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HIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA having AUTHORISED and GUA RANTEED several DISTRIBUTIONS of MONEY DIVIDENDS, which (tbonh thepare NO LOTTERIES) •Ter mazy possibilities of obtaining LARGE FORTUNES, HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, Are now SELLING BONDS for the said DIST RIBU TIONS. Persons desirous to purchase for one of the next Distributions nay receive, PREVIOUS to giving any orders, the PROS PECTUS and PARTICULARS, upon addressing, WITH OUT DELAY, a line to HEINE, BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH. The NEXT DISTRIBUTION contains FIFTEEN HUN DRED DIVIDENDS, amounting to £137,592, _ Tne Dividend; being • £25,000 £BC3 £2OO £9O 5,000 600 150 80 2,000 500 120 70 1,500 300 . 110 64 1,C)0 250 100 62 THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS. THIS EVENING, MARCH 11, Will be repeated the New Comedy, in Five Acts, entitled LONDON ASSURANCE. _ Sir Harcourt • Max Hark away, Mr. Bartley ; Mr. Charles Courtly, M r.i Anderson ; Mr. Adolphus Spanker, Mr. Keeley ; Mr. Dazzle, Mr. C. Mathews ; Mark Meddle, Mr. Harley ; Grace H arkaway, Madame Vestris ; Lady Gay Spanker, Mrs. Nisbett ; Mrs. Pert, Mrs. Humby. After which the New Farce, in one act, entitled THE CAPTAIN OF THE WATCH. Captain of the Watch, Mr. C. Mathews ; Baron Vander potter, Mr. Bartley ; Adolph de Courtray, Mr. J. Vining ; Kristina, Mrs. Walter Lacy ; Katryn, Mrs. Humby. To-morrow, London Assurance, with The Beggar's Opera. Doers to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to commence at Seven o'clock. _ Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d. ; First and Second circles, be. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price. 2/,.; Gallery, Is. Tickets and places for the Boxc to be taken of Mr. Grogan, at the Box-office, from Ten till Feur, where Season Tickets Alay se had upon application. Private Botts to be had so l ely of Mr. Anthem, bookseller, i 67, New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. --- Triumphant success of " Poor Jack," equal to " My Pell and my Partner Joe." Mr. T. P. Cooke in Two Pieces. Ex traordinary attraction, and crowded houses. THIS EVENING, MARCH H. Will be acted a Nautical Drama in Four Parts, called POOR JACK ; OR THE WIFE OF A SAILOR. hi which Mr. T. P. Cooke, and the entire strength of the Company, will perform. After v - hieh, ROBERT MACAIRE. Robert Macaire by Mr. T. P. Cooke. To conclude with THE RIEVER'S RANSOM; OR, GILDEROY. HIGH WATER. AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. 1 1 [crning«....41 minut es after 4 I Evening minutes after 4. The Publdeation of the Evening Edition •f T=B Sus com- meneed at 10 aziantes after Three. ' TEFIORE and SALOMONS, and others, as examples of Jews performing all the duties of good citizens. He also explained that the pre sent law did not actually exclude the Jews, for they were admitted into the town councils with out taking any oath. Two Tory gentlemen, Captain HAMILTON and Mr. MiLNEs, to their honour, spoke in favour of the Bill; and Captain HAMILTON declared that the speech of Sir R. INGLIs would have decided him to support the Bill had he heard no arguments in its favour. Untaught, however, by this pro per rebuke, Sir ROBERT INGLIs resolved to keep the land Christian by keeping the Jews out of office, and he divided the House. The second reading was carried, however, in spite of him, by 137 to 24. The County Coroners' Bill was also read a second time, after a short debate. The Double Costs Bill, the Roughing of Cattle (Ireland) Bill, and the Evidence Bill, were severally read a second time. In a Committee of Ways and Means, a sum of 8,000,0001. was voted out of the Consolidated Fund. The LORD ADVOCATE obtained leave to bring in a Bill for the better regulation of Municipal Corporations in Scotland. The House adjourned at Eight o'Clock. We yesterday gave an outline of the pro ceedings of the meeting at Liverpool to petition for the repeal of the Import Du ties ; we have since then received a com plete report, but we find nothing in it of sufficient importance to induce us to publish it entire. Believing that the national prosperity can only be promoted by removing restrictions from our trade, and contentment only be restored by allowing the people to be prosperous, we re joice at every attempt by such an influential body as the merchants of Liverpool to knock the fetters off our trade. It was not possible that such an enlightened and intelligent body of men should speak on a subject with which they must be very familiar, without bringing before the public a great deal of information. We yesterday transcribed some of it, and we shall now make some additional extracts, to illustrate the practical workings of our present sys tem. The mischief of a high protecting duty to the parties in whose behoof it is imposed was made clear by Mr. AIKEN in the following passage :-- At the Commencement of the present century the production of sugar, for. hoMe consumption, was something less than 70,006 tons ;:' but in tile course of a shorter period it increased to the enormpias extent , of 20,000 tons, until the late high prices; the dearness of bread, and other causes, gave a check to the consumption; - which was now 10 per cent. below what it was some few years ago; notwithstanding the increase which had taken place in the population. But let them now look at the effect produced by the measure of protection. It must be recollected that in the course of the period of which he had been sleaking, the net average price of sugar was up as high as 80s., and afterwards fell down to little more than 20s. Now, only take from 80s. and 20s. the amount of freightage and ex penses of landing, and find the result to the planter and dealer. The high price encouraged production to an extent beyond what this country could consume. This stimulus was not confined to the planters, who were content with getting good prices for two or three years, but many were induced to em bark their capital in the purchase of estates, to spend money in fitting up establishments at the west end of London; the expense of which they could riot bear, and then down fell the prices, and ruin overwhelmed the parties so protected. When so ruined, let us add they clamoured for still higher protection, for loans, for relief, and not unfrequently the people were taxed ad ditionally to remunerate the planters, and the west-enders, for the consequences of their own unjust folly in plundering the people. Mr. AIKEN also gave this good advice to the Ministers : He might be permitted to say that he could easily fancy the possibility of a Government existing without haVing the means of carrying out all the measures which they might deem beneficial to the country. Then he would say, I cannot blame you if you are unable to carry on your measures, but I do blame you exceedingly if you do not propose them.—( Cheers). If you do feel that, for the welfare of this great commercial community, it is absolutely necessary to pass certain measures, +hen you must propose and explain your measures, you must enforce them to the utmost extent of your ability and power, and if you were not seconded by Parliament and the people, the blame is with them. But you have yourselves the glorious sa tisfaction, that, at all events, you h ave a tt em pt e d t o d o your duty.