The Sun. — London, England, 1849-03-12 00:00:00

•'ll l Mut e th e majority of viol. An t q tality o votes condemns Measure. § e c• 54.—The s i tt i ngs of the Imperial Diet are ; but each house may resolve itself into a secret Zwttittee on the motion of the Pr,?s;dent or of ten "l 4 abor& D et i 4 , Se c• 55.—Members of the houses can only present "call to the house to which they belong. 56.—Deputations arc lilt to be admitted to the alai Diet. twn. 57.—N0 member of the Imperil'. Diet can be T i o s'y answerable out of doors for the opinions which he 4 11 floes in the house. 't im e% 58.—The arrest and prosecution of a member 0 - "ug the session can only take place with the express lient of the house to which that member belongs, ex always a case of seizure in flagrante. o p :;k 1 co. St.—Each house has the framing of its standing % e l's within the limits of the principles determined by ho c onstitution. The mutual relations of the Upper and = ' House are regulated by a convention of both the 4 7, 11 . Z tn *co. 60.—The right of proposing laws belongs to the Poror and to either house. g e a Sec. 61.—The consent of the Emperor and of both luies is required for each law. A bill, which has been ec ted either by the Emperor or by one of the s lit till es, cannot be brought in again in the course of the e session. ti e LSee. 62.—The Imperial Diet participates in the le tt mtlon of the affairs which this consitution designates , El esirs of th e e mpire. itt r i ,§ e c. 63.—The deputies from all the Crown lands T h 4 ciPate in the legislation on the affairs of the empire. le tt e i l ame joint participation takes place respecting the , th e 'Won on matters of civil and criminal justice, and 4Praetice and competency of courts. 81,,80t whereas Hungary, Transylvania, Croatia, and th e y °o 4 are in the l above respects differently constituted, l;ll a ajd parts of legislation shall in these Crown lands , Within the province of their respective Diets. tidltit the aforesaid Diets will have the task of re. o r ,ug the present legislation in the said branches, in of ; to establish a desirable harmony of the legislation 0b,2 Parts of the empire. Until that result shall have been mt n d, the members for the said Crown lands shall be Asti. j oi alned from taking part in the discussions of the likPerial Diet on the said branches of legislation, and , e , w t ,ise from giving their votes on any such resolution. I)i„,.°ec. 64.—The Emperor prorogues the Imperial t o , and be may dissolve it at any time. On the pro gation of the Diet, .or on the dissolution of one of the o s e tla ca, the sittings of either house must immediately kb all Z !. In case of a dissolution of the Imperial Diet, kr t ner Diet must be convoked within three months r the dissolution." (To be continued.) AUSTRIA. t ge le h._ following app ea rs in the Austrian Lloyds of )4 1 4 We give the assurance to the nation that no alliance k a tever has been entered into with Russia; that Ans.- thas not promiked to allow, through gratitude for the r i ces rendered id Siebenbiirgen, the Russians to act ti th e th ,,,Y please in the Danubian principalities, and that I to Russian citizen corps crossed over the Austrian otr titiera without the request, coasent, or knowledge of 4.f. Government, and solely at the demand of Licute rield-Marshal Puchner." s t A r eat disturbances have broken out at Bragance m notzen etti:Oehiffitocirlyal reports from Cracow, of the 3d inst., mention liZeossacks, who occupy the. frontier on their own from Miehelowice to the Vistula, and from e l fre to Bilica. Cracow, which was reported to have tared a bombardment and a Russian occupation, was te it : l4ll , although that tranquillity was threatened by p ots tons emissaries and smugglers of prohibited wea fors' Lieutenant General LEGE DIZ was quite prepared e very eventuality. , Ti m FRANKFORT. utt - Committee for the revision of the Constitution has h tr e t r til di Llie , by a majority of 13 to 10, in favour of an - -y cnief of the Empire. PRUSSIA. Isi bs e following programme has been signed by 171 i t i l e rs of the Secoed Chamber:- 144 r the undersigned members of !he . Second Chamber con- Pero t ,„ u e following principles as indispensable for the pros- Solution of the problems before them. 1. They ac hkr e dge the constitution of the sth of December of the past 44 4 ,18 the legitimate fundamental law of the Prussian ry State, Nio k i rdge themselves to co-operate towards the reseed re- Ill te ,,,Pf the same only by pursuing the course pointed out 1 n ' 440 11 112, and to acknowledge the revision as binding. NC f the re v i s i on o f t h e cons ti t ution they will unalterably e ii aat by th e pr i nc i p l e o f c onstitutional monarchy under i f tti n : r oditary government of the house of Hohenzollern. ' 4 lld ° upon these foundation they dedicate themselves with eVotion to the furthering of all true interests of the ti? the s i tt i ng o f t h e S econ d Ch am b e r of the Bth, the i fUFFEL, the Minister of the Int , rior, presented l 'etah'°wing bills :-1. On the abuse of the right of as td and association. 2. On the misuse of placards ft td a nd-bills. 3. On the regulation of the press kee, a nnounced that when these bills should have been they the state of siege might be suspended. VINCEE L I N* Proposed that a committee ba appointed to krt an address in answer to the speech from the to 9 fi l 'es which motion was carried by a majority of 172 The xing Of WURTEMBURG. WIIRTEMBURG iS dangerously i 1. Lie Fundamental Law was proclaim d on the 6th. D ENMARK AND THE DUCHIES- Th 11 4 e Cologne Gazette of the 9th, says, "Chevalier I?r t .B !,,z'i, in con se quence of instructions received from sc „ ort and Berlin, has replied very concisely to the ko h ; 1 ann ou ncement of the King of DENMARK, de ket.„—ig the armistice of Malmo. He declares that the ter lr ti , a ions for peace are thereby broken off, and must br oken off until that denunciation be withdrawn. kaaand and France have, it is said, likewise maul -411,7 to Denmark their serious disapprobation of this e t eiation. bk h e t s luark will thus be thrown back more completely teti" R ussia, and will find at St. Petersburgh an ener 401130Pporter, the more so since the Russian note to poll Cabinet, which was at first doubted, is now I t t l i vely denied. tf , r ," is to be a meeting at Schleswig to-day (March 1)0' 4 ,7 ,'ne bureau of the National Assembly, for the pur- I ltset discussing the important question, whether it be top t 'll,i, under existing circumstances, immediately to eice the Assembly. tch l l*e lit activity prevails in the war department at I tte t e l liWi g. General HOKIN clearly manifests great in /t the Schleswig-Holstein cause. i tei tt is reported that the results consequent upon the Ipeaof peace are expected to have an unfavourable in that si e upon the inhabitants of Schleswig-Holstein, tind t „2r this r eason all the Schleswig-Holstein troops are empi r ic the countr y, an d to be repla c ed by troops of the 4 1 , 1;e• r The new levy amounts to 3,500 men. The ~ of Rendsburg have quarters for 3,000. lks h 4 , 11 t1• boat f or th e Schleswig-Holstein service has just 4 4ti launched at Gluckstadt. The command of the I`, t e troops will probably be confided to Colanel ce s• a e Cologn e Gazette of the 10th contains the follow " /„," ( ilincement ediately on the receipt of the intelligence that Den *Rs k!`"lci notified its intention not to renew the armistice, ttehnistry of the Central Power met in council, and dis t, pelt that same day a courier to Chevalier Bunsen, at t list i ° , 11 , , instructing him to intimate to Lord Palmerston, ` l tisi,;„'is Lordship could not give guarantees for the c0n ,7,001i of peace on the conditions proposed, an army of " 4 chi el n il t en should immediately take military posession of the ITALY. NAPLES AND SICILY. ULTIMATUM. „° Turin j ourna l o f th e 7th gives the following as 4 t te l ti oiatum for the settlement of the affairs of Sicily, k t, '" upon b e t ween t h e Ki ng o f NAPLES, Mr. IE3I- kW M. DE RAYNEVAL : hvgeneral amnes ty, exce p t i ng thi r ty l ea d er s of the keotion, who were to receive passports; the consti tp4°O of 1812, mo difi e d ; one army on l y , w i t h a Si c ili an 14 11 hgent; independent Parliament; finances, muni -Ities, and tribunals; lieutenant to be named by the 11 1 ,,0, either a Prince Royal or a Sicilian. The head of 4...qousehold, the foreign affairs, war, and marine, to ot g t ,a a on the KING; a contribution of four millions of 4 4 b its, and one million of war indemnity to be made. hief 44 oglish vessel had left on the 28th with this u/ti• ke t h f or Palermo. ti t etild it be rejected by the Provisional Government of fiti l Y r e the from all mediatinfurg the w r interference Poers announce that they will a l "taw. Yt ee t Contemporaneo publishes a letter from Civita siti of the 28th ult., stating that a steamer had •there that day from Naples stating that the 1 11 1cl a - , 4 ; 118 bad definitively rejected the ultimatum of the 1 4, - „"hg Powers. There must have been some mistake I sltiZ 4B lto the fact or as to the date, inasmuch as if the tl ititir t tum Was not despatched from Naples to Palermo mitrd h. im t o 28th, the intelligence of its rejection could /' nave reached Civita Vecchia on the same day. Tuscan Moniteur, of the 6th inst., says that a 7,illeittion of the Ministry is about to take place. SINEO ‘ge 6 h t/ the Advocate General, and CABELLI will enter ancery, b fol loWing is the reply of the King of SARDINIA to ISC f ,, di. " 6l of the Chambers, applauding his Govern it;"r favouring an Italian confederation, and oppos 'qsh,ll l intervention of foreigners in central Italy. The 'to Zer also recommended a closer alliance with the Orrekt constitutional powers, as well as with Hun '` o pposed to the same enemy. r,tst s toori,—l am grateful for the sentiments you ex qi 11„ % hd return thanks to the Chamber. I rejoice in pton a i: i ltony which prevails. Our union is the best of success. You tell me the nation is ready for a ao , ll aorifice. I assure you that the army is in a 11 04 :, Lo state and ready. I and m sons ha the honour and Italian independence at heart." ve '‘ ' ; it I3 , O ,,NENCEMENT OF HOSTILITIES BE- A," LEN THE PIEDMONTESE AND r e t STRIANS. 