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THE NEW NOVEL BY L. E. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., post Bvo., with fine Portrait of the Authoress by Finden, ADY ANNE GRANARD; A OR, KEEPING UP APPEARANCES. ._...--- By L. E. L. thoress of "Ethel Churchill," "The Improvisatrice," &c. l'enry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough -street. NEW NOVEL EDITED BY MRS. GORE. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., F ASCIN A TION. EDITED by Mrs. GORE, " This charming tale seems rapidly preying its claim to the title Mrs. Gore has bestowed upon it. Its lively, vivid, and picturesque sketches of French and German manners and so ciety during their most picturesque period—its spirited and ori ginal draughts of character--and its dramatic cast of plot and nculent, are commanding for it universal perusal. 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IS NOW BEADY AT ALL THE LIBRARIES. Rich ard Bentley, New Burlingtonstreet. Is P MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA, h a , Dr , AUTII .ORISED and GUAttANTEED several DIS TI [BUTIODOi of MONEY DIVIDENDS, which (though tie arP•NO !:• , OTTERIES) eer :many possibilities of obtain ing LARGE D'ORTUNES, EIEINE :BROTHERS, at. lIAMBURGH and at Ar , now Si:T..l .ING ORIGINAL BONDS for the said DIS CI IBU I'IONI ;. i ersons deal •Olit to purchase for the Next Distribution ma '- releive. P REVIOUS to giving any orders, the PRO SE' !:CT (IS rnd PARTICULARS. upon addressing a line either tc, .lIEINE BROTHERS, at HANIBURGH, •or tr. MEINE BROTHERS, at LUBECK. '..h . he NEXI" DISTRIBUTION contains DIVIDENDS of £64 ' £lOO 1:250 £ 1,000 F 6 11W 300 1,200 70 120 500 1,890 80 150 . 6CO 4,000 90 200 700 22,500 STERLING. amounting together to 142,9941. P.RITISH -STERLING MONEY. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING, MARCH 19. Will be pexforn led, arranged as a Drama, Handel's ACIS AND GA LATE A.-1 4 JI)pheme, Mr. H. Philip 4 ; Ads, Miss P. Horton; Damon, Mr. Allen; Galatea, Miss Romer. fter which, the New Comedy of THE PRISONER OF WAR. To conclude 'with the New Fa, ce, called THE WINDMILL boars oper at:half-past Six, and the Performances begin at Seven, Sexes as., Secr fnd trice 2s. I'd.; Pit :Is , s.acond Price 2s ; Lower GaPery Is. t.d., Second ]'rice Is.; Upper Galiery Is., Second Price fd THEA FRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. UNDER the .11ANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS, APHIS EVENING, MARCH 19, I Vill be perfc rmed Bellini's Opera of NORIMA.-:Pollio ' Mr. W, Harrison; On /yew, Mr. Leffler; Flavius, Mr. Clement White; N. , rrna, Miss A dclaide Kemble; Adalgisa, Miss Rainforth; Mi -s Grant. ...Itler which 'triU be repeated, with additions, Milton's Masque of CO MUS.—Comus, Mr. W. Harrison ; First Bacchante. Madame Ve.tris ; the Ltd}, Mrs. Walter Lac! , ; Elder Brother, Mr. J. Vin_ inN ; Sirens, Mv:d'anie Vestris and 'Miss Itainforth ; Cupid, Miss Dc vton ; Eupiny.syne, Madame Vcstris ; Sabrina, Miss Itainforth. i , iors open ialf-past `ix, and the Performances begin at Seven. Dret.s Saxes 75., Second Price 3s. 6d ; First and Second Ci r cl es 5 5. , Sec lnd Price 2s, NI.; Pic 25., Second Pric, 9.a. ; Gallery Is. Tickets and Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan, at the Box-of. dcc, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had upon ap.. plieation. Priv:ite 13 , nees to be had solely of Mr. Andrews, Book Mier, 167, Nov • Bond-street. LOYAL SURREY THEATRE. Last Week of the Season. THIS EVENING. MARCH 19, mill be acted Lord Byron's Tragedy of WERNER.—Werner, Mr. H. Hughes; Ulric, Mr N. T. Hicks; Josephine, Mrs. H. Vining; Ids Stralenhcirn, Mrs. H. Hughes. iter whi , ,h, a Comic Ballet, entitled OPPOSITION; or, the RIVAL DANCING MASTERS. conclude with an original Nautical Drama, called SAM SCUD; or, PERILS by SEA and LAND.—Sani, Scud, Mr. H. hughes; Be'sy, Miss Martin. TO CORRESPONDENTS. The :letter fi:om Totness on " Naval Affairs" was duly received, but owing; to the press of matter we have net been able to find tom for it. w will er deavour to make room for some of the numerous l.itters of Correspondents respecting the income tax as soon as possible. TIC; WEATHER.—NooN, MARCH 18. P. AI. , GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Thin-mon eter... 43 1 Highest 52 1 Lowest 40 B troinet?.r 29.93.—Wind W.—Freezing Point ;12 Deg. HIGH 'tvirEl: AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Mo •ning,..... 57 minutes after 5 1 Evening 22 minutes after 6. after being reduced nearly 50 per cent., yielded directly within two years a revenue short only by one-fifth of the sum they yielded before the, rate was reduced nearly one-half, it is presumable that the indirect effects of the reduction more than made up that fifth ; or that the reduction of the duty on this doubtful article of wine of nearly 50 per cent., in fact caused an actual increase in the whole revenue of the country. What, in truth, were the results on the whole revenue of those successive reductions in taxation, made between 1825 and 1836, whitth, on Sir ROBERT PEEL'S new theory should have beggared the State, and made an income tax necessary, six years ago ? We find from Mr. Pon- TER'S tables, that between 1825 and 1836 inclusive, the total amount of taxation reduced was 15,319,1621., and the amount of revenue yielded less in the same period, was only 3,031,222/. In the short space of ten years, therefore, the taxes which were left on yielded 12,000,0001. per annum more than they did before the reductions, or one-fourth the whole revenue of the State. Now, that great increase took place in consequence of the reduction of duties, notwithstanding the continued existence of Corn-laws, and various commercial restrictions, which prevented the industry of the country from having fair play. We therefore, have no doubt, that by the abolition of the Corn-laws, and a due revision of the tariff, the revenue would soon be equal to all the legitimate wants of the State. On the article of sugar alone, we arc assured by respectable merchants that the increased revenue from reducing the duty on colonial sugar to 205., and on fo reign sugar to 345.,w0u1d amount to upwards of 2,000,000/. We could even produce men who would guarantee that increase, or who would farm the revenue on the expecta tion of receiving it. Now, we complain of SirßonEaT PEEL that he wholly .and, we think, inexcusably, whether it were from ignorance or design—overlooked the indirect ei fects of reducing taxation on the revenue ; and con tented himself with stating its direct effects on the article alone on which the tax was reduced. In an editor of a newspaper such a mode of reasoning would not be justified ; in Sir ROBERT PEEL it was wholly unpardonable. The objection which we have stated is to the principle of,his proceeding—his errors in arith metic, or his omissions, were last night ably exposed by Mr. BARING. A formidable opposition is gathering, we are happy to see, against Sir R. PEEL'S scheme ; and it will not be our fault, we trust, if that opposition do not compel him to give it up, and confess that the only bold act he performed in his life was unsuitable to his character, and was a perfect failure. We announced some ten days ago that Government were about to send eight or ten thousand men to re inforce the army in India, and gave them full credit for the vigour displayed in meeting the emergencies caused - by the protracted war with China, and the re verses of our troops in Affghanistan. Sir B. PEEL, in an swer to a question from Lord J. RUSSELL on Thursday night, admitted that the determination to reinforce the Indian army had been formally taken, and that a sup plementary estimate to that effect would be placed before the House, but he declined for the present to state the amount. We have no doubt, however, that the number of troops mentioned is rather under than over the mark. The Duke of WELLIIqGTON last year said this country could not afford to carry on a little war, and urged the propri ety of showing to the world that we were in earnest when once engaged in hostile operations. There is sufficient scope now, certainly for carrying out the plan of the Gallant Duke. The present cannot be called a little war. In the two extremities of Asia, Britain is engaged in two ;neat contests—one with a nation of three hundred mil lions, and the other with a treacherous race of moun taineers, both at a vast distance from this country, and the seat of empire in India. Independent of these, she has to watch the Burmese, ever ready to take ad vantage of circumstances, to overawe unfriendly States in India, and at the same time keep up a large force in another hemisphere, to meet exigencies that may spring out of the unsettled state of our relations with the United States. If the loss in Affghanistan turns out as extensive as the late accounts lead many to anticipate, ten thousand ad ditional troops would form but a miserable reinforce ment, and the public will probably find that twice that number at least must be forthcoming from England and India together. Everything in these Eastern regions depends on opinion. This circumstance the Government cannot fail to keep in view, and they will therefore be anxious to show that, notwithstanding . the reverses of our troops in one quarter, Great Britain is as powerful as ever, and fully prepared to assert her supremacy in the vast territory over which she holds sway. I I Among the petitions presented to the House of Com . mans on Thursday, was one by Mr. O'CONNELL, com e. plaining of the Ironmongers' Company of London having served notices of ejectment on many of the tenants upon their estates in the county of Derry, for the purpose of terrifying the rest to become tenants at will. We con fess that we cannot comprehend the meaning of such conduct on the part of a London Company of merchants. The tenants who occupy their estates are nearly all Presbyterians, whose ancestors emi grated to Ireland from Scotland in the reigns of JAmEs the First and CHARLES the Second. They are a peaceable, industrious, moral race, attached to the insti. tutions of this country. We are aware that the tenantcy at will system of letting land is unfortunately preva lent in Ireland. The principal causes of this are, the religion of the people, and the absence of the land lords_ from their estates. As most of the great landed proprietors are Protestants, and the bulk of the tenants Catholics, leases are denied them, to prevent them