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13, Great Marlborough-street. THE NEW NOVEL BY I. E. L., " LADY ANNE. GRANARD ; OR, KEEPING UP APPEARANCES. IS NOW READY AT ALL THE LIBRARIES, Ia 3 vols., with Portrait of the Authoress by Finden. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THE FOURTH VOLUME 0 1 QUEENS OF ENGLAND, Containing the QUEENS OF HENRY VIII., By AGNES STRICKLAND. IS NOW READY. *.* Orders received by all booksellers. Hen -y Cllburn, publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street._ NEW PERIODICAL WORK, BY THE AUTHOR OF " STORIES OF WATERLOO." In Monthly Parts (not to exceed Eighteen) Price One Shilling etch, with characteristic Engravings, by Dick Kitcat, the First Part to appear with tha Magazines at the end of March. THE FORTUNES OF E.CTOR O'HALLORAN, By W. H. MAXWELL, Esq. Ant'ior of 44 Stories of Waterloo," " Wild Sports of the West," Sze. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street; John Cumming, Ormond quay, Dublin Bell and Bradfute, Edinburgh ; Grapel, Liverpool. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. UNDER the MNNAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS. TIIIS EVENING, MARCH 30, Will be repeated Mozart's Opera of THE MARRIAGE OF Fr. GARO.—Tne character of Susanna by Miss Ade'aidelKemble; Count Almaviva Mr Stretton ; Cherubino, Madame Vestris ; Doctor Bar- Solo J Bland ; Figaro, Mr. Leffler ; Basilio, Mr. C. White; the Countess, Miss Rainforth ; Marcellina, Mira Grant; Barbarina, Miss Lane. After which will be repeated the Grand Romantic Fairy Extrava ganza, entitled THE WHITE CAT.—Wunsupcnatyme (King of IsTeverrninditruamia), Mr. J. island; I'rinccs Paragon, Pr,cioua, and Placid (his three Sons , by Madame Vastris. Miss Murray, and -Miss L e; Jingo, Mr. Harley; t e White Cat, Miss Marshall. Doers open at half-past six, anti the Performances begin at Seven. Driss Boxes 75., Second Price 2s. 61 ; First and Second Circles 55.. Second Price ts. (id.; Pi: Seeond 'rice 2s ; Gallery Is. Tickets and Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogsn, at the Box-of. lice, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had upon ap. Oration. Private Sixes to be had solely oif Mr. Andrews, Book seller, 167, New Pond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Real Novelty, and unprecedented splendour. THIS EVENING. MARCH 30, Will be performed anentitely New Evertrian Spectacle, entitled THE PEARL OF THE HAREM, HER Kooßnisu LOVER, AND HIS WAR STEED, BEDA.—With magnificent Scenery, Costume, and Appointmen's ' a D,uble Company, Eq•lestrian and .Dramatic, and the finest Stud of Horses in th, Worl.l. Afer which, ia a more extensive and splendid Arena than ever be( witn-ssed, THE SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, introduc ng 31r. BITIVS unrivalled Corection of Animals, consisting of nu. merous and matchless Cream coloured Horses, Atrialusian Chargers, .otted Cour:r rs, Fairy Palfreys, and Pigmy Poneys, and the most talented Vaul ere, Riders, Gymnastics, and Contortionists in the kingdom. To corclu le with an entirely New Laughable Farce, called THE FAMILY MAN; 011,110 W MANY MORE 'WIVES. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. UNDER TILE DIRECTION CR MR. OSBALDISTON. Great and extraordinary a'traction for the Easter Holidays THIS EVENING, MARCH 30, Will ho,pcerorined -a most interesirg Ne',7 Domestic Drama, in Three Acts. enti led THE LUCKY HORSE SHOE; Ott, THE LONE t HA INNER OF THE SILENT HlGHWAY.—Characters Miss Vincent, Miss Covency, Messr . E. F. Saville, Dale, Gard yer, Seam &c. After which, with gorgeous scenery, dresses, A c , ALADDIN ; Olt, THE WONDERFUL LA MP.— Aleclin, Miss Vincent; the Princess, Mr, E. F. Saville; W idow Mustapha, • Mrs. Grit:lth . To conclude with- THE RED ROVER —The Red Rover, Mr. P lo; Fr!, Mr. E. F. Saville; Hector Homespun, Mr. 6..rdner ; Madame de Lacey, Mrs. Lee. w "'Ste . 4,9 4 92 . 43 • ' • • ' 0 , • 1. • - titt LONDON! WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 30, 1542. There can be no donbt that Sir ROBERT PEEL is a prodigious statesman. He came into office eight months ago at the head of a great and united party. The majority of the constituen cies were fur Sir ROBERT PEEL. With unex ampled patience and unbounded confidence did the people await his decision. A fortnight has scarcely elapsed since it was known, and all classes and descriptixis of persons hiss at Sir R. PEEL. His great supporters, the farmers, de luded by the ignorant squires and the designing clergy, who were a little alarmed by his useless invasion of their palladium, the Corn-law, have been thoroughly terrified by his tariff, and no gander in their ow n yard can utter more unplea sant sounds than they send forth against their recent idol. From Sussex to Inverness they are in motion, to decry and denounce his tariff. If one section of the ship-builders like his tariff, another section, and the timber merchants, is ho have got an immense stock on hand, cry cut lustily against it. Where the people are silent, as in cowed and corrupt London, it is more from indifference and apathy than from any liking to the tariff. Many per Sons think it is of no use petitioning the House of Parliament: They are tired of putting up their prayers to a deaf idol. Nowhere, however, do people move in favour of Sir R. PEEL. A measure, involving numerous and extensive changes, is propoSed by the Prime -Minister, beloved, and ho noured a few weeks ago, and it is received in woody silence, or with great disapprobation throughout the country. Now, he is, we assert, a prodigiously great statesman, who, before he has well acted, and before he has encountered any disaster, is all at once, by his own project, hurled from the height of popularity and confidence, to the depths of dis like and distrust. We believe that he richly deserves the change. He took hold of the tariff, including some twelve Lundred articles, and, of his own will and plea sure, made alterations in the duties on them all. ouch a thing was never before heard of, we believe, in the history of the world. No despot, in the plenitude of his pOwer, ever attempted it. Without consulting a single interest, with out asking one party concerned, he flings down a measure which must alter, with /nit improing, the distribution of labour and capital in almost every branch of industry, giving employment to some and taking it from others— )naking some poorer, but not, we believe, in creasing the riches of any. Such a measure, even if an angel had proposed. it, and Infinite Wisdom had regulated its proportions, would necessarily have excited the disapprobation of the many interests it so suddenly alarms and disturbs. At the same time Sir ROBERT PEEL'S tariff is remarkable for a want of wisdom and the, injus tice of its . proportidns. Re has just prOposed a Corn-law, which maintains the sliding scale, with a view,to protect the agriculturists, as he sayS, when - the harvests are abundant, but. in his tariff lie place's a fixed duty on cattle, on meat, on po tatoes, on fruit, on starch, on an immense variety of agricultural produce, which he allows to be imported at the same duty at all times. Take, for example, the article. starch, which. mainly consists of the nutritious portion of grain. It is condensed *food, and much easier transported than wheat. With a fixed duty cn starch, it will - be prepared abroad, so as to be converted into food .on importa lion, as sugar is imported froM the Channel Islands disguised as confectionary. When the duty on wheat, therefore, in consequence of the price being below 50s : shall be 205., the duty on starch will only, lie, equivalent to a duty of 355. on wheat; starch will then be imported in great quantities, ,and the pretended. protection given to the agriculturist by the Corn-law is, rro tanto, destroyed by the tariff. What is true ofsta rch, is true of all kinds of cat tle and meat. The duty on them is fixed withont any relation to the price, while the duty on corn 'varies with the price. But all these are articles of agricultural produce as well as wheat, and the farmers might just as well have a fixed duty on the latter as on the former. Thus does Sir R. PEEL adopt i.ii his tariff, as to agricultural pro duce, the prlnc . ple he contended against as to corn ; and thus does lie run counter in his tariff to that very principle of protection he has re cently established by his Corn-law. - Without going through the items, and show ing that he has done relative injustice to the potatoe-grnwers and to the owners of orchards, Nvho made an outcry against the Whigs for fix. duty of i n a Lig the duty o n a pp les at double the nci Fir ROBERT PEEL'S tariff. This principle fixed duty on numberless articles of provisi ons , and a sliding duty on corn, shows either gross ignorance of the working of his own laws, or gross infi-mity of p- r,.osc in the Satrap w h o hias undertaken to revise at sight the whole tariff of this great commercial empire. But, as we have previously hinted, perhaps Sir ROBERT PEEL does not. mean to carry his tariff. He has put that forth to' amuse his oppo nents and frighten his . friends into submission. 