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In which Mr. Buckingharn and Miss Martin sustain Six diffe- rent Characters each. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TOMORROW. nuntV es after 10 1 Evening 5 minutes after 11. LONDON: THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1841. The House of Lords did not meet yesterday. The Commons, after a protracted discussion, in which Lord STANLEY took one side, and Sir ROSLR T PEEL another, threw out the Stafford and Rugby Railway Bill, by 154 to 94. The side Lord STANLEY espoused was successful. We regret the result, for, as far as our knowledge goes, we believ e • the railway would be of public advantage. A motion of Lord GRANVILLE SOMERSET, to - -a Monmouth - -add the Members f or to the Com mittee on the Sever n Navigation Bill, was lost by 117 to 84. The principal discussion which was expected during the evening was on the Medical Refo rm B:11, of which Mr. HAWES moved the second reading ; but after he and Mr. EWAnT had ad dressed the House, it was counted out. We re gret not the loss of the Bill, for we think the members of the medical profession should regulate themselves, like the tailors ; but we regret to see Liberal Members of Parliament, like Mr. HAWES and Mr. EWART, meddling with what they do not comprehend; and bring ing, by such meddling, the cause of Liberalism into undeserved contempt. The land is already encumbered with bad laws, and the vocation of Liberalism is not to add to the number, but to strike them aNky, one after another, on every opportunity. The House rose a Quarter before Eight. We see that the heads of houses at Oxford have taken up the Puseyite heresy, and have spoken in strong terms of the 90th number of the " Tracts for the Times." They say of it, that " modes of interpretation, such as are suggested in the said Tracts, evading rather than explaining the sense of the Thirty-nine Articles, and reconciling subscription to them with the adoption of errors which they were designed to counteract, defeat the object, and are inconsistent with the due observance of the statutes of the University ?'' That, therefore, is the amount of the offence of Puseyisni, otherwise called Popery. It impugns the mode of interpreting the Thirty-nine Articles, and is not in conformity with the statutes of Ox ford. The Puseyites may, however, find consolation. The University has before now been accused of being extremely lax in the subscription to these Articles, requiring it as a matter more of form tl.aq of conviction; and if Mr. NEWMAN only de viates fro m t h e practice of the University, his heresy must be towards virtue. We condemn Puseyism -as no better than Popery; but if its only demerit be th at it evades the Thirty-nine Articles, and di sregards the statutes of the Uni versity, the people at large will think it an 72 ?~~ ~ honourable faith. We have seen nothing yet so 1 ` calculated to raise it in general estimation as the censure of the University because it is a depar ture from the statutes of Oxford. There is, however, one matter of great import ance connected with this 'heresy. It is said that one Bishop at least has embraced it. . That it has its seat at Oxford is unquestioned; and , that those who teach it have also the formation of the minds and theology of a large portion of the junior clergy is undoubted. Being men of learn ing, piety, and zeal, they have great influence over the young priests; and we, therefore, readily believe that the heresy has already tainted a great number of the clergy. The Church is not only rent into faCtions, it is corrupted by heresy. But while a large body of the priesthood have, according to several Bishops, and according to the heads of houses, fallen away from the true orthodox Church, the clergy as a body, with all the persons they can influence, are getting up petitions to the Legislature for the extension' of the Church. The Legislature and the public will now, however, require to know whether Puseyism is to be extended at the expense of the the State, or the true orthodox faith. Is the public money to be given, at the solicitation of Oxford, to teach the errors which Oxford de nounces? Curiously enough, the very post which brings us the anathema of the heads of houses against Puseyism, brings us also a peti tion for Church Extension, agreed to at a Con vocation of the University of Oxford, holden on Friday last. On the one hand, the University denounces the errors of a large body of the priesthood; and, on the other, it prays the State to advance funds to propagate them over the land. Some of the statements of this petition, consi dering whence they come, and considering the prevalence of dissensions in the Church, are very remarkable. At present the Church of England is undoubtedly the richest Christian Church in the world. The University of Oxford has more funds at its command for teaching reli gion than any known University; and the result of all these advantages possessed by the University and the Church, according to the petition of the Univ i ersity, is " that irreligion and ignorance, de moralisation and disunion, have very exten sively increased in England and Wales." In spite, however, of all this irreligion, im morality, and demoralisation existing with our enormous Church Establishment, the only re medy which the Convocation of Oxford can de vise is more Church, and of course more I'u _ . seyism. The Convocation says, " The only safe, ade quate, and constitutional remedy for the growing evil is the expansion of the National Church, in full proportion to the spiritual wants of the whole community." But what guarantee, let us ask, can the Convocation give us that the expansion of the Church will not increase the evil com plained of? It may multiply PuseyitesandPopery. The want of religion exists in conjunction with a well-endowed Church, and may be traced to that as its cause. The same result was in fact pro duced in France before the Revolution, in Spain, in Italy, and in Portugal. Germany and Scot land were saved from it by destroying the gigan tic Papal Church. The hollow pretences of the priesthood, and their empty forms, disgust men with what they call religion. Their greediness, grasping after wealth in all possible ways, and even appropriating to themselves the funds des tined for the poor, have, spread greediness amongst the people. They have pandered to the vices of the rich and the great, and have scourged only the poor and th e humble. To their bad example, the salt of the earth Laving lost its savour, may be tra ce d th e demo- ralisation and corruption of which they com plain; and yet they would have the Legislature expand the Church and increase the mischief. Experience supplies no guarantee of success from the theory they advocate, and they ought to supply some proof of its goodness before they have the boldness to make such applications. The Convocation, however, tells the House of Commons with great fervour, as if it had been admitted to the council of the ALMIGHTY, and was commissioned to bear His mandate to princes and lawgivers, that it must comply with the prayers of the Convocation, or the nation will ba visited with anarchy. TORQUEMA DA, the Grand Inquisitor, would scarcely use different language from this,--- Your petitioners, therefore, with all humility, but with the utmost earnestness, pray your Honourable House to direct your early and most serious attention to Me spiritual destitu tion of England and Wales, in order to take the most prompt and effectual measures for its relief, to secure the country, under Divine Providence, from the fatal effects of vice, anarchy, and irreligion, and seek His favour, by whom alone princes reign and kingdoms are preserved. If the House of Commons, therefoi.e, does not endow more priests, the nation will be plunged into anarchy. So these impudent men try to threaten the Representatives of the nation .