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Just published, Part 1., of ADESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF SCARCE and IMPORTANT BIBLICAL and OTHER WORKS, many of them imported from various foreign parts ; with Critical Remarks, and Occasional Bio graphical Notices. Selected from the extensive Literary Collections of J. SAMS, Darlington. This Catalogue contains numerousi - are works, seldom to be obtained. Literary InstAuttons, Collectors, and Purchasers of Books generally, on sending a request or address to the pro prietor, will have a copy sent to them gratis. Fourth Edition, Is., post free, Is. 4d., with Portrait, Plates, and Battle Plans, COMMODORE NAPIER'S LIFE AND EXPLOITS. (NAPIER AT THE GREENWICH EtrcTioN, 1837.) " And there stood the man, pelted by the bargemen of Greenwich in a paltry election squabble, on whose cool head, ready hand, and unflinching heart, had depended the destinies of a nation (Portugal), one who had gained more victories, and made more captures, with less loss of life, than any man had ever done before."— Vide page 23. London: Strange, Paternoster-row, and all Country Book sellers. Just ready, in 3 vols. post Bvo., THE MARRYING MAN. A NOVEL. By the Author of " Cousin Geoffrey," &c. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. U VDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTELIS. THIS EVENING. APRIL 23 Will be repeated the New Comedy, in Five Acts, entitled LONDON ASSURANCE. Sir Harcourt Courtly, Bart., Mr. W. Farren ; Max Hark away, Mr. Bartley; Mr. Charles Courtly, Mr. Anderson ; Mr. Adolphus Spanker, Mr. Keeley; Mr. Dazzle, Mr. C. 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Mc rung 41 minutes after 2 I Evening 2 minutes after 3 Zbt LONDON: FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1841. The Peers met last night, and the LORD CHAN CELLOR presided for the first time since his illness . Several Bills and Reports were brought up from the Commons. The Earl of CH ARLEVILLE occupied their Lordships' attention for a few moments with re butting some imputations which the Marquis of NORMANDY 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 CHARLEVILLE was not a political ad venturer. 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 port mt alteration he is prepared to make in the Parliamentary Voters' (Ireland) Bill, is to raise the amount of the franchise from a 6/. to an Si. rating for counties. Mr. O'CoNxEr.r. 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'CONNELL'S own side, as without that alte ration it is probable some Whigs would not.sup port the Bill. Mr. C. Woon 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. Mr. HAWES 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 time he asked if there were any examples of such a punishment. Mr. MACAUL AY was glad to have an opportunity of stating 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. SINCLAIR, Mr. Fox MAULE 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 performed duties in 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 JOHN RUSSELL gave notice of a motion this day to give precedence to o r d ers over mo tions on Thursday, after June 3d. Mr. GROTE then renewed his motion relative to New South Wales, which he brought forward on the 25th ult , but was uxiable to come to 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. Member'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 1825, to 100,0001. now ; and of the bulk of that expense having been thrown on the colony. The CHANCELLOR of the 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 MAHON 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. MOLESWORTII took similar views to Lord IVIAnoN. 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 ject 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 satisfy 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 or 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 day 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; but 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 or 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 m vote for Tv v( 7. ALTER 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. WALTE R, but all i t can say for hi m, which is all he can say for himself, is that he is the opponent of the Ne w Poor-law. His great objections to that are th a t it de p rives the p eo ple i of self-government, and denies out-door relief to 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 BOURN E'S Act—or some otherTory..4.ct—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 separated at once wages from a pauper allow ance, and restored the labouring man to a chance of independence. If, since the New 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 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 it! , 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 public 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. LAR• 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. MAUDSLEY'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, and 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 wits: these perfect works, that his admiration and won der, remembering that he himself had rudely executed some likenesses in wood, and daubed them over with colour, would fall far short 0 4 the admiration and wonder he felt at the works f the mechanist. If such a man could be made 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. If 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 learnt from the evidence of Mr. J. D. HUME, Mr. ASHTON, Mr. RIDE, Mr. DEAN, Mr. Wr- T in riE t ß h s e , 1‘,41,Ta.y of t hose FELKIN, &C. &c., that the Go veleili•nnenrieyn, t had h p a a d sse s d tudiously laid impediments aws tNovh prevent o rev manufacture apng mia those rewards from customers which the bGo vernmenttedthem rneverm making ht a lo k u il g igat o l f d giving,sellinghthadeirproh ma chinery to the best advantage, and had by the prohibition driven out of the land many of the s t i ingenious an d skilful men who make