—(eteers). One more quotation from Mr. W. RATIT BONE'S speech, describing the loss of a trade we formerly carried on in furniture, caused by the timber duties, must suffice. He said— There was formerly in this country great manufacturing of furniture carried on, and particularly in Lancaster, but there it had been comparatively cut off; in Liverpool it had been very much diminished ; and now, instead of supplying our own West India colonies with cabinet goods, manufactured in our own country, they went to Hamburgh, and other places on the Continent. In consequence of the competition from abroad, the importation of Spanish mahogany had decreased from 1,083,191 feet to 918,383 feet in the preceding year. The export to the Continent had suffered a diminution within the course of the past year. The manufacturer at Hamburgh gets ' his mahogany for 45/., whilst the British manufactorer paid 901., thus showing clearly that we were furnishing the means of cutting our own throats. We cannot, however, leave the subject with out expressing our regret that the meeting should designedly have excluded from conside ration the worst of all import duties—the duty on foreign corn. It was supposed that the question might engender disputes, and therefore the re quisionists agreed beforehand to say nothing of it. One honest fellow, who is described as an operative, expressed his dissatisfaction at the ar rangement, but was appeased by the explana tions offered to him, and the implied disapproba tion of the meeting that the food of the labourer should be made the subject of a tax. No men ►ion was made, either in the resolutions or in the speeches, of the Corn-laws, except as they were severely condemned by the general *ti,ln nunciation of all laws as demoralizing which limit the field of employment, and of all imports as detrimental which are levied on the necessaries of life. Many persons, ourselves included, wish that the Corn-laws had been denounced by name, believing that the righteous principles of free trade will be best promoted by never losing an opportunity of holding up to odium the most flagrant violation of them now on the statute-book. We feel, however, that we have no right to censure the merchants of Liverpool for Ltudying their own interest. It is very natural that they should feel more on the discriminating duties on coffee and sugar, which palpably hamper their trade with the Brazils, than on the corn duties, the abolition of which might divert some of the corn trade, now carried on between Liverpool and Ireland, from that port. One of the speakers, Mr. J. B. Moortt, for example, said— Upwards of 30,000 tons of shipping from the port of Liver pool were engaged in the Brazilian trade, forty-eight or fifty-two vessels went annually to one port, and yet he said it would be hardly credited when he told the meeting that of the forty-eight vessels leaving for the port of Brazil alluded to, not one one of them returned here. There must, therefore, be thatig t saidcouldnot be fact coffee that erp of thatcargoes port this year exceeded 60,01 ) tons, which would have loaded up wards of 300 vessels instead of 48. A Mr. MELLOR also showed where the tight shoe pinches the Liverpool merchants : There were in this poi t 3,000 tons of Brazilian sugar, which w ould require 22 /. per ton to cover the first cost, and, yet this sugar could not that day be sold for more than 201. per t on . The importer conse q uentl y at that low price (21d. pe r lb. would lose 10 per cent. Sugar of equal quality was selling at from 481. to 52/. per ton in bond. If they had been permitted to sell this Brazilian sugar on the spot for co nsumpt i on, in stea d of refining it and sending it principally to o ur own colo nies, there would have been a saving to the publi c o f 9%000 4 We dare not condemn the Liverpool mer chants for exclusively attending to their own i nteres ts, and di s regarding the general welfare, b u t they must n ot blame the landlords who up hold the Corn-laws, and the Chartists who de mand Universal Suffrage, for following their se lfish example. If the middle-classes seek only their own advantage they must not be sur prised when they appeal to the multitude that the multitude laugh their appeals to scorn. The working classes have been Prac tically taught, unfortunately, to mis trust the middle classes when they ag itate for free trade or the repeal of the Corn-laws ; and hence the cry, warranted by the conduct of the capitalists, which argument cannot rebut, that their object is to enrich themselves, to beat down wages, and enslave the millions more than ever. As long as the middle classes, however, are so keenly alive to their own interests, and so dead to those of others, shaking the empire to get rid of a little personal inconvenience, and refusing to move a little finger to redress the grievances of the working millions, alienation and mistrust will continue, and the landlords will continue, as at present, to tax, oppress, and plunder both. W e deeply regret, if we may not blame, every instance of such short-sighted selfishness; for what is now needed more than the revision of the tariff, even more th an t h e repea l o f t h e Corn.laws, is to reconcile and re-unite the middle , and lower classes. Till they be again knitted to gether by mutual services, and mutual kindness, and confidence between them be restored, society will continue to resemble, as at present, a sleep ing volcano. and the members, parts of the same body, and to depreciate foreign trade, or the home trade, or agriculture, is as silly as to depreciate the right or the left leg, or to say that the hand is more worthy than the eye. What Mr. HUME and Mr. WARBURTON, whom the Post ridicules, and what we and all the Anti-Corn-law League want, is not to injure agriculture or the home trade, but to make the Legislature remove the restrictions it has laid on foreign trade on the unfounded pretence that, by so doing, it encourages agriculture and the home trade, as if our steam-engine manufacturers. would be benefited by cutting off our trade with the Brazils. We want the Legislature, by allowing freedom to commerce, to enlarge the market for the productions of our industry. Our demands are now met by holding up to us the example of the continental States for imitation. Is it then come to this that the Tories, formerly such mouthing boasters of English freedom, now tell us, for lack of sounder argument, that our own old English freedom is worth nothing, and that to be great and good we must follow the ex ample of knouted Russia and police-ruled France ? We have for some time mourned over the gradual decay of sound economical knowledge, and the growth of a very unreason able love of political contrivances to encourage trade, amongst the countrymen of ADAM SMITH ; and of this spurious importation from abroad by the disciples of the CASTLEREAGH school of poli tics, the recommendation of the Post to en cumber our trade with restrictions, after the manner of France and Ruisia, is the masterpiece. A singular, and, for all true patriots, a melan choly change has of late years crept over the mind and policy of England. There was a time when it was the boast of her sons, speaking of her free institutions, that she was the wonder of the world and the envy of surrounding nations. Latterly all respect, all love, all reverence for these institutions has come to an end, and there is one almost universal anxiety to imitate, and to rival in multiplicity and minuteness of regula tion, the despotisms of Russia and France. We reproach no one party with this as a pecu liarity, for all parties seem to act and feel alike on the subject. If, to quote an example or two, the metropolitan police, an imitation of France, was introduced by Sir R. PEEL, the centralized management of the poor, following his practices, and those of Holland, ,was recommended by the Whigs; while the Radicals claim the merit of a completed police Act, and a multitude of abor tive attempts to fetter our limbs and our minds under the pretext of taking care of our health, our morals, and our lives. Having got so far in our race after foreigners, we shall no doubt, bye and bye, adopt their pass port system, and their system of taking an ac count of all the movements of every individual. In fact, it is somewhat unjust to insist as we now do on the Government protecting every indivi dual against every possible evil, and at the same time refusing to it the authorised means of watching over and curbing those wicked spirits who are the immediate cause of disorder. We regret this departure from the localizing and even individualizing system of our Saxon ances tors, and this imitation of the centralizing system of France, itself but an imitation of the system of old imperial Rome, which placed the whole world in subjection to one tyrant. One of the most extraordinary specimens of this anti-Saxon, un-English spirit of imitation, which we have yet met with, appeared in yester day's Morning Post. It seems to us the last stage of grovelling, misplaced worship of an idol, which time and experience have proved can give no aid to man. If there be one part of human exertion and skill for which England is, and has been, for ages superior to all the States of the Continent, except Holland, and the Hanseatic towns at one time, while they were free and independent, it is the extent of her trade promoted by comparative freedom. While the Elbe, the Danube, the