• _ _ out of the public funds to enrich themselves. Such proceedings, combined with the heresy which prevails in the Church, supply much food for reflection. Impudence and inutility seem to go hand in hand. Like the landlords, whom we can well spare, they have the im pudence to tell this great nation —the millions of ingenious and skilful men, who .sup ply each other's wants, - who form each an indispensable part in a great natural system of combination, by which the whole are sub sisted, which is not, in fact, confined to any poli tical boundaries, but extends across the Atlantic, the cotton-grower of Carolina being as much a part of it as the spinner of Manchester and the weaver of Carlisle—these Puseyites and anti- Puseyites, who cannot agree amongst themselves, have the astounding impudence to tell the Legis lature, and to threaten it, that this wonderful system, which no man ever contrived, though men exercise it, will fall into vice, anarchy, and irreligion, unless their wealth and numbers, al ready astoundingly great, be increased. Con sidering how little these men know of what is good either for society or themselves, and con .. sidering the present quarrels amongst them selves, which ought to teach them humility, this petition of the Convocation of the University of Oxford is as great a piece of impudence as ever fell under our notice. If Mr. NEWMAN, who by his letter seems imbued with the humble spirit of a Christian, could teach the Convocation a little modesty, he would confer a great benefit on its members and on society. A. Correspondent has suggested that in the comparison we yesterday drew between the du ties levied on corn at home and the Colonies, we did injustice to our cause. We took the price of corn at New York and the price of wheat in England as the basis of ou.rnestimate of the rela- E tiv u e gl a a m u o d u ; n h t u o t f li t e he ou d guh t ty either the price of flour in lhethe the oColonieslo the w a h n i c d h i . n tine.nt,virwleiei nearer 30s. than 20s. the barreeehslt,ii wheat on the Con cent. lower than here sgpraovnadteentthies cdoirffreercet,nacnedwheisy says, to have taken n is o a r a ntt estimate le would price e pa geol per Co re pointed out case to that more than we stated , from f2O to 30 per cent., making the amount, unfavourable to England. our attention is again called to sbteelrideavye ou.r r the assigned subject we wtielasthall beg leave to give a prominent vision duties in the Colonies, for reducing the pro •to ask our readers if these place to the reasons, Mr. LABOUCHERE and, at the same time, reasons do not apply with at least equal force to England : i " He now came to a far more important clasp e Nest specific duties laid upon had before particular articles. As he _ v e s t of Indies—thedu t s—a elm.; far more affecting the interests of h stated the duties imposed at present upon beef, pork, shingles, and foreign articles of that description amounted to a duty varying from 20 to 40 per rent. ad valorem; in many in. stances it was 40 per cent. When they con-ider that some of these articles were the food of the colony; that others such as staves, were absolutely necessary to conduct their only mann failure, that of sugar; they must ace that these duties were perfectly immoderate and oppressive, especially if they consi dered that steps are now being taken for placing these colonies on a footing with the East Indies. As he had upon a former occasion urged upon the House the propriety of doing justice to the East Indies by doing away with the duties which were injurious to them, so now he felt bound to urge upon the House the propriety of putting the West Indies upo n a more liberal footing with regard to the supply of provisions. Ho proposed, therefore, to reduce all these duties very much ; at the same time, he did not deal with them in the same way as he would have done if he had been imposing them for the first time ; he would in such a case have proposed them much lower, but as they h a d a l ready been established, he thought it was their duty to be cautious of the interests now engaged. He proposed then to redu ce t h e duty upon all those articles to from 12 to 15 per cent. ad valorem. As fish constituted the principal supply of food for the Negro population, it was in the highest degree unjust to limit that supply to one sinote, and frequently a very narrow market." Is not wheat-corn the staple food of our people? Is there no reason in the growing skill of fo reign countries for placing our country on a foot ing with the manufacturing countries of the Conti nent ? Is there not in the present starving condi tion of our people an all-sufficient reason for placing them on a more liberal footing with regard to the supply ofprovisions? And is it not, to use the language of Mr. LABOUCHERE, " in the highest degree unjust to limit their supply to one single, and frequently a very narrow, market ?" We are at a loss to conceive how any gentleman who urges these reasons for, making a Cabinet measure of some petty alterations in colonial duties, can refuse to make a Cabinet measure of the repeal of the Corn-laws and the timber duties. We cannot understand how Mr. LA BOUCHERE, if such be his opinions, can, with any peace, or with any satisfaction to his own con science, consent to remain a member of a Cabi net which proposes no similar measure to redress the much greater wrongs of the people of England. Either the Cabinet should not have allowed Mr. LABOUCHERE to bring forward his measure rela tive to the Colonies, or it must, as we believe and hope it will, propose measures founded on the same principles, but more extensive and sweeping, for the suffering people of England. In another part of our Journal will be found the . Report of a meetin g h e ld a t S a lf or d f or t h e _ _ revision of the tariff. Like the meeting at Liver pool, it was attended by both Whigs and Tories, and the resolutions were passed unanimously. The Ministers are sure of their own friends throughout the country, and when they see their opponents coming forward to petition for the re vision of the tariff, they will surely take heart, and, after Easter, propose a large and liberal measure. The whole of the letters and papers brought by the Colombia, indicate on the part of the Americans a desire rather to provoke than to shun a conflict with this country. Among the most far-sighted transatlantic statesmen, the impression is said to be general that the seeds of war are sown, and that a contest sooner or later is inevitable. It is rather from the tenor of the articles in the American papers, and the speeches in Congress, than from any positive statement of the fact, that we learn that the affair of the Caro line is but a pretext for covering what the Ameri cans regard as a far deeper grievance —the efforts of our Government to secure the freedom of the coloured race. The seizure by British vessels of American slavers, on the coast of Africa, and the correspondence between Mr. Fox and the United States Government relative to the Amistad, have contributed more to the war fever of the States than would the burning of ten piratical steamers in the very harbour of New York. The New President, General HARRISON, is prepared to go all lengths to maintain slavery in the Southern States. At a recent visi to Petersburgh, thi s distinguished speci men o f p er f ec t R epu bli c anism absolutely treated the rumour of his being an Abolitionist as a calumny so foul as to require from him a reference to the history of his life in repudiation of it ! But general as is the present excitement, it is impossible that the Government of the United States can be blind to the dreadful consequences of a deadly struggle with this country. For whenever there is a war between England and America the struggle will indeed be deadly. It will be a war on our parts against the very prin ciples of the United States' nationality—against the very existence of slavery throughout the New World. The very object of the war would sanctify it in the eyes of every man, woman, and child in the British dominions. We might be beaten, but assuredly we would break up the Federal Government, and put an end to the Union. That we would be victorious in such a war is, however,the confident opinion of nineteen twentieths of the people of England.Thefollowing remarks, which we find in an article in the Times of yesterday, accord so entirely with our views, and appear to us so well worthy of the serious attention of our transatlantic neighbours, that we quote them here : Devoutly deprecating as we do the possible contingencies of a war with the United States, less on account of its immediate or remote consequences to Britain than of the irreparable evils it must inflict upon civilization and humanity at large, it is ne cessary, nevertheless, to contemplate these contingencies in a provident and reasonable spirit. We would, consequently, re mind our transatlantic rivals, that, should those extremities occur which they are so gratuitously endeavouring to pro yoke, they must find themselves at a disadvantage with this country heretofore unknown to them in any previous contest. When the memorable insurrection began, which ended in their national independence, it was based upon the existence of certain undeniable grievances that engaged the sympathies of a very considerable por tio.s of our home popula•ion. Both in Parliament and out of doors there was a large section of their then fellow-subjects, who, if they