this ma chinery, in Belgium, France,d a Prussia, so as to supp l y th e market there, and ucing Switzerland, h and s enable them, when working abroad, to supply North and South America,—suppose our red friend, filled with admiration of our machinery, were to learn that the Government had most unjustly, as well as impolitically, interfered to prevent the machine makers from selling their produce to the best advantage, and had,' 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 leis- lation prevails on the subject—that some ma chines cannot be exported, and others can—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 or Trade, which gives or withholds permission, knows little or nothing about the machines it allows to go or retains—that the laws, like all such stupid laws, are evaded—and 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 Qnd 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, exceptby 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 iag 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 t ,ight 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 io into oblivion. Those who think the Sabbath aught to be kept holy, and who petition Parlia nent to pass new laws to prevent it being dese .rated, ought, in consistency to petition Parlia nent, to address the Crown to dismiss Lord CAR DIGAN from its service. If the public allow his conduct tupass without some such proceeding,they -vill sanction a more odious and wanton desecration ,fthe Sabbath,byau thori ty, th an was probably ever before heard of. Now that the public have Mr. IfACAULAY'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 pears in another part of The Sun, and he will be at once convinced that this Noble Earl is as great a martinet as he is regardless of the public feelings. The appointment of Prince MAVROCORDATO to the office of Prime Minister of Greece, has excited a hope in the breasts of the long neglected creditors of that country that their claims will be early taken into consideration by the new Cabinet. M. MAVROCORDATO has re sided too long among us—he is too well ac quainted with the injuries which a want of finan cial credit must inflict upon any country not in a state of absolute barbarism, not to be sensible that the prosperity of Greece is in a great mea sure dependent upon her observance of good faith towards her foreign creditors. To what but dishonesty on the part of their Governments towards the State creditors, can we attribute the low ebb to which the once powerful king doms of Portugal and Spain have fallen ? Would the wildest foe of this country compare them for an instant with England; and yet what have been their wars in comparison with those waged by Great Britain against half the world in arms ? Financial good faith is the basis of our commercial prosperity, and without such good faith no people ever can be commercially pros perous. Now Greece has hitherto been lament ably deficient in the manifestation of any regard for the pledges made by her to her foreign cre ditors. For this a faction of Foreigners who have hitherto swayed her councils are chiefly to blame. The bulk of the people of Greece, we have no doubt, repudiate the dishonest, short-sighted policy which since the establishment of King OTHO on the Greek throne, has found ff6 - our in the eyes of that Royal compound of arro gance, obstinacy, and imbecility. Western Europe (and England in particular), expects that with the appearance of Prince MAvaoconnATo at the head of the councils of the KING, the little knot of hungry Bavarian adventurers who heretofore swayed the destines of the kingdom will be dispersed, and such measures introduced as shall render Greece not only more politically free in her own eyes, but more honest in the eyes of the rest of the world. Lord PALMER STON'S influence with the new Greek Premier is known to be very great, and as his Lordship has faults in the East to atone for—grave faults as we have ourselves proved—we know of no atonement which he could make, apart from the affair of China, which would prove more gratify ing to the people of England than to insist upon justice being done to the British creditors of Greece. The Paris Journals of Tuesday haVe all reached us. Their contents are of no political import.. ance. Some commercialists from the Isle of Bourbon having applied to the Government to establish a line of steamers between that island and Suez, which, by being connected with the line plying between Marseilles and Alexandria, would shorten the time of communication be tween the Isle of Bourbon and France from four months to one month and five days, the Journal des Debats has the following remarksyponit " In the proposed plan three steam-boats of 220 horse-power would be quite sufficient for a regular monthly service, which would cause an expense of about 2,000,000 f. for the first out lay. The yearly expense would be a bout 300,000 f., to defra y which a considerable sum would be raised from passengers letters. This plan is nothing more than the natural completion of the Bill passed last year for establishing trans atlantic packets. The Government felt that, from the m o ., anent England established a regular communication by means of magnificent steamers, France could not remain i n the back ground without throwing into the hands of the English the whole of the French communication with the new continent. The Chamber voted 32,000,000 f. for the transat lantic steamers, and the delegates from Bourbon ask but for 2,000,000 f, to establish a regular service with the Arabian Gulf. It is _evident that the 70,000,000 f. or 60,000,000 f. of trade, which we carry on each year with Bourbon and India, must pass into other hands, if we continue to follow the long circuit of the Cape of Good Hspe. The late events in the East show what importance the English attach to the route by Egypt to the Red Sea, and our political as well as commercial intere-ts demand that the French flag should be permanently dis played in the Red Sea. All the nations of Europe