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

WIGNEY'S BANKRUPTCY. .c ow -HALL, BRIGHTON, FRIDAY.—This morning a br 'lln„^* of creditors took place at the Town-hall, for the °,(f ofal e b ts and, last examination of the bankrupts. ex-James attended on behalf of the creditors, and • t Creasy for the bankrupts. Mr. Turner and Mr. Pt, ton were present, as solicitors for the assignees, ,° Were also iu attendance. 1,4 r; Isaac Newton Wigney sworn, and examined by t 4 , l "',_'.'James—Bankrupt carried on the business of a 4 "er at Bri hton His father was partner up to the tik e g • , pring death, which took place in 1836. At that a 4 u!:ole accounts and assets of the bank were not taken. h e l';',us sums of money were paid out of the bank as 49,,asts. He (bankrupt) made the payments ; his father a'llo balance in the bank -at the time of his death. e'saf th Hi e .assets of the bank were made available at his s father had no money in the bank. They had d i ,"‘:, l ?e,striking en in the habit of a balance, and had not o 45 o fur many years. Could not tell what the bank worth at any time. The books would show what the were at any time, but had never made himself ac :t4a,inted with them. Did not believe the lesnk was solvent "cant father's death without his father's property—he "'eat the property bequeathed. The amount he he 444itlelithed as applicable to the asse s of the bank he could _ tell, He was utterly insolvent without his father's rt 'Perty. Had certainly never been solvent since 183 6, to te nsidering the operations in which he had been con ar4Q(l. He fixed the day before his father's death us day on which the bank was solvent—his property Auld have met all demands. His father was worth be 'npl'ea 90,0001. and 100,000/. at the time of his death. q l e first s p ecu l a tion he entered into after 1836 was a I t a,in-sugar manufactory in December, 1840 ; he was rent at the time he entered into it. He was the tt ßPonsible' party. Mr. Wright and Mr. Tuplin were N . ed in it, but they had no capital. This concern as it factory in St, George's in the East, London, he commence& advancing money, but could not ' ear at that time that he could pay 2s. 6d. in the 'anal. He advanced out of the Bank of Brighton to to ' s sagar concern 7,555/. 19s. I Id. from December, 1840, Th e 7,55 1842. He could not tell what it had realised. l'" returns, 19s. 11d. was the balance after giving credit 'r feturns, He entered into a regular business of India `4eber w e b- manu facturer in 1836; before his father's 1 : / th, with Messrs. Keene and co. He was a partner, 1 also his brother Clement, but not • his father. The 'Nice made from - the bank to this concern was 6,7221. a ir. Commissioner Attree—What was the date of the advances? Bankrupt -- They commenced in 1836 . b e 'e and Co. were debited with the advances. They :ye repaid the as entered into in 1833. whole. Had another - operation iu Glas which w jir. J ame s—Have you not since June 1840, advanced k as 40,000/ to the Glasgow concern ? Bank have not. Am not prepared to go into the ac ',,llta. Cannot say what I had advanced since June shout reference to the books. The advances to the ` k it-ch concern were by bills, which were made payable i'lasterman'S. • , r , 14 reply to Mr. - James, the bankrupt stated that he A s ' 'some shares in the Glamorgan Land C om p an y , in ,Zerica, and some American shares. The Glamor g a n 'ea cost 9001.; they were purchased in 1841. Had to shares 'in India Stock, either in h is own name or b other. Had some gas shares, in Brighton ; shares in , Palladium Assurance Company. Had some property i 4' ll association at Nassau. His interest amo unts to I.Ou t 750/. in the British Nassau Iron Association, ght in 1841. Has got a share in the Brighton Steam t Company. A 15/. share in the Brighton Tennis i a rt. Has got some Belgian Bonds ; laid out about °/• in the purchase of them. Has no entry