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Apollyon, Mr. 0. Smith. To conclude with the New Farce, entitled THE UNIFORM ; OR, TWO MEN AND ONE COAT. Characters by Messrs. J. S. Balls, J. T. Haines, Neville, Buckingham, Heslop, Mrs. H. Hughes, Mrs. W. Daly, &c. Entirely New Scenery and Dresses for all Three Pieces. "THE CHINA SUN," REPUBLISHED A FEW DAYS AGO, IS NOW ON SALE, With all the LATEST NEWS. THE RAILWAY SUN WILL BE PUBLISHED TOWARDS THE END OF THIS MONTH. NIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS uAY. Morning...... 3 minutes after 2 Evening 2 minutes after 2 LONDON : THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 18 The Members of the House of Com mons di d not meet yesterday in sufficient numbers to form a House, and adjourned till this day. The Standard of last night follows Mr. MA-. CAULAY'S hint, and expatiates on Lord CARDI GAN'S humanity, to lead the public astray from the real subject of complaint. There was :no question about Lord CARDIGAN'S humanity; it was known and stated from the first that the punishment was ordered to be inflicted by a Court-martial, and that the Commanding Officer of the regiment was not responsible for it. The subject complained of was that Lord CAR DIGAN, without the smallest necessity for doing so, inflicted that punishment on the Sabbath, and in the same place where a short ttlme before he and all the regiment had united in one common supplication for mercy to the throne of the ALMIGHTY. To turn attention from that outrage against public decency, by enlarging on Lord CARDIGAN'S humanity, is worthy of the Standard, but very unbecoming in Mr. MA CAULAY. lirhy, in Heaven's name, should lie burden himself, and b ur d en the Administration, with the smallest part of the unpopularity which *he brutal conduct of Lord CARDIGAN so well deserves ? We are inclined to think that the hidden dis positions of men, and the general practices whibh this transaction discloses, are as proper subjects of public regret as the conduct of Lord CARDIGAN. In that Noble Lord there was a total disregard and defiance o f all public decency and religious feeling. Unaffected by the religious service he had at tended, he tortured a fellow-creature on the Sabbath; and there is no appearance that any of his officers remonstrated. They all, perhaps, including t h e surgeon and chaplain, looked on it asa customa ry tr i fle, made no complaint, and acquiesced in this brutal desecration of the day of . peace and rest. The Standard says, " Woe awaits us when we shall have any other than a Chriatan army';" but What sort of as army -.?..- • ~. • ;A. l'", ' , • .17 , 11 .." . . .... 4 ,%1.11 Pr f 4 ,•$. ...• . . . , 1 ' ' . S .:l7 ' ' S* AM ''..‘ 4N. ' LLt ... ' •° N „,,,, ir* , . ~. '.,.; , ir" !'--- ~., 02., , ' . '. • •`.!.::,,,r..i 1 •t• - "4".•,• . ; • • ~.:;.• ..., f ,,. _ ~,-1, ; . -- - . _ _ ~~~ ~z~~ have we nolv, when such conduct as that of Lord CARDIGAN is tolerated by officers and men, and is taken no no , tice of by his superiors? The general feelings and practices of the army, which are intimated by this proceeding, are calculated to excite sorrow and apprehension. Next we have a Minister of the Crown ex pressing little or no indignation at this outrage. It , was something Mr. MACAULAY could not reconcile to good taste and good feel ing. Instead of being violently offended at the thought of a human being tied up and lashed till he bleeds ; instead of al most sickening with horror at such a cruel punishment being inflicted on a Sunday, Mr. MACAULAY indulged in an• eulogium on Lord CARDIGAN'S humanity. That is for us a very sad indication of the state of feeling in those states men to whom we look for a moral example as well as to guide the national policy. Finally, we have a journalist who lays claim to a prodigious respect for religion, who demands more churches, and seems inclinednever to men tion the name of the Church without bowing the head in reverence, who would not for the world write a political article on Christmas or Easter days—finally we have this super-religious jour nalist putting forth excuses for the conduct of Lord CARDIGAN in the general practices of the army. We have inserted a part of the Standard article, and need not quote it here. We see in it, however, an indication of that complete hypo. crisy and hollow-heartedness which pervades the whole of the Church and Conservative party. The Conservatives see with horror a few workmen, pent up in a close workshop for six days in the week, enjoying themselves in the fields and in the parks of a Sunday, running by railway down to Greenwich, or steaming up to Richmond; then they lift up their hands and eyes, and cry out against the immorality of the age; but they excuse, by the general practice of the army, the brutal desecration of the Sabbath by Lord CARDIGAN. The hypocrisy of the Con servatives, the deadened feelings of public men, and the reckless disregard of all respect able and religious feeling in the army, which are thus indicated, seem to us even more afflicting than the mere act of flogging a soldier on the Sabbath. We gave in our Second Edition on Tuesday a full account of the magnificent entertainment given to Sir CHARLES NAPIER at Liverpool on Monday, by the Mayor, Town Council, and the first merchants of that wealthy and enterprising town. Men of all sects and parties, religious as well as political, joined in the well-merited tribute conferred on an officer alike remarkable for skill in battle, and straightforward and upright conduct in negotiations. It will be seen from an address in another part of the paper, that the same honour has been prepared for him at the first manufacturing town in the empire,_ and that the Mayor and Burgesses of Manches ter were to entertain the Gallant Commodore at a public dinner yesterday, in commemoration of their gratitude for the early termination of the horrors of war, and for the restoration of the in estimable blessings of peace. Wherever he goes he will be received with acclamations, and loud expressions of praise for the honour he has con ferred on his native country. He will be in London probably by to-morrow or this day, and we have no doubt that in this mart of the world, the queen of cities, celebrated for her wealth, trade, commerce, and liberality, and we may add gratitude, he will be received with the same unanimous welcome. The Magistrates and Burgesses of London will not allow themselves to be outdone by Liverpool or Manchester, and, though not first in the field, they will be proud to follow so noble an exam ple, and confer honour on a man who, while he so nobly fought the battles of his country, ac quired the friendship and the, esteem of the enterprising and warlike Egyptian whom he was reluctantly compelled to attack. This is a duty incumbent on all parties. The origin of the con test is entirely out of the question. Commodore NAPIER. was bound as a servant of the Sovereign to obey the commands of her Ministers, and he carried these commands into effect with a rapidity and decision unequalled perhaps in ancient or modern warfare. As soon as the attack commenced at Beyrout, the British fleet, with a handful of troops, swept along the Syrian coast like a hurricane, and in one month put an end to a contest which, under the guid ance of a less skilful commander, might have entailed tenfold suffering, not only on the un happy people of that country, but on the civilised world. For this he deserves great praise. But his conduct in battle does , not form the only or the principal part of his achieve ments. His negotiations with the PACHA ; his anxiety to do justice to a fallen and a generous enemy ; his patriotic determination to maintain the honour of his country, and adhere manfully to what he considered the spirit of the treaty, notwithstanding the rebuke of his Admi ral, and the wicked machinations at Constanti nople, do him the highest honour, and call for the warmest congratulations from every friend of mercy, justice, and peace. To him the citi zens of London, the first commercial city in the world, above all others, are deeply indebted; and we doubt not that they will take the first opportunity of testifying their sense of his merits by some public demonstration. Even France, so jealous of this country, can take no umbrage at this display. NAPIER obtained no victory over her, he carried his orders into effect against the aggressions of MEHEMET Au, and his only remaining objects now are to secure the fulfilment of the treaty to the fullest extent, and place the relations between Turkey and Egypt on a safe and honourable footing, calcu lated alike to preserve peace between the two countries, and all the great Powers of Europe. The Times yesterday told a curious story of some most respectable Conservative, which de serves to be repeated, for the sake of the evi dence it supplies of the worthlessness of the Con servative leaders. Here it is : A few days since, a gentleman of notorious and uncom promising principle, resident in one of the great metropolitan districts, was applied to, in due course, for his subscription to the Conservative Association, of which he was a member. His answer was a firm and prompt denial—" I shall subs - ' no huger." -gibe The agent of the Association respectfully rec.