'Xhe Glasgow AP•gus positively affirins, that to ne74.46) I some deputations which have waited on Sir ROBERT, he has signified. his willingness, on ac count of the pecuniary loss it might occasion, to postpone his tariff to another sesSion. When he has got an income tax he will, perhaps, appoint a Committee to inquire which of all the taxes on , trade he can, a year or two hence, best remove. In the mean time, he has alarmed every interest in the country, and kindled more agitation amongst classes generally quiet than .has pre vailed for many years. 'We believe that he has effectually blown up the foundations of his own popularity and power. Perhaps he relies on the Houses of Parliament and disregards PAlic opinion. He has not been much accustomed., to look beyond. the former, and if he can prevail there he may think his power will be safe. The Parliament has a long term of existence, which is just begun. Per haps he means to rule, by means of Parliament, in spite of the people. Such a scheme may suc ceed for a season—he may pass his income tax, and postpone or pass his tariff; but neither will last beyond the period. when his odious, inqui- - sitorial scheme, for extorting money from the people by the threat of exposing their private concerns, shall have come into operation, and shall have excited public indignation. May it not then happen, that in overturning the in come tax, the power which imposes it will be endangered? If the constituencies think it useless to petition the Parliament collectively, they may warn their Members individually of the fate which.. will await them, and await the Parliament, should it make itself the tool of Sir ROBERT PEEL'S foolish ambition. As the agriculturists are re sisting the tariff, and probably will be suc cessful, the townspeople ought to resist the income tax, which will then be uncompensated by the tariff, and will fall with double severity on then , . On Monday Parliament re-assembles, and if the constituencies do not mean to sacrifice their own rights, and disinherit their children, they will everywhere meet and express their opinions on one of the most multifarious, most arrogant, and most worthless changes that ever a Minister attempted in Great Britain. The complain t made by the W est India planters is, that the cost of growing mgar, under the discriminating duty, is more than the price they can obtain for it in the. English markets. Fol lowing out the system, patronised by. Sir R. PEEL and Lord STANLEY, of regulating and pro tecting trade, securing to certain " great inter ests," by means of laws an adequate return for the capital embarked in cultivation—however recklessly or unskillfully that may have been applied—it will be necessary to raise the discri minating duty still higher, and increase the price of sugar by keeping out everything that can pos sibly be used in its stead. The principle of pro tection followed out to its true consequences will compel the state to go on, as the disadvan tages of the cultivation of sugar increase, enhanc ing the sum fixed as a protecting duty till the whole property of the people be swallowed up in encouraging the growth of sugar. There is, however, another method by which tha market may be extended, and which some idle, or ruminating people, called thinkers,• say is preferable to the PEEL-STANLEY system. They say that men must have bread before sugar, and that the more difficult it is for them to get bread, or the dearer it is, the less money they will have wherewith to buy fugar. They say, that when bread is cheap and abundant, trade is invariably good; employment is comparatively plentiful ; the people have something to give the West Indians and others who produce articles next in utility to those necessary for subsistence; and that, conse quently, the means to obtain a good price in the home market, for West Indian raw sugar, is to put an end to the Corn-laws, and allow trade to go a-head. But it so happens, say these idle ruminating people, who do not always believe all the conclu sions which avarice and ambition draw from any premises it suits them to assume, that the very same class and tribe of politicians who pass laws to give the West India planters a high price for their sugar, also pass laws to give the landowners a high price for their corn, to narrow the supply of food, to limit employment, to keep down po pulation, and to take from the bulk of the people the means of purchasing sugar at any price, much less at a high price. They both stimulate the production of sugar and narrow the market for it. To enable the people here to consume, at a good price, all that the colonists are stimulated to produce, they ought to be allowed to increase as fast as possible, and to acquire, by the freedom of their industry, as much wealth as possible. But those who stimulate the labours and the competition of the planters, by an enormous bounty, at the same time destroy the growing market for their produce. The very same law-makers, say the idle thinkers, aim at effecting incompatible objects. They want to accomplish physical impossibilities— to enrich both the agriculturists, who buy sugar, and the planters, who sell it. They cannot aug ment by a single grain the whole sum of sugar and corn produced, but they say that by raising the price of both, the two being, in the end, ex changed for each other, they can increase the profits both of the sugar-growers and wheat growers. The law-makers cannot interfere with either without taking a portion of it to reward them for their trouble, which is known as a tax which may amount to a sixth part of the whole; and yet while they arc unable to augment the whole stock, and while they take a part of it to themselves, they pretend that by their interfe rence, and by devising a discriminating duty on sugar, and a corn-law which takes something away from the agriculturists, and largely away from the sugar planter, they enrich both. The idle thinkers say that this a specimen of all the protecting laws concerning trade, which Lords PALMERSTON and HOWICK have lately declared, very emphatically and very justly, isnota proper subject for legislation. They add, that when the system is subjected to a severe analysis, it turns out to be a piece of gross quackery, or gross humbug, by which the tax-collectors and tax•consumers may profit, but by which all the producing classes, whom it pretends to benefit, are cheated and defrauded. We are inclined to believe that these idle thinkers, the class of men whom BONAPARTE hated, and whom GEORGE 111. hated, under the name of metaphysicians, are nearly right, and we arc clearly of opinion that the persons who strive to enrich the West India plantera, while they maintain a heavy tax by a slidin:r scale on bread, are playing at cross purposes. They are building up with one hand, and pulling down with the other. They set some men to sow, and others to take the seed out of the ground. They pass one law to raise the price of sugar, and another to limit its consumption. Contradictory purposes like these, which may be traced in every two lines of the tariff, are called political wisdom. They are what politicans break nearly all the commandments to effect. They are what the people are required to obey at the point of the bayonet, and asked to worship; and what all the respectable part of society think it their duty to enforce at the expense of life and fortune. The idle thinkers shake their heads at the sad conclusion, and ask, can good come of such a monstrous error and delusion ? HORRIBLE AND DARING MURDER IN WISCONSIN —A heart-rending duty devolves upon us this week. which is to announce the death of the Hon. Charles C. Aradt, a Member of the Council from the county o. Brown, who was shot in the Council-roomlay J. ltf Vineyard, a Member from Grant, immediately after the adjournment yesterday.