The Sun. — London, England, 1841-04-03 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION DEDICATED BY COMMAND _TO HER MAJESTY This day is published, TAXWELL'S LIFE of his Grace the DUKE of WELLINGTON, K.G., &c., in three hand-ome volume - 5, elegantly bound, price, ilemy Bvo, 3/. 75., and royal Bvo, with proof impressions of the Plates, 51. " Maxwell's Life of Wellington ought to be found in the ibrary of every British officer."—Naval and Military Gazette. Maxwell's Life is by „ many degrees the best, both as re gards matter and manner. —Sun. " No living author if so eminently qualified to write the life of the illustrious warrior as Mr. MaxivelL"—Freemasons' Qr a- t erly. London : A. H. Baily and Co., Ccmhill; and may be had at all Circulating Libraries. Nov ready, in 2 vols. small Bvo , 21s. bound, H E 1300 K WITHOUT A NAME By SIR CHARLES and LADY MORGAN. A couple of most amusing volumes, full of piquant anec dotes, and replete with eloquence, taste, and humour."—Morn ing Post. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great .Marlborough-street. NEW NOVEL BY MRS. 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The NEXT DISTRIBUTION contains FIFTEEN HUN DRED DIVIDENDS, amounting to £137,592, £25,000 5.000 t!, 000 1,500 1,000 T ne Dividends being k.koo £2oo 600 150 500 - 120 300 110 250 100 £9O THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. ` , DER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRN, THIS EVENING. APRIL 3. NIII be repeated the New Comedy, in Five Acts, entitled LONDON ASSURANCE. ' Sir Harcourt Courtly, Bart., Mr. W. Farren ; Max Hark away, Mr. hartlpy ; Mr. Charles Courtly, Mr. Anderson ; Adolpl.us Silaniter, Mr. Keeley; Mr. Dazzle, Mr. C. - Mathews; , Alark Meddle, Mr. Harley; Grace liarkaway, :Madame Vestris; Lady Gay Spanker, Mrs. Nisbett ; Mrs. Pert. Hunba. After v.hich the :New Drama, in Three Acts, entitled THE EMBASSY. _ _ Duke de Nevcrs., Mr. Moore ; . Viscount Rene de Roban, Mr. Andmon ; Baroness du Pont, Miss Ellen Tree i Madame de itrislac, Madame Vestris. t:2 I e evz.ned at half-past Six—the performances tt. etk -- .7.r.mr,t. At o'Clock. Dress Boxes 7s. ; Second. Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Secenu ss. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d. ; Pit, 35.; Second Price `3a.; Gallery is. Ti.,kets and pilots for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan at the Box-of:lee, front Ten till Four, where Season Tickets m v ue had ol , on application. Private Boz, , to be bad so'elv of Mr. And: rocs, bookseller, 167. NeN Betr.-street. LOYAL SURREY TTIENTRE. Last Night of the Season, Last Night of " Poor Jack," and Last Night .of Mr. T. P. Cooke, who will perform Tyro Characters. THIS EVENING, APRIL 3, • b' n cted 71 Nautical Drama entitled THE RED ROYER ; OR, THE MUTINY OF TH?: DOLPHIN. Di ,k Fla (his, original character) by Mr. T. P. 'Cooke. After which, the Nautical Drama, in Four Parts, called POOR JACK.; OR THE WIFE OF A SAILOR. In % I, ich Mr- T. P. Cooke, and the entire strength of the Cominny, will perform. o conclude with THE . KINC" OF SPAIN AND HIS BARBER. The King, ilr. - Henry Hughes • Gil Perez (the Barber), Mr. • ' W. Smith. I? OYAL SURREY THEATRE. Op: - _.71 an Extr ;:ritlr Novel and Extraordinary attrac ti9n, upp ,rted by all the 'Fint-rate Talent in London. FOlt IF .E BENEFIT OF MR. R. LAWRENCE, TREASURER. ON AIONDAY, APRIL 5, Will be acted, TILE BEGGAR'S OPERA BURLESQUED. Poly , Mr. Paul Bedford ; Lucy, Mr. H. Hall ; Mrs. Pea ;hem, Mr. Wright;Alackheath, Miss Conley. „ - After which, THE MARRIED RAKE. Flighty, Mr. T. Parry. The Wo is caul Prrfo7ma.nees of Signor Felix Carlo, and the _ _ German Tub Runner. To conclude with PAUL CLIFFORD. Paul Clfforcl, Mr. Collins. IV Er. G. Stansbury will preside in the Orchestra. Mr , 3 WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. ‘l' r"'" 31 minutia after 0 I Evening '7 minutes after 0. The P ulilication of the Evening Edition of THE SUN corn. menced at 10 minutes after Three. ' l l# 4 1;* Tau/ ,i'S".."l m ' O W7i l O tt LONDON: SATURDAY, APRIL 3, 1841. The Peers did little more last evening than pa is the Drainage, Buildings Regulation, and Be rough Improvement Bills through a Com mi The Reports on these Bills, hoyvever, -e put off till the 2.3 d instant. S ome returns were ordered connected with the ada instration of the Poor-laws in Ireland, and then their Lordships adjourned till Monday. lii the Commons the Polloc and Govan ray Bill was recommitted after a division. Nr. BLACKSTONE moved that the minutes of evide.a ce before the St. Alban's Election Com mittee^ should be laid on the table, in order that the He so:se might know the ground of the decision. He the , ugl.t it was necessary to put down a sys tem of bribery, and when he saw the evidence he should ir now what further steps to take. Mr. T. BUNCOMBE agreed that it was neces sary aj: the House should watch the proceed ings o: Election Committees. It was of great impor a ace, too, that those Committees should preser ye the confidence of the country, which was not like I,y if the statements made by the public press Tv •ere to be p asse d b y . S ome o f those ob servar.c.ns reflecting severely on the St. Albatf:s Committee, the Honourable Mem ber qv oted at great length, as well as the report of what occurred before the Canterbury Electio n Committee. He stated that there was according to that evidence Prima facie proof of a compromise. It was transferring a scene of the Beggar;s 01:era to the house of Commons, and making a perfect farce of an Election Com mittee. He moved, therefore, that the minutes of the proceedings of the Canterbury Election Commiilee be also laid before the House. Mr. SANFORD, the Chairman of the St. Alban's Committee, seconded the motion, and _entered into ar explanation- and defence of the conduct of the: Committee. He said that the Committee received with astonishment the intimation that the proceedings were brought to a close. Mr. YILD - MAY, a Member of the Committee: also defended its proceedings. Mr..CLIvE, is Chairman of the Canterbury Cumin ittee, explained that the non-prosecution of the -petition in that case was entirely the work of th E t Counsel, who said they had agreed not to entail a great expense on their clients without comilg to any conclusion. Mr. Eun'or, another Member of the St. Al ban's - CoMmittee, deprecated disparaging allu sions .to thQ Committee, and defended the course it had pursued. It was after the Committee had decided a case in favour of the petitioners, that Couns el decided they would proceed no further. Lord Howicx stated that a great defect in the constitution of the Committee was the want of a pro f ess i o nal adviser, and till they had one the House `maid sanction bribery and corruption. Mr. JA:IIES, we know not why, talked about his not having bribed any body when he con tested Carlisle. Sir R. PEEL saw no reason whateve r t o bl ame the Committee, who could not act otherwise, and he would not vote for the production of the minutes. Mr. WAK LEY moved to have the minutes of the proceedings of the Walsall Election (;om mittee also laid before the House. Lord J. RUSSELL, believing that the production of the minutes was not intended to cast any re proach on the Committee, would not oppose the motion. In the end the proceedings of all the three Committees were ordered to be laid before the House. The Report on the County Courts' Bill was postponed till Monday. The House then again went into Committee on the Poor-law Amendment Bill, and were occu pied with that during the remainder of the even ing. The Committee reached as far as the 30th clause, and the House resumed. Mr. LABOUCHERE obtained the appointment of a Committee to inquire into the laws affecting joint stock partnership. The House adjourned at a Quarter to One o'Clock. We were yesterday expressing our surprise, to a London tradesman, that shopkeepers did not take an active part in procuring a repeal of the Corn-law; and we attributed their negli gence to indifference or apathy. " They are not indifferent," was the reply ; " they are well aware of the evils of the Corn-law, but they are afraid of losing their customers. They do not know, by engaging in the repeal of the Corn-laws, that they may not affront some of those who deal with them, and rather than run that risk they stay at home and acquiesce in what they think wrong." We believe that is a tolerably correct and la mentable description of London tradesmen. We instantly thought of Mr. CURTIS'S balance sheet, and we concluded that the men who are generally afraid of losing a customer must be, however fair their outside, approximating