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.:NI NG ED urlow. FLANDERS AND HA ^BURGII MAILS. BnussEr.s, MARCH 11.—Those who reckoned on Vl' , Senate to accomplish the work, in which they have failed in the Chamber of Representatives, have deceived themselves. We have before us the report made by the Committee for examining the Budgi t of the Mi niit:r of the Interior. It is remarkable for the wise and elevated views on which the Committee founds its asseLt to the articles that were the most contested in the Chamber, such as the sum of 100,000 francs for the exhibition of 1841, and the funds for encouraging manufactures and commerce. The Committee of the Senate justly observes, with respect to these funds, that "economy does net always consi:t in not spending, and that, on the contrary, na tians as well as individuals often improve their situation, by knowing how to make use, apropos, of a sum of money." BRUSSELS, MARCH 12.—The Senate will commence to-day the discussion of the budget of the Departrce..t 5.4 the Interior. We are entering into Cnaos. A report is in circulation that the Senate will do what the Chamber has not dared to do—refuse the budget and overthrow the Ministry. We do not be lieve any such thing. The Senate is composed of men who are too reasonable to join_ in the rancour of some disapp3inted ambitious persons, and embarrass the pub lic service ; besides it would be a thing hitherto un -1:(a-d of in Parliamentary history to tea a Ministry overthrown by a Chamber of Peers, and Upper Cham ber, or Senate ; accordingly, we tike the liberty to doubt the existence of such a plot. If there are citizens who ought to desira the mainte nance of the status quo, and tear convulsion, it is evi e,r,.l:ll the Senators ; they know better than any others .twat the countrrwhich sports with porifezt.lles, is not so far off as may be imagined from sporting with. heads ; tart is to say, that the instability of Government leads di:ectly to anarchy, and that anarchy is the republic of the gui , lotine.—Courrier Beige. LIEGE, MARCH 10.—The sale of Mr. Cockerill's r., , ,t,iblishment, comprising two lots ; the first, Seraing and its dependencies ; the second, the house at Liege, and those of Spa and Tilleurs, could not be effected to-day, AS had been announced, no buyers having appeared. VIENNA,. MARCH 3.—Count St. Aulaire has not yet 1, en able to set out for Paris, he is confined to his bed by a severe attack of the grippe. The Russian Anfaassador, Von Tatiseheff, will set out next week for St. Petersburgh, on leave of absence. M. Von Kudri a6y, first s cretsry of the legation, is to accompany TURKISH FRONTIER, FEB. 24.—We learn from Bucharest that Prince Ghika is not satisfied w;th the address of the Wallachian Representatives, or with the choice of the secretaries. The General Assembly manifest but little concern for the danger to which the family of the Prince was exposed, and ascribe all the intrigues exclusively to foreign influences. Accord -iv, all the copies of the National received `from have been subjected to a most vigorous censorship. One of the secretaries is a well known ex Cal mei, son of the great Logothetes. (formerly a candidate for the dignity of Hospodar) ; a second is Emanuel Baliano, son of one of the principal Boyars of Wultachia, and both are personal enemies of the Prince, who is said to have found means to coun teract their intrigues. OSNABURGH, MARCH I.—lt may be remembered that the Provincial Estates, after they had protested against the new Constitution, resolved to address a respectful representation and petition to the King. The petition was for the convocation of a General As tembly of the Estates in formality to the Constitution, and for protection against violations of the Constitution, a number of which we-e annexed to the petition as grievances of the Estates. This petition was forwarded to his Majesty at Hanover by the post on the 24th of last month, and has just come back, sealed with two large seals, and the word refused written on the cover. COBLENTZ, MARCH B.—Private letters from Ba varia confirm the account from Munster, given in the Frankfort Journal of 26th of February, that the ve nerable Dean Diepenbrock, in Ratisbon, is chosen co adjuter, with the jus succesendi, to the Archiepiscopal See of Cologne. BERLIN, MARCH I.—The commercial convention with Holland, is spite of the remonstrances of the com wiercial world, is renewed, as we hear, for six years. AMBURGH, MARCH B.—Every hour more portions 'of the Elbe are free of ice. The directors of the tele graph have published a notice it4ting that when the ice in the Elbe is breaking information shall be dis patched by the telegraph at every turn of ebb and flow, and at other times when a change takes place of the state of the river, which information is to be posted up at Cuxhaven,, that the captains of the ships at Cux haven may pot leave that harbour till they have notice that the navigation of the river issiuite free. More shins continue to arrive at Cuxhaven, where they find Itufticient rocm in the port.---Hanzburgh Pap ers. HAMBURG BORSENHALLE, MARCH Bills. Money Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares 16.0 IGIO Anglo-Russian Loan 106% 106% llussian 5 per Cent. let series, Certificate 102% 102 Inscription, let Series. lOl 10J3{ Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th Series •••••••••••••••••«••••••• 000000000 ••••• 96% Ditto-in Certificates Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent V% 49 Ditto S per Ccnt........ ........... Polish Bonds New ticket Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent. :73% 733 y N.nwegian Loan, 1834, 4 per Cwnt..., Spansh, New 5 per Cents.... lB% EXCHANGES ON LONDON. HAMBURG, MARCH 9.-13 s.—Two months, 13 334. BREMEN, MARCO 5 —Two months, 615. PETERSBURG!), FEB. 20.—Two months, 39 pence. '.l-siesic, MARCH s.—Two mo:.ths, 6. 16%. 1 Pans The Pah'initial of the Evening Edition of TIE SIN cosn :sensed at 10 minutes after Three. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THISDAY. LONDON, MARcH 15.—Wind this day at noon W., very foggy at the early part of the morning. DEAL, MARCH 14.—Wind S. S.E., light.—Arrived the Fe lix, from Buenos Ayres ; Charles, Sierra Leone ; Princess Sophia, Rotterdam, and sailed for Batavia. Arnved from the River and sailed the Elizabeth, Weighell, for Sydney, New South Wales; John Knox, White, ditto; Candahar, Ridley, Bombay; Castries, Beazley, St. Lucia • Tulloch Castle, Lriggs, Jamaica; Columbia, CLirkson ' davannah ; Eclipse, Duncan, Boston; Robert Watt, Jones, Gibraltar. PO ItTS3IOUTH, MARCH 13.—Wind S.S.E.—Arrived the Robarts, Elder, from London for Madras; Little Catherine, Alexander, London, for Mosquito Shore. Sailed the Romu lus, Morton, London ; Fanny, Wells, Leith. SOUTHAMPTON, MARCH 13.—Arrived the Iberia steamer, Cooper, from Lisbon. Sailed the Leeds steamer, for Lisbon. COWES, MARCH 13.—Arrived the Frankland, Pearce, from• Padang ; Little Catherine, for Musquito Shore. Sailed the Lemnos ' Rowell, for Hamburgh ; Flora, Howe, ditto; George Hendrick, ditto; Sophia and Elizabeth, Mertens, Altona; Acitielc, Rotterdam. . , RAMSGATE, Marten 13.—Ar ived the William Thompson, King, from Newcastle, for Palermo. The Osprey, which got cn shore in putting to sea yesterday, was got off this morning, and proceeded without apparent damage. The Tonga Hero, from Rotterdam to Newhaven, has been assisted in here with lois of boats, anchors, &c., after being on the Goodwin Sand, but without apparen tdamage. Dovzik, MaacH 14.—Arrived the Hopewell, Hudson, from "Wells, for Liverpool, leaky. Arrived off, the Aurora, Vaudin, from St: Michael's; Placid, from Sunderland, Constantinople. Orr THE SOUTH FoRELAND.--AlTiVed the Erf Princess, Van Orange, from Kuleshoek. BniSTOL, MARcrt 14.—Arrived the Vo'unturis, St. Übes. TiliLFOan, Davies, for Le l‘ gl i r A m it m e . ll the Pembrokeshire Lass, DUBLIN, MARCH 12 . —Arrived the a R y 1 William steamer. Sailed the Sisters, Bank s , for Berbice.. o- WATERFORD, MARCH L—Arrived the Flora, Manning, from London. Sailed the T rus t y , Hutchins, Li-Cadizi ,Juliet, Darby, Placentia. CORK, MARCII 11.—Arrived the Elbe Packet, Croft, from L er oon ; Adelaide, Godfrey, ditto; Eling, Lewens, Monte Vi. Ale° ; Favourite, Selk, London ; Rebecca, Daly, Baltimore ; t.A h :re Lass, Antwerp. BenrACT, MARCH 11.—Arrived the Eclipse, Muyllart, 'om Ostend. L vEn POO t, MA RCH 13. —Wind S. S. E., moderas e ; 14th, $. S.E., light.—Arrived the Princess Victoria, from New !Oilcans; Jans Duphus, 3PLean, Halifax ; Romanvito, Ban- Chawna. Sailed the Elizabeth, Radc'iffe, Lima; Alar taret and Elizabeth, llVlver, Bahia ; Wils, Campbell, bellia r. Tri tnidad ; Oregon, Glidden, New Yor k ; William Brown, 3 3 hi!alelpha ; Dash, Huntress, Newfoundland; Hrreford, Rae 'burn, It io Janeiro ; Victoria, Goulding, Barbadoes ; es Sheridan, nad ) - - ) e..Pc3ster, New York ; Puella, Thom as, Smyrna; j .Eden, Aticer, Marseilles. The Royal Mint, from Jlav to Salt River, struck on Pelican Reef, off Old Harbour, f. 2741 Jan. Assistance was sent her. The Richard Watson, hound to this port, put in to Berbice with two feet water in er hold, having struck on the bar. SUNDERLAND, MARCH 12.