Weser, the Seine, the Loire, and the Garonne, could not boast of a single steam-vessel belonging to them, there was scarcely a river in England but was crowded with steam-vessels ; and they had been sent all round our coast, and even across the At lantic almost, before they became familiarly known on the Continent. We refer to this fact, as the example of that commercial activity and enterprise in which England has for ages sur passed all other nations but her own free-born children in the United States. We subjoin an extract from a letter from Alex andria, which we have just received from a naval officer of high rank, who took an active and dis tinguished part in the capture of Beyrout and Acre, and whose views are quite in accordance with those which we yesterday expressed re specting the hatti-scheriff or firman conferring upon the VICEROY the hereditary Pachalic of Egypt. Having already published that docu ment, the translation which, he so obligingly sends us comes too late ; but we are 'not the less sensible of the kind intention thus manifested to serve us. We unite with him in the expression of a hope, that the British Government will insist upon those modifications being made in the firman, which MEHEMET ALI re gards as essential to the maintenance of his authority in Egypt. England cannot and will not accord to the SULTAN the right of nomi nating any of the VICBROY'S sons he pleases to the Pachalic of Egypt. To do so would be to deliver over the country to the horrors of a perio dical civil war, and to deprive the reigning PACHA of the allegiance of his own family. We know that the Porte would never have ventured to carry its domination to the height it has done, but for the underhand intrigues of Lord PON SONBY, and therefore the wisest thing the Go vernment can do is to recal this diplomatist from a post in which he has long ceased to be distinguished for anything btxt mis chief. We must confess, however, that the chief .ground of our confidence that justice will be accorded to the VICEROY, is based on the presence of Commodore NAPIER at -Alexandria, who throughout has displayed equal saga city and courage in bringing this question to a satisfactory final adjustment. The Gallant Commodore is not hackneyed in the crooked paths of diplomacy, and we have no doubt that his sterling good sense will be more than a match for the chicanery of the Divan under the sapient guidance of Lord- PONSONBY.. While NAPIER remains at Alexandria, we are sure that the VICEROY will be under the guidance of counsels in perfect harmony with the best interests not only of Egypt but of Eu rope. And now for our extract : " I now send you the translation of the hatti scheriff, conferring on Mehemet Ali the heredi tary Pachalic of Egypt. He has consented to the 2d, 4th, sth articles, and the part of the 6th, which regards the construction of ships of war. He very properly rejects the Ist article, which, if accepted, would set all his family by the ears, and bring on a civil war. Article 3d he has begged the Porte to mO'dify, as being too oppressive to Egypt. He also objects to the part of article 6th, which relates to the appoint ment of officers. Hitherto the Pacha has ap pointed all officers under the rank of General of Division,- and he conceives a deviation from that would disorganize his army, and indeed create a mutiny. . _ Nor has this commercial activity been in consistent with agricultural improvement. On the contrary, with the probable ex ception of some parts of Belgium, of Lom bardy, and of Tuscany, all of which, however, were indebted originally to commerce or manu factures for their agricultural prosperity, Eng land is as much superior to the despotic States of the Continent for her agriculture as for her commerce. Most of the useful arts, and even some of the fine arts, have here obtained a like ascendancy. We cannot think that the absence of crime and the general security of person and property on the Continent are such as to warrant us in having recourse to the police system of des potic States; but we are sure that our commer cial and agricultural success, in comparison to theirs, is sufficient to make us all start with horror at any proposition to adopt their commercial system. The writer in the Post, however deeply in love with restrictions, says— •° On the Continent of Europe we behold the Governments doing all they can toencourage ' , ratable industry, both agricultural and manufacturing, * * They have resolved, and we think they have very wisely and patrioti cally resolved, to encourage their own manufacturing in dustry, rather than that of Great Britain ; and, therefore, we feel confident that, if peace continue, they will not aban don their present policy, no matter what alterations' Great Britain may make in her commercial tariff." On the principle here expounded the writer stimulates the Legislature to imitate the Go vernments of the Continent in encouraging, as he supposes, the industry of our people, by lay ing restrictions on its exercise. The best encou rag,ementis to allow itto obtain its proper reward. The farmer cultivates the ground beyond the supply of his own wants, in order to obtain the luxuries which trade supplies, and in proportion as they are cut off the stimulus to his exertions is deadened. Every encouragement for one branch of industry is a restriction on another, with a tax in addition to enforce it. We cannot believe that legislators are 'so well acquainted with the relative value of different branches of industry that they should say this can be advanta geously impeded, and that promoted. We are decidedly adverse to this blind plan of imitating the policy of the French and the Russians, and experience justifies our aversion. Suppose, for example, our cotton manufacture had been regarded by the Legislature of the last century as an exotic, making us dependent on a foreign State, and the Legislature had done all in its power, instead of leaving it to its fate happily for us, to prevent its growth, and encou rage some other branch of trade—suppose that it had succeeded, and then Lancashire, instead of now containing about one million of inhabi tants, and being cultivated in every part, and everywhere intersected with roads and canals, would have remained one of the least improved counties of England. The cotton manufactory came late into existence, and is therefore unin cumbered with a multitude of restrictions which legislation previously fixed on other trades.. In this respect it is like steam navigation, which has grown into greatness without the help of legisla tive protection. Both these branches of industry have contributed eminently to Britain's present greatness; but both would have been nipped in the bud had the Continental system been applied to them. At the same time they contribute much to the extension of agriculture and the value of its produce. Without steam navigation the London market would be inaccessible to many parts of Scotland. Without the cotton manufacture the farmers of Ireland and Lanca shire would receive nothing in exchange for their products. It is obvious that the success of these and similar branches of trade, foreign and domestic, affords the best encouragement for agriculture, and to lay restrictions on them is really to deprive the agriculturist of markets, customers, and payment for his labour. This leads us to expose a mistake in the Post, which no writer, looking beyond the dead letters he was transcribing, could have fallen into. Our Contemporary puts down a long array of statistical figures, and comes to the conclusion that from the land we raise 246,000,0001. an nually,lß4uBt,Ohooow,oooisl.,tha e n d v a foreign t m t r a a tdee d? while ma nu f actur i ng i n d ustry y i e ld s on l y only ls 4 n B o ," t a '" very l. large proportion of the 246 millions exchanged for manufactu • ring produce, which is the sole measure of its value ? But for the f manu acturm • g produce, the agricultural produce would have no value ; but for the demands of the manufacturer, and what they supply in exchange, it never would be'produced. The value put down by the Post is not measured by use, but by exchange, and is, in fact, derived from the commerce and the manufactures which the Post places in opposi tion to it. " It is probable this hatti-scheriff has been concocted by Lord Ponsonby, who carries his en mity to Mehemet Ali beyond all bounds. The rejection of the