The Sun. — London, England, 1841-03-12 00:00:00

RVRNIN G _EDITION _ ~uceurage scientific institutions for the work ingcl.- ple dg in g the House Commons iee7T of to oreed his mots eillaafkeisnse4 p...nb p y ense. The Hon. Member refering to what had been the it • at Edinbr. Ha Irstructir,,n rgh and other places to promote :o of the peopl e . • H e thought Par m2llubim icld byu much better discharge its duty to eYncouraging such institutions than t t he party warfare which had brought its meet- auto contempt. It expended great sums to re is7Bs and punish crime, and it wouldbe wise to ern ;V some morK t y to prevent them, by instructing ti , n e People, Their benevolence extended across 1 : 1 0 e Atl .antie, when it ought to be employed at e i t: lll =3 where it would make the people better zens.and better men. FIASTIE seconded the motion. LAEOUCHERE, while he responded to the views of Mr. GILLON, had the Worded. He di s liked compar i sons of what was ° lle for different classes. Government had already Ztttablished sch oo l s o f d es i gn, the pupils of which ( t Much increased 'within three years. Great ele mentary was also given t o .cen t ra l sc h oo l s , an d works on the different arts and ma tractures were n ow pu bli s hi ng an d di str ib ut i ng ro ugh the country. The Right Honourable t Gentleman also thought that much might Pr" uone by providing models. He admitted that wa s the duty of Parlianient to promote the im vement of the working classes, but he ob ey to th e means recommended by Mr. GIL • as unnecessary an d super fl uous . Sir Ile PEE L re f erre d to a letter he lad 'received a tom Mr• HOPE, Dean of Faculty, recommending th g ,, ra i % l t for the S c h oo l of A rts i n Edi n b urg h , b ut pe- Fi ght Hon. B aronet t h oug h t t h e opu l ent th °llle of dinburgh might supply the cash tr enl f , se f iv es• The Right Hon. Baronet spoke fo r t4 tY favour of providing mental food to the People, and expressed his readiness v°te money for places for the recreation of the PopulationMr' of large towns. He seemed to have k r. " CATHOLICUS." in view when he declared, tas)llPosition to the 'Faith paky, that in encou tiaing knowledge they were promoting \ Chris ti: reli gion, as well as morality. The Right Baronet made, altogether, a liberal speech, cla c e i ll that he insisted on education being con land a 0 11 the principles of the Church of Eng to w i l t hat is, in th e pr i nc i p l es o f t h e F a i t h men, t e °I ll) in fact, he is opposed. Rt us take the opportunity of saying that Sir ig PEEL even with this stretch of liberality, da eit - ': as the representative of Toryism, like the lik en e gged drummer, to which it was once 1 4e r : f ed by the Times, in the rear of the regi th4i" lie did not think in 1824, 182:5, and 1826, N on t ° encourage science and knowledge theicgst the peopl e was th e b es t wa y t o ma k e the /flo ral /fl oral and reli g i ous , or h e sure ly would ee r t l av e used the influence he possessed as Home 4 4d e t ar Y to aid suc h men as D r . B IRKBECK ills t , °l 'd BROU GHAM i n es t a bli s hi ng Mechanics' laacfates and Schools of Art throughout the Ile thinks so now, when the instruction is ' l 4. ', l n t g i ven. More than twelve years ago, to I llea t : °w iedge, the f ac t th a t b o th th e Govern °l' Prance and the Netherlands were pro hs the scientific education of, the people, t•e r , f 4 lght under the notice of the public, and, Of Tuttle, the then Government. The King , 41 er it t ,: le NETHERLANDS . did not disdain to „ d 'a the subject in a speech from the Throne ; th e ; 4 e ver did the Tory Ministry, of which berg Hon. Baronet was a leading mem -4410 e 'gn to notice or encourage in any way the 3 r,ear Il l s b ut humble exertions of those who for 1 1 th s , a u° ll red to promote amongst the people, AO*: gleans of the Press, scientific knowledge. th rreWhen he and the Church party cannot stop , he .Pe SS of knowledge, they come forward, 15 th e i r to promote, but to pervert, education b,,,, ° `" 11 purposes. They are too late—they el/1 44 TM the march of events—the people have I Ve 4r t e k i Pa t ed themselves, and never again chain s of priestcraft and Tory state-craft. 4 „ 11 4 v ; '', y vAILT thought that if schools of design t hey v : 41 (8 of art were provided for the people Were capable o f r i va li ng a ny nation. 4444,711..1.1101s was gratified by the liberal t c l 4 - ;nts of th e Right Hon. Baronet, but re ',, ~, sl4le ll f _ded that 1,000/. should be advanced to ''" schools of art in Manchester, Glasgow, Atr.arand Norwich. ' l 4l s 7 AKLE Y p u t i n hi s c l a i m f or Finsbury, Dror4:4'd that the people wanted money, not 415 ti i h ses : Re recommended, however, that the Sir r u euld be withdrawn. 1 1 11 Q - P EEL, considering . his own wealth and q l a.. • o " e lless of his contribution to the Tamworth ko a 4Y , while the Whigs contributed to the ith ,° Mech an i cs ' I nst i tut i on fif teen years ago , 111 1,ii tlus ually bad taste for him, recommended t1"11 11; ) ,, e , ral- Members to . put their hands in their AlrQomule lll vit reminded him that he had re sq% rei g n ed the motion to be withdrawn ; but the Government that it would be I) QODi 'tter to employ 70,00 b/. in educating the e " b th an In building stables. 4 3, ii`itti.oN withdrew the motion. We must c lat we look with no great partiality ;1 1 t o „ -se schem es t o e d uca t e a ll th e p eo pl e d . 1 110, n st andard. They seem to be borrowed I 'ller, f act) that some individuals have been t a l 'er e n it° an ideal .perfection. It does not, a r l ° l r e; follow that it would be advisable to i' 4 4 i t til e People up to that standard, any more e wo n ara m ld be advisable to make them all as tlittiks distinguish b il ''ssibi c , a nd wise as Bishop PHILLPOTS. It is ' Vi rge s `"' t ( ) make some dogs dance, and some letters, but no person Nry ii th at it would be advantageous to make l lola r ° u nd a dancing dog, or every horse a et) Neithe r should all the people be made '.4t7science. We would rather, for our part, the the BtLegislature and the Executive allowed e to educate themselves—for self-in '4l 41 is I led. always the most useful and most , b 71 la bourers h M iteßitoroN rising to move for a Se -4 Cod h, nn• I ttee to ascertain the expediency o f 4 la g 1 a • at into the colonies, the House alf- Past Seven, counted out. h s e 21/ 0 , itlitg Post yesterday presented us with tr of that obli qu ity of mind which dis ifl L • i " es 1, 1 4n. e Tories. They whine over some .• oatli~ vo ters latio n from verbal rectitude in Irish I'vbsieiililar to a b reac h of a custom-h ouse n tl t tld t were long renowned for -uphold -440r he hey , J are ready to trample . toleration ~,1 114 d. 4 - '1 and throw the empire into flames to i g t ‘: s itit ti l a the Post has heard, unmoved, of food, ve g i as i , ass _ , £ the people . dying . for want of I Q4 e " . n. unnoticed accusations, as heavy and ' tit bread 4 el b rea.. , Pen can make them, of the advocates r () ,, 4 N e ef .` i stax, but it is touched to the quick by (I tl ei gtie N un-English and idolatrouS of t e i 'ela s iT v . i :,`Of all charges in the world," it said, nur ieh hetitai cyst we should have thought appliCable a writing is a preference for Conti -4e4 i n 3 to that which has become natu ° n g l alni." Yet the Po s t did, on Tues -4(luldf, Wtoe Show ed by quoting its own words, Pt 0 ad m i ration the restrictive systems . from e Continent. There the production r e 'nstr y ; beet -root is encouraged, as native 1 1 , 1 ;e 1 / 4 % s t he import of foreign hardware, and 4uit e d Pu n he and foreign bred cattle is pro- Sy t , e gtlia te l A el .: e every species of trade is licensed, s!letuof uY ukases and ordinances ; and this 41,1111%1 by 4 11 , c Ourag,eme n t and protection was de glad, ) ,_'fle Post as wise and patriotic. We 01:11enees'-'o`,.vever, that it is ashamed of the con -I,ti and `y its its own doctrine, when pointed 1 ,, , e 9,4ali y s are) therefore, not without hope, if it qi? ° ts, th at ?,, nsi tive, and equally candid, on other be ec , 4 " will revise its opinions, and spee de, le a convert to the doctrine of free e di ffer • • lit t°t° froni the Post. It wishes to 4 % L "e luter cif. ta tesin en , st s' of trade under the guarantee i t b nself, b ei _ I r e are for letting trade take care ore'ru'sntief:i. iss ature is tit ~e eiyisitre that the protection given to " like that the oak gives . paws th e , t him from the shower, but bolt from on his head." The waist 1.4,, t h e capital of the ' of to " guard against such an employ ,,:,:lnent of tore' nation in the encou kiile Pe° Ple, or aign industry, as will leave our ietilk°43'owlnenz:tob:ytniethe'thri.!etti en ) 00 ,,, n , portion of them, without profit wo::lar d encouragement.aga inst that a d n g d u thing as the capital of the na tion i we know ti iat individuals possess capital that the bebt capi: cal, and properly considered the only capital, js tin skill and labour of its people —and so far f:ont asking legisl a ti ve encourage ment and protect.'on. against fo re i gn c om p e titi o n for that, we court c ,: , mpeetion as the best mcaas of perfecting s kill . AN e agree with Dr. SMlTH— would to GOD that we ck.