The Sun. — London, England, 1841-04-16 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION NEW HISTORICAL ROMANCE. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., J AN 0 F A R C, THE MAID OF ORLEANS. AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE. By T. J. SERLE, Esq. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. U , ;DER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS. THIS EVENING, APRIL 16, Will be repeated the New LONDON ASSUR Comedy, ANCEin Five Acts, entitled 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. Hamby. After whieh 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, Miss Lee. To-morrow, London Assurance, with Beauty and the Beast. Doors to ke opened at half-past Six—the performances to commence at Seven o'Clock. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 35. 6d.; First and Second Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price. 25.; Gallery, Is. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may oe had upon application. Private Boxes to be had se.ely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller, 167. New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE AND MR. WILLIS JONES. Three New Pieces, supported by Mr. 0. Smith, Mr. J. S. Balls, Mr. Hicks, and Mr. J. T. Haines, its addition to the old favourites. Splendid scenery and appointments.; THIS EVENING, APRIL 16, Will be acted a New Legendary Drama, entitled TOM MOORE OF FLEET-STREET ; OR, THE STARLING OF THE OLD SALOUPE HOUSE. Tom Moore, Mr. J. S. Balls ; Wilhelm Stirn, Mr. 0. Smith. 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. Balls, J. T. Haines, Neville, Buckingham, Heslop, Mrs. H. Hughes, Mrs. W. Daly, iz Entirely New Scenery and Dresses for all Three Piece.. . " THE CHINA SUN," REPUBLISHED ON SATURDAY LAST, IS NOW ON SALE, With all the LATEST NEWS. TH E RAILWAY SUN WILL BE PUBLISHED TOWARDS THE END OF THIS MONTH. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We cannot undertake to answer legal questions resembling those put by our Norwich Correspondent. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO.MORROW 48 minutes after 10 1 Evening r minutes after H The Publication of the Evening Edition of THE SUN com menu -d at 10 minutes ater Three. LONDON: FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 1841. ARRIVAL OF THE CALEDONIA. (EXPRESS FROM LIVERPOOL.) NO NEWS OF THE PRESIDENT. The Caledonia arrived at Liverpool yesterday morning at ten o'clock, bringing New York papers to the Ist, and Boston papers to the 2d. The Caledonia brings no word of the President, which vessel, therefore, cannot have put into any American port. It is still possible that she may have reached the Azores or Bermuda, but hearing nothing of her by this arrival, cannot avoid enhancing the uneasiness which prevails respecting her. The intelligence concerning Mr. M'LEOD is contained in the following paragraph : el. ;,, t t= 6l' , ~ • ••,,, ~ v ;' , .-- _ 4 • - • 4 V . .Ati ' ~. • ~.A- S , ' s . ' V...tk ._... klft s" .. '.)....::,..,- pliii-s:O4 - , , -...;;;,.•, a •!.;. , ,- •, 0 ;,..,,- ,_.`l6 ' - , I „,:ti ,-.--- -,, , w.,...,,....., • , • 4,§Aut TRIAL OF M,LEOD- A Correspondent of the Albany Argus, writing from Lockport, March 22, says— On the opening of the Court, Judge Dayton directed the clerk not to call the jury, deciding at the same time not to hold the Court in consequence of an informality, or rather a material error of the clerk, in giving but five instead of six days' notice of the drawing of the jury for the term. M'Leod was arraigned, and pleaded not guilty to the indictment against him. His counsel, Messrs. Gardner and Bradley, then moved the Court for two commissions to issue—one for the examination of Mr. Webster, Secretary of State, and Mr. Fox, the British Minister at Washington, —the other to examine M'Nab and others, in Upper Ca. nada. This was granted, with the condition that the people might join in the commission. An application was then made to the Circuit Judge to allow a certiorari to remove the cause from the Oyer and Terminer to the Supreme Court, on an affidavit setting forth some of the circumstances of the offence charged to have been committed, and that difficult and complicated questions of law would arise on the trial. The Counsel urged that at the Oyer and Terminer the presiding Judge might be overruled by the county Judges, and that it was proper in this case, for that reason, that this cause should be tried in the Circuit Court, rather than in the Oyer and Terminer. _ _ _ _ The Circuit Judge declined allowing the certiorari upon that ground, as there was no allegation of improper bias, on the part of the county Judges, and our statute has pro vided the means of correcting any error in the preceediegs of the Oyer and Terminer by a Bill of Exceptions. The counsel asked for time to add an affidavit in rela tion to the excit.2ment which hid existed in the county upon the subject, and the reasons why it was believed a fair trial could not be had. This was granted, and the Court adjourned over to the afternoon, to give an oppor tunity to serve the writ if allowed. During the intermis,ion the affidavits were prepared, the certiorari allowed, and served on the Court on their going ir, in the afternoon. This gives APLeod's counsel an opportunity to move the Supreme Court to change the venue to some other county. We learn from these Journals that the Go vernment has issued a Commission to inquire into the state and progress of Public Works. It is signed by Mr. WEBSTER, the Secretary of State, and cont a i ns t h e following passage, which is, we think, pretty strong for a Republican Government : You will inquire into to man's po litical opinions or pre ferences : but, if it be alleged th at any person , having the power of employing and dismissindismis labourers, has used that power either in employing org with any reference to the political opinions of th ou : w i t b een employed or dismissed, or for anyy pvioallitaiteeoadlmohariyaphdaaurvttyye object whatever, or in any other wa for party or election purposes, you will inquire into the truth of such sugge3tion ;and yiofuywouillfinsdtatreeastohe ar reason to think it well founded, in any case, Jar facts and circumstances on which your opinion is formed. The general Government will act on the in formation supplied by the Commissioners, and commence, we are afraid, a system of inquisi tion worthy of the monarchies of Continental Europe. General HARRISON, it appears, had been taken very ill on Saturday, after dinner. His physi cian remained with him the whole night, and he was extensively cupped. He was considere better. We quote the following passar . ; e , to 'warn our Government that the old feelir jg , on. the subject of our men-of-wa r visiting ArrjeTican vessels, still prevails; and to urge it or.i. the Administration, that her MAJESTY'S OffiCr.l.,3 should be enjoined, whenever they are obliged to perform this duty, to act with as much. consideration as. possible. Civility, which en- 4 , nothing, is a cheap method of preserving PrAce : ANOTHER OU:TRAGE BY A BRITISH CRUISER. —We learn that lette,s have been received "from the brig Rich mond, Bate!, of this port, which state that th e vesset had been ovcrb.auled by a British cruiser. The Richmond was . on I ".ier passage from Salem to St. Helena, and thence to Mo'mmbiquo ; and a few weeks before her arrival at St. ilekna, when off the Island of St. Thomas on the coast of Africa, she was brought to by a British brig of war (the Persian, our informant thinks), her invoices and ot h er papers were demanded and examined, and she was finally suffered to proceed on h e r voy a ge, nothing being found to justify a seizure. This is the fifth Salem vessel that has been searched by English cruisers with a few months— Salem Register. Mr. and Mrs. WEBSTER had arrived at New York on a visit to her fat ter, Mr. HERMAN LE ROY. On the frontier things remain quiet. General SCOTT was in the neighbourhood of Niagara. The following are extracts and the latest prices. A considerable quantity of news and extracts from Amelican papers previously arrived by the Taranto- will. he. found. in another part , Sun, which we received by express from Liver pool yesterday evening, and published in a third edition:— The Canadian elections present, it seems to US, a very novel feature. The candidates go on the ground with a thousand or two of armed followers, and having ar rived at the hustings, and ascertained the physical strength of their opponents, the weaker, or, if you please, the most cowardly party, gives up, while the other side polls 15 or 20 votes, and declares the election in favour of the Hon, Samuel Snooks, by a unanimous vote I The unani mity of an election, brought about by driving off the op nents of a given candidate vi et arrnis, is an improve ment upon our " Republican practice," which we suppose our Canadian brethren consider proof enough of the ad vantage which they possess over the " fierce democracy " in the United States.—New York Inquirer. THE BURNING OF A STEAMER.