Napier Convention, and the me nacing, attitude of the Turks, which obliged Ibrahim Paella to pass to the eastward of the - .Dead Sea on his march to Gaza, has hurried into the next world many thousands of men, women, and children, and if the Allies shouldl insist on the first article of the hatti-scheriff, there will be discord in the family and civil war in the coun try. Syria is now completely evacuated, and the Turkish steamer has returned to Constantinople with Mehemet Ali's answer, couched. in very submissive terms. It is to be hoped the British Government will use their influence with the Porte to change the offensive articles, otherwise this country, which is ngw in an improving state, will be thrown into disorder and confusion, and there is no need of that, for the Ottoman Em pire will find quite enough to do in Syria and Arabia without creating anarchy here." The Paris Journals of Tuesday have all reached us. The Chamber of Peers on Monday ,pro nounced the Editor of the National ' M. DELA ROCHE, guilty of a breach of privilege, for having described it as an hospital of Incurables; and Irvasrevseuuffteerdinbgimfrofmremsevbeerieu being n p d r i e s s c g m l , ll i i c e h si— tt () n u , Pc : he was sentenced to pay a fine of 10,000 francs, and to suffer imprisonment for one month. Tf the Chamber of Peers cannot be independent it can be tyrannical. In describing it, recourse need ra ge c u t d er it fo b r a m s i a sc e l b le e f v . b e u h t a v w e e n b o a t v h e e e r p d e of f t e a d n l y y not be had to negations. It has a positive cha edW, been apprised of its evil perpetrations. In England we only think of the Chamber of Peers as a Jury for the trial of regicidal con spirators and the manufacturers of infernal ma chines. So far as regards legislation, tile French Chamber of Peers is a mockery. No one ever dreams of regarding it in the light of an inde pendent branch of the Legislature. Before the trial of the National, Count MOLE defended the Peerage from the attack made upon it in the correspondence of the Prince of MOSKWA, son of Marshal NET, recently pub lished in all the Journals. The Count is a great stickler for antiquity, and contended that the Peerage dated from 1815. It is something to be able to prove that it had a BOURBON and not a revolutionary origin. No proof is wanted to convince France that it has not degenerated into a liberalism that would have displeased Louis XVIII. It has lost none of its illiberality nor of its subserviency to the Court. The typhus fever is raging among the garrison at Ham. The Deputies did not meet in sufficient num bers to make a " House" on Monday. The Vigie Morbihan states that a frightful mortality is de cimating the population of L'Orient, as well civil as military. Young females, artillerymen, seamen, marines, . and soldiers, have been carried off in an alarming proportion since the Ist of January last. Count Philip. de Chabot, who is to act as Consul-General of France at Alexandria, during the absence of M. Cochelet, arrived at Toulon on the 4th, in the morning. The Acheron packet is placed at hi s disposal, and will con vey him to Egypt. A letter from Oran, of the 25th of February, says : " The last razia which we undertook has spread consterna tion among the distant tribes, and its most decided and imme diate effects are the dismissal of the Corps of Observation on the line from Cheliff to Mascara, an d the precipitate journey of the Emir to the west, in order to prevent the mutiny which is ready to break out in the corps stationed in the country of Tlemecen. but . we lost two brave " This razia cost us only a few men, officers, one of the cavalry and one of the infa!rtry, who were killed, and are greatly regretted by the whole division. " At Mortaganen, the troops turned out on a false alarm. It was the Arabs running from the camp . of Mustapha Bon Timmy, who, passing by the country of the Hacherns, attempted to carry off some men, or rather, perhaps, some . hea4 of cattle. " The fine weather has returned; the heat is already very great. We are to take the field very shortly, but it is utterly impossible to penetrate into the ge neral plans. You may, 'h however expect to hear soon of a s uccessful expedition, for our General as a happy turn. " The health of the troops is very good. Great supplies come from France, which g i v es us g ood r eason to believe th at the exp e diti on o f G enera l Bugeaud will very soon touch our provinc N e. Nothing of importance has occurred at Anew. The # — Again, th e Post se p ar ates our foreign f rom part cannot flourish of our h ome o ur home trade , b ut the sli ghtest reflection o ug ht ePr.ostA great art that On t withou t o sati sfy the theo other. tra d e consists in t he ex change of cotton cloth for food, of sugar and tea for meat, of coffee and wine for beer and fru it , and if we importe d and exported less, th e home trade would suffer in proportion a s th e foreign trade was diminished. Knowing the intimate connection between all branches of in dustry, we never have indulged in any non sensical calculations as to the relative value of different branches. They are all, like the belly THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, IVIARCH 11, IR4I Duke of Nemours and the Duke of Aumale are expected by ' the end of March ; the first is to command all the cavalry, the second a regiment of infantry."— Le Commerce. B tUSSELS, MARCH 7.—Prince Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte arrived at Brussels this week, and set out for Luxemburg after stopping 28 hours. BRUSSELS, MARCH B.—The King left Brussels this morn ing, attended by M. Comday, Secretary to the Civil List. His Majesty will return at the beginning of next week. A letter from the Hague to the Emancipator, says, "It is not believed here that the ex-King will return to Holland. His marriage to the Countess of Oultrement has increased the irritation which the discovery of his financial intrigues had ex cited. In the recent sittings of the States-General the Minister of Finance acquainted them that King William had spent in Belgium, since the revolution, to support his cause in that country, above thirteen millions of florins. Mr. Rochusson presented to the sections a list of the persons amongst whom the sum was divided, but he refused to allow it to be printed, or even to have a copy taken." The Courrier Beige alone received 1,460,000 francs, ac cording to the disclosures printed in the Belga, at the time of the twenty-four articles, an allegation which has not been con tradicted. - ' 4 `, 21 V:41',1- [A<- , ' • 1 11ft v it:10 • ' . v Zbt LONDON: THUR3DAY, MARCH 11, 1841. The Lords, as usual on Wednesdays, did not meet yesterday. The Oommons met, and the Sheriffs of Lon don appeared at the bar with a petition from the Corporation, in favour of the Jews' Declaration Bill. A great many petitions were presented, and amongst them one fro m th e N a ti ona l Cha r t er As sociation of Marylebone, pointing out that Lord CARDIGAN was acquitted from a flaw in the indictment, while FROST and his companions, in the indictment against whom was, they said, a Claw, were banished for life, and praying for the pardon of FROST, as a proof that the Le gislriure meant to do equal justice to all classes. • Mr. EASTIMPE, in presenting a petition for the abolition of Church-rates, said that petitions, if open at the ends, when sent to Members for pre sentation, were not liable to postage. Some con- yerFation took place on the subject, when this VileW MS confirmed; and the CHANCFLLOR of L - he EXCTIEQUER undertook to have all the Post- alasters intOrmed that they were to transmit 'petitions, open at the ends, to Members for pre ,sentatiAin, if not of an unreasonable size, free ► f charge. Sir R. PEnt. gave notice of his intention to 'wove in Committee, that the copyright of de- I, igas be extended to Line months; and Mr. LA VIDUCIIERE gave notice that he should move that be only six months. Mr. HonoEs, in the absence of Mr. DIVETT, iblem`)er for Exeter, moved the second read of the Jews' Declaration Bill, and in doing o drew most of his illustrations in support of the 'ensure from the well-known case of Mr. SALO- _ ____ i to:Ns. Sir R.. INGLIS, steady in his bigotry, and tho -4 oughly consistent in his hatred of everything `,beral, opposed the motion, and characterised ~'ie Bill as only intended to enable Mr. c .... 