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MORNING EDITION E R T Of SUNDAY NEXT, MAY 2, will contain, In addition to its Political, An LitORIerary,GINAL and MiACCOUNT ofsc ellaneous Intelligence, THE NEWMARKET SPRING MEETING, By VATES. To be had of all Newsmen in Town and Country. Office, 20, Catharine-street, Strand, London. MRS. MABERLY'S NEW NOVEL. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols. post Bvo., with Por. trait of the Authoress, THE LOVE MATCH A NOVEL. By MRS. MABERLY. Authoress of " Emily." Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THE SECOND VOLUME OF A GNES STRICKLAND'S LIVES Of the QUEENS of ENGLAND, NEW AND REVISED EDITION, IS NOW READY, price 10s. 6d. bound, with Illustrations. " These volumes have the fascination of a romance united to the integrity of history."—Times. " A most valuable and entertaining work. "—Chronicle. " A charming work—full of interest, at once serious and pleasing."—M. Guizot. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THE NEW HISTORICAL ROMANCE. 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Doors to t e opened at half-past Six—the performances to commence at Seven ®'Clock. _ _ Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second circles, ss. ; Second Price, .`ls. 6d. ; Pit, 33. ; Second Price. 25.; Gallery Is. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets inky ne had upon application. Private Boxt, to be had so!ely of Mr. Andre,rs, bookseller, 167. New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE AND MR. WILLIS JONES. Astcunding Novelty. The . greatest attraction ever presented to the Public, supported by the most powerful Company in the Metropolis. THIS EVENING, APRIL 28, . _ _ Will be acted a New Grand Historical Drama, entitled WARLSHA ; OR, THE SAXON SLAVE. The Characters will include the whole of the splendid Com pany of this Establishment, magnificent Scenery, Costume, and Appointments, in addition to which a greater assemblage of Females than were ever engaged on the English Stage will form the Army of Amazons. After which, a Comedietta, called THE LAUGHING PHILOSOPHER. in which Mr. J. S. Balls will perform the principal Character. To conclude with EL HYDER. Ben Tareb, Mr. 0. Smith. Unequalled Splendour and Effects. "THE CHINA SUN," WHICH WAS REPUBLISHED LATELY IS NOW ON SALE, With all the LATEST NEWS. null RAILWAY SUN WILL BE PUBLISHED IN A FEW DAYS. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning 39 minutes after 6. f Evening 13 minutes after 7 LONDON: WEDNESDAY. APRIL 28, 1841. The Peers were last night occupied chiefly with one of those little discussions touching the character, veracity, and conduct of Irish Peers and Irish gentlemen, which reflect equal honour on the House, for entertaining it, and on the individuals whom it concerned. The Marquis of WESTMEATH began by accusing the Marquis of NORMA NBY of having described a Catholic priest as the Catholic rector. The Marquis of NORMANDY said if he had used the phrase it was from inadvertenc e . H e quoted letters from the Solicitor-General of Ireland, and several barristers, to justify what h e had previously said of the case of Mr. BIDDULPH. The Earl of Cu A RLEVILLE complained of the subject having been brought before their Lord ships without notice to him. He insisted on hi s own correctness, and that he knew there were three Ribbonmen on the Jury in Mr. BID' DULPH'S case. The Earl of WICKLOW admitted that the Mar quis of NORMAN BYES justification was complete, and the Marquis said he had written to the Earl Of CHARLEVILLE to give him notice of his inten tion to make the statement. The discussion led to nothing. A little conversation also took place about Dart mouth having being selected as the port of de parture for the West India Mails, which ended by the Report of the Commissioners to inquire into the subject being ordered to be laid on the table. In the Commons Mr. FRESHFIELD occupied the House, for a short time, with a motion for a Committee to inquire into the port of departure aid arrival of the 1 , 1 7 ( st India Mails. The CHANCELLOR Of the EXCHEQUER opposed th 1 , motion, and said nothing was more disagree ahle to the Government than these pers ona l ap . peals. The motion was carried, on a division, by 54 to 50. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL obtained a Com mittee to inquire into the expediency of ere c t.. ing a building in the neighbourhood of the Inns of Court, for the sittings of the Courts of Law and Equity. The Learned Gentle man founded his motion on the inconvenience of the present Courts, and on the convenience of the Solicitors, whom he described as a long suffering race. The House sat till Nine o'clock. The Times on Saturday last said " If capital and poverty are both let alone, Capital will in evitably make Poverty its slave." The Tory journalist, therefore, impli es that it is necessary to restrain capital to prevent it from inflicting an injury on poverty or labour. This sentiment was echoed by the Post, and described as truly Conservative. We acquiesce in it; we wish it were always present to the minds of legislators, and ge nerally acted on. If capital, however, when let alone is so powerful, it needs no help from le gislators to protect itself; and those who adopt this sentiment can scarcely avoid the Chartist conclusion, that at least labour ought to be fully represented, if not exclusively represented, that it may, by legislative power, repel the encroach ments of capital. Do the Tories—or the Conservatives, as they call themselves, in order to hide, under a new name, their true character—act up to this sen timent? Do they demand legislative power for poverty ? Do they place it on an equality even with capital? Not they. They haul forth the sentiment for a little holiday parade when they wish to catch the suffrages of the people, and when it has served that purpose they carefully lock it up till it is wanted for a similar piece of trickery. Far from giving poverty poli tical power their system turns on exclud ing poverty from political power, and on arming capital or property exclusively with legislative functions, in order that it may make a slave of poverty. This is one of the incon sistencies of Toryism. When it needs the as sistance of the people, it pretends to love and honour them, but it always acts on its own innate attachment to despotism. We have an illustration of this in the pro ceedings relative to the Parliamentary Voter s Bill. The Tories object to Lord MORPETH'S Bill, that it will give legislative power to the people, or enable poverty to keep capital at bay. They say that it will endanger property by making it share political power with poverty. But we will allow the Standard, an organ of the Tories, to explain the sentiments of its party. It said on Monday night, Should this revolutionary measure he carried—should the Chartist principle, that mere occupation of a certain nominal portion of property, independent of all profit or interest arising from its possession, be once affirmed for Ireland ; what, we would confidently ask, is to impede or even delay the introduc tion of the same description of franchise into England and Scotland ? * • * * First, there is the Govern ment plan for a mere occupation franchise ;—in other words, that a pauper who holds as much land as is worth eight pounds, but who pays for it sixteen, that is twice as much as it is worth, shall have the franchise ! and this is the sober proposition of Lord Morpeth. We all in this country know well the prover. bial anxiety of the Irish labourer to obtain possession of a por. tion of land at any price. This is his highest ambition, and to gratify this, to be the owner of his field, he will give such a rent for it, as reduces his actual condition below the daily la bourer whom he hires. He will live in filth and misery to pay this rack. rent to his landlord; and yet if such a human being pays a sufficient amount of such rent—that is to say, eight pounds a year—he is to be one of the constituency of Ireland. To this proposal Lord Howick says so ! You shall not depart from the principle of the English law and the nominal principle of the existing Irish one. You shall see that the man not only holds