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LONDON: SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 1641. i1i.: 414 night the Earl OTABERDEEN, on present t, a . . brought the Constitution of the toion _petition, t i a 3 ' of Newfoundland under the notice of the ' e ". TI • tot e d' The House of Assembly was so consti liv.: Ile said, th a t it could discharge no legisla te' e' ' u nctions. It consisted of fifteen members, W as f whom was a servant. Such an Assembly 1, 4 d. a burlesque and a burden. The Governor Dr e ,q a urrelled with it, and had stigmatisedth e Tl l : ee dings of the Assembly by a proclamation. i 4 i,P r aYer of the petition was for a reform--not f t ee ,: e Liberal sense—of the present system o te(lii'esentation and for protection to the voters. r r a enders know that religious discord, fos tit t b' b y the polemics of England, has takenhold Ilai, -e "leny, and an immense number of corn . 1: 1 . 1 ; 4 ts are made, because the Catholics are most Il er °us and most influential. l'er, le Marquis of NORMANDY said that the Go ks - °r had called the attention of the House of 4et s h eill o b lY to the state of the representation, and 11• 51 e Session was not yet ended, it would not be I v ) a s i l. ,_, l 'jr Parliament to interfere. The petition 1: 11 1 ," 1 on the table. ti te !"'_Lordships then renewed their investiga ee , into the piefeon-holes of the Irish Poor-law Iti il le , lll , i ssioners, and were engaged in it till a few to Af e s before eight o'clock, when they adjourned 8 . () ay. 1 1 ) 5 3T ok ir ti 9 1 : 011 GE CLERg, in the Commons, rather , CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER aback to t 4 l ing him whether, as there was deficiency taak. le Navy supplies of 400,0001., he meant to • i-Oh e ,,,! ln Y provision to meet it ? The CHANCEL- Wtl," the EXCHEQUER, not having had notice Ito i" question, was unprepared to answer, and j r n' ll nation was elicited. 1 .'55 ni a l * Committee on the Australian Act, t 0 ; 0 % 4 ' was voted out of the Consolidated Fund sir the distress in Australia. Ne e r , W ist• MOLFSWOUTH wished to vote a. sup -0,;elltal sum, but his wishes were not gratified. till tee t he motion for the House to go into Com kii e ° l l the Poor-law Commission Continu e t ill, , r. iii c° ti i ,, n I ILEY moved that it be an instruction tWo - ' °ll rnittee that the Bill be divided into h, is h Par ts• The Hon. Member in the course of ti ti s ,'" e eell made a severe attack on the Reformed Ivhi eh e of Commons for h a ving passed the law, 11 4%, -- d h e dechxred no former Parliament would l atv e ~e. Of , - ;ourse he did not spare the Poor tor-d tile Commissioners. II ; °Yed! ° RN RUSSELL seemed to be much and `lt Pere - "Y Air. WARLEY'S speech, and indulge ti saai °ll a l allusions in a mariner quite un 110e t ur the Noble Lord. In r:TIY to the t ° l 'l4 ° A til i a , h le Member's observations on the Re goteen'l) Lord J. RUSSELL alluded to the ar- qii s i n :s that had been used against ei.-fran they the metropolitan districts, such as that N.ll 3. " 1 d return to Parliament only clem.a „es ,„, 11. 11 0 f , w ho should never enter the House, men 4 th' e T z . l th ey presided in any Court, would Make , t6 ir 0 - , r v en a of political discussions, or turn it to u ride rst 4 Party or personal purposes. The House j-ord ;" °(1 the allusions, and cheered the Noble 4 :4 i t : i er Y loudly. We cannot think, however, 41 eteb' s any merit to gratify the love of Hon. I bl e ( -; rs for personal satire, and probably the IGo tierl erd will find that he has provoked an op -4r.Z10 knows how to revenge himself. Vi siou. Tv AXI LY did not press his motion to a di sh, Tow n k)/ rI,.*t . : ICL V , Y PARKER next moved that the .14 st Il i 1 „ -e , e , be put off for Six months. On this t 'elo ek °- the House debated till nearly eleven th e , when it was decided by 251 to 47, that toe c ourse should then go into a Committee. In 4 - 'Oll / -, li, Of the second debate, Mr. WARLEY ' opportunity to retort on Lord J. Taus " ...-,. • ~•-• 4 Ik A ' 6Z 1 41 * .0 lt - ia ' : ' : ji ',Ai , A _ . 1 2 4.' ) \'''.l... ' it' .. • : . .''zil i r - .._ - - '--' a r '%4 , ail - .Z '' 147 4 4 -' , ----,, , . ores:Re - -s , 1 . „11..., - ET m ON •' ~,,, o % , • • •• ***'---1-.o Z l Zrs . ...44;•' ''' .'" • Ui SELL, and, though the audience might not be so I ready to laugh with the Hon. Member, the people out of d , ) )r.3 will think that he paid the Noble Lord in his own coin. The House was employed during the re mainder of the evening in Committee, discussing the clauses of the Bill. It adjourned at Half past Twelve o'Clock. The debate on Mr. EASTHOPE'S motion rela- five to Mr. BAJENES has given rise to a discus- sion on a far more important subject than Church-rates—the moral duty of obedience to law. Lord J. RUSSELL described Mr. BAINES'S conduct, in setting up his own convictions in op position to the law, " as a crime against society." Sir ROBERT PEEL also contended for the prin ciple that " the law must be obeyed." If it were wrong, he said, in substance, it should be al tered, but as long as it was law, without any re ference to what it enacted, obedience must be enforced. The same doctrine is maintained in the public prints, in which it is said " that the law is every individual's superior," and that con science must not be asked a question, for it has no other duty but submission—an excellent doc trine for Turkey, Persia, or China, but which no Englishman can on reflection assent to. Whe ther these doctrines be correct or not, they touch our dearest interests too nearly not to make it desirable to attain a thorough conviction of their truth or falsehood. To have clear moral concep- tions and to be perfectly sure of what is our duty, is essential happiness and rectitude. We shall, therefore, without hesitation, submit this dogma of the Parliament and the Press to exa- urination. It is said to be a crime not to obey the law. Have those who make the assertion considered what the law is? It is nothing more than the declaration of the will of some individuals, and how can it be, per se, a crime in other indivi- duals not to obey their will. In the debate, Dr. NICHOLL contended that the particular law to which obedience was required was the common law, not the statute law. But the common law consists of doubtful decisions of some Judges, in terpreted or misinterpreted by others, applied or misapplied as suits the particular views and fancies of living Judges, and such decisions, apart from their own merits, be they what they may, can carry no obligation for this generation to obey them. Nothing is more natural than that those who make, and those who administer the laws, should insist on the virtue of obedience. They are judges in their own cause. They are not impar tial, and their declaration, unenforced by the fact that the law itself is worthy of obedience, that the actions it prescribes ought to be done though it prescribed them not, cannot supply a reflecting and conscientious man with a convic tion that it is a crime not to do as they tell him. It was admitted by all parties in the debate, that if the law were wrong it ought to be altered ; but it was insisted that, till it were altered, it ought to be obeyed. Suppose, however, instead of takinis , a few pence out of men's pockets it commanded them to strangle their offspring, or murder the aged. Would it, or could it, then be said that men ought to obey the law, till it pleased the tyrants who enacted it to repeal it ? We answer, no ; and consequently it is only when the law is of itself good, and commands what is right, that it ought to be obeyed. As to who is to decide what is right, we have confidence in human nature, and leave it to the decision of each individual. Those who will not so leave it, insist on some one or a few—themselves, or their patrons—deciding for all. We have not yet seen the man who was endowed from Heaven with any such patent, and therefore we say the decision of what is right, and what is to be obeyed, must be left to each