—Arrived the New Darlington, Zea , .ngs ; Zephyr, Perdinel, from Calais; Europe, APEto 7 . Ostend ; Wirdall, Scott, Amsterdam. Sailed the King IVi Ilan!, for Constantinople. iTutt, ALtacii 13.—Wind N.E.—Arrived the Gipsy; Clara, from Rotterdam ; Princess Victoria, EtIN, Cephalonia; !Castlereagh, St. Michael's. HARWICH, MARCH 14. —The Exchange, from Bridlington, got or; shore in Holletley Bay, but was assisted off without much 41aniaze. PLYMOUTH, MARCH 14.—Wind light and variable.—Ar kire.l the Sophia Ma,rgaretha, Haeslop, froth Hamburgh ; George Fife, London for Sydney; Saturne, Fecamp to New ',f oundland ; Orixa, Singapore ; Promer, New Orleans for Havre. Fri MOUTH, MARCH 12.—Wind S.E. to E., light.—Ar- Xlvcd the Sir John Byng, from London, for Cape of Good ; Iberia, Gibraltar. Sailed the Sir John Byng, for Cape - of God Hope ; Minerva, Matzen, Batavia ; Clementine, Bal timore, firemen ; Hopewell, Reeves, Smyrna ; David Clarke, 14iil1s, Calcutta. • GLOUCESTER, MARCH 14.—Arrived Diligent, Rotterdam. YARMOUTH, MARCH 14.—The Cressmuss, from Middles ' 'borough, grounded on Helmsley Hole yesterday, but was as zisted off. • POOLE, MARCH 13.—Sailed the William Kelson, for Ca diz Nymph, ditto. Woaxiwrorr, Mallen 13.—Sailed the Thomson, Killala; for Quebec; Ayd, Greig, Sligo, for ditto. Vy.ssELs Seoxxx wiTH.—The Victoria, from Cape de Verdi to Monte Video, 28th December, lat. 29 S ' lon. 44. W. ; Martha, Whiteharen to West t Indies, 13 h ult., l a t. 21, l on . 34 ; Newburn, Mauritius to London, 2tst, lat.. 26, lon. 31 ; Nine, Denny, Calcutta to London, llth ult., lat. 22, lon. 40; Isabella, Pernambuco to Liverpool, 12th, lat. ,Dolby. 40, by the John Hominy, ar rived at Cork ; Louisa, Halifax to Pernambuco, 9th, lat. 23, lon. 34, by the Highfield, arrived at Crookhaven ; Australia, Mauritiu s to Liverpool, lat. 453, lon. 30, by the Susan, arrived off Svranage ; Copernicus, of and from Bre men, 4th inst., lat. 47, lon. 31, by the Simeon, arrived at Coik; Glenmalier, bf Liverpool, 18th Jan., lat. 24, Inn' 31 ' by the , . e ll s. . at Cork ; Hannone, Doucet, South Seas to Ha • ..„1 - ,i;....1 arrels, 19th ult., by the Amelie, ar rived ' - , .,,,t; , 5'w5, ; ,,... ,„ A 4 , 4 1 s 'w-en, Gaboon ,to Liverpool, 27th u ltb ; 4 '7 6 14 as, arrived at Penzance., 311 , "" 4 .....triiis ---- Dc• • , .' 4 ,1 ~ , ta.:, red yesterday at the Colonial OBc(1 . i, ..., 'iT• tr 47 wer of Newfoundland. 4• .• ' • 4 , g1 p. ri ' 4 %1101 v ,- ..„„ ....- -.5.. - k _ 4• THE CHINA SUN," Which was lately RE-PUBLISIIED, IS NOW ON SALE. 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Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS. THIS EVENING, MARCH 15, Will be repeated the New Comedy, in Five Acts, entitled LONDON ASSURANCE. Sir Harcourt Courtly, Bart., Mr. W. Farren • Max Hark away, Mr. Bartley ; Mr. Charles Courtly, dr. 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. Humby. After whitth, The GRAND CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME, entitled THE CASTLE OF OTRANTO; OR, HARLEQUIN AND THE GIANT HELMET. Harlequin, Mr. C. J. Smith ; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway ; Pantaloon, Mr. Mo••Plli ; Columbine, Miss Fairbrother. To-morrow, Ler.don Assurance, with The Beggar's Opera: Doors to ba epaned at half-past Six—the performances to co.xmenre at Se7eu o'Clock. Dress Boxes. 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d. • First and Second Circles, 3s. ; :second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price, ; Gallery is. Tiekete and places for the Boats to be taken of Mr. Grogan, at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets ally se had upon application. Private Bolt.s to be had so'.elv of Mr. Andrea's, bookseller, ;67,,New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE, Amazing attraction. Signal success, and brilliant overflows. Re-engagement of Mr. T. P. Cooke, whose performance of " Peor Jack " has surpassed all former efforts. The Theatre fills soon after the doors are opened. THIS EVENING, MARCH 15. Will be acted a Nautical Drama in Four Parts, called POOR JACK ; OR THE WIFE OF A SAILOR. le which Mr. T. P. Cooke, and the entire strength of the Company, will perform. After which, MY POLL AND MY PARTNER JOE. Harry Haulyard by Mr. T. P. Cooke. To conclude with A DAY AFTER THE FAIR. In w hich Mr. Buckingham and Miss Martin sustain Six diffe rent Characters each. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning 33 minutes after 7. I Evening 16 minutes after E. '4,-414,1t, LONDON MONDAY, MARCH 15, 1641. We succeeded in showing on Friday, we think, that the writer in the Morning Post, who measured the value of foreign trade by the amount of the exports, did us great injustice, as if lie had measured the utility of religion by the number of pulpits. That writer, and all those statistical writers who indulge in similar compa risons between the different branches of national wealth, have not attained the smallest ele mental acquaintance with the phenomena of the production of wealth. .Those who have looked at that are aware that territorial division of labour is as necessary to its progress as division of labour amongst indi viduals; that it would, for example, take several times as much labour to produce cotton or sugar in England as suffices to supply them from America or the West India islands, even if they could be produced here at all. Everybody who has looked into the subject knows, too, that the introduction of those and other commodities' from abroad serves to extend the division of labour at home, to call new arts into existence, and to promote, not merely the wealth, but the skill and ingenuity of mankind. We may safely assert therefore, that the writer who measures the uti lity of foreign trade to the community by the amount of the exports, is most lamentably igno rant of the whole science of the production of wealth. Where there is the greatest ignorance there is generally the greatest presumption, and accord ingly we find the writer in the Post, on Friday h at, indulging again in a condemnation of freedom of trade, and in ap enlarged ambition of regu lating all the employments of society. He said— . There are two g lea ain circumstances in the present condi tion a Great Britain which deserve the especial attention of every patriotic politician. The first is the continual increase of the people beyond the increase of opportunities for providing them with profitable employment. This is coupled with a greater impatience at a life of labour and poverty than ever before existed, so that we have discontent continually spread ing from a double source. If the condition of the labouring people were not growing better they would be dissatisfied, be cause they have become embued with a general ambition for a better, or at least a more easy and refined, way of life. But instead of growing better, so far as regards the means of pro curing subsistence, their condition grows one of more difficulty, owing to the gradually increasing disproportion already men- tioncd. The te:ond circumstance is the prevailing dogmatism in fa vour of what is unjustly called freedom of trade, but what may truly be called the selfish desire to employ the population of other countries rather than the population of our own, if the produce of their labour can be obtained at a cheaper rate. It is tolerably plain that these two leading circumstances have a very important connection with one another. If they go on—that is to say, if the population continues to over crowd, as it has latterly done, all the avenues of remunerative industry, and if, at the same time, new laws should be made or old ones repealed, to facilitate the employment of cheap foreign labour, in preference to that of England, Scotland, and Ireland —what is to become of our working people ? Why, they must fall into the most pinching and terrible state of distress. The remedy for this want of employment, which inspires him with so much alarm, is this : But when a nation becomes so thickly peopled that there are enough, and more than enough, both to produce manufac tures far beyond the consumption of the country, and corn far beyond what the country has ever consumed, then to econo mise labour is no longer a national object, though it may be a source of great gain to individual capitalists. The great danger of a nation in such a condition, as respects its popula tion, is that of the people being unemployed, and uncomfort able because they are unemployed, or too slightly remunerated for their labour. As the se r c o u t n ee ty to o r f b e :) a th pi• capital pisroopNevrtinyg andto the _ protection afforded by Gc p ) a