4rotiers were yesterday received in Paris from Turin, kop t . 4 Colonel of the Staff, which state that the Pied '4o4l°, have commenced hostilities. They have t -(/ m ee t on Piacenza, and the Austrians had advanced mrat thew. According to the same authority, the 411 at ° r; jec t of CHARLES ALBERT would be to drive the -411 % out of Milan. ` 4 1; 4 l AMB ARE, SIR C. NAPIER.—Sir Charles, at °ga te i nterview with the Duke, is said to have declined .41: to India. On this the Duke, in his customary curt VatitpoPonded, " Then, air, if you don't g I must."— 41 41 Gazette. THE' SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY. QUARTER TO THREE. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool, on Saturday, amounted to ;from 6,000 to 7,000 bales, including- 500 American for expert, and 1,500 on speculation. There was a better demand, but less being offered the market consequently improved in firmness. and extreme rates were obtained. The sales included 6,000 American at 31d. to 6d., 300 Surat at 30. to 4Rd., 100 Pernam, &c., at sd. to 6i1., and 50 Egyptian „at 6d. to 61d. Railway shares were firmer, but there was only a limited business done. if the Frankfort Parliament can tt.ccomplish no great political end, it will at least render in( stimable service to Germany by establishing something like fiscal and corn mercial units ; and it will be particullarly advantageous if the proposition for the free navigat.ion of the rivers is carried out. The Imperial Minister of Commerce has proposed a law to make the German rivers avail able fir the countries which are in the con federation, the State regulating the navigation and attending to the condition of the waters under its control. The vexatious dues would be abro gated on the Rhine from Basle outwards, on the Necker, the Main. the Loan, the Mosel, the Weser, the Warre, the Tuelda, the Elbe, and its branches to the Baltic and the Donau. Each state will contribute its proportion of the necessary annual outlay. A further carrying out of the Z ,llverei❑ system is expected almost simultaneously. Very Encouraging advices have been received from Paris, relative to the tone of public feeling, and although there is a little uncertainty in the political relations of Austria, &c., no particular uneasiness seems to be felt on that score. Extreme depression is still observable in the Corn Market, and there is much difficulty in doing business. The supplies of Foreign are very considerable. There has been very little doing in the English Stocks this morning, and after opening tolerably well in consequence of the further rise in the French rentes at Paris on Saturday, they have declined, owing to some operations in connexion with the settlement of the account. The highest price of Consols has been 92 4 1 , and there have been no intermediate quotations be twee n that price and 921. For April the current values are about 4 per cent. above those here noted. This afternoon the "options" come off, and it is the interest of many of the jobbers to keep down the market, as it is said that a large amount of calls would come into play were Consols to rise above 83. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been 9311, and since, 93i 1. Exchequer-bills have realised 42s $o 445, and India Bonds under 1,0001. 48s premium. In the Foreign Market there has been more speculation in Mexican stock, and the price has been run up to2B and 281. Grenada Deferred have realised 3 ; Equador, 3/ ; Venezuela 281, and Peruvian 56; Portuguese Four per Cents. have realised 261 to 4, and the Spanish Three per Cents. 291. French Five per Cents are 90, with the ex change at 25 25. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. have been 491 to 4• Danish Three per Cents. have been at 79. Brazilian small 80i to 83. Railway Shares have been dull this morning, and with no general alteration in prices, but Hudson's lines are improving, and the French shares, in one or two in stances, are again higher. ONE CLOSING ! It. I (.1 , 13 RIT SH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. _ _ _ ..... ~ .... -......-.. . —....... _ ____ ___. per Cent. Reduced Anns ...... 92%76 It 92 1 4 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 9 2 34% 92 1 4 New 3 1 4 per Cent. Anus.-- . 9 35 , 10% 931 A uong Anna. to expire Jan.lB6o -16 nth& Bonds, 1,0001. — .._ __ _p Ditto New Annuities Consols for Account 92/ %xchequer Bills. 2 1 ,4 d. & 2d. 1,000/. June 42 44 p 41 p Small. June Ditto under 1,0001. .. ..... -...... 48 52p PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. ONE CLOSES : O'CL OM. PRICES. Brazilian Bonds — Ditto, Small B3 8014 Danish Bonds, 1825, 3 per Cent 7l Ditto, 5 per cent. Scrip, 1849 9B p Equador Bonds Grenada Bonds, 1 per Cent. Ditto Deferred Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 28 % 1/ ' 28 Ditto, Account 2Bl/ 28 28% 28 Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents 56 57 1 h Portuguese 5 per Cents. — Ditto, 4 per Cent 2 6 1,4 27 Ditto, Account ............ Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto, Account I7M 17 1 4 Ditto, Passive Ditto 3 per Cent — — Ditto, Account 29% 29% Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent 2 B l /2 28% Dividends on the above payable in London. French Rentes, 5 per Cent. Exchange 2sf. 25c. 25f. 25c. French, 3 per Cent Exchange 2sf. 20c. 25f. 20c. Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild 4 2 34% 4936 Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates 80 79 PRICES OF PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLOSING RAILWAY SHARE?. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES. kberdeen 5O ... . 18% Birmingham and Ox ford Junct., calls duly paid, or with a guaran. 20 Birming.,Wolverh'pton, and Stour Valley 13/. 145... 11 1 / 4 ••• 1l 4 Caledonian Do. New 101. Pref lO ..... 111 ........ ...... 11 1 ,E Chester and Holyhead -':ast Anglia, 25/., L. & E. and L. and D...... 25 Eastern Counties........ 20 ...... 10%% ... lO 4l Do. New Guaranteed 6 per Cent... Ditto ditto, No. 2...61. 13s. 4d 4 p l4 p 'Do. North. & Eastern 50 Do. New East Lincolnshire ...... 25 Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 44 Great Northern ;mat South. and West _ (Ireland) Great North of England.loo .....•232 x.d. ........232 1 x.d. Ditto, New, 401 - 4O Ditto, ditto Ditto. New,ls/ l4 .. .. 33 ....- ......... 33 Great Western 100 ..... . 98 1 / 4 97 3 / 4 x.d. 97 3 / x.d Ditto, % Shares Ditto, 1 4 Shares Ditto, Fifths ..... -..... 20 Ditto, New 17/..... .. 15 ... .. 13 x.d x.d. Lancashire & Yorkshire 93 Do. Fifths.... ....... .... 10 Do. Thirds Leeds and Bradford London, Brighton, and South Coact 5O ..... 36 Do.Guarant. 6 per et.. 9 ...... Do. Pref. 5 per dent.— 50 .. ... Ditto, ditt0...... 1852 50 London and N. Western 100 137 137% 136 IA x.d 1374 x.d Ditto, New Ditto, Fifths ..... .. .. 2 ... 9% x.d ... 9 1 / 8 x.d Lond. &S. Western 5O ... 38% 38 38% x.d.38% x.d. Do., New Scrip, 1848, Pref. 7 per Cent. on Deposit, and 5 per Cent. on Calls Manchester, Sheffield, -- and Lincolnshire ...100 Ditto, New 101. Pref... 10 ••. ll Midland . ...101 ...... 82 83 x.d. • _ Do., do., 50/. Shares .. 25 ... .. ...... 17% Do.Consol. Bristol and Binning., 6 per ct.... 100 ...... ... 124% Corti' Britir,h .. .... ... 25 ...... 15% %........... 15 1 Ditto, Halves .. North Staffordshire l7 i 4 14%.. ... ......... 14% Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton ...... 50 Royston and Hitchin ... 3% 3 - y . s ........ .... . . . 3% Shrewsbury and Birm... 10 Ditto ditto. Class B. 6 Ditto, New Guaranteed 8 Shropshire Union 5 -,outh Devon... Do. Preference South Eastern Do.. Registered No. 4 10 Do., Scrip No 4 South Wales 33 ...... 19 1 4.... ..... .... 19 1 4 South Yorkshire, Don- _ _ caster, and GoOle Wear Valley 6 per Cent. Guaranteed ... .. ...... 50 ...... 61 1 4 6i t 4 Do. do. do. ... 25 Wilts, Somerset, & Wey mouth York, Newcastle, and Berwick. .... .... ....... 25 .. 25% ex.div.... 25% x.d Do. Original New and Berwick .. ...... ... .. 25 2 5 34% ex.div. 25% x.d Do. Newcastle Eaten. 20 Do. G.N.L.Preterence 8 ..... _B -1 / 2 -.1 2 8 .: .... York and North Midland 50 ......51 50% x.d Ditto, Preference Di East and Westßid- ing Extension ✓ 25 .24% ex,div 2 4 34 xA FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Central of France (Or leans and Vierzon)... 18 Northern of France...... 13 Paris and Rouen ... Paris and Strasbourg ... 10 Rouen and Havre ...... 20 Sambre and Meuse 2O ..... 4 3 / 4 4 MINES. - - - - Bolonos Scrip ...... .. .. -- JOINT STOCK BANKS. London & Westminster. 20 Union of Australia LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, MARCH 12.