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Triumphant success of " Poor Jack," equal to " My Poll and my Partner Joe." Mr. T. P. Cooke in Two Pieces. Ex traordinary attraction, and crowded houses. THIS EVENING, MARCH 8. Will be acted a Nautical Drama in Four Parts, called POOR JACK ; OR THE RIFE OF A SAILOR. In which Mr. T. P. Cooke, and the entire strength of the Company, will perform. After v-hich, BLACK EYED SUSAN. William, Mr. T. P. Cooke. To conclude with THE RIEVER'S RANSOM; OR, GILDEROY. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS JAY. K0rning......21 minutes after 2 I Evening .....A 1 minutes after 2 *l f eif:x• c, taut 44 4.4 A EA.' • 0111 t, LONDON: MONDAY, MARCH 8, 1841. The late declaration of Lord STANLEY that the votes of the tenants of England are at the service of the landlords, and that you could easily tell the result of a county election by knowing how -the great landlords would vote, though it taught nothing new, startled the public by its audacity. Every person acquainted with rural society in England knows that the bulk of the tenantry, holding the land at will, generally undertaking to pay a rack- rent, and, till lately, legally bound to pfy as tithes more than they could always command, follow their landlord or his agent in all public matters, as a pack of hounds is guided by the voice of the huntsman. But though that is familiar knowledge, the fact has for the sake of the tenantry been glozed over, or kept as much as possible in the dark, and the community was Scandalised by a landlord, one of the authors of the Reform Bill, declaring in Parliament, that the votes which the Legislature had nominally given to the tenants, were in reality bestowed on the landlords. Contemporaneously with this assertion of Lord STANLEY'S, Mr. G. WEBB HALL, a well-known agriculturist, a member, we be lieve, of several Agricultural Societies, and a gentleman who has laboured assiduously in behalf of the landed interest, before Committees of the House of Commons, and by numerous publications, has sent forth a pamphlet entitled " The Connexion between Landlord and Tenant," &c., in which Lord STANLEY'S doctrine receives some illustration. He says, at page 20, " Instances were related to me, from unquestionable authority, at the Eng lish Agricultural Meeting at Cambridge last year, o f arbitrary oppression on the part of the land owners to ;tenants.' " " The landords made de mands upon the rights entrusted to the tenants by the Constitution, for the exercise of which they were responsible, and which they were con strained by intimidation to exercise contrary to their convictions and their conscience s ." Thi s, he z' was credibly infbrined," at the Agricultural "was not an uncommon practice— Associatior, not a rare insta nce ; it was the rule rather than the exception in some districts." "Titus," he adds, " the privileges of the -tenantry are considered to be their bane." O, he affirms, at p. 21, "have r heard with the deepest sorrow and disgust the assertion that the right to participate in sending M em bers to Par liament for the district in which t he capi tal of the tenants is invested, is converted into and felt Lobe ameansof bondage and degradation." Again, he asserts at page 11,that the " tenantry are sub jected to gross aggressions on their dearest rights, calculated to mar the advance of improvement, and to fix on the class to which they belong a stamp of servile bondage." All that, and more of the same kind, is stated by Mr. WEBB HALL, an ex cellent authority. It is true he mentions no names,. for that might expose individual tenants to the vengeance of the landowners. He gives no in stances; but wherefore should he, when he con curs with Lord STANLEY in stating. that the "ser vile bondage" is universal? But having his authority, and the authority of Lord STANEY, we say it is well known, and fully proved, that , the bulk of the tenantry of England are in a I condition of servile bondage. mr. WEDB HALL inquires into the right of the landowners to e xer cise their power, and correctly o b se rves, that the capital of the landowners is invested in the purchas e of the soil, and they' do not possess the means or the skill to cultivate it. They are described as Passive possessors of the soil, that is hav ing their capital dormant, or locked up in ac quiring it. The farmer is the possessor of the capital which cultivates the land • he must be a man of education' enter p rise,activity, and dis crimination, liiithd evoti him to brave the VI • •on to his art, to enable fr^m el"4ia(leS andOWlSM.arising and health /,. mals, against which he has not, like the mer chant, the refuge of insurance. Why, then, are the possessors of the passive capital, which is dor mant, in the soil, allowed or enabled to exercise the tyrannyabove described over those whose capital and skill cultivate it, and, wanting which; the passive capitalist would get nothing for his land? Why, for example, should such a man as my Lord AsHninvrox, who, while he was Mr. BA RING, probably bought and sold every year fifty or a hundred times more than the amount of his present rent, without ever dreaming that his bar gain gave him a right to dictate the votes of those he dealt with—why should he, or a money scrivener, or a bill-broker, when he invests his capital in land, and contracts with a man to let him have the use of a piece of his land, on condi tion of receiving 1,0001. a-year, have also the power to constrain his tenant by intimidation to vote contrary to his conscience and conviction ? In such a case—and Mr. BARING, the merchant, converted into Lord ASHBURTON, the landowner, represents the great majority of those who now own the land, they, or their immediate ancestors, having acquired it by purchase—there are no ancient ties of family connection, no bond of mutual and hereditary attachment, but merely a large lump of money on one side invested in the soil, and a smaller sum on the other, seeking to find, in conjunction with agricultural skill, a living or a fortune by cultivating the ground. Mr.WEnn HALL gives no other solution of this important question than strenuously to deny that this con tract ought to give the landlords any such right, though he shows in some measure how the land lord is enabled to acquire and to exercise it. His observations on this point are worthy of public attention. 'First and foremoSt comes the competition of candidates for the privilege of cultivating the soil, which is so fierce that it "drives all calculations to the winds." " Few, very few are the cases where an intelligent applicant for a farm can afford the time and the hazard of making a rea sonable calculation of the probable produce of the estate he may be about to engage ; he is pressed by a crowd behind forward into precipitancy, or aside into inaction." " The tenantry of the county, the possessors of all the agricultural capital and skill, rush like the fre quet!ters of a theatre, under attraction or alarm, and crush and cripple their neighbours and themselves by 'a reckless and uncalculating zeal,'," and " thus it is that they sink into de pendence abhorrent to a generous mind." That is the condition of the tenantry as attested by this most competent witness, and against such ruinous competition no Corn-law can protect them, though there is no doubt that the distress and decay brought on by such a competition are amongst their strongest motives for desiring to maintain the bread-tax. The merchants and manufacturers have been repeatedlranswered, when they have made complaints to Parliament, that the competition amongst themselves, underselling each other, was the main cause of their embarrassment, and Parlia- anent, on that ground, wisely refused to give them any relief. By a Corn-law it has sought to protect the agriculturists from the consequences of a similar folly, and the result, after the law has been in operation, in one form or other, for twenty-five years, is, that the com petition of farmers is compared to the rush of the frequenters of a theatre alarmed by a cry of fire. Mr. WEBB HALL being a Corn-law advocate, does not point out the influence of the law in producing this excessive competition. We will supply his omission. By impeding the supply of food, the Corn-law prevents the growth of manu- factures, and of towns, the employment of capital, and the increase ofpopulation in them. They, how- ever, are the natural conduits for carrying off the surplus population, and,being impeded, though not wholly stopped by