and occupies a sufficient portion of land, but that he shall hold it at a such rent as to leave him as much profit, as great a "beneficial interest," as will enable him to live like a human being, and not like an Indian or a beast of burthen. To give a vote to poverty is stigmatised by the Tories as a Chartist principle, and is to be resisted by them in the case of Ireland, lest the contagion of -protecting poverty from capital should extend to England. That a man is poor, and unable to live like a gentleman, is the very reason assigned by the Tories why he is to be excluded from political power. The Tories, by their words, acknowledge themselves sensible that capital, if let alone, will enslave poverty, and by their acts they confer political power on it exclusively, to enable capital the more cer tainly to attain this end. While the Tory party hypocritically pretends to have a respect for the bulk of the people, it treats them with undisguised contempt, They are not worthy, in its eyes, to have any share in our political rights. They are to be treated with care, like cattle, for the sake of preserving them in good working condition, but they are no more to be allowed to enter the political castle of the gentry than swine are tolerated in the carpeted parlours of our opulent farmers. Yet some of the Chartists, some of the working classes, are now zealously engaged in helping the Tories into office. A few fine and flattering words from the Tories, for whom they seem to have the habitual deference which slaves enter- tain for their masters, are sufficient to carry the Chartists off their feet, and make them follow the Tories as charmed men, moving under the direction of an enchanter's rod. In fact, the To ries use a powerful charm for the poor. Theirs is a golden wand, and the excessive poverty, if not the will, of some Chartists consents to do the bidding of the rich enchanters. Had the aboli tion of the Corn-laws, a year ago, restored the people to prosperity, Tory gold and Tory bland ishments would have lost their influence. It has of late been repeatedly urged as a re proach to those manufacturers who demand a repeal of the Corn-law, that they want to employ the cheaper labour of foreigners and so throw the dearer labour of our agricultural labourers out of the market. The statement appears to us untrue, and our readers will, on reflection, we think, be of our opinion. Our Anti-Corn-law manufacturers require the repeal of the Corn-law that they may set more English labourers to work. They demand it that they may be enabled to employ more English spinners, English weavers, English ma chine makers, English ships, and more English seamen than at present. That is their wish. It is quite an error, therefore, to assert that our ma nufacturers demand a repeal of the Corn-law in order to employ the cheap labour of foreigners. It is very true that were our manufacturers enabled to employ more hands at home, and were allowed to bring corn from abroad, that they would, incidentally, give some employment to foreign agricultural labourers ; but on what ground is it asserted that their labour is cheaper than that of English or Irish agricultural la bourers ? It appears from the evidence given before the Select Committee on Machinery, " that at present our artisans are greatly superior to those of Belgium, the foremost manufacturing country of the world next to England. An Eng lish 'puddler,' for example, with the same ma chinery and fuel, will produce one-seventh more metal than a Belgian." From other evidence the same fact is apparent, and it is generally as cribed to the more enterprising and persevering habits of the Englishman than the foreigner. Nov this characteristic is common to English staote agricultural t agricul tural labourers, as well as to English arti nz and re also, la bo inur labourer o i f l at the eContinentmuch superior r i a o a r are English artisans to foreign artisans. Com paring the payment of an English agricultural labourer and his p ro d uce with the payment of any foreign agricultural l a b ourer and his pro duce, there can be no doubt th at agricultural la bour is cheaper in England th an on the Conti nent. The English agricultural lab ourer receives less in proportion to the value of his produce than any Continental labourer. The supposition that labour is cheaper on the Continent than i n England seems to us to be false, and the charge founded on it is equally false. But if labour be cheaper in England than other countries, some persons may ask, how comes corn to he so dear ? The answer is, we have a law expressly to make corn dear, which is known to have that effect. It is the law which makes provisions dear. It is a proof that labour is cheap and abundant, that large quantities are now continually exported. If the labour of the Continent were so much cheaper than that of England, would it not be exported like French silks and Swiss watches, and beat the labour of the English out of the colonial and foreign market? Looking at the skill and steady, per severing habits of our people, English labour is, we believe, now the cheapest on the face of the globe, and the whole argument founded on its being dearer than other labour, proceeds on a false assumption. The ceremony of presenting a sword to th e infant Count of PARIS, engrosses the serious at tention of the Parisian Magistracy. The sword will be preceded by an address, which it is hoped his little Royal Highness will listen to without squalling ) albeit too young either to tine •,,. ' - , ' , .tf., , , : ` , - 4,Ap , .--- ?-';•,...,' S b . ~ au ,4r , . i- -. ' -.., ' • -s 4O s° i X.Y4 . • , , „,,„„„k5...,_,,, ! _ :. v•••••* 4 p...e-401°‘ •:;,,, 4 , As, A -4 ',.. ',.., Ar .'' -' -'4 "'" ~..- , r o .7' l ' ' * .... orz ~. •,..c.,, .....2.. 4 ,„.... ~ . ~„,,, 4.,...• ~,,a Vt ii r&ii„,.....,Y ~,, ~,4 „ __.•:, „ 4 , , c iiCi - . - ..- - ' '''' — ,11 10"t. ~ v '..lt . #tt THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDA Y, APRIL 28, 1811. The presentation of a sword to a child is sug gestive of some observations on the ridiculous form in which all Europeans embody testimonies of respect for eminent individuals. Swords are presented to retired Generals, who no longer want them, or who, wanting them, ought only to receive them from the hands of the Sovereign. SnufF-boxes are given to men who never used tobacco in any form; and salvers are voted to individuals who never knew the luxury of a side board. What do such men as WELLINGTON and NAPIER want with swords? Can they have better blades than those with which they carved their way to fame? They merit rewards, but these should be substantial and appropriate. The freedom of cities, too, is usually bestowed upon persons who neither reside in them nor are in any way in terested in commerce. Thus Sir R. PEEL is a tailor, and JOSEPH HUME a fishmonger, of the City of London. If the Magistrates of Paris wish to stand well with the infant Count they will present him with a pap-spoon and coral and bells, and reserve the presentation of the sword till his Royal Highness is grown big enough to wear it. They will then be better able to judge of the appro priateness of such a gift. For ourselves, if we may be allowed an opinion upon such a subject, we are inclined to think that France has put swords enough in the hands of the ORLEANS family. The Morning Chronicle assures us that it is an idle rumonr that the resignation of Ministers was likely to follow on the defeat of Monday. We are glad to learn that, for it would be very dis-, creditable to them to give up on such an °cm= sion. To remain in office, however, they must do something to recover their power, and what they ought to do should be the present subject of their serious thoughts. The party they had in the country is fast dwindling into nothingness, and they must place themselves at the head of another, or consent to retire and leave the field for more energetic and more resolute men. The question on which they were defeated is completely insignificant. It interests nobody szcept the aspirants for office, and may be easily reg•alated when the people have bread and are coiatented. It began in this way :—The Tories found out that there was great perjury at the /Irish elections; they made a great noise about it ; the Ministers hastily acceded to their state ments; and hence the efforts of both parties to correct an imagined evil. Mr. C. WOOD last night very properly scouted the idea of much perjury, and this being disproved, the neces sity for now meddling with the subject is at once extinguished. What follows?