The Sun. — London, England, 1842-04-23 00:00:00

ComO v P couor woo .1100 ,„ biro o " an t digs/ 11 aockr le Gaga * iris coolg it,l 04% 1° Plid. a t Brit** C. i‘C" t~ . HOP thy 1345 latj E S, lle4 SCenso - Tht enacre, together with the terrible crime of Courvoi ',' ti er, and the murders we almost daily read of in various Arts of England and Ireland, are calculated to strike us 4 1 ' 1 th awe and terror, and awaken a doubt whether , criminal legislation be constructed on a proper basis. the crime of murder is yet punishable with death, vertheless that is the crime which appears to be most iZblere rasing, and to become in its form more teriffie. There is something redeeming in a revengeful man who lFas .been, or fancies he has beer., injured by another, I, elatin g o ff hi s enem y un d er th e i n fl uen ce of his mad leeing passion, but cold, calculating murder conjoined 04 treachery, perpetrated from some sordid motive, by t hose on whom women lavish their affections, or in 1 . , 411 ` 11 0rn men place their confidence, seems truly appalling. No man can guard against it, and no man who learns of the one murder but must suppose that others are corn 7atted which are not discovered. Hare, Burke, Bishop, ' Greenacre, Cour, voisier, and now Good, 0 at once occur to us as having stained the modern "'annals of England with some of the most revolting crimes et record. Yet no man can walk about without being warned bi gaols, prison-vans, and military policemen, or take up newspaper and read " Police-office," at the head of half-a-dozen columns, without being made sensible of the existence of a great machinery for the repression of th e crime, and without being warned emphatically of 111 c serious penal consequences of transgression. In spite of all these admonitions—in spite of the terrors of death —crime, we are afraid, is increasing, and as . ktaing a more revolting character. ' l ‘ . It is clear that the legislative penalty does not much , ! !ePress it. We doubt whether the legislative example Itk not promote it. The Legislature sports with the "es of the people as it sports with their property ; and has no more repugnance to starving men, women, .oeld children to death, by a Corn- law, than it has , t° appropriating our property according to its own ! l evices. Without being able to trace exactly the influence • its example in promoting crime by the enactment of starvation law, it is clear that such a law dooms the ,':kultittide to poverty and want, and nourishes in them the hateful passions. Of the general vicious frame ` 4l mind thus engendered, the crimes of Greenacre 1 11Zd of Good are some of the rankest offshoots. The c:l,llotive for starving the people by a corn-keeping-out •,•mv, is sordid, like the motives of these murderers ; and AC effect of the law only seems to us less horrid, be ' e ause we cannot have distinctly brought before us the .eases of individuals cruelly put to a painful death by the 141 w - 'The crimes which we have referred to the ncy of the law,.and the encouragement given to crime : 0 1the lawmaker, who, not thinking of the effects of their kirtiid conduct, are enough to make the public pause and y' quire --Are we proceeding, so far as law-making is con '7.terled, in the right path ? his, perhaps, known to our readers that, of late, con 4derable attention has been paid to improving the 111 ethod of drawing up Acts of Paaliament, and most of 4, 'le great Bills which the Whigs brought in, such as the 14(1 v Poor-law Bill, and the Commutation of Tithes' Bill, I &C., were accompanied by a synopsis. which enabled I tt,L 4 e reader to understand the Bill. But the Income-tax 411 ) appears to be drawn up in a confused and perplexed fanner ; it has neither index nor synopsis, and must be ''kuintelligible to the public. We should imagine that lir R. PEEL has taken up the old Act of 1806, and merely troducing into it such alterations as were necessary to , t arry his peculiar objects into effect, has adopted it %clay. Certain it is that his Income- tax Bill contains Niue.of the modern improvements in drawing Bills, and 4)e't no credit to him as a man of business. We noticed something similar as to the Tariff. sooner was that made public, than he was '74de ashamed of the work he had brought for- Zahl •as his own. He gave up the whole series 'lsm discriminating • duties which he had intro in favour of the colonies. He was obliged to ,that his legislation about asses was contemptible, ,T,l he has since been compelled to introduce even Crs any discussion has taken place in the House of ~L 7 tnons on the subject, several alterations into his hies and perfect tariff. He can neither do all the lit ies of his office correctly nor has he the capacity—. % It • of the marks of great genius—to ensure excellent iL t lice in his subordinates. The Bill which they have *for him—like the tariff, to which he lent his name yin in.?.omprehensible jumble which the House of Cnzttnons cannot pass, nor the people submit b._ Without .iisg,race. Even the Tory Journals at'lißized of it, and obliged to admit that it is corn icflitt ?d, perplexi , d, and confused. Independently of the re of the enacting clauses, they are put together in arr, unthiakiug, slovenly manner, and each clause is uncouthly worded, that the Bill ought to be rejected 414‘voilhy to be subm)tted to any Legislature. rt a Rouse of aommo us returned under the Reform only sixty Members are found to vote for an in ry into the state of the elective franchise. This fact ieiently demonstrates the inefficiency of that Bill as a • for securing the people , a full and fair represen- L ki jon in Parliament. Millions of our fellow-countrymen I rt. night approached the so-called People's House — Rouse of Commons, in which the most uncommon t lillgs are nightly said and done, and where common • plc are sure to meet with very scurvy treatment 4Ying that certain propositions which they luivanced, , 41 -4 ' l Which they believed to be:essential to their welfare, wit reason jce, poclieey, ki th 1, 11 t be consistent made the h subjects , of us in ti quiry and by ex the Hou n se. N u prayer was ably supported by Mr. Sua.asiesi 4 410 re•onn, Mr. O'CONNELL, Mr. WARD, Mr. WAX LEY VIV.LIERS, Mr. COBDEN, Dr. BOWRING, and Mr. 4 „, 4 tivcst, but on a division it was contemptuously offenuively rejected by a majority of 159—there lor 226 votes given against it. Not only, therefore, Ott Extension of the Suffrage, Annual Parliaments, Vote by. Ballot refused, but the House will not in-. V* whether one or other of them ought to be con tildNlr• The people approach the House of Commons on knees as petitioners, suppliants, and they are • vett away with marks of contumely and contempt. kit while we contend that inquiry should be allowed, ir4 ti are not prepared to adopt for ourselves all the pro- Iltiuns advanced by the Hon. Member for Rochdale. is the old Radical creed—Annual Parliaments, a alb Suffrage all but Universit, and Vote by Ballot. voting for the security of the elector; and, ,It the same reason, open voting on the part v,, t he elect e d.. W e di s lik e the proposal t o p a y M em b ers p as c it.aliament for their services. Ext en d t he suffrage vti .eintly, and do away with a prope r ty qualification, 14 10 t has no other effect than to increase perjury in the of Commons, and there will be plenty of compe- I C honest men to discharge the functions of legislators 4 Mouse of Commons without taxing the nation for lq i l l ititaintenance. Besides the pay men t o f 'Members M i l 1 4 fill the House of Commons with a class of persons fy c)11 1 we have no wish to see there—noisy, popular de itiers, who, to make a show of earning their wages, 1 / 4 - 41 d make long speeches instead of attending to the !i`er business of the country. Were no pay ,ll,tss made to the Members of Congress, 11, should hear of none of those long orations which sometimes occupy three days in lf,' l4 elivery, and which, after all, are such mere matters ‘'•o, l4 rse, that one in twenty of th em are never reported 11 '.( , length of more than ten lines in the American doers. Legislation is too much of a trade already, t i t. tell to it the provocative of certain profits. for all Sir ROBERT PEEL'S flippancy, and Sir v " t ot GRAHAM'S pomposity, and Lord STANLEY'S vin- O tt ~e , spleen, the suffrage must be extended. The le will not submit to the longer withholding from It just constitutional right. The time is p a st f or tte' i , • 4 g this question by the Press. The people last night ski to argue it with the Ministry, and they are to do k, tilt on the 2d of May, when Mr. THOMAS -oltEr E will present the National Petition ; but 114 part of the Press, this is altogether tlc o f supererogation. All that is now left ‘tii N '& Press is to warn the aristocracy of the .et' th e y must incur by longer withholding from the Ss' their j us t r i g ht s . By r e fusing moderate Parlia- N kt 7.l" Reform half a century ago, they raised up a ge -I,IIV t of Radicals who carried the Reform Bill ; by de- .that Bill a final measure, they sowed the dragon's /k 4ence sprung three million s o f Ch a rtists ; and now 1 ;(11 0 • `the p eop l e d espa i r o f an extens i on o f t h e su ff rage , , e to call into existence a le g i on o f revo lutionists. to themselves. is seri ous . L e t t h e ar i stocracy look to it, themselves. k is no politic a l news o f i n t eres t i n t h e F renc h Mils,to Most of them notice, as will be seen in o u r i or Summary, the alleged communication of the , 41 1 of St. Petersburgh to that of Washington. We li , q4 are something to say to-day on this subject. A itu 4 loniteur Parisien of last night announces the death of N (Ir k Wo. ftw instants after his arrival at Gijon.. No such h, rice e4 ( nt ' cl%v il e a le b re% n re el received oubtth e y c e •o s t r e r r e d c ay t evening the n a s t ta h . te " m r e e r! statement. '4 41 1,,,--'oUnt de Alesnard, formerly principal Equerry to the 01,4 ( 1, berry, has just died at the age cf seventy-five.- 1 :;" a Messea,7er. Qtriote of Madrid, of the 13th instant, has tl.e follow ;light 14 individuals were arrested, who fo r m e d pa r t fhZetublages of the workmen yesterday and the day before. Voi th Judge s of the Tribunal of the lit instant, who, toge pl,t the Alcaldes, remained together at the residence of chief till one o'clock in the morning, are eiligently the roceettings against the authors and instigators 4 ; k4is t ik 4 )0 to the , measures taken by the authorities, tran- Oed perfectly restored.. This morning horse patrols I t . Pe streets, and der schments of the national militia 4, e several works of the capital. „ ' 4lo poial to take twer, ty-four millions of real' of the revenues of Cuba and Porto Rico, for the use of the navy, was adopted by a majority of 45 to 35 in the sitting of the Spanish Chamber of Deputies on the 13th." In the Phare des Pyrenees of the 17th, we find the follow ing pictograph : " The accounts from the frontier inform us that extraor dinary measures of precaution are taken by the Spanish au thorities, which do not seem to be called for, considering the perfect tranquillity which prevails in the northern provinces." commerce. URSE—PAitis, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20. karst Highest Lowest L.ast Pries- Price. Pric. ?fie.. ench 5 oer Cents ...... 