—A discussion of a - heated cha racter arose upon a motion made in the Council to re consider a vote by which the nomination of Enos S. Baker, as Sheriff for the county of Grant, was rejected a. few days since. During the progress of this discussion, some rather violent words passed between Mr. Aradt and Vineyard. The first conceiving himself to have been insulted, approached Mi. Vineyard after an ad journment, fur the put dose of seeking an explanation— a slight personal rencontre then took place, when the latter draw a pistol from his pocket and fired. Mr. Aradt reeled for a few paces, then sunk to the floor, and almost immediately expired, having been shot through tin. heart.-- Wisconsin Enquirer, 12th inst. The Preabytery of St. Andrew's have resolved to ordain Mr. Robert Smith, preacher of the Gospel, on the sth of April next, as a missionary to the Jews at Pesth, in Hungary. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARcui 30, H,,42. LITERATURE. LONDON LEGENDS. 2 Vo!s. _ Bentley, London, 1842. If the reader be not very fastidious in his taste, he may possibly find amusement in these volumes, which contain a series of tales illustra tive of the historical and romantic traditions of Old London and its environs. The most entertain ing of these tales—which is very naturally placed first—is entiled the " Foster Son," and relates to the memorable period of Jack Cade's rebellion, when the metropolis was for some days in a state of perfect panic, the rebel having taken up his head-quar ters in Southwark. Some of the author's sketches connected with this incident are passable enough, particularly the account of a visit, for the pur poses of plunder, paid by Cade and his followers to a wealthy London merchant; on whose ex chequer they levy a sort of income tax, urging the same plea for the impost that the Tories are now urging, and with equal propriety. But if we except the cursory sketches of the rebels, and their attack on London Bridge, which certainly give some evidence of graphic ability, there is not much to praise in the " Foster Son," for it is loosely and carelessly constructed ; the language is tame and slip-shod; and the various personages pourtrayed are merely so many common-place generalities. The same objections apply more or less to the remaining tales, which, however, possess the virtue of brevity to recommend them. POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY. Chapman and Hall, London, 1842. For this usetid and elaborate work we are in debted to the Society for the Diffusion of Use ful Knowledge, at whose suggestion it was written, and under whose superintendence it has been published. The work is introduced by two able chapters devoted to the consideration of the fundamental principles of Government, and then proceeds to give an account of the dif ferent.systems of legislation adopted by different countries. The particulars respecting the usages of the French monarc h y , prev i ous to' - the Revo lution of 1780, are very full and explicit, and are pcnded in a calm and rational spirit of inquiry. BuCio us, the most acceptable portion of the vo lumdlis the Introduction, in which the "Objects, Pleatures and. Advantages of Political Science" arc donsidered ; and in which we find the follow ing, among many just and impressive passages " Thermischiels are incalculable which have re sultedr4o our species, from the habitual false judgmcuiits formed of human conduct and charac ter by. the hulk of mankind ; and it must in fairness be confessed, that the great crimes which have been committed by statesmen in all ages, have been mainly caused by the en- • couragement which the people have given to the' criminals.. Dazzled by success, subdued by the spectacle "'of triumphant force, stricken with wonder at the mere exercise ofgreat faculties, and the sight of the events which they brought about, men have .withdrawn their eyes from the means used to attain those ends, and lost their natural hatred of vice in their admiration of genius, and their sense of power. No disgust at mean ness, no scorn of treachery, no horror of cruelty, has hitherto availed against the false lustre shed over: despicable and detestable deeds by brilliant Capacity, crowned with victory. But that is not all the folly committed by unreflect ing men. The most absolute disregard to their own interests has been coupled with their misplaced admiration of successful guilt." SABBATIVI NO PART OF CHRISTIAiVI7 . A Discourfl preached in Union-street Chapel, Glasgow, Feb. 27, 18 2, by John Taylor. London : J. Wardon, 7, Farringdon-street. Edinburgh : .R.'l?. Nelson. Glasgow : J. Owen. This discourse (published by request) we con fidently commend to the notice of our readers. At a time whet the public mind is being agitated by violent addresses from the pulpit and the press upon thet. so-called " desecration of the Sabbath," owing ! to the decision recently come to by the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Company, to allow the public to be accommo dated by running,two trains on Sundays, it is highly creditable tq the Unitarian minister, who resides in the midit of a prejudiced people, thus boldly to step for Ward and place before the public just and scriptural views of the Sabbath question. Mr. Taylor takes fur his text those memorable words or our Saviour, Mark, c. v. 27, 28, " And be - said unto them, The Sab bath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath ; therefore the Son of Man is Lord also of the Sabbath." We have only-space-for one or two extracts, or it would afford us pleasure to introduce to our readers many remarks: of the talented and re spected author of this discourse : This remark of Christ's fffas intended to discounte nance the rigour and minuteness of observance by which the Je ws i m p e d e d miry* actions on their sacred day ; and we repeatedly find'in the Evangelical narra tives, that Jesus came into contact with the Pharisaic temper on this subject, and , iehuked it. I need only adduce one illustration to show ;the opposition between the sentiments and feelings of Jesus, and those of the Jews told many moderns on the subject of Sabbatical ob- SerVance ; and that may be found in the instance of healing an impotent man on the Sabbath, when Jesus said, "Rise, take up thy bed, and *talk." Now, it was considered exceedingly improper to carry anything along the streets of Jerusalem en the Sabbath-day ; and ac cordingly we find that a commotiouNgas excited by this action, and " the Jews therefore saiOnto him that was cured, It is the Sabbath-day ; it is notAawful for thee to carry thy bed." And, my brethren, I an well imagine the commotion that would be excited iiii•rois city (Glas gow), amongst many who consider themielves exemplary Christians, if, on what is most erroneously called the Christian Sabbath, a man ere to be seta carrying any large article of household furniture along these streets, in the face of multitudes who were issuing from their re spective places of worship. Shall I be told that Christ commanded only a work of necessity ? I say, No ; there was no necessity for the man to ettrry his bed. Considering the immense benefit which had been con ferred upon him, in perfect restoration to health and strength, he might well have been contented to neglect his bed and leave it behind him, rather than shock the religious feelings (shall we call them prejudices ?) of his countrymen. Jesus, had he entertained any such ideas, as many moderns have, on the so-called desecration of the Sabbath, ought surely to have said, " Rik, and walk," not " Take up thy bed, and walk." The preacher proceeds to prove 'that the fol lowing statements are true :- 1. That the Jewish Sabbath, as enjoinettiii the Mosaic Scriptures, was a local and national institute. 2. That no day is enjoined by Christialnity as more sacred than another, but all days are alike.. i 3. That what is now the first day of the week, may be, as it is, with the greatest propriety, dedicated to the combined purposes of religious worship and rational recreation. 