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Oecond Week of the Engagement of Mr. 0. Smith and, Mr. J. S. ROL Pro-eminent success of all the New Pieces, eupportod'hy the most powerful Company in London. THIS EVENING, APRIL 23, Will be acted the 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, the Spectacle of Diableete, called APOLLYON. THE GREAT FIEND ; OR, THE LOVE TOKEN. Apollyon' Mr. 0. Smith. To conclude with the New Farce, entitled THE UNIFORM ; OR. TWO MEN AND ONE COAT. Characters by Messrs. J. S. Balls, J. T. Haines , Ne vill e , Buckingham, Heslop, Mrs. H. Hughes, Mrs. W. Daly, &c. Entirely Now Scenery and Drosses for all Three Pieces. " THE CHINA SUN," REPUBLISHED A FEW DAYS AGO, IS NOW ON SALE, With all the LATEST NEWS. ralil RAILWAY SUN WILL BE PUBLISHED TOWARDS THE END OF THIS MONTH. HIGH WAFER AT LONDON (MIDGE TO.MORROW Ifrrning 23 minivan after 3 1 Evening 4.5 minutes after 3. The Publication of the Evening Edition of THE Sax cow.- atevieecl at 40 minutes after Three. 4C ' t . ) . 0* 1 r 14 405NF ; ?' 'l7l's744slTP' ow?' om,„ m 0 4t. • TA! s l7 ° • - • • -29,:c ti - r, 4'""- bt*4lVl4 r ett VOL THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY,_APRIL 23, 1841. LONDON: FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1841. The Peers met last night, and the LORD CHAN CELLOR pxesided for the first time since his illness. Several Bills and Reports were brought up 1 from the Commons. The Earl of CHAnTanvILLE occupied their Lordships' attention for a few moments with re butting some imputations which the Marquis of NORMAN,BY had thrown on his conduct. He had been accused of employing and trusting a person of bad character, but that person had been in the police seventeen years. The Marquis of NORMAMBY reiterated his former assertion, that the Noble Earl had been imposed on, to employ a person of a notoriously bad character. The Earl of WICKLOW found the Noble Mar quis's explanation not satisfactory ; and the Mar quis of WESTMEATH assured their Lordships that the Earl of CH ARLEVILLE was not a political ad ♦enturer. He had a house to live in, and re ceived his friends in it. The conversation then dropped. After the presentation of a few petitions their Lordships adjourned. In the Commons numerous petitions for the abolition of the Corn-laws, for Church extension, for the abolition of Church-rates, &c., were pre sented. Lord MORPETH announced that the only im portant alteration he is prepared to make in the Parliamentary Voters' (Ireland) Bill, is to raise the amount of the franchise from a 81. to an 81. rating for counties. Mr. O'CoNNELL subsequently expressed his regret at the altera tion, which he said would get nothing from the other side. It will probably get something from Mr. O'CoNxtu.'s own side, as without that alte ration it is probable some Whigs would not sup port the Bill. Mr. C. WOOD wished to have some , informa tion as to the number of persons rated to dif ferent sums, which Lord MORPETH promised as soon as it can be procured. It has been written for. 11AivE8 gave notice of a motion for this day for a return of all corporeal punishments in flicted in the British army on a Sunday, within the last ten years. At the same ti me he asked if there were any examples of such a punishment. Mr. MACAULA Y was glad to have an opportunity of stati n g that he had not said that there were precedents for Lord CARDI GAN'S conduct, which was both unfortunate and culpable. He had stated that there were precedents of punishment inflicted on the Sunday; but only under some great exigency, on a march. In Lord CARDIGAN'S case the punish ment might have been postponed till the next day. Sir H. HARDINGE thought the Secretary of War's explanation perfectly satisfactory. The Small Debts and Local Courts Bills were postponed to 10th May. In reply to Sir G. Sr - Nettut, Mr. Fox MAUL - E stated that the appointment of Mr. CANDLISH, as Professor of Biblical Criticism in Edinburgh, had been contemplated; but that gentleman, with other eminent ministers of the Church of Scotland, had perthrmed duties i n the face of an interdict of the Court of Ses sion, and till the decision of the Court was known, and the proceedings at an end, the ap pointment could not be persevered in. In answer to Sir R. PEEL, Lord J. RUSSELL stated that no official despatches had been re ceived from China. Lord JouN ItvssEr.t. gave notice of a motion this day to give precedence to ord ers over mo flans on Thursday, after June 3d. Mr.. Gnorn then renewed his motion relative to New South Wales, which lie brought forward On the 25th ult , but was unable to come lo a conclusion, because the House was counted out. He moved for a Committee for the purpose of Considering the manner in which the cost of gaols, &c., is defrayed in New South Wales. The gist of the Hon. Me , mber's speech went to com plain of the improper appropriation of the land fund, which he said should be wholly devoted to emigration; of the great increase in the ex pense of the colony, from 25,0001. a-year in 18 4 5, to 100,0001. now; and ofthe bulk of that expense having been thrown on the colony-. • The CHANCELLOR Uftlle EXCHEQUER answered Mr. GROTE. He showed that the colony already cost the country a great annual sum, and that the expense of its Government was borne in a greater proportion by the mother country than by the colony. The Right Hon. Gentle man moved the previous question. Mr. C. BULLER supported Mr. GROTE'S views, and strongly urged the claims of the colony. _ . Lord IVIAHoN said great distress existed in the colony, and it was caused by the conduct of the Home Government. He thought a strong prima facie case of grievance had been made out. He was favourable to emigration, and rejoiced to see that the labouring population are eager to emi grate. He supported the motion. Lord J. RUSSELL said that other colonies were as well disposed as New South Wales to get their burdens taken off them at the ex pense of the mother country. The lonian Islands demanded relief; Ceylon and Jamaica paid large sums ; Government had already ex pended a considerable sum in adding to the po pulation of New South Wales ; the colony had been amazingly prosperous, and had now none of the onerous duties and taxes to pay that were le vied on the people of England. He approved of Mr. WAKEFIELD'S plan, and the Government was by no means desirous of preventing emigra tion to New South Wales. Sir W. MOLESWORTH took similar views to Lord MAHON. Since the establishment of the co lony, between 70 : 000 and 80,000 convicts had been transported thither. He was of opinion that the proceeds of the sale of lands ought to be wholly applied to emigration. Sir R. PEEL was favourable to emigration, but opposed to charging the finances of the mother country with an expense of 50,0001. or 60,0001. to support it. New South Wales had no equitable claim on the Treasury of the mother country. The Right Hon. Baronet complained, and very justly, ofan unhappy disposition in every country of Europe to prodigality of expenditure. Mr. WARD supported the motion, and so did Sir ROBERT INGLIS, though he was sorry to differ from Sir ROBERT PEEL. Sir CHARLES GREY and Mr. HUME both opposed the motion of their Hon. Friend the Member for London. On a division Mr. GROTE'S motion was supported by only 8 and opposed by 52. Lord C. FITZROY then moved for a Committee to take into consideration the papers relative to the lonian Islands. The Noble Lord said his ob j?.ct was to obtain for the inhabitants of those islands an impartial administration of justice. After a short debate, in which Sir HOWARD DOUGLAS was accused of various pieces of mis conduct, and defended, the House divided, and the motion was lost by 28 to 10. The House Ad journed soon after One o'Clock. The Times yesterday had a long article on the question, " Why should the Chartists not sup port Mr. WALTER?" It began its answers by stating several reasons why the Chartists should not support the Ministers. We agree with the Times that the Chartists have no reason to like the present Ministers. We admit, and we de plore, that they have done little or nothing to si'dsfy the people. They have not taken off the bread-tax, they have increased the expenditure, and they have not allowed the people to gain political power, so that they might obtain justice for themselves. Nay, we will admit, for we have before