will find it proper to keep Egypt an'open route, and a geographical posi tion so important as Suez should remain the common resting place cf all commercial bodies. These considerations induce us to suKort warmly the proposed plan, particularly as the colony of Bourbon, in its own interest, wia feel itself obliged, should the Government not promptly accede to its request, to have recourse to English capitalists, and thus throw the communication between the colony and France into the hands of England. As to a private company undertaking the line as a speculation, we look on it as highly improbable. The Government saw last year that it was with State money that the line to America should be carried on, as sacrifices were to be incurred, which private speculators could not sustain. The same arguments prevail with respect to the proposed line to Bourbon." The change in the Turkish Cabinet gives um brage to the French Liberal Press, which now discovers that RESCHID PACHA was eminently French in his feelings and habits. Had this dis- . covery been made sooner, it is probable that the Press, which so triumphantly upheld M. TRIERS, would have borne aloft, in true Frank fashion, upon the shield of victory, the now disgraced Pacha. But it is ridiculous to tax Lord PoN SONLY with the humiliation of the late chief of the Divan. Than Lord PONSONBY, RESCHID PACHA had not a more strenuous supporter—a support which the late Reis Effendi well me rited by every part of his conduct, save and ex cept his implacable hostility to MEHEMET ALI. But now that he is disgraced, the very members of the Divan, who, oniy a few days before his downfall, proposed that whenever he enter 7 ed the Council the members should rise and reverently kiss the hem of his garment, are the first to cast dirt upon him He is de nounced by the men whom he loaded with honours, as au equivocator in politics, an athe i;t in religion, and a foreigner in manners. The ulemas, or priests, are the deadliest enemies of the ex-Minister. They now accuse him of the horrid impiety of having trifled with the ana thema or curse pronounced by them against MEHEMET ALI and his family—of having de nounced the doctrines of the Koran on the sub ject of marriages—of having promoted unbe lievers to posts in the army and navy—of employ ing foreign engineers to fortify the castles of the Dardanelles and the works on the Bospho rus, which, by the help of ALLAH, could be better done by true believers—and of having by the establishment of quarantines vio lated the precepts of the Koran respect ing predestination. It will he seen from this that the Bishop of EXETER, Dr. WHALE, and the SHEIK-AL-ISLAM, are equal adepts at fixing upon the chiefs of Cabinets charges of atheism and impiety. Such charges form the bow and the spear of the ecclesiastical armoury in all countries. Two important operations are about to take place in every part of France, and the Prefects have received the most pre cise instructions to attend to them :-Ist. The Minister of Finance has ordered a general account to be taken of build ings, doors, and windows, as well as of the number of per sons paying rent and personal taxes. 2d. The Minister of the Interior, as has been already mentioned by us, has ordered the general periodical census to be taken of the population of the whole kingdom. Monday, at two o'clock, the King, attended by the Inten dant-General of the Civil List, Generals de Rumigny and d'Houdetot, and Messrs. de Cailleux and Fontaine, left Paris for Fontainebleau. His Majesty stopped at Alfort to inspect the fort of Charenton, the excavations for the foundations of which are already well advanced. The King was received by Generals Dode de la Brunerie and Vaillant. After surveying the whole, and laying the first stone of the facing of the scarp, his Majesty reentered his carriage, and continued his journey. The people of the neighbourhood, the workmen, and the soldiers of the engineers, repeatedly hailed the King with their acclamations. His Majesty ordered that I,ooof. should be distribltted among the workmen. Surctnx..—As a workman was crossing the Pont de la Con corde two mornings since, about five o'clock, he found on the parapet a letter or note, on which was placed a key, to keep it from being blown away, addressed to Mme. Ferriere, the wife of a retired notary, with a direction to her to pay sf. to the person whir might bring it to her with the key. He went to the address indicated, but the porter desired him to say where he lived,- and the family would send for it. When Mme. Ferriere was dressed, the letter was sent for, and delivered. It was from M. Ferriere, announcing that he could not continue bear the miseries of his life, and that when she received the letter, he would be no longer in existence. M. Ferriere, though still young, had long been suffering from a painful complaint, which had compelled him to give up his profes-ion. No doubt of his having made away with himself is entertained. He was in easy pecuniary circumstances, and much esteemed. —Galignani. The Government has two official and avowed organs—the Messager and the Moniteur Universe!. How comes it that the last telegraphic despatches from Toulon, took the wrong way, and that it wa from the Moniteur Parisien that we learn on the 16th the arrival of t e Crocodile on the 14th at Tou loo, with the first news of the expedition to Medeah, and that to-day it ii the Journal des Debats which informs us from another despatch that the expedition returned to Algiers on the 10th, after having had on its way back a serious engage ment with the Arabs. The Journal and letters brought by the Crocodile are no later than the 6th. When the steam. boat left the Moniteur A tgerien had not appeared, and nothing official had been published. There could therefore be no news of the expedition which set out on the 30th of March, except from private communications. of the first operations, favoured by extremely fine weather, were per fectly successful, and the main body of the expedition, which left lllidah