-- why that Ministers should immediately throw overboard the nonsense of Irish Registration, and take up the important business of the country. The bold step, then, which the country expects from the Ministers, is this—that they should state in the House on Wednesday that they throw the care of the two Bills on the allied Lords HOWICK and STANLEY, and that finding much distress and much discontent in the country, united with a failing commerce and a declining revenue, they mean to turn their immediate at tention to matters of more importance. They will therefore, on Friday, submit their Bud get to the House, and endeavour, hoping for the support of the House, to carry on the real, not sham, business of the country. They will not, of course, state on Wednesday - what the Budget is to be, but on Friday they should be ready to point out the difficulties of the country (and the accounts from the manufactur ing districts are most gloomy), and should pro. pose to Parliament a great reduction in the duties on sugar and timber, abolishing the discri minating duties, and proposing the abolition of the landlords' bread-tax, or at least the substitu tion of a small fixed duty on corn. If, after thus throwing themselves on the good sense of the country, and on the interests of the bulk of the na tion, they should be obliged to dissolve Parliament, they will have something to go to the country upon. At present they have nothing, they cannot carry on the Government, and they•must choose be tween some bold measure of great public utility or an ignominous retreat from power, with out the probability of averting that confusion to avoid which is probably their motive for always yielding to the Tories. They have for five years experienced the folly of such con duct. The division of last night brought that principle to its termination, and they must either change their course, and permit the men whom they by their obedience virtually acknowledge to be their masters, to accede to office, or they must aim a deadly blow at Tory policy and Tory power. The Madrid papers of the 18th instant have reached us. On that day the debate on the Re gency question commenced in the Chamber of Deputies, but up to pos.'t, hour nothing was de cided. The only ne‘'es brought by these Journals is the following decree, which appears in the Gazette of tk e 18th The Prov l sional Regency of the kingdom has adopted the following ';i ecree " I.st,. The Archbishops, Bi s h ops , P re l ates, &c., are to with:draw the permissions from priests to confess, to say the n'.‘ass, &c.. which were given to ecclesiastics who, after the decree of the Bth of October, 1835, received superior orders from foreign prelates, or from, those who followed the Pre tender's party, if they have not been authorised by their own diocesans. 2. They have to transmit to the Minister of Justice information as to the circumstances which at tended the ordination of each priest. 3. The first article is not applicable to priests who inhabited the Basque provinces and the Navarre which were occupied by the factious. Nevertheless, the superior ecclesiastical authorities will trans mit information on their behalf to the Minister of Justice. 4. The priests from whom the permissions will have been withdrawn will cease to enjoy the immunities granted to the clergy. They will be looked to as persons of the secular order. 5. The Alcades are not to allow those priests to perform the duties of their office 6. Amongst the priests who are interdicted are some who wish to go abroad, and passports will be delivered to them. 7. Are subjected to the preceding measures, those priests who received superior orders in infraction of the decrees and by virtue of dispensa tions and pontifical warrants not bearing the Royal exequatur. 8. Don Manoel Diez de Tijada, administrator of the Bishop rick of Malaga, and the excommunicated D. T. Fernandez Rebollier, and J. D. M. Munez will be banished, and their temporalities sequestrated.—Herein fail not. (Signed) ~ Duke de la VITTORIA. " Madrid, April 11, 1ti41." " To Don Alvaro Gomez Becerra." The whole of the Paris Journals of Sunday have reached us. On Saturday the Chamber of Deputies rejected the petition of the French re sidents at Monte Video against the Treaty of the 31st of October. The petition had been referred to a Committee, whose Report upon it concluded as follows : theirs s injuredA dispositi on pecu li ar to some of the French leads them t meddle i n t h e political affairs of foreign countries, where they Am ma i' h ave settl e d with com merc i a l v i ews . Thi s conduct of county ha ies in tehriecaOur authoritiesand commercialtlie p o a p g u e l n a t t s i , o n i n o s f t ead divers o f and supported it mistakes, which Govern combatting this pr • • ; o p ar rty, have, on the contrary, approved hence have arisen complications and 111ent has deplored, and which have observationsur are just, sensible, and well cositldieeasretothetreas timed, and their adoption by the Chamber , does credit to the moderatio n o f that body. We do obnoxious not • mean to say that charge Fr enchmen are especially of meddling with the political affairs of countries in which they form temporary residence. In this respect they are no worse than our own countrym en abroad, whose itch for politics, or whose ill-timed religi ous zeal, is a constant source of annoyan ce and trouble to the Government. The Archbishop of PARIS and the three Fre nc h Cardinals will assist at the baptism of the Comt e PARIS. On the day the Church receives him into her bosom, the grave and dignified Magis trates of Paris are to present the youthful hero with a sword with which to defend their liberties. They ought rather to present him with a piece of cannon, or, if in their wisdom they could manage it, with the whole fortifications of the derstand or answer it. Much will depend upon his nurse, and the novelty of the baubles selected to amuse him. However, the Magistrates hope the best, and are only anxious how they shall acquit themselves to advantage in the presence of so many Princes, Marshals, Peers, and Cardi nals. The infant Count, like other children of his age, tests the value of everything by the taste. We trust the Magistrates will be careful not to suffer him to put the sword in his mouth. In coffee little has been done. We have received 300 tierces by the Emilie, from St. Jago : part has been so'd by public sale, from 133 to 140 ; 159 sacs from B,hia, at 55 francs, E. F. We have had, by Rotterdam, 400 sacs from New York, 12 from Bourbon, 36 tierces from Martinique, and 660 sacs of Java. In sugars the markets have also been dull, 130 barriques have been sold at 62f. for the refiners of our town and the environs. We have received by our first arrival from Bengal for this year 218 cases of indigo, but which having been sold for de livery remains in second hands. There have been sold on the Place 16 cases of Bengal from llf. 10c. to 13f., and one case Java at 11 francs. The steamer from Rotterdam on her last voyage brought 155 cases of Java, which is destined for the interior. DIVISION OF MONDAY NIGHT. The division of Monday came on very unex pectedly for the Liberal party. They looked for an adjourned debate, but the Tories, who knew the completeness of their own preparations, hur ried on the division; Hence we findno less than thirty-two Liberals absent and only eleven Tories. Several of the Liberals could not attend on account of illness in their families, or of the death of relations; so that had the division been postponed, and the absent Members on both sides given their votes, the numbers would have been equal, as stated below : Tories and pairs 317 Absent ll - 328 Liberals and pairs 296 Absent 32 Leaving the casti ng vote f or t h e Speaker.32B THE MANNER IN WHICH KINGS DECEIVE. A ROYAL SOLO. —How many a visitor to the Court of Valencay has listened with admiration and delight to the playing of the King of Spain. His vigorous bowing, his perfect intonation and purity of tone, the tenderness of his andante, and the spirit of his allegretts, have excited raptures. But Kings possess re sources unknown to ordinary Mtn, and when Ferdinand re• ceiv'ed the adulation of his auditors, standing with an air of mo '.:iesty at the other end of the room, and relieved en profile against a rich japanned screen, what was he doing? The King of the two Spains and the two Indies was drawing his bow in the air, and the auditors were charmed by the skill of Boucher, who executed all the difficult passages while concealed behind the screen. After this display, and while the room resounded with expressions of admiration, while the enthusiasm of all was at its height, the royal trickster would step forward, in the coolest manner possible, to receive the rapturous applause bestowed on his sham solo.