- , . are, that you have done, and are doing permitted to report his reasons for withdraw-' .... An explanatio n was offered. Thp ' been made in duninislo ng dered of the eMeieney of the As'- - P .'., good." clearest proofs were ten had; vtitive -..ciation. A continual progress the Radical strength, and in augmenting the Conser i - n8 the the very next election must forces ; and it was clear to all ascendancy in that locality. human modes of cv . :, en,t,irielgyraensttabal'ii;,d'tht&e7, C o worked perseveringly and well; and 1t adnut that you have ref''ister ; and that it is very probable that t y f l have purged the .., • e next otTortunity will entirely change the representation of this district. B when all this is done, 1 still ask what good you will have ut, done ? You gain a Conservative majority in Parliament —You turn out and t have he M anoth y e inistr r set in the ir r oom That is, you ?" get rid of one set of so Uri d re l s, ,Aested to be " My reasons What must the state of things be (asks our Contempor y) when the Conservatives turn in disgust from thei r own tru es in one place, and when Conservatives and Chartists are found in amicable compact in another ? Let no man be so foolish as call this " a desertion of principle." It is the contrary—it is the highest tribute to principle. _ _ Bravo, Times! to desert the Conservatives, is the highest tribute to principle. We believe it is we believe there are a great many respect able gentlemen of uncompromising principles who are quite ready to desert the Conservative party, only they want a little courage, or they wait for an opportunity. Our Contemporary clearly explains, too, the cause of this desertion. The herd have lost their confidence in their leaders. They have opened, or are opening, their eyes to the cheat that is put on them. They begin to see that the leading Conservatives have bamboozled them, by expressed or implied pro mises, to turn out the Whigs, and re-establish, under some guise or other, the old corruptions and the old oppressions. The Conservative leaders cannot realise their own promises and the ex pectations of their followers, and hence their dupes begin to look on them as a parcel of poli tical cheats. This is a conviction founded in the nature of things, which every day will strengthen, and add to the number of those who entertain it. The undoubted fact is, that Conservatiim is altogether a lie; and " man," as Mr. CARLYLE THE SUN, LONDON., THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1841. says, " is everywhere the born enemy of lies." It pretends to be founded on religion, while it seeks only pelf. It lays claim to exclusive holi ness, when it has all the worst vices of our common nature. It has in its mouth no other words than public good and social order, meaning all the while a bread tax and the slavery of the multitude. It talks of public happiness -- it means the aggran disement of a few worthless idlers at the expense of the industrious millions. It pretends to be loyal to the Throne, while it thinks only of seiz ing power for itself. Prostituting the best and holiest names, such as public order and religion, to its own party purposes, Conservatism is, from beginning to end, one great and terrible lie. Its dupes begin to find it out. The Church and Conservatism are nearly one and the same, for Conservative politics all centre in upholding the Church. Hence our Contem porary, when he talks of "a Conservative party in Parliament making the faith and the spirit of Christianity its rule," opposed as he is to the Dis senters, must mean, the faith and spirit of Chris tianity as found in the Church. It adopts, then, the policy of rallying all Conservatives round the Church, having for standard-bearers the Bishop of EXETER and Sir R. INGus. Now of this Church—or rather of the priesthood, which in all political squabbles is what the word Church stands for, and never for the congregations—the present number of the Edinburgh Review gives us an instructive picture. It first shows that all the Puseyite party are sophistical Jesuits, play ing with words as children do with toy chucking them together without any rer a d to their real place ; and next, it shows th:4t all the non-Puseyites in the Church requAre a similar latitude to enable them to have - 4 reasonably quiet conscience. We will quote the passages " Here is a man, who, ori being ordained a clergyman of the Church of England, swore in the most public, the most positive, the most sacred manner, that he believed that General Councils, 'without the least hint of any ex c ption, may err, in things pertaining to God, and delibe rate.y declaring that some General Councils are infall.ble. What man after this need hesitate to take any oath, however repugnant 'co his sentiments, if he may without breach of conscienvm afterwards insert any exception he chooses? What but the terror of a Court of Law, that judges only by the letter, need ever bind a man down to keep, not his promise only, but his oath ? What Jesuit needs scruple to uphold the morality of mental reservations, if Mr. Newman's exception is moral ? Let us suppose some Roman Catholics to have taken the oath of allegiance to the Queen, and to have been afterwards de tected in a conspiracy against her throne and her life, and let us suppose such an one to be asked, how he re conciled his treason with his oath ; why should he not answer that his oath was intended to be kept only when his duty to the King of kings did not require otherwise, and that the duty of dethroning heretics, when practicable, was a real though unexpressed exception to his oath? What would be the feeling of all England on hearing such an answer? Why, both in past and present ages, have such mental reservations excited the detestation and abhorrence of all men? Why have all re pectable Catholics been so extremely vehement of late years in disclaiming the least participation in them? Because they are loaded with the guilt of falsehood in its most heinous form ; because they insert, after the promise, exceptions unexpressed at the time it was made—exceptions contradicting the very words of the pledge given —deceiving the imposer of the pledge—and destroying all confidence in the honour and good faith of mankind. And where is the difference between the mental reservation of the Jesuit and the exception of Mr. Newman? In principle there is none whatever. They both alike are violations of the cardinal rule for the observance of engagements that they are to be kept in the sense with which he who gives the promise believes the other to impose it. They vitiate the [ledge given, and convert it into an instrument of deceit. Indeed we greatly wonder that an English clergyman, admired by a large party, and pretending to be a reviser of holiness and Christian principle, should thus teach his foi -1 Ave-rs how to say one thing and mean another. Had Mr. Newman boldly proclaimed that he did not agree with the Article, his offence would have been much l ess . B ut to differ from the Article, and then to endeavour to persuade honest and scrupulous consciences that they may lawfullyand religiously swear they agree with the Article, yet by means of an arbi trary and unexpressed exception, may believe just the con trary, is something which we will not characterize as it de. serves." " We shall probably be met with the question,—' What, then, is every one who subscribes the Articles obliged to agree with the most minute statement contained in them, inter preted in its original and fairest sense ?' We frankly answer, No. It is impossible that so eaten-ive a document, embracing such a vast number of propositions, varying in importance from the highest principles of religion to mere details of ordi