individual. We will take an existing case to test this prin ciple. The Corn-laws are, in our estimation, and in the estimation of thousands, a flagrant ini quity. They actually put to death infants and the aged, they starve the weakly and the needy out of existence : ought such a law to be obeyed? We have no hesitation in answering—No. There is a difficulty, we admit, in disobeying it. Those who suffer from it have neither means to escape from it, nor to evade its enactments. The ship owners, who could oppose it, have only a slight pecuniary interest in opposing it ; they do not re flect on its consequences, and they will not subject themselves to difficulties, when their gains might well render their conduct liable to misconstrue- tion. While we see and admit the physical diffi culty in the way of resisting such a law, we nevertheless say it ought to be resisted, like a law for slaughtering innocents. • Those who make the assertion that we ought to obey the law, whatever it may ordain, con found, we apprehend, two essentially different things,—the duty of obedience and the prudence of obedience. The law being backed by the physical force of society, for an individual or two individuals to resist it is running their heads against a wall. Prudence tells them to put up with the lesser evil of being plundered. But as the law is a mere empty declaration of a Judge, or a piece of parchment with crooked marks on it, unless it be enforced by society, the duty of obeying implies the duty of enforcing it. Though not prudent for a few individuals to resist it, the multitude may with propriety say, it is not their duty to obey, and they will not enforce it. To justify Mr. BAINES, then, all the Dissenters ought to follow his example. Till they do so, they enforce the law against him and against themselves. They are inconsistent. They complain of the exaction which they assist in levying. To give dignity and effect to resistance, it should be general. The bulk of the Dissenters should prefer going to gaol, if the remainder of the community would send them to gaol, to paying an impost which they denounce as ini quitous. There is no difficulty in the way of re sisting th'e Church-rate law enforced by Ecclesi astical Courts, as there is in resisting the Corn law; and the Dissenters must blame only them selves if they enforce against themselves the law by which they are continually plundered. It might be supposed that those who maintain this doctrine, that laws, however iniquitous, ought to be obeyed, acknowledged no other ruling power than the law, and no superior to the law-maker. The reverse is the case. They not only acknowledge a superior power—they pretend that from it they derive all their rights and power. They not only so pretend, but they actually pay an army of priests to preach to the people that the superior power commands them to obey the laws which the inferior power makes. At any rate, the inferior power never would pay those priests who teach a different doctrine. There is here, we think, a remarkable con tradiction. The law-makers tell us there is a power superior to them and to us, which they, as well as we, are bound, above all things, to obey. As long as the commands of the two run together, all goes well, but when, as in the case of the Dis senters, men say the ALMIGHTY commands them not to obey the human lawgiver, then the latter, who had before imposed on them obdience to the ALMIGHTY, turns round and tells them they must not obey Him, they must obey only the law giver. At the same time he acknowledges that the laws, which he insists shall be obeyed, are wrong, and ought to be repealed. There is, in our judgment, a terrible and even revolting in consistency in such conduct. Moreover, it shows that politicians prostitute the name of the DEITY to their own purposes, and deny His authority when it crosses their schemes. Mr. HUME, on Thursday night, observed cor rectly, that by the Cabinet proposing to put an end to the Church-rates in 1838, the Ministers, and the House of Commons who supported them, admitted that the Church-rate law was a bad law. When Lord STANLEY proposed to re lieve the Irish from the Vestry-cess, equi valent to our Church-rates, he denounced it as a perpetual blister. Every one admits that the Church-rates are a source of strife in almost every parish. The best friends of the Church have said they inflict a heavy blow on the Esta blishment. According, however, to the Tory Journals, to Sir ROBERT PEEL, and to Lord JOHN RUSSELL, it is the duty of all men to submit to this mischievous law. Common sense repudiates the conclusion, to which nothing gives the least countenance but the misplaced conviction of the lawgivers, the result of their overweening vanity, that society is held together by their enactments, however unwise and unjust. Now that the question of obedience has been THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, M mooted by statesmen, they cannot expect that it will not be discussed by e people. They are no longer allowed to have ad reasoning to them selves. The game which they start will be hunted down by others. The doctrines put forth in the House of Commons will not fall on barren ground when they reach the minds of the Dissen ters. We are much mistaken in that class of men if they do not, one and all, prefer obedience to their conscience to obedience to law. Amongst them are to be found some of the most upright and most sturdy of our citizens. Mr. BAINES has been followed to his gaol by thousands, and hundreds and thousands in every part of the country will probably feel it their duty to follow his example. When they reflect that the law has no power but what men give it—that if they did not enforce it, the Church party would have neither the means nor the will to enforce it— they will feel it to be their duty to declare that they will not enforce and will not obey a law which takes money out of their pockets against their will, for the support of a form of worship which they consider false, idolatrous, and lead ing to immorality. If this be correct, the Mem bers of the House of Commons who have refused to agree to the resolution proposed by Mr. EAST 110PE, will find that they have brought into ques tion and peril interests which they value far above the Church and Church-rates. We are by no means sorry to see the Post re turning to the controversy on free trade, and that it has found a Correspondent to aid it in opposing The Sun. To deal first with the letter-writer, we must beg to treat as a misrepresentation his assertion that we looked to any rapid improe ment in the public knowledge of the properties of matter to keep up the rental of the country were the Corn-laws abolished. No doubt some increase of knowledge would accrue ; but the in crease of a town population would be the main element for enhancing in future, as it has en hanced in past times, the rental of land. We are not displeased to receive from the letter-writer the title of the " Labourers' Representative," for undoubtedly they constitute the great majority of the nation, and in supporting them we support the most numerous party. That the currency is not what it should be we admit, but the regula- tions of that are of a nature not so much to in- terest the public as the gross and manifest in- justice of ihe Corn-laws. We prefer, therefore, dealing with the latter subject, at the same time we are not averse, on seasonable occasions, from discussing the currency question, and we have stated more than once that we are for a perfectly free trade in money as well as in corn. When the abolition of the landlord's tax is accomplished, we shall exert ourselves to get rid of the Mint lie about gold and silver, and the Bank of England fraud, as well as some other nonsensical or roguish enactments; and then we shall be happy to receive the aid of the Post and its Correspondent. In the meantime, consider . ing that the abolition of the Bread-tax is of the most importance, we shall diNect our best exer tions to attain that object. So much for the letter-writer