— Th eo d ore Rook's French Stage. Might we not extend this to other things Does not the Prime Minister, or some clever man stands behind the screen and fiddle politics, while the .Royal puppet bows and smiles and re ceives all the applause ? For the last century, there have probably been about three monarchs in Europe, Frederick the Great of Prussia, Joseph 11., and Napoleon, who have not been in all things —matters infinitely more important than the poor theory of fiddling !—like FERDI NAND, no better than quacks and impostors. The day of Royalty is gone bye. King-heroes are at an end, but it is still thought necessary for a purpose for some one to enact the part. When will the public learn properly to value the comedy ? INFLUENCE OF INTEREST ON OPINION.—The Liverpool Times states that Mr. John Gladstone, formerly a merchant, slave-owner, and planter, has lately become an extensive landowner like Lord Ashburton, and accordingly, like Lord Ash burton, lie has become a defender of the bread tax. We could not possibly imagine what had brought this gentleman from his obscurity to in dite and publish, in the Morning Post, as silly a piece of twaddle as we have for a long time met with. The fact mentioned by the Liverpool Times explains all. The great merchant is not yet hoisted into the House of Peers—he could not get a constituency to place him in the Com mons, and he is obliged, therefore, to have re course to the pr ess t o o bt a i n distinction. To show the bread -taxers how worthy he is to sit in their House by the side of Lord Ashburton, he has done by writing what that Noble Lord has done by speaking. We need not inform the readers of The Sun what that is. The Reformers of St. Martin-in-the-Field s will celebrate the opening of the Vestry, and the down fall of the old sect, by a public dinner at the Artichoke Tavern, Blaekwall, on the 11th of May. Sir G. De Lacy Evans will preside on this occasion, supported by Leader, Hume, and a hest of Liberal Members. Among th e stewards arc—S. Je.vis M.P., Tulk, Esq., Gordon, Esq., with Messrs. Addington, Bainbridge, Cannarn, Davis, Horne, Hunt, Kibler, Mulling, Pouncy, Simps on , Skegg, Wallis. and Williams. This is the seventh anni versary. Miss Day, a young l a dy o f great musical ac quirements, had th e h onour o f per f orm i n g on the pi anoforte on Monday evening bef ore hi s R oya l H i ghness the Duke of Cambridge and a s e l ect company at Cambridge House. ' His Royal Highness, who is an excellent judge of music, was highly delighted with the performances, said expressed .his astonishment that one so young should I .)e able to g o titto u it, the most difficult passages with complete effect. EARLY AND .RAPID VEGETATIO N.—A sped men of grass grown in a garth at Chester-le ...Street has b een shown at our office this week, upwards of t• Nave inches long. It has grown from seed sown in August last , and is as vigorous and green as if it had been produced by ;he influence of the summer's sun. —Newcastle Journal. MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFT,:. —The marriage of Lord Bruce, eldest son of the Earl o' Elgin and Kincardine, to Elizabeth Mary, only daughter of. D. L. Cumming Bruce, M.P. for the'counties of Elgin and ',cairn, WA place at Kin naitd House, Stirlingshire, on the 24d inst. city whose name he bears. What can Paris or its Count want with swords, now that they have walls to shelter them ? The French Government has despatched a frigate and corvette to China to demand the establishment of direct relations with the Court of Pekin on the same footing as those promised to Great Britain. It requires no great foresight to predict confidently that Commissioner LIN'S seizure of the opium will in a short time produce a moral revolution in China. If France insist upon direct relations with the Court of Pekin, the United States will do the same, and their example will be followed by all States trading with the Celestial Empire. Direct communication cannot be carried on without the presence of Ambassadors, and an Ambassador's household being an epitome of the manners and customs of the country which he represents, the presence of one or more must exercise an im-. mense influence among a people so imitat' ae as the Chinese. The acquittal of La Fra nce b y a j ary, for pub lishing the alleged correspor.tence of Louts PHILIPPE, is much commen"-,ed upon by the jour nals of Sunday. The legitimist organs rega r d it as a great triumph, 'clnd they are unbounded in the expression of their joy. The impression that the corresporAence is authentic gains ground, so that the ifoject of the Court in authorising the prosecution has been completely defeated. It Would have been far better to have advised the - KING to take no notice of such publications. Prosecution but increases their circulation and predisposes the public mind to believe them au thentic. The KING who dreads libels so much as to seek to repel them by punishment consults neither his fame nor his happiness in appearing as the prosecutor in a Court of Justice. His very susceptibility proves him vulnerable. A letter from Algiers of the 13th brings us the copy of a notice published by M. Guizot, Director of the Internal Af fairs of the Province, to put into requisition conveyances for revictualling Milianah, a notice which has caused a great sen sation by the terms in which it concludes. " If, notwithstanding this notice," says M. Guizot, "there should be found, contrary to expectation, refractory owners of conveyances, the Governor-General will exercise towards them the authority given to him, and they may expect to be punished, if there should be occasion, even by expulsion from the colony, since individuals who are not ready to bear their share in the common burden ought not to partake in the benefits which society affords them. It is said that an English merchantman has been seen on the coast, that it has a cargo of gunpowder for Abd-el-Kader, and that information of the fact was given by the French Con sul at the port from which the vessel sailed. Very severe regulations are imposed on the troops cantoned in the barracks of the fortifications. An order of the diy contains the following passage : " Every soldier belonging to the garrison of the fortifications of Paris who shall be met in the capital, without permission, shall be arrested and conveyed to his corps, there to undergo severe punishment. The Colonels of their regiments are to be very reserved in granting these permissions, which cannot be for more than thirty-six hours. To hinder the violation of this order, corporals are stationed day and night at the gates of the several barriers, who do not suffer any soldier to enter the city who are not provided with a permission countersigned by the Commandant of Pa: . , s . Thus the isolation of the soldier begins before the fortik at i o „ are finished. —Le Commerce. HAVRE, APRIL 24.