The Sun. — London, England, 1841-04-02 00:00:00

) N • s is like the Lsy and ear song. , I 113 le with hi :ing hilts e r • the last all ' kinds of he was at 6 e r oom,. .1 10 ; he put WO a g ame , he gather'. r ig out if 0 tory he be be -17071,-, stead oasking f 14— Pe °r ,„ and not Ind fell fast te lt 'll A ir k eu n end % A itting at dle nere he 'ol , s: cloaks, Pl. oising him' 4 anuv 1 r father ha. -leeP was a- I my lath" li. i a niout II 011 e s peritg.. , , filled 01P 5 haPPene4 'm thinkid y father, 0 eral was ,t be ineoth he o° 4: they id nosv, fr " r rny neigb" g r a 01°u t e h lt / to"it ce clubs' cards, °I 3 5 / 't tlUit e the tru it e ea se, • . but :nown ?xits ; tad inished , 4 1$ uor, al et , he was g 't deal whe" kna ve, sifi t 6 his t i° father %c ot .ses, moor stop?' not. oh. -1,8 flog al", t h i° rig a. , ightn ,n b e to t , o f Via 0 a s iOng t S c i . ' rCe I°l'll terr iblf w a f tw o 111 Y,,, t ben. - lis n bet' r :b e ing u lt, the b e a o rt be r . 4 1,6 Le'd in to °- ,d ,d that l a y r at he W ith by the me t be hits ; hos t the g funeral the L, for tio to Ca n big over t, an day Orai 3 E' t b Locire t .it of 13.19 iccess* n i c ittio ll4 , , to care tbGcene n ixedd ho t tors, g b ; rasb on t wit, p e t thadt wet ail n her a ft - a, ess i : o - 0/ 'he 1 " va ore ,tes- fe rig) ti" i ;• 05 Sea; ,at r 9ce o i att. - 1 0 a tioe e res 41, acre be I n t l i e v ith ha 13 rf wim h ir per bie t ; 00, ou ,octs a l: o t . sc told itTd the I rie oPe, • )0 t .f i a tif if utl as" 31 ; le dee the ler e th a w l ' it i r e eI le r f ti the" g i3 too fideoc e 115t.ri f , 5 ich „ erg be te r ger- - er 03° cals fo , ,autio MORNING EDITION tenis of th eo l ogy, prev i ous to t h e a d vent o f our I va l ue o f cotton goo d s expor t e d was on l y 5,915 1 ., Saviour on earth. We quote a passage or two : and the raw cotton imported 1,976,3591b5. No hisTrlie. Roman, in the midst of the pomp and magnificence . of great increase took place till 1795, when Eason eligion—a religi,n of divinatiiin. oracle, and magic, a Whitney's invention came into operation, and ....,.un,,adrici amalgamation of Ea.iitern and Grecian superstition. s i nce that period the increase of the trade 1 .2 s 0 _ no satisfaction, no balm, no consolation fir the sor has been beyond all precedent. In 1838 eta f th e soul ; it was a colossal and imposing whole, but the , Tin g were imported not less than 507,850,5771b5., principle, the principle of truth, was there a non-ex- I g e nt; it was a symbol, a hieroglyphic mass, but, from the I and the total declared value of cotton goods ex dl!rnal manifestation the broken and wounded spirit could . ported the previous year was considerably above Port it uheeiin g word—no import that could buoy and sup- .20 millions sterling. The total value of the cot i6i"t:_t:lthe surge of temporal adversities—no interpretation ' ton goods and yarn annually produced in Great k , d " like stari y guide, could illumine the gloom of being, • Britain is estimated by Mr. M'Culloch at point a certain and propitious future. Truth is the j,. a lg l iier of time • though In the mysterious innseiaries of 34,000,000/., and by Mr. Baines at somewhat less. Zul i an and Indo-Egyptian science and philosophy, the aca- The article on the Covenanters contains some cu .azes of Greece, the human mind was in constant activity, rious details of the d.oings of this extraordinary sect Spiritual roudly in the regions of superb invention and during the wars. They were too much for worn still the doctrine of humanity was un now,. refinement, out Royalty, but could not resist the iron grasp , unrecognized ; the schools progressed in eloquence and dialectic subtlety , but individual man was an isolated being, a of Cromwell. Like the Non-intrusionists of e°teingent, to-day hanging in delight over the superb sophism of the present day, they attempted to make n — ▪ w , t, _ profound master, to-morrow weep ng over the made- the Church Courts independent of civil autlio- Yof theb,:asted formula, oscillating between the realms of city. Accordingly in 1638 the General Assem ;4ll,aand error, without a specific notion to impel him (!ri ‘ei of relyin g bly continued its sittings in defiance of the Royal 14 .7 rid dependent on the reason and authority of others, in- Commissioner, th attempted in and when ey twer on the impulse of his own conscience, on the , of his own intellect. The weight of doubt and uncer- 1653 to treat Cromwell with similar contempt, he „ 4 : 1 1 7 Pressed on and destroyed the elasticity of his energies, served them as he served the Long Parliament. to tk _e passed through the years of life like a victim bound The Assembly had only implicitly to obey, and i t w uf eiir of an unconquerable and inexorable destiny Yet did not meet again till after the Revolution. titn ,',' impossible that Christianity—the expression of hu the "Y—could have appeared before the hour of its epiphany ; The remarks on our North American possessions, , cycle of phenomena necessary to its Alanifestation was not interest the article " Colony," will be read with LeeuMplished till the world had relapsed into the slumber of , though many will not concur in the con ,V-o:eu, ater the exterminating wars of the Triumvirate, and the clusions of the writer, that in some ten or twenty rae ,Ti a fs_ts of Augustus. The lordly in intellect, a race of years Canada will become independent, or be in tte."l I Prometheans, had governed the earth in ostentation and co rporated with the United States. ''ie vanity • the hour had now dawned when it was to be as- b le ,,,q that truth surpassed authority, and that this truth could `'Pring in all its omnipotence from the bosom of the mass. THE CHARTIST LEADERS. BRITISH MAGAZINE. the Periodical c hiefly d evo t e d t o th e i n terests of Established Church, and containing, among ,Qt,iler serviceable matters, a monthly register of Vgious and ecclesiastical information. The With ber, now lying on our table, is embellished a map of the cities of London and West toinster, and such parts of their immediate envi cells as form a portion of the Metropolitan Dio is The map seems a very accurate one, and engraved by Archer. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—The truly independent character of your own writings gives me a hope that you will find a corner for this communication. For twenty-six years I have been a Radical Reformer ; I have contributed my mite to every subscription which had for its object the lessening of the privations of the working man ; I have subscribed for Cobbett, Hunt, and even for the Charter ; but with the present leaders of the Chartists I have done for ever. Hundreds in Bolton have come to the same determination. The old Reformers perceive that O'Connor, M'Douall, Leach, and a few others, are fighting for self-interest only. It is proved that the first mentioned is clearing 1,5001. a year, while he is ever browbeating O'Connell about his riot. Look at the Star's defences, from week to week, of the Tories, and of the infamous landlords' monopolies. Look at the oppoSition which it makes to every propo sal for feeding the famishing poor. The Editor is now attacking all those who have been looking into the state of our import duties, and is determined, if he can aid it, that colonial monopoly shall be fostered like the land owners. Neither sugar, corn, coffee, nor anything which goes into the cottage of the working man, shall be any cheaper if he can help it ; for he well knows that as soon as the state of the labourer and artisan is bettered, " Othello's occupation's gone." The Star, which con sists of tedious details of five hundred times repeated " lectures" of M'Douall, Leech, and Co., would set for ever. CATHOLIC MAGAZINE. 4 -s inay be surmised from its title, this Ma tine is intended to circulate principally rig readers of the Roman Catholic persua , / 11 4 / With whom it is not unlikely to be popular. it t he Number before us there is an interesting ril N ees" on The Massacre of the Catholics at in the year 1567. CHURCH OF ENGLAND QUARTERLY REVIEW. T • s eti l lLs valiant defender of the Church writes a th a sl ole article this time on Methodism, and er e are few persons but may learn something lio ta the " Review" of this Church sect, which is k e t a heresy but a schism. There are at present, f3l'di n .. to the statement made at the confer , b 1 31. `; held at Newcastle in 1840, no less than e 0 : 2 3 45 3 persons belonging to the Methodist ii,;"aection, of whom about 324,000 are in Great (1 1 , - ,,, ta in, and 693,009 in America. In England loVing members. year, there was an increase of S o ' n ‘'° The income of their Missionary th:: et Y was no less in 1839 than 92,6971., and 11 3 ` Lr ., expenliture on this head no less than 4,1: 46 /, but they are gradually liqui )tiirg their debt. The following extract go; give even to the most orthodox Church p,:rs more information than they at present 80 ) ,,,, 4 .75s as to the change from the gown to the i t r.'ice sects : *he hardly known, even to the generality of the clergy, on ?L ep ground stands the modern practice of reading in the sur lost and preaching in the down ; and, as it is an admirable th o lee of ri g ht judgment b and high Church principle, we , s ote :ake this opportunity of explaini ig it. That all . Church ier„ b e nis had some mystical meaning will be, we think, uni -410 ""Y acknowledged ; that they were not merely made " for fo rt 7 a nd, beauty," but, like the robes of Aaron, to shadow hir o r i ?e position, with regard borh to God and the Church, of kr e 7, 40 wore them. The surpliae, the scarf, and the cassoek, that are now in general use as strictly clerical; the the hood, and the bands, marking simply the University eh ot e e, of the wearer. In the early period of the Anglican w e ll 'nit was undoubtedly customary that the preacher, as i ' ) .