nary life, should have remained unaltered for centuries, and yet continue to be in entire harmony with the opinions of men ; that the progress of thought and knowledge, the advances made in history, antiquity, criticism, &c., should have left un touched all and each of its many statements. It is an evil very much to be deplored that the Articles, no more than the University statutes, the observance of which is equally enforced upon oath, are not brought in unison with the times. But since it is not so—since men are still called upon to pledge themselves to them in their ancient and unaltered foi m—the only way in which we conceive it possible for an honest man to justify the act to his conscience is, to satisfy himself that he thoroughly and unreservedly assents to their essential spirit ; and that he does not differ from them but upon points which may be departed from without breaking away from the for.damental truths which they lay down as the constitutive principles of the Church of England." _ _ We have little doubt, from the spirit of the whole article, that it is written by some distin guished member of the Low Church party; and taking it, therefore, as authority, can anything be more melancholy for the whole body of par sons, and more hopeless for the nation, than the picture it sets before us ? The clergy, according to these extracts, do not, and cannot, believe the Articles they swear to. Time has made innova tions in them. One party tries to reason a diffe rent meaning into them, and the other swears to them with a secret reservation, or gives to them a meaning of its own. The clergy are all sensi ble that the State Church is a falsehood, and their whole lives are p assed i n vail at tempts to reconcile their convictions to their interest. By that they are made miserable, and the public morality is undermined. The foundations of the State Church are laid in false hood, and insincerity pervades every part of the building. Men, as we learn from the Times, will no longer be content with such mockeries; they seek the true and the real, and they will and must trample the false and unreal out of ex istence. Hence the separation of honest men from the Conservative party. Some uncertainty, it is said, prevails at Not tingham as to Mr. WALTER'S opinions on the Corn-law, and on Church-rates. Our state ments that Mr. WALTER, when in Parliament, twice neglected to vote for motions directed against the Corn-law, and that the Times has not lately exerted its power against it, should put an end to all doubt on the subject. Neither Mr. WALTER nor the Times dare openly advocate the Corn-law; but they do what is worse, they burke all discussion on it as far as they can, and so endeavoUr to convince the public that it is matter of perfect indiffer ence . Th e a b o 4 the Corn-law would int er f ere wio , eir pet of discussion, and take ..neir occupation. away their ' Mr. WALTER is a poi' • • _Lucian solely on t h e strength of his- law, vabl- and if ..ntipathy to th e Poor law, law we re mac* of no store=concei importance by the nati on b e i ng re to prosperity, Mr. W ALTER would lose i,ne single theme of his eloq uence . H e and the Times are worse than friends of the Corn-law— they are traitors to the cause of abolition. We think the public has a great right to com plain of the Times on this ground, because there was a period when it took the lead against Corn-law. It showed its iniquity ty .. periodi cally contrasting the orice of 'wheat here with its price in France and: Belgiuni, and so taught and hate the Corn.law. the public to appreciat e It taught the publi ''... also to denounce t h at law, and now wl 'en encouraged by it s former ex,- ample 'cite public has made an attack 011 the Corn-law, and when by itts aid the public might secure a victory ) it runs away and leaves the Anti -Corn-law party in the lurch. All that party have good reason to complain of the boundoTriniait:,traenaclheaerreybyall h ttoesmhoewants in theirheirreenptomweenrt. t o e t h h u e i i •e r Church -rates, bons , n st to o e greitnire rids and avowedly opposed 0 that Dissenters, and it has A held s olsf f°C1111:11311. rates up to ridicule. It is notoriously and avow edly the champion of the Church . Mr. WALTER has for some years taken the same side. hen he was in Parliament, for example, in 1837, W he voted against the resolutions relative t o Church lands, which the CHANCELLOR of th e EXCHEQUER proposed with • a view to extinguish Church-rates. 1-1 • e is - able, therefore, to the Dissentersnot favour) and may perhaps be gratified by refl ect i ng that at Not he may almost hear the Lei cester bells, which are rungover the incarcerated Air.l3A/Les, Dissent and democracy are standin ocs of ridicule in the Times; yet Hr. WALT ER,. with great hardihood, appeals to the democracy for support. How any Chartist could vote for Mi . WALTER, would be to us quite inexplicable, had we not been informed that the people about Nottingham are reduced to so sad a state of dis.. tress, and have been so often disappointed, that they support Mr. WALTER Out of hatred ftpd a desire of veiigeance. " I care notliiiigh for ciple," is the reply, we are told, of these men, when remonstrated with forsupporting Mr. WAL TER, " I Will have revenge." Mr. WALTER, then, if he be returned, of which we believe there is not the smallest prospect, would be the repre sentative of Chartist vengeance and Conservative falsehood. Violence and humbug is the motto of the Times and Mr. WALTER. We yesterday quoted from the volume of Correspondence on the Eastern Question, just presented to Parliament, an ex t rac t fr o m a des patch from the Russian Ple n ip o t en tiary, Baron BRUNNOW, to Count NESSELRODE, which ap peared to us to demonstrate that Lord PALMER STON had been wanting in his duty as a British Foreign Minister, when, in September last, he consented to entrust Russia with the protection of Constantinople, provided three or four British ships of the line were, for mere form's sake, suf fered to enter the Straits of the Dardanelles. We now publish, in another part of The Sun, Lord PALMERSTON'S despatch to the Marquis of CLANRICARDE, our Ambassador at the Court of St. Petersburgh, on the same subject, in wh' . - on we are astonished to find his Lordship's j testimony of the fulness and fidelity o f the -- oble Baron's report of the interview bet ;keen such very un equal mo derate, and, under 1 1.'ile circumstances, pusiFaui meqouual s a a s d l e v p in as ts Lor t: t ie ....p a A r L t ` o f di p l omacy. B ut mEnsTom,s proposition of sending a mo c k er y of a n ava l f orce to co-operate with R u",.;la in the Bosphorus, it was not without great d - ifficuity—not without a conviction that by other means could the British and French alli ance be broken up—that the EMPEROR con sented to it. And when he did consent, and the Baron BRUNNOW was Treaty was signed, ex pressly commanded 'to demand from Lord PALMERSTON the amount of the naval force to be placed at the disposal of the SULTAN. Tile object of this demand, which, with the answer to it, we have also quoted, was evidently to ob tain from Lord PALMERSTON an official statement of the force destined to enter the Dardanelles. Lord PALMERSTON appears to have understood this, and hastens to set the EMPEROR at rest on the subject of his cherished wish to become alone master of Constantinople. " The amount of naval force," says his Lordship in his note of the 15th of July, " which we could spare for such a purpose (the defence of Constan tinople) must necessarily be limited by a conside ration of the aggregate amount of our squadron in the Mediterranean and of the other services which that squadron will have to perform ; I had occasion to make known to your Court, by a despatch which I addressed to Lord CLANRICARDE in October last, that in such a case we should be able to send but a small number of ships to the Sea of Marmora. I have now communicated with Lord "MINT°, and I have to state that our Mediterranean squadron consists of the ships mentioned in the accompanying list ; and consi dering the various duties which that squadron will have to perform, we could not conveniently undertake to despatch more than three or four ships of the line, with a proportion of frigates and steamers, to co-operate with the Russian ships, in the event of the SULTAN requiring the aid of the two Powers for the defence of his capital." Would it ever be supposed from this language that the object of Lord PALMERSTON was to give a pledge to