—Wind at noon W., light breeze and cloudy. STATE OF WIND AND WEATHER AT THE PROVINCIAL PORTS THIS MORNING, AT 9 A.M. Colchester S. by NV., cloudy. Gosport Gloucester ...... N.W., fine. Glasgow S.W., fine. S.W. by W., very fine. Lowestoffe W. by N., cloudy. Leith .. Liverpool Newcastle Portsmouth Southampton Yarmouth W., fine. TIIALEE, Mulct! s.—Arrd. Heather Bell, New York. BELFAST, MARCH 10.—Wind N.W.—Sld. Waitron, New York. LIVERPOOL, MARCE 11.—The William Penn, for Youghal, struck on Jordan Flats last night, unshipped her rudder, drifted on Barbo and filled; three men drowned. Arrd. Magellan, Spraule, China. Sld. 10th, Crisis, Shanghai; Maria Winch, Hong Kong; Isabella, Harnett, Calcutta • Coligny, Senegal ; Lady Mona, Buenos Ayres, and not on the 9dr as reported; Don Pedro 11., Rio Grande; Carina, llavannah ; Alexander Grant, New Orleans; Julius Cxsar, New Orleans ; Amazon, New Orleans ; Stirlingshire, Mobile ; Marcia, Clewes, Mobile; Canada steamer, New York; China, Mobile; Charles Carroll, Mobile. Off Port, Rajah, Bassa ; Crescent; Majesty. 11A2LSGATE, MARCH 11.—The Jeune Amyte, which WU assisted in here on the 28th January, dismasted Sic., has this day proceeded in tow of a steam-tug to Calais. The Isabella Sarah, of Newcastle, laden with dry goods, in coming up the river, 9th instant, missed stays opposite Wool wich dockyard, got into contact with two vessels lying along side the wharf wall, and received considerable damage. DEAL, MARCH 10.-IVind N.N.E. ; 11, N.W.—Arrd. 10, Caroline Stewart, Hull, and sailed for Valparaiso. 11, Arrd. from the River, Will Watch, Hambleton, San Francisco; St. Martin, Hanschild, Buenos Ayres. Arrd. from the River and sld., 10, Sir Edward Parry, Freeman, Port Adelaide; Jenny Lind, Westgart, Cape of Good Hope; Acorn, Langley, Porto Rico ; Helen, Mumford, Tobago. 11, Josea, Hansen, Monte Video; Cheshire, Hogg, Barbadoes, and since put back; Dublin, Penn, Trinidad. RAMSGATE, MARCH 11,—Wind N.—Sld. 10, Bessell, Domingo. STROMNESS, MARC!! 28.—Wind E.—Sld. Feb. 28, Mary, Callao, after repairing. DUNDEE, MARCH B.—Advice, Davis's Straits. 9th, Alexander, ditto; Horn, ditto; Princess Charlotte, ditto. PORTSMOUTH MARCH 10.—Wind N.N.E. to N.; 11, W.N.W.—Arrd. H.M.S. Wanderer, Sierra Leone, Feb. 10, and proceeded eastward ; Eliza and Emma, Boysen, Rio Janeiro, and sailed 11, for Hamburg. Sld. 10, Nickarie Packet, Surinam. COWES, MARCH 10.—Wind N.N.E.—Arid. George An dreas, Foh, Angostura, and sailed for Amsterdam. Sld. Sa linr, Rio Janeiro. HARTLEPOOL, MARCH 10.—Wind N. to N.N.E.—SId. John Hutchinson, Panama. BRISTOL, MARCH 11.—Wind IV.N.W.—SId. Japan, Ha vannah ; Mirimachi, St. John's, New Brunswick; Quebec, ditto; African Queen, Africa; Eliza, Barbadoes ; lon, Sa vannah ; Caroline, Tobago. SHIELDS, MARCH 10.—The Haselwooll, from Clackmannan, on being towed out yesterday evening in a gale, went on the Hezel Sand, and drove on the Nair, where she remains; crew saved. CROMER, MA RCII 10.—Two tread-boards, marked " Sarah," in yellow letters on a black ground, were picked up on the beach this morning. OFF SALCOMBE—John Smidt, New Orleans, for Bremen. SUNDERLAND, MARCH 11.—Sid. William, New Brunswick. LIMERICK, MARCH 10.—Sid. Newpenny, Havannah. CORK, MARCH 9.—Wind N.—Sid. Palendar, Boston; Herundo, New York. Off port, Charlemagne, Fales, New Orleans, for Havre Lotus; Pollock, Baltimore. WATERFORD, MARCH B.—Sld. Lady Constable, New York; 9th, Tuskar, Panama; Downes, New York. SWANSEA, MARCH 11.--Wind Commodore, Cuba. NEWPORT, MARC!! 10.—Wind N.E.—Sid. Marianne, St. Thomas; Mary Gibson, Havannah. LYNN, MARCH 11.—The Joseph and Mary, of and for Sunderland, from London, sprung a leak off Flamborough Head on the 9th inst., and sunk yesterday off Snetlesham ; crew and part of stores saved. __ CLYDE,. MARCH 9.—Wind W. to N.—Arrd. Pursuit, Wil son, Mobile. Sld. Emulous Barbadoes ; Atalanta, Porto Rico; Carolina, New York and St. John's, New Brunswick. Dusmx, MARCH B.—Sid. Arkansas, New York. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE-(MONDAY.) The arrivals of English Wheat for our market, last week, coastwise as well as by land carriage, was less than 2,000 quarters. That of all other articles of home pro duce was equally small, and of but middling quality. From Ireland and Scotland, the receipts were confined to a few cargoes of Oats. The imports of foreign Wheat were large, viz., 38,657 quarters, chiefly from the near Continental ports—the supply from Antwerp alone ex ceeding 16,000 quarters—and the Black Sea. The other foreign arrivals comprised 2,303 quarters of Barley; 5,582 quarters of Oats; 665 quarters of Rye; 642 quar ters of Beans; 303 quarters of Peas; 2,697 quarters of Tares; 9 quarters of Linseed; 45 quarters of Rapeseed; 174 quarters of sundry seeds, principally Clover; and 4,302 sacks, together with 1,570 barrels of Flour from France and the United States. Large supplies of foreign grain are still on their way from the Black and Mediterranean Seas. The supply of W heat fresh up to this morning's market from Essex, Kent, Suffolk, &c., was again very limited, and a large portion of it was greatly out of condition. Notwithstanding that the attendance of both town and country buyers was larger than for some time past, the demand for all kinds of Wheat of home produce was ex ceedingly heavy; and, where sales took place, factors were compelled to submit to a reduction in the,quota- Lions of Monday last of from ls. to 2s. per quarter. So heavy was the trade, arising in some measure from the damp state of the samples, that prices were almost no minal. The market closed heavily, and a total clearance of the stands was not effected. There was a large quantity of Foreign Wheat on offer. This had a very depressing effect upon the demand for that article. Nearly the whole of the importers were anxious sellers; hence the demand, from the unwilling ness on the part of the millers to get largely into stock, in the face of the continued heavy imports of flour from France, was dull in the extreme, and the currencies gave si ay, compared with those paid on Monday last, from Is to 2s per quarter. Floating cargoes were offered at a still greater reduction, without finding purchasers. The stocks in warehouse are increasing. We were but mo derately supplied with Barley; nevertheless the sale for that article was dull. Malting samples were unaltered in value; but grinding and distilling sorts ruled a shade lower. Literally nothing was doing in Malt. In prices, how ever, although the supply was but moderate, we have no change to notice. With Oats we were scantily supplied. The best qualities sold at late rates. Damp samples were a mere drug. In Beans next to nothing was pass ing, at last week's reduction in value. Peas of all kinds were heavy, and lower to purchase. Indian Corn and Meal nominal. Flour of all kinds was offering at is to 2s per sack lower. French qualities, 33s to 34s per sack. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. Wheat—Essex & Kent, Red. ...... • . 39s to 473 Ditto,White, New 433 54s Norfolk and Lin coln, Red. •• 40s 463 Ditto, White • • • • 423 51s Irish, Red • • • • • • • • —8 —5 Ditto, White • • • • • • —3 —8 Rye—Old • • • • • • • • • • • • —s New....... • . 25s 28. Barley—Grinding . • ... 23s 26s Malting . .... • • • • 28s 30s Chevalier •• • • • • • 318 32. %fah—Suffolk and Nor folk ........ •• • . 578 Ms Brown.•.. bOs 54s Kingston and Ware 58s 598 Malt--Chevaller•• •• .. 493 to 60s Oats Yorkshire and Lincolnsh., Feud. I6s 19s Potato Youghal and Cork, Black . •• •• 143 193 Cork, White ... • • 16i 19; SeotCh, Feed. •. • • 20s 23s Beans—Tick. •• • • 275 295 Pige0n5.......... 34s 36s Peas—Grey .•• • • • 34s 36s Maple •.•••• • • • • • 35s 36s White• .. •• ••- • • • 24s 26$ Boilers .. . Flour—Town-made 3/15 42s Suffolk ... ...... Stockta &Norfolk 30s 335 SEED MARKET. Really fine parcels of Clover seed, both red and white. are held at considerably enhanced rates, although the arrivals from abroad continue liberal. Canary Seed is a slow sale, at barely last week's prices. Linseed and Rapeseed dull. In other seeds very little doing. The inferior parcels of Linseed Cakes have declined fully 5s per 1,000. Turnip,Wbite, per bush. lis to 12to Red and lla 12g. Mustard, 8r0wn.... • 6s 110 White .... ••• • .. Ss 12s Tares, New .. •••• • • • • 7s is Old .. •• • ..... - 4s 5s Canary, per quarter ..100s 12 , s Rye grass.. -••- . 20s 24 Clover, ItetlEn,. (cwt.) 35s 13s White ........ •• 35s 55, Foreign lied...—. 35s 59s White • ... 35s 56s Trefoil .............• 13s 19s Carraway ••••• • .. • . !95 31s Coriander •• • . 18s I9s Hempseed, per quarter 32s 34s Linseed, Eng. , owing • • 50s 52s Crushing ...... 383 40s Baltic •• .. 38s 403 Odessa . Linseed Cake, pr.l,ooo— lOl 8s 111 53 Foreign.. 61 155 51 Os Rape Cakes, pr ton 41 4s 415, Rapeseed, pr cwt. 271 105 301 Os SMITHFIELD. During the past week a fair average time of year supply of foreign stock—as will be seen by the annexed return—has been received in the port of L6ndon. The total importation has amounted to 1,695 head, or less by 921 head than in the preceding; but more by 1,094 head than at the corresponding period in 1848. The general quality of the arrivals has turned out tolerably good; and the following table shows the quarters from whence they have been derived:— IMPORTS INTO LONDON. From Beasts. Sheep. Calvet. Ostend... — .. 212 ... Rotterdam 245 ... 864 ... 