did not positively approve of the rebellion, ap proved still less the political maltreatment which was said to have enkindled it ; and the two-fold consequence of that se rious dfference of opinion in England as to the reasonable ne•s of the dispute, was, in the first place, a corresponding confidence on the part of the insurgent Colonists with respect to the justice of their cause; and secondly, such a proportionable want of vigour and public sup port in the military movements of the British Ministry of that day, as tended in no small degree to render them in effectual. On the present occasion matters are in a very dif ferent state. If ever a people were cordially united, both as to the justice of their cause, and the firmness of their determination _ _ to Prosecute it to a favourable issue, it is the people of Great Bri tain in their existing dispute with America. A false sense of honour we cart afford I o dispense with. Our appetite for military glory, if ever it had a place in British policy, has been long since satiated to the full. But the paramount neceisity of pre serving our dependencies from lawless aggression, and of pro tecting the life of a British subject who has dime his country good service in that particular, can never be permitted, con sistently with our national honour, to give place to any other considerations whatever, even though war, with all its calami ties should be the inevitable consequence. Perhaps the Ame ricans will breathe a little, and think of this. This is wholeso:ne counsel. The Americans will act wisely in weighing it carefully. Some among them affect to believe that if they hang Mr. M'LEon England will not go to war. They are mistaken. England will make war, and in making it the Government will have the cordial sympathy and support of all parties and factions in this country. There ought to be no mistake on this head, as otherwise the citizens of New York might take it into their heads that they might hang a British subject with impunity. We warn them not to indulge in the cherishing of such a delusion. It is folly.even to dream of it. But we have strong hopes that peace may still be preserved. When the Americans come to reflect on all the losses they would sustain, and the little gain even victory - would bring them— a result hardly possible —we have little doubt that they will see the wisdom of avoiding a hos tile collision with this country. The quarrel at present is entirely of their own seeking. They have not yet placed themselves in any position from which they cannot retreat with honour. As the Federal Government has yet expressed no opinion respecting Mr. M'LEon's case, the giving him up cannot be regarded as concessions wrung from the fears of the United States. It is there- fore competent to the Executive to, declare that _ _ there exists no right to detain Mr. SPLEop, and thus voluntarily set him at liberty. We have received with the American Journals the Report of the United States Commissioners, respecting the Boundary Line, which will be found in another column. The whole of the Paris Journals of Monday hAanAvdrdcoviibie,:esenfrormeceived, L'Orient,butf they h contain no news of the Bth. The — V g a u u n ba f n ri engine of 450-horse. political importance. an d u A t hker tHwQoutrans publishes a letter from lta? que, ij 0 - apot:4 ,caw: at frigate, was i Wsl will a t ebsae e ml afieu l trnt o ,ec t dh h ;hid i pi n ci s nwh t :twill: sasott one ea e s vr ob t that au; harbour ao h nn e ; The packets are to be of 450-horse power. Reggio, in Calabria, wa s 2•2t1 ult. The shocks were de Lyon of the 13th inst. Italy of the 4th, stating that the city of cairlry destroyed by an eat thquake on Alarine was converted into rtly aLtoNmarieles.... a n:ii a n iEn rs m t number, t s l o t3 sam sheet aged of as the to heap of ruins • most of the houses were thrown down, Palace of the Governor, the paintings he altogether uninhabitable • t other public build- Tribunal, the Prison, the ,the ß arr inhabitants had sought Cathedi al, five other churches tisyear's a l ad wo o r t k h s of . art, inns, r eg e werepartl aty d y epd;anailiveaorkouSst. Augustine, the The annual exhibition at the w ere presented, of which 1,800 were refused admission.er objects jury of examiners have, however, reported, that opened on the 15th inst. ;_ 4,000_ The ex hibition will be very superior to that of last year. Intelligence from Madrid comes down to the 7th inst. The retirement from office of M. Gamboa was attributed to the low state of the Treasury. Some German journals return to what they have already • said relatively to pretended advertisements, which they state to have been published by some French authorities on the left bank of the Rhine, at Lauterburg. For instance, to invite Bavarian soldiers to desert. We again meet the assertion of these jour nals with the most absolute denial of their truth. - We will add that the Bavarian officer of the Gendarmes, on whose authority the false statement was spread, has been dismissed by the 13a varian Government. It has been discovered that his report was made for the purpose of favouring [some stock jobbing scheme. A letter from Toulon says, that four ships of the line were to be got ready to convey four more regiments to Africa. We learn in fact by a telegraphic despatch, that the Scipion sailed for Algiers on the 12th of March. PARIS, MARCH 15.—We have received the following letter : " Toulon, March 11. "The detachments eantoned in the environs of Toulon, have received orders to go immediately to Africa. The Scipion will take 536 men of the 53d of the line, 314 of the 3d of light infantry, 95 of the 24th of the line, and eight officers. The day after to-morrow the Didon frigate will take on board 137 of . the :_'.d and 10th regiments of artillery, 344 of 55th of the line, 101 of the 17th of light infantry, and eight officers. Numerous fresh troops are expected in the environs of Toulon. General Galbois and General Schramm left Marseilles on the 10th for Paris."—Le Constitutionnel. 130 URSE„—PARIS, MONDAY, MARCH 15. First Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Price. Price ereoch 5 per Cents III 40 ... 111 40 „.. 111 20... 11l 25 3 per Cents 77 15 .. 77 20 ... 77 ~. 77 Bank of trance ..... 319',1 —.3190 ...3175 ...3180 Littitte Bank I,ooof. Si' IMO ...LOGO ...106C 5000 f. Shares 5160 ...5160 ...515u Belgian /Sank ••• 88' 50 88' 50 88 , 50 - 5 Ne I.e w r Cents __ 101%101% ... 101 1 ... 10154 ... mi.% Loan ... 1 1% .. 10.% ... 1(11% , panish Acnve 24% ... 24% ... 21% ... 2434 Neapolitan Passive SA ... 5 ... 5% ... b7i 102 1 5 ... 10 2 20 ... !92 15 ... 102 t.:O Roman . 102 102 . 102 ... lie RAILW St Germain Verbailles.R. 11 AY SHARES. 717 50 7 17 50 ... 717 50 ... 717 50 397 50 397 50 392 50 ... 3'5 ..... 311 25 ... 311 25 31' 31 .?, 1c5 . 6 75 ... 488 75 ... 487 50 1., Orleans .. Mu'batmen to Thant' , 420 Str,sburg to Bale 2to ... 4101 ... 420 ... t:4O ... 4L SO ... 920 ... 240 The Corn-law Meeting at Manchester, which was appointed for this day, has been postponed till to-morrow, in consequence of the room in which it was to be held having been previously engaged for this day. ERRATUM.—The sum of 200,000/. was yester day erroneously printed in a leading article for 700,0001., as the permanent charge which pur chasing slave emancipation has entailed on the industry of the people. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS %ATV," WEDNESDAS EVENING. After all, and now the news by the Colombia steamer has come to hand, the public mind in the City is scarcely more satisfied than it was previously; since, although the general tenor of the accounts is acknotvleJged to be more favourable, there is, in point of fact, nothing very eenclu sive in them. The Funds, however, improved about per cent upon them ; Consols for money touching 88i and for the Account 881 to 1; Exchequer Bills were still at ds. to Bs. premium, and India Bonds at 16=. discount. The New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. were a shade bet ter, viz. 96i to -I. The United States Bankshares have been heavy to-day. Tee Foreign Market was moie buoyant, but there were not any extensive operations entered into. Spanish Ac- tive bon Is ranged from 22i to 231, being a shade better. Ihe Deferred Stock realised Ili; Portuguese New Five per Cents. touched 301 to j., for the Account ; the Three per Cents, were steady at 181 ; Mexican bonds of 1837 rose from 27/ to 281 ; and 29 ; ,Colombian bonds cf 1824 went up from 221 to 221 and 23 ; but Peruvians were only worth 16f ; Belgian bonds did not realise more than 99/ to 100; and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents were steady at 501. The Share Market was dull.