in the Post ; now we turn to the Editor's leader. He begins by ex pressing surprise at the one-sided view taken by writers in favour of free trade, and before he completes his paragraph he defines free trade to. be " the unrestricted right to employ foreign labour instead of British." Can any view be more one-sided? Surely it is also the right to employ the labour of , British seamen in bringing home corn from the United States and from Prussia, and in carrying out cotton cloth and produce to exchange for it, which is now prohi bited, except under most disadvantageous terms. Surely also, free trade is the right to employ, which is now not allowed, the weavers of Carlis!e and the cutlers of Sheffield in pro vidinc the cloth and cutlery which could be ex chang:d for the food of Prussia and the United Stater. The one-sidedness belongs at least as much to the Post as to the advocates of free trade. The Post assumes that labour is cheaper in the countries with which the abolition of the Corn laws would allow our capitalists to trade. The assumption is an error. One of those countries is the United States, into which labour, because it is more in demand and better paid than here, is continually, lowing. From all the other countries in question, Russia, Prussia, and Belgium, few or no labourers come to England. We find a few German tailors and French or Swiss confection ers, with a few sugar-bakers, come here, but at present English artizans go abroad, showing that labour—their labour, at least—is dearer and bet ter paid abroad than here. With Ireland at our doors, where wages are not above 4d. or 6d. a day—with the Irish coming over to England by shoals, and with wages in every part of the coun try at the very lowest point at which a half-fed, half-clothed, half-warmed existence can be sup ported, to talk of labour being cheaper in any other part of the Continent of Europe, particu larly considering the skill and industry of our labourers, betrays either great ignorance or a mocking spirit which we do not find in the wri- tings of the Post. If we are not misinformed, some of the evi dence given before the Committee which is sit ting to inquire into the exportation of machinery, will throw light on this question, and will prove that the artizans of England would not go abroad if the Corn-laws were repealed, but they go now because they find their labour better re warded abroad than at home, and more in de mand. In fact, if we are to consider labour performed within the political jurisdiction of fo reign countries as foreign labour, and labour performed within the jurisdiction of our autho rities as home labour, and if the repeal of the Corn-laws would keep our artizans at home by finding employment for them here, it follows that restriction on trade, including the Corn-laws, diminish employment at home, whether they do or do not encourage employment abroad. That disposes, we think, of the objection of the Post, that " free trade," or in other words, the unrestricted right to employ foreign labour instead of British, is an injury to that great mass of our population who have nothing but their power of labouring for others to depend upon. But we will add that the chief want of the la bourers is food, and the chief capital by which the capitalists can obtain their services is food. In'proportion, therefore, as food is augmented, in proportion as the sources of its supplies are in creased, just so does the competition amongst ca pitalists to have the services of labourers, which services are indispensable to their profit, increase; and just so does employment extend and. wages rise. The Past wouti confine us to one source for a sup ply of food, would limit the quantity, and both limit the power of the capitalists to employ labour and limit their competition against one another to obtain labour, for the benevolent purpose of improving the condition of the la bourer. We arc unwilling, though at the expense of being tedious, to allow any apparent fallacy to escape notice and refutation. We must, there fore, observe that the Post implies that land, as well as labour, is cheaper in foreign countries than in England. If it be, whence does it arise ? Our population is undoubtedly, with the excep tion, perhaps, of some of the small States of Italy, of Wirtemberg, and Holland, the most dense of Europe ; but it has the 'lre-eminent ad vantage of being surrounded by the sea, which opens to our people an easy access to all other countries. As we have before observed, the fertile plains of the Mississippi are, for practical purposes, as near to Liverpool as they are to Boston. The in habitants of Cork or Lancashire can transport themselves thither, or bring food from thence, at as little cost nearly as the inhabitants of Massa chusetts. The cause of land being much dearer in Eng land than in the United States, to say nothing of Germany, which has not our command of the great highway of nations, is mainly that law which prevents the produce of the vast plains of the Mississippi from being freely imported into England, and of course prevents some portion of the crowded and suffering population of E ng _ land from transporting. themselves thither to cultivate those plains in order to feed their countrymen who would remain here to prepare them instruments and c'othing. We say nothing of the monopoly of the soil in England, because, with a perfectly free trade, the vast reg i ons o f the United States being open to our pe o pl e , that monopoly would be of no more importance than an individual having exclusive possession of a cabbage garden at Battersea, while all the rest of England was open to be appropriated and used by the first corner. We hold the assumption of the Post, that land and labbur are cheaper in other coun tries than in England, and all the arguments and fears which grow from it, to be no farther true than that the people are limited by the law, not by nature, to that small portion of the earth which is owned by the English aristo cracy, the law-makers, to obtain the food on which we all live. Our Contemporary seems to admit that our re ference in a former number to the rnanufactur idg towns, where the capitalist would employ more hands if the corn and other fiseel laws were repealed, is so far an answer to his former statements; but he says the competition with the labour of towns is not what he dreads : It is not the competition of the manufacturing but of the agricultural labourer that we have in the first instance to apprehend, and therefore we should look for the evil re sults in Kent, and Essex, and Sussex, and Suffolk, and Surrey. It is the labourers in these and similar districts (4 our country that we are anxious to preserve from the competi tion of foreign labour. Our Contemporary does not suppose that the peasants of Hungary would flock over to Eng land to compete in the cultivation of our soil with our labourers; he fears that the influx of their produce would enable our manufacturers to feed themselves without the help of our agricul tural labourers. The wheat brought a thousand miles would make men dispense with wheat grown on the spot ! What an idle fear. Has our Contemporary any idea of cultivation? It cannot be extended at will, as a clever writer like the Editor of the Post can fill his columns. Wheat cannot be spun from the brains of man. The most fertile country ever yet discovered yielded only forest trees or a few wild fruits till it was tilled by man's labour. Wheat is the produce of much labour and skill. To procure it instruments must be made, animals must be reared, the ground must be cleared and ploughed ; and after all these la bours, it requires from six to eleven months, sub sequent to the wheat being sown, to come to perfec tion. It would be at least nineteen months from the time of abolishing our Corn-laws before any great increase of the supply of food could be obtained. At present we have a multitude of people in towns only half fed, who would be immediately emplayed and fed better were those laws repealed. The demand for food