Russia not that he could not but that he would not send more than three or four ships of the line to the Dardanelles in the event of the Russian fleet entering the Bosphorus ? By a re ference to his Lordship's despatch to the Marquis of CLANRICARDE it will be seen that his great difficulty was to obtain Russia's permission to send a single British ship up the Straits. Mark, too, that the three or four ships were only to be spared at the personal request of the SULTA N— a request which Lord PALMERSTON well knew Russia, when mistress of his capital, would never suffer him to make. But before Lord PALMER STON wrote this jesuitical note lie had performed the business of Russia, and only sought to con coct a document to throw dust in the eyes of the British House of Commons. For what was there to protect of Turkey, with Constanti nople garrisoned by a Russian army ? Of what importance is it to England what estimate the inhabitants of Syria form of our prowess pro vided we sink into insignificance at Constan tinople ? The publication of these documents will more than ever endear the Gallant Commodore NA ' PIER to his countrymen. But for the prompt gallantry of this heroic officer Lord PALM ERSTON had prepared a train the firing of which would have blown up the Ottoman empire. For Con stantinople once again fairly in the occupation of Russia, the House of OTHM AN, to parody the la conic decree of NAPOLEON, would have ceased to reign ; and occupied Constantinople would have been by Russia, but for the series of bril liant victories obtained by the Gallant Commo dore on the coast of Syria, which compelled IBRAHIM PACHA to evacuate that Province. By a prodigy of British valour, as yet neither duly appreciated nor rewarded by the British Government, Turkey has been saved from the open violence of her enemies, and the more dan gerous wiles of her pretended friends. If our readers regard as too severe these stric tures upon the conduct of a Minister, who has hitherto had, from equally pure and patriotic motives, our humble meed of support, our answer is, the documents are before them, and they are welcome to take a more favourable View of it, if they can do so consistently with a due regard to the interests of the country. The facts from which we form our judgment are sufficiently simple and intelligible—Lord PALMERSTON'S consent to the sole occupation of Constantinople by an un limited number of Russian troops, and of the presence of an equally unlimited limssian fleet v.iteUmstanc es s h ort o in f B the o o t s t p o l r i o a r n u , il u l under .n 0,3 f the military and naval power of Old tngla n d the natural ally and protector of tb Ottoman Empire. I The - extraordinary express received from Paris on Tuesday, and published in the morning edi tion of The Sun, contained the latest news from French Africa and Spain, found in Monday's papers, which have reached us by the ordinary Post-office conveyance. We shall therefore con fine ourselves to-day to the quotation of such pa ragraphs in the French Journals as we deem of general interest. FUNERAL OF NAPOLTON,-*Wt km by the report of the Minister, which accompanies the bill for a supplementary credit for the exp enses o f the funeral of Napoleon; tha t t thek hairs c eeded by 000,000 f. the million Voted bar fhb Cnambers. The expense of th e removal Ofthe remains from St. Helena t o Paris was MAO., the preparatory works for the ceremony of the funeral a nounted to 1,352,8091., and the construction of th': temporary tomb, striking of medals) &e., Foit 242,060 f. The amount required by the Minister for the erection Of the permanent tomb It 600;uuth:, ind the exebtiticih of, it is ,td be awarded after a public eckiipetition iiiitist4:—Ualinant. Feettett COMMERCE.—The American Statesineti Whn propose taxing French manufactures imagine certain wrongs done to Ameriel by trance: 4iirdifi g to them, Amer ica is ,the victim Of the of th e French Custom=house.chity upon cotton imported from the United states had been lowered to 20f. per 100 kilogr.s Whilst the cotton from other parts remained flied at 25f. and 30f. Under this law the imptirtatieh of cotton from Ame rica has risen from 7,659,400 to 43;780 ) 000 kiiogr., 100 .kilo. and hit s thu s inetiated hi the proportiOn .A. t d ; re presents at kier 100 ei tide eiportation ; yet the Antrielkna pletend that their cotton is unjustly tr. ated by tt s e cott on of Egypt paying 5 " les .grarnmes l es t on i mpel tition. Ttie4i hive alsii Hiscbberbcl that • the French entertained tii6 most sinister designs ag ainst. NOrth Am%rica. with re s p ec t to the tobacco eought by us in the United states, in such an increasing quantity that. from 1626 to 1838 the importation of the tobacco of the Union into France had increas ed six.feith The !lee dl South Caro lina pays but 1 11 q whilst that of Piedniont pays df., and stil. the Ameticans complain of our partiality against thetit. If iris interest at all is sacrificed in the commercial tr. aty between France and the United states, it is ours, because since the con vention of 1822 the Americans have the monopoly of the nevi getion between the two countries: In this rapid motion o: exchange, the French shipping only plays a miserable part. Ia ici(l3, our share was about one-third; since 1822 $ our share has only been of 12 ur 13 hundredths; and'lB37 Was though, a miraculous year, when our share was one-sixth.ourna des Debits. A letter from Alexandria, 27th lilt., in the Commerce, states that 10,000 sailors, who had been landed to work in various villages, had been Ordered 18 go again on board the vessels of war in the harbour, and that five 60-gun frigates had been put 'on the stocks. Great activity prevailed in pushing on the works of the new dock ) which had been suspended. Rein forcements of troops co n ti nue d to arrive from Cairo and the interior, and w ere stat i one d i n t h e c amp of Mahmudieh ; but as the plague exist e d among th em a sanator y cordon of Nati ona l Guards was drawn roun d th e pl ac e. Stillman Pacha was ex pected fro m C a i ro , an d was to have the command of a ll troops in Lower Egypt. L T/le Quoiidienne announces . that M. de Villets , who has 4 "'13 'fixed his residence in the environs of Toulouse, has ar riVed'at Paris, - LeNgthin is yet decided respecting the promotions in the orHonou r , w hi c h are t o b e made on the It is affirmed, h owever , that Mies been resolved Ist of May. that nodeco rationshall be given thiiyear to the functiouries of the Ctn. . . • • • '., tral Board; but it is believed that there will be numerous ex ceptions to this rule. It has also been resolved in the Council of Ministers that, considering the advanced period of the Session, no new protect of law shall be presented. M. Martin (du Nord) is not sr. ry for this declaration, which will enable him to put off till the next Session the modifications of the law respecting the Office of Notary. But the reclamations which are made in all.quar ters are so pressing that the Keeper of the Seals may find him self morally obliged to lay before the Chamber, in a few days, the project of lam drawn up by the Council of State.—Le Temps. The Quotidienne, after repeating what we (the Commerce) said a few days ago of the manner in which the Ministers mean to obey the law on the fortifications, as regards the simultaneous execution of the continuous enclosure and of the forts, adds :—" We are able to give the Commerce the assur ance that it is not mistaken. A conversation, which has been faithfully reported to us, will make it acquainted with the im mutable programme of the execution of the law of bastiles. A courtier said to a person who has great influence in the Camarilla, and in the Administration, "It is not possible 4 ' t you i.hould have money enough to erect the advanc- "" a ; the continuous wall." " Assuredly not," wa- ....a forts and t we want only the forts, and the milli.- tne answer ; will be sufficient for them." voted by the Chambers • What you have done wits • And when you shall be asked, mean that that part the, continuous wall?'—" ?'—" °hove don't We shall erect of the law shall be absolutely a dead letter. • points some portions of the wall, he r e an d there, at ere they may be u s eful t o us ; b ut , a t th e same ti me , the - continuation of the fort will be prosecuted with vigour. Then, when they are promised, we shall propose to the Cham ber to vote us two or three hundred millions, rather mote than lets. The Chambers will be frightened and the millions will be refused. Then it will not be our fault. We shall have paid due regard to every point, even to the simultaneous exe cution. Ask Soult !"