—Great Western Railway shares brought 23 to 1; the New, 10 to 11# ; the South Western, 161; and the Manchester and Leads New, 1 prem. • Brighton Sh ar es were 7/- to 61 ; Man chester and Birmingham 15 ; and South Eastern, 16-1, discount. . _ r 14* 41 , * ) , A; w itU , 4 A . • ak , is 4 14: • k,.. 1 0 6 , c';- 4 ;e O 4 ‘. *; Zbie r THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1841. (From The Sun of Last Night-) LIVERPOOL. COTTON MARKET, MARCH 16.--We have had a very dull market to-day, only 1,500 bales sold to con sumers ; prices without alteration. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, MARCH 16.—A very limited business has been transacted in the Share Market to-day. The following are the present prices:—Chester and Birkenhead New Shares, 16 North Union, 79k. 1 London and South Western 51. Shares, 41 ; Consols, which left off yesterday at 8776 88 for Money, and 88} sellers for the Account; opened this morning with an im provement, owing to a report in the American papers, received by the Colombia yesterday afternoon that a legation was coming to England to settle the differences between this country and the United States. Consuls at the opening were done at 84 h for the Account, since which they arc not quite so good, and may be quoted at ssi sellers for the Account ; Money, 84 ; Exchequer Bills, 6 8 prem. ; Bank Stock shut; India Stock shut. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active, which left off at 22h 23b, at present 23% ; Deferred, 11h 12 ; Passive, 5 4; Portuguese same as they closed, 30,-t- 4; Three per Cents., Ib * ; Colombian, 22h 23; Mexican, 28i ; Brazilian, 70} 71h; Dutch Two•and-a-Half per Cents., 50a h; Five per Cents. 99i 100. SHARES.—Great Western, 22 23 prem. ; New, 101 11 prem. ; London and Brighton, 7} 7 dis. ; Blackwall, 54 dis. ; Birmingham, 53 55 prem. ex. New ; Southampton, 55 56 per share ; Croydon, 114 12i per share ; Greenwich, 74 8i per share, ; Manchester and Birmingham, 16 15 dis. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 16.—The sales are London and Birmingham, 165; Chester and Birkenhead (New) 16i ; Manchester and Liverpool District Bank, 11 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 24a 25 ; Manchester and Leeds, 71 72; Grand Junction, 202 1 2031; Ro c hd a l e C ana l, E 6 87. _ _ The Montreal paper states, from the American papers, that the Prince of Orange, now King of llollind, •is a holder of stock in the United States Bank to the extent of 1,000,000 dollars. The fall in the shares of the United States Dank to 17 has caused some excitement in the city. The exchange upon London comes 8 to 8&., PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Great Western 4 5 Ditto New London and Brighton 5O - to 43 London and South Western Ditto Tenths l* ih to Manchester and Leeds Ditto New Shares Vlanchester and Birmingham ... 40 . Midland Counties lOO Ditto i Shares .. The news from the United States by the Colombia steamer, is of a more favourable and pacific nature than lately received. Consols, which were in the early part of th e morning at 88i 883 for ccount, receded to 88 3 , since which they may be quoted at 88k, with little doing; and it is not expected that 96. any speculations of importance will take pla ce unt il t h e arr i val of the President, which is to sail from New Y or k on t h e 10th C B o ill ns s o 6 ls to for B inst. New Three-and a-Half per Exchequer pm. ~ B ll r l e o ney have an k been Stock and Si, nd at i pre i s a ent 8 s S t ork shut. In the Foreign Market, very little doin g . S pan i s h A ct i ve 2.4 23 ; Deterred, 11l ; Portuguese, 303 ' • Three per Cents., NI.; Colombian, 223; Mexican, 284 ; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents. 50g. In Shares also little doing. Great Western (New), 60i ; London and Brighton, 424, 43 ; Manchester and Leeds, 31; ditto New, 25. The Dutch steamer Batavia has arrived, br:nging the papers of the 16th March, and the Dutch Funds of the 15th March; Two-and-Half per Cents. 50e, to 7.16 ; Five per Cents., 97i ; Ardoin's Spanish 21i and 5-16. Consols, Money, 88i ; Account, 88i 6 ; Colombian, 23i ; Mexican 2ti 29; Deferred, 9 1 11; Portuguese, 30a i ; Three per Cents., 18i i ; Spanish 23i i. Markets firm, with a tendency upwards. CLOSIN( BRITISI PRICES. FUNDS. India Stock Bank Stock — 3 per Cent Red — 'Ditto Bonds l6 dis 3 per Cent Cons BBl Ditto Old Annuities ... 31 per Cent Red — Ditto New Annuities... New 31 per Cent 961 Ex. Bills, 1,000/....21d Bpm New 5 per Cent Ditto 5001 6pm Long Annuities to expire Ditto S ma ll 9 pna Jan. 1860 .. Bank Stock for °pg..— Oct 1859 _— India St oc k for Acct.... Jan. 1860. FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent.... Portuguese, s,per cent.. Belgian, 5 per cent lOO Ditto, New Ditto Ditto, Deferred 3O/ Brazilian 80nd5.... — Prussi an , 5 per cent... Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent lll Chilian, 6 per cent...... Ditto, Ill e t a lli c — Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent :.31 Ditto, 1824. :,....... ..... 111 Danish, 3 per cent... — French, 5 per cent. —f. —c. Greek, 1825, 5 per cent. Exchange Mexican, 5 per cent...: French, 3 percent —f. —c. Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825. Dutch, 21 per cent. ... 50i Peruvian, 1825, 6 per ct. 161 Ditto, 5 per cent 994 SHARES. Great Western Railway (65 paid) ••• $ B l Ditto New Shares (DO paid) London and Brighton (50 paid) London and South Western ... ........... Ditto Tenths Manchester and. Leeds (70 paid).......... - Ditto New Shares (30 paid).............. 31 Manchester and Birmingham (40 paid)... 25 Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) ..... Ditto Quarter Shares (10 paid) . 14 SENTENCE OF DEATH ON A PROTESTANT CLERGYMAN.—Richard Sandes was inclictel at the Cir. low Assizes, on Wednesday last, fur that be, being a de• graded clergyman of theiChurch of England, did perform a marriage between John Lalor and Sarah Howard, both Protestants. Mr. Clarke, Crown Solicitor, said this pro secution was grounded on a very old Act, the 12th Geo. 1., cap. 3, by which it was made penal for Popish priests and degraded clergymen of the Church of England to celebrate: a marriage ; it was a felony, and such Popish priest or de. graded cl e rgyman s h ou ld su ff er deat h without the benefit of clergy. It has been repealed as to Catholics; it refers only to degraded Protestant clergy. The f act of Mr. Sandes having been in orders was proved by one witness, and his degradation by another, the Judge sent the case to the Jury, when the prisoner produced a priest's licence, bearing the seal of the Prelate, and signed by the Lord Bishop of Ktllabc. . His Lordship having summed up, the Jury returned a verdict of Guilty, after which the Court rose. On Thursday his Lordship came into Court at half past ten o'clock, and proceeded to record sentence of death on Richard Sandes. The prisoner begged of his Lord ship to allow him to say a few worts. The sentence of degradation had been passed upon him without his know. ledge. The Court of Carlow were adverse to lim ; it bad its eye on him as keen and as seam:ling as the glance of Kehama on Kehuried. AMERICAN TROTTERS.—The Americans, who deriv their Lest breed from us, have hi. herto been able to produce horses greatly super iJr to ours in trotting, and the only possible reason for this must be that they early habituate those horses that appear likely to shine at this pace to stick to it and no °the-, which they certainly would never think of doing were their trotting powers likely to be ramunerated by no more substant;al benefit to their owners; than mere fame. The Trotting Stakes on the other side of the Atliniie, however, are sufficiently large to induce the Americans to turn their attention to improving a pace, which, rrl ed rendered first-rate, is sure to be rewarded by amble pecuniary gains; and there can bo no doubt that were similer prizes instituted in this country, we should very shortly be able to compete with Brother Jonathan in a pace which he has so studiously cultivated as to be able at the present moment to send horses to this country which throw down the g aun t let to o ur best trotters ._. O ld Sportiv Magazine for .February, COURT CIRCULAR. Viscount Melbourne had an audience of her Majesty yesterday. The Royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace last evening included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Fanny Howard, Earl of Uxbridge, Vis count Templetown, Lord and Lady Burghersh, Lord and Lady Robert Grosvenor, Baron Stockmar, and Mr. George Edward Anson. The band of the Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards was in attendance during dinner. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert did Mr. A. Penley the honour yesterday of inspecting his portrait of the Prince. The Queen and the Prince Albert expressed themselves mach pleased with the likeness, and with the arrangement of the picture. The Duchess of Gloucester visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager yesterday at Marlborough House. The Duchess of Kent visited the. Duchess of Glou cester yesterday at Gloucester House ; her Royal High ness alio took an airing in a carriage. The Duke of Cambridge honoured Colonel Fre mantle with his company at dinner on Tuesday evening at his residence in TWley-street. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, ac companied by Lord Burghersb, attended yesterday morning at Exeter Hall a private performance on the I irge o , gan built for the Sacred Harmonic Society by Mr. Welker. The Committee of the Privy Council on Education bad a meeting at one o'clock yesterday afternoon, at tae Council-office. The Lords present were the Mar quis of Lansdowne, Earl of Clarendon, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Sir George Grey. Major Chetwynd, Mr. Elsley, Mr. Robert Holland, Mr. Talk, and Mr. Duncombe, had interviews with the Marquis of Normanby yesterday at the Home-office. Despatches from the Governors of Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. The Cabinet Ministers dined with the Earl of Minto last evening z:t his residence in the Admiralty. Her Majesty honoured Mr. Partridge with a sitting for her Portrait yesterday. BUDE LIGHT. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—Having perceived in one of your Papers of 1.1.4 week an article, on the authority of an anonymous correspondent, ridiculing the idea of any saving to the public by the Bude Light, and denying that the House of Commons is now lighted with it at 12s. per night, think it an act of justice towards yourself, as well as to your readers, to state, that having been professionally engaged there, I have had an opportunity of ascertaining that the sum in question is that now paid for this light in that portion of the House alluded to by your corres pondent. As regards the previous expense of lighting, to which he also refeu, I have no other source of information except that which I find in a letter from Sir Frederick 'French to Lord Duncannon, dated the 3d of March, 1838, and printed by order of the House, which I have just obtained from the Parliamentary Paper-office, from which I send you the following extract : Sir Frederick, in proving the great economy of wax candles, compared with the attempts previously ma , :e to light the House with common coal gas, says—" If t';e luitres were once fixed, the total cost of lighting Vim would be but 61. 10s. for each night of eleven hours, while the expense of gas for the same number of hours would be 161. 10s., a difference of 101. per night." If the offic'al document serves to prove the great economy of wax over another mode cf lighting, it must also prove ILL great expense compared to Cie Bude Light. Your correspondent likewise states that five or six men are now employed in attending to this light, at an expense cf 20s or 30s. per eight, which is also an error, as I have ascertained that there is only one man employed in the body of the House, and a boy attend ing to the lights in the lobbies, library, and other apart ments, as it is net likely that a greater number of per suns would be required to attend to the four lights in the body of the House than had been previously re quired to light and extinguish the 24C candles contained in Sir Frederick Treoch's lustres. - I have the honour to be, Sir, Your obedient servant, JOHN EDWD. JONES, Civil Engineer. 2, Parliament -street, March 16, 1841. EAST INDIA HOUSE. The quarterly general Court of the Propr;etors of India Stock, hell yesterday, was in the first place to receive a communi cation from the Court of Directors of a resolution come to by that body, for placing in the general court room a statue of the Most Noble the Marquis of Wellesley, as a pubiic, conspi cuous, and permanent mark of the admiration and gratitude of the East India Company, and for their concurrence in the ob ject of that resolution. The Court was also made special for the purpose of confirm ing the 'resolution of the General Court, ordaining a by-law, for substituting a declaration in lieu a the oath. to be taken by proprietors at every ballot, and further to receive the draft of a Bill now before Parliament, entitled, " A Bill to reduce the duty on rum and rum shrub, the produce of and imported from certain British Possessions in the East Indies into the United Kingtom." . _ _ l'roprietor had besides given notice of the following mo- Lon : " Ist. That the Honourable Court of Directors be re que.ted to take into consideration the practicability and ex pediency of permitting the occupiers and cultivators of th soil of British India to redeem the land-tax. " 2d. That the waste lands belonging to the Government be sold in fee simple, after the manner adopted in Ceylon, and in other British posses, ions." NV. 13. Bayley, Esq., was in the Chair. The minutes of the last Court were read and confirmed. Certain papers presented to Parliament since the la-t Gene ral Court, were laid on the Proprietors' table. The form of a declaration to be made by Proprietors en voting (instead of the former oath), was read, and the resolu tion of the former Court of By-laws thereon, submitted fir confirmation. A discussion took place on the motion for confirming the by-law. After which The CHAIIIMAN brought forward the motion respecting the erection of a monument to the Marquis of Wellesley, and said in submitting, for the adoption of the Court a proposal to add one more to the s atues of the distinguished and eminent men by which this place is adorned, it will be unnecessary to oc cupy any considerable portion of time. The merits of the Marquis of Wellesley are well known—they have been very recently discussed in this Court, and most honourably recog nised by the East India Company ; they need no panegyric— nor does the gratitude of the East India Company require either argument or eloquence to call it into action. Nearly 40 years have elapsed since the close of his Lordship's Administration, hut the events by which it was marked are fresh in our recol lection. as though of recent occurrence, and of those also who have read his admirable papers. The Marquis Wellesley ar rived in India at a period when the country was surrounded with pert—when the hence and security of that country were exposed to the most imminent dangers from within and from with out, when it required the mind of a man of his talent to rescue it from danger. It was his glorious destiny to place the British empire in India in a position of honour and safety which it had never befo e attained. His energetic mind embracing in one comprehensive view all the elements of Indian power, enabled him to combii,e them fur the benefit alike of that country and his own. He selected, with un , •rring and intui tive judgment, the instruments best calculated to carry out his magnificent plans ; while, by the force of that influence which great minds exercise over their fellow-men, he embued them with his own spirit, and directed vast distant and compli cated operations with a degree of preci ion scarcely to be looked for in the most ordinary transactions. The sagacity w ith which he selected officers for high trusts, was not more remark able than the generous confidence which lie reposed in their exertions, and the liberality with which he ascribed to them the chief merit of his own successful measures. Nor was this liberality confined to those engaged in great military and political duties ; it pervaded every branch of the administration, and a spirit of zealous and houou' able emulation, of kindly feelings towards the natives was excited or encouraged in the civil service to the extent which contributed less conspicuously indeed, but not less assuredly than his military and political achievements, to the honour of the British name, and to the prosperity of British India. 