions the priesthood are now making to curb the growing intellect of mankind, and the humiliating defe rence which is paid to thei r un f oun d e d andarrogant claims, by our most conspicuous statesmen of both parties, make us regard it as a duty to state some of the circumstances which ought, in our opinion, to weigh with statesmen in removing the educa tion of the people entirely from the interference and control of the priesthood. We have received the whole of the Paris jour nals of Sunday. On Maundy-Thursday the KING and the Court attended at the chapel of the Tuileries the ceremony of the commemora tion of washing the disciples' feet before the cru cifixion. This was the first time the ceremony was performed since the Revolution of 1830. The Journal des Debats of Sunday has the following account of an examination by the KING of the progress of the works for fortifying Paris : On Friday. at two o'clock, the King visited the works of the fortifications of Paris, in the park of Neuilly and the Bois de Boulogne. His Majesty was accompanied by Marshal Soult. Lieutenant -General Dode de la Brunerie, his Aides de- Camp, and orderly officers. Lieut.-Colonel de Casieres, who has the superintendence of the works between the Canal Saint Denis and the Lower Seine, awaited his Majesty at Neuilly. The King found all the works stopped along the whole I.ne that he traversed. Tis interruption is to be ascribed to a contest which has arKn between the Administration of the Ponts et Chaussees and that of the War Department, which is on the point of being settled. His Majesty ordered that the works should be resumed with the utmost activity. A Coun cil, which is to take place to day (Sunday) at the,War-office, between the Marshal, the Director-General of the Fortifica tions, and several officers, will definitively regulate the division of the works. Those of the Bois de Boulogne will be finished the first. It is also stated that it has been decided that the works should be commenced at every po,nt of the enceinte simultaneously. In fact, it would be difficult to expend the thirty-five millions which have been voted for this year, and to which must be added the seven millions which remained from the last, if a great extent of ground were not to be embraced, and if extraordinary activity were not devoted to the works. There is very little news of the slightest inte rest in . the French journals of Sunday. On the Bth inst the Duke of NEMOURS sailed from Tou lon for Algiers on board the Grondeur steamer. NEW ZEALAND COLONISTS.—Th e Lloyd Nantnis an nounces, that the French colonists sent out to New Zealand, in the Comte . de Paris, had lauded in that island, and com menced their settlement without any impediment on the part of the English, who had taken possession of ttie country in the name of the Queen. The French plar:ors had established their own laws, and elected for their Taernor M. de Belligny, a young naturalist travelling at tb, expense of the Paris Mu seum. All the plants brouffiit from France had succeeded. The vines, mulberries, ?:.rd tobacco, were also doing well. The most friendly ntr,;;iigenee existed between th e crews o f th e English corvette ' -i- .,:avourite and the French brig Aube. THE F" . ...1C11 BEEF TA X.—lt was proposed at the begin ning of +: re F rench session to diminish the duty on the impor tation, of foreign cattle, which is 55 francs the head. Since ti„en a considerable rise has taken place in the price of meat, and by and by the poor must do altogether without it unless the Legislature permit importation. The Journal des Debats publishes the following facts:— From 1819 to 1829, the annual consumption of Paris was 76,000 oxen, 360 kilogrs. each ; from 1829 to 1839 it was not 70,000 oxen of 325 kilogrammes, though the popu lation had augmented one-sixth. In 1825, 830,000 inha bitants of Paris consumed 46 millions of kilogrammes of butchers' meat. In 1838, 920,000 only consumed 444 mil lions of kilogrammes. In 1789, Lavoisier estimated that the Parisians consumed 75 kilogrammes per head in the year; now they consume but 481. The consumption of wipe, the other great source of strength to the working populatsolft; is also greatly diminished. It is not one-half of what it was in 1809." One of the great causes of this diminution in the comfort and nourishment of the lower classes in Paris, is the octrol, or duty on entering the gates, whieh is for meat nearly as much as that paid on any oz passing the frontier. Both to gether amount to 41. or lOU francs—between the one-third and the one-fourth of the price. As the Journal des Debats ob serves, the capital of the working classes lies in the vigour of their muscles. Paris is erecting and gilding fountains and squares. It is gradually starving its poorer population. THE EASTERN QUESTION.—The Leipsic Gazette, under the head of Vienna, 2nd inst., mentions that Prince Metter nich had lately declared, that "if the treaty of London was not executed in the spirit of humanity in which it was con ceived towards Mehemet Ali, Austria would withdraw com pletely from it, and leave to the authors of a war which would then become inevitable all the responsibility of such a ca lamity." General Quiroga, whose name has acquired some celebrity, died on the 26th of March at Santiago, of an apoplectic stroke. He was living in a state approaching topoverty. The two eldest sons of the Infants of Spain, who were at the College of Henry IV., set out yesterday to visit some of our cities and departments, previously to a journey in Belgium, Holland, and England, where they are going to pass some months. —La Gazette de France. The following is a letter from Canea, dated the 6th of March, addressed to the Lord de Manville : The attempt at insurrection in this island appears likely to come to nothing. A regiment is expected at Constantinople, and there is no doubt that on its arrival tranquillity will be completely restored. Two of the English men-of-war, which were at anchor at Suda, have already left; there will remain only une, it is said, till the arrival of troops from Constantinople. It is vain that it has been contemptuously asked what there is in the name of Mehemet Ali ? The question is answered by facts in Syria, as well as here—the country is not destitute of troops, and yet anarchy rages. Here the Egyptian garrison is not yet gone, it does duty as before; but the illustrious name of its former head is wanting to keep the turbulent in awe. Candia has lost not less than Syria in being withdrawn from the sceptre of Mehemet Ali. Will the lurks be able to keep it ? This country, which has not a thirtieth part of the population that it could support, and its future destiny may become so brilliant, will perhaps be the prey of the most adroit. It is whispered that England is not unconnected with the attempt at insurrection, its object being to have a plausible pretext, to occupy part of the island. if it is so we shall learn in the sequel, and we may expect the misfortunes which inevitably follow a Machiavelian policy.--Le Constitutionnel. AIJSMIAN FUNDS.