stated it, that they on some occasions treated the people harshly; and very needlessly and unwisely, in our opinion, consigned a number of them to prison for what old Tory judge or boroughmon ger made laws set down as political offences, which were very often no offences at all. The Chartists, therefore, are under no obligation whatever, to support the Ministers, or a can• didate who will in general vote with them. Are they therefore under an obligation to sup port a Tory ? Whenever the Whigs outraged o injured the Chartists, they only acted on Tory principles. Whenever they did any good for the people, they acted on their own princi ples. Which, let us ask, of the deeds charged against the Whigs as offences by the Times, was opposed by the Tories ? Did they exclaim against the law being cruelly enforced against the Chartists. Did they make any objection to the Poor-law and other Commissioners ? Did they oppose the creation of a rural gendarmerie, or the law for converting poor-houses into pri sons ? Not they. On the contrary, the Tories on all occasions hounded on the Whigs against the Chartists, and whatever protection they have found, they have received from the Whigs. The Tory journals teemed flay after day with reproaches against the Government for pusilani mity, and for encouraging sedition. If the Tories had had their will, the Chartist Convention, whose proceedings we regularly reported, would have been dispersed by the police, or arrested by the orders of the ATTORNEY-GENERAL. If the Chartists have no cause to love the Whigs, they have reason to hate the Tories. What then is their duty in the contest for Nottingham ? We answer, to stand neuter. It may appear hard to disfranchise themselves, but that is better than to vote for an enemy. But will they disfranchise themselves by not voting? We say no. They will exercise their own will. They will be able to say, " Neither of these men is my representative. I will have neither, I will acknowledge the authority of neither. I may be compelled to obey the ma jority, which I shall at any rate be compelled to do, but I will protest solemnly against the elec tion of either, and for neither will I vote." That will be rational and high-spirited in the Chartists. They may, if they like, put up a third man ; that will mark their reprobation of the principles of both the Whig and the Tory ; but to vote for the Tory will be to sanction principles which they detest more than they detest those of the Whigs. We do not ask the Chartists to vote for Mr. LARPENT, unless they approve of his principles; hut they cannot vote for Mr. WALTER, an ac knowledged, undisguised hater of democracy, without branding themselves as dishonest and the Charter as a trick. Mr. LARPENT has declared in favour of a total repeal of the Corn-laws, of free trade, of the ballot, of a prac ticable extension of the suffrage, of shortening the duration of Parliament, and of a plan of na tional education independent of the State priest hood. To all these Mr. WALTER is unfavourable, and all of these are approximations to the objects sought for by the Chartists. To vote for Mr. LARPENT is to vote for a Reformer, if not a Chartist. To vote for Mr. WALTE R is to vote for a declared enemy of the Charter and of de mocracy. The Times tries hard enough to make out a case for Mr. WALTER, but all it can my for him, which is all he can say for himself, is that h e i s the opponent of the New Poor-law. His great objections to that are that it deprives the people of self-government, and denies out-door relief t o the poor. But the Chartists are not paupers. Though many of them—honest, intelligent work men—are numbered amongst the rate-payers, there were very few parishes under the old law, in which they had, in consequence of STURGES BOURNE'S Act—or some otherToryAct—the smal lest control over the disbursement of the rates they paid. What the Times means by the self-go vernment which the New Poor-law destroyed, was the government of a very narrow oligarchy in every parish ; from which, though the change be to a despotism, the bulk of the smaller rate payers are happily relieved. The revival of that oligarchy in every parish, composed of errant jobbers, is what the Times advocates. Now, as to relief out of doors. The practice of giving that was made the means of de grading all the workmen into paupers. Wages were mingled with Poor-rates, and the oligarchy we have mentioned, paying their workmen's wages out of rates, paupe rized the industrious classes. That was a most nefarious system, and it was supposed— whether correctly or not—that it could not be wholly suppressed but by forbidding relief out of doors. The object was most wise. It I separated at once wages from a pauper allow ance, and restored the labouring man to a chance of independence. If, since the Nest Poor•law has been in exist ence, we had had a free trade in corn, and our country had been prosperous—as the ALMIGHTY, by endowing our people with great skill and industry, intended it should be had no persons been required to take refuge in poor-houses but those whose re latives and friends, though well to do, declined to support them, or who had no relatives and friends, the condition of not giving relief out of doors would never have been found onerous, while the great reduction of rates consequent on a more prudent management would have en abled and encouraged the rate-payers to take ample care of the few poor that were thrown on their hands. Most of the workmen with whom we have conversed on the sub ject, have approved of this change on prin ciple, and nothing could have made it work ill but the wide-spread distress and want of I employment which have been caused by the Bread-tax, and other similar restrictions on trade. But for the Corn-law the New Poor-law would have been a blessing to the lower class of rate-payers, who under the old law never had a voice in the management of parochial affairs. Whatever may be its characteristics, it is quite as much a Tory as a Whig measure, and Mr. WALTER would be as little able to procure its repeal in Parliament as out of Parliament. The Times knows both these circumstances ; but Mr. WALTER is tired of labouring in obscurity, and therefore he is anxious to address the pubi.iQ from the floor of the House of Commons. To attain that end, the Times does not hesitate to misrepresent both men and things, describing the Poor-law as a Whig measure, and Mr. LA It• PENT as a nominee of the Treasury. It is, how ever, so notorious for its assertions, that the Chartists will not, for one moment, be taken in by the lip homage of the avowed champion of the Church and of the aristocracy. If one of the red men of the American forests, exposed as they all are to continued privations, and obliged to go through all the wearisome toils of the chase to procure food and clothing, could be put down in Mr. MnunsLEY's machine manu factory, and made to comprehend the vast utility of the beautiful and polished works he would there behold ; if he could be made a spectator of the many processes which intervene between lifting a few dingy, brown, or yellow-coloured stones out of the bowels of the earth, which are to be converted into iron, and the perfect steam engine as it went forth from Mr. MAUDSLEY'S hand ; if, after comprehending all these, ai d tracing all the thousand works which, after many months, result in the beautiful piece of mechan ism, he could afterwards see that at work pro pelling a great ship across the Atlantic, or spin ning millions of yards of twist, or weaving scores of webs of cloth, or turning twenty pair of stones to grind corn, and if he could learn to compre hend the ease by which a great multitude of human beings, by the help of this machinery, at tain in abundance and comfort, that food and clothing he struggles through night and day to win, and then rarely has enough—he must be struck with wonder, approaching, we think, to that sublime awe with which a HERSCHEL con templates the immeasurable phenomena of the skies.. For the due Appreciation of the vast power created, he need not pass from under Mr. MAUDS• LEY'S roof. He will there see a steam-engine as neat and polished as a lady's jewellery, giving motion to several lathes, and he may see the solid metal in which, with all his art and strength he could not make a dent, shaved or sliced off as if it were no harder