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According to a Tor- Journal, the highest authority in the Church of England, the Arch bishop of CANTERBURY, " has felt it his duty to lay an injunction, or some equally binding order, ! on the Editors of the " Tracts for the Times," to cease from troubling the Church. Supposing that to be true, and supposin g the Archbishop of CANTERBURY to have power to enforce such an i order, and supposing, whatever may be his power,,that the order, out of respect for him, may be willingly obeyed, will such a termination of the heresy and schism in the. Church (to be delivered from which is one of its weekly, if not daily prayers) be satisfactory ? We venture to assert that it will not. A very important question has been started by the Puseyites, namely, how far the Church of England, as governed and adminis tered up to this time, is suitable to the pre sent condition of society; and how far its doctrines, as hitherto taught, are adapted to the hopes and affections of man. They have an swered this question, or both questions, prac tically—which is the most forcible of answers—in the negative ; and they, in consequence, pro pose great alterations in the Church. Their enemies admit them to be men of integrity, of honest purpose, of simplicity of life ; men of winning behaviour, of great knowledge and learning; and it would equally belie their cha racters, the great progress they have already made, and the expectations of the public, to suppose that their answers to these important questions, and their inquiries to arrive at the truth, can be suppressed by the order of that amiable, but insignificant prelate, Dr. Howlxv. Quench such a conflagration as that which consumed the two Houses of Parlia ment by a squirt, but do not think of ex tinguishing inquiries into the Church of Eng land, and hostile convictions, by the decree of an Archbishop. He has no authority to suppress discussion, and his attempt will only add to the materials for dispute which already exist. We have no doubt that the Archbishop, the Bishops, and the inferior clergy, would be ex tremely glad to suppress Puseyism at any price, much less at so small a cost as as Archbishop's injunction. We have no doubt whatever that the supporters of the Church—the demanders of Church-rates, the denouncers of Maynooth, the solicitors for Church extension, the advocates of Church supremacy and clerical intolerance—we have no doubt that the whole tribe of the holiest of-all men would think that the Archbishop has " laid the Church of England under the deep est obligations," if he can so easily stop what its friends call the poisonous stream, and heal the rent which exposes its nakedness and deformity to the world; but the Archbishop has no such power. The public have taken up the question. The newspapers have ranged themselves on different sides. The character and influence of the Church, and the moral effects of its teaching, are matters of great political importance, and inquiries into them, after the deductions and condemnations of the Puseyites, are not, we can assure the Church men, to be put a stop to by Dr. HOWLEY'S com mands. If Dr. PUSEY should be silenced, if Mr. NEWMAN should cease to preach and write, if Dr. SEWELL should be steady in his rat ting, if Dr. HOOK should prefer the plainness of Methodism to the blandishments of a quasi Po pery, other men will arise in the bosom of the Church itself, who will help the public to expose the faults and the vices of the corrupted and de caying institution. We hold the Puseyites to be quite right in their main and first conclusion, namely, that the Church, as hitherto administered, has not an swered either the wants of society or the hopes of individuals. Dr. NEWMAN has said— " There is at this moment a great progress of the religions mind of our Church to something deeper and truer than satis fied the last century. The age is moving towards something, and most unhappily the one religious communion among us, which has of late years been practically in possession of this something, is the Church of Rome. She alone, amid all the errors and evils of her practical system, has given free scope to the feelings of awe, mystery, tenderness, devotednes s , an d other feelings which may be especially called Catholic. The question then is, whether we shall give them up to the Roman Church, or claim them for ourselves, as well we may, by revert ing to that older system which has of late years indeed been superseded, but which has been, and is, quite congenial (to say the least), I should rather say proper and natural, to our 'Church. But if we do give them up, then we must give up the men who cherish them. We must consent either to give up the men or the principles." A High Church authority explains this to mean—and there can be no question about it— that the Church of England, as at present con stituted, with her creeds, her liturgy, her homi lies, are not sufficient to satisfy the age. There fore Mr. NEWMAN and his friends seek after something deeper and. truer. That is the great truth which the Puseyites maintain—their first discovery ; but, with singular obtuse ness , th ey search only amongst the despised mummeries of a departed age for means to satisfy the wants of this age, though its own feelings and tendencies have (and nothing else) forced on them the con. viction of the inefficiency of the Church. In stead of seeking, in the knowledge of the age, for the means of satisfying its" the Pusey ites go back to the Fathers. Mr. NEWMAN has no contealment about him He maintains boldly that the Church of Rome is in possession of that something which is to satisfy the age SHE A LONE, not the Church of England, he says, gives free scope to awe and mystery, or, in other words, cherishes the vague and puts down the tangible. She alone keeps alive those feelings of devotedness and tenderness on which the priesthood fasten their iron hooks to hoist them selves into greatness ; and though the eulogium is somewhat scandalous in a member of that Church which has been persecuting Rome po litically for many years, on account of tendencies the reverse of these, it is not the less instruc tive, as a clue to what these new reformers of re .. ilgion propose. The Church of Rome, according to the plain speaking Mr. NEWMAN, is the steadfast adherent of that older system, which has of late years been superseded; and the Ch urc h of England must, he says, conform to the practices of Rome, or it must lose the votaries who will have the vague, the mystical, and the awful. In plain language, if the Church of England, ac cording to Mr. NEWMAN, does not go back to the Church of Rome, it will be deserted. He has a logical mind. He feels that there is no stopping half way with a mystery. Men cannot believe a part, and deny a part. Mr. NEWMAN is a believer in the mys teries of the Church; he perceives, however, that they do not satisfy this inquiring age, and he flees to Rome—there, amidst the awe and mystery of the theatrical celebration of Easter at St. Peter's, he. fixes the anchor of his hope and kis faith. The first discovery of the Pusey ites is a great truth; their deduction from the Church dogmas, that safety is only to be found through Rome, will be scouted and decried by all but the slaves of the Papacy. Dr. PUSEY and his friends, however, teach doctrines too congenial to the Church of Eng land for that Churchi to ordination able to p u t th em down. Presbyterianismle the wh denounced as no Church England—is priest at a , to lds what goodthe Church the Church Pa pale Church o f the quasi Popery of M r . NEWMAN and not friends. Accordingly, at the eleventh hour his doctrine is censured, not because it is.funweihliteihstitahne co ntrary to the Gospel, and opposed to tr a di t i on and apostolical succession, all c Church cherishes, but because it is contrary to the statutes of the University. If Dr. H owLmy is only to receive the thanks of the Church when he has succeeded in putting down this important investigation—if the Church will not accept the will for the deed, the poor Archbishop, we may safely prognosticate, will descend to his grave without the plaudits of the Church. The Puseyite heresy has too much truth in it to be blown out by the motion of one of his lawn sleeves. We were a good deal interested by reading a few days ago in the Morning Post the following description of a gentleman who was lately the Governor of the Bank of England, and of course was one of the most conspicuous merchants of the City of London : The balance-sheet handed into the Court of Bankruptcy yesterday, in behalf of Sir. Timothy A. Curtis, has been scru tinised with extraordinary interest, the items of which it is composed being, in certain instances, of a very startling cha racter. Mr. Curtis's debits, on his private account, are put down at the considerable total of 106,692/. 