would increase instantly, while the supply could not be immediately in creased. That demand would undoubtedly stimu late the exertions of the agriculturist in distant Poland and Hungary; but why should it not have the same effect on the agriculturists of England ? The value of what the manufacturers produce gives value to agricultural produce, and the more our manufacturing produce is increased, the greater will be the value and the greater the de mand for agricultural produce, including that of England. There would be no diminution what ever of employment in Kent by increasing em ployment in Lancashire. The Post does the agriculturists of England a great injustice when it supposes that they do not possess advantages in the production of corn similar to those which our people have over other countries in the production of manufac tures. They do. They are skilful as aericul turists, have excellent machinery and imple ments, and powerful cattle. Except the Bel gians, from whom we cannot get food, as they consume all they produce, our agriculturists are the most skilful in the world. They have more advantages in producing corn than the serfs of Hungary or the boors of Russia; and on the ad mission of the Post, that it would not ask for Corn-laws if our people had these advantages, we ask it to become a Corn-law repealer. The Post is apprehensive that the repeal of the Corn-laws would injure the home market for our manufactures, but it does not explain how. The people would have more food, there would be more of them, and they woull want more clothing and more instruments. There is no reason suppose that a grain of corn less would be grown in the country, or a head of cattle less fattened to supply a greater number of people; but the corn and the cattle of the acrriculturists constitute the real market for the manufacturers' produce, and that market would be extended just in proportion as the supply of food was increased. We can assure the Post, henceforth a brother repealer, that the home market for our manufactures would be much in creased by the abolition of the Corn-law. We are described as labouring under a delu sion when we stated that " one labourer is, by his produce, the market for another." Yet the Post admits the truth of the statement if the labourer be employed, but it fears an ac cumulation of unemployed labourers from allow ing the capitalists of the manufacturing districts to employ more labourers. Another most groundless fear! It is quite " enough in our complicated state of society that we have people who are capable of supplying each other's wants," if the Legislature does not interfere to prevent them; while the Post's supposition that " Government must supply the means and the inducements, restrictions here, encouragements there," is contradicted by all experience. The interference of Government with trade has been so often proved to be noxious, that the person who now advocates it must be destitute of the most elementary knowledge of the science of production. By what patent right can the Le gislature tell how the different classes of indus trious men can obtain the greatest rewards for their labour ? If it know not that, why should it restrict some, and encourage others ? Facility of production depends on division of labour—and division of labour depends on the number of the people—for where there is only one person, he must do everything for himself. Now, the number of people depends on the quan tity of food; and the Government, not being a producer of food, every interference by it takes something from the producer, and appropriates that to non-production which he would devote to re-production. Every inter ference, consequently, of Government with trade, lessens the quantity of food in the world, lessens the number of people, lessens the facility of pro duction, and decreases the amount of wealth and the sum of human happiness. We have made more observations than we in tended. We have written a very long article in reply to two short ones ; but we have the cause at heart, and thought it due to our Contemporary not to leave any of his objections, so far as we un derstand them, unnoticed and unrefuted. If we can gain over or silence the Post we shall de prive our opponents of an honest, if not a skilful, advocate. We have received Madrid Papers of the 10tii instant. Repo rts had been ci rculated that the would prorogue the Cort es , w hi c h b e wholly without fo un d at i on . Es proveßege to Regency `would who had been indisposed, had so far recovered as to attend a Cabinet Council on the 10th. According to the Cast&llano, Senor GONZALES, WllO IS now in London, is engaged in the negotiation of a new loan. Our merchants ought by this time to have had enough to do with Spanish 'cans. t 28 Joint-stock Co m p anies have been formed for working the min es in Murci a and Andalusia. On the Bourse t he Five per Cent s. closed on the 10 that 27 for cas h,and a 11-10th s a t 60 days. The Presse an d the Commerce are t h e on l y French Journals of Wednes day that support emocracy of Paris. Th e i r BB Bill o . n A A l l l o t u h rr e 1 Eil: s Report on the F or tifi cat i ons other Papers abuse it. They are imaginary in va si ons mad for walls. T here is no lon g er any use in telling them that t he walls will b e the tomb of fm t it h i ii e dca ß i ebs e i v e o ao l rn u el t y i s o ot n o o t f he July — that they w ill be heatedfor d with that they think of nothing, and w ill h ear o f nothing, but how to hide themselves from the phantom legions of the Four Powers. This mania is so genera l, that there is no r esisting the policy which it pro m p ts. This was fra nkly stated by M. MOUNIER, who observed that, a l t h oug h lie individually thought the walls useless, yet as public opinion was so strongly in favour of them, he consented to their erection, on the conditions which we yesterday quoted from his Report. The great misfortune, too, is, that the popular delusion about the walls is not like any other act of popular folly which terminates with a return to common sense. The miserable legacy which it will bequeath to France will be a lasting one. It will be nothing less than to restore to France that despotism which it cost her two Revolu- tions, and the Wood of a million of her subjects, to shake off. But to avert such a calamity to a great and gallant nation by sober argument is no longer possible. It is remarkable that while only three of the nine Committees of the Chamber of Deputies voted on Tuesdayin favourof M. MAUGUIN'S pro position for excluding public functionaries from the Chamber, an absolute majority of 20 votes on a division of 310 Members were given in favour of it. All the Ministers opposed it, and of course all those whose seats were threatened by it, and yet there was a majority of 20 votes in its fa vour ! As this proposition will now be the sub ject of an animated debate in the Chamber of Deputies, we quote it for the information of our Parliamentary Reformers at home : " There is an incompatibility between the duties of a de puty and those of a prefect, sub-prefect, receiver-general, or receiver of taxes, general officers and commanders of the land or sea forces on active service, Magistrates pe-forming the duties of public officers in the Royal Courts, and chiefs of di vision in the public offices. " No public functionary ought to be eligible for the depart ment in which he exercises his functions. Ministers, Under Secretaries of State, and Councillors of State are to be ex cepted from this rule. " If the abovenamed functionaries should by resignation or otherwise become eligible, they cannot be elected for at least six months from the date of their resignation." We stated yesterday that this attempt to reform the representation was supported.by M. TRIERS. It was only conditionally so. M. TRIERS is for keeping in the Chamber that class of function aries who always support the Court, and to ex clude those with whom the Government must compound, in the shape of local roads and bridges, for a constant vote. The following ex- tract from his speech explains this very clearly : "It always appeared to me to be necessary to diminish the number of functionaries in the Chamber. I woull not go further than to diminish them, for the presence in the Cham ber of the higher order of functionaries is indispensable. Ministers, Ambassadors, Generals, Councillors of State, Judges, musthave seats. Their experience is necessary for the Cham ber. In general lam not inclined to accuse functionaries of dependence; there are almost as many in the Opposition as in the majority who sustain Government; but they torment the Administtatson with their small ambition; they are, especially for their district, the most importunate solicitors, and the most to be dreaded by Ministers. 