the Corn-law, population and capital are not drained sufficiently fast from the rural districts. At the same time the mono . poly which the right of property confers on the owners of the soil is rendered much more strin. gent and narrow by the law which confines our people for their supply of food to that particular property. To feed them the landowner's estate must be cultivated; those who own it knoW that; they Bate-made a law to strengthen and enforce this contingency ; they are therefore enabled to dictate to the farmer, unable to find any other occupation for his capital, their own terms. The supply of land is not enough for the demand, and hence arises that ruinous competition of the farmers, which - is like the rush ofa frightened crowd at a theatre. If the Corn-law be not the sole cause of this competition, at least it increases this competition, and gives to it that intensity which Mr. WEBB HALL has so well described. To the Corn-law, then, we trace much of the political dependence of the tenants of my Lord ASHBURTON on him, of which the dealers with ALEXANDER BARING had never the smallest conception. To the same law we also trace the great disadvantage which the owners of the capital employed in cul tivating the soil, labour under in competing for farms, as compared to the owners of the passive capital sunk in the purchase of land. The Corn-law gives the landowners power over the tenantry, and favours one class of capitalists _ _ connected with land, who make the laws, at the expense of another. The landowners get an in- creased rent by the excessive competition. favours the least useful class , too , at the expense of the more useful class. The passive capital of the landowners sets no labour in motion, the active capital of the farmer is the immediate means of employing and paying the labourer. What the farmer gives to the landlord more than he ought, by the forced competition, lessens his power to employ labour. The Corn-law, there- fore, by lessening the farmer's capital, and in creasing his expense, is as great an injury to the agricultural labourer as the farmer. We shall make some further quotations from Mr. WEBB HALL'S pamphlet, to prove that the landlords both wrong the farmers in a pecuniary point of view, and neglect to secure them.pro tection by proper laws ; but we will reserve these for another article. We must be satisfied now with having proved by the' authority of an agri- culturist the degradation of the tenantry, and with having, in part, traced that to the accursed Bread Tax. The _short episode on the Cardigan affair in the debate on Friday night, is but another proof that the present House of Commons does not.re present the feelings of the country. Mr. RuldE, in his usual straightforward manner, brought the subject before the House, and called upon the Secretary -at-War for some explanation ; when up started, Mr. MAcA - tmicy (and some eight or ten more were in breathless haste to do the same), highly indignant that a " topic of such violent irritation should have been brought for ward," and determined to throw his shield over Lord CARDIGAN, because, like BURKE and HARE, he had been hissed and hooted by the public. The Noble Lord will, no doubt, consider it strange that his - defender should pronounce his name in the same breath with such monsters, and the public will think it equally strange that one of her MAJESTY'S Ministers should urge, as an ex cuse for not dismissing or reprimanding Lord CARDIGAN, the very strong and general indigna tion excited throughout the country by his over and tyrannical conduct. On the same to be the objects of p be le a a rin g sH op and WILLIAMS, and all that c l ass MACAULAY is no lessUlifor.l1 who have had the m isfor tune universal hatred, ought tothanvaete m. escahpisedar.gumßuteMntrs. than in his comparisons. He contends that Lord CHAILD wasIGA N ShOll opposedld ntootsluatchveabseteenp:rianedd,hb:cashuosuei rn i o li t have been put on half-pay for, half-pay never should be made a punishment, thereby im pugning the judgment of the very man whose authority he had considered paramount, and who had once punished the same individual for bad temper and bad conduct, 'by placing him on the half-pay list. " While I remain Secre tary-at-War," exclaims the Right Hon. Gen tleman, "it shall not be thus perverted." The speech altogether was in the worst possible taste. It abounded with fulsome flattery of Lord HILL, whom the public unanimously blame—its object was to screen Lord CARDIGAN, whom Whig, and Tory, and Radical, and Chartist have de nounced, and justly denounced, as unfit to com mand a regiment ; and it concluded with the as sumption that those who had been the loudest in clamouring against the Government would ad mit them to hatt been in the right. Next came Lord JoHN RUSSELL, who called the charges frivolous, and, standing up boldly for his order, said Lord CARDIGAN had been attacked because he was a Peer ! Sir HUSSEY VIVIAN came next to the rescue, denouncing the finding of the Court-martial on Captain WATREN, and defend ing Lord CARDIGAN on that occasion and the last great gun was Sir H. HA RDINGE, who went far beyond all his predecessors, and gravely urged that Lord CARDIGAN could not live on good terms with his officers, because he supposed they had libelled him. Unfortunate man, "he had met with persecution beyond the patience of any man to bear." What a picture of a regiment, and what a reproof to Lord HILL, who had sent that very - officer to command the 11th, whom he had declared unfit to command the 15th! Could Lord HILL expect that the gallant officers in India would submissively brook such an insult ? And can Sir HENRY HARDINGE suppose that this regiment will ever be fit for service while one of the Indian officers remains under the command of Lord CARDIGAN ? The discussion will be read by the army and the people with painful interest, and unless Lord HOWICK'S advice is followed, and a Court of In quiry bo instituted, Mr. MACAULAY and the Go vernment may rest assured that so far 'from the public in a few months admitting that they are in the right, they will impute to them the chief blame, and denounce them for encouraging con duct which (as Mr. HUME justly said) no man holding the character of a gentleman could pos sibly tolerate or permit. Letters and Papers from Madrid of the 25th ult. have reached us. The Regency question was occupying the serious attention of the Cabi net, but no definite resolution had been come to. The Gazette of the 25th publishes the Conven tion for the free navigation of the Douro, which was ratified on the 23d ult. by the Duke of VIC TORIA. Letters from Mahon announce that the officers of the Ame rican squadron are giving splendid parties. It appears that the Americans have established a quarantine department, but nothing shows that they have received any Royal permission so to do, as the French obtained for their settlement, of which little intelligence transpires. The French have augmented their cemetery, and are expecting a great number of sick• from Algiers. A dreadful accident occurred on the 24th in the neighbour hood of Madrid. Two days before, M. Safont, one of the richest inhabitants of that capital, having gone on an excursion of pleasure in the vicinity with his family and a few friends, was returning on that evening, when the mules of his carriage suddenly took fright, upset it on the bridge of the river Ar gando, and the whole party, consisting of twelve persons, were Washed into the river. M. Safont and another alone were saved; his father, mother, wife, and daughter, and six others were drowned. This accident caused a most painful sensation in Madrid, and nothing else was talked of on the Bourse, where little business was transacted. Only three operations were negotiated in the Five per Cents. at 29 at 30 days, and at 29i for the 9th of March, with a premium. We have received the whole of the Paris Journals of Thursday. The Moniteur Parisien states that an amendment has been carried in the Committee of the Peers on the Fortifications Bill, which reduces the grant from 140 millions of francs to 118 millions, and recommends de tached forts instead of the continuous wall crenelated and bastioned with 2,000 pieces of cannon. It is of very little importance what modifications the Peers may make in the Bill. One thing is certain. Paris will be fortified. The Km:Vs triumph is no longer doubtful. While the Peers are making a show of indepen dence the works are in progress, which are des tined to