15s. 2d., of which the portion comprising the original capital brought by him into the business of Garry and Curtis, in 1819, was 1,7741. 13s. To this it is proper to add, as a gift of Sir W. Curtis, 5,0471., and, as a legacy received out of Sir William's estate, at his de cease, lt9Bo/. further, the three items forming an aggregate of 8,7711. 135., or less than one -twelfth part of the debits. Mr. Curtis takes credit, on account of bad debts, for 6,0601., and on account of losses, for 2 7,2521. 16s. 4d., which sums form, between them, it will be allowed, no mean amount; but, when the expenditure comes to he brought simultaneously into view, and it is seen that, between 1819 and 1841, Mr. Curtis has taken out &the concern as much as 53,130/. 125., 0r2,5004 THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 29, 1841. aware how much of hollowness there is amongs them, we can scarcely conceive their vast asto nishment at witnessing the dissection of Mr, CURTIS'S affairs. There is a moral belonging to this state of things in the City, for the sake of which we refer to it, not from a wish to make remarks painful to individuals. But when gentlemen are in such a condition of doubtful solvency, we can well un stand that they must look with dread and horror at any proposed change which, like the total and immediate abolition of the Corn-laws, may per chance lower the value of the goods they hold, a poor 5 per cent. The want of patriotism in the City of London may be perhaps explained by the balance-sheet of Mr. CURTIS. The Levant mail, received this morning, brings advices from Constantinople of the Bth, from Alexandria of the 7th, and from Malta of the 17th instant. The news from Turkey and Egypt is by no means satisfactory. The SUL TAN had been so ill advised as to refuse modify ing the firman appointing MEHEMET ALI to the Pachalic of Egypt, and the VICEROY, on his part was at Cairo, engaged in warlike prepara tions. Among our extracts from the advices thus received will be found the Report of a speech said to be delivered by Lord PONSONBY, at a meet ing of Foreign Ministers at the Divan, which, if correct, is a very extraordinary produc tion. We certainly doubt its authenticity, but the form in which it has reached us fully warrants its publication. If it be even circumstantially correct—if it at all ex press the policy of our Government, we hesitate not to affirm that MEHEMET ALI has been most unhandsomely treated by England. Had he not relied upon British good faith, he might be now the recognised Sovereign of the Turkish empire. But we shall await the arrival of more authentic and positive intelligence before at tempting to bring public opinion to bear upon the policy of our Government in Turkey and Egypt- Belgian and German papers have reached us this morning. The following brief extracts in clude the only news they contain : BRUSSELS, MARCH, 27.—The Moniteur promulgates the treaty of commerce between Belgium and Greece, signed at Athens on the 25th of September, 1840. Count Hypotel Velain XI V., charge d'affaires of Belgium, at the Court of Turin, has set out to-day to repair to his post. We are assured that several very importa n t reso l u ti ons tend ing to introduce improvements into the business of the Post office, will be shortly laid before the King for his signature. Nothing of much importance was discussed in the Chamber of Representatives in the sittings of 26th and 27th of March. A trasstruc, MARCH 21. —lt appears from a letter just re ceived from Berlin, that the proposed prdongation for one year of the treaty with Holland is objected to by the King. The Estates of the Province of Prussia now assembled at Dantzic, approved by a great majority in their sitting of the 10th of March, the proposal made in a forme r sessi o n t o ma k e th e sittings of the Assembly public, se far that a certain number of persons, especially the constituents of the members, might be admitted to be present at the debates. DUTCH FUND3.—AMaTERDAM, MARCII 46. Money. Huila. %ctual Debt, 2% per Cent L O I4 MN .)itto, ditto 5 per cent. Arne' t Svndic,4% per cent 88)4 83% Ditto, ditto, 3)4 per cent 7;N, 71% Commercial Company, 4 1 ,4 per cent 1t334 ,64!4 Ditto (15'.5 and 1837) 5 per cent. ...... Loan 1537, 5 per cent. .............. 95% 96 Exchange on London, One month l2 05 Two months ..... 11 95 Dutch Papers, March 26. BELGIAN 1 . UNDS—BRUSeItLe, MARCH 25. Actual Debt, 254 per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cant 98% Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per - Cent B9 3 per Cent. Thirty-seven (1 , 40) - ...... ---,ii 4 Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent B9 Sccietyof Commerce, 4Yy per Cent lOO Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent ........ National Society . Exchange on London (short) —Brussels Papers, March 26. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIHONA, MARCH 18 Five per Cents. Metalliques Foxr per Cents. 99 Three par Cents. Bank Shares 1625 ...Allgenzeine Zeitung, Mareh '.:.'3 PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—Beetisr, Mane, 23. Bills. Money. St. Schuld. Sch., 4! per cent. 103% 113 i Prussian English Loan, 1830, 4 per cent 1004 i 1005 Exchange on London, three months 6lt % —Prussian State Gazette. March 24. Madrid papers to the 20th instant have come to hand. The Cortes were opened on the 19th instant, without any ceremony or speech from the Throne. On the same evening the Minister of Finance called a meeting of capitalists, to whom he stated that without a loan of fifty millions of reals, the Government could not defray its ordinary expenses. The terms upon which he sought this loan were referred to a Committee of bankers and capitalists. The Five per Cents. were done on the 20th at 27/ for cash, and 271 at sixty days. We have received the whole of the Paris Journals of Friday and Saturday. The great question of the day is the Fortification of Paris Bill, which is warmly debated in the French Chamber of Peers. There was quite a scene there during Friday's sitting. M. PERSIL, who supported the Bill, accused the Royalists of op posing it from a desire to place, by means of foreign bayonets, a Pretender upon the throne of France. This called up the Duke de DREUX BREZE, who protested, in the name of the Duke of BORDEAUX, against such a charge. A protest in the name of the Prince was enough to raise a storm in the Chamber, and, in fact, it became quite a hurricane. The Duke withstood for some time, but so great was the uproar, that he was not allowed to utter a syllable. M. Guizor delivered a long speech on Thursday in favour telegraphic of the measure, of which he assumed the entire responsibility. egrap The follo w i ng the Moniteu r o f Friday Lic despatch, appears in n il Ro :0:::: l e i ; onelllUed, AIERsS.FILLES, AfaitcH 25. Cont.INTERIOR. DU RHONE TO THE ti THE PEEFEIiCTINOIsciTt ci Th e judicial inquiries are The number of arrests is twenty. circularpublgiiis `. a v it i l t i h eon gfe E at ve a r c y t t i h v i i n ty g . commanding all Journal excited here nothing but disgust and one, nut attempt has is perfectly tranquil." The Moniteur likewise from the Minister of Commerce, e s a parted all Prefects and Sub-Prefects to take for carrying the Factory Bill into full effect. There is some Oriental news in the of Saturday. We regret to find it stated thats Commodore NAPIER and the PACHA coldly, and that the Gallant Commodore was so annoyed by the circumstance as to refuse a splendid diamond snuff-box which Bocuos B EY was charged by the VICEROY to preSent to him. The gallant Commodore and the PACHA have been both very scurvily treated. The speech of the Duke de Noailles has struck a decisive blow against the fortification law, in the opinion of all impar_ a- year for expenses, it becomes a subject of astonishment to our grave, plain, matter-of-fact men of business how he should have been able, with his insignificant capital of 8,7711 13s , to maintain his position so long. Mr. Curtis debits himself