—Le Commerce. . . BO UR S PARIS. MOND* Y. APRIL 19. first Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Pricy. Price ..: ch '.)er A erns ll3 90 ... 113 90 ... 113 SS ... 113 90 4 per Cents 99 25 ... 99 25 ... 99 25 ... 90 26 ii per tActlib 79 . t. lo ... :9 ... 79 ,I. 11tnk co, trance Litfitte Malik %060 f Stares 1100 ...516: ...5161 ...5160 I,ooot. S ares 1090 . lei.t ...1180 ...1090 812 50 ... 815 81•+50 ...815 ti•icnan flank ...... .I , 2rush Active 2 4 ,4 ... ... Passive 534 -• 5 % • .01 Rowan lO4 ...104 ...104 RAILWAY SHARES. 5t Ve bzolles.R. ti 3BO 382 5u ... 375 380 LB rso ... 255 . 250 15 150 louen it. ..)org u, Bale ',3l 75 ... 528 75 ... 23" 75 2: 875 485 485 ... 485 51ontpellier to Cette 250 ... 275 ... 250 ... The Augsburg Gazette publishes the following letter from Constantinople on the subject of die change in the Turkish Cabinet:— " CONSTANTINOPLE, MARCH W.—This morning d Com missary of the Ottoman Porte presented himself lk.t the resi dence of Reschid Pacha, and demanded the decoration of the Nischar, which the Sultan had deliveted to him a few days before. He also informed him that he was no longer Mi nister, and that he had been succeeded by Rifaat Bey. The people of the Seragli, think that 11 1'.3 nomination is an addi tional guarantee for the pacific sej,uti,,n of the Eastern question. Taint. Pacha, who is now C - pitan Pacha, is the best naval offi cer Turkey popesses,a,t.'l- the English themselves have borne tes timony to his hifft, qua ities. It is hence inferred by other per sons that thq Sultan is hostile to Mehemet Ali, and that he has nol;;lnated to the head of the navy so distinguished a man, in order to be abl e t o ac t, if necessary, with vigour against the Pacha. If the Ottoman Porte does not display as much condescension for Mehemet Ali as certain Powers seem to ex pect, the representation of the July Treaty will be dissolved, as it is said the London Conference has already dissolved itself ; but, on the other hand, well-informed persons count on the Sultan's condescension towards Mehemet Ali." The same Journal publishes the annexed let ter from the Turkish frontiers, dated the sth of April : ",It was predicted with truth that the recent marks of tinction conferred by the Sultan on Resckid Pacha would be only signals of disgrace. The Sultan has been unable to resist the united efforts of the enemies of that Minister, backed by the Ambassadors of England and Russia. It was, however, quite against his own individual wishes that, on the 28th ult., his Highness resolved on dismissing Reschid Pacha, who but lately appeared indispensable, and on replacing him by Rifaat Bey, a man of probity, and a friend of the laws, but inferior to his predecessor in an administrative capacity. It is evi dent that this resolution concerning the Ministry is the work of the party which obstinately refuses all kind of concession to Mehemet Ali : and it would certainly have never been carried into effect if the Sultan could have continued his re sistance until the arrival of fresh instructions from Londun for the Ambassadors. It would be erroneous, however, to inter that this change of Ministers will have the effect of compli cating the Turko-Egyptian question, since no Ministry would venture to oppose the opinions of all Europe. It is possible that on the arrival of instructions, expected for the 4th to the Bth instant, a modification of the new Cabinet may take place, or that Lord Ponsonby may be recalled." The writ!rs of these letters manifestly know very little of what they write about. The Bri tish Ambassador, so far from intriguing to effect the downfal of RESCHID PACIIA, was that Mi nister's most strenuous supporter. The most powerful opponent of RESCHID was Baron STURATER, the Austrian Internuncio, who was lat terly supported by the Russian Ambassador. Nor does the change in the Cabinet indicate on the part of the SULTAN any design adverse to MEHEMET ALI, but the contrary. RIFAAT BEY, before taking office, even pledged him self, to the Austrian Interpuncio, to prevail upon the SULTAN to concede to the VICEROY the hereditary government of Egypt in the direct line, and to modify all the other articles in the Firman, to which the VICEROY had raised objec tions. But as soon as the Egyptian question is entirely arranged by the Porte, we shall expect to hear of RESCHID PACHA'S honourable restora tion to office. He is certainly one of the mot liberal and enlightened men in the Ottoman Empire ; and but for his participation in Lord PONSONBY'S prejudices against the VICEROY, his present retirement from office would be, in Turkey, a national calamity. 'e are afraid the Lord Advocate and Mr. Fox Malik, the patrons of the non-intrusiunists, are too powerful for Lord Normanby, else why should the Under-Secretary last evening have declined to give a decisive answer to Sir George Sinclair, respecting the appointment to the chair of Biblical Criticism in the University of Edin burgh ? Are they still determined to force on the Government a man who has repeatedly denounced the Supreme Civil Court in Scotland, and sets its edicts at defianCe ? Lord Normanby stated in the House of Lords, that the moment be heard Mr. Candlish was guilty of such proceedings he " put an end to all communication with him on the subject." We trust his Lordship is possessed of sufficient firmness to adhere to this resolution, and that the friends of decency and order in Scotland will not be insulted by the promotion of a churchman, who, like Newman, Pusey, and Co., claims to himself and party divine authority, and is prepared on that plea to trample upon the laws of the land, MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, WEDNESDAY EVENING. The non-arrival of the President steamer still cxc:tes much anxiety in the city, though far less conversation and exci , ement. Most parties have at last made a virtue of necessity, and resolve to be patient. The Stock and Share Markets were dull to-day. Con sols for immediate transfer realised 901 to 901, and for the Account 90f, being precisely yesterday's prices. Exche quer Bills were 13s. to 15s, premium, and India Bonds 2 premium to par. Bank Stock was firm at 173 ; the New Three-and-a-Half per Cents, ranged from OD to 994; and the Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities brought 89. to 4. The New Five per Cent. Portuguese Bonds were at 34 to 331, and the Three per Cents. at 201. Colombian Bonds of 1624 were heavy at 22k, and Mexican of 1837 at aoi to }. Bel g ian Eon& were Artii et 103, The ad- Vices received this afternoon from the Amsterdam Bourse notice a very brisk market for the domestic funds. The Twoaandsai Half per Cents closed there at 51i ; and the rive per Cents. at 991. Here the former were firm at 52 to }; and the latter improved from 001 to 994. The Share Market was in a good podium again to.day. Great Western Railway Shares brought 30 to 31}, the Fifths at 71 ; the London and Birmingham 70 ; the Bir mingham New 22/; the Greenwich Scrip li-; and the South Western 20k prem ; North Midiand She, es were 16 ; Manchester and Leeds 3} and Biighton 28 dig. ; London and WeAminstet Bank New Shares were at 24 prem, ( From The Sun of Last Night.) LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, APRIL 20.—We have again to repbrt a very slight business in the Cotton market. the sales db tidt aiptinfit ttirttbre than 2,000 bales for home consumption. In speculatioii purchases have b een ma d e ; prices are without alteration. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, APRIL 1:).-- i the folk/if - ink are the tratiaatips reported at the Stock Exchange :—Easte r n CountieS, Yi; Glakelf Mid Paisley, 27 ; Grand Junction, 211 ; Half Shares, 105 .; - Quarter Attest 2E4; Liverpool and Man chejiter; Half Shares 96t: MANCilit:Sl4,a gioek FACHANdE i MAIL 20.—There con • tinues to be a fair demand f6r fiktst liitid§ of R a il way S toc k, and prices have generally an upward tendency. Manchester and Birmingham, 25i ; Manchester and Leeds, 66i and 66 ; London and Smith We.tern, Tenths, 445. ; Hull and Selby, 45 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, ; North Midland, 80; Bank of Steckport; 3L Csd ; Union Bank of Manchester, 7/. 