'Their number hi e:eases every day, and, if care be not taken, the course of events will bring to the Chamber such q number, that., instead making two-fifths of the Chamber, there will soon be three, and, perhaps, four-fifths of it composed of functionaries. It is to this tendency that a stop must be put, and I would do this by excluding more functionaries. Mete is in this nothing which affects the honour of functionaries. The law has already ex , eluded a certain number, and assuredly the most considerable, since the prefects are of this number ; they are not insulted, and why shots d others ?" Other news of interest there is none in the French Journals, save what is given in the sub joined. extracts. FINANCE.—The Commerce publishes a circular letter ad dressed, on the 25th ult., by the Minister of Finance: to all the Prefects, enjoining them to cause exact returns to be drawn up of all the taxable buildings, windows and doors, and of all per sons subject to the personal tax, or to the payment for licenses, comprised within their respective departments. The motive assigned by the Minister for recommending that measure was " that the receipts being no longer adequate to the ordinary expenditure, it was indispensable to devise means for obtaining from the existing taxes the lull amount of what the Govern ment had a right to expect under the present laws of finance." WAR PREPARATIONS.—The Journal de St. Etienne of the the 14th inst. state that the greatest activity prevailed at the manufactory of firearms at St. Etienne. The Alini,ter of War sent an order in the latter end of February to have 50,000 muskets finished within seven weeks and 1,500 muskets with percussion locks were Lrwarded to Toulon on the 12th for the use of the army in Africa. A considerable number of carbines were forwarded at the same time to Vincennes, and " an idea may be farmed," continues this journal, "of the works that are in progress in the Royal manufactory when it is known that the workmen's wages amount to 50,000 f. (2,000/. British) per week.' ----- We have received the Moniteur Algerien of the Bth of March. A resolution of the Governor-General, dated the 6th, orders that henceforth no isolated submission of Arabs, or of Limlies of Arabs, whether they have or have not belonged to the tribes of the Sahel or the Metidja, shall be received in the pro vince of Algiers. None but the Chiets shall be admitted to treat fur the submision of their tribes. The Arabs who have yet been admitted to make their sub mission shall be arrested and placed at the disposal of the mili tary authurities to be employed on public works. The Governor-General set out on the 7th to visit Bona and the province (f Constantine. He is accompanied by General de Tarle and General Berthois. During the absence of the Governor-General, Major-General Baregnay di Ilitbei s, will take the command of• all the troop! , in the proviso-efAigiers and Titteny. • • Letters from Oran received at Algiers on the Bth say, that 250 of Abd-el-Kader's red horse had shown themselves before Mostaganem. The Commandant sallied out with 500, and caused this body of cavalry to be charged by 80 Chasseurs, Spahis, and Dollars. The charge, led by Captain Walsen Es terhazy, was completely successful. The Lieutenant of the Bed Horse was killed, and their Captain taken prisoner, and conducted to General Lamoriciere.—Le Constitutionnei. The truth begins to appear concerning the affairs of Buenos Ayres. It seems from the latest information in private letters, that there have been twe engagements between the troops of Lavalle and those of Rosas ; that in the first Lavalle, or rather a detachment of his army, was beaten, but that in the second, on the 28th of November, Lavalle took Lis revenge, put Otibe to flight, and recaptured Garzon, Granada, and other chiefs. Such is the mostprobable account; it will explain why Rosashas not celebrated his pretended victory in his official Journal, and why he surrounds Buenos Ayres with ditches. Terror stillreigns at Buenos Ayres new cruelties of Rosas are stated to us, and at the same time a Number of the official Gazette of Bvenos Ayres, is sent to us, published four days after the convention of the 29th October, and containing a list of forty persons deprived of their property without any form of trial, only that they are designated as savage Unitariaro. This list is that of only one number of the official Journal ; we shall doubtless learn successively the names of other victims. '1 he emigrations from Buenos Ayres, in one month after the Convention of the 29th Oct., were 400. On the 30th Nov., , one corvette, the Cornille, brought away' 24 emigrants, and a Sardinian merchant-man 80.—Le Commerce. 130 URSE.- PARIS, SWESDNESDA I', MARCH 17. First Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Pricy. Price Fre.;eh 5 per Cents 4 per Cents 9B ... 98 ... 98 ... fli 3 per cent: 76 90 77 15 ... 76 00 ... '77 3401. oi trance L tlitte :tank 1.6001. 86 lok.o ...1060 ...WO —lO6O 5000 f. Blares 5160 ...5160 ...5160 ...5160 41gian Rank 5 ?er Cent. 3 per Cent, tW 60 ... 60 60 ... 69 60 ... 19 60 New Loan lO2 ... 1 2 ... 101% ... 101.% ipanish Active 2 4 14 ... 24% ... 24% ... 2 14 Passive 5% ... 5% ... 51.... ... t % Nespolil 111 Roman lO2 ... 102 ... 1(2 ... 102 PAILWAY SHAKES. Versaziles,ll. B 302 50 ... 302 50 ... 392 50 ... 392 50 L.B 3 ,4 50 ... 307 50 ... 307 50 ... VI 50 Rouen Ofleilll3 . . itr3shurg to Bale Montpellier to Cette 207 50 ... 207 505 ••• 0; ... 205 COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and niece Albert walked in the gardens of Buckingham Palace yesterday forenoon. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent attended by Lady Fanny Howard, visited the Queen yesterday, at Buckingham Palace, and remained to lunch with her Majesty and Prince Albert. Viscount Melbourne had an audience yesterday of her Majesty. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by the Hon. Miss Pitt, Hon. Miss Devercux, Viscount Torrington, Major the Hon. George Keppel, Lord Alfred Paget, and Sir Edward Bowater, honoured the performance of .4 Fiddly," at Drury-lane Theatre with their presence last evening. Her Majesty inspected on Wednesday the Frontispiece and Title for the " History of the Orders of Knighthood of the British Empire," by Sir Harris Nicolas, G. C. M. G., which were submitted by Mr. Hunter. The subject of the Frontispiece is her Majesty in the Robes of the Order of the Garter, the Banners of the several Orders, and the Arms of the &v.:T(lc ' m Founders, the whole being printed in Oil Colours on the new principle. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester visited her Majesty the Queen Dowagir yesterday, at Marlbo rough House. The Duke of Cambridge had a select party to Dinner yesterday, at 1 is residence, Cambridge House. The Duke of Cambridge honoured the performance of the GLrman Opera, at Drury-lane theatre., with his pre sence on Thursday evening. Sir Bruce Chichester had an interview with the Mar quis of Normanby yesterday at the Home-office. A deputation, including Messrs. G.reig, Wheler, and Mark Pi- i lips, bad an interview with Mr. Sheil y esterday at the 011ie.: of the Board of Trade. _ _ _ •aa, Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governor of the Bahamas. His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex was much better last evening, and we are happy to say his Royal Highness is nearly recovered from bis indisposi tion. His Royal Highness, if convalescent, will receive a distinguished party to dinner on Sunday, at Kensington Palacc. _ _ The Countess of Minto issues cards next week fJr a series of parties after Easter. The Duke of Bedford has left Oakley Park, Beds, for Burghley House, near Stamford, on a visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter, who are enter taining a select circle at that splendid seat. Earl and Countess Grey leave Howick Hall, Northumberldnd, next week, for town, accompanied by Lady Georgiana Grey. The writ for the election of a Representative Peer of Ireland, in the place of the late Earl of Rosse, was issued on Monday last. We are authorised to contradict the report of an intended marriage between the Hon. Miss Littleton and Lord Crewe, for which we understand there has never been any foundation. MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE,--MkS Fanny Stanhope, daughter of the Hon. Sir Franc z 'rid Lady Stanhope, was married, on Tuesday, by sec al . hcence, to Colony Hughes, C. 8., brother of Lord Dinorben, at Lord Dinorben's, North Wales. - - - _ • • • ARCH 20, IP4I MORN ING -EDITION. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, FRIDAY EVENING. The Funds were in a dull state all the day, but there was no material alteration in prices. On the whole, per haps, the account price may be said not to have been quite supported. Consols for immediate transfer have been marked 885 to 884, and for the Account 881 to 881. Ex chequer Bills have been dull at 6s. to Bs. prem. ; the New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. have realized 97 to 964; the South Sea New Annuities have been done at 86i ; and India Stock for the opening has touched 2481. The favourable accounts from Mexico sent up the price of the Stock of that republic, from 281 to 314. These, however, were the account prices, the money bargains being, effected at 30 to 304. Colombian Bonds of 1824 were reduced from 224 to 214 and -22, but this was owing to the unsatisfactory intelligence that has reached the Committee of South American bondholders from New Granada. Brazil Stock was worth 711, being a slight improvement ; Chilian touched 63, and Peruvian remained at 164; Russian Bonds were worth 111 to ; and Dutch Five per Cents. were steady at 991. In tne Peninsula Stocks there was scarcely any business done. Portu guese New Five per Cents. were dull at 31 ; the Three per Cents. at 181; and Spanish Actives at 235. There was a good business done in the Railway Shares, and at fully previous rater. The Loncon and Birmingham Railway Shares were done at 64 to 63 prem. ex. New, the Quarter at 17 to 161, the New at 22, the iVlieland Counties, Quarter Shares, at 41 to 4, the York and North Midland at 30, the Great We tern at 251 to 24, the New at 12 to 11, the Fifths at 5,1 to 4, and the South West ern Tenths at 5 prem. Brighton Shares were at 64, Black well at 54, South Eastern at 16, Midland Counties at 22, Birmingham and Derby at 31 to 30, and the Third Shares at 2to 1 discount, Australasian Bank Shares were at 14 premium. The Foreign Exchanges were rather firmer this after noon. Three months paper was negociated as follows : Paris, 26f. 60c. to 65e. ; Frankfort, 1494; Hamburgb, 13 84 ; Ams'erdam,-12 31; Antwerp, 12 24 to 3 ; Trieste, 10 11 to 10 2. (From The Sun of Last Night.) LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, ktacn 18. —The demand for Cotton to-day has been wholly confined to the trade. The sales do not exceed 2,500 bales, principally of American descrip tions. Prices are entirely without change. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, MARCH 18.—The following are the transactions reported at the Stock Exchange this day:— Grand Junction, Half Shares, 1001 ; areat Western, few Shares, 611 ; Hull and Selby, 43; London and Birmingham, New Shares, 214 ; London and South Western, 564; Midland Counties, New Shares, 15. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 18.—The sales arc— Bristol and Exeter, 34 ; Live, pool and Manchester, 188; Ditto, Quarters, 45; Ditto, Halves, 90; Lancaster and Pres ton, sew, 224; Stafford and Rugby, 2 ; Bank of Manches ter, 77g. A French brig-of-war, bound to France, put into St. He lena the 26th January for water, with a piratical vessel carry ing IS guns and 73 men, that she had captured in one of the bays of Madagascar. Ban ME OF AMSTERDAM, MA RCM 16. —ln general affairs do act offer any interest, and the prices were nearly the same as yesterday. The Actions of the Society of Commerce, for tl - e I.7th of May next, were a little better, from 161% to 162. The Foreign Funds are without variation with little business doing. Spanish has been a little mere offered. lutegrales, stl to 7-16. Ardoin's, 21 to 3-16. BELGIAN BANE—The general assembly of the Bank ofßelgium has taken an important resolution. On the proposition of its Council of Administration it has decided to issue ten thousand new Actions of 1,000 francs, at the interest of 5 per cent., and old Actions will continue at the interest of 5 per cent. The Director of the above Bank alio stated that persons had come forward to take the whole amount on the above reduc tions, but he thought it his duty to stipulate that the two -thirds of the New Actions to be issued may be reclaimed by the ancient shareholders. Accounts from Madrid of the 9th instant state that four com mercial hou.es there have offered to the Government to ad vance 90 millions of reels in specie, 48 millions of which is to be applied during two years to the payment of interest for the capitalization of Coupons, and 42 millions for the wants of the easury. The intelligence received by the Sheldrake packet from Vera Cruz of some money (11,550 dollars) having arrived in part to pay the dividends, has had the effect to improve that Stock 2 per cent. this morning. The barbarity commit ted by the Texians or Indians from the north, murder ing in cold blood men, women, and children, is generally sus lected by the well-informed in the City to be greatly exag gerated. The Mexican packet has brought 800,000 dollars for mer chants' account. In the British Funds there is no alteration to the present hour, from the leaving off prices of yesterday, 883 4 for the Account; Money, 881 b, with scarce a bargain doing. It ap pears that the speculztors will not operate until furilier intel ligence is received from the United States, which will be about the 26th instant. Exchequer Bills, 6 8 premium. In the Foreign Market the Chief feature is the improve ment in the Mexican Stock which left off at 281 291, and at present may be quoted 301 31. In the ether Foreign securities the prices are nominal, as per yesterday's leaving oil. Spanish Active 2 33 3.; Deferred 113 123; Passive ba ; Portuguese 30.; 31; .Three per Cents. 19; Brazilian 70* 714; Colombian 221 23; Dutch Two-and-a-IPM per Cents. 50'3 ; ; Five per Cents. 99* 100. SiranEs.—Gretat Western 24 25 prem. ; New 11* 12 prem. ; London and Brighton 63 3 dis. ; Blachwall 51 dis. ; Birmingham 59 61 prem. ex. New ; Southampton 55 56 per share ; Cro)don 12/ 4 per share ; Greenwich 74 8/ per share; Manchester and Birmingham 16 14 dis. ; Sou'h Eastern and Dover 14 . 