than putty. If he were afterwards to visit the atelier of CHANTREY or the studio of LANDSEER, and there see the finest works in marble, and the finest pictures \ which these admirable artists have produced, we fancy, however much he might be pleased with I these perfect works, that his admiratio n an d won der, remembering that he himself had rudely executed some likenesses in wood, and daubed them over with colour, would fall far short of the admiration and wonder he felt at the works of the mechanist. If such a man could be made to comprehend all the beneficial results of machi nery, and see how limited was the utility and the enjoyment conferred by sculpture and painting, he would undoubtedly conclude that machinery was ten thousand times more important and more valuable to society than statues and pictures. If he were so struck with wonder and admira tion at what we may call the master-art of civi lized life, were duly penetrated with a con viction of its immense importance to society, and were at the same time aware that Govern ment is constituted to promote the welfare of all, he would conclude that it was impossible for the Government to do too much—provided all it did were judicious—to improve and extend this useful and, in its results, most elegant art. It he were aware of the academies formed, and bounties bestowed, and honours and rewards showered by Government to encourage painting and sculpture, he would naturally expect that colleges for the education of engineers, museums for the storing up of models, apprentice work shops for drilling the next generation of workmen, provided with drawing, chemical, and mineralo gical schools, and all that could contribute to the success of the art of the founder, the smith, the wheelwright, &c., &c., should abound in every town. His astonishment at the conduct of the Government would probably be commensurate to his admiration ofour machinery, when he learnt that there are no such things; that the Govern ment which has established, at a great expense, a national museum of nicknacks, and a national gallery containing some doubtful works of art, has done nothing whatever for the edu cation of engineers and mechanics, and the improvement of machinery. It has established and supports colleges for the education of casuis tical and arrogant priests, whose great business is to enrich themselves; it has established acade mies for encouraging painting and sculpture, but it has not even patronised mechanics' institu tions, nor bestowed any honour on the makers of machinery. The painter of a picture is made a Baronet or a Knight, and ushered into the ranks of nobility ; the maker of a steam-engine ob tains all his reward from his customers. Our red friend, when he came to understand this, would suppose that Government had totally misunder stood or neglected its duties. Now suppose that our red friend was carried to the House of Commons, and introduced into the Committee-room where Mr. M. PHILLIPS presides over some fifteen gentlemen, including such renowned lawmakers as Sir R. PEEL, Lord F. EGERTON, and Viscount SANDON, and there nt e , Mt wary. had F of those wh o manu f ac t ure ma - EL cl l studiously learnt from th e ev id ence o f M r . J. D. HIJME, Mr. ASHTON, M r. R IDE, M r. D EAN, M r. Wr- THEIt ml : l u N d ' iou & s e ly . &e : laid tliimatpetdhierne(n-iets ivierien nery, had passed laws to prevent them reaping those rewards from customers which the Go vernmentthein n f e r N n , m r h ma o k u i g h t a n o d f g s e i v l had their bited ma chinery ng to the best advantage, and had by the prohibition driven out of the land many of the inducingFrarie them Holland It t u o l d s t s a e t i f . ;a a c n t d o i e n s n i i ngen i ous a nd skilful men w h o make this ma. d chinery, Belgium, Prussia, so as to supply the market there, and enable them, when working abroad, to supply North and South America,—suppose our red friend, filled with admiration of hadfourmachinmeroysi were to learn that the Government unjustly, as well as impolitically, interfered t o to e and had, p p r r o e d ve n n ee t thentihacehibneesrtnakadervsanfit.aogm, selling th e i r in fact, plundered them to enrich others, he would conclude, not that the Govern ment were ignorant or negligent, but that it had been diabolically active, and the great enemy of the best interests of society. Such, however, is the case. It has been proved before the Com mittee that the most ridiculous and absurd legis lation prevails on the subject—that some ma chines cannot be exported, and others tan—that sometimes permission can be obtained from the Board of Trade, and at other times it cannot, to export different articles—that Custom-House officers have to examine and stop machinery about which they know nothing—that the Board of Trade, which gives or withholds permission, knows little or nothing about the machines it allows to go or retains---that the laws ) 14p a all such stupid laws, are evaded---ar,d that the great object contemplated, a selfish and nasty object, of not allowing the knowledge and use of this ma chinery to extend to other countries, has complete ly failed, and that the Government has only done injury, without even obtaining the end it sought. It is, indeed, amusing to read the account of the manner in which the smuggler corrects the errors of the Legislature ; it is amusing to see the panting, struggling lawmaker endeavouring to counteract the smuggler; and it is amusing to see him fail, and the smuggler undertaking to export even "Edinburgh Castle, if any body would pay him for it." It is not merely amusing, it is satisfactory to see such miserable peddling legislation rendered utterly vain. On some future occasion we will quote parts of the evidence,—at present it behoves us to remark that we are not desirous that the Government should interfere to encourage the progress of ma nufacturing machinery, except by setting the trade entirely free. It will not, and cannot otherwise do any good. The evidence makes it abundantly clear that English workmen have become, with out the encouragement of the Government, the first in the world—we doubt if as much can be said of our artists and we therefore have no wish that the Government should under take the patronage of machinery. It has struggled through many difficulties to great su periority, and we are not sure that the patro nage of Government might not have been more injurious even than its prohibitive legislation. One fact is perfectly clear, from contrasting the perfection of our machinery with the imperfec tion of legislation. That which the people do by themselves, and for themselves, is in a man ner perfect. What the Legislature pretends to do for them is the veriest botch that imagination can conceive. Yet the wise people, wise at least in all that concerns the works of their hands, blindly submit to have their best interests de stroyed by unthinking men, who, without know ing the use of machinery—perhaps having never seen much of it—undertake to make laws to regulate its exportation, and prevent the skilful makers from carrying their products to the best market. We must do Mr. MACAULAY the justice to notice that he spoke last night in somewhat stronger terms of reprobation of Lord CARDI GAN'S conduct than previously. He styled it culpable. He admitted, too, that the only ex amples to be found of punishments on Sundays were cases of great exigency, and they are very rare. We are glad to see that the Right Hon. Gentleman has got a new light, which has en abled him to see a portion of the gross error he committed. The conduct of Lord CARDIGAN, by the Right Hon. Gentleman's admission, is now without the shadow of a justification. No such enormity, we may safely assert, was ever before practised. As yet, too, it has been unrebuked, save by the press. The military authorities seem to approve of it. Surely the public will not allow it to pass so into oblivion. Those who think the Sabbath ought to be kept holy, and who petition Parlia ment to pass new laws to prevent it being dese crated, ought, in consistency to petition Parlia ment, to address the Crown to dismiss Lord Ca R DIGAN from its service. If the public allow his conduct tv pass without some such proceeding,they will sanction a more odious and wanton desecration ofthe Sabbath,by authority, than was probably ever before heard of. Now that