4. That the spirit which enforced the observance of the Jewish Sabbath, and which dictates the keeping of the Christian's day of rest, is entirely at variance with the spirit which many modern divines would infuse into the observance of one day in seven as a religious season. We cannot refrain from quoting the two con cluding paragraphs of the .discourse, as Mr. Taylor's views are very similar to our own:— I have thus endeavoured to show the manner and spirit in which any day, set apart for rest and worship, may be observed without checking what is natural and pleas ing, without restraining the cheerful spirits of the young, w ithout either shedding gloom over the family circle, or introducing hypocrisy into the observance of religious forms, without fettering the consciences of others, or rendering the profession of Christianity offensive by making it the disturber of the natural pleasures of mul titudes, while, at the same time, without in the least countenancing any vicious excess or immoral practice. `ln conclusion, I enter my solemn protest-against any man being considered irreligious because he denies the express Divine appointment of one day in seven for reli gious worship, or because he rejects the notion of sanctity as attaching to any day. A man's life may be a perpe tual and acceptable service to God, though he does not observe as sacred " days and months, and times, and years." And I also protest against the idea of any man being engaged in a sinful occupation, because on some part of the Christian day of rest he may attend to secular employments, and render himself useful in forwarding communications between the different cities and districts of a great empire like this, or in assisting others to visit their friends, and enjoy the happiness of social and do mestic affection, or in ministering by a small outlay of his own labour, to the comfort, convenience, and happi ness of multitudes ; especially if s uc h a man h as l e i sure on other parts of the day to attend to his mental and spiritual improvement, and can, if he pleases, embrace the opportunity which every reflecting person will be glad to improve, of worshipping humbly-, gratefully, and reverentially, " the God and. Father of our Lord Jesus Christ," who " bath given us richly all things to enjoy." exhibiting • a - countenance distracted with a hundred conflicting emotions. Next to the - Spy, is hi s son—a dogged, sullen-looking lad attentive to all that is passing, and apparently more soli citous to revenge his father's certain death, than to . console his surviving parent for her loss. Nothing can be more dexterous or ingenious than the disposition of these several characters, or more true to life than the expression of their countenances. The Carlist leadett, Zumala carragui is, of course, the prominent figure; he looks bold, decided, and thoughtful, as if he had already made up his mind respecting the spy's doom, and had passed to the consideration of far more momentous matters.' His costume—which is remarkable alike for simplicity and singularity —is, we understand, just such as he invariably wore during his campaigns, and which he never laid aside, except when it was necessary that he should make his appearance at the motley court of Don Carlos. "At this time," says the artist, in his small pamphlet, eXplanate,ry of the print, " .Zumalacarragui was forty,five years bktget'ftrid of middle stature, but his carriage and personal conformation tended in appearance to diminish his height. He inclined forward in an habitual stoop, and the unusual breadth of his shoulders, bull-neck, and other proportions, were indicative of great muscular strength. He always wore a Zamarra, or fur-jacket. His hair was dark, tending to black, though not absolutely so ; this he kept closely cut, and his moustache and. whiskers were so trimmed as to meet upon the cheek. His eyes were of a dark, grey colour, and naturally piercing. ,The ex pression of his countenance, when not actively occupied, was that of settled and severe thought; but when in front of troops, the features ex= pressed 'more life, yet not less sternness. He rarely yielded to anything like mirth, and his pleasantries scarcely went beyond a tacit sthile." Just such a character—so fax as countenance and bearing can indicale it—is delineated in :the pre sent engraving. The spy, who. is the next pro minent figure, exhibits a dogged detern:ination and hardihood, as if he had made up his mind to the worst, and was perfectly aware that his destiny was decided. The figure and attitude of his•sup- . pliant wife soften the sterner leatilres of the pic ture, and produce —as they are intended to do— quite a pathetic effect on the - spectator. She looks up with strea.miqg eyes -to the priest; - :- but in his calm, and somewhat ,scornful• features, there is no visible appearance of relenting. He looks like one too bigoted and callous of nature, to be easily. deterred from a settled purpose. The print, as we observed before, is highly in terest. inv.:, and is remarkable for the vigor, variety, and historical truth of its details. From its massive shadows, and here and there bright gleams of light, it Would show to great advantage in a plain, gold frame. We may add that it is a mezzotint, and is exquisitely engraved by Lewis. THE MEET AT MELTON. Gtaces, London, 1342. We are indebted for thiS spirited mezzotint engraving to the pencil of Mr. llumplireys, who has executed it from an original painting by Mr. Grant, which is now in the possession of the Duke of 'Wellington. The picture represents the meet ing of the Mel:on Mowbray huntsmen, who are just setting Out on a fox-hunt. The scene is a fine open tract of ground, gently swelling up into gradual elevations in the intermediate distance, and bounded, at the Iltrthest pOint of sight, ap parently by a range of downs, intersected by small 'copses. Though there are considerably upwards of thirty figures pourtrayed, yet the canvas is anything but crowded, so adroitly has the artist disposed his _groups. Almost all his figures are portraits, and we can bear testimony to the accuracy of not a few of them. For life, and vivacity, and ease, we have of late years seen few pictures superior to this. NAPOLEON. Graves, London, 1842. A half-length portrait of Napoleon, engraved by Lewis, from a painting executed by Delaroche —a French artist—in the, year 1838. Consider ing that the likeness was taken from other por traits of Napoleon, who was mouldering in his rocky tomb at Saint Helena, in l 838; we are surprised at the accuracy with which the artist has hit off, what has been generally supposed to be, the leading expression of his features. There is a sternness, not unmixed with melancholy, in features; , and he is attired in his favourite ;rey great coat, and little cocked hat. As a work of art, the print is a very creditable one. BELGIUM. BRUSSELS, MARCH 26.—CONCLUSION OF THE TRIAL OF THE CONSPIIVATORS.—VERDICT OF THE JURY, AND SENTENCE OF THE Comm—At length, after near a month of anxious inquiry, this sad affair has come to a conclusion. Yesterday the President summed up the evidence, giving the Jury a series of questions to rep* to.. By the first forty-five they were asked if each of the nine prisoners were guilty, • during the months of August, September, and October last, of conspiring to gether to overthrow or change the Government, the order of succession to the Throne, and excite the people to take arms ;; against the royal authority ? • A second series of questions were to the effect, whether De Crehen, Vanderimere, Vandersmissen, and Parent, hod purchased the cannon, powder, &c., to overturn the Go vernment? Ai-third series for the opinion of the Jury was whether General Vandersmissen, his brother, his wife, Parent, Verpraet, and Vanlaethem, had for the above purpose endeavoured to enlist soldiers. The Jury retired about two o'clock, and at four they an nounced the conclusion of their deliberations. this moment there wee a great display of armed free. •Kifey . gendarmes, at least, under the command of the principal leaders of that force, were stationed in the Court, while ihe court-yard was literally filled witk e soldiers. The seat reserved for the prisoners was strongly guarded`' also. The