‘uld revive amongst us some love of his wisdom, And impress on the minds of our legislators and public, writers what he says—that the Legislature is a totals:v unfit body to give any direction to the employment of the capital of individuals. He observeS in his chap ter, "Restraints on Importation"— . What is the species of domestic industry (and making cloth at Manchester for a foreign market is domestic industry) which his capital can employ, and of which the produce is likely to be of the greatest value, every indiiidual, it is evident, can, in his local situation, judge much better than ally statesman or lawgiver can do for him. The statesman who ,7hould attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capital, would not only load himself with most unneces sary attention, but assume an ruthority which couk safely be trusted not only to no single person but to no council car senate whatever, and which would no where be so dangerous as io the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy I himself fit to exercise it. But that species of folly is implied in every law which attempts to influence the employment of capital in agriculture in preference to manu facture'; and of that folly, in a degree, the Post is an advocate, though it is ashamed of its ex treme. It demands protection, and protection to some extent ; and we differ in toto from the Post, by denying the utility of any and every such protection and prohibition, and by denying the fitness of the Legislature to direct in any manner how individuals shall employ thtir capi tal. So differing from the Post, we shall endea vour to show, by some details, the unsoundness of the principles adopted by that Journal.. The Post says, "We 'have not attempted to deny the i mportance of foreign trade. On the con trary we have avowed it. But we say it is not so important as home trade, still less is it so important as home trade and agriculture put to gether." What is meant by importance, is, we presume, magnitude. The Post measures our foreign trade exclusively by our exports, 48,000,000/. sterling; it,' of course, concludes that to produce the 48,000,000/. sterling, to con vey it abroad, and bring home 48,000,0001. or 50,000,000/. in exchange for it, employs much fewer persons, and is of much less value, than all the exchanges made within the realm, and all the rest of the wealth produced by the skill and labour' of our people. But that is taking a very.narrow and a very erroneous view of fbreign trade, the importance of which can by no means be measured merely by the value of the exports and imports. If that were the proper measure we should still contend, that for a statesman—and the Post and ourselves are considering the matter, not as natural historians or as statisticians, but as statesmen, with a view to legislation the 48,000,0001. ought to be as important as all the rest of the national wealth, supposing it to be a thousand times 48,000,0001. The legislator exists, he holds political power, in order to protect all the people. He is not to injure or to rob, or to oppress a part of the lieges because they are weak or poor. On the contrary, it is because they are poor and weak that he is to protect them against the strong and the rich. Whatever may be the practice, the theory is that the crust of the poor man is to receive equal protection with the venison of the noble, and the foreign trader, therefore, and foreign trade, however poor or insignificant may be his and its contribu tion to the national wealth, should be as dear and as important to - the statesman as the home trader and agriculturist. This would be true, though the foreign trader contributed little or nothing to the public re sources, though by establishing friendly relations with other countries he did not remove to a great distance, if he cannot wholly destroy, the chances of war, and though he brought to the nation no luxuries or conveniences which could not be otherwise obtained. But when we know that he introduces commodities in which all the other classes delight, that he knits together countries politically different into bonds of commercial amity, and when we know that instead of being merely not injurious to the rest of the commu nity, the commodities which he imports yield in custom duties nearly half the revenue col lected for the service of the State, it is palpably unjust, and even absurd, in a statesman to speak of foreign trade as of less importance than home trade and agriculture. We do not say it is of more importance. The principles we have just expounded would make . us regard agriculture, however minute, and home trade, however ped dling and retail, as equally important with fo reign trade. As we said, on Wednesday, the Kare all, like the belly and the members, parts of the same system, and each contributes to the perfec tion and well-being of the whole. The legisla tor who seeks to enrich one at the expense of the other is no wier than those barbarians who flatten their foreheads, expand their nostrils, and elongate their ears by weights and sticks, to increase the symmetry and beauty of the hu man countenance. We must, however, satisfy the Post, and the public, that it takes a narrow and an erroneous view of foreign trade by measuring its import ance merely by the value of the exports. The whole of our cotton and silk manufacture, which depend on a foreign product—all our woollen manufacture, so far as wool is imported, and so far as the use of indigo, cochineal, and other dye stuffs are necessary to give it elegance and beauty—great portions of ship-building and carpentry, which are constructed of foreign timber, while ships' sails and ropes are made of foreign hemp—the manufacture of all our furniture, nearly, which is made of mahogany— the whole of these arts grow from and are dependent on foreign trade, and could not exist without it. In like manner our grocers deal principally in teas, sugars, and dried fruits, all of which are foreign products; while a vast quantity of what is termed home trade, con sists in selling those manufactures which are made from foreign-grown materials, or in selling the produce of foreign countries. Now, when it is considered what an immense mass of 'our people subsist by working up cotton and silk, dying , woollens, constructing dwellings and ships, and fitting them out,—by making fur niture, and dealing in cottons, silks, and groceries, including all the seamen em ployed in foreign trade, all the miners and colliers who extract the metals from the . earth, of which our many engines are made, the colliers who supply coals to work them, and all the engineers who make our stupendous machinery, even including our railways, by which those masses of men and wealth are circu lated,—when it is considered what an immense number of arts and persons,—one tithe of whom and which we cannot enumerate,—subsist by fo reign trade, or are dependent on foreign pro ducts, it will be at once conceded, even by the Post, that to measure the utility of foreign trade by the value of our exports, and on that to conclude that it is of little importance as com pared to home trade and agriculture, is at least a narrow not to call it an absurd view. If our Contemporary concedes that, he will obtain a conviction, though it may be for him a dark one, that if half our foreign trade were struck off—as he supposes it might be without any other injury than reducing the exports from forty-eight to twenty-four millions—if half the supply of cotton, sugar, silk, timber, dye-stuffs, were at once to be annihilated, half, at least, if not more than half, of our home trade would also be extinguished. We wish to invite the candid consideration of our Contemporary to these statements, and therefore we will not indulge in a single sneer; but we must beg our Contempo rary to study more the phenomena of the pro duction of wealth before he undertakes to ad vise the nation how it shall legislate for the em ployment of the capitals of individuals. Long as our article is, we must refer to one statement more of the Post before we conclude. It boasts of the great value of the home market for our manufacturers, and cautions them against endangering that by striving to extend the fo reign market. We must therefore remind the Post, that all the prices of agricultural produce, on which its statistical tables and reasoning are based, are enhanced by the Corn-law monopoly, that the prices of manufactures are lowered, and that it takes credit in its account for a large amount of plunder as if it were a fair exchange. We beg our Contemporary's attention to what really constitutes the home market for our manufactures. It is not what the landlords spend, for part of that is levied by a tax on the manufacturers. The real market for our manu facturers, that for which they exchange their