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EVENING EDITION 11,1, ----. ...„........ -......--............, rea dY, in 3 vols. post Bvo., with numerous Illustration s COl, I vy N Le C ech, Btc., L IN K. By CHARLES HOOTON. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. - 4 * • To be bad at all the Libraries. tEIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of 411,...,AU5TR1A having AUTHORISED and GUA7 0 / I LED several DISTRIBUTIONS of MONEI 4. 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E BROTHERS having remitted, during a short l i , t i 40 ,0001., 18,000/., 9,0001., 5,0001., 3,6001., &c. &c., to ktbi° ll3 3,6 00/., 801., and 700/., t Edinburgh 41 3 ,600/. to Be o verley ; 3,600/. o to Ha l fax g (Yorkshire); D ri ,7 l . to Po r tl eaven H ar b our ; 9 0 0/ . an d 600/. to Li ver p oo l ; Coil. to Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; 9001. to Hull ; 9001. and Ilkii t o Manchest e r ; 6001. to Bideford ; 6001. to Cork ; and to tißradford ; they shall feel glad to remit many Dividends e said Distributions to England, Ireland, and Scotland. I ,"ke Divid en d s f a lli ng unto t h e S ecur iti es can be cashed at "; Banker's connected with Germany in every mercantile „ of the world. 14-"Tacturr". 9th March, 1841.— HEINE BROTHERS 1401 e kleasureto state that they remitted to-day , 9 th March , s .„.,' TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND POUNDS to L0n ..,..-.llvicinity, resulting from the Distribution of Ist inst. UIiiI'HEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. — Mt the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS. Val k_ THIS EVENING, APRIL 15 .be repeated the New Comedy, in Five Acts, entitled gi r „ LONDON ASSURANCE. ne t , lareourt Courtly, Bart., Mr. W. Farren ; Max Hark ,ilr"ATt• Bartley ; Mr. Charles Courtly, Mr. Anderson ; LittiQ °l Phus Spanker, Mr. Keeley; Mr. Dazzle, Mr. C. l'a t m see : v ; Mark Meddle, Mr. Harley ; Grace Harkaway, ~ett, estris ; Lady Gay Spanker, Mrs. Nisbett ; Mrs. 4 thr wt. } lumbv. ' be repeated, the Grand Romantic Fairy Ex travaganza, entitled hnet BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. 4 azi Q tl „ t iViadame Vestris : The Beast, Mr. W. Harrison ; A01d e 7,," , Mr. Harley ; Dressalinda, Miss Rainforth ; Mar „To.Ziss Grant ; Queen of the Roses, Miss Lee. ,„uoo t .,;" 11 w, London Assurance, with Beauty and the Beast. , ati to le opened at half-past Six—the performances to b,,L'4,ce at Seven o'Clock. lite:Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d. • First and Second 'S 3 • ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, is.; Second. 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Daly, &c. .e I Y - New Scenery and Dresses for all Three Pieces. coo TUE CHINA SUN" • 13LISHED ON SATURDAY LAST, IS NOW ON SALE, With all the LATEST NEWS. 411 1 RAILWAY SUN WILL BE PUBLISHED TO WARDS THE END OF THIS MONTH. k§, 4 TO CORRESPONDENTS. Z. of Liverpool" has our very best thanks. ql 41 . . WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO - MO RROW 11 1 , 1 34, minutes after 9 I Evening ll minutes afar 10 4 blication of the Evening Edition of THE Sits CO111•• menced at 20 minutes after Three. Times observed yesterday : I k ii ; ‘ t ' l lartered Bank in the United States appears to be ti7ollu s i ve d es i gnat i on f or a nest o f swindlers. What iiin!er Laurie ha s re c e n tly l a id b are , i n re f erence t o Ntr n sture4 cf the West Middlesex pickpockets, would N t eised and d e f en d e d i n A mer i ca by th e wea l t hi er ill 41 of the republic. Joseph Adey, another everlasting Sir Peter's, should emigrate immediately to New il,sl4o,,lnere., as tar as regards . the proper game of his I L ° 0 will not only find multitudes perishing for lack kiAt k getinng to their advantage," but discover various oi toe ; fellow-traders who, if they be not over-jealous 1 7 k i t 4 1' adepts, will at least welcome him as a conee- Zy :elate. In the . United States, banking and Litur iriltra eta to be distinguished from each ether only by s.tt tnents employed by their respective professors,— Ne e d ti t itaLl crowbars, as far as concerns the spoil they are IV 'Or, seem to be synonymous tools. dispute not the justice of these severe re t ; and yet if our memory betray us not, kttl NWansactions by Chartered Banks in Eng -Itt4lthin the last ten years would match any 7 1 11,. Proceedings of the American Banks. We kii i 44 ote two of the worst statements contained 1 1 11 1 : ?'ilea, and, reminding our readers of the Arlat• 1,, eiv recent banking transactions at , k4 Cester,'Wolverhampton, and other places, V 4I as of the fraudulent conduct of many 1 114 t,! bankers, leave them to decide whether A meB have any reason to exult over the R- V! B )disorderly, and unstable character of t i cratie institutions tht l i t Bank of Vicksburg, the report says, th a t it was Vkl it 'd by the payment of $lOO,OOO in the notes of the ise,ll Banking Company of New Orleans : also $llO 1 0 ;1 and $ lO in gold. The notes were obtainea from Ck eb ,`eans by a few individuals, and used by them in 0, of the first instalment of stock subscriled for by i7qt4.large portion of which was in the names of other cit ed, As soon as the first Board of Directors was or r,tc.to, the notes of the real stockholders, who are mostly 9M •e „ e l : Were ittbstituted for the notes of the Company ;•Q, krred to. These bank-notes were deposited in i l t itid e ti c ltnerti a l and Railroad Bank of Vicksburg, and were ~,eltiong its resources, and, in fact , reported as ‘ a . 'll — ni. t he Commissioners in December,lB37. Thus a Was created, and an old one enabled to make a t t ten times as much specie as she really possessed I 4 1 4 'k has also violated her charter by issuing notes to 1 1 44 double the amount of the capital actually paid Commissioners say—" The Commercial and b l j t ' u Bank of Vicksburg is now told by the parent Ni t take care of herself, in providing the means of , q ,„ 4 , her credit." j 4lee RAILROAD COMPANY.—.The report states, ll ntla-y, 1838, the circulation of this Bank was 41 Veat as the capital paid in would permit, and P t is ,. :tors, being pressed for money, resorted to the t eltethod to increase the capital of the Bank. ti tt 4 ,o tie the Directors bad their notes discounted for ty t tt b i each at thirty days, nettin g $75,000 ; the four ttt 4 tei t :ntorr, a day or two afterwards, lied their notes h i i ge Ng for s i m il ar amounts ; thus increasing the capital Il k $135,000, and forming a basis for more issues, Ye o er e mad e . The President of tbe Bank also took of its notes and put them in circulation without Vi sh ll t entered at ail upon the books of the Bank, k i t ! t oer 'vithout the knowledge of the Cashi er . These ;', 4 s e , used by the President to lesse n his own liabi• litl it 7 loan e d to the Directors jor the same purpose I 1.44111a5t and worst part of the q uo t a ti on ma y i , L PPropriate likeness within a short period, OA t he City of London, in the great na- V'lj. Yea U K) which has for more titan a century I ti of a monopoly of the power of getting ti(a:/ther m en ' s p ro p er ty, which the Arne ca4ll,l" struggle in vain to attain. Not it o Presidents and Directors here discount 111;AsIltw: bills, but they know beforehand when th e eti t . i . e a re to be adopted to curtail or enlarge opt b i et ley ; and, being merchants and dealers, tihe 4, 11 , 1 Y ., and sell accordingly. In truth the ok4a_rent reason for our not being equally t ilv ri tai a l t our own practices as at those of the s ._/ is their familiarity. What can be ttltaierehaat,rous than a private body, composed tt, r tly, 0 7s, having th e p r i v il ege to contro l the co w I. the empire at their pleasure? They tt l / m, from the public w ithout 1)11b,14 qd d ,ey to interest, and they lend th e sa me and Lne Government, the agen t o f th e k k ith ts charge a hi g h ra t e o f i nterest. c s ee, I , n a t_einents as those contai ne d i n the 4 Of r 7 e t Our own d e f orm i t i es i n the prac ,,the...,.. We learn at once, by seeing their contortions, the agonies of being plucked; but we have so long submitted to the process, that they have grown customary, if not pleasant, and some persons even assert that we could no longer exist were the plucking to be discon tinued. The statements of the Times, and the facts that continually fall under our own observation, are calculated, however, to awaken a spirit of inquiry which will not be satisfied by a surface investigation. " Charters and crow bars," says our Contemporary, in a just spirit of generalization, " as far as concerns the spoil they are worked for, seem to be synonymous tools." The remark seems to be true nearly of all times and all places; and is as applicable to College charters and charters of many learned corporations as to charters for banks. We may say that the Legislature is virtually a chartered body, though it have no -written parch ment as the foundation of its privileges; but it uses them to the same end as the American banks use their charters, and as burglars use their crowbars. We are willing, however, to find an excuse for them in those new moral re lations to which we adverted on Tuesday, and of which legislators are as unobservant and igno rant as other men. _ _ The command " Thou shalt not steal" is clear and expressive, but it gives us no information as to what belongs to ourselves and what belongs to others. It may be