108 ... Antwerp ..... — ... liamburgh 2O ... Harlingen lO4 ... Lambe. ••• 10 ••• ...0 66 .. Total 363 ... 1,142 ... 181 ... Corresponding week in 1848... 203 289 ... 10 ... Difference ... 166 more. 852 more. 75 more. Within the last few days a statement has been issued by the Board of Trade, purporting to give the total imports of foreign stock into the United Kingdom during the month ending Feb. 5, 1848 and 1849. The statement in question is as under:— Oxen Cows Calves Sheep Pigs 1848. 478 245 t 76 728 1849. 577 235 196 766 28 29 Totals It must be obvious to all acquainted with the subject, and more particularly to those who have watched the progress of the arrivals, that the above returns are ex tremely inaccurate. That correct official statements are invariably important, not a doubt can be entertained; but those so extremely erroneous as those given above are calculated to mislead the grazing community, as well as the public at large. To prove our position, we here give the arrivals of stock in London only from the 6th of January to the 3d of February inclusive, the period, doubtless embraced in this official document. ARRIVALS OF STOCK FROM ABROAD INTO LONDON FROM THE 6TH JANUARY TO THE 3D FEBRUARY, INCLU SIVE, CURRENT YEAR. Week ending Beasts. Sheep. Calves. Jan. 13 Jan. 20 ... Jan. 27 Feb. 3 Total actual arrivals 893 Corresponding month in 1848 Now, it may be asked, how have these discrepancies crept in? When it is shown that a larger number of sheep alone came into London than the whole of the stock stated by the officials to have arrived in the United Kingdom? The fact is, a most serious, we will not say wilful, blunder has been committed by some parties, and the sooner it is corrected the better. It must be under stood that the Customs, in London, publish daily a state ment, compiled from the ships' manifests, of the imports, deliveries, Sze., of all articles reported. Those returns prove the accuracy of our own, and the absurdity of those published by the Board of Trade. The arrivals of stock since our last, at the various outports, have been small, but increased supplies are expected. Let ters from Holland, state that the disease so much prevalent amongst the sheep during the greater portion of last year has greatly subsided. The supply of foreign stock here, today, was very mo derate, and, for the most part, beneath the middle quality. All kinds were dull in the extreme, and quite 2d per Blbs. lower than last week. For the time of year the arrivals of Beasts fresh up to this morning's market, from our various grazing districts, wore large, and of 1845; 1846. ism. Stock this day • • ....I 21,933 ' 17,430 Price of Y. C. •• .. 39s to 425 9d [ 03 00 to 43P 1 0,28 1 9,762 50s to 50s 3d 1549.: I to 43s - - Delivery last week: .. 1,542 f 918 Ditto from June 1.... 73,157 75,354 Ar' ivals last week • ; 31 717 Ditto from June 1 ... 77,104 77,388 Price •f Town ....., 42s 45 Gd 51s 3d 924 70,844 70,502 63s Od 1,780 85,004 1,299 16,665 515. 29,081 40s 6tl to Os 1,590 82,660 433 104,203 431 IMPRISONMENT OF THE REV. MR. SHORE, M.A., BY THE BISHOP OF EXETER. (THIS DAY.) A public meeting of the friends of civil and religious liberty was held this morning in Exeter Hall, for the purpose of considering the case of the Rev. Mr. Shore, with the view of procuring an alteration of the l aw w hi c h precludes se ceding clergymen from preaching as Dissenting ministers, and of obtaining his immediate release from prison. The Rev. Mr. CRAIG, a clergyman of the Church of Eng land, was called to the chair, and in opening the business of the day he remarked that the meeting had been convened to consider a question of deep importance to the civil and reli gious world, namely, the liberty of the subject for conscience sake, which now wore an aspect which had no parallel since the days of James 11., and which had been produced by an artful and unjust interpretation of the ecclesiastical law. The Rev. Dr LEIFCHILD then implored the Divine blessing upon the proceedings of the meeting; after which, The Rev. Mr. Tiroar.aur related the circumstances under which Mr. Shore had been incarcerated in St. Thomas's gaol, Exeter. The Rev. Gentleman, he said, was preaching at Spa Fields Chapel, on Friday evening, and at the close of his sermon, which was so effective that it drew tears from his gaoler, who was one of the congregation, he was arrested on a warrant issued by the Bishop of Exeter. Since then a letter had been received from Sir Eardley Wilmott enclosing 204 and from Mrs. Thompson the sister of Mr. Baptist Noel, and the E ar l of Gainsborough , enclosing 10/., in furtherance of the object of the meeting. Two letters had also been received from Mr. Shore, from which he would make the following extracts :—" The key has at last grated on my prison door, and I trust the cause of religious liberty will be promoted by the reverberation. My acemmo dation is rather rough, but, although unconscious of wrong, I must remember that I am a prisoner in a gaol, a place for felons. I find that the Bishop's agents are already quibbling by saying that I am placed here merely for costs; but how did those costs arise? Simply from preaching in an uncon secrated chapel or building; and even if the costs were entirely paid, I should still be altogether at the tender mercies of the Bishop. He could still keep me in gaol, and that all my days, for contempt of court, in preaching as a Dissenting minister. Will the people of England allow such an outrage to continue under the sanction of law ?" • • " I hasten to write you another note, in the hope that I may be in time for the post to-day, that Mr. Barnes, the Bishop's secretary's clerk, has been here, and told me that if I would pay the costs I may be free; I told him to the effect that if I had not preached as a Dissenting minister the costs would not have been incurred, and that I had not the means of pay ing them, and that he well knew the Bishop was still able to keep me in gaol, even if the costs were paid. I told him, however, that I should not now have any communication with the Bishop of Exeter either directly or indirectly, that I regarded the matter as entirely in the hands of the people of England, and that I did not purpose to take any step in the affair. I awn just come from chapel, where I have attended the service. The thought struck me very forcibly, what re spect can these prisoners have for the laws, when they find a minister among their number for merely preaching the Gospel ?" S Volca in the meeting suggested that a history of Mr. Shore's case ought to be related from the beginnig to the end. The CHAIRMAN said the suggestion should be complied with. Another Voron asked if the slossion of Mr. Shore had anything to do with Popery ?—(Cries of" No, no.") res T ol h u e ti lotnev;wMhirc.h was as Ythfeonllocwams:e—for Resolved that this rard to move the fi rs t as sembly, having heard the statement relative to the apprehen sion and imprisonment of the Rev. James Shore, M.A., feels it to be its first duty to offer to that gentleman the expres sion of its deep sympathy and Christian affection in his pre sent afflicting ci rcums t ances , an d assures him that prayers shall be offered continually to Almighty God in his behalf, and every effort shall be made for his liberation which the constitution of our country and the spirit and precepts of the Gospel of Christ can suggest and sanction." After entering into a lengthened hi s t ory o f M r . Shore's case, which must be already familiar to our readers, he adverted to the excuse which had been put forward for Mr. Shore's arrest, namely, that it was not for preaching, but for costs. It must be remembered, he said, that though he might be imprisoned now for costs, if he paid those costs, he would still be liable to arrest if he attempted to pre ac h, or for the act of pre ac hi ng on F r iday. This quibble of costs re minded him of the little boy's game of one leg up and one leg down.—(A laugh.) If the costs were paid, Mr. Shore's conscience would carry him into the pulpit, and from the pulpit he would again be conveyed to gaol for costs, so that unless some change were made in the law, Mr. Shore would have to oscillate between the pulpit and the pris on . That might be the way t o E xe ter town, but it was not the way to London town.