the public have Mr. MACAULAY'S authority for pronouncing the Earl of CARDIGAN'S conduct to be wholly unwarrant able, and without precedent, they are bound to get him removed from the army. His presence contaminates and degrades the whole service • Let the reader only study the table of punish ments in Lord CARDIGAN'S regiment, which ap -peared in The Sun of this morning, and he will be at once convinced that this Noble Earl is as great a martinet as he is regardless of the public feelings. We rejoice to find that the people of Man chester are determined to allow neither Whit,-s nor Tories rest till free trade is established. A meeting of the Chamber of Commerce was held yesterday, and attended with most important re mits. After some strong resolutions had been - greed to, the Chamber appointed a deputation, consisting of two Tories and two Liberals to wait upon Lord MELBOURNE and Sir ROBERT PEEL, and lay before them the urge it demands of the manufacturing body without dist:nction of party. The names of the gentle men are—J. B. SMITII, Esq., President; HENRY ASHWORTH, Esq., HOLLAND HOOLE, Esq., and ROBERT GARDNER, Esq. Let other towns throughout the kingdom show the same unani mity, and ere long monopoly will be mentioned only as an old almanac. The Paris Papers of Wednesday have been re ceived, but there is little in their contents to ;ratify public curiosity. The Constitutionnel concludes a long article on the changes in the Turkish Cabinet with the following observa tions:— " If, as we are told, the change of Ministry in Turkey is a victory for Russia, Russia has had a personal interest in over turning Resehid Pacha and Ahmet Fethi Pacha. England must feel uneasy at this, and a conflict must become more probable or more imminent. If we had remained in our state of isolation we should be perfeetly indifferent to these possiblc divisions, or we might even congratulate ourselves on them. But now that M. Guizot has bound France to again enter into alliance with other Powers, these divisions, far from being an advantage, become a source of danger to her, for, as M. Thiers remarked, we are no longer free, we have no longer a choice of alliance. If the Dardanelles should happen to be threatened, we should be obliged to unite with England against Russia, to assist the very Power that joined Russiaagainst us. If then this change of Ministry is a proof of a grave disagreement ice tween these two Powers. it also makes manifest the weakness and want of foresight of M. Guizot's policy ; for if our adver saries profited by their momentary union to turn matters to our prejudice, M. Guizot has rendered it impossible for France to reap any advantage from their divisions.' We do not see in what way isolated France could profit by a present disagreement between England and Russia. M. THIE.Fts contends that both have insulted France, and in that case the choice of one or the other as an ally cannot be accounted worth much by our fire-eating Gallic Contemporary. _ Tint TURKISH CABINET.—Said Pacha, who has been ap pointed Minister of Commerce for the second time, generally passes half the day at prayer, and part also he divides between the study of astrology and the Koran. What remains he devotes freely to public affairs. His faith in astrology is so strong, that he consults the stars on the most trifling Occasion. On his installation into office he sacriticed a number of rams, which inundated the court-yard of his residence with blood. It was Said Pacha who wished to retard the entry of the Turk ish fleet on its arrival at Constantinople, under pretence that a fleet should never enter port on Friday. In other respects he is an honest man, and extremely affable—a rare quality in a Turk of the old school. Tahir Pacha, the new Admiral, has travelled much in Eu rope, and speaks Italian well. Unfortunately his character has not been refined by intercourse with civilized Slates. H e put his son to death for haying drank wine. Sultan Mali :noud, in order to correct him, invited him to dine at the Pa-. late, and ordered a large clish of baklava, a kind of Turkish p istry to be set before him. Tahir Pacha ate until he was sa risfied, and then ceased; but the Sultan invited him to continua until he was obliged to pray to be excused. •4 What. !" said the Sultan, frowning, 4. you ask to be excused ;vhen you have eaten a few si oonfu!s of baklava, and you have no pity for the poor wretches to whom you apply the bastinado without mercy ! Begone, and be. assured that the eye of my imperial justice shall be ever fixed upon your conduct." CI RCASSIA.—The last news from 'fiflis is anything but fa. vourable for the Russian. They have been driven from the north of Daghestan by the celebrated chieftain Shamil I3cy, and obliged to abandon for the present the south banks of the Terek and the Toundja. The Russian frontier has also been repeatedly laid waste by the Lcsghians and neighbouring hord es , who have shown themselves on the other side of those rivers, menacing even the towns of Mosdock and Elizabetgrad. The Russians are preparing for vigorous hostilities on the fleorgian side of the Caucasus, whilst it a ppears partly certain .that they have done nothing good during th e las t year on the c°4 t or Abascia. lho Cireassians have lately taken two of their fortresses, and were preparing to attack a third. The war in the Caucas us may be further than ever from a termi nations unless the Russians consent to snake peace. They incur immense losses, the expense is enormous, and the success nothing. WAR PREPARATIONS IN FILENeII phorc de litat.eeibYs t l tl• states, that the French army at f:?r,ttk htd been l a tely re i n f orce d b y 6,000 men . A s t r ong division is to ascend the valley of the Cheliff, and form a junction with the main body of the army, above Medcah. Thence those united forces are to proceed to des'roy Mascara, Tazza, and Tekedempt. he expedition is to commence its march early in May, and to remain out two months. Gentral Bugeaud has orders tts strike a decisive IdoW, attrl main the rower of Abd-el-Kader in the west of the Regent*}: Such immense quantities of earth I?ave gi . ien way at the scarp and counterscarp of the triateb bastites and curtains of the entrenched camp est' k.11;2, bridge of Flanders, that it has become necssary apply a system of shoring, which will cause an inn '.ease additional expense. And this is not all. It is known that it was intendod to spare the expense of a facing to the counterscarp wall, in consequence of the earth every where giving way at the bridge of Flanders; at La Petite-Yallette, at Pantie Res, St. Gervais, and Belville, they talk of facing all the counterscarp. This one thing alone will nearly double the expense of the masonry. The masons' work at the bridge of Flanders will be begun this week.— Le Commerce. The Journal le Francais de le Oriest informa us that Mea- SUreShave been taken to prevent the insolent depredations of the English on the coast. " The alinister of Marine has undertaken to the Maritime Prefect of Cherbourg to detach instantly to the bay of St. Briene a guard ship, and to prevent the English fishermen from dredging for oysters within the limit of three miles, formed by the ninth article of the Convention of the 2d Aug., 1839; at the same time to superintend the French coasts, in conjunction at the armed pinnace stationed there. " The Minister of Marine announces that a plan proposed fur the resuscitation of the oyster fishery has been adouted; he may therefore hope that the oyster fishery at St. Briene may, by good management, become a source of wealth to the coun try."