—Judgment has been pro Tribunal of C ommerce to- d ay i n the case of 7.ounced by our * the Britannia, b e l ong i ng to t h e Steam 'l;la.:ne Phenix against vigation Company. It is well there lies an appeal agair: st this decision, for, t ru l y , it is as sever e as any Sh are h o '.aer of the Phenix Company, expecting,A large dividend, Coln pany are cond emne d t o old desire. The Brita nn i a Com pay to M. Guillon, the Manag ing Director of the Company of the Phenix, the sum of 700,000 francs, or: 28,000 i., with interest from the date of the dema:,a being made, allowing in place of said sum, the delivery of the s aid s hi p B r i tann i a, and here freight co Monsieur Guillon, on behalf of his company, or that the ~ .mount of such freight shall be paid before the expiration of fifteen days. It furthermore condemns the English corn • pany to pay all the expenses, costs, and charges incurred by or arising from this action, and that in case the Britannia shall be rendered -up, she shall be in good order, and free from any lien or debt whatever upon her. Our cotton market has been extremely dull duri ng the week. The sa l es h ave amounted to 2,658 bales, feedi ng ' the consumers at the rate of from 400 to 500 bales per day, at a decline in the prices, but the sales have been so limited that the decline has not had much effect ; it has ranged from two to three centimes. The arrivals during the past week have been 6,769—the sales 2,658, and the stock in hand is about 80,000 bales. THE LEVANT MAIL. We have received a summary of the news brought by the Levant mail on the 2.2 d to Mar seilles. The dates are Constantinople the 7th, Smyrna the 9th, Alexandria the 7th, Candia the 3d, Malta the IGth, and Naples the 18th. The health of the Sultan was improving, al though rumours had been current of his being poisoned. The Echo de l'Orient and Journal de &vole of the 9th state that the Porte was waiting for the advice of the London Conference, in ord , : conclude definitively the Eastern que s t= to Our private letters are confider 4. .. that the hatti scheriff of Turkey will be ir— octified. The Smyrna papers p_- csert that there were to be no chan g es in t1 2..e system of reform in conse quence of the tall of Reschid Paella • but our corresponci ence contradicts this statement, by an nou,_‘,,ing the dismissal of the Board of Admi ral' and the Commission of Public Utility. The .Augsburgh Gazette of April 22, announces thatßescliid Pacha will be Ambassador in London. Colonel Hodges, it is asserted in the Oriental Observer of the 9th, is to return to Alexandria as Consul-General when official relations are re established with the Pacha. Mr. Wood's appointment as Consul at Beyrout is denied. Lord Ponsonby, according to our letters, will probably resign, being dissatisfied with the con cessions to the Pacha, against whom his Lord ship is said to bear "an unaccountable antipathy." General Jochrnus arrived from Syria on the Bth, at Smyrna, on his way to Constantinople. The British fleet was at Marmorice and Malta, and the Austrian squadron at Smyrna. The insurrection in Candia was not over on the 31st ult. Rear-Admiral Sheppard died at Malta on the 4th. The plague still existed in Egypt. The letters from Alexandria of the 7th state that the Pacha's armaments continued. Ibrahim's health better. Accounts from Corfu, dated 30th, state that the Senate had vo t e d an Add ress of thanks to Sir Howard Douglas, who made a suitable reply. His bust in marble is to be placed in the Senate. TUNIS. In consequence of the French buying up so much cattle for Algiers, the Bey has prohibited the export in two months from March 22. - - ENTRANCE OF CABRERA INTO SPAIN. The Madrid Eco del Comercio of the 19th, in a letter from Gerona of the 12th, states that the official authorities of that town had announced the arrival of Cabrera, with Zorillas, Burg,o, and nine other persons, in Catalonia. This intelligence is not confirmed by any other advices. The Spanish Chamber of Deputies on the 10th rejected a motion by 123 against 50, that the vote for the Regent or Regents should be taken by ballot. The r:artisans for the triple Regency gained Fround on the Deputies, but the majority of the .crenate was for the sole Regency of Espartero. 50,000 men are around Madrid to preserve order. The dispute with the Pope became daily more complicated. Tile Queen Christina was still at Lyons on Sunday last. GREECE. Letters from Athens of the sth announce that on the 31st, M. Tricoupi embarked for Malta, on his way to his post as Ambassador in London. Sir Edward Lyons remained at Athens. M. Cochelet, the French Consul General at Alexandria, was at Malta in quarantine. The Marseilles papers state that disturbances had broken out in Thessaly. The Prince de Joinville had returned to Paris from Cherbourg. According to the Frankfort papers the north ern Courts are negotiating for a grant of 230,000 francs per year to Don Carlos from the Spanish Government. The Crown Prince of Prussia has left Berlin for St. Petersburg,h. The hereditary Prince of Saxe Weimar is affianced to the Princess Mary, second daughter of Prince William of Prussia.—Morning Post. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, TUESDAY EVENING. The defeat of Ministers in the House of Commons, though not expected to lead to any change in the Go vernment, as some of the Tory prints would fain have us believe, has necessarily caused some flatness in the public securities, far our readers must be made ac quainted with the fact, that there are Tory stock-job bers as well as Tory p!acewen, and that an opportunity is seldom lost by either to turn a penny at the expense of the public at large. Hence the attempt now to get down the funds, on the plea of the Ministry being in danger. For immediate transfer, Consols realised 90k in the morning, subsequently receded to 89k, and left off at 90. For the 25th proximo, the opening quotation was 904. and the subsequent transactions were at 90k to 4. Exchequer were not quite so good, being a t 15 to 13 prem. ; I n di a B on d s were markd 4 to 2 prem. ; the Reduced Tiree•aed-a-Half per Cents. receded to 971- and 97i ; the New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. to 98i and 98i, and the Three per Cent. Annuities to 89k and to 89. The Foreign Securities and the Railway Shares par ticipate in the dullness of the English Stocks. The New Five per Cent. Portuguese Bonds were a t 33/ to 84, and Spanish Active Bonds were nominally at 23/. The accounts by express from Paris of Cabrera having entered Spain again, not being credited, did not lead to any movement in the latter. Mexican Bonds of 1837 were worth 29/ to 308, Columbian Bonds 22k, Chilian 61/, Brazilian 69, and Peruvian 178 to /. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents, were 52/ to 52/, and the Five per Cents. 99/ to -a. Great Western Railway Snares were at 29 the New, 13/ to 141, the Fifth s a t 78, and the South- Westtirn at 19/ to 19/ premium. Brighton Shares were up to 1/, and Eastern Counties were at 14 dis count. Australasia Bank Shares realised 18 to /, Co lonial Bank 11/, London Joint-Stock 2/ to /, and London and Westminster 2/ to 3 premium. This afternoon the Foreign Exchanges were again in a depressed condition, chiefly as regards the rate on Paris, whither it is said large remittances are making, to complete instalments on shares in the Rouen Rail- way. The quotations were for three months' Bills as follow :—Paris 25f. 60e. to 621 e., Amsterdam 12 3, Antwerp 12 3h, Hamburgh 13 94, Frankfort 1491, and Trieste 10 to 10 1. (From The Sun of Last Night.) LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, APRIL 26.—The Gatton market continues exceedingly flat. The business to-day does not amount to more than 2,000 bales to the trade, and every tendency to a decline in prices. LIVERPOOL SHAKE MARKET, APRIL 26.—A limited busi; ness has been transacted in the Share Market to-day ; prices, however, have undergone no change since last rep or t : Edinburgh and Glasgow, 37i ; Glasgow, Paisley, an d Greenock, 27i ; North Midland, 811; Half Shares, 394 ; South Eastern and Dover, I 8 MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 26.