118 80 119 95 1 , 8 80 ... 118 95 4} per Cents lO6 ... 1 8 ... 108 ... 108 4per Cults. ...... 101 75 101 75 101 75 101 75 3 per cos Bl Ili 81 45 ... 81 10 61 25 ';sink of trance Willie Bank 1.0001. Si,ares 1022 50 ...IP2i 50 —1022 50 ...WV 50 5,000 f. Skare; 5045 ;50.50 —5045 ...5050 Belgian Bank 1841 .... 1050 ...1( . 50 ...1050 ...1050 Belgian 5 per Cent:.,1840... 1047. ... 1043 ... 104% ... 104 X V.llt ob Active as% ... gik, ... 25 ... v 54 Painve 4 ... 47i ... 4% ... 474 Portuguese 5 per Cents. !l7 ... 317 ... 31% ... 3lh 4eapoutan lO7 50 ... 137 50 ... 107 50 ... u 7 50 Ratan ItAILWAY JEI A HEN ... - _ St. Germain Vet saailt I, it.b 337 50 344 337 50 340 . _ L. 13 2ll ... 212 (0 ... 210 ....212 50 i'desns Rouen 543 ... 5::7 50 ... 523 75 ... 527 50 St asburg to Bale 240 ... 240 ... 238 75 ... 21' 75 kik:LW AN I. UNDS...BRVIISRLII. APRILIO ACtlllll Debt, f4,,' per Cent. Roths,:hild's Lean 5 per Cent Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent.... 93 --„--- 3 per Cent. — --.Thirty.seven--- ... 72% ......____--(1640) lO4 Loan of City, 1232, 4 per Cent. ........ ......„ 15 Snclety of Coann9rce, 4 y,, per Cent s2 Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent.... ........ 76 N, tional Society — Exchange on Londea (short) — .—Brussels Papers, April O. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, APRIL 12.1 t Ire per Cents. bletalliques Your per Cents. lOO Three par Cents. Bank Shares „. 1619 HAMBURGH BORSENHALLE, APRIL 19. Bills. Money. Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares 1668 1656 Anglo-Russian Loan llO% MI% Russian 5 Der Cent., Ist series, Certificate lO4 103% Inscription, Ist series IC3% Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th Series Ditto in Certificates New 4 per Cent. (1840) 89% .9% Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. ......... Ditto 5 per Cent. Polish Bonds 154 New Tickets 169% Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Colt. Spanish, New spt r Cents. EXCHANGES; ON LONDON. HAMBURG, APRIL IV.-13 10%.—Two months. 13 S) PETERSBUIIGH, APRIL B.—Two months, :Aiwa pence . Caels•risrsts ' APRIL 9.—Three months, 4 64. STOCKHOLM., APRIL 12.—Seventy-five days, 12. 12 VIENNA. APRIL 12.—Three months, 9. 43 PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, APRIL 16. Bills. Motley. St. Schuld. Sch., 4 per cent. 114% i 04% Prussian English Loan, 1830,4 per citnt 103% : Xxchange on London, three months — 6 22A, —Prussian State Gazette. April 17, SIR ROBERT PEEL'S REDUCTION OF RENT.—TIai circumstance excites so much alarm among the agricul turists, that Mr. Bramston, one of the Essex members, wrote to ask Sir Robert Peel if it were true. Sir Ho. bed immediately and emphatically replied, that ther e was not one word of truth in it. The story originated, in the Ten Towns' Messenger, a Tory paper, which i s bound to explain.to the public how the report found it way into the pages of that Journal. We call on it to explain. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert, attended by the Viscountess Jocelyn, Hon. Miss Murray, Visenunt Sydney, Hon. Captain Hood, Major-General Wemyss, and Col. Bouverie, honoured the Exhibition of the Painters in Water Colours with a visi t yesterday morning. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by the Viscountess Jocelyn, Lady in Waiting. left Buckingham Palace at three o'clock yesterday afternoon in an open carriage and four, escorted by a party of Hussars, for Claremont. A chariot and four followed, containing Major-General Wemyss, Equerry in Waiting, and Colonel Bouverie, Equerry in Waiting on Prince Albert. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal, and their attendants, occupied the next carriage, followed by another Royal carriage, containing Viscount Sydney, Lord in Waiting, and the Hon. C. A. Murray, Master of the Household. Her Majesty and the Prince were conducted to their carriage by the Lord Chamberlain, the Master of the H orse , and Lord George Lennox , Lord in Waiting on Prince Alb er t. His Royal Highnes s the Duke of Cambridge visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager yesterday, at Marlborough House. Her Royal highness the Duchess of Kent took an airing in a carriage yesterday. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George, and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, ho noured the Gallery of the Painters in Water Colours with a visit yesterday, A Deputation on the subject of the proposed alteration in the Tariff on Potatoes, consisting of Messrs. J. S. Thompson, Tyler, and Baxter (Essex) ; Messrs. J. Knight, R. B. Smith, and Newman, (Middlesex) ; Messrs. Dickson, Jun., and Tyler (Kent) ; Mr. Newman (Surrey) ; and Colonel de Couteur (Jersey), accompanied by Mr. Branst on, M.P., Mr. G. Palmer, M.P., Mr. C. Round, M.P., Mr. J. Round, M.P., Lord Marsbarn, ALP., Colonel Thomas Wood, M.P., Mr. Sotheron, Mr. Kemble, _M. P. , and Mr. Antr o bus, M.P., had an interview With the Earl of Ripon, yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade. Colonel Wood, M.P., and a Deputation of Market Gardeners, had an interview with the Earl of . Ripon on Thursday, at the Office of the Board , of Trade. . . Lord Ingestre and Sir G. Sinclair transacted business yes terday at the Board of Trade. 'MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, FRIDAY EVENING. Some purchases having been made in Stock to-day, prices have recovered from the • depression of yesterday, and Consols leave off the same as on Wednesday evening—namely, 91% 911 for Money, and 911 911 for the Account. Bank Stock, 16.5 166; India Stock, 244 245; Exchequer Bills, 37 39 prem. Dutch Stock is not quite s., good. The Twe-and-a- Half per Cents., 52 1 / 2 521 ; the Five per Cents., 1001 looi ; the other Securities remain as before. Belgian, 1031 104%; Brazil, 67 68 , - and Danish, 80% 81%. . . . . Railway Shares, with the exception of Birmingham, which are 11. higher, leave off nearly the same. Great Western, 94 95 ; the Half Shares, 64 65 ; Birmingham and Gloucester, 55 57 ; South Western, 61 613 ; Gosport, 61 613 , North , Midland, 69 70 ; the New Shares, 333 34%; South Eastern and Dover, 30303 ; Eastern Counties, 10 10.; ; Blackwall, 12i 121 ; the New Shares, 103 10 3 ; and Brighton, 368 373. The rates of exchange did not materially differ from those of Tuesday, and were generally reported as being firm. Ams terdam, 12 5 12 .53 ; Rotterdam, 12 53 ; Antwerp, 12 5 ; Hamburgh, 13 123, 13 13 ; Frankfort, 151 3 1513 ; Paris, 25 823 26 873 ; Genoa, 25 823 25 873 ; Marseilles 25 85, 25 IX) ; Vienna, 9 53, 9 54 ; Trieste, 9 54, 9 55; Leghorn, 30 0, 30 05 ; Madrid 363 363 ; Lisbon, 523 513. The speculation in Mexican has taken another turn, and, apparently, it is now about to be raised as rapidly as it was depressed, the closing quotations being 353 36, or about 2 per cent above the lowest:point of today. When it is remem bered that all these changes have occurred without any legiti mate cause, it will be perceived that the cautions which have ,`ieen repeatedly given against time bargains in these low pi iced bonds, have not been without reason. If this int ojligerica were of a nature to affect the market, the r e su f,.• should have been to advance the quotation, it being decidedly faN'ourahle for the Mexicans. And here it may be inciden.`ally re.marked, that it is not improbable that attempts will be msde to e,lutract a loan for the United States of Ame rica in this country. If such should be the case, the present prices of their stocks held here, and what was paid for them originally, should be c a satiny contrasted previously to any pur chases being made in it. There are sufficient sources for the employment of spare cal sital at home, with equal advantage to the borrower and the lem ter, without risking it abroad. The bonds of the insolv, vi States are thus quoted :—Buenos ; Ayres, 26% 27 ; Colombi iaos, '26%; Peruvian, 183 , Portu guese Five per Cent s . 37 3 7% the Three per Cents., 22 ; Spanish Active, 243, and tier 1 hree per Cent. Stock, 243, 2411. (From The Sum of Last Night.) A slight, improvement on the prices of yesterday has taken place on Money Stock, Consols L‘eing 91% 911 for money, and 91 % 91i for the account;; Three ver Cents. Reduced, 901 901; Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Redoced, 99199 i ; New Three and-a-Half per Cents., 1001 1001 Bank Stock, 166 ; India Stock, 243, 245 ; the Bonds, IS, 3,0 ; and Exchequer Bills ; 37, 39, prem. Foreign Securities are the same as yesterday, these as well as our own Stocks looking firm. The Dutch Two-and •a- Half per Cents., 52%, ; the Five per Cents., 1001, 101 ; Belgium, 1031, 1041. ; Di .nish, SO, 81 ; and Brazilian, 67,68. A great deal of speculati on has been going on in Meaican, which is quoted 4 per cet ,t. lower than the closing price on We lnesday evening, it being then 39, and now 35, having been inart;ed this morning 33i. The cause assigned is, that an ex pediticn had started fro In I dexieo to overcome Texas. That such would be the case, and the extent of the preparations were known long since, and v dalite they were going on Mexican Stock rose; now that the int, snded object is in the course of being attained, down the quota tions are forced. The Spanish Three p. ar Cent. Stock is nearly two per cent. lower, being 241, Mast such as M. Aguado, the banker, at Paris, is dead. It' all tt ;at the holders of this Stock asserted be true, the future divi, lends have been provided for by the Government ; the demi: to of Ais gentleman, therefore, should have had no effect. Such, however, is di( real nat tire of these speculations, in the course of a few ea ys a scarcii' of Stock will doubtless be made, and the unfc atunate bear" on the Account day will have to settle at the for. aivr rates. The Share Market is gi )od. Birmingham, 179 180; Quar ters, 37; Thirds, 30i ; heltenhatn and Great Western, 17i ; Great Western, 94i ; Ne w, 65i ; South Westeru, 61 ; South Eastern, 30/ 301;. Bright on, 37 374. The bonds of 0 to insolvent States are quoted—Colombia, 26 ; Peruvian, 18; Portugues4 a Five per Cents., 37 371 ; the Three per Cents., 211 2+2i ; SI ianish Active, 24i ; the Three per Cents., 241. The arrival of two of the West India Mail Steam Packet Company's vessels, has - teen announced this morning, and grosser instances of be nglisig throughout the whole arrange ments cannot be imagii led. More than two months have now elapsed since any intelli . B ence has been received from Jamaica, such of these ships which have returned to England having missed th e ma il s ; nit anwhile property a n d vessels to a n immense amount ar e o n the sea, uninsured for want of proper advice. Merchants coni iected with the \Vest Indies are loudly complaining, not only of the delay in remittances, but of the risk their produce is ex posed to. Otte of these vessels, it ap pears, has again conic ass ay i vithout the bags, or, as it has been stated, " with mails sea :cely sufficient to till a pocket-handker chiet;" and the other by: Lec ia ei , t appears to base letters onboard. By way of covering ail t beae bliciders, the " Try," with the im portant correspondence on board, landed it at Falm.outh, whence it may be expected to- mor row, anil proceede d to Southam p ton, from which port the ;apt; in and Passengers have actuall y ar rived in London t win ; fui ar hours before the letters. This is the second instar ice in which a simiiar thing has oc curred, thereby fully- Jrovi tig the preferability of Southampton over Falmouth for a packet station. PRICES OF :RASH t;' POCKS, DUBLIN, APRIL 20. 