—Le Courrier Francais. The National, on the 16th instant, published letters from correspondents, proposing that persons who approved of the political principles of that journal, and sympathised with it for the prosecutions it bad lately undergone before the Cham ber of Peers, should purchase an extra number of copies in order to afford it some indemnification for the losses it had thereby sustained. The Procureur de Roi has judged the publication of these letters to be an offence against the laws of Sep' ember, which interdict any paper from publishing bats of subscriptions to defray fines imposed on them in conse quence of political prosecutions, and an assignation has been issued to the responsible editor to that effect. The Magdeburgh Gazette mentions the arrest at Weimar of a young German, who had two years ago returned thither from Paris, on suspicion of having formed part of an asso ciation of young Germans, in the French capital, known to entertain anarchical designs against several German princes and States. "It was the French Government," this paper adds, " which discovered the existence of the association and its objects, and gave information thereof to the German authorities. A native of Weimar, and another German, belonging to the association, have been arrested in Paris, and given up to the German police.. Many fathers of families in this country, who have sons at Paris, are in great apprehen sion for them, lest they should be compromised in the asso ciation." BOURSE -PARISI, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21. first Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Pricy. Price Fre❑ch 5 per Cents ll3 95 ... 114 ... 113 (0 113 85 4 per Cents O9 25 ... 99 40 ... 99 25 99 40 3 per (.cots 7ll 40 . 50 . i 9 Ys ... ';0 40 c::nt.. 01 r'rance Lltlitte Bank 5,'10)1. shares 5157 50 ...5157 50 ...5157 50 ...5157 50 I,ooof. St ares 10(10 elgtan Ilank 5 ~ ,er Cent,... New Loan lO2 ... 1 2 ... 101% 101% vanish Acuve 24W, ... 24% ... :314 ... % Passtye 534 ... 5 ... ssi Portuguese 3 per Cents 2O ... 20 ... 20 ... 20 1114 ... ii. 4 95 ... 05 . . ... _. __ Roman IC4 ... ... 104 ... 101 ... 101 RAILWAY SHARES. St .;erma,,, Ve:sailles,R. 13 1...8 •.-47 50 ... 247 50 .. 242 50 ...:4? 50 orleans .. Rouen 455 ... 455 ... 455 ... 455 itrasourg w bate 2OB 73 ... 238 75 ... 237 50 .. 2.8 75 POST-OFFICE PROFITS. It appears from Parliamentary Returns just published, that the net revenue of the first year of the Penny Postage is above 33 per cent. profit on its gross revenue. R ATE AT WHICH LETTERS ARE POSTED.—The number of letters posted in the United Kingdom averages 730 per minute, according to the Par liamentary Returns just published, assuming that the Post-offices are open twelve hours each day. IMPORTANT NEWS OF THE PRESIDENT.—(From a Correspondent.)—A letter from Bermuda was this morning received, by Mr. Green, a mer chant, No. 1, St. Michael's-alley, Cornhill, from the brother-in-law of Captain Roberts, treating oa business 1 - flatten:. On the outside of the letter was written, in pencil, that the President steam ship had put in there for repairs, owing to the damage she had sustained. This communication was brought by a vessel arrived at Waterford. SABBATH FLOGGING.—The difference between real religion and state religion seems well illus trated by the different effects of the preaching of a genuine clergyman and a regimental chaplain. Of the former it is said, " those who came to scoff remained to pray." The effect of the preaching of the latter is that " those who came to pray remain to flog." Genuine piety converts the scoffing spirit into the humbled praying spirit, —grimacing piety, hired formula, pre tended piety, has the reverse effect. It fills the heart, that should be humbled, with pride,--and, being itself a mockery, it generates scorn and eruelty.• THE Woßsllir OF MOLOCIi.—A Correspondent asks whether the religion of the Riding-school be that of Christ or Moloch, and lie suggests that it must be the latter, as the altar was " besmeared with human gore." We are afraid our Corre spondent is right, but Lord Cardigan has not the merit of reviving amongst us the worship of the " Horrid King." In consigning our people to death by starvation, the aristocracy all worship Moloch; and the flogging on' the Sabbath, like the bread-tax, is only a part of the same brutal izing system of superstition. The blood-besmeared " Horrid King" is the deity of those who degrade the people by flogging, and starve them by a Corn law. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sta—This morning, Friday, at eleven o'clock, the mortal remains of the late Frederick Reynolds were removed from his late residence, Warren-street, Fitzroy-square, for inter ment in a vault of the Cemetery, Kensall-green ; his eldest son, Frederick 'Mansell Reynolds, was the only mourner, which in my opinion showed a very indifferent feeling. To think sach a talented man, who has wrote seventeen sue• cesgul Comedies, besides many pieces I cannot give recollec tion to, should have but one mourner to follow him to his last home ! Surely there . are some authors alive who have admired his writing., and I am sure ought to feel much ashamed at this cold feeling. Your's respectfully, April 22 LENOES. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL. COTTON MARKET, APRIL 22.—The sales of Cotton to-day amounted to about 3,000 bales, without al'er ation in prices, to the trade. LIVERPOOL SHARE SIARKET, APR IL 22.—The trans actions at the Stock Exchange this day :—Chester and Bir kenhead, 36i ; Ditto, New :shares, 18i ; Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock, 26-?, ; Great Western, 201. Shares, 11 MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 22.—With few exceptions Railway Stork continues firm in prices :—Bristol and Exeter, 36; Manchester and Leeds, 651 65; London and South Western, Tenths, 445. 445. 6d. 455. ; Bank of Man chester, 71. IN. ; Bank of Stockport, 4; Manchester and Liverpool District Bank, 101. 16s. 3d. 10/. 17s. 6d. We have received the Journal of Antwerp of yesterday's date. BOURSE or AMSTERDAM, Arita. 20.—The National Funds remained stationary, and the transactions were insignificant, but a favourable attendance was maintained. The Foreign Funds were more offered ; Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 52 ; Five per Cents., 100 1 / 8 ; Ardoin's, 20 1-16. The report this morning states that a West India merchant of Cornhill received a letter from 'Waterford, via Bristol, on which is written outside, in pencil—" A ship has just arrived from the West Indies, having touched at Bermuda, and re ports the President being off the island." Little credit is given to this report. THE FUNDS, To the present hour the British market continues without the least animation. Consols may be quoted at the leaving off prices of yester day, 90f for the Account ; Money, 90 3, Exchequer Bills, 14 16 prem. ; Bank Stock, 172 1 ,4 173 i ; India Stock, 255 f 6f. The Foreign Market is in the corresponding state as that of the British Markets ; at present the prices are nominal. Spanish Active as it left off, at 233 ft; Passive, 53 ; De ferred, 123 4; Portuguese, 33 3 / 4 34*; Three per Cents., 20f ; Brazilian, 69 70 ; Colombian, 23 23 ; Mexican, 301 ; Dutch Two and-a-Half per Cents., 524 i; Five per Cents., 99.1. 100. SnAttEs.—Great Western, 29 30, prem., New, 141 15 prem. ; London and Brighton, 24 3 dis. ; Blackwall, 5* 4i d,s. ; Birmingham, 69 70 prem. ; Southampton, 58 59 per share; Croydon, 13i 14 per share; Greenwich, 8* per share ; Manchester and Birmingham, 15i 14} dis. ; South Eastern and Dover, I4f 131 dis. Up to the present time very little credit is given to the re port from Bristol respecting the President, still it causes some sensation. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Birmingham and Gloucester 100 Eastern Counties Great North of England ........80 Great Western Ditto New Ditto Fifths London and Brighton London and South Western 3B& 58i..... to Ditto Tenths London and Croydon (Trunk)... 134 l4 ...... to .HALF-PAST ONE. The letter received in the City from Bristol, stating that a vessel had arrived at Waterford from the West Indies, re specting the President steamer, is totally discredited, and sup posed to be a hoax played off by some person. Tha very nakedness of the letter caused immediately great suspicion. No name of the ship which brought the report, also not the same handwriting as the inward part of the letter, as well as no date when the ship lea Bermuda. In the British Funds there is little doing ; the sales and pur chases during the morning have teen to nearly an equal extent. Consols are a shade lower, 901, have been 90g ; Money 901 ; Exchequer Bills, 14 16 premium ; Bank Stock, 1731; India Stock 2551 256 ; India Bonds 3s. prem. In the Foreign Market also very little doing. Spanish Active, 23 1 1 ; Passive, 5 ; Columbian, 23; Danish, 771 7d ; Dutch Two-and-a• Half per Cents., nothing done; Five per Cents. not quite so good, 9.9 i, have been 100. In Shares the Matket is inactive, prices rather loner. Birmingham and Gloucester, 76; Great North of England, 75 ; Great Western, 931 , Ditto, Fifths, 11 ; London and Brighton 477 ; Ditto South Western, 581. The boards containing a list of letters to persons whose addresses cannot be found out, at the Post-office, which used to be suspended in the entrance-hall, have wit Lin the last few days beca removed. The difficulty of obtaining misdirected letters is, therefore, much greater, as the exhibition of the names often led to their ultims'e safe delivery, ROLLS' COURT : -. 