supposed that we are endowed with an intuitive perception of this ; but that supposition falls to the ground, when we perceive that, in the present state of society, what be longs to a man, such as his wages and his profits, is really determined and settled by no other cri terion than the huckstering of the market. So contrary indeed is this supposition from the fact, that no inconsiderable number of philosophers have asserted that property is altogether the creature of positive legislation, and that the law maker settles and determines what belongs to one man and what to another. The Legislature acts in general on this maxim, and, believing that it creates the right of property, it assumes the power of appropriating an immense part of the national wealth according to its pleasure. It is plain, then, that the command " Thou shalt not steal" has left us in ignorance of what belongs to each ; and the conduct of bankers in America and Europe, as well as the conduct of higher and more trusted classes, makes us con clude, that at present no knowledge is so neces sary as the knowledge of what justly belongs to every individual. Nothing, we are sure, but ignorance can cause those who call themselves the conservators of the public morals, who make laws to punish crimes, and who strenuously en force on the public observance the maxim we have quoted, to continually violate it. The new moral relations which continually come into ex istence are not known to them, and their ignor ranee causes much of the wrong they do. At the same time, as most of the disorders which pre vail in society are connected with property, and with violations of property, no knowledge is now so necessary as the knowledge of what truly be longs to each and every individual. It is clearly commanded that one man is not to steal from another ; but what belongs to each is not as clearly set forth ; and hence it is that chartered banks, endowed priests, and colleges of law makers, continually violate this great and clear command. Such is a sample, we think, of that more than surface investigation to which the conduct of those who are really the respectable classes of society both in Europe and America gives rise. We are forbidden by our limits to pursue the subject now, and must content ourselves with one additional remark. Since the division of labour has become so extensive that the huxtering of the market determines and settles what shall be long to by far the greater number of persons in society, why, let us ask, should it not, undisturbed by legislation, determine what is to belong to all ? Why should not the wages of the parson, and the rent of the landlord, un iufluenced by a positive law, be exclusively deter mined by the huckstering of the market as well as the wages of the handloom weaver ? We, at least, cannot recognise either the propriety or the justice of passing laws to bestow a certain quantum of property on these classes, while the same laws sternly tell the labouring classes to trust to the huckstering of the market for settling the amount of their wages. One princi ple or the other should be followed throughout, and as long as the State endows the priests and keeps up rent by a tax, the labourers will be justified in demanding that a law should secure for them ample wages. The Times yesterday had some excellent re marks on the mode in which legislators experi ment on the human race. We beg to quote a specimen : Experimental philosophers are proverbial for their in difference to the ordinary feelings of humanity. Most persons have heard of the French physician, who inoculated his Turkish patients with the plague to ascertain whether that disease might so be commu nicated ; and it would be easy to mention other cases, in which individuals have indulged a similar curiosity at the expense of their fellow-men, and, for so doing, have been visited with very general censure. But at length, in the present enlightened age, prejudice of every kind is fast disappearing ; and while science marches on with a more fearless and unhesitating step, the foible humanity is almost brow-beaten out of the field. Experimental philosophy, as it formerly advanced in its researches from rabbits to men, has now advanced from men to nations ; and, no longer contented with studying the fibres and arteries of animal bodies, has extended its researches to the finer mechanism and more subtle organization of those great moral interests which constitute political so ciety. Laws of the most comprehensive nature, involving the happiness of millions, are passed by Parliament avowedly as expersiments ; philosophers are selected, from the newly-created department of science, to conduct the interesting proees*L, with a carte blanche to vary the in atruments, the mode, and the mechanism of investiga tion, as often and as widely as they think proper ; and instead of cats, horses, or dogs, the poor people of Great Britain are made the subjects of their operations. After an exclt•.sive application of these princi ples to the Poor-law, the Times turns round and applies them to the landed gentlemen. It says— To take a different test : the gentlemen to whom we ap peal cannot be :ignorant that there is a large school of poli ticians (and, we suspect, the Poor-law Commissioners and their entire sect among the number), who consider the pre sent system of Corn-laws to be at least as capital and mis chievous an abuse as the old system of poor-laws ever was. The arguments which they advance for their doc trine are infinitely stronger than any which could be brought forward against the old Poor-law. At least, they say, let the experiment be tried, let it be seen whe ther the interests of all may not be sufficiently protected by a modification of the present law. An entire repeal, they agree, would be most desirable, and most beneficial in the main, even if all the landowners were to be sacri ficed in the transition ; but if the Legislature is not pre pared for this, let us have (they repeat) the experiment on a smaller scale. and we will see bow it works. Now, how do the landed gentry, who are so very ready to make painful experiments in the person of the poor, an swer this? They refuse flatly. Why ? Because this ex periment might be painful or dangerous, either directly or in its codsequences, to. themselvt s. In this case they see plainly enough the cruelty, the injustice, the robbery (as they consider it) of in flieting suffering upon the members of one (lass for the bentrfit of the rest—they see through the hollow pretence of those who would induce them to commit themselves to princi pies u nder the name of experiments, and they exclaim against the :suicidal infatuation of legislating experimentally upon the Lnost important interests of the nation. The numerical proportion of these gentlemen who might suffer by a Corn-I aw experiment, to those who do suffer by the present Poor-law experiment, is as that of units to thousands ; and a poor man has quite as great a capacity cf suffering as any Baronet or Duke. Oh that we could either see ourselves as others see us, or look upon others with as much tenderness as we discover for ourselves I There is only one small error, we think, in the last passage. The Times represents the landlords as resisting the painful experim.ant of abolishing the Corn-laws, when the fact is, that the Corn laws are the 'painful experiment by -7/liich the landlords are . testing the patience of the people, and their capacity of suffering. The laneords, instead of being the victims of an experimCnt, are the experimental philosophers. The star v ing labourers are the " lively fowls" mentioned by our Contemporary, wandering about with the molten lead of hunger poured into their stomachs by unhappyt the experimenting landlords. They are the dogs" whose brains are partially removed by the process of vivisection, in order that the landlords may learn how slow men are in dying, and how they struggle to pre serve as loaig as possible a pained and wretched existence. For the many striking illustrations of suffering inflicted on the people by the experi menting, la' idlords the public will be grateful to the Times, and perhaps will come to the conclu sion that if these experimentalists were made suffer some of the torture they inflict the result might be beneficial to humanity. Whatever the landlords may think, we be lieve they will be mistaken if they expect that the bulk of the people will allow them selves to be experimented on by legisla tion in the manner described by the Times. That our Contemporary's principle and re marks cannot be circumscribed by the Poor law, and apply to a great variety of other enact ments, is rather his business than ours. We have frequently asserted that the experiments which the landlords have made on the people were not submitted to as if they were fowls and dogs. In truth, their indignation and their discontent are only surpassed by their patience and their suffering. The landlords, pro bably, will disregard what we say, and, there fore, we will take a passage or two from the Re port of the Hand-loom Weavers' Commission. At page 64, they quote the complaint of JAMES CROMACK, " that the Corn-laws force the weaver to eat his bread dearer than he ought to eat it. It takes more," he says, "of his earn- ings to buy food, and leaves so little remaining, that he can purchase little else." They also .quote the saying of CHARLES FLETCHER, " that the