16 dis. We hare few arriva!s this morning—most of them old dates. PRICES' OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Shire. - :Stialitingham and Derby • 100-•.. Ditto Thirds Great Western Ditto New Ditto Fifths London and Brighton London and Birmingham 9O 154 London and South Western 3B; — .. to Ditto Tenths South Eastern and Dover ii 2 33 JOINT STOCK BA NKS. anion of Australia. Ditto New Shares Accounts received from New Orleans state that a brig bad arrived there from Gallivas, coast of Africa, with intelligence that an out, age had been committed by a British man-of-war upon the factories of Don Pedro Blaney and Don Pedro Mar tinez, at that place. The crew of the man-of-war landed and destroyed goods to the amount of 500,000 dollars, and 1,500 negroes employed by them had made their escape. At the Tea Sale this day, at the Commercial-rooms, Minc ing -lane, of about 11,000 chests, we learn that the prices ob tained are from Is. 74d to Is. 71d. for Congou. We understand that there is a difference of opinion between the Brazilian Government and ours in respect to the expiration of the present Treaty of Commerce, in regard to its duration, it being maintained by the Brazilian Government that the tr. aty expires on the 15th year, ending in November, 1842, whi! the British Government insists upon two year's notice frcm the 15th year; hut the Brazilian Government have given notice in the 13th year, which is two years before the expiration. Consols, which had a firm appearance in the early part of the morning at 883 4 for the Account, are not so good at present, and may be quoted at 88i ; Exchequer Bills, ts 6 prem ; Con sols fiir Money, 681; New Three• and-a-Half per Cents., 97 963 i,. In the Foreign Market, Mexican, which reached 31*. has receded to 30 ; Spanish Active, 2.31 ; Deferred, l'2h ; Colom bian also lower, receded Lora 22i to 21L ; Brazilian, 7 ; Chilian, 63 ; Portuguese, 303, also, lower; Dutch Two-and a-Half per Cents. 100 1; Five per Cents., In Shares, little doing. Great Western, 90i ; New, 61 : 1 ; Fifths, 91 ; London and Brighton, 434; London and Birming ham ex div., 154 ; South Eastern and Dover, 17. Consols for Money, 85% a ; Account, 881 ; Mexican 291 30 ; Deferred ; Portuguese 30?-, 31 ; Spanish 23A CLOSIN( PRICES. FUNDS. India Stock — Ditto Bonds dis 'Ditto Old Annuities ... Ditto New Annuities... 864 l Ex. Bills, 1,000/-20 6 pm Ditto 5001 9 pm Ditto Small 9 pm Bank Stock for Acct — 'lndia Stock for Opg. 'Consols for Acct B6i J FUNDS. Portuguese, 5 per cent. IDitto, New Ditto 3l 'Prussian, 5 per cent. 'Russian, 5 per cent IIIA 'Ditto, Metallic Spanish, 5 per cent 23A- Ditto, Deferred ... 12i French, 5 per cent. —f. —c. Exchange —c. 'French, 3 per cent —f. —c. Dutch, 21 per cent. ... 504 Ditto, 5 per cent 991 Bank Stock 3 per Cent Red 3 per Cent Cons BBA 3i per Cent Red — New 31 per Cent 96L New 5 per Cent Long Annuities to expire Jan. 1860 Oct 1859 Jan. 1860. - FOREIG Austrian, 5 per cent.... Belgian, 5 per cent.... Brazilian 80nd5........ Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent Chilian, 6 per cent 63 Colombian, 6 per cent Ditto, 182.1. Danish, 3 per cent Greek, 18:45, 5 per cent — Mexican, 5 per cent. Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825 — Peruvian, 1825, 6 per et — SHARES. 'Birmingham and Derby Railway (100 pd) ... 70 Ditto Thirds ( 10 paid) Si Great Western Railway (65 paid) ...... Ditto New Shares (50 paid) 6l! Ditto Fifth (4 paid) ~ London and Brighton (50 paid) London and Blackwall Railway (25 pd) London and Birmingham Railway (90 pd) 154 Ditto Quarter Shares ( 5 paid) ... 2l i t Ditto New Shares ( 2 paid) 22 London and South Western ... ........... Ditto Tenths Midland Counties Railway_ ( loq paid) do p; Ditto Quarter Shares (10 paid) South Eastern and Dover (33 paid)... 17 York and North Midland Railway (50 pd) SO COURSE OF EXCHANGE-7(YESTERDAY)4B Amsterdam' CF. 12 6A, Ditto, at sight Rotterdam ...... ...2 U l2 7 Antwerp l2 6 Hamburgh M.B. 13 11 Altona Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 50 -. 25 75 Gibraltar .................. Leghorn .................. 30 85 45 Genoa .............. 2.5 Mi1an...................... 31 Venples . ice ................. .•• 47 Na ............... Palermo, per oz .......... 119 Lisbon ..................... 52 52i Ditto, 3 month` Marseilles Bourdeaux ............... 25 80 Frankfort on Maine.•. 150 k l'etersburgh, 3Us 374. ........... 6 '26 ViLlina, effec. . fl. 3M. 10 2 Tyieste, ditto ........ 10 4 "-Madrid ............... 35i Cadiz ..................... 351 Bilboa ..................•• 3J B a rcelona .............. . 35 Seville ......... Oporto ............... Rio Janeiro 2B Bahia ... 27 Buenos Ayres New York, 21 days' sight 46i Philadelphia ...... PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ Portugal Gold Coin £3 17 6 Foreign Gold, bars... 3 17 9 New Doubloons 0 0 0 New Dollars... 0 4 10 Silver in Bars 0 5 0 THE WEAT ER. ROYAL GALLERY STREET OFSCIENCE, ADELAIDE, NOON, MARCH 19 Barometer 29 64 In. Thermometer Highest . 53 . 5 Lowest Wind S.—Freezing Point 32 Deg. SOCIETA A RMON ICA —The first of these very attractive , concerts for th e season ta k es p l ace , in the concert room 0 her Majesty's Theatre, on Monday evening next. SACRED HARMONIC ',SOCIETY. Last evening the new oratorio, by Mr. George Perry, entitled " The Death of Abel," was performed for the first time at Exeter Hall. Some days ago we gave a favourable account of the rehearsal, and were glad to find, on witness ing the full performance, that it justifies our ex pectations. The title sufficiently explains the principal features of the oratorio. Mr. Phillips represented Adam, Mr. Hobbs, Abel, Mr. Pear sall, Cain, and Miss Ward, Eve, who, though she performed the most remarkable part of any of her sex in the history of the world, is all but kept out of view through the whole performance. Her representative appeared only twice, and as that appearance was in a chorus, we cannot form any correct idea what her sentiments might have been respecting the vast change which she had produced in the destinies of mankind. Mr. Phillips, to the de light of the audience, had some of the most im portant scenes in the piece allotted to him, and acquitted himself with his usual ability and skill. He was in excellent voice, and seemed to delight in the character which he had to repre sent. He was encored thrice, and most enthu siastically in the following air:— Oh, Cain, I well desctve to to des' ised . _ _ But sboulii'st thou not have spared tiiy wretched father ? Should'st thou not have forborne this cruel charge, Which, like a clap of thunder, shakes my soul." He was also extremely successful in the air, " Father Omnipotent," and in the chorus with _ _ the same title, in which Miss Ward ably sup ported him. In the air, "0, Cain," Mr. Lind ley accompanied Mr. Phillips on the violoncello obliaato, and shared more than half the praise of the audience, but not more than he was fully entitled to. The orchestra was numerous, con sisting of nearly five hundred performers, and kept time wonderfully, considering the vast body of vocal and instrumental performers. The oratorio, on the whole, is very creditable to the composer. Some of the parts may appear common-place, but many of them are of a superior cast, especially the airs of a plaintive character, and the chorus at the conclusion of the first part. The large hall, in which the per formance took place, was crowded to excess. Probably not fewer than three thousand persons, independent of the performers, were present, and all seemed highly gratified with the result. We cannot say much for the poetry of the piece. It wants the beauty and magnificence of the words of the Messiah, which give such an effect to that celebrated composition, but every allow ance, of course, must be made for the descrip tions of scenes of which we know little. THE EASTERN QUESTION. Our letters from Paris, dated Wednesday evening, state that M. l'Epinay, who is attached to the foreign depart ment, had left for London with despatches fur Baron de Bourqueney, the French Charge d'Affairw. It was be lieved that there despatches were the result of late con ferences betneen M. Guizot and the Ambassadors of the Powers who s gned the Treaty of London. It is said that M. de Bourqueney has been charged to announce verbally to Lord Palmerston the peremptory refusal of the French Cabinet to sign the last London protocol until the Porto has granted to Mehemet Ali the hereditary Government of Egypt in the direct line. It is however added that Baron de Bourqueney is charged to express to the Bri tish 111;tristry that France expects from the wisdom of the Four Po%,ers to see all obstacles quickly removed, in or der that she may abandon her isolation. It is not true that M. Guizot has iemanded the recal of Lord Ponsouby as it has been asserted; but we relieve that Austfa will make, or has made, some iepreseutations as to the conduct of the British Antbassadtr at Couktanti nople.