% the reader, should wear the surplice and scarf, and it dsed Irt gradually that the present custom obtained —nor, in flio ' N it now universal. Our friends, the Tractarians, would qstore the old usage ; they would have all the vestments do es e Minister remind the hearers that he who addresses them kihi s° at the priest of the Church Catholc, as the authorised 1 4th -cr edited ambassador of Christ to his people, endowed th e m ystical powers. andespecially chosen by the Spirit. At die: a llie time—and in this latter respect they are quite right— bthoVi°ol( upon preaching as but a secondary part of the elt service. The chief reason of our attendance at the oti e 7 of God is not to hear Mr. A. or Mr. 8., but to offer toht e ` 47 ? l Praises, to put up our own prayers, to make our own daip ssl on, to join with the Lord's flock in the public act of Ivor- Ik r( i and to rece i ve th e co m f o rtable assurance that " He Idly 'lle th and absolveth those who truly repent and unfeign ofri beli eve hi s ho l y G ospe l . " V ery i nfer i or, t h en, i s t h e the ° f the p reac h er t o th a t o f th e pr i es t, an d qu i te r i g ht are th ey Tr actarians in their relative estimation of the two. In this IV ar e in accordance with the Reformers of our Church ; ki; t 9n the other hand, they are very inconsistent in wishing ~ he Church, ba c k a custom w hi c h puts t h e two on an equa lity. th e ‘'hurch, according to her present practice, directs that te re se ,rmon shall b e delivered from a different place and in a dif ofi dress; and f or goo d reasons p ra y ers are to be read in the tee and sc ar f, t o i n ti ma t e th a t h e w h o rea d s , rea d s a s an hot priest, and pronounces the words of the Church and oo sit 's own. H e w h o preaches , preaches in a gown, ad o re t to d o so i n a h oo d, if h e b e entitled to wear one, in lif ot iosh a o u N t v h t ot t . as s h o e h n e o h w as sp s e u a in k e s pe in r h s sonal m o 'n lai p m er t s o o andon be herd 4 1 „lesPect on t i he ' score of his learnin , . On the same ground to, l ace of the ministration is altered ' : and whereas the priest hi tt a r ks fro m the altar and from the reading-desk, the preacher of h ies his auditory from the pulpit, to mark the difference te roe " Position towards them. The Wesleyan Methodists have i'duates among them, but these never we . ar . i gowns in ►e Tab. ; while Dissenters, whether literate or illiterate, n ); do So. Review" also contains an article on Ranke's 4 4 :01'y of the Popes, which is narrow, seAa litii i ) .and one-sided, not calculated to rival that ti 4 laut, and yet fallacious notice, which Mr. Ao Q4u lay wrote for the " Edinburgh Reiew." h t article on the Principles of Population, being th: v b i ew of Mr. Alison 's book, only shows that th e R eviewer is not a whit better acquainted with i.ti s , li bject than Mr. Alison himself: In another am'e we have some account of Thomas a Becket with his Contemporaries, which being overlaid 11),„ ,eitations and reference is not nearly so an „ ms mg as it might have been made. There is ke,Planation of Church principles which is all li),, L tor Mr. Gladstone, and one on the " Tracts V 4 e Times," which is a severe censure on Mr. So stone's instructors and allies, the Puseyites. and "bine; decent is said about Church music, lati oo riething learned about Mr. Peile's trans too 11 of the Cheophoric of ./Eschylus. A notice, ° II the Worship of the Virgin Mary, con -114.4„et1. from former Numbers, is very anti llierL,,slical, from all which it is plain that the Church hates Popery because it is not `nirch of England, and loves the Church of 4 gq.• ste n .and because it is very like Popery. To N,, l ng orthodox Churchmen, ready to swallow S iSt "ling and find everything beautiful and con thee,l4 which goes by the name of the Church, kt e Review" will be acceptable. It is not desti ter t el. anecdotes, sonic of which we shall trans seN9,our columns, and it makes us thorOughly tid`: ll3l e how little the Church has to rest on by t ale ,a vouring to prove that its foundations are on reason. r,tt e .NEW STATISTICAL ACCOUNT OF SCOTLAND. c o ll' lltriber XXX., j u st p u bli s h e d, con t a i ns the th i : lit Y of Caithness, complete, and conclusion of 14 1 4 ° ullty of Sutherland, with a map of the Islands.Shet- N,„ One agreeable feature in the des itt4yon of these remote and cold districts is the V rc 'vernents which have taken place lately in th e ex ternal appearance and internal comforts of . ZAtages of' the peasantry. The example of llo,'"„° 1 (e of Sutherland has no doubt had a very No," in '‘elal effect, not only in this respect, but the making of new lines of roads, and t Qht' ll eing and encouraging a better sys lace O f husbandry. By these means the h ow ° f the country and the habits of the b qt' e ` e have been materially changed for the I too t :• The accounts of many of' the parishes d such statements as these, " The well ens neatly neatly kept cottages and enclosed gar "ar exceed what tenantsin former days, pay- I tli v • t : ° M 50/. to 100/. a year, possessed. Every trad I tlaal in a family has some resource in a t ad: ° r manual labour—all is a stirring scene of ti str, oh ea . , and positive comfort." What gratifica- I tith tl n blue ribbands and stars afford compared is ? The scenery in some of these parishes tnla r j d by the Atlantic is full of grandeur, parti he Y in the parish of " Ed.derachillis ' situated on no rth , -west coast of the county of' Sutherland, Le iooo , tn ere are about nine mountains averaging Oie ro 'eet above the level of the sea, with nu ribis lakes." The fury of sea storms (as de ed Qco Mr. Stewart, who wrote the statistical al arit of •. art,- this parish) is often the cause of great I_ll e Observer on shore is magnificently grand , • 111 P biii i eY are from the north west; the noise of ck • ' i v's of the Atlantic heavin aouinst the i1e10.1,,18 t remendous, and only equalled by the iasi t ' a ul to which they are raised, known in some I)t aQi ti p e i t es t ° he no less than 600 feet against the ous rocks of Handa." DICTIONARY 01 SCIENCE, LITERA TURE, AND ARTS. be co Longman, and Co. Thi rdeon Th r Part of this Dictionary, which will ,artB : e ted in ten or, at most, twelve monthly ~,ti„"lle.iudes with the article " Diamond," L allo rt La ms others of' considerable length and tatuin C ove nanters." such as " Cotton," " Commerce," The tables in the first, con -uhilicoer-"cLatisea-i returns of this great article of e ) go so fa r b ac k as 1697, when the total 1 have no hesitation in saying that, if there were any likelihood of the Charter being obtained, the above gen tlemen Tould strike out into some fresh version of it, for they w ill still hang on the pockets of the toiling slaves. Work they will not. One of them, Bronterre, is attacking Cobbett, Cartwright, and others, the first of whom has done more for the labouring man in one week than Bronterre will do if he live twenty years longer. Let them answer Samuel Bemford's letter in the last Manchester and Salford Advertiser. Tint let ter, from a really sensible and talented Reformer, is wormwood to the set who are feeding upon us. But the people here are opening their eyes, and I predict that the paid lecturers, who disturb every meeting called to petition for more food, will never get another pound from Bolton. Sir, your's truly, CHARLES BAKEWELL. Moor-lane, Bolton, March 29, 1841. COUNTING OUT THE HOUSE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR—A Sunday paper (the Spectator) is endeavouring to excite a prejudice against Members of Parliament oho move that the 1 - louse of Commons shall be counted when there are not forty Members present. If I understand anything of the matter, I think the Spectator is likely to come off " second best," as the saying is, in this novel struggle. It certainly does seem somewhat strange that a paper like the Spectator, which advances exclusive preten sions to patriotism and public virtue, should have ventured to avow itself the advocate of that species of smuggling and contraband legislation which is occasionally attempted to be carried on by little knots of men in the House of Com mons. My business leads me to see and converse with large numbers of persons daily, in the humbler ranks of life, and, judging from the opinions they express, I should say that nothing gives the public greater satisfaction than to find that, as the reporters say, " less than forty Members" have been prevented from tampering with matters affecting the interests of this mighty empire, with at least 150 millions of subjects. The House of Commons has declared by one of its own rules that forty Members, at least, ought to be present when business is transacted. That assembly, consulting as it does the convenience of its Members in every thing, is not likely to have fixed upon tco high a number ; it more probably has erred in the opposite direction. If, however, it be considered unreasonable to expect so many as forty Members to at tend to their duty, let the tube be rescinded; but as long as the rule stands,. those Membtrs will earn for themselves the gratitude of the people who cause it to be enforced.