v y ern fo m r e i n ts t, iptrobtee protection, by y th g e iv d in u y tyof Government, as a general . p re munerative employmentto the peopl e, larger profit through the cheaper dnu to the industry of hinder it from seeking ry , t o make capita: la bour of foreign people. As the knowledge and the wisdom specimensic h aspire o to govern society, these passageS are, we think, remarkable. The increase which of the people is, at se ttin g out, actkneowoolendtgrol o acknowledged to be natural, something beyondf statesmen. At least under the regulation of theimme diately afterwards we arc told that " this it is nut State.im implied that thatit is in crease is beyond the increase of opportunities for providing them with profitable employment,'i im plying that the employment is to be provided by some other persons than the people, and making, in fact, - the State responsible for their employment. That error lies at the foundation of our Con temporary's reasoning. He knows that the State does not create the population but, nevertheless, he would have the State find employment for the population. The least acquaintance with the writings of Mr. MALTHUS would have informed our Contemporary that he requires the State to perform an impossibility. At the same time, as the whole of wealth is the produce of labour, and, as labour really pro duces more than the labourers consume—for an im mense number of idle and unproductive persons are maintained by the produce of labour—there is no reason whatever to suppose, if the Government do not interfere with employment, that the people will not find profitable employment for them selves. In fact, one labourer is, by his produce, the market or employment for another labourer. The more the agriculturists are multiplied, the greater is the demand for cotton cloth, and the more the employment for cotton spinners is in creased. In like manner, the more the cotton ..Dinners are multiplied, the greater is the demand for agricultural produce, and the more the employment of agricultural labourers is in creased. This is only the example of what takes place through the whole of the productive classes —one is the market for the other. It is clear, therefore, that the more the people are multi plied the greater is naturally the demand for labour, and the more does employment increase. Ultimately, and as the last result of analysis, the demand for labour is always to supply human wants; consequently, the more the wants are in creased, the more mouths that are to feed, and backs to clothe, the more employment there will he. In the system of nature, we beg the Post to remember that the appetite of hunger, and the means of gratifying it, are, as the rule, conjoined in the same person ; mouths are gene rally accompanied by hands, and consequently the faculties of production, and of profitable em ployment, keep pace with the increase of the people. We admit to the Post, and we complain of the Post for advocating the system which causes it, that the people do not now find profitable em ployment. It is true, as the Quarterly Review, which the Post quotes, says, " Our manufactur ing towns, which formerly drew off such large swarms from our agricultural districts, have pro bably ceased to do so to any great extent." It is true that" every avenue to fortune—every opening to employment—is instantaneously thronged with competitors. From the highest to the lowest— from literature and the arts, the learned profes sions, law, medicine, and the clergy, with their multiplying churches, commerce in all its branches, from the merchant princes of the City down to the small grocer and hardwareman, there is a busy, vehement emulation, in which many must fail, and many drag on with but a precari ous livelihood." It is true that profitable em ployment cannot now be extensively. found in agriculture, in commerce, or in manufactures, and much we thank the Post for acknowledging that truth. But how and why is it, when the in crease of population necessarily carries with it its own demands and its own increase of employ ment, that this terrible restraint is felt, this ham pering in all (Erections, this great want—while the faculties of man are in full vigour—of the means of gratifying them ? Ask this question at Manchester, at Birmingham, at Sheffield, at Glasgow, at Leeds, at Hull, and what will be the answer? "We could employ hundreds, thousands more," the manufacturers, and merchants, and ship-builders of these places would instantly say, " if the Corn and Provision-laws, the timber duties, 'the sugar and coffee duties were abolished." But if they could employ thousands more, there would be a corresponding demand for the labours of the agriculturist, the phy sician, the lawyer, the engineer, and of every other profession. All would be alive, active, and enterprising. It is, then, the re strictive system, the accursed bread-tax, the abominable discriminating duties on sugar, and coffee, and timber, which prevent the people from labouring, and so enabling them to gratify their own wants, and which makes the whole Government, including the Legislature, a great curse to the people. The Post imagines that it all arises from em ploying cheap foreign labour. What does the Post mean? Where did it learn that the un unskilled, slothful, vacillating labour of other people is cheaper than the steady, skilled labour of the English•? The remedy it proposes is worthy of its knowledge of the disease. While the exertions of all men are directed to encourage labour, it would find more employ ment for the people by restricting improve ment and by taxing capital. It would by law hinder capital from seeking a larger profit. The Post, as it is wonderfully clever, may hold water in a sieve; but if it knew that cotton cloth may be capital, that skilled labour is capital, that a multitude of other things are capital, of which the exportation is allowed or cannot be prevented, it would never have talked of preventing capital from seeking larger profits through the cheaper labour of foreign people. At present when the skilled labourer of Man chester or Birmingham carries his talents to Belgium or Germany, because he is not allowed by the barbarous law to emplOy them at home, he carries capital abroad to profit, not by cheap labour, but by the market which a com parative abundance of food there constitutes for his peculiar labour. If the capitalist or the corn-merchant could buy the food abroad and bring it here, the capital, the skilled labour, would be kept in the country, and the capitalist would gain a larger profit by setting more of the skilled labour of England in motion. The real source of the greater profit which would accrue to the capitalists, as the Post cor rectly supposes, by the abolition of the Corn-law, is the greater adaptation of two sets of people to the work they would then be employed in. The in genious population of England would be more extensively employed in manufactures, and the unskilled population of the Continent would prepare them food. Labour would be economized, yet more people would be employed, and profit would be greater. If the Poet can say nothing more against free trade than that it would increase the profits of capital, we would recommend it to hold itspeace, for that increase—the increase of the fund which sets labour in motion—is really what the .Post benevolently desires, though it is ignorant of the means of obtaining its own object. In this it resembles the Legisla ture. It has benevolently desired, we presume, to promote the public happiness, but it has been ignorant of the means, and it has embodied its ignorance into a multitude of laws, which are now the curse of the country. We feel it in every path of life. Every parent feels it in the difficulty he experiences to provide for his offspring ; every industrious man feels it in the difficulty to obtain subsist ence. Whatever may be the vices and follies of individuals, the community can only have been brought to its present hampered and diseased condition by the errors or crimes of the law makers. If the public are not amused we beg to state that we are, by the contest which has arisen in the bosom of the Church, and which is known under the name of Puseyism. Those who really love the Church, and the political hypocrites who pre tend to love it, may weep and moan over this schism we own that we delight in it, as calcu lated to set the merits of the Establishment in a clear light. When those who are members of it and reap a large reward from professing its doctrines begin to impugn them and expose its practices, there is a great probability, that the pub lie, however obtuse it may be, will ere long be made to comprehend the exact amount of the public utility of the Church. One thing is very remarkable remarkable about the Pusey ites. Their opponentsadmi admit theirintegrity, while they blame their enthusiasm. Infact, they are