from exercising a hostile influence as electors. Had the tenantry of Ireland leases, the Members returned to Parliament by that country would, in four cases out of five, be of different principles from what they really are. The next cause is the unwillingness of middle men, and agents upon the estates of absentees, to diminish their own, almost absolute power, over the tenantry, by granting them leases. They could neither rack-rent from year to year, nor fine, nor exact several days of manual and horse-labour annually from tenants having leases, as they can, and do, from tenants at will. Upon the estates of absentees, where the tenants have no leases, they are the slaves of the agents, who exact from them every farthing they possess for their individual profit, without the slightest regard to the injury done to such estates, or to the wishes of the proprietors. But the London Compa nies having estates in Ireland are comprised of men of a far different stamp. They are men of sense and busi ness, as well as humane and liberal men, and must be aware that no landed property was ever improved in value by a tenantry holding at will. On the contrary, to refuse leases is to impoverish landlords and ruin their tenantry. No tenant will seek to improve a property in which he has but a year's interest ; and to the extent of the permanent value of such improvemcnts is the land living upon a leased holding, does not nearly that it is the d u ty o f every s t a t esman , an d more parti -1 cularly the duty of the First Lord of the Treasury, 1 who recei ves l arge emo l umen t s , an d i s .en t rus t e d with I great power, to serve, not to mystify and deceive, the public, whenever he proposes any measure, to state all the facts concerning it in the most ample and most com plete manner. His resources for obtaining information are almost unbounded ; and the plea of ordinary in dustry, which may hold good in the case of a journalist, will not justify him who has at his command the labour of all the servants of the State, for the smallest negli gence, or the least incompleteness, when he undertakes to bring some statement before Parliament and the country. We yesterday pointed out the erroneous view which Sir ROBERT PEEL had laid before the public, of the effect on the revenue of the reduc tion of certain taxes. We shall now, we trust, sa tisfy our readers that the Right Honourable Baronet has not only taken an erroneous view, but we shall Casten on him, we think, the suspicion of having de siguedly put abroad an error, in order to promote his own ambitious and nefarious scheme of direct taxation, and blind the public to the beneficial consequences of substituting freedom of trade and lowering of imports, for monopoly and new taxes. The examples we quoted yesterday showed .that the consumption of wine had incrensed from 5,000,000 to 6,500,000 gallons, while the consumption of coffee has increased from 9,251,8371b5., in 1807, to about 115,000,000 lbs at present. Now, Sir R. PELL cannot pos sibly be ignorant of the fact, that by this increased con sumption . of wine and of coffee, the revenue is augmented in a much greater ratio than is shown by the mere pro duct of the wine and the coffee duties. The additional 1,500,000 gallons of wine imported must have employed a considerable number of ships, increasing thc. , revenue from hemp and timber, those ships were navigated by officers and men who consumed various articles subject to excise and customs duties ; the wine imported gave additional employment and pay to porters, warehouse men, wine -merchants, publicans, waiters, &c., all of whom contributed to the revenue by their additional consumption. Similar facts ars, of course, true as to coffee. The 25,000,0001b5. now imported to consume and require nearly three times as many ships to bring them into England as the 9,000,0001b5. consumed in 1809, then re quired; and theyproduce to the revenue over and above the actual increase of duty on coffee itself, at least twice , as much revenue on account of the Consumption of the different persons to whom that increase gives the means of consuming as it would otherwise derive from them, or an equal number of persons. Now, when the wine duties 7 t 4 :' 4 =f - 4t , 4 'l , 0 - 0' o MO B •'• Olt LONDON: SATtIRDAY MORNING, MARCH 19, 1842, Sir Ro BERT PEEL'S financial and commercial schemes were exte med to a rough scrutiny last night, and some of the p. t3te having been rubbed out of them, their flip isey aad rude texture is made perceptible. Mr. BA SING I )egan the examination, and having exposed sw , etal a rithmetical and financial blunders of the M nisters,. he demonstrated that they bad made a serious mi ;repres entation of the produce of the 5 per cent. ac k , itional: Customs and Excise duties which he levied in 1840. Sir ROBERT PEEL estimated the pro duce of those duties at 206,0001. Mr. BARING shows d that it had yielded 1,700,000/. .The Right Hon. Gentle.man also proved that his alteration as to the sup 2- duties would have yielded upwards of 1,000,0001 which together with the increased revenue ob .ained ft om the Timber duties and the fixed duty on Co rn, woul have nearly made up the deficiency of the rat enue. 1 1.. t present, but for the unscrupulous conduct of the Torii e, the country would have had the benefit of those alt 'rations for nearly a year ; but it having bet n eenied them it must now, as was stated by Mr. Le ;ouerteitz,,pay the price of an income tax for the good of I e Tories and the retention of the corn-laws. vlr. BAILTNG antl Mr. LABOUCHERE both showed the t the tariff of Sit- B. PEEL is a mere pretence of lib :rality. It meddles not with the giant monopoly— Sot Far from debug away restriction, it establishes, for the first time, a complete series of differential dut ice on everything - which may ever be imported from the , colonies, and proceeds on the mischievous principle of creating a vast neat of petty monopolies and vested int :rests, which no Government would be able tc over ' c on ie. An income tax might be borne, it was remarked, wet e it the price of a liberal and extensive system of coi omercial freedom ; but we are called on to submit to ate h tax, in. order to establish a new system of an im pel per commercial system. :Ct was generally felt in the House of Commons, after ~ BARING sat down, that Sir ROBERT PEEL'S propose for an annoying income tax is entirely unwarranted, eit; 'er by, the deficiency of the revenue or the petty con 'menial reforms which he makes the pretext for it. In truth, it is a great and dangerous innovation, not juseified V the reasons assigned, and brought forward freeehrieetieele.which cannot be avowed. If we might off( r a conjecture, we should say that the Tories expect by :he help of the working classes, whom they hope to brt ie by a e scheme of taxation which pretends not to tout 'h them—though they will deny them the suffrage— to bsten the income tax permanently on the middle classes, to increase it when convenient, and so punish these classes at their pleasure for their attempt to throw off the yoke of the aristocracy. After Mr. Gould:wee had replied to Mr. BARING, and after Lard Howicx and Lord JOHN RUSSELL had spoken,. the House went into a Committee, and Sir R. PIM. explained the machinery by which he is to levy the tax: The Right Hon. Baronet, annoyed apparently by the manner in which his scheme was exposed, made a somewhat furious attack on the Whigs, for opposing his income tax. He gave the country no - reason, however, to love or support it, when he. stated that he proposed to adopt the provisions of the Act under which the former in come tax was levied, and under which there were in the city of London alone in one year 11,000 surcharges. That may give our readers a notion of what awaits them if they once suffer this tax to be established. Sir BoRERT PEEL proposes to appoint Special Commis sioners to hear appeals which may relieve a man from the investigation .of neighbours. He' means also to allow persons to compound for the tax, as they bare compounded for assessed taxes. Income is eo be estimated by the averag e of the last three year, which will make the tax fall lightly on prosperous men, but ruinously heavy on men who are unfortunately going backward in the world. The reso lution was moved, but not adopted, last night, and as we shall therefore have frequent opportunitie s of discussing its merits, we must now close, assuring our r ea d ers that they cannot hope to escape the uncalled for tax unless they exert theniselves. Let them denounce it and peti tion against it. There may be some doubt as to tl - • obligation on party journals to state the whole truth on any question they disr ~,.:~ , ti . ~_._.a ;;, . orcli.lary ; butth<;,.e THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 19, 1842 Without stating at what period, or to what extent, the opium claims should be satisfied, we are clearly of ()pillion that it is the duty of the Government to lose no Time in corning to some determination respecting them. ldinisters are bound to state at once whe ther the country- will, or will not, pay them. It is not just—it is not creditable—it is not politic, even in a party sense, to leave the question of the set dement of these claims contingent upon the results of the war with China. If the Government is satisfied diat the claims ought to be rejected, let it say so, and the merchants will not, in addition to their loss of property, lose their time in the fruitless labour of en deavouring to obtain its value from the British Trea sury. If, on the other hand, Ministers are persuaded of the equity of these claims, or of any part of them, let the fact be announced, and the nation will know for what purpose we exact money from the Chinese. But to keep silent upon the matter, leaving the question of justice to be determined by the result of the war in China, is a lamentable course of proceeding. Now something like this was the course pursued by the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER and Sir R. PEEL, upon Mr. LINDSAY'S mo tion on Thursday respecting the application of the Canton ransom money. The only inference to be drawn from their speeches was, that after the settlement of the war and the deduction of the expenses of this country, the claims of the opium merchants would probably be next considered. If these claims be bad, those making them can have no. right to consideration, were the wealth of China accumulated in one heap at the feet of Sir lI.TOTTINGER. No