on the 3d, must have arrived without obstacles at Medeah. No recent news have been received at Algiers an the 6th, from Oran or Constantine ; but it was known at Toulon that the division of Oran had just received reinforcements to the amount of 6,000 men. The regiments which were already in that province have received numerous detachments to com plete their full war establishments, and two fresh regiments have just been landed at Oran, so that the entire force of the division in that province is above 12,000 men. It seems certain that a strong column setting out from Oran, or Mostaganen, under the command of General Lamori ciere, or some say, of the Duke of Nemours, will ascend the valley of the Cheliff, and effect its junction with that of the province of 1 ittery, commanded by the Lieutenant-General in person beyond Medeah. Hospitals, are preparing at Medeah, Miliana, and Mostaganen, to receive the sick and wounded of the projected great expedition. Lieutenant-General Bu geaud does not disclose his plans to anybody, but nobody doubts that he intends to destroy Mascara, Tazza, and Tedekempt. The expedition, which will take place in May, wi' I be the mo ,t important that has yet been undertaken since our occu pation of the country. It will be a decisive blow in the west part of the Regency, which is Abd-el-Kader's central point of action ; he will be pursued to the edge of the desert, and it is not possible that he should attempt to penetrate into the pro vince of Constantine, where the French influence predominates. These are the hopes entertained at Toulon.—Le Commerce. BRUSSELS, APRIL 19.—The King and the Royal Family have gone to the Palace at Laeken for the summer. It is said that Baron Stassart is to succeed M. Northomb at Frankfort. The King transacted business yesterday with the Minister of the Interior, and afterwards gave audience to the Russian and British Ambassadors, Baron Amen and Sir G. Seymour. The King and Queen will set out for Paris on Thursday next. 'Fhe young Princes will remain at Laeken. The Prince de Joinville set out yesterday morning by the railway for Ostend, where he intended to embark for Cher bourg. Among the many foreigners of distinction in this city are sir Donald Campbell and family, who have come from England to visit Belgium. THE HAGUE, APRIL 20.—1 n the sitting of the Second Chamber of the States General to-day the following letter was read from the Minister of the Interior to the President of the Chamber : " The Hague, April 19, 1841. " Conformably to the declarations made by me in the sitting of the 23d of December, last year, negotiations have been opered, by the King's directions, with the Netherlands Com mercial Company (the Handel,maatschappy), for the purpose of making some alteration in the contract entered into with that body by the Cobtnial Department, in 1840, and then to ob.ain an increase of the disposable means in 1842 and the fol lowing years : " 1 have now to inform you, Sir, with the request that you will acquaint the Second Chamber that these negotiations have led to a satisfactory result, and the particulars of which will be found in the copies of the additional stipulation of the 25th and 31st of March last, which I have the honour to transmit to you. " The Minister of Marine and Colonies. J. BAND." BOURSE.—PARIS, TUESDAY, APRIL 20. firs'. Highest Lowest last Price Price. Prick Price r , e .4.:11:: ver Cents 4 per Cents l;9 25 .. 99 25 ... 119 25 ... 99 25 3 per rents 79 20 . 76 30 ... 79 1U ... 79 30 ~iii.. 01 France I,:ttitte ?,aiik %%11. Stares 51611 ...516: .4157 50 ...5157 50 1,000/. Si area PM .. le4 o ..1180 ..101. , 0 i,iwan /Sank 5 her (7f.iit, ... ION ~. 101% ... 1111 .. jui% 3I er Cents 7l ::5 .. 71 25 ... 71 05 ... 71 25 New Loan..., ..... , •ti AcLiv. . t , 4 1 ,4 ... 2 , 4 i, ... 454 ... '2 i'orulgitese 3 per Cents 2 ,1 .. 20 ... 2 , 0 ... 20 ~,, , 'h 103 95 ... 11'3 93 ... 0 3 95 ... 03 95 Roman l(4 ... 104 . ... 104 ... 101 i'fAILWAY SHARES. 5t ~e rinato, Versalllcs,R, 13 1,82 50 ... 382 st) ... 375 ~. 375 1,.8. '‘ss ... 255 .. 245 .. 159 'touen ,05 ... 453 ... 455 ... 45i Mulhausen to Thann ..... "itr.is.wrg :.... bale 237 50 ... 238 75 ... 237 50 . 2. - .8 75 urleaus .. 485 ... 485 .. ;85 ... 483 . .-_ __. ...... .. ~.. ... DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTEEDAid, APRIL 20 51mlec :.i , s. ictual D;:lit, ‘2%, per Cent 3itto, ditto 5 per cent. A. mwi tS% mile, -IY,i per cent 90% 91 Ditto, ditto, 334 percent 73 .s, "i 33 Commercial Company, 4 , q percent 1(5% 1:0 Ditto (1623 and 1837) 5 per cent. Loan 1037, 5 Ler cent..... 95 93 Exchange on London, One month l2 05 Two months Dutch Papers, April 21. HAMBURG 13(3.11.ENHALLE, A p oi 17. Bills. Money Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares 163 A ii,,10-11.ussian Loan lO 34 ,0,4 Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate Inscription, Ist Selies 101".',, Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th Series 9' 964 Ditto in Certificates New 4 per Cent. (1840) 8744 1 - 7 1 % Dutch actual Debt, 934 per Cent 50% 50% Ditto 5 p ... er CenL ._ Polich Bends New ticket Anglo.l)anish Loan, 3 per Cent 7534 7534 N -. wegian Loan, 1831, 4 per Ceo:... — Sp.:nish, New 5 per Cents. 1( PRUSSIAN FUN US.— lineup., APRIL a Biits. Mon e y St. Schuld. Sch., 4 i , per cent. 10:37 ;6 103% Prussian English Loan, 1830, 4 per cent 101 10:14 Exchange on London, three months 0 19% —Prussian State Gazette, April 18. SABBATLI FLOGGING.—The difference between real religion and state religion seems well illus trated by the dill: rent effects of the preaching of a geiiuine. clergyman .and a regimental chaplai,.. Of tile 'fori.ier 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 cruelty. THE WORSHIP OF MoLocll.—A Correspondent asks whether the religion of the Riding-school be that of Christ or Moloch, and he 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. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, THURSDAY EVENING. The public securities were rather heavy during the greater part of the day. Consols for immediate transfer realised 901 to 901. and for the Account 901 to 901, being rather lower for the former only. Exchequer Bills were up at one period of the day to 16s premium, subsequently rece ded to 14s. premium, and closed at that quotation ; East India Bonds were worth 3s. to Is. premium • Back Sta.ek improved to 173 i. The Three and-a-Half per Cent. St , cks were generally rather heavy, and the turn lower. The New brought 991 to 99k. and the Reduced 98 to 98k. The Three per Cent. Annuities were at 891 to 891, and Long Annuities at 12 13-16 t 121. The Active Spanish Bonds have to-day been qut.ted 231 to 1, which is a shade better ; Portuguese New Five per Cents. have been dull at 34 to 33i, and the Three per Cents. at 201 ; Mexican Stock remained at 301, and Colombian 22k; Peruvian were at 171; Dutch Two-sod a- Half per Cents. were firm at 521 to ; and Neapolitan Bonds were marked 102 to 1021. ' The market for the Railway Shares roamed its elasticity to a certain extent to-day. The business done in the Great Western Railway Shares has Leen . at 30 to 291. in the New at 141 to 144; the London and Birmingham 70 ; the York and North Midland 35 ; the South Western 191 ; and the Croydon 1 preen ; the Brighton Shares have been at 2i to 2 ; the Greenwich at 11 ; Midland Counties at 101 ; North Mid land at 17 ; and the South Eastern at 14 dis. ; Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock were at 41 premium ; and the North Midland New at f prem. Colonial B a n Shares were at 101 to 11, and the Union Bank of Australia 91 prem. (From The Sun of Last Night.) LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, APRIL 21.—The market to-day has been again very languid ; the sales comprise scarcely 2,000 bales to the trade; for lower descriptions of American a decline of id. of per lb. has !taken [place, but in other kinds the rates remain at Friday's quotations. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, APRIL 21.—During the last few days we have noticed a tendency to advance the rates in many descriptions of Railway Stock, attributable, it is said, to the absence of any immediate means for safer investment of capital. The transactions this day are, Eastern Counties, 9i, deb. 7/ ; Edinburgh and Glasgow 37 ; Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock, 264 ; Grand Junction, 211; London and Brighton United Company, 474 ; London and South Western, 58i ; ditto 51. Shares, 21. No news of the President. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 21.—Prices con tinue firm, and there is a fair demand for most kinds of Rail way Stock :—Hull and Selby, 45 ; Manchester and Leeds, 651; ' North Midland, 81 • London and Brighton, 48 ; South Eastern and Dover, 19i; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 36k; Manchester and Salford Water Works, 53i. We have received Barbadoes papers to the 11th March. We have received our exchange paners from Jamaica and St. Kitts,' Dominica and St. Lucia, but we get no news of importance from any of them. The Jamaica papers mention an attempt to burn the town of Lucia, which was fortunately discovered. In the legislative proceedings of the St. Christopher House of Assembly, we read that a despatch from the Colonial Secretary of State to his Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor, announ ing the intelligence that the Act some time ago passed by the Legislature for enforcing the stipends of the clergy, was spe cially confirmed, and finally enacted by her Majesty. We have received the Journal of Antwerp of yesterday's date. Bouiste OF AMSTERDAM, Aram I9.—The tendency of the nationa!funds continues favourable; the wise measures takenby the Minister of Finance have had a good effect, and confidence is daily gaining ground. The Actions of the Society of Commerce did not maintain their prices. The favourable aspect of the national funds had an effect on the foreign securit.es, aided by the rise at Paris and Antwerp. Ardoin's Spanish has also improved, Two and a half per Cents. 511 ; Five per Cents. 10A; Ardoin's 20 1-16. The British Funds continue firm, pith an improvement on the leaving-off prices of yesterday, which were 9O for the Account, at present may be quoted 90a ; Money 9oi i; Ex chequer Hills, 13 15 prem..; Bank ~t ock, 172 173; India Stock 255, 256. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active left off at 234 ; at present 233 ; Deferred, 12g I; Passive, 5g i; Portuguese 33 3 / ; Three per Cents., 201 ; Brazilian, 69 70 ; Co lombian, 224 23; Mexican, 301,x; Dutch Twe.and-a- Half per Cents., 52i ; Five per Cents , 991- 100. The Duteh mail has arrived of the 21st April, bringing the prices from Amsterdam of the 20th April. Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 52 1.16; Five per Cents., 100; Ardoin's, 20 1-16. . . , . . SHARES.—Grpt Western, 29i 30i, prem., New, 14i 15 prem. ; Lonslon and Brighton, 2 14 dis. ; Blaekwall, 5i 5 dis. ; Birininghatn, 68 70 prem. ; Southampton, 58 59 per share; Croydon, 13 3 4 14 per share; Greenwich, 8i i per share ; Manchester and Birmingham, 15 14 dis. t st 4 ', 74 5 "sl a • Vl,. 7 t ! ft , ' • -•• 7.pWA' 4Cla I.`‘' m lir 0 F.O 1 POSTED• AT LLOYD'S :- " A Swedish vessel arrived at Antwerp, left New York the 20th March, reports that a captain of an American brig ar rived at New York on the 19th March, had seen on the banks of Newfoundland a large steamer, apparently sinking." The above report is not credited. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Great Western London and Brighton London and Birmingham London and South Western 3B& 59 ... .. to 58i Ditto Tenths .. ... . London and Croydon (Trunk)... 134. 14 Midland Counties North Midland South Eastern and Dover lork and North Midland... 