overthrow the sovereignty of the people. Rumours were current in Paris on Wednes day and Thursday respecting the pecuniary em barrassments of M. TRIERS. We know not whether they be well or ill-founded. The ex- Minister is a man of very expensive habits, and we remember that when he visited Italy several Journals expressed astonishment at the extent of his purchases of costly and rare works of art. But if office has not enriched M. THIERS, he has friends who have known how to profit by a relationship with the head of a Cabinet. If half be true that is reported, his father-in-law is in a condition to relieve him without any diminution of the wealth which he possessed before M. THIERS' promotion to a seat in the Cabinet. The Courrier Francais has discovered that Lord PALMERSTON isendeavouring to lull France to repose only to atto.ol, her at a disadvantage. We can assure the Courrier Francais that France need be under no alarm respecting the intentions of Lord PALMERSTON, which are as pacific as the Courrier represents them to be hos- tile. This we believe to be the conviction of M. GUIZOT, whols wilkly and patriotically engaged in negotiating a return to those amicable rela tions with England, which were interrupted by the Punic policy of M. TRIERS, and the Cabinet of the Ist of March. Respecting the progress of these negotiations, we find the following account in the columns of a Morning Contemporary : We have received private letters from Paris, from a well-in formed quarter, stating in positive terms, that the negotiations going on between the French Cabinet and the Powers which signed the Treaty of London, have advanced to that point that the Eastern question is expected to be definitively solved within a few weeks. Al. Guizot's proposition to ameliorate the con dition of the Christian population of Syria (not to render it independent, as it has been erroneously asserted in some papers) has been much approved of by the Austrian and Prussian Courts. As the Treaty of London specially engages the con tracting Powers to abstain from any act to affect the authority and independence of the Sultan, the idea of imposing on the Porte the condition of nominating a Christian Prince to govern Syria has been out of question; but it has been thought that the Porte, as a return for the services it has received, will have no objection to nominate a Pacha: with a separate government, for Syria, although incorporated in the Ottoman empire ; this Pacha to be under the control of the Great European Powers, in order that there may be a guarantee that the Porte govern on humane principles the Syrian population. Scandalous attempts are made by some per sons at Alexandria and Smyrna to revive the popular prejudice against the Jews, excited by the disappearance of Father.TnomAs and his ser vant at Damascus. The following is a fabricated charge against the Jews, quoted by the Temps from a letter from Alexandria A young Catholic Armenian merchant, named Joussouf Ta houil, had contributed in a great degree to traverse the views of two Jews from Alexandria, who had come to Damascus under pretence of making inquiries into the facts attending the murder of Father Thomas, but who had endeavoured to bribe the witnesses who appeared. Thus he incurred the hatred of the Israelites, who determined to accomplish his destruction. Tahouil unfortunately did not pay attention to the warnings which were daily given him, and the day after Ibrahim Pacha left Damascus with his army he perished, the victim of a base vengeance. An Albanian, notorious for his crimes, entered Tahouil's shop and shot him through the heart. The murderer was arrested at the same moment, and declared that the Jews had given him 3,000 piastres to commit the crime, and seve ral lurks came forward to depose that the Israelites had at different times offered them sums of money to assassinate Ta houil as well as other persons who had given testimony in the affair of Father Thomas. The Constitutionnel defends M. THlEnfii.from the charge of having squandered the sum of 500,000,000 of francs during - an administration of eight months. According to this journal, when M. TniEns took office, there were not 15,000 cavalry horses fit for service. There were not sufficient artillery horses to bring 100 pieces of cannon into the field. Of artillery carriages '21,000 were wanted, and instead of 3,000,000 of muskets in the arsenals, there were only 1,800,000. In whatever way M. THIERS spent the public money, the result is that in a few years there will be a deficiency in the French treasury equal to, forty millions sterling ! Count Alexander de Larochefoucauld, Peer of France, died yesterday, at Paris, at the age of 65 years. The Messager contains the following article : " The lVurtzburg Gazette, the Franconian Courier, and some other German Journals, pretend that notices have been published by some French authorities of the left bank of the Rhine ; for instance, at Lauterburg—inviting Bavarian soldiers to desert, promising that they should receive the value of their arms and accoutrements, and be admitted into any French regiment which they might prefer. "'I hese statements are absolutely false. Nothing of the kind has occurred. We give them the most formal denial. .‘ Even were not such facts entirely at variance with the honourable principles of the French Government, the existing laws would. render the entertainment of such an idea impos sible. In fact, Art. 2of the law of March 21, 1832, expressly forbids the admission of foreigners into French corps. No ex ception is made to this regulation, only relative to the foreign legion in Africa, and even in this latter case they are not armed and equipped till after their arrival in Africa and their incorporation in the legion. They cannot serve France on the Continent. • 46 The Marshal, now Minister of War, has even restricted within the narrowest limits the execution of this part of the l aw of 1832, yoga ltely prohibiting the ad m i ss i on of a foreigner into a French cps, even as a supernumerary musician, o r as a tailor to a regiment. W e will add, that whenever deserters have come from g medium tion of their a • u of the the applica Germany to . France, .the mFrielinecs,hanGdotvam h e Government ehasalways, on March 4. g pass,ge in a letter from Amsterdam Though the houseof Consuls, ordered them to be given p. e Constitutionnel, Hope disposed of only fifteen millions of the last and Co. has hitherto .ens of florins, it is affirmed notwith standing, loan of fifty nulli that it is intended to contract at standing, on good authority, the 213th h e f o o ll f o F w e i datedd e February .—,6 Amsterdam a new loan of one hundred millions of florins."— La Commerce. BO URSE...PARii t THURSDAY, MARCH 4. first Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Price. Price French 5 per Cents;;; 113 40 ... 113 70 ... 113 30 ... 113 70 3 per Cents 76 75 77 ... 76 70 ... 77 Bank of trance ....... ..... 5220 ...320 ...3220 ...3 20 Litlitte Bank I,ooof. Sh 1050 - ...10::(1 ...1050 . ...1050 - 5000 f. Sbares 5157 50 ...5157 50 ...5157 50 ...5157 50 lelgian Rank 5 per Cents lOl% ... 101% ... 101% ... 101% 3 per Cents 7O 80 ... 70 90 ... 70 CO ... 70 60 New Loan l Ol% ... 12% ... 101 ... 102lyi Spanish Active 25% • ..„ 25%. ... 24% ... 25% New Deferred Portuguese 3 per Cents 1 9% ... 19% ... 19% ~. 19% veapolitan lO2 ... 102 ... 102 ... ica Roman - .... RAILWAY S 101% HARES ... 101% ... 101% ... 1(11% . St. Germain Versailles,R. B 402 50 ~. 412 50 ... 402 50 ... 412 50 L.B 312 50 ... 312 50 ... 311 25 ... 311 25 Orleans .. ........ ........... Strasburg to 8a1e.... ....... louen 452 50 ... 455 ... 452 50 ... 4")5 dordeaux to La 1 este 360 ... 3 , .;0 ... 360 ... 3CO MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS ( From The Sun of Saturday Es ening.) LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, FRIDAY.— Of the transac tions this week, Saturday and Monday embraced about 16,000 bales one-third to speculators, the remainder being divided amongst the following four da3s in about equal portions, and we have found, as we had noticed on W e d nes d ay last, that in the rates of demand there has been a steadiness of prices, which closed the same as on Friday last. It is very evident that since the receipt of the last accounts from the United States, and the lack of encouragement from the Manchester market, that a greater degree of caution actuates buyers, whilst the account of short crops still has its influence on the hollers. Specula tors have taken 7,000 bales of American, and 500 Surat; 1,240 bales of American, and 110 Surat, were forwarded into the country last month unsold. The sales to-day are about 4,000 bales of all kinds. 'MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 5.-:.-Liverpool and Manchester, 190; London and Birmingham, New, 321. shares, '2oi prem. : London and South Western, Tenths, 19 premium; Manchester and Leeds, Halves, 31/. Is. ; North Union, 82 ex-div. ; Manchester and Birmingham, 25 ; London and Brighton, 43 ; Lancaster and Preston, 32i; Midland, Counties, 79i ; Macclesfield Canal, 33 ; Lancaster Canal, 25. By the Brazil mail arrived this morning, brought by the Seagull, and sailed from Rio Janeiro 13th January, we have accounts from that quarter, but they posse ..s little interest. The packet has brought a freight of 95,000 dollars. The ex change upon London 30k, Stocks, 74 ex div. The following is from the Rio Journal, relative to the force of Lavalle "Quebrachito, Nov. 29, 1840. " Yesterday we came up with the army of the miscreant Unitarians at this place. We immediately fell upon them, and the result of the action has heen their compleat defeat and de struction, 1,500 of them being left dead upon the field, besides all their artillery, infantry, and baggage, a great number of prisoners, their spare horses (few in ntimber), many famines, their two colours, and the enormous insignia worn by the bar barous Lavalle himself, and which he was obliged to throw off. in his desperate anxiety to escape, have fallen into our hands; they likewise left a great quantity of arms, both of those dis tributed among the troops and of those they had in reserve for a future occasion. I shall be moreparticular ; in the mean time I congratulate you on the glorious triumph achieved on the 23th. Lavalle has fled in the direction of El Tio, with a mere handful of men.—l have the honour, &c. " MANUEL ORIBE." " P. S.—We hear that the army has prosecuted its ;era tions in the territory of Cordova, and that on the 7th, some of the advanced divisions were within a short distance of the capital of that province, the comparatively small forces of La Madrid not seeking an encounter after the defeat they had sustained from the column commanded by Colonel Barcena." PA RAGuAy.--It aprears from an extract of a private letter in the Monte Video Journalq, that the death of Dr. Francia, Dictator of Paraguay, vihich took place, as we before stated, on the 20th of September last, caused some excitement amongst the people of the capital. Exchange 2i upon England. The Quarterly Average of the Weekly Liabilities and Assets of the Bank of England have been published from December 8, 1840, to March 2, 1841, both inclusive, from which it results as follows : Present Circulation Last Report More Circulation. Present Deposits.. Last Report ........ , ....X16,372,000 16,230,000 142,000 7,567,000 7,365,000 11Iore Deposits .......... .... 202,000 Securities at pre , ent Last Rep0rt........... ~.,. 22,725,000 ~... 22,595,000 More Securities 130,000 Present Bullion Last Report 4,076,000 3,816,000 More Bullion Accounts from Amsterdam state, that although only fifteen millions of florins on the Russian loan of fifty millions by the house of Hope has been paid, it is positively affirmed that a new loan of one hundred millions of florins, to be contracted for at Amsterdam, is on the tapis. Consols, which left off yesterday at 881 1 for the Account, opened this morning with a slight improvement, at 881 89 for the Account; Money 881 with little doing to the present hour ; Exchequer Bills 6 9 prem. ; Bank Stock shut. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active is rather better; left off 24 ; at present 24* 1; Deferred, 121 1; Passive, s s ' 6 ; Portuguese 31i 32 ; 'Three per Cen.s. l9i ; Brazilian, 711 72k; Colombian, 23* 1 ; Mexican, 28$1; Dutch Two and-a-Half per Cents. 501 a; Five per Cents.,99i 100. Shares.—Great Western, 23 24 prem. ; ew, 11 1 / prem.;; London and Brighton, 73 6a dis. ; Blackwall, 6 53 dis. ; Bir mingham, 78 80 prem. ; Southampton, 54 56i per share ; Croydon, 114 125 per share ; Greenwich, 85 4 per share. I'ItICLS Oh: atiARES THIN DAY A'l' CT t. liAlLorAYs. Paid. Per Share. Bristol and Exeter 6O ...... 31 ..... to Great Western Ditto _ London, and Brighton Londoh and Birmingham 9O Ditto Shares - 5 ..... 2611 ... to Ditto New London and South Western 3Bl 564- .. to The following is from a Demerara paper to the 24th of January : " The Combined Court had a very important meeting to day. Mr. Arrendell brought up, proposed, and carried, a string of resolutions in favour of the Immigration Loan, that 55,0001. should be granted for the purchase of immigration steamers. His Excellency leaves this Colony for his own Go vernment of Trinidad on Sunday afternoon, when he will not have seen quite two months here." We have just received the Hamburgh mail of the 2d of March, with papers of the same date, which brings the ex change upon London 13 34 ; rather higher than last post day. Gold comes the same, 425 ; Metal, 1044 ; Bank Actions, 1615. It is this moment reported that the overland express from India has just arrived. Consols have been during the morning at 884 for the Ac count, with an inactive market ; Money 884 4; Exchequer Bills 7 9 prem.; Bank Stock shut. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active 244 ; Deferred 123 4 ; Portuguese 314 4 ; Thr ee per Ce n t s . 194 ; Colombian 2 34; Mexican 284 4; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. nothing done ' • Five per Cents. the same. ' Shares are lower, with little doing. G reat W estern 89 ; Ditto, Fi ft hs, .94 ; London and Brighton 43 ; Birmingham, Quarter Shares, 264 4 ; Ditto, Thirds, '224 ; South Western 564. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Steck 3 per Cent. Red — Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent C0n5........ 884 Ditto Old Annuities — per Cent Red...... Ditto New Annuities... New 34 per Cent .. 974 Ex. Bills, 1,000/....21d 9pm New 5 per Cent Ditto 500/ lO pm Long Annuities to expire Ditto Sm a ll ll pm Jan: 1860. Bank Stock for Acct Oct 1859... — India Stock for Acct ... Jan. 1860 Consols for Acct B9 FOREIGN FUNDS. A ustrian, 5 per cent... Portuguese, 5 per cent. i3elgian, 5 per cent — Ditto, New Ditto..... 314 Brazilian font's.. 72 Prussian, 5 per cent.... fluenosAyres, 6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent. . . ' Chilian 6 per cent — Ditto, I , letallic Colombian, 6 per cent... 22i Spanish, b per cent 244 Ditto, 1824 Danish, 3 per cent. Frenc h,s per cent... —f. —c. Greek.lB2s, 5 per cent. Exchange f. —c. Mexican, 5 per cent.... French,3 per cent —f. —c. Di to, 6 per cent, 1825 Dutch, 24 per cent Peruvian,lB2s,6 per et. . Ditto, 5 per cent..... 99 i SHARES. Bristol and Exeter (60 paid) Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid ... Ditto Debentures ( 2 paid) . . 4l Great Western Railway (65 paid) B9 Ditto New Shares (50 paid) - . 611 Ditto Fifths ( 4 I,aid) 94 London and Brighten (50 paid) London and Blackwall Railway (25 pd) 20 London and Birmingham Railway (90 pd) Ditto Quarter Shares (A paid) ......... 261 Ditto New Shutt ( 2 paid) , 22i London and South - Western Ditto Tenths Manchester and Leeds (70 atd) ...... 6z , .4 Ditto New Shares (30 paid) North Midland Railway (iOO paid) 7O TIIE PENNY POSTAGE.---At the last monthly average made at the Post-office, Brighton, it appears that the letters have increased rather more than double to what they were under the old rate of postage: The number of letters now is about 4,500 daily. The population of ,Brighton is estimated at about 50,000 persons. HESSE CASSEL, FEB. 24.—Dr. Schruber, agent for the Westphalian claimants, has answered that, having applied to the King of Prussia on the subject of the claims which have Leen so long standing, he has received an answer stating " that the negotiations in Ber bice on these affairs are in such a state of forwardness, that a speedy conclusion may be e xpected." DRAINAGE AND IMPROVEMENT OF BUILD INGS IN LARGE T O WNS AND VILLAGES.