success of our arms can render them one jot more equitable than they are at pre sent. Again, if they be good, say so, and tell the world frankly that the indemnity can only come from China. This does notimpOse upon us the expense of the war, That expense may still be exacted from the Celestials. It only guarantees the settlement of the claims, before the defraying the expense of the expedition —a priority which Sir R. PEEL must be aware cannot be denied these claims, if recognised at all, without casting a stain upon the honour of the country. There was no political news of any interest in French or Spanish papers rece:l'ed yesterday. We therefore content ourselves with the following extracts from them : A Toulon letter of the 7th inst., in the National, says that 6,000 or 7,000 men are about to be sent into Africa, to fill up the regiment s t h ere to t h e i r war complement. The Marengo, of the line, and the steamers Veloce, Cameleon, Vantour, and Lavoisier, are, says the letter, to convey these troops. A letter from 'loulon, March 11,in the Constitutionnel, says, " The transport vessel the Lamproie, arrived on the Bth, from Barcelona, with pa.sengers. t3he brings word that money had been received at Barcelona to procure partisans for the cause of Queen Christina. General offieets and others of high rank were getting ammunition prepared on the frontier of France, for those who enlisted, and arms were being purchased. A Frenchman had been imprisoned for ex citing to revolt. When the Lamproie sailed, Barcelona was quiet, but an outbreak was feared. The French Go vernment, informed no doubt of %A hat was going on in Cata lonia, despatched thither on the 6th the Medea frigate, and the Tonnerre steam-boat. These vessels are ordered to take on board such natives of Spain as might wish to quit the country in case of insurrection. A journal says that the inquiry into the peculations that have been discovered in the prefecture of the Seine continues. It , is reported that more a-rests have taken place. Some persons have been suspended. M. Auguste Luchet, condemned to two years imprisonment and a fine of 1,01)0 francs, for the publication of a novel called "Un Dam de Famille," has ap. pealed to the Court of Cessation.— Constitutionel. BOURSE—PARIS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16. /rust kilkhest Lowest Last Price Price: Prick Price. French 5 per Cern, ll7 50 ... 117:0 ... 117 45 ... 117 50 4per Cents. 101 s') ... 101 31) ... 101 511 1111 50 3 per Cont. So 65 80 *)5 81.. CO ... Sn 65 Loan Rink cit rvince bk.; — ... 3372 51D Latfittc Bank 1.411x1f. Shares I , 21) —lO2O 5,00.1 f. Shares 5017 50 ...3047 30 ...504 ...3045 delglan Rank 5 per Cent:., 1840 loti' ... 1064 ... 10614 lON iraniith Active 25% ... 25h, ... 25)1 Portuguese 5 per Cents. N eap o litan Roman... RAIL WA 10 % Y S 5 HARES 103 ii 105}4 ... 10574 . St. Germain Versailles, K. B 347 50 2.52 50 ... 347 5n ... 3.52 60 217 50 2.m 217 50 ... 220 Rouen 5126 25 ... 526 25 ••• 525 525 Orleans • • 566 23 ... 367 50 ~. 566 25 ... 5 6 7 50 S'eastiurvo Bale 243 ;5 ... 213 245 5 EIMMARY OF NEWS AND Optitton. " Who runs may read." ronziGx. The financial announcement of Sir Robert Peel continues to be the leading, and, indeed, only subject of interest in the original columns of the French Journals. Our Paris Glitem poraries, generally speaking, continue to bestow praise on Sir Robert Peel, but some of thetn profess to consider the situa tion of England as very desperate. The French Minister of Agriculture and Commerce has published the returns of the grain imported into, and exported from, France, during the year 1841. The whedt imported amounted to 126,143 metrical quintals, other grain to 39,284, and flour to 1,1:30. The exports in the same year were— wheat, 344,338 metrical quintals; other grain, :(11,434; and flour, 124,586. The imports during the month of January, 1842, were—wheat, 9,504 metrical quintals; other grain, 8,066; and flour, 124. The quantities of those articles bonded in the entrepots on the Ist of February, 1842, were—wheat, 144,551 metrical quintals; other grain, 15,162; and flour, 9,590. The Madrid Senate on the 9th instant rejected, by forty against twenty-seven, the report of the majority of the Com niittre recommending that the Cabinet should be authorised, to continue the proceedings against the venerable Duke de Castro Terreno, compromised in the October insurrection. According to the Expectador, a Madrid Ministerial Journ a l, the army of Sp a i n, w hi ch at the end cf the war amounted to 220,000 mtn. is now reduced to less than 140,000. Private letters from San Sebastian of the 12th inst. describe the public feeling throughout the provinces as averse to all in.• surre2tionary attempts, either in favour of Don Carlos or the ex-Regent Christina. The Spanish authorities continued, nevertheless, to exercise the strictest surveillance along the frontiers, and in Biscay troops were marching from the interior to the coast, to .:ccupy the points which afforded facilities for landing. PIITZLZA/V7.7INTAILY. No business worth notice was transacted by the House of Peers yesterday. Ira the Commons a considerable number of petitions were presented against one part or another of the Tory budget. Mr. Howard, who was taken into custody the ereniug before, was discharged on throwing himself on the indu'gence of the House, and paying his fees. The lion. Member pleaded igno runce of the forms of theilouse. Mr. Blew itt gave notice of a motion, after the holidays, to resolve that property acquired in war did not belong to the Crown. In answer to Mr. Hawes, Mr. Gladstone stated that there were typographical errors in the tariff, and errors of statement, which it was intended to rectify. A corrected copy would be on the tale of the House before separating for Easter On the motion for the House to resolve itself into a Com mittee of Ways anti Means, Mr. Baring rose and made a useful speech in opposition to Sir Robert Peel's budget. We notice the debate elsewhere. The House was occupied is ith the sub ject for the remainder of the evening. The House sat till after midnight. 1,110.1gE Z--.Z.J.I.I:O4—COIYZMEIrLCE. At the half-yearly meetin g of the Proprietors of Bank Stock, held at the Bank of England yesterday, a dividend of 3i per cent. was declared for the year endin g the sth of April. Cal_ culations were made as to the effects of the new income tax upon the dead annuities and their proceeds, in consequence of which it was resolved that it was most unjust to tax a termi nable annuity the same as a permanent one, and representa tions were directed to be forthwith made to t•ir lto'aert Peel on the subject. The colliers' strike at Monmouth, by which the red-ash coal trade was at a stand, has been abandoned on an amicable agree ment with the masters. The local merchants state that the foreign coal-trade of the port of Newcastle has trebled since the removal of the export duty. A meeting held in that town on Tuesday last passed a resolution, that it the English Government carry their export duty into operation, it will prove destructive of the Newcastle trade, without producing any countervailing benefit to the country. Two deputies have been sent to London to preuent the imposition of the duty, and the coal-owners are -taking ac tive measures aga:nst the same. Measures are in preparation in the Cit y f ur a requisition to the Lord Mayor to call a public meeting, in oppositio n to the proposed income tax. PInTLIC YItirPROITEBTENT S. fgAt a meeting of the New Zealand end Australian Company. on Thursday in Curtail, the object of which was the proposed Shortening of the passage front this country to Zealand and Austra!ia, rill Panama, it was shown that by the adoption of this route a saving of ten clear days could be made. The passag e of the isthmus of Panama was however declared to be slimily, and in some degree impracticable, and the meeting was adjourned till the opinion of those who had crossed the isthmus could be obtained. I'a'ATI.V.4II. AND nrralcr. pro A c t u n ri o n w g . t s h t r e e m .e The standard for recruits is reduced to five feet five and a half inche s ; last week, however, such was the difficulty of in Dublin, flAtr FOLZCE. that the bounty had risen to 111. I Thursday, Henry Warboys, a letter-carrier, sistant-inspector had put two marked sovere i gns i nto a letter, It u lot utile, ate., as- double its value in twenty-one years ; whereas, land held for that period by a tenant at will is invariably fount in Ireland to be depreciated in value.. But ,from communications addressed to us on the subject of the ejectraents by the Ironmongers' Com pany, we learn that their object is to substitute for the cotter system that of large farms, on the model gene rally adopted in the agricultural districts of England. Such a system is only suited to a great commercial country, where manufactures offer employment to the poor familieS driven from their rural homes, to make way for agricultural improvements upon a large scale. To adopt it in Ireland, would be to condemn the ejected tenants to inevitable starvation. It is a pity that the experiments of experimentalists upon human happi ness, cannot, in the first instances, be confined en tirely to themselves. Let but the members of the Ironmongers' Company place themselves, in imagina tion,. in the position of these poor tenants, whose fathers and grandfathers before them, sat by the same firesides, in the same chimney corners occupied by themselves, and tell us what misery would exceed their expulsion from luch homes, where their early habits only fitted them to live ? We trust that the public notice which this affair has attracted will not be lost upon the Iron mongers' Cempany, and that an inquiry will be insti tuted by them, which will have the effect of preventing further appeals on the part of the tenants to the protec tion of the Legislature. • which was to be delivered in his district. On being searched, the two sovereigns were found in his pocket. He uas fully .committed. Sarah Norton, a well-dressed woman, about fifty years of ago, was charged at the Marylebone police-office, e-ith being dead drunk in the Hampstead -road on Thursday. In reply to the Magistrate, she said she " shouldn't have got into trouble at all, but for the dreadful and most awful earthquake," to escape from which she,• with her aged aunt, had set off towards High gate-hill, but unfortunately lost the use of her limbs, before she reached the place of safety. Being an old offender, she was fined five shillings. przrz 11.RTS. Among the Levee addresses presented to the Queen on Wed. nesday last was one in a white satin envelope, embroidered with silver, and surmounted with a silver wreath of" Forget me not," which was much admired. COUR 'X' - -PASHIONABLE. The Duke and Duchess of Leinster have a select party visit ing at Carton, near "aynooth, Kildare. The Marquis of Exeter returns to Burleigh on Monday next. The Earl of Mayo left town last week for Palmerston House, Ireland. The Marquis of Conyngham joined the youthful branches of his family at Stapes Castle, Ireland, on Monday last. Lady t'eel and family leave Whitehall Gardens on Tuesday next, for Brighton, where Sir Robert will pass the Parliamen tary recess. 