weaver is peculiarly affected by these laws, because the smaller a man's in come the greater the proportion he must spend in bread." At page 68, we find this passage : " Distress," says Robert Contrill, an aged weaver, "makes a man hopeless ; he becomes desperate and preys upon scciety, careless even of what little honest advan tages are in his way, and then comes the last wretched ness." Such a man is not likely to be a good husband, or a good father, or a good neighbour, or even a good subject. Can we wonder if, while brooding in forced in activity over his misfortunes, he listens t, the agitators, who tell Lim that they are all owing to bad legislation. When we consider bow much evil he really suffers from the Corn-laws, can we wonder that he exaggerates their influence, or that, finding all alteration in them steadily refused by the Legislature, he cherishes wild visions of organic change. And what are these visions ? " Division of waste lands, alterations of the standard, universal suf frage." " The state of mind which they indicate," say the Commissioners, " deserves serious atten- tion. TH L: GOVERNMENT OF THIS COUNTRY RE SIDES IN A MINORITY, AND A NARROW MINORITY: THE OWN 111 S OF THE LAND, A SMALL PORTION OF THE COMMUNITY, CONSTITUTE ALMOST EXCLU SIVELY ONE HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT, AND FORM A LARGE MAJORITY OF THE OTHER. SUCH A GO VERNMENT CAN BE SAFE ONLY WHILE IT IS POPULAR, AND POPULAR ONLY WHILE IT IS BE LIEVED TO BE IMPARTIAL. The first prudential duty is to avoid even the appearance of selfish legislation." Those are the words of the Commis sioners, and they signify that the very existence of the Government is endangered by the cruel experiments of the legislating landlords on the food of the people. Will they be warned in time by those who have been authorised to inquire into the condition and the feelings of the people ? The Paris journals of Tuesday have all reached us. In the Chamber of Deputies the Supple mentary Credit Bill continued the subject of discussion. The debate loses much of its inter est by the reserve of M. GUIZOT, who would merely admit that negotiations were on foot for placing France in harmony with the other great Powers of Etirope. The ex-Minister of Finance, M. GOUIN, having contended that his successor in office exaggerated the financial distress of the country, M. HUMANN, the present Finance Minister, addressed the following observatioLs to the Chamber : The truth is, Gentlemen, that a very deplorable financial position had been left to us, and the Cabinet which succeeded to that of the Ist of March was necessarily compelled to place the responsibility of that position upon those to whom it really belonged. The country knows well that the causes of this position are not due to uc, and that we are not responsible for the sacrifices which are imposed upon it.—(Sensation.) As to loans, I have always understood that it was an easy matter for a country to find lenders. We see, however, that many Governments seek to borrow and cannot effect their wish. Call to mind, Gen tlemen, without going out of France, the walks of Louis XIV. with Samuel Bernard in the garden of Versailles, and the patriotic loan of Necker. We frequently hear a neighbouring kingdom cited where loans are attended with no difficulty. I answer that there exists in that kingdom a sen timent of nationality and unanimity which renders the people capable of the greatest efforts.—(Murmers on the left.) There, notwithstanding the greatest embarrassments, exists an ad mirable order in financial matters. In that country were invented both the steam-engine and the spinning-machine. Two men of genius doubled, as if by enchantment, the pro ductive powers of their country, and still, Gentlemen, what would be the situation of that country, with its debt of twenty milliards, if on any single day of the last half century, it had been abandoned by its good fortune?—(Sensation.) France has an immense credit, and this credit will maintain itself firmly, if but one intelligence pervades the mass. In my opinion, the Cabinet of the Ist of March was mistaken in its plans and resources, when it desired to support, by the mea sure which it prepared, a tedious war against the whole of Europe. Such efforts are not, in my opinion, possible, but under a dictator and a system of absolute government.—(Loud marks of dissent from the left. ) This speech called up M. THIERS, whose de fence of his policy will be best given in his own words : M. Thiers stated that it was very unfair to attribute the expenditure of the armaments of 1842 to the responsibility of the late Cabinet, for if it was true, as now stated, that the Go vernment was on the point of coming to a satisfactory ar rangement with the rest of Europe it could no longer be ne cessary to keep up an army of 480,000 men. On this point, however, he said the Minister of Foreign Affairs refused to enter into any discussion; but notwithstanding his reserve, the treaty, the signature to which had been promised, was known. It was every insignificant affair connected with the passage of the Dardanelles, and amounted to nothing like that position in Europe which it had been the object of the late Cabinet to attain. The Hon. Deputy then alluded to the large expenditure which had been incurred for public works by preceding Governments, observing that each Ministry had been compelled to give way to the influence of the Deputies, each railway and each canal having its representative, and the Ministers being dependent on the Chambers as the Depu ties were upon the electors. (At this part of his speech there was much interruption from the left, and cries of " No, no." M. Thiers said it was a fact, to which one De puty replied, " This is a fatal admission." M. Thiers observed it might be fatal, but it was the truth. ) It was, however, a fact that no Minister finds greater support than the Minister of Public Works, for he has on every side persons who are soliciting him for public works; the conse quence is, that the Budget of the Minister of War is neglected for that of the Minister of Public Works. To such an extent had negligence been carried in this department, that there were some stables in which the loss of horses was 12 per cent., in stead of 6 per cent., which it ought to have been. It became our duty to repair the negligence and omissions of this depart ment. But is this any reason why we should declare in the face of Europe that we are in a state of absolute destitution ? When we shall have finished Cherbourg, repaired our fortresses, fortified Paris, and completed our principal civil works, we shall, indeed, have expended a milliard, but with the reserve of the sinking fund and a loan, we shall have executed immense works, and still be very far from the position of au unfortunate nation. At a subsequent period of the debate, he thus attacked the policy of the SOULT-GUIZOT Ad ministration : M. Thiers asserted that the Cabinet was playing a farce.— ( Tumult.) He had hoped nothing from the policy of the Cabinet, but it had beaten his expectations. Its policy is quite negative. The Hon. Member then entered into the Eastern question, and endeavoured to prove that Syria ought to remain under French influence; that the isthmus of Suez should support French preponderance; and that the object of the negotiation pending for the purpose of closing the Darda nelles against its marit►me powers was a complete humbug ; that it was to the advantage of Russia. The Hon. Member added that he still regretted the English alliance, and that if the present Cabinet was one day obliged to return to that al liance, it would find that it had been advancing the interests of Russia. To this and other attacks upon him M. GUI ZOT replied as follows: It was said by their adversaries that they were advocates for peace upon any condition, but such was not the case ; on the contrary, they maintained the armed peace, and would do so as long as the interests of the country required it. On the other hand, they were not disposed to threaten and brave all Eu rope, or declare, as M. Thiers had said, " that it was the intention of the Government to raise 900,000 men, and a large fleet, to ne gotiate in the Spring, and declare war against Europe, in case she refused to modify the Treaty of the 15th of July."—( Sen sation. ) The present Cabinet had no idea of exacting such a modification ; its policy was simply to keep up an army of 500,000 men, and maintain " armed peace," until France could resume with dignity and propriety her seat in the councils of Europe. This debate, which was so anxiously expected by the Journals and the public, will lead to no result. The impenetrable reserve of the Govern ment defeats all the projects of the opposition. The only facts of importance elicited were, that a Treaty was in the course of negotiation, and that M. TRIERS is for France disarming the in stant the Treaty is signed. The Maniteur Parisien states that Lord Pox- SONI3Y has received from the British Govern ment leave of absence from his post as Ambassa dor, and that he was preparing to leave Con stantinople. We trust the leave of absence granted to his Lordship is unlimited. The country has had quite enough of his diplomacy in the East. Le Francais der Ouest complains in angry terms of the ap pearance of .some English cutters come to dredge oysters on the bank of St. Marc, on the coast of the Cotes du Nord. The National Guard of Binit is on the watch," says this journal. "If the English approach suffi c i en tl y near to the coast to be reached by their muskets, they are burning with desire to shoot them. The Mayors of the communes in the neighbo-irhood of the coast have informed the Prefect now in Paris of the state of affairs, in order that he may solicit the Minister to give him the means of repressing this robbery. and to make our flag respected. If Frenchmen had committed such acts on the English coast, there would be no want of voices in the British Parliament to demand full satisfaction." The barracks and the camps no longer sufficing to receive . - , 1 • $ 1, 4 • ';',-.. . 