in the ,_ ; it was not paid out of the bank. Had some Pea in the Pheenix, in November last, which he sold "Purchase the Belgian Bonds. No entry of this pus- James—At the time you spent this money in the 'hase of Belgian 'Bondi, were you not utterly insel ? Ba.nkrupt—Certainly ; but hoped to keep it off. Oar received any bone fide returns from the Scotch 4 1 - t r. James—Where is the correspondence of the bank- Clouse ? Bankrupt—We had no correspondence ; Y Were merely letters of advice, which we did not In November, 1841, they were in ine x tricable - envy. Had never invested money in foreign secu ql before . The 'Belgian Coupons are in Brighton, at Itouse r• James—Then you must give them up, and I re -1.1,1' them to be given up instanter. 1), 1 , 45 bankrupt then went for the shares, accompanied 'it r ` Weston, the messenger, and Mr. Patching, one assignees. In a short time they returned, with a i T Parcel of foreign securities. a:`,•ommissioner Cooper read Mr. Wigney th e section ths' Act requiring him to give up everything before o'clock on the forty-first day. /fp ; James - said, had he not delivered up the bonds he have been liable to transportation. 4 1. • Creasy said he was ready to deliver e ver ythi n g up. James► did not call it delivering up when they were I • r 'g out of him by examination. J f ! e '4llir t ties to e 600/. of Belgian Bonds, Dutch Securities to the amount of 9,000 florins and 5,000 and he stated they had got 300 /.' worth in Lon 't • `ant the hands of a stockbroker, which. were bought V't a fortnight ago, since the bankruptcy. He bought cshares with some, money he had by him. He had no llection of making other purchases. He had a su 'ilaindanee of small cash by him. There is a sum of in Mrs. W igney's possession at least, in the pus n of his Wile's sister, a Miss Walter. 1: 1 '• James—What amount of cash had you in your pos i9n since the fiat? Bankrupt—About 3001. Will swear 1 0 4 t 1,0001.-that is, he could not control that amount. Tight have had about 500/ since the bankruptcy, of which he had laid out in purchase of bonds. He i l igelivered up a bond of 4,000/. ,from Mr. Wright, for 4 1 41 r concern at Southwich. lie aho delivered up a 4sory note from Ann Walker for 100 0 / o .i also a prn ey note from .Mary Ana Hicks . for 1 1 i I.; i and a bill 5 11angsa for:130/. ft om I. J. Larnpre . I e also e '44.:(1 a paper containing an account of several packages, It t'` L `if which were •at • the railway terminus, and other 'eblV a s - Therts were some cheques. in the hands of his der, to the extent of 901. Jive packages and a harp, railway terminus, a lox of china figures, &c. &c. the - articles had been taken to London, and lit back, including his wife's jewellery, but were r eturned to the banking-house in East-street. He ly two sovereigns in his possession. The five arrived last night. They came from Devon the residence of his wife's mother. 'il 4 .`this period of the proceedings a large quant it y o f t x "'ule• jewellery was brought forward and given up. !Iltination resumed—Never bought a valuable neck • London, and the jewellery produced was the " possessed by Mrs. Wigney. ik wits then agreed to adjourn the examination until i ) , l 'eleek to-morrow. ',y' l ure th e proceedings terminated, Mr. Clement Wig- S urrendered, and gave up a number of articles, and tPutt of 1,100/. in money. The usual protection was given to the bankrupt. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Devonport Independent.) 4, 44 tWELL DINNERS TO ADMIRAL SIR U. MOORE D AIN EDEN, AND_OFFICERS_ON, BOARD THE FLAG . _ _ g , eii.EnoNia.