-..V18 , 1NA, APRIL 2 live per Cents. Metalliques Four per Cents. Three prr Cents. Bank Shares t Zeitung. April 7. The Madrid Journals of the 4th instant have reached us, but they contain no news of the least interest. " The British Queen and Statesman," which was published for the first time under the above title on Sunday week, has, we understand, procured for itself an increase of circulation and a drgree of confidence not equalled in the same space of time by any existing journal. It is a Family Journal, and is conducted upon truly national, loyal, and independent principles. The splendid Portrait of her Most Gracious Majesty, which was presented to its readers, has never been excelled as a work of art ; and is spirited Proprietors have, we understand, determi ne d u p on striking off an additional number for the gratification of those who could m t procure copies of them on Sunday week. Portraits of Prince Albeit, Lord Melbourne, Lord John Russell, Sir R. Peel, Mehemet Ali, Commodore Napier, and other distinguished personages, are announced as being in a state of preparation. The advertisements amounted to no less than nine columns, and proved, by their number, that it is only necessary to conduct a Journal upon pure, exalted, and independent principles, in order to eornitand the support of the public. Literature, and Music, and Fine Arts, and the most recent discoveries in Science and Art, form distinguished features of " The British Queen," and are evidently written by gentlemen intimately acquainted with the subjects upon which they write. ME AttAflllt Th Royal STEA NIERS.— ..e Mail steamer Caledonia would leave Boston on the Ist M- I stant fcr Halifax and Liverpool. She may be expected therefore to arrive on or before Thursday next, The 1 British Queen wonld kart New York en the 10th, and will be due, oll" Southampton, about the 25th instant, The Great Western left liingroad, Bristol, on Thursday last, fcr New York.. CURIOtTB CLISTOII.I ON EASTER MONDAY.— An inhabitant of Hallaton, Leicestershire, some years since bequeathed a piece of land to the Rector of the town for the time being, in trust for the protediete of two hare pies, a quantity of ale, end two doten penny loaves, to be scrambled for annually on Ranter Monday: This land, which was called Hare-crop Leys, being enclosed in 1770, a piece of land was allotted to the Rector, in lieu of the same, since which ptriod the Rector, instead of the two hare pies, provides two large pies made of veal and bacon, which are divided into parts, and put into a sack. About two gallons of ale, in wooden bottles, eel:out handles or striegs, are pat fhto anotUr sects, and the penny loaves, cut into quarters, ive put into a basket. The men who hive charge of the bequest are joined, soee af ter they leave the Rectory, by those Who luttfid fd tne?.e in the sport. In teeeeerse e!iiseir journey to a place called Hare-pie Beek, which is situated about a quart er o f a m il e souo. of the town, the pieces of bread are occasion a;ly thrown to be scrambled for, The place of kendezvous consists of a Lank, with a small trench round it, arid a cir cular bole in the entre% (pro which the pies and ale are promiscuously thrown. f en pon a signal being giv en , t h ose who er i4 iklha of the sport rush forward to seize a bit of pie, or tnde4votir to.get possession of a bottle. GREE-NWltit VA iltt' , --- THE RIVER. The uns'ettied #t* Wthe , Ab b. weather, the north.ev :rt and , ! the Ired an d b ail, which , i 4 ii • l nug, marred the down heavily in the after noon, considerably eejoyments a the holiday folks yesterday, and the numbersthe who visited Greenwich were for below the averag e of taster Mondayeentlibetrepr era were less crowded than on park and fair were a one time well but the rain and hail, which o'clock, dispersed the lads and lassies and caused them to take refu refreshment-houses, and tea-hougses. we' for a run down, and the weather II of the visitors, and inter!ered in nn anlell i t t i Pe formerl aneivers*y. li he s f v e e il l attended with visitors, between four and five houses, o in very quick time, spirits e VI tees too profits of the showmen , bomb. owners, i a 'til : h d e e i.j.,: r} u the h i co houses of public entertainment. The fair preseeent with the Tund t 0 keepers of features, and there is the usual variety o f shop : no new , shouts end swing?, and gingerbread stalls: The On own and Anchor booth and " Richardsores Theatre,,,allied conducted by Nelson, Lee, and Johnson, where a traged y and a pantomime were performed ten times during thede to crowded audiences, were the principal attraction; and are certainly well conducted. The behaviour of the people was orderly, and the police arrangements excellent. The steam-boats on the Ttln'e were ‘e ry einner. on ...:A.l t(i:u6ver! c.z;li uiil ee ii. r:.:.' ~ u ('-':.:,;;.% op Lfs l d , nivi i the :Iv..T. Lo :..1,~ efic..,,:i i ilt a ga,C 642it.ck, tile Lair was tolerably crowded, but the weather was cold, damp, and foggy. LLO YD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) . . LONDON, APRIL 13.—Wind noon, light breei: at S. S. W., with fine etchr 04.1,1kr. DEAL, APRIii 12.—Wind N.E., fresh breeze.—Arrived the Richniond Hill, from Berbice ; Blundell, Haynes, Trim &t ; Sedulous barque, Garland schooner, and Favourite ditto. Arrived from the River and sailed the Luey l Sharp, for New Zealand; Undine, Samson, Boston; Mary, Clark, Quebec ; Garland, Newfoundland; Invoice, Constantinople; Whynot, Pitt, Malt a ; I sa b e l, Li s b on ; F earnot, ditto; N. S. de Be gona, Corunna. FALMOUTH, APRIL IL—Arrived the Royal Tar, for Vigo Ocean, De Reyter, Jacmel; Hardy, Bradford, Sierra Leone Oriental s t eamer , Alexandria; Gondola, Buenos Ayres. BRISTOL, APRIL 12.—Arived the Vesper, from St. 31i chef's, Sailed the Lockwood, for Quebec. MILFORD, APRIL 11.—Sailed the Pembroke Castle, Stan& bury, for Quebec. CORK, APRIL 10.—Arrived the Patelma, Strong, from Leg horn. Sailed the Sisters, APPhun, Algiers. Arrived off port the Champion, Holt, from Rio Janeiro. DUMFRIES, APRIL B.—Sailed the Duchess of Buceleuch, Blair, for Quebec; Diana, Cowan, ditto; Liena, Dalhousie. HULL, APRIL 12. —Wind N.E.—Arrived the Regard, We therall, from St. Michael's ; Isabella Jean, ditto. - Sailed the Jane, Tather, for Quebec. YARMOUTH APRIL 10. —Arrived the Pegasus, for New castle, with damage, having been in contact with another vessel. PLYMOUTH, APRIL 11.—Wind N.W.—Arrived the West minster, Michies, for Sydney, New South Wales; Pearl, Bar rows, for ditto; Royalist, Shapcatt, Demerara; Lord John Russell, late Brock, fur Bermuda; Barhanopcoter, for Port Phillip. Sailed the City of Adelaide, Foster, for Port Ade laide; Overysell, Batavia; and Maryann, Quebec. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 12.—Wind E.N.E.—Arrived the Ela Rae, from Galway, with larboard bows stove, having been run into by the City of Dublin (steamer) off the Owers. COWES, APRIL 12.—Arrived the Charlotte, Brun, from Monte Video, wi4h damage and loss of anchor, &c. having been in contact with aßelgian schooner. Dovzlt, APRIL 11.—Arrived the Donna Alaria, from Eahia, sailed 12th ult. ; Usseles, Buenos Avres for Rotterdam. LIVERPOOL, APRIL 12.—Wind N.E., moderate.—Arrived the Normandie, Spalding, from NOW Orleans. Off port, the Blorenge, from Calcutta. Sailed the Bangalore, Smith, for Bombay ; Keswick, Maranharn ; Llama, Clayton, La Guayra ; Salus, M'Kinlay, Quebec; Thomas, Edmondson, ditto ; Aberdeen, Duggan, ditto ; Trafalgar, Kennegy, ditto ; George Robinson, Lockycr, Newfoundland; Buoyant, Sanley, rlitto ; Shaw, Scott, ditto ; Wanderer, Dixon, ditto ; Donegal, Hodgson, ditto. ftumNEy, APRIL 12.