--I am ONE OF THE " UNWASHED." March 31, 1841. PUSEYISM AT A DISCOUNT. (From the Morning Post.) We understand that in consequence of the late proceed ings at Oxford, and the somewhat painful degree of ex citement, rather of a party than of a theological character, which would henceforward inevitably attend the publica tion of the " Tracts for the Times," a great deal of dis cusriou has taken place on the subject of their discontinu ance. Many of the most earnest friends of Anglo-Catholic principles had come to the determination of recommending that the publication of the Tracts should not be continued, but their views have been anticipated by the conclusion of Dr. Pusey and Mr. Newman to the same effect. It is not to be inferred from this that No. 90 will close the series, though that may possibly be the determination, but rather that the series shall speedily be wound up, as having, under the blessing of Providence, in a most extraordinary degree, answered its original purpose, and being now likely to lead to something beyond that original purpose which it were better not to attempt at all, or, if at all, in some other way. There has not been any interference of authority in re spect to the publication of these Tracts, beyond that of the heads of houses at Oxford which had special reference to Tract No. 90. This resolution of the heads of houses is very different from an authoritative declaration of the Uni versity of Oxford, which is expressed by the voice of con vocation. But, such as it is, it is the only formal or au thoritatise disapproval which Tract No. 90 by itself, or the " Tracts for the Times" in general, have received. Whatever the opinions of some of the Bishops may be concerning these Tracts, it is certain that neither the episcopal tench, nor the Primate individually, has deemed it needful to pronounce or intimate any opinion against their publication. Should they be discontinued, it will be for the reasons we have already stated. The wonderful effects which have attended these pub lications, and other writings of a similar character, dur ing the last few years, are not likely to cease because new tracts cease to come forth. Excitement in the or dinary sense of the word was not the object of them, but rather a subduing of the religious mind of the country to the ways of truth and soberness. There is no thing transient in the character of the impression which they have made. They have attempted no appeal to what may possibly be but the weaknesses and self-delusions of dreamy minds, but they have given a taste for close rea soning and solid learning, and they have inculcated devo tional habits intelligible to all, and practicable by all. They have given men's minds not only something to work upon, but something to rest upon. They have given intellect plenty to do, and yet have set up metes and bounds for it that it may discern the accomplishment of its task and then be at rest. In doing all this there have no doubt been faults, and perhaps now and then grave ones, but still the work has been great, and the effect glorious. New habits have been formed in the Church—habits which have within them the principle of permanence. Men have got hold of enduring reasons for doing what is right. Method has been engrafted upon zeal, and a new life given to sacred formalities, through a better under standing of their meaning. It is true that much more re mains to be done in this way, but the seed has been sown, and is growing up vigorously, and bids fair to prosper more and more. The fluctuations of popular fashion will not affect this growth, for the revived principles and prac tices are to guide, and not to be guided—to lead and not to follow—to teach with the mild earnestness of dignified authority, and not to sue with flatteries of private judg ment or appeals to particular inspiration. We therefore believe that though the " Tracts for the Times " should be discontinued, or continued but for a abort time longer, they would still live in their fruits— in the production and reproduction of earnest theologians, and dutiful as earnest—of men powerful in knowledge of the Scriptures, from which all sound doctrine is to be proved, and strictly obedient to the Church which furnishes the doctrine that Sc,ipture is to prove. A PAIR OF CARDINALS.—Abbe Grant told us a comical story of Cardinal York and Cardinal de BerniF. They were sitting together one day, when the floor of the room gave way, and partly fell in. Fright ened to death, and thinkirg themselves on the verge of eternity, they both called out with a loud voice, the one, " Excellcoza 1 assoluzione in articulo mortis I" the other, " Altezza reale! assoluzione in articulo mortis I" How ever, their fears were groundless—l do not mean to pun— for the floor did not fail a great way, and they met with no hurt.— Swinburne's Courts of Europe. DRURY LANE.—At the Theatrical Fund din ter on Wednesday the following subscriptions were an. nounced:—The Queen, 100 guineas ; the Duke of Cam bridge, 25/. ; the Marquis of Normanby, 101 ; the Duke of D,vonshire, 25/. ; the Duke of Bedford, 501. ; Miss Burdett Courts, 501. ; Lord Adolphus Fitzclarenee, 101. ; 13. B. Cabbell, Esq. (11th donation), 10/. 103. ; Bat. field, Esq., 10/. ; and Charles Kean, 201. Altogether the subscriptions amounted to between 8001. and 9001. LONDON: FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 1841. In the House of Peers last night, the Marquis of NORMANBY gave notice that after Easter he would move for a Committee to inquire into Sunday trading on canals. We hope that Minis ters do not intend still further to encourage that class of men, whom Mr. MACAULAY so well de nounced in the House of Commons on Wednes day. The Noble Marquis laid on the table the Report of the Drainage and Building Regulation Bills. He proposed that they should go through a Committee to-day, and not be fur ther proceeded with till after the holidays. . . Lord ASHBURTON recommended a clause to prevent burying the dead where there is scarcely room fcr the living. The Jews' Declaration Bill was brought up from the Commons, and read a first time. Who is to oppose it in the House of Peers we are not aware, except the Bishops have undertaken that office. Lord LYNDHURST, with, we presume, the Duke of WELLINGTON, is favourable to it, and we shall probably see, as in the St. Sulpice case, the most forward of the Bishops again thrown overboard by his Tory friends. Their Lordships examined Mr. ARMSTRONG touching- the Clonmel Union case, ana the Earl of GLENGALL gave notice that he would call their Lordships' attention to the subject after the Easter holidays. Their Lordships then adjourned at an early hour. In the Commons the Report of the St. Albans' Election Committee was laid on the table; it de clared Lord LISTOWELL duly elected. Mr. BLACK STONE, however, gave notice that he would move that the minutes of the proceedings of the Com mittee be printed. _ _ Mr. HUME postponed his motion, relative to the Caroline, till Tuesday. On the motion of Colonel SIBTHORP some re turns relative to cruelties committed in the Poole Union Workhouse, were ordered to be laid be fore the House. The Newfoundland Committee was nominated. Leave was obtained to bring in a Bill to en able.her MAJESTY to purchase some land on the north bank of the Liffey, to be converted into a place for the recreation of the inhabitants of Dublin, and to exercise the troops. The Ordnance Survey Bill went through a Committee. The House was engaged for the greater part of the evening witli the Poor-law Bill in Committee, and got as far as the 24th clause. The House adjourned at Half-past Twelve. The Morning Post, we see, agrees with us—and it is not the first time of late that our Radical sentiments have been echoed by that most Con servative of all Conservative Journals—that the Puseyite heresy is not to be blown out by the movement of one of the Archbishop of CANTER BURY'S lawn sleeves : The wonderful effects (it says) which have attended these publications ( the Tracts), and other writings of a similar cha racter, during the last few years, are, not likely to cease because new Tracts cease to come forth. They have inculcated devo tional habits intelligible to all, awl practicable by all. They have given men's minds not only something to work upon, but something to rest upon. They have given intellect plenty to do, and yet have set up metes and bounds for it that it may dis cern the accomplishment of its task and then be at rest.—We therefore believe, that though the .