7 ALO- V - ONS to fill the office of Alderman of London. i:e, most consistently with his own narrow *Seed, condemned every man who in any ay contributes to the support of the re gion of another of whichhe wi d ll is e a x p : 1 roves. Of course Sir ROBERT INGLIS ect that Dissenters and Catholics should act on !mit principle, and steadily refuse obedience to ny law intended to promote the welfare of the - i :stablishment. He is apparently convinced 'llia charity forms no part of Christianity, and, 4 a all subjects of religion, ought to be exiled ...ern the breast. According to him, though not 'eording to the doctrines of CHRIST, Heaven as only one mansion, and there is only one road 4, it, and all who attempt to reach it by any 4 Cher path must be rudely shoved aside by the t Lay few who are on the right road. He more 4 1an once described the Bill as an attempt to un aistianize England, as if Christianity had no , :her foundation in England than a shabby Act Parliament, or a shabbier custom established 't7 the Judges. We believe that the uncharitable, 4 tehristian Christianity of Sir R. INGLIS, has no •'` her foundation than such a shabby Act, and his Zvn selfish heart. If Christianity were so hate ,.l to man's humanity as he paints it, it would be veedily destroyed. But there is a better Chris- Amity than that which he teaches, or which he .i.actises, and, separating him from that, even 4 s example, and the example of his friends, 'irring up strife in the land in its name, di not suffice to make the people hate it. They -, ItY come to hate him and the Church, but "" its pernicious example cannot sweep reli- A On out of men's hearts. Lord Jour; RUSSELL, acting as consistently as , i -t :r. - rt!.; ji . ,Alsrliß ii , .. INoms, for he has always been favourable I, _.. , -.. ...... oving restrictions on conscience, made a .j. k •-, .• ... • . eech in support of the Bill, and expressed "-7t .."-'- s : - " • Of : - ---17, - - , Y . " i i ~07 ( . -. 7 1. .... sed of insincerity, 44,444, ion to promote tl b me e - '...1 .. f g ca b use . e ld m h i e gave a ,2 1 ,." : i . n church. The Noble L ul ord ng refe o r f red a •_ x a ; aron ROTHSCHILD ; the Messrs. MoN- , 44 BOURSE.-.PARIS, TUESDAY, MARCH 9. first Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Price. Price French 5 net Cents lll 75 111 75 111 35 ... 111 50 4% per Cents 101 '75 ... 101 75 ... Ell 75 ... 101 75 4 per Cents 9B ... 98 ... 98 .. 98 3 per Cents 77 30 77 30 ... 77 10 ... 77 10 sank of France L , flitte Bank I,ooof. Sh 1055 —10 , 5 ...1055 ...1055 5000 f. Shares 5100 ...5165 ...5165 ...SIM ielglan Bank 5 per Cents IO I B,E ... 101% ... 101% ... 101 N 3 per Cents 7O 25 ... 70 25 ... 70 25 ... 70 25 New Loan lOl% ... 112 ... 101% ... 102 panish Active 25 ... 25 ... 25 ... 25 Passive 6 ... 6 1 ,6 ... 6 ... 6% Portuguese 3 per Cents 19% ... 12% ... 19% ... 194 4 Neal olitan lOl 80 ... 101 80 ... 101 80 ... 101 80 Roman IO I BA ... 101% ... 101 M ...101% ...... RAILWAY SHARES'. St. Germain Versailles.R. B 407 50 ... 407 50 ... 405 ... 405 L.B. 315 ... 315 ... 313 15 313 75 Orleans .. Strasburg to Bale 242 50 ... 242 52 ...:42 50 ... 24? 50 Montpellier to Cette Rouen 4OO ... 460 ... 460 460 DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, MARCO 8. Money. Bt.ls. tctual Debt, 2% per Cent Ditto, ditto 5 per cent. Amort Syndic, 4% per cent 87% 83% Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent. Commercial Company, 4% per cent 160% lel% Ditto (1835 and 1837) 5 per cent. Loan 1937, 5 per cent. 95% 96 Exohange on London, One month l2 02% Trio months Dutch Papers, Marck 9. BELGIAN N UNDS—BatlisllLd, 111Aaci Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent 11934 Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per - Cent B9 ---- 3 per Cent. Thirty.seven— 69% 9J Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent BB Society of Commerce, 4 %per Cent lO2 Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent.. ........... 87k National Society . Exchange on London (short) —Brussels Papers, March 9. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.Vsanna, MARCH I. five per Cents. Mctalliques Four per Cents. 9: Three per Cents. Bank Shares ....Allgemeine &thing, March 7 Madrid Papers of the 2d inst. have come to hand, but they do not bring a syllable of news of any. interest. There was but little business doing on the Bourse. The Five per Cents. were nego tiated at 2S 13-16 at sixty days without premium, and at fifty days with premium. Sir Robert Peel has had a new office assigned him by his Tory friends. He is said by a writer in the Times to be " the arbiter between social and political interests of such moment as the world has never seen balanced before." Poor Sir Robert, what awful responsibility! The past and the future are in conflict, the aristocracy and the democracy are at issue, Church Establish ments and the Voluntary Principle are striving for mastery, knowledge is in hostile collision with faith, and of all these rivalries, only to be settled by time giving the victory to truth, Sir Robert Peel is now said to be the arbiter. The philoso pher in Rasselas, who was driven mad by the thought that he was charged with the regu lation of the weather, did not assume such an awful responsibility as the sane writer of the Times heaps on Sir R. Peel. Arbiters, however, are generally chosen for their impartiality. Sir Robert Peel, on account of his par tiality, is repudiated by one of the great par ties. He is the liveried lackey of one party of the aristocracy, and of Church Establishments, and on no point, except, incidentally, on that of knowledge, is he favourable to one of the con flicting parties and principles. To take a parti zan for an arbiter is absurd, and Sir Robert has never been elected to that high office by the voluntaries or the democrats. It is a mistake to assign such an office to him, unless as dealing be tween the two factions of the Tories. The Mem ber of Parliament who .ascribes this office to him is a Tory, and has unconsciously revealed the secret of his party. It is split into a hungry crew who will have office on any terms, and also a bigoted crew who will seek it, and only accept it, on the uncompromising principles of religious intolerance. Sir Robert has to steer his course and balance his cause between these two parties, which is, we presume, what the Tory Member of Parliament means by describing him as the arbiter between the social and political interests of the Tories. THE COWARDICE OF THE MIDDLE CLASSES.— The Scotsman justly says, "it is the cowardice of the middle and wealthy classes which enables a creature like Sir Andrew Agnew to assume the privilege of prescribing to men of ten times his capacity what they ought, or ought not, to do on Sunday." Does the Scotsman include itself amongst the middle and wealthy classes ? We ask the question, because we keenly remember that the Scotsman and its friends succumbed to the priesthood on another point, when the Lord Provostship of Edinburgh was at issue ; and re flected very unnecessarily, we thought, some of the odium which the priesthood threw at Mr. Harmer, on that gentleman. When such jour nals as the Scotsman lend their countenance to malignant religious persecutions, we cannot be surprised at the priesthood and their friends dic tating how the Sabbath should be observed. As long as they are allowed to trample on the liberty and fair fame of individuals, why should they not prescribe to the slaves, by whose aid they are enabled to persecute, how they shall employ . their Sunday ? Time wealthy, middle, and indeed all the mercantile classes who now begin to groan under the dominion of the priest hood, affecting the conveniences of commerce, are justly punished by that same heavy yoke they Have long laboured to fix on the rest of mmkind. God is just, and of our pleasant vices makes instruments to scourge COURT CIRCULAR. Her MajcAy and Prince Albert took an airing yes terday afternoon in an open barouche-and-four with out. ►iders. Lord Alfred Paget and S:r Edward Bowater were in attendance on horseback.. Viscount Melbourne had an audience yesterday of the Queen. Sir William Woods, Garter, bad an audience of his Royal Highness Prince Albert yesterday. The Royal Dinner Party at Buckingham Palao,e last evening included Lady Barham, Hoe. Miss Noel, Earl of Morl y and Lord Robert Grosvenor. The Band of the Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards attended during dinner. Her Majesty honourel Mr. Partridge with a ii:tiug for her portrait yesterday. His Royal Highness Prince Albert honoured Mr. A. Penley with a sixth sitting yesterday morning at Buck ingham Pal•rce. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager took an a;ricg round the Parks yesterday forenc on in an open baroucLe and four Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager histerdvy at Marl borough House. The Duke of Cambridge gave a dinner last evening at his residence, Cambridge House, Piccadilly, to the Directors of the Concerts of Ancient Music. Among the party were the Duke of Wellington, Earl Howe, Earl Cawdor, Lord Burghersh, Sir William Curtis, and Mr. Berkeley Paget. Count Kielmansegge and Mr. Bishop were also present. His Royal Highness, accompaniei by his guests and attended by Major Stephens, afterwards went to the performance of the Concert of Ancient Music at the Hanover-square-rooms, the Royal Duke being the Director for the evening. The Duke of Cambridge, attended by Major Ste phens, honoured Covent-garden Theatre with his pre sence on Tuesday evening. A Deputation of Justices of Middlesex, consisting of Mr. B. J. Armstrong, Chairman, Mr. Wilks, Mr. Hall, Sir James Williams, Mr. Sergeant Adams, Mr. Tulk, and Colonel Wood, M.P., had an interwicw with the Marquis of Normanby yesterday at the Home office respecting the office of Coroner. Mr. Dennison, M.P., and Mr. Craven Berkeley, bad interviews with Lord John Russell yesterday at the Colonial-office. Viscount AleMourne had a Parliamentary Dinner party lust evening at his residence in South-street. The Marquis of Lansdowne arrived in town yester day from his seat, Bowood-park, Wilts. An examination of Cadets for her Majesty's Royal Marine Corps took place at the Royal Naval Col lege, Portsmouth, on the Bth and 9th March, before Capt. Sir Thomas Hastings, of the Excellent, and Professor Main, F. R. S., when the following young gentlemen were found qualified as Second Lieutenants, and ordered to ap pear at the Admiralty on the 16th inst. for their commis sions, viz., Messrs. Schomterg, Roberts, Richards, Goolo, Drury, Butcher, and Hutchison, all of whom are the sons of old and gallant naval officers. ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, Witten B.—We have had a better attendance of buyers in the market to-day, and some improvement in the de mand for flannels; but the prices have been exceedingly low. The wool market still remains flan, with no clunge in prices. HOUSE OF LORDS-(THIS DAY.) The Lord Chancellor sat in the House of Lords to-day for the first time since his recent indisposition. His Lordship looked rather thinner and paler than usual, but far better than could have been expected, considering the severe illness under which he has been labouring for some weeks past. The other Peers present were the Duke of Argyll and the Earl of Selkirk. CAIRNS V. ANSTRUTHER. The arguments in this part-heard Scotch appeal were re sumed to-day. The case came before their Lordships upon ap peal from certain interlocutors of the Court of Session, by which that Court found tho appellant liable in costs to the re spondent, be having been mandatory at one time for a person of the name of Rogers, deceased, in an action brought by him to recover from the respondent the sum of 5001., he having put his name to a bill for that amount, which bill eventually turned out to have been fraudulently concocted by a person named Gordon, for the purpose of enabling him to extort mo ney from those who had signed it. The action abated in con sequence of the death of Rogers, and upon that abatement the Court of Session pronounced the interlocutors complained of. On the part of the appellant it was contended that the action having abated by the death of Rogers, and his repre sentative not having been made a party, there was no existing process on which the interlocutors could be pronounced. The LORD ADVOCATE (with whom was Mr. Anderson) ad dressed their Lordships on behalf of the respondent, contending that the appeal was incomietent. Mr. ANDERSON followed on the same side, and was address ing their Lordships when our Reporter left. VICE-CHANCERY-(THIS DAY). TURNER V. TRELAWNET. The reading of the evidence on behalf of the plaintiff in this part heard case, the facts of which we gave yesterday, oc cupied the Court the whole morning. ROLLS COUR.T-(THIS DAY.) PRICE V. BAUGHAII. This case came before the Court upon further directions. The only matter that had to be decided was the construction of the residuary clause of the testator's (Mr. Courley) will. Mr. Long Wellesley had been made a party to the suit, as being lord of the manor of certain copyholds belonging to the tes tator, but had since been dismissed. The case occupied the whole of yesterday and part of to-day. As the arguments were purely technical the case is unworthy of public notice in a Newspaper. DE WEEVER V. ROCHFORT. This was a bill filed by Amelia Johannah De Weever, an infant, by her next friend, against Colonel Rochfort, the exe cutor of the testatrix, Hannah Nixon, widow of the late Col. Nixon, of Demerara, claiming a legacy of 2,0001. The testa trix had misnamed Miss De Weever in her will, and it had, therefore, been necessary for the plaintiff to go into evidence to show tbat she was the person intended. The COURT thought the plaintiff had established her right, and decreed accordingly. JACKSON V. COCKER. The bill in this case prayed that an agreement, alleged to have been entered into by the defendant, for the purchase of forty certificates of 501. shares in the Bolton and Preston Railway might be specifically performed, and that the defendant might be indemnified against the calls which had been or might be made in respect of these shares subsequent to the defendant's purchase, and against all suits and actions in respect thereof. These certificates were alleged to have been purchased before the Bolton and Preston Railway Act passed, and the question raised was, whether a person purchasing scrip or certificates before the passing of the Act was or was not bound to com plete that purchase by taking a proper transfer of shares from the subscribers. The case, which is of great importance in point of principle ; though comparatively insignificant in point of amount, was iol concluded when we went to press. THE NARKETS,(THIS DAY.) COLONIAL MARKETS. The private transactions were on a small scale, and the public sales went heavily. In prices, however, little varia tion tcok place. The imports were only to a small extent. TEA MARKET, There was little life in the Tea market, but prices were firm, and at Public Sales the merchants bought in freely at higher rates. Company's Congou sold slowly at Is 7id cash. TALLOW MARKET. Prices of Russian Tallow supported, hut the demand was limited. HAY MARKET. There was a good demand, and prices were fully supported, the supply being small. Clover, 41. 163. to 6/. ; Meadow, 3/. 15s. to 5/. ; Straw, IL 14s. to 11. 16s. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, DELVE O'CLOCK. We have received Montreal Papers to the 16th of February. It is understood that Sir George Arthur will remain at Toronto until the middle of March, exercising the same powers as before the Union, under a commission from the Governor. General, which the Imperial Act authorises him to depute. Some excitement appears to prevail at Toronto upon the subject of the seat of Government for the United Province being fixed at Kingston. By accounts from Havannah to the 28th of January it appears that for many years there has not prevailed so great a drought as at the present season of the year. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MARCH 10. —The sales this day amount to 7,000 bales, and the market continues exceed ingly firm. 2,500 bags have been taken on speculation. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET.—Eastern Counties, 8i ; Glasgow, 35i ; Grand Junction Quarter Shares, 27n ; Great Western, 87 ; Ditto Half Shares, 61; Ditto Fifths, 9i l ; Liver pool and Manchester, 187 ; Ditto Half Shares, 89i: Man chester and Birmingham, 2-1/ ; North Midland, 69i ; Ditto Half Shares, 34. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 10.