—Arrived off, Glenbemie, Batavia. The Majestic, Jack, from London to Londocderry, to em bark passengers for New Brunswick, was driven on shore on the Island of Tyre 2d instut, and is expected to become a wreck —master and three men drowned. he William Hirsch, from Liverpool to Pictou, has put back, having been on shore. PRIVY COUNCIL -(THIS DAY.) WOOD AND OTHERS V. GOODLAKE AND OTHERS. The arguments in this case were ;;;ned to-day. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL St3tO3 that he had determined since yesterday not to trouble their Lordships with any observations, but to leaVe the care with their Loriships, and in the hands of his Learned Friend, Sir William Follett. He was fully convinced that their Lordships, acting upon true principles of law, would reverse the de• ciMbit of the Court below. As the, base now stood upon the evidence, those for whom he appeared wefe entitled to ask of their Lordships to make every presumption at case would admit of in favour of the legatees. Sr W. FOLLETT appeared, with his Learned Friend the Solicitor- General, in favour of the parti s who claimed under the codicil. He should confine his arguments chiefly with regard to the codicil, and with respect to that he submitted, that under the circumstances in which it had been propounded for proof it ought to have been admitted. The question f,,r their Lordships was, whether the Learned Judge below had correctly laid down the rule of law ? If he had, then he admitted that there would Le some diffi culty in et-tablishing the codicil ; but he submitted that the princi i de laid down by that Learned Judge was against the principles of the Ecclesiastical Court. The Learned Judge in his judgment had laid it down as a strict rule of law slut the evidence of handwriting al ,re was not suthicier,t to prove a codi , ii unless there was some dire( tr. cognition with the deceased. Now that he would venture to s-ky was not the law oc.' the Ecele i astical Court, or that of any other Court in this country. The Learned Judge below was satisfied that the conicil was executed by the deceased, but he con sidered bimaelf bound by an unbending rule of law to d.cide against it. The Learned Counsel then proceeded to cite several cases, for the purpose of showing that it had been the practice of the Eccle siastical Court to receive evidence of handwriting to a will or codicil. Among the cases referred to were Con stable and Styles, and Clix and Walpole, in which it was laid down that the Ecclesiastical Court acted upon the same prine'ple in the proof of wills that the other Courts of the c untry did, ( fhe case - was proceeding when we went to prem) COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (THIS DAY.) IN THE MATTER OF - COLEMAN. The bankrupt carried on business as an Innkeeper is St. Aihan's, and was well known as a trainer of horses f)i- several leading characters eonnectA with the tue. The present state of the balance sheet showed his liabiL ties as 3,6501. Is. and debts 6,179! Os. 3 while hi s available assets and debts owing to the estate were 2,2921. Os. 3d. A furth, r sum of 161. appeared for the bank rupt's Fersonal property, much of' his stock, furniture, &c. having been seized under an execution, which the S ii ciror to ti.e fiat said ho though, could yet be made -avail able to the general credicors. This marring being appointed for the final exarninaticn, several of the c.'editors appeared in person or by their kg,l advisrrs, and expressed the , r satisfaction at the bankrupt's general conduct, and a wish not to afford any unnecesshry o , vexatious opposition _ Sir F. Wiiiiams (the Lord Commissioner), expressed his appramtion of the course the ereditori pursued. He thought this was a case in which a dividend of 20F,. in the pound could be given to them if the accounts were f:>i ly investigated, and the creditors pulled together. In order to afford ample time and opportunity to eff,ct this, he should adjourn the further examination until this day fortnight, on which day there would be a private cxami nation at eleven o'clock in his chambers, and the usual public investigation to be held in Court at twelve o'clock. THE LATE GENERAL FERGUSON. Our obitulY : . ) tiny feeufdA the death of General Sir Ronald Ferguson, a name ( .jaw-1) dear to the army and to the friends of civil and religi.nis liberty: Oen43 , ral Fk rguson entered the army as au en3ign on the 33 of Aril, 1790, end attained the rank of Mrjor-General in 1808. On several occasions he distinguished himself as a gallant sol dier and most able balder, but in the midst of his brilliant career in the Peninsula he was compelled by a severe in disposition, in which hi.; life was in imminent danger, to withdraw for a time from active service. He served in Flanders, as Capt,io, in 1793, and received a wound in the knee. He was at the first and second capture of the Cape of Good Hope, and received a medal for Rolcia and Vimiera, when he cammandel a brigade as Major- General. By his death the Colonelcy of the 79th Regi ment of Foot, or Cameron Highlanders, lecomes vacanL. General Ferguson has survived his brother, the late Robert Ferguson, Esq., only a few months. Both were . devoted supporters of the cause of civil and religious t betty during the worst of times. To both the people of Scotland were devotedly attached, and wilt long cherish their memories. From the first appearance of General Ferguson in the House ti Commons to the present thee, he has on All oc casions stoutly ac'vocated tifieral princiFles. On all those occaiims which try men's constancy and firmness, General Ferguson was at his pest. Thug, for instance, though a soldier, who had much at stake, his name appears in the minority for Sir Thomas Turton's amendment, and in the minority against this motion of the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, in the limns case of the Duke of York. 1 - 1 , , vowed against all the unconstitutional measures of 1819 and 1820, which tried he yrinciplcs of not a few of the Wigs. But, in short, why phed!d we particularize, when en ai! ,:c -casions he proved hiaiseil t.lie staunch and unbending pion of the rights and libcrvies of the people. Doling his long Parliamentary career he uniformly displayed the most uncompramising political consisiCDo;'• Sir Ronald Ferguson re?resentod tilt . , borough of Not tingham before the gassing of the Reform Act, and has continued to sit for it ever since. The consZitu:lney of Nottingham distinguished itself in the worst of thi:e3 by its uniform choice of representatives :tvated to refoiln We trust that the character which it h,s so justly obtained will he kept in mind when they make choice of a succes or to General Ferguson. May that successor be imbued with the principles for which, during a long and honour aLle life, Sirß,nald Ferguson never ceased to contaid LAUNCH OF THE PRINCESS ROYAL Si Ea:watt—Monday a new steam-ship, named ire tioitour of the Princess Royal, was launched from , the yard of Messie. Wigtam and Green, at Blackwall, The new vessel, a very handsome OM! of her class, is destined for the service of the Geueirl Steam Navigation Company. The yard was crowded with spectators. The Princess Royal is a stout built vessel, formed of Enel;sh oak, of 600 tons burden, with a lofty poop deck. The extreme length is 181 feet 8 inches, width le:tween the paddles 28 feet, depth of held 17 feet 6 incites, and extreme breadth outside her paddles 48 lest. She is built sharp fore are, with a flat bottom and kood beam. Her construction is somewhat peculiar, hut she will make a capital sea boat. She is to be fitted with engiees and machinery