with 14,5001. for sums obtained from dif ferent directions, including 4,6001. from the B ane o f E ng l an d, 4,3501. from the Imperial Brazilian Mining Company, 1,800/. from the Alliance Fire and Life Assurance Office, 2,4001. from the Marine Assurance, and 1,350/., from the London Dock Company. The withdrawal of amounts like these from the funds of the Companies to which they are appli cable, while it has done but little for the creditors of Mr. Curtis, serves, on the other band, to disgust the shareholders of such bodies, and to render them exceedingly dissatisfied with the poor dividends they are in many cases receiving on their investments. It is, moreover, deemed to be most objection able that an individual with the very slender pecuniary means possessed by Mr. Curtis, and with a business the reverse of prosperous, should have been permitted to occupy a seat at the Council table of our National Bank, availing himself during the time, as he appears to have done, of a credit with the establishment out of which a loss has been realised by the proprietors beyond the amount of his capital. The aspect of the balance-sheet, taken as a whole, is such as to have sub jected the affairs of Mr. Curtis to a severity of ci•iticism a e have seldom witnessed upon any similar occasion, and we should have failed to give a fair outline of the movements of the day had we omitted to say so. We occasionally hear a great deal about stagna tion of trade and want of credit in the City ; for our parts, with such occurrences, we are surprised that there is any credit at all, and that trade is not wholly extinguished. Mr. CURTIS, bearing one of the best known names in the City, is by no means a solitary example of a gentleman who has lately caused considerable surprise, not to say consternation. The Messrs. MON TEMORE, who lately failed, bore a name al most as well known as that of Mr. CURTIS; and we believe that City people look with as much astonishment at their gigantic undertakings, and their actual amount of capital, as they look at Mr. CURTIS'S balance-sheet. Such circumstances occurring amongst the best known men in the City, may well create universal distrust. If the Governor of the Bank, the Director of the Imperial Brazilian Mining Company, of the Alliance Fire and Life Assurance Office, of the Marine Assurance, and the London Dock Com panies, be not a trustworthy merchant, where shall we find one If he be false and hol low, what merchant in the City of London shall be looked on as sound and substantial ? If the gentlemen of the City be not habitually tial men. This essay of a mind equally solid and judicious, demol sties all the illusions with which the defenders of the project had invested their work. If the law passes, it will be ruined in public opinion ; it will be nothing more than the still born progeny of two equally culpable ideas—that of military despotism, and that of revolutionary tyranny.—La Gazette de France. We have received news from Bona, dated the 10th of March. General Bugeaud arrived at Bona on the 9th. The National Guard, the troops of the line, and almost the whole population, were ready to receive him. The General tra-• versed the ranks, and was satisfied with the appearance of the troops. On the 10th he left Bona, to proceed to Constantine, with the intention of visiting all the camps and the interme diate ports. ' _ The Univers says—The Journals of London and Germany have spoken for some days past of negotiations, the object of which they allege to be to engage France to acknowledge and sign the Treaty of 1840. We believe that we may assert that all these assertions are completely erroneous. France will no! sign, and ought not to sign any treaty with the great Powers, but one which shall give and seriously guarantee a le gitimate satisfaction to her dignity, to her influence her inte rests, and those which it is more particularly her province to protect in the East and in the West. —Le anistitutsonnei. SMYRNA, MARCH 9.—Letters from Cania, dated the 19. h of last month, make no mention of the pretended troubles which were said to have lately broken out in the island of Candia. —Journal de Smyrna. BO UR SE.--.PARis,SATURDAY, MARCH 27 first Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Prick. Price French 5 per Cents lll 110 ... 112 .. 111 85 ... 111 95 4)4 per Cents..„._ lOl BO ... 101 50 .... 101 40 ... 101 40 4 per Cents ..... " 9B 50 ... 98 50 ... 98 50 ... 98 50 3 per Cents 77 35 -. 77 45 ... 77 35 ... 77 35 Bank of r'rance . ..3025 L ffitte !sank 1,0001. Sh lO5O ...1050 ...1 e:y , ...1050 elgian /Sank , S ?et Crlitl lO2 ... 102 ... 102 ... 102 New Loan lol7i ... 1 2 ... 104% ... 102 Spanish Ac.ive 24% ... 24% ... 24% ... 2.% Passive 5 34 ... 5% ... 5% ... 5% Neapolitan lO2 75 ... 102 75 ... '92 50 ... 0,50. iorran .... 1021 i ...10'2% ... IC2N ... 11V2i, PAILWAY SHARES. St Germain _ 711 0 ... . Ve , sailles.R. B 371) ... 37 1 . 28; ... 3,.. : 50 L. 8... .......... Orleans .. Wulhausen to Thann ... 420 ... 42'1 ... 420 ... 424 %lontpellier to Cette 205 ... 207 50 ... 265 ...: , v7 52 s;.r.isoutg to Bale 331 25 ... 331 25 ... 330 ... 3.20 ACCOUNT OF THE POPULATION.--A Bill has just been introduced into the House of Commons to amend the Act of last Session, entitled " An Act for taking an Account of the Population of Great Britain." The Bill directs that the ac counts required by the said Act to be taken on the Ist of July, shall be taken on Monday; the 7th of June, 1841, and shall be the accounts of the persons who abode in the several dis tricts therein described on the night of Sun day, the 6th of June. The accounts of house less persons, persons travelling, &c., shall also refer to the said night of Sunday. The accounts in Scotland are to be verified before the 30th of June. The Act also provides a small degree of consolation to bachelors and old maids, allowing them, under certain circumstances, to diminish their age, if they see meet, by five years. Thus every person whose age shall be twenty, and not twenty-five, shall be set down as aged twenty, and, in like manner, the age of every person shall he set down as that multiple of five years which either expresses his or her real age, or is next below it. The ' Bill repeals the clause containinc, a table of allowances to any parish clerk, or other persons who shall have assisted the rector, or to any person em ployed in the execution of the Act, other than the enumerators, registrars, and superintendent registrars employed in England and Wales in the execution of the Act ; and provides that the fees shall be fixed by the Justices of the Peace in petty or special session ; and also that the overseers of the poor, constables, tithingmen, peace officers, and the relieving officers in any union formed under the New Poor-law, shall act as enumerators if required by the Commissioners. We hear that in the arrangements made by e Commercial Bank of Londo'n, who have pu chased the premises lately occuped. by Messrs Wright and C. in Henrietta. street, Covent garden, the first consideration will be to make some provision for the family of Mr. Wright Biddulph, who, by the failure of the late Bank, has suddenly, and without any fault of his own, been reduced from a state of affluence to that of poverty. We doubt not but that the new esta blishment will meet with the encouragement which this liberal act on their part deserves. COUNTING OUT THE HOUSE.