to his uneasy and insolvent condition. Our acquaintance, in these few words, described a sad state of mental degradation and slavery ! A tradesman dare not bestir himself on a great political question, lest he offend a customer. Has the landlords' and priests' tyranny percolated through all classes, and must no man act on his own opinions unless he have first obtained their sanction? The Chartists are above this mean -Less. If their opinions be erroneous, they have the courage to express them. With all their tur :nilence and errors, they are honest and manly. They leave their bread-winning occupations, fear , less of consequences, to give effect to their views. They are noblemen, in our estimation, com pared to the timid, apprehensive beings who will not exert themselves to put down what they acknowledge to be a grievous wrong. The Corn-law involves, as several clergymen Ind Dissenting ministers have proved, the prin ciples of religion. For oppressors to tax the bread of the poor, is denounced by Scripture. To lay a burden on one class fbr the benefit of mother, strikes at the root of allegiance, by naking the law an instrument of oppression. It deals. unequally with the people, throwing the heaviest burdens on the weakest shoulders. rhough the law is the operating power, which is supposed by some persons to create right and wrong, it, in fact, commits a grievous theft. It ;teals from the poor. The law is accordingly lenounced as a robbery. The continuance or Abolition of the law concerns, then, the principles if morality as well as religion. The inhabitants if the metropolis cannot answer to their GOD, their country, and their offspring, for allowing he Corn-law to continue. We doubt whether they are fully alive to its effects on their own welfare. They are afraid e gentry would hal-e less to spend if _ _ . . . the law were abolished. This is an idle fear. What the gentry spend is not the gold .vhich changes hands a score of times in t few days—nor bank-notes which, made at ?leasure, are only worth anything as the representative of value—but the produce of land Ind capital. Now there would not be a grain of .vheat less grown, or an ox the less fattened, because the Corn-law was repealed, while there would be a great increase in the production of other wealth. The gentry then, if we include ander this term all the owners of capital, would 'lave more to spend, because more would be pro luccd. But if it were not so, the gentry are in a man- ler bound to maintain a certain state. In many rases their expenditure is determined by their rank, almost as much as by their income, and they would struggle to keep up the show and splen lour to which they have been accustomed. Moreover, the expense of living would approxi mate in England to the expense of living on the Continent, and the shabby-genteels, who are now lriven abroad, would return home for the sake of ,3conomy. That less would be spent, therefore, wen by the landed gentry, because the Corn law was repealed, seems an idle fear. Sooner than part with their splendour, the gentry would ,nortgage their estates, and though they might Beggar their descendants, they are not likely, by Frugality, to impoverish their tradesmen. But if there be nothing to be feared from the repeal of the Corn-law in the the agricultural, is there nothing to be hoped from it throughout the nanufacturing districts? New works would every where be undertaken, new hands would be em ployed, and new enterprises begun. There would be a great and an increasing demand for engineers, architects, millwrights, founders, spin ners, turners, cutlers, and all the thousand artizans who are engaged in manufactures. Their increasing number would extend the de mand for shipwrights, seamen, captains of ships, book-keepers, clerks, &c. &c. Not only would there be a great demand for the production of traders and professional men of the metropolis, but there would be a vast many openings in bu siness which their children might fill, and they would be able, much better than now, to provide for their sons, and to bestow their daughters in marriage. At present, notwithstanding the prodigious advantages we possess in our noble untenanted colonies, every family is hampered, every class is uneasy and constrained. From the humblest labourer to the highest profession, all ranks feel a painful difficulty to provide suitably for their children. If that difficulty were not, as we be lieve, wholly done away by the abolition of the Corn-law, it would undoubtedly be much lessen ed. Englishmen, for their skill,would be in greater demand than at present in all quarters of the world ; and it is impossible to conceive or de scribe the vast accession which would accrue to the national happiness and the national morality, by lessening the difficulty of providing for offspring. Of that great improvement the com paratively well-educated and skilful inhabitants of the metropolis would have a full share. Their interest, therefore, as well as their duty, commands them to exert themselves to procure the repeal of the Corn-law. It is said that tradesmen should not engage in politics ; but why then give them a vote, and make them responsible for its exercise, and for the conduct of their representatives? Such an excuse is idle, for the preservation of our freedom depends on the watchfulness and exertions of the Pe9Ple• c power, Government is naturally _an en and can only be kept in ch ec k by roaching the popular will. Our Government has never, till the present Ministers came into office, conceded anything till it was compelled. To say, then, that tradesmen are not to attend to politics, is to say that the liberties of the people are at once to be surrended as a prize to 'the Whigs and the Tories. That it is irksome to leave their homes, or neglect their business, and perform the duty of the Legislature, we can rea dily believe, but such is the condition of hu manity. The wisest and best rulers are not to be trusted, unless they be made continually to feel their responsibility to the people by the ac tive interference of the latter. The people must either have no rulers, they must become slaves, o th r e t i i r le r y ul m ei ust s n watchfully a n e a x e sometimes t hem se l ve e s x t p o r ke expressly dictate their conduct. Those who preach the emasculating doctrine that tradesmen have no business with politics, forget . that it is by'the power of the people laws are made an sustained. They neither make, nor execute themselves. The law is only the expression of the public will enforced by the public arm. For the existence of the laws, whether they be good or evil, the people are responsible; and as long as the citizens of London, or any other place, are passive under the continuance of the Corn-law, they are as much guilty of starvinc , their poorer fellow creatures as the Members of either House of Parliament. In the case of an unjust law, it is strictly true of all the inhabitants of the empire—" he who allows oppression, shares the crime." The Corn-law is as much carried into execution by the hatters and shoe makers of the strand, as by the Dukes of Bucx- INGHAM and ItictimoN o, and they are as much to blame, unless they exert them elves to pro cure its repeal, as those Noblemen. ---c Mr. NEWMAN has addressed a letter to the - isih o p of OxFoRD which appears in another part of The Sun. It is worthy of the creed he teaches. He carries out his own principles of blind obedience to his superiors in the Church, and crouches before a Bishop with extreme ser vility. He can have no genuine convictions, or he could not so resign them at a Bishop's orders. But he does not even wait fur an order; " an ex iression of his Lordship's wish would be suffi cient to make him at once obey." "A Bishop's lightest word, ex cathedra, is heavy. His judg ment on a book cannot be light." Mr. NEW MAN, therefore, who has impugned the Articles of the Church, the Liturgy, and the Homilies, falls submissive at the feet of a living Bishop. He seems to have made all this uproar in the Church for fun. He does not care about abso lution and confession; he does not think the Church of Rome the only one which is entrusted with the keys; he has asserted these doctrines out of vanity, or from a love of mischief, not from conviction. The letter may, however, be a piece of hypocrisy, as the Standard, which is no doubt an excellentjudge, from intimate acquaint ance, of the character of our priests, insinuates in the following passage:— .17r. Newman has a.:ldressed a letter to the Bishop. of Oxford, promising that the " Tracts for the Times" shall be discon tinued. So tar so well ; and if