—Morning Post. MEXICO. The S el d r ake Packet arrived on Wednesday at Fal mout'i, with the Mexican mails. She sailed from . Vera Cruz 27th January, Taint:deo 7th February, Havannah 22d February. Her last advicei from Mexico are to the 28. h February; she brings abut 800,000 - dollarr, including 11,550 dollars on account of the Mexican divi-lends. Bus ta nei.tc vim at Mexico, Santa Anna at his estate. The h a fir g feature of news by her ia, that a body of either Texians or Indians well armed, bad maze a decent from the north as far as Tanque, 15 ir.i'ei from Catorco, making dreadful r,:.vages, burning every thing which fell in their way, and earring t ff all the cattle which they fell in with. Lesiees killing about 800 me:, wotren, and children, added to 200 )ourg women, whom tl.ey ate said to have captured, but preserved their lives, eairii,g them away captive-. Oa thc.r retreat they wet e net frcrr. the city of Sartillo by a body of Mex'cans, beaded by a genthman, called Buisson, a Ffenchman, whom th:•y killed as well es the whole of his party, two Mexicans excepted. The in habitants uf Sartlllo had made a represtntaiian to the go vernment cf this dreadful calamity, and declared that, un less they took measures to protect them hem such assaults, they mutt LAC other means. Bustamer,te'a g,..veracner.t was not like.l, and in well ie_ for med circles a secret revolution was said to be in gitation. Estiaia, wtll known by the. Mexican politiensns, was obliged to fly horn Mexico ; he came passenger in the. Shetdrake to the Huvannah, from Vera Cruz. Several Tcxian met.-of-war arc said to be hovering over I:ie Mexican coast. A bchooncr was off Vera Cruz. The British brig-of-war Victor, Captain Dawson, was at Tampico Kith Commissary- General Coffin, waiting to convey spt c'e to Jamaica. Another (prize) slave schooner, with 290 souls, to the Cleopatra, had arrive.' at th vannalr ; these were to be taken to Nassau by the Meg .Lee, of Sundeiland, cad sl - e was to be convoyed by the Mexican mar-of-war schooner, which the British Consul had asked for, acre Icing no English man- of-war at Ha vannal,. The Mo,c.f, Lee was to sail in a few days ; she had just returned from Nasau, whither she had carried the Cleopatra's previous capture. The packet Express, for the Leeward hl Inds, and the Ranger, for Mcxicr', are detained through stress of weather. BELGIUM. BRUSSELS, Mulct( 17.—We learn that the French Go vernment has lately decided that all the French officers still in the Belgian service shall be recalled, and must return to France in a fortnight. General Hurel, who is at the head of the general staff of the army, is recalled as well as all the others. The politicians are in a state of great agitation, and thus agitation will shortly be communicated to the mass of the people. The address which the majority of the Senate proposes to present to the King, in order to acquaint him in a round about way that the Ministry has not the confidence of the Senate, can have no other result than an appeal to the opinion of the f c a e r un t t i r ie y r , e th i e s daefiimiitainviefeasrtbdiitseagrr, t n o ein wh en ich tb r e e t c N o ve u e r n se th m e us l t st b a e n h d a 2 d ( i Chamber. We can foresee only fatal consequences from all this to our manufactures and commerce, the interests o iwhich we defend, while they are risked by these same persons who complain of their being in danger. This conflict between the Chamber and the Senate is only an additional proof of the impotency and the danger of th f repre sentative system which teems to lay itself open to an 18th of 13rumaii C. The Address of the Senate is calculated to embarrass the Sovereign, who cannot, however, take on himself the responsi bility of it. A general election, then, will again agitate the country in a strange manner; the struggle will be terrible, and every body will suffer by it ; yet the Ministry which it is pro posed to overthrow, as being suspected of Lib era li sm , i s some thing less than Liberal , if we judge by the regulations which it has just adopted against associations, regulations which the preceding Roman Catholic Ministry would not have dared to make. In the sitting of the Senate yesterday a proposal, signed by M. de Rouille and nine other Members, was brought forward to this effect:—" Conformably to Act 32 of the Standing Orders, we l.ave the honour to propose that the Senate farm itself into a Secret Committee." The proposal was energetically opposed by M. Duval and several other Members, but as the terms of the standing order on this point are positive, the galleries were cleared. In half an hour the public sitting was resumed, and the draft of an addre s to the King was read, the substance of which . was, that the nationality of Belgium was founded on T e ns:T o o! divergentald i3se o n I s o n ' N s :. for one ha v ncommon e ib a j c c u c r Z g th t ;It session in Legislative As the National Representation prove t vernment,state au when parties diverge instead of al)! ecca,a, has been called That the atter& on of the Str t L -ileadee the regular course of Go sembly are unable to attend to the real a vi t r g ts t o o f e t a h c e h n o a t t i i i o e n r. , great danger : that it relies on pregnant 'impartiality, and is convinced that toathings ig t h his Majesty's wisdom and emp loy to put an end to fatal divi whatever measures he may te a men of all parties will supp o i f idis prudent snd a t divi sions, e ate on him. On the Tocti° . •nto consideration was adjourned till f the subject mnoofetrhe Minister of Justice the b 1 the taking c the next day. that there are 22 votes in favour, and only )7 ELMIAN lqiNDS—BituatatLit, MARcit 17 Actua l Debt, 2% pzr Cent. ..........52 itot hachild'fi Loan, 5 per Cent ....... L o an of Thirty Millions , 4 per Cent, ......... 89 3 per Ceut. a ( lints seem'tt h 0114 ,d ress. a g ress. ) Thirty-seven. ......... 69 7 _ - .................. 98% Loan of City, 183'2,4 per Cent ................. S o ciety of Commerce, 4 Nqier Cent ............. 10 Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent ............. E 334 National Society . ..................... ....... Exchange on London (short) .................. 11 95 —Brussels Papers, March 17. • AUSTRIAN FUN DS.—VlEntia, Marten 9. Five per Cents. Metalli ques 107 Four per Cents. .... 102 Bank Shares Zcitung. March 14 RECRUITING FOR THE ARMY.-----For the last few days Westminster has presented a scene of es , ve f r r y om g g reat animation in consequence of the tetivity (OP Many of these are ferent regiments in raising recruits. wanted to furnish deficiencies in corp a and others arc required for servirl , ,, _ eb. di shortly destined t s on foreign service, northern i n End, and home. Yesterday for foreign service, were detac! upwards of twenty men of thel6eodtn raising recruits for that gallant to different parts of the metropolis for the purpose of east( rn districts of the met . roye a ion. Highgate, &c. From S ' lfi ld. Shoreditcb , 0 11 g. ....p ta C , n e and an extra bounty being given the standard being reduced f e ffective and able young men have corps. Recruiting parties are li r a , et active Particularly a peat servicenumbcr of the last few days. The Royal jcined the an d t he Artillery have parties out in the different the country, who are actively engaged in re cruiting• in considerable numbers are daily being cruiting. the depots at Woolwich, Poasmouth, and sent into Plya" th ' SOUTII DEVON.-- Mr. Baker, the Member for South Devon, has declared his int-urtio sic reiign at the districts Marine s of C ''lfC of the present Session. It i I said tka t Lord Cour.. to 70) will immediately offer hinasey , --..,....,., ..---* fi 1.... „ It B. a per, the s him dom. soil ;cars p pier cot' ince ; f a iit:on Dub° i t ty, rre' the iltec Ir for '.l l I area ,sins t h e n are 'toot no c cts• 0 3 id , P' ovg '_ •