—The Spectator is very angry with General Johnson for having counted out the House when Mr. Grote brought forward a pet motion concerning New South Wales. We are bound to defend his conduct, be cause we approve of it. - There were only thirty Members present, and it is quite right to stop all business which it is proposed to carry on by such a small number of Members. If at the close of the evening, it was not customary for some half dozen or a dozen gentlemen to transact a great many matters of routine unchecked—if, when ever there were less than the required number of Members present to constitute a House, General Johnson, or some other Member, were always to count it out, and never allow any business to be transacted without a quorum, the Members would attend more, and being constrained to attend more, they would put a stop to much of the idle talk that now wastes the time of the House. Mr. Grote's motion was, according to the Spectator, one of great importance both to the colony and the people of England, and it was a disgrace to the House of Commons to allow such a motion to be discussed in the presence of only thirty Mem bers. How could the ignorance of the House be instructed, as the Spectator says, when there were so few to hear Mr. Grote ? To designate such an assertion properly, we must call it fudge; and all fudge, including that of supposing the House of Commons to be assembled when a little clique of twenty or thirty Members are gathered together ought to be put an end to by every ho nest man who possesses the power to put an end to it. In our estimation it is of far more conse quence to inform the people of England how the Members of the House of Commons attend to their duties than to listen to Doctrinaire Grote on giving more money or labour to New South Wales; and we therefore cordially thank General Johnson for having been the means of informing the people of England that out of 658 Members only 30 attended to their business on Thursday, "a working night." At the same time, we may mention that Mr. Grote's motion, witho u t th e consent of the Crown, which was not and would not have been given, could not have been put, and it would have come to nothing, whether Ge neral Johnson had interfered or not. THE WEATHER. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE STREET. NOON. MARCH 29. Barometer 29.96 In. Thermometer . 56 5 Deg. Highest • 58 Lowest Wind S. W. by W.—Freezing Point 32 Deg. Married on the 27th inst., Mr. Bentley of Moorgate-street, to Esther, youngest daughter of the late John Tucker, Eaq , of Westmoreland-place. BRISTOL SUGAR-MARKET, MARCH 26. We still remain without sufficient samples to make a mar. ket, and have therefore nethir g to report.—Bristol Mgr. curt'. DUNDEE, MARCH H.—IMPORTANT DIS COVERY.— A very important discovery has been made by Mr. Wall, of a cheap composition, which is a complete preventive against the destruction muted to ships by bar nacles and other sea insects. Fur a long period of years copper has .been used for this purpose, which completely answers the end, so far as protection to the vessel alone is concerned. The only objection to the use of copper is its great expense, and the rapidity with which it is corroded. The average expense of coppering is upwards of 11. per ton; and so rapid is the corrosion caused by the air and the sea water, that the copper requires to be renewed every five or six years. Sir Humphrey Davy endeavoured to remedy these objections to the use a copper by placing sheets of zinc in contact with it, which almost entirely prevented the corrosion and destruction of the copper ; but, unfortunately for the discovery of this great chemist, it was found that the means be used to preserve the copper rendered it use. less as a protection against sea worms, the poisonous substance that formed during the corrosion of the copper being found to be almost the sole cause of its protecting powers. The great advantage of the disco very of Mr. Wall consists in this, that be covers the cop per with a thin coating of poisonous composition, which, while it completely resists corrosion, by its poisonous qualities also prevents all destruction to the vessel by ma rine insects. The composition may be applied to iro n, zinc, or any other cheap metal, which, when coated over with, preserves ships as well as copper does. .• The pro pared zinc is about one-half, and the iron about one-third, the expense of copper.—Edinburgh Observer. DISPUTE WITH AMERICA.—What increases our regret at the present differences between the countries is the worthlessness of the questions in dipute. We are debating whether the boundaries of territories already too vast for their inhabitants, shall run for 100 mi:es in one di. rection or in another ;—and whether an act done in 1837 was or was not strictly legal. All sensible persons on both sides of the water must say—Let the questions be referred, or de. furred, or tossed up for, or settled in any way whatever compatible with our honour, so that we may hear no m ore of them, and return to the confident intercourse on which the prosperity of both countries depends. Austria, or France, or any other military non-commercial State, may waste its resources in war or angry diplomacy, but such luxuries do not suit nations of agriculturists, manufac turers, and merchants. Six months of alarm and suspense cost us as much as a little war. —Examiner. STEAM FRIGATES.--The foll4:4ing -are the steam-vess e l s or de re d to b e b u ilt : —S a mpson and Gladia tor, first class; Sphynx a n d I n f erna l, second class at Wool wichsecond class, ; Vi rago an d B u lld o at Chatham ; , Cormorant an d Rattler, seco g nd class, at Shee rness; Bel , zebub and Centaur, first class; Thunderbolt and Scourge, second class,; at, Portsmouth ; Vulture and Jan us, fi rst class ; Spiteful and Inflexible second class, at Pembroke. Total, sixteen ".11.V A 1 .ana; and Military Gazette, LLO YD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, MARCH 29.—Wind this day at noon—S.W., fresh breeze and c!oudy. STANGATE CREEK, MARCH 26.—Arrived the John and Mary, Ogden, from Venaro, &c., detained, having no bill of hoalth from the English Consul at Benicallo. DEAL, MARCH 28.—Wind W.S.W:—Arrived the Mari a me, from Africa ; Jane and Margaret, Gowland, Sunderland for Ofinrto ; Bilton, Rigby, Newcastle for Calcutta; Durham, ditto, for liourdeaux , China, Calcutta; Kron Prins, Hondu ras. Arrived from the River the Thomas and Henry, Church ward, for the Mauritius ; Isabella bl3th, Lane, ditto ; Cal cutta, Napier, Quebec ; Prince George, Foster, Halifax ; Volo, Artis,. Gib ra lt ar; N ewport, Le Gros, Rio Janeiro ; Douglas, Douglas, Montreal ; Sir Wm. Bentley, Gubb, Que bec ; Albion, Crosby, Halifax ; Agenoria, Ham, Venice. FALMOUTH, MARCH 27.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrived the Tagus (steamer), from Gibraltar, left on the 18th, Cadiz 19th, Lisbon 22d, Vigo 24th ; Royal Adelaide (steamer), with 400,000 dollars on freight. Sailed the Hannah, Bailey, for the Mauritius; Equator, Kurst, Surinam; Sorocco, Amsley, Carthagerta ; Numa, Harry, Lisbon ' • Tagus (steamer), South ampton ; Six, Kirkus, Bo m b a y ; Premier, Abbot, Bahia ; Thomas Green, Stewart, Bourdeaux ; Jane Smith, Stone, Trieste ; James Dunlop, Wells, Antwerp ; Active, Todd, London ; Broekett, Nixon, Liverpool : Hope, Gillard, New castle. Off port the Neptunus, Hockstra, Havannah for Amsterdam; Maria Louisa; Vanderstein, Ostend to Havan nab ; Greenock, Alevier, Port au Prince, and sailed for Antwerp. The Xanthus, Bennett, from London to Liverpool, struck on the Stag Rocks, off the Lizard Point, this morning, and immediately sunk ; crew saved. A cask of oil and a bale of senna has been picked up off the Blackhead, supposed to be part of the cargo of the Zanthus. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 28.—Wind W.S.W. to S.S.W. —Arrived the Vulcan, Pa' rick, London, for Bordeaux and the Mauritius, to have her rudder examined. Off port, the Princess Louise, Robertus, from New Or:eans, for Hamburgh. Sailed the Independence, Smidt, Antwerp. COWES, MARCH 28.—Arrived Alert, Hanson, Pernambuco. DuaniN, MARCH 26.—Arrived the Devonshire, (stet rner) from London. Sailed the Demerara, Miller, for Demerara. PETERHEAD, MARCH 26.—Arrived the Hanne, Janson, from Alandahl ; Anna Catherine, Hansen, ditto. LEITH, MARCH 26.—Sailed the Countess of Minto, Wi..hart, for Sydney, New South Wales. LYNN, MARCH 27.—Arrived the Mary Ann, Sprague, from Faro ; Thomas and Martha, Danson, Dieppe. JERSEY, MARCH 25.—A rr i ve d t h e Maria,Hanlon, from Cette ; Centurion, Manger, Trieste. Sailed the Speedy, packet, Spuring, for Rio Janeiro ; Arid, Clement, New f"undland ; Welcome, Jackson, ditto; Assiduous, London. BRISTOL MARCH 28.—Sailed John, Cerling, for Quebec. CLYDE, MARCH 26.—Sailed the Hebar, Aikly, for Mau ritius ; l3ethea, Campbell, Barbadoes ; Vigilant, Rikhie, St. Thomas. CORK, MARCH 26.—Arrived the Sisters, M'Munn, from Liverpool for Al g i ers ; W ar l oc k, P agan, di tto for Calcutta, with loss of boats, &e., having shipped a sea on the 18th inst. LIVERPOOL, MARCH 28.—Wind W. S. W.