the letter had not been-praised we should stop here ; hut, as we ferl that Mr. Newman and his followers have obtained undue reputation for talent and learning by the help of flatterers, and under shelter of the charity, or neglect, of those who judge impartially, we must say that we think the letter a most contemptible production. We know to what we expose ourselves by avowing this opi nion ; but we must speak the truth when we think the truth useful or n-cessary. The letter is ungritm m.tical in structure, creeping and affected in style, and in tone it is characterised with that mixture of fawning and low sneering, which is the very reverse of manliness. Air. New man's purpose rretty plainly is, while l e affects the utmost reverence and submission, to charge upon his diocesan a gross inconsistency in first encouraging the Tracts, and then con demning them—a charge which we have every reason to be lieve to be unfounded. Mr. Neuman says nothing of the Bishop of Oxford's and the Vice-Chancellor's admonition some time ago. No, he is much too meek to be candid. The Puseyites will be much lowered in public estimation by so readily yielding their convic tions to authority. One thing, at least, is quite certain, that servile priests, who submit with all the docility of well-trained Jesuits to the orders of their superiors, are totally unfit to be the in structors of a free people. The preliminary meeting of the Deputies of the Anti-Corn-law League to prepare for holding a Great General Meeting in London is to take place on the 15th instant. We have of late heard so little on this subject, that we were almost afraid the League - had given it up, and we'are gratified with the re-assurance this piece of in telligence has afforded us. W e will in the mean time do what we can to prepare the Londoners to give them a hearty and even an enthusiastic reception. The cause of abolishing the Bread-tax ought to unite in its favour all but the landlords and their vassals. To prepare for this meeting, let the Corn-law repealers of the metropolis at once extend their local Anti-Corn-law . Associations; let them get up numerous petitions for the repeal of the Bread-tax, and appoint from each local Associa tion a deputy to attend the great meeting, and so swell its numbers that it shall be hailed as the representation of millions of the people. The Paris journals of Thursday have al. reached us. With the exception of the Quo. tidienne, a Royalist, and the Commerce, a Ra dical paper, the Journals are all in extacies about the success of the Fortifications' Bill. They 'are filled with a transport of joy at the prospect of having freedom of discussion—the liberty of the Press—and the countless Republican institutions THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) The supply being but moderate, the best Beef sold readily at 2d. per stone advance. Veal sold well at former rates. Small Pork sold well at ss. 2d., but large and coarse quali ties were a heavy sale at rather lower prices. Beef, 3s. d. to 4s. Bd. ; Mutton, 3s. 10d. to ' ss. 2d. ; Veal, 4'. Bd. to ss. Bd. ; and l'ork, 3a. 10d. to ss. 2d. Game and Poultry in good supply ; trade was rather lively, and prices much about the same as last quoted. Eggs in large supply at 41. 6d. to 6s. par 120 for English. lIITECH APEL MARKET. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. The supply was short, and the meat sold very dear, and the demand far exceeded the supply. Beef, 2s. Bd. to 4s. 4d ; Mutton, 2s. Bd. to 4s. 10d. ; Veal, as. 41 to ss. 6d. ; Pork, 4s. to ss. 2d.: Lamb, ss. Bd. to is. per stone. Clover, 41. lOs. to 61.: Meadow, 31. lOs. to 4/, 15s. ; Straw, 21. to 21. 2s. per load. which surround the French Monarchy—secured by two thousand pieces of cannon and a garrison of eighty thousand regular troops ! When that period arrives, there will be glorious times for the National and the Republican party who support it. Then may the Republicans laugh to scorn threats of foreign invasion. No Calmuc horde can then bivouac in the streets of Paris. Sheltered by two thousand pieces of cannon, the National may safely bid defiance to what has not, and, we trust never will have an existence — a coalition against France. But, before thz. , . walls are up, it would be just as well if the writers hi the National, and the bulk of its readers, were to make a journey to St. Petersburg, to take a few lessons in loyalty at the Court of the Czar. We are quite serious upon this head. They ought also betimes to educate their children in the principles of the Imperial Catechism, which re cognizes as next to the Deity, and second only to that Divine Being as an object of human wor ship, the sacred person of the CZAR. If the Re publicans neglect this, they will discover to their cost that the walls will be more formidable to them than to the enemies of France. If they want to dwell peaceably under shelter of the two thousand pieces of cannon they cannot too soon purge themselves of their old notions about equal rights, the sovereignty of the people, and such other odd fancies as produced the revolution of July. There must be no babbling about the violation of the charter—no hints thrown out about the undue influence of the Crown—no muttered complaints concerning the corruption of the Government, the servility of the Cham bers, or the inconvenience of-a libel law tanta mount to a Russian censorship. The Repub licans, to keep their heads upon their shoulders, must discover the KING, the Cabinet, the Court, the Chambers, and the Magistracy, to be re spectively models of perfection, to be studied and imitated by all Potentates, Governments, Parliaments, and Judicial functionaries in the world. Having made this discovery, and being prepared on all occasions to proclaim it in the ears of France, the National and its party might contrive to live in Paris without the risk of having the stability of their domi ciles tested by an occasional 24-pound shot from the nearest battery. The ordinary . Madrid mail brings papers to the 25th ult. Their interest, however, is taken away by the following telegraphic despatch, which appears in Thursday's Moniteur .4 MADRID, MARCH 28. " THE CHARGE DE AFFAIRES OF FRANCE TO THE MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS. " The Cortes constituted themselves to-day. M. Ar guelles was elected President, by a majority of 118 votes against 6." There is no other news of political interest in the .I,ournas of Thursday. We subjoin a few extracts from them : A letter from Brussels of 30th March says—" M.te Meule- . naere arrived here this morning, and is to go in the evening to wait on his Majesty, who wishes to consult him on the difficult situation in wich the Government is placed. If this statesman is willing to undertake the formation of a new Cabinet, the King will accept the resignation of his present Ministers. M. de Meulertaire is a Minister of State and Governor of Flanders. M. de Meulenaere was the head of the last Catholic Admi nistration. His return to office would be the signal of the triumph of the party of the priests in Belgium. The dissolution of the Chamber of Representatives, and new electors under the Influence of the clerical party, would be the consequence of M. de Meulenaere's accepting office.—Le Constitutionnel. We have said. that Baron Mortier had orders to return to his post immediately after the Fortification Law should be voted; his departure is said to be in consequence of communications made to our Government by the Court of Vienna,•which, anti cipating a dissension among the Deputies to the Helvetic Diet on the affairs of Argau, is supposed to have resolved to station a cordon of troops on the frontiers of Switzerland. We read in a private letter from Switzerland, that a very warm conversation had taken place between Baron Kendetrr. the Russian Minister, and the Avoyer Neuhaus, after which the Rmsian Minister despatched a courier to St. Petersburgh. ‘‘ What is the most extraordinary," says this letter, " is that the English Minister, who at the beginning appeared to take no concern in the matt&, has just joined his counsels to that of the other Powers, so that it should seem as if a new Treaty, like that of July 15, was going to be concluded against the nil offensive Swiss Confederation. "—Le Commerce. BO URSE,•-•PARISI, THURSDAY, APRIL 1. f irst Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Priv.. Price French 5 vet Cents ll2 03 ... 112 60 ... 112 25 ... 112 23 4 per Cents V9 ... 99 ... 99 ..- 99 3 per units 77 90 ... 78 ... 77 90 ... 7 8 RIO: of r ranee L".ltltte Plank 1.0001, sh 1055 ...1055 ...1055 ...10i5 f , ,neni. Stares 51.Z . 