honest, logical,. consistent priests, who have been bred u Church, have adoptpeamth and seek zealously the . principles of the to carry them out to their just conc l us i ons . B e - cm, Be lieving in the dogmas of one Catholic universal Church, which the Anglican Church claims to be, honestly believing that its principles are true, they claim obedience and reverence properly, on those principles, treat D e ' Dissent for it, and, as i a sin or a crime. Zealous advocates of th e pr i nc i ples for which t he Bisho p of EXETER • is a great stickler, and which the whole Church • adopts, of t h e apostolical succession in the Anglican ' --, or universal Catholic Church, they logically and necessarily deny to every other Church, whether Presbyterian or Methodist, the possession of the real priestly power, and, of course, d eny to their sacraments any saving or healing grace. On the same principle of apostolic succession, it is impossible to deny that the writings of • the first Fathers, or those more immediately next in succession to the 4pastles, and who collected and preserved their writings, and transmitted them to us, are works of very great authority, even if it be admitted that they are not quite equal to the Gospels and the Epistles. For the value of those writings, or for the necessity of tradition to understand the Scriptures, the Puseyites are great sticklers; and - to us they only seem to follow out, the doctrines of the Church to their legitimate conclusion. In like manner, when they contend for more candlesticks at the altar, further genuflexions on approaching it, more bowings of the head, and more reverences by the priest, they only carry out the present practices of the Church of Eng land, and revive the traditions of the fathers. In truth, the logical, upright, and honest Pusey ites know that the Church of England—in into lerance, in the substitution of dead forms for the living spirit, in •an idle worship of names, and in a disregard of things, in its claim of infallibility, in its substitution of the word of the priest for the word of GOD, and in its preference of the book of traditiOn for the book of nature, they know that in all the essen tials, except having a young woman for its head, instead of a venerable priest, the Church of England is in truth and substance a Papist Church, and seeing its decay in public esteem, they naturally essay to restore its power by car rying out its principles. The Popery of Puseyism cannot be doubted; the only doubt is how far that accords with the genuine principles of the Church of England. Those who wish to bolster up the Church assert that it does not, while we recognise the agreement, and rejoice to see the honest Puseyites, backed by some of the Tory Journals, carrying out the true principles of tie Church. The doctrines of the Church imply that man needs something for his mind to rest on beyond the power of his own Observation to obtain. They imply that he must have something to gratify the cravings of his heart beyond the suggestions of his own appetites and passions, or his own reason, which are deceitful and full of evil. Vanity, self-love, pride, and other pas sions, misinterpret what has been made known and preserved, and that which was given for guidance and consolation, thus becomes, it is said, a temptation and a sorrow. Hence the necessity of recognised interpreters; hence the claims of an infallible priesthood ; hence the assurance—not to gratify their ambition, but to soothe the heart of man—that they received or inherited a Divine commission to under stand and explain all things ; hence in foriner times the success of Rome ; and hence the hopes now formed by the Pusey ites, by insisting on her doctrines, of obtaining success in England. In this hard and sceptical age, intent only on making money or on getting bread, the Puseyites are not likely to succeed; but they are sure to rend (which is not what they wish) the Church to its foundations. The Bishops, it is said, are going to inquire into the doctrines of Puseyism, and happily they will be unable to keep the profane press from being made acquainted with all their investigations. Some proceedings have of late taken place at York, and charges of simony have been bandied about, which will by no means exalt the priest hood in public estimation ; the other proposed investigation will bring to light some similar conduct; so that we can inform the priesthood that the first step to the recovery of their do minion is to retrieve their character. Mr. LABOUCHERE 7 S resolutions relative to our Colonial Customs Duties, which we publish, go to effect a considerable reduction on the duties now payable on several articles when imported into the colonies. They also authorise the intro duction of tea into Canada, and the other North American colonies, from the United States, on payment of the same duty as if brought from England, enhanced 10 per cent. To a trifling extent they will liberate the trade of the colonies and be an advantage to them. But when the colonies are so worthy of consideration, is, let us ask, the mother-country to be neglected ? At Carlisle, as well as at Manchester, Liverpool, Glasgow, and Edinburgh, a strong opinion has been expressed against the present tariff, and in favour of a revision of the import duties. Will Ministers neglect or slight these towns ? Though London still sleeps, they are awake, and make themselves heard. The metropolis, formerly so active on all such questions, is now so dull and stupid that it seems to have been hocussed by the Tories. We publish in another part of The Sun a Re port of the Committee on South Australia, on which a Bill is to be founded for taking out of the pockets of the public 210,0001. to provide for that colony. This is the result of the first specimen of the self-supporting scheme. Several others are in progress, and we must wait the re sult of them before forming a definite and certain opinion of what has been puffed off as the grand est discovery of economical science. Mr. HUTT, who last year so successfully ex posed the injuries to which our commerce in the Elbe was subject from the depredations of Hanover, has very consistently followed up his course of usefulness by performing a similar ser vice to our merchants, manufacturers, and ship owners in regard to the Danish exactions, called the Sound Dues. We have before us a pam phlet on this subject by Mr. HUTT, called " Sound Dues• Considered," and we must say that till we bad read the elaborate history of our treaties with Denmark, and of the Denmark method of practically observing them, we could hardly have believed that so gross and pernicious an abuse remained to be redressed. " Sound Dues," Mr. HUTT justly observes, " in any shape are an opprobrium, but Sound Dues aggravated by rapacity and bad j treatment are surely intolerable in a country whose existence depends on the prosperity of her commerce and the moral influence of her flag." It was bad enough, God knows, and a pretty significant indication of what a parental Govern- I ment we lived under in the old days of Tory domination, to have conceded gratuitously to Denmark a right to tax our trade and navigation in the Sound, on any scale however limited, and under any restrictions however severe. Small dues for the lightage and buoyage of the narrow seas between the Cattegat and the Baltic, is all the tax that ever would have been granted to the Crown of Denmark, had our rulers in 1814 either considered or understood the ithportance of the trading interests of Great Britain. Without a struggle, a remonstrance, or a word, however, the memorable Lord CASTLEREAGH signs away the rights of his countrymen to hold free inter course with the Baltic nations, and hands over to the King of DENMARK for ever, as a clear un bought advantage, the power to impose taxes and restraints on all British ships and cargoes passing the Sound. Such was Toryism in its hour of might ! We conceded to Denmark, as a right, the power to levy heavy contributions on all our commerce in the Bahia, and to inflict severe restraints and penalties on our mariners, in order to secure the payment of these contributions to the uttermost farthing. We agree to pay, in addition, the salaries of the Danish officers at Elsineur, who collect the appointed tribute; and beside tribute and salaries to pay lightage, buoyage, and beaconage on our ships passing the Sound, to an extent, that over and above defraying all the expenses of these works and establishments, brings a net income of considerable amount into the Danish Exchequer! Yet all this does not satisfy the majesty of Denmark. iEstuat infelix angusto Hittite. He craves for more, and obtains it by a profli gate violation of the Treaty by which he claims any right to the Sound tolls at all. The amount of the toll on each article is settled and deter mined by a formal tariff, which forms part of the Treaty between the two