—Arrived the Fame, Pringle, from Buenos Ayres, sailed the 15th January; Barbadian, Hughes, Jamaica ; Randolph, Honduras ; Ulver stone, Smith, New Orleans; Charles Jones, M'Fee, Calcutta; Mary, Irvine, Mauriti us ; Ri c h ar d W atson, Leeds, Berbice; Matthew Pearse, Savanilla ; Morgiana, Duncan, Savannah ; Quiver, St. Michael's; Manchester, Smith, New Orleans; William and Elijah, ditto; Olive and Eliza, Apalachicola. Sailed the Hope, Cockburn, for Batavia; Ulgent, Thompson, Calcutta; James Key, Monte Video; Brothers, ditto; Tri dente, Havannah ; Aurora, ditt o ; N ew Y or k, Nixon, New York; Eringobrach, Sampson, Montreal ; Huskisson, Lucas, Africa ; Elizabeth, Palmer, Constantinople ; Ellen Highfield, Moore, Smyrna; Hector, Crisp,Constantinople ; Indus,Brown ' Ceylon. The Pearl, bound to G enoa , was at anc h or yesterday on the north end of the Blackwater Bank in three fathom water. The Fame, arrived here from Buenos Ayres, sailed the 15th Jan., and on the 12th and 17th experienced a heavy gale from W. S. W., which lasted eight hours. The Richard Watson, arrived from Berbice, sailed 20th Feb., and in coming out grounded on the bar, and is very leaky. The Randolph, ar rived here from Honduras. sailed 15th ult., on the 16th passed a barque, supposed the Othello, from the Northern Triangle, after taking out the cargo from the barque Redman of London. LOCHINDAUL, MARCH 22.—A square-rigged vessel was seen on shore on the island of Rachlan, 20th inst., by the Odessa, Vaughan, arrived here. CAHIRCIVEEN, MARCH 24.—The Bache, M'lver, from Demerara to Giasgo w, after being on shore, on the island of Begris for some days, was assisted off, and is now lying in a place of safety. VESSELS SPOKEN vvrrx.—The Courtnay, of and from Lon don, 22d, lat. 49, lon. 9, by the Princess Charlotte, arrived at Plymouth ; Hien, Bombay to Liverpool, 29th Dec., lat. 29, lon. 41, by the President, arrived at Liverpool; Circas ian, from St. Jago de Cuba, 24th, in the Cayeos Passage, by the Lady Flora Hastings, arrived at Liverpool; Gulnare, from Newfoundland, seven days from Demerara, lat. 33, lon. 47 W. ; Osceola, of London, bound to the Southward, lat. 50, lon. 9 ; Erin, Maine, bound to Mauritius, off Cape Spartel, by the John Weavel, arrived in the River. The Mary, of Whitby, totally dismasted, was passed on the 18th inst., in soundings, by the Nova, arrived at Havre. Tampa, 17th, in lat. 6, lon. 20 ; Isabella, from Norfolk ( Virginia), 20th, in soundings, by the Havre, arrived at Guadaloupe. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MARCH 27.—There has been a moderate business done in our Cotton Market this day. The sales comprise 4,000 bales of all descriptions, of which 1,000 have been taken on speculation. Prices remain at Friday's quotation, and the market continues steady. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, MARCH 27. Eastern Counties (Debentures), 64 ; Grand Junction, 204 ; London and Birmingham, 324 ; Shares, 58k; London and Brighton, United Company,43l. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 27.—Rather more business done, but little alteration in prices. Hull and Selby, 43 ; London and South Western, 55* ; do. Tenths, 21. Is.; Sheffield and Manchester, 15; Union Bank of Man chester, 71. 16s. 3d. ; Macclesfield Canal, 28 ; Manchester and Leeds, 66i to 67i ; Manchester and Birmingham, 24i to 24k. We have received Port Phillip Papers to the 28th of Octo ber: they confirm the accounts previously received, that South Australia is at present in a most deplorable condition for want of money. Several heavy failures have taken place, and others are expected to follow. We have also Papers from Hobart Town to the 21st Novem ber. Private accounts from Sydney represent trade and busi ness generally to he dep?orably bad. English slop goods are said to be selling at 50 per cent., under the prime cost. The Sydney Government have purchased two cargoes of Wheat ; the quantity is th'rty thousand bushels, and the price, we un derstand, was ss. 6d. per bushel. Our advices from Sydney reach to the 2d of November. The session of the Legislative Council had closed after a long debate upon immigration. His Excellency, in his closing speech on the adjournment of the late session, intimated the probability of his not remaining much longer at the head of this Government. We learn from positive authority that the South Australian principle of selling land at 1/. the acre will be universally adopted at Port Phillip. We have received the Journal of Antwerp of yesterday's date : BOURSE OF AMSTERDAM, MARCH 26.—The Bourse of London and Paris being weaker the National funds remain lower than yesterd a y. ° Business was in general insignificant as well as in the National funds and Foreign. Ardoin's Spanish were loss ercd on the fall at Antwerp, and remained at 20 13-16th ; Coupons, 21 1-16th. Accounts - from Coblentz, of the 22d of March, state : " We have experienced this morning at thirty-five minutes past six the shock of an earthquake, accompanied with a loud noise, which lasted about one second." THE FUNDS. Consols, which left off on Saturday at 89A for the Account, opened this morning a shade lower, 88 i , 7 - 89 ; for Money 883 with little doing as yet. Exchequer Bills 5 7 prem. In the foreign market Spanish Active also a shade lower, left off, 233 3, at present 233 ; Deferred 12* 3, Passive 5 Portugues . left off 324 33, at present 323: 334 ; Brazilian 71 72, Colombian, 21-3 22*; Mexican 301, Dutch Two-and a-Half per Cents. same as they closed, 503 ; Five per Cents. 994 1004. SIIA RES.—Great Western 24 1 ,4 254 prem. ; New 11, 124 prem. ; London and Brighton 654 dis. ; Blackwall 6 54 dis. ; Birmingham 61 63 prem. ; Southampton 544 554 per share ; Portuguese Stock has again improved to 34. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Great Western Ditto New Ditto Fifths London and Brighton London and Birmingham 9O 153 London and South Western 3si 554— .. to --- JOINT STOCK BANKS. Australasia 40 ...... 54 ...... to MINES. United Mexican (issued at i.pm) 40 Ditto New Scrip PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, MARCH 27. 3 per Cent. Consols Three and Half Stock 96A i Grand Canal 5t0ck......... Ditto Reduced ...... Ditto Debs. 6 p er cent... Ditto New, 1830 31 per Cent. Debs. HALF-PAST ONE: A notice is posted at Lloyd's this morning for tenders of transports to convey to Halifax and Quebec 1,600 men, with 77 officers. Since the early part of the morning there has been a re action in the British funds. Consols, which were 88i f 89 for the Account, have since reached 89 to 89k, at present 89; Money, 88 i 7 1 ; Exchequer Bills, ss. 7s. premium. Transports going to be taken by Government to convey troops and officers to Quebec and Halifax does not appear to have had any effect upon the British Market. Report says that en the whole 4,000 are to be sent. In the Foreign Market very little doing. Spanish Active not quite so good, 23i ; Portuguese, which reached 334 34, have receded to 33-a ; Three per Cents. 20i ; Brazilian 72 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 50 1 1- ; Five per Cents. 99g. SHAKES.—Great Western 891- 90 90 ; Ditto New, 62 ; Ditto Fifths, loi ; London and Brighton, 44,1 a ; London and Birmingham, 153 ; South Western, 554. The delay of the arrival of the President from New York causes much anxiety in the City. QUARTER TO THREE. Consols, Wiley, 884 ; Account, 89. Mexican, 294 30 ; Portuguese Five per Cents. 33 334 ; Three per Cents. l 9 20; Spanish, 23* a. No arrival from America at Liverpool by the second train. T P--- _HE RINCESS ROYAL.---We have received several letters on the subject of a most malicious rumour, as it concerns this illu trious personage. It has been stated that her Royal Highness is blind, and of imperfect intellect; but we can assure our readers, and the public generally, that the Princess can see quite as well as the be , t of them, and tint, in mental capacity, she is gifted beyond her ,g-i..—Court Journal. THE KENDAL RAILWAY. —The Railway Commissioners, appointed by Government to inquire into the best line of communication from London to Edinburgh and Glasgow, have now presented their final Report on this question, and have decided in favour of the Kendal line to Carlisle, and in continuation from Carlisle to Scot land in favour of the line by Beatock Bridge. This sets at rest, for ever, the question as between the east coast and the west, and the Newcastle " bodies" will now see how much better it is quietly to work out the intrinsic merits of a project (as we have done on this side the country) thin to feed vain hopes by extravagant assertions. The favour able decision of this question is of the greatest importance to Westmorland, and especially to the town of Kendal. The manufacturing interests of this town require some act've stimulus. We plainly perceive that the town, if not retrograding, is, at least, stationary, and nothing can save it from decline but the realization of those improve ments which other towns are fast seizing. The elements of our produce must be cheapened, and the means of com munication with the markets facilitated to the utmost de gree, or else our trade will leave us. — Kendal Mercury. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. Last week's arrivals of all kinds of Grain were moderate. There was a fair fresh supply of Wheat at Market, chiefly in tender condition, and a quantity of other Corn. The dry parcels of Wheat were taken off at their previous vale, but tender runs could not be sold without a reduction of 2s. per qr. Barley as last quoted. Beans and Peas unvaried. Oats met a moderate demand, and last terms were fully supported. In the Flour Trade not much done, and the rates unaltered. PRICES OX BOARD OF SrIP Wheat,Red (old) -s. -s. Beans, Small (new) 438 455. -- White (old) -s --s. ---- (old) _45 . 495. -- 4 11ecy840) 54s 565. - Tick (new) 37 395. -- Fine 58s. 80s. .-__.--- (old) 42..445. --.. Superfine 62s 65 8 --- Harrow new) 404.415. --I- White (1846) ....565. 60s. --- ( old) 448.465. -- Fine 625. Ohs Brank -3.-s. Superfine (t s. Ifs. Oats, Feed --Foreignfree 515.70.. ---- New 204.23 I. Rye 398. 40s. - Pol an d Barley 2d5. 375. New 2ss. 29 w. - Grinding '63 2.93. - Potatoe 5 5. ........... Malting .325. 355. Malt s6s, 60s. - Scotch 27..305. - Fine New Es 63s -,-- Irish 185.... 21s. 24v. Pease, Grey, New 3tis. 38s. Flour Town (per sack).... 543.58 x. - Maple New 40s. 425. - Seconds 454.; 2s. -...- White 345. 355. ----- North Country.... 48; 50., ....-- Boilers .375. 38s, Bran 9. les. ARRIVALS OF GRAIN IN LONDON DURING LAST WEEK, Wheat. _ Barley. Oats. 1 Flour English Irish - - 3,8 - 8 Foreign 2,095 - 950 SMITHFIELD MARKET. The supply of Cattle was moderate, with a brisk demand, Of Mutton the supply was short, and the demand very brisk. Of Veal and Pork we have had a short supply, and a clear market was soon experienced Beasts, 2,516; Sheep, 16,520; Pigs, 643 ; Calves, 67. Be e f, 4 s . t o 4 s . 10d . ; Alu:ton, 4s. to ss. Bd. ; Veal, ss. to 6s. 21 ; Pork, 4s. to ss. 4d. TEA MARKET. There was but a limited demand, but priries were supported. Is. 7d. was the value of Company's Congou. 'TALLOW MARKET. There was but a limited demand for P. Y. Candle, and prices declined, 455. 6d. was the nearest quotation on the spot. PROVISION MARKET. The price of Butter was very high still, but the transactions were limited to the wants of the Trade. The best Dutch llBs., and fine Irish 104 s. to 106 s. per cwt. Bacon was saleable at improving prices; prime parcels fetched 545. per cwt. Lard very quiet, but not lower. Beef and Pork unaltered in value, and much in demand. XOO rls, HOP MARKET. No change. to notice in the value of this article, and the transactions are limited to small parcels for immediate use. rhe choice kinds of the last growth have become very scarce, and will probably advance in price. WALSALL ELECTION COM MITTEE.-(THIS DAY.) The Committee met this morning at eleven o'clock. Mr. COCKBURN, on behalf of the petitioners, stated that his Learned Friend and himself had agreed that they should close their case with the evidence of Saturday night, feeling that they might just as well take the opinion of the Committee upon one case as upon a hundred. They felt satisfied that ample evi dence had been laid before the Committee that bribery and treating to a considerable extent had been practised at the election. The Learned Counsel then proceeded at considerable length to sum up the evidence that had been given in supportof the petition. He referred, in the first instance, to the evidence of Patch, which had fully established the charge of treating, and who had distinctly traced the connexion between the voters so treated and the agents of Mr. Gladstone. If the evidence of that witness were substantively correct, then the Committee must come to the conclusion that the election was void. He admitted that his Learned Friend had shown that the character of the witness was not the very best—that he was, in fact, a man living by his ingenuity, and ready for any job that might offer, and he confessed that a man could not come forward to give evi dence against the party by whom he had been employed without having severe reflections thrown upon his character and motives. The Committee, however, would recollect that even in criminal cases parties whose testimony was of the most suspicious na ture, from their very connection with the offence, had been ad mitted, and cases involving life and liberty had been adjudi cated upon such testimony. The only precaution observed was, that their testimony must be supported in the material parts by other witnesses. Now, admitting that the character of Patch were ten times worse than it really was, had not the Committee received a sufficient corroboration of his evidence from other, and it might be,, more trustworthy witnesses. The Learned Counsel then proceeded to comment upon the evidence of Patch, and the corroboration it had received from that of Kilner and others, and contended that it fully established the connection between Patch and Barnett, the a g ent of Mr. Gladstone. Patch had received a list of doubt ful voters from Barnett. He had taken some of them, by Bar nett's direction, to the New Inn. They were kept locked up there, the greater part of them, in a state of drunkenness, during the nomination day and night, and they were carried in that state to the poll the following day. He would now refer to the evidence of Kilner, who had corroborated the evi dence of Patch in the material points, that voters were sent to his house ; that dinners, suppers, wine, brandy, and every description of treating went on in the utmost profusion, but that he - did all that without the sanction or authority of Mr. Barnett. Why, he must have calculated very largely upon the credulity of the Committee when he made such unfounded and ridiculous state ments. Nay, he went a step further, and stated that he had given away all that entertainment, FOOL worth of eating and drinking, without the expectation of rece i v i ng one penny for it. But that most.extraordsnary statement was not allowed to pass uecontradicted, and the witness was obliged to admit that he expected some friends of his in Walsall to pay him the amount. Why, it was the old hackneyed tale of those who re sorted to such disreputable practices. Their reputation had become a mockery, and the whole system a byeword and a re proach, because of the leniency of former Committees, who had allowed these miserable subterfuges and pretects to pre vail, and to screen the offending parties from punishment. He trusted that a new era was about to commence, and that the decision of the Committee in the present case would show the public that such practices could no longer be resorted to with impunity. But there was another gross contradiction in the tes:imony of Kilner, because although he declared that he had no authority whatever for the entertain ment of the voters, yet he made out his account as against the election Committee of Mr. Gladstone. The whole affair however was liable to the greatest suspi cion. The account so headed had been torn out of the book —the opposite leaf was missing, and what that leaf contained no one now could tell. He trusted that the evidence would have sufficient weight with the Committee. His Learned Friend had t! ought it necessary to depart from the ordinary course, and to tender in evidence certain letters to show that Patch was never an authorised agent of Mr. Barnett's. He ( Mr. Cockburn) had never attempted to establish such a ease. Patch had only been employed for that particular ser vice ; but the deviation from the ordinary course which his Learned Friend had resorted to, was a strong proof of the weakness of his position, and if ever there was a case brought before a Parliame n t ar y Committee which required an answer, it was the present. He submitted most confidently, that a case against the sitting Alember had been made out, and that they were bound to avoid the return. The CHAIRMAN said, before Mr. Sergeant Wrangham commenced to open his case, he would wish the room to be cleared. Strangers were then ordered to withdraw. ST. ALBAN'S ELECTION COM MITTEE.