—The Natchez Free Trader furnishes the particulars of the burning of the steam-boat Creole. When met by the Sultana, the Creole was a mass of cinders. Her tiller ropes first burned off, and, of course, she became unmanageable, and was left at the mercy of her mad enginery, which kept on working more and more furiously, as the heat of the burning mass became more intense. When the boat first struck the shore, one or more threw themselves off and gained the bank; the rebound of the boat turned her bows another way, and she took directly across the river again. It is a lamentable fact that nearly all who threw themselves into the river rose no more. It will probably never be known with certainty how many perished in this fierce, brief struggle with fire and water. There were about 70 pas sengers in all, and 20 to 30 arc missing and unaccounted for.—Boston Paper, April 1. SeICIDE.—J. D. Adams, formerly cashier of the Fulton Bank of Boston, committed suicide at St. Louis on the 6th instant, by drowning himself. PHILADELPHIA SALE OF STOCKS.—MARcH23. 3,000 State s's, 1864 1,000 State s's, 1864 50 shares U. S. Bank lB 25 do. do. s3 ds flat 18 10 do. Stonington RR. 10 do. Agricultural Bk, Miss. 4 cis flat 20 Sales at the 2d Board. 50 shares U. S. Bank lB 20 do. Wilmington Bk ast 3 000 Penn. s's, 1865 CLOSING PRICES.--SIARCH 30.: 'ted States Bank at 16 . 1 to 17 ; Pennsylvania 315 .20 ; Philadelphia, 75 to 85 ' • Girard, 28 to 28f ; icksburg, 5f to 51 ; Camden and Amboy R. R. 861 to 7; Wilmington R. R. 334 to 34. NEW YORK MONEY MARKET.—MARCH 31. SALES AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE. $4,000 State 5f per cent 854 50 Shares United States Bank 164 47 do do 90 do Mechanics' Bank 8 do American Bank lO2 25 do Delaware and Hudson bn w 87:I 15 do State Bank 25 do North American Trust .. . 1 i 30 do do 35 do American Exchange Bank 150 do Vicksburg Bank 30 do Boston and Providence 93 360 do Haerlem Railroad, 2B 50 do do slo ds 274 100 do Long Island ...., 524 50 do Canton do 100 do Stonington 50 do do It) regard to money we are in very easy position, and this arises not from the abundance of money, but from the paucity of demand. The engagements of our business men have 13.-zen comparatively small for the last year, and have been entered into on a more prudent bails than in former years. Many of the grocers and other good houses are freely discounting their own paper. We infer also the easincis of the money market from the fact that cases have come to our knowledge, where holders of good paper declined receiving the money, legal interest off. Our Banks we learn continue to discount all the offerings made of paper coming within their requirements. In the street such paper as will not go in Bank is selling at 9 a 12 per cent. In State Stocks the operations are very limited, and the quotations may be considered merely nominal. Capi talists are anxiously awaiting the adviccs by the , British Queen in relation to the value of these' securities on the other side. The last sales of Pennsylvania Five's at Philadelphia, were at 74 ; United States Bank, 16 3-4 a 17 ; Pennsyl vania, 315 a 320; Philadelphia, 75 a 85; Girard, 28 a 28 1-2 ; Vicksburgb, 5 1-2 a 5 3-4 ; Camden and Amboy R. R., 86 1-2 a 87 ; Wilmington R. R., 33 3-4 a 34. U. S. Bank notes are selling at 16 a 18 per cent. dis count. A large amount could not be bought at the latter rate. The inquiry fur Sterling Exchanges has been rather li mited; prime bills may be quoted at 6 3-4 a 7 1-4 ; Southern, without endorsements, 6 a 6 1-2 ; the principal sales have been at 7. In Francs the operations for this steamer have been large and but few good bills now re main : the ruling rate has been 5,35, but some bill holders demand 5,32; on Amsterdam the rate is 39 a 39 1.4; Hamburgh, 35 5-8 a 35 3-4; Bremen, 76 1-4 a 76 3-4. In Inland Exchanges the demand to-day has rather fallen off, but the rates have not materially changed. We are entirely without export demand for specie. The Exchanges are in our favour upon almost every country of the globe, and we continue daily to receive accessions to our already large supply of coin. We give quotations below, but the transactiana are unimportant : Spanish Dollars, 3 to 4 per cent, premium ; Mexican ditto, par to 1-4 ditto ditto; American Halves, par; Spa niila Doubloons, $l6 40; Mexican ditto, $ 1 .5 60 ; Sove reigns, $4 84. In general business there is beginning to be a little movement. The navigation to Albany being now open, we shall have a free communication with the interior, and the produce of the vast West will come pouring in upon us. Many country merchants are now in town, and during the ensuing week there will, no doubt, be considerable animation in all branches of trade. The continued delay of the British Queen has tended to produce a calm in the Cotton market, and it is now very quiet.—Operators are unwilling to act until the re ceipt of the expected advices. Since the arrival of the Caledonia until within a few days the demand has been very animated and extensive, and an advance of 1-4 to 1-2 c. was obtained on previous rates. Since the 15th the sales may be fairly considered at 17,000 bales, at for Uplands very ordinary to middling 9 1-2 a 10 1-4 cents per lb. ; fair to good fair and good 10 3-4 a 11, and 11 1-2 cents ; Tennessees and Alabamas 9 1-4 a 10 4 cents; Mobiles, Louisianas, &c., ordinary to middling 9 3-4 a 10 1-2, fair to good fair, 11 a 11 1-2, good and fine 12 a 12 1-2 and 13 cents. The exports to Europe since October 1 have been 506,982 bales, against, last season 816,130. The export to Great Britain has been 345,875 bales, against 499,143 last year. The receipts have been 1,111,319 bales, against 1,389,353 last year. Immediately after the arrival of the Caledonia the operations in Western Flour, at $4 75, were large ; but the advanced rate which holders now demand has for a few days past limited the operations almost entirely to re tail lots for city use. Western Canal is now held at $4 87i c. a 5. The stock is estimated at 30 to 40,000 ohls., which is light. We shall receive the usual suppl'es by the Erie Canal about the 28th April or Ist May, and it is supposed that the opening price will be $4 75. George town and Baltimore Flour is held at $4 69 a,4 75. The stock of Southern is estimated at about 20,C00 bbls. Wheat is held at 95 a 100 c., with light sales. The stock here is about 75 or 80,000 bushels. The demand for Ashes is small, at Bc. for both kinds. The stock is very light. In Naval Stores the transactions are very limited. The last sale was of about 2,200 bbls. N. G. Soft Turpentine 21 1-2 s. Prime Turpentine is scarce—other descriptions are plenty. Tar 162 1-2 a 175. Pitch 150 a 175. Ro sin 137 1-2 a 150. Wilmington Turpentine 287 1-2. In Whale Oil the operations have been large within a few days, at a decline of 1 cent. per gal. About 3,000 brls. have been taken for export at 29c., and another sale of 2,000 brls. is reported at the same price. A sale has been made of 7,000 gallons English Linseed Oil, at 80c. cash. At auction to-day the following Teas were offered and most of them sold :-18 chests Young Hyson, at 59 1-2; 1,182 half-chests Young Hyson, 45 a 80; 325 13.1 b. boxes, 53 ; 5 chests Hyson, 54; 218 half-chests Gtr,',. powder, 56 a 62 ; 18 do. do. Punhoygua, 85 ; 43 cl.lests do., 55 a 62 ; 100 13-lb. boxes, 56 1-2 ;50 6-Ih. ;.to., 62 ; 19 half-chests Imperial Punhoygua, 79; 153 half chests do., 57 a5B ; 19 chests Imperial, 54 ; 200 12-112. boxes, 58 1-2; 80 Bi-lb. boxes Souchon:s', superior, 53 1-2 ; 76 half-chests Orange Pekoe, 49 ; 100 chests Sou- Cinnamon, 135. On the chong, 51 1-2; 10 chests Cong. - 53 • 7 bales Ceylon sale exhibits a decline ; ' iow' ju rade 2 s — Canton Teas this it is fully equal to pr. , • 'out on the country packed Teas sidered a slight in-_ .ofi ous sales, and perhaps may be con -rates of freight to Liverpool are—C' provement. The packet 7-16 d. a ?a-16d. ; Flour 31. 6d. , Seed, pert; _dean To L:inden—Cotton 1-2 d. ; Na val . St;. "erce, 129. 3s. dd. To Havre—Cotton lc. per IF s blr for s qua re _ ales i 1.4 e. for round; Ashes, pi for rot s ; ,fllO for Pearls ; Bark $l4. INDI',2OI MASSACRE. It, or seems Caw 1,.. a that .fa some time in D ecem b er, the 1c46- zas,ns, hearing that an e ncampment of Pawnees ;sere on a buffalo hunt, at some distan ce f rom the the remainder of their tribe , gave up t h e i r own anticipated h and organized themselves into a war party, w i th their chief at their head. They entered the Pawnee country and lay in ambush near the ill-fated encampment, until they saw the Pawnee warriors, numbering but seven teen, deprrt for their bunting grounds. The Kanzas war.- riors, sixty-fire in all, then commenced a murderous fire upon the defenceless women and children, which they con tinued until they supposed all within the encampment had been killed. On entering the scene of carnage they tomahawked and scalped more than seventy of their victims—they found twelve (six women and as many children) unhurt, whom they decided to retain as prisoners. One of the women, however, determined not to be taken alive, and suddenly springing at the nearest warrior, seized him with the grasp of a tigress by the throat, and bore him to the earth. It was only when her arms were severed from her body that she relinquished her grasp—she was then dispatched, and her scalp added another bloody trophy to those yet reeking at their bats. An act of more atrocious cruelty and shameless coward ice has seldom come to our notice. It is highly probable that before summer we shell hear of dire punishment hav ing been inflicted upon these wretches by that fierce and warlike tribe, the Pawnees. ECCENTRIC HO SPITALITY..