nations, and Denmark is therein forbidden to exact more than is pre scribed in the tariff, under any pretext what ever. Yet so little has this solemn injunction been respected, that there are but few articles of commerce on which Denmark has not exacted larger dues than the Treaty sanctions, and on many of them the dues are augmented more than 500 per cent. Other stipulations which the Treatiescontained, for the protection of commerce have been treated * Sound Dues Considered, Ridgway, London. by. William Hutt, Esq., AL by the King of DENMARK in the same uncere monious manner. On our side there has been nothing but submission. " These unliwful con tributions on our trade have been exacted," says Mr. HUTT, " with all the confidence and regula rity of an unquestionable right." And for six and-twenty years this system of spoliation and injury has been going on without obstruction ! To have been the first to point out and clearly and earnestly to explain the economical and com mercial evils which it has heaped upon our coun try, is a_merit due to the Member for Hull. We trust that onTuesday night he will complete, in the House of Commons, the useful and honourable task he has undertaken, and that, by insisting in Parliament on the same important truths which he has here placed before the public, he will at last compel the attention of Government to the wrongs imposed on the industry of our country. We cannot conclude this notice better than with Mr. HUTT'S own words : " It may be said that after all this is only a question of amount of Sound Dues, that we have formally armed Denmark with a right to collect them in some measure, and that such right she is very unlikely to resi gn . D enmar k would not, of course, gratuitously relinquish an advantage which she holds by an in expugnable title— a solemn Treaty—but the Sound lax is so obviously pernicious and oppressive, that it would be well for our Government to enter into negotiation with the Court of Denmark for a fair commutation of it. 'The injury we suffer by the Sound Dues is not to be estimated by the 80,0001. or 100,0001. per annum,.levied on our trade at Elsineur for the benefit of the King of Denmark and his officers. The evils arising from our goods being enhanced in the foreign market and foreign goods in our own—ftora ships detained on their voyage, and in a difficult and tempestuous sea—from restric tions, trammels, penalties, on the free operations of commerce, are beyond all power of measure or computation. The very circumstance that our commercial intercourse with the north of Europe is checked and cramped by our own laws, and by the laws of other nations, which we cannot con t ro l, i s , i n it self, a powerful reason w hy we should not suffer the measure of exclusion and prohibition to be completed by the acts of a fo reign State, which no man living can justify or approve. We cannot control Denmark in the collection of her legal tariff. That is true. But during the last quarter of a century, Den mark has been acting on a tariff which is neither legal nor defensible, and Great Britain, as well as Sweden and Prussia, well know that the excessive dues collected at Elsi neur may be rightfully and reasonably demanded back. In truth, Denmark is not in circumstances to hold any very haughty or unaccommodating language. It cannot escape the sagacity of her Government that the Sound Dues, which derive their origin from a period when every thin.. was settled by the rude instrumentality of force, are little in harmony with the principles which now regulate the affairs of the world, and that the Sound Dues have now no foundation whatever but in the faith of those Treaties, which have fixed the tolls to which commerce shall be subject on passing the Sound. These are net times in which any nation can be permitted to evade the execution of Treaties, or to abolish one part of the stipula tions they contain, and interpret others according to its interest. A Treaty from the moment that it is not faithfully and regu larly observed by the side interested in maintaining it, ceases to be binding on the other." The most contradictory reports are in circula tion respecting the terms- of relationship upon which the great Powers at present stand with regard to the Eastern question. We on Saturday gave currency to a rumour that France has joined the other Powers in signing a new Treaty for maintaining the integrity of the Ottoman empire. This rumour is given in the following form by the Morning Herald of to-day:— We have reason to believe that the protocol agreed to by the conference of London for regulating the affairs of the east, and for terminating the quintuple treaty of July, as well as the treaty of Unkiar Skelessi, has been accepted by the French Government. We have also reason to believe that it is the intention of M. Guizot to make a communication of this nature to the Cham ber of Peers in the course of the debate on the Fortifioations Bill. The result to be expected from this circumstance is, that France, Austria, and Prussia will proceed to a gradual, if not immediate disarming. . On the other hand, the Morning Post pub lishes a letter from a Correspondent at Paris, which expressly states that France has refused to sign the proposed Treaty. As this letter is as recent as the rumour of Saturday, and enters into some details in themselves highly interesting, we quote it without curtailment "PARIS, MARCH 13. " At ten o'clock last night Count Harteg, an Attache of the Austrian Embassy in Paris, left post for Vienna, via Frank fort on the Maine. This young diplomatist is bearer of im portant despatches sent by the Count d'Appony to his Govern ment, after a long conference which his Excellency had on Thursday last with M. Guizot at the Foreign-ofece, relative to the last firman of the Sultan, dated February 13. In this con ference M. Guizot explained the motives which would prevent the French Cabinet from signing or adhering to the protocol of London, dated the sth instant, which had just been commu nicated to him by the English Government. This protocol re presents the firman as the result of the combined efforts of the Powers which signed the 15th of July Treaty. But M. Guizot observed that he had reason to believe, from despatches that he had received from M. de Saint Aulaire (French Ambassador in Vienna), and from the Count l'ontois (Constantinople), - that Austria and Russia were far from being satisfied at the form of the firman, because—to make use of Prince Metternich's expression, which was in ac conlance also with the complaints of Baron de Sturmer and M. de Titof (Austrian and Russian Ambassadors in Constan tinople)—this document had been forced by Lord Ponsonby from the weakness of Reschid Pacha. M. Guizot, it is said, further remarked that the right reserved by the Porte to choose Mehemet Ali's successor from his children was a manifest contradiction with the principle of the absolute heirship already recognised by the Sultan, and further more was at direct variance with the casus betli placed in M. Thiers's memorandum, which had been accepted as th e bisis of policy by the 29th of October Cabinet, now existing. France, therefore, M. Guizot stated, must maintain her isola tion unt:l the Austrian and Russian influence succeeded in ob taining a modification of the firman, so that the right of suc cession of Mehemet Ali's children might be laid down as ex pressed in the two memorandums of the 3d and Bth of October. " Count d'Appony, who appeared to have had his instruc tions in this respect, replied that he appreciated M. Guizot's motives in refusing to sign the London protocol of the sth instant, and he added that he hoped that the combined efforts of Austria, Prussia, and Russia would obtain the modification claimed by the Tuileries. "It was consequently agreed between M. Guizot and the Count d'Appony that the latter should communicate to Prince Metternich the conference in question, and that the French Cabinet should make no reply to Lord Palmerston's despatch, dated March 5, until Count d'Appony has received from Prince Metternich fresh instructions as to the result of the proceed ings at Constantinople, to satisfy France as to the point at issue in this new incident of the Eastern question. • "Count Hartig will wait at Vienna for the definitive reply of the Alfstrian Cabinet, and on his return to Paris, which it is expected will be in about a month, it is hoped that this ap parently interminable dispute will be arranged, at least so far as regards Mehemet Ali." Whether France has or has not signed the new Treaty, it is satisfactory to be able to state that the cause of peace and civilization is making sure, if not very rapid progress. If France has objected to the clause in the Imperial Firman which reserves to the Sultan the right of norni nating MEHEMET ALl's successors to the Pacha lie of Egypt, the people of England will tell her that she