5O - JOINT STOCK BANKS. Colonial Union of Australia. We may expect daily her Majesty's steam ship Dee. which is supposed to have sailed from Jamaica March 14, touching at Antigua and Bermuda, on her homeward-bound route. It is understood that the above islands are the only places that the President steam ship could make, in the event of her running to the south. The next Jamaica mail cannot bring any intel ligence of the President, as it comes direct for England. The British Funds are not quite so good as in the early part of the morning, owing to some money stock being brought to market, but not to any great extent. It is supposed that the high price of Consols has tempted persons to realise. Money is rather lighter in the house, from a to 3 per cent. Consols may be quoted at present 906 for the Account ; Money lower, 901, have been 90i ; Exchequer Bills, 15 16- 14 prem lower ; Bank Stock, 172 1 ,4 174 rather better ; India Stock, nothing done ; India Bonds, 3 1 prem. In the Foreign Market very little doing. Spanish Active a shade loin er, 232 ; Portuguese, 34 ; Three per Cents., 202; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 524 Shares—Great Western, 9b , London and Brighton 48 4% 48; Croydon, 14; Midland Counties, 892; North Midland, 84. Consols, Account, 902 a ; Colombian 224 23 ; Dutch Two and-a Half p”r Cents. 52* ; Mexican 302 ; Portuguese 334 34; Spanish, 234 2.Very little doing. _ CCOSINGf PRICES: BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock 1731 ;India Stock 3 per Cent Red B9,- Ditto Bonds 1 pal 3 per Cent Cons 904 Ditto Old Annuities ... Bii 31 per Cent Red 93 Ditto New Annuities... 884 New 3 per Cent 995 Ex. Bills, 1,000/....21d 14 pm New 5 per Cent Ditto 500/ l6 pm Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small l6 pm Jan. 1860 124 'Bank Stock for 0pg.... Oct 1859 124 India Stock for 0pg.... Jan. 1860. FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent.... Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent ;Ditto, New Ditto — Brazilian 80nd5.......... Prussian, 5 per cent — Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent 34 ;Russian, 5 per cent — Chilian, 6 per cent — Ditto, Metallic. Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent 234 Ditto, 1824 . Ditto, Deferred l2l Danish, 3 per cent — French, 5 per cent. —f. —c. Greek, 1815, 5 per cent — Exchange —f. —e. Mexican, 5 per cent.... 305 French, 3 per cent —f. —c. Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825. Dutch, 25 per cent. ... 524 Peruvian, 1825, 6 per et. 174 Ditto, 5 per cent 995 SHARES. Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid ...... ..... Ditto Debentures ( 4 paid) . . . 74 Great Western Railway (65 paid) . . 944 Ditto New Shares (90 paid) Ditto Fifth (4 paid) London and Brighton (50 paid) London and Birmingham Railway (90 pd) l6O L ndon and Greenwich Railway (20 pd) B5 Lon,lon and South Western ... ........... Ditto Tenths London and Croydon Railway ( Trunk) . ... 14 Midland Counties Railway ( lot) paid) .. ...... 895 North Midland Railway (100 paid) Ditto New Shares (40 paid) .. South East.Tn and Dover (33 paid)... 19 York and North Midland Railway (50 pd) 85 --- ICfr:published Sams, of Darlington, has just p (are advertisement), Part I , of a Descriptive Ca talo g ue of Scarce and Important Biblicai, and Other Works. c italog.ue, which we have tern, contains numerous valuable works, rarely to be met with—many of them col lected in various fore4n parts; and we notice that a copy (gratis) will be forwarded to any gentleman, or purchaser of books, that may s e nd a request or address to the propri 'tor. A new Associati o n, called the Political In stitute," which promises to aid political enlightenment, a n d to give union and force to public opinion, held its second sitting on Wednesday, at Holborn Bars, when it discussed the nevssity of diminishing the immense and increasing influence of the aristocracy. After a debate of three hours, conducted with considerable ability and animation, a resolution was carried to the effect—" That the aristo cracy had succeeded to the dangerous extent of power enjol ed by the Crown in 1780; that this power, notwitb standiag the Reform 1311, increased, and was increasing, and ought to be diminished." A petition, according with the spirit of this resolution, is to be sent, it is understood, to the Houseof Commune. WILLIAM THORNBORROW, ESQ. [We have m uc h p l easure i n pu b l i s hi ng t he eop. lowillg highly creditable testimonials to the Oh S: racter of a.gentleman of great practical ability I n a department where prompt decision is as nece 3 ' sary as commercial sagacity. Mr. ThornbqrroW has especial claims on the Proprietors ov_Sn b 7 scribers to the Forth - Marine Insurance ComPal l P and the handsome.manner in which the •Directo!!': of that establishment have expressed their grati tude is at once a proof of how highly they apP.re" elate the services of Mr. Thornb o rrow.—} , °' SUN.] " Reports having been circulated in the that the exertions of Mr. Thornborrow fbr ttte interests of parties with whom he has been o il 4 fleeted in, the Underwriting business have been td unsuccessful, he feels it due to himself to publ i a ' ' the following testimonials . :"-- • If COPY OF A LETTER FROM P. M. STEWAR" ESQ., M.P., TO MR. THORNBORROW. No. 11, Upper Brook-street, Aug. 12, 1 "_ • My dear Sir,—Now th a t our U n d erwr i t i ng ac eou!" closed, I must return you my most sincere thanks for yo' . , d faithful and successful att en ti on t o th e b us i ness ; an d allow mS to offer you and Mrs. Thornborrow a small token of my foe" 2.1 ship and esteem. You will gratify me very much by applying the inclosedm ll4 ' O l to the purchase of a piece of plate ; and I also enclose the to' 0 scription I should like to be put up on it. ;I Believe me to be, yours sincerely,_ To William Thornbo rrow , Esq. P. M. STEWAIL ' • o ' 4 EXTRACTS FROM THE FIRST REPORT BY THE DIRECT O O OF THE FORTH MARINE INSU R A NCE CO NDANY, ° LEITH, TO THE PROPRIETORS, 16TH JUNE, 15.740, n E 1 , THE END OF THE FIRST YEAR UNDER MR. THOlO 4l3 '" ROW'S MANAGEMENT. et* " The Directors have to express their gratification at to _.,d ing the Shareholders of this Compa n y f or th e fi rst time, nj trust that the R e p or t w hi c h t h ey h ave now to su b m it, 1 "" prove satisfactory to the meeting." " The Partn ers are aware th a t the Company was stair lished in May, 1839, w i t h t h e v i ew of affording to the Peu be a facility and security in effecting Marine Insurances , want of which had been long felt in this quarter, and of as a serious drawback in business." the The Directors h ave th e sa ti s f act i on to announce that merchants and ship owners of this port and neighbourl y "; have come forward freely with their Insurances, and have b s f met in the same lib era l spirit ; at the same exercising th at caution, which is p ar ti cu l ar l y requ i s i te at the commencen'e of such an Institution." " The 4,000 Shares into which the capital stock of the C°::: e pany was divided, and on which a call of 21. 