—During the late American war a soldier who bad been wounded and honourably discharged, being destitute and lenighted, knocked at, the door of an Irish farmer, when the following dialogue ensued : Pabiek—And who the divil are you now ? sower...My name is John Wilson. Patrick—And where the divil are you going from, John .Wilson ? Seldier—From the American army at Erie, Sir. Patrick—And what do you want here? Soldier—l want shelter to-night ; will you permit me to spread my blanket on your floor and sleep to-night ? Patrick—Divil take me if I do, John Wilson. Soldier—On your kitchen floor, Sir ? Patrick—Not I, by the Hill o'Howth. Soldier—•ln your stable, then ? Patrick—l'm hanged if I do that either. Soldier—l'm dying with hunger : give me but a bone and a crust ; I ask no more. Patrick—Divil blow me if I do, Sir. Soldier—Give me some water to quench my thirst, I beg of you. Patrick—Beg and be hanged, I'll do no such thing. Soldier—Sir, I have been Eghting to secure the blessings you enjoy. I have assisted in contributing to the glory and welfare of the country which has hospitably received you, and can you so inhospitably reject me from your house ? Patrick—Reject you; who the divil talked a word about rejecting you? May be lam not the scurvy spalpeen you take me to be, John Wilson. You asked me to let you lie on my floor, my kitchen floor, or my stable ; now, by the powers, d'ye think I'd let a perfect stranger do that, when I have half-a-dozen feather beds all empty ? No, by the Hill o'Howth, John, that I wont. In the second place, you told me you were dying with hunger, and wanted a bone and a crust to eat. Now, honey, d'ye think I'll feed a hungry man on bones and crusts, when my yard is full of fat pullets, and turkeys, and pigs ? No, by the powers, not I, that's flat. In the third place you asked me for some simple water to quench your thirst. Now, as my water is none of the best, I never give it to a poor traveller without mixing it with plenty of wine, or something else wholesome or cooling. Come into my house, any honey; divil blow me, but you shall sleep in the best feather bed I have ; you shall have the best sup ger and breakfast that my farm can supply, which, thank heaven, is none of the worst ; you shall drink as mud, ' water as you choose, provided you mix it with plen4 of good wine, and provided also you prefer it. Cone in, my hearty, come in, and feel yourself at home. It shall never be said that Patrick O'Flaherty treated a :Ilan scurvily, who has been fighting for the dear country which gave him pro tection. HOG-FEN FOR BOYS.—Captain Willets, of the 6th Dis trict Watch, about two o'clock on Saturday morning, pur. sued a fugitive negro into an alley, in the rear of a house in Anthooy-street, Five Pointy. The mgrs ma naged to conceal himself so as to elude discovery. Captain Willets, however, found in a pig-pen, in a corner of the yard, four bogs and three lubberly boys, lying in snug embrace, and quietly slumbering together. The boys were brought before the police. They gave their names as Patrick Towers, Peter M'Cann, and Thomas Ryan, aged respectively 12, 13, and 14 years. They all stated that they were destitute of home or educa tion, having never been to school. They had often before slept in the bog pen, and thought it quite hard that they should have been disturbed in their rest. They were ad. judged vagrants, and sent to snug quarters at the House of Refuge.—New York Courier and Inquirer. The fact we mentioned yesterday that the law which commands us not to steal has left us igno rant of what really belongs to others, deserves, we think, some further illustration. Nothing but gross ignorance of that can be pleaded as an ex cuse or an apology for the many violations of the right of property, of which the Legislature is guilty. Possession is a very imperfect index to owner ship. A man's body is indeed his own, but as long as slavery existed, that truth was prac tically denied, and it required the exertions of many philanthropic men, through many years, to procure its final recognition in Europe, while in AmeriCa it is not yet recognised. Other things in a man's possession are far from being his own. The clothes a livery servant wears belong to his master. The rich pieces of figured velvet or satin we may find in scores of houses in Bethnal-green and Spitalfields, are not the property of the weavers, but of some silk mercers in Cheapside, or Wood street. They even are not the actual owners of the whole, for, carrying on trade to a considerable extent on credit, and their stock being answerable for their debts, the real owners are their creditors in conjunction with them. Few captains own the vessels they command, and in general the cargoes they carry belong not to the captains but to some merchants per} ap s of another country, and living under dif e r en t laws from those to which the ship captain pro fesses obedience. We most of us live in houses which we hire, and they actually belong to those who do not reside in them. The ownership of the soil of England is nomi nally in the Peers, Squires, and Yeomen, but as that ownership is little, more than a power to re ceive the rent, and as the rent is pledged to mortgagees, annuitants, and others, it is difficult to say who exactly are the owners of the fine castles and extensive domains which nominally belong to the landed gentry of England. • ' The example we have already quoted of the silk velvet in the weaver's loom, not belonging to him, may stand, in common with almost all the work of the labourer's hand, as a proof that the produce of man's labour is not his own. Posses sion, therefore, whatever it may indicate, is not a proof of ownership. The examples we yesterday quoted from the Times of bankers getting hold of property by issuing notes, are sufficient proofs that the mere power to obtain possession of property does not constitute ownership. The burglar, to borrow the illustration of the Times, has the power of appropriating wealth to his own use, as well as the concoctors of banking schemes-and the pro prietors of bank charters. Besides the power to obtain possession of wealth, to constitute owner ship the consent of other men must be gained, and, in the majority of cases, and certainly in the long run, they only consent when the appro priation is just. The essential condition of ownership, that which gives it security, and perhaps constitutes it just for the time, is possession with the con sent of other men. At any rate, the consent is all that is essential to security, and he may sleep in peace whose right is neither questioned nor denied by any man. The consent of others, as one essential element of safe ownership, is a subject of pre-eminent importance. To constitute the right of property, consent is ne cessary ; and property will cease to be safe, and to have a valid existence, whenever the bulk of the people from any cause, such as extreme poverty, or a sense of gross injustice, withhold from it their consent and guarantee. It has been, we think, one of the misfortunes of our time that the disturbances of war, and the improper interference of Government with the issue and circulation of paper money, at the close of the last and at the commencement of the present century, have existed in conjunction with a very rapid creation of wealth by new arts. New classes of men, in consequence, sud denly became extremely wealthy, and that alte ration seems to have caused considerable confi' sion in the public mind as to the 1 4 - ownership. ...ght of THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 16. 1841 At least the existence of 4" was a misfortune, be"- by our rulers, (nese circumstances ...Luse they were unnoticed _to, from their ignorance) tiggra _.oral evil. To carry On war, whether not, they i‘equired very large sums of _aoney ; and the rapid increase of wealth by the in troduction of the steam-engine and the cotton mill, enable them to take immense sums from the people, and squander them in extravagant under takings, with the hearty consent of the latter. Every person is aware that those circumstances awakened a spirit of gambling and speculation in the land, and all men became infected with a desire to seize wealth by discreditable means. The conduct of the Legislature and of the people re -acted one on the other; the people grew care less about the right of property like the Legisla ture, and their tacit consent to its proceedings begot or confirmed the opinion that the Legisla. pro pertyii en o e f e the it h p a s e o e p o l t i b t t p l l t i h t ture might appropriate and deal with the ass afitt.of late years the Legislature has had no respect whatever for the property of any classes, except th ose of its own immediate members and dependents. The servants of the State must be paid though the Legislature .have asked it to be guilty or classes. Finally, it the people starve. Hence also many Persons not in the most terrible invasions of the property of the seems to us that the sentiment _of the and working sacredness in practice, except the proper, of property, . some favoured few, has been alm'st middle swept out of the public mind. vated the yr just cs- .ontinued the