of 260 horse power, at the General Steam Navga;ion Company's fac tory, at Deptford. At the top of high water Mr. Brook elbank, the managing director cf the company, Wolverley Attwood, Esq., M. P., the chairman, and other directors of the Company, made thdr appearance en a temporary platform erected at the head of the vessel, and prepara tions for tie launch were immediately commented, under the direction of Mr. Gaster, the foreman shipwright, and precisely at five o'clock Miss Wilkie, the daughter of an oiduential director, performed the ceremony of christening the Princess Royal, by dashing a bottle of wine at her bows. The fair sponsor had no sooner completed this task lied made a short address than the deg-shores were removed, and the Princess Royal, with the colours of all nations flying above her decks, the Union Jack at her s t ern, and the Royal Standard is midships, went steadily off the slip on which she was built, and made her first appearance in the water amidst the' cheers of the assembled multitude and the firing of cannon. The tide drifted her far over towards the opposite shore, before she was brought up, when the City of London Ramsgate steamer took her in tow, and brought her back alongside the yard, where she was safely moored. A filter launch was never witnessed. CURIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE.—As the Regula tor coach, from Falmouth to Exeter, about a fortnight since, was changing horses at Crockernwell, whilst the horsekeeper was engaged in taking out those which had gone the stage from Okehampton, owing to some sudden impulse, the fresh horses, which had been led out and were standing ready tackled, with their cloths on, suddenly started off without the coace, running the whole way to Exeter, about eleven miles. What is vary singular, the aeimals kept together the entire distance, as it they had been yoked to the coach, under a coachman's guidance. On their arrival at the Exeter gate the turnpike man stared not a little, as did many others on the road, to see the horses without their burden, and, surmising some ac cident, of course took charge of them. The horsekeeper in his fright followed, but was soon distanced, arriving, however, only half an hour after the horses. It is remark able the animals kept their accustomed timer, and that only one of them lost its cloth on the way. The coach went on with the other horses.—West Briton. UNIFORM CHEAP POSTAGE IN BELGIUM.— At the close of last year an agent of the Belgium Post office visited this country fur the purpose of investigating the working of the penny postage pla n . A re p or t o f t hi s examination has recently been submitted to the Belgium Government, accompanied with recommendations for the improvement of the Belgium post-office. The principal features of the changes recommended are the adoption of a uteform rate of 11. (20 centimes) on ali inland let era except those which already cost but Id., optional pre-payment by means of stamps, an increased allowance of weight, and proportionate reduced charges in the 1 transmission of packets by the post. This suisjeet is also exciting a lively interest in France. If a uniform system be adopted in Belgium and Fiance, there can be little doubt it will become general throughout Europe. MARRIAGE IN' HIGH LIFE.—On Thursday, at Rogate Church, Sussex, Miss Georgiana Paget, daugh ter of the late Hon. Sir Charles Paget, and niece of the Marquis of Anglesey, to Lieutenant W. H. Kennedy. APPROACHING MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE. —We understand the preliminaries : are already arranged for the marriage of Sir William Heathcote, Bart., M. P. for North Hants, and Miss Sh;rley,daugthter of Mr. Evelyn John Shirley, M. P. for South WarwicksNre. THE TOWER.—At an early hour, yesterday ramming, the Armoury Ticket Office, at the eotra.nce of the Tower of London, was bes;egcd by numbers of Neil. di eased persons waiting to obtain tickets of admission to view the Armouries and Regalia. Nine warders were in attendance to conduct the visitors over the Armouries and the Jewel Office, and their civility and attention to the people during the day is deserving of great praise. Each warder took charge of twelve cr fourteen visitors at one time, and as soon as one party were conducted over the Armouries or Jewel Office ; and took their departure, an other was in readiness to view the curiosities. The total number of visitors during the day was, to the Armouries, 1,045, and to the Jewel Office, 585 ; and the amount received for tickets at the reduced admission of 6d. each, was 40/. 15s. The number of visitors to the Jewel Office yesterday at 6d. each was larder than in any three months under the whole system, when the keeper of the Regalia was in the habit of exacting enormous fees from individuals for admission. BOULOGNE, APRIL 10.—This day, at s quarter before noon, the Magnet had actually landed her passen gers on our quay, after a passage of no more than nine hours and 40 minutes from London, allowing for the difference of London and Boulogne time 11 minute>. The Magnet is a zinc vessel, and the quickest in the Boulogne trade; tut all who aro in the habit of making the passer, and are competent to form a judgment upon such matters, ascribe her rapid trips in a great degree to the admirable seamanship of her commander, Captain Robert Stock, a gentleman no less distinguished by his urbanity and sten tion to his passengers than by his indefatigable care and professional skill. LORD MAYOR'S DINNER.—The Lord Mayor's Easter entertainment was given last night, will its accus tomed splendour, in the Egyptian-hall of the Mansion .'iouse, when this splendid room was completely filled by the guests collected together to enjoy the hospitality of the chief magistrate of London. It was near seven o'clock when the dinner was served ; immediately after which the cross table was occupied by the follocing distinguished guests :—The Duke of Cambridge, the Earl and Countess of Wicklow, Lady Harriet Howard, the Bishop of Ripon, Viscount Fimalan, Mr Justice Paveson, Sir Bothell Cod rington, Bart., J. Stephen, Esq., the Chairman and De puty Chairman of the East India Company, Sir H. Wil lock, Sir T. B. Leonard, General Shuldharn and Lady, C. Hodgson, Esq., J. Masterman, Esq., W. H. Hughes, Esq., the Baren Koller, Austrian Charge d'Affaires, M. Montezuma, Brazilian Envoy, M. Fortique, Envoy from Venezuela, M. Murphy, Mexican Charge d'Affaires, Kur reem Khan of Delhi, and other distinguished individuals. The other tables were occupied by the Aldermen, and other civic functionaries and their friends. The cloth having Leen removed, the usual toasts were given and re sponded to. It is said that the sudden retreat of a particular class of persons from the neighbourhood of Watcrleo bridge.road, has caused so many vacancies, that althocgh nearly in the centre of London, houses and lodgings are cheaper in that district than in any country town. On Monday in the sports of Greenwich-hill, a respectable youth, about eleven years of age, runnity , down the declivity north cf the Observatory, fell, a; pitching heavily on his head, was taken up senseless. He as carried to :Mr. Kecble's, surgeon, in Church_stree:, who rendered all the assistance the case required, but the youth was sent home with slight hopes of recovery. SHOCKING ACCIDENT.