4..:,„ ~ ~ . .. ! '; ..• : -- ~.', $ !:••• - r- --F - A ANY:. . t., " •-„:',- ..- • ' ,;l - ,- .H-° ,, _ — •.,;-...."..., c; ,7:r2: ••A , ''' fl -...-,,,,-- „,o, ~, ,-, -•€,m 0 ~ , r , ..--,7.--,„ - , ~.",- 4,,,,-. ~ ~ ~~s ‘; THE SUN, LONDON, 'THURSDAY, APRIL 15. 1841 the troops that are accumulated in Piui's and the environs, the Minister of War has ,just had twenty large buildings erected in the great court-yrird and the garden of the inNntry barracks of St. Denis, Or e buildings (a weeden barracks) are arranged parallel to the rea t b arra cks. These buildings are much better and more so id th an those in the camps. The whole of the 4th Regiment f light infantry here has been quartered for these three days in the barracks of St. Denis, and these new buildings. The Soldiers complain of having no thing to lie on but bad straw in sacks, and the bad bread which they receive, added to the 'fatigue of the exercise, and the manoeuvres, which are incessant, are, in their opinion, the great causes of the diseases, which p'Tevail to kfrightfol extent. A letter from Toulon gives the following particulars relative to the expedition which is preparing for Africa:—Within these six weeks 10,000 soldiers and 1,200 4iules have been embarked at Toulon for Algeria. Measures are taken to revictual Me deah and Miliana, tomake them the basis of the operations of the campaign, which is going to be °perked from Algiers. Oran will act on its side, so as to snake a diversion in the west, and General Negrier will operate in the east. The object of our efforts will bq to take Tedekempt, A,id-el-Kader's capital. General Negrier has already struck a great blow at Constan tine. A chief, hostile to our powers, and whose influence it great, has been seized and brought away prisoner. He is now at Fort. la Malque, at Toulon. He expected to he beheaded ; but he has recovered his confidence, and now complains bitterly of being detained. " Why do you detain me?" said he to Ge neral Boyer, Commandant of Toulon. "I have four wives and eight children, who call for me, and cannot do without me." —Le Commerce. 130 LIR SE..-.PARIS, TUESDAY, APRIL 13. first Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Price, Price French 5 per Cents ll3 95 113 95 ... 113 70 jig 70 4% per Ccnts 4 per Cents 99 40 99 40 ... 99 40 99 40 3 per Cents 7O 10 79 10 ... 78 SU ... 78 SO itLnk of elance Llflitte Bank 5,901 f. scares 5160 ...5160 ... 5155 ••• 51 :: 5 I,ooof. Sh 3elgian Bank 5 yet Cent- 3 per Cents New Loan lOl ... 1. 11( ... 101 101% Spanish Active £3% 93% ... 23% ... 23 5 Passive • Portuguese 3 per Cents Neaeelttan Rna,an 104% ... 104% ... 104tA 1043. Dutch 2% per Cents. 51% m 513. ... 5134 • RAILWAY SHARES. St Germain B 260 365 ... 360 360 L.B '37 50 ... 225 50 Orleans .. 4BO ... 480 480 ... 480 Montpellier to Cette ...... — St,e;urg to Bale Rouen The Madrid Journals received are of the 6th inst. They do not bring a syllable of political news of any interest. The Chamber of Deputies adopted the Report of the Committee which pro nounced the legality of the abdication of Queen CHRISTINA. ' A letter from Madrid gives the following narrative :—"The young Queen' was passing through the city a few days ago, in her carriage, accompanied by her sister, and attended by the Marquis de Santa Cruz, and other persons of her suite. The Marquis observed that there were lees troops then usual es corting the Royal carriage, and calling to the Marquis de San Carlos, who commanded ;the party, asked the reason. The officer replied that he had detached some of his men to ac company the viaticum, which was being borne to a sick per son. The young Queen upon this, said to him, ' You have done right, but another time you will stop my carriage, and invite the priest to enter it, and we will conduct him to the house of the sick person, and afterwards to the church. This was one of the recommendations to me by my mother at Va lencia, and I wish to comply with it.' Orders have since been given that this may be done on any future similar occasion." TRADE OF SPAIN.—The Consul-General of Spain in Bor deaux has published a return of the trade and navigation be tween France and Spain in 1839, from which it appears that the exports of the former to the latter amounted to 82,656,086 f. and the imports to 37,351,9141. ; leaving a difference against Spain of 45,304,172 f. '1 he Four per Cents. were done at 214 cash ; and 10.200,000 reals were negotiated in the Five per Cents. at 25Efor the 10th and 12th instant, and at 26 7-16ths at 60 days. Poor Sir Robert Peel, forsaken by all the ar dent Tories, who prefer Lord Stanley to him, is now snubbed every day, by the only powerful organ of his party, for experimenting on the poor. The Times may hate Lord John Russell, but it treats Sir Robert Peel with sovereign con tempt. Deserted or opposed by all that is popu lar in the Press, and shoved aside by his fol lowers to make way for Lord Stanley, he is one of the destitute without a political refuge. MONEY and CONIMERCiAL NEWS. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL, Aram 14.—N0 news of the President. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, APRIL 14.—But a limited business has been done in the Cotton Market this day, the sales only amounting to from 2,000 to 3,000 bales, of which exporters have taken 500, chiefly of American descriptions. Speculators still remain inactive, and prices continue steady. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, APRIL 14.—There has been an extensive business done in the Share Market this day. The transactions comprise the following :--Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock, 27 ; Grand Junction, 211 ; ditto 1 Shares, 64k; ditto sth Shares, 11 3 4 ; Lancaster and Preston Junction, 32fr ; London and Birmingham, 158; ditto * Shares, 231 ; Mid land Counties New Shares, 22a ; Bank of Liverpool, 19a ; Liverpool Union Bank, MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL I4.—There is a fair inquiry for Railway Stock, and prices are firm, with an upward tendency. Our quotations are as follow :—London and Birmingham, f3B; Lancaster and Preston, New, 25k ; Man chester and Leeds, 66 ; do. Halves, 28; Manchester and Birmingham, 244 ; London and South Western Tenths, W. 4s, Great Western, 94 ; Do. Halves, 64i • Do. Fifths, 111 Manchester Assurance, 9i, ; Bank of Manchester, 71. I 1,. 3d We have received Cape of Good Hope Papers to the 21st of February. SLAVE TRADE.—Extract of a letter from St. Helena : We have here a Portuguese schooner, p r i ze to t h e Water witch, for condemnation, with 230 slaves on board. They have the small-pox very bad ; those that are free of it are landed at Lemon Valley, which place is kept under strict qua rantine. The sick ones have been removed on board a schooner which was formerly a slaver ; there has been upwards of thirty of them that have fallen victims to the disease. When the Wat,rwitch first gave chase, the captain endeavoured to get away by lightening the vessel, for which purpose he threw overboard about 130, having originally on board 350 ; he then run his vessel on shore, and made his escape. The boats of the Waterwitch saved about seventy from drowning, but the greater part of them died afterwards from exhaustion." (From the Graham's Town lournal.) We have been favcured with the perusal of a letter just re ceived from a British emigrant at Natal, dated December, as follows :—" A beautiful harvest is expected, but the corn is more liable to rust than in the colony. The horse-sickness prevails very much in these parts, also a distemper among the cattle ; many of the Dutch are in great distress, owing to the death of their cattle from the diseases which rage in these parts. The Boors are also much alarmed at seeing in the newspapers, lately received from the Colony, that the British will take possession of the Natal country ; they ever talk of resisting the attempt. A stranger suffers great inconveni ence here, there being no house to afford accommodation or lodging ; there are only about twenty houses at Natal, and a few near the entrance of the Bay, which are now used by the emigrant farmers. The Lisbon mail has arrived brought by the Iberia ; it does not contain any news of importance. The finances continue in a deplorable state, and the Ministers have had several con ferences respecting money affairs, as well as the Treaty with England. It was not expected that any change in th Minis try would immediately take place. For further particulars we refer our readers to another part of the Paper. Her Majesty's packet ship Penguin has arrived from the Brazils ; sailed on the 2d of March from Rio. She brings a freight of 33,0001. Exchange upon London 30 dollars, Stock 75. Affairs at Rio Grande were in the same state. The Govern ment were sending troops there. The Batavier Dutch steamer has arrived o he 13th of April, bringing papers of the same date ; it being a holiday no prices were published. THE limns. This" being settling.day in the British Market, the brokers and jobbers are chiefly employed in adjusting their accounts, and there is every appearance it will pass over without the least difficulty, money being plentiful in the house, the continua tion for the next Account being only per cent., and the extreme fluctuation during the present is about 2i per cent. Consols opened this morning at 90i a Money ; for next time, 25th of May, 901 ; Exchequer Bills, 11 13 prem. ; Bank Stock, 172 173. _ _ In the Foreign Market Spanish Active 23h ; Deferred, 123 ; Pa3sive, 5 4; Portuguese, 334 3; Three per Cents., 20* ; Colombian, 22.3 23* ; Mexican, 30i 31* ; Dutch Two and-a-Half per Cents., 52b 3; Five per Cents., 98i 99. The Dutch Mail has arrived of the 14th of April, bringing the prices of the 13th of April. Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 51 7-16 to ; Five per Cents., 99 5-16 ; Ardoin's, 201-16. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Birmingham and Gloucester 100 Great Western Ditto New Ditto Fifths London and Brighton 5O - ... to 47 London and Birmingham 9O ..... Ditto New 2 ...... 241 to London and South Western 38i...... 57i .. to 58 Manchester and Leeds • Ditto New Shares 3O - JOINT STOCK BANKS. London and Westminster . 20 Ditto New Shares... ..••• ...... 5 ...... 7 .HALF -PAST ONE. We are still without any information of the President. The settling of the British Account is going off well to the present hour. It is a Bear Account, with a scarcity of stock in the market. Consols continue firm, at soi 6; Money, 904 ; Reduced, 89hi. Exchequer Bills rather better, 13 12 14 prem ; Bank Mock, nothing done ; India Stock, 255 4i 51; India Bonds, 1 2 prem., par. In the Foreign Market there is little doing. Spanish 234 ; ; Fire per Cents. 99k. Portuguese 33i 6- ; Three per Cents. 204 ; Mexican 304 ; in Shares; quo t a ti ons l ower. Birmingham Du v te e h ry T li w tt o l - e a d n o d i - n allalf per Cents. 5 2 and Gloucester 79k; Great Western 94*; Ditto, New, 641 ; Ditto, Fifths, 11/ ' • London and Brighton 47b 4 ; Ditto, New, Birmingham Thirds, 241; South Western 58; Manchester and Leeds, new shares, 28. QUARTER TO THREE. Consols, Money, 90i ; May Account, 9011 ; Mexi lean, 304 to 31 ' • Portuguese, 331 ; Spanish, 24 4. Second train from Liverpool arrived, and no news of the President. THE HOLY WEEK.—The announcement of the arrival of Lord Brougham at Paris was erroneous. A letter of the 2.1 instant, from Rome, mentions the pre sence of the Noble Lord in that City, with the intention of remaining for the ceremonies of the holy week, and then proceeding to Naples. The Duchess of Cambridge was expected daily et Rome. The Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry and the Hon. Colonel Fitzgibbon are among the noble visitors of that capital. The number of foreigners attracted by the ceremonies of the holy week is very considerable, and all the hotels are crowded. The Roman Government has been exceedin g ly liberal inissu ing tickets for privileged places during the ceremonies. The weather is said to be delightful.— Galignani's Mes senger. CENSUS OF FRANCE.--The Minister of the Interior has addressed a circular to all Pr.rfects of depart ments, with instrnctions for taking such measures that the new census of France, to be made in virtue of a Royal ordonnance of 1836, may be completely finished before the end of the current year. COURT OF CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) This being the first day Easter Term, tho Lord Chancellor did not take his seat in Court until nearly two o'clock, in consequence of having to entertain the Judgee, Masters in Chancery, and Queen's Counsel, to breakfast at his house in Bruton -street. His Lordship, on taking his scat, was accompanied by the Master of the the Vice-Chancellor, and Masters Wingfieli and Farrar. His Lordship proceeded to hear motions, but no case of any interest came before his Lordship previous to the rising of the Court. VICE-CHANCERY. - 1-I(THIS DAY.) His HONOUR the VICE-CHANCELLOR did not take bis seat in Lis Court at Westminster till nearly two o'clock, this being the first day of Easter Term. HOUGHTON V. HOUGHTON. His HONOUR gave judgment in this case, dismissing the bill with costs. WILSON V. WILLIAMS. His HONOUR also gave judgment its this case, which was argued before his Honour about six weeks since. The case came before the Court upon motion for a new trial of an issue, hied before Mr. Baron Parke at Stafford, with respect to the validity of the will of a gentleman of the name of Williams. The Juty, under the direction of the Learned Judge, found a verdict in favour of the will, and the grounds on which the application for a new trial was made, were misdirection on the part of the Learned Judge. His HONOUR after going at considerable length into the facts of the case, stated that he felt bound to dismiss the motion with costs. The Court then proceeded to hear motions, but no case of any interest occurred up to the thing of the Court. QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY. This being the first day of Easter Term, the Court was opened with the usual formalities. At half-past one o'clock, Lord Denman, Mr. Justice Patteson, Mr. Justice Williams, and Mr. Justice Wightman took their scats on the Bench. EDWARDS V. FREENE AND ANOTHER. In this case, which was tried before Mr. Justice Wight man at the last Cornwall Assizes, and in which a verdict was had for the plaintiff, damages 371., Mr. Crowder applied to the Court for a rule to show cause why the ver dict should not be ret aside on the ground of its being against evidence. The question in the case was whether there was a partnership between the defendant Preen and his brother at the time the goods wero sold to him. The evi dence was of a very uncertain nature, and a jury impan nelled on the following day to try another action against the same defendants, found a verdict the other way. Mr. Justice Wig htman said there were discrepancies in the evidence of the two principal witnesses on the se cond trial. The COURT granted the rule. Lord DENMAN, after going through the Bar, and finding that none of the Learned Counsel present bad any motions to make, observed that he had upwards of forty enlarged rules lying before him, and the Court was in hopcb that some of them would be ready for argument. They should certainly go to the new trial paper on the fullowiug• day as a matter of course, and it might as well be then stated as a notice from the Court that they should take motions every day except those fixed for the other papers (namely, the Special and Crown paper days), and if no motions came before them they should immediately proceed to the new trial paper. BAIL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Justice COLRRIDGE. This being the first day of Term, his Lordship did not take his seat upon the bench until nearly two o'clock, and after hearing one or two motions of course, the Court rose at a quarter after two. COMMON PLEAS-(THIS DAY). This being the first day of Easter Term, the Lord Chief Justice, Justices Bosanquet, Coltman, and Erskine came into Court at half-past one o'clock. Their Lordships took the New Trial paper. FELBY V. LOCKHART. The parties in this case are both wino and spirit mer chants. The plaintiff being indebted to the defendant in the year 1839, gave him two acceptances in 731. each, payable at two and four months; but having the misfor tune to break his lea, he was unable to provide for the first of these bills, and the defendant, upon receiving two other acceptances of longer dates, undertook to provide for these. The defendant, however, became balkrupt in the mean time, and the plaintiff had to pay for all the bills and the costs that were incurred through his want of preparation. Under these circumstances he brought this action of as sumpsit, and the defendant not denying the facts pleaded his bankruptcy. A verdict, hoe ever, was given for tho. plain tiff, 162/., being the costs incurred by the defendant's Leglect to take up the first bills according to his guarantee. The Chief JUSTICE at the trial gave leave to move for a new trial. Mr. Sergeant CHANNELL now obtained a rule nisi ac cordingly. EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.) Easter Term commencing this day, the Chief Baron, Barons Park, Alderson, and Rolfe took their seats upon the Bench at half•past ore o'clock. PAGE V. JARVIS. Mr. WIIATELEY, when this case was called on from the new trial paper, said that the brief of Mr. Richards, who had been instructed in the case, had been but just put into his hands. He was therefore not prepared to move. Lord ABINGER—Where is Mr. Richards? Mr. WHATELEY—I am sorry to say, my Lord, he is confined by illness. Lord ARTNGER—What is the matter with him ? Mr. WIIATELEY—My Lord, he has caught the SCAR LET fever. —(Great laughter.) Lord AMNGER (smiling)-oh, indeed. Mr. WHATELEY—But I am happy to assure you Lord ship and the Bar that it is a very mild attack.—(Great laughter.) The ease was then ordered to stand over. Nothing cf public interest occurred before the rising of the Court. CITY OF LONDON ADJOURNED SESSIONS.