produce, is the produce of agricultural labour, and not the gross produce, for much of that is necessarily consumed by those who grow it, but the nett produce, or the amount which remains over and above the expense of cultiva tion, including the consumption of the cultivators. How the gross produce is increased, or can be increased, by the Corn-law no man has yet shown. At the same time, it is palpable that the nett produce cannot possibly be increased by it. The very intention of the law is to force cultivation, to make men break up ground and keep it under the plough, which, but for the law, would not yield enough to pay for the cultivation, and consequently cannot possibly yield any nett p:oduce to Wire in exchange for the produce of manufactures.. It is a misdirection of the capitals of ind.ividuals. The real home market, then, we repeat, for our Arnanufactures, the articles which actually pay thenr for their produce—for they are not paid for by bank.l checks or promissory notes— are the nett produc e of agricultural labour, and neither that nor th e gross produce is increased, but decreased, by t . he Corn-laws. The Post, with i the other Corn-law advocates, would frighten the manufacturers from demand•- in; justice, by- threatening them with the loss of the home mari:et. If the Corn-laws were to be totally repeahld to-morrow, not a grain less of produce would. be grown for the next eighteen months, if even then ; and consequently the home market vs -ould not be lessened to the ex tent of a single gri.in. . The landlords might not buy so much . sill'i, but the labourers would buy more fustia, is. Supposing the produce were lessened, it could only be to the small extent of putting- out of cultivation those lands which, but for the Corn-law, would not yield a suffici' nit produce to repay the ex pense of cultivation., and leave a nett profit. At most that is not orie-t wentieth of the whole, and the other nineteen parts of the home market would. remain, while the manufacturers would have, in addition, an extensive market in all the foreign agricultural produce which the Corn law will not now allow them to purchase. The Post writes as if not the twentieth part, but the whole of the home trade, which we have shown to be very dependent on foreign trade, would be annihilated by the total and immediate abolition of the Corn-law. In concluding, 'we must observe that we have rather endeavo ured. to expound the principles of the great question on which we differ from the Post, than controvert its verbal statements. Our object, as wo trust is apparent, has been to establish what -we conceive to be the truth, not to indulge in .controversy or endeavour to achieve a triumph. We learn from Liverpool that at the great meeting, which we yesterday noticed, every IL solution was either moved or seconded by a Tory. We have already mentioned that all the resolu tions were carried unanimously, and we are in formed by those who have local knowledge that such a display of unanimity amongst • Whigs, Tories, and Radicals, never took place in Liver pool before. That is a profound homage to the truth and excellence of the principles of free trade, which, like the genuine spirit of patriotism, can hush all party differences, and make men, otherwise ready to combat one another, unite to obtain a peaceful and a righteous end. We yesterday referred to one of the resolu tions, which denounces all laws as demoralizing which limit the field of employment. We have since learnt that the second resolution, which appears with the rest in another part of The Sun, was expressly meant .to embrace and denounce all protection, whether manu facturing, agricultural, or colonial. With such a sweeping condemnation we can find no fault, and we can only regret that the explana tions which, offered at the moment, satisfied Mr. DUFFEY, were not made public with the rest of the proceedings, so that the whole community might have been as convinced as he was, that the merchants of Liverpool took some interest in the sufferings of the working classes, and were not exclusively occupied with considering their own profit. Mr. CANDLISH to the new chair of Biblical Criticism. The Edinburgh Advertiser of Tuesday has the following paragraph :—" We understand that Mr. CANDLISH announced to his Session on Sunday, the circumstance of his having been appointed by Royal Commission to the newly instituted Professorship of Biblical Criticism in our University. A report was in circulation yesterday, however, and confidently repeated, that private letters have been received in town, stating that Lord MELBOURNE had suspended the appointment in the meantime. We give this rumour as we have received it, without vouching for its accuracy." We have no doubt at all of its accuracy, nor have we any doubt that the appointment would have been speedily consummated but for the timely notice taken of the disgraceful transaction by two or three independent journals. The Globe of Wednesday, in fact, defends the appoint ment, and comments on it thus—" If obedience to ecclesiastical tribunals by clergymen who have vowed_ obedience to them is to be made a ground of exclusion from ecclesiastical appoint• ments, it follows that they are punished for taking vows they are compelled to take, and keeping vows which they are bound to keep, by both the ecclesiastical and the civil law. No Govornment could act on any such rule." But Lord MELBOURNE'S Government does act on such a rule, for Lord NORMANDY on Tuesday evening admitted that her Majesty's Government had been disposed to give Mr. CANDLISII the ap pointment, " but the moment they had heard he had placed himself in opposition to the law, they immediately put an end to all communication with him on the subject." How did Lord NOR RANBy hear this? Not from the Lord Advocate or Mr. Fox MAULE, or the Globe, but from the Scotsman, The Sun, and the Morning Post, which gave the Home Secretary timely warning, and enabled him to annul this injudicious appoint ment. The Morning Chronicle, too, defends the non-intrusionists, and sneers at Lord ABERDEEN in these words, "after all his tremendous flourish of trumpets and machinery of preparation, he received the brief and consolatory information that no such appointment had been made." Can these journals, which support the law-breakers, say, after Lord NORMANDY'S admission, that it was not intended, or deny, for aught they had done, that in a few days it would have been con firmed, and that the case of Mr. CANDLISH would have been held up as an encouragement to others of the same class to set the House of Lords, and the Court of Session, at defiance ? The decision of Lord NORMANDY was praiseworthy, and we give him and Lord MELBOURNE all due credit for upholding the law, but we can not acquit them, and especially the Home Secretary, of negligence, in allowing the LORD ADVOCATE and Mr. Fox MAULE to recommend a person of this description to the patronage of her MAJESTY, because he is an active agent in promoting their wild notions about Non-in trusion, and in encouraging the people to put the law of the land at defiance to gratify the personal interests of ambitious- and encroaching priests.. It the object of CHALMERS, CANDLISH, and Co. wore really the spiritual welfare of the Church, we could sympathize with them, how ever mistaken in their views but when we are thoroughly convinced that they think only of aggrandizing themselves at the - expense of the ChriStian people of Scotland, and know from sad experience that, through their incendiary means, the religious feelings of every parish where there is a disputed settlement, aredrowned in party animosities, we should be guilty of a great dereliction of duty if we failed to de nounce them, and the representatives of the Government in Scotland, who abet their rebellious acts. The Dissenters, the Tories, the Liberal Whigs, and all but the purblind Non-intrusion ists, led, bound hand and foot, by these meddling priests, will rejoice that Scotland has escaped such a disgrace as the appointment of the Rev. Madrid ,journals of the 3rd inst. have reached us. The question of the Regency is likely to occupy the early attention of the Cortes. On all bides great indisposition is evinced to the en trusting ESPARTERO with the sole Regency—the now darling object of all his ambition. The Treasury is empty and the Ministry at logger heads. On the Bourse the Fives were on the 3d at 284- for cash. We have received the whole of the Paris Journals of Wednesday. In the Chamber of Peers on Tuesday the Prince of MOSKOWA, son of Marshal NEY, made some severe remarks upon the observations of Count MOLE relative to the execution of his father in 1815. It was cer tainly most unwise on the part of Count MOLE to have called the attention of the Chamber to such a subject. That Marshal NEY was basely and cruelly murdered, is now universally admitted by the ablest jurisconsults of-Europe. Now as Count MOLE was one of the judges wh*presided at the mock trial of the gallant Marshal, it is as indecent