career which h e Legislature itbeganau 2 rrinll e , perity, and h as - • 6 a season of great pros property o f dnown as little regard for the they -the bulk of the people, now that P ..te poor and jn difficulties, as it exhibited anon they were rich and prosperous. Their consent to its acts is at present withheld, and the Legislature ends itself at issue with the people on the question of appropriating their property. The general ignorance, or rather the neglect to notice, the new relations which are continually growing up in society, seems to us the best pos sible excuse that can be formed fo u r the conduct of the Legislature. We cannot suppose that it would wantonly and with demoniac art in flict on the bulk of the people the dis tress they now suffer. That it is all brought on them by bad legislation, to which they have in many - cases consented, cannot be denied. In general that legislation may well be described as a violation of the commandment— " Thou shalt not steal." And we do the Legis lature the justice of believing, that it would not have violated that commandment, if it had been thoroughly well informed of the nature of pre perty. Our readers will find in another column a let ter addressed to the Editor of the Dublin Regis ter, to which we invite attention, on the prolific subject of Irish grievances. When the advocates of a repeal of the Legislative Union appeal to the common sense of the British and - Ir i s h people as the supreme arbitrator of t l .te bility and patriotism of th e i r practica policy-, we are always ready to listen to t attention. But / :iem with the most se riousihtherto they ha ve ad d me; :it calculat e d to weaken our con victionn h eal of the U n i on would add ten fold to theo a a t r ag - miseries of Irela n d. Th e torch of civil and r'::iigious discord burns di st i nct i vely enough wi.`:ftotit the addition of a mock Legislative bear garden in College-green. Mr. O'CONNELL, and those who think with him upon this subject, may expose as often as they please,the violent, cor rupt, and unconstitutional means by which the Union was carried. Statesmen, and men of statesman-like intellects, must look to things as they exist, and not to their origin, It may ap pear paradoxical to say that time frequently sanctifies injustice, but such in reality is the fact. Most of our colonial possessions have been won by acts of violence, and many of them by the grossest frauds; but he would be a sorry Legis lator who would contend, after our improvement of the moral and physical condition of their inha bitants, that we ought on that account to aban don them to barbarism or foreign slavery. The abolition of the Heptarchy, the union of the kingdoms of England and Scotland, the great work of the Reformation, were not ac complished without crimes, and black crimes too; but surely that is no reson for declaring Scotland an independent monarchy, acknow ledging the supremacy of the POPE, and dividing England into seven separate kingdoms? Thai Ireland has many great grievances to complain of we know, and lament as much as Mr. O'CoN NELL himself. But do Irishmen suppose that grievances are unknown in England and Scot land ? Are they led to believe that starvation, and ignorance, and crime, and oppression of the poor, are unknown in England? We can with difficulty even allow them a monopoly of misery. If the people of Ireland knew the whole truth, we much question whether they would not be grateful for that Parliamentary neglect which they now resent as a national injury. We could here well dispense with the constant and vexa tious intermeddling of the Legislature in matters beyond the pale of its proper jurisdiction. The voice of the Legislature is rarely heard but in the imposition of some tax on ir,dustry, some re striction on commerce, or some ridiculous and annoying interference - Arith the holiday comforts and amusements of 'ih e poor. The Anti-r' League are working their cause w cepti, They have met with a cheeri ng re (on from the electors of Bury, and an ac c'uunt of their proceedings appears in another part of The Sun. A resolution was unanimously adopted not to support any candidate for Bury but one who will pledge himself for the total and immediate repeal of the Corn-laws. By thus making their creed a test of parliamentary fit ness, they will secure for themselves great in fluence over the Members of the House of Com mons. We learn from a Correspondent, who has at tended most of the meetings of the League, and been very much engaged in the discussions on the Corn-laws in the manufacturing districts, that in no instance has any person ventured at any public meeting to stand up in defence of the Bread-tax. That task is left exclusively to the Members of the two Houses, and one or two Lon don Journals which are supported by those who live and flourish on taxes. We understand that an opinion prevails in the manufacturing districts that the country has now passed through . its season of adversity, and that there will be a recurrence of great and pro fitable trading years as in 1831 and 1836. We see no prospect of that. We must have at - least two successive good harvests before the price of wheat can fall below 40s. the quarter. There is no disposition in the Bank to enlarge its issues, which are now ten millions less than in 1835, and no chance therefore of any return of those bub ble years. To meet the prevalent opinion, how ever, the League has appropriately published a hand bill, in which it is forcibly stated that dur ing those prosperous years the Americans were borrowing our money and with that paying for our goods. In that period the amount of our ex ports much exceeded our imports, and now the Americans, being unable to borrow any more, and being obliged to pay the interest of their loans, will be unable to trade with us to the same extent as in the period between 1831 and 1836. There is no probability that upwards of eighty new joint-stock banks will now be established as there were in that period, and no hope whatever, unless the Corn-law be repealed, of any return to former prosperity. The communication from Weymouth, which appears in another part of the paper, will be read with painful interest by every sincere friend of the Established Church. The proper deport ment of the defendants, and the very reasonable plan they suggested for setting the question at rest, contrasts strongly with the arrogant and per secuting spirit of those employed for the recovery been bribed to throw addi of the Church-rates. Had the proctor and church wardenson this harrassing and up,: j ust tax, and make Dis fi:mai odium senters hate Establisl -111°,:e and more this lordly Church with its wealthy Bishops, rebel -iieans, meddling Clergy, and Popish doc trines, they could not have taken more certain means for effecting the purpose. The imprison ment of fifty THOROGOODB could not give such a heavy blow to the Church, as has been inflicted by her Injudicious supporters at Weymouth. It will rouse to battle even the mild and peaceable Quakers. We refer our readers to the report of the proceedings, that they may judge for them selves. The following important intelligence is taken from the Augsburg Gazette of the 11th instant, received this morning CONSTANTINOPLE, MARcn 24.—Accounts from Teheran of the 14th of February, received by way of Trebisond, bring the important intelligence, " That the differences that existed between Persia and England are entirely settled, the Shah of Persia having declared himself ready to restore the fortress 4f Gurian, which was taken by his troops in the last war," In consequence of this the British Ambassador was imme., diately to return to Teheran. Madrid Journals of the 7th inst. have been reteiMh On day the Senate formed a Ithilse and voted thanks to the army for the ser vices it had rendered Spain. The report of the Committee pronouncing the legality of Queen CHRISTINA'S abdication was also adopted. The Chamber of Deputies stood adjourned till the 10th inst. On the Bourse the Fives were at 25 13-16 for cash, and 26 5-16 for sixty days. The whole of the Paris Journa ls of Wednes day have reached us. The only po litical new s of ; paragraph, which we co py from th e importance found in them is embodied i n the fol iuwin'emps 4 , We give the following fact a 3 of : " The Five Powers who signed the C onv ention of Lond on , ainst France. Lord prepared a treaty of defensive allianc e a g Palmerston wished that it should be signed immediately. Lord Melbourne, more prudent, communicated it to King Leopold, his habitual mediator in those kind of communications. Leo pold, in his turn, informed the principal person interested. Thi s put an end to all irresolution, and we re-enter the Euro pean_ concert, on condition that the oth er Powers will renounce the idea of forming an alliance against us. f the debate in the Chamber of Deputies failed to elicit the secrets of the Cabinet, i t helped Europe to another 'exposition of the po- licy of M. TRIERS. Nothing more remarkable has appeared for many months in the columns of the Journals, than the speech delivered by that gentleman on Tuesday. Crowded as are our columns, we must endeavour to make room for the substance of this remarkable speech, in which the ex-Minister so well depicts the dishonesty of his policy M. Thiers rose and said—The Hon. M. Guizot has declared that he never concealed his policy, neither did I ever conceal mine. Therefore it is the more necessary now to put an end to what I call a comedy.