—(Laughter and cheers.) Lieutenant BLACSHORE seconded thu resolution, and it was put from the chair and carried unanimously. The Rev. Mr. Smurros moved the second resolution as follows ! " Resolved, that this assembly de e pl y l aments before God and man th a t a ny Church, professedly Christian, should have the power to inflict upon any one, not excepting a minister of the Gospel, protracted law-suits, heavy law charges, and imprisonments, in the name of the religion of Jesus Christ, it being inimical not only to the spirit of the British constitution, but utterly at variance with the spirit and positive precepts of the Founder of our holy religi on . I n the name of civil asd religious liberty, in the name of Chris tianity, in the name of the common brotherhood of Chris. tians and of mankind, this assembly solemnly denounces the existence of such power, whether possessed by ec c l es i as ti ca l courts, and avows its deliberate conviction that its exercise in the cane of XL Shore especially, ill . * that he had 104 the Established Church and had become a Protestant Dissenting minister, is unjust, cruel, and unchristian, and that as British subjects this assembly will use all lawful means for pardon of conscience and liberty of worship, in behalf of all men, especially the minister of the Established Church." The Reverend Gentleman said he agreed fully with the spirit of the resolution, but he would not pledge himself to any after proceedings in this case. It appeared to him, however, that the imprisonment of Mr. Shore looked very like return ing to the bigotry of James the Second's time; and he was quite sure, that from the Queen downwards, with the exception of the Bishop of Exeter and his followers, who was a worthy successor of Laud, all would raise their voices against the law that a seceding clergyman of the Church of England could not preach as a Dissenting minister. Mr. Jos Ern Dawson seconded the resolution, but he doubted whether Mr. Shore was imprisoned for preaching— it was for the non-payment of the costs of proceedings which he himself had instituted. The Rev. J. &Tam= ;aid, if the opinion of Mr. Dawson were to hold good, the Bishop of Exeter might have knocked Mr. Shore down with a bludgeon, and then, when the Rev. Gentleman was taken to an hospital, he might say. " Oh, he has been confined in the hospital, not because I knocked him down, but because he has a wound on his head." —(Laughter and cheers.) The fact was, had the Bishop never have prosecuted Mr. Shore, he never could have been imprisoned for costs.—( Hear, hear.) The resolution was then put, and carried unanimously. A committee, consisting of twenty-seven gentlemen, with power to add to their number, was then appointed to or ganise an agitation Against the proceedings of the Bishop, and to take steps for holding a public meeting in the Large Hall. Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, and the meeting, which was a very crowded one, broke up. PUBLIC BUSINESS NOW BEFORE THE HOUSE OF COMMONS-MARCH 12. PUBLIC BILLS. Title of Bill. Progresss. 1. Affirmation-waiting for Committee. 2. Bribery at Elections-referred to Select Committee. 3. Buckingham Summer Assizes-passed into a law. 4. Clergy Relief-waiting for second reading. 5. Commons Inclosure-passed into a law. 6. Consolidated Fund (8 . 000,0001.)-passed into a law. 7. Conveyance of Real Property Act Amendment passed the Lords, and waiting for first reading. 8. Copyholds Enfranchisement-ordered, but not yet presented. 9. Distraining for Rates-passed the Commons, and now in the Lords. 10. Elections and Polling Places (Ireland)-waiting for second reading. 11. Greenwich Markets Regulation-waiting for second reading. 12. Habeas Corpus Suspension (Ireland)-passed into a law. 13. Indictable Offences (Ireland)-waiting for Com mittee. 14. Inland Revenue-passed into a law. 15. Insolvent Members-referred to Select Committee. 16. Landlord and Tenant-waiting for second reading. 17. Life Policies of Assurance-waiting for Committee. 18. Lunatics (Scotland) -waiting for second reading. 19. Marriages-waiting for second reading. 20. Marriage (Scotland)-passed the Lords, and wait ing for second reading. 21. Navigation-waiting for second reading. 22. Offences (Ireland)-withdrawn. 23. Out-door Paupers-passed the Commons, and now in the Lords.' 24. Outlawries-read a first time. 25. Overseers (Cities and Boroughs)-passed the Commons, and now in the Lords. 26. Parliamentary Oaths-waiting for second reading. 27. Petty Sessions-passed the Commons, and now in the Lords. 28. Poor-laws (Ireland) Rate in Aid-waiting for second reading. 29. Protection of Justices (Ireland)-waiting for Committee. 30. Public Roads-read a first time, and afterwards withdrawn. 31. Public Roads (No. 2)-ordered, but not yet pre sented. 32. Qualification and Registration of Voters (Ireland) -waiting for second reading. 33. Real Property Transfer-referred to a Select Committee. 34. Real and Personal Property Conveyance-waiting for second reading. 35. Recovery of Wages (Ireland)-waiting for second reading. 36. Registering Births, Deaths, and Marriages (Scot land) -passed the Lords, and waiting for second reading. 37. Relief of Distress (Ireland) (50,0001.) -passed into a law. 38. Spirits (Ireland)- waiting for third reading. 39. Summary Convictions (Ireland) -waiting for Committee. 40. Vice-Guardians of Unions (Ireland)-passed into a law. Total number of public Bills passing and passed through the House of Commons 40. Besides the above-mentioned Bills, the following are under the consideration of the House:- Committee of Supply. Committee of Ways and Means. Adjourned debate on the subject of Sicily. Adjourned debate on the subject of Local Taxation. There aro also 129 private Bills in various stages be fore the House. Select Committees of the House of Commons aro now sitting on the following subjects:- Army and Ordnance Estimates. Bribery at Elections Bill. Ceylon and British Guiana. Fees (Courts of Law). Fisheries (Ireland). Insolvent Members Bill. Privileges. Poor-laws (Ireland). Public Petitions. Real Property Transfer Bill. Selection. Slave Trade. Standing Orders. Steam Navy. Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues. unusually prime quality. Compared with those reported on Monday last, they show a considerable excess, both as to weight and condition. Notwithstanding the at tendance of buyers was tolerably good, the Beef trade, from the increase in the supply, was very dull. The primest Scots, &e., sold at about stationary prices, viz., from 33 6d to 3s 8d per Sibs; but the value of all other kinds declined 2d per 81bs. At the close of the market, a large number of Beasts were turned out unsold. From Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire, we received about 1,700 Scots and short horns; from the northern, western and midland districts, 1,000 Herefords, short-horns, runts, Devons, Irish beasts, Ite., from other parts of England, 400 of various breeds, and, from Scotland, 230 horned and polled Scots. The supply of Sheep was larger than that shown on this day se'nnight, and of fair average quality. All breeds of Sheep experi enced a very dull inquiry, and the quotations gave way 2d per Blbs. The highest figure for Downs in the wool was 4s 6d, out of the wool, 43 per Sibs. About one•third of the Sheep on offer were shorn. Calves were in shcrt supply and fair demand, at last week's prices. Prime small P►gs were in moderate request, at barely late rates. All other kinds of Pork were 2d per Blbs lower, with a heavy demand. Per 81bs• to-sink theoffal. a. d. to s. d. s. d. to s. d. • Inferior Beasts..... 2 6 2 8 Second qual. Sheep 3 6 310 Second quality •.•• 2 10 3 II Coarse-weolled ditto 4 0 4 2 Prime large Oxen.. 3 2 3 4 Southdown Wether 4 4 4 8 Prime Scots ...... 3 6 3 8 Ditto eut of the wool 0 0 0 0 Large coarse Calves 4 0 4 5 Large Hogs .. •• 3 2 l$ Prime small ditto .. 4 8 5 0 Small Porkers •••• 3 13 4 2 Suckling Calves ..18 0 27 0 Quarter old Pigs ..17 0 22 0 Inferior Sheep .. . 3 ~0 3 4 Lambs .......... 0 0 0 0 TOTAL SUPPLY AT MARKET. Sheep. I Calves. I rigs • 21,140 f ' 138 180 FOREIGN SUPPLY. I Sheep. I Calves. I Pigs. 77 Beasts. 3,650 Beasts. 259 NEWGATE AND IMADENHALL. The quantity of country-killed meat received up to our markets, last week, by railway and other modes of conveyance, was very moderate, compared with that of some preceding weeks. The supplies on offer slaughtered in the metropolis have been by no means extensive, though of full average quality. Nearly all descriptions of meat have commanded a steady, though not to say brisk, inquiry, at very full prices, at which clearances have been mostly effected. About 400 carcasses of for eign meat, slaughtered in London, have been disposed of. At per stone by the Carcase. a. d. to s. d. a. d. to s. d. Beef ,inferlor• . 2:4 2 6 Mutton, inferior 2 6 2$ --- middling ••• • 2 8 210 -- ---mlddling•• 210 3 4 - primelarge .. 210 3 0 3 6 3le - prime small.. 3 2 3 4 Pork, 1arge........ 210 8 6 Veal•••• ••.••• .••• 310 410 - small 3 8 4 4 EOROUGN AND SPITALPZELDS. Since Monday last, up to Saturday evening, the ar rivals of potatoes, at the water-side, amounted to about 3,000 tons, chiefly from Scotland, Yorkshire, and Essex. The general quality of those from the two former quar ters has proved tolerably good—that from the latter inferior. The quantity of really sound, consumable, home-grown potatdes on offer is small; hence, such descriptions command a steady emend, at full prices. All other kinds are a dull inquiry, and somewhat lower to purchase. The continued influx of potatoes from abroad has greatly interfered with the demand —espe cially as most of the cargoes are reported in fair average condition ; and it is evident that great attention was paid to the cultivation of the esculent on most parts of the continent last year. To show the ex tent of the arrivals from abroad, we may observe that, since the commencement of last September, nearly, or quite sixty thousand tons have come to hand in the port of London alone. At the outports, the supplies have been on an equally extensive scale. The Channel Islands, from whence in seasons of tolerable abundance, we have frequently received from 25,000 to 30,000 tons annually, have contributed scarcely a fraction of our supply fo r many months past. The foreign imports since this day se'nnight have been large, viz., 1,650 bags 3 hampers from Rotterdam, 600 bags 467 tons from Antwerp, 627 bags 97 tons from C a l a i s , 230 tons from Dieppe, 136 tons from Dunkirk, 46 bags from Ostend, and 181 tons from Rouen, forming a total supply of about 1,650 tons. The following are the day's prices:— Per Ton. Per Ton. York. Regents 100 s to 140 s Kent &Ess.Whites9os to 112 s Ditto Shaws B4s to 94s French Whites ... 