Jury now entered the COtirt in the midst of a profound silence, and the Presi dent called on the public (it was hardly requisite, for the Majority present consisted of armed men) to abstain from all marks of approbation or disapprobation. The fore man, in a voice trembling with emotion, then pronounced a verdict of guilty as regarded General Vandermeere, • Baron Vandersmissen, and De Crehen; also as regarded Verpraet and Void:Mt - hem, but only by a majority of seven votes:ngiiinst_ five ; and a verdict of acquittal as regarded 'lntendant Parys, Joseph Vandersmissen (brother of the BarotO, Madame Vandersmissen, (wife of the Baron), and Parent. De Crehen, though found guilty on one count, was declared by the Jury not guilty on another,_ -as he. had revealed the complot before any overt, act. This amounted to a full acquittal under article 108 of the penal code, and De Crehen was ec cordingly set at liberty. You perceive that .an unanimous verdict of guilty was only pronounced against two of the nine prisoners, viz., Vandermeere and Vandersmissen. As to Verpraet and Vaniaethern,.the Juidges retired to consult, but after a deliberation of three quarters 'of an hour, re-entered the Court, when the President declared that they unani mously coneurred.with the majority of the Jury. At this time the prisoners, who had retired, again took their seats. Madame Vandersmissen, already conscious of the verdict against her husband, was evidently suffer in'd 'tinder almost insupportable emotion. Joseph Van dernifisen (the brother of the General); though aware of his . aequittAkPcould not restrain his feelings, and wept like a child : it' stensecertainly altogether a scene which few could witness unnaeVed ; nor was its touching nature lessened, by the calm, manly, and soleirin deportMent of those who-e guilt had been declared. After certain forms had been gone through, the President pronounced the ordinance of acquittal. as regarded . Parys, Joseph Vandersmissen, Madame Vandersmissen, and Parent. It was here that one of those scenes took place which are hardly describable. Madame Vandersmissen re fused to leave her husband. She protested against his condemnation ; and her imperfect French accent, though rendering her words at times unintelligible, only seemed to heighten the effect of her despair. So resolutely did she determine not to be separated from him that, deaf alike to the persuasiOns of her counsel, who went into the dock to her, and the eAhortations of the President„ it was clear she would .cede only to main force. The Pre sident, therefore, on the assurance of General Vanders missen that his wife would have firmness to hear the sen tence of the law pronounced, permitted her to remain. On the demand of the Aeocat-General-the Court then read a judgment by which Vandermeere, Vanders missen, Vanlaethem and Verpraet, were condemned to suffer death en one of the public places of Brussels. The prisoners listened to their sentence in cairn respectful silence. The feel'ilga of Madame Vanderemissen, how ever, again mastered her, and with great violence she pronounced some incoherent words, no doubt disrespect. ful to the Court, for atlthe earnest reqiicst of her husband, she after Wards said—" M. President, I beg pardon." At half-past seven the Court rose, and the condemned were reconducted to prison in the midst of a large con course of people. There was no attempt to commit any breach of the peace, and Brussels was all last night, and has been toclay e perfeetly quiet, nor does there seem the slightest fear of any. disturbance. That the sentence of death pronounced against the two Generals, Vanlaethem and Verpraet, Will not be put in execution, you will have no doubt after reading the account of. the following extraordinary scene which took place in the Court, last Thursday. One very natural topic of appeal to the Jury, selected by the Counsel for the prisoners:, was the severity of the punishment which the law accords to the crime of treason, viz., death ; and they implored the jurors not to sacrifice nine liveS, if there existed'the possibility of a doubt as to the guilt of the acctted: To this the Avocat-General replied, and I am sure ho Englishman will read what follows without feeling o something more than astonishment. . M. l'Avccat General—You know, Gentlemen of the Jury, that we live under a Government too paternal : if there be a difference of opinion . on the abolition of ca pital punishment, there are many who consider that for great crimes it should be more frequently executed. But as the defence has said much of the enormity of the pu nishment, I can tell you; in order to re-assure your con- Sciences, that if in the affair which now occupies us, the, punishment of death be pronounced, it will never be executed. MM. Vandermeere, yandersmissen, and Parys here rose simultaneously and cried out, " We want no mercy, we demand justice only."—(Great excitement throagh out the Court.) Vandermere--We are innocent, we reject mere mercy. M. le President—You have no right to interrupt the public Minister; your apostrophe is an insult. M. P2rys (with great vehemenCe, and in the midst of extraordinary excitement)—We intend no insult, but we may be allowed to reject this anticipated offer of mercy. M. Roussel, Counsel for Parys—l must observe that the language of M. l'Avocat-General has naturally pro voked a legitimate . feeling of indignation ; we are offered mercy. 141. 1e President—You will have your reply. M. l'Avocat-General—l well knew my words would excite recrimination. If you had not spoken of the pun ishment of death I should not have alluded to it. Ido not understand why, as the defence spoke at large on that subject, I am not to be permitted to reply. M. Roussel—l call on the Court to take a note of the words of M. l'Avocat-General, who, ignorant of the Royal pleasure, has just made use of a right which be longs only to the King. I ask a note of this— that a public officer has declared, that if the punishment of death be pronounced, the sentence will not be executed. M. le President—The .Avoeat-General did not ;peak Ln a manner so positive. He said probably such a sen enc,t, would not be executed. M. Bartels (another counsel for the defence)—Tlie public officer spoke positively, but as he is permitted to speak hypothetically, I demand, in my reply, to be 'al lowed also to treat of hypothetical circumstanc:s. M. le PresidentlVe shall see how far it may be allowed. M. I'Avocat General—l deplore this incident, but I did not. commence the subject ; and now, if thb Presi dent takei a note of my words, I am not afraid of the consequences. The 7 PresiCent did not take a note, and the subject dropped. hut has not the Avocat-General placed the Governmeht in an embarrassing position ? According to the usual form the royal clemency is only extended to those who ask for it. After the above assurance, it is almost certain it will not be sued for (indeed many doubt, from the character of the two Generals, if they would have sought for pardon had no such assurance been given), and yet how is the execution of the sentence of death now possible ? FURTHER Loss or . LIFE BY FlRE. — Yesterday afternoon, at four o'clock, an inquest was held at the Queen's Arms public-house, in Spa-row, Bermondsey, before Wm. Carter, Esq., the Coroner for Surrey, on view of the body of Mary Ann Weller, aged five years and a half, the daughter of Mr. Thomas Weiler,- of No. 9, Spa. road, tanner, whose death was occasioned under the following truly lamentable circumstances :—On Thursday evening lest the deceased was left with. her, brother in a.room by themselves, where there was a fire, and it appears that the latter,' with a piece o£a stick, was amusing himself by carrying it about the . rooM,. when his sister, in endeavourin , r to take it from him, set her clothes in flames, and ; before they could be extinguished, she was literally roasted alive, and expired in a- short time afterwards. The Coroner remarked that he :had never witnessed a more severe case of burning. Ver dict—" Accidental death." A CIIILD THROWN INTO THE SEA BY ITS MOTHER. —The Amsterdam papers of Wednesda) mention the following affecting incident :—A deplorable event took place on board the steamer the Beurs Van Amsterdam on its voyage from Hamburg to Amsterdam, of which we have