16s. 3d. ; Ashton and Oldham Canal, 106. TheFtirope bas arrived from New York, bringing papers to the 2d Apfil. The State Legislature of New York has a hill before it to authorize the issue of 400,000 Seven per Cent. Stock. and the City Corporation has applied for permission to issue 2,800,000 dollars of Five per. Cent. Stocks. Pennsylvania has as yet taken no steps towards paying the 2,000,000 dollars' principal and interest, that falls due between this and Aegust. he Tax authorized last year was estimated to yield 800,000 dollars: It is now ascertained that 360,000 wi.l be the extent. The other States are doing nothing towards meeting their liabilities, they are looking fi,rward to the action of the Federal Govern ment at the extra Session ; the result of that is not expected to be other than the creation of a Five per Cent. National Stock of 20,000,000 dollars to meet the wants of Govern ment.—New York Herald. The British Funds continue in the same state as for several days past, inactive, and oithout any spirit for speculating. Consols opened this morning at the leaving off quotations of yesterday, 90 for the Accuunt, Money 90* ; Exchequer Bills, 13 15 prem. ; Bank Stock, 172 173; India Stock, 255, 256. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active rather better, left off at 23i *; at present 234 Deferred, 12* 1 / 2 ; Passive, 5“ ; Portuguese the same as they left off , 333/4 34 ; Three per Cents., 201; Brazilian, 69 70 ; Colombian, 224 23 ; Mex ican rather lower, 301 ; closed at 301 ; Chilian, 59, 62 ; Dutch Twe-and-a- Half per Cents., 526 Five per Ceuts.) 99 % i• . The Foreign Exchanges were not quite sa goad as on last post day. No tidings of the President steamer. Sum.s.—Great Western, 301 311, prem., New, 144 lsi prem. ; London and Brighton, 2 1-1 dis. ; Blaekwall, 5t 5 d's. ; Birmingham, 68 70 prem. ; Southampton, 58 59 per share; Croydon, 13 3 / 4 14.-1 per share; Greenwich, 84i per share ; Manchester and Birmingham, 15 14 dis. ; Seuth Eastern and Dover, 141 14 dis. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share, Great Western - OD Ditto Fifths t 4 London and B r i g h ton ............... 50 London and Birmingham....,,,~ 90 Ditto New ... ......... ..... . 2 London and S ou th Western ..... .. 34 59 .... .. to %lanchester and Birmin .. ... 2.41 .. to Midland Counti es ..., Om 40 25i to • North Midland . . 100 South F 100 ' ...astern and Dover JOINT STOCK BANKS. Union of Australia. The Dutch steamer Batavier has arrived, 4rittging the papers to the 21st April, with the p, ices front Amsterdam of the 19th April. Two-and-Half per Cents., 51% 15-16; Five per Cents., 100. Although money confnues 'plentiful there does not appear the least spirit tor , ;,eeulating, still the British Funds remain firm at the P .:.orning prices, 90} for the 25th May ; Money, 901; Exellcquer Bills, 13 15 prem. ; Bank Stock, 173 ; India Bonds, 2 prem. par. In the Foreign Market scarce a bargain doing. Spanish Active nothing done. Passive, 5 3 4 ; Portuguese, 334, Mexi can, 301 ; Dutch Tao-and-a -Half per Cents., 524; live per Cents., 994. In Shares very little doing. Great Western, 624 ; Fifths, 14 ; London and Brighton 47%; London and Birmingham, 160; South Western, 59; Midland Counties, 90; North Midland, 83. Consols, Account, 90i, Mexican, 30i i ; Portuguese, 33i 34; Spanish, 23i i. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock 173 India Stock — 3 per Cent Red B9} Ditto Bonds 2 pa; 3 per Cent Cons 9oi Ditto Old Annuities .. 3i per Cent Red.. 99 Ditto New Annuities... New 3 per Cent 99i Ex. Bills, 1,0001... 2;d 15 pm New 5 per Cent Ditto 5001 l5 pm Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small l6 pm Jan. 1860 l2 13-16 Bank Stock for 0pg.... Oct 1859 lndia Stock for 0pg.... Jan. 1860. FOREIGN FUNDS. ' - Austrian, 5 per cent Belgian, 5 per cent lO3 Brazilian Bonds — Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent Chilian, 6 per cent — Colombian, 6 per cent — Ditto, 1824. Danish, 3 per cent....... Greek, 18:45, 5 per cent. Mexican, 5 per cent. ... 30i Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825. Peruvian, 18:2.5, 6 per et. Portuguese, 5 per cent. Ditto, New Ditto 34 Prussian, 5 per cent — Russian, 5 per cent — Ditto, Aletallic — 'Spanish, 5 per cent 23i Ditto, Deferred .. 12i French, 5 per cent. —f. —c. Exchange —f. —e. French, 3 per cent —f. —c. Dutch, 2i per cent. ...- 524 Ditto, 5 per cent 998 SHARES. Glaigow Paisley, and Greenock Railway... 27i Great Western Railway (65 paid) ... 964 Ditto Fifth (4 paid) London and Brighton (50 paid) London and Birmingham Railway (90 pd) l6O Ditto New Shares ( 2 paid) 244 London and Greenwich Railway (20 pd).. Ditto Scrip. (3 paid) si London and South Western ... ........... Ditto Tenths London and Croydon Railway ( T run k) ... 134 Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) ...... ... .... 66i Manchester and Birmingham (40 paid) Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) .. ...... 90 North Midland Railway (100 paid) ...... ... 84 South Eastern and Dover (33 paid)... 18i DUTCH AND GERMAN PAPERS. AMSTERDAM. APRIL 17.—1 t is with great pleasure that we are enabled to state that it is highly probable that the Minister of Finance will not make any use this year of the authorisation given to the Government by the Cham. ber, to issue new Bonds (Schielde-brieven). We have already stated that, at all events there would be no issue in the first six months of this year. We are now able to add that the spirit of order and economy by which the present Minister of Finance is so honourably dis tinguished, will reader the issue of New Bonds unnecessary in the second half of the year. The issue of a month's portion of new Treasury notes (Schatpest billetten), for which his Excellency is authorised by the States-Geneial,'will be the only extraordinary mea sure to which the Minister will have recourse during the whole of the year 1841. Thus we joyfull see the present Minister of Finance tulfil in this respect also the high expectation which we always entertained of his Excel lency.—Handelsblud. THE HAGUE, APRIL 16.—The Minister of Finance set out yesterday afternoon for Amsterdam, for the purpose, as we are assured, of settling the affairs of the Syndicate, wh ch institution is to be dissolved on the Ist of May next. FRANKFURT, APRIL 14.—We have learned with the greatest interest, by letters from St. Peteraburgh, written by persons worthy of ciedit, that " his Majesty the Em peror of Russia has resolved to emancipate the Jews in his empire a soon as intellectual instruction and civilization shall be so fir advanced among them that this great boon may be beneficial to themselves " Since the beginning of February, this year, there have been deliberations at St. Petersburgh, the object of which was to attain this object by a judicious improvement of their moral and civil condition ; 200 new schools are now organised, and the youth educated in these schools, as well as the old ones which join in this attempt, shall enjoy, without limitation, the same rights as all other subjects. At present measures arc in progress to invite to Russia from foreign countries, especially Germany, the men who, at Government ichools, denot..d bead masters, teachers, &c., shall manage the several primary and learned estab lishments, fines qualified persons are not at present to be found among fte Jews in the empire. The number of Jews in Russia and Poland is about 2,000 000. DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTELDAM, APRIL 19 Mune.; ~j %MAI Debt, t:IS, per Cent Jitto, ditto 5 per cent. Amor t Syndic, 4% per cent...... ............ 90% 90% Ditto, ditto, 34 per cent...... .............. 73 ;3% Commercial Company, 4', per cent 165 1665 Ditto (1635 and 1537) 5 per cent. Loan 11,337, 5 per cent.. ................. "i 3 993 s Exchange en London, One month ...... 12 05 Two months 11 95 Dutch Papers, April 20. Ausi KLAN FUPILIJ.—VIVINA, APRIL la. Ive per Cents. Metalliques Four per Cents. 98% three per Cents. ..... ........... .......... 7134 Sank Shares 1655 --411reitirine Zeilung. April 15 PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BnaLIN, APRIL 16. 13iih , . Money St. Schuld. Sch., 4 , , per cent 163% 103% Prussian English Loan, 1830, 4 per cent 101 1003] Exchange on London, three months 6 19% —Prussian State Gazelle. April 17 RATES OF INCREASE OF LET- TERS Returns exhibiting the rate at which the cor respondence of the country is advancing, have just been printed by order of the House of Com mons. Selecting three periods, before and after the introduction of the Penny Postage, which show the numbers of letters passing through the London General and the London District Posts, and those delivered in the whole of the United Kingdom; the numbers for each stand as fol low : LONDON GENERAL POST. Four vieAs ending Number of Letters. 