1 "he Duke of Devonshire has taken a mansion at Nice for the summer. C I,LANE 0 1.71. 7 ., The widow Mozart died at .`..: - altzburg on the Bth instant, in the 85th of her age. • • A woman died in the Cantal, France, a few days ago, at the age of 110 years. During the last thirty years she had never lain down on a bed, and yet the day before she htd sufficient strength to give a beating with a stick to her eldest daughter, who is 72 years of age. mytoiras or THE DAT. Sir Henry H. Hard trze is spoken of as the expected com mander of the ten thousand troop destined for the seat of war in Afghanistan. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, FRIDAY EVENING. The Engli,h Funds which, during the day had been rather depressed, improved towards the close of business, and bargains to some extent were entered into. Consols left off firmly at 89-A.4 for Money, and 891, buyers for the Account, Exchequer Bills, 29 to 31 prsm. The Foreign Stocks have been fit, with an appearance of dec filing still more. It may be remarked es a proof of the in stability of the present quotations, that the rates marked for the Account are below those fur Moues. The last prices of Bel gian were 103 to 104 ; Danish, 81i 81 ; Dutch Two •und-a- Half per Cents., 521 ; the Five per Cents., 103 to I l i ; Por tuguese Five per Cents. were last quoted 34 ; the Three per Cents., 20i : ; Colombian, 26i Mexican, 411 ; Spanish, 25 to 25k. ' Railway Shares continued firm in prices, and holders appear indisposed to sell, unless at an advance. Birmingham left off at 85 to 87 ; Great Western-, .25 4 26i ; the Half Shares, 13 to 131 premium ; Birmingham and Gloucester, 56 to 59 ; South Weste 59 to 6J ; North lirdland, 69 to 71 ; the New Shares, 341 to 33 1 • Brighton, 36 to 3GI p er s h are ; S out h Eastern. 22 21 ; and Eastern Counties, 13i to 12'4 discount. The ForeignExcharges on Change wet c firm, and in some places rather higher than on last post-day. Amsterdam was negotiated at 12. 44 5; Rotterdam, 12. 5 ; Antwerp, 12. 43% 5; Frankfurt, 1511; Paris, 25. 80. 85.; Vienna, 9. 51i 52} Madrid, 3.4; Lisbon, 521 4. There have been no arrivals beyond the continental mails, except Old States (Dec. 6) from the Mauritius. The price of gold atillamburgh comes over 434, and the Exchange un Lon don 13. 8, two months, and 13. 91 short. (From The Sun or' Last Night.) Our own funds are still flit, with scarcely any business, and consequently quotations must be considered to b e lit t l e more than nominal . Consols a re 89 89i for Money, and 894 - 891 for the Account. India Stock, 241. Exchequer bill, 29 to 31 prom. The Foreign Stoel.s have been influenced by the sate of the English Market, and very few bargains have been made to day. An evident indisposition on the part of public, to have dealings in these Bonds generally, must. be noticed, and with satisfaction. The quotations are all lover; Portuguese Five per Cents., 34* to 4 ; the Three per Cents., 201 i; Spanish, 244 ff ; Co lombian, 251 26 ; Venezuela, 321 ; Mexican, 404 41. Railway Shares have not been in much demand ' • prices, however, remai n muc h the same. York and North Midland, 94 ; South Western, 594 ; Great Western, 90i 91* ; Eastern Counties, 10 ; Brighton, 36. Money is easy at 3 to 4 p.r cent. The income tax, and many of the alterations about to be made in the duties now payable, arc still viewed with much dislike in the City. A requisition for a public meeting on the first sub jt..et is now in course of signature, and assemblies of various trades likely to be affected by the second, are daily taking plaee. Many o f th ese comp l a i n t s appear to b e well-founded, ' especially where the duty on the manufactured article as t o be so materially reduced, but we must defer our remarks on these topics for the present, on account of the great press of matter. Letters of the date of the 6th December have been rece ved from the Mauritius, but the Indian Mail brought much later intelligence. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, MARCH lb.—The market was less buoyant to-day, and very few sales were effected on any description of stock; they, however, comprised, Quarter Shares London and Birmingham, 36; the 321. Shares, 58k; Eastern Counties, New, 39 prem. ; Manchester and Leeds, 80; North Midland, Thirds, 221. 13s. 4d. ; South Western, 59i ; Great Western, Fifths, 101 ; Grand Junction, 178; North Union, 73i; Lancaster and Preston, Three Fourths, 144. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET. MARCH 15.—A tolerably extensive business was done in Cotton this day, and the market remained steady at the last quotations. 500 American were taken on speculation, anti pc) by the exporters. The total sales consisted of 5,000 bales, including 500 Surat at 3* to 44. MANCHESTER, STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 17.—There has been little business done, but a fair inquiry fur Stock. London and South- Western, 59* ; Manchester and Leeds, Halves, 351 ; Manchester and Salford Water Works, 52 ; London and Birmingham, 175 177 ; Manchester and Birming ham, 284 CLOSING PRICES FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 pal . cent iPortuguese ' 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 pei cent :Ditto, - New Ditto Brazilian IPrnssian, 5 per cent. Buenos Ayres t; per cea t Allussian, 5 per cent. ..Chilian, 5 per cent...—. }Ditto, Nletallic . Colombian, 6 per cent.. Spanish, 5 per cent 25 Ditto, I 824.......... ..... 26i 'Ditto, Deferred.... Danish, 3 per cent B2 /French, 5 per cent. —f. —c, Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Exchange — I — c 'Mexican, 5 per rent.... 414 French, 3 per cent —c Ditto, 6 per cent. 1637 Dutch, 24 per cent . 52i Peruvian, 1825, 6 per et. 18 Ditto, 5 per cent. , The Members of the University of Cambridge arrived and formed a procession, headed by the Vice. Chancellor, Rev. Dr. Arc!Wall, and the High Steward the Lord Chancellor (Lyndhurst). His Royal Highness Prince Albert was attended by the Marquis of Exeter, Groom of the Stole ; Captain Francis Seymour (Scots Fusilier Guards), Groom in Waiting, and Sir Edward Bowater, Equerry in Waiting. Lady Caroline Cocks and the Hon. Miss Cavendish have suc ceeded the Hon. Miss Davereux and the Hon. Miss Stanley, as the Maids of Honour in Waiting on the Queen. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager, yesterday, at Marlborough House. The Duke of Wellington and the principal l;fembers of the University of Oxford had an audience of her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent yesterday at Clarence House, and presented an AtAress of Congratulation from the University of Oxford. A Deputation from the drug trade, consisting of Mess's. Her ring, Pigeon, Taylor, Horner, Barrow, Bright, Ellis, Drew, and Thomas thxigkinson, had an interview with the Earl of Ripon yesterday at the office of the Board of Traci.. Despatches Item the Governor of Newfoundland were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. THE WESTMINSTER ELECTORAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION. - The Members of this Association (composed entirely of Electors) herd their second mcetirg last night, at Thornton's Coffee House, llrompton-road. The Rev. Dr. Wade was called to the Char. After adopting the rules which had been prerared and the transaction of other business, it was resolved to take the pro. posed Income tax of Sir Robert Peel into consideration at their next meeting, which is to he held on Wednesday evening next. COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. At the meeting of the Court on Thursday the freedom of the City was presented to the Duke of Cambridge, in a mag niSeent gold box Sir James Shaw, the Chamberlain, on presenting the box, made an appropriate address, to which his R3yal Highness replied in suitable terms. THE OFFICE OF CITY PLEADER. Mr. R.:TAYLOR, Chairman of the Secondaries' Committee brought up the rep.at elat ive to the terms and conditions on which the office of City Pleader should in future be conducted. It was the opinion of the Committee that it was injurious to the suitors that the City Pleaders should hold. or be considered to hold, an exclusive right to plead in any of the Courts of the City, and that candidates should be required to pledge themselves not to set up or seek to enforce their right of ex clusive audience in any of the local Courts of the City against any other members of the English bar. The report wai Agrezd to unanimously, and the Lord Mayor appointed Thursday nest for the election of a City Pleader, in the room of Edward Bullock, Esq., lately ap. pointed Judge of the Sheriffs' Court. THE INCOME TAX. Mr. R. TAT Lon gave notice of a motion to consider the propriety of petitioning Parliament against the revival, in time of peace, of the inqui3itorial powers of the income tax. THE SPITALFIELDS' WEAVERS. The Chamberlain was instructed to ray 500/. from the funds of the City, in aid of the fund fur the relief of the Spi talfields' weavers, and it was referred to the Coal, Corn, and Finance Committee to consider whether any, and, if any, what more should be subscribed in aid of the charity called the 66 City Kitchen." The Report of the City Lands Committee, respecting the ap plication of the 13lacicwall Railway Company to Parliament to purchase certain premises belonging to the City. was brought up, when the Court agreed to the Report, and resolv e d t o petition Parlia- merit against the p ro p ose d Bill. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. LEAMINGTON GRAND STEEPLE CHASE. (Ti!URSDAY.) Sweepstakes of 20 sovs. each, with 100 added; 12st each, &c. Hon. F. Craven's Gipse3... (Hon. M. Villiers) 1 Mr. J. B. Phillipson nd Mischief Mr. Maddocks' Creole Sir P. Mostyn's Seventy-Four Mr. G. Campbell nd Lcgacy The folio's ing also started, but were not placed : —Mr. Ro bertson's Syphax, Mr. Dalrymple nd Memento. Mr. Moore's Anonymous, Mr. Jones' Bungaree, M. de Burgh nd Perfec tion, and Mr. Phillipson u'dJim-along-Josey. Won by a length and a half after a very fine race. ' ELE CTION COMMITTEES. BOROUGH OF CLITHEROE. The Committee resumed the investigation of the petition in this case at Eleven o'Clock —Mr. Hogg in the chair. Eight of the votes for the sitting Member (Mr. Wilson) having been struck off yesterday, the petitioner was placed in a majority of three upon the gross poll ; in consequence of which, at the suggestion of Mr. Hildyard, the Committee proceeded to consider the objections urged by the sitting Member. The •first vote brought under the consideration of 02., Com mittee was William Robinson, a mason, object e d t o b y M r . A . Austin, on th e groun d t h at he had not occupied the premises in respect to which he was registered when the election took place in Ju'y, 1841. After a protracted argument, and the examination of seve ral witnesses, the room was ordered to be cleared. The Committee were in consultation for about half an hour. When strangers were adrni.ted, the Chairman said the reso lution was that the vote was bad, and should be struck off. The vote of Thomas Smithers was next objected to on the ground that he had parted with his qualification previous to the election. Witnesses having been examined to prove that the voter had quitted the premises from which he derived his qua lification before that time, Mr. HILLIARD, for the petitioner, said it was in vain for him to defend the vote, which was accordingly struck off. John Alston was objected to on the same ground. Edward Alston ( the brother of the voter) was examined to prove that his brother had ceased before the election to occupy the premises for which he voted. Mr. HILLIARD was about to cross-examine the wit ness, when a person, who afterwards gave his name as " John Ashworth," raised his head from the table, near the witness, on which he had been leaning with his head upon his folded arms, and exclaimed, " Answer no questions." This occasioned considerable interruption of the pro ceedings of the Committee. Ashworth being taken into custody by the messenger, and reprimanded by the Chairman, excused himself by saying that he " had been asleep and was not aware of what he was doing." The Chair man left then to consult (as was supposed) the Speaker, and re turned in about half an, hour, when he told the Committee that their . only course was to report the matter to the House, which would deal r.s it thought proper with the persons offending. The cross-examination of the witness Alston proceeded, and had not concluded when the Committee rose. WEYMOUTH AND .MELCOM BE REGIS. On the re-opening of the sittings yesterday, Mr. TA 610 T, one, of the Counsel for the sitting gembers, said that he anr.. his Learned Friend on the other side, wishing to lighten the la bours of the Committee, had agreed to abandon six votes on each side. Mr. KINGLAKE confirmed the statement. Mr. DUNCOAIBE feared that the Committee ought not to accept the offer, but that they should strike off a voter only when he had been found to be a bad one. On an Irish Committee such a proposition would disqualify an elector for seven years. - - After same consideration, it being found that former Com mittees had acted on the plan proposed, and that the decision could do no prospective injury to the franchise of the persons in question, the offer was accepted, and accordingly six votes were abatid mod on each aide. The vote olfacketi(MTsCalled Pa3kett) was decided to te a bad one, because, though he occupied, by the permission of the landlord, the house out of which he voted (the period for which he had taken it having for some time expired) he had not paid rates during that occupation. William Compton's vote wal struck off. These two were Conservative voters. William Gay, a liberal, objected to and struck out. Richard Warren, liberal, objected to. Here the Committee adjourned. The result of the day is that the petitioners hale struck off twelve from the sitting Members, and the latter five from the petitioners' side. AT ALOW. The Committee met GRE again on 1A We ß dnseday morning at 11. The room was immedia'ely cleared, and the Committee, after deliberating for some time, came to a decision that the vote of Wm. Barton, ohich had been under discussion on yesterday, " was a bad vote, and that it should be vruck off the poll." The result of this decision was to eejualise the votes on both sides. Air. Sergeant MERMETHER said that the next rote to which the petitioners objected was the vote of James Lee who v•as registered for a house in Well-end, in ishich he kept a pm - Tea shop; b , :t he ha•! left that house some time before the election, and his daughter resi ed there and carried on his hu sine*s for him until Lear Christmas, 1840. At that dine the daughter married a person of the name of William Wiggington who had been since then rated for the house instead of Lec. The name of Wiggington was substituted over the shop door for that of Lee, and the excise officer entered Wiggington in his books as the occupier of the shop. These facts would be proved in evidence. William Smith was then examined. He stated that he was an orersecr at Marlow at the time of the last election. In the month of October, 1840, Mr. Lee was rated for certain premises in Well ; but in the January following Lee's Larne was struck out of the rate-book and the name of Wig 77ten, his son-in-I:zw, subLiittitcd ltl ittcati. Lee was tile a!'. Little .312.ricw, Ebout titer miles - frum the hone Uleat Marlow. Cross-examined by Mr. AusTlN—WitneL , s voted for NM CE URT CI KC ULAR. The Queen held k Court yesterday afternoon at Buckingham Palace, for the reception of Addresses, on the Throne. The Duke of Wellington arrived at the Palace at halt past twelve o'clock, in his Robes, as Chancellor of the University of Oxford, and wearing the Ensigns of the most noble Order of the Garter. The Members of the University of Oxford arrived at the Palace at one o'clock, and, headed by his Grace, proceeded to the Green Drawing-room, and were shortly afterwards =ducted, by the Lord Chamberlain, to the presence of the Queen on the Throne. The Members advanced in the following Order to the foot of the Throne, taking precedence according to the Date of their respec tive Degrees;—The Chancellor, Duke of Wellington, K.G. ; the Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Wynter ; the Principal of Jesus College, Dr. Foulkes; the Very Rev, the Dean of Christ Church, Dr. Gaisford ; the Warden of New College, Dr. Williams; Dr. Price, of Wadham College; Senior Proctor, Mr. Foley; Mr. Griffiths, Fellow of Wadham ; Mr. Bulky, , Fellow of Magdalen ; the Provost of Oriel College, Dr. Hawkins; the Rector of Exeter College, Dr. Richards; the Warden of Merton College, Dr. Marsham ; Dr. Daubetiy, of Magdalen College ; Junior Proc. tor, Mr. Wilson; Mr. Cockey, Fellow of Wadham; Mr. Mosley, Fellow of Magdalen—Noblemen, Doctors in Divinity, Doctors in Law and Medicine, Bachelors in Civil Law, Masters of Arts. The Deputation advanced to the foot of the Throne, where the Vice-Chancellor read an Address of Con3ratulation from the Chan cellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Cambridge, to which the Queen returned a most gracious answer. Among the Members present were the Archbishop of York ; the Earl of Eldon ; the Earl of Devon ; the Earl of Elgin ; Lord Kettyon; Lord Redesdale; Sir Charles Wetherell, D.C.L. ; Sir Thomas Acland, D.C.L.; Sir Robert F.tzwygram, D.C.L ; Sir Claudius Hunter, D.C.L. ; Rev. Dr. Bliss, Registrar of the Uni versity; Dr. Buckland; Mr. Burg; D.C.L.; Dr. Hoiges ; Mr. Bucknall Estcourt, M.P.; Mr. Sotheron, M.P.; Rev. R. Rawlins, M.A. ; Rev. W. C. Le Breton; Rev. J. B. Storry ; Mr. William Partridge, Christ Church ; and Dr. Phillimore. The Duke of Wellington read the Address of Congratulation from the Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Oxford, to which her Majesty was pleased to return a most gracious answer. The members then retired from the Throne Rooni Her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by the Countess of CharLemont, Hon. Miss Cavendish, Viscount Hawarden, Sr Fred. Stovin, Colonel Buckley, and Sir Edward Bowater, honoured Drury-lane Theatto with their presence last evening. Among the Addresses presented to her Majesty at the Levee on Wednesday last, was an Address of Congratulation on the event of the biih of the Prince of Wales, from the London Committee of Deputies of the British Jews. The Address was presented by a deputation, consisting of Messrs. H. De Castro, H. H. Cohen, and J. 11. Hilbert, the President of the Board. Sir Moses Montytiore was prevented from attending in consequence of the death of a near relative. The seine Gentlemen presented similar Addresses to their Royal Highnesses Prince Albert and the Duchess of Kent on the following day. SHARES. Bristol and Exeter (70 paid) .. ...... . ... .. 39 Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid) .. lOk Great Western Railway 65 paid) 9li Ditto New Shares (50 paid) ... 63 Ditto Fifth (4 paid) London and Brighton (50 pa i d) '64 London and Blackwall Railway (25 paid)... 11k Ditto New Shares ( paid) ... 9/ Is 8d London and South W es t ern London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) 13 Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) ...... ... Ditto Quarter Shares ( 2 paid) 4 Manchester and Birmingham (40 paid) ... •. 26i North Midland Railway (100) Ditto New Shares (40 paid 35 Ditto Thirds ( paid) Paris and Rouen (14 paid) York and North Alidland (50 paid) ... COURSE OF EXCHAN GE—( YESTERDAY.) Amsterdam CF.I2 8 (Gibraltar ... .. ..... Ditto, at sight Rotterdam .........2 U l2 8k ,Genoa Antwerp Hamburgh M.B. 13 !Ski Venice 47 Altona Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 70 !Palermo, per oz 120 Ditto, 3 months 25 95 Lisbon Marseilles ............26 0 'Oporto s2k Bourdeaux 26 0 Rio Janeiro 27 Frankfort on Maine... 152 B a hi a 26 Petersburgh, 3Us ... 3 7 Buenos Ayres Berlin ..... ... ............ 7 New York, 21 days sight 46k Vienna, effec. fl. 3 Al. 954 Philadelphia Trieste, ditto 956 PRICES OF BULLION, ?EA Oz. Madrid .. lyer l i 364 Foreign Gold, b ars £3 17 9 Cadiz ao 35 New o n u ß bl ar oo s ns ...... 0 0 0 Seville Bilb Barcelona - ..... 0 4 9 3 Silver 0 4 11 HAMBURGH MAIL. BERLIN, MARCH 9.