—A Shocking accident occurred this scorning, Fezvrecn riOit and nine o'clock, to Mr. James li!mes, budder, of Great Titchfi,ld-street, Marylebone. Mr. Erns was on horseback, passing through Jermyn-street, St. J ames ' s , w h en t h e an i ma l sud- EVEN ENU EDITION. THE EPPING HUNT. The day succeededhave in its place. Th e cluiS is " going, going"—all but ‘ , gone !" Year after y ea' s decline has been too perceptible. Many a han d has b erl stretched out to save it—many a pair of buckskins stra tcb on to aid it—still it falls into disreiuti, and u nless 0 0 mighty hunter before the field stands fora: to prop its Will honours, its fate is sealed and its doom is fixed for ever. world was led to think that yesterday the restoration, and preparations were talked of whic h OA deued the old haarts, and spoke mu: - ic to the .P un g of noble stag was reserved for the occasion, and P a , - O hl, fresh and well-bred stag hounds, like Nimrod 1 1 , - / b were said to be Lear the ground. Patronage c i e " ( l, order was insinuated ; but all the world was der.,0;0., wee tote the filet and the bright anticipations it had formed ended in fat tiaoation and deqair. Before the appointed hour i s the hunt it wan a pleasant occupation to fix CI 1 : ,tatiaa on the crown of the bill above Woodru! Wells, an d to watch the arrival of the vario us P al l! that ca:ne to be actors or spectator s in the day's p roce in gs ; mar k t h e green-boughed waggons of the he'er day folk, v,ha kne." 7 or cared nothing about eith, horses, riders, or ownea's ; who simply became sretool; to please themselves, an , because they had always g°o to the Epping Hunt beta calleeiing on the bill, the a. re. While the throng and the dogs were P a 4; ing a round of visits to all neighbourhood, its compliance a% ith a the public-houses in . 0 by which money was put into tla pockets of ever) . ile a serving person ; and the stag and :he dogs, farnilia_ l _ h i, to the company for whose pleasure ‘`hs'y good old ens ta de ; cited on that, and perhaps on future occas io n'', week were sbown• S , natesbrook, at Wansteed, an° a " - ta ford, till the sportsmen on the hill heearoa' im patieesiii delay. At length, however, the word WWI were to be ,ei bei tie victim, with all his finery of ribands, tt•as . re ; a " . from the cart, and the rush of the crowd ha-v-iiab him into something like speed, all the hersero: tr io, loped as hard as their poor hacks would go in hi' 'sof without waiting for the hounds being laid on. 1 ,4 came about ten couple of dogs, with the hunt.";is and his party, and for some minutes, until they lost in the Forest, were to be seen, th e a s af ' l S he - qui by a crowd of cockney horsemen, the "7, hunting' the cockneys, and the redcoats in the rear o°2 to get the hounds clear of these savages ors the sce a v g , t ie th e i r grim e. This did not take place without sorne ' l ' o damage being done, and dismounted gentlemen wells, be seen crawling' out of the fern, and seeking theirherbii which were homeward-bound. The stag sustaince 0 good character, and, after nearly an hour's runni a g, ° :bs which he distanced all the dogs and all the horse n3 r ld finally bade t;rem good bye, and took refuge in h' s itB o haunts in the an.cient forest, from which it will req u- teeter pack than yesterday followed to dislodge hint. THE MARhETS.-(THIS DAY.) COLONIAL MARKET. There was but a limited business done, but prices were sus tained for most articles. There was no public sate, but several have been declared ; the imports were to a small extent. TEA MARKET. _ The market was very dull, but no further reduction took place, the holders not being inclined to sell, and at the pub lic sales, 4,000 chests, almost the entire quantity was with drawn without a price. The nearest value of Company's Congou was Is. 40. per lb. cash. . _ - TALLOW MARKET. The demand for Russian was steady, and prices were wel maintained. P. Y. C. of fine quality, on the spot, 475. 9d. per cwt, WHITECHAPEL HAYMARKET. _ We had a good supply of Hay at market ;• the demand but moderate, the best quality only meeting with ready buyers. Of Clover the supply was short, the demand good, and tu 1 6/. per load was realized. Of Straw the supply was plentiful, the demand very linguid. Clover 41. 10s. to 61. Meadow Hay 31. 10s. to 41. 18s. Straw 11. 17s. to 21. MONEY and COMMERCiAL NEW CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL, APRIL 12.—THE PRESIDENT, —A report ob tained circulation this morning that a letter had been re ceived by Mr. Roberts from Captain Roberts of the Pre sident, that the steamer had put into Madeira, hands and passengers all saved. The writer of this paragraph was present when the communication was brought to the Un derwriter's room, and immediately instituted inquiries. The result was that there proved to be no truth in the matter, and is merely mentioned here for the purpose of contradicting any rumour that might possibly reach the North and South American Coffee House. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, APRIL 12.—A very con. sideratle business has been done in the Cotton Martet to day, the sale eomprising from 5.000 to 6 000 bales. Spe culators and exporters have been more active, the former having purchased 500 bales, and the latter 1,400. The better descriptions of Americans have been sold at very full rates. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, APRIL 12.—The follow ing arc the transactions :—Eastern Counties, 9 4 1 ; Ditto Debentures, 71; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 34i ; Glas gow, Paisley, and Greenock, 25} ; Grand Junction, 211 ; Great Western New Shares, 641; Lancaster and Preston Junction, 32i; London and Birmingham, 1571 Snares, 23 ; 321. Shares, 54; Ditto New Shares, 251 ; London and South- Western, 571 ; Manchester and Birming ham, 241. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 12.—Manches ter and Birmingham, 244; Manchester and Leeds, 66 ; Lon don and South Western, 57* ; Lancaster and Preston, Now, 25*; South Eastern and Dover, 16* ; Manchester and Salford Bank, 10h ; Manchester Assurance, 9*. The Oriental steamer has arrived with the remainder of the overland letters from India, sailed from Alexandria the 25th of March, Malta 31st 11 1 1,,rch, Gibraltar 6th April. Sir Charles Napier has arrived by the above steamer. PORTUGUESE, INDIA—The Pot tuguese , authorities at Goa, alive to the languishing sta.e of trade in the Portu guese Settlements of India, and the necessity of an effort on their part to endeavour to revive it, to this end have, by a public ordinance, declared the ports of Goa, Dier, and Demaun, free for the adinission of merchand‘ze of every description, and of ail nations, on the payment of the trifling duty of 1 per cent. THE FUNDS. The British Funds continue inactive at present, and opened at the same quotations as they left off, both for Time and the Account, 89k 90; but for next Account the continuation is rather lower, for the 25th of May next, 90k. Exchequer Bills, 11 12 prem. ; Bank Stock, 1714 1725. India Stock, 253 254. In the Foreign Market nothing doing as yet, and the Prices are nominal. Spanish Act've as it ltft off, 231; Deferred, 121 I; Passive, 5/3- j; Portuguese as it closed, 331 Tl ; Three-per-Cents., 19 201 ; Brazilian, 69 70 ; Chilian, 59 61 • Colombian, 22 4 23 ; M ex i can , 30} , Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 51i 52; Five per Cents., 981 Shares :—Great Western, 27i 28k prem. ; New, 134 prem. ; London and Brighton, 4i dis ; Blackwell , 51 1 dis. ; Birmingham, 68 70 prem; Southampton, 56k 57 per share ; Croydon, 13} per share ; Greenwich, 8i per share ; Manchester and Birmingham, 15i 15 dis. ; South Eastern and Dover, 151 144 dis. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. ..... _ ........ Eastern Counties Great Western London and Brighton London and Blackwall London and South Western 3Bi 57i... .. to Midland Counties ... fork and North Midland... ONE O'CLOCK We have this morning a report that an extra train has arrived from Liverpool, bringing intelligence that the Pre ,ident steamer has arrived there in a very shattered state. M yet we cannot confirm the above report, nor is there much credit given to it; still it has mined a great stir in the City. HALF-PAST ONE: The British Funds have been in a stagnant state during ..he morning ; with scarce a ba - gain doing, although money appears to be plentiful. Twenty thousand pounds was lent yesterday in the house at two per cent. This is a circumstance rarely known. The settling in the Share Market is going off heavy. Consols at present 90 for the Account ; for Money 89i 90 ; Exchequer Bills 13 11 13 prem. ; Bank Stock 172 171 ex. div. ; India Stock, for the opening, 254 ; India Bonds, par 2 prem. In the Foreign Market only three bargains have been done; Spanish Deferred, 12}; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 52 511; Five per Cents, 981 Shares—Very little doing, it being Settling thy. Eastern Counties, 9g; Great Western, 921 ; London and Brighton, 46 ; Blackwell, 194; South Western, 574 ; Midland Counties, 901. QUARTER TO THREE. Consols fot Money, 89i 90 ; Ditto May Account, 901.; M ex i can , 30i i ; Pontivete, 331 i; Spanish, 23 to 4. No news of the President by . :.! 113 Mood train from Liver pool: His Royal — l - fighitts* the Duke of Sussex has quite recovered from his illness: its Royal Highne.:s, ac e mpanied by the Duchess of Invernes* lac Kensington P.laie on SEttuteliiy) for Wimbledon Park, on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Sot - hers& His Royal High.• ness returns to Kensington Palace on 'rueiday next: The Earl of Mahnesbury has been stifttring from sciere indisposition during the past week, but was consPcred much better 36iterdal, Dr. Kerrison hug been constant attendance on the Noble gels Although at first his L'ordship's disorder caused much alarm, a faYetir l;KAt place on Sunday night, which promises complete recovery. Major.Gencral Sir Neil Douglas, PLC.I3., and Lady Douglas, have been plunged into the deepest d.h= tress by the death Of their daughter, on Thursday week, at Murrayshall, Pertiishird. We were lumpy to see amongst the gallant officers d§ Keith Shepard, assembled 4 , ciierdaY at the Royal Naval Club one of its • I ' 4 ' "r; Ad manners, ), miral bring the anniversary of Lord Rodney's victory. FRENCH VOYAGE OF DisCOvE most Curious portionsa the ",x, eries off t u et fromcasts Li ot s itliY.ye collection —One of brought home by Admiral Dumont , n_ voyage of circumnavigation is geer: in the Pacific. }. „'—ads and busts taksn from the ishi n d •. b een exhibited in the dock These curious ()Nee: a nave a lar yard at. Toulon ? and are now on their way to ) PAnIS 11 ...ELEGRAPFIS.—Thern nr. Parisfiv i i'i.ierrig e ra'plA, th‘e ,!.:- . 1!;1,;414 . 0 the Rur,d), Which 'is about to lie transkri . ed to the Ministry of the Interior . ; th'e tfilcgraiih >;k. the iWnistry of M a ri ne , w hi c h corresporida,witda the lir'e of nAst t ,tie telegraph on the o Eustache, for the line of Lille; and the two upon th'e towers of St. Sulpice, (me or which (the north) corresponds With the line of Stras_ bourg, and the other (the south) with Lyons and Italy. At the central station accounts arc ro:cived from Cblais in three minutes, by a line of 21 tfdlegraphs; from Lille in two minutes ) bye telegraphs; from Strasbourg in six minutes, by 46 telegraphs; from Lyons in ei g h t minu tes , by 50 telegriphs ; and from Brest in eight minutes, by SO elegraphs. The London letters and newspapers are no w hronqg • •tQ ,Jl,l toT-tri -'.• • Lrin aftpt ic.invstig gs t',.. L a t l :l9 , ti of arrivia witurn ass hour of the old en tinae o . n d.. makes a saving of 23 hours in the time of i( vnvoYancef from the metropolis._Newcastle Journal. CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY OLD COURT. (13,:tore the RECORDER.) The COURT was occupied tilt., whole morning in trying various cases of larceny, none of which were of any interest whatever. NEW COURT. (Before the COMMON SERGEANT.) James liadburn, aged 23, and Thomas Donovan, 20, were indicted for stealing 168ibs of lead, the property if Joseph Fletcher and others. Mr. CLARKSON conducted the prosecution, and Mr. PAYNE defended the prisoner Donovan. It appeared that the lead was fixed on a school-house belonging to the Protestant Dissenters' Society in Col lin's Court, Farmer -street, and the two prisoners were seen about nine o'cicck on the evening of the 19th A:arcb, with a bag containing some bulky substance, end on an alarm being given they dropped it and ran away. On examination it was found to contain the lead in question. It was attempted on the part of Donovan to prove an alibi, for which purpose Mr. Piyne called two witnesses, who swore that Donovan was in a public house on the evening in question from six o'clock till twelve. This prisoner throughout tho trial frequently protested his in nocence. The other prisoner, as the Learned Judge was summing up, said that he was guilty, but Donovan was not. The Learned Judge having summed up, The Jury immediately returned a verdict of Guilty against both prisoners. There was a previous conviction against Radburn, and an officer who w as i n C ourt stated that he knew the other prisoner to be a confirmed thief, and he bad only been out of prison five days when this robbery was committed. Radburn was sentenced to fourteen years', and Donovan to seven years' transportation. Charles lklacken, aged 26, described as a surgeon, was indicted for stealing a violin, the property of Mary Ann Mariner. The prosecutor in this case keeps a small shop, and the prisoner brought some waste paper to her to sell, whim) she purchased, and as she was gking him the money she observe l him put something under his cloak, .which on ex amination proved to Le the violin named in the indictment. The prisoner being called on for his defence said, that some time back be was afflicted with a paralytic str.ke, since which he had been at times unsound in his mind. Two witnesses were called who proved this, and who stated that the prisoner was of respectable family, and was sent to London to study at Guy's Hospital. The Jury acquitted the prisoner. GUILDHALL.