‘ Tracts for the Times" should be discontinued, or continued but for a short time longer, they would still live in their fruits in the production and re production of earnest theologians, and dutiful as earnest—of men powerful in knowledge of the Scriptures, from which all sound doctrine is to be proved, and .strictly obedient to the Church which furnishes the doctrine which Scripture is to prove. Our Contemporary, then, is quite convinced that this " heresy," as the, Church of England Review calls Puseyism, - that this " poisonous stream," as the Standard designates it, and this trouble, as all the anti-Pv tseyites in the Church call it, is not to be and c•annot be put down by any censure. Messrs. NE - WMAN, PUSEY, SEWELL, HooKE, KEBBLE and Co., have tasted too much of the sweets of popularity and power, they have become too notorious, to pass the rest of their days in slothful ease.. Though the cc Tracts" may be suspended at present by their own free will, and not in consequence of an injunction from authority, as the Post says, these enthusi astic priests will and must continue their teach ing and preaching, and ti ie PUSEY heresy will and must continue to spree Al amongst the priests of the Establishment. It is far too flattering :a. heresy, too soothing to their pride, and too col ivenient for their con sciences, for them not to adopt it; and no ana themas of the University, or admonitions of the Archbishop of CANTERBURY, will be able to surmount the attachment to it of their cor rupt and sinful nature. The Post tells us that the Church, that is, the priesthood, fur nishes the doctrine that Scripture is to prove. Ac cording to Puseyism, the eternal priesthood, not the Bible, is the source ofreligion; and the Bible is only, then, like a pair of scales, in the hands of the priest, the accuracy of which no layman must verify, or prove the doctrines which the priesthood furnishes. The priesthood makes the moral law for all men, and is a law to itself. Such teaching is much too agreeable to our fallen nature not to make continued and great progress amongst Oxford divines. The reader will readily remark, too, how lay men encourage this belief, and nourish the pride of the priesthood. The Post, a lay politi cal Journal intended for the people at large, not only ascribes to the priesthood the duty of fur nishing mankind with a creed, it assigns to the Puseyites powers and faculties far surpassing those hitherto possessed by all the reli gious teachel.s, and all the philosophers that have ever appeared in the world. These wonderful doctors, to whom the seraphic ST. THOMAS AQUINAS was a ninney, have given the " understanding something to rest upon." "THEY (not Nature or Gon) have set up metes and bounds for the intellect, that it may discern the accomplishment of its task and be at rest." They are to convert earth, therefore, into Heaven, and bring men into a state of beatitude, when the restless intellect is to be satisfied, and the sing ing of Hallelujahs to be the only work of the human race. Such are the immense powers ascribed by laymen to the priest hood. No ecclesiastical thunder will shake a heresy which brings laymen to the feet of the priesthood, and makes the Church, in fact and truth, the object of worship. It inculcates, moreover, a most convenient latitude of interpretation, which enables the holy men who embrace it to retain possession of all the endowments that are supposed by the people to be appropriated to a faith furnished by the Bible not by the priests. The Post vaunts the " dutifulness" and " obedience" of these theolo gians to the Church, which means, according to Mr. MA c ULAY, " holding her endowments while they teach the doctrines of Rome." They will on no account separate from her, but they teach confession and absolution, and maintain that the Church of Rome alone is in possession of that something on which the understanding can rest, which at once excites, satisfies, and regulates the intellect. A doctrine which enables the priest hood to hold fast by the wealth of the Church, and teach self-glorification, is much too conve nient to be easily put down. It would be easier to eradicate from the mind of the democracy the soothing doctrine of the sovereignty of the peo ple than to root out the heresy of Puseyism from the congenial minds of the priesthood. One way there is of extinguishing it—namely, for laymen to cease from flattering and paying this race of usurping, arrogant pretenders; and when they can no longer gain power, or ensure themselves a rich reward, by their inventions, they will cease to poison the Church, and plague the public with their ingenious casuistry. _ _ _ We feel extremely grateful to Mr. MACAULAY for his brief but masterly exposure of the Puseyites. From the House of Commons his voice will spread over every part of the land, and the Oxford Doctors will be set down, on his high authority, as engaged in demonstrating that the Church Articles, like Acts of Parliament, may easily have a coach and six driven through them; that the tests they frame and advise for others have no binding power over them. Such a character it is well known, from the debates in the House of Lords provoked by Lord RADNOR, the Oxford priesthood have long deserved. Their Jesuitism is not of this day, though this day has brought it prominently into notice. Mr. MA CAULAY has only described in his place in Par liament, in a few pithy sentences, the well-known character of the Anglican priesthood. How far that was prudent in Mr. MACAULAY, a Minister of the Crown, is more for his consi deration than ours. He is one of those who rely on the Anglican priesthood to teach the people morality. For that he insists on appropriating to their use a large part of the annual produce of the national industry. For that he upholds the law of Church-rates, and insists, with Lord John RUSSELL, that it must be obeyed. The priesthood are, in his estimation, and in the es timation of our rulers, " the salt of the earth ;" and had he meant to maintain the doctrines for which he in general contends; had he meant to preserve for the priesthood their authority over the minds of the people, he should not have stig matised their leaders as ingenious perjurers? The sanctity which " doth hedge in" a priest, was cruelly violated by Mr. MACAULAY, and we know not on whose authority the Legislature can henceforth rely to inculcate Church and State nostrums on the public mind. The class whom Mr. MACAULAY described as exercising their ingenuity how they might most conveniently practise perjury, have long been, let us remind the public, at the head of all our instruction. They have, in particular, formed the minds of the ruling classes. Nearly all the Peerage and the bulk of the great landowners have been bought up by them. We cannot be sur prised, therefore, that these people should be so like their instructors, and that in all public mat ters, however amiable and just they may be in private life, they continually study how they may hold the faith of despotism with the endow ment of freedom, how they may claim our reve rence as protectors while they are only intent on enriching themselves. If Members of the two Houses of Parliament do not verbally take an oath to consult and act only for the public good, they come, in reality and practically, under such an obligation. Like theirleaehers, however, their great study is how they may dispense with this obligation and consult and act for their private advantage. With them the casuistry taught at Oxford has done its work. They are apt pupils at that sort of learning, and, with a perfectly clear conscience, to enrich themselves they starve the people. Grave philosophers have given it as their opi nion that there are certain questions, varying according to the different tendencies of the hu man mind, upon which all mankind, taken indi vidually, exhibit insanity. If this be true of every person, we can be at no loss to discover the intellectual stumbling-block of Mr. DAVID URQUHART. He takes leave of his wits as often as he approaches, even in imagination, the doors of the Foreign-office. So bent is he on bringing about the impeachment of Lord PALMERSTON, that he spares himself no dis play of extravagance to effect it. His career on the Eastern question is well known—even the people of France knew how to appreciate it at its proper value. But past failures and. rebuffs have only increased his malady. The case of Mr. AURQUHART for a pretext for preferring 4)Dserved af Mr. ireshndictment against Lord P ALMERSTO N, occupying upwards o f a h un d re d pages of an octavo pamphlet. Mr. URQUHART contends that the difficulties of the question have arisen out of the treasonable apathy of the Noble Foreign Secretary, who, not content with the burning of the Caroline, should have insisted at once upon reparation for the piracy of the Sym pathisers. Of course Mr. URQUHART is satified that this apathy was the result of a secret un derstanding with Russia on the part of the Noble Lord. This he puts beyond a doubt, by giving, in a postscript to his pamphlet, the copy of a letter, which he addressed in Au gust last to Lord MELBOURNE and the Duke of WELLINGTON, from which, for the satisfaction of our readers, we quote an extract : " By personal intercourse . with her Majesty's principal Se cretary for Foreign Affairs, in connection with public trans actions during eight years ; by an examination of published diplomatic papers ; by the study of the speeches of that Mi nister in the House of Commons, and of the Acts of Great Britain under his direction, I have come to the conc l us i on t h at that Minister is, and has been , acting to furth er pro j ects o f Russia hostile to Great Britain , using for that end the power of Great Britain. I, therefore, believe him to be guilty of High Treason." As Mr. URQUHART is the only person known to us in the United Kingdom holding such a be lief, we cannot help regarding. him as one of the most unqualified for sitting in judgment upon the case of Mr. M'LEoD. We will therefore not take the trouble to examine and controvert in detail those figments of his brain which appear to him so conclusive of the guilt of Lord PAL MERSTON, whoM he accuses of uttering deliberate falsehoods in the House of Commons. There is the subtlety of hatred and the ingenuity of word - catching in his pamphlet, but it is utterly defi cient in soundness, in accuracy, and even in the semblance of impartiality. It is with pain we make these observations. Mr. URQUHART is a man from whom we once expected better things. But the beauty and fra grance of the blossom is not always to be taken as a certainty of the wholesomeness of the ripened fruit. The Paris Journals offiCu esday have all reached us. On Monday the general debate on the For tifications Bill closed in the Chamber of Peers, after which their Lordships proceeded to discuss the Bill, article by article, after the manner of a Bill in Committee in the British Houses of Lords and Commons. When the debate closed the names of several Peers were inscribed in the list of speakers who had not been heard, but such was the weariness of the Chamber after a six days' debate, that none of them claimed a hear ing. In fact, out of the Chambers the Bill has lost all interest. The works are too far advanced to be either retarded or modified by any resolu tion to which the Chamber of Peers may now come. The National and the Constitutionnel state that a Reformist dinner at the Barriere du Maine was put down by order of the police, just as the Reformers were sitting down to dinner. Some arrests took place, and the Republican print complains of the rough conduct of the police. M. Truy, Commissary of Police, accompanied by his agents, searched the office and premises of Viscount Edward Walsh, the editor of the Royalist print the Mode. Three portraits of the Duke of Bordeaux were seized and carried off. The Prefect of Police interru'ted a dinner, whi the Re formists were enjoying in the restaurant beyond the Bariere du Maine. They in vain asked permission to finish their dinner; and the National asserts, that some were maltreated by the police, even after they separated. The Paris Savings' Bank received on Sunday and Monday last 618,431 f., and paid away 653,000 f. There were 4,270 per sons who pa'.d in the bank, of whom 647 were new. We have stated the number of the sub-prefects whom it is intended to dismiss or to remove to other departments at eighteen or twenty; we have some reason to believe that the changes in these functionaries would not be confined to this number. M. Duchatel at any rate wishes to command the election, and to direct them not only against the Cabinet of the Ist of March, but also against Messrs. Dufaure and Passy, who are the cause of great inquietude to the Ministry. The failure of M. Lehon has been for some days past the ge neral subject of conversation in the Chamber and in the politi cal circles. It was asserted this evening in the best informed quarters, that the Minister of Justice had resolved to propose very great changes in the system by which the office of notary is now regulated.—Le Temps. The accounts brought by the Baron Eichhof steamer from Constantinople, which are of the 7th of March, confirm the re ports of the illness of the Sultan, wbo has periodical attacks of cramp, which cause some apprehension. The Minister of Agriculture and Commerce has addressed a letter to the Chamber of Commerce of Marseilles, in which he announces, that in conformity with the wish of the Cham ber, that constant protection might be afforded to French mer chantmen on the west coast of Africa, by stationing a lager number of ships of war on that coast, the Minister of Marine, to whom he communicated this wish, has thought fit to accede to it, and decided, that instead of three men of war, as hitherto, there shall be five stationed on these coasts, and that Admiral Duperre has given the command to M. Bonet, who has just been raised to the rank of Captain of a corvette, and distin guished himself by his ability and zeal in the survey of that coast in 1839.—Le Commerce. ~-- _ .~~ ---..r THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 1841., DEDICATED BY COMMAND TO HER MAJESTY. This day is published, EAXWELL'S LUE of his Grace the DUKE of WELLINGTON, K. G., &c., in three handsome volumes, elegantly bound, price, demy Bvo, 3/. 75., and royal Bvo, with proof impressions of the Plates, 5/. "Maxwell's Life of Wellington ought to be found in the library of every British officer."—Naval and Military Gazette. " Maxwell's Life is by many degrees the best, both as re gards matter and manner. "—Sun. " No living author is so eminently qualified to write the life of the illustrious warrior as Mr. Maxwell."—Freemasons' Quarterly. London : A. H. Baily and Co., Ccrnhill; and may be had at all Circulating Libraries. Just ready, in 3 vols. post Bvo., HE MARRYING MAN. A NOVEL. By the Author of " Cousin Geoffrey," &c. Richard Bentley,: New Burlington-street. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. UNiDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS. THIS EVENING, APRIL 2 Will be repeated the New Comedy, in Fine Acts, entitled LONDON ASSURANCE. Sir Harcourt Courtly, Bart., Mr. W. Farren ; Max Hark away, Mr. Bartley; Mr. Charles Courtly, Mr. Anderson; Mr. Adolphus Spanker, Mr. Keeley; Mr. Dazzle, Mr. C. Mathews ; Mark Meddle, Mr. Harley ; Grace Harkaway, Madame Vestris ; Lady Gay Spanker, Mrs. Nisbett ; Mrs. Pert, Mrs. Humbv. _ After which the New Drama, in Three Acta, entitled THE EMBASSY. Duke de Nevers, Mr. Moore ; Viscount Rene de Rohan, Mr. Anderson ' • Baroness du Pont, Miss Ell en T ree i M a d ame de Brissac, Madame Vestris. To-morrow, London Assurance, with The Embassy. Doors to to opened at half-past Six—the performances to commenca at Se•we4 o'Clock. Dress Boxes 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d. • First and Second Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 28. 6d. ; Pit, is. ; Second Price, 25.. Gallery Is. . _ _ Tickets and places for the Bexes to be taken of Mr. Grogan, at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may De had upon application. Private Bola,: to be had se'elv of Mr. Andrews, bookseller, :67, New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Last Week of the Season, Last Week of " Poor Jack," mul Last Nights of Mr. T. P. Cooke, who will perform Two Characters every Evening. THIS EVENING, APRIL 2, Will be acted a Nautical Drama entitled THE RED ROVER; OR, THE MUTINY OF THE DOLPHIN. Dick Fid (his original character) by Mr. T. P. Cooke. After which, the Nautical Drama, in Four Parts, called POOR JACK ; OR THE WIFE OF A SAILOR. In which Mr. T. P. Cooke, and the entire strength of the Company, will perform. To conclude with THE KING OF SPAIN AND HIS BARBER. The King, Mr. Henry Hughes; Gil Perez (the Barber), Mr. W. Smith. N OTICE. " THE CHINA SUN" Is again Out of Print, but will be REPRINTED shortly, with the NEXT NEWS from CHINA. THE RAILWAY SUN Is now NEARLY COMPLETED. We shall announce in a few days when it will appear. In the meantime we shall be happy to hear from the Secretaries of all Railway Companies the Latest Alterations in their TIME-TABLES, and any other News of Pub lic Interest relative to their concerns. Also the PROSPECTIVE TIME when any of the LINES will be further OPENED, and their probable COMPLETION. Sun Office, 26th March, 1841. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS JAY. tlorning 53 minutes after 10 I Evening 3, minutes after 11.' au, 5.4 am a grk s - -- - Effl4 A • 4 rllk : I ceitt,it.A.l44„ 11114;kesp..' , • • 7 D M " 0 ti • 0 C 0 : 11 4 V Zhe ,§ttiL BOURSE.-.PARIS, TUESDAY, MARCH 30. First Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Price. Price French 5 per Cents ll2 ... 112 20 ... 112 10 ... 112 20 4% per Cents 3 per Cents 77 55 _. 77 65 ... 77 55 ... 77 60 Sank of r'rance Be.gian Bank 5 per Cents lO2 ... 102% ... 102 ... 192% New Loan lO2 ... 1 , 2 ~. 102 ... 102 Spanish Active ......... Passive 5 ... 514 4.. 5 ... bli Neapolitan lO2 75 ... 102 75 ... 132 75 ... IN 75 Roman .... 103 ... 103 ... 103 ... 103 RAILWAY SHARES. . - St. Germain Versailles,R. B 375 ... 377 50 ... 375 ... 375 L.B. 475 ... 282. 5C ... 277 50 ... 284 Orleans . Nfulhausen to Thann 420 ... 420 ... 420 ... 420 aoreeaux to La '!este 405 ... 4(5 ... 405 ... 405 Montpellier to Cette 2lO ... 210 ... 210 ... 210 3trasuurg to Bale 283 75 ... 238 75 ... 237 50 .. 