3 per Cent. Conaois 91 :Bank Stock . •• ....... Three and Half Stock... -. 984 ' Grand Canal 5t0ck......... Ditto Reduced - 1 Ditto Debs. ti per -- • Ditto New 1830...... ... S 9 Ditto 4 per cent — 3i per Cent. Deb s . ... ... 9 lii Royal Canal Stock — LIVERPOOL LOTTO: ( Al ARKET, APRIL 21.—Speculators purchased 2,000 Ame rican , and 460 were also taken by the shippers. Prices rem ained steady, and the *lies consisted of 600 Surats, 3bd. 4d. ; 20 Et Iptians, 9d. ; 70 Perurian, lid. ; and 3,310 American 4 id. id. , being a total of 4,000 bales. LIVERPOOL SIIAR t MAILS FT, APRIL 21.—Eastern Coun ties were in good dem and at 10j ; ill. 149. 2d. for the Deben tures, and 51. 111 s. 2 3. fur the New . ;; a% were also Great Wes tern Halves, 65k; F fifths, 10i; and. London and Birmingham Quarters, at 37. t Mier shares rentlined witlwo, variation, i : 1-. .agues being 52, 5.2' ; Grand Junction New Quartets, 1.6 ; .I.' ,r,13.,t0ti Quarters, 'X% ; New, titi ; South Western, 61}; Manchester, Bolton, and Bury, 64 1 / 2 ; Man- • chester and Birmingham, 28 1 / 2 ; Manchester and Leeds, 83 1 / 2 ; the Quarters, 5 1 / 2 . 111ANCHEITER STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 21.—Our Market has riot undergone any particular change to-day. Bolton and Preston, 21?, • Eastern Counties New Shares, 5/. 14s. 2d. ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 514 ; Liverpool and Manchester, 190 ; South Eastern and Dover, 32 ; Manchester an d Bir mingham, 27,4. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock 166 India Stock .• 3 per Cent Red. 9oi Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent Cons 9lB Ditto Old Annuities ... 3i per Cent Red.. 998 iDitte New Annuities... New 3i per Cent New 5 per Cent. Long Annuities Loexpire \ Ditto Small 37 pu Jan. 1860 ..... ..... 12i Bank Stock for Acct ... Oct 1859. .. ..... 128 i India Stock for Acct.... Jan. 1860.......... 12* j Consols for Acct 9l; FO hEIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 51) , :i cent Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 pet cent lo4i Ditto, New Ditto — Brazilian 80nu5.......... !Prussian, 5 per cent -- Buenos Ayres . 6 per cest ;Russian, 5 per cent Chilian, 6 per vent_ .. ;Ditto, Metallic ..... .. Colombian, 6 per cent.. -- Spanish, 5 per cent — Ditto, 1824.......... ..... Ditto, Deferred.... Danish, 3 per cent Boi French, 15 per cent. —f. —e. Greek, 1825,5 per cent — Exchange — L ...c. Mexican, 5 per cent.... 36 French, 3 percent —.• --r• Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Dutch, 21 per cent.. 52? Peruvian, 1825,6 per ct. Ditto, 5 per cent. ... • 100 1 SHARES. Bristol and Exeter (70 paid) .. Cheltenham and Great Western (72k paid) 17i Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid) Ditto Debentures .. .... • . lll 16s 8d Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) ...... ... 52* Great North of England Railway (100 pd) 87i Great Western Railway (65 paid) 94i Ditto New Shares (50 paid) . . 65i London and Brighton (50 paid) • .7 . ). London and Blackwall (25 paid) ...... ...... 12} London and Birmingham (90) Ditto Quarter Shares (15 paid) 37 Ditto New Shares ( 2 paid) ... ........ London and South Western London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) 14 Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) , 30i York and North Midland (50 paid) 94 COURSE OF EXCHAN GE—(YESTERDAY '1 Amsterdam CF. 12 8 ;Gibraltar ... . ... 46 Ditto, at sight Rotterdam .........2 U. 12 8i Genoa Antwerp Hamburgh M.B. 14 Venice - Alton& 40 Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 75 Palermo, per oz 120 Ditto, 3 months 25 95 Lisbon Marseilles . __ ..47 Bourdeaux 26 0 Frankfort on Maine... 152 i t'etersburgh, 3Us ... 364 Berlin-- Vienna, effec. fl. 3 M 956 Trieste, ditto 9 57 Madrid Cadiz Bilbao ...36 Barcelona Seville ... 36 Rio Janeiro 27 Bahia IBuenos Ayr es 'New York, 21days sight 4bi Philadelphia PRICES 07.' ➢ULLION, PER OZ. Foreign Gold, bars £3 17 9 I Portugal Gold C0in...3 17 5 New Doubloons 0 0 0 New Delkirs 0 4 9j Silver in. Bars 0 4 11* THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY moRNINcir. _ APRIL 23, 1842. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Public eptutou. " Who runs may rea4" FOREIGN. Some of the Paris journals again allude to the statement of the Courrier Francais respecting the communication said to have been made by the Emperor of Russia to the Government of the United States. The Constitutionnel expresses its be der that the statement is essentially true. It says—" The inquiries which we have made lead us to consider as cor rect in every respect, at least in its main features, the in formation of the Courrier Francais relative to the recent communications of Russia with America, respecting the right of search. The following is the true history of the affair : Previously to July 15, 1840, a close friendship, founded on their hatred of England, united Russia and. America. It was, to use the piquant expression of a certain. statesman, a sort of Carlo-Republican alliance against the ariitoeratic Govern ment of Great Britain. Since 1840 Ru isia is so pleased with having detached England from France, that she has done all she could to manifest kindness and go od-will to her new ..11y. It has been a sort of honeymoon of the union formed at our expense; and the warning which Russia has just given to America is one of the pledges of the deep affection which Russia feels for England. M. de Bruni,w has informed Mr. Everett, the representative of the. United States in London, that America is not to expect any support from the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh iu her plans of offering opposition to the right of search, the said Cabinet being determined to aid as much as possible all efforts for repressing the slave-trade. The Presse has the following on the same subject : "' Several of the journals have alluded to a note mentioned 1:y the Courrier Francais, relating to a diplomatic communi cation, made, it is said, by the Russian Government to the United States, giving them notice not to count on the perse verance of France in her refusal to ratify the right of search. We had received information of this note before it was alluded to by the Courrier, but we did not attach to it any great importance. Supposing the communication to be au thentic, it is evident that it refers to a peri.xl, since which the question has completely changed its chara.iter. Since then, i❑ fact, revelations have been made by French vessels from every quarter—public opinion has been declared energetically, and with unanimity—the Chamber of Peers has given its ad hesion to the opinion manifested by the other Chamber. Whatever, therefore, might have been the intention of the French Cabinet, at the penal when the communication was made, it is evident that it must be very different at present. It is also clear that there is not a Minister in France who is not perfectly aware that, in ratifying the treaty of December 20, he was preparing his own impeachment. rile question, then, is no longer the same, and were a struggle to commence on the part of the Uttited States against the pretensions of Eng land to search their vesiels and press their sailors, we believe that they might reckon en the support of France, or at least on her neutrality, if neutrality be possible in such a conflict. The annual report made to the shareholders of the Frankfort and Mentz Railroad for 1841 shows the following results : During the year the number of passengers was 769,681, or an ave! age of 2,108 a day, being an increase of 108,549 upon the preceding year. There were also conveyed by it 1,196 car riages, 1,164 head of cattle, and 2,390 dogs. The receipts amounted to 425,693 florins, or 915,240 f., an average of 2,511 f. a day. The net profit was 441,546 f., yielding a di vidend of 6 per cent. to the shareholders, and leaving 24,000 florins, or about 50,000 f., to be added to the reserved fund. A cabinet courier arrived at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, from London, on Monday, and on Tuesday morning M. Guiaot had a long conference with Lord Cowley, at the English Em bassy, after which he proceeded to wait upon the King. At half-past twelve a Cabinet Council, at which Marshal Soult pre sided, was held at the Ministry of War. We find the fonds. ing from Constantinople, March 30, in the Augsburgh Gazette :—" Sir Stratford Canning has addressed to the Porte a note, demanding explanations respecting the 6,000 Albanians embarked at Volo, and other ports of the Archipe lago. The Divan hastened to reply that these Albanians were intended for the coasts of Syria, to reinforce the towns of that province. A few days after the Grand Vizier proposed to Sir S. Canning to recal unconditionally Omer Pacha. The Ambassador replied that the recal.of the Pacha was but a se condary matter, and that England wished, above all, to see the former order of things re-established in Syria, viz., the resto ration of the Christian Princes, and the dismissal of all the Turkish authorities. PARLIAMENTARY. _ The Spirit Duty (Ireland) Bill was seriously opposed last night, on the third reading, on the ground that it demoralised the people. This argument would have had no effect, but it was ascertained that the Bill would inflict a relative injustice on the lrish distillers, and on that account its further progress was suspended till Monday. The Corn-keeping-out Bill was read a third time, after a short debate, in which the inequality of the protection afforded to different species of agricultural produce was forcibly pointed out by the Marquis of Lansdowne. The agriculturists have made no fight, therefore, in the House of Lords. They suffer Feel to lead them, like lambs, to the slaughter. The Merchant and Factor Bill was also read a third time. Their Lordships got through all their business before seven o'clock. The Commons, in the early part of the evening proceeded with the Income-tax Bill, which stood fora second reading. Mr. C. Buller moved that it be read a second time in six months. Sir John Walsh, Mr. Ewart, Sir W. Clay, Mr. Wakley, Mr. D'lsraeli, and Mr. Christie, addressed the House, but a division was early called, when a great number of the Members had paired off for dinner, or were absent, and there voted for the second reading 155, against it 76, giving the Tories the