0 ...51:.0 ...5150 ...SIN() '.4elgian Barak 5 per Cent, lO -14 ... lo2g ..„ lov i i ... I.J? L', New Loan Spanish Acute ................. t.'4% ... i'4% ... zt. ... 2. ruin, . .................. 5\ ... s%•lfi Portuguese 3 per Cents...... 19% ... 19% ... 19% ... 1 0 i4 Neat...Allanlo3 ... 103 ... Yi3 ... 103 Roman .... 103 ... 103 ... 103 ... W 3 _ . __ F. AII.VV AY SHARES. V e rsailles.R. B 3 75 ... 375 ... 375 ... 375 LB '477 50 277 50 275 . •..75 Orleans ...• 42 0 ... 420 421 itr:ssUtirg to Bale Uultutusen to Thann ...... n 2,17 50 237 50 3. 50 namely, MR. WILLIAM TOOKE.—A Correspondent sug gests that we omitted to notice one c ons n picuous f ea ture of this gentleman's recent l etter, that he bids for the su pp ort of t he Tories, tering to do their dirt y work, and he shows y his °i:- fitness for the task by beg innin g to lampoon his late political friends. Our Corres pondent su gests, however, that the T ories will have nothin g to do with him. They will be afraid, w henever it suits his purpose, that he would lampoon them, as they abound in that sort of persons whom the holier-than-then men think it their first altd h; ;hest duty to hold up to public odium— expecting that they may, behind these wicked menus a screen, quietly practise their own vices, • - • . THE SUN, LONaJN, SATURDAY, APRIL 3, 1641 TEA MARKET. Prices of Free Trade were firm, and the business done was to a fair extent. Company's Congou fetched :s. 70. cash. The deliveries have been good, both for l'ome use and export. TALLOW MARKET. There was a good demand for Russian Tallow, both on the spot and for delivery; prices were higher; sales madeat des. 6d. to 465. 9d. for preient, and 473,6.1 . , for future, delivery. SPICE MARKET. I'epper du'l of sa'e, and prices on the decline. Cassia Linea in good demand and prices higher. Pimento rather dearer and the supply short. SPIRIT MARKET. The market for Rum was dul', and prices on the decline. Then. were sellers of proof Leewards at '2s. 3d. per gallon. Brandy in better demand and prices firmer. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) Lomnos, Aram 3.—Wind, this day, at noon, S.W., light breeze, and cloudy. DEAL, APRIL I.—Wind N.W.—Arrived the Agricola, Grayson, from Calcutta ; Sappho, ditto. Arrived from the river and sa.led the Christina, for South Australia; Eleam-r, Holderness, Sydney; Louisa Munro, Doiford, M a d ras; Ethelred, Lawrence, Jamaica; Statira, Hood, ditto; Moun taineer, Hind, Dem?rara ; prince, Lumsden, Quebec; Prin cess Royal, 'Alocritaineer, ditto; Mary, 13,11, ditto. Arrived from the river the Clara and- Emma, Tate, from Montreal ; Arabian, St. John's; Arno, Trieste. Putback the Constantine, for St. Übcs. The outward bound have sailed except the Mersey, for Tiarbadoes. PLYMOUTH, Aram 2.—Wind N. N.W.—Arrived the Lady Fitzberbert, from Sierra Leone. Sailed the Tweed, Treva than, for Quebec ; Queen Victoria, Curma, Sydney ; and most of the cutward bound. FatomptiTit, Aran, I. —Wind W.S.W.—Arrived the Tar row, Partridge, from Africa. ' Sourtramrrorrr, Aram 2.—Sailed the Royal Adelaide steamer, for Dublin. PORTSMOUTH, Aram 2.—Wind N.W. fresh breezes.— Sailed the Vulcan, Patrick ; Thomas and Henry, for Mauri tius ; William Sheppard, Davidson; William, Muir, Quebec ; Martha Pope, Jones, Torbay. Arrived the Idss, Potts, from Rio Janeiro; Gem, Greym, Sunderland. PADSTOW, APRIL I.—The Britannia. bound to Hayle, in running fur this harbour during a gale at W.N. W., was driven on Treverthick Rocks, and is not expected to be got off —crew saved. GLOUCESTER, Aram I.—Arrived the Queen Adelaide, from St. Michael's. SUNDERLAND, MAECII 31.—Sailed the Glide, Bell, for Quebec. Livxurool., APRIL 2.—Wind W. fresh.—Arrived the New Jersey, Dixon, from New Orleans; Belmont, do. ; Virginian, Allen, New York, on the 17th, 18th. 19th, experienced a heavy gale at E. and hove to fur two days. Azores, Peters, St. Michael's; George IV., Charente; ()beton, Lima; Majestic supposed from Calcutta; Relied Paxon and Ann, both sup posed free Bombay ; the George Washington, Burrows. bound to New York, put baoc with lois of foremast, 30th, off Cork. The Virginian arrived here, spoke to the Almeida, from Tampico, very leaky, and bearing up for New York. No signs of the Presiden% v SI3IE LDS, AYR' I.—Sailed the Herring, Stoddart ; Bessy Dryden, Butcher. The Betsy, of this port, sailed from Stockton, 27th ult., for Scarborough or Bridlington, and has not since been heard of. HULL, APRIL 2.—Fresh breezes from the N. W.— Arrived the Jane, White, from Hamburgh. Sailed the Latona, for Mira- michi ; Lord Mulgrave, ditto ; Endymion, ditto ; Ross, Winn, ditto; Foster, ditto ; Lady Worsley, Riehebucto ; Rumney, Simpson, Quebec; Aurora, Hunter, ditto; Dun combe, ditto ; Admiral Benbow, Campo Bello. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVER.POOL COTTON MAnicwr,. APRIL 2.—We continue to have a very moderate demand, and especially so since the re ceipt of accounts from New York to the 16th ult., per the Bri tannia steamer, arriving here on Wednesday last, by which the apprehension of war is removed, and with it the excitement of speculation. On that score there is now remaining only the question of short crop, and which is not entertained, as it was set forth by previous accounts. In the mean time the con tinued unfavourable accounts from the manufacturing districts tend to counteract the effect that might be produced by a falling off in the supply, and the want of a healthy demand for the trade causes unsteadine,s in prices, which are reduced an eighth per, lb. generally upon our quotations of Friday last, 2,586 Surat were offered at auction to-day, but only thirty bales of middling were sold at 4i 194; good 5 1 / 2 . Speculators have taken 1,700 bales of American, and Exporters 200 Surat, 700 American, 400 Laguayra, 200 Pernam. 30 Bahia, and 100 Surat sent into the country last month unsold. Only about 2,000 bales of all kinds sold to-day. LivEneoon HARE MARKET, APRIL 2.—The following transactions comprise the busines of the Share Market this day.—Eastern Counties, 81; Ditto, Debentures, 7i; Glas gow, Paisley, and Greenock, 23k; Great Western, New Shares, 63i ; Ditto 20/. Shares, 11 ; Lancaster and Preston Junction, 331; Liverpool and Manchester, 197 ; London and liir 165 ; New Ditto, 24 ; Midland Counties, New Shares, 16 1 1. MANCHESTER, STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 2.—There is an improvement in all the finished Railways.—Manchester and Leeds, 67k; Do. Halves, 29; Manchester and Birming ham, 244 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 34k; London and South Western, 55i • Ditto, Tenths,: 21. 2s ; Bank of Manchester, 7%; Union B ank . of Manchester, 7i. The quarterly average of the weekly liabilities and assets of the Bank of England has been published, from the sth Ja nuary to the 30th March, 1641, both inclusive, from which the following is the result : Circulation to the above period Last report ....... . ........................................ 16,372,000 More circulation, by Deposits, last report ......... .. £7,567,000 Present repor t - 7,212,000 Less deposits, by • ........... £355,000 Securities, last report Present report Less securities £397,000 Bullion, present report . £4,339,900 Last report 4,076,000 More bu11i0n... The ship 1 . irginia has arrived at Liverpool, having sailed from New York on the 14th ult., three days after the Presi dent, and encountered a storm for three days. THE FUNDS. Consols opened this morning at the leaving off prices of yes terday, at 893 90 for the Account, Money 893 3 ; with scarce anything doing as yet, and it is not expected that much busi ness will be transacted during the day, which is in general the ease on Saturday ; Exchequer Bills 911 premium ; India Bonds 2 discount, 2 prem. In the Foreign Market the prices continue at present no minal, and may be quoted as per yesterday's leaving off. Spanish Active, 231 ; Deferred, 123 a ; Passive, 53 3; Portuguese, 343 ; Brazilian, 683 693 ex div. ; Colombian 233 ; Mexican 313 3; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 513 a ; Five per Cents. 973 3 cx div. SHARES.—Great Western 27 28 prem. ; New 13 14 prem. ; London and Brighton 3 , 7,- 3 dis. ; 131ackwall dis. ; Birmingham 65 67 prem. ; Southampton 553 563 per share ; Croydon 13i 3 per sh re ; Greenwich 83 per share ; Man chester and Birmingham 153 15 discount. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Eastern Counties Great Western Ditto New 5O .... 633 to London and Brighton London and Blackwall London and Birmingham......... 90 Ditto Thirds Ditto New 2 ...... 234...... to 24 London and Greenwich Ditto Scrip London and South Western 383 553..... to London.and Croydon (Trunk)... 