—The Share Market has been flat to-day :—Manchester and Birmingham, 25%; London and Birmingham, 160; Do. New Thirds, 244 ; London and South Western, 564 ; Do. Tenths, 44; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 37,i. The Lisbon mail has arrived, brought by the Tagus steamer, and brings accounts from Lisbon of the 19th April, by which it appears that the treaty between Great Britain and Portugal was all but concluded, the draft of whi h was presented to Lord Howard de Walden, and was returned by his Lordship with his remarks and proposed alterations, and as soon as copied out fairly, will be forwarded to Lord Palmerston fur his consideration. The influenza was very prevalent at Lisbon. The Queen was confined to her room with it. The Government having failed in all its endeavours to obtai an advance of money from the Bank and the Confiance Com pany, has been obliged to announce that an issue of trea sury notes to the amount of 600 contos is about to take place. For further particulars we refer our readers to another part ot the paper. Ministers being in the minority in the House of Commons last night on the Irish Registration, has not had the least effect on the British Funds. The Market continues steady with nothing doing. The Richard Anderson has arrived in the Mersey, fruit Charleston, with papers from the above city to the 3d instant, and we are sorry to state that the papers do not contain any news of the President. . _ By the Hamburgh mail, arrived late yesterday, we have re ceived the price of the exchange upon London, which cornea of a shilling higher ; gold the same 428%. Consols remain at the leaving off prices of yesterday 90} for the Account ; Money, 90A ; Exchequer Bills, 14 16 pre mium ; Bank Stock, 172 173 ; India Stock, 2.5.5 A 256 k. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active same as it left off, 231 6 ; Deferred, 1:44 ; Passive, 54- ; Portuguese rather lower, owing to the intelligence from Lisbon not stating any thing respecting the Bondholders, left off 33 34, at present 334 -Z,; Brazilian, 69 70 ; Colombian, 22i- 23 ; Mexican, 29i 30A ; Dutch Two• and-a-Half per Cents., 52A i; Five per Cents., 99A 100. Sit.vitEs.—Grortt Western, 28 29 prem. ; New, 13A 14 prem. ; London and Brighton, 24 dis. ; Blackwall, 54 dis. ; Birmingham, 69 71 prem. ; Southampton, .58 59 per share; Croydon, 1.34 14i per share ; Greenwich, 8* 4 per share ; Manchester and Birmingham, 151 14 dis. ; South Eastern and Dover, 141 14 dis. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Eastern Counties Great Western Ditto New Ditto Fifths London and Brighton London and South Western 3Bl 58*..... to Manchester and Leeds ... 70 Although money continues easy, the British funds have been inactive during the whole course of the morning, and we do not hear of a feature worth attention. One should have thought that the fineness of the weather would have given some kind of spirit for speculating, but they arc all waiting to ascertain the particulars of the Budget. Consols are at the morning prices, 904 for the Account; Money, 904 ; Exchequer Bills lower, 15 13 prem. ; Bank Stock, nothing done ; India &rya:, 2554 2541, lower ; India Bonds, 4 2 prem. In the Foreign Tvlasket five bargains have been done; it is in the same state as the British Market. Sp an i s h A c ti ve , 23i ; Portu guese , 33 1 ,_ 34 ; Mexican, 30 ; Colombian, 226. The Share Market is also idle. London and Brighton, 44; Great Western, New Shares, 63'4 ; Eastern Counties, 9 ; London and South Western, 58k. Consols, Money, 89/ 90 ; Account, 9O i• Mexican, 29& 30A ; Portuguese, 33L 34A ; Spanish, 23k 6. Money Market heavy. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUG""' Bank Stock .......... — • , Aw• ' 3 per Cent Red... • !India Stock 0 54 i 3 per Cell* ' 31 - -- m00n5......... 89 i c !Ditto Old Annuities per Cent Red.. ...... 974 DittO New Annuities — New 3i per Cent 984 Ex. Bills, 1,000/....21d 13 pm New 5 per Cent Ditto 5001 l3 pm Ling Annuities toexpire Ditto Small l3 pm Jan. 1860 ... 12 13-16 Bank Stock for Acct... Oct 1859 l2 11-Itllndia Sto c k f or 0 pg.... Jan. 1860. 'l3 1-16 Consols for Acct 9oi FO REIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent.... 'Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent — Ditt o , New Ditto 34 Brazilian 80nd5.......... 69 Prussian, 5 per cent — Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent Chilian, 6 per cent...... 61i Ditto, Nletallic Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent 23i Ditto, 1824. .. ... 224 Ditto, Deferred Danish, 3 per cent — French, 5 per cent. —f. —c. Greek, 1825, 5 per cent Exchange Mexican, 5 per cent. ... 30 French, 3 per cent —f. —c, Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825. Dutch, 2i per cent. .•• 52i Peruvian,lB2s, 6 per ct. 714 Ditto, 5 per cent 99 SHARES. Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid) ..... P Great Western Railway (65 paid) .. ' Ditto New Shares (50 paid Ditto Fifth (4 paid) London and Brighton (.! London and South West Manchester and Leeds York and North Midlani Ditto New Shares (IC, COURSE OF EXCHAZ Amsterdam CF. 12 6 Ditto, at sight Rotterdam .2 U. 12 6i Antwerp l2 6 Hamburgh M.B. 13 12 Altona Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 55 Ditto, 3 months 25 80 Marseilles Bourdeaux 25 85 Frankfort on Maine... 1501 Petersburgh, 3Us ... 37 Berlin.... Vienna, effec. fl. 3 M lO 1 Trieste, ditto Madrid .. Cadiz Bilboa ... 35 Barcelona Seville 10 paid)... tern (70 paid) .. 64 id Railway (50 pd) 0 paid) ..............214 NGE—(YESTERDAY). Gibraltar 4B Leghorn Genoa 25 80 Milan ... Venice Naples Palermo, per oz 119 Lisbon Oporto 521 Rio Janeiro 27 Bahia Buenos Ayres New York, 21 days sight 44 Philadelphia 46 PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ. Portugal Gold Coin £0 0 0 Foreign Gold, bars... 3 17 9 New Doubloons 0 0 0 New Dollars... .......... 0 0 Silver in Bars 0 5 0 CO URT CIRCULAR. The Qqeen, accompanied by the Princess of Leiningen took an airieg yesterday-afternoon in a landau and four. or.i Alfred Paget, Equerry in Wsi ing, attended her Majesty on horseback. His Royal Highness Prince Al bert, accompanied by the Prince of Leiningen, rode out on horseback at the same time, attended by Colonel Bou verie, and Captain Francis Seymour. The Marquis of Normanby and Viscount Melbourne had audiences yesterday of the Queen. His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex visited Prince Ali-ert yesterday at Buckingham Palace. Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal was taken an airing yesterday afternoon in a carriage and four with outriders. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by their Serene Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Leiningen, and attended by the Countess of Mount Edgecumbe, Hon. Miss Cavendish, Earl of Listowel, Mr. Rich, Lord Alfred Paget, Colonel Bauverie, and Captain Francis Seymour, honoured the Italian Opera with their presence last evening. Mr. W. C. Ross, A. R A., had the honour yesterday of a second sitting for the likeness of her Royal . Highness the Princess Royal, by co mman d o f h er M a j esty.. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Anne Maria Dawson, honoured the Italian Opera with her presence last evening. After the Dinner party at Cambridge House on Monday, his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge had an evening party. The Duke of Cambridge honoured Lord and Lady Maryborough with his company at dinner last evening at their residence in Saville-row. A Cabinet Council was held at two o'clock yesterday afternoon at the Foreign-office. All the Ministers were present. The Council sat an hour and a half. Messrs. N. Roskell, Thomas Todd, and William Maury, a deputation from the American Chamber of Commerce at Liverpool, in support of a revision of the import duties, and Messrs. J. Hornby and H. Harrison, a deputation from the town of Liverpool, in support of a revision of the import dut es, had an interview with Lord John Rus sell yesterday, at the Colonial-office. Lieutenant-Colonel Miller had an interview with Via• count Melbourne yesterday, at his official residence in Downing- street. The Earl of Coventry had an interview with the Mar quis of Normanby yesterday at the Home-office. The Russian Minister transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office. _ _ _ Mr. Wisrburion and Dr. Lushington had interviews yesterday with Lord John Russell, at the Colonial-office. Despatches from the Governor of the Bahamas vre.tc received yesterday, at the Colonial-office. MISCELLANEOUS ESTIMATES. We have already given an outline of the estimates for the year 1841.42, which as stattd, we classed under five heads. The following are some of the items : I. R'yal Palaces—(expense formerly charged upon .he Civil List), 49,567/. ; public buildings, 27,0261,, among which is put down 9901. 