—Mr. Van Komptz does not retire from the public service, but continues to be one of the Privy Coun cillors without any precise position, but with full salary as In inis! er. The family of Van Kalkreuth, which is distinguished in Prussian history, has lately received from his Majesty, as an acknowledgment for services formerly rendered to the state, a present of 100,000 dollars. BERLIN, Maacx 12.--We are able to state, on good au thority, that the expenses of the King's visit to England, which the newsp a p ers h ave est i mated at half a million, sometimes at 800,000 dollars, or even more, did not amount to quite 80,000 dollars. The Crown Prince of Bavaria leaves us on the 14th. The Duke of Nassau is expected this evening. The last accounts from St. Petersburg, confirm the news that the Empress and the Grand Duchess will come to Ger many. They will probably pass a week at the beautiful coun try-seat of Fischbach, belonging to Prince William, his Majesty's uncle, and then proceed to Ems. The Emperor, it is said, will go to the Hague._ 11As1ritnICst, MARCH 12.—The ratification of the Conven tion for the purchase of the Chatham klands concluded in the name of the New Zealand Company and of a German Colo nisation Society, were to be exchanged to-day, but it was agreed to delay the exchange in order to employ the interval to settle the preliminary political* questions, and to complete the organisation of the Company, the foundation of which has been laid in Ha:nburgh, by subscribing for shares. A ramification of the Society through Germany seems to be desirable.— l : I t : a l b .C c: 1 2 % I'lU p I C: A Hanthurph P a p ers , M arc h 15. * Probably respec ti ng t h e sove reignty of the island s . N ne, :2 ::214 Jilt°. ditto 5 per cent. mil-Emu Id, MA! A c tit a 5. .RCH Ameit Syndic:4% per cent. . 92% 9 i Ditto, ditto, 3% percent 76% :6N Commercial Comrany, .1., per cen * ifv , !,:i 157 Ditto (1e135 and 1637) 5 per cent. Loan 1637, 5 per cent. Exchange on London, One month lt! 12 Two months Hambtugh, One month 35 5I Two months •35 25 Dutch Papers, March 16. 111;LO lAti 1. U NDS*ESILLIP NMI. MARCH 15 actual Debt, 2% per Cent. ..•. ............ 5! Rothschild's Low. ' 5 per Cent 102% Loan of Thirty Hiliion 1, 4 per Cent. l:3 • 3per Cent — __--.. 03 72% --_--(1,A4 9 % Loon of Cit 7, 1'.'32, 4 per Cent 1 )8 Soclet, et Cornmvrce, 4 i m pel . Cent B2 Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent •.. ... 80 3 4 NationalSmeicty. ••••• ...... •• Exchange tn, 1.,11.1 , m (itp., t) ---Brussels Pareia, March 16. AUSTRIA I'l FUN 123....V1ENNA , I%lair it 3. rtve per Cots. Mete:lives .. 107 Ina r per Ceuta. llO% Three m. i Cents. • 76 Bank Shares l6lB Thirty.s ven ... --- - -- HAMBU RGH BORSENHALLE, DIARen 12. Austrian 5 per Cent s. Bank Sharesl6.s —.. An glo-Russian Loan .11.1 1093 4 R u s sian 5 Per Cent., Ist series, Certificate. 1033i 103 Inscription, Ist series - Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co , 3d and 4th Series Ditto in Certificates f 9 95% New 4 per Cent. (1840) 6.oi 8. Dutch %ctual Debt. :46 per Cent.......... , 5 1% 51 N ° I).ti o a per Cent. __ _•.. 1 k•,_ .5 ~ ~, - Anglo-Dar hLo a C t ii , . 4 , , p er 01 .... ........ "..... 7SA vanish New 5 p...r Cents. ........... ...,..w..“,, 173 i hams and Hampden at the last election. He did not s-- take an active part in the election. The shop in question j , ,ins the house, as shops usually do. Wiggington is a bargeman. Lee has lived in .Little Marlow for the last two or three years. John Smith, a brother of the preceding witness staled, that he was a china-man in Great Marlow. He had, been a colector of rate 3 in the borough until Michaelmas last. He had received the rates for the h:mse in question fro:u Wiggington for some time. previous. _ Cross-examined by Mr. AUSTlN—Witness voted for Wil liams and Hemeden at the last election, but he was not an active partisan on the occasion. The next witness examined was the Excise Officer for the Borough, who stated that Wigginton took out the license, and paid the excise duty upon the articles sold in the shop .since about the month of December, 1840 ; and the shop went under his name. The witness stated, in eras-examination, that he did not know who was the owner of the rest of the house, and he hed nothing to do with anything but the shop. James Holmes, a gt (Jeer, deposed to his having sold certain I goods charged to the account of Wiggington. This was the evidence for the petitioners in regard to the vote in dispute. Mary Ann Wiggington was then called by the Counsel for the Sitting Member. Witness stated that she was the wife of Wm. kVivinton, and the daughter of James Lee. She married last July twelvemonths. Her father paid the quit-rent for the house. All the furniture in it was his, and he slept there occeasionally. The house was never made over to witness by her father. She did not pay any rent for the shop, neither did her husband ; and her father might turn them out of the premises at any time he should please. There was a timber-yard attached to the house, which was used by witness's father in his business of a timber merchant. Ile used the stables attached to the house for his horses. Her husband was then on a voyage. Cross-examined by Mr. TALBOT—Witnesi's father would not have any thing to do with the shop, and that was the reason why it was left to her. Witness did not tell the churchwardens that she wculd not pay the church-rate for the premises because her father did nut reside in the parish. She had never said that to Mr. Maddox, one of the church-wardens. She had paid church-rates for the shop in the name of her husband. Her step-mother occasionally came to the hotue and stopped there with her father. Mr. Maddox, one of the churchwardens of Great Marlow, was then called in and examined by Mr. Talbot. He stated that he had applied to the preceding witness in the month of February 1841, for the church-rate due upon a ,certain field attached to the house, upon which she told him that she would not pay the rate, her father not residing in the pariah. The churchwarden who accompanied witness wrote in cense quet cc in the rate-book " not liable." Cross-examined by Mr. A userst—The conversation he had referred to Conk place in the month of February 1841, and not in the month ofDecember. In Dec. 1841, Airs Wiggington didnot refuse to pay the rate of the house ; on the preceding occasion, ashen she refused to pay the Ate upon the field, that field did not seem to be in any way occujed. Mr. AUSTIN then addressed the Court at length in support of the vote in dispute. He contended that Lee retained the qualification for which he had originally been registered, inas much as he. had never lest or abandoned his right to the house and premises. The apparent discrepancy between the evidence of Mr. Maddox and the evidence of Mrs. Wiggington might be reconciled by supposing that Mrs. Wig ginton referred to the rate demanded in December, 1841, while Alr. Maddox referred to the rate demanded in February, 1841. But however such a fact might have escaped the memory of a witness, it was clear from the evidence of Mrs. Wiggington, unless she were charged with deliberate perjury, that her father was still the bona fide proprietor of the premises. Mr. TALBOT contended, on the other side, that after the change of name over the shop, and the change of rating, the premises were to he considered the property e:if Mr. Wigging. ton, and that an alteration had thus been effected in the qualifi cation of Lee. The fact of Lee's staying occasionally at the house might be easily accounted for by his relationship to Wiggington, without supposing that the premises continued to be his property. The room was then cleared, and the Committee, after a short deliberation, decided that the vote was a good one. The numbers on each side still continued equal. The next vote objected to, was that of Samuel Barnes. Henry Wheeler was call e d in, and examined by Alr. Ser geant WRANG/lAM—The witness stated that he had rented the house out of vi hich the voter Barnes reigistered from 10th April to the 10th July for 301. 'for his sister Mrs. Ramsay. It was agreed, however, that Mr. Ba: nes should retain possession of one of the rooms in the house which was kept locked, he having the key of it. Cross-examined by Mr. AUSTIN—There was also a garden attached to the house which was reserved for himself by Mr. Barnes, who left, in addition, a servant in the house, and who was to be paid by him. Mr. Barnes slept in the house on one occasion. lie-examined by Mr. Sergeant WKANGFIAM—It was after the election that Mr. rlarnes slept at the house; ,and witness at first objected to his doing so.—The witness then withdrew. Mr. AUSTIN put a paper in the hands of the Chairm..n re questing him to obtain an order from the Speaker for the attendance of Mr. P. Williams, one of the Members for the Borough, on Friday next, at the Committee. The Learned Counsel said that a letter requesting the attend ance of Mr. Williams had been addressed to him on Wed nesday last, by the agents for Sir William Clayton, to which no answer was returned ; and a further letter was addressed to him on yesterday, but it was stated that be had left town. The Committee adjourned at four o'clock. The Committee met again yesterday morning at eleven. The inquiry into th e vo t e o f S amue l B arnes was continued, and a great number of witnesses were examined. Mr. TALBOT having replied, The room was cleared, and the Committee after deliberating for some time, decided that the vote was a bad one, and should be struck off the poll. This decision has placed the sitting Member in a minority of one. Mr. COCKBURN, on the part of the sitting Member, then objected to the vote of Joseph Harper, on the ground of want of occupation and value. Mr. Serpi nt WaIk:WHAM took a preliminary objection to entering into tl:e case, on the ground that the objection to the voter had not being duly served in the first instance. The notice of objection was served on the wife of the overseer, in stead of being served on the overseer himself. Mr. CocKnuaN, in reply, contended that as the objection. had been discussed before the Revising-Barrister, that covered any previous informality. -- --- POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. The Court was occupied the whole of the morning with trifling cases of no interest. BOW-STREET. A thick set little fellow dressed in the garb of a Jack Tar, and whose whole appearance and demeanour indicated that he had not been long on shore