is right in doing so. Lord PONSONBY must rest content with the glory of having driven the VICEROY out of Syria. Europe will not tolerate the playing of that game in Egypt. The latest Madrid Papers received are of the 6th inst. Reports were in circulation of a speedy change in the composition of the Cabinet. It was affirmed on the Bourse that after the settle ment of the Regency question the Ministry would he composed as follows :—M. OLOZACIA, Minister of Foreign Affairs and President of the Council; M. MANUEL CANTERO, the present Director of the Sinking Fund, Minister of Fi nance; M. SANCHO, Minister of the Interior; M. LABORDO, of Grace and Justice; M. CAPAZ, of Marine; and General ALA Ix, of War. Accounts of general dissatisfaction in the pro vinces were daily arriving at Madrid. But little business was doing on the Bourse. The Five per Cents. were at 27i for cash, and 281 at 60 days. The Paris journals of Friday and Saturday have all reached us. The Moniteur officially announces the resignation of the Spanish Mi nister of Finance, M. GAMBOA, and the appoint ment ad interim of M. FERRAR to discharge the duties of that office. These at present are not very •onerous. The Spanish Finance Minister may leave his office doors open all night without dreading the abstraction by thieves of a single dollar. There is the devil to pay and not a shot in the locker. In fact, the Trea sury is absolutely empty, the army in arrear, and no person or State from the Spanish Govern ment can beg, borrow, or steal cash enough to defray the ordinary expenses of the Administra tion ! Such is the frightful pass to which des potism, priestcraft, and civil war, have brought this once fine and opulent country ! The probability of a contest between Great Britain and the United States is the subject of leading articles in all the Paris Papers. A synop sis of the best of them will be found in another column, to which we direct the attention of our readers. We are informed that a proposal, signed by two Honourable Deputies of the constitutional opposition, was laid yesterday on the bureau of the Chamber- of. Deputies. The object of this proposal is to realise the recommendation of M. Jaubert, to declare the incompatibility of the Legislative functions with paid offices. It is thought it may be submitted to the exami nation of the bureau on Monday next. Baron Mounter did not communicate to the Committee yes terday his report on the project of law relative to the fortifica tion of Paris. He will read it to-morrow (Saturday), and it is thought that it may be read in a public sitting on Tues day next. On occasion of the resolution adopted by the Diet of the German Confederation to fortify Ulm and Rastadt the Gazette de France exclaims with reason, " Thus it is not Berl'n and Vienna that are to be surrounded with bastions and citadels. The reasons alleged by M. Thiers for fortifying the capital, have not imposed on the gold sense of Germany," A letter which we have received from Florence, dated March informs us that the Austrian Government, with the consent of the Grand Duke, has just established a Cabinet noir in the capital of Tuscany. Florence has long been the quiet re sidence of foreigners from all countries, who resort to .it for the enjoyment of tranquillity, and for the benefit of their health. The Court of Vienna has calculated that by this means it may be informed of every thing that is pass►ng in Europe, and as the Grand Duke is only a vassal of Austria, the execution of . this project has been attended with no difficulty. All letteis coming from abroad, are not only unsealed and read by the Austrian police, but they are irrevocably kept if they contain the slightest equivocal phrase however important the contents of the letter may be to the person to whom it is addressed.— Le Commerce. NAPLES, FEB. 27.—Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge arrived here yesterday afternoon, and put up at the Hotel de la Grand Boulogne. Immediately after her arrival, a company of the Royal Life Guards was sent as a guard of honour, which however she declined. POLISH FRONTIER, FEB. 28.—The ten Russian prisoners who were at Cracow were taken yesterday with an escort of the police to Kielt2e on the Russian frontier, where they were delivered into the hands of the Russian authorities. BO UR S .SATURDAY, MARCH 13. first Highest Lowell last Price Price. Prick. Pric: I rer'ch 5 per Cents llO 95 ... 111 10 ... 110 95 .. 111 13 4% per Cents 4 per Cents 9B ... 98 ... 98 •• 98 3 per Cents ' 76 65 —76 85 ... 76 55 ... 76 85 B ,nk of erance Laffitte Bank I,ooof. Sh 1065 ...1065 ...1005 ...1035 • 5000 f. Shares 5165 ...5165 ...51r5 ...5165 ielgian Bank 5 per Cent-. ... lOl% ... 101% ... 101% ... 101% • 3 per Cents 69 65 .. 69 65 ... 09 65 ... , 0 (15 New Loan... ...... Seapolitan lO2 ... 102 ... .92 ... fie Roman lO2 ... 102 .... 1(9 ... 112 RAILWAY SHARES. St Germain Versailles,R. Ii 390 ... 392 50 ... 390 ... 392 50 L.B. go 50 ... 310 ... 3(7 50 ... 311 Orleans .. Strasburg to Bale 2lO ... 240 ... 410 .. 240 Rouen 455 ... 455 ... 455 ... 455 DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, MARCII 12 Money. eiils. tctual Debt, 234 per Cent ditto, ditto 5 per cent. Amen t Syndic, 4% per cent FB3I 8.3 Ditto, ditto, 3% percent. 7 2 14 7231 Commercial Company, 4)4 per cent II 014 1.1 Ditto (1635 and 1837) 5 per cent. ...... Loan 1 37, 5 per cent. Exchange on London, One month l2 05 Two months ..... Dutch Papers, March 13. . PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—Bsniusr, Mincit 9. Bills, Money. St. Schuld. Scb., 4% per cent. ....... ......10:33h 10331 Prussian English Loan, 1830, 4 per cent. 100% 103% Exchange on London, three months ... 6 17% —Prussian State Gazette. March 10 BELGIAN P UNDS—Baussius, MARCH 12. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent 1,9 Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. B9 3 per Cent. fr_. — 6 S% .(t_4o) 98% Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent BB Society of Commerce, 4%per Cent 11)2 Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent ........ National Seciety . Exchange on London (short) —Brussels Papers, March 12. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—lfmrts, Disney 3 Five per Cents. Dietalliques Four per Cents. 9J Three per Cents. Bank Shares 1627 —Allgemeine Zcitung. Mareh 8 . Thirty-seven. Conx-LAws.---In compliance with a requisi tion niost numerously signed, the Mayor of Manchester has called a public meeting of the inhabitants of that borough, to be held in the Town Hall on next Thursday. The requi sitionists say they " are strongly convinced of the injustice of those laws which re duce the foOd of the people, . and which, if not repealed, will overwhelm 'the country with ruin." The men of Manchester well deserve the gratitude of the country, for . the energetic and persevering manner in which they have followed up this all-important subject. May success crown their exertions. THE DEAF AND DUMB.—Several gentlemen, Who had occasional opportunities of witnessing Dr. Turn bull's treatment of the deaf and dumb at Glasgow, observ ing attacks made on the system in the Glasgow news papers, have made a thorough investigation into the effect of the treatment of the patients under his care at Glasgow, and also into the allusions made to case; of individuals sent from the West of Scotland, to consult him in London. A pamphlet, stating the result, has just been published, from a wish on the part of these gentlemen to make known the truth in a matter in which it appears to them there bas baen much misrepresentaton. Though there were several instances of failure, a number of cases completely succeeded as attested by ten individuals, three of whom are clergymen residing in the ne'ghbourhood. The pam phlet also contains some letters from the relations of patents, stating, in most instances, favourable results. We have room only for the following extract from a letter of the Rev. Dr. M'Kinlay, of Kilmarnock, on the sub ject, dated June 11, 1840, addressed to a friend :—" The account which was published in The Sun newspaper, of the cures effected on Margaret Shields and Mary Wilson, two deaf and dumb girls sent up to Dr. Turnbull, under the care of a confidential relative, is substantially cor rect. He bad, prior to this, cured two deaf men from this place, and it was this fact that induced me to send up to him the abcve named girls, one of them a pauper, and the othrr a daughter of a small farmer in my parish. They left this on the 2d of May, and after remaining in London about a fortnight under the care of the Doctor, returned to this place in possession of hearing distinctly, and continue to hear ever since. They are now speaking short words after hearing them pronounced by others, and one of them is learning the alphabet, and putting letters togeth r, that sho may be taught to read as well as to speak. These are the facts of the case on which you may rest with con fidence." DEATH OF THE EARL OF ROTHES.