re spectable majority of 79. The Hcuse was to have proceeded with the Ordnance estimates, but Captain Boldero being absent, not expecting sueh an early division, the House took up the Railways' Bill, and discussed that in Committee. It sat till a Quarter-past One o'Clock. PUBLIC OPINION. The Post says :—" The Income-tax Bill has been published; and, though we do not mean to join the class of grumblers, yet we may, perhaps, be permitted to say that it it by no means a soothing or dulcifying document. Comparing it with the speeches which have been made regarding the proposed tax, it reminds us of the bitter physic which frequently comes after an interview, rather cheering than otherwise, with the doctor. To say the truth, however, we cannot pretend to have any very distinct understanding of what the Bill means. We wish that when such interesting Parliamentary Bills as these arc pub. lished, there were sent. round with them a brev:ate, contain ing a translation of the barbarisms of legislative language into plain, popular, intelligible English. Hew long must we wait until the public shall not only perceive, but act upon the per ception, that the technical language of lawyer-craft is a nui sance, and that the aim of Acts of Parliament ought to be, in respect to language, strict accuracy, combined with pepu. lar intelligibleness ? We are very far from wishing that every man shall be able to be his own lawyer, but when laws are made which the people generally are bound to obey, and especially when laws are made to take money out of our pockets, it were but fair that the language of them should be as intelligible as possible. In the new Bill there is an immense deal about the occupation of lands, tene ments, and hereditamente, and there is a clause taxing all pro perty in England with threepence-halfpenny in the round in respect of the occupation of the same. Is it really intended, then, that we shall have to pay threepence-halfpenny in the pound upon the tents of the houses we occupy? It this be so, it is a tax not upon income, but upon out-going ! We at first thought that perhaps the clause applied only to farmers, who are not to pay upon their profits, but in proportion to tke rent paid for oc cupation. But afterwards we found the word house, and dwel ling-house, repeatedly used; and one clause provides that when houses are divided into different properties, each occupier shall be charged separately. There are abundance of other clauses somewhat startling as well as this, :n relation to the occupying of tenements, but we would fain hope that, apart from lawyer craft technicalities, no greater tax is intended than what has been described in the Ministerial speeches. We think we know enough of Sir Robert Peel to be tolerably confident that he will not support any unreasonable severity. We wish he could have post his proposition into a legislative shape that would have been more intelligible and less alarming." The Chronicle has the following remarks :—" Anxious as we are to see a good understanding between the middle and working clxsses, and satisfied that without such an understand ing, constitutional reform is impossible, while without reform we can have little chance of seeing an end to that class legis lation by which Parliament has lost the esteem of the people of this country, we are, at the same time, anxious, in a matter of so much moment, to avoid committing ourselves to any-scheme which, if carried into effect, might place us in a worse situation than that in which we are at present. It ought to be constantly borne in mind, that to extend the franchise is much easier than, when it is or.ce extended, again to narrow it:— It sounds harsh to say that any portion of the adult male population of the realm should be excluded from the suffrage ; but if, by communicats ing the suffrage to all the adult male population, the power of the really independent and intelligent part of the community should be diminished, the interest of the whole would demand a partial exclusion. Were England parcelled out Into electoral districts, we are not sure that this would not be giving to the squires and the parsons a much greater power than that which they now possess." The Herald thus refers to the Income-tax :—" The ma chinery by which the duty is to be levied will give to every person possessing an income exceeding 150/. a year, a new subject of thought, an additional matter of business, a new point of vexation, and a feeling of permanent uneasiness. It is impossible to collect a tax on income without inquisitorial, oppressive, and vexatious powers, and nothing but the apparent impossibility of righting the public finances in any other way, sale one to which the country has repeatedly refused to resort, and of contemporaneously stimulating trade, and reducing the cost of living and producing, could induce the nation to tolerate so great a nuisance as that which will be erected by the Income tax Bill. We distrusted from the first the ability of Ministers to extract the more monstrous provisions from the machinery of assessing and collecting a tax on income ; and our distrust is now confirmed. The provisions of the present Bill are liable to most of the objections which were urged against fotmer Acts, though certainly some stipulations have been introduced to mitigate the mischiefs which occurred under the old law when in force. But these stipulations appear to be more likely to be useful to the rich and well-informed than to the pourer and less active-minded, to whom exposure of private affairs is matter of greater importance." We take the following from the Advertiser: —. 4 Mr. Shar man Crawford's motion in the House of Commons last night, though pre-doomed to insulting rejection, must do essential service to the State, by enabling the people to distinguish be tween their friends and foes. After the numerous outrages lately perpetrated in that House against the wishes and interests of the people, whom•it is deputed to represent, he can be no friend to public liberty who would deny the necessity of im proving the constitution of that body—and this was all that was aimed at in Mr. Crawford's motion. Yet, notwithstand ing the enormity of the evil thus crying so loudly for reforma tion, the House of Commons last night, by a majority of 226 against 67, refused even to take the subject into its considera tion. Lord John Russell, and the pure Whigs, with charte teristic discretion, absented themselves from the House, and thus for the nonce avoided the ignominious position in which their truckling and incompetent policy has placed them. In this the Whigs, as a party, have acknowledged themselves de funct. Better men must now be sought for to supply their places." 11'LONEY-TI I ADE-COMMEERCE. At the anniversary dinner of the Society of Friends of Foreigners in Distress, given on Thursday at the London Tavern, it was stated that since its establishment in 1806, 59,214 foreigners had been relieved. Among the noble subscriptions announced were her Majesty, an annual gift, 400/. ; the Em peror of Russia, 1,0001.; the King of Prussia, 5001.; his late Majesty the same amount ; the Grand Duke Alexander of Russia, 5001. ; the City of London, 2001. ; the Committee of the Five United Dutch and German Churches, 1,000 1 . The Proprietors and Directors of the Liverpool and Man chester Railway held a meeting on NN ednesday at the former town, when a resolution fur carrying on the line to Hunt's ban'. , in Manchester, and thus creating a junction of the Leeds, Birmingham, and Sheffield lines, the cost of which will be 225,000/., was finally adopted. At the close of the Wakefield Election Committee, on Thurs day, Mr. Lascelles was declared duly elected in the stead of Mr. Holdsworth. JESITiIIs AND MILITARY. The Marquis of Tweeddale, the new Governor of the Presi dency of Matins, is also appointed Commander-in-Chief of the East India Company's forces on that establishment. L.taW .AND POLICE. At a meeting of the Middlesex Magistrates on Thursday, the Report of the Visiting Justices of the House of Correction stated that the prisoners there at present amounted to 1,221, or 918 males and 303 females. _ _ Application was made on Thursday, in the Exchequer Court, to enter a nonsuit against the decision in the late case of Thornton v. Portman, when a verdict was taken for the plain tiff with damages 1,2501., but the Court thought fit to retuse the rule. A rule was also refused in the same Court to set aside the ver dict in the case of the Exchequer-bill fraud, in which, by re cent decision before Lord Abinger, a verdict was gained by the Bank against Mr. Tomkins, with damages of 8,000/. Michael Welch, a seagliola maker, was ou Thursday brought up again at the Marylebone office, under belief that he had in tended to cut the throat of his two children, and kis own. He was ordered to find bail to answer the charge at the Sessions, and in default was committed. _ Mr. Boucher was ordered by the Bail Court on Thursday to show cause why he should not pay the sum of 18,0001. to the British and South Australian Bank, declared due by him under an award in arbitration. A Barrister charged the conductor of one of the Cheapside omnibuses on Thursday for creeping in Cheapside, and grossly ill-using him when he complained of such behaviour. The conductor was fined 53. and costs. SPORTING. Several officers of the 15th Regiment of Foot decided their wages on hurdle jumping at Windsor on Monday. The hurdles were four feet high, and ten yards apart. Lieutenant Astle cleared 50 hurdles in 7 minutes, being half the time ; and Captain Smith, 100 hurdles in 9i minutes, having wagered to do it in 10 minutes. C OURT-FASHIONABLE. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland recommenced their dinner parties on 'Thursday, at Stafford-house. The Duchess of Sutherland's assemblies will commence the week after next. Lord Foley arrived in Grosvenor-square on Tuesday, from Paris. We regret to state that the Countess of Warwick has, for many weeks, been confined to Warwick Castle by severe indis position. Her Ladyship is now at }lath. The Ancient Concerts will be honoured on Wednesday nest with the presence of Prince Albert, and most probably, of her Majesty. The Dube of Devonshire arrived in Paris on Monday last, and is expected at Devonshire-house on the 2eth inst. _ ItUtiCELLAWMOUSis. Sir P. C. Durham succeeds to the estates of Lieutenant Dur ham, R. N ~ who died lately at his seat in Fifeshire. ZOn 22d April, in 1809, the.battle of Eekmubl was fought be tween the Archduke Charles and the Emperor Napoleon. The battle began at two in the afternoon, and the Austrians, be sides their loss in the field, left in Napoleon's hands 20,000 prisoners and 15 colours. _ _ _ Mr. Roberts, clerk of an agent on Lord Bloomfield's estate, was shot on Sunday last near Moneygall, in King's County, Tipperary. A Mrs. Carry, who was close to him, was so se verely wounded that she h as s i nce d i ed. D r . Binden, a sur geon, has received notice that he is next on the list. Govern ment has offered large rewards for the apprehension of the miscreants. Senor Aguado. the Spanish Minister, died of apoplexy at Gijun, in the Austurias, on the 12th instant, in the Stith year ut his age. He leaves a property of upwards of 2,000,0001. sterling to be divided among h►s three sous. WEST INDIA MAIL. F m A 0r2t0h.,--Cap Ihe Roy a l Mail Steam-packet evening, bringing dates from Hava nn ah, 15th ult. ; Nas s au, tain Frere, arrived here this 30th ; Bermuda, s th inst. ; and Fayal, 14th inst. In addition to the malls from those placn she also brings letters from CopLanty? ,s t: T s si t ~, , a n A , e t.: It , Mexico and New Orleans, but no Jamaica mails. We cannot learn any political news. Santa Anna is still President cf Mexico, anti the Government are increasing the number of their ships ut war. The Forth does not bring any specie, and only five passengers. '1 he steamer Tay left Nassau 15 hours before the Forth, and as this vessel was leaving Fayal the Tay was going in. It appears that the Tay brings the Jamaica mails, &c. We may look for her to-morrow. No steamer at Havannah when the Furth left ; one from England looked fur. Before the Forth can proceed for Southampton she requires a supply of coals. Captain Frere reports the Channel full of ships, boating up. On the 13th, about 100 miles west of Corvo, spoke the South Sea.ship Active, for London, with 3,525 barrels of oil, all well. Yesterday, 30 leagues south-west of Scilly, spoke the Centu rion, of Jersey, Mauritius for Fahnouth, for orders. Three large ships are in our offing to-day, keeping company, apparently Last Itlitiamen, showing their ensigns. Wind E. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE OXFORD, APRIL 21.—At a congregation holden this day the following degrees were conferrt d BACIIELOR IN DIVINITY—Rev. W. J. Irons, of Queen', College. MASTERS OF ARTS—A. Mills, of Balliol College ; C. F. Trower, of Exeter College ; Rev. P. W. Brancker, of Jesus College ; Rev. R. Mence, of Trinity College ; Rev. E. N. Mangin, of Wadham College ; Rev. J. A. Yatman, of Univer sity ; Rev. R. C. Price, of Christ Church ; Rev. C. Clayton, of Christ Church ; E. R. Dukes, of Christ Church. BACHELORS or ARTS.—S. F. Bignold, of Balliol College ; H. Pigot, of Brasenose College ; T. .Beale, of Brasenose Col lege ; H. Rogers, of Exeter College ; J. Peacock, of Lincolr, College ; W. Clayton, of Queen's College; C. C. Spencer, of Queen's College ; R. L. Bamfield, of Trinity College ; C. M. Owen, of Trinity College ; R. Astley, of Pembroke Col l: fie ; P. Newington, of 'Worcester College ; W. C. Clack, of Worcester College ; M. J. T. Boys, of Wadham College ; J. U. Robson, of Magdalen Hall ( Grand Compounder) ; W. Grey, of Magdalen Hall ; T. Bayly, of Magdalen Hall. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. Lady Hall and family, at their residence in Portman-square, from their seat in Wales; Mrs. Waddington, at ditto, from her seat in Wales; Sir John and Lady Edwards and family, at 1, Park-lane, from their seat in Wales; Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. Godsal and family. in Harley-street, from Cheltenham ; Mrs. and Miss Strode. at Thomas's Hotel, from Brighton, John Vybert, Esq., and Mrs. Vvbert and family, at the Ber ners Hotel, from Bombay; Colonel Forbes, at ditto, from Bombay; 'l'. Pierce, Esq., and Mrs. Pierce, at ditto; Mrs. Whitton and the Misses Arundell, G. ditto, f rom S evenoa k s ; the Bev. R. Dogrel!, at ditto ; G. Stone, Esq., at ditto ; Viscount and Viscountess Boyle, at Mivart's Hotel, front Brighton ; the Earl and Countess of Zetland, in Arlington street. from Aske Hall, Yorkshire; the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk, accompanied by Ladies Howa r d and Lord Edward Howard, in St. James's-square, from Arundel Castle, Sussex; Lady de Clifford, on Carlton House -terrace ; Lord Cloncurry, from his seat in Ireland ; Mr. and Lady Eleanor Balfour, in Grosvenor-square ; Viscount and Viscountess Poll ington, in Grafton-street, from the seat of the Earl of Mexbo rough, in Yorkshire ; Lady Stanley and family, in St. James's square, from Tunbridge Wells ; Lord and Lady Kilinaine, and Hon. Miss Browne, in South-street, from their seat in Ireland; Lord and Lady Bray brooke, in Burlington-street, from Audley end, Essex ; Lord William Fitzgerald and Miss Fitzgerald, in Grosvenor-street, from Ireland; Viscount and Viscountess Folkeston, in Grosvenor-street , from Coombe Abbey, the seat of the Earl of Craven, near Coventry ; Viscount Curzon, at Curzon House, fr..m Gopsall Hall, Leicestershire; the Earl and Countess of Dunraven, in Eaton-square, front their seat in Wales : Lord Blayney, in Jenny n-street, from his seat in Ire land; the Earl and Countess of Leicester, from Holkham Hall, crescent, from the 3 n ' a i r r e e , n f i r ß om rigi ' ' f to u n ti b ; ridge Wells Norfolk; Viscount Sti athallan, from Strathallan House, Perth in Portman square,ieut.-General s p h a i l i- a e c ; e the ra ! I , i b s uhLroe),pa;no, Leamington o a cn l s o b us u ni r ,ta y e , s;s i ntoitiNeVci Cardigan, the Countess o A f rtl N l \ u r r ilt U on p , ton i , n at th t o h s e ve A no lb r. a: 4 l Dowager Lady Bufferin, at Mivart's Hotel, from Lea mington Spa ; Lord A berdour, in Old Palace•yard, trout Ireland; the Earl of Selkirk, in Richmond terrace, from St. Mary's Isle, Kirkcudbright ; Mr. and Lady Francis Lay, in Richmond-terrace, from their seat in Devonshire; Lord and Lady Dorchester, from the Conti nent; the Earl and Countess of Westmoreland, in Harley street, from Apethorpe, Northamptonshir e ; Lady Lucy Pusey, from Brighton ; the Earl and Countess of Arundel and family, in Great Stanhope-street, from Arundel Castle, Sussex; the Earl of Orkney, from Hants ; the Earl of Yarborough, in Arlington-street, front Brockleby, Lincolnshire; Lord James Stuart, in WhitAall-place; from Ayrshire; Lord and Lady Willoughby d'Erestry and Hon. Miss Willoughby, on the ter race, Piccadilly, from Grimsthorpe, Lincolnshire; Lady 1 , Howard and Sir William Fraser, from Brighton. LITERAT URE. LIVES OF THE QUEENS OF ENGLAND, Vol. IV. Jolburn, London, 1842. Of the six memoirs of Eglish Queens contained in thi s vo l ume , no t l ess th an three—those of Jane Seymour, Katherine Howard, and Anne of Cleves, the wives, in succession, of Henry the Eighth— are now, we understand, presented for the first time to the public. The lif e of the unfor tunate Katherine Howard is quite a romance, and of a most painful character ' but as the leading incidtnts of her chequ ere d and eventful career are well-known to the readers of history, we need not here enlarge on them ' • enough to state that, notwith standing her youthful errors, she was far more sinned against than sinning, and fell a victim to that sin gular, unchanging ill-luck which seems to have pur sued her from the cradle to the grave. Historians have represented her as having been exquisitely beautiful; and Tytler, in his clever and circumstantial life of Henry the Eighth, speaks of her personal at tractions in the warmest terms of admiration ; but Miss Strickland seems to think that she was by no means " so remarkable for her personal charms," and that it was chiefly to the exquisite grace of her man ners and deportment that her influence over the King was owing. Catherine Howard, then in all the bloom of youth, was executed on the same scaffold on which her predecessor, Anne Boleyn, had suffered. "It has been long since removed," adds the biographer, " but its site may still be traced by the indelible stains on the flints, which faintly map out the dimensions of the fatal spot where so much royal and noble blood was spilled by the headsman's axe during the T u d or re i gns of terror.' , Next in interest to the Memoir of Ka therine Howard, is that of Jane Seymour, the parti culars of whose death are exceedingly curious. But, indeed, the volume abounds in matters of curious information, and is neatly and tersely written. GAZETTEER OF IRELAND. Edinburgh, 1842. The compiler of this work, Mr. Lawson, has availed himself diligently of all the latest information from the most authentic sources, on the subject of Ireland —its principal towns, cities, lakes, commerce, anti quities, &c. We see he frequently refers to the able work of Mrs. Hall, and he can scarcely draw from a better source, for no writer of the day is more con versant with Irish subjects than this accomplished lady. The volume, which forms a neat, closely printed duodecimo, is embellished with a map, on an unusually large - scale, of the sister country. GRIFFIN'S WORKS. VOL. 111. Maxwell, London, 1842. _ The present volume contains " Card-drawing," the " Half-Sir," and " Suil Dhuv, the Coiner ;" the second of which is perhaps the best tale that Mr. Griffin ever penned, and that by which he is most likely to be re membered. The female characters in this admirable story are delineated with great skill and delicacy; more particularly that of Emily Bury, a masterly sketch, drawn, we suspect, from some living original. The Illustrations to the volume are just passable; we cannot say more in their praise. SKETCHES OF LIFE AND CHARACTER. Edinburgh, 1842. The majority of these Sketches have, we under stand, already appeared in print—some in Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, and some in the London Saturday Journal. They are light and pleasant in their tone, and evince a knowledge of life, which, however, rarely pierces below the surface. The cleverest of the essays are entitled the " Respectable Rogue," and the " Man whom Everybody Likes," in both of which the author (Mr. Alexander Campbell) indulges in a racy strain of apt sarcasm. SPROULE'S TREATISE 01V AGRICULTURE. Curry, Dublin, 1842. In this well-digested treatise, we find many instruc tive suggestions and remarks on the nature, proper ties and improvement of soils ; the structur e , unctions, and cultivation of plants ; and the husbandry of the domestic annals of the farm. Though the work is chiefly of a practical character, yet the science of agri culture has not been lost sight of, for, as the writer justly remarks, "It is a scientific art, inasmuch as the practice is right or wrong just as it coincides, or disagrees, with the established laws of nature, which it is the object of science to investigate." Mr. Fernand, in euumerating the frauds perpetrated by manufacturers, said, it was in evidence, that the decay in the lace trade, was attributable to the frauds carried on in the manufacture of that article. He had also received communi -1 cations in regard to the frauds practised in the stockinf trade. It appeared that the stockings were at first made of the same ' width from the knee to the anele, and that they were dipped in water, and then 'stretched in a frame to give them a proper shape,, and the fraud was not discovered till the were found . hanging about the atieles.—( A laugh.) These stockings went by the name of drop-off.