the following particulars from good authority. Among the passengers was a lady a native of Coblentz, with a boy about ten years old, and another very young child. She was married to a person of the North of Germany, who had gone some years ago to try his for tunes in North America, and about two years ago had invited her to follow him, This she . did, but was so it treated by her husband that she . was obliged to return to her friends in .Europe. She had reached Hamburg and resolved to go by way of Holland to countries on the Rhine. The treatment she had suffered had made a deep impression on the mind of the un h a ppy l a d y, t h e traces of which, however, were not perceptible ex ce pt on a close observation, but all on a sudden they manifested themselves in a fearful manner ; in a fit of desperation she threw the youngest child into the sea, and attempted to plunge in after it. The people on board hastcned to give assistance too late to save the child, b u t i n ti me to hold back the mother, who was immediately taken into the cabin, and all possible assistance given her. But her understanding was gone. Here she arrived with her son, and was put on board a steamer belonging to the Rhine and l'ssel Company, where she was placed under the care of proper persons, apart from the other pas sengers, to be conveyed to her native town. ANECDOTE OF DUNNING.—Horne Tooke relates th.) following anecdote, illustrative of the personal ap pearance Of Dunning, Lord Ashburton, who was the most celebrated lawyer of his day. When it was the custom for the barristers to leave chambers early, and to finish their evenings at the coffee-houses in the neigh bourhood of the inns of court, Lord Thurlow, on one oc casion, wanted to see Dunning privately. He went to the coffee-house frequented by him and asked a waiter if Mr. Dunning was there ? The waiter,' who was new in his pace, said he did not know him. "Not know him?" exclaim° Thurhm, with his titial oath's, into the room up stairs, and if you see any gentle,::an like the knave of clubs, tell hint be is particularly wanted." The waiter went up, and forthwith he appeared, followed by Dannink. ." '11: 'll:' ~'- i 1 LA , •' . ' 7- ' L .. f., -..,..-- j .., C(JRT CIRCULAR. WniDson, TuEsDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert had their morning walk as usual. The Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal were taken airings both in the morning and afternoon. Her Majesty and Prince Albert rode out on horseback this morning, attended by the Hon. Mrs, Anson, Coionel Buckley, Sir Edward Bowater, and Sir George Quentin. • - . • In the afternoon the Queen and the Prince rode out in a pony phaeton, his Royal Highness driving, attended by the Countess Delawarr, Lady E. West, Hon. Mrs. Anson, and the Earl West, Lady C. Cocks, Hon. Miss Cavendish, and of Warwick in a pony carriage and four; Lady M. Sir Robert Otway, in a second' carriage and four ; and the Earl Delawarr, Lord Cantelupe, Colonel Buckley and Sir Edward Bowater on horseback. The Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady A. M. Dawson, took a carriage airing. to Adelaide Lodge and the Home Park. The Earl of Warwick and Admiral Sir R. Otway have succeeded Viscount Hawarden and Sir Fre derick.Stovin as the Lord and Groom in Waiting on the Queen : and the DoWager Lady Lyttelton has succeeded the. Countess of Charlemont as the Lady in Waiting on her Majesty. Her Majesty's private Band and the Band of the 72d Highlanders will be in attendance at the Castle this evening, His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, attended by Colonel Jones, arrived in town yesterday afternoon, from his residence at Kew. His Royal Highness visited her Royal Highness the Duzhess of Gloucester at Gloucester House. The remains of the late Earl of Munster were removed yesterday for interment at Hampton. The carriages of her Majesty the Queen Dow- Ewer, of their Royal Highnesses the Duke of Sussex, and the Duke of Cambridge;and other members of the Royal Family, followed in the funeral procession. In the afternoon of the day before yesterday a man in charge of a cart heavily loaded with wood, pas Sing along the Rue Neuve des Petits-Champ , , from being drunk, suffered his horses to take their own course, and thus endangered the other carriages, and the lives of the passengers. Two sergens-de-ville, observing his neglect, called upon him to go with them before a'commissary of police. The man resisted, and at length 'became so ex cited, that he threw himself under the wheel of his Cart, which was still going on, and had one of his l egs ' an d one of his arms dreaffully crushed. He was taken under a gateway, and there had the first attentions paid to him by surgeons who were sent for, after which he was car ried on a litter to the hospital. CURIOUS INSTANCE OF THE VORACIOUSNESS OF A SHARK.—Captain Baker, of the brig Enterprize, just arrived at Charleston, reports that, when in the Gulf Stream, one calm day, the sailors amused themselves in catching shark. Upon cutting open one very large one, at least fourteen feet long, What was the astonishment of the crew to find the undigested remains of a carpet bag, and some parcels of neatly endorsed papers, on one of which they could just discern the words " Brinck," and underneath, " Blunt counsel for Plant." We fear, how ever, from the captain's account, that the shark had so thoroughly digested the law arguments of the learned counsel, they. can render him but little further assistance before the Courts. The bones of this huge monster of the deep - have been presented to the Secretary of the ' Home League," in this city, as they may suggest some new branch of omestic industry.—Southern Paper. VESSELS SPOKEN wiTLY.-7-11elen Jane, Calcutta to London, 19th ult., lat. 3 N, lon. 23 ; Chieftain, Bombay to London, sth instant, lat. 28, lon. 37 ; Mary Gray, Swan River. to London, 9th instant, lat. 30, ion. 39 ; Bonenza, Buenos Ayres to Cork, and Virginia, Liverpool to New York, 22d instant, lat. 48, Jon. 12, by the Mer cury, arrived at Liverpool. Rambler of Jersey for Monte Video, 4th ult., lat. 2 N, lon. 20 W ; Princess Victoria, London for Calcutta, sth ult., lat. 3 N, ion. 20 W, b y t h e Tyrer, arrived off Weymouth. LAND SLIDE AT NEW ORLEANS.—We learn from the New Orleans Bee, that, on the night of the 23d ult.; between nine and ten o'clock , a l a r ge portion of the Levee, on the west side of the r iver, fr onting the Second -- FINE ARTS. Municipality Ferry, gave way, carrying with it th e h ote l ZUMALACARI?AGur, AND THE CHRIST INA known as the Willow Grove, together with th e b eaut if u l SPY. garden aqached to it, the build in g occ upied by the boat Graves, London, 1842. club, ten pin alleys, and several out-houses. Mr. Bell is a severe loser, not having time to save any portion of the The subject of this picture is an exceedingly one of interesting one, and must be f,ittniliar to all of our Bee says:—" We visited the premises towards midnight, readers who are conversant With the late disa*s- f ur niture, nor other contents .of his establishment. The trous civil war in the Peninsttla. ,So ably, too, The principal no ise w hi c h the proprietor had evinced so , the cultivation of and coUld scarcely see a solitary vestige of the garden, in is it managed, that we can catch at a glance the park of artillery, and was attractionsmuch t a h n e d s: = leading incidents of the story which the artist would desire to develope. The scene is a small with which the embankment and buildings . gave way, provincial church or chapel in Spain. At a rude resembled the discharge of-'a table covered with a cloth, near the entrance, heard all over the city. . Th e gap extends to about 400 sits a priest, together with an attendant or or 500 feet in depth, and the soil was still wearing away secretary who is busy writing, and seems so when we left the spot. Fears are entertained that the wholly intent 'on his task, as to have neither eyesfurther, as the only barrier against damage will extend . . . df ( i ) t r g u n i gh the encroachment of the river consists in a slight em nor ears for What is going on about him. The 1 k . mil - ment, which can scarcely be styled a levee. We are priest is handing to Zumalacarragui, who ii , happy to add that no lives were lost on this occasion." standing up at the other end of the table SUDDEN DEATH IN THE OFFICE OF THE BIBLE directly facing him, certain letters and docu- SOClETY.