—We regret to learn by a letter from Fife that the Earl of Rotbcs died on Wednesday, at Leslie House, after a short illness. His Lordship was born November, 1809, and succeeded his mother, the late Countess of Rothes, in 1819. He married in 1834 Louisa, third daughter of Colonel Morshead, by whom he bad a daughter and son, George William Evelyn Lelie Leslie, now in his seventh year, and who succeeds to the honours and estates cf the family.—Fifeshire Paper. Lord Cadogan has given instructions for a splen did pier to to e.ectqd in Chej re walk, Chelsea, opposite the place where the Bishop of Winchester's palace for merly stood, and Mr. L. Cubitt has taken the land to open a new street from the water up into the King's-road, The iron steam-boats, after Good Friday, will commence run ning to Battersea, Wandsworth, and Putney. The mansion in Hyde Park-terrace, recently occupied by Mr. Jerningham, a partner in the late firm of Wright and co., has been let to Mrs. La*, who will take possession immediately after Easter. The auditorship of the Duchy of Cornwall hay ing become vacant by the death of Sir George Harrison, that office baa been conferred on Mr. James Gardiner, a barrister. We learn, howev.r, tkat the emoluments of the office, which were 1,200/. a year, whilst in the bands of Sir George Harrison, have been reduced by Via. Duncan non to somewhat about 4001. a year.—Sunday Paper. ELOPEMENT.—..On Saturday last, a respectable plumber and glaz . e-, in the %Plage of Adwalton, well on for seventy years of age, eloped wi h the wife of an honest cobbler, drawing near the meridian of thirty. Old fools are the worst of all fools.—Leeds Times. THE REV. J. .11• STEPHENs.—Mr. Stephens has becn released from confinement, has already resumed his agitation—and has a'ready attacked an association (the Anti-Corn-law League) which has far its object a mere profitable employment of capital and labour, end a greater abundance of food for the people. —Manchester Times. COURTS-MARTIAL.—•A correspondent in his further exposure of the anumares of our Milit try - Code justly animadverts on the agg avation cf punishment in flicted by the delays in communicating the Sentences of Caurts- Martial. This is an evil that we have always considered might be easily remedied, and we never met w;th any sufficient reason fur its continuance. We will give two cases of very recent occurrence strikirgly illus trative of the question. On the 14 , 11 of Dec. last, a Naval Court-Martial was held on board her Majesty's ship Powerful, in the Mediterranean, and in the course of that day the officer was tr:ed, acquitted, and his sentence com municated to him. About the same period, a Captain of the 19th Fo:t was tried at Malta, and the general impression is that the sentence t f the Court fully and honourably acc,ittcd him. Be that as it may, the officer and his family were obliged, as is the practice in army Courts martial, to remain in suspense as to his fate until the pro• ceedings could he 'sent to England, submitted by the authorities to the Queen, and the decision sent out to Malt Before, however, the intelligence arrived, the Captain was no more. He died suddenly at the Auberge de Castille, leaving a wife and three children. Had ago nizing suspense been too much for his mind and body ? We trust the Secretary-a•-War will take the matter into his early consideration, and provide a remedy for a system which punishes alike ne innocent and-the guilty.—Natal and Military Gazette. BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.—At the York Assizes on Saturday an action was brought by a woman of the name of Welk for a breach of promise of marriage against a maltater and farmer of the name of Berry, living near Huddersfield. The defendant pleaded first, the general issue; secondly, since the making of the promise the plaintiff had led a dissolute life, and that he was not bound to keep the engagement. After tearing a great deal of evidence unfit for publicati a, the Jury re turned a verdict fee the plaintiff—Damages 501. COLLISION AND SINKING OF AN IRON STEAMER.—On Tuesday morning, as the Hirondelie steam-boat from Hull to Selby was on her passage, having on board fifty passengers and Lioety-threa sheep, sire came into a violent collbion with a-vessel moored in the chan nel, and so great was the shock that her machinery was upset, and the vessel filled and went down in less than five n mutes. Most fortur.ately, all the passengers were saved by getting on board the vessel upon which the steamer ran, but all their luggage was lost, together with the ninety-three sheep, which were drowned. A Jew lost a box of jewellery which cost 3001. There was a very dense fog at the time of the collision, and it is quite rni:a• culous that the lives of the passengers were preserved.... Hull Packet. ANCIENT BY-LAws.—The following were among the by-laws of Portsmouth, passed in 1241 :—" If there be any thief, under the value of thirteen pence, his oar to be nailed to the pillory, and he to choose whether be will cut or tear it off. And if there be any that coun terfeiteth false kttera or false seals, or mal.eth any false bargains, he to be set on the pillory on the market day. Also, if there be any baker that will not bake after the as size he forfeit his bread and his body to the pillory et the Mayor's grace; and all other falsehoods in crafts the same. Also, if there be any chiders or scolds, they be put on the ducking stool, and let fall into the Chamber. And also, if we take a thief he shall be fla3ed and his eyes put out. And if there be any man that slayeth a no th er , h e s h a ll b e burst at Cattecliffe. An i d f a 'woman slay a man, she shall be tied to a stake at low water, and let the floods overflow her at Cattecliffe. tob * , r • 44 ,4 ,- its ;.—, • „53 • _ THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 15,1541 EVENING EDITION- THE IVIAIthIiTS.- 7 -(THIS DAY• CORN EXCHANGE. Last week's arrivals were moderate of most kinds of Eng grain, and tolerably good of Oats from Ireland. The fresh sup plies were small. Fine Wheat ls. per quarter dearer, $, 11 : 4 other sorts maintained their last value. Barley very dal"' sale, and distillers' parcels were lower. Beans and Peas Its last stated. Oats of good quality, 6d. to Is. per quarte r hi g her, and other sorts maintained their former rates with a slow sale. Flour unaltered. PRICES OR BO Wheat,Red (old) White (old) —s. --6. 545. 565. -- Fine 58s. 60s. -- Superfine 625. 655. White (184( , ) 563. COL - rine C2s. —4,uperfine 695. 72a. --- Foreign free 545.:0,. Ryr 38s. 403. Barley 28s. 375, Grinding —llialtiuo. 3:?s. 355., Malt .s(s. 60s, - Fine New 625. 635. Pease, Grey, New 'Ur. 38s. Maple New 40s. 425. White 345. 355. Boilers 375. 38s, ARRIVALS OF GRAIN IN LC Wheat. E English I 4,115 irs. Irish Foreign , ARD OF SFIP 453, Beans, Small (new)...., 43 , P ' s . (old)• 4 5 ---- Tick (new) ... 37 (old) ..... 445. - Harrow (new ), 40 , 4 15 . • (01d)....... 445. 40. ljrank Oats, Feed _ WS. ----- New ..... ........ - Poland .................. •-.' 3 . '''''' . New .......... e 53. 9.8 Potatoe ................ —.:P-_,!S. * 26 , .... -- Scotch .................. ' 27 '• 3" -.--- • Irish is, ... t d.2ls. Flour Towll (per sack 1.... 54- b l4l ' Seconds ............... 4.3,. 2". --.........- North Country.... 4S. 50 Bran 9 Ifs. )NDONDURINO LAST WEE K ' . 3arley. 1 Oats. , Flour ',524 qrs. 8,195 qrs. 6, 805 sstl3 , • 18,439 -......— 520 ; 1,10)Orli. SMITH FIELD. The supply of Cattle at Market was plentiful, and the e a " lity generally fine. The best mut with a brisk sale, but tits middling and .inferior quality went off slowly. Of sheep the supply wa, very middling, but the demand was by no we° brisk. Of Veal the supply was short, the demand good. Th,e supply of Pork was middling, the demand brisk. Beal 2,720 • Sheep. 18,060 ; Pigs, 319 ; Calves, 69. Beef, 3s. 4 • to 43. ' 6d. ; Mutton, 4s. 4d. to .ss. 6d. ; Veal, 53. to 6 9 .; Pork, 4s. to bs. TEA MARKET. The prices of this commodity were steady, but the market was without activity- It is believed that under any circura: stances the export of Tea will be very small. he price 01 Company's Congou was Is. 70. cash. TALLOW MARKET. on Prices steady, and a mederate business done. P• Y. 0 r the spot 465. a 465. 3d. per cwt. The deliveries•rather larAe_ than last year in the corresponding week, but we have still* great excess of stock, HOP MARKET. The market very dull, and prices unaltered. The holders 9, lasthow however, a g r r e ow l t o h ok r in e g ma f i o n r in a g r in eac t t h i e on ‘an a d n a d o t f h t e he few withheld from the market at present. POTATOE MARKET. cra ve The suply being large, and the demand dull, price s t way a littl e ; 3,800 tons have been 'received during the Pa: week. York Red, 905.; Scotch, 60s. to 755. ; Kent, E s ' e and Suffolk white, 70s. to 755. p l a ters a v parcels rt_ MONEY and COMMERCIAL NE The Lisbon mail has arrived, which sailed from Lisbon on the Bth of March. The i r i l io nt gence by the above conveyance states, that the hist a vu o b W rou E g L iit V .b E y th(flberia stCeaAreoleiri: due on the Ist inst., on account of the claims of th!