133 133- to fork and North Midland 5O BO JOINT STOCK BANKS. Australasia 4O ...... 54 to Commercial of London 200 197 to Union of Australia. 31ISCELLANEOUS. Canada Company PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, APRIL I. 3 per Cent. Consols - • r 134 (Bank Sto - cic Three and Half Stock 963 Grand Canal Stock Ditto Reduced ...... Ditto Debs. 6 per cent 863 Ditto New, 1.830 33 per Cent. Debs. HALF-PAST ONE: With the exception of some general business in the course of the morning, no speculations or purchases of any conse quence have taken place in the Briti.h Funds. Still the) continue firm and in an improving state; both the public and moneyed interest being now of a decided opinion that our difference with the United States will be ami cably adjusted, are making investments in our national securities, and should the intelligenc e from China, which may be expected in a few days, prove favourable, there is no doubt that a still greater improvement will take lace. Next Tuesday and Wednesday being t p he Hebrew Feast of IndiaB9have been done P.v.sover, it is nut expected that many of them will attend the Stock Exchange . tim C e o ; ns B o 9 l; 9hoavfeormtahientAaicnceoduntt;e Money,rtiornin prices to the present at 89i i ; Exchequer Bills, 9 11 prem. ; Bonds par ; Bank Stork, for the opening, 173. In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active not quite so good, 23i have been 23il g ; Brazilian, 69i ex. div. ; Portuguese have been 34k; Three per Cents., 20i; Colombian, Mexican, lower, 31i, bad reached 31i32 ; Dutch Two-and . a-Half per Cents., nothing cl , :ne. In the Share Market some business has been done at higher prices. Great Western, 93k; ditto New, 63; London and Brighton, ; L Birmingham, 156 158; Thirds, New, 233 24 ; ondon and South Western, 55 3 / 4 ; Yor's and North Midland SO. 53 i ; ditto QUARTER TO THREE. No alteration in the prices since the report at half-past one, Nothing doing. IMPORTANT !—Fanny Ellsler arrived at New Orleans, from vannah, on the 28;h ult., aid wasfollowed by a great crowd to her lodging''. The Crescent City, adds to the announcement of ber arrival, that the cushion on which she rode from the steam-ship Natchez to the St. Charles Exchange, would be raffled for in the bar-room of the hotel. One hundred chances at two dollats a n d fifty cents. each. HAY-MAKING ALREADY !--The farmers a t Lockington may well be wealthy whilst their grass land is so productive, as to be ready for the scythe thus earl y in the fieason. Daring the let" extraordinary weather there wanted but the haymaker abroad to let:lige the Pr° l enne of ct , rorner; and behold ! ft',)the, aLd tiro rake, and the buslle of , bay ha l vest at Loekington corn cleaved in tarnest !—/Voltingharn Rtview. MANSION-HOUSt.-( THIS DAY•) Henry Peal?, b. member of the Shoemakers' "UM, "y" brought up, charged with attempting to prevent Williartl Pearce, a workman in the employ of Mr. iwivis Reinhold; of Hertford-street WO, fcom going to his employment. It ap heared that the prisoner sidpped the complainant, and s eized im by the collar of his coat, saying, he ought to be hare- whipped for getting work at an under rate ; but that it would soon be put a stop to, as there was about to be a general strike amongst the workmen of the metropolis, and that a pair of shoes would not be made unless the full price demanded by the Union were given. Another workman in the employ of Mr. Reinhold, who wit nessed the transaction, corroborated this evidence. The prisoner denied the charge, and requested to be re manded, and he would produce evidence to prove what he said. He was admitted to bail till Wednesday next. GUILDLIALL.(THIS DAY.) Mr. Manton, an extensive warehouseman in Cheapside, ap peared before Mr. Alderman FAREBROTHER, on a summons granted at the instanee of Thomas Chub, a clerk in the em ployment of the London Parcels Delivery Company, to show cause why ho refused to pay the sum of 2s. 2d., the amount of porterage and incidental expenses on a parcel directed to him. The complainant stated that the clerk to the Margate Diamond Steam Packet Company delivered the parcel to one of the Delivery Company's servants, • at the same time de manding Is. Bd. for freight, and 6d. for wharfage and ware housing. This was paid, and the parcel forwarded to Mr. Manton, who refused either to take it or pay the demand. The defendant said he considered that first the agt nts of the Parcel Delivery Company had no right to pay money on hi, account without his authority Ile knew the reason why the parcel was forwarded in this way instead of by one of the Steam Company's own porters ; it was a return parcel, and doubting whether it would be received, they used the present mole of transit. He considered it to be a collusion between the IWO companie=, and he would en deavonr by every means in his power to resist it. The charge for porterage he also considered to be exorbitant, as the dis tance from the Diamond Siesm Packet Company's Wharf to his warehouse did not exceed half a mile ; and he believed the allowed charges of the Company were, for any distance under half a mile, 3d., and no more than 10d. for two miles, on par cels less than 50Ibs. The Clerk of the Steam-packet Company said they some times sent out parcels, and at others gave them to the Parcels Delivery .Company for transmission. Mr. Alderman PAIRBROTHER said he thought that Court could not interfere; it was a case for the Court of Requests. However (as we understOod the worthy Alderman, much noise and confusion being at the lower end of the Court, and his remarks being expressed more in a conversational tone,) he thought Mr. Manton ought to pay the costs. Mr. Manton then laid down the money, and said he would r ttier give a sovereign to any charity than pay even the pal try amount of the present demand, which he considered to be in the slightest degree against his own conviction. HAMBU RGH MAIL. (From the Polish Frontiers, March 13.) The news first spread by the English Journals th,t one of the newly erected forts had been captured by the Circalsians needs tonfirmation, but if true, is of no im portance, for the mountaineers may indeed gain some advantages over their enemies in the winter time, when the Russian troops arc confined to the fortresses, but they are not able to retain them. The Circassian war may continue for marl years, but its end may easily be foreseen, since the Russians, whenever they ad vance, secure the ground they have gained by electing forts. This sysiein is leading slowly but certainly to the object. A more important piece of news is that the plague has appeared in some places in Circassia. If it should spread, it must delay the operation) of the Russians. HANovEa, 24.—Unexpected cliffieuldes have been raised by Brunswick with respect to the pro longation of the Custom-house union bctwcen Hanover, Brunswick, Oldenburgh, and Shomburg Leppe, which expired on the 3ht of December this year. Bruns wick threatens to withdraw from the union, unless Ha nover will engage net to continue the causeway com menced some years ago from Ue:zen to the Prussian fron tiers in the direction of Magdeburg, by which the city of Brunswick would be deprived of a great part of the transit trade which it now has.—Haniburgh Papers, March 30. HAMBURG BORSENHALLE, Mace 30. Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares lf2o 11511 Anglo-Russian Loan .. 107% ;07 Russian S per Cent. Ist scriex, Certificate Inscription, Ist Se:t‘s lOl 1044 Ruellan 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and Ath Series gr li .- Ditto in Certificates Dutch Actual Debt, 2y,;, po. Cent 8936 •19% Ditto 5 per Cen. - Polish Bonds - New ticket Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Ur' l4 N wegian Loan, 1e34, 4 per Cea' Sp,ansh, New 5 ~ , e r Cents. 16% E:(CHANGES ON' LONDON. HAMBURG, MARCH 30.-13 614. —Two months, 13 4 PETERSBURGH, MARCH z 3. —"Iwo months, 36.4 pence sronsnotsi Maack' . s—Seventy-five days, 11, 45. Lainto, MARCH 6.—Two mo ths, 6. W 4. CUSTOMS DUTY. An account has been laid before the House of Commons, of the gross receipts of Customs Duty collected at each Custom-house of the United Kingdom, in the year ending the sth of January, IE4I, distinguishing the amount of repayrnehts for drawbacks, and bounties of the nature of draw backs, &e. together with the amounts paid at each Custom-house, for expenses of office, and on other accounts, as well as the net amount re mitted from each Custom• house to the Receiver- G enetal also, an account of the receipts of each Custom-house for the previous year. The subjoined are tile gross receipts at the principal sea-ports : 1839. 