-(THIS DAY.) The Committee re-assembled this morning. They cleared the room for a few moments, when parties were recalled and informed that the Committee had deiermined that the question of " What did Dr. Webster say ?" should be answered. The Rev. Mr. Brogden was recalled, and answered, the Doctor said " Well, whit of that ? the other side are just as bad." Lord Listowell was within hearing, and witness said to him "Here is pu-ity of election and liberty of conscience." The Noble Lord said nothing, but turned very pale, and his under lip quivered very much. Cross-examined—lle was rather angry, but not otherwise excited. There was no other conversation, but the offer of a rug to stand on to Lord Listowell, or perhaps refreshment by witness. He repeated the observation two or three times. He thought it was upon the second time that the Noble Lord turned away his head. He had seen Lord Listowell canvassing upon two occasions, but had not been introduced to him. Robert Adams was then called, and examined by Mr. HILL YARD—He resided in St. Alban's, and had an annuity in Bucks of 151. Ile had seven houses in St. Alban's, and had a vote in the borough as a freeman. On the day of nomina tion 1/.. Webster came up and tapped him on the shoulder, and in consequence of what the Doctor said, witness and Stebbings w.nt into his house, Witness was taken into the surgery, which was in front. Had been in a hack parlour along wi'h the Doctor. No one else was there. The witness was ordered to withdraw. Mr. AUSTIN said the questions were evidently leading to im proper Trochees. His Learned Friend had better at once raise the question of agency. Beating about the bush in that way was a waste of time. Mr. HILLYARD wanted to take his own course. He would promise to take no advantage, and obtain no improper answers from the witness. The witness was recalled. Stebbings was in back room along with Dr. Webster first. When Stebbings came out he showed witness— Mr. AUSTIN felt bound to object to the whole course of examination taken by his Learned Friend. He must object to any evidence being given of corrupt acts by Dr. Webster until he had connected him in some way with Lord Listowell. Why should not his Learned Friend raise the question of agency at once ? Why step out of his duties as an advoca'e and enlist himself as a partizan in the case? Why not conduct that case in the same manner as others before the same tribunals, and at once raise the question of agency ? He contended that no fur ther evidence relating to agency had been given since the Com mittee last considered that question, and decided it in the nega tive. There was no further evidence except that of Mr.l3rogden, and what was it ? Why that Lord Listowell upon being inter fered with in so unprecedented a manner, curled up his lip ; might it not be with contempt or anger ? Mr. HILLYARD sa id h e had refused to shape his course as one of agency, because he had suffered from it on the former occasion, by giving his Learned Friend a re ply; his position was that he was entitled to proceed with his line of examination, even should the Committee think that agency had not been proved. In any court of law he would be entitled to prove the acts of bribery, if the proceed ing were a criminal ow., against Lord Listowell for the pe nalti:s. It would shut out all inquiry if they did not let the examination proceed; for many gross cases of corruption could only be proved by such means. He did not mean, however, to admit that the agency of Dr. Webster had not been proved. - Mo.t material evidence had been given since the Committee came to their former decision. Dr. Webster was the first „person that raised the opposition. They trace him to the neighbourhood of Mr. Coppock's office, who was the agent of the sitting Member they trace him to the Treasury. He, and the person with him, learn all of the expected movements of Lord Listowell. They order horses fur him on the road, and meet him ; they drive to the house of Dr. Webster, where the Doctor introduces him to the multi tude as the tenth or eleventh candidate he had introduced, arid added the significant phrase, " and a good one too." The Doctor is constantly with Lord Listowell in his canvass ; he proposes him on the hustings ; and even after the transactions which took place daring the poll, he was the man whom the Noble Lord had in his carriage after the eke lion while going round the borough. He did not say that all this was positive and conclusive evidence, but he would say that it was the strongest prima facie evidence that had ever been laid before a Committee, and imperatively called for an answer. Mr. AUSTIN replied. His Learned Friend had sprung a new case upon him, for he had allowed him to argue the case as if it was one of agency only, but now he put it to the Com mittee upon both points, the former of which he had put it out of his (Mr. Austin's) power to argue. His Learned Friend had done nothing more or less than to call upon the Committee to consider their former decision, and if lie succeeded, how long were those decisions to last ? He contended that his Learned Friend had not altered the cir cumstances since the last decision. The Committee-room was cleared for about half an hour. Parties Were then called in, and informed that the Committee had decided that agency had not been proved, but the Learned Counsel for the petition might offer fresh evidence. EVENING EDITION. Adams was recalled, and was under examination when we went to press. • SPORTING INTELLIGENCE• HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. Baron Rothschild's stag hounds, Tuesday, at Hardwlck ; Friday, at Wing—half -past eleven. Mr. Bradley's stag hounds, Tuesday, at Prior's Hardwick. Devon and Somerset stag hounds, Friday, at Waste/ Mill, near North Moulton. Essex Union hounds Tuesday, at Ashington. Wen"; Saturday, at Laindon Hill—half-past ten. Essex and Suffolk hounds, Tuesday s at Harley-Woo d ; Friday, Wiston. Chll- Pickhain hounds, Tuesday; at Halfway House, i, lock ; Friday, at Herne Hill Chuicl.—half-past ten. Puckeridge hounds, Wednesday, at Woodside Green; Saturday, at Sandon. Oakley hounds, Tuesday, at Weston Underwood ; Thursday, at Lidington ; Saturday, at Easton Woo d quarter to eleven. Lord SeagraVe' s ho un d s , T ues d ay , at W estvvoo d ; Tbure• day, at Bradworth ; Friday, at Litcomb. Mr. Drake's hounds, Tuesday, at Fenny Compton Wharf ; Thursday, at Souldens Gate—hal&past ten. Heytbrop hounds, Wednesday, at Tangley; Saturday' at Sandford P ar k. Sir John Cope's hounds, Tuesday, at Stamford-erget; Thursday, at th e Li on , Basidon ; Saturday, at UPW a Court —eleven. Hambledo n h oun d s , Wednesday, at Bury Lodge; Fri day, et Bordein House. A. Mr. W. H or l oc k' s h oun d s , T ues d ay, at C atcom b- vv°°"' Friday, at Bittlesea Wharf—eleven. Vine hounds, Tuesday, at Maunydown Park; Sato' day, at Wolverton House. Fivehead hounds, Tuesday, at Puddle Moor—half-P39t ten. Mr. Heanlay's hounds, Tuesday, at Haugham Pasture, Thursday, at Kennels; Saturday, at Walton Mill—ele veo• Warwi_ksbi re hounds, Tuesday, at Compton Verney; Thursday and Friday, at Alcester—half past eleven. Duke of Graf ton ' s h oun d s , Wednesday, at Soulden Windmill ; Friday, at Woodard Green—half-past ten. Duke of Rutl a nd' s hounds,.Tuesday, at Weaver's Lod g° —half. past ten. Badsworth hound s , Tuesday, at Rawcliffe • TWO* ' at Red House; Saturday, at Cudworth B ar —half-past ton' Mr."Foljambe's hounds, Tuesday, at Cantley ; Saturdeh at Osberton—half-past ten. Mr. Gdes's hounds, Tuesday, at Newcut; Facial, at Roughborough—ten. Albrighton hounds, Tuesday, at Hagley, Friday, at Castle Hill—half-past ten. Wheatland hounds, Wednesday, at the Wrekin ; S aturdaY? at Muckley Cross—eight. Tivyside hounds, Thursday, at Briddell Village ; Saturday, at -Boneath Bridge —ten. Sir M. W. Ridley's hounds, Wednesday, at Middin t°ll Bridge; Thursday, at Needless Hall Moor House ; Saturday at Stanton village—half -past ten. Northumberland and North Durham hounds, WednesclaPl t . Detchant Wood ; F r id a y, a t Ch atton ; S atur d ay, at Iless pool—half-past ten. a , t Stayley Hounds, W e d nes d ay , at P ru dh oe ; S a turda y, Stocksfield— nine. Mr. Watson's hounds, Thursday, a t Ul g h am Village; s a t al' day, at Morpeth Quarry Bank—ten. Sinnington hounds, Friday, at Dalby Bush—ten. Earl of Harewood's hounds, Wednesday, at Alwootley Gates—half-past ten. t Bedale hound s , W e d nes d ay, at G arr i ston Village; Fridays Thornborerigh Bar. Hurworth