-(THIS DAY.) (Before the RECORDER and Aldermen WHITE and PIRIE. A considerab'e time elapsed before a Court could be made, owing to the circumstance of none of the Aldermen being present. . . The early part of the day was occupied in hearing cases against individuals indicted for committing nuisances, by keeping trithels in various parts of the City, most of whom were bound over in personal sureties of 2001. to be of good behlviour for two year!. No case of any interest occurred. GUILDHALL-,THIS DAY). A respectable-looking man, named Joseph Lowe, was placed at the bar before Mr. Alderman HUMPIIERY under the following circumstances Henry Bellinger said he was a clerk in the employment of the Joint Stock Union Bank of London, Moorgate street. fhe prisoner came into the bank-room and pre sented a check for 301., put porting to be signed by Mr. Addis, of Newman's Wharf, Pickleherring, who had an account with the Bank. On looking at the sig nature, he at once perceived it to be a for gery, and asked the prisoner for his name and address, which be gave as Joseph Lowe, corn-dealer, b 5, Whitecross-street. At the instance of the Manager the prisoner was given into custody. Another check fer 501., purporting to be signed by the same gentleman, was pre sented for payment at the Bank a few days ago, but the individual who presented it perceiving some doubts made off, and, although closely pursued, escaped. Police constable 570 stated that he went to the address g iven by the prison er , an d f oun d i t true . lie was living there, and apparently a very respectable man. Mr. Addis said he never saw the prisoner before; the signature to the check was a forgery, and quite unlike his handwriting. Al:hough he kept the check book under lock and key, ten blank checks had been st o l e n f ro m it. The prisoner, hi his defence, said that yesterday a per son came into his shop and bought a quantity of corn and other goods to the amount of 191., for which he gave the check which formed the subject of the present charge, and received the change. He desired the goods to be sent to the Rose Inn, Farringdon-street, but he (the prisoner) kept them until he should be aware if the check were genuit c. The person who gave him the check was about five feet six inches high, rather fat, and square built, and wore a blue frock coat and white waistcoat. Mr. Alderman iIIiMPIIERY said he did not think, as the prisoner was a respectable man, he should be justified in detaining him; but he hoped he would afford every as !istance in his power to discover the person who first passed the check. The prisoner was then discharged. BOW STREET.-(THIS DAY.) A fashionably-attired young man, who gave his name as Samuel Bale, was put forward, charged with having violently assaulted a young woman as she was passing along the Strand. It appeared from the evidence of the complainant that she was, with her husband, going along the Strand, on their way home, when the prisoner came up to her and made use of some abusive language, and on her remon strating with him he struck her, and she called for a po liceman, but he refused to take the prisoner into custody, as he did not see the assault committed, but advised the compla i nant to walk on and he would follow her, and if he again assaulted her he would take him into custody. They had not proceeded far before the prisoner returned to the complainant, and, without the slightest provocation, struck her violently on the head and knocked her down, and then kicked her. The policeman then came up, and after a severe struggle, during which the prisoner struck the officer a severe blow in the mouth, he was taken to the station-house. The polee constable corroborated this evidence, and the prisoner, being called upon for his defence, denied the charge, and wished to be remanded that he might Lend for a solicitor, end also some friends, who would prove that he was not there at all. After some hesitation the Magistrate consented to his being remanded till Saturday next. We understand that Earl Granville is recovering rapidly. Such was the tenour of the last accounts re ceived from Paris by the members of the family. The Bishop of London left St. j arn „ , ,_ Equare, on Tuesday last, on a visit to his mother, Mrs. Bloomfield, at her residence near Bury St. Edmu.nds. The Reverend Prelate attends a religious meeting at. the Town Hell to-day. MEETING OF CHEMISTS AND DRUGGISTS.-(THIS DAY.) A nmuerous meeting of the above trade was held this day at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, Strand. Mr. Pr- QEoN in the chair. The CHAIRMAN said, before the business of the meeting began, be begged to congratulate them upon the result of their opposition to the Bill which had been introduced by Mr. Hawes, which deeply affected and would have in jured the trade, and through them the beat interests of the public. That opposition had been successful through union, and he trusted that that union would be continued, in order that they might be enabled to defeat any future attempt upon their right to self-goverment. The SECRETARY then rear! the Report, which detailed the steps which bad been taken in opposition to the Bill, and strongly recommended that the trade throughout the country should form themselves into one large association, in order to show that they wet e able to govern themselves, and yet at the same time given full securities to the public, that they were able for the duties of their station. Mr. PAYNE had much pleasure in moving that the Re port be adopted, and that the thanks of the meeting be given to the Committee. He had no wish to speak harshly of any one, but he knew that the public were be. ginning to find out that the prescriptions made up in the druggist's shop were more conducive to their health than those sent in by the surgeon. He believed he was autho rized in saying that that feeling had extended even to the Throne—(Cheers)—so that the health which was dear to all was placed in the bands of chemists and druggists. They were able to govern themselvei—they could draw up rules for their own guidance and the protection of the public. He had pleasure in seeing so much union amongst them, and he truced it would continue and increase. The resolution w a s seconded, and agreed to unanimously. Mr. DIN NEFORD move d th at th e Report be printed a n d circulated. Mr. HUDSON seconded the motion, which was agreed to unanimously. Mr. WILLIAM ALLEN said his brethren of the Com mittee had requested him to move, That for the pur pose of protecting the permanent interests, and increas ing the respectability of chemists and druggists, an As sociation be formed, under the title of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.—(Cheers.) In the course of his experience he had seen many attempts made to lower and depress the character and standing of the chemists and drug gists; he did not, however, mean to use a harsh expres sion to any one or any body, but he would say that the in terests of the public were deeply involved in the freedom of the trade of the chemists and druggists. As English men those engaged in that trade had certain rights and privileges._(Cheers.) He had travelled frequently on the Continent, and he had many times seen the trammels under which tradesmen there carried on their business— those trammels were totally incompatible with the privi. leges of Englishmen.—(Cheers.) No doubt some reform was necessary, but it ought to originate with themselves, and not come from the Apothecaries' Company, or any other body. He trusted that he would never see any regulations in force which would hinder or prevent any Englishmen from buying any medicine he might fancy would do him good, unless he did so through the medium f the Apotheca r ies' Company.—(Cheers.) He antici pated much good to the trade generally, and especially to the public, from the establishment of the Society. Mr. BELL Ind much pleasure in seconding the motion of his friend Mr. Allen. The spectacle which then pm sented itself to him was most gratifyieg, as it was unex pected. They were now a united body, which had here tefore been a disunited one, and he hoped it was the dawning of a new era in the trade, which ho trusted would be blessed. The Resolution was agreed to with acclamation. Mr. MoNsoN moved, " That the present Committee he requested to frame laws and regulations for the govern ment of the Society, to be laid before a general meeting for their approval. Mr. DAVEY seconded the motion, which passed _unani mously. Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, who returned thanks, pledging himself, and the wholesale trade generally, to the objects of the Soc i ete. The great majority of those present signed as members of the Society. The meeting then broke up. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) COLONIAL MARKET. There was not much life in the Colonial Market, and the business done was limited, but prices were supported for most articles. The imports keep small. TEA MARKET. There 'was but a limited business done, but the rates were sppported. Is. .5 : 1-d. for Company's Congou, cash. TALLOW MARKET. Prices of Russian were maintained, but the operations were on a small scale. DRY FRUIT MARKET. An extensive business has recently been done in Currants for export at full prices, 653. to 675. for the best ; other Fruits dull of sale for home consumption, and prices declining, espe cially Raisins of low quality. PROVISION MARKET. The demand for Irish Butter dull, and to effect this town prices have been accepted, fine parcels, 102 s. to 104 s. per cwt. ; the best Dutch, being scarce, finds a ready sale at 114 s. to 116 s. per cw+. Bacon in fair demand, and prices very firm, with an inclination to advance. Prime Waterford, 595. per cwt. ; Lard dull and declining. BELGIUM. BRUSSELS, Aram, 12. —lt is expected that we shall read in the Moniteur of to-morrow the following 31inisterial arrange ments : Foreign Affairs—Count Muelenaere. The Interior—M. Notheral. Putlic Works—M. Dumon Dermortier. Finance—Count de Bricy. Justice—M. de Cuyper. The Journal du Commerce d' Anvers says, we are afraid that his Majesty, William 11., has just adopted a resolution by which all officers are struck off the lists of his order who left their colours in 1830, without having been previously released from their oaths. BRUSSELS, Arasa 13.—We expected to find the names of the new Ministry in the Moniteur this morning, but this ex pectation has not been realised. His Majesty had a Levee this morning, which was very numerously attended. At noon he appeared in the balcony, and was greeted with the most cordial acclamations. We un derstand that his Majesty will not stay beyond Thursday morning. The General Steam Navigation Company's ves sel the Ocean, I. Fife, from Rotterdam, arrived off the Custom-house at 12 o'clock this day with the Dutch mail. EXTRAORDINARY ACCIDENT AT SEA.—OU Thursday last, during the passage of the John Bull steam ship from l - lamburgh to London, an accident of a most singular nature happened to a young man named Clark, an apprentice on board, who is nearly out of his time. Clark was sent into the mainchains some hours after the vessel left Hamburgh, for the purpose of heaving the lead. He was on the larboard side of the vessel, and had been engaged for some time in taking soundings, when he was suddenly missed by the mate, who was at the wheel, and who heard a noise resembling that of a man splashing his hands and feet in the water. The vessel was immediately stopped and backed astern, and the boat lowcrjd, and the men who rowed it looked about for nearly twenty minutes, but without being able to find him. The boat returned to the steamer, and was hoisted up, and the vessel proceeded on her voyage, everybody supposing he was lost: Directly afterwards some of the men went to the side of the vessel, and hauled in the lead line, and to their great surprise pulled up the body of Clark, who had been for nearly twenty minutes in the water, suspended by the line, which had made a complete hitch knot round his neat. Captain Corbin, the commander of the ship, Mr. Gibbs, the mate, and all the hands that could be spared, lost no time in using every means in their power to save him. He was conveyed to the fore-cabin, stripped, and placed in a hot bath, water hav;ng been procured from the boilers for the purpose. Captain Corbin and his mate applied the means recommended by the Roy al Humane Society for saving life, but it was long before- the young man exhibited the least signs of animation. The Captain and his men would not despair ; they continued their ex ertions, and exactly one hour after the sufferer was taken out of the water he began to show some signs of life. Stimulants were then supplied, and he soon afterwards be came conscious of his situation. His neck and threat were much swollen, and leeches were applied. The swelling was soon reduced by the application of the leeches, and by the time the vessel reached London the young man ap peared to be out of immediate danger. He is; now doing well. It appears that when he fell overboard his head was kept above water while the sh:p was moving, and he was dragged through the sea with it; but when the vessel stopped he sunk, ansi remained suspended under water with the rope round his neck. EMIGRATION OF THE SWISS.—The Swiss Journals state that a great number of the inhabitant; of Chamounix, although in the enjoyment of a certain degree of wealth, arc disposing of their property, with the inten tion of emigrating with their families, some to New York, others to Louisiana, where many of their fellow-country men have made successful settlements. PLYNIOUTII, APRIL 12.—Arrived, Her Ma jesty's sloop Acorn ; loft Mozambique Dec. 24, 1840 ; Madagaeg4r, Jan. 4, 1841 ; Cape of Good Hope, Jan. 28 ; St. Helena, Feb. 16 ; and Ascension, Feb. 27. The Acorn has beer stationed in the Mozambique-chan nel, for the suppression of the slave trade. She has cap tured two barks, one brig, a schooner, and two downs. The first three were completely fitted, having irons, slave decks, &c., and contained valuable cargees, with 43,000 dollars in specie. The other three had sieves on board. The crew of the Acorn have suffered severely from the climate, and at Madagascar the natives and slave-dealers poisoned the water at one period. The nurnleer of deaths was considerable in consequence, all on board having suffered more or less. The Acorn has proved herself an excellent sea boat, and is highly creditable to her com mander, Lieutenant Hankey. She left the Andromache in Simon's Bay on the 28th of January, waiting for the Ad miral. On Sunday, April 4, in lat. 40 52 N., long. 18 16 NV., blowing strong, with a tremendous see, they fell in with a schooner, apparently abandored. A gun having been first fired over her, the Acorn's largest boat was lowered, and the schooner was boarded. Not a soul was on board; her boom was broken in two places, and her ' rudder carried away. Lieutenant Mulkey towed her about 500 miles before the weather abated sufficiently to hang a temporary rudder, after which the two vessels kept company, and they are now lying in Plymouth Sound. The schooner proves, by her log, to be the Mary Ann, of Wey_ mouth, William Carter, master, apparently bound to St. Michael's. Great praise is due to the commander and crew of the Acorn for the skilful manner in which they se cured the Mary Ann in such boisterous weather. By a letter from Monmouth, We are informed of a brutal whichm n u e rd a e r r nos s, i n w l a i s e r committed few days murdered days since at a village ma n is a travelling packman, and th e perpetrators o f the horrible deed are two colliers, wh o Inving boat their victim ince on the head till life CVSS extinct, first robbed him, and then threw him into the Wye. Th e i nques t on th body was to be held on Tuesday. EVENING EDITION. THE lONIAN ISLES. The following is the speech of his Excellency the Lord High Commissioner to the Legislative Assembly, on the 16th of March : " In addressing you at the close of this highly im portant and useful Session of Parliament, I have first to express the very high gratification I have had in giving my assent to that great Act by which the new codes of law will speedily come into operation. I con gratu'ate you on the accomplishment of this great work, and it is my ardent hope and fervent wish that the transition thus made from conflicting and ill-adapted laws to a sound system of legislation, may be produc tive of every possibir benefit and advantage to the lonian people. " With reference to the recommendation which I made at the opening of this session, that you would take into your serious consideration the insufficien c y of the revenue, and the necessity of adopting such mea sures as the exigencies of the public service render ne cessary, I may now aid, that the measure which you have adopted, of restoring the duty on grain, a duty originally imposed in lieu of tithes, but abolished in 1833, is considered by her Majesty's Government to be the only means of insuring an additional revenue to the lonian Treasury, with the least possible burden to the people ; I congratulate you, accordingly, on having, by this Act, restored the finances to a condition which will fully enable the Government to meet all its engagements. " In proceeding now to the painful duty of closing the lonian Parliament for the last time, I beg to ex press the great satisfaction which I have experienced in all my relations with the seventh Parliament, and my thanks for the cordial and firm support you have always affor?led me, particularly in these, the closing acts of my administration. " The seventh Parliament commenced its labours under difficult circumstances, but these so speedily dis appeared that its first session closed under the most fa vourable auspices ; and the protecting Sovereign and her Majesty's Government derived great satisfae tion from learning that harmony had been so happily re-established between the two branches of the lonian Legislature, and I feel convinced that her Majesty's Government will receive with increased gratification the evidences which I shall have to offer of the happy con tinuation of that harmony, and the satisfactory termi nation of this short but important session. " On your return to your respective islands you will, I am confident, do all in your power to inculcate what you feel, and have so well practised—to confirm the lonian people in the spirit of loyalty, confidence, affec tion, and respect for the protecting Sovereign, which I feel persuaded nothing can shake or undermine. Thus, in separating from you, I have the consolation of knowing that I leave the powers of these States moving and co-operating in perfect unison with each other for the public good, and all acting in harmony with the views and intentions of her Majesty's Go vernment. " I most earnestly recommend a steady perseverance in this laudable spirit—a