—lf this be a sample of the accuracy of Mr. Ferrand's' imputation of fraud, it comes to nothing. The twist lace trade is as free from fraud as any manufacture, for to make it of an inferior cotton is more expensive than to use the best material that can be made. As to hosiery, it is certainly true that there are stockings manufactured as he describes, though the/ are more appropriately called cut-ups ' • the lowness of the price .is their great recommendation. We readilly admit, that if as many pairs of full-fashioned stockings could have been sold, the situation of the stocking maker ' would have been mush improved ; but that is impos sible. All our foreign trade would have gone at a blow, and even the drop-offs, which are regularly narrowed stockings, are undersold in our own markets by the article from Germany. Had nothing but full-fashioned stockings been made—were a law now passed, prohibiting the manufacture of cut-ups and drop-offs—the hosiery business would be almost annihilated, and the three hosiery counties would be absolutely ruined, by the all but universal pauperisation of the inhabitants. It is no fraud to make drop-offs, and the workmen who make them ob tain more money for their week's work than those who arc em ployed upon full-fashioned hose. It is only by ingenious con trivances for lessening labour, that the hosiery trade has been made the means of finding bread for thousands, who, without it, must have gone to the workhouse or perished.—Nottingham Review. TILE NEW NOVEL, "PASSION AND PRINCIPLE." —We are requested to state that Mr. Colburn, of Great Marlborough-street, has this day published " Passion and Prin ciple," a Novel, edited by Captain Frederic Chamfer, in 3 vols. which can now be had at all the libraries. Mr. Colburn has also just published the following new Works of Fiction :-I.lady lAnne Granard, or Keeping up Appearances, by L. E. L., 3 . vols. —2. Fascination, and other Tales, edited by Mrs. Gore, com prising Fascination, First Love, the Modern Scipio, the Silver Ring, Retribution, Theresa, &e., 3 vols.-3. Adventures of Sir Henry Morgan, the Buccaneer, by the Author of " Rattlin the Reefer," &c., 3 vole.-4. The School for Wives, by the Authoress of " Temptation," 3 vols.-5. Anne Boleyn, an Historical Romance, by Mrs. A. T. Thomson, 3 vols.—And 6. The Man of Fortune, by Mrs. Gore, 3 vols. A young man, of mild :111(1 amiable diameter, having some time ago lost his mother, to whom he was affec t ionat. ly attached, suffered great affliction. This was increased by his father's shortly after contracting a new marriage, which induced him to quit his paternal abode. He had long been a clerk in a merchant's house, by whom he was so much esteemed that a share in it was offered to him on condition that his lather would become his security. This was declined, and the refusal working upon an already afflicted mind drove him to suicide. Two days ago he was found hanging lifeless from a tree near Belleville. He was only 30 years of age. MELANCIIOLY OCCURRENCE AT NAPLES.—A more painful excitement has seldom been (treated at Naples than that arising from the following melancholy event, particulars of which we gather from a private letter :—The Rev. W. Jeans, brother to Mr. Jeans, the banker, left Naples on the morning of the 28th of March, with a gay party, for toe purpose of spending the day at the Sybyl's Grotto, Clime. The party, after enjoying the pleasures of the day, proposed to, return home; but, instead of getting into the carriage in waiting for them, they all agreed to walk on a short distance, and catch the delightful breezes of the evening. Mr. Jeans, following the impulse of the moment, unfortunately left the party, and took a different direction, when suddenly he arrived at the edge of a precipice, which he did not observe, ,being near-sighted, and the evening having considerably advanced, he fell headlong from the fatal rock, and was not discovered until an hour afterwards, when the servant found him in dreadful agony, though still able to speak. As soon as he had been lifted in the carriage, he said " Thank God 1 my life is spared, but my limbs are broken." He died a few minutes atter, though his friends were not aware that life had fled until Dr. Hookilly, the eminent surgeon of Naples, informed theta of the divainful truth. As well as several ractures, he had received a fatal injury of the spine. The melancholy event is attended with peculiarly distressing circumstances, as the un fortunate gentleman is said to have been engaged to a young lady, who was one of the party, and their speedy union had been decided upon. Mr. Jeans, who frequently officiated at the English church at Naples, was much beloved by all who knew him. He is said to have been in his twenty-eighth year. GARDENING DIRECTIONS FOR APRIL.—NaiI up string against outer wall of bedroom window, with a view to a crop of beans, and put pieces of stick in flower-pots where sweet peas were sown two months ago, though there may be no signs of their coming up at present. Purchase daisy roots of men with donkey-carts, for planting in back-yard,and throw in radish seed, with a view to an autumn crop of stringy stuff for home-grown suppers. Dig the soil in broken breakfast-cups, and put in mignonette; and place dead geraniums in the sun, with the vague idea that they may possibty come to life again. Clear the ground of all V at you have been putting into it for the last three months, and which you will by time have dis covered can never come to anything; but this will be an easy task, as the cats, those nocturnal labourers in metropolitan gardens, will probably have gone a considerable way towards scratching up the unprofitable verdure. Label bits or wood with the names of various seeds, and stick them promiscuously in the ground ; but it is not necessary to place them over the respective seeds, for it is not likely that they will ever appear as witnesses avainst the inscriptions on the pieces of stick alluded to. —Punch. _ _ _ The Festival of the Panathenea, instituted in ho nour of Minerva, is still celebrated at Athens, and takes place on the last day of the carnival. Early in the morning all the inhabitants assemble on the plain round the column of Ju piter, each family preparing for itself a sumptuous meal, and every culinary odour from the savoury garlic and onion to the delicate flavour of the honey of Hymettus rise from the grass, on which the repasts are spread for each family and party. The rest of the day passed in the enjoyment of music and dancing. The higher classes in general merely make it a promenade. This year, King Otho paid the assem blage a visit. On his arrival, a Palicare, of one of the lowest orders, approached his Majesty, and, with no ungrace ful air, presented to hint a bottle, rudely formed of leather and wood, very much resembling a powder-flask. The King re ceived it most graciously, drunk of the wine it contained, and seemed to relish its resinous flavour. His Alidesty then pa raded in his calesh round the whole of the animated scene, fol lowed by crowds of shouting children. HAYMARKET THEATRE.--A merry "comedietta," of the free and easy family, was produced on Thursday, called A Lover by Proxy. It was eminently successful, for it was acted with spirit, and its humour was at once felt and relished by the audience. Mr. Webster, Miss Charles, and Mrs. W. Clifford, represented the principal characters. This airy trifle is by Boureicault. It is light and sparkling, and will doubtless be a popular interlude for some weeks to come. AFFGHANIST AN. COPY OF A LETTER FROM LADY SALE TO GENERAL SIR EMMERT SALE, FROM CAUBUL, GIVING A PRECIS OF EVENTS IV THAT CITY FROM THE 2D TO THR 9TH OF NOVEMBER, 1841, AND DESPATCHED ON THE 9TH OF THAT MONTH. "My dear Sale,—The last letter I had from you was dated the Ist,' from Gundamuck. On the 2d an insurrection broke out in Caubul, the shops plundered, Johnson's house and trea sury looted (stripped) and burnt. He was in cantonments, his guards and servants murdered. Troup and Warburton were in cantonments; their houses burnt; Sir A. Burnes, his bro ther, and Broadfoot, murdered; Skinner supposed to be se creted by his gomashta ; Sturt was sent by the General a message, and was stabbed in four places in, the King's presence —the face, the shoulder, a glance on the arm, and on the side. There are three principal chiefs at the head of this--Abdoela Khan, Atehokaye 3loota Meuin, and Secunda Khan. The Kussulbashes are in, but are afraid to declare openly in our favour. Shelton, with two regiments and one company, in the Bala Hissar. On the 3d the 27th came in. They had to fight their way, being followed by 200 men, and had five killed, and 15 wounded. Gordon slightly wounded. A number of Ko ' histanees came into Caubul. _ " The Trevors got out of the city with just the clothes they had on their backs. Their house burnt. The Affghans at tacked the cantonment and fort, but were repulsed by Waller, who was wounded by a ball, which lodged in his armpit. Another large party, who have raised the religious standard, came against the cantonments at the rear gate, where our guns dealt destruction, and the cavalry cut them up. Sturt able to speak-, the wound in his shoulder deep, the side not so bad, the lungs uninjured; the face wound near the corner of the eye ; he was struck on the bone with such force, that he was stunned for the moment ; he had warded off two blows. " On the 4th, Khan Shurreen Khan arid others drove part of the fighting men out of the town. The enemy took pos session of the small fort nearly opposite our bazaar that joins on the King's gardens. The guns played all day against the gate of the Shah Bagb, which is filled with the enemy ; it cannot be blown open with powder, as there are too many people about it. A large party of horsemen showed themselves on the Shah Sang-hill. Malamoud Khan's fort, where the tower has been thrown down, has been taken possession of by the enemy. He is on our side, and therefore they have cut off his son's ears. We shotted and shelled the fort opposite our bazaar all day, but with little or no effect. The Kohistans up in arms and furious. Maule and Wheeler murdered; their men overpowered. Maule's khatagie (servant) alone escaped ; came in half naked this day (the 14th). Saw killed Gordon and Swayne, of the 44th. Robertson, of the 44th, and four men wounded. Walsh, Hollaken, Warren, and sixteen men, 6th cavalry, wounded; thirty-one missing. At tea-time an alarm ; very brisk firing. " sth inst.—The troops employed all day. Guns and mor tars, with shot and shell, at the fort, with very little effect. " 6th inst.