—(" A comedy on your part, indeed," exclaimed a voice.) Some people have denied that we ha in _ terests in the east. Marshal Sebastiani here observed that ';nl were right. M. Thiers thought, on the coLtrary, they were w rdilitt A Foreign Minister, who was as good a judge of' the French interests as the F renc h themselves, voilato a French Ambassador, " We see what at bottom is the true . policy of France on the Eastern question ; this policy is not European. France possesses the north of Africa ; she has an army there of 70000 men. Close to her are the Pa chas of Tunis and of Tripoli —poor Mussulmen Princes who tremble before France. And a little farther there is the Pacha of Egypt, whq possesses the Red Sea and the Euphratel. This Prance c:dnimands, directly by the north of Africa, indi rectly by, i cier alliance with the ['ache of Egypt. from the en tr?:-iee of the Mediterranean and the Straits ki : lbraltar to the Red Sea and the Euphrates. Such a ,ateof things cannot suit us." There were three lines °° conduct to pursue in this ques tion. The first was to ";:opose immediate war on the Eastern question. The se"..'ond was that of the note of the Bth of Oc tober, so mace blamed. In what consisted this policy ? The policy c!.. the note of Octob e r th e B t h, was first for France to time to make her war preparations. During this time the Pacha might suffer reverses ; the note provided for them. It did not abandon Syria; but it foresaw that while France remained quiet, the Pacha might suffer. But the French Cabinet wanted to save the chief portion, the foun dation of the Egyptian power. Th e l oss of Syria certainly hurt French pride. But, in reality, the Pacha lost therein a position much more considerable for France than for himself —that is, a position comm an di ng t h e passage o f t h e E up h rates and the Persian gulf. But, for the Pacha himself, Arabia and Syria were sources rather of weakness and expense than of power. The Pacha, if he remained true and real sovereign of Egypt, despite of the vassality, that is, having a fleet, army, &c. was still a useful a ll y f or F rance. And he knew this so well, that he was rejoiced at the note of the Bth of October. But what did we want? To negotiate with serious means for the object demanded by the note of the Bth October. We knew that two of the Powers were supporting interests not their own, and yielding merely to anti-revolutionary prejudices. It was therefore we resolved on a serious armament. With this force we should have obtained some concession, but you, with your four hundred thousand men, have obtained no thing. For the Pacha, instead of being Sovereign of Egypt, is degraded into the situation of a dependent functionary. I comprehend that Syria is set aside. I would blame your sign ing any condition with respect to Syria, since it would be shar ing with four other Powers a protectorate that France pos sessed alone. As to interdicting the passage of the Dardanelles to armed vessels, it was nonsense. For time out of mind it was forbidden to traverse internal waters, and this prohibition is a law of nations. If anything was meant by the Treaty it meant to pre ven t th e Englis from going to attack Se bastopol, and the Russians from going to attack the lonian Islands--events that we should desire, not prevent: It was wrong at this moment to prejudge what alliance France would attach. I regret the breach of the English alliance—l am disinclined to the Russian alliance. But were it wise to re turn to the English alliance, it is neither wise nor dignified to say so or do so now. There was evidently a league forming against France, in case France refused to sign ; and to en force it, the Treaty is signed. This I deprecate. The mo ment that one Cabinet says to its predecessor, " You were for war and we for peace," f rom th e moment' that such means were used for procuring a majority—from that moment all force is lost to the country. So Turkey was to be dismembered for the be nefit of France ! The patriotic TRIERS had re solved upon declaring MEHEMET ALI King of Egypt, provided he was prepared to recognise in the person of Louis PHILIPPE the virtual Sovereign of . Syria! Oh, M. TRIERS !M. TRIERS ! You have made a sad business of it. You are, after all, but a clever political moun tebank. In a few days M. Humann, the Minister of Finance, will present to the Ch am b er of Deputies a project of law for the buppression of the six mints which still remain at Lille, Rouen, Nantes, Bayonne, and Strasburgh. The same project of law will ask, it is seen, for a special vote of credit for four millions to enlarge the Mint at l'aris, and to add to the machinery. It seems to be decided that all the coin is to be coined in future by means of steam-engines, by presses with plan of Thonneher. It seems that the fetes on occasion of the baptism of the Count de Panic, will be deferred for some days. The grand concert in the gallery of the Louvre will not take place till after the 10th of May. The Prince de Joinville set out last night for St. Omer. Mr. D---- calling himself homme de lettres had come some time ago to inhabit a lone house in the com mune of Montrouge. Yesterday Mr. Gabelateau, Com missary of Police of that commune, went to the house of Mr. D--, where he seized a chest containing pis tol bullet moulds and some powder. A letter from Mont pelier says that the preliminary proceedings against Numa Raymond, on account of threatening letters addressed by a secret society to a rich merchant of Montpelier, requiring him to remit the sum of 50,000 francs, are going on without inter mission. Several persons have been arrested at Montpelier, Nismes, Marseilles, and other towns in the south. The Journal of the Eure and Loire of the 15th says, it is reported that the three companies of the centre of the National Guard of Evreux are disbanded, and that the Royal ordinance has been received at the prefecture. We shall wait for the official account to judge of this measure.—Le Commerce. A SCENE IN THE CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES. The National observes that during the debate on the supple mentary credits in the Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday, when ever M. Thiers criticised the feeble policy of M. Guizot, the centres gave vent to their bellowings, whilst M. de Gerente, alone upon his bench; flourished his wooden knife in token of defiance, and M. Jacques Lefebvre joined his harmonious cries in chorus with his colleagues. M. Dangerville passed through several fits of frenzy. 7he centres from top to bottom screamed out " Order, order !" M. Piscatory turned round in a rage to a stout rioter with white hairs, and by no means a w hite pocket handkerchief, who repell e d th e interference with indignation. The conqueror of Austerlitz alone, leaning on his elbow, was wrapt in meditation in the midst of the confusion, like a deaf man who is unconscious of a storm raging around him. M. 'Guizot found it necessary to ascend the tribune, and give the torrent another direction, and was received with unbounded ap plause, until the Chamber was completely fatigued. The a ct ors , like the chorus singers, had exhausted the drama. The debate was declared to be concluded, and they passed to the items composing the credits demanded. A few members alone re mained, and millions upon millions were voted without a single observation. At length a slight discussion arose between hiM. Thiers and Dufaure relative to the artillery. hIM. Thiers and Dufaure two artillerymen I We had assisted at the tragedy and the comedy ; the representation was dege nerating into a farce, and we retired. - 130URSE.PARIS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14. first Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Prick. Price 14re,ch 5 tier Cents ll3 85 113 85 113 70 ... 113 70 4% per Coots ••• ••• 4 iici Cents 99 40 ... 99 40 ..,, 98 41 :: 99 40 3 per Cents 7B 90 .• 78 55 ... 78 9U ... 78 95 1 ,nl, of Fiance Laftitte Bank 5,000 f. Shares 5155 ...5161 ...5155 ...5160 1,0001. SO lOB5 ...1 65 ...1165 —1065 Belgian Bank to per Cents lOl4, ... 1014 ... 101 ... let 3 per Cents . ••• •-•-• ••• - New Loan lOl4 ... 1114 ~. ... 10i% ... 101 1 4 Spanish Active 13% ... 2.;% ... •:•1% ... -334aqi Passive 5% ..• 5% 5% ... 5% Portuguese 3 per Cents 2) ... 20 ... 21 ... 20 Neapolitan lO3 85 ... le3 85 ... itgi 8) ... it.) 80 R, , ,an lO4 ... 101 ... 104 ... 101 Dutch * 3 per Cents. - RAILWAY SHARES. St • ermain Versailles,R. B 565 ... 365 ... 362 50 ... 365 L.B !:33 ... 238 75 ... 2:31 'i. ~. 133 75 Orleans .. 485 ... 435 ... 485 ... 483 Mulhausen to Thann ..... Montpellier to Cette 'AU .., 200 ... 2;0 ...:6 i Strasburg to Bale 535 ... 06 25 ... 235 ... 226 25 Rouen BELGIAN I! UNDS—BRUssELi , APRIL 14. Actual Debt, 234 per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cant lOO Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 5O 3 per CenL ...... --- ...... 1E40) ItO Loan of City, 1832, 4 per s Cent ... Bl3 SOelety of Commerce, 414 per Cent 9B Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent ..... .. ...... " 6O National Society . .............. . ...... Exchange on London (short) —2tilBsels Papers, April 14. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIssru, APRIL 6 fiveper Cents. Metalliques Four per Cents. 98% Three per Cents. Bank Shares 1612 Thirty.seven ..Allgenzeine Zeitwag, April 11. 11ADIDLIttG 13ORSENHA.LLE, APRIL 13. Bills. Money Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares Anglch.ltussitin Loan lO3 107% Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Cortilleate Inscription, Ist Se'ios L9I% Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th Sories , .... 9l 994 Ditto in Certilitztes New 4 per Cent. (1840) • t 87% I+l 34 Dutch Actual Debt, 2y a peg Cent Ditto. 5 per Cent - Polish Rand: ...as 44 144 Poir rieot ~. 1i4 , 4 14 ...m • 165 Anglo,Danish Loah, 9 per Cent 75 71% N.•twegian Loan, 1834, 4 per C.n?....... — Spanish, New 5 per Cents.... l6l t/CCHANGLI: ON LONDON. flardatißti, APRIL 11-13 064 —Two months, 13 4N. PETERSBURG'', APRIL 2. —1 WO Months, 395 pence. QUACKERY IN RELlGlON. — Protestant .Asso ciations, and Operative Protestant Associations are again making a display in the Tory Journals. All men are sensible that these meetings are quackery and dupery. Those who get them up seek.to humbug a set of dupes and impose on the public. There is no heart or truth in them; no sincerity except in the poor dupes who pay their money. Two announcements of such meetings in a Tory Journal remind us of a short passage in Mr. Carlyle's late work "On Heroes." He says, " Quackery and dupery do abound in reli enl ; above all in the more advanced and decay ing stages of religion they have fearfully abounded ; but quackery wasnever the originating influence in such things; it was not the health and life of such things, but their disease, the sure precursor of their being about to die.- Quackery gives birth to nothing, gives death to all." The Church of England, if' this be true, with its evangelical quackery on the one hand, and its Puseyite quackery on the other, its High Churchism and its Low Churehism, its Protes tant associations, its pastoral societies, its Church extension schemes, its demands on the public purse, its puffery and dupery in every quarter of the land, must be on the point of death. There is quackery enough in it to kill a dozen estab lishments. " Man every where," says Mr. Car lyle, " is the born enemy of lies." As the An glican Church, with its sworn to, but not ob served, Articles—with its dead formulas and want of living faith, is one great lie; if Mr. Carlyle be himself one of those heroes he writes of —one of those men of insight and sincerity—the poor Church will soon come to an end. The sooner the better. It is only a wretched political con trivance, usurping the attributes, and mocking the hallowed emotions of religion. The British Qu een displayed on Sunday last, as well as on the first Sunday of her . appearance, a mass of choice and original matter, such as no Sunday jo urna l ever exhibited. Next Sunday she will give an interesting biography of tile Duke of Norma n d y , which will be followed by a splendid likeness of the Prince. It will be some gratification to learn IL, the is the unquestin-- supporter of the interests of t British Queen the J _.,sensed Victuallers, and that whenever they are in danger she will be prepared to shield therm }} so itAr as h 'Can, troth mischief. Her pilot lias cc braved the battle and the breeze" in their favour for a number of years, and nails his flag to the mast of their protection.—Morning Advertiser. REDUCTION IN GERMAN POSTAGE.—On the 6th of this month the British postage on letters passing between the United Kingdom and Hamburgh and Lubeck was reduced from ls. 6d. on letters posted in London, and from ls. Bd. on letters posted in the country, to a uniform rate of 6d. The Hamburgh Post-office has also reduced its rate on British letters from about 4d. to 2d., e,o that upon London letters there has been a positive reduction of is. 2d., and on country lc tters of ls. 4d., as respects Hamburgh correspondence. CHANCERY COURT-(THIS DAY) RAYNE V. BENEDICT. The further arguments in this part-heard case occupied the Loan CHANCELLOR the greater part of the day, VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) His Honour the VICE-CHANCELLOR took unopposed peti tions and short causes to-day, the hearing of which occupied the Court the whole morning. QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY. (Sittings in Banco. ) At the sitting of the Court this morning, Mr. Justice Wight man took the usual oaths of abjuration and supremacy. NICHOLSON V. FALL Sir F. POLLOCK said this was an action brought by the assignees of a bankrupt to recover the amount of an execution, on the ground of its being a fraudulenf preference. The case was tried before Mr. Justice Coleridge, on the sth of February last, and a verdict was had for the plaintiff, and the Learned Counsel now moved to set aside the verdict, on the ground of the admissibility of improper evidence. The defendant was a relation of the bankrupt, and in order to show the state of the bankrupt's affairs at the time, which was the most material point in the case, Counsel for the plaintiffs called the attorney under the commission, in order that by his evidence he might contrast the amount of the dividend actually paid with the amount of the debts proved under the commission. The Learned Counsel cited several authorities to show that such evidence was inadmissible, The Court would confer with the Learned Judge before whom the trial took place, and then give ita decision. COMMON PLEAS-(THIS DAY). (Sittings in Banco.) nonGEs V. COOPER. This was an action of assumpsit brought by the plaintiff, a linen•draper, against the defendant, a gentleman of independ ent fortune, for goods furnished to the wife of the latter. The defence was that Mrs. Cooper was separated from her husband with a maintenance, and that the goods furnished by the plain tiff, who eras alleged to be cognizant of the separation, were not necessaries. The case was tried before Mr. Justice Erskine, and a ver dict was found for the plaintiff in damages, 1491. Mr. Sergeant CHANNEL this day abtained a rule nisi, for a new trial on the ground that the verdict was against evidence. The Court rose at a quarter past twelve o'clock. GUILDHALL-(THIS DAY). A very respectable looking young man, named Tames Han nem, was charged before Mr. AldermarAiumphery with frau dulently obtaining money under the following rather singular circumstances:— Mr. Edward Hockley, a conveyancer, residing in Doctors'- Commons, .stated that the prisoner produced some title-deeds relating to a freehold estate in Rotherhithe, the property of his (prisoner's) aunt,- an old lady residing in Blaiidford, Hereford , fordshire, and a letter purporting to be signed by her, autho rising the advance of certain sums of money on it. To the best of witness's belief the signature is a forgery. Cross-examined by Mr. Humphries, the solicitor for the de fence—Had seen the prisoner's aunt, whose name was Sharpies, write once. Had had dealings with the prisoner before ; at present had a bill of his for 5001. in his possession, and another for 3401. was placedin his banker's hands. David Strong said he was a saddler in New Bond-street, and had beers long acqainted with Mrs. Sharpies and her family. About four ' years ago she made a will, to which he was appointed executor, which was since destroyed. She lived with the prisoner, who was married to her niece, and from a letter which he (witness) received, relative to some papers being abstracted, he was induced to go down to have her removed elsewhere. Had advanced 71. 10s. for her ex penses. She had since executed another will, by which the whole of her property was left to him, subject to the payment of her debts. Thought the signature to the letter of authority was a forgery, as she seemed usually to lean heavier on her pen. Cross-examined by Mr. Humphries—Whenever the old lady signed her name latterly, she was so feeble as to be obliged to get a person to guide her hand. Did not think this would cause much difference in the st3le of writing. Mr. Alderman HustpuEay observed that the property had been all left to the last witness, Strong, subject to the payment of her debts ; he had a great interest in proving the present charge of forgery. He had advanced her only 71. 10s., and it struck him (Mr. Ald. Humphery) that if the present case ware established, the money, which now appeared due under the letter of authority from the testator's estate, would be wiped away to the benefit of the legatee. Mr. Strong here interrupted the Worthy Alderman, and said he had large claims against the prisoner at the bar, and could have transported him long ago if he chose, and he did not expect that the Court would s have entered into any of these details. Mr. Alderman HUNIPHERY said except Strong was prepared to establish his assertions they were highly improper. It was often necessary to go into such cases very minutely, to discover the motives influencing the parties. He should admit the pri soner to bail. Roe, the officer, said he arrested the prisoner at the Belle Sauwage Inn, and found in his carpet-bag 501. in notes, three cheque-books, with London bankers, with whom he had ac counts, and a quantity of plate, some of which bore his initials. The prisoner offered him a five-pound note, for the purpose of allowing him to escape. When he brought him to the Compter he ran away, but was overtaken within a few doors of the Belle Savauge. In reply to Mr. Humphries, Roe said that the prisoner, in offering him the five-pound note, did not say it was to allow him to escape ; and his reason for running away from him, out of the Compter, might be try and see some friends who were stopping at the Belle Sauvage, as he had begged hard to see them before he was conveyed to prison. BOW STREET..