10s. per Sh, o has been made, was allocated to parties whose connection been generally beneficial to the Company. 'the sum of 10,Qt p being the full am oun t o f th e ca ll, h as b een promptly pliklre A few of these Sh ares w hi c h remained unidisposed of, . ih some months since sold at such a premium as satisfatrdis , proved the public estimation of the principles on which ' 7 • Company was constituted and conducted." f t he " The Directo rs b e i ng f u ll y aware t h at t h e success Company must depend greatly on the character and expelwite of the party to whom the management might be entrust putecl two of their number to proceed to London, for theu s s pose of makin g suc h arrangements as wou!d secure the.sev" , o f of a properly qualified person for the important situathlija- Manager. Th e y w ere so f or t unate as to b e enabled °Also elude an engag emen t w ith M r. Willi am Th orn b oere w, es t Secretary of the Marine Insurance Company, one of thel cy extensive Institutions of th e em pi re ; an d o f w h ose quell fac tions for that office th e y rece i ve d th e mos t sat i s f ac t o ry 03 0 , !nation, which has been c o nfi rme d b y t h e i r subsequent eltbet rience. The same attention has been bestowed on the ve appointments in this establishment, and the Directors, to state that all th e d epartments are occupied byindivi" on whose attention a n d accuracy they can depend." ge.• " The field for Marine I nsurances i n t hi s quarter , beint ro nerally limited in it s e x t en t, an d cons i st i ng ehitily of Ner tj a by risks, the Di rectors reso l ve d to act on the power c onferre ou id the contract, by es t a bli s hi ng agenc i es at suc h ports as "' the y secure a more extensive and diversified share of business; a. „d s agent s accordingly app o i n t e d at - ; and latterly, a b r has been formed in London, under the superintendence last comendation who ac t as agents , an d w h o were appointed on the last comendation of Mr. Thornborrow ; the operations of th e ll named agency commenced on the Ist of January, and (rove , jo of them a large amount of business has been procuredL oro .. the formation of th ese agenc i es t h e exert i ons o f Mr. T'i vin g borrow were most v a l ua bl e an d unrem i tt i ng, t h e w h o le It' been arranged under his immediate superintendence." . s ist ‘‘The books of the Company have b een b a l an ced to io , May, in terms of the c on t rac t o f co - partners hi p , an d cons to ing that the agencies have only been in operation from nine months, the Directors have to express their entire s lo , faction with the amount of business done, and of Pre"' „ire realised, which greatly ex cee d th e i r ant i c i pa ti o n s . Titfli s i, miums on Insurances effected from May, 1839, to S l F' 1840, amount to 62,814/. ls. 7d." (Signed) " GEORGE THORBURN, Chairman . . e The Edinburgh Press gave the following Account .0f the 0 First Meeting of the Forth Marine Insurance ConapatTr: follows : The first Annual Meeting of the Forth Marine Company took place on Tuesday forenoon in the Exch b Hotel, and was very numerously attended, George Thor..ai„d Esq., in the Chair. The Report was read, which exhib d ' the a f fairs of the Company in a very favourable light, , f a b a considerable amount of profit has been added to the cap o ',. which, after the payment of all losses, and the reserve . sufficient fund to re-insure all outstanding risks, would . _7 1 ,. fully warranted the Directors to hare declared a very lion some dividend ; but for a clause in the deed of co-prTh y _W. forbidding a dividend being given till after the firs The meeting unanimously approved of the Repo f rt, and l Votes highly gratified with the proceedings o Votes of thanks were carried with a cclamation to the Di eu p tors for 'their valuable assistance. To William Thornborroi! Esq , for his talented and efficient tnanugement, and to B. F. Gray, Esq., for his ind,fatigable exertions as Secretary. An important question was put to the Chairman by an r : lr, Insuram:re fluential partner, viz., I n the event of our considering;'; expedient at once to dissolve this Company, what would. 4° " position be ? I hope lam not p u t t i ng an irregular questioi,i Upon which the Chairman immediately rose atd sai4 assure our worthy c , -partner that he has placed me culty. Should we dissolve and wind up this day, we 01 07,„Js; insure all our outstandi n g r isks f or t wen ty thousand .10 1- 01 '0 45 and we should then hav e u p war d s o f eigAt thousand P to divide among our part n e rs , w h o h ave on ly been called °,,p:ee, for a deposit of ten thousand po u nd s , n ot o n e shilling 0 .1 ; t ell has been required for the business—the premiums re ° 7 " 01 from the commencement being far more than sufficient to all demands." a fter Such was 'the eclat of the meeting that a few hour s shares were solicited per cent. premium ! j i c.r In the evening the partners entertained the Direetoisft.s4,,.. viz. :—George Thornburn, Esq., Alexander Jameson, t: o ps Thos. Young, Esq., John Smith, Esq., Charles Lawson , 'V i t. , Alexander Schultze, Esq., Alexander Anderson. E , c1.' 