30th March, 1839 28th March, 1810 27th March, 1841 LONDON DISTRICT POST. 20th January, 1839 Ist February, 1840 30th January, 1841 UNITED KINGDOM. Week ending 24th November, 1839 22nd March, 1840 3,069,496 • ‘2lBt March, 1841 3,721,455 Disregarding the great increase of letters which arose immediately upon the introduction of the Penuy Post, and confining attention solely to the increase which is shown to be going on since that great accession of correspondence took place, it appears that the present rate of increase per annum on London General Post letters (the only General Post lettert of which a separate account is stated), is 50 per cent.; on London District Post letters, 19 per cent. ; and on all let ters for the United Kingdom, 21 per cent. • Letters from Java give a curious history of the bank in that island. It was established 12 years ago with a fixes capital of 2,000,000 f., divided inter 4,000 shares, and with authority to Mlle notes. At first the abates were unsaleable; the dspitabsts bought but few, the merchants not any, •and the greatest shareholder was the Gwern ment. The abundance of produce ing the opt rations of the first year rendered the bank but an unprofitable con earn; abundance in the market brought with it an abun dance i f specie, so that the paper money would hare been superfluous. Prdchtee, however; became scarce, and dollars necame scarce also, ad the bank was brought into pia,. and increased in prosperity; its paper was in circulation to a large amount, the dividend to the shareM lifers was enormous, and the shares became worth 340 per cent. Things went on in this way till about a year and a half ago, when the bank found that its coffers were empty. Instead of being embarrassed at this cir cumstance the managers at once coolly declared, that they did not intend to pay their notes, and the creditors were obliged to submit to thia determina tion ; it is said, however, they were in fear the Go vernment might exercise their privilege of banishing the unruly. The managers of the bank, however , Levi; to feel the consequences, and were obliged to draw in their credit, and this, it teems , was eff , cted by throwing out iustnwitians, which ruined the credit of those to whom they applied. A general want of fidence has been the result of the system, and the bank shares, which were worth 1,700 f in 1838, were lately offtr dat 4751 It is not to be supposed that there are many persons in England immediately interested in the fete of this re. mote bank ; but its short history g yes an instructive picture of a paper system rising into a spurious prosper thenity, at a time when the country was Ica , t pro s p erous, and at once exploding and spreading paid.: around it. The affair is not, however, so singular as some of the writers on the subject imagine. They say the emptiness of the coffers would have reduced a bank in any other part of the world to a sad oilemma, but this expedient of &elating boldly that they would no longer pay their own notes, whe n t h e Go vernment was their principal shareholder, T eems only a shorter method tha n that pursued by the American banks, who have friends i n the St rte Legislatures, t o aut h or i s e suspension; the principle in both ease being precisely the same. Thus the paper system, whatever changes of form it may undergo, is aiWaYB an evil wherever it may be es tablitihOdo•JinteS. MORNING 1 COURT CFCULAit,.. „ 6 The Qu( e a ant i P rire Albert arrived at Buciotiti ham Palace at tweiity minute: past five o'clock vesterdsl afternoon, in a carr i age an d four, escorted by ale rl i l i of Hussars, from Windsor Casale. Colonels W r ''" 3 /:, and Bouverie, the E que r r i es i n W a i t i ng on tier Allier., l l and his Royal High ness , f o ll owe d i n a chariio r , four, Her Royal Highness th e Princess Royal of ' the next carriage with her attendants. Two'ciiiir and four followed, the one coot tining the Duch esso d Bedford, Lady in Waiting ; Lai) , Caroline Cocks 81 ? the Hon. Miss Cavendish, 11,1 aids of Honour in l i a. / .. ing ; and the other containing Lord Lilford, Lord i 0 Waiting ; rind Mr. Rich, Groom in Waiting. :rill n ' t : the T,.e Queen nnel Prince Atnt: wiJe receive , ' "- Palace by the L ar d Chamberlain, the LuYd S te to the Maiter of the Horse, the Groom of the St* d Ptittce Albert, the Mastet of the Household) 1-Ar George Lennox, and Lord Alfred Paget. The Royal Standard was hoisted on the Marble.Perd The Royal dinner p ar ty, l as t evening, includeo 4° Robert Grosvenor and Sir George Anson. , i. -- 4 , 00 f The Band of the Coldstream Regiment m - t he Guards attended at Buckingham Palace, during ... evening, Before leaving Windsor C as tl e y es t er day, bis P in Highness Prince Albert, atte n d e d by C o lonel rAt' ll !: vie, Lord Liltord, and C..donel Wemyss, inspected d e r 60th. R.fl2s in the Home Park. Tnis regimentO ln .; the command of Major Trevelyan, w e n t through t hel in different movements in a manner highly c reditabl e :, both officers and men. The inspection lasted ' l i ° ' more than an hour. ' ' Jed Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, at;te,° 4 by Lady Arine Maria Dawson, arrived at her' uer k , e l : sidence, Clarence House, St. James's, soon after `" - d. o'clock yesterday, from a visit to her Majesty at VV' a sor Castle. His Grace the Duke of W e l:i ng t o n gave a a dinner last evening, a t Ap s l e y H ouse , to his i` i , i ; e l Highness the Duke of Cambridge ( a tt en d e d by et - o f Jones), and the other Directors of the Cancer c , Ancient Music. His Royal Highness afterevardS to companied the Noble Duke and the other Dire 6 tP r a l oi the perform an c e o f th e C oncert a t t h e Hanover 4 l 4- 4 0 Rooms. His R o y a l Hi g h ness P r i nce Aibcrt-int honoured the performa nce w i t h hi s presence l as t 04"ih's Mr. George Colltson, an d a Deputation fris 2l i i s - parish of Hackney u p on th e D ru i nae Bill, hadf, it terview with the M a rqui s o f Normauby yestar 6 ",. o the Sir Home-office. 401 George Arthur bad an i n t erv i ew w i t h Lard:, Russell yesterday, at the Colonial-office. • ie Viscount Melbourde a rr iv e d i n t own esterdele, i noon, from a visit to her M a j es ty at Wi n d sor , pe rt Mr. Mr. Thomas Hopkins, Ch a i rman o f the . , - fice ! Committee of the Manchester Commissioners of, Piel and Mr. E. Curbett, member of the .Conatuittoo„hl, 'an interview yesterday with th e M arqu i s o f Noro - at tee Home-office. . '' — h tr Sir Matthew Wood had an i n t erv i ew w ith them fl4eillie cellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his officia l II dente in Dowiling•street. i Despatches from the Govern or o f th e C a pe of v"" Hope were received yetterday at the Colonial-0 0°c : o f Mr. Lynch had an interview with the Marci 4l4 Norindnby yesterday. C aU i p el Viscount Melbourne gave a dinner to the Ministers last evening, at his residence in South-st re w - II Viscount Ebrington t oo k hi s d eparture frau I°.- yesterday morning. F 'ASHIONABLE INTELLIGEN ARRIVALS. fro ° The Marchioness of Westmeath, at St. James's Pa a l rv ac i e ,'ir tee t► : the Deep Dene ; Colonel a n d L aura M o n ey , in p Grosvenor-square ; Mr. an d M rs . D er i ng , in Chapel: i 00 Grosvenor-square, f rom A yo t t ' s St. Lawrence ; Dr , i n r b ilin' Peebles and f am ily, a t Batt's dote], Dover-street, from 00 burgh ; Lady Partinger and Miss Cooke, at ditto, frrin i WO' tenham ; Alr. and Airs. F. W. Fryer, at ditto, from from borne; Rev. Chks. Parkin and Mrs. Parkin, at ditto , MO Lenhain Vicarage, Kent ; C a pt a i n V ernon H arcour t an' MP Danby Harcourt, at Stewart's Hotel, Albemarle-stree t ' dtb Heneage, Al. P. and Mrs. Heneage, at ditto; Captain 6 n p, Hon. Mrs. Warrender and family, al ditto ; Mr. and A n i r e s ;bo Stewart and Mr. Stewart, jun., at ditt o ; Si r Thocoasf,„ st Hepburn, Bait., ALP., at ditt o; Al exan d er D un lop, r'el• ditto; D. Welsh Hamilton, Esq., a t di tto; t h e Duke of do lington, at Apsley House, from Strathfieldsaye, ki a lltore Earl and C oun t ess o f E rro ll an d L a d y Id a H a y, in foil* square, from Ramsgate ; Lord and Lady George Seymour' 4,iti Brighton ; Lord and Lady Bridport and the Hon. Misses 'lc ) ! , of Wimpole-street, from a visit to the Marquis and Alarchionee_lsd Dow nshire, at Easthampstead Park ; the Duke and Dueh4ike Cleveland, in St. James's-square, from Newmarket ; the , n -v edo ; of Betiford, in Belgrave-square, from Oakley Park, ° Ea rl Viscount Joseelyn, in Dover-street, from a visit to Tel ° C and Countess Cowper, at Pansanger, Herts ; the a . al l- Ros.slyn, in Grosve n or-pl ace , f rom L eic estershire ; his t, to lency Prince Esterhazy, at Chandos House, from a Iv: vgl Lord and Lady Beresford, at Bedgebury Park, Kent ; tiv ,r l4, and Countess of Wilton, in Grosvenor-square, from 'r u n ts 's; Wells ; Viscount Burghersh, in Harley-street, from Bri4" t le the Marquis .and Marchioness of Anglesey and Lady mA c d Paget, at Uxbridge House, from Frognall Lodge, the n _ ea t ._ di Viscount and Viscountess ' Sydney in Kent; Lord a 1. 