as it is impolitic to find him checking the current of the filial piety of the noble de scendant of the illustrious victim of BOURBON vindictiveness. That Count MOLE was influenced, by honest and conscientious individual convic tions in pronouncing sentence of death upon Marshal NEY, we do not dispute for an instant; but surely time enough has elapsed to correct this fatal error of judgment. From the high personal character of Count MOLE, we expected that he would have been one of the first Mem bers of the Peerage to express deep sorrow for an event which France has never ceased to de plore, and that any motion for reversing the Sen tence pronounced upon the illustrious Marshal would have had. his hearty concurrence. - This would have been some reparation for the judicial murder of one of the bravest soldiers to whom France ever gave birth. The Firman of the SULTAN conferring upon MEHEMET ALT the hereditary Pachalie of Egypt, has not excited so lively an interest as we expected in the political circles of Paris. The following article from the Quotidienne is the most pointed of any written upon the subject : _ The protection of France had been promised to the Pacha of Egypt, and millions had been expended with that view. In exchange what has Mehemet Ali obtained? In diplomacy what is the character of sovereignty, and if. we even go back to feudal rights, what are the relations between the suzerain and his vassal? These relations are all set aside. The here ditary government is granted, and it is not by order of primo geniture, and is it not clear that this restriction is directed against Ibrahim Pacha, the only man of energy in Egypt ? The Porte reserves to itself the right of choosing the successor, and why ? Because in a seraglio there is a multitude of heirs, and an imbecile descendant, an eunuch perhaps, may be chosen. Lord Palmerston, on the death of the Pacha, will have a child at the head of the Pachalic of E n „o-ypt, as Rus sia has a child at Constantinople. Mehemet Ali is compelled to disinherit Ibrahim, the right arm of his power ; for .in the monarchies of the desert it is the eldest who is regarded as the true one amidst a multitude of brothers by different.mothers. So much for what is called the hereditary government of Egypt. We will now take a view of the other conditions of the hatti scheriff. How was the Egyptian monarchy rendered great? By regular troops trained under French discipline. What says the hatti scheriff? The forces of Mehemet are limited to about one-fifth of their present number. What constituted his power is destroyed ; what might have given influence to France is annihilated. And further, all those who have travelled recently in Egypt have spoken of the monopolies of the Pacha, and of those riches gained by the sweat of the people, but which nevertheless constituted an essential part of the strehgth of the Egyptian Government. Empires are some times founded by violent means, because despotism with strong and intelligent minds overcomes obstacles ; but when the des potism upon which a rising empire rests disappears, everything disappears with it. In depriving Mehemet Ali of his revenues, and causing a fourth of his gold to pass to the Porte, he is de prived of the means of organising Egypt. He will no longer have the son who became great under his sceptre, for, as Eng land could not succeed in arming him against his father, Lord Palmerston disinherits him. This is easily understood. The Egyptian monarchy existed only by the army, and the army was half French. Nothing remains, and Mehe met Ali will be a Sovereign without money and without sol diers. All this shows that England has attained her object. France had protected the Egyptian monarchy, and England prevents the commercial development which was to result in favour of French in'erest. The power of Mehemet Ali is now illusory, and he sees this so well that he protests even with the foot of the oppressor upon his neck. But how will he give force to his protest ? Will he refuse to accept the proffered conditions ? When he had all his forces he resisted, and what was the result? If, when he was standing erect in all his power, his enemies pursued their course, will they stop now that he is half fallen ? M. Guizot, however, has told us in the Chamber that two things had been demanded for Mehemet Ali—hereditary go vernment, and independence. A pretty independence, indeed, which consists in having neither an army nor a treasury--a fine hereditary right, which compels him to surrender the choice of his heir to the Sultan." • The Quotidienne does injustice to Lord PAL- M E RSTON. We are convinced his Lordship never gave his sanction to the clause hi the Firman, which'claimed for the Porte the right of regu lating according to its pleasure the succession to the Pachalic. A variety of circumstances lead us to this conclusion. Lord PALMERSTON never was the enemy of the Pacha. When the gallant NAPIER negotiated his Treaty with MEHEMET ALI, Lord PONSONBY rejected it with insolent contempt. But what did Lord PALMERSTON ? Why, lie made it the very basis of the new Treaty, and entrusted its ratification to the gallant Com modore. Lord PALMERSTON must know as well as we do, that to permit the Porte to nominate any of MEHEMET Am's children it pleases to succeed thim, would be to enable the eunuchs of the Seraglio to kindle at any momenta civil war in Egypt. MEHEMET ALI'S real enemy is Lord PONSONBY, whose recall has now become essen tial to the maintenance of European tranquillity. It is very far from the wish of England to press heavily upon the PA CHA, or to allow the Porte to treat him with harshness now that lie is defence less. England knows how to respect the sanctity of a weakness which looks for security to the faith of treaties. The very presence of Commo dore NA PIER at Alexandria is to U 3 a guarantee that MEHEMET ALI shall obtain that justice at the hands of the SULTAN, the refusal of which would be- more disgraceful to England than to the Porte itself. It was rumoured in Paris that the negotiations for a new treaty, to include France, had been broken off, and that by another protocol signed by the Four Powers, Russia has relinquished the Treaty of Unkiar Skelessi, and once more recog nised the uncontrolled sovereignty of the Sul: TAN over the Straits of the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles. There is very little general news in the French Journals of Wednesday. The following extracts from them include what little they contain of any interest to an English reader : We find in the Quotidienne the following passage : " This is a year of disclosures. A letter which we have re ceived from our correspondent in Dauphine announces the ap proaching publication of a book which will contain very piquant and very curious communications respecting a fact in our contemporary political history, which has hitherto been very imperfectly known. The book in question is a history of the conspiracy of Grenoble, in 1816, which cost the unfortu nate Didier his life. This work, says our correspondent, pub lished from inedited and authentic documents, will cause as great a sensation as the letter published by the Gazette de France and the Journal La France.--La Gazette de France. _ It is said that the President of the Council having received a copy of the hatti-scheriff, which grants to Mehemet Ali the hereditary but nominal government of the Pachalic of Egypt, and being convinced that the Four Powers would not modify this singular concession, has resolved to ask again from the Committee the 60,000 men, whom he gave up some time ago, when he supposed that this question might be settled in a pa cific manner.—Le Temps. The Moniteur has no official part this morning. The Duke of Aumale sets out to-morrow for Africa. The National says this morning that there is no foundation whatever for an assertion of the Univers, that a certain number of delegates of the Reforming Societies, had come to the office of the National to require that it should desist from its argu ments in favour of the fortification of Paris.—Le Constitu tionnel. Galignani's Messenger announces that the French Govern ment has been very disagreeably surprised at receiving from Constantinople the news that, contrary to the instructions of the English Government, Lord Ponsonby was endeavouring by all possible means to embarrass more and more the affairs of the East by rendering the position of Mehemet Ali insupporta is supp ose d t o b e in sbtl r e n . t e l d t a t o d d a s s , k t h a a n t expla d n e at i3 ion u o rg n u t e h n i a s Y subject from Lord Pal merston.—Le Commerce. __ THE SUN, LONDON, PRIM Y, MARCH 12, 1811 each, the Six Commissioners 1,500/. each, two registrars 800/. each, six deputy registrars 600/. each, one deputy registrar 370/. 13s. 8d„ the Se cretary of Bankruptcy (Mr. W. Vizard ) 1,2004. his first clerk 5001., and the second 3001.; the compensations amount to 12,9931. 10s. 11d. Of this the late fifteen Commissioners receive about 2001. each, Chaff Wax (J. Holdship) 5681., Clerk of Hanaper (Rev. T. Thiirlow) 4841. 