0 ,4, Liam Muir, Esq., the 1. anager, William Thornborrr os, and the Secretary, B. F. Gray, Esq., to dinner in 1% 14) 170 0 ' Hotel ; Provost Reoch in the Chair, supp or t e d by Bailie ;01. , F. Schultze, Esq , John Gillon, Esq., George Berry' John Murdoch, Esq., Provost Fer r ie r , o f Kirks 14: 1 1, , , a ge Thomas Hay, Esq., officiated as cr oupi e r, su pp or ted by Thomson, Esq.. William Doull, Esq., &c. . The Provost, in propOsing the Ivalth of her graci°t,cof jesty the Queen, said, that if, at all times this was the r A itube toast of our festive assembles, how much more so w's l :,, drunk on thepresent occasion, w h en t h e vo i ce o f the ne"" 7- f r rtel expressing congratulations upon her providential escape the hands of an assassin !—( Great applause.) of W The other toasts were—" The P rovost an d Magi O Lei h ;" the " Chairman and Directors of th e Conr"„ l' W " William Thornbo rr ow, E sq ., an d a cup o f th an ks for 5.1 5 10 , cellent management ;" " George Berry, Esq., and the ; tie ordinary Directors;" "B. F. Gray, Esq., SecreterY Company," &c. 14 . ) The Company separated highly delighted with , proceedings of the day. ' , Leith, 16th June, 1840. CHURCH-RATES. a tk ' e The following has been printed as a hand-bill , e el( heading given to it by the clergyman under whose• w r „ r ei the sale takes 'lace has excited some attention. The c e 'ji gentleman who boasts how much better the established c are treated than the Apostles, would seem to conail t y , treatment to add greatly to the comparative reaps cte b the former : " ter' ' The Apostles very wisely a n d ver y piousl. V red I , i s; themselves with appealing only to the gratitude of belie h Nq for they had no property t o w hi c h th ey cou ld prefer a fee right. But we (the established c l erg y) have been bet ter tbi than the Apostles:—The Refutation of Non-confornalq'ae, the Rev. E. C. Kemp, Ch a pl a i n t o th e D u k e of Caolb il page 343. n a 1 . 1 " To be sold by auction, by Willi am Abb o tt, at the - - , e dor', Inn, Great Staught on High wa y, a t f our o ' c lock in the t noon, on Friday, April 23, 1841, by virtue of a rar, I. co. seizure for Church-rates, the following property : --- L e1 c 4 . 1 . 11 0 pig; Mr. Thos.Mott's, for 2/. 2s. I Id. Church-rat e, S l o t 6d. costs, exclusive of the costs of seizure and sale . , d die'? Twelve bushels of beans; Mr. Baron Hills, for 11. 7 s• igo and 15s. 3d. ditto. Lot 3. Bridle and saddle; S. for 9s. 4d. ditto, and 15s. 3d. ditto.—Lot 4. she' , 1 0, T en bu beans ; Mr. George Maddy's, for 17s. 61-d. ditto, and lbs• ditto.—Lot 5. Fifteen bushels of oats ; Mr. John Driver'. 14s. 7d. ditto, and 15s. 3d. ditto. —Lot 6. Cheese-pre° 04:1 , three bushels of tares ; Mr. William Parish's, for .1 89 ...,„0 ditto, and 15s. 3d. ditto.—Lot 7. Blower for dressing - - 7:0 Parker's , Mr. William Bull's, for Bs. 9d. ditto, and 15s. 3d. ditto. ; r lots may be seen on application to 3 :r. Joseph Day, tbe; stable, at Great Staughton, Highway.", t ' ' 0 MA RR IAGE IN HIGH LIFE. — 1 1 ; 1 At the -- 0 11 of the Grand Duke of Oldenburg, on Thursday, theliil , of April, by the Rev. Dr. BAtel, Chaplain , General . g, r liam Frederick. Christia n Aldcnbur g Bentinck, 0 .1' i - .: p• ; Count of the Holy Ro man Em p ire, ri g htf ul Lord-of os. hatp:en, Varel, &c. , L ord of the Be dchamber to 11 11 :';.) le jesty the King of the Netherlands, and eldest son of i, late Major-G ene ral Count John Charles and LatlyMr of, ma Bentinck , to Comtesse Paulin e Albertinc, DO' ' 0 Honour to her Royal Highness the Grand Duehlt g ! i i b. Oldenburg, and second daughter of Count Mentii se, The cere Count of the Holy Roman Empiie, and Steward 0 ) - oi b h u o r ld g. to his Royal performed la the P 0 0 Grand Duke and Duch rooms , in the presence of their Royal Hiffhnesset i , !, Frederica, and the assembled Cou rt ',l l 4 ja the 0 1 4 1 du Princessesne bride was given away by his Royal Hihness the I l ig ti' Henry Betitinck, Mrs. He, B Duke. There were also present Count and Connteik 0.,,t1 nich, Barons Billow and Ro 'Colonels nieso:Hytihgwehansleisesr .he e tar G y rGanradnd°l7;gi; to: t REVIEW OF TILE 60:li ng iry entinc., t o lone, ,rod Laiy Elizabeth cli., Reede Ginkle. • / al bV S. . 4 WINDSOR, WED N ESDAY. —His Royal HighttesL u 011 e f Albert having expressed a desire to see the uun o 1 .1 ~ go through their usual drill movements before ed •l i for town, orders to that effect being e onvel oc f! . 0 7, the commanding officer yesterday evening, they Mere .we • if '" ROYAL u b _E,. Chartrro errs:. :1 j, ~ into the Home Park. The regiment being "'" 4 .bort ie in a li n e to receive the Prince, his Royal Ilighn e r - n:01 01 ; afterwards came on the ground attended by Colonel. ;Too; and Colonel Wemyss, anti was received with the uV ir d i e d bYle After marching past in slow and quick time, Jont ron ed, , li s fine band, the regiment, on arriving on its erigi ni " f three• till , ployed into line and advanced, a.nd afterwards ITF. o d 5 ~ great variety of manoeuvres with_ their us, cal raro' „ 4 - r ) fre/e 1) :r His Royal Highness afterwards, expresser`[ to Pier - • like -li the officer in command, his r,pprobatiorif of thP, o idi vi er it - h irli i ii c, pearance of the men, and t'iie adrnirabfie preettion__o in d .0i the various evolutions were 'performed.. The Cillei rom be . e 3 ladies and gentlemen of the Court wen pr evented, oit oesi ii , present by the coldness, - af the (lay, brit her Males s i ,f rim tiots, r the whole of the evolutions from 'one of the . 0, 410.,,' ill Victoria Tower. We have much. Oe,asure in 1 0. 1 : Z i piforlY portunity of alluding to the high r tsvect wthhiaschgst‘tee quiet and excellent eenduet of the r pgltnen inhabitants of this town, HER Asiii .rfand C ii7ets from 4 ehest er ; Esq. I‘ , itto fron loMur e ; s. White, li kr Y; A. B t..--1V17:1 :,_ 1114: 4..7 : 144 : 00(1 -44‘' Ili te ). 11 :et t 1, r " : a.: 17re r ( r nsi rn o. s , C c :; ka.d . n .d.bv p li ,a i : B a r f E.r t l‘t a r a ra n . a t° at e ll.l i ( i, 1 It ie fh; Mrs. I C Mrs. Sta 4 2et, from iZtAirs. Ba e ; Mr., Qton-on- t km Sus ses • and Mi 2 MORNING EDITION THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 23. 1841 MORNING EDITION._ MO]