6 1 •_:i Stratford, in Portman-square, from Wrothan i - Pirk,_ll r!..6 Mr. Barron, M.P., at the Burlington Hotel, from' Beim Helm? Waterford ; Lord Grimston - AI. P., - ,hr - Grosveln square, from Berks ; Honourable' Celonel and- Mrs:..Stinlq, m Grosvenor-square, from Knowsley, the seat of the , EP of Derby ; Lord Alelgund, Al. P., and Honourable-Hen/ sEhlilrieotr L a o t rd tk a e nd Atmiriby, fi om Alinto House, Roitbuis Colborne, in street, and Honourable Aliss B . from B a th ; H o nourable Captaill„,p Lady Mary Hood, in Hano ver - square, from E ast h amps t e adl" Berks ; Lord and Lady Hatherton and Hon. Miss ' ; do r ton, in Grosvenor-place, from Tedd es l ey P ar k, St a ff t $ ::: the Marquis and Marchion ess o f Th omon d, in o•-' I t square, from Taplow H, use, Berks ; Lord and Lacll,,,sel Bruce, in Curzon-street, from Bedgebury Park, Kent , -r - si lli ., of Viscount and Viscountess Beresford ; the Earl of titaile . Belgrave-square, from a tour of vi•its ; Lord Claude . ti° ton, .ti.P., at Argyle House, from the Priory, Stannni re WO Earl and Countess of Clarendon, in Grosvenr-cresc . en i v i »oo. - the Grove, near Watford ; Lord J. Russell, M. P.,__ 10 ,,,,0, 0 , crescent, irom Endsleigh, Devon ; the Earl of -Wie*'" sod Cavendish-square, from Brighton; the Bishop of Durh a ff,sdi Mrs. Maltby, in Curzon-street, from D over; Lord Ini ftw o * Melville and Hon. Miss Dun4as, in Somerset-place Fatly visiting tour; Sir Adolphus and L a dy Dalrymple, '°„ffbli°' street, from a visit to the Duke arid Duchess of Bunkl, th. at Stowe ; Capt. and Lady H. H am ilt on ,. f rom a visit 000; Marquis and Marchioness of Aberc o r n , a t th e P r iory, - 4 t al knt ; the Earl of Romney, from the Mote, near Maidstone , ev er Sir C. and Lady Domvile and Misses Domvile, in Gros / re el , 0 , square, from Cheltenham ; Lord Sancl,}s, in Curzon; ~, it , from Easthamstead Park, Berks; Lord and Lady CaP ) 01 1 ; Great George-street, Westminster, from their seat, in , or iorft the Earl of Aberdeen, at Ar g yll-H ouse , f ro m the ' tlis' the seat of the Marquis and Alarchioness of • Abercorn' sir count Powerscourt, A'l.P., in Dover -street, from Bat h , ; the Alexander Grant, Bart., ALP., in Grosvenor -stree t ' . iti Earl and Countess of Surrey and Lady Mary 1 113 w irIV Hyde Park-place, from the Rookery, near Dorking' fon count and Viscountess Milton, in Grosvenor-squa ret io. , Milton-House, near Peterborough; Sir Charles Moncl" frol° and the Hon. Lady Mary Monck, in Duke-stre ei i hi in Belsay Castle, Northumberland; the Earl of Den b ,hacli Maddox -street, front Warwickshire ; Sir Francis a.r,,,,ticii - Lawley, in Grosvenor-square, from A iddleton Hall, "„Calir shire ; the Earl of Ver ulam, in Grosvenor-square, fr ° ":, o rt ° bridgeshire ; the Archbishop of York and Miss Har n e ' 10 ;1 1 1; Grosvenor-square, from N uneham Park, Oxon ; Lord L' a i . Pr' in Piccadilly; Lady and the Hon. Miss King, from Irelniores and Countess Grey and Lady Georgiana Grey,in Berkeley'seer from a visit to Earl Fitzwiiliam. at Milton House, nea r , La cliei, borough ; the Earl and Countess of Brownlow an,," l an° l Cost) in Belgrave-square, from Devonshire; the Earl Countess of Tyrconnel, in Berkeley-square, froll ioug hbl House, their seat in Yorkshire ; Lord and Lady 14r !,, fro o D'Eresby and the Hon. Aliss Willoughby, in Piccad m Y s berrn Grimsthorpe, Lincolnshire; the Alarchioness of Queen , e ,, of in Berkeley-square, from Brighton ; the Earl and Cou n T is r a r Rosebery and the Ladies Primrose, in Piccadilly, fr°, irons renwood, Herts ; Lady Wiliam Gordon, in PiccadiliSle Al- Brighton ; Viscount Alford, Al. P., and Lady Marin Lisdf ford, on Carlton House-terrace, from Sussex ; Mr•_, na ge , La" Mary Ross, in Portland-place, from Bonnington 1 0 'burl , narkshire, N.B. ; the Marquis and Marchioness of Ail.',, , in in Grosvenor-square, from Paris ; the Ladies Fitzetr ic Or Grosvenor-place from their seat in Northamptonsh ir c ,„ o .- count Alorpeth, ' ALP., in Grosvenor-place, from Cnstl l' ard, Yorkshire. The Earl and Countess of Carlisle, and I ' l° 7, Mary Howard, left town on Monday fur Roeban , P t° - where Lady Dover and family arrived the alone-day. . 5 A letter from Vienna of the 9 th instaistsa): " Yesterday their Majesties, after taking the conon un ;:er according to a pious custom, washed the feet o f 12 r e t aged men, and of the same number of females. A t ae tie area was one who was 107 yesrs old, and one. o women was 103 The Emperor conversed for s; long ru in the most affable manner with this old man. 'f b e cession of the resurrection, at which the Court will 0 8 ' takes place to-morrow evening." Her Royal Highness the D uchess of Cambrid ° ge:, with the Princesses Augusta and Mary, & Cs tended by f ,, v Kneaebeck and the Hun. Miss Kerr, are expected at I t s 9 bridge House, at the c.ose of tt , e ensuing week, front end to end, on Ist August next Wi t ' c iar EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW R A IL WA I ' It dite the works along the lin e, Mr. Mille:, the engineer of that line, intends to orf oo t and gave the use of it to Jo" nd traoirirglhnouoti„di:romto expo 'way Company sometime ago booS i and locomotiveEdi brg Son, h for their ji "e' extensive contract at the Al ll : ig ° bl Valley, near Edinburgh. They also last week . anothur locomotive Thos. Edingon andSlpsr ir , of the Pbsenix Iron Works , Glasgow, to be t used bl rbe se m.Naugton, contractor, Redding, near Falkirk. o rs, en Ines will be of immense adv a ntage to the cootractoer as t hey will get the w or k d one f a ster and much cheostior than by horses, as formerly. The repairing artdirfor s t a tions are also progr ess i ng rapidly towards h o and the whole line of railway is a very animatedP.:soo. from the great exertions which are now made to fia l ` without delay.—Constitutiond. A r 016 THE CONVICT MURRAY.—The oruer - 0 _ co . execution of this unfortunate man was received by ° v in are stable of Chester Castle, Mr. Dunstan, on Sundal_seo mng last. Saturday next is the day fixed for th,_ v it thin ; and the unpleasant duties connec'ed witnaoier again - bade to devolve on the Sheriff of the city. Courant. ' lnckt tn.° On Monday night, a t near twelve oc boo men, of the names ot Locker and Warren , Tb e y r e; " spending the day" after their own fashion. bb l sided at Peckham, and came from the Kcnt.rofettly";, ha Canal House. Over that bridge they passed ' a _ p ec kbt'_ when they arrived near the next bridge, over the , __ 0 0; branch, Locker walked into the canal. Warrer.ra,it rsico.te was not able to render much useful.assistance, I ) pll l the Canal House, a distance of nearly a quarter o ', OW nearly an hour's delay, the_ body wall got out. %acre i bis F and from which place the drags were brought, n'ped less to add, life was quite extinct. The pas , occurred is roost . dangerous to any one passing o . 72. c ostiFF' less they be well acquainted with the pathiv-ap are that that they will fall into the _ Lord . Ba bary, re the B osi England (Prom th 4 1 1;1; lISCOU NT farce to force, if Strait. Baron Vas well 'bout th: %are pas! lbindink Governn lby Russi 'of the se • 'virtue of Ihreen th 'Succour, mot of A 414 the lo sof the A should h LErnperoi lbe settle ancern4 Yo be att played ; POWCI'S The arm znow, ha, Migbt b, Uneertal that wh Aaia lie si Vherus I 'Govern' And star while T Ibut agi %we Int agree it IP6orus 'war, a 3 Powers Article Con;en Baro should and if s signed, Ea per The !put, th, 'Cession ~antl the .tioubtei . perfect . be peril cz Mitt As s toisetin, .coraidt 'overtui !tunic)! 13aron I ate elate prompt th e cor led th tilfeeti tv; o G Were The feeling the Br end . d lir .4 ti give Verna tposed point, witho culty Ind ii Is th at The darg "riti deli ; r on , l aut that 'acre 411 etll i ttlt WoUl hiala • Thal • Vilest ricti Ti ~!' CO