237 50 THE GERMAN LANGUAGE,—.The musical critic in the Post of yesterday sneers at the German word " overset" (iibersetz) as compared to our word" translated." We are Saxon enough in blood and descent to believe that it would have been a great advantage to the vernacular had it, like the German, formed all its words out of its own root, and not gone to foreign idioms and tongues for signs of ideas. To overset, is as expressive to an English boy as to " translate," though lie may very early learn the practice for which the word stands. It seems, indeed, more expressive, for, unless the boy have mastered the Latin as well as his mother tongue, he can have no acquaintance with the origin and meaning of the Latin com pound he uses, while the Saxon compound ex plains itself, and shows how language is formed. In England we are obliged to have one species of instruction which is unknown in Germany, which goes in our schools by the name of " meanings." in Germany dictionaries and spelling-books with meanings for the use of children are not in use. In England it requires a considerable study to learn the meaning of our heteroge neous Latin, Greek, and French compounds. Happily for the Germans the practice of trans lating Bishops is unknown, but were it in vogue they would have some word to express it diffe rent from to overset, and would not confound under one term the excellent practice of eri• larging knowledge by translating books, and the scandalous practice of corrupting religion by translating Bishops. If we had, like the Germans, adhered to the principle of extending our language with the increase of knowledge, by forming words out of the _„Saxon, instead of importing them from abroad, our knowledge would have been more clear and precise than at present. SIR R. PEEL A DEMOCRAT.—The Times is quite in error in ascribing to Sir Robert Peel a design to promote a general system of Govern ment Education, by recommending that the ad vantages of the excellent pauper schools, estab lished and to be established, should be extended to the children of rate-payers. Sir Robert has a very different design. He has marked the progress of democracy, and he wishes in good time to do away with the distinctions which now prevail between pauper children and others. He is anxious to have them all placed on the same level, and taught equally to love each other. His is a scheme of fraternization, not of concentration of authority. He is sensible, by the existence of numerous foundations for the middle and upper classes, that eleemosynary instruction is not disparaging ; and he will relieve the pauper class of children from any feeling of depen dence or degradation, by making them the schoolfellows and the playmates of the non paupers. Equality is the Right Hon. Baronet's aim, and he means, therefore, to secure the same advantage for the children of the industrious and the children of the idle. DUTCH MAIL. THE HAGUE, MARCH 30.—The Rotterdam Courant gives at pelt length an account of the arrival of their MajestieF, and their joyful reception in that city. The illuminations appear to have been very splendid, which they honoured with their presence. BERLIN, MARCH 21.—(From the Silesian Gazette.) — A Courier from Rome arrived here yesterday; it is not known to the public whether he brought the final arrange ment of all the points in dispute ; so much seems certain, that the most agreeable news have been received, and a courier is expected next week who will certainly bring the final settlement, which is cxFected to have a favourable influence in the election of a Bishop of Brelau.—Harp. burgh Borsenhalle, Nlaret 27. BELGIAN I. UNDS—BRUBsIILi, MARCH 30. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent. ...... ...... Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. B9 ---------- 3 per Cent. ...... ---- Thirty.seven---- ... 7O _ —(1v40) lO Loan of City, 1232, 4 per Cent. PO Society of Commerce, 4,h per Cent l6 Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent ............ National Society . — Exchange on London (short) —Brussels Papers, March 30. DUTCH FUNDS.—AmsmitnAm, Marren 37 Money. BB's. kctual Debt, 2',4 per Cent Ditto, ditto 5 per cent. Arno' t Syndic, 4% per cent B-34 89 Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent 7114 •;.2. Commercial Company, I!.', per cent I6SY, 11634 Ditto (1t135 and 1837) 5 per cent. Loan 1637, 5 per cent. 953i 4:63ii Exchange on London, One month l2. 05 Two months Dutch Papers, March 31. HAMBURG BORSENHALLE, Mulct' 27. Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares l6lO Anglo-Russian Loan 106% 106% Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate Inscription, Ist SeliTs lO2 100% Rusiiiin 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th Series - Ditto in Certificates Dutch Actual Debt, 2W, per Cent 49 48% Ditto 5 per Cent -- Polish Bonds New [idiot Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent 1334 73 , 4 N. , rwegian Loan, 1834, 4 per Cant. — Spanish, New 5 per Cents. 16% EXCHANGES ON LONDON. STOCKHOLM, MARCH W.—Seventy-five days, IL 42. Lutestc, MARCH - .!2.—Two months, 6. 19. BERLIN, MARCH 27.—Three months, 6. 18S. AUSTRIAN FUNDS..-.VIENNA • M*acu 22 Five per Cents. Metalliques • 1O6; rem' per Cents. 'three per Cents. Bank Shares Zcitung, Mareh 27 FRONTIER OF ITALY, MARCH 19.—Eight English ships of the Line received orders at Malta to pro ceed to Gibral'ar, where they will receive further orders. It is probable that these orders ale in consequence of the dispute between England and America. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, THURSDAY EVENING. The feeling of anxiety respecting Mr. M'Leod has been materially:relieved, though not entirely allayed, by the tenor of the advices received per Britannia steamer, and which were so promptly communicated to such of the merchants and others in the City as had remained later than usual, in the Second Edition of last night's Sun. The funds improved full per cent. Consols opened in the morning at 891, and a d vance d gra d ua ll y to 891 k, at which they closed for Money. The Account prices were 89i to 89k 1. Exchequer Bills were firm at 6s. to 9e. premium. and India Bonds, owing to the advance in the iuterest given by the Company to three-and-a-half per cent. touched 34. discount. The New Three-and.a- Half per Cents. advanced to 97i- to 98. Both the Foreign Securities and the Railway Shares were favourably influenced by the improved feeling in our own Stock. Spanish Active Bonds rallied to 231; Por tuguese New Three per Cents. from 33 to 33i; the Three per Cents. from 194 to 201 ; Mexican from 30 to 31 ; Co. lombian from 221 to 23, notwithstanding the melancholy state of affairs in New Granada, and the probability tbak, if successful, the insurgents will attempt to revolutionize Venezuela as well ' ; and Peruvian from 161 to 17. Chilian ex- div. were at 59 to ; Belgian Bonds of 1840 were at 1011 for the Five per Cents ; and Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cent. got up again to 511. The Great Western Railway Shares brought 26 to 27 ; the New 124 to 13; the Fifths 6.1 t, 1 ; and the South- Western 171 premium. Brighton were 41; Blackwell ; Manchester and Birmingham 15k; Midland Counties 17 ; Northern and Eastern 20; North Midland 23; and Birmingham and Gloucester, 22 discount. London and Westminster Bank New Shares were 21 premium. (From The Sun of Last Night.) LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MARCH 31.—But a limited business has been done in the Cotton Market this day, and the sales are confined to 3,000 bales. There has not been the least change in the Cotton Market, which is at present rather dull, owing to the arrival of the Britannia. Speculators and exporters are still inactive. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET.—The following comprises the transactions of this day : —Eastern Counties, 8A; Ditto Debentures, 68, which are lower than yesterday ; Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock, 23i ; Leicester and Swannington 54 ; Liverpool and Manchester, quarter shares, 45i ; London and South Western, 55. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 31.—Prices much the same as 3esterday ; but little Stock offering. Man chester and Birmingham, 244 ; Manchester and Leeds, 68 69 ; Lancaster and Preston, New 24 ; Stafford and Rugby, 18 2 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 34 34A ; London and Bir mingham New 32/. Shares, 204 21* ; Manchester and Liver pool District Bank, 10111%. We have received Halifax Papers to march 16. NEWFOUNDLAND.— We learn from papers received by the Charles Buchan, that the principal part of the sealers had sailed, and that their prospects were very favourable. A severe gale was experienced on the 15th ult., which did considerable damage. The Britannia royal steamer arrived at Boston on the morn ing of the 22d inst., in 40 hours from Halifax, and 17 days from Liverpool. Over 20,000 letters and 40 bushels of news papers were received by her at the Boston Post-office. (From the Montreal Herald.) THE PRESENT ASPECT OF AFFAIRS BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES.—It is satisfactory to learn that our Government are preparing for the worst, and display unusual activity in all the departments connected with the military and naval affairs. Besides the steam frigates of a large class now building in this city and Kingston, two addi tional ones will be placed on the stocks at the current of St. Mary. _ _ _ CANADIAN MILITARY FORCE.