4 1840. London . ......... £11,431,245 £11,116,685 Liverpool Bristol Glasgow 852,104 898,579 Dublin Leith 573,685 602,999 Newcastle . Belfast 341,442 365,023 Cork 243,732 212,047 Waterford . Gloucester 163,466 156,641 Limerick ' 148,782 169,490 Plymouth Sunderland 111,731 119,681 Whitehaven 107,540 92,831 Londonderry 98,626 103,900 Dundee 92,502 63,346 Exeter ... ........... Chester 76,538 78,222 Stockton Aberdeen ... ......... ... 71,83 1 80,011 Yarmouth 63,332 61,495 Lynn 67,252 67,130 Southampton 61,014 77,942 Portsmouth ... ...... .... 58,296 70,187 The amount received altogether is about twenty millions sterling, of which the London Custom house furnishes more than one-half. KNIGHTSBRIDGE IMPROVEMENTS —Mr. Cu bitt has bought the Cannon Brewery, which will be taken down, and first-rate house: erected on the site. There will be an entrance into Hyde Park, to be called Prince Albert's Gate. The houses extending alongside tire Park helang to the Dean and Chapter of Westminster ; they have given the grouad for the entrance, and the Woods and Forests will erect the gate and lodge. THE MONGIBELLO STEAM SHlP.—This fine vessel on Thursday made an experimental trip down the river, having on beard the Legation and Consul of the Neapolitan Embassy, and a large party of naval and sciet tific gentlemen. She steamed at the rate of from 11 to 12 knots per hour, and gave great satisfaction to all on board. She is fitted with a pair of double cylinder engines of 200-horse power, lately patented by Messrs. Maudtlay, Sons, and Field; they are beautifully made, and the en gine-room presents great neatness and accommodation. with every facility for attending to any part cf the machi nery. The saloon is built upon deck, is spacious, and con tains the usual quantity of gold, mahogany, and French polish ; but the accommodation below is worthy great praise, the berths being built one over the other in steps, or ,ets-off, which render them easy of access ; they are com posed of mahogany, and are being furnished in a handsome manner. The vessel was built for the Steam Navigation Company of the two Sicilia?, and is destined to ply from Naples to Marseilles. CHRISTENING OF THE COUNT OF PARIS.— " The christening of the Comte de Paris," says the Cour tier Francais, " is definitively fixed for the 2d of May. There is to he a dinner of eight hendred persons, in tha great salon of the Louvre, at, ee which M. Atsher's Bran concert will be performed. On Monday evaling I.st after the rehearsal of the corcert, the King, wishing ta see whet efft.ct the salon would produe,, ha is halite(' up ii the ~.me .av as it is to be at tl e christening. Th • lights of the rich lustres striking on the pictures tirodoceri abr lliant effect. Extensive preparations ate making is the grand apartments of the south facade of the Hotel de Ville for a splendid dinner, to be followed by a ball. The plans for the fireworks for thefeles of Msy are already prepared; they are compostd of various allegrr'es con nected with the christening. The musical part of the ser vice at Notre Dame will be performed by the s'r gars and musicians of the Grand Opera, the Opera Col iq re, aid the Conservatoire de Musique." The same journal state' that for the occasion of the King'sfele and the christen ing, an extensive amnesty is under consideration for pelt tical offenders, which will include Prince Louis Napoleon (this we much doubt); and that in execution of the Royal ordonnance of July 6, 1834, containing promises of indul gence in favour of condemned persons in the colonies, who have been remarkable for their good conduct since their condemnation, the Minister of Marine is waiting far the lists of oppositions of grace horn French Guiana, Sene gal, Indis, Martinique, and Guadaloupe, in order that he may place them under the eyes of his Majesty. DUTY ON BRANDY AND lIOLLANDS. From 1796 to 1806, the duty on Hollands varied fr m 7e. Gd. to 14s. a gallon, and the annual average consump tion was upwards of 700,000 gallons ; the duty is now 225. 6d. a gallon, and the annual eonsumption i f du }- paid is now about 23,000 gallant. With a tax from 250 to 450 per cent., the average revenue was at. least 350,000/. ; under a duty of 700 per rest. it is 26,0001. The population of the country has increased nearly one half, the custom duties three-fourths ; but the custom duty on this particular article has fallen 1,300 per cent., or frcm 360 to 26. In 1814, the duty on brandy was raised from 14s. to 18s. 10d. a gallon, wine measure; the con sumption decieasA from 1,820,00 0 to 720 000 gallons, and the revenue fell from 1,370,0001. to 825,0001, though it has since recovered in the amount received, but nct in the quantity consumed. In 1689, the annual consumption E::gki.d, duty about 1 00 per c ent , ,•zi cost, was U,;89,165 gallons. Since that per.c.i, lesion (including Scotland) has nealy quadrupled—tlia national income has increased sevenfold, but the nominal consumption of brault is less than it was 140 years ago. B.E. SCHMIDT'S SYNOPTICAL GERMAN GRAMMAR. This is a single sheet, in which the essentials of a German Grammar are compressed and ar ranged on a novel plan. It gives a bird's-eye View of the whole, and will be extremely useful tO seamen. It is dedicated to Dr. Hawtrey, the Head Master of Eton College, and has, therefore, we presume, the approval of that distinguished scholar. TEE FREEH lEW. ASON'No. s - QU4RTERLY RE XXIX TEE ,FREEMASON'S MAGAZINE.--No. IV. of the sacred announcement, so jar lino. u The trut;; n the ear of the perpetrator of dark dedeedsin po dark places, " There is nothing secret 2 which shall not be made {flown—nothing hid true in our day which shall not be revealed," regarded .e as with respect to what our father, Max till the most impenetrable mysteries. on till which, from the days of King S ole° the days of George 111. (no wa y in head akin to Solomon, by the bye) had no tone whereby to address the uninitiated, has now two —and such tell-tales ! How many spouses of the masonic fraternity throughout the dark ages, would have been saved from dying with curiosity to obtain one glimpse of the mysteries of the craft, had the " Freemasons' Quarterly Review," or its more unpretending companion in the revelation of mystery, then made a periodical appearance ! And yet a lifting of the corner of the veil dues not tend greatly to edify us. Though brothers in masonry, and dearer to each other in songs and toasts than brothers in the flesh—these periodicals let us into the secret that they are still men—that they are not exempt from human infirmities—that they do quarrel and abuse one another sometimes, like mortals less interested in fixing the exact locality of the rock from which Moses drew water to quench the thirst' of the perishing Israelites ! They do inform us that even within this sacred camp disquietude is exhibited, and rebellion not unknown. This ought to teach the world, and those who govern it, an useful lesson. No institution which abridges human thought— which restricts the communication of knowledge capable of making men better than they are, can satisfy the mind of any truly good man. Now, according to the testimony of the contributors to these periodicals, the great object of the Masonic Institution is to inculcate truths, Many of which do make men wiser and better both - as mem bers of society as being responsible to God for their actions. " If one society of hu man origin," says one writer, " More than another tends to soften men's manners, and, as it were, harmonize the mind, that so ciety is masonry. - I have now been a member of it more than twenty years; and having, during that period, followed it up with the utmost zeal, I ought to have some experience on the subject. From what I have seen and known of it, then, I would fearlessly assert that in it exist all the germs of honour, truth, and virtue. By it we are taught the noblest attributes of the human mind; its precepts inculcate the purest morality; and its tendency generally is to make honest, just, and good." An Institution whose ten dency is to effect such a pure moral revolution should not have two tongues, but a thou sand. Its voice should be for ever heard in our streets. And yet, strange as it may ap pear, both these' periodicals publish resolu tions of the Grand Lodge, avith the Duke of Sussex at its head, repudiating all such disclo sures as are here made. But the attempt to im pose silence comes too late. Such writers as Dr. Crucifix, and Mr. Lee Stevens, and the Rev. Dr. Oliver, are not to be deterred from perform ing what they regard to be a sacred duty, by the