-(THIS DAY.) William Grelly, who has several ether aliases, was placed at the bar, Were Mr. Alderman HUMPIIRRY, for further examination, on a charge of forgery. Mr. Tupper stated that the prisoner came to his shop and said he was sent by Mr. Tucker, of Long-acre, to purchase some meat, in payment of which he tendered a paper, purporting to be a draft cn the London and West m aster Bank for 51., which the witness changed and de ducted the price of the meat. Upon sending it t othe bank it was returned with the words " No account" written on the back. John Dean, a city policeman, deposed to taking the prisoner into custody at a public-house in Nevrgate Market, and finding on his person another forged draft for 101, and a "flash" note for 501. One of the witnesses, named Drew, who at the last ex amination swore positively as to the identity of the pri soner, said that he would not undertake to do so now, ai his shopman said the prisoner was not the individual. Mr. Alderman HUMPHERY said, ,he should adjourn the case until the shopman should he present, as be thought Mr. Drew might, by possibility, be improperly influenced. The case was accordingly adjourned. The exchange of flint for percussion cap guns Co the army will cost this year 130,0001. On Monday the British Museum was crowded with visitors, and upwards of 4,000 persons went through the rooms in the course of the day. The attendance at the National Gallery was greater than has been known on any holiday occasion. There were numbers of vans on the western roads, on their way to Hampton Court, to visit the cartoons, which was principally caused by the ex istence of clubs, particularly at the eastern parts of the metropolis, where a trifling subscription per week ensures one or two trips during the season. COLONEL TORRENS.—It is understood that Colonel Torrens has resigned his seat at the Colonial Land and Emigration Board, under both the General and the South Australian Commissions, In 1835, when the establishment of the South Australian Company an:, in contemplation, Mr. An ;as, then a member of the South Australian Commission, entertained scruples as to the compatibility of his office with the holding of land in the colony, and his participation in trading speculations. He consulted Lord Glenelg on the sub ject, and received a letter expressing Lord Glenelg's concurrence in his scruples. Colonel Torrens, it now appears, holds land in the colcny. His attention was drawn to Lord Glenelg's letter, and he felt it necessary to take some step in consequence. Accordingly, on the 15th of December last, he tendered his resignation to Lord John Russell. It was accepted ; Colonel Torrens having the option, however, of retaining his post if he got rid of his land. These circumstances came out in the examination of Colonel Torrens before the Select Com mittee on South Australia, about ten days back. Iu some furtfiet communications which have passed between Colonel Torrens at:ti the Colonial Secretary, the Colonel expressed a doubt whether his resignation had been construed to apply to both the Commissions under which he held office, He Was w arne d that it had been so construed ; and that is would be proper ilia,: it should take effect as soon as the pending inquiry on the state of South Australia closed.— Goiania! Gazette. Loss OV . THE FRENCH FRIGATE MAGI CIENNE.—During the week some indistinct rumours had reached this piece regarding the loss of the illagicienne, which have received unfortunate confirmation by the arrival of the Iberia from Manilla; and the following brief ticulars hate been handed us by a gentleman who has derived them from an authentic source :—" On the 27th of November, which was just a month after her departure from this port 1,;:- Manilla, the Magicienne encountered a very strong gale in the Palawan passage, which by the 29th had increa, d to a typhoon, in which she lost her masts, and received so much damage in her rudder, that she b-carrie unmanageable, and about two A.M. on the she ViBs Carried by a strong current on to the - +he N.N. W. of Palawan ; and in this was dashed on the reef, "new immediately --a , h a buiniy Ova), e. state, bittnE op by, a terrible wlh.fes e ihsiitntl# %iota to pieces. '1 1e o ht took theittselveli fo the Construction of rafts, to .—. safe. shore ; hut 'fortunately on th 6 third day ; the whole ship's company were picked up by two English Vessels the Mysore and Clifford; and the Frsnch vesgel Favourite; on board of Whiala they *ere conVeyed in safety to Manilla ; where they arrived on the 15th instant. The French corvette Danaide left Manilla on the 3d instant, for the scene of this disaster, with the intention, as wets supposed, of recovering ever)thing that could be scvcd from the wreck, and had not returned by the 20th.—Singapore Free Press, Dec. 31. The Duke of Northumberland is still s•Jfrering —.- munificent donation of 600/. to the fund of the Manchez ter and Eccles Chutch Building Society. WOOLWICH-APRIL 12. ROYAL, ARTILLERY...-. The Horatio, transport eb„ i F; n isf°, rive at Gravesend on Sa:urday evening, with tirt,t; Warde's and Captain H/pest, - !ompanies of the for . tiliery, from Jamaica, on bow:: and yesterday ee t n a d the river, and anchored opposn.e the Royal Afr: 4 ol l Woolwich. Although the day was Sunday, the wee '';ftt not resist the impulse of the moment, but gave three heAcd cheers on reaching the same spot where they had em bil i 0 about six years ago for a foreign clime. At six o'el 42° heir the evening they disembarked, and marche d to t quarters in the garrison, surrounded try a great er° of persons, who had assemitled to welcome tti b° ll4 ; finer or healtbier-looking body of men never rete re 'o4 the shores of old England, as, instead of being' 'ta r e t he emaciated, as might have been expected, they vierlioe, picture of health, and their clothing in excellent ceouloe and they wero more to be compared with " genileeleets to live at home at ease" than soldiers who had h ad dt g l e 'pior perform abroad. Second-Captain Bingham, the Bother ()nicer with the companies; had the command ; a nA the 004 officns who returned were Second-Captain °ca l l' Lieuts. Graham, Shakespeare, and Wilson. tg bd o ACADEMY FOR MARINE CADETS. —Arrangernen- A pre' now been competed for securing the instruction a !Oh per care of the gills, of whom there were generei r t e go• attached to the lower school of the Royal Hospital, ` l ,: t beit with, This has been effce.d by placing then wint'l f rith relations or friends, and paying a sum of 12u a4 t bef the girls until they reach , the age of 14 years, wh en are put to trades or houscht,ld service. it The building recently acct , Pied by the girls wi..t fot reported, Le immediately converted into an aca de lo , marine cadets, for the instruct;o. l of young gentleina r be r vious to their obtainingcommiscsions in that branch o_bieb Majesty's service. end the eAcelleut manner ie st the education of gentlemen cadets is as been concitiTario. the Royal Military Academy, at Woclwieh, the I T : 00 i. Cadets' Academy at Greenwich will ;le constituted 0 , of milar principles. It is understood the appointme marine cadets for instruction in this acadera v will be 11 1 „ 8 go from those boys belonging to the upper schor; l t Hospital at Greenwich, who, by their scholastic acquirement, render themselves w 0711.1 distinction. good Cor..neof tho HAMBURGH MAIL• ST. PETERSBURGH, MARCH 27,--His Majesty the ceo- Fror his been pleased to allow the 10 free of duty, during the continuance of the navigatt 1841, in the same meaner as several kinds of cor n ' vno llih VIENNA, MARCH 31.—The young bride of thenue,_eairoso importation 0 . p oo Ambassador has been in state to Court. A. T rou gh crowd of spectators had collected in the sreets. „Trough she which she had to pass, and" at the Bellaie,misc b ed• alighted. The beauty of Lady Beauval ae waa:d the rich mired, as well as the splendid equiP a ' -9 - to the' ad' queue of this city, Lady liveries, in the old English st le• Accordingtor tnree successive days, to.morrcw being the fivt. BERLIN, APRIL 3.—The Kin g• of Wirteruberg h as s f ri plied for Russian engineers direct the wort fortifying Ulan Major Von Priftwitz. who built P ; is to superintend the erection of that South Gertua a ras tress. The fortifications of Rastadt will be directed no American engineer. It is said that the works of M a BeaueYal 'will receive company . will be extended. isite r° BERLIN, APRIL s.