16s. 9d., and Lord Thurlow himself, as patentee of bankrupts, 7,3521.145. 6d.1 THE RELIGIOUS PORTION OF THE BRITISH PEOPLE IS said by the Standard to be faithfully represented by Sir Robert Inglis. We are afraid that our over-zealous Contemporary was not under the influence of his habitual caution when he wrote that sentence. If. Sir Robert be the representative of the religious portion of the British people, the irreligious portion must be represented by the opponents of Sir Robert in Parliament. Now, of the Members who voted on Wednesday evening on the Jewish Declara tion Bill, Sir Robert and his friends constituted about one-sixth part, and, according to the Standard, therefore, the religious portion of the British people are only one-sixth of the whale. It would be better for the Standard to give up Sir Robert, and give up the cause he espoused on Wednesday night, than to restrict the re ligious party to so small a proportion. If for " the religious portion of the British public" we read "the bigoted portion," we shall be •in accord with the Standard, and ready to concede that about one-sixth of the British people ac knowledge as their representative the Member for Oxford. VICE-CHANCERY-(THIS His Honour, after disposing of the unopposed petitions and short causes in his paper, proceeded with the further argu ments on the part-heard case of Turner v. Trelawney, the facts of which we have already given at length. The argu ments, which have already occupied two days, were not con cluded at the rising of the Court, but appear likely to occupy several days longer. BO URSE.—PARIs, WEDNESDAY, MA RCH 10. First Highest Lowerr Last Price Price. Pricy. Price French 5 per Cents lll ... 111 ... 110 80 —. 110 90 43 per Cents lOl 75 ••• 101 7 5 ... 101 75 ... 101 75 • 4 per Cents 3 per Cents . 1:. a v i 1 fli 1 : 1. a t e n ° 1 13 n r a a ' , n r , a k k ne 5 e 0 di )i. . . . Stares -- 25 s 8 2 1 1 7 0 : 81 : 5 1 % i e 5 . . 1 ..—.• . . 6 .; 35 . 31 21 I -'.691 6 5 e8 1 5 II : 8 : . . . -: 1:: : 5 7 811 1 0( 7 0 6gi : 5 ; 5 1 % . v 0 5 . ...... •••• . 1 . ..... .. . 5 5 88: 1 ' : : fo ; 6 : 5 0 :: 5,4 7 v : 0 5 per Cents 69 70 ... 63 70 ... -1 3 per Cents New Loan lOl3. Y 4 744 ... ' 25 ••• ! 24 74 ... 25 Spanish Active Portuguese 3 per Cents 19% ..• 1 9 X ... 19% ... 1 1 ,4 u 102 35 ... 102 3 5 ... 1.1 35 ... 102 35 Neapolitan Roman l oiNi ... 101% ... 101 ... 101 RAILWAY SHARES. Versailles.R. B 405 ... 405 ... 400 ... 401 25 L.B Urleans . . 4BB 75 ... 488 75 ... 488 75 ... 488 '75 Strasburg to Bale OlO ... 240 ... .40 .. 24'i Hontpellier to Cette Rouen 455 ... 480 ... 455 ... 480 BANKRUPTCY COURT.—A return has been made to the House of Commons of the amount of salaries paid to the Judges, Commissioners, and officers of this Court, and also the amount of compensations to those superseded by the New Bankruptcy Act. The total amount of sa laries is 20,570,138 i., of this Sir John Cross and Sir George Evans, the Judges, receive 2,000/. THE MARK TS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. This week's arrivals have been moderate of most kinds of Grain. The Wheat trade was firm at Monday's prices. Barley dull. There was a fair demand for Oats at previous terms. In the Flour trade prices were maintained, but sales were not brisk. SMITHFIELD MARKET. The supply was short, and Beef was dull of sale. Mutton, Veal, and Pork were in good demand. Beasts, 464 ; Sheep, 2,120 ; Pigs, 431 $ • Calves, 130. Beef, 3s. Bd. to 4 s . 8d ; Mutton, 4s. to ss. Bd. ; Veal, 4s. to 6s. ; Pork, 4s. to ss. 2d. COLONIAL MARKETS. There was little business done,but prices were supported for most articles. The public sales were not of much moment, the deliveries of goods from the warehouses were good, but the im ports small. TEA MARKET. The market was quiet for Free Trade, but prices were sup ported, a small part only of the parcels at public sale found buyers; sellers of Company's Congou at ls. Bd. cash. TALLOW MARKET. Prices did not give way for P. Y. C. , but the market was dull both for parcels on the spot and to arrive ; 465. was the value of the former, and 465. 6d. of the latter. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, MARCH 12.—Wind this day at noon S.W., light. DEAL, Mum' 11. —Wind E.S.E., light.—Arrived from the River and Sailed, the Tamerlane, for Calcutta; Robarts, Elder, Madras; Osceola, West, Bombay; Friedland, Murray, Cape de Veros; Queen Victoria, Teneriffe ; Treasurer, Law rie, Constantinople. Mem.—Her Majesty's ship Asia has not arrived, as before reported. OFF THE SOUTH FORELAND, MARCH 11.—Arrived the Johanna, Cornelia, Henrica, Batavia, from Rotterdam. FALMOUTH, MARCH 10.—Wind variable and light —Ar rived George Canning, from Havre, for Greenock. Arrived off, Duke of Roxburgh, Leslie, f. ova Singapore. 'The Tiger,Per king, from Stockholm to Bordeaux, w en t on s h ore t hi s morn i n g during a gale at high water, on a bed of rocks off the entrance of Kelford Barbour, but is expected to be got off should the weather continue moderate. PLYMOUTH, MARCH 11.—Wind E.—Sailed the Caroline, Williams, for Port Philip ; Vulcan, Mobile. SALcomer, MARCH 9.—Arrived the Aletta, Neding, tram Harlingen. HOLYHEAD, MARCH 10, FIVE P. IC —The Jane, Duphtfs, from Halifax to Liverpool, is at anchor, in a dangerous situa tion, about two miles at the back of the Head. If the weather continues moderate it is expected, by the aid of one of her Ma jesty's steam vessels, she may be got off. SWANSEA, MARCH 10.—The New Volunteer, from New. port to Baltimo d re, fell over in Newport River, and became a little leaky, but proceeded to sea, and, becoming more so, bore up for this port, and got on the Mumble Rocks during a fog the Bth instant, but was assisted off and into this harbour, and must discharge. RAMSSATE, MARCH 11.--The Aurora, from . Sunderland to Bordeaux, ran on shore on the Brake last night, but got off without assistance, and has proceeded apparently without damage. OFF BRIDPORT, MARCH 11.—Arrived the Juliana, Parker, from the Mauritius for Bristol. Sailed the Mary, Faulkner, for New York ; Slantarneen Abbey, Thomson, do. ; Hut chinson, Wakeham, Sierra Leone; Anson, M'Neill, New York. LivEarooL, MARCH 11.—Wind S.S.E., light.—Arrived the Mazeppa, Jordan, from Bahia; Marion, Charlesto n; Scot land, Robinson, N ew Y or k ; Dart, Gray ; Wave, St. Michael's ; King of Tyr e , an d Fl era, T erce i ra. Sailed the Leonard Dobbin, Carpenter, for Calcutta ; Brothers, Currie, and Susan, Gilham, Monte Video; Adrina, Dodd, and Sarah Trotmar, Brown, Barbadoes ; Susanna , Stephenson, St. Thomas's ; Agitator, Henry, N ew Y or k ; Emerald, Gills, St,. John's, New Brunswick ; Sultana, Rogers, Leghorn ; Release, Curtis, Gibraltar. Arrived off port, Queen Victoria, from New Orleans ; Fanny, Charleston ; Ace of Trumps, St. Michael's. A large steamer is aground on Barbo Bank. COWES, MARCH 11.—Arrived the Sophia, Addick, from Monte Video. Sailed the Gl en l yon , Chrichton, for Monte .Video ; Elizabeth, Jackson, Barbadoes. Coax, MAuc 9.—Arrived the Andes, Tovey, from Monte Video ; Simeon Hardy, Forsyth, Barbadoes, sailed the 9th. Arrived off, the Glasgow, Robertson, from Mauritius, and sailed for Greenock. HULL, MARCH 11. —Wind E.N.E. light.—Sailed the Mary Appleby, Mackie, for Mexico. YARMOUTH, MARCH 10.—Arrived the Polly, from London, for Diepie ; Caroline, White, Amsterdam. Sraixtris, MARCH 10.—Arrived the Sakai'', from Bou logne. A schooner, said to be a new one, upset yesterday at Ebson Quay, but was got up the following tide, with but trifling damage. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MARCH IL—A moderate business has been done in the otton Market to-day. The sales comprise 4,500 bales, consisting chiefly of A mencan de scriptions. Speculators have been inactive, and there is no change to notice in the rates. Share Market.—The following transactions comprise the business of the Stock Exchange this day :—Grand Junction, Half Shares, 1011; Great Western, 86k; Ditto New Shar es , 60; 20/. Shares, 94 ; Lancaster and Preston Junction, .32 1 4 ; Loudon and Birmingham Ne w Sh ares , 80%; London and South Western 5/. Share s , 16s. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 11.-Our mar ket continues inactive. Manchester and Leeds, 68 ; London and South Western, 561 ' • North Midland, 701 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 25*; London and Birmingham, 168; Man chester and Salford Waterworks, 54. We have received Hobart Town Papers to the 24th Octo ber,,but they contain nothing of interest. _ We have the Sydney Papers to the 12th October. The in creased importations of Wheat and Flour had produced an al. most total stagnation in our trade. The weather at Sydney still continues favourable for the coming harvest. So great is the demand for seamen to man the whalers at present fitting out in this port, that as much as seven to eight pounds advance is freely given. Accounts received from Yucatan of the Bth of January, state that a squadron consisting of four armed vessels, two brigs, and two schooners, sailed from thence on the sth, to blockade the ports of Vera Cruz and Tampico, and to adopt the same policy of Texas in regard totheir navy. We have received the Journal of Anttcop okyesterday's date. BOURSE OF AMSTERDAM, MARCH 9.