after a lengthened cruise. was brought up in convoy of police constable, F 89, charged with being, as the policeman laconically expressed himself, " drunk and incapable;" he was surrounded by a number of prostitutes and cadgers; there was no money found on him. Jack, in answer to one or two questions from Mr. HALL. stated that he was a man-o'-war's-map. His vessel, the Win chester frigate, was now lying off Portsmouth, having just re turned from the West Inges. He had been in London about a week ; he hadn't got no friends here ; he only came up for a bit of a jaunt like: His money was not all gone, for he had given a messmate of his 51. to take care of it fur him. Mr. HALL—Where is your messmate ? Jack—Oh, your honour, I know where to find him ; he sheered off with a young woman, and a fine lively little craft she was too. I guess I know where they went too. Mr. HALL-I think if he went off with a young woman, your 51. is not in very safe custody. Jack—Oh, yes, your Honour, that's all right. Ben had 71. of his own, besides mine, and he knows how to keep a weather eye on the land sharks. Besides, I can find him in the Ali nodes, if I don't find him with the young woman. Mr. HALL—WeII, as you were very quiet, I shall discharge you now, and I would advise you to make the best of your way down to the Minories, and look after your friend and your 51. Jack said he should certainly do £O, and with a low bow and a scrape of the left. foot, he left the office, expressing his thanks to the police fur the care they had taken of him. B 0 W- S TR E E A man named Sullivan, whose features could scarcely be seen, in csusequence of a thick mass of clotted blood with which his face was bedaubed, and a large handkerchief, also covered with congealed blood, bound round his head, was charged with stealing, under the following circumstances : Daniel Meyer, a young man, certainly not of the meat pre possessing appearance, stated that he resided at No. 32, White Hart-street, Drury-lane. As he was proceeding home along Drury-lane, between one and two yesterday morning, cer tainly rather the worse for liquor, the prisoner and three other men laid hold of him, and dragged him into a house in Charles street, Drury-lane, where they ill-used him, threw him on the floor, and ultimately robbed him of his waistcoat, and 2s. in money. As soon as he got away he gave the prisoner in charge. Pollee Constable, F 84, stated that about three o'clock in the a orning the last witness gave the prisonor in chargein Charles street for stealing a waistcoat ; the prisoner, i mme di ate l y h e heard th e charge, bolted off and ran into a lodging-houe in the ,asce street, one of the worst of h atses, where thieves and their associates lodge, and pay about ld. or 2d. a night fur their beds. Witness followed him, and up to the top of the house where he seized him by the collar and dragged him down the first flight of stiirs. They were then on the second storey and it was quite dark, whilst they were scuffling there four or five men came to the scene of action, took hold of witness, attempted to pinion his. arms; and swore he should not take their ‘ pal" into custody. Witness Said if they came any nonsense of that sort he should be under the necessity (.1 using his staff, and he said to the prisoner, " Sul livan, recollect you are given in charge, and I am determined to take you." The men, however, still resisted, struck him, and tore his coat; witness then drew his staff and struck about him right and left, in the course of the scuffle he hit the pri soner several blows about the head, which were the cause of the coagulated blood on the prisoner's face which we before alluded tn. He then with one hand seized the prisomer by thecollar,and with the staff in his tether hand, clefs his way thr nigh his aggressors, and at length succeeded in landir,g the prisoner at the station house.—The prisoner was remanded until Wednesday, to be kept in the infirmary in the interim, It was stated that Sullivan was well known at the Dace, and had been convicted several times. The gallant and determined conduct of the policeman is certainly deserving of praise. AI A LB 01?0 U G S Tin; E . John Mms.fietd, a young man of decent appearance, was charged with clog stealing under the folloiting eitatimstances:—. Mrs. Ellen Hill, a respectable married woman, living. at No. 3. Derby -place, Piccadilly, stated that about nine o'clock on Wednesday evening, she was proceeding along Windmill-street, Haymarket, followed by a little black spaniel dog. On looking round she saw the prisoner with her dog its his arms. H e was also carrying some entrails, which she beleved had at. tracted the dog and kept it quiet. She directly claimed the dog as belonging to her, and on his refusing to give it up to her, she collaredhim and took it from him, and he then assaulted her in a most violent manner by pushing against h'r, and retook the dsg from her, and in so doing crushed her bonnet. • On appearing in Court, the complainant said she did not wish to prefer the charge, and the prisoner was therefore di,- charged, with a caution. Thomas Harris, a journeyman baker, was fined 40s. for a violent assault upon the person of Mrs. Sarah Allen, the land lady of the Monmouth Head public-house, in Castle-street, Long-acre, because she v fused to serve him with liquor on Wednesday, as he was very much intoxicated. Not being able to pay the fine, he was committed for fourteen days to the Hvuse of Correction to hard labour. THAMES POLICE. 7'hovias Mach, a mathematical instrument-maker, wa,s brought before Mr. liallantinc, on a warrant, charged with committing an assault on his wife. The complainant, who was far advanced in pregnancy, stated that on Tuesday evening her husband came home to his tea, and, because it was not quite ready, commenced a violent attack upon her, knocking her down and kicking her in a vio lent manner. Her mother, «ho lived opposite, on hearing her screams, came to ascertain what was the matter, when the de fendant abused her, and struck her over the eye. He again turned upon hi s w if e, who was lying on the floor unable to move, and repea'ed his violence. A policeman was called, but the fellow made his escape. The defendant etit,ered into a kng statement about the neglect `" • • - , defendant to. ria4 a tine ut W., and, in def au lt, to b e impraone d fora mon th. The fine Was immediately paid. EXTENSIVE ROBBERY. —Mary Lee and Charlotte moods, two women of the town, were brought up charged with robbing Mr Daniel Good of a pocket-book, containing bank notes and cheques to the amount of between Oa and root , Policeman, 233 M, stated that on the preceding ni g ht, about twelve o' c lo c k, as he was on duty in High-street , hearing ti(3 cry of " Stop thief " and "Police," he ran to the spot, a nd saw the two prisoners in the act of running away from a entlemsa; who appeared to be very much intoxicated!. Witngess seises Lee, who made a violent resistance and attempted ay... away ; not succeeding, however, she drew a pocket-book f ro m under her shawl, and threw it away from her as far as -l i ed could. Witness kept the pocket-book in sight, and dregg to her towards it, and it was picked up by a man, who gave it witness, and the all proceeded to the station-house, when, inris cxasniningrthe pocket-book, it was found to contain bank-aat and cheques to the above amount. - Mr. Good sa id t h at h e had b een di n i n g out, and ha/ drank more wine th an usual, he became intoxicated, and no recollection of the circumstance until he got to the stautrli house, when he f oun d t h at hi s i ns id e coa t-pocket was ! n te inside out, and his pocket-book ;. one. He h er e identified tst property.—The rri soners were fully * committed. of o t i lle f un - r_sfi c a , l . ppg r VI MEETING OF THE LIBERAL MEAIDE — ° fiber' 3 H i o en O l s b E er o s is of Co th s e ta i t i o o N u s E . o - O A f c nu o m mm er o o n u s s I m va e s et h i e n i g d at the Reform Club House, for the purpose of deterz; A 010 . the course to be pursued in presenting coun tt l * pesition to the project far taxing the income of the_ eterrnie d The best feeling prevailed ; it was, we understand' der „r ot to oppruc the measure both in principle and detail, the Pij' n i t , tax being regarded as no less cppressive en industryo, t e u_ ation , machinery would be inquisitorial and obnoxious in its For the Mr. Baron Alderson, :in the course a one, co l os si trials at a late Assize, remarked, that by the Prisoners. u pon Bill, a man's life or death was made a matter der° rfl s this the comparative ingenuity of two learned gentleineT ud ofte° worse than the old sys+em, when the caprice of the Ba dJ„ 01 a firm and decided; the jury ? Persons tried by Mr. Justice n ae ed by Lord Tenterden, all the world knows, were 3° ' r exactly on the same footing. j ItS To beg' The opposition to the proposed Income • oi g oo to assume an appearance if crength, and we trust it o ! tx , a t er! increasing. The first positive attack upon it rina ß a ta byesi properly from the meeting of proprietors of Ban k e ating ° terday ; and we hear on all sides 1 cud calls for a 01 _, ;t h she . the citizens in general, to express their discontenrsci'm'ae of threatened evil. We now only want a public-srir, lte n , e diale i ll influence to set the example, when he would he Int ? 0 0 ' 1 joined by the whole body of citizens in remonstrating , against the injustice. t 1 TIIE MILLENium.—It is r e p or t e d that nll t uldars' anxious on the; subj ec t o f the Alillenium, residing 8 t ' ass aibl* field, and other p arts o f t h e W est Hiding, aresilsoas t L e lt wi ll : on Friday, th e 25th i nstant, at High Hoyland, t°, ° ,,issi" ° ,:` the Rev. Dr. W o lff, curate.of that s l ace , a nd I p - n onen c `' to almost all parts of the world, on the time of the ment of this important period. York Courant• at (been worS-of HER MAJESTY'S SLIPPERS.—The (ue - fl o or. - A the levee. a splendid diamond bracelet, containing, a r ev 's be f r the King of Prussia. The diamonds in her Als - J, t :„'s • P „, °- stomacher, and train were also unusually . 10, - 5. ,7,; Majesty "wore a very beautiful pair of satin s"Pr e v r st 1 ", brotdered by the Duchess of Kent, and made nr e , at kabil heels in the eas'ern style. The Queen's feet are so re!eo. the small that no lady has yet been found who could ' minnon slippers of Queen Victoria. let ter THE COUNTES S DI It ossr .