80s to 95s Scotch Reds loos to 120 s Belgian ditto ...... 70s to 900 Ditto Caps 9os to 100 s Dutch ditto Ditto Whites... 70s to 80s WOL. The imports o f W oo l in t o London last week were very small, viz., 79 bales from Hamburgh, 70 ditto from the Cape, and 319 ditto from Odessa. The supplies on offer in the private contract market are not to say heavy, while the demand for all descriptions is firm, and the late improvement in value is well supported. The mar ket appears to have reached its highest point for the present. _ BOROUGH HOP BLARRET- Our market c on ti nues t o b e v ery scantily supplied with colory samples of new Hops, the demand for which is steady, at about last week's quotations. The middling and interior kinds of Hops, both old and new, are offering ineffectually at very low prices. Sussex pockets, 214 s to 21 16s; Weald of Kent ditto, 21 125 to 31 8s; Mid and East Kent ditto, 313 s to 61 per cwt. TALLOW. Although the delivery of Tallow last week did not exceed 1,590 casks, our market is tolerably firm, and prices are a shade higher than on Monday last. To-day P.Y.C. on the spot is quoted at 40s 6d, and for delivery during the last three months, 41s 6d to 41s 9d per cwt. Town Tallow, 41s per cwt. net cash; Rough Fat 23 3id per 81bs. Letters from St. Petersburgh represent the trade heavy, at 126 roubles for fine for August delivery. Inferior parcels of had sold• at 117 roubles, °nab. MARCH 12, 1849. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, SUNDAY.—The Stromboli steam-sloop, Commander Lord Amelius Beauclerk, arrived on Friday evening from Gibraltar. Having been ordered to sail home instead of steaming, her news has been forestalled by the packets. The following officers have come home passengers in her:—Captain Coape, of the 67th Regi ment, late Aide-de-Camp to his Excellency Sir R. 'Wil son, ex-Governor of Gibraltar; Captain Adair, Royal Artillery; Mr. Sainsbury, midshipman, from the St. Vincent, to join the Centaur steam-frigate on the coast of Africa; Mr. Eden (nephew of the late Earl of Auck land), midshipman, from the St. Vincent, to join the flag ship Victory, at Portsmouth; also invalid soldiers from the 67th and 34th Regiments, and two convicts be longing to the former. She sailed yesterday for Sheer ness to be paid off. She has not been eighteen months in commission, but is in most serviceable and warlike order, fit for any duty a steamer is calculated to perform. T. pay her off then, under such circumstances, is en tailing an expense upon the country, which ought to ori ginate some ether feeling than surprise in the economi cal camp. To refit this vessel will cost a large sum. She is capable of serving three or four years longer be fore refit. The Rifleman, steam-schooner, Lieutenant-Comman der Crofton, arrived to-day from Tangier direct. She left on the 22d ult. Her news has therefore been fore stalled. She was ordered to sail home in pursuance of the new economic regulations, and has made an excel lent passage of seventee❑ days. She is ordered to refit forthwith for foreign service. PROMOTIONS. Mates—Warren Hastings Anderson, sen., of the St. Vincent, 120, Joseph Robinson, of the Reynard, screw sloop, and George Willes Watson, sen., of the Caledonia, 120, seniority 1847, and the second on the list of mates, have been promoted to the rank of lieutenant; George F. Meeham, whose name as acting mate has appeared in the Navy List for April, 1848, and as having passed fur seamanship, but with no figures to denote where serving, has been promoted to be acting lieutenant; Henry Christian, acting mate of the Harlequin, 12, at Lisbon (seniority Jan., 1548), to be acting lieutenant. OBITUARY. Commander John Fleming (1814), of Mansdale, re cently died at North Bank, Campbeltown, Argyllshire. This officer served with much distinction during the whole of the war. His services were recorded in the London Gazette on three occasions, and he received pe cuniary honorary reward from the Patriotic Fund. Lie was Deputy-Lieutenant of Argyll. Lieut. William Robert Adair, acting lieutenant of the Spartan, 24, died at Trieste, Feb. 21. He was the third son of Major-General Adair, C.B. Lieut. Nathaniel Cranstoun France (1814), died lat Brixham, Devon, in the 57th year of his age, March 3. Paymaster and Purser William Anderson (1833), died at Bothwell, Lanarkshire, Feb. 27. The Caledonia, 120, Captain T. W. Carter, was towed out of Hamoaze into Plymouth Sound, on Friday afternoon by the Confiance and Fearless steam-vessels. She appears to have started rather too soon on tide, for she touched the ground slightly when off the dockyard, near the Rubble bank moorings. She brought up for a few minutes, but as she had scarcely gathered way, there was no apprehensions of serious injury, consequently she proceeded. Tho next day, however, in order to satisfy the authorities, the diver was sent down to examine her, when he went all round by the side, and under her keel, forefoot, &c., and found everything all right, with not a scratch even. She will be ready for sea on Wednesday. The Wanderer, 12, Commander Montressor, arrived at Spithead, on Saturday, from Sierra Leon, on the coast coast of Africa. She left that port on the 10th February. The Wanderer received orders for paying off at Chatham, and sailed about 4 rat., the same even ing. She has not been one of the most fortunate ves sels in the prize way. She was taken to the coast in the summer of 1846, by Commander P. H. Somerville; but in the spring of 1847, Commodore Sir Charles Hotham, not approving of the discipline or management of the vessel, obliged Commander Somerville to exchange with Commander Montressor, of the Cygnet, then about to come to England, so that Commander Sommerville was displaced from the command of a very fine brig, and Commander Montressor got a double allowance of the coast service. The Rolla, apprentice brig, Mr. Fenwick, command ins, was beat into Plymouth harbour on Saturday night, and will again proceed to Spithead for exercise to-day. The Janus, 2, steam gun-vessel, Lieutenant Com mander Powell, arrived at Devonport on Saturday, and coaled preparatory to leaving for Gibraltar the same night. PORTSMOUTH, SUNDAY, FIVE P.M.—Fresh westerly winds, with cloudy weather. THE COAST OE AFRICA. The Wanderer left Commodore Sir Charles Hotham, K.C.8., in his flag-ship, the Penelope, 12, steam-frigate, Captain L. T. Jones, at Sierra Leone, where the French commodore was also lying, and, singularly enough, his flag-ship, a steam-frigate, is likewise called the Pene lope. Sir C. ilotbam had been beating up the slavers' barracoons at Gallinas, some of which he had burnt, as a punishment for an infringement of the treaty. He was to leave Sierra Leone, Feb. 24, for Porto Prayo, to wait fur Commodore Fanshawe, C. 8., in the Centaur, and to turn over the command to him. He would then make the best of his way to Spithead. The squadron was generally healthy. Little of inte rest had recently occurred on the coast. The Tenzer, screw gun-vessel, Lieutenant. Commander Selwyn, had arrived at Sierra Leone, and had gone on to Ascension. The Kingfisher, 12, Commander Harvey, left Sierra Leone for Seabor, Feb. 10. The Amphitritq, 25, Captain R. Eden, had finally quitted the coast for Valparaiso. IMPRISONMENT OF THE REV. JAMES SHORE. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) EXETER, SUNDAY EVENING.—Mr. Shore was brought here in custody of Thomas Burch, the Sheriff's officer, and placed in the prison of St. Thomas the Apostle, ad joining this city, on Saturday night. The rev. gentle man was met at the prison door by Mr. Latimer, of Exe ter, but no other friends awaited his arrival, as his ap prehension was wholly unexpected. The rev. gentleman was taken, as you know, in Spaflelds Chapel, immediately after descending from the pulpit and on his way to the vestry. He fell into good hands, for a kinder or more respectable man than the officer charged with this un pleasant duty does not exist. The Bishop of Exeter has two writs against the rev. gentleman; one for costs in curred in defending the ecclesiastical proceedings taken against him by the bishop, and the other for costs in curred by the bishop in responding to the appeal which Mr. Shore made to the Privy Council. He is arrested on the latter writ. The imprisonment might have been in London, but the bishop's proctor would not consent there • to; and Mr. Shore will, therefore, be put to the expense of getting a writ of habeas corpus i❑ the event of his wanting to go to London. After Mr. Shore has paid tlese two demands, he may be then imprisoned for con tempt of the Ecclesiastical Court, as he has preached after having been admonished not to do so. Mr. Shore is, however, determined not to pay either. Mr.: Shore told a friend to-day that ne considers the question now placed in the hands of the people of Eng land. He has neither the inclination nor the money to meet the Bishop's demands ; and he therefore sees no release from his present captivity but through the medium of Legislative interference. Mr. Bouverie's Bill does not provide for his release, as it would be an ex post facto law. But why should it not do so ? The Tolera tion Act was held to be a sufficient guarantee of re ligious liberty for upwards of a century and a half, till Bishop Phillpotts gave