hounds, Thursday at Enter Common ; Saturday' at Yarm Bank. aea ; Eddlestone hounds, Wednesday, at Settrington B"- - Friday, Birdsall Hall—half-past ten. Cleveland hounds, Thursday, at Marton seven. Wynyard hounds, Thursday, at Shincliffe ; Saturday, 1° Hawethorn—seven. Mr. W3ndham's hounds, Thursday, at Chicklade re; Botto Satur day, Barford Down. . F r Mr. Farquh arson ' s h oun d s, Thursday, at Kingsgrove , day, at flulywell Gate. Lord Portman's hounds, Friday, at Murchiston Down. N. V. H., Thursday, at Beaulieu Village ; Saturdsl, at Paulton' s —h a lf- past ten. Mr. Drax's hour.ds, Wednesday, at Stock House. Odiham harriers, Thursday, at Kennel—ten. H. H., Thursday, at Chilton Old House; Saturday, at Sat" ton Common. Pembrokeshire hounds, Thursday, at Ryndeston—ten. ROLLS' COURT-(THIS DAY.) FENNINGS V. II UMPHERY. —JUDG MENT. n f This was a m o ti on t o di sc h arge an order obta i ne d, a 6 "t. course, whereby the pl a i n tiff was required to elect whetlie she would p rocee d i n h er su i t in equity, or in her action . law, which was alleged by the defendant, Alderman HumPh er Y:, to be for one and the same matter. At the same On the plaintiff h a d s h own cause why an order nis i e dissolve an inj unc ti on o b ta i ne d b y the plaintiff, to restrain the defendant from proceeding at law, should not be made abso lute. It appeared that on the 13th May, 1837, the defendant contracted to let to the plaintiff certain vaults near Lond on Bridge, which were then in her possession, for a term of seve n years and a quarter, to commence from Lady-day t u t , last, at the rent of 150/. a year ; and also contracted excavate, build, and furnish another vault viith certain se i gd fled accommodations, and to erect a crane, with proper t convenient works for the use of the plaintiff. The defetadanj did not perform the works according to the agreement, to the rent agreed to be paid by the plaintiff for the vault in her o possession being in arresr, the defendant brought his aan, ° d against her for the recovery of the rent. The plaintiff fil d the present bill on the 24th of December, 1839, and P ra tA_ to have the agreement of 1837 specifically perforrne; and that the defendant might be restrained fr° proceeding in his action. The plaintiff obtained the col ; mon injunction to restrain the defendant proceeding in e action for rent. The answer to the bill was filed on 1-- 0 27th of January, 1840, and fcr more than a year but proceeding whatever had been taken in equity ; on the 20th of February, 1841, the defendant clatained,_• -e n f usual order nisi to di sso l ve t h e i n j unct i on, and on the 26tnifie February, 1841, th e p l a i nt iff commenced her action against be ' defendant for damages for breaches of the agreement. , the 11th o f M arc h t h e d efendant, alleging that h e 0 , 3, doubly vex e d b y t h e plaintiff's prosecuting him at l e and in equity for the same purpose, obtained the coition, order that the plaintiff might elect, and this was the comer which it was now sought to discharge for irregularity, ig having been obtained upon a false allegation, that the pla in was prosecuting the defendant at law and in equity for t same matter. The MASTER of the ROLLS this morning gave judgm ent s : and stated, that as it did not appear to him the two suits vie: l ; prosecuted f or one a n d the same matter, the order of the 11 of March ought not to have been obtained, and must ther efor ; be dis c h arge d . Wi th respect to the cause shown ag ail t r e di solving the injunction to stay proceedings in do defendant's a c ti ons f or rent, as the defendant, 00 the one hand, ad m itt e d th at he ought not to be allowed receive the rent until the right was determined, and as on the other hand th e plaintiff ought not to be allowed to keep P session without paying rent if the parties could not eon" Peto an arrangement, hi s L or d s hi p t h ought i t would be prar.4 continue the i n j unc ti on upon t h e terms of the rent bet brought into Court. tte The case was subsequently mentioned by Mr. Jerrlin who said that the parties would rather have the injunc tion dissolved. The ord er f or e l ect i on was ' therefore discharged, and by consent the order for injunction was made absolute. THE GALLANT CAPT.DOUGLAS. At the Levee, on Wednesday last, Captain Doug le% late Commander of the Cambridge, merchant ship, presented to the Queen by Vis,;ount Palmerston, e- • her M a j es t y was grac i ous l y p l eased to confer on him t h e honour of knighthood. The case of Captain Douglasis on e o f w hi c h t hi s great maritime nation may well:er proud. H e arr i ve d at Si ngapore the peaceful 0015"%. of a mer c h ant s hi p, b ut h earing there the con di t ion which Captain Elliot and ether British subject 3lll f China were then placed by the oppressive c onduct ° f the Chinese au th or iti es at Canton, he at. once got rid° his cargo, p urc h ase d some 32-pounders, d ou bled °, l " , b crew, laid in a hood store of ammun i t i on, and galla ntly set sail for the Canton River ; and all this he did e rr ; tirely on his own p ersona l responsibility. In his 511., passage from Sin ga p ore not , a moment was lost i n w°r ing his willing crew at the guns. He entered the eel; ton River, c l eare d f or action, and gallantly too k 131 ,. t' station insid e t h e valuable fl<iet of British mer chan ships there lying at anekaor. There happened to be no vessel of war i n th e C anton R iver at that moment , but Captain Douglas was alone sufficient to afford tion. He repelled all assaults, but he was unfor the tunately severely wounded in the attack upon Chinesejunks at Kow Lune, on the sth of Septembe.c, 1839. Well, when British vessels of war did arrive,lc necessarily followed that the gallant mission of Call t ia b Douglas was at an end ; but we have not yet done w , this Captain Douglas. On the arrival of the . Brit' s . :.: • vessels of war he fell back into the merchant seaman' by some and proposals were actually made to him American captains for the purchase of his 32,-peundere; " No" (said Captain Douglas) ; you want these g un k to sell them again to the Chinese, but l'd rather Chu ° • them overboard than sell you one of them." bne We need scarcely add that Captain Douglas a already been reimbursed for the expenses be ineu rre e rote & in the public service, and we sincerely trust that til er ; is truth in the report that both he and his gallant cre w' have, moreover, received a handsome gratuity from Majesty's Government.—Observer. ' The ship Isabella, from London and Plyrno t "' with emigrants, arrived at Sydney on the 18th October, all well. THE YOUNG PRETENDFR.--We went to the opera, where, fur the first time, I beheld the poor unhePA i: PI representative of the Stuart race i n th e Comte i i banie. He goes regularly' to the the a tr e , and always f a is asleep in a corner of his box, at the end of the first act, being generally intoxicated. His face is reJ, and his eYe s ct C ca o; .;, n ai t s e gn s a s iec i , s o n n ps o dt t aa ; nt a rn n a d ett s c o n in i‘di e a , ni are fiery, otherwise he ia not an ill-looking nisci• The pug nose. She z.lways wears a bat. Alfieri, the Pion"; a gan. —Swat erne s Europe. SICiDE‘ b t e i i n ng he h r la b c o k x and sallow, with a —UNPRECEDENTED • 'l, ' Courts of d ne e s a d d ay in . arn rh w e o b m od a y n Inquest was held on Thursda last, at the Ship and Lest o te rn, r teha p t irp o , e is su public_house, Greenwich, before l'il r. CARTA t R upon the body of a with c AbseEr.d_ameArsoe outhouse in Church.street, Greenwich, on Wed p p was g es de claimed to about a t attach, by h o , a y f - ears, wo ro mit a n w t o h 0 . afterwardsh owasm a u she Was not any relation of deceased, but the wife of ~ : deceased Ann Clarke, bad committed self , destruction b y strangulation, but there was no evidence n t a h m e e d d Giver. The Jury returned a Verdictto prove her state of minsi at the time ; " and the Coroner issued his warrant for the interment, at the parish expense* And here, as the Coroner observed, a difficulty arose. saints: tu fo rn u e n d d The warrant had been issued for the burial of a person sworn to be Ann Clark, and would be registered as such. The Coroner skid the case was one of such nature timt he Justce in te matter beore taking any fur.ther s up, n Oliver.. al of An The Coroner h handed over o f warrant for the bar mu st consult the opicion o f the LgOrsdinCgultilaerf J .