„,,ith of Wellington, Lord Beresford, and others, was Pa 1 ..." t hat punctuality to the amount of 160 contos. It also app b a nk the Government had raised a loan of 500 contos for the Fe at on the mortgage of some banker of the revenue , Ord t he April, for the express purpose of meeting the payinee t t dividends on the foreign debt in London.—( This is me i „yrs come intelligence for the bondholders.) We refer our re for further particulars to another part of our paper. i n ging The Hamburg mail has arrived of the 9th March, ur- (;olci the papers of the same date, Exchange London 13 3i; 425, Metals, 1041, Bank Actions, 1610. e LIVERPOOL COTTON MARICIT, MARCH 13.-- C , l :i 4 us; tinues to be a good demand for cotton. The sales by amount to nearly 7,000 bales, 2,500 of which have Dr - o n• speculators. Prices are firm, and remain at yesterdays tations. A A „ LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, MARCH 13.—/. ry anSe derate business has been transacted at the Stock DI for this day. In prices no alteration. Present rates ar e " . B - 6i; Eastern Counties, Debentures, 4*; Great Western, o a ditto, New Shares, 60i ; ditto, 201. Shares, sh • Lond°; , e ,t- Bitrain g ham, Quarter Shares, 26 ; London and ' Sou th eni, 51. Shares, 16 ; Midland Counties, 771. the e t The steam-ship Colombia had not arrived up to . 1 , tose hour. She will, in all probability, be up by the next tide, for the three o'clock train. There 2 MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANSE, MARCH 10 , - -. us nothing particular to remark in the Share Market , t. .. , d ; s tere sales to-day are—Manchester and Birmingham, 24i j ; Vie Counties, Debentures, 4/. Is. 3d. ; Manchester and Liverll'iatik' trict Bank,. 111. and 101. 19s. ; Manchester and Salford 10/. 6s. 3d. ; London and Birmingham, 1661 ; London South Western, 5.5 i. dste' We have received the Antwerp P a pe rs o f yesterday.' in BOURSE OF AMSTERDAM, MARTH 12.—The atral. g es but national funds were very limited to-day, and the little varied. There prevails an incertitude among the spe rex: lators, owing to the getting-up of the funds in Lono ° ,: c ided• lyzed ' by the fall in Paris. The Bourse remained undf`aors• they are waiting for further intelligence on the event ° In the Foreign Funds there is nothing of consequen ce ' doin's Spanish remains at 21i ; Coupons, 21 3-16. THE FUNDS. The British funds opened this morning at the Fa re ' °l l . tions as they left off on Saturday, 881 to * for the A t. 1 , Money, 87 ,7 8 - to 88, with scarce anything doing a 5 Y e t ealo er speculators are waiting for the arrival of the Colombia 'hid, is from Halifax with the intelligence from New Yorkr 9 0 expected to be of some importance. Exchequer D ug ' prem. ; Bank Stock shut, India Stock also. es it l eft the Foreign Market Spanish Active not so g d, off on Saturday at 231 %, at present 23* 1. DeferredSlP Passive, 51 6 ; Portuguese same as they left off, ''''ves Three per Cents., 18i A- ; Brazilian, 71 72; Bu c ° siod' r 22 24 ; Colombian, 22* ; Danish, 77 78; Dutch • Half per Cents., 50* 1; Five p er C en t s . 99* 4. 74 10 1 111 SHARES.—Great Western, 22 '23 prem. ; London and Bright on , 7* 7 di s . ; Blaevl7l2l r die. ; Southampton, 66 56 pe r s h are ; Croydon, I ` 7 share. Nis PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT o ' . RAILWAYS. Paid. Per gbir e ' . , Eastern Counties Ditto Debentures 2 London and South Western 3B i • 564i .... . ° . .... . to Ditto Tenths . -.- North Midland ... PRICES OF IRISH. STOCKS, DUBLIN, RCI, *".• 3 per Cent. Consols Three and Half Stock 9s* Grand Canal Stock..... Ditto Reduced ...... Ditto Debs. 6 per c ell ".• Ditto New, 1830 3fr per Cent. Debs. HALF--PAST A tho se _ m e' We have very few arrivals to the present time, en d ''- eeived by ship letters are of an old date, consequently Par dull in the City. ' Consols at present are a shade lower than in the cat/;sioc4: of the morning, when they were 88* for the Aec cul b l e eo 8 1, which may be quoted at 881 ; Money, 874, have . pas with very little doing. Exchequer Bills, 10 9 11 r eel. f e Stock shut; kidia Bonds. 20 dis. O. In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active is also le`r:aiso 0, been 23*, at present 23; Deferred, 11% ; Portugues` te h To c u e so gocd as in the morning, 301 ; Danish, 774 ; . and-a-Half per Cents., 501; Five per Cents. lower, been 991. 5 6 : 1 ter." , In Shares scarcely anything doing. South we n the so d Ditto Fifths, 2i; flay North MidlF orei and, 70. This is settling ign Market, the br°.heir jobbers are chiefly employed in paying and re ceivinl e ;,. of + P i rious balances. Up to the present hour we do net 1, but ° mischief having occurre. A report prevails that the Colombia is off Live r p oo yet it requires confirmation. . QUARTER TO THREE 0' Ci cole obilb - ; Consols for Money, 874 ; Account, 881 ,30 224 1 ; Mexican, 271 a; Deferred, 9 1 ; 'Port u g uese 3 / 1 •• 1 0. Three per Cents., 1814 ; Spanish, 23 ; No intelligence of the arrival of the steamer fr cw CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. elii !India Stock.. Bank Stock 3 per Cent Red. 3 per Cent Cons B7/ 31 , per Cent fled.. .. . New 31 per Cent 961 New s,per Cent Ling *inuities to expire Jan. 1860 Oct. 1859 Jan. 1860. FOREIG] Austrian, 5 per cent.... Belgian, 5 per cent Brazilian 80nd5.... 7li Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent 21i Chilian 6 per cent Colombian, 6 per cent — Ditto, 1824. 221 Danish, 3 per cent.. 771 Greek, 18:45, 5 per cent. Mexican, 5 per cent. Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825 — Peruvian, 1825, 6 per et Ditto Bonds ......... ...• Ditto Old Annuities Ditto New Annuities..; 8 pnl Ex• Bills, I ,000/..21' 1 0 pto Ditto 500/.. ...... pta Ditto Small ....... •••••• Bank Stock for Org . •" India Stock for Acct•••• Consols for Acct. ......... FUNDS. •••-, Portuguese, 5 p er cent. soi Ditto, New Ditt o .•••••' Prussian, 5 per cet. ••• Russian, 5 per cent ...... Ditto, Atetallic.. ....... . Spanish, 5 per cent... ••• I• 2 Ditto, Deferred•••• •••Vi 95e. French, 5 per cent. Ji I ; ~c• Exchange... ......... French, 3 per c ent. 50 - 1 Dutch, 2i pe r cent 0 . *" )itto, 5 per cent ......... SHARES. Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid ••• ••••• Ditto Debentures ( 2 paid) .... • ..... "'' 97 Great Western Railway (65 paid) ...... ••• 61 Ditto New Shares (50 paid) ............... Ditto Fifth (4 paid) ....................... 4,24 London and Brighton (50 paid) .., ...... pd) 144 London and Birmingham Railway ( 9 ° P 56 Lc ndon and South Western .............. ••• Ditto Tenths .............................. Midland Counties Railway ( 100 yaid) ••"'' 141 Ditto Quarter Shares (16 pai ) ............ North Midland Railway (100 paid ) ...... '• THE SYRIAN EXPEDITI° ..,/ lee' The Frankfort Journal publishes_ complityiet7clore ter, addressed tr) tl:e Archduke F dearick by "Anl- mm ° a°A• Napier on the 27th September reressive of bill a G ott tion . at f the conduct of the officers and men °f ili f 1 gild" n n e e s r s arigate, and the position taken by his ItliPer'ae ice during the bombardment of Acre• theThetaall VL' cal contains a letter from Captain Berkeley, 0 „i alsoPAd• to the Prince, to the rr eff.ct ; an° Au' li.hes the following despatch, San was delivered N o to miral Sir R. Stopford to dvirrnitral Bandiera, rel'° the same events: ~ the " Marmorizza, 17th December.—ConformsblYd.a;irallt commands cf the Lords Commissioners of the A ,inec ro I have the honour to present you with their most , d on, d eo 're t re o a f nd Sy S r a ia id , thanks for the service rendered by the Austria° Eq u „, the uneer your order:, throughout all the expedi!ion f j e st: / an , c bs d e i t irs ity make known to you how much the Lords of the tool s a.andAtestphenciasallmyn at the taking of S t e il to appreciate the mantic: - in which his Imperial "_7cot°' the Archduke Frederick, and the officers under Ye_m_forpled mand, submitted themselves to the service, under Perform 111 the orders given them. Allow me to request 0f " 1 ,7 e e will communicate the sentiments ( f the Lords wodr miralty to his Impetial Highness the ArcbduKeit oor rick, as Kell as to the officers and crews of tr equadron. ~..~~ THET,UDI,' A IHE ATTEMPTED MURDER ..81' that the the 1 rincipal witness, —Misters, w ho will shortly take his trial for he art te bor Murder of Mr• Maeltreath, is likely to escape, "f, jo, Ludlow, is unfortunately an inmate of Gloucester A ) the ads Commander John Washington st4P c -. - o f the lute Captain Hewett in prosecution or the Sur v 'Y Mr. Cook " And hv~• North bee• Yes str i Di, Wa;