it the crooked interpretation, in which ho has been sustained by the Ecclesiastical Court and the authorities of the Queen's Bench. When cer tain noble horse-racers were pursued at law for penalties incurred by infringement of - the laws against gambling, the Legislature made an cc post facto law to relieve them and thwart the informer. If the Legislature has been thus tender over gamblers, why can it not be con siderate towards a worthy and religious man ? The Right Reverend Prosecutor sent a young gentle man, who is clerk to his secretary, to tell Mr. Shore that if he would pay the costs he might go out, that all the Bishop wanted was the money. Mr. Shore did not dispute this fact, but declined to listen to any over tures. This young gentleman laboured also to impress upon the mind of the Reverend Gentleman that he was not imprisoned for preaching, but for costs. Mr. Shore asked how the costs would have been incurred if he had not been charged with the offence of preaching? I can state, to you further, but of course in perfect confidence, that the Bishop has sent our Reverend Friend no dinner to-day. What would you say to a shepherd who clapped one of his lambs into the pound, and gave him nothing to eat ? There will probably be a public meeting here, and various other efforts to protest against this act of vindictive bigotry. It is not improbable but Bishop Phillpotts, case-hardened as he is, sill live L to re pent this rash step, and that the hour of repentance may not be very distant. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sia,—Having observed in your paper of the 17th ult. some remarks on the proposition of M. ildouard Char ton in the French Assembly, that no person should be allowed to exercise the elective franchise unless he could write and read, I beg to say that I think a much better teat of a person's qualification or capability of exercising that important duty would bo that he should be able to work or solve correctly any rule-of•three question in arithmetic. This would not only prove that he was able to read and write, but it would also prove his power to think and reason, which is a very necessary qualification in an elector. Besides, in my opinion, the qualification would be much better defined in the one case than the other.—l am, Sir, yours obediently, WILLIAM WRIGHTSON. Thorne, March 10, 1849. DEATH OF ANTHONY WHITE, Esq.—The medical profession has lost one of its brightest ornaments in Mr. Anthony White, the eminent surgeon, who died at his house in Parliament-street, on Friday morning last, at an advanced age. Mr. White was of a north-country family, and was a graduate of the University of Cam bridge, where he took an honourable degree. He came to London at an early period, and commenced practice as assistant-surgeon at the Westminster Hospital, with which institution to the day of his death he continued to be associated. Mr. White speedily obtained ce lebrity for the dexterity and success of his operations iu the most difficult cases in which surgical skill is re quired. He acquired, at an earlier period than is u-u in his profession, a very extensive practice, and was not long in obtaining the recognition of eminence by election to a place in the council of the College of Surgeons. Mr. White twice succeeded to the presidential chair of that institution, and was highly valued as a member of the Court of Examiners. In consequence of repeated attacks of gout, which specially affected his hands, Mr. White was necessitated some years since to relinquish active practice as an operator; but he conti nued to a very recent date to give the public the benefit of his experience as a consulting surgeon. His name is one which will be long recognised among the eminent men of his profession, which he not only adorned by his talents, but in the practice of which he was distinguished by a remarkable benevolence. His skill was always at the command of men engaged in the pursuits of science, literature, or the arts, to whom not unfrequently his purse was open as his hand in the hour of their distresses. To Mr. White surgeons are indebted for many of the im portant improvements made of late years in their instru ments. Those ascribed to the Baron Heurteloup were, we believe, almost all introduced under his auspices. The superintendence of the several prisons under the control of the Government and of the convict de partment is about to be consolidated under one board, an arrangemeat that will combine uniformity of treat ment with economy in the management of the prisons and bulks. No additional expense will be incurred, as the service of some of the members of the Boards of superintendence and of the inspectors of prisons will be made available in the proposed consolidation, which is to take effect from the beginning of the next month. GAOL DISCIPLINE.—BIRMINGHAM, SATURDAY. — Captain Maconochie, the author of several works on " Secondary Punishments" and the " Marked System," has accepted the governorship of the new borough gaol of Birmingham. The building, which is of immense di mensions, and constructed according to the design of Mr. Hill, a local architect, is said to be singularly well adapted for carrying out i the peculiar views of the first governor. LORD GOUGH'S LAST EXPLOIT.—" I came, I saw, I conquered," was the boast of Czesar. -' I came, I did not see, I did not conquer," should have been the bulletin of Lord Gough. He came, he made no reconnaisance, he shut his eyes, he put down his head, he rushed at the enemy like a mad bull.—Examiner. A son of the late lamented artist, Mr. ilaydon, whose untimely fate excited so much public sympathy, has been appointed by Lord John Russell to a junior clerkship on the first vacancy that has been filled up by the Treasury for some months past, in consequence of the reductions in the several departments. It is said that when the special train by the South- Eastern that left London at six A.m., to meet the nine o'clock steamer for Boulogne, at Folkstone, and the cor responding train to Paris, to be present at the anniver sary of the French revolution, started—only six pas sengers availed themselves of it. THE PSI - MASTER-GENERAL'S OFFICE.—Mr. Os borne, M.P., has obtained a return showing the saving effected by the consolidation of the offices of the Pay master-General, Paymaster of Civil Forces, and Pay masters of Exchequer-bills, &c. It appears that the amount of the said saving in salaries is 16,145/., cqual to 45 per cent., or the difference between 36,0451. and 19,900/. The saving of expense which may arise from giving up the offices of the Paymaster of Civil Services and of the Paymasters of Exchequer-bills, and from the decrease of other contingent expenses, cannot be cor rectly ascertained. The expense of printing, of station ery, and other incidental charges of the office of Pay master of Civil Services, have heretofore been included in the general expenses of the Treasury. It further appears that thirteen clerks have been promoted since August last, the aggregate amount of whose salaries has thus been increased from 3,3401. to 3,9501 Certain al lowances were withdrawn on promotion, and not renewed to the successors of the advanced clerk. THE STONELEIGII ABBEY CAsE.—Mr. Griffin, solicitor, on Wednesday last made an application at the Petty Sessions on b e h a lf o f J o h n Leigh, of P re ston, tor a warrant against John Wilcox, on a charge of murder, be said to have been committed at Stoneleigh Abbey. T warrant was refused. ROYAL COL LE GE OF SURGEONS. --The thena t 2 i od and 'he council of —1 t this F C e College b i p h a s I l e a l i take determined place t o h n a t Wednesday, the 4th of April next. t Mond he e x ay a ' WRECK oN THR LANCASHIRE COAST. During the past week a quantity ofwreekhas been washed have ashore on the coast near Rossall, and other portions been seen fixating in Morecambe Bay. The appearance of that which has been secured indicates it to belong to a vessel of about 100 tons burden, but nothing has yet been gained by which the name of the unfortunate vessel can be identified.—Preston Chronicle. A SOLDIER OF FORTUNE —At Fulford, William Rankin, a private of the 53d, was this week married to Miss Maclaurin, heiress to 15,000 L, who was given away by her father. The bride is 26, and the bridegroom 30 years of age. Greaves, Fawcett, and Brenhead, the three men who, on the 10th of January last, knocked down a banker's clerk at Wakefield, and robbed him of 1731., were convicted at York on Friday, and were each sen tenced to 20 years' transportation. RAMEY, ISLE OF MAN, MARCH B.—The Alice and Mary, Jones, from Port Carlisle for Liverpool, was brought in here this morning with damage, hating been en shore, iMINWM eet A Vl* ~, .524 4 -1 NO 1.,‘ _ , :,- ),0. 1,.., TO THE SECRETARY r , HE' 17, ) METROPOLITAN REFORM ASSOCIAION. `9 .2-- -1 ( -1) 1 Sir,—On Wednesday the 7th the -remarkable L- ri_ facts in the House of Commons were --that the Go vernment should have opposed a Bill for improving -..-,-.''