—We have tot had much business ter-day. The only transactions are— London and South Western, 561 j ex. div. ; Hull and Selby, 4:3i-; Manchester, Bolton, and Bury, 54 ; Manchester and Leeds, 68 ; Ditto Halves, 28 1 /, ; Manchesterand Liverpool Dis trict Bank, 10%. The letters arid papers by the East India mail have been delivered this morning. The Singapore papers received this morning, to the 20th of November, state that the commercial ad►ices from Batavia are vt ry untivourable ; three houses have stopped payment, and for large amounts, which had excited great alarm, but it was confidently expected no further failures would take place. Imports were extremely dull, and not much doing in produce. Java coffee was quoted at 30f. a 32f. ; Exchange on Holland, 95f. a 97f., on London, 12 : kf. Extract of a letter from Chusan Harbour, November 8 : " The Chinese are coming about us in great numbers, bring ing green oranges, vegetables, and some poultry. Small quan tities of piece goods have been sold, and opium is frequently asked for." We have received the Journal of Antwerp of yesterday's date : BOURSE OF AMSTERDAM, MARCH B.—Although the national funds have not entirely recovered from the fall of yes terday, still they are more firm in their prices. A great deal of business has been done in the Integrals, which were sought after. The Actives of the Society of Commerce have im proved 5 / to 3 / 4 per cent. Ardoin's Spanish remains at 21i a 13 -16ths ; Coupons, 21i. Accounts from Christiana state that a tempest occurred on the Eastern coast of Norway, which has caused immense disas ters, and twenty ships, who were fishing, have perished. FROM THE FRONTIERS OF RUSSIA, FEB. 24.—According to the intelligence from St. Petersburgh, they do not doubt that the Russian Government wi I be obliged to make a new loan, as the finances are in a bad state. They give, as a mo tive fur this situation, the expedition to Khiva, as well as that against the Circassians, and the equipment of the fleet in the Black Sea. At Moscow, for example, there has been more than 200 failures, which is also in a state of complete b tag na tion, owing to the bad crops for the last two years. THE FUNDS, Owing to the American intelligence received yesterday afternoon being looked upon as unfavourable, Consols declined 1 / per cent., leaving off at 88A for the Account ; for Money, 5 ; this morning they opened at the same depression as they closed. Exchequer Bills 8 10 prem. ; Bank Stock shut ; India also. In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active the same as they left off, 23,1 1 . ; Deferred, 12A ; Passive, 51 6 ; Portuguese, 31i, rather lower; Three per Cents., 181 19; Brazilian, 71i 72} ; Colombian, 221 23i ; Mexican, 27i 28 ; Dutch Two and-a-Half per Cents. 50 1 1, 4 ; Five per Cents., 99i 4. Shares.—Great Western, 22 23 prem. ; New, 10 11 prem. ; London and Brighton, 7,4 dis. ; Blackwall, 5i 5 dis. ; Birmingham, 76 76 prem. ; Southampton, 55i 56} per share ; Croydon, I 1 12 per share ; Greenwich, 8i per share ; Man chester and Birmingham, 16 15 discount; South Eastern and Dover, 16i 16 discount. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT CD - E. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share, Great Western '6s Ditto New 50 Ditto Fifths .. London and Brighton London and Birmingham Ditto i Shares London and South Western 3Bi 55i..... to Midland Counties lOO Ditto i Shares HALT-PAST ONE. THE SLAVE TRADE AT Rio JANEIRO.—An officer of the Unik,, , tt States ship Potomac, gives the following picture of the slave &axle at Rio Janeiro : " The slave trade has never been prosecuted with mere vigour and success in Brazil than during the past five years. Angola is the part th Africa which chiefly supplies this mar ket. The differences in price between a negro in Angola and Rio is one hundred dollars, selling for one hundred and fifty dollars in Angola, and two hundred and fifty in this place. The Batavia steamer has arrived, bringing Dutch papers of the 9th March, with the Amsterdam prices of the Bth March. Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 60%; Five per Cents. 98; Ar doins' Spanish, 21 15 -16ths. It is stated that the private letters by the overland mail from India bring intelligence that teas were coming down to Can ton, and.in all probability mould be shipped. The tea sale is now going on, consequently we cannot ascertain as yet the prices of tea. Consols have receded since the early part of the morning from 88i to 87i for the Account, at which price they are at present; for Money, 87k, with little doing to the present time. Exchequer Bills, also lower, 9 10 8 prem. ; Bank Stock, shut; India, also ; India Bonds, 17 dis. _ _ In the Foreign Market not much doing. Spanish Active, lower, 23i, have been 233 ; Portuguese, 31, lower • Three per Cents., 181 1 ; Dutch Two-and-and-a-Half per Cents., sOi ; Five per Cents., 99 1 3. In the Share Market little doing. London and Brighton, 42i 3 ; Great Western, New, 60i; London and Birmingham, 165 ; :South Western, 55%; North Midland Counties, New, 143. VICTORIA THEATRE.—Mr. Osbaldiston took possession of the above Theatre yesterday, and will com mence his new campai,gn on Easter Monday. Ile pur poses making gi eat alterations in the theatre, and intends doing away with the upper boxes, and bringing the gallery much lower down. The inconvenience felt by the gods at this establishment has long been complained of. We give this hint en passant to the new Lessee. Novelty is leis pass word to public favour. STATE OF TRADE.—There is but little im provement in the general trade, and the failure of the United States Bank will prevent any stocks being manu factured for the fall in anticipation. A letter from a large house in New York, received to-day (Friday) states, "The recent failure of the United States Bank has enti re l y changed the prospects for a lively spring trade, and pre vents our sending orders fur the pres;:nt " There is a fair amount of employment in the spring glove trade, which is just opening. No alteraticn in the prices of wools or yarns.—Leicester Mercury. It is said that a certain Lord retires from the representation of the Northern division of a county that he may put himself into training, having betted Mr. Osbaldeston 500 guineas that he will walk with him for eight successive hours, EVEN ING EDITION. CANADA. COPY OF A DESPATCH FROM THE GOVERNOR -GE"' OF BRITISH NORTH AMERICA TO LORD JOHN massy''' Government House, Montreal, June 28, 18 40 . My Lord,—ln my despatch of the 13th March last, No. 68, I informed your Lordship that it was ray ill" tention to re-introduce into the Special Counc il, at its meeting, with such modifications as I deemed necessaso the ordinance for incorporating the ecclesiastics of Pc, Sulpice, and providing for the gradual extinction olt seignorial rights within their possessions, which was is s year passed by Sir John Colborne and the Council but which could not be rendered effective under the powers of the Council as then constituted. I a ccord: ingly sent down to them on the 30th ult. the draft ot t an ordinance for that purpose, which, after the foil° discussion, was passed, and having rece ived roY ass er t is included among the ordinances which aecompaDY 17° ' despatch of the 27th instant. I have already stated to your Lordship, in In 7 deogi patch, No. 68, my views as to the general pal'crY this measure and my concurrence in the opinio n ac 0J t Commissioners of Inquiry, that after so long MI quiescence by the Government in the claim s of the seminary, it would be impossible with justice noo t° take advantage of any defect in their legal title to in' terfere with their property, or to irriose on them torl of a rigorous nature. It is only necessary, therefore , that t should direct your attention to th e alterations in the pies" ordinance, introduced with a view to bring it m ore jot? conformity with the heads of the ordinance proposed 1121 Mr. C. Buyer's Report to the Earl of Dur haul, which alterations, I may remark, are restrictions ePr_ the seminary, and in favour of the public or to' ;ERAD censitaires. In the first clause of the ordinance passed by Sir Job! Colborne and the Special Council, it was provided tile all rules, &c. for the temporary ' government of till corporation," save only those which are now followt. and in force," 'should, before corning into operation, u; approved by the Executive Government. The Pres k etj t ordinance requires that not the future rules o nly, u u _ those also which already exist, should be submitted for the approval of the Government. , The second clause of the present ordinance definf: the