prosecution of those measures and a cherishing of those institutions, which can alone prepare the lonian people to discharge properly the ar duous duties which free institutions impose—institu tions, however, tvhich, if prematurely introduced, would prove a far greater injury than a boon to the people themselves ; for becoming the sport arril the prey of a few ambitious and intriguing men, the lonian people would never have the benefit and protec:ion of a stable Government, nor the energy and vigour of a free State. " Those changes and modifications which the real in terests of the lonian people may, in future, require, may safely he lett to the Sovereign of that free State, and the Government of that enlightened country, under whose exclusive protection and guidance you arc placed, and in whose hands that power is, happily for you, ex clusively vested by the constitufon,d charter. " The cardinal measures for improving the condition of the lonian people are those only which I have unceasingly urged forward by all the faculties and means in my power—namely, the diffusion of public education—the improvement of the laws, and a vigi lant concern for the impartial administration o: justice —the encouragement of industry—the opeaing of new communications—the advancement of morality and me rit—an unfeigned respect for religion, and implicit obe dience to the laws. " Ttieszi bring all other blessings in thTir train ; and that all prosperity and happiness may ever attend the lonian people, collectivily and individually, is my fervent and parting prayer to that Providence, which directs, overrules, and disposes all human affairs." FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. Sir Charles Napier. R.N., from the Mediterranean; the Earl and Countess of Sandwich, in Dover-street, from Hinch inbrook ; Mr. and Mrs. Maclean, from Brighton ; the Earl of Harewood, in Hanover-square, rom Harewood House, York shire; Mr. C. W. Codrington, M.P., and Lady Georgians Codrington, in Park-place, from their seat in Gloucestershire; Lady Saltoun and Hon. Miss Fraser, in Great Cumberlatid place, from Ness Castle, Inverness ; the Hon. J. Cole, from Ireland ; the Earl of Falmouth, iii St. James's-square, from Woolhampton, Berks ; Lord and Lady Montagu and Hoc. Miss Montagu, in Hamilton-place, from Ditto!' Park ; Lord Sydney Osborne, from Dublin; the Hon. Colonel Wingfield, in lover-street, from Powerscourt Castle, Ireland; Lady Sarah Campbell, from Malta ; Lady larlotte Blount and Lady Henrietta St. Maur, in Cumberland-street, Portman-square, from Sunning-hill; Reverend W. Wilson and Miss Wilson, at the Gloucester Hotel, Piccadilly; Mr. and Mrs. Barton, at ditto ; Mrs. Lewis, at ditto ; Lieut. M. Macgregor, 21st. Fusileers, at ditto; —'Perkins, Esq.. at ditto; Wren, Esq., at ditto; Herbert Langham, Esq., Mrs. Langham, and family, at Marshall Thompson's Hotel ; his Excellency M. Oliveria, Madame Oliveria, and family, at ditto; Sir Charles Chad, Bart., and Jady Jane Tumour, at Fladong's Hotel, Oxford-street, from Pinkney Hall, Norfolk ; Edward Henry Chad, Esq., at ditto, from ditto ; Sir Duncan Came ron, Bart., of Fassfern Callart, Fort. William, N. 8., at ditto ; Mr. and Mrs. Mackenzie, at ditto, from Madras ; Ruddell Todd, Esq., at ditto, from Brighton ; Rev. Mr. Sage, at ditto, from Brackle), Northamptonshire ; Charles Kaye, Esq., at ditto, front Teignmoutb, Devonshire; Henry Lucas, Esq., at ditto, from Newport Pagnell, Bucks ; Daniel Vautier, Esq., and Messrs. Gordon and - Whitesides, at ditto. DEPARTURES The Earl of March, from Portland-place, for Goodwood Park, Sussex; Viscount Cantilupe, M.P., from Urper Gros venor-street, for Buckhurst Park, Sussex ; the Earl of Fingal], from Upper Brook-street, for Killeen Castle, his seat in Ire land ; Lord and Lady Ashburton, and the Hon. Misses Baring, from Bath House, for the Grange, Hants ; Lord and Lady Braybrooke, from Burlington-street, for Audley End, Essex ; the Duke of Buckingham. from Pall-mall, for Stowe; Lady Elizabeth Fielding,, and Miss Fielding, from Sackville . street , for Laycock Abbey, Wilts ; the Duke of Norfolk, from St. James's-square, for Fornham Hall, near Bury St. Edmunds; Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, from Beaufort House, for New market; Lord and Lady Daere, from Chesterfleld-street,M ay-fair, • for their seat in Ilerts ; Earl of Jersey and Viscount Villiers, from Berkeley-square, for Cambridgeshire ; Earl and Countess Craven, from Charles-street, Berkeley-square, for The Grove, near Watford, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Clarcn. don ; Lord Fitzgerald, from Whitehall-place, on a tour ; the Marquis of Bute, from Campden Hill, for Cardiff Castle, his seat in Wales ; Lord Charles Fitzroy, M.P., from Burlington House, for Euston Hall, the Duke of Grafton's seat, nea r Thetford ; the Duke and Duchess of Cleveland, from St. James's-square, for Newmarket ; the Marquis of Breadalbane, for Langton Hall, Berwickshire ; Lord Gar vfraogmli, Park-lane, n mk-ia P or t m an-square, for Garvagh House, London derry ; Viscount and Viscountess Barrington, from Cavendish square, for their seat in Berks ; Lord Arthur Lennox, M.P., for Sussex; the Dowager Lady Ramsden, from Pic ca dill y, f or Cheltenham, to join Lady Mulcaster ; Viscount Burghersh, from Harley-street, for Brighton ; Viscount and Viscountess Milton, from Grosvenor-square, for Milton House, near Peterborough ; Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Maynard,from Fladong's Hotel, for Scratteft Hall, Leicestershire; Mr. George and Miss Thring, from ditto, for Frome, Somersetshire ; Mrs. and Miss Sheldon, from ditto, for Brighton; William Wells, Esq.. from ditto, for Redleaf, near Penshurst, Kent; Colonel Barron, from ditto, for Chel tenham ; George Wood, Esq., from ditto, for Ottershaw Park, near Chertsey, Surrey ; Charles Neville, Esq., from ditto, for Neville Hall, Leicestershire ; James Erskine, Esq., from ditto, for Cheltenham ; Charles Barham, Esq., from ditto ; Easing ton Watson, Esq., from ditto, - Cobb, Esq., Mrs. Cobb and Family, from Marshall Thompson's Hotel ' • W. L. E. Bulwer, Esq., from ditto; Sir G. Clerk, Bart, M.P., from ditto, for Scotland ; Mr. and Mrs. Bannerman and Family, from the Gloucester Hotel, Piccadilly ; Major and Mrs. Thorne, from ditto; Rev. Mr. Stro n g from ditto. CHANCS.S. The Earl and Countess of Jen n y n, at Ickworth Park, near Bury St. Edmunds, from Bel voir Castle,.the seat of the Duke of Rutland ; the Duchess of Bedford, at. 'Windsor Castle, from cisTyaarrdßs ; A o zn yi i s n e ,.. f n ro t m a t,n•idsit Viscountess to Ports mouth W o burn Abbey, Bedfords hire ; Sir Hussey Vivian, Bart., '..\1.P., at Glenn, i,lvni„„iit }is i seat ip Boyle, at Castle Martyr, near Cork, from a visit to the Mar quis of Waterford , at. Currawghiimiiioorky fcr:,:annlilt:lcVlealinbaitebeerrkiftolgrdesh; irtehe; Duke of Portland, at Newmarket, Abbey, Thompson, at Milton House, near ' Notts ; Lord and Lady Ray s e e n a s t w i o u rt \ l ‘ i :o a r i c i e d s t t e h r e sh H ir o e n , bliss.from toLwind-. dill, at Percy's Cross, Fulham, from a visit to the Earl and , Sussex. t C h :o e u E nt a e r s l s Peter_l of Fitzwilliam ; the !)orougli, on .. from the Duke Dowager Dirdiess of Richmond, . , of Rutland's, Belv ' to tie Duke of Richmond s, Goodwood Mr . and i n a d :r: r :y . yi e t T . koalttl his n a e t p 1 _ , ,. , a I cur Castle, sc EvErt SINCE HE WAS A PUPPY,"— There oat the principal S terne coffee-rom inn wh ere wa s a re sided, about t he time be wrot e " Tristram Shandy," where gentlemen who frequented the house might read the newspapers. One of the greatest enjoyments of Sterne's life was spending an inoffensive hour in a snug corner of this room. There was a troop of horse at that time quar tered in the town ; one of the officers was a gay young remarkable for his d g b o y od the ciu fr a e li c ti i e n s t . ere T ou h r is seofthe world, but not young gentleman . was destitute man., s Pc j o l e f freedom of speech, reflec tions on the e leig)'• Yorick was cfteu obliged to hear toests be couldand conversations shocking to not approve, cony • Captain,and pointed the ear of delicacy, and was frequently under the neces sity of removing. his scat, or pretending deafness. The resols ing this conduct should no longer avail him, seated himself by Yorick, so as to pre vent Lis retreat, and immediately began a profane, in. decent tale, at the expense of the clerical profession, with his eyes steadfastly fixed on Yorick, who pretended not t , notice his ill manners; when that :became impossible b turned to the military intruder and gravely said, " SA s t o ry. My father is an officer, and is s I'll tell you my brave himself, that he is fond of everything else that brave, even his dog. You must know we have at tb s pirited, and the beet natured th at can b e i m g time one of the finest creatures of his ki n d i n t h e won ], the mod ; so lively that he charms everyb o d y ; b ut h e h as cursed trick that throws a shade over a ll hi s goo d qua l ne ti,,." ~ Pray, what may that b e ?" i nterrogate d t l o fficer. " lle never sees a clergyman, but he instant flies it him," an.wered Yorick. " How long has he In that trick ?" " Why, Sir," replied the divine, " ever sin, he was puppy !" The man of war for once blushed, an afer a pause, said, `• Doctor, I thank you for your hint. give me your hand, I will never rail at a parson again." " •