7 (T111S LAY.) viii'! it ti: . '"ie - d 1' This was an appli ca ti on t o di sso l ve :in injurctlon gran restrain defendant fr,m proceeding to the sale of an estate in filo course of next month. His Lot:risme, after hearing Mr. Pemberton and Mr. Kin denley for the respective parties, dissolved the injunction. VICE-CHANCERY. , =-O.`HIS tis fion3`lr the iiree - -Chancellor was engagCd all die iiig In hearing unopposed petitions and s'aort causes, of no ge neral interest. QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY.) The Court was occuftd with the case of Edred v. Forster and others, from the spee'al par!), during the entire day The arguments V,Tre of a technical nature, and presented fea,ure of public interest. COMMON PLEAS----(THIS DAYS) DOUGLAS OTPIEJ:S e. CHALK Aicn WrItERS, TMs IkLts dtt action brought by the Commissioners of Paring of St. Pancras parish, against the Churchwardens and oth er inhabitants of the district of the New Church, to enforce the payment of a rate. Of a number of technical points upon which the defence rested, the principal were, first—that the district of the New Church is out of the jurisdiction of the Commissioners ; 2d, that the rating was informal as the resolu tion was not signed by a majority, but only by seven out of twenty Commissioners,—and thirdly that it was retrospective, con trary to the provisions of the Act 23 of George 111, being further antedated illegally, as it was agreed to in September, 1839, but dated as of the preceding June. A verdict was taken for the plaintiff, subject to a nonsuit, and last term the Solici tor-General obtained a rule nisi on the points reserved. Mr. Sergeant CHA N NELL this day showed cause against the rule, and 111 r. PEACOCK replied. - The discussion had not concluded when we went to press. EXCHEQUER-(T HIS DAY.) The Court were occupied the whole of the morning with cases in the ne.v trial paper of last term. None of them pre sented any feature of interest, nor were the decisions given. During the morning a note was handed up to the Bench, stating that the President was safe. It was instantly handed amongst the Bar, and erected quite a sensation of pleasure. SEWERS' COURT.-(THIS DAY ) A special meeting of the Court of Sewers fur Westminster was held this day, at the Commissioners' Office, Greek-street, Soho, for the purpose ot examining candidates for a vacan t collectorship. The reading of applications and testimonials, and the personal examination of the candidates, occupied the whole ot the morning. INSOLVENT COURT.-THIS DAY. IN RE MARY GRAHAM. The insolvent was a very old lady, and was so unwell as to require the attendance of the pri,on-matron in Court. She applied to be discharged under the Act, and was opposed in person by George Alien, who stated that he was a farmer . in ()label- on, county of Middlesex. He acted in the present in stance as the executor of his brother, William Allen, deceased, from whom the insolvent held a house at the annual rent of 1701. In March, 1640, a year's rent was due, out of which she paid 40/., and a writ was served on her for the balance, on which she was taken in execution. He opposed her discharge now on the ground that by defending the action the insolvent had vexatiousiy put him to 101. ex ra law coats. In reply to Mr. Cooke, who appeared in support of the insol vent's application, Allen stated that after the writ was served for the sum of 170/. she paid him 401., and three days after the declaration was filed she paid him 40/. more, so that now she was indebted only in 901. He also acknowledged that he knew she was very ill and keeping her bed at the time. The insolvent stated to the Court, that she took the house nine years ago, and paid for eight years at the rate of 1701. annually ; the last year, in consequence of severe illness, she was unable to meet the rent immediately, and the action was brought in consequence. When she first took the house she had 100/. in the funds, all of which was expended in March, 1840, except 138/. ; this she sold out, and paid the opposing creditor 80/. out of his demand, and the remainder she ex pended in paying servants and tradesmen. Her reason for defending the action was, that being on a sick bed she was ap prehensive of being thrust into prison. " Yet (as the old lady herself expressed it, with tears in her eyes,) 1 have been now in gaol since the cold month of January, with no means of support but what a few old friends have afforded me." Mr. Cooke produced a great number of duplicates for small articles of wearing apparel, which she was obliged to pawn at sums varying from fid. to 3s. Mr. Commissioner BROWNE asked the opposing creditor if he had any remarks to make. Allen replied that he still considered the opposition to his action vexatious. The Learned COMMISSIONER said that he did not blame Mr. Allen for the course he felt bound to pursue, but he (Mr. Commissioner Browne) could not think in the present case of ordering more than a nominal remand—a remand for a day or two. CURREN C Y. We had occasion to observe lately, in the course of some remarks upon the currency, that those who were opposed to the doctrine that the paper circulation of the country should be governed by the Foreign Exchanges, evinced a total ignorance of, or wilful blindness to, the manner in which that system would operate on prices. A pamphlet which has just fallen in our way on the present state of banking in England, "by a Scotch Banker," in a letter addressed to Earl Fitz william, furnishes a striking evidence of the justice of our observation. In the whole of this publication, consisting of forty-three large% professing to emanate from " A Vete ran in Banking," there is not a single word, thought, or sentence tending, in the most remote degree, to elu cidate this vital branch of the question. We have seldom seen a more crude and il!..digested work than the one before us, when replete with such pretensions, nor one containing so little useful information on the subject which it professes to discuss. What can be said of a " Veteran Banker," who has the folly artd ignorance to maintain " that to the nobility and landed proprietary alone ought to he as,igned the power of supplying a circulation ha ed upon the most secure foundation?' His whole panacea for the derange ment of the currency is to place " the distribution of money in the hands of the landed and mold .d aristocracy." We may say aptly enough here that "we wi,h th e y may get it."' This Scotch banker professes, natu rally enough, deep veneration for his native land, and adduces the success of Scotch banking as a reason for its introduction into England under the system of charters and limited responsieility ; but it is altogether new to us to hear that the prosperity of the Scotch t anks is greatly to be attributed "to the etalien in society occupied by the most influential in the proprietary." Almost every man worth fifty pounds in Scotland is a shareholder in some of see banks, It is the widely extended proprietary, the interest taken in them, therefore, by men of all stations and classes in society, that has led to the great success of the Scotch banks. The "station in society" of the Marquis of Huntly, who certainly was one of the nobility and landed proprietors, and governor of a joint stock bank in the north of Scotland at the time of his failure, could not have added much to the " high character" of Scottish banking. The nobility and landed proprietors of Scotland arc teo much involved and subject to entail, to do much in the charac ter of banker!. We have had frequent occasion to remark that although joint stock banking is a plant of Scottish growth, we have never seen a treatise on it by a Scotchman, which was entitled to be looked upon as a standard work or as a treatise of reference on the subject. This affair by " a Scotch Banker" is a sad failure. With the exception of a short table of tire five oldest