—(E xtrac t 0f niebralk d from Vienna.) The • Ccuntess di Rossi, late the iceriag the Sontag, has give n a ser i es o f b r i ll i ant concerts, !! n o tess ' winter, at her h o t e l, at Vi enna. The fascinating i'ntiaelit„ in such a delicate state of health, buttstha she has bee n 1,,t0 1 .,, °° herbed during the whole winter, he has notiviho al received her fashionable friends, her bed-room or ning s je Is e s i fi' salon de concert; and the general direction of the I n , u s - bleiu - ' confided to Mademoiselle Nina Sontag. It is remar ks r'' notwithstanding her extreme debility, the voice of Son mains ai sweet and powerful as ever. 4 .,, tlil i t MISS BELLEW.—We are authorised tofet ,e ", the letter, purporting to proceed from Miss Bellew, ant e e uist n i to by Lord William Paget, is a forgery ; no such „, ib' f being'in existence. A Correspondent further inlay' s - s •ies , ,f, on application at Lord William Paget's solicitor. Pr!, pl)b'' t the letter, which his Lordship announced as left there l'', lt atc:!, , exhibition, he was in the first instance refused, on d' e rjoei'"•, that the attorney had " gone to the country, and eithertiegl,,, up the letter, or taken it in his pocket ;" an d on I'll OP P visit, the same party re f use d to pro d uce the d o eutner" excuse equally frivolous. sat BRIGHTON R AILWAY .—O n Th urs d ay there s'' ll o llbe improvement of nearly 20s. per share in the sha ll b%ci bi b Brighton line, o w i ng to a di scovery that the ComnanY, ofl,s') twice debited with a sum of 70,000/. The deteett l ,eCia . error will reduce their wan t s t o 330 , 0 00 1 . instead 01 ; 4 " - .e i' r. , THE QUEEN DOWAGER.—Her Majesty IS, an d b' d i happy to be enabled to say, going on very favourahlYi:e. 17e‘ . . ii nearly recovered her strength. Several places I. iitai t ', named as the probable resort of her Majesty and le i, members of her household, this summer, but nothing determined upon. t e et ; BENEVOLENT SOCIETY OF ST. PATRIGFC. - 1. - b e ra 4! ;, ing of the principal subscribers of this charity met on aeniite6l at the Freemasons' Tavern, in celebration of the . 59t "„ - s pol, sary. Lord Fortescue acted as chairman and .cast „" e ,' ' ll/ on his right by the Bishop of Derry, Lord Crow i t- t her gr and on his left by Lord Eliot, Lord Courtenay, an d A ° lit ' fluential gentlemen. At the cross-table we also observ e ' ii, il, Moore, the p oe t, Si r J. F orrest, M r. Daniel 0 ' Conl' e v oc ei. wore the gold chain of office, Str B. Wray, Mast er 01,, Mr. Veiey Dawson, Mr. J. oung, Mr. R. Hutton , a t o , Rarsion, &c. After the usual routine of dinner an d among which the healths of the "Bishopof Derry." "L. c lO r d ",, tescue," and " Lord De Grey," were drank, 200 ef the ' children were paraded round the room ; altogether 'harbour,,F, 550 children on the establishment. Various subs nr jssag', amounting to 785/., were announced by the Secretary, a t , , , 'al" which the more remarkable were 100/. from her Ala,i e , 2 s o ' )9. ' each from Lords Fortescue and De Grey ; 5 1 . ' t lai r O'Connell, &c. _ . ,,,i fit o f TIrE EARTHQUAKE.—Brighton has real). - l e o ts sr advantages from the much-dreaded earthquake, as P.,01, 1 0 families, of the middle and upper classes, have re'rc e en" 3 , l rived to avoid its consequences. In the course of t hat night nearly twenty carr i ages arr i ve d —a circumstanelild not occurred since the opening of the London and ' _,,,'•' Railway. T h an LORD WAR DEN OF THE STANNARIES.-- I C' eo tt 15 4 upon undoubted authority, that no less a personago.,lo 0 .„, Royal High ness P r i nce A lb ert w i ll b e the new Lord w i s st,9 the Stannarics. The Marquis of Hertford, who 0 5 1 ,,et tis possession of th e o ffi ce , and by whose demise the ° n o Pl' created, had the dig n ity an d emo l uments con f err ed nr - l' by his Majesty King George the Fourth. js. NOt long since an eminent lawyer of Ohio . ., c .04 pathetic harangue to the jary in the following strain ' fo ssil now the shades of night hast shrouded the earth in ( de fendle,S all nature lay wrapt in solemn thOught, when thes e , aisfq,,e ruffians came rushing like. a mighty torrent from the ' l . to the abode of peace, broke open the plaintiff's door, s° 4 , I s the weeping mother from her screeching infant, and ill ; Cl 'is ' ..' my client's rifles, gentlemen of the jury, for which s s. i • , only fifteen dollars." it ) l' Al •te SOUTH-EASTERN (LON DON AND DOVER , for t ,ti war.—The appearance of the South-Eastern Railway's I. whole distance bet ween . R e d-hill and Tunbridge, g iv a e arie t lia of an early opening. Blet c hi ng l y tunne l , w hi c h is ei t in '," allowed to be one of the finest specimens of brickw ° dra b s kingdom, and which, moreover, is perfectly dry, not I d to bf water percolating through any portion of rt, may b e 11.6t dor completed. The whole of the stations are contract: be co. o 'Messrs. Grissell and Peto, and are to be finished by '' s truc t s j br April. The same firm have also undertaken the O n ried°" f ill. of some miles of the way lathe Folkestone District. l e, ' co s whatever exists that the line, as far, at least, as Tro b j e i.sec, 0 be opened to the public early in May, and through otu ne ediii,,t sive portions ( Staplehurst, Ashtord, Folkestone) as' ''•,,, g i v , e peesible afterwards. The traffic on this partial cir n", lali t , be considerable, that to Tunbridge Wells alone bel v ;to t oi inde rendent of the Maidstone, Canterbury, and Haq n e ei l esr be t which will necessarily come upon the railway. I .. o , s eess' t ts congratulate the proprietors upon not only the 3" t r e a ° , oo the very superior character of the whole o , Lsts ita sc b, from end to end of the line. A competent ati , "" r e Pe. has recently inspected them, assures us that thej 4 _, 0 ~j both as to conception and execution, as will rederptinuvf. credit of Mr. Cubitt, the Company's Engineer - i ~ Or n i be prove of lasting benefit to the proprietors.—Baih,n of 0 0 THE WHISKEY TRADE.—Since the a ri l a tit Y e of mail this morning, bringing the news of the nrolir e h , • rte he Irish whiskey, the distillers of Cork have raised ', w t. re ef whiskey to 7s. 3d. per gallon, 25 per cent. ea.''' . P i ; pare additional duty to be laid on by Sir Robert Peel is ' ;j o t , Oa , gallon, which is equal to Is. 3d. on the strong, nist •ll et is fir • which the distillers have raised it only Is. on the 5" . 004 . is 3d. less than the duty to be laid on by Peel' 4 ,4 1 . aminer. 0 . :- b y IMPROVED TRADE. IN PAISLEY.—We sigh vo tt . r , a to f pleasure in stating th a t t ra d e h as presente d a more t3ofbeen aspect this week than we have been able to rePa o se, 4 many months past. A few of our rincipal }lowe s t borl'dei taking on hands pretty freely, and have felt pleased a ses 31 1 '; s; call from their old steady weavers. Some of the bf : v ar y ye i o r to have nearly as many hands engaged as in oru'r e b soa me and, what is encouraging, the work is of rather a 11 o bi'e lees pyrior kind, affording better wages to the worknie s 7 be se l' or ks time required to work a square being considerable , d , or . ,, lt u eb fear of overstocking the market. Of the lower bin s t ot,'artf for which secondary workmen are required, there •''' 0 1) , Ssvo snaking even in this case, a few . hands .ar s e es sel o slis '.;* , webs. Sewing is also much brisker, and severalb:r o f ic i oe i added a third, and some nearly a half to the nu' b e nae ° _„ • er. 5 1 sewers within the last ten days. Indeed, scrn e s te Fit' the, e'' nearly as many as they can accommodate.—G'l9ll? l .. o oridg e 1 THE PROPOSED NEW TARIFF.—A nil. th e s e of .. .4# various branches of th e l ea th er t ra d e t oo k place S 1 0 . t , pl,oo t° , House Hotel, London-bridge, last evening, for t claa ve and '• considering the e ff ect w hi c h the new tariff of the ntr y, vi'a ble' would have on the leather manufacture of this O e n ra sett e ating take such measures as might to the meeting ° „ e f the ':" , 9cd:', Mr. Williams was in the chair. The opinion ii ", e re p•%,,,,e0 ..' was embodied in the following resolutions, whit-sriff P r i c , 't ill i e ' ' —That this meeting views with alarm the no', tariff t.' a 13 1 ';',. by the Government on the subject of leather, bed tee s tne ,„,.‘ ' intended low rate of duty will not adequate/Y P l ; a the t' tliO: . tish manufacturer ; that the present depressed sta ~ O l4 will not allow increased imports from the con'ine„uor scats er, the meeting relies upon her .Majesty's Governmen,`,',itisb ms • il t l 4: of duty high enough to afford protection to the e ffect• be 4 faeturer ; that while the reduction, if carried . ir2 . t ,' the log , ,a;, .' cheapen the price of boots and shoes purchased P.), 0 a ffet . ~.., • kill ' o °' w op' i l classes of society, those worn by mechanics . t the 1 • and that a deputation be appointed to rePr r e e ''''f. Trade' llSe I ' of the meeting to the President of the Boa . _ 4he Vo t. petition ornmo nisvias aftera lso whichpre pa prepared meetingfur broke o p t . a .. , 1 .................. ;.............r.........._...._......,•••• _____ ___ ____ _____ ::.___.__________.__,_ On the 14th inst., at C B : 1 . 11 • On the 12th inst., the ' lady TH S. the lad ~.. B logne-sur-31.er, -4, of Th.... 9. Martin, ...pt Lure, ou TY iiii ra Esq of a daughter. St. Jelin's College, C of the ..eI. ',l e, Cambridge, of a son• - - ,1 On the 15th inst., at Sll I mon Mrs. Nix, 3en iam.com e daughter. f lace, the lady of.ranis On the 16th inst ,in Note I - mg tam p nay, Esq., of a son ' , lad} of On the 16th inst., at T 11 - Ae« en ~ . , firandv Hants, the lim Wood, E - f • On the 12th inst., son. frixtora. hill the lady of COO . " Percival Frost, 01 ~ Taynlon, Madras Army, of :son. - MAIIRIR Doug las On the 9th inst., at Weymouth. Lieutenant James Moffat,On Norwich, to Laura ' Elizabeth, daughter of the Rev. Lie 0 t za th l l ir ig s l t i . t Cjaovhalliry(:utronJeeys,nnette Jane 31offat. _or • Pearse, of Norwich., --------- DIED. , Anve robef , Killed at Cabul, Affghanistan, on the Captain G. E. I‘'estmacott, of the 37th fantry, aged 35. ,d fits. On the 9th inst., at Coblentz in erman *, Ed" . ** -- , G ) :g gerald, second son of the Hon. James Butler. ..........r. - • 4 -r2.T.•!!.--L....7.-s_.2--------,:t..........±?_,:-.±2.it'.:::_.-_-_-::-_-..ptf...r..00--:;•••-.4-, cet-k4 Lone. , r.v. Pnrited zni Pubiciied by MUNDO ~,„,1,0?..,:;f0i '''• (12, Strap!'. :1: The _Su , . (Prxe, N 0.112. Pia"- . r; the County of Middleset Saturday, Maroh 19, 1842 .* 132.3.!d1iga,°-' 'iraiive 1p- Killed til 4 tO 1 11% S n 14 9