--This Bill, if passed, as it is likely to be, will be a very imp ortant mea sure. The preamble states that : _wbereas there is great need of sanatory regulations -in the towns and populous places of this realm, e'pecially by reason of the crowded and unhealthy manner ef building the dwellings of the working c d l i as se s a e se s, i a s n e d ng fo e r n w de an re t d o a f n su d ffi alicigernatvmateeadns; be it therefore o f drainage, whereby en acted, &c. The provisionsof the FM should the measure be come law, should be known to almost all p ersons, es p e. cially builders. For instance, the following clause is.im portant:—Notice of buildings to be given to surveyor"_ That before beginning to build any, house in such town or village, the master workmen or other p erson causin g such house to be built shall give twenty-five days' notice to the surveyor within whose district the same shall be, and such surveyor shall view the house, a nd see that all the rules in this Act which it is his duty to enforce are well and truly observed : and such sum of money shall be paid by the master workman or other person tens ing the house to be built, to the surveyor, for his trouble therein, as he shall be entitled to receive according to a table of fees to be settled by the Council of a borough at a quarterly meeting, where the district is within an incor porated borough, or else by the Justices in General or .Quarter Sessions assembled of the county or other juris diction within which the district is aituated.—Chesterfield Repcirter, "op FLANDERS AND DUTCH MAIL. BRUSSELS, MARCH 4.—The average price of wheat last v, e2lc was 18f. 69c., arid that of Rye, 11 f. 41c. per hectolitre. We are happy to learn that investigations of the Commission of Inquiry into the Linen Manufacture are proceeding rapidly. Past of the report is ready. The printing of the portion relative to England is finished ; that of the interrogatories is begun. TLe Precursor of Antwerp announces the dissolution of the society for the navigation between London and Antwerp. It is hoped that the Government will take up for its own account an enterprise which is indispen sably necessary to our intercourse with England. BRUSSELS, MARCH 5.—A letter from the Danube, dated the 23d day of February, in the Gazette of Ca►lsrulte, says there is no truth in the reports of the movement of Russian troops towards the weitern frontiers of Poland. There is no idea of any such movement. The same may be said of the extraordi nary levies rep( rted to be ordered in Russia. If the bffairs of Egypt are once settled, all other questions will be arranged amicably. AUGSI3URG, f ER. t2.B.—THE HANOVERIAN CUS TOMS UNlON.—Hanover, Brunswick, and Olden. burg, has announced the termination of the conien• Lion concluded in 1839, for three years with the Ger- man Customs Union, with the inteLtion of renewing it with some alterations, especially to facilitate, by ex changing some detached portions of territory, the guarding of the frontiers. A union with the great German Union is not to be thought of, the King of Hanover being averse to it on account of his connexion with England. THE HAGUE, MARCH 2.—We are glad to learn ilia her loyal Highness the Princess of Orange, who has l2e!n for some days past indisposed, is now re covering. DUTCH:FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, Matteis 5 Money. Bllls. ictual Debt, '-'.4 per Cent Jilin, ditto 5 per cent. Alnel t SvriclicM i i per cent 7l 71% Ditto, ditto, 314 per cent — Commercial Company, 41, per cent 1C,0% 181 tj Ditto (18.35 and 1837) 5 per cent. Loan 1837, 5 per cont. .. 1 , 5% 96 Exchange on London, One mon th l2 oN Two months Dutch Papers, March 6. IsEL(.I lAN I.I . I NDS—BRUSSELd, MAllteti 5. actual Del,t, 21, per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cant II9N Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. B9 3 per Cent. — Thirty.sevei 11:1y4 Loan of Citv, 153 . 2,4 per Cent. SS Society of Commerce, 4 },;, per Cent lto Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent-- ....... 87 31 National Society . Exchange on LondoK (short) —Brussels Papers, March h. A USTRIAN FUNDS.—VirmNA, Fnir, 24. Fire per Cents. Metalliques For per Cents. Three pqr Cents. Bank shares 1637 dltetmeine Zeitung, March 1. H A MBU RG 13URSENHALLE, DLuecu 2, Bills. Money Austrian 5 per Cents. Hank Shares l62i 1615 Angto-Russian Loan lO6 li 10(4.6 Itu,sian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Cf:rtificate „ 1023 5 t Inscription, Ist Seli,s lOl ICO% ItusLian 5 per Cent. llopc and Co. I.ki and 4th Seri, 9C% Ditto in Certificates Dutch Actual Debt, t2 1 ,-; ) he- Cent 4l 49 Ditto 5 per Cent -- Poli,h Bond.; - A nglu-f,anish L oan, 3 per Ceo' l3li 75% N. t wegian I.r)an, 182-1, 4 per C‘sat... . 11 Sp.,nish, New 5 per Cents. 1834 PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, Macir 2. P. • oney. St. Schuld. Sch., 4l y p er cen t . l ohis i% 1 M 03% Prussian English Loan, 183 n, 4 per cent 10U 100 h; xcha rt g c on I.cridon, three months 6 o h —Prassian State Gazette, March 3 HEATING BUILDINGS WITH HOT WATER. TO TEE EDITOR OF TEE SUN. Stit,--In your Evening Edition of the 27th ult. there appears a later from Mr. Thomas Fuller, of Beth, in answer to an article inserted in your Paper of the 15th, on the danger by fire from the Ise of Mr. Perkins's pats:nt apparatus. To the question, " Flow, if at all, can the danger be Avoided, and this cheap and convenient mode of heating buildings by means of hot water be practised without risk ?" he " endeavours to answer by explaining tl e plan adopted in their own manufactory." It appears, Mr. Editor, to me essential that the public should fully understand that the plan desbribed by Mr. Ful ler is not Mr. Perkins's bliudtd to by your Correspon dent, but is on an entiiely different principle, and there fore cannot," as he presumes, satisfactorily meet your Correspondent's inquiry." Mr. Fuller describes the plan adopted at their manufactory, "as at once, simple, safe, and effective." Any mode possessing such re commendations for heating buildings, cannot, I think, be too generally known, nor too clearly described ; but unfortunately illr. Fuller has either formed wrong conclusion, and thereby erroneously described their ap paratus, or he has omitted t) descriLe fully some por tion of it ; for his "ascending pipe" appears to be much longer than the "descending pipe ;" still he adds, " the ccluainal pressure of the water in the descending pipe Ling greater than in the ascending, the whole is set in motion, passing through the cistern at the top down one pipe. through - the boiler, and up the other pipe, until the whole body is heated to one uniform degree, never rowtnitig tne boiling point, consequently producing no steam." In this explanation Mr. Fuller does not ap , pear to make sufficient alhwance for the temperature, especially with the disparity, according to his descrip tion, in the lengths of the pipes. Lastly, Mr. Fuller suggeAs that if it has been the practice to work the apparatus in question, at a higher temperature than boiling water, and an interval of dis use has occurred during the late severe frosts, the contents of the pipes most remote from the fire have no doubt become solid ice, end by obstructing the flow of water occasioned an excess of heat near the boiler, so as to cause the mischief which has happened." Hero again Mr. Fuller has strangely overlooked this impor tant fact, that the mischief alluded to by your Corress pondent, in your paper of the 13th ult., did not happen near the furnace, (Jor boiler, as I have before said, Mere is none,) but in d:ffetent stories, and at distances from the fire varying up to twenty or thirty yards, and even more. It is very generally admitted that in the case of the disastrous fire at Messrs. Crafts and Stab's warehouse, the pipes might have been in some places frozen up, and here the cell within the furnace burst soon after the fire had been lighted, scattering the burning cinders arcongst the good:, and caused the conflagration which followed. sevt ral fires which were discovered in Alei:srs. Barbour's warehouse all occurred in a different ;tory from that in which the furnace is fixed, and the wt.ter is t.aid to have travelled upwards of thirty yards from the fire, before reaching that part of the premises where these ighitions occurred. The floor and the matting of one of the lobbies in the top story of the Museum was charge f, at a distance of about eighty feet from the furnace, which is in the cellar, and this took place after the pipea had been emptied and refilled with fresh water by Mr. Walker's men, who had pronounced the apparatus to be in perfect working condition. I could produce many similar instances, but deem it unnecessary. _ It is now three weeks since I first called the -atten tion of your Correspondent and the public to this danger, and being yet, with the professional assistance of Mr. John ll.tvies, of this town, engaged in investigating this subject, we