—Sturt insisted, weak as he was, in shirt, plasters, and pay-junias (drawers), on going to the General (Elphin stone), as there was no engineer there but himself. We have only 'Warburton and Eyre as artillery-officers—no laboratory man—the General gave him leave to do what he pleased—by ten o'clock we got all in order—by twelve a good breach, and in a few minutes it was carried—Raban killed—Dear wounded —llobhouse and twelve of the 13th volunteered for the assault —one man badly wounded—those of the enemy who escaped were joined by a large body of horsemen, welt dressed and mounted, evidently Kussulbash—Sturt says not more than 2,000, others say 3,000—a beautiful sight—Anderson's horse charged up the hill, and drove the enemy all along the crest of it to the extreme lett, where the sth Cavalry charged up-- they were hemmed in—more Affghan horse came up, and they had a great struggle with swords, but the Affghan matchlock was so hot, that they in turn drove ours back all along the ridge, and they had outnumbered us so greatly as to be able to retire in excellent order. Anderson's horse again went up the road to challenge them, but their position was good and they maintained it. We had every man out on duty canton ments. A brigade was much wanted in the field, Two guns of Warburton's were seized by the enemy in the city, and the men forced to work them. They have thrown a number of balls into cantonments and into Sturt's garden from Mahmoud Khan's fort. Sir William Macnaghten has given 50,000 rupees to a Kussulbash chief to create a diversion in our favour, and promised him two lace if he succeeds. The Envoy and General agreed to send for the 13th and 35th (Sale's bri gade)—at first the General would not, but yesterday the order went off for you to return with the 13th and3sth, leaving your sick, wounded, and baggage in safety to come on by long marches ; but much responsibility is thrown on you in this way, and you will have to fight great numbers near this, whatever the state of the country may be far off. 'f he enemy have had possession of the Commissariat Fort these two days—to-day they have set it on tire, as also a village near the town that fired on them. We thought it was the city on tire. Sturt got the wall of the garden near the Commissa riat Fort down by the Sappers to-day. A new King and Vizier had been set up, but the other chiefs will not have them. Codrington's corps in Chareckan surrounded. All the officers wounded. Rattray and Salisbury killed. Sturt's wounds are doing well, but he overworks his strength; his mind keeps him up ; and Harcourt tells me to give him wine and arrowroot. Ile cannot get open his mouth to get food in properly. His tongue and throat have suffered, and all the _nerves about. He is out all day, and the soldiers help him about. Last night he did riot get to bed till one, and then was waked up by a note. Mackenzie defended the fort he was in till his ammunition was expended, and then he cut his way out : has three wounds. We have intelligence that we were to be attacked to. night, and that they were making boosa bays to throw into the ditch. No one had made arrangements for an attack. The General and Anquetil gave Sturt a carte blanche. lie has told off the officers and people to their posts, and paraded them this evening, and at nine went with Paton, Eyre, and Fellow, all the rounds. The Envoy is .in cantonments, and his place is a cavalry and infantry mtrenched camp, and six-pounderthe walls loop-holed. We have a nine and a in the battery next us, 15 guns in position, the walls well-manned. and our men stanch. If we get over to-night, we shall, I trust, -repel the enemy till you arrive. Heaven shield us all ! 1 should not be nervous if I could see what was going on. I hope they will not attack us this night; but the unusual still ness of no tiring looks like mischief. " Bth instant.—We had an alarm at four o'clock. The enemy attempted to take the fort back again. They shoed a large hole, and set fire to the bastion, but were driven back. We are all in high spirits, and look forward to your arrival with interest and anxiety.—With our united love, " FLORENTINE SALE." CRIME IN FRANCE. The Journal des Debats gives the following statistical ac count of the state of crime in France : " In 1826, 1827, 1828, and 1829, the amount of acquittals in criminal cases was 39 In 100 accusations. In 1832, the ae • quittals were 41 in 100 ; in 1833, 41 ; in 1834, 40; in 1835, 39; in 1836,40; in 1837, 37; in 1838, 36, in 1839,35. But in the last four years, the amount has increased two per cent. The exact average of acquittals in the first period, from 1825 to 1829, gives for the whole number of accusations 38 1-sth per cent. ; and in the second period, from 1833 to 1839, when the law of 1832 was in force, 3817-100th per cent. The amount of acquittals is then within 3-100ths of being the same as under the old legislation. And if since 1835 the amount is diminished, it must be borne in mind that by the law of Sept. 9, 1835, the declaration of guilty is obtained by a majority of seven votes. Now the condemnations on a simple majority, taking one year with another, being more than 2 per cent., this amount ought to be taken into con sideration in comparing the number of acquittals for the preceding years, It is then inexact to say that, looking at the amount of acquittals, repression lies found new force is the legislation of 1832. If the penal effect of this re pression be sought for, it will appear that it has constantly become weaker by the diminution of the punishment. Thus the admission of extenuating circumstances is 28 per cent. in 1832, 43 in 1833, 45 in 1834, 46 in 1835, 53 in 1836, 69 in 1837. 68 in 1838, and 70 in 1839. If these results be clas sified according to particular crimes it will be foind that from 1838 to 1839, there were 50 declarations of extenuating cir cumstances in 64 condemnations for parricide ; 453 in 638 con demnations for murder; 136 iii 154 condemnations for poison ing ; 39 in 56 condemnations for murder, preceded or followed by another crime; 217 in 230 condemnations for infanticide. Thus, on one side the number of acquittals has been nearly the same, and on the other the repressions have been weak ened in an immense proportion for crimes against the per son. Have these crimes increased? On this head we lease aside the number of accusations, to attend simply to the amount of condemnations involving capital punish ment. In 1825, there were 134 condemnations to death ; in 1826, 150 ; in 1827, 109 ; in 1828, 114 ; in 1829, 89 ; in 1830, 92. After 1832, it will be expected that the amount ought undoubtedly to be greatly diminished, for the law of 1832 suppressed the capital punishment in nine of the cases provided for by the cede of 1810. On the contrary, the amount has increased; and without the admission of extenuat ing circumstances, it would have been 156 in 1834; 178 in 1835; 172 in 1836; 183 in 1837 ; 248 in 1838; and 230 in 1830, that is to say, that in the period of 1825 to 1830 the Jury gave verdicts against 688 prisoners for crimes punishable by capital punishment, or 113 a year ; and in the second period, under the influence of the system of extenuating cir cumstances from 1834 to 1839, the number of those crimes was 1,267, nearly double, or 211 a year! We do not certainly pretend that an absolute value is to be given to statistical in formation, and we arc aware that in penal matters it may be dangerous to receive with too much facility the logic of figures; but when facts present themselves with such obsti nacy, they ought to be taken into serious consideration. These results are. we think, of such a nature as to awaken the solici tude of the legislator, if not on the principle itself introduced in the law of 1832, at least on the modifications which it will be useful to apply in its application." DUDLEY.—A dreadful affray occurred in this town, early in the morning of Tuesday, the 12th inst., between two brothers-in-law, named James Bunn and Solomon Robinson, which terminated in the death of the latter. On their way together a quarrel ensued between them, and on going out to tight, Robinson was knocked down by Bunn. When he was down, he ( Bunn) commenced kicking him most brutally in the abdomen till he was in an apparently lifeless condition. The poor fellow was taken borne and every assistance afforded him but all efforts were unavailing, and atter suffering great torture he expired on Wednesday morning. The inquest was held be fore Wm. Robinson, Esq.., when the Jury returned a verdict of "Manslaughter " against Bunn, and the Coroner made out his warrant of committal. Ho is accordingly now in Worcester gaol, and. will take his trial at the forthcoming assizes.— Worcestershire Chronicle. THE DEATH 01' SENOR AGUADO.—The French Government received, on Tuesday afternoon, a telegraphic despatch from Bordeaux, announcing that M. Aguado san k u n der the attack of apoplexy, at Gijon, in the Asturias, on the lath inst. A few days before his departure from Paris he experienced a slight attack, which was considered by his friends an alarming symptom ; he, however, treated it lightly, and having promised, for the last four years, to visit his mines in the Asturias, he determined on undertaking the journey. He was informed at Bordeaux, that the Spanish Government had ordered the Isabella 11. stearner,Jying at Passages, to be placed at his disposal, in order to convey him to Gijon ; but he declined accepting the offer, pre fer;ing to travel thither by land, as it would give him an opportunity of seeing the country. He repaired first to Valladolid, where he stopped sonic days, having assigned a rendezvous in that city to his brother and to Messrs. lie misa and Marliani. Ile took his departure thence for Oviedo, and, it appears that, in crossing the mountains, he under. went considerable hardship. His progress through them was retarded by snow during forty-eight hours, which he passed in a desolate cabin, wanting even the necessaries of lite. A let ter written by him, under date Oviedo, the 11th, reached Paris on Wednesday, in which lie describes the sufferings which he and his five companions had to endure in those mountains. Upwards of 100 men were employed in opening a passage for them, and they had to walk afterwards tire miles knee-deep through the snow, before they could arrive at the nearest vil lage. M. Aguado was only 56 years of age. His father like. wise fell a victim to a similar attack about the same period of life. He leaves a property estimated at upwards of 2 ,000,000/. sterling, to be divided among his three sons. Numerous are the quadrilles already forming in anticipation of her Majesty's grand fancy hall in the ensuing month. The Princess Augusta of Cambridge forms one, the dresses of which will consist of the costu mes d e Coors of the time of Renri Quatre. Characters f rom Si r W. Scott will form another, and there will be a set of bunny Highlanders. It may not be generally known, but we understand uniforms will not be admitted, and the will add greatly to the general effect of the ensemble. -- - FRENCH RAILWAYS. FRENCH CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES. M. DCFAURE presented the Report . of the', Railroad Committee, which contained the following articles : CHAPTER I.