purposes and objects to which the property of rie seminary may be applied, which was o mitted 10 _ former. In the fifth clause, a slight alteration is intro duced the terms of commut Ation, by which an advantage conferred on the eensitaires. t he By the Bth clause the priority of the hypothec seminary for the commutation-money, as for de tit, it represents, is expressly secured, and the droit de; acute is. abolished with regard to each lot of tenure is commuted. The object of the rtgr ee°l a the opticr being to put an end to all seignori# rights at the P o li, of each individual censitaire, I considered even tial reservation of any one of these rights by the sego nary as improper. . , By the 11th clause the maximum of arrears which o f be received by the seminary for the fief and seignbe Montreal is limited to 44,000/. currency, and ' ° A r St. seignories of the Lake of Two Mountains an id to 12,7001. currency, any surplus to be P over to the provincial treasury. G a b riel The 12th clause provides that the farm of St. Ge - ,„ r shall be sold by public sale, after notice in the n e ' papers for one month! which toot In the 13th clause, respect* the investmen t °f tli t s a disposable moneys of the corporation, the autlin titi tba invest them in chartered and incorporated bodies in colonies is omitted. By the 14th clause, the seminary is required to nish "a full, clear and detailed statement" of their roe venue and expenditure, in such manner and feral, 6130 with such attestation of correctness," as the Gel r ee shall prescribe, instead of the summary statemec'flast quired under the former ordinance ; and finalle.,a;csil the extended powers of the Governor and Council, the the ordinance is made permanent. es° Your Lordship will perceive that none of t'sad alterations affect the principle of the or dinance!, si that their object and tendency is to bring 11,0, much as possible into accordance with the stitee ment made under Mr. Charles Buller 's c e ht e ec ili lion. The ordinance passed last year und °ll llo failed to carry into effect some of the provisions %of agreement, and the conditions imposed on the 5 0 , 1 ; its wereless stringent than they should have been to m o st accordance with his Report. chap objection bat e been completely removed by the ges introduce the special council. aid I have every reason to believe that, notwi t bstae c i t y, the clamour .raised by a few individuals in thietod and the violence of the press, the measure is aPP r eeis i by the moderate men of all parties. In t he ' e r se a istA council there as ere but two members who voted %fess it, and although the persons who signed the of 3, to the Throne transmitted in ray despatch, ins, ie have since sent an agent to England, they d" l ' P ee to answer to an unofficial communication which I Illanitite them, to suggest any alterations or modifications - ordinance. "a ,„ 0 0 In fact, it is not possible t o d en y that the ' no s t° agreement with the semina r y are most advanteg the the censitaires, arid such as no other seigneur wit ceol ° province, whether the Crown, or an individual, ,a consent to accept, and this accordingly is not den' the parties. For years past the loudest cornpluicl spore been made by the inhabitants of Montreal. aD especially by the British community, of the luielseiss6 they suffered fsom the seignorial tenure P c " - by the seminary. tas fig , The strongest representations were repeatee,ooe to induce the Legislature or the Government t°B ,l thi e if not to compel, a settlement of the matter ; af-„eor settlement is now effected, upon terms far more thei able, in a pecuniary sense, to the censitaires uncoils possessors of property under the seminary, thaPeora' have been anticipated, and to which, last Ye ar, S ing to Mr. Buller's Report, they assented. i uerler The only ground, therefore, on which, a s e ; e 0 o t e stand it, the parties who have signed the Pe h l:t the Queen, oppose this settlement now, is t..",tb tb set up an objection to any settlement at all " a le; t i ° seminary, al!eging that that body has no legal r s i rjete: the property, and that the matter must be ce c , - , lbw as entirely new, and, therefore, not a uthotiste O f establishment of a corporation for such Pu r P i °- with such an amount of property at its disposal,, Upon this, I have only to remark, that if at title of the seminary be a bad one, the eller eeil longs to the Crown, and the faith of the t he Gra/ji pledged to the seminary, by repeated Acts for 0 tba sixty or stvonty years, as is sufficiently sh e° i ssi bitl Report of the Commissioners, it -would not be P e els for the Ministers of the Crown to resume the Fr e o ri o st/ or assent to any Act which should deprive the s c . st ios' of it, without a fair and equiteble com pene ot p re Less than what is now given to them woul d e e bably be considered sufficient for this eurlii!sei; cos : thus the only effest of now refusing to ratify terrotiou. tract would be (so far as mere pecuniary eee siuc t ee I r t to itio , o arc involved), not to reduce the advantages minary, but to place the Crown in the P es a to d e ' Seigneur, compensating, as it is in honour WO s ever the latter, but offering very different and less °f c op' t ag eous terms to the censitaire s , f o r the righ t ° 01 mutation. But in a political point of view, the this ordinance would be most disastrous• iiis'ftecijoiltel, of contention, the matter was at last final-4;00:8 between the contending parties, through the Id by Mr. Buller; the bargain thus made was ratim e g a ies'i s Legislature here ; it was approved by her t 0 0 .0 Government and by both Houses of Parliarneu 'OOO3l special clause introduced int o the Canada Goverinsetslhe; by the Duke of Wellington, I believe, enabling f `; on merit to receive legal force. After all this, tibsesti representation of some few individuals , ow 0 0 6° g disalloWsreyee-stig up ail that has thus passed, and to leave the qvaitbetio open to fresh discussion and fresh exeiteneetthoseat the possibility of the Crowe being able to cote see the measure which the peCtioners offset fel la e e# namely, the abandonment of the seminars'', tail the most disastrous consequences upon the. . 45 0 Upon these considerations, I adhere to the op t i o p v iu , enj my predecessors, Lord Durham and Lor d Ses he ora i. earnestly recommended the confirmation °I" t be frc l Hance by her Majesty. Undoubtedly, if I considered the Crown t° _,•,,,,t leg from any obligation, and that (supposing thest7eorati?! right to be with it and not with the o.7pristio; I was at liberty to recommend the 3 1 ) ,. 1) t he P r o t that I thought best, I should not 1311 ` e a 0 0 sent one. Although the seminary ' 6 ses tlY is useful body, and manage s its affairs g' vl ittiogh i c, the advantage of the province, Wouldioiv, under such circumst d t less es c slh ances, aop a A OV e use tributien of such large Crown funds ; une , whose ho e would increase them greatly by making fl oe . 0 would then be the censitaires of the Crof. c not i s their freedom at a much higher rate. nut c oo its Pr e for a situation, hampered as the Crown is re • fere, A the n V engagements, to take such a course , an. - cdo pe the same reasons, I come to the sa me co those to whom I have above referred have dont; I have, &c., ipS 'iee S' (Signed) C. POULETT THOA stss On Wednesday of last week the oath .of °° •,g I taken by Lord Sydenham, at Montreal, on assul,eeii' government of Canada, in the presence of th, o f p c i L.) meil, the Judges, the Clergy, and the tic partments. Salutes were fired, a numerously' a' g icefl levee was held, and in tLe c% ening a grand tall was by his Lordship. co Is ips' After the taking of the oath the following Pr tion was issued ; v o " A PIZOCLAMATION. Queen I 11 ,t, ~ In obedience to the commands of the f 1.,-' this day assumed the government of tie province,°.r Oil, nada. Upper and Lower Canada, separated I : ) ..ci il , years, are once more re-united, and heneeforwBl form but one province, under one adminiitration. Lot 00 " On my exiival in Lower Canada I declared tha t to 00 of the main objects of my mission was t 0 put an ell, to r e. suspension of the constitution in that provins,_olostite: store to its inhabitants the full benefits o theritian tio I to tions. That object is accomplished• which fixes the union, representative governseent;eir orb By e ifor,,, 40_ established, and that control by the PeoPle over