are anxious to obtain every information that fe lily bears upon the question. I am, Sir, yours very respectfully, Manchester Assurance Office, G. V. RYDER. Manchester, March 4, 1841. PROGRESS OF VACCINATION. On Thursday the following official return was pre ented to the House of Lords : REPORT OF THE NATIONAL VACCINE ESTABLISHMENT, FEBRUARY, 1841. To the Right Ilonourabie the Marytus of Istorrnanby, her Nlajesty's Secretary of State for the Home Department. My Lord—The small-pox has prevailed epidemically with considerable scve , i-y since our list report ; but we lo not abate an iota of our confidence in vaccination as the best protecti,e ag,tinst its malignant influence. We have vaccinated from this station alone 15,588 per. sons within the last year; which exceds the number in any former year by 2,444, and base rent out to our Corte ;pondents at home and the colonies 165,395 charges ef vaccine lymph ; and we feel consideraeile satisfaction in being able to state that the matter we employ is obtained by succession from the original virus communicated by Dr, Jenner himself, and that we find it as effectual as ever. We may be excused, therefore, we hope, if we ;ii.courago an incautious dissemination of matter, obtained from new sources, which has not stood the test of ample experience. Signt.d) HENRY HALFORD. JOHN P. VINCENT. JOHN BRIGHT, M. D. CLEMENT HUE, M. D. CONVICTS FROM THE NORTII.--On Thurs day afternoon thirty-six convicts, under sentence ( f trans portation, arrived at the St. Katharine's steam-packet wharf, in the Royal William steam-ship, from Le.th. They were principally from Glasgow, and a majority were young men. They were all heavily ironed and chained in couples to each other. They were in the dia(ge of two turnkey, and soon after the vessel was mo,ra.d alonfo 'e the wharf wi r.! transferred to the Fi wh:ca conveyed them to the hulks at Woolwich. The manacles round their legs had caused them to be swollen, and several of the convicts were evidently suffer;ng much pair. They are all natives of Scotland, and had been convicted of va rious offences of an aggravated character, and sentenced to transportation for seven and fourteen 3ears and for life. The sum of 100/. was paid for their passage from Sc )t -land to Lond on , an d the fore peak of the steamer was ap propriated for their reception on the voyage. LOAN SOCIETIES.—On Friday Mr. Bing' am, the Sitting M ag i strate at Worship-street, was occupi, d until an u nusua ll y late hour, the business consisting chiefly of warrants and summonses, of which no less than 22 were at the instance of diffcient loan societies. THE G REEN P ARK.— Th e so-calledimprove ments in the Green Park proceed rapidly, and in the course of a month it is expected that the whole w ill be Planted with evergreens an d s h ru b s similar to theinclosed p i casure-garden of St. James's Park. MR. BUCKINGHAM'S LECTURES, Mr. Buckingham delivered his second Lec ture on the history and institutions of the United States, at the Royal Polytechnic Institution, on Saturday evening. The audience was by no means so numerous as the high reputation of the Lecturer, and the very important nature of the infbrmation which he proposed to communicate, had led us to expect. Still the attendance was greaterthan at the delivery of the first Lecture, and the Lecture itself possessed considerably more interest. In his first Lecture, Mr. Buck ingham confined himself to descriptions of the foundation, area, boundaries, scenery, and gross population of the Northern States, interspersed with instructive historical and biographical anecdotes—information imperfectly, but still pretty generally, diffused among the English people ; but on Saturday evening, the Learned Lecturer commenced a tour of the cities and chief towns of the Union, and here nearly every spot was new to the bulk of those who have not crossed the Atlantic. Mr. Buckingham commenced his in teresting tour of civic observation at Bangor, and continued his audience through Augusta, Port land, Concord, Portsmouth, Dover, Exeter, Montpelier, Burlington, Boston, Worcester, Springfield, Salem, Plymouth, Hartford, and Newhaven. His descriptions were luminous, vivid, and abounding in anecdote illustrative of the habits, feelings, and tastes of the inhabit an t s . Mr. Buck ingham frequently intimated to the audience that it was not his intention to provoke political discussions, that his business there, in accordance with the wish of the Directors of the Institution, was to state facts not to express opi nions, but among the facts which it was his duty to state there were many, which could lead only to the conclusion that unless England repealed the Corn-laws, and accepted American wheat in exchange for the manufactures of Lanca shire and Yorkshire. we must prepare to see ourselves very soon unable to compete with Americans in the manufacture of cotton, broad-cloth, hosiery, and hardware. The tena city with which England had clung to the Corn laws had obliged the Americans in self-defence to'bring over from England not only the machi nery of the most extensive cotton-mills, but an abundance of artisans to instruct the American people, and he had himself visited one cotton mill, established within a few years, which gave employment to one thousand persons. He was convinced that had England opened her ports to American grain, neither this mill nor any of those which are rapidly springing up in every part of the States would have ever been thought of. The Lecture occ u pi e d a b ou t an h our and a half in the delivery, and elicited frequent marks of applause from the audience. When it was concluded Mr. Buckingham was very cordially cheered. We believe he is destined to remove many prejudices against the Americans still lin gering in the bosom of the mother country. VICTORIA THEATRE. Wa understand that the friends of the late Mr. Bradbury, the professor of calligraphy and short-hand, have taken this theatre, for Friday the 19th inst., for the benefit of his widow and children. It is known that Mr. Bradbury was the principal author of that graceful character of manuscript, combining the perfect formation of the upright Roman style, with the facility of the :loped Italian, to which the great improvement of the current commercial hand in this country, within the last half century, is al together owing. He not only designed this novel and elegant character, but Le contrived a new system, by which the ability to write it was expeditiously acquired. lie inverted also the angular style of writing, which, being easy of attainment, enabled persons whose edu cation had been neglected to write a neat and legible hand in a very few days. It soon became extensively popular, and was disseminated by hundreds of teachers throughout all parts of the empire. For thirty y ears Mr. Bradbury had a most extensive and lucrative practice, and he introduced a somewhat more perfect sty le thamthat of his angular system amongst the upper class, end numbered some hundreds of ladies and gentlemen of high rank amongst his pupils. That style is now the prevailing one amongst educated fe metes in this country, and is known both here and abroad as the " English ladies'" handwriting. For the last few years of Mr. Bradbury's life he was disabled from attending to his business by a painful illness, which exhausted the savings of his industrious life, and he died lately in great distress, leaving his family abso lutely destitute. Two or three gentlemen who knew his worth and his misfortunes have taken the theatre for the 19th instant, in the confident. lope that their efforts to relieve the widow and children will he suc cessful. COURT CIRCULAR. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, anal the Queen Dowager, attended Divine Service yesterday morning in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The Bishop of Chichester preached the sermon from the First pt Corilithians_ chanter xi i., verses 12, 13,14. The Service was read by the R... mr. ractiman, the Lessons by the Rev. R. Barham, and the Communion Service by the Bishop of London, the Rev. Dr. Slcat:l, and the Rev. Mr. Barham. The Musical Ser vice vt..is Nares io C, the Sanctus and Commandments in D (Knyveit), the anthLm, " The Lord is my light" (Boyce), was sung by Messrs. Wylde and Bradbury. Mr. W. Knyvett presided at the organ. The Rev. Dr. Short was the Deputy Clerk of the Closet in Waiting. The Royal suite included the Countess of Charlemont, Hon. Miss Yoga, Hon. Miss Anson, Lord Byron, Earl of Morley, Hon. Sir Wil -1 am Lumley, Lord Alfred Paget, Sir Edward Bowater, and Captain Francis Seymour. The Queen Dowager's Suite included the Counters of Mayo, Hon. Miss Eden, lion. Miss Courtney Boyle, and Earl Howe. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Kent, the Duchess nt Gloucester, and the Duke of Sussex, visited her Majesty and Prince Albert yesterday at Bucking ham Pvlace. The Queen and Prince Albert honoured Cogent Garden Tl.eatre with their presence on Saturday even ing. The ltoya Su;te consisted of the Countess of Charlamont, Lord Byron, Lord Alfred Paget, and Sr Edward Bowater. Viscount Melbourne had an audience of her Majesty on Saturday. Her Majesty and Prince Albert took an airing in the Parks in a pony phaeton on Saturday morning. In the afternoon her Majesty and his Royal Highness took equestrian exercise in the Riding School. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager attended Divine Service yesterday afternoon in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent attended Divine Service yesterday morning in the Chapel at Kensington Palace. Lady Fanny Howard was in wait ing on her Royal Highness. The Duke of Cambridge attended Divine Service yesterday mcruing in Grosvenor Chapel, South Autilly stra,tt. Baron Kuesebeck and Major Stephens were in waiting on his Royal Highness. Tile Duchess of Gloucester visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager on Saturday at Marlborough House. Tile Duchess of Kent took a❑ airing in a carriage on Saturday. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager took an airing in a carriage to Kensington on Saturday. The Dukelof Cambridge, attended by Baron Knese beck, honoured the Duke of Wellington with his com pany at dinner, on Saturday evening, at Apsley House. His Royal Highness Prince Albert honoured Mr. Stidolph on Saturday, by inspecting his writing machine for the blind, of w h.ch his Royal Highness was pleased to express his approbation. A Cabinet Council was held on S..turday afternoon at the Foreign Office. It was rittcridtd by Viscount Melbourne, Alai quis of Lansdowne, Earl of Clarendon, Marquis uf Normanby, Viscount P.,linerston, Lord Joint Russell, the Chancellor of the Exehrqu,r, Earl of Minto, Str John Hobhouse, Viscount Duncannon, Mr. Labouchere, Lord Alorpeth, and Mr. Macaulay. The Council sat two hours and a half. Mr. Easthope, M.P., Lnd Mr. Mils, M.P., had an interview with the Marquis of Normanby on Saturday, at the Ilome-office. Mr. J. Shaw Lefevre, and Mr. G. C. Lewis, had an intervie , ,, with Lord John Russell on Saturday, at the CdoniA-cffice. Captain Bolton had an interview on Saturday with the Marquis of Norrnanby, at the Home-office. Mr. Robert F. .Maitland had an interview on Satur day with Lord John Ruscil, at the Colonial-office. Despatches from the Governor of British Guinna were received on Saturday at the Colonial-office. PRESENTATION OF PLATE TO THOMAS SLINGSBY DUNcobiBE, ESQ., FROM A PORTION OF THE COMPANY OF TIIE TLIEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET.—On Thursday murnirg a deputation, consisting cf Messrs. S. Knowles, P. Web-t:r, Strickland, J. Wuduck, F. Web ster, J. Webster, and F. Vining, waited on I'. S. Dun. combe, Esq , M. P., to express their grateful sense of that gentlemen's exertions is removing certain restrictions on tneatrical performances during Lent. Mr. Knowles h ving addressed Mr. Duncomhe in an eloquent and ap propriate speech, presented to him, in the names of a por tion of the Haymarket company and himself, a beautiful chased silver cup, cover, and salver, with the Duncumbe arms on one side, on the other the following inscription : "To Thomas Slingsby Duncombe, Esq., M P., in gra titude for his Parliamentary services in favour of those theatres which are under the jurisdiction of the Lord Chamberlain, and which his labours have relieved from certain painful restrictions limiting their performances during Lent, this cup is presented by the undersigned members of the Theatre Royal Haymarket, and Mr. Jam es S. Kno,vles, on the 4th March, 1841." Then Idiocy the subscribers' names. Mr. Duneombe was evidently much pleased ..ith the te,timonial of gratitude, and assured the deputation he should always be ready to forward the inte rest of the drama, and to use every effwt in his power to redress their grievances. IRISH REGISTRATION Mau. Reform Club, Feb. 26, 184 2 0 . is Sis,—N ei , r ly a mee k h as b een spent i n the Coisrur; in the endeavour to prove that two and two make and happily the affirmative has been at last establisbed bf ~ the splendid majority of five, in a House containing D u ' Members 1 .nedi In reference to th e respect i ve Bill s o f Lords bdo's„ and Stanley, the merits of the two measures may be racterized in very few words. Lord Stanley was from 1830 to 1834, one of the klietbil; ters of a Cabinet which introduced the Reform Bit, first draught of which, a s we were assure d by Lord Alt!!'i d comprised the Ballot, the disfranchisement of that foul_ most corrupt portion of the old e l ec t ors , the ancient fre t ' teen, and said net a word of the other servile class, the hv " tenants at will. P ee. In its progress through th e H ouse , o r before, the by o tb e . tection by Ballot to the f ree use o f t h e franchise people on whom it was con f erre d, was struck out to ea ciliate the Tories, and to leave the electors in h ehds S'e the right of the ancient freemen was confirmed for &be same purpose ; and t o c l enc h t h e w h o l e , by extending 'a / class of helots, the f ranc hi se was con f err ed on the bu. ten Thean at will in counties. ts result has been that Tory domination is supremsei3 the county elections ; while in the boroughs, the, P, °° ,. r d a lef, ancient freemen, mostly paupers receiving Owed el'aer, and all ready to sell their vacs to the bighest bid 0 have rendered the Bill even worse than the old systenn o , ably and truly de nounce d by t h at fi ne o ld English gee,' d man and ex- past ion Sir Francis Burdett. The wall`the precision in defining the franchise, and providing fer e 0 , correction . of the registration, through some scoresoo:beir vising barristers, no two of whom hardly agree i t eas view of what the franchise really is, leaves the pi holeeinew'sd prey to endless litigation, expense, and all the best s , „ I n. animosities of faction, , contest, ignorance, and bad i c r latlnion. Ireland the cese is even worse. The aneisa fs s chise of the forty-shilling freeholders was abolisbe u b 1829 to please the T o ri es an d con fi rm their power, t h lot I believe Mr. O'Connell was a party to that disgri re , transaction, for it is self-evident that even a 40 '' h o/. holder must be a more independent elector than a te rs tenant-at-will. In the Reform Bill the Irish werelsi with a 10/. franchise, as in England, though the o' o , and relative circumstances of the two countries are so la sent!ally different that a 10/. franchise in Ireland l ie be about equal to a 20/. franchise in England ; in ° s ties. words, a 10/. franchise in England would, in stiles l e °, a, or equity, be in exact proportion to a 51. franchise in l e s e a f The fact is proved by the gradual constant dimiout ie ua ti the elective body in Ireland—for though the great V 3 _4 of Cork, with 750,000 inhabitants, had not half so, ,7 1 .4 electors as several small borouhs in England witu bise . than a tenth of its population, t he work of di fran e e . o ff meat is proceeding rapidly to reduce even that s '1 0 ( allowance to one-half or one-third by the joint e ttr a, an over-high franchise, of deaths, of litigation, asp 4 04 and the conflicting judgments of revising barrister° partisan judger. for b it Such was the moment chosen by Lord Stanley i c lod. grand attack on the few remai n i ng e l e ctors of '!" er est With all the new-born ze a l o f a conver t from tu e .° o ol and glorious cause of Reform, and with all the a eoni the of a renegade, he last Session produced his fill fo r 10 4 ostensible correction of the registration, with a sP ee t The an intent which might be thus freely translated re- n ot electoral body in all Ireland, M r . Sp ea k e r, is hardly e lp4 to that of three English counties, York, Lancasiee'cag • ise: Middlesex ; and even that portion is rapidly dite le e f r o:- under the united e ff ects of an elevated and ill- define d dim, of litigation, of expense in defending or ex er i ' lls of the right to vote, of the benign influence of the r i ff eo leg property, as evinced in the summary process of el — ke ep estates in Ireland of all recalcitrant voters who dare to ° A a conscience. Aid me, I pray you, to perfect this gle and glorious work, so as to leave Ireland without ° . 