--(THIS DAY.) Sarah Neal and Ellen Smith were charged with having robbed a gentleman, who resides in Westm nster, of his watch, as he was passing along the Strand. The complainant stated that he was going along the Strand last evening rather the worse of liquor, when he met the pri soners, who asked him to treat them, and, as he was always very liberal when a little intoxicated, he at once consented, and proceeded with them to a public-house, and stayed there a short time. As soon as they got into the street again he felt the first prisoner's hands about his pockets, and directly after she ran away, and he seized the other prisoner and on putting his hand into his pocket he found his watch was gone. Upon this he told the prisoner he had detained, that if she would assist him to regain his watch, he would give her all the money he had about him, as the watch was a family one, and he had had it in his possession for twenty-five years. He then gave the prisoner half-a. crown, and a little time after wards two shillings more, and she attempted to run away, but he prevented her and gave her into custody. The other pri soner was subsequent) , taken into custody. A police officer, who was on duty at the station-house, over heard a conversation between the prisoners, as to how much they could obtain on the watch. The prisoners both denied the charge, and they were re manded till Wednesday next, in order that search might be made for the watch. CANDIA. A letter from Athens, 27th ult., in the Angsburg Gazette, gives the following details of the insurrectionary movements in Candia _ _ _ " The Christian inhabitants are nearly all in arms, and have taken up advantageous positions. They have published a de claration that their only object is to protect themselves against the Governor, Mustapha Pacha, complaining that the protect ing powers have left them under an Egyptian Pacha, instead of incorporating them with Greece. They declare the project of placing them under the dominion of the Sultan is a violation of their imprescriptible rights. They announce an intention of addressing petitions to the Three Protecting Powers, and will not lay dawn their arms until they have received a favour able answer. According to the last accounts (to the 16th) a deputation of four Canatiotes has been on board an English fri gate, and had a conference with the Consuls of the European States. On being asked whether they would prefer being united to Greece, or be under the protection of England, or have a Sovereign Prince, they replied that their wish was to become a republic, adding that they would rather die than be ruled like the Samians. It was decided that their petition should be presented to the Protecting Powers,:and the deputa tion was then sent back, under an English escort to the camp of the insurgents." CONVICTS IN VAN DIEMEN'S LAND.—A letter has been just received from John Jones, who was tried and sentenced to be hanged for the attempt to fire Birmingham during the Chartist riots in 1839, but whose sentence was afterwards commuted to transportation for life. After stating other sufferings, he says, " What little meat we do have is what h brought from other colonies, and of the animals that have died on the passage. The next is our water, which is not fit for a beast to drink; and then there are our overseers who arc over us, they will not even allow us to stand upright nor to turn our heads during the time we are at work, which is from six o'clock in the morning till half-past five in the evening. We have our breakfast tecore we go out in the morning to work, which is a drop of wheat water and a pound and a half of brown bread, that serves us the whole day ; and if it rains all day we must endure till it is time to leave off work, and then we come to our barracks, and when we are musterei together, we are marched off to bed, which is a bed of straw, with one blanket and one rug to cover us. Our shoes, which are supposed to last us four months, will not, with the greatest care, last us more than two months; then we all go barefoot fur the re mainder of the time. Theo there are the clothes that we wear, which have to last us six months—they are all off our backs in a deal less time; and every morning we rise from our beds we are in danger of getting into tr ou bl e, as if i t is but the look it will get us into trouble, and expose us to the severest punishmen t, as that is all they look for on purpose to keep us as long as they can on G overnment ' s hands, and in the greatest of misery." Th e conv i ct t h en proceeds to deny his guilt, and calls on his friend to inter cede for a mitigation of his sentence. EVENING EDITION• MONEY and COMMERCIAL N =WS CITY ; TWELVE O'CLOCK LIVERPOOL, APRIL 15.—The British Queen, from Pot Mouth, at with paddles damaged by the i ce, h sane,' for New i York 2d pst. Barrels of flour, with'the !P -peitiatice of having been bstrnt, were passed in lat. 36, lon. l of LP/Eakin!. dern - 14 NlAniitt, Arm!, 15.—The prices. Cotton to-day amount to 2,000 bales only, at. sturdy S z , , ,:cculators and exporters have been altogether inac , ,t4 l : ( n d LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, APRIL 15;L`-The'f 100,!7,, are the transactions at the Stock Exchange this day :' - '4 n mingham and Glasgow, 79i ; Eastern Counties, 9 i . ;""" Debentures, 7; ; Glasgow, Paisley,and Greenok, 271; G r ; fi to Junction, Chester and Crewe, 594 ; Great Wester 201. 15httres, 114; Midland Counties, 89. tit i t ; e e on ) , MAtactiterta EYCHANGE, APRIL e fa , tinues to be an inclination to itreest in Railway 'Stock , " a . ri d is rather kept in check by the rise aimed at,—Lond°lll3i,.. sales South Western, 58; Great 'Western, 95i- ; Manches era n tnirigham, 24a ; Manchester and Leeds, 65; Chester .:rt Birkenhead, New, 19i Manchester and Salford 1914 ,, T w j Bank, 101. 18s. 9d. ; Bank of Manchester, 7a; Oldham Canal, 110; Rochdale Canal, 86. 1' 61 We have received Halifax papers to the 4th Aprt • ha.. Tuesday last a lively curiosity was manifested amenf, th u e r i t irb bitants of the town by the arrival of the steam-ship Queen, from Southampton, bound to Pbni , York. tll>'' f ou r nesday evening she again departed for Boston, with Si S Y passengers on board. , 0 COMMERCE OF HALIFAX.—There have been, exci°,', Ebo ut coasters, 152 vessels cleared out for foreign voyages, a° r , t u r ., - , n 100 entered at this port since the Ist January last' ro t a Ashton excess of 42 vessels outward, and six or seven inward , ° the report for the corresponding quarter of last year. 40 . The mail of Saturday brought accounts of another racm, choly and disastrous fire at St. John's, New Brunswijk;ht fl u e cording to the accounts, it. appears it had laid waste elc , eve ,,,l stores on the east side of Prince William-street , i u buildings in the rear, and, melancholy to relate, has , the loss of several lives. • -ea "ita The Hamburgh Mail of the 13th April has arr" to o papers of the same date, bringing the Exchange 1 1 ° ,, 53 ine. 13 14 3 same as per last arrival. Gold, 428, also t"' Metal, 106. Bank Actions, 1,640. withculsted the MEXICO.—The advices from Mexico, received bin th3t schooner Emblem, indicate the gederal state of affairs Republic to be in any but a prosperous state; ever, were making to raise sufficient means to e nabld e To o f vernment to sustain itself. A law was passed on th v er th e January, imposing a personal tax, by which all males ° ding . to age of 18 years are to be divided into five classes, ace ° ;112 0 the value of their property ; the first class are to paY tw p %itt Pe r per month, the others less, the lowest sum being one month. The army has been without pay. g lert THE FUNDS. The British Funds opened this mornina a s haile, l l, - 9 ( Ph off at soi, ; for the Account at present, 90 1 ; ; )' °l3- ';ling with little doing as yet. This being pay-day‘ for the no ) , efo; the Account, yesterday the brokers and jobbers are c"le an ployed in paying and receiving their various ditTereoed j.es there is no doubt that their checks will be duly liono'A e ; chequer Bills, 13 15 prem. ; Bank Stock, 171 thel efforts ,!Go, Stock, 254 256 ; India Bonds, par 2 prem. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active 23*, sa . ",,,p‘° - left off; Deferred, 12a 1; Passi v e, 5 / 1 ; Portuga' - cent';' lower, left off 331 1, at present 33 ; Three Per 30i 20* ; Colombian same as it left off, 221 23 • Meliellali Per a shade lower ; Brazilian, 69 70 ; Dutch Two-and -a- Cents., 54 •' Five per Cents., 98% 991. Shares.