21., incurred by the trial of the Earl of Cardigan ; New Houses of Parlia ment, for the continuation of the River front, and the north and south flanks, and for additional foundations, 50,0001. ; Completion of the Model Prison, Copen hagen-fields, 30,000/, in addition to 45,0001. already voted ; Hall for the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, 5 000/. The proposed building• is to be erected at the joint expense of the public, and the City of Edinburgh, and is to be also used as a church. The sum to be contributed by the public is 10,000/., of which 5,000/. was voted last Session. 2. Salaries and Expenses of the two Houses of Parliament, 58,000/., being 12,000/. less than last year ; Treasury, 54.000/. ; Home Department, 28,008/. ; Foreign, 72.9931. ; Colonial, 24,588/. ; Pay master-General, 34,978/. ; Penitentiary, Milbank, 22,221/. ; Poor-law Commissioner:, and Assistant- Commissioners, 59,531/. ; Consuls abroad, 113,5921. ; Mint, 46,405/. ; Official Postage, (in consequence of the abolition of franking) 38,000/., of which 23,000/. is put to the account of the Foreign-office. 3. Superanuations, 87,291/. ; French emigrants and Americal loyalists, 7,5001. ; Refuge for the Destitute, 3,000/. ; criminal lunatics, 3,390/. 4. Secret service money, 39,200/. ; convicts at home, 58,206/. ; at Bermuda, 20,679/. ; and at New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, 265,000/. The num ber of convicts at Bermuda is about 1,000, and at New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, 12,350 males and females and 509 children ; captured negroes, 25,000/.; Unkersity of London, 6,1031. ; revising bar risters, 30,000/. ; Polish refugees, 12,000/. ; steam na vigation to lodia by way of the Red Sea, 50,000/. 5. Civil establishment at Sierra Leone, Gambia, and the Gold Coast, 10,680/.; Western Australia, 7,099/.; Clergy, North America, 11,590/. ; Indian Depart ment, Canada, 18,895/. ; Governors and others, West Indies, 18,667/. ; Justices in colonies, formerly slave colonies, 58,700/. ; education, ditto, 30,000/. ; Expedi. Lion to the Niger, 39,974/., in addition to 61,263/. voted last year ; New Zealand, 6,000/. NOTTINGHAM ELECTION. STATE OF THE POLL. NINE O'CLOCK. Walter Larpent 264 M +jot ity for Walter ...... 288 TEN O'CLOCK. Walter Larpent 750 Majority ...... .... 315 lIALF-PAST TEN. Walter Larpent 929 Majority ELEVEN O'CLOCK. Walter Larpcnt Mojority 306 TWELVE O'CLOCK. Walter Larpent Majority ONE O'CLOCK. Walter 1778 Larpent Majority BRISTOL AND EXETER RAILWA Y.—lt i 8 with no ordinary satisfaction we inform our readers, that the con tracts lately advertised, from Bridgwater to Taunton, have been let, so as to ensure the completion of these eleven miles within one year. The terms are 18,0001. a mile, including the rermanent way, and every other expense. Notice has been given to the Great Western Directors, the lessees of the railway, that the line to Bridgewater will be ready to be opened for traffic on Whit Monday, the 31st of May next. Tenders for loans on debentures are being offered every day, and, in fact, th e fulfilment of the anticipations of the Chairman, at the h alf. y earl y meet. ing, sanguine as they were even then i n the p ro mising state of the Company thought to be , is so fairl y i n pro_ grass as to render it likely to fall sh ort of rather than to exceed the reality. All this is the result of having firm and resolute directors and officers. lids line would, for years to come, have prevented a chaos of incomplete work, instead of a well-finished railroad, returning a handson dividend to the proprietors, and conferring incalculable benefits upon the surro undin g country •—Devonport Telegraph. HENLEY PEERAGE.—The House of Lords, yesterday, decided that Lord Henley had established his claim to vote in the election of Irish Redresentative Feers. The members selected to try the King's County petition on Monday are Mr. Craig, Mr. Price, Mr. Hays king, Mr, R. Palmer, Mr, Bethel!, and Mr, Yorke. MORNING EDITION% THE BRITISH NAVY. The Journal des Debats of Saturday contains an ar ' tide on the present condition of the British 18 1/: which is n o t w i t h out interest. After refurring .'"; outcry rais e d some months back in England, 061 — h ..arched state into which the Min stry had alloweettbe. navy to fall, our Contemporary remarks that, for _sow; time, these reproaches have ceased, and that, no alt# e . was made lately on this subject when the NoY.P b t : mates were voted. The Debuts th en procee ds, 11 1 0 4 ' following terms, to assign the renson of this forlOW ante on the part of the press and the Oriposition.W e. hers : " Since September last the navy arsenals era te l Britain have displayed an activity and an i m mensili e , resources of every ki n d w hi c h are really predioe:e Much has bee n b oas t e d i n hi story o f t h at act of' the netians, which, i n or d er to prove to H enry lll, oi ea France of what exertions they were capable, corOu' e in building, fitting up, and arming a galley duriefijO r , day on which h e vi s i te d t h e i r arsena l ; b ut the,eo tions and resour ces di sp l aye d b y the E nglish are l r. thinly not less remarkable. In the beginning of tember, 1840, England had 27 vessels of the 1:m0 4 manner, though inefficiently, commissioned. Of the;'' 15 were in the Mediterranean under Admiral StoP"' 3 were and are still on the Indian station, 4 we reinttl English ports, wa iti ng to b e ca ll e d on to sail; havillgY tat their stores on board, but without their full compleON of men, and 5 were and are in port, serving as dept"' schools for naval gunnery, &c. At the end of Mu, r tc h b ; 1841, England h a d 34 vesse l s i n commission. P fleet in the Mediterranean, which had sent hone vessels, and had received a reinforcement of 4 t" ° which 2 were three-deckers, now consists of 17 of the line. Nothing had been changed in the numb er of the Indian squadron, nor in the vessels which serv e 4 11 ,, e as depots at h ome , b ut t h e num b er of vesse l s held ready for sea h as b een i ncrease d b y 9, o f which ~:1.; are three-decker s . B es id es , E ng l an d h as i ncrease de frigates, which in September were only 3, to the 9-_, f 9 1 , n1 : ber of 10. Th us , in the s h or t space o f seven ment. 4 the Engli s h Ad m i ra l ty h as armed 9 vessels of the al and 7 large f r i gates of .50 guns e ac h. Th e c r e ws° some of these vessels alone remain incomplete throer motives of economy ; and what is not less astocisbil is, that all these vast expenses could Nava been Will without the a id o f supp l ementary credits, by sihi„t: employing th e usua l resources granted for thejifiy. Nor is this a ll. Thi s marve ll ous activity has liCo'lnfr; dared a number of light vessels or steam-boaL:o being armed and fitted out. A line of steam-vast, touch at Canad a an d t h e U n i te d States bas bees', ganised since l as t autumn , to commuoicate with M" America and the Gult of Mexico, and will stoop b e j; full activity. Th e construct i on of the vessels alre' commenced has also b een urge d on with extraordies;,/ i vigour. F or i nstance , i n the yard where the It°Y; George w as l aunc h e d i n O cto b er last, may now be se e the Aboukir, of 90 guns, on the stocks, with her ram; pass timbers a l rea d y l a id d own. At Devonport, a ü b °,l steam-boat, of 500-horse power, which was commence on October last, has just been launched, and it is air nounced that fou r o th er vesse l s of equal power are' t d speedily f o ll ow h er . Whit t the royal navy of Er818"t has been giving such marks of activity, the /n erd's; service has sign a li se d h erse lf b y enterprises which if serve attention. Sh e h as d ef i nitively arrange d steam navigation with the Pacific Ocean, and is,ct; pleting th e commun i cat i on b etween England al?? 0 Asiatic possessions. A line of steam-boats or, 7- 1 , horse-pow er i s es t a bli s h e d b etween Alexandria and English ports, and one of the directors of this plan , to Anderson, is a t p resent i n E gypt, making arrangerne"6 for a re gu l ar li ne o f steam- b oats on the Nile, which. il h ' to go up a s f ar as Th e b es, and which will alloy/ t-jie Bombay couriers to stop at Kosseir. Travellers !to gain by this route the advent tge of a more agreele journey, and th e nav i gat i on of the Red Sea will shortened by half. In addition, in place of briegiv i ° from f; news from Bo m b a y on l y , t h e monthly courier f ro din will take his departure from Calcutta, and will te— ' at Madras, C e yl on , an d B om b ay. And to conc l u de tbis account, a new att em pt i s ma d e to shorten t h e direc t passage to India by d ou bli ng the Cape o f Good H o p . On this very day, A pr il 2 7, i s to sail from Grave send ' for Calcutta, the Maria, of five hundred tons, construc ted with sail s as f or genera l nav i gation, and w i t h Me , g ville's patent steam apparatus, capable of being taketilfnet and put on a t pl easure . Thi s vessel is to try the calms of steam-pow er i n ma ki ng way through those n'i ,0 e iy common under th e li ne , an d which prolong so ted i o usly the passage between Europe and India."