—GENERAL ENACTMENTS. -Art. 1. A system of railroads shall be established, running,— First, from . Paris to the Belgian frontier, by Lille and Valenciennes ; to England, by a point on the shore of the Manche, hereafter to be fixed on ; to the Ger man frontier, by Nancy and Strasburg ; to the Medi terranean, by Lyons, Marseilles, and Cette ; to the Spanish frontier, by Tours, Poitiers, Angouleme, Bordeaux, and Bayonne; to the Atlantic, by Tours and Nantes ; to the central ports of France, by Bour ges, Nevers, and Clermont ; and, secondly, from the Mediterranean to the Rhine, by Lyons, Dijon, and Mulhouse. Art. 2. The construction of the great lines mentioned in the foregoing article shall be executed with the aid of funds advanced by the State, by the departments through which they run, and by the communes in terested in the question, and by private industry, in the following proportions : Art. 3. 'The indemnities due for ground and build ings required for the railroads shall be advanced by the State, and shall be repaid by the depart ments and communes to the amount of two-thirds. In each department through which a line runs the Council-General shall fix the share to be paid from the departmental funds, and for the payment of which extraordinary means shall be provided. The Council- G eneral shall designate the communes called on to pay the remainder of the two-thirds, and will assign the contingent which each of them shall have to pay ac cording to its financial resources, and the interest it has in the undertaking. No indemnity shall be de manded for buildings or ground belonging to the State. Art. 4. The other third for indemnities, ground, buildings, embankments, station-houses, and other such works, shall be paid by the State. Art. 5. Rails, sand, materials, expenses of carry. ing on the railroads, and repairs of all descriptions, shall be at the charge of the Companies leasing the railroads. The lease shall regulate the conditions of carrying on the railroad business, as well as the prices to be charged. Art. 6. At the expiration of the lease, the rails and materials shall be valued, and the amount paid by the Company which takes another lease, or by the State. Art. 7. Royal ordonnances shall fix the steps to be taken for according the railroad business with Custom house duties and regulations. Art. 8. The police, safety, and arrangements of the railroads shall be fixed by the regulations of the public administrations. CHAPTER 2.—PARTICULAR ENACTMENT.-Art. 9: A sum of 43 millions shall be appropriated for the es tablishment of a railroad from Paris to Lille and Va lenciennes, by Amiens, Arras, and Douay. Art. 10. A sum of 11,500,000 f. shallbe appropri ated for the part. of the railroad from Paris to the German frontier, between Hommarting and Strasburg. Art. 11. A sum of 11 millions shall be appropri ated for the common portion of the railroads from Paris to the Mediterranean, and from the Mediter ranean and the ithine, between Dijon and Ch a l on . Art. 12. A. sum of 30 millions shall be appropri ated for the part of the railroad from Paris and the Mediterranean, between Avignon and Marseilles, by 'faraseon and Arles. # Art. 13. A sum of 17 millions shall be appropri ated for the common portion of the railroads from Paris to the Spanish frontier, and from Paris to the Atlantic, between Orleans and Tours. Art. 14. A sum of 12 millions shall be appropri ated for the part of the railroad between Paris and the centre of France, between Orleans and Vierzon, Art. 15. A sum of 1,500,000f.5ha1l be appropriated to the continuation of the survey of the railroads spe cified in Art. 1. Art. 16. For the lines already mentioned a sunk of 126 millions shall-be granted to the Minister of Public IVorks, on'the'estimates of 1842 and 1843, in the fbl lowing proportions :-- On those of 1842: For the part • of the Paris and Belgian railroad, between Paris and Ainiens; 4,000,000 f. For the part of the Paris and German frontier rail way, between Strasburg andllom marting, 1,500,0001. Por the common portion of the Paris and Mediterranean line, and of the Mediterranean and Rhine line, between Dijon and Chalons, 1,000,000 f. For the part of the Paris and Mediterranean Rail road, between Avignon and Marseilles, 2,000,000 f, For the common portion of the Paris and Spanish Frontier R: ilroad, between Orleans and Tours. 2,000,000 f. For the . part of the Paris and Central Railroad, between Orleans and Vierzon, 1,500,000 f. For the continuance of surveys, 1,000,000 f Total, 13,000,0001. On the estimates of 1843: For the Paris and Belgian Frontier Railroad, 8,000,0001. For the part of the Paris and Ger man Frontier Railroad, between Strasburg and Hom wafting, 3,500,000 f. For the common portion of the Paris and Mediterranean Railroad, and the Medi terranean and the Rhine Railroad, between Dijon and Chalons, 3,000,000 f. For the part of the Paris and Mediterranean Railroad, between Avignon and Mar seilles, 6,000,000 f. For the common portion of the Paris and Spanish Frontier Railroad, and of the Paris and Atlantic Railroad, between Orleans and Tours, 6,000,000 t: For the part of the Paris and Centre Railroad, between Orleans and Vierzon, 3,500,000 f. For the continuation of surveys, 500,000f.—Total 30,500,0001: CHAPTER 111.--WAYS AND Muims.—Art. 17. PTO.. vision shall be made for the present from the floating debt for the part of the expenses which are to remain chargeable on the State, and the funds thus advanced shall he definitively repaid from such reserves of the sinking fund as shall be disposable after the budgets of 1840, 1841, and 1842, have been provided for. CHAPTER IV.—FINAL ARRANGEMENTS. - -Art. 18. Each year the Minister of Public Works shall lay be fore the Chamber an account of the works executed in furtherance of the present Bill. the President took the sense of the Chamber as to the day on which the discussion on the Bill should take, place, and, after several suggestions, Monday, April 25, was fixed on. We learn that the attempt to reduce the hard earn• ings of the poor stocking-weavers, at Mansfield, has proved abortive. A public meeting of the trade was called on Monday, when the " little bag-hosiers' sliding scale " was made known, and entirely disapproved of by the whole assembly. The work men to whom the abatement had been offered were waited upon, and readily agreed to a cessation from labour, until the price they had heretofore received could be obtained. 'fits DERBY " 10 of the 150 bobbin net hands, late in the employ of Messrs. Boden and Morley, now remain at work, the rest having struck. We understand that about 300/. has been transmitted by the hands in Nottingham to their brethren in Derby, and that the contributions increase in amount weekly.—Notiirsphom Review. The General Steam Navigation Company's mail. packet, John Bull, Captain J. P. Corbin, arrived yesterday morning with the Haniburgh The framework-knitters of Hucknall Torkard, being desirous of suppressing the truck system, have collected subscriptions from the inhabitants generally, and have met with good support, especially from the middle class. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended- by the Royal Suite, left Buckingham Palace yesterday for Claremont Park, where the Royal party will spend a few days, and then return to the metropolis. Galvanism is now being applied in the blasting of rocks in the vicinity of Glasgow, and is found to be more effee. tire than gunpowder. The .ctiildon tunnel, which unites the Stockton and Darlington, and the Auckland and Weardale Railways, was opened for merchand'se and passengers on Tuesday last. The Directors and friends in several coaches drawn by an engine,. preceded the coach containing passengers, which was drawn: by a horse. The tunnel is above a mile long, and passengers can now be conveyed from London to the South Church station by railway ; thence to Rainton Meadows by omnibuses, when they will again be conveyed by railway to Newcastle, so that the entire distance from London to Newcastle may be traversed by railway, with the exception of one-and-half hour's travelling on the road between South Church and Rainton Meadows. The Darlington Mechanics Library and Reading room have decided toadmit newspapers by a majority of l l4 to 8. CORONER'S INQUEST.-1:11E LATE FATAL ACCI DENT TO Mu. M. SA MS.—Thursday evening, at eight o'clock, an inquest was held at the Star and Gaiter Tavern, in Pall-mall, before Mr. Higgs, the Coroner for Westminster, on the body of Mr. William Sams, late of Nb. 1, St. James's- West, bookseller, print publisher, and proprietor of the loyal Subscription Library, whose death occurred under the follow. ing melancholy and distr ess i ng c i rcumstances: The . deceased, between eight and nine o ' c l oc k on t h e even i ng of Saturday last, accompanied by Mrs. Sams and his daughter, was driving in a four-wheeled open chaise carriage, drawn by two horses, along a lane leading from Hammersmith -bridge, being on their way to th e i r s ea t a t R oe h amp t on . When within a short distance of Walham-green, one of the horses became restive, and the ladies screaming, started the other, and both of the animals then broke into a furious gallop, and in turning the coiner into Walliam-greeri, in the direction towards the church, the vehicle came in contact with a post. '[he collision was tremendous; the carriage was overturned, and the de ceased and the ladies were thrown out. The deceased was found lying underneath the carriage ; he was extrietited as quickly as possible, and found to be very severely hart, so much so, that he was quite speechless, and presently became perfecalv s l o ul e e k n o e n e in Wednesday Btjam insensible. He was conveyed to a surgeon'sat ‘Valtialn-greeu, and afterwards removed to his re James's-street . , r oo e e n t . O , where a posthe e x pired 'e his death wa s found to proceed ofie b x n a u n t d t i l4r t e l e ol o' c lock from co ncussion of the brai n , an d a slight fracture of a portion of the skull. Mrs. Sams escaped w i t h b ut tr i fling injury, but Miss Sams received r a th er a severe laceration of the neck. e n, The melancholy catastrophe was purely accidental. Verdict, Accidental death." The deceased was 49 years of age. Sll A K ;SPEA RCS t RTII-DAY.—Yestertiav was the annui versary of the birth-day of the gicat peel William Shaks peare, • His Royal lliglint:ss Prince Albert has presented. the munificent donation of 501. to the Queen's Hospital, found e d i n connex i on with the Roya l S c h oo l o f Medicine and. Surgery a t Bi rm i ng h am, for the purposes of medical clinical education of the medical students of the Midland Counties. MAILS FOR INDIA.—The tblitm tog notice has been issued by the P os t- o ffi c e authorities :—" Gen era l P ost-office, April 20. The next mails for Malta, Greec e , t h e l on i an h ls e l l an e ds o , n tEgypt,the 50th3 anii India, via Falmouth, w ill b e despatched iiistant. The next mail for India, it c. via Marseilles, will be wade up here on the 4th of May." Thy appointment of Mr. Crawford to he her Ma— jesty's Consul in the island of Cuba, confirms the statemena which we noticed in our last, that Mr. Turnbull no lonvr held that office. We have the satisfaction of being able to state, however, that this gentleman remains in Cuba in the responsible and important post of Protector of Liberated Africans. —Anti- Staver Reporter. 1 a s ren a er s~ . :;,1 le ny be 11. 0 . t¢ Li' ,a :~ R le Ui ; ,t a ‘: C I~ x