—The Bourse of Lon don of Saturday coming more firm, our funds in general had a tendency more favourable to-day, and the prices were better. The business done in the Actions of the Society of Commerce were very active under the influence of the coming liquidation on the 15th inst. They were done 162, and remained at 161 A 4. The Foreign Funds were without variation. Ardoin's, 21 15-16ths ; Coupons, 21i. THE FUNDS. The British Funds opened this morning rather heavy, at the leaving off prices of yesterday, 87k for the Account; Money, 87k ; since which they are a shade better, and may be quoted at present at 87i for the Account, Money 876 a. In consequence of there being no arrivals erconsequence, scarce anything is doing up to the present time. Exchequer Bills, 9 11 prem. ; Bank Stock shut ; India also. In the Foreign Market the prices are nominal—Spanish as they left off, 23a ; Deferred, 12k A ; Passive, 54 ; Por tuguese 30k 31k; Three per Cents., 18k 19; Brazilian, 71 72 ; Colombian, 22i ; Mexican, 27i ; Dutch Two -and-a- Half per Cents. 50k I; Five per Cents., 99A 4. SHARES. —Great Western 21 22 prem., New 10 11 prem. ; London and Brighton 874 dis. ; Blackwell 54 dis. ; Bir mingham 75 77 prem. ; Southampton 55i 56 per share; Croydon Ilk 12 per share; Greenwich 81, per share; Man chester and Birmingham 16 15 dis. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT CFF. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Great Western - Ditto New 50• soi to Ditto Fifths ... 4 .... 9 London and Brighton London and Blackwall London and Birmingham London and Greenwich........:.. 20 Ditto Scrip HALT-PAST ONE. _ _ Since the early part of the morning there has been an im provement in the British market. Consols, -which were 87i for the Account, improved to 88&. The market has been fluctu ating as follows during the course of the morning, 88 87i 88a 87i and at present may be quoted 88 for the Account; for Money, 87i Exchequer Bills, 11 9 prem. ; Bank Stock, shut; India Bonds, 20 15 dis. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active, 23i, ; Defarred, 128 ; Passive, 5/ ; Portuguese, 301 • Brazilian, 71 : Mexican Bonds 1837; Five per Cents., 27i ; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents., 50h ; Five per Cents., 99%. In the Share Market scarce anything doing. Great Western, 86 ; Fifths, 9 ; London and Brighton, 42% to ; Blackwall, 198 ; Birmingham, 164 ; Greenwich scrip, We have no further arrivals, nor is there any news up to the present time. LIGHTING THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.--A statement is going the round of the papers, to the effect that the cost of lighting the House with wax-lights was 1,3001. per annum; a correspondent, who professes to have correct in formation on the subject, states that it was only one-fourth of the sum ; and he says that the statement to the effect that the present cost to the Government is only 12s. per night is so absurd that it carries its own refutation—as Mr. Gur ney has constantly employed at the House of Commons five or six men, whose daily wages cannot be less than 20s. or 30s. " The public," proceeds our informant, " are pro bably not aware that at this very time the House of Com mons is nightly watched by two or more firemen, who have a powerful engine, hose, &c., all in readiness to act in case of explosion or fire from the gas experiments ; and so apprehen sive of danger are the authorities that an immense beam of wood of two tons weight is being erected in the roof of the House of Comnnins for the express purpose of carrying one of the most powerful fire-engines made, and which is at present in the-course of manufacture." MR. PETER AIIsTWORTIT, M.P. (FROM A O•RRESFONDENT. Bolton, March 11. Honour to the enlightened and independent Electors of Bolton ! They have at last aroused themselves from their lethargy, and are determined that their intentions shall be no longer frustrated by a pretending liberal Representative and nominal Reformer. A Requisition is in course of signature calling upon Mr. Ainsworth to resign his trust, to which is already attached upwards of 500 signatures, and probably be fore this communication reaches you it will be signed by a majority of the constituency. The first vote Mr. Ainsworth gave in the House of Com mons created considerable astonishment among his supporters, being in favour of Mr. Manners Sutton for the Speakership. Subsequently his political career has been of " such a ques tionable shape" as to entirely destroy the confidence of the electors. His votes last Session in favour of the Weaver Churches' Bill and Lord Stanley's Irish Registration Bill were commented upon at the time with much bitterness, and his conduct more recently, in voting with the Tories against a Bill the object of which was to preserve the Reform Bill from being neutralise'l in Ireland, and the defeat f which involved the fate of a Liberal Administration, was such as to leave no other alternative than to call upon him to relinquish a situation he was so unworthy to occupy. He is pledged to conform to the wishes of a majority of the electors; and the time is short that precedes his political dissolution, when he must relinquish his Parliamentary duties, and retire into that obscurity from which he eu . _;ht not to have emerged. Mr. Ainsworth came out as a candidate for the representa tion of this borough at the last election, in opposition to Col- Torrens, a gentleman of acknowledged talent, and a decided Liberal—one to whom I feel proud in having this opportunity of paying a just tribute of praise for his sterling worth, his high character and attainmet.ts,,, his uniform constancy in the advocacy of the people's rights, and who previously repre sented us with honour to himself and satisfaction to his sup porters, but was superseded by the mere force of prejudice to a townsman. It is probable that a meeting of the Electors will be called, ere long, for the purpose of concerting measures to meet the emergency. CHURCH-RATES. SECOND DEFEAT OF THE TORIES. This day, after a second appeal to the parish within a fort night, the opponents to the unrighteous and unjust impost of Church-rates have again triumphed, by a majority of 52, There being against the Rate 370 . For the Rate *3lB Majority This result is highly creditable to the public-spirited inhabitants of this town, particularly as bribery and threats of intimidation were unscrupulously resorted by the friends of the Church as by law established ; and which threats have been already car - ried into execution, upon many of those whose consciences would not allow them to swerve from their duty. The rate was proposed by Mr. Lawrence, seconded by Air. Osborne ' • and the amendment moved by T. E. Fi s h er , E sq ., seconded by the Rev. J. K. Holland, in as excellent a speech and argumentative an address as was ever delivered either with. in or without the Chapel of St Stephen's. Thus public spirit and principle have triumphed ; and may the adversaries of peace and reform always meet with such a reward. Honour to the St. Iveans, and may their example be followed throughout the empire. St. Ives, March 11, 1841. HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. The Brighton harriers meei7Monday at Erringham ; Wed nesday, at the Race Course ; Friday, at the Dyke—at eleven. The Brookside harriers Monday, at Newmarket-hill ; Fri: day, at Teiscombe Tye—half-past ten. East Sussex hounds Monday, at Abbots-wood—quarter to eleven. Flagon hounds Monday, at Poling ; Tuesday, at Erriegham; Thursday, at Washington-common ; Saturday, at Castle Goring. Mr. Mure's hounds Monday, at Balsham ; Thursday, at Woolpit-heath. Mr. Hellier's hounds Monday, at Till-hill; Wednesday, at Clock on Bickenhill ; Saturday, at Wootten-warren—half pa.st. ten. Wednesday, hounds Monday, at H a lf wa y H ouse , Ch a ll oc k ; Wednesday, at Warren-wood, Leeds ; Friday, at Long Beach —half-past ten. Cambridgeshire hounds, Monday, at Staughton B r id ge ; Friday, at Potton Wood—half-past ten. Sir. C. Constable's hounds, Monday, at North Park ; Friday, at Caniston--eleven. • Mr. Meynell's hounds, Monday, at Black Slough ; Thursday, at Ednaston Lodge; Saturday, athartl ey—quarter to eleven. Quorn hounds, Monday, at Carlton Cleugh ; Tuesday, at Bunny Park ; Thursday, at Houghton on the Hill ; Friday, at Wedmerpool Inn. Mr. Candler's hounds, Monday, at Stoneblow Turnpike ; Thursday. at Shakenhurst ; Saturday, at Hadley Dingle— half-past ten. Shropshire hounds, Monday, at Simdorne Castle ; Wednes day, at Lee Bridge : Friday, at Hankelow—half-past ten. Warwickshire hounds, Monday, at Ufton Wood ; Tuesday, at Mitford-bridge ; Thursday, at Snetterfield ; Saturday, at Avon Dalgett—half-past ten. Albrighton llunt, Monday, at Stretton ; Thursday, at En yille ; Saturday, at Sheriffliales—half-past ten. Cheshire hounds, Monday, at Beeston Caste ; Wednesday, at Bunbury Heath ; Thursday, at Wrenbury Kennel ; Satur day, at Ravensmoor Windmill—half-past ten. Northumberland and North Durham hounds, M nday, at Earle Whin ; Thursday, at Ingram ; Friday, at Pall nsburn ; Satur. day, at Cornhill—half past ten. THE WEATHER. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE STREET. NooN, MARCH 12 Barometer 30.43 In. Thermometer ..1 Highest .. 64 . 5 Lowest 36 Wind S.W.—Freezing Point 32 Deg. DINNER PA RTIES.--NiSCOLInt Beresford will give his third grand dinner on the 24th inst. ; the Duke of Cambridge will give a grand dinner on the 20th inst. Dinner parties were given yesterday by Mr. Abraham Robarts, in Hill street; the Bishop of London, in St. James's-square ; an d M r . Baring Wall, in Berkeley-square. • WARLIKE PREPARATIONS.-SHEERNESS, MAncti lo.—The greatest bustle and activity prevails in the Royal dockyard here in getting her Majesty's ships Monarch and Venus fitted out. When completed, they proceed to Spit head for orders. No doubt is entertained here but that their destination is a visit to our braggart brother "Jonathan" and the rest cf •the Van Buren faction, A letter received here (Sheerness) this morning states, that at Plymouth and Ports mouth the utmost activity prevails in the naval department, and our position in China is now talked about as if it were a secondary consideration. _ _ _ JEWS DECLARATION BILL.—Of the twenty five bigots who formed the tail of Sir Robert Inglis, in opposing this Bill on Wednesday, not fewer than ten were Scotch Mem bers, or of Scotch descent. To the honour of Ireland not one Irish Member voted against it. On the finishing of the Mersthain and Balcomb tunnel, which we named as having taken place last week, the workmen, to the number of 100, paraded through the arches with lighted torches in their hands, and preceded by a band of music to celebrate this event. The effect was quite scenic, and, being concluded by a dinner at Cuckfield, the jolly navi gators kept up their festivities till a late hour. We 'understand the third (Clayton) tunnel is also in a very advanced state, and will be finished by August, when the whole line is to be opened fraa Brighton to London. Prince Nicholas Esterhazy will leave Chandos Mouse in a few days for Melton Mowbray. At Vienna, on the 25th ult., was celebrated, in the chapel of the English Embassy, the marriage of his Excel lency Lord Beauvale, her Britannic Majesty's Ambassador to the Court of Austria, with Mdlle4deMaltzahn, daughter of the Prussian Ambassador at Vienna. Prince Metternich and the whole of the resident foreign Ministers were present at the ceremony. MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—On Thursday, by special license at St. George's, Hanover-square, by the Rev. Horace Pechell, the Right Hon. the Earl of Abingdon, to the Lady Frederica Kerr, daughter of Lord Mark Kerr and the Countess of Antrim. ----- One of the petitions presented by Mr. Hume from the National Charter Association, on Wednesday, was for the release of Robert Peddie, not Petty as given in the Report. BIRTH.—On the 9th hiSt., - in Park -street, Bath, the lady of Walter Irvine, M.D., was safely delivered of a son and heir. BRUSSELS, MARCH 10.—The average price of Wheat last week was 18f. 32c., and that of Rye, llf. 45c. ATTEMPT TO MURDER.—A man at Man ebester, named Thompson, last Monday attempted to mur der a young woman whom be lived with. He asked her to get him some coffee, which she refused to do, and said, " No; if you . want coffee, you must get it yourself." She was at that time sitting near the fire-place, and he in a dis tant part of the room. He deliberately, and without saying a word, walked towards her, and, putting his arm round her neck, drow a razor across her throat, cutting her from ear to oar. He took to his heels afterwards, but was disco vered hiding himself in an old saw pit. He was covered with mud, and had apparently made an unsuccessful at tempt to hang himself. On Tuesday morning he was brought up at the Borough Cou►t, before Sir Thomas Pot ter, when the above facts were detailed in el idence. He was, of course, remanded until something was known of the fate of the unfortunate woman. EXPORT OF HORSES.—It is amusing to observe that while certain grumblers on this side of the water are full of alarm at the liberal purchases the French have been making in our horse marts, the French, on the other baud, are crying out most lustly at the wretched animals they have got in return for their cash. In fact, what with the long frost and snow, and the demand for export, there bas been a gewril clearance of screws. THE HIGHLANDS.—The weather for the last f , rtnight has been highly conducive to prepare the ground for the operations of the plough, which is now being re-drawn out. The strong drought of the full shining sun, and the slight frost of the evening, have dried up the ground sooner' than could have been expected from its sa turated state by the storms of winter. Provender for ~ he cattle is likely to be fully abundant, though hay has been much expended in feeding sheep stocks during the storm. This provident attention has, however, helped to make them now appear in excellent condition, auguring we ll for the crop of lambs. The p rice of victual continues firm. Best Chester, ips..to 2 0 s. per six Lushei. O a t s 18s. to 19s. per ditto. kat cattle are expected to pay the feeding well; and the price of hors es is also on the rise. On the whole, present prospects are rather favour able. —Perthshir e Advertise fi P h t t t I z to E ok F p l l o ac l e rr Advertise r r --- ett O eu n -la M ne on f d or ay morni a 4, sovere ign, between Isaiah Wri ght DEA A Tl p l riz tlr g and Benjamin Thomp son. In the second round Wright struck his opponent a heavy blow in the region of the heart, when he fell and instantly expired. The match was made, we understsad, without the knowledge of W • rlght, and he wished to make it up, and on entering the prize-ring offered to forfeit hale a-crown. This Thompson refused, and the fight pro ceeded and terminated .in his death.— Worcestershire Chronicle. EVENING EDITION UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS. The Rev. W. H. BrJokfield, curate cf St. James's, Piccadilly, has been appointed, by the trustees, morning preacher at Archbishop Tenison's Chapel, Regent-street, London. The Rev. C. H. Bromby, of Hull, to the Head Master ship of the Stepney 1 3 , opr:etary School. The Rev. Daniel Moore, B. A., curate of St. Bride's, Fleet-street, to the living of Christ's Chapel, St. John's Wood, Regent's-park. The Rev. C. M. Arnold, incumbent of Lower Durtven, Lancashire, to the Mastership of Lord Weymouth's En dowed School at Warminster, Wilts. Patrons, the guar.. diens of the Marquis of Bath. The Rev. Gorge Fyler Townsend, B. A., late sub• curate of St. Margaret's, Durham, to the curacy of Syden ham, Kent. The Rev. Frederil Custanee, M. A., to the rectory of Cornwell, in the county of Hereford, on the presentation of the Lord Bishop of Hereford. The Rev. Charles Eboral Rodgers, M. A., of Trinity Cambii 'ge, to .he living of Itirworili, Notting hamshire, vacant by the death of the Re'. Wr. Downes• Patron, Duke of Norfolk. Ti c Rev. W. Cssaid', incumbent of St. Giles's, Dur ham, to the vicarage of Grind.in, near S ocktori. The Rev. Robert Pedder Buddicorr, M. A., let , of Queen's College, Cambridge, to be principal of St. 'Bee's The Rev. G. L. Cartwright, to be curate of Brisling, Somerset. The Rev. G. Nevinbam, to be curate of Shaw kelk. sham. The Rev. F. Russell Nixon, Perpetual Curate of Ash. Ken', to be one of the six preachers of the Ca helral cf Caiterbury. The Rev. T. Reynolds, to the Curacy of Stamford, Essex. The. Rev. G. Harries, to the Vicarage of. Macnclocb or . Pembrokeshire, vacact by the death of the Rev. J. P. Willilms. The Rev. J. Kitton, to the Incumbency of the district church of Houghton, near Carlisle. OBITUARY.—At the vicarage Harwortb, in the . 