—Tinta• CITY IMPROVEMENTS. t , Several letters having appeared in print dratving i : t- the tion to the subject, much notice has been taken ~:- suit city of the intrusion of the plan upon which t , i „,,i ff a Fire-o ffi ce is proposed to be built upon the g e neral u",.," , t laid down for the public imprcvementa in that q 08 1; 91 the City, and which appears the more. unacsofr: . able the more it is i nqu i re d i nto. The improvern e of Bartholomew-lane, wbich the Sun Fire-office sect° determined to render of as little value as possible, .01 designed as early as th e y ear 18 00, when a Bill was par for taking away the s h o p s at t h e corner of Threadater e ; street, and making a roa d t h roug h the tower of 4-- church. This project would have been carried tote t effect had not the Act m a d e i t d epen d ent on the COesn of Bishop Rorteas, wh ose name wai mentioned, and 0 1 not that Prelate died before his consent could be v r ; tained. It seems that h a d th e A ct ment i one d t h e " shop of London" generally, the improvement then pro jected would have been carried out long ago . The A e s • authorising this project was granted to the Bank C ,„ England, and • consequently, when the Royal Exch an g e was burned down, the City Corporation, after ob l2lll- ing their own Act, sou g ht t o i n d uce t h e B an k o f D a g' land to carry out that part of the undertaking that tre lated to the improvements in Bartholomew-lane. wheui be observed that the Act granted to the Corporation pro' vi-led that the Church should be pulled down alt ° ,„ e ; they. According to the pla n o f t h e i mprovemen t wu% the Corporation arranged with th e T reasury, an d whi c , was, it seems, signed by the Chancellor of the Excheqtf and deposited in the Town-Clerk's office, a line was to v 6 drawn from the north. west corner of Messrs. Grotei bark ing-house to the south-west corner of the Bank of &O I L, and this plan being so arranged, the Bank undertook sm", part of the improvement. The Sun Fire-office occuPr d a large pact of Bank-buildings, which are to be p.,,lie, down to make an area in front of the new change, where, it is said, the statue of the Duke of " e . lington is to stand, and the Comp an y, f or t h e s ae of that , new office, have selected part o f th e s i te o f the cht e a il f intending thus to occupy th e corner . The BO' in England, which had undertaken the improvements to Bartholomew-lane, transferred that undertaking 1 , the Sun-office, who commenced operations a c co rding ' t ; and had scarcely begun, when th e E xc h ange C om mas were informed that the south part o f th e new (Ace o° ta project 6 feet beyond the proposed line, in contrarea t % of every understanding on the subject. The Exeb 6e .f io Committee, alarmed at this, at once sent a notice t" Bank of England, and also to the Sun, of the env - 0 0 ba ment that the latter were making ; but th e S un , far fre ra retarding their proceeding, pursued thei r wor k, it is 01d, with increased activity, and it may now be observed, th e n the wall which stands on the questionable side b s been run up higher than the oth e rs. Th e Chairal ao o f of the Exchange Committee attended a meeting ue the Governor of the Bank' and the G overnor of tP Sun Fire.office, at which, after so me di scuss ion, 8- d appeal to the Chancellor of the Exchequer was Pr o ' posed. A meeting with the Chancellor of the E x chequ e rs took place on Saturday, and on thi s occas i on Si r Rebe r Smirke's opinion was produced, that the improveme n t would be greatly disfigured by the projection of the Fire-office. The Chancellor of the Exchequer expre ss his regret that he had no legal power to interfere, and II; posed a reference of the question to the Board of Wo r k which the Bank said they would consider. This is the Pr ` ' sent state of the case, as far as we can learn from inquil l made on the subject. These particulars only place in a still worse light sou p, I , before the conduct of the parties concerned in thisVeY A !! like aggression upon good taste and propriety. So 1 0 : 0 clue is there to this matter, that people are driven to 1„ supposition that it may have arisen out of a spirit of rive iri between two architects who have lately maintained to 0 eager a contest to be very good friends towards each othe r. We are far, however, from entertaining any such bell f ' and must wait till sonic, one better informed can enlighte n s the public. What renders the case peculiarly ano m a lou is, that at the very time the City is threaten e d w i t h thi s disfigurement in one of the greatest public undertaking't they arc expending money fol . the removal of the Fren ch Church, because in its present situation it has an unsightly projection, which is of far less consequence than the oil contemplated by the Sun-office. NVhatever the motives o that Company may be, one thing- seems certain, narriclY, that the conduct of the Bank of England has been highlf reprehensible in t his affair. They here intrusted with the performance of a great public duty; the Exchange Ce ll ': mittee, when th e y intrusted th em with that duty , could he' y have had a n otion that an y b ut themselves were to p erfornt p n who have abused it. r f b ni co nduct of the Bank of England cannot lot. character ized ot h er wise than as a gros s d ere li ct i on o f a public dutY . '" tith;ey and tr . ans ter it to the Coin v, yet, no sooner is the authorit in their hands th Times. LORI) C ARDIGAN AND SUNDAY FL°G . orrio.— Lord C ar di gan seems to b e one o f th e se unfortu nate individuals who cannot for their lives keep oat of lA 4 water. Il e h as scarce l y got out o f one scra p e ere be L is right into the heart of another. Mischief seems to be tu g .by iroiulting his o ffi cers and whipping his very element he lo.e. in. He alternates his amusements mg Tucket:s with hair-triggers, and plying the c ,, t , h () ;; nine_tails on the backs ot his men. flow long w , " 'Th madman be allowed to disgrace the ranks of the array', a.' - ' thus t, art humanity, decency, religion, and morals, alike at defiance ? The man himself has no sense of sham about him; but those to ale .m he is officially responsi bl e are greatly to blame in having so long tolerated such nuisance in the public service. —Leeds Times. FORCE OF HABlT.—Alderman Newman, vvi'v. had scraped together out of the grocery line Six hundrre!: thousand pounds, enjoyed no greater luxury the last tb 7_ years of his life than to repair daily to the shop, and, P r ' d Prirates--shoot: cisely as the clock struck two (the good old fashione• hour of city dining), cat his mutton wiili his successor. f The late Thomas Rippon, chief cashier of the 138 11 k 0 f England, was a similar oddity. Once only, in a Servis,oa.c,. fifty years, did he venture to ask for a fortnight 's bolid ra mbi c He left town, but alter a three d a y's unhappY -- y e, through beautiful greets fields, ho grew moping. pod p re, maturely returned to the blissful regions o f T hreadnee street to die at his desk. 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