—Great Western 291 301 prem. ; Pe sc 'il; " prem. ; London and Brighton, 3* 3 dis. ; 5 6 pe r _ dis. ; Birmingham, 67 69 prem. ; Southampton, 57',1 ,hare' share ; Croydon, 131 14 per share ; Greenwich, 8i cetera and ; Manchester and Birmingham, 151 141 dis. South E 2s Dover, 141 * dis. N• PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT -` RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. _ Birmingham and Derby to Great Western Ditto New ..... to Ditto Fifths 1111 , 0 London and Brighton 5O - London and Greenwich 2O ...... to t: ...- Ditto Scrip... . London and South Western 3B& • 58 •• .. t , Ditto Tenths l* 2i ...... North Midland JOINT STOCK BANKS. to lonian State ...... London and Westminster . .. 20 ; he e The British Funds are not quite so good as in in the part of the morning, but money still continues plentiful in in L'Y house. Yesterday a large amount of Stock was ta' e- ,,,eritil Messrs. Rothschild and two other gentlemen, ean se ' HALF 2-113 t ° o ;lE;riti little was carried over for the next account. 0 60 Up to the present time there is not a feature w ort, ' in either of the markets. gai Consols which were in the course of the morning atacquer the Account, have receded to 901 ; Money, 9 er, a 0 1 ; lod ia Bills lower, 15 13 prem ; Bank Stock, 174, also low Stock, 2541 ditto; India Bonds, 2 prem., par. have In the Foreign Market, Spanis Active receded to 'o e 3 3, been23l* ; Deferred, 121 ; Passive, 51 ; Portog ae t s i; Two' lower ; Colombian, 226 ; Mexican, 301, lower ; c g9a. Cen_ts% G r eat In per Cents, nothing doing ; Fiverr res t In Shares little doing. Birmingham and Derby, 1: ; „htoof Western, New, 641 ; Fifths, 111 ; London and ' 4 .- 461 ; North Midland, 29. Extract of a letter from Baltimore, March 29 the `pats" Estimates of the Chairman of the Committee 0. ri d, to and Means of the Hou se o f th e Delegates of Ma j t j & dollar! meet the deficiency of the States as follows „,, e , so d per annum, to be raised by a• tax on factors , exenajzaiaries lottery brokers —increased tax on tavern-keepers an a di pul.lic fr serving protests-750,000 dollars per ann. sa d rect tax of 30 cents. per 100 dollars on all real proi; e y ies o f negroes, and personal and mixed, comprising eve w rY hich is be property held by the population of the State,x) claw, the lieved will produce the above sum of 75° ' (1 • I n g from 250 to e w s a ti r ro ds at o e f of th ta. e x c u i p ty on b i y mo t p h e e rt m y int_threespSeta.tae:rY:had in all the + libel "..itizens, calling 350 millions of dollars. Meetings h ave upon the Legislature to i time expressing their disapprobation of a State debt. tritE• 6: QUARTER TO T IVlese Consols, Account, 90i ; Colombian, 22t 301- 1; Spanish, 23i ; Portuguese, 33i ." disapprobation a direct a_t n , iannerd pease se t b sameto i, " who --- Old Paul Presto had been conne'c pi, "man and boy," with the , Queen's hunting establishia.„, at Ascot, for upwards of seventy years, died of old 7,11 on the morning of Wednesday last. He wa s a loietl known to, and respected by, every one who has i per with her Majesty'a stag-hounds during the last fo' ~ of tury. Although he had attained " tbe good old s g:icies t l upwards of fourscore years and ten (being th l, o le °, l member of her Majesty's household ,) nearly the 5- t ,inea which was spent in the midst of the hounds, he dea th' his health and faculties until within a few days of "'' ht SUICIDE.—This morning, about half -past ehigial' o'clock, a gentleman of the name of Reynolds threo°,oo self from the second flocr window of his hous e in %loan and was killed on the spot. The unfortunate ge n ,i s . ur was r vocfrytweecnctyenyteriacrsioadtivtihc house dual,and chiadmrresipdreadtt: baclbt; .13 w maker, at Pimlico, nearly opposite Elliot's adas rewa r P en den t noticed N o thin deceased gentleman, who was possessed of i n l a rrni egi property, was well known for his singular but , - ,,d bee ° particularlybehaviour. ct o x - iiii ii r ,le Nothing beyond his u is su a a t t p e re o s n e d n u One s e to account for the desperate act. He was O re spected by a very numerous acquaintance, 11 , beer' BERLIN, APRIL s.—Orders have rea 7 clues given to prosecute Dr. Jacobi, author of the " F t ir eve r li tions" for high treason. Dr. Jacobi conie s ' s- a aid °- thing, and defends himself very decidedly with 1 - b oics hf a lawyer. He being asked if he had any acee lli' '' of' his replied that his only accomplices were the .hiatleohorg. country--the writing of the Minister Steman,t in CO . s a: A subscription is opened for him at Konigs u "sider a he should be condemned, of which there is dalec°l3- ls doubt. The subscription amounted in a few 18,000 dollars. t held $ Yesterday a Cour t of Directors was sleeted °P the East India House, when the new Directors Lab, Wednesday last—viz., John Cotton, Escos . 1° , 13 1 %0 10 Esq., Charles Mills, Esq:, William Henry Henr y St. Plowden, Esq., Henry Shank, Esq., a nd " 'get' George Tucker, Esq., took the oath and theirg,jor. George Lyall, Esq., was chosen chairman , a nd :Pei General Sir James Law Lushington, G. C.D.' chairman for the year ensuing. rfot iped Schiller s drama of William Tell was P e- c ol' at Berlin a few nights ag o , a f ter an interdiction of tW" four years. A by t ' " It is notorious that for one man robbe- - oaf highwayman, burglar, or pickpocket, thousands tared. plundered under forms of civil law.—Tory Stan dar , 0 ift ORTHOGRAPHY OUTRAGED.—A surgeteufrara Glasgow the other day received the • following 1 1 , ° fit 0 0 one of his patients, an Irish widow :—" i Wr it tbis„ soda to Let You No that the podirs . Yeu gav to we o n b° last is Casid Ay grat bodkin and the sualin is Cup ' ai f you boda And if you Can giv ant thing or Cora Y ours j a th e Wit be Pad for it and i am trubild with grat pan g stomick also."—Glasgow Courier. ,i.-iT OS, ALLEGED ILLEGAL CAPTURE ..,'" ~, or ECHO, A HAMBURGH VESSEL, OFF THE C00;t her GUlNEA. —Extract of a letter from Captain 6°l'o'lo Commander, dated Sierra Leone, January 16 :::,, tr icit ti , took on board at the Havana , on accou nt of an 11"; re merchant, a cargo of rum and tobacco , which vas disc; re • at the American Colony of New Seater , whence 1 , 0 ,0 P ceived nine passengers from on board tbeEnglish r° lool• war Wonder, for conveyaiwe to Sierra Leone. After . 00 ing them, we prepare d to sail on the 13th for flaa a° ;l" the other passengers bung furnished with passports lbt a 1 / 1 4 usual legal documents . Scarcel y had we raised one the two a;med boats arresteal our progress, and broug,_ 6 we v e ss el back to the h arbour, In s p ite of our protestall i :“ itt a. have not bee n successful in Learnin g the reason of t _a c u ota , bitrary proceedings. - It is said that the English ye mitted similar outrages on American ships." A u ze rre N APO LEONIANA.-- A letter f r o m e on states that a few nights since a grand funailrakc.ch,toolt in honour of Napoleon, and in imitation of tt'sit 1 _l`f a Or place in Paris, was made in that town. Tihlri wasiolea drawn by six horses, and followed by conapaeLea • li .,' a nd dressed as old soldiers, the crew of the Belle rf tl ij' e cts' as cavalry soldiers bearing banners of be dell' lr . t o r 0 9 Sac. The Marshals were represented by some. 000 principal inhabitants of the town. It was headed Di 1 , 0 4 the ca''' al troops, and proceeded to an islet formed by nog the river, on which was a catafalque illuminated htre'''Fnaae, lights. At midnight the procession returned to 13 , et Notre Dame, and there dispersed amidst acclamation" Vive l'Empereur !" arrriarao , '" g CHAIN-BRIDGE OVER THE DA--- • __,,,, . coff,r-dam for a new chain -bridge over the r?,_r u i ldst! ) Pe'th, is proceeding very vigorously undetr.ir Of; Clarke, an English engineer, assisted . b e y tie hitherto workmen. Their solidly constructed I Pis nova' l e ti withstood the immense masses of ice broug ht of . g 14 1,19 Danube, to the great enhancement of the tame , engineering. A • h Sc ilt nchante“ with t • SCARBOROUGH. —I am e h w ed has sojour borough. And who would , not be str i. ses.batbing piac o f f single day at this " Queen" cf Eog h is in the early darl.o at the close of the summer months, or h was a surprisesibo a bright autumn ? To me 'Sew boroug t O prepared to fin a the full extent of the word. I vvaasseo, Eneind; D e o bay of Naples on the north-cast c . o oft t ' cliffs, yemindigg ,;, picturesque a place perched on 1 Y f some of tbose rotnan:4 old and experienced traveller o articularli mi sea views which he beheld abroa %I ) _, sl ew Adriatic and Grecian seas.-- Granville 8 opg ul A 2i EXr By t erict We hal-, Tarolint day s . That ui: New y, sailed, E there an The ti Polled t , a mistak n ecessar a Ppointl the plac pointed. (From th( APP( Robert neral of I' Phen Alle Samuel rel of Put. removed. Richard the Territ removed. Chare 3 Ihe Treast for the Pc Gardner, Paul R Mint at E Of J . j. John V ~e teral I %olorno George I 'Cobb, Jcremia rem( Parker removed, Isaac F 4r B nes, r. TH E I vilich, be to know st Rates the becessary In the L t he Sub-' uerance o Proper act hi regard the restris Placed in Gary Der ihto flto sreci I?ed to i3s tire in lh, not stipul, t hey mad 41 1 other: rstions 0 not possiL fleet con Mains in 1 MR. V, 41 Jersey York in a FATAL foreman Gamble, Braintrir or a stow !att. M l arge fan ANOTI Sdtu r ail' and s outh-wc Whole lo 4( e., is There w Advice an vary hi l els part SAVAT vered. corn-1 landin~ucklg: In An Staterial, St at the street an At IL - --- to Vering dorab:e I.llllllot