superstitious fears of those masonic owls who delight in darkness. For ourselves,' we belong not to the craft, nevertheless we take an inte rest in its proceedings. The Freemason's Quar terly. Review, in particular, is conducted with spirit, and deserves the support of the masonic body. FINE ARTS. CORONATION PORTRAIT OF THE QUEEN. Sir William Newton's portrait of her Majesty, with a private view of which we were favoured yesterday, is one of the most striking likenesses we have yet seen, and though sufficiently courtly in its character, is by no means too lavish of its flattery- This highly finished picture is painted on ivory—a circumstance which will take every one by surprise who witnesses its dimensions. Her Majesty is represented sitting in her chair .of state, and the moment selected by the artist is when ;he is receiving the heart-felt homage of the Duke of Sussex, who is kneeling before her, and looking up in her face, with an earnest expression, in which respect for the Queen is blinded with affection for the niece. Her Majesty, whose head is gently bent forward, regards her august relative with evident feelings of interest and kindliness, as though aware that his act of homage was dic tated by the heart, and was not a mere matter of cold Court ceremony. The Duke's profile is brought out with consummate skill, nor can any thing be .more truly graceful and easy than his attitude. But it is on the Queen's countenance and figure that the artist has lavished li.ll his powers, and the result is such as must satisfy his most sanguine expectations. In the.back-ground of the picture appear the Marquis of Conyngham, Lord Melbourne, the Duke of Cambridge, the Bishop of London, the Duke of Wellington, and several others who, at the period selected, were in immediate attendance. on the Queen's per son. Lord Melbourne's countenance may be recognized at a glance. It is the correctest and most spirited portrait of his Lordship ever painted, and we are astonished, on beholding it, to find liow much vigorous expression has been g iven to ivory painting, which we have always considered as a very inanimate affair. The Duke of Wellington is a less fortunate resemblance. Ten years at least have been subtracted from his age. As regards the general richness of the colouring of this tine picture, we may say with perfect justice that, with all the advantages given them by space and other auxiliaries, not one of the numerous painters of the Coronation have approached within many degrees of Sir William Newton. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert visited the National Gallery yesterday afternoon. The Royal Suite con sisted of the Hon. Miss Pitt, Hon. Miss Devereux, Marquis of Headfort, Sir Robert Otway, Lord Alfred Paget, and Colonel Bonylrie. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent attended by Lady Anne Maria Dawson, visited the Queen yes terday, and remained to lunch with her Majesty and Prince Albert. Viscount Melbourne bad an audience yesterday of the Queen. His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge visited Prince Albert yesterday. Her Majesty had a anner Party last evening at Encl.:Mg - ham Palace. The company consisted of her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Laay Cotten ham, Earl of Erroll, Earl of Uxbridge, Earl of Surrey, Earl of Dunmore, Lord Foley, Lord De Lisle, the Right Hon. Sir Robert and Lady Peel, Baron Stock mar, Countess of Charlemont, Lady Anne Maria Daw son, Hon. Miss Pitt, Hon. Miss Devereux, Baroness LAzen, Marquis of Headfort, Colonel C ";:er, Hon. C. A. Murray. Sir Robert Otway, Lord Alhtd Pa et, Colonel Bouverie, and Dr. Prcetorius. Tile baud of the 2tt Regiment of Life Guards were in At •ndance at the Paiace during the dinner. Her Majesty honoured Mr. W. C. Ross, A.R.A., with a third sitting yesterday for a portrait at Buekir.g ham Palace. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Lord George Lennox, Sir George Anson, and Colonel Bouverie, attended a meeting of the Royal Society in Somerset-house on Thursday evening. His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge arrived in town at seven o'clock on Thursday evening from Dublin. His Royal Highness paid visits yester day to her Majesty the Queen Dowager at Marlbo rough House, and to the Duchess of Kent at Gloucester House. The Duchess of Gloucester and the Duke of Cam bridge visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager yester day. The Duke of Cambridge had an interview with Vis count Melbourne yesterday at his official residence in Downing-street. Mr. S,:rgeant Stock, and Mr. John O'Connell had an interview yesterday at the Horne-office. A Deputation from the Anti-Slavery Society, con sisting of Messrs. Samuel Gurney, Josiah Forster, Gee. Bennett, John Beaumont, Edmund Gurney, John O'Connell, M.P., E. N. Buxton, and Henry Sterry, had an interview with Viscount Melbourne, :iesterday, in' Downing-street. Mr. Greg and the Mayor of Manchester bad an in terview, yesterday, with the Marquis of Normanby at the Home-office. Messrs. Hamilton and Monteith bad an interview with Lord John Russell 3 esterday at the Colonial-office. Despatches from the Governors of New. South Wales, South Australia, and West Australia, were received vcstfrflay at the Colon'al-offiery, Wi:brabani htld itYozvoo, o•i0 1 t h e Al, r . tiol!:i of Nermanby ;3: 4 the licore cfEce. I Mr. Thornely, M.P., had an interview with Lord J. j Russell at the Clkouial-office yesterday. EVEN LNG EDITION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—Having seen in The Sun. of the 31st ult. a parsgrar stating that Surgeon J. W. Bowler. of her Majesty's ship Vic tor, had been tried by Court-martial at Port Hoyal, Jamai ca ' for drunkenness, and sentenced to be severely reprimanded and placed at the bottom of the list , I have to re q uest that y.O will, in your next publication, contradict the same, as the statement is as base and untrue as it is cruel and malicious. invalided from that ship on the 2d of October last , a nd imme diately proceeded to England, where I have since been fur tile recovery of my health. The whole charge is a villainous fabrication, and could On l y have emanated from the most foul and cowardly source. am, Ss, your obedient servant, Ha-lor, April 2. JOHN W. BOWLER. [The paragraph of which Mr. Bowler so jus tl y complaic6 was copied from the Morning Herald. We deeply regret that, we were in any way , accessory to the givina currency of so. atrocious a falsehood. Nothing is more painful to us than to• find, after exercising the utmost vigilance, that any siaternent has appeared in The Sun unjustly reflecting upon private cha racter. Libels upon individuals never originate us, this ner do we knowingly ever allow them to.stain the columns of Journal. We have little doubt that Mr. Bowler's letter mill be published by the papers which quoted our article. En. SuN.] PUSEVISM. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. 2ir—lt should never be forgotten in the consideration °' tehr:tdisey.ia.a'`tanooxfimirodogrel Popery, called Puseyism. born and tantism, that it :7 (the supposed winery f true Protes-. leading feature is, pretension to unlimited ecclesiastical author,. 44 . In this point of vieweL7lecial!‘-„ the Oxford Popery ear''' not be too fret ly exposed, or t4)O ,strongly condemned, 11 every friend of civil and religious 14.