-There are 20,000 regulars in the two provinces. In addition each regiment of Militia is required to have two flank companies in constant readiness : as there are 113 regiments in the Upper Province this will give 16,000 men. A force of 36,000 men can be called into the field at a moment's notice. Sir George Arthur, it appears, does not return to England, he has been appointed by the Governor-in-Chief, Deputy- Governor of that part of the province of Canada, heretofore constituting the province of Upper Canada. We learn, by the Lockport Courier, that a meeting has been held there respecting the alleged insecurity of the county gaol, for the safe keeping of 111•Leod ; it seems that all precautions are and have been taken of late to ensure his safety. The Sheriff, one of his deputies, the gaoler, and two other persons, hired for that purpose, keep watch by turns every night to give the alarm in case of an attack from without, or attempt to escape within. In consequence of the intelligence brought by the Britannia, the British Market opened this morning %better than they left off at 89 ;at present may be quoted 89 1 / 2 for the Account ; Money tiVi ; Exchequer Bills 6 8 premium ; India Bonds 5 discount. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active rather improved, left off 231 A, at present 234 ; Deferred 121; Passive 5i 1; Portuguese also better, left off 324 331, may be quoted 3314 ; Colombian 23*, improved; Mexican left off 294 301 ; at pre sent 33ii, improved ; Brazilian 71 72 ; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents. same as they closed, boz i 511 ; Five per Cents. 978 ex div. SHARES.—Great Western 25 27 prem. ; New 12 13 prem. ; London and Brighton 5 4/. dis. ; Blackwall 6 58 dis. ; Birmingham 64 66 prem. ; Southampton 55 56 per share ; Croydon 121 13 per share ; Greenwich 71 81 per share ; Manchester and Birmingham 16 15 discount ; South Eastern and Dover 16* 154 discount. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Birmingham and Derby lOO Ditto Thirds Great Western Ditto New London an d Brighton London and South Western 36i . to Ditto Tenths London and Croydon (Trunk)... 13 Northern and Eastern North Midland PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, MARCH 30. 3 per Cent. Consols Three and Half Stock 96# Grand Canal Stock ...... ... Ditto Reduced _ ...... _ . Ditto New, 1830 Ditto 4 per cent ... 3} per Cent. Debs. We have received the Journal of Antwerp, of yesterday's date. _ _ BOURSE OF AMSTERDAM, MARCH 29.—The fall which took place yesterday has recovered to-day, owing to prices coming higher from Paris. Ardoin's Spanish is not so good; they were done after the close of the market at 203 ; Coupons, 20 1-16 21. The Handelsblad announces to-day that the difference which prevailed between the Government and the Society of Commerce has been settled in a satisfactory manner. The British Funds have been very buoyant during the course of the morning, with a good deal of general business done. Since the arrival of tLe Britannia steamer a spirit for speculating prevails in tne Market; in the:early part of the day Consols reached 89,E for the Account, since which they are not quite so good, aid may be quoted 89i 4. The fluctuation during the morning :has been 894 4 a a 4; for Money 89%. Exchequer Bills 6 8 prem. ; India Bonds 3 dis. In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active a shade lower, 234 ; Portuguese 334 4 ; Chili= 59 ex div. ; Colombian, 23 ; Mexican 31. improved ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 514 ; Five per Cents. ex div. 95 1 ,4. Very little doing in the Share Market, quotations higher. Birmingham and Derby Shares 84 ; Great Western, 91 ; New, 63 ; London and Brighton, 44a ; London and Croydon, 13 ; Northern and Eastern 30; North Midland 76. Consols, Money, 89a 4. Account, 894 ry s ; Mexican, 31b4 1 Portuguese, 334 ; Spanish, 234 a. Markets decidedly firm. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. ,India Stock Ditto Bonds 3 dis Ditto Old Annuities iDi tto New Annuities — lEx. Bills, 1,000/....24d 9pm Ditto MN 9 pm Ditto Small 8 pm Bank Stock for Acct 171 India Stock for Opg — Consols for Acct 894 FUNDS. Bank Stock . • 3 per Cent Red 3 per Cent Cons 893 3i per Cent Red.. — New 3i per Cent 9B New 5 per Cent Long Annuities to expire Jan. 1860 Oct 1859 Jan. 1860. FOREIG: Austrian, 5 per cent Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent —i Ditto, New Ditto 33 Brazilian ...... , Prussian, 5 per cent — Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent IRussian, 5 per cent Chilian, 6 per cent— 59k Ditto, Metallic Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent 231 Ditto, 1824 ... Ditto, Deferred ... Danish, 3 per cent — French, 5 per cent. —f. —c. Greek, 18:15, 5 per cent — Exchange Mexican, 5 per cent.... 31 French, 3 per cent —f. —c. Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825. Dutch, 2k per cent. ... Peruvian, 1825, 6 per et. 17 Ditto, 5 per cent......... 97i SHARES. Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (100 p) 78 Bristol and Exeter (60 paid) Cheltenham and Great Western (62k paid) Great Western Railway (65 paid) ...... 92 Ditto New Shares (50 paid) 62-k Ditto Fifth (4 paid) London and Brighton (50 paid) London and Blackwall Railway (25 pd) 194 London and South Western Ditto Tenths London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) Manchester and Birmingham (40 paid) ... Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) ..... 83 Northern and Eastern (50 paid) ...... . 30 North Midland Railway (100 paid) 77 Ditto New Shares (40 paid) .. BELGIUM. BRUSSELS, MARcit 29.—The Independent says :—" We believe that we may affirm that all the Ministers tendered their resignation to the King the day before yesterday. " His Majesty transacted business yesterday successively with the Minister of war and the Minister of Commerce." BRUSSELS, MARCH 30.—The Independent says—" We said yesterday that all the Ministers had tendered their resig nation to the King. We are now able to add that their resig nation was not absolute, and that the Ministers indicated to his Majesty a case in which it would be possible for them to remain in office." " General Willmar left Brussels to day to return to Berlin." From the Courrier Beige :—" The Moniteur Beige of Sun day publishes a Report made to Mr. Rogier, Minister of Public Works, on the reform in the British Post-office, and its application to Belgium, by Mr. L. Bronne. This Report fills twenty-six columns of the Moniteur. - Amongst the various valuable ornaments, chiefly of silver, which were occasionally used in fo s r o m some the apartments at Windsor Castle, but and latel time past had been placed amongst the store_, y di sc overed to be missing (in addition to a h largesilver crown, quan tity of other similarly valuable proper t Y ), is which formerly belonged to Charles and highly prized for its peculiarly beautiful and elaborate workmanship. There a e no hopes entertained of disecvering any por_ tion of the silver articles which have been purloined ; for there is little doubt that long before this, indeed, that almost immediately after they were stolen, they were in the crucible of some of the London receivers. The Earl of Cardigan arrived, with the Coun tess, on Monday at the York Hotel, for the purpose cf making the necessary arrangements fur the final departure yesterday ; and this morning they will march of his regiment from Brighten. His Lordship mustered Cavalry barracks for Hounslow and Hampton the troops Court. It is expected that Prince Albeit, who has not seen the troops in their new regimentals, will inspect them s hortly after their arrival in town. The 11th will be suc ceeded here by the Scotch Greys from Birmingham.— Brighton Gazette. MORNING EDITION. MR. WILLIAM TOOKE. A letter has been published bearing the signs_ ture of William Tooke, and dated from Russell_ square, in which that gentlemen recants his poli tical opinions, abuses his former friends and asso ciates, and so prepares himself, as he thinks, in a fit and proper manner to take his place amongst the Tories. Mr. Tooke boasts that he was capti vated by the triumphs of the French Revolution, but he was terrified by the dominion of Bonaparte and became a volunteer. After he laid down his arms, and after an interval of some ten years, he became a diffuser of useful knowledge, being trea surer of the Society, the influence of which he has since sought to pervert to his•own purposes. Then he benefited, he says, the London Univer sity and Hospital by his exertions and pecuniary contributions. What he may have done for the Hospital we. know not, but the University has been rather ruined than extended by his manage ment. He has now become disgusted by the bigotry and intolerance manifested by those who are brawlers, as he was, for universal toleration. He humbly admits that he, a man of character and property, is open to censure for having acted with those who have neither. His answer to this is so curious, and so characteristic of Mr. Tooke, that we transcribe it : " I own I was not prepared to find our English Catalines, Clodii, and Murats not only supported and encouraged, but actually