banks in Scotland, enumerating their names, pt.id up capital, and number of partners, which may be got in an old almanac, there is literally no information in it on Scotch banking. Who the " great unknown" is that penned this wondrous talc we know not, but should rather surmise that he must be acquainted with some of the directors of the London T.Tnion Bank. We guess as much, at least, from the following paragraph, which we select as a fair specimen of the matter and manner of the author:— " When such men al Sir Peter Laurie and Andrew Spottissvoode put their hands to the wheel, who can doubt tire navigation of the vessel ? Had the circulation of the City been in possession of a dozen as well constituted banks as the Union of London, and had the drain of gold been from as many tills, and each bank aware that to show weak ness would he to forfeit honour, is there any doubt, my Lard, that heaps of gold would have been readily found for foreign corn or any other necessary ?" Sir Peter Laurie, as a magistrate, has shown a re markably sure nose 1 t. ly at detecting City impos tors, and Mr. Andrew Spottiewoode has made a snug fortune as printer to her Majesty; but that they should be put forward as a pair of Siamese youths, duo juncto in uno, representing the pith and essence of all that is requisite to constitute perfection in banking qualifications, really requires a quantity of faith in what we read in print that is seldom to be met with, and which we possess not. The " Scotch Banker" has not lost the " booing" inclination of his birth right. He has a most uncommon regard for the pri vileged classes, for everything above the common herd, and the loans by the Scotch banks "to the nobility and landed gentry" are looked upon by him with the eyes of religious veneration. With thee views we have no wish to quarrel. We have no doubt the Scotch banks would lend money to the lairds readily enough if their lands were net entailed, and there were no prior mortga ges to impair the security. But this does not prove that " the nobility and landed proprietors " would be the proper managers of the currency. They are too much accustomed to stand in the capacity of borrowers to be well fitted for the office. The impropriety of a board of merchants " sitting in judgment on the commercial transactions of their contemporaries," is an objection to the present system, but the strange notions of the " Scotch Banker," if acted upon, would, by placing mortgaged landlords in their shoes, only make bad ten times worse. The " Scotch Banker" speaks of the justly-admired pamphlet of Mr. Jones Loyd, but we doubt much if he understands it ; for he asserts that its object is "illegitimately to nego tiate for the elevation or depression of the Foreign Exchanges for private convenience." Now, this is trash altogether. Mr. Jones Loyd simply maintains that tie " paper circulation should vary precisely as the amount of circulation would have Varied had it been exc:usively metallic." This is in accordance with the dictates of common sense; and it is clear, thersf me, that when t' e gold is drained off (that ie, when thFo reign Exchanges are unravourable), the paper circulation should be climinisl.ed, and, vice versa, expande d. But this is not seeking to elevate or depress the E xchan g es " fn. any private convenience."— Morning Chronicle. A new Association, called the " Political i n . stitute," which promises to aid political enlightenment, and to give union and force to public opinion, held its second tittirig on Wednesday, at Hclhorn Hers, when it discussed the necessity of diminishing, the immense and increasing influence of the aristocracy. After a debate of t h ree hours, conducted with cons iderable abili ty and animation, a resolution was carried t o the effect..._,, That the aristo cracy had succeeded to the dangerous ettent of power snjo3ed by the Crown in 1730; that this power, notwith standing the Reform Bill, increased, and was increasing, and ought to be dinsinishee." A peti t i on , according with the spirlt of this iesolution, is to be sent, it is understood, to the House.of Common% EVENING EDITION. COMMERCIAL. TREATY WITH PORTUGAL. '!'lie oasis ,_ of tin: , new tdaaty of commerce between Pr t brae; t s u e g nt a . i d at t n::. aLDl:lldOttror‘litartr,fin.c: Walden, is i w s h u ie n h de general principle of equaii•ji. There is to be an equality e very has rstoo b ert n n ctil . r kind of efliallitv, to be regulated according to t!Pi7 personal pri'ilegcs, an equality of duties, and lithe' meditation of' the term in Portugal, though i . ha_ efil;c l ; an etranssEinent; with regard to tonne of the interests touclifid, *Old frefiably be meth the same na the creditors of Portugal ha‘d Piqe#dented in theaid Par ment of the clisi :cads, the native fking p full, and the Eng limicoa , nothing Toe eainciple p reciprocity, recognised by the :Portuguese, `"v a i t , vent, at the first blush, to be UneXceptlon sa • enough, serfne . e sttah principle acted upon in good fa i ' lit there would be nought to complain of. If, for inst ance, du•y le imposed in Portugal on British manufactu res not caeca ling that which they will fairly bear, cs is th e ces° With 0)6 produce of Portugal imported jots) t hi s country' it! the commerce of the two natioha might be truly said to be put upon an equitable footirg. But tha Pottuguese arcs by habit and education, so tortuous in all their esialinga bQ to be totally incapable of takirg any straightfufal t s, view of any matter of business. They, according 14 put upon the words equality and reciprocity ~e°.% structions that are pert' , oily inadmissible. " 'I I tF em the meaning of reciprocity is, that tug ese commoditi 's in England should pay °Sr, actly the ' clime We per cent. of import duty al exacted on English goods in Portugal, and it is in tins spirit, it is understood, the draft of the treaty handed to her Majesty's Ambassador has been framed. In order fa test the advantage dcrivalle to Great Britain from thia kind of reciprocity, a case has heel put, which is, in 1.4 . 4 , oae of a strictly practical nature. A tun of port vela is argued, is sent to England, pays 100 per cent. ad l' a° ; rent duty, and yet finds a ready sale—first, becauke t f English have familiarised thethseltet with the use "d the impure and unwholesome bettgfil, find on 0% 0 to pay a high price for it ; secondly, Yeeett, sort of wioe beisg produced by Portue n". 1.„; there can be no competition to depreciaC its Via: lue. A base of goods, on the other band, salt Portugal, if subjected to a duty of 100 per cen,' could not be said otherwise than at a heavy loss---fi rs " Lecause the Portuguese could not afford to pay for thee at so increased a charge; and, secondly, b. cause competition from France, Switzerland, and other las °- ; facturin countries would prevent them fr om maintai nina a saving price in the market. An admirable kind (iarocity this would be for Great a i'ain. The cond uct Portugal is extraordinary, for, favoured and ptoteeted she has been in (vary possible way by this coudifj; object of the Governnn nt is evidently to exclude et; fairies from her ports. Wth the assumption of an of tl.c utmost disinterestedness, a treaty is off. rad le!, our acceptance which must have been concocted I°' that and no other purpose. No sooner • was Dif Miguel expelled from the throne by means of 191. fish arms, British capital, and British influence, th an d l a was discovered that the Tr e ty of 1810 was too f a vourn to our interests, and that it must be canceled. A Ito' s : bonds were sent into the London marks t, for which a was obtained exceeding the average cost of our ow l, s ' curities; a bankruptcy was the next step taken; then pudent advertisements, announcing the buying up 1113 cancelment of bonds at a frurh of the cost, not even ',,; eluding the interest, were put into the papers; and fi ns ';', a most iniquitous compromise of the remainder was °I : attempted by these sicklers for reciprocity and equal' the home creditor being all the while duly taken c , r, e ; ° „' s The equality and reciproc:ty principle, and the coalti ° l) - „ of treaties with respect to the slave-trade, have been r served by Portugal with about the Fame fiderty st ager , financial engagements. In the hands of the 1 :1 - 3 , tuguese the inhuman traffic appears to be more floar' s ,,, ing than ever. Their