—We expect many illustrious voraati at the reviews in the spring. After Easter the , e re. Duke and Duchess of Saxe Weimar will arrive o ur The Crown Prince of Bavaria is also expected sloe Court. The second son of the Grand Duke of Me e f the burg Strelitz will enter the Prussian service, in ocafewit' regiments here after Easter. fhe Crown Prince ci s ad tcmberg will visit our University in the next half ye ar ' attend the lectures of several of the professors. elt e BERLIN, MARCH 27.—The Council of State is tb on the new penal code, which is to be completed for Oa end of the year. At present the new en actment ° pa ltie l p r ,:yention of duelling are under discussion. The Pe be fog are muteli less severe than hitherto ; c luelii"g o orer treated .as rder, and threat en ed with the sotto P e t hel but the punishle ent was never inflicted, so thri.t.,b, sin of being condemned to d o or to fenders might be cer: then suffered to escape e ;iith imprisonment for WI" cs . tog! made an improper difference be: years, and often for a much _shorter time. The sadcjiri la zens. 0 f course this could not be kept to, and the neW „ s o e$ be the more beneficial, as it makes nso exeeption , j v a ea' wean noblemen wow deavoured to effect a reconciliation, empty the seconds from all punishment when the,' e g o tr_ combatants, when a life has been lost, to a Or in , r () c ilsh e : o s au -d seal i a ir , sonment, which may be forAwentvyeare, with ", 8 : 10' We learn that the King is much interested in to e tr ibse ut has declared that henceforth the sentence of tN e b 0 0° in affairs of the kind shall be carried into effect la s favour. e , FROM WESTPHALIA, MARCH 30.—The with the Archbishop of Cologne are stationary , 1 '; is ~ ,tt; to be hoped only for a short time. The cause question respecting the Prelate's return to Cologoei, Co' Archbishop declares that he was carried away fr e n rash i4 e ' logne like a great criminal, and that, not fur his e n fi t to but for that of the Church, he will not CO P"e t , taken back except as Archbishop. It is not jr. "4- The per to accede to this, end hence the difficulty ar 15 1, 6 , s e e , Archbishop's family seem to entertain other vi e . o july is certainly inclined to give way. The public giotr , acknowledge the noble sent.!.ments of o ur cbur eb. and what he has already dune for our was The Chaplain Michelis, who is still at Erfurt, 00 11 g formed a fortnight ago by Count Von Flemarrl re scP 9 l4 a Cabinet order of February 4, and a Ministeria. n ee • of March 3, that he was entirely free ; t hat h ll3 . 1 ; for would be restored to him, and that be sibuuld eras istr time the assistance hitherto granted hire. ht be ssio mated to him at the same time that be 114 9 41aje 5 14, placed in an office in Prussia, but that it was 10 , 00 . be will that he should go to the Diocese of PederP t of.; ‘ , Michelis expressed his gratitude for the first 1 74 , 1 0 of r b s communication, but as for removing to the Dioee,io if derborn, he begged that it might not be taken 5ma,10,11:17, declared that he belonged to the Diocese of COaFle: ia esi could not accept from a temporal authority a r l.• Bishopric but that to which he was bound b y FP tot o 0 that his health, too, would not allow him at prOe'i d r etPc on himself any permanent engagement. He we e e b i s heig i to Cologne, he said, till the affairs of the Arc" n. 010." were settled; but that he should be glad I•f th at 3 IS event wouid enable him to study for some Y ear : a d al pi o versity, in order to qualify himself, as he polar° h n e t wished to do, for a _Professorship. These csPr-bole said to have beet, ve ry well received, and leis e i re f Sas te o M Michelis will come to Munster soon 10000 This is an act of justice on the part of the which ought duly to be acknowlodged -I,;ELGIAN ilUNDS—liuusfi.eLi, Ap art 2yo Actual Debt, *.e!ii per Cent. • ........... Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent ..... ••• IV ° Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent, ..••••*" 3 per Cent. .......•• •••• 103 „ ..v o,ov ............... Loan o: City, 1832, 4 per Cent. .... . ............. g o Scrictyot Caroni. rce, 4 g per Cent. ............ /90 Clank at Bc-ito..nD, 5 per Cent ............. " --- NationalSoeiety ......... Lxthange ou Londox (shot t) . ................. —.Brussels Pajnra, April 10. HAMBURG MARKETS. .0 9 Wheat, Martz. GRAIN. h ILO iel 29'7 tol3ti Barley, 11fccklenoUrg ~/.4 t. , 0, - Alxvicburg.., ::12,6 t o 333 ---- Magcleburgh.• .. 0 9 Co 4,0 --- Anhalt, white 30t; to 3:3r,(--- Holstein ....... )4 1 0 4,3 —.-- __,___ E , Ted :?Of to 333 ------ Summer... r,. . 0 to ' ) 0 ruLst.ick ti97 to:;6 Oats, J,:ider .........•••• i x, to iti - 'Mecklenburg 2.5-; to 3:4,; -- Met tlenburg • , ~:, o r, ~,i --- Polish or; to s:3 ---- Holstein .......• ...... 1 . 65 ~,;;, 67- tlolbtein ' ,5•2 to :00 -- IF. , st l'nedand". gig ~ R 0 '''-'' M"klenbnrl' .H 8 to ~t6'Pease, Mecklenburg." ,22..5.. , - . _ r 1 C0D..., 11 . 1 1 1 :: ) .t: ; , ;:;; r 1!:0 to :2.10 Nalt ......................... l eo t sta . e, there b~. ---- il;Lr. '1 : 1-1 k 110/311ERY .- C • COTTON. o• .. 7% 5/ , arolma and Tennessee 7.4t0 0%1 Marrnhatn , ... . ......... ,_,_ 100/. 11.11147ARLi. _ Th e f o ilowing .._ `'-"'rgia, Ist suit 7:4 8 MaKs.tz .................... fa 6 4 2d7.4 114 Sta.?. 4., ................... er " Whereas diveis veinal:lc articles have La,- fereat times from her Majesty's stores at Winds°. , 1 L'd and 4th , t-,.i• 7 •Dox-pD ) ••• •.• ...... 7 „A COI , FEN. —a reward of one hundred pounds will he paid by the .--. Lords CoMmissioners of her Majesty's Treasury, on c ‘ let--- °n- Batavir viction of the offender', to any person who will give such Sumatra ................. ....1.,5-.3•!13t13 17-..t(!111/1;;°:?176t,°IiinnriagnLYr;:rlu':...:'....::::::.:.:::::::%........1:.:..:. j::6 tv11:151 ,-; cvhience as shall lead to 1t..,0 conviejon of' the ~,,,,, p „ itlo .. • • • ~•,. ,tv. , ~. 1::: , 1 - ;...OTIS ',4113 5ti.,., lilt. .• ,1 , : ':. • , , ..; 1: , !., ••_ ~ , ~. ~ . ''''''''''.-. '- ".. ~,1,.. ,s,iC.,.'''..- .. ... ,:.,,.,1 1b,,, saw.c : ,),..d ;,- -,-., , -- ~i 1 ',.;, 1 7 t- 7 ~, , 0 ~. :N• ' 7 ,, i• ' -`l,.rown ............ „,,,, ~.;01 w. L ii) pet bk:11 (i.Ji. 0,1.:,. i(ic litlar. tiin.,; ca re.. , '. ' 'Limy.. ....... ~, 4 t 2% pornas;,,,,, vrrli;iwten ....:3 .. ; II Ceiver) who shill give the like evidence.—Whitehall.l2th i ttio,Ls•trivii,tic ............................. 12 -7.. 4 , 254 .., April, 1841. 1 ! - ............. Pr own, I% to wil , . denlystarted at a butcher's dog %Lich snapped at its logs, and ran off at a furious speed. defying all attempts of Mr. Elmes to rein it in. Mr. Elmes was thrown at the corner of Duke -street, and f II upon his head against the dged the curb stone, by wlich the unfortunate gentle- man had his iltull fractured in a frightful manner. He was ed to his residence immediately, abd, we rcgret to not the si:ghtest hopes cf his ^ T WINDSOR CASTLE.—_ '-as just been iisLed "Ti stolen at dif- Castle .EN kit; t ilie k e etuent ot l i° l oy, m tt,.4 0 44d 44, tplzin, 4 ... etc 4 4 84 ade " 4 tik„ L tit th e dc tt ise J all ), J! but at izitiat an the ge teru or 1 1 1 1 )1 4,-bi I d oo t ~, au ; tth i -44 ` 4l h 4 d 61 (141 h e •tic r. l a Uv e 4 44. v ? l , ett 444418