'I he CitA IRMA w, after describing at considerable length the beneficial results of the admini,tration of the Noble Marquis in India, concluded by moving—That the resolution of the Court of Directors to erect a statue in honour of his Lordship be approved. A great number of Members spoke in support of the mo tion, which was carried by acclamation. On the motion being put the Court rose as one man, and clicered for several minutes. Af er the tranmetion of some ( - Aber business of no public in. terest the Court adjourned. CHOICE AND MANAGEMEN T OF HORSES. —A Lew edition of that popular work, " Adventures of a Gentleman in search of a Horse," has just been pub- Ushed, and to this edition the author has, for the first time, given his name. In doing this, Sir George Stephen obrerves---" So many of my friends have stated to me that the anonymous publication ofary work deprives it of half its value as a book of reterence, that I have been induced to prefix my name t is fifth edition." This measure will, doubtless, st p the work with increased value, when it is known contain the experience and observations of so judicious and competent an authority. The adven tures are throughout most extertaining, coupled with the sounde , t advice, and the law cases are brought down to the latent date. Altegether, it is such a work as every gentleman interested in horses ought unquestionably to posses-. MEDICAL REFORM.--According to a Con temporary hostile to the Bill for the regulation of t'ie Medical Profv.sion, brought into the House of Commons by Messrs. Hawes and Warburton, the following verbally ludicrous clause has crept into it ;—" 4 Practising Medi cine' shall be consttued to include within their mcari ig tae recommending, prescribing, or ordering, either directly o inditectly, an y me di c i ne, remedy, or application whet s ver, or the relief or cure of any disorder, ailment, cr illness of the body or min -I, or any part therenf, or pe,•- r, rrning any surgical operation, minor or capital, or prac tisinr, midwifery ; and the words ' medical practitioner' shall n.ean a person qualified under this Act to practise me dicine; and the word England' shall include Wales." DEFECTION FROM THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY. —We have heard, and our information proceeds from the highest authority, that T. J. Trafford, Esq., of Trafford, has come to the determination of withdrawing from the Conservativ e party ; and that he intends, in case of a dissolution of Parliament, to give his support to the Liberal ca n did ates. This change in political sentiments has been produced, we understand, by the unmitigated ty which he conceives continues to be shown to ards the Church to which Mr. Trafford belongs, by some who are considered leaders in the Conservative, or Tory party. Prestos Chronicle.--L We know nothing about the truth of this statement ourselves. —Ed, Guard. 7, SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT THE NINE ELMS STATION, VAUXHALL. On Tuesday night a fire of the most destructive character broke out at the Railway Terminus, Nine Elms Station. About half-past seven o'clock a flame and smoke were first percei,ed in the locomotive engine department of the storehouses attached to the station, arid forming the left wing of the establishment, and above which was the tower containing the clock belonging to the Company, and well known to the frequenters of this lice of railway. The cry of fire was no sooner heard than the vehcle of the Corn pars's s mints on the spot flew to the store-room, and adopted the most vigorous efforts to extinguish the flames, but without the smallest success, the flames appearing to burst forth with still greater fury, and it soon became ap pa ent, from the combustible nature of the materials !gaited, that all attempts to stop the progress of the flames were hopeless. The apartment in which tie fire originated was used as a store for turpentiao, oil, &c., and an im mense quantity of these inflammatory substances was de posited in various parts of the building. Scarcely a quarter of an hour elapsed from tie first discovery of the fire, when the building was in a complete blaze, and burning with frightful rapidity. Every exertion was now made on the part of the ser vants attached to the railway to get away the carriages that were preparing for departure by the mail train, which leaves London about half-past eight in the evening. They soon succeeded in removing them beyond the reach of the dsvourieg element, and depositing then in a place of safety and in such a manner that their departure at the usual hour should not be prevented, cycled the whole establishment should be reduced to ashes; and the ser vants of the Company exerted themselves to keep the pass sengers at a distance and out of danger. By eight o'clock the spectacle pre,ented by the burning edifice was terrific and imposing in the extreme. The night appeared to be turned into day, and the whole of the engine department was involved in one entire sheet of flame. About ten minutes past eight o'clock the first engine of the London Fire Brigade, No. 22, arrive 1, and almost imme diately after, No. 15, and Mr. Braidwood, the Superin tendent of the Brigade. They instantly began to play upon the middle part of the building. Several other engines of the brigade followed. Mr. Tomlines, of the Vauxhall water works, also made his appearance, and the supply of water was most abundant. Great praLe is iclue to the Company, for the active exertions of their servants, by whose exer tions the en g i nes were a b un d ant l y supplied with water, and enabled to play with double effect on the burning mass. Notwithstanding the immense ,quantity of water poured upon the edifice the flames soon reached the clock tower, the timber of which quickly ignited, and the whole tower was envelope l in sheets of flame, which ascended into the sir to an immense height, and illuminated the atmosphere for miles round. At half -past tight o'clock part cf the roof, together with the bower, fell with a tre mendous crash. The efforts of Mr. Braidwood were now principally directed to the preservation of the - carriage department, a building separated by a few feet from the store-rooms, and forming the left wing of the front of the station, in which much valuable property, belonging both to passengers and the Company, was deposited, and fortunately the efforts of the firemen to prey. nt the flames extending to this build ing were attended with complete success. The next object was to confine the fire, if possible, to the part if the edifice where it originated, and to prevent the ignition of the building used by the engineers for mending and repairing the engines and machinery when out of order, and in which there was much valuable pro perty belonging to the Company. It being, however, a continuation a the same range of building, and separated only by a party-wall, the progress of the flames could not be arrested, and the whole of the engine department, in defiance of the utmost exertions of the fire brigade, was soon in flames. The rapidity with which they spread on every side prevented the Company's servants from even attempting to remove the machinery and other property deposited here. The number of engines which arc de stroyed could not be distinctly ascent fined. We ob served, too, a tender and a quantity of iron macicicery red hot. The whole will, of course, be completely destroyed. The iron turning la hes alone are vslued at 5,000/. The building adjoining this, and forming a tart of the same range as that where the fine commenced, was the engine shed. It was separated from the other by a strong party wall. The fire, which till about nine o'clock bad conti nued extending itself with unabated fury, by the exertions of the firemen appeared ssmevvhat subdued, which seemed to enceutsge tine men to increased exertion. The engine sl ed was declared to be safe shout a quarter pact nine e'clock, and by half past nine the fire was got completely ureierneed no further danger was apprehended. It it estimated that the property destroyed cannot ex ceed 50.0001. It is probably under than over that amount. The fire originated in the (*Mowing manner:—lt was suspected by the mein who have charge of the stores that the casks of turpentine and oil were leaking, and men tionieg this to the storekeepea they took a light and went together to examine tine casks. In doing so, the lamp, or a spark, fell upon tine turpentine, which ignited in an instant, and defied all the exertions of the store keepers to extinguish it. The brewery of Farren and Till, on the Battersea side, was at one period in great danger, but it escaped by Mr. Braidwood taking his men to that rile. We have heard of no accident whatever. The fire was visible at a great distance from town, and the fall cf the clock tower was distinctly soca by two g, ntlernen midway between London and Windsor. An express engine was sent off after the commencement of the fire, and also wLea the dagger had subsided. Pas sengers by the lino will not be incommoded in the least, nor will there be any stoppage or irregularity in the de parture of the trains, which will leave the station at the usual hours. Indeed, even while the fire was raging with the greatest fury, while one party