`lertY whatever °Cc be may bo. of h unval na ture t ; That very &ever and keen observer . ne arly irrlrairo, in his deictiption of the English olotgy ce ntury ago, made the following ob,rovatior.'s on tb r: which opi.e3r to me to apply wi t h p eculiar f ATC th• sejite members of that body, at the preseattime and A, I cannot forbear from offering to he notice of your reach", if you will have the kindness to t insert them in your c limns. These ,ore Us words : it s " Le clerge Ang: i can a retenu beaucoup de ceremon e 3 Catholiques, ct surteut cele de ecevoir les dimes lo tine attention tier scrupni.liar• Its oat aussi la ambition d'etre les maitres Par (ludic vicaire de rilab ne voudrait ps etre Pape ? !c urs D e plus :13 tumente,t ;avant peuvent daos F ousilles un saint zele centre lc. nooccofora.istes. . " On v promet d'e.re de comme elle est blie par la Li. Il [2' y a guere d'eveque , de doyen, d'areb" pieJe, qni no pease ens de droit div in : c ' est done a 46 grand sojet de mortification pour eux d'etre agear d'avouer qu' ils tienuent tout d'une miseoble lot faire P des profanes laiq." TRANSLATION. ues :-." The English clergy has retained many Catholic ceremonies , and eqerially that of receiving the tithes with a very scrupulous attention. They also the pious ambition of Leing the masters; for vi b4 v:csr would not wish to be Pope? heir .Vl. ) reover, they foment as much as they can i d t flocks, a holy zeal against the non-conformists. . • • • re " They profess to coo e their existence to the Church al r), is established by the law. There is scarcely a bishop . Gea or archdeacon, who does not think that he exists by Die il3° right; it is then a great subject of ntortificatiou for th e° to be obliged to confess that they derive all power front a mi:e:able law made by profane laymen." The above picture, though briet , is so life-like, tha S": t will be recognised et once as a trite sketch of the W Pussy and Co., and will almost p rove the philosopher eis F,rnry to have been endowed wit h the prophetic sprit, well as with that deep philosop h y which enabled 1: bin' see through systems, and to auprcciate their effect Oar the human chiracter, whether in the cl erical, or any nibe forrr. yreot his remarks, toe, are applicable to that under -en••-_,t of clerical i, fluence always in action, and which has, taro probably, received a fresh impase from Puseyistn, and % i t still be continued, although the o • of these principles may, for a time, be suppressed. , , b 0 k oen avowal and advoci Adtririug your own exertions jg the exposure 0 1 aforesaid system, I beg to subscribe myself, Sir, " ONE OF THE PROFA\NE LAITY." March 31. Se f OXFORD, THURSDAY.—A requisition is in the ee er of signature among the clergy of the Archn i "B c°n/ 1 a Oxford, earnestly requesting the ArchdeacoL' t° c "; meeting of the clergy, to afford them an opporittla:t expressing their unqualified disapprobation of the ••: e a 90. Mr. Newman's letter to the Bishop Of 0 51 - is has just appeared, in defence of the Tract. It , • i written in a tone of intimacy, and claims his Lordsbe sanction to the publication of the preced in g Trectrr' No further proceedings are contemplated on the pert° the Unisersity. LEEDS, MARCH 31.—A very strange scene o ccur l, here last night. The annual meeting of th e SocietYt°n. Promoting Christian Knowledge was held , the Bt% of Ripon in the chair. Dr. Hook, in moving the tye resolution, opened a perfect battery of wrath oo to Pastoral Aid meeting. He talked of the ee ee o sit y of being resolute ; he had nailed hie . , lours to the mast ; and blow hig h, blow I°/1; come wind, come storm, he would stand bY t a High Church ( i. e. Tractarian) party , and clef° its cause." 'He was proceeding in this when the Bishop rose and called him to order. A murmur of applause greeted,_hig LordsbiP 's. ;f o r ; ference ; who said, that as they and concord in support of a cause in which all A7,--80 :•greed, he hoped that no re!erence would be ma"" eoaroverted topics. ao The Doctor was confounded ; he turned ple , shook with agitation ; then suddenly said, t 4 Thu! t r,, - I ruled, I shall content myself by reading the 001 01°- "re met in bar" p ; have the honour to move," and sat down. et' No further hostile allusions were made. The Melo ing passed off quietly ; and the Bishop had the h° ll° . l ly of having successfully arrested an attempt, 116,a:11000 now of too common occurrence, to turn a reegidest meeting into an arena of controversy.—Corresp efi v of an Evening Paper. COMMERCIAL TREATIES• —..--- TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUX b et , SlR,—Permit me to draw your attention to s ome ° ills vations made by Lord Melbourne, when discussing lot Coin-laws on Lord Fitzvvilliam's motion, during th4l Session. tit° .. In opposition to the expectation of the Repeal eri4 or the continental nations would modify their tariffs ° p a to doing the sac e on their produce, his Lordship o° oo ° triumph in the exclamation, " Where is your assiir° g od:, this ?" and proceeded to deny that such was to be esP c „ - oi° Shealy it is to be hoped that a similar discuss ia ", e 0 ° take place, and the Premier willprobably agaiii AO; that country that it is not only problematical but unlilr.ll pill ,be members of the Prussian League, or even g°s:ligcies°' consent to such an arrangement as shall enab le this try to fin in tm markets for its roduc. 'f i rt° Now on whom ought tl,e solution p of this doubt, Isola one, to rest? Unquestionably the Government d Set', have ascertained ere this whether the doubts of . 1 • 4°I. WO" bourne or the expectation of Vlr. Villiers he correar.t via culpab!e negligence is indicated by our Governinenoser yet ignorant of what effective negotiation oo tlit o , to subj,ct would produce I e oh o o • True, Dr. Bowring was semi-officially de uteri ' no - to! the truth upou this question ; and although his 1 11,0 1 S i. a complete affirmative, yet we find the head of tosaitt• riory, whose egont he ostensibly was, expressly e c° rw• ing what had in reality been ascertained. a sell lit` It is to be presumed that his Lordship I. °Pr: f ted • Bowring's prepossessions have completely p er of judgment. n esP io Thus, also, Lord Ashburton, the other day' stbee,e,l), M'Gregor, J. D. Hume, Porter, and Bewrirg, ° es ' (V men, and attempts with this observation, at 011 • pier could), to invalidate their evidence. 0 . c c- Now, have Lords Melbourne and Ashbur ton " _ Of Or dices? Have the pro-Coin-law men no inter:6l3okt „el, upon to build theories? Are the sportsmen o `, sgr i ipe hamshire and of Suffolk and the declaimers ,°", at l i ''• tural dinners as inherently versed in fi s cal po i ll; a 1 1 es ' of them are presumed to be in legislatorial 5 0 ' e d o° l '4o o In . truth the country must be easily led if s o , ° , l ,satis! prrenced official characters are thus to be er l ° ..,', 0 " blind leaders of the blind." : , ik ; „irili Who is so blind as thoso who will not 6- d e cef:. te n , sage observation of one of olden time. i t ° the P :sjoe the wilful ignorance of Lord Melbourne as t ° slise ) tions of our continental neighbours indicates 1° , tb° to all interests but thote of his own prejudic e :, bef° r :f the Moreover this subject is more prorn ios tl soies a of courtly on account of the recent decided e 0,9.100 cf House of Commons ttpon the free exn° l a ad , chinery. ~ t de cide s tib ° ' Such a step would be regarded as a -I n a Ma°, fie vance on the part of England in free trade' de in ° Lit ingenuity, Ltieni•ts would grant an unrestricted tra ica jerit• t tha t ebanical skill and without any eq u , n ter, b ri s - v ing On this point we are not about now t ° .; f a r OP` the subject affords a most desirable opporturoleYnied• this rir gotiar ions with other nations, cannot b e affairs i°„rcer That man who stands at the head 0 ' - 1 . 00 111- ti sr• kingdom, and neglects the interests of ° Li t sp oor g o re of o ffi ce ; practical reform only though nominally a Refiorner, will pro" b° s uit " li dian of our interests. Theoretic reform o ' 4 o de": be d' ;jibe d ual' A u e n will bene fit the . •-os our trade be discouraged our revenudeesbrs•i)n-e eiatsailweeia°lor. our treasury will be exhsusted, new our already overburdened country , end , 8 .„ g a intei° l4 Ol e , nish an evidence of the impossibility 0, tra d e . Le r . o oi aupremsey without manufactures and roint ogel e so names of Whig and Tory be lost in ti?„' Reformer' ° r 0 the the principles of flee trade. • Lct the Ile"' be linked with their opponents of thst era , r . ° a P o r ri u f r k e 7 abolition of our antiquated 66111 rig England land Ca po Melbourne continue to oppose t hew ' • 8 another and a better man to be its Pietr e te_r_ cet f u lly,_,,,,. I am NiE sP ß cußftP' City, March 29, )81. CU SS --.......... ... E pit N MINIA T u RE CAItRIAGE FOB Tk r . ...v , be ild l , l l, and nearly cornple,e-4, for the use I e ,bna, orig, take occasi i airing,n. 1 to enable the infant Princess to n he gardens 0 ' "" --c o stfr ROY AL.--.,A most e;t,gat..t little caror_iatg.eo 151);InCeS5 Vito her Majesty through thewalks.i t itis a mo at ts, t he ham Palace and Windser C I little affair, the body restirg v! t d to the purposeo,4l ast ' e i . hin a few incl ' es 1 - 1.47( beautiful Sh t.i°,,e, Lair 0f.006 a which it will be required. Apa . with th e s ot as to size, 6, tura .. • in perfect keeping, ponies, AI. hOle , e hose d on. the , s ee' , have recently been pur , e .. Ti,,...onipc i re so ., - 0 ,0 ground, and admirably appropriate ,_:s• ss orneti•e no e 1 1 , ... t. r.:. , P ,,,,y ~ vai i .l., ()ill j 1 „( iy ti actable and dt,,::tc ~ t ~ ~,,..,,!.d,..12.5t ...,. rival 0 cbtl,t 0,.:y c!riv, flan affair ai l l be u Wi s ndsor at a sed orthsetefirr.st time upon t the Court he ar 41: Air. WI., COur, Lord kr . . '.r • d I,t )rd 11 I\ I ) rt y, I‘j c to v ,. N, I \lr bYS;I r, 'r ii 1 , • r,p,t„ and IWo ii tver i tik iht