ships laden with wretched negl-cis are to be met with at every point of the Western 1, 1 ,, and in the event of chase being given to them by her,b; jesty's cruisers, there is no hesitation on the part 0. piratical commanders, to throw L few hundreds of then overboard into the sea as a means of lightening the yet ; Fel, and escaping with the remainder. The treatfarnbt by Portugal of the poor English soldiers who fl u t g ce her battles, and secured the object for which leks't bat lea were waged, has been more ungratefu l, scarcely less cruel ; and the only conclusion to ,cb'cict we can come concerning her is, that the respe ct P s i o her by the English Government has been such s k s b givtaber a notion of la r own importance out of caber. springs a degree of insolence and injustice that are P° fectly insufferable. The remedies for all this are, he!... ever, so many and so Fasy of application that it is su is rpilo't ing the effect of none of them has been tried. It „ n ip necessary that we should close our ports against the °- b 3 s staple of Portugal, the wire so studiously avoided every other people, and of which we consume 27,00 0 PiP c _ annually out of 32,000 ; or that we should withdraw frail our engagement to protect her from foreign invasion , !T or but for which:she would at the present time be an if4 er province of Spain. Lord Palmerston has been told before now that he haa only to " hold up his finger" to put all right , and we licve it. • CI E AIPERCAILZIE AT BRODICK.----- Th i _ 6 a %m beautiful and very remarkable species o f game, enc,, common in the Highlands of Scotland , having. m years ago, trAtilly disappeared and beco me extinct ; being discovered in Sweden, the Marqu is, of Breadalbsi ede much c erti %in sent an experienced gamekeeper to t hat country, svhe, after expense, sue cc.to hisdprocurin g a . Ind estate. Carefu l ly observ in g their habits in Sweden, and as ce rtaining their instinctive relishbdreiende,l'7rainngd bgrrienagtin g them alive for particular kinds of nutriment, the gamek.!cp . c o r has succeeded in pr , ipapting them. A cock, four hens, were lately given to the Marquis of Dong t ° , and Clydesdale, who Ills forwarded them-to Arran, 1 1:;,.. there is every probability they will soon become b us' dint ; for the care and I . bur at present bestowed ,ge only enFure safety, comfort. and protectim, but e ncou r a s rapid multiplication of a numerous progeny to thred a . the blackeock and moorfowl already do, the Arran ° t r o ve tains. In a lofty and finely sheltered wordy situation autd Brodick Castle, an aviary of vast dimensions has been erecoht, —6O feet in length, about 50 in breadth, amt 16 in b e ,:Pos and in point of contrivance and accommodation for 01 oc h requisi!e purposes, it cannot be surpassed. It is of itself ',be a tasteful curiosity as will attract the notice, and oceasion,do wonder and acnairation of every person. The 91 ,0 and roof are formed of larch spars, separa . el about, $ inches, or an inch and a half, for the purpose of Pif ° ,:', l o free current of air, and giving the birds all the changes of climate as if they were roaming at largo• t he centre is wholly filled with thriving spruce fir trees, e ri o f branch points of which they fondly feed, and a si res° er cool water meanders from top to bottom. At the eP,P., end are neatly covered, completely sheltered, an d 10° Pti niously contrived and furnished apartments for roostinroa hatching—rendering them safe from any intrusio n, ffal giving to them the undisturbed dominion of this f 3 er c- a i. miniature, caged domair. The origin of the nam e i :IA6 per.cailzie cannot he distinctly given. The Cock' ` North (Coileach Tuah ) is one api_ citation— Cock. O Woods(Coileach•Coille) another. The fowl has a pa rii" ;) , to roosting on a tree branch, and at present, in t e be „bir• metric state, on a cress spar, bank, beam, or te a Perhaps the derivative may be traced to Caber, cortuPb), into Kaber, (e. g., the kabers of a house in broad S cet ‘, c is and (Jodie, a cock. Hence Cahercoille,—The O ci. t he black. featherel, having a large tuft or whisker beta's' et, ears and around the neck, and tufty feathers the feet, like the bantam and eagle. His bill resembles the 1 4 ,4. and in majesty and fierceness the similiarity is very stri'lii‘e He rears his tail, when surprised, with a bold bounce am the turkey. In size he is as large as the commo n ," - a od door cock. The hens are beautifully grey speckle°,,, o f in shape and size like a guinea or pea-lien A alg u ' o rt these rare ayes must be a rich feast to ornii:bolrgial s ; ry the gigantic cige, with its furnishings, will amase beholder.—Kilmarnock Journal. —. _ —.........., _ PLATE.—A. B. SAVORY and SONS -7-I \ 7 !"" t ti be facturing Silversmiths, No. 14, Cornhill, London, 00,"410 1 Bank of England. The best wrought FIDDLE PA r l ' TO SILVER SPOONS and FORKS, at 7s. 'id. p e r ounce. 00 ,4 following are the weights recommended, but the article s be had lighter or heavier at the same price per ounce. ‘s. 4 li Fiddle Pattern Silver Table Spoons 12 'ditto Dessert ditto 1•2 ditto '1 able Forks .2 l oo o Lat 5 77. i:: 1.70, : iii 4 0 0 30 7 2..• i" il 4 12 ditto Dessert ditto 20 7 2••• ;0 8 2 ditto Gravy Spoons le 7 2••• 3 11 8 1 ditto Soup Ladle IS 7 2••• l e 8 1 4 ditto Sauce ditto.• lO 7 8 ••• 1 0 ° 4 ditto Salt Spoons (gilt strong) ................ • ...- l e 0 I ditto Fish Slice 12 ditto Tea Spoons lO 7 5... '-- 0 1 pair ditto Sugar Tongs (strong)• 0 P i N.B. A Price Current, stamped as a Newspaper . by drawings, and containing every information relative to.,cs, purchase of silver or Sheffield plate, may be had en aPPi r of tion, or will be sent into thecountry, free of postage, in ang to a paid letter. Si et TABLE CANDLESTICKS, superior to 1 6 for durability, equal in appearance. Table candlestickst o , inches high, 7s. per pair; 9 inches high, 9s. ; 10 inches; 1 4 ,, per pair ; ditto, with rich shell mountings, 9 inches highs 1 0 , per pair; snuffer trays, with shell mountings and chases e e d $ tre, 4s. each. The particular metal of which these gin , - ' other articles are made, can only be told froP' great variety of silver by reference to the stamp. Catalogues gratis. illustesiteh., RIPPON and BURTON, Wells-street, O x f or d_ s tre_ .. et . .....• ____,-' -11 811 i. On the 20th inst., a ason. t Alverstoke, th e l a d y o f F ra ncis On the 2 1 st inst., Mrs. N. 11. T r i n d er , o f a .on. (In the 21st ins t., the wife of J. 11. Cardale, Esq.. a r joho day, E•q., On the 22 d inst., in Great Stanhope -street, the lady 0. Malcolm, Esq. , of a daughter. R.M., of C. On the in Charle s - s t reet , St. J am es's, S rs. Smith, of 22d f as ms t., iborn. MARRIED. J . r• On the 13th inst., at Chelvev, Somerset, the Rey,',, - ,;afr Cumberlege, Vicar of Astwood, bucks, to Lucy Ante , ''',;;.et. ter of the late Rev. John Mathew, Rector of Kilve, On the 15th inst., at Wolverton, [lents, George 'Zia ( ' Simondr, Esq., of Reading, Berks, to Emily, third daug",.. the Lae Boulger, E a., of Bradfield House t . l3 T";totu On the 17th inst., at St. Pancras, the Rev. C. li'• 'a to Loughlin. Thoro ai On the 20th inst ,at Prince's-street, Edinburgh/ na Hodgson, Esq., of Aldine-chambers London, to Grac e : o l re, Joseph Wilson, Esq., of King's Arm"s-yard, London, to P an d flan a , daughters of Alexander Clapperton, Esq., of Spylaw Prince's -street, Edinburgh. On the 21st inst., at his house in Wilton-crescen t, Charles Gore, of Barrow Court, Somersetshire , and brow° Colonel Gore Langton, M.P., aged 77. Sarah' On the 16th inst , at Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, the wife of W. S. Smith. ,o , „ver. On the 19th inst., on Croydon-common, Mr. G.;,"' 01 6 ' On the 19th inst., at Walmer-beach, Kent, Mrs. •P"; 7 ,:i s iter' On the 20th inst., at Clapham-common, Richard, oder, youngest son of the late Sir Walter Synnot, of Bai'Y of co the 20th inst., of Armagh. i . etli jo On at Pimlico F. Bramah, Esq. I°llo.oe' Trinity College, Cambridge, and' ' eldest son of the late Bratnah, Esq., civil engineer, aged 29. f .___ _____ ..... Tc, o London : Printed and Published by MURDO Y.9„ . ..„' . d l a No. 112, Strand, at ne Sun Of fi ce, 1 , 711. 112_ ~,, 'w -- .. the ousts , of Middlesex... Friday, April 23, 1141* NI ( --.____. it /74 _ A . Ptr of this A Tr J. 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