cf the Company's e. - yants were direc ing their attention to assist in extinguish ing it, another party were actively employed in getting out the mail trsie, which left town at the usual hour. The fire was vi ible over the greater pant of the metro polis, and thousands congregated around the station, but owing to the exertions of a strong body of the police, they were effectually excluded from the interior, by which means the operations of the fire brigade were unattended by the iaaonveniences which they usually experience on such oc essions. We apprehend the property is insured. (FURTHER PARTICULARS.) The account of the loss sustained by the Company, it appears, has bean greatly exaggerated, ed, According t o a rough estimate made 3esterd a y morning, it does not ex ceed 12,0001., of which nearly 8,0001. is insured. The workshops of the ergineers and engine -men have been completely gutted, every particle of timber being reduced to ashes, and nearly the whole of the valuable machinery used in the repair of the engines rendered useless. Ru mours have got abroad that nine engines have been de stroyed, but such is not the filet ; the whole number at the station, excepting two without wheels, having betin re moved at the commencement of the fire, and as the build. ing in which they are usually deposited has escaped the flames, they are replaced in the same manner as befcre the fire, and remain tu,injured. The preservation of this pact of the building, as it is only s7parated from those consumed by a party wall, is quite miraculous. Indeed, the preservation of the carriage de partment at the other end, which is only distant about 15 feet, and of the brewery on the Battersea side, is equally astonishing. Hail there been tl.e slightest wind, they could not possibly have escaped eestruction, and, in all probability; the whole stati.m would have been redueel to ashes. The los3, unfortunately, is not confined to the Railway and Inierafice Companies, but the poor workmen will also fuel it Eeveasly. Upwards of 160 men, chiefly em ployed by Company in the engineering depai tment, will be thrown out of employment for a time. His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex is, we regret to hear, suffering from influenza at Kensington Palace, compelled his Royal Highness to keep his bed on Tueday. We hear that the Committee for managing the affairs at Lloyd's have adopted a resolution to the effect tl a, all vessels in twure shall he surveyed periodicaly, by the regulations, in order to be retained in the register book in airy manhcr . DEATH OF LORD VALENTIA.—This Noble Lon!, t'c eldest son of the Earl of Mountnc,rri , r, died on Tuesday at B ightor. His Lordslip vas in his 48th year, nod was mnrried in 1837 to Frances, only daught.er of the I,te Charles Jam.:s Sims, Esq. On Wednesday afternoon, the attention of a nu - ruler of persons walking on the North Pier at Leith, was attrac ed towards a boat a list e way ow, by two fiThermen, the only crew on board, risir.g up and fighting. In the course cf the contest, which was of short duration, one of them was driven by the other into the water, where, after floundering for a time, he got hold of the gun wale cf the boat, and his companion now lent all his aid to pull him on board. In this he was, however, unsuc c:ssful, and was frequently about falling into the water himself. The men appeared to be both int >xicated, and a b.at pushing off from the shore, arrived in time to relieve the half-drowned man. This tragicomical adventure seemed to have the effect of cooling the rage of th pugi. I:sts, es they then sat down to their oars, and pulled assay quietly t ) Newhaven.—Edinburgh Advertiser. THE GAMUT OF A POLITICIAN. —When Napoleon Buonaparte escaped from Elba, and re turned to France, the Moniteur, Sze., announced the evert as follorrs:-1st announcement—March, 1815—The monster has escaped from the place of his banishment : be has run away from Elbe. 2d—The Cor:ican dragon (L'Oger) has landed at Cape Juan. 3d—The tiger has shown himself at Gap—the troops are advancing from all sides, in order to arrest his progress—h e gill conclude his miserable adventure by becoming a wanderer among the mountains—he cannot possibly escape. 4th—The monster has really advanced as far as Grenoble—we know not to what treachery to ascribe it. sth—The tyrant is actually at Lyons. Fear and terror seized all at his appearance. 6th—The usurper has ventured t j approach the capit .1 to within sixty hours' march. Buonaparte is advancing by f; reed ma: cites—be.t it is impossible he should reach Peri , . Bth—Napoleon will reach under the nails cf Paris to-mor row. 9th—The Emperor is at Fontainb!eau. 10th—Y s tcrday evening his Majesty the Emperor made his public entry, and arrived at the palace of the Tuileries—nothing car exc7ed the universal joy I A SINGULAR DIFFICULTY.—The Empress has a fine fee.; but is enormously fat and unwieldy. A f.w days ago her Chamberlain, Sinzendorff, waited on her with a petition from some part of her territories, which was very interesting to her. They were alone in the apartment, both standing whilst he read to her the docu • msnt. Sinzendorff is a thin old man, stiff :Ind erect, and troubled with a rheumatic complaint, which his in some measure paralysed Lit frame. It happened that the Faper fell to the ground. The Empress bade him pick it up. " Helas I madame," said be, " ily a vinyt annees quej e ne me suis courbel" She would have stooped far it herrn If, hut was too unw i e l dy ; he was accord i ngly obliged to ring the bell for the purpose, and the Groom of the Chambers, on entering, found her Imperial Majesty in a violent fit a laUgAter.....sloinburne's Courts of Europe. MORNING EDITION. GREAT BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES. NORTH-EASTERN BOUNDARY. REPORT OF THE AMERICAN COMMISSIONERS; d The annexed R eport o f t h e C omm i ss i oners appoin te , by the President o f t h e U n i te d S tates , un der the A t of 20th July last, for the purpose of exploring a nd 5 13 e veying the boundary line between the States Of W: and New Hampshi re an d t h e B r i t i s h p r ovinces , '" submitted to Congress on the 9th instant, referred to the Committee of F ore i gn Rz , latians, and ordered to be printed. " REPORT, &c. " New York, Jan. 6, 1841.. 0 " SlR,—The Commissioners having this city, in conformity with your orders under date 29th July, beg leave respectfully to report : ffth " That the extent of country, and the great ee :„ of the boundary line included in the objects of tlieP e Commission, would have rendered it impossible to ha s % completed the task assigned them within the lienits.rtv, single season. In addition to this physical impossibi e,r the work of the present year was entered upon ° n ea t circumstances very unfavourable for making :anY progress. The law under which they have acre 1,/c4O passed at the last period of a protracted session, nearly half of the season, during which working 1 33 , 1ti 0 - 0 can be kept in the field, had elapsed ; and, althoug h , 0 assembled tor delay took place in the appointment of Commissione7t carry it into effect, the organization of the Board was °t ' effected,. in consequence of the refusal of ore of the t .4 . ) 0 . tw o m:ssioners and the Agent to accept of their nomina The Commissioners, acting under these disadvaDt a g tb ; have done all that lay in their power to accotnplisb. ed greatest practicable extent of work, and have o bt 1 0 3 -. 