9oth year of big age, the Rev. William Downes, sixty-sevea years Governor of the Hospital chapel, Sheffield, and up. war.'s c f sixty years Vicar of Harworth, Notts. The Rev. T. Quin, Treasurer of tho cathedral (4=6 of St. Mary, Limerick. At Nenah, the Rev. Thomas Haakesworth, Rector cf Kiluran, and formerly Vicar-General of the archdiocese of Tuam. FIRE IN RATCLIFFE HIGHWAY--A;WOMA N BURNT TO DEATH. —Wednesday morning, about lia'f a past one o'clock, a most destructive fire broke out at the house of Mr. Freeman, beerseller, 14, Parsons-street, Ratcliffe highway, which was not only attended with a serious de struction of property, but unhappily with loss of life—a woman was observed at the second floor front window, hanging cut as if for assistance. On the firemen reach ing the room they found the body of a woman partially dressed, apparently lying across a bed. Her face was downwards. She wzs black in the face and quite dead, being suffocated. The whole of Mr. Freeman's stock and furniture is entirely consumed, and the building nearly gutted. Mr. Freeman is insured is the Norwich Union, and the house in the Pbcenix. There was no person in the house but the unfortunate young woman. The origin of the fire cannot be ascertained. Considerable excite ment prevailed in the neighbourhood, in consequence of the absence of Mr. Freeman from home at the time, and his subsequently returning home yesterday morning, ac companied by a policeman of the K division, No. 275, who stated that be had come with him from Blackwell, where ho had threatened to destroy himself, and that he bad brought him home to deliver him up to the care of his friends. The unfortunate deceased was recognised to bo Ann Dillon, the servant of Mr. Freeman. At three o'clock yesterday afternoon a Jury was impannellcd at the King's Arms Tavern, Neptune-street, Wellelose-square, before Mr. Dyer, Deputy Coroner for the liberty of the Tower, to inquire into the cause of the death of Ann Dil lon, 22 years of age, who was suffocated at the aboh la mentable fire, when evidence basing been adduced, the Jury returned a verdict of " Accidentally burned to death." HYDE PARK.—Owing to the mildness Oft - the weather, the park on Wednesday presented an unusual number of ea:aloe- ' es at this early period of the season. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, attended by Earl Howe and Earl of Denlegin was a chevat Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester was in the drive taking a carriage air ing, and among the nobility were Viscount and Viscountess Beresford, Lady and Miss Peel, Lady Ashley, Countess and Ladi.is Cadogan, Duchess of Argyll and Lady Camp bell, Lady Fitzroy Somerset, Countess of Essex &c. Among the equestrians we noticed his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge and Sir Robert Peel, Bare. EXCHEQUER PA PERS.—Another portion of these curious documents was brought on fur sale by Mr. Flacher, of Piccadilly, on Tuesday last, which drew' to gether a host of antiquarians and literary characters, in cluding some rpirited purchasers; among others w‘Cne ticed Colonel Knollys, Mr. Lemon of the State Paper office, Sir George Chetwynd, Mr. Upcott, and several others; but the greater portion appear to have tech . car.. ried off by Mr. Thorpe, the bookseller and dealer in curbsides. No. 64. Order for the payment of the troops for reducing Newcastle, &c., signed by the Earls of Northumberland, Suffolk, Lenox, Nottingham, Shrewsbury, Lord Buckhurst the poet, and others,' pro duced 3L Nn. 167. An Order of the Council for the pay meat of T. Mills, the Postmrster-General, and R. White, the Postmaster of his Majetty's Court, 150/ , is consideration of their often and hasty conveyance cf packets, with autographs cf twenty-one Privy Councilor?, .11, 16s. No. 181. Order in Council for payment of 5,009/,. in gold, 6001. in silver, to Roger Aston, Esq , for expeiises att .indieg the escort of King James 1. from Scotland, on his erring to the English throne, with the autographs of the Privy Council, in 1603. Among other documents were the order for the payment of 1,3001 to the Esrl Castlemain for Lis entertainment as Ambasradel a in the Court of Rome in 1686. Another for 6,000/, to Sir H. Wootton, Ambassador is Germany, and Lord Digby to Spain, with autographs of the Lord Chancellor Bacon and others, 1620 ; order to pay Colonel Hammond 200/. fur the satisfaction of the soldiers appointed' by hint to guard the King in Carisbrook Castle, signed by Lord Say and Scle, 1648 ; orders of payment for the New Year's gift to the Queen, Duke of York; a ruby and diamond for the Princess Elizabeth ; curious letter from the Earl of Salisbury referring to the mask to be played, to Inigo Joner, 1610; order for ilia payment of 2 400/. to the Duke of Monmouth, for extra coaches .for the service of the King, 1680 ; curious receipt of Gcor giana Duchess of Devonshire, 1779 ; Dryder, the poet, for his pension as poet laureat ; order to the Master cif the Mint to prepare 812 geld medals to perpctuate the peace, with list of persons to whom they were distributed, 1713 ; Sir T. Clsalloncr's account of his embassy to Tuscany, 1607-8 ; document addressed to Sir R. Pyke, Lord Mayor of London, in 1579; and many other curious State Papers, signed by various royal, noble, and other illustri ous personages in Church and State. . _ RUSSIAN FYRRANY.—We give tne . follow ing from the Univers, vvb;ch says that its authenticity has been guarantee , : to it t —Madame de Grocholsks, belonging to one of the first families of Volhynia, had obtained from the Russian Government a passport to join her husband in Switzerland, where he bad resided as an emigrant for tea years, and to tike eith her their son, who was twelve years of age. This child, ifter having teen souse limo with his father, would not quit him,•andototwitbstanding his extreme youth, had conceived so great a hatred against the Russian Government, that be threatened to destroy himself rather than return to Poland. Madame de Gro cholska was, therefore, obliged to leave her son in Switzer. land, and to return alone. She had scarcely arrived in her esuotry when the Governor of the province sent fur her, and asked her why she had left her son abroad. The reasons which she gave not being considered satisfactory, she was sent, under escort, to her country house, there to await the decision of the Czar. This was not long wi . hheld, for her property was confiscated, and she was sent into Siberis. Her daughter, aged seventeen, who had not even quitted Poland, was sent to people these .et thlishments (the expression of the ukase), that is to say, to be married to a colonist soldier, and to embrace the Greek religion. The nobility of the district, indignant at this act of tyranny, opened a sub scription in favour of the victim, which amounted to 15,000 roubles. This sum was sent to the Russian Go vernment, with an entreaty that it might be employed as a wedding portion for this young lady, who had'receiftd distinguished education, so that she might at least espoe an o ffi cer. The Muscovite despot, however, judging t hat 1,000 would suffice for the young lady, grdered that the other 14,000 roub'es should be tent to she military hos doe sent a letter of their a generous pital fur invalids, and at the same thanks, full of irony, to the nobility for donation. • protecting the 4 11 . 6 of „. ss COMPOSITION FOR FRUIT a fol lowing , composition will be of u o se f gooseberries from the ravages spring months, as well as an effectual rem ed y . for clearing the hark. of fruit trees generally from moss, lichen, and-the larvae of insects. Take hot lime and soot in erl quan tities; add cow's urine unt il the mixtur e has at inedlhe consistency of thick paint. Paint the trees regufarlY over with the ingredients thus prepared, and the restilt ivja be not only v beautifully clean and clear bark, but - aa in creased vigour will also be perceptible in the growth of those trees to which the mixtur e has been so applied. RoYAL.GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY _A highly south t o r f a t t he of intreereentghinougn,c meeting was held o n M on d ay evening, G. B . G Esq., presid ent, i n the chair. A communi cation was made from Count S te li ns k y, on t h e d i sco Very A ll u n s d tra i ra nA n N ewlps, Southnot inferiorW point of salubrity or f ert i l i y to any other part of this vast ales, is to island, and to whi c h he gave the name of Gippa ' s L an d. An announcement ili f e anorth new and and large was made from Mr. Brooke, who some time since left this country in bis little yacht, the Royalist, and who was then ievestigating the 'lndian Archipelago. It was sa ti s f actory to know that he had proceeded so far on his route, and his intention was now to return to Borneo and keep the coast until he came to Manilla, from %hence he purposed to go to China. An interest ing paper was next read, communicated by Lord John Russell, containing an iir.e.ary of .a journey of Lieut. Caddy and Mr. Watson from Belize to, the celebrated ruins of Palatays in the province of Yucutan in Guatemals. Notwithstanding this grandeur and immense extent, they were not known to travellers; until the latter part of the last century, when it required the aid of 100 Indians to cut down the trees by which they were sur rounded; so profuse was the vegetation. The remains were evidently of Egypt;-Indian rrchitecture and in them was seen the true Saracenie arch which has not hitherto been met with out of the country of the Saracens. The travellers were 48 days in the ruins, making sketches, and returned to Belize through a country rich in every satiety of natural produce, and n ith which an extensive and advantageous commerce with this country might be carried on. Mr. Willshire next gave some details of his recent journeying in Mogadore and Morocco, in order to explore the botatly of those regions. v ' C" ( I ; IC. irs' s t. 30 0 d rice. ra s be [BO Lis' red L y. ; lor to ~' 11. ii