. ~.,' h. the Registration of Real Property, at the cost of beinr2 .. .: , l - '. ~„t-*> in a minority of 45 to 55; and that a Bill for esitc.:' , ' " stituting a ffi rmation for oaths, should have been ,read a second time without opposition. From the last, it is clear that the world gro ws better. Fancy all we should have heard thirty years ago, about the outrage to public opinion in letting sectaries have their whims. On the same night came on the great Parliamen. tary contest, in reliance on which the King of Naples had been implored to hold out against the British diplomacy brought to bear upon him. When counter action of this nature is discovered in the field, all nations have summary methods of dealing with the concerned. But the British Absolutists profess to keep open shop, where any failing despot in contest with his people, may come and buy without money and without price. It is the same class of politicians that bawl for " the execution of a great capital," and call a continental Parliament " a German romance.' The strength of this party was brought to the test on Wednesday, and when weighed in the balance was found wanting, by 124 against 39. " Our ally the King of the Two Sicilies" may calculate what he has taken by the motion. On Thursday the Member for Buckinghamshire made his promised effort for redressing the wrongs of the agricultural interest. His speech was charac terised by much of that ability which takes a crowded audience to a Nisi Prius court, for the sake of hearing how the two sides of a cause will be defended, one of which is held pretty certain of being intrinsically bad. And it had this further advantage to set it off, that all which wa s urge d i n the,.shape of op - position from the Free Trade side of the House, was pointless, tam e , an d in fact not true. The only collectible .statemenrwas, .that the landowners had bought their land subject to certain taxes, which therefore ought to be continued whether just or not; an argument which has been advanced against every. body, and exploded by everybody ; which has been brought in defence of iChurch Rates, and would have told just as well Against_ the;,owners of manu facturing property when) they, urged i.the! removal of the Corn-Laws. ,It would be matter of regret that a cause should thus apparently be thrown into the enemy's hands, if it was not relieved by the addition it makes to the proof that the House of Commons is not the place where the opinion which rules the country is formed, but on the contrary is only a registrar, and a backward one, of what is formed elsewhere. The Anti-Corn -law Leaguers would not have had a hundred followers, if they had fed their flocks on such diet as was pro duced on Thursday. The further debate was ad journed to Wednesday next. On Friday came on again the question of the Navi gation Laws. The debatelwas opened by a speech of dreary length on the part of the Protectionists, ending in nothing but the assertion that they liked their mo nopoly, and would keep it if they could. A scion of nobility tried the pathetic, on the sufferings of dill charged shipwrights, now enjoying remarkably high wages, being all the while entirely " pachydermous" to the sufferings of discharged workmen at Bradford and elsewhere, who must pay for the emoluments of the others. The old fallacy was put forward, which it is certainly not "a nation of shopkeepers " that submits to, declaring that duties of all kinds are as well on as off, because foreigners would only lay the difference upon their prices. The Member for Westbury made some useful observations in detail, on the various ways in which the shipping interest had benefited by the movement towards free trade. A county Member used very coarse language, which would not have been endured in any but a man of his rank, in reiterating the assertion that in a cer tain hypothesis the Government intended " a lie ;" and he said nearly everything he had, four times over (for I counted), and sometimes six. This is the way things go on. In proportion as a man is wearisome and violent, is his certainty of being heard; while one who had anything sub. stantial to say, would stand about as much chance of being allowed to speak, as a Quaker at Moultan. A. curious principle is evidently in operation ; which is, that the House must be wearied to a certain extent before it is brought to divide, and as the first class of speakers are inevitable evils, the others would only be so much added to the time. All of which, you will see, is confirmative of the principle touching the office discharged by the House of Commons, sub. mitted in a preceding paragraph. The debate on the Navigation-Laws was finally adjourned till Monday; and the further debate on Mr. D'lsraeli's motion put off to Thursday. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, AN OLD REFORMER. 1 London, March 12, 1849. SIR ROBERT PEEL'S PLAN FOR IRELAND. TO THE RIGHT HON. LORD J. RUSSELL, M.P., &c. My Lord,—Sir Robert Peel is running the course of all quacks ; first, with ostentatious importance declaring that he should not think of prescribing for the suffering industry of the country unless he was regularly called in and a suitable fee administered— then dispensing his nostrums, until hurled from his position by those he had deluded--now vending his drugs, his own auctioneer. The public will not forget that when your Lordship introduced the Bill for the reclamation of waste lands, it was defeated by Sir Robert Peel aided indeed by his protege in your Cabinet, and this, too, on the plea that it was contrary to the rules of politi cal economy ; had that measure not been defeated, thousands whom this country has fed in idleness would have earned their bread by honest industry. And Sir Robert Peel's measure is far more opposed, not only to the principles of political economy (for that I should care nothing) but to the dictates of common sense, aye, and of common honesty, although in perfect keeping with the worship of his leading star—the moneyed class. Does not Sir Robert well know that the majority of the estates in the distressed unions, which he pro poses the Government to purchase, are mortgaged beyond their present value ? Does he not know that the very first step in carrying out his scheme would be to use the money of the industrious classes to pay these bad debts ? And this is precisely the same game Sir Robert Peel played respecting the twenty millions given for the emancipation of the slaves ; Lord Stanley, as the organ of the Cabinet, brought forward an honest and statesmanlike proposal to lend the West India pro prietors fifteen millions to enable them to meet the difficulties which were inevitable in the transition from the date of slavery to that of free labour. Sir Robert Peel, as the leader of a powerful Oppo sition, forced the Government to change the proposed loan of fifteen millions into a gift of twenty mil lions, not given to the West India proprietors, who were to bear the heat and burden of the experimem, but given to the mortgagees in this country, who pocketed the money, and left the West Indian Pro prietors to their fate. So will it be with proprietors in the different unions in Ireland, if Sir Robert Peel's plan were carried, the money wrung from the industrious classes would go into the pockets of the mortgagees, who would rejoice in the measure, and the landl or d and the people would be l e ft i n a far worse situation than at present. For the mortgagees dare not foreclose—the land lord acts as their bailiff without :salary, and in that position they will keep him until by such a measure as that proposed by Sir Robert Peel they of the m ess . can get out If the Irish landlords who are involved would act as the British merchant is too often obliged to do, viz., call their creditors together and propose honour able terms, now is the time, for then the mortgagee would be obliged to assist in getting affairs set ri g ht ; at present he does nothing except wait for Sir R o b ert Peel. t t h h e re p at ay to m f e o n r t ec of se, it would the r a t es i n o . Your Lordship would have compelled theselnio r t. gagees to assist, if the estates, or a competent portion be the last thing they would do. arrears and 'a w n de were e s sold fbr their ibr What Ireland wants is employment f and the reclamation of waste land or the people, thousands for the same sum, whi c h s would employ by Sir Robert Peel's megSU • would be absorb,d re in setting hundreds to work. The country has now before them the plan of Lord Stanley and the Protectionists on the one hand, and that of Sir Robert Peel and the Peelites on the other ; the former containing the views of statesmen, the latter of charlatans. When will your Lordship pro pose the plan of the Government ? I have the honour to remain Your Lordship's most obedient, RIGBY WASON. HERNE BAY PIER COMPANY.---In the Court of Bankruptcy on Friday, an application for a fiat of Bankruptcy against this company, under the provisions of the Joint-Stock Companies Winding -up Act, was applied tor. His Honour said that the clauses in the Act favoured the conclusion that tho Legislature meant to confine the enactment strictly to trading companies. Hence, he was bound to say, that it appeared to him this w as not a company which could b e ad j udicated bankrupt . ST. JAMES ' S THEATRE.--This evening will be produced (for the first time in this country) Auber's popular opera in ono act, entitled Act Eon; also Adolphe Adam's f avour i te opera comique of Le Calet ; and on Wednesday, March 21, Auber's celebrated opera of Le Diamans de la Couronne will be produced on the OCCR• sion of Mdlle. Charton's benefit. A young man, named Tootel, the son of the Post-master at Edgeware, was charged at Bow•atrest on Saturday with having forged several money order& g, MB remanded until Wginetdisb when...lie will be co. Witted.