0 many results whi c h canno t b ut b e i m p o rtant in L oi s vexed and important question which has been co milted to them ; b u t, a f ter h av i ng f u lly a nd mat u , rp. o f y considered the subj ec t, an d i n t erc h ange d the resu lt 9„ their respective operations, they have come to the °O , elusion that it w o uld b e p remature t o em body the i 4 tial results whi c h th e y h ave atta i ne d, i n a genera:: • a l port, for the purpesse of being laid before the P, st• • and scientific world. Th e mer idi an li ne of the tilso Croix has not b een carr i e d t o a di stance o f more ' 50 rni!ee from the mo numen t o f t h e source o f that river; and the op era ti ons o f t h e ot h er C omm i ss ioners , a l. , • though they h ave covere d a w id e extent of onuatt,ost have fulfilled but one part of the ditty assigned thetarto namely, that of exploration ; whil e , ev en in the V r . explored, actu a l surveys will b e necesitary for the P a 0 pose of presenting the question in such forms a s c s e s , admit of no c av il. I n p art i cu l a r , t h e resu l ts o f the e ar ruination of the mo s t nort h ern part o f t h e line aPP t e he to differ, in some p o i n t s , f rom t h e conc l us ions 0 1 o 0 late British C omm i ss i on . S at i s fi e d t h at t h e latter bneig, been reached i n t oo h asty a manner, an d w i t h o ut' a sn o b , cient time ha v i ng b een expen d e d upon compa retive, ot servations, they are cautioned by this example a g a „ l ess committing a like error . I n respect to t h e argum e nt, , tive part of th e R eport o f t h e B r i t i s h Commissitte the duty of f urn i s hi ng a prompt and itora°";olis reply to su c h p ar t s o f i t as rest upon the " i i ol struction of treaties, and the acts of diplorna°l' ;e et been rend ere d f ar l ess i mportant than it 01 '" o f at one time h ave appeare d, b y t h e p u blicatO br the more i m p or t ant parts o f t h e argument laid ar , fore the King of the Netherllnde, as umpire. T his ~13 0 gument, the delib era t e an d stu di e d wor k of ceeer'tbe well understood th e subier, is a full expos ton 0 ' t he grounds on which the claim of the United States tow(' whole of th e di s p ute d terr i tory rests. It has tecelgee the sanctio n o f success i ve A dm i n i strat i ons of °PP°eo politics ; an d may therefore he considered, in eau " t ee to its original efficiel character, as approved b). eg whole n at i on . T o t hi s pu bli cat i on your Comm i s sion ° I ; leave to refer, as elute: dyke an argument which tng styled unanswerable. sand The operat ons o f th e p art i es un d er t h e cont of the several Commissioners were as follow et os " The party under the direction of Professor wick left P or tl an d i n d etachments on the 26th naq; of August. T he p l ace of general rendezvous gas " - L e v at Woodstock, or, flailing that, at the Grand Fells ° l lo a St. John's. The commi ssar y o f th e party pro ctede, o speedily as possible to Oldtown, in order to P r() ; boats and eng a g e men . P ro f essor R enw i c k passe- At land through Brunswick, Gardiner, and Auguste; w ith the former pl ace , b arometer N o. I was compare" v"e'of that of Profe ssor Cleveialti ; at Gardiner, with thew o Halloviell Gardiner, 'Esq. ; and ar r ang erreots ac r , made with the m t o k eep reg i sters, to b e use d as responding observations with those of the exP ed ` l o l- ere At Augusta, some a ddi t i ona l art i c l es of equ i p ment obtained from the authorities of the State ; but the rot rometer which it had been hoped might have Lela P cured, was found t o b e unfit for service. At 11°ult° e ar two tents and a number of knapsacks, with some powder, were furnished, by the politeness of G(' Lle Eustis, rom the Govethern m stores reached Woodst°°-k ent stores. on The f boats and all d• the 3d Septe m b er , an d a ll t h e party were e°llloeas except one engineer w h o h a d b ean l e f t b e hi n d at A gor, in the hopes of obtaining another barometer' he ' a bbateau was ther e f ore l e f t to b e i ng hi m on. The mainder of th e b oats were l oa d ed, and the Par`iteeof G barked on th e St. J o h n ' s on t h e morn i ng of the 'Thad September. T n i s , t h e ma i n b ody, reached the raia. Falls at noon on t h e B t h o f S eptember. T he reres e „ ing batte au , w ith the engineer, arrived the next e Le ing, having ascen d e d the rapids of St. John's in a r - dit d short beyond p rece d en t. O n i ts arrival, it was,' ° e ; that the baro me t er , on whose rec e ipt reliance ha d " - e e , • placed, had no t b een comp l ete d in time ; and althougaa as was learned a f terwar d s , i t h a d b een commit °r soon as finished by th e ma k er L' ,to the care of o t Graham, the o th er C omm i ss i oners fe l t compe lled to oe, out before he had joined them. The want of this har ° l . ter, in which def ec t s o b serve d i n ot h ers h a d beep re al died, was of no little detriment. " A delay of 18 d ays h a d occurre d i n P o rtland o i l consequence of the refusal of Messrs. Cleveland 8 0 , Jarvis to accept their appointments ; and it was io from the experience of the Commissioners s ect o°t at 1838 by the State of Maine, that it would requir e t be least thre e wee k s to reac h t h e li ne claitted by United States, from Bangor. It was, therefore , irst r io rative to push f orwar d, un l ess t h e r i s k o f having d by whole of the op era ti ons o f t hi s party paralYee t or ' the setting in of the winter was to be e t F a lls tered. It was also ascertained at the Grand o re that the stream s w hi c h were to b e ascen ded t ' op t always shallow and rapid, and that at the " l oot they were extre me ly l ow , so t h at t h e boats g'°";: the carry more stores than would be consumed witu'l s or time required to re ac h th e region assigned to Pr ° t e Renwick as his s h are o f t h e ,• duty, and•returrn pre came therefore necessary, as it had been feared be d $ it must, to be content with an exploration, inste ad or close and accurate survey. Several of the nle ti era' -batdian had be en a t th e nort h ern extrem i ty o f the -01 dian line ; but their knowledge was limited to dao single object. I nqu i r y was care f u ll y made fora &r ere through the count r y, b e t ween t h e sources o f the ' r vs .i - e re Fourche of Restigouche and of Tuladi, but non e t he to be found. One Indian only had passed his head of Green River to the Grande Fourche, e O 6 O O knowledge was limited to a single path, in a °ire- MO' not likely to shed any light on the object of the mission ;he was, however, engaged. The Fieu eb a the ters of Madawaska had never penetrated beYa" for sources of Green River; and the Indians, w i the% merly resided on th e upper waters of the W. " - t hat) were said to have abandoned the country for more twelve years. " The party was now divided into four detae hweri t t id g ef the first to proceed down the Restigouche, to the this of the bay of Chaleur ; the second to asce nd the Grande Fourche of Restigouche to its source. t he third to be stationed on Green River mountain ; go fourth to conv e y th e surp l us stores an d heavy ba,rgiffsdi to Lake Temiscouata, and thence to ascend the ' f t he and Abagusquash, t o th e hi g h es t access ibl e point o. do latter. It w as reso l ve d th at t h e secon d an d four`., Ab e tachments should endeavou r t o cross t h e con:Are o :44 meet each other, following, as far as possible, the br a b ko of land. A g enera l ren d ezvous was aga i n fi xe d at .1.1 Temiscouata. oo t ' " In compliance w i t h t hi s p l an, t h e fi rs t and se c he r, detachments ascen d e d t h e G ran d e Ri ver toge t crossing the W agans i s portage, an d reac h e d the el' ab fluence of the Grande Fourche and south-west bran of the Restigouche. i ce d " The first detachment then descended the 0° °II d stream, returned by th e same course to St. J o hn s' s pee reached the p or t age at T em i scouta on t h e 7th 01 eat tober. All the intended objects of the det iebin were happily accomplished. dire' " The second d e t ac h ment un d er t h e pe rsona' f t ho tion of the C omm i ss i oner , reached the j u nction ° o ho north and south b ranc h es o f t h e G ran de r°,.'lo,co:Oo on the 22d of Septemb er . T wo eng i ne ers, wit' - men to carry provisions, were then dispatched t° proceed the country to the mer idi an li ne, and thence to PT ke . • westward to join the detachment at Kedgwick bsery This duty was performed, and many valuable tions obtained ; b u t an accideet by which the . 1) " ru ts meter was broken, preeented all the anticipated IA of ,tilijekilmtisism i e on to fr r o es m w b h e ic in h g c a o c u c id omplished. • now placed in a de of at the j unction b o e f f u 2 i t: lr .i e i t(})a , ° d vi T ti tt tc h t a br i branch, and the Commissioner proceeded boats thus lightened towards Kedgwick Lake- n . lightening of the boat.: was rendered necessary in sequence of the diminution of the volume 0 1 the _ lave andh occarrence of fale aver which it would been impossille to convey them w .en n tha t For want of a guide, a branch mote western than which issues from the hike was entered. One of the boat s was ther e f ore sent roun d i nto t h e l a k e , t o await theeree• turn of th e engineers despatched into the meridian Du' The stores, which were all that could be brought 13P in th e st ite of the waters, were now found to be to • wholly i nsu ffi c i ent to a ll ow o f comm i tt i ng the Part , ' i • • the un e xpl ore d country b e t ween t hi s s tream and T ule . u t Even the four days which must intervene before. return of the engineers could be expected would dO p_ much to ex h aust t he m . Tne C omm i s sioner, Veerc_e, .1: resolved t o procee d ac ross th e coun try, wiih no other companion than two men, carrying ter_day' proses' s• It was hoped that four or five days'nrighti. feffice kr • Gre, eons of hi Bet e IPPr Vt , f o , e l; 1 . 1 1 eft