—Y es t er d a a fternoon, about five o'clock, a merits tending t o i mp li cate a Ch r i s ti no ' spy ! .melancholy i ns t a ice of the uncertainty of human life cc who has been brou g ht i n t o t h e c h urc h, bound, tit curred in the office of the fibl.e Society, Earl-street, custody of two sturdy l oo k ii I g musketeers. Close . -BlackEiars. 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THE FIGHT OF THE FIDDLERS. By G. P. R. JAMES, Esq. •- Part the Second.—THE NUS fER. , London, Hugh Cunningham, St. Martin's-place, Trafalgar square.' THE WEATHER.—NOON, MARCK 30. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Thermometer... 48 1 Highest 57 I Lowest 45 Barometer 29.92.—Wind W.—Freezing Point Deg. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. llerning II minutes. after 4 I Evening 12 minutes after 4. mt4F,-7,1%-qton gr,,o-ito 4rl SUN OFFICE, Three o' C7och. We publish in another part of The Sun, the dig nified reply of the Earl of ABERDEEN to the note of the late American Ambassador, Mr. STEVENSON, on the Right of Search question. Nothing can be more forcible, and at the-same time more moderate and conciliatory, than the language of the Noble Foreign Secretary. The question required the most delicate handling, after the decided, but unfair and offensive way in which Mr. STEVENSON placed it be fore the public, and we think the Ariaericans them selves will admit that it has exp er i ence d it a t th e hands of Lord ABERDEEN. As the United States Government persists in a refusal to concede a right of search, in conjunction with England, France, Aus• tria, Russia, and. Prussia, lord ABERDEEN is forced to relinquish any claim to such right for the righteous purpose of suppressing the inhuman slave traffic. But he insists upon the visitation of vessels carrying the United States' flag, by the CommanderS of cruizers employed in suppressing the slave trade, for the pur pose of ascertaining that they are bona fide the pro perty of the United' States. Should 'the vessels visited be really American, they are not to be interfered with, or detained, although laden with cargoes of slaves ; as in the words of Lord ABERDEEN, " such vessels must be permitted, if engaged in it, to enjoy a monopoly of this unhallowed trade." There will be no overhauling of the cargo ; no examination of pa pers beyond what is absolutely necessary to deter mine the real nationality of the vessel. Within such restricted limits we do not see how the American Government can offer the shadow of an objection to the proposition of the British Cabinet. The right is one which Lord ABERDEEN states, and which every body conversant with the question knows America herself exercises in the Gulf of Mexico. Respecting the right of search being an invasion of national dig nity, which the patriotic sensitiveness of Americans could not brook, the Noble Lord cuttingly remarks that concessions sanctioned by Great Britain and France are not likely to be incompatible with the dignity of any other State disposed to follow their example. This is the only sarcastic stroke in this diplomatic note, and more than one Member of Con gress has already winced under it. We are not, however, unprepared for an American opposition to the visitation, under any pretext what ever, of vessels carrying the United States flag. The Americans want to continue the slave trade, and they shrink from th 2 odium they would incur in Europe were their participation in that odious traffic officially proclaimed to the world, in the manner it must be in the reports of visiting officers commu 'nicated to the Cabinets of the Five Powers. A sense of shame is a step towards repentance, and the very concealment with which the Americans seek to conduct this unhallowed traffic induces us to hope that the day is not distant when they will abandon it as we have done, and detest the memory of it as much as we do now. But considering the jealousy of this country which prevails in the United States, it appears that our Government has not gone the right way to work in conducting negotiations which are in tended to accelerate the advent of slavery sup pression by the Cabinet of Washington. Instead of being the sole negotiator with the United States the English Foreign Secretary ought to have taken every step in prsonal conjunction with the Ministers of the other Great Powers who have consented to the Right of Search Treaty. Every note should have been the joint production of the Ministers of the Five Powers, who acting thus in concert, could employ lan guage more conciliatory, and even make larger con cessions to the influence of public opinion in the United States, than would comport with the dignity of an individual Power. What in them would be mo deration, would in the case of single States be inter preted the language of fear. It is a species of bravado with many public men in the United States to oppose every measure advocated by England, for no other cause than that it is so supported. They fancy that to oppose England manifests an indifference to her power, and a readiness to cope with her i n war. These men, therefore, would regard very dif ferently a note signed by the representatives of the Five Powers, and one dated from the Foreign office, bearing only the signature of Lord ABERDEEN. Nor is it yet too late to adopt such a course. With out the co-operation of the United States, the slave trade can never be entirely suppressed ; and if Europe be really in earnest in seeking its suppres sion, the better feelings of the American people are only to be worked upon in the way which we have, just pointed out. Attempts have been made by several English Journals to turn into ridicule the lively and versatile dispositions of our neighbours on the other side of the Channel. They cannot live, it is said, without some cause of excitement, real or imaginary ; one topic succeeds another in rapid succession, and so effectually is the transient passion effaced by its successor, that the French themselves even find amusement in laughing at their own folly. If these writers would look nearer home, they would find that the French are not the only people who render themselves ridiculous by these transitory fits and passions ; and, least of all, the people or this country. The french can enjoy themselves at little exrense, • but the English cannot have their folly without pftring dear for it. A new topic every season forward at Exeter-hall, :which agitates - t*Pl l e or a few months, then dies away, and t o JOHN BULL'S pockets somewhat more emP t Y before. Th e gr e a t rage f or the last season has n i sito fested itself, by the cry for more bishops. BY° lit land, STANLEY reduced the ecclesiastical staff intrit the Hi g h Ch urc h par t y have been Ove( ing means to keep up the number, by c , o ing clergymen i n t o bi s h ops and transporting til e , er r almost every quarter of the globe, as if the ' 0 existence of new se ttl emen t s d e pended on thesrei sence of these functionaries. Not content with. ing them to the West a n d E as t Indies, to C an 'lO New Zealand, we must dispatch one to (ler ° where there may perhaps be ten Protest ,siusiboo, the rest of the population consisting of medans, Jews, or , members of the Greek Did the French - ever commit any act of f" ) ort to this ? To send a Bishop to Algi ers : of there is a large Fren c h population, a nd ; i# o# ready to protect them, was absoluteelr compared with the wild scheme siastical chiefs in sending a converted je , td et a foreign country to be the laughing e l nay, more to be stoned like STEPIIEN (thn ief efl hope not to death) by circumcised un h i e This is, indeed, a heavy blow ° nu . ? - discouragement to the bishop-maker s il et. i j tGt f l this the only consequence , ve s hould .. ins pd the rejoice at the result. It exposes to ridicule 41 1! of the present day, but it may also expose the ee l : ii 4 to serious danger, as the Bench of Bishocoeti,4 call on the Government to demand s a g s for this outrage on a mitred head. W e V hoWever, they will call in vain. Engla n 4 of or ; sufficient work chalked out for her in other 4 "T of the globe, without getting embroiled wi th n. and Greeks by such a