courted by men of apparently sober life and conversa tion, and of strict religious pretensions ; who are content to desecrate a sacred cause, and bow the knee to Baal, for pur poses of mere political agitation, as unwise in the adoption, as necessarily fruitless in the result. How unlike their honest and uncompromising predecessors, the Baxters, Owens, Howes, Wattses, and Doddridges, who would have disdained such courtship of the gamblers and roues of their period, for any purpose, or at any price." The plain meaning of all the mass of cant, recan tation, and humbug, to which Mr. Tooke's sig nature is affixed, is, that "I, Mr. Tooke, having been heretofore a Liberal—having looked to the Liberals to promote my views, and they having-- found me out, and shook me off, though great was the difficulty ; and I, having no longer any hope of becoming representative of Finsbury, or any other place, by bamboozling a Liberal constituency, hereby endeavour to make my peace with the Tories, and offer myself to re present Finsbury on their interest, and by their support, or any other place in Par liament at the next general election." Such is the meaning of Mr. Tooke's letter, ad dressed to a Tory paper, when all its flummery, verbiage, and self-gratulation are translated into the language of common sense. Mr. Tooke is not, we believe, admitted into the Tory camp, though he has been drummed out of the Liberal regiment. Those who know him best will, we believe, be the most ready to reject his aid. He will most probably have the mortification of being cut by all parties. Such will be the pro per denouement of the political life of the great Attorney. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen held a Court and Privy Council at half-past two o'clock yesterday afternoon at Buckingham Palace. At the Court Chekib Effendi, the Turkish Ambassador, ba'l an audience of her Majesty to deliver a Letter. His Excelency was introduced by Viscount Palmerston, G. C.B. , her Majesty's principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Sir Robert Cheater, Master of the Ceremonies. Lord Holl&nd was presented to the Queen at an au dience by Viscount Palmerston to take leave. Viscount Palmerton also presented Mr. Hamilton Ha milton at an audience. The Privy Council was attended by the Lord President, the LGrd Chancellor, the Lord Privy Seal, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Secretaries of State for the Home and Fereign Departments, the President of the Board of Control, tlie Secretary. at War, the Lord Steward, and the Lord Chamberlain. M-. C. Grevlle was the Clerk of the Council in Waiting. Her Majesty gave audiences to the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Marquis of Normanby, and Vis count Melbourne. The Coutt was attended by the Marquis - of Headfort, Lord in Waiting ; Lord Hill, Gold Stick in Waiting ; Sir Robert Otway, Groom in Waiting ; and Colonel Bou verie, Equerry to Prince Albert. The Duke cf Cambridge visited her Majesty and Prince Albert yesterday. Colonel Bon% erie has relieved Major-General Sir Ed ward Bowater in the duties of Equerry in Writing on his Royal Highness Prince Albert_ Mr. W. C. Ross., A.R. A., was yesterday honoured with the second sitting for a portrait of her Majesty, at Buckingham Palace. The — Ropl dinner party at Buckingham Palace last evening included the Duchess of Sutherland, Earl of Surrey, Viscount Melbourne, Dowager Lady Rivers, Lord George Lennox, Baron Stoekmar, and Sir George Anson. The P►incess Sophia Matilda came to town yesterday from Ler residence on Blackheath, and paid a visit to her Majesty the Queen Dowager at Marlborough House; her Royal Highness also visited the Duchess of Kent at In gestrie House. Belgrave-square. The Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Anne Maria Dawson and Colonel Cowper, honoured Covent Garden theatre with her presence last evening. Mr. Holmes, M. P., had an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday at the Colonial-office. Mr. George Nicholls had an interview with the Marquis of Normanby 5 esterday at the Home-office. Despatches were sent off last evening from the Colo nial-office for the Governor of Jamaica and of the other West India ColonieF. DEATH OF JAMES WOLFENDEN, THE MA THEMATICIAN.-On Monday last, died at Hollinwood, in the 67th year of his age, James Wolfenden, one of the first mathematicians, and one of the most extraordinary teen that this neighbourhood has produced. Though brought up a cotton-weaver, working the greater part of Lis life at the loom, and labouring under all the dis courager-I:eats which poverty and want of leisure could offer, he pursued the study of the mathematics with a degree of intelligence and perseverance which speedily rendered him conspicuous even in a neighbour.. hood which has long been celebrated for the num ber of persons in humble life, who have distinguished themselves by their :mathematical attainments, and by the valuable contributions they have made to various scientific periodicals, as leybourn's Repository, the L a di e s' and Gentlemens' Diaries, the Mathematical Companion, &c. Amongst the contributors to these works, Wolfenden was the most conspicuous, both for the number and the value of his communication ; and time agoin he was, consequen tl y , fre q uentl y a pp lied to for ins truction tea e a h n e d rs. Simpson, A aho rt was tim seldom pe in the higher branches of the science at a tim e w h en a knowledge of the Princi p ia of Neaton, an d o f tl co nsequence of his g r e a t age and growing infi rm i t i es, a few members o f the Literar y and Philosophical Society , o re s , higher a aed by works mathematical of Emerson of Manchester, and others anxious to testify twit- admi ration of his acquirements, obtained under such discou raging circumstances, had entered into a subscription to secure to him a comfortable subsistence for the remainder of his life; and also to encourage such praiseworthy ex ertions in the pursuit of knowledge. The death of Wol fenden will, of course, render their intentions towards him nugatory ; but a handsome sum having been sub scribed, a part of it will be appropriated to his decent in terment, and to a suitable memorial to be placed over his grave.—Manchester Paper. PORTABLE FORGE FOR SHOEING HORSES. —There was something in this shed, besides the bed of the poor " meat horse" as they call him, that particularly attracted my attention, and I was much pleased with its extremely neat and compact nature. This was neither more nor less than a portable forge, consisting of a frame work, about 4 feet long by 2 in breadth, and which contained a complete apparatus for shoeing horses. .At one extremity book, and which, when raised and o pened (tor t d hey turn are two iron plater, which fold together like the cover of a securedtlr down close to the frame-work on a hing o e i 9 hecoal, or blacksr.niethrn't; a ffixed t ), ono of b fo y rm a , t sr e al l l ow ir e o r n re b e a e r pt w a i e h l i e ch for t, breeze, and the upper worked a screen , c' b e y n t hol th e e in s i t d h e e . which the matte of the bellows bottom part of the back of se lf fixes into the back - passes. The bellows it part of a t h ro l : N g . e l: aa _ the frame, and i s when f the apparatus, taken to pieces, fit s into portion o and may be carriedabout ' into the frame-work, -e at ten in a light cart, and used at , Pc 'c' minutes.' notice. The w ho was an extremely civil a-id attentive stud-groorn , , lat since they had used this man, informed me t labour of portable forgo had saved the one man,whose they ltaken in • al mostcntire y backwards and to the smith's, a distance cf three miles and for wardsback. Now a farrier attends regularly twice a-week, and the horses are only kept out of their stable while their shoes are being fixed. The patentee of this very clever invention is Mr. Cherry (I presume the veterinary surgeon of Clapham), and his apparatus, if more extensively known, would I am sure soon be in much more general use, as its utility in very many situations must be apparent—Old Sporting Magazine for February. ABSEYCE OF MIND.—A few Sundays ago, a titled clergyman, residing not a hundred miles from Brcomsgrove, ascended the pulpit, as usual, "spectacles on nose," and shortly afterwards abstractedly pushed them up to his forehead, of which circumstance he appeared to be in a happy state of ignorance, for when it was n acos _ nary for him to begin to read his sermon, he looked as be wildered as his reverend brother did when he left his ser mon at home. After looking hither and thither without success, he descended the pulpit and despatched a servant to his house to bring the missing spectacles, when, lo and behold, the mistake was discovered, and the sermon pro. ceedel, we were going to say, as usual, but this would have been an untruth, for the circumstance had so tickled some of the reverend gentleman's hearers, that they had Ito little difficulty in keeping their risible muscles under due control Worcestershire Chronicle. The Lord Lieutenant will sail for Bristol on Saturday text, on his way to Devonshire. We under stand that Lis Excellency will not be absent from Ireland for more than a for tulght.--Dublin Evening Post. IMII • I