0 or elector but such as will be perfectly docile to the 01 0 01 the charmer, and follo w wi th out a murmur their ea d s ties leaders, the Rodens, Beresfords, Charlevilles , ` b e t t he three Colonels. This Bill i s so h a ppily devised taile rest will find it their interest never to claim the Ono at all; and tnus the Orangem en , Sh aw and I, wi ll the game in our own hands !" beeln When reproached that while he m u ltiplied the ° l o s e and di ffi culties and expenses of any reg i stra tion at, li o f its left the franchise itself which was to form the Wi ll R olf utterly undefined cr explained, though that was f, irest the indispensable preliminary, he coolly r e plied-'l. O or was not his ditty. Let Ministers d e fine the franet' o l t he right." His only object (forsooth 1) was to preser i e b s ick' obstructions, the snare:, pitfalls, a n d o ther modes 0 ' th at, ening the electors from ever claiming or exereisit o ge right at all,—unless under the protection of the party. Lord Morpeth's Bill brought hi s s i ncer i'y as was Js big o consistency to the test. That Bill defined a fr en : the clear, intelligible, practical, and i n di s p u t a ble even 1 e r e , cunning Isaacs of the Tory party. C o nsidering t.! Jr' lative wealth of the two countries, a 5/ franchis e tub is land, as I have already shown, is hardly low eile e g at alt proportion to a 101. franchise in England ; or ri,t l site at once profess the wish to disfranchise Irelan d the gether. But the test of having been rated 0001( poor was clearing the whole difficulty, an d ,ed fir at least nine-tenths of the w or k contem see Lord Stanley's revising officers, with their triplesel quadruple devices or obstructions. His Lordship °P ; r o on the second reading in a speech so full of hypocrisy. 1 _ R e sietence, and perverted views, that Mr. Sheila pJiord did reply may safely be lift unaided, though a isr John Russell has heaped more coa's on his bead lo, e v rtl , ner nesee to be forgotten by the captious and fretful,ool. His advent ti power— Heaven forfe u d it I —wou ld 1 1 , 0 1 V be the signal for disast , r, if n:t revo l u tion in ir e and the Tories know it. 18 Although there is little hop e o f L or d Morpethae'l passtuer, tne reere, owin g - to the stat e o f p a rties the' r ;w.' the timid, trimming poli c y o f t h e Cabinet, yet th e f gives us a hope that Lord Stan!ey's cannot nags' 1;g on all sour readers the i mm i nent d anger of • alloWdbon, even in any modified shape, t o p ass w ith o ut a clear peer , tion of the franchise, as in Lord Morpeth'e, for the c e the , who would readily pass the one , wou ld as surely retesiefe other. It needs not the gift of prophecy to say that T ooa ell, Bill alone would confirm th e mora l p o wer of tY in b tit, and the Roman Catholic clergy o f I re l a nd, safe' ee th e ' fact, solve the apparent e n i gma now presentee French Government—. 1 , " Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike; o w in other words, entirely prepared for war, and 0 01 / 1 4Siet' rently waiting till Lord Stanley and Co. chose to P them with a vital part for the infliction of the blow' t; bee I am, Mr. Editor, an Englishma n a nd a Protel e glisit' I cannot help feeling that the wh o le course of ti 7 o ed. (Tory) policy towards Ireland h as been one co of scene of fraud, violence, and an utter pe;versio° s o re" equal justice which kingdoms owning the salin is reign have a right to expect. L or d Stanley's t . „set gross fraud, in further a nce of t he o ld T o ry scheme 'Lore domination ; and were it passed as it stands!, withou t th ink Morpe.h'e, I should, were I an Irishman, begin te „, diet ' that more justice might be hoped f o r from Fra n Pk f-om England. I have some ex p e ri e nce cf . th e to the people, and apprehend they will generally colneroffesea same conclusion, and in reply to L or d Stanley's Piny the. boon of an improved system i f registration, rep Latin poet : " Timeo Danaos, et done ferentes." w Mit But will they be content with this protest, and bLt ,bel necks to the yoke ? Ido not think they ought. advert' verl Before I dismiss this important topic I will adv igh ge-• briefly to one closely connected with it, the Eng,' t o it'', form Bill. I observe, by Lord Fitzwilliam's l es the reply to Mr. Marshall's, of Leed-, that be cosi a a re- English (and Irish) Reform Bills, as having eff ect° if h e volution, and he triumphantly asks Mr. Marehslig ;r, all wishes to effect a revolution every year ? , bat `' wholly unacquainted with either Lord F. or Mr. . I %' a ebe must say . I think such language not only highly • oe ncl , ing the Noble Peer's character for Liberal coal° 'rug but wholly at variance with the facts of the eilee'ile.de change effected by the Reform Bill, owing to the of t he flied anchisc, the defective and contradictory at:1,1300RO Registration, and its rcvision by a mob of u d‘r a to will, or t ha t barristers, wi , heut any tribunal or common ste ll is eaole appeal to, has been from bad to worse 1 The countrY,.° c ot . completely enthralled, and at the feet of the Toriefatr.ci 80. it was, even under Sir Francis Burdett's roughmonger System." The people dare not aj: toer acji Accur o v r vo te contrary to the mandates of the clergy and ar iver poot , Look at the scenes pre ented by Leicester, le 0 w ith Stafford, &c., among the boroughs and East Re'f d ' Johrl its 600 parson-power, as exercised agr.inst lA' o f the Russell, fur a specimen of the utter degradatioon be sor e, people urn'er the Reform Bill. Lord John t , loo ks with a meekness worthy of a primitive Christian ia o plf all this with great composure, and seYee t , e erroP to all who would urge V:e correction' of S tic "-Lor 14 ° influences on either side, " They will mend, Sir, ' e u vr "r e . i ir• mend," to which I would humbly reply wich nd r ce , serv:Ge, in Rob Roy, " Like sour beer in sum s is oe Lord." The thing is impossible, as the law ' far as to fact. the In regard to theory, I may ask in what re'Sp eet ,: a p s e tro'' Reform Bill a Revol u tion? The eminent men 000 duced and supported it by their e l o quence in eit ke i r s t ont. said directly the reverse, and declared in expre;ioese if! that they merely wished to place the Commonsriee bad that position which it once occupied before the su m s „O slo° crept in which disfigured and corrupted it. They sa n d to the Constitution itself, and to the ancient practi.Fe_ d Fitt' in support of that small measure of justice, Lord william Ilse inconsistently terms a revoluti o l. rep ship is an able man, but before he ventures to r.ePsoil tot strange dictum, may I venture to suggest that %e nd pr ies' Mr. Ma- 3'3811 for him) compare the ancient law s nit tice of Parliament and the franchises cf the P e 7.: 03 Act' which .ho i i o those now prescribed and practised under the Re . 00 ,1 ) That he w 11 compare the speeches of Lords GNP l o se% Brougham, Althorp, John Russell, and of Stanley ,_„ t ire d o ur% and Graham, while suppo r ti ng the Bill, all rep u ing ,he absurd idea cf Reform b e i ng Revolution, so-a urg Constit°' adoption of tl.e Bill, as a return merely to th,F es , io , o AS tion, to the Saxon law, with only such mai° . 1 Bo o" , time, " the greatest innovator of all," accordingf ' L u te coo.. rendered imper. tively accessary, in the spirit t' 6rwle 4 chi stitution itself. Th e 811 has obviously only er n nee ,Per' c ent abuses, or aggravated them, in w hich Al Mr. a". baps, Lo r d F. may b e r i g h t but I trust will impro ve thi s su bj ect . A NG L 0-S AX° l4. • SINGULAR DISCOVERY.--On I ' Vednesti oall lal i t, as a trannamed Garth was employed in removirg c , e , in house in Penn _street, be had occasion to break a large frog, in the middle of which be discovered a fine full - g r rrle 'l snugly domiciled in a very neat circular bed. o , frog, on ga fling its liberty, began to jump about. I n t ', then taken to !hi; Lancashire Guardian bY 9rt pt and on the following day was removed to the premises; tine N,itural History Society, for examination by the j " e i; met on Thursday bers, w h o ovenirg......pnicaS Guardian. Lord Brougham has arrived in Paris. Viscountess Palmerston has issued c ard f or sdirees to-day, and on the 13th and 20th inst. MORNING -EDITION. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 8, 1841. MORNING EDITION 7/