contemptible trarl s ' eti ?Ao best thing, therefbre, Lord Annanfxs yi is this. Let him apply to his fr ien ( i e HADDINGTON for a vessel of war t'd tsc' an d bring her to the coas t o f S yr i a , 0 the rejected Bishop without a moment's ( l eleS o may read his sin i n hi s p u ni s h men t. fie o itc e )r; Sacred City like a conqueror, while his d i l ll ,,o' ter entered it " riding upon a colt, the foal "'; t0 ;" and the Greek belie vers th ere f ore determin ed vengeance for the insult. _,.t A / Letters and papers from Lisbon of the O or have"arrived, brought by the Liverpool on to Falmouth. Queen DONNA MARIA hg ti tv i 16th given birth to a son, and both mother 3 , i fi ci were doing very well. The Cabinet `vas stl1 1 plete, for now that the Chartists .are in the re s( v gr, dant they do nothing but q u ar re l for fav °ll- ,ia pointments. It was re po r t e d th a t Lord - 4 10 1 ' 4 and Prince. METTERNICH approved of a lied: which increased the Po w er o f th e C r own, th e tt, the same time expressi ng sur p r i se that gi cP af i as an oath should interfere with the " Il i joyful acceptance of the additional prerogati ve :lC her by the revolutionists. S uc h is the 1 11°1 i ' e r statesmen. In the North of Portugal, the p eo , crying out for a trade with En g land, in o ld e r of their wine, for 270,000 pipes of wh i , could find no purchasers. This is one of th e p results of the protective system ! 24 e Madrid Journals to the 21st i n stant i•di l ,„ e but their contents are unimportant, with tion of a few paragraphs given in our 0.6 ,10 mary. There was one bargain transacw - fo r Threes on the Exchange of the 21st at Moe days, amounting to 600,000 reals ; 33 for 20,520,000 real s a t 27i for cash, 9. 7 " o itl 29, 27i, 4 , 28 9-16, 274, for various dates, 10 coupons and 20i for sixty days ; thr ee P in the Debt without interest for three 1 0 j ' y 6, for various dates. ri" -, , F Of political news there is an absolute (1° , ~i few French Journals published in Pari 3 °"" fry Monday. One fact only is worthy of not ic : is pursuing the system of naval disarthart ie tr . lil li t !f The King of Prussia, says .a- letter from .Itll i ' o e, issued a Cabinet order; dated 20th inst., 4311/ 10 1 , 1 1 he has learnt that in -I;enmark Jews are fr ee o 'ii c ' ti :;l to exercise their industry, without obstacle ,0 0 or , of their religion, all Danish workmen, of the 'lw, fir,; gion wishing to reside in Prussia, are to recelliot plication for that purpose, authority to w °r. ~..:'' person with whom they can find employmen t- l i, feil A letter from Florence, .dated March 1 8t I ,IIIV " Prince William of Prussia, who travels ►undeoyi of the Count of Glatz, after having passed tell,,or GAA has just left for Rome. During his stay " f Duke gave a concert in honour. of the Prille e ' i joi * Prince Stourdza, formerly Hoopodar of 3 1 ° lately at Jassy, aged 80.---G-alignani's Meeses`i; 1 1 BOURSE—PAnis,. MONDAY, 31.1ac_., 1/ 0 r 1 (nit Higheit 1, ,,v.",.. 11 Price Price. r, r1 ,.7 - 45 #. 1 0 .n, French 5 rer Centr..... ..... . 117 50 ... 117.50 ... '' 95 , ' , 7 4 per Colo. - lot 25 ... igi 25 „. 10 1 0 ,30 , , t 0 3 per Centi... ..... BO 15 - ec 35 . .. A .° 2 50 1 11 B:nr. of Fiance Lattitte Sank 1,0001. Shares 1(2,. ...WV ~....,,,Iv'' #lo!'i 5,000 f. Shares 5047 50 ...5047 50 ••• 3V . n ' ' I '4 eian Bank 1811.. -.1060 ...l i tti t Yy. Belgian 5 per Cents. 4 per Centi., 1840 106% ... 106% ..• ' — ti ' .ib .., ti Spanish Active 15% ... 25% ... s s i i ,14 Passive 5% ." 5% ... '5 " V Neapolitan Roman..... ........... 105 ... 105 ... I°s 'ffi RAILWAY SHARES. ,,,„ .0 St. Germain Versailles. R. 11 345 ... 345 ~. ; 3 7," ‘t +'' f , L.B 216 25 ... 211 25 .. q.,, , ,- "1 0 Rouen ..... ................. ~,t , -,- 50 ". ()hems .. 563 75 ... 563 75 .'.. 0 „",,, - '.' 4 , Strasburg to Bair 241 •..5 ... 241 25 - z'" n a 4.,of HAMBURGH BORSENHALLE, 1111.1 c .J1, - , 1. / Austrian 5 per Cents. ... . lO/ )4 / 4 105 10 Bank Shares ll3 le _ _ 11-, Anglo-Russian Loan JOON Russian 5 per Cent., Ist series, Certificate ie j / Inscription, Ist series .. Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th 0 Series 0 1 Ditto in Certificates OlO V New 4 per tent. (1840) bl% / Dutch Actual Debt, uy, per Cent. ......... Ditto 5 per Cent. Polish Bonds ..... , 6 0 New Tickets Anglo-Danish Loan 3 per Cent. l/ Spanish, New 5 per ' Cents. jet PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—Bazuzi,Dizac i Bills St, Schuld. Sch., 46 per ccnt . ...... IC4ls Prussian English Loan, IMO, 4 per cent.... 103 6 Iglchange on London, three months —Prussian State Gazette. March 23. — f 1 ' ; THE BENBOW.—Her Majesty's ship ° I Benbow, which sailed f rom Malta on the id Y back during the night of the 11th, hav ii) „ s o:4 foreyard, and suffered con s id era ble (1- o "'to citt i t$ sails, in heavy gales, 200 miles to the Is i the Island. She wa s i n po r t re fitting 0 'be ture of the Levant Mail. A DISGUSTING ADVERTISA. - fi 0 se '00) TO THE EDITOR OF THE - v ott if, Stu,— Allow me sincerely to congratulate lijte.,,P moral courage you have displayed in refusingio tion of those disgusting advertisements " .h cv et,„ r ii.; seried (to their disgrace be it said) in almos t newspaper but The Sun, you have taken 3 1. 0 110" 14 !! worthy step, and those papers which do not oil step now, will, by co n ti nu i ng th em , show t° , o that they are only influenced by " filthy lacr e ' my personal thanks.—Yeur's, &c. 1 1° ' Manchester, March 29. A Y ik The.ol,: BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY FOR A triitt..„ 0 . ! 1 ," Number which has just reached us of uival attractive illustrations hy George - ca d Leech, and Crowquill, is enri , ;hed with a l e Cto i l ti! unrivalled Thomas Ingoldsby, called " Tile Venice," illustrated l George Cruikshar s tir c `i and Artist h ave b een , in this instance, efln al 't, e s l,oo and the new l egen d w ill b e per u sed w i t h th a ,,jac t , 'delight whi c h a l ways accompan i es the Pilhe these rare contributions to our pleasures. . 0 0 ' Number of the Miscellany possesses attract' dialy readers English, Irish, Scotch, and Angle - ties A hare English, Irish, and Indian stories ; of jo ri t'l and humorous, passages of real life, and 04 ', of mancy, and an unpublished ballad from the P . e r f he frp , himself ! Crowquill has an article entitled te d. V,l sophy of Mone," which he has richly pingitle's "Mountain of Fate" is one of the 1 13° , i g u strA st 00, 4 ? t ilr narratives we have ever met with, and the if, of the romance of real life," Richard Savag e '„wel lt/ o e' the best which have yet appeared of this P o r es c 4 l, now very popular story—the relation of t_.„ ll ofifo;, Miss Wilfred by Savag e is worthy of the nihe i l For the lovers of h umour comme nd us to 1. of our Town"—" Mr. Nosebody"—" Th e - -irotAr c i Alarm"—" Speculations on Marriage ana dies"—" The Immense Concern Mania" — of and Galatea"—" The Secret." For the love r ; Ott e ,' • ture- . -" The Lioness"—" Strange Game' Man y ," and the picture of Brigand Life in startling contribution—which once read it iS ge t to forget, 80 completely does the catastroplie.ool on the mind. Nor must we pass over th e " c an by Mrs. Romer, entiCed " The Necronlan, r ye , o , involves the question of Ghost versus Gan g t ,is f p, poetry interspersed is of ~a superi;,r order• a tl ic cessary, after what we have mentioned, to s ' t ! ,T rc e 4 further in praise of this established and des', vourite Miscellany. o f LINCOLN, MARCH 29.—A large med na . y ( „ 0 1 1 , farmers in this neighbourh oo d was held t,.° 4 day), at the City Arms Inn, to arrange 1 . ,,, r0 .11 1 /„1i,4 Meeting, to oppose Sir R. Peel'S budget. is the day appointed, and from the bitter i'; tr y exists among the agriculturists Of this cointiroiel large meetin g may looked . for. gr. giol' 1 ; •.M.P.,.Mr. Ilautil,y, so! , At r ife!: Chaplin, and Several others of the -entry, ""-i11i5,47 0 SHIELDS, MARCH 28:—The Messenger , of f bar for London, was riding off the bar With 1°53 ° in ; th( s e , to. ti)g b„ to hel Aft qui Pro del. thin Wi t ] to rs twin \vizi Serf (104 %n o , 1111 J • 14 khr Ao~, the ewe `§~ § ~s~ ] ~~ ~ ~~ w~) : 44 4: 1 /' ,kO l- 4 T,f• 1:1 1 ‘ve th, i r onl nec '4 l Sir ail, (111 !ii , 1 4 Th Rr t tu i Co t , tau th, br t ten f or As. do hi li ( k ot t, • ti ~ ~~~ 70'?