—Yesterday (Friday) the Ward-room t* of her Majesty's ship Caledonia gave a grand dinner, on board that splendid man-of-war, to d ell NI Sir Graham Moore, G.C.8., G.C.M.G., Corn -4r-ir-in-Chief at this port, and Captain H. Eden, (his • ,k li ;eaptain) previous to these gallant officers resigningVP'apeetive commands into the hands of Admiral Sir I,' Milne, G.C.8., and his son, Captain A. Milne. ''q . ard- roo ra was tastefully fitted-up for the occasion. \l l l , 4 ander Worsfold, who presided, proposed the ,th'ts of their gallant and respected guests, which , y e tiven and received with all due honours. On Tiles telling last the Gun-room officers gave a dinner, 4,,,k most ma gnificent scale, on board the Cale 't,Z,' to Captain Eden and the officers of the Ward ,Previous to their being paid off—the Senior Mate )r,,eliair. The Gun-room was very tastefully fitted th e occasion, being decorated with evergreens, • flowers, and flags,' with two appropriate large .t4l,llarenoies, painted by Mr. Parker, surmounted with and ensigns. On the cloth being removed, the I ‘,.itig, among other, toasts were given, and heartily all hands : "—" The Queen ; " " Admiral !„,,,.`"'aliain Moore and Lady ; 7 "Captain Eden ; " Worsfold ; " The officers of the Ward " Captain Fynmore, R.M., and the marine offi %lc, tent ; " "The health of the President, the Senior s !ll h : which was given with three hearty (dicers. Ex letti t speeches were made in returning thanks, and the ! ,‘4, 11 g went off with the greatest harmony. The Senior tit,lts President, was supported by Captain Eden and aander Worsfold. k t 'ttliral Sir Graham Moore, G.C.B. G.C.M.G. in- L 1 the officers and crew of the Caledonia, 120, on N'ay last, previous to resigning the command at n , I f,• !S. Caledonia will be paid off on the 26th instant, 4 4 icommissioned immediately for the flag of Rear- I N I N Si r David Milne, the successor of Sir 414- Moore. G.C.B. t lv ki l l t t troop-ship Resistance, Com. Patey. was paid f e e . Of wages on Monday lust, and sailed the next L lk x () , T *Port , :moutli,• to embark troops for India. Ni f ; l L. brig - Wizard, 10, Lieut. J. B. Somerville, will be . ( t hin,: to-day (Saturday). trit.4" steamer Tartarus, 2, Lieut. George W. Smith ‘•kandlr ), arme • , d on Thursday from the West In `R ft :l 4 days, bringing a mail, which was lauded at this , AP1;" t ame day. She is to proceed to Woolwich, 4lt 11 ,\,'e will be paid off. " 1 . steamer Avon, Lieut.. Jenkins, sailed on Wed for Woolvvieli, to be repaired. Nil; • steamer Pluto, Lieut. W. S. Blount (Com.) is 01,\ k i?qiccted at this port, from Sierra Leone. f ‘t 4 ' \ steamer Confianee arrived here on Monday last, we V uolivieli which will remain at this port for ser '4a t -fig- vessel. 'fe % Goodwill lighter sailed on Tuesday last, with Ola t ,' o r-Chatliam and Sheerness. 11 4' l la Harbour—Caledonia, 120, Capt. 11. Eden ; 110, Capt. F. W. Burgoyne ; Agincourt, 72, '• W. Bruce; Crocodile troop-ship, Master, Com. Ot t a,l Elson ; Philomel. 10, • Com. B. J. Sulivan ; Gr , 10, Lieut. Somerville ; Tartarus steamer, Lieut. e c ' W. Smith ; Kite steamer, Lieut. Gooch ; Con.. S t „ . 4 i r ,"` convicts arrived from Dorsetshire on Tuesday, 0.11 ., r Put on board the Stirling Castle, , .Impregnable, 104, Captain T. Forrest, is to jrh D eed in the Tagus, where the Captain will hoist klt.,' b ralore' s broad pennant. Slaughter,son of Captain William Slaughter, Ntr•A•, has been found duly qualified, after having kA!',,i ). creditable examination at the Royal - Naval Col - YN: 4l stneuth, for a commission in the Royal Marines, r "li. l , (l .Lieutenant, having been previously instructed etcrobart-street, Stonehouse, "tin of nieri-of-war are in future to be allowed, in addition to their pay, three-fourths of the allowance given to naval instrnetors,_if they will execute the duties of instructing the young gentlemen. Mr. Frederick Marryat, Mate, passed for Lieutenant at the Naval College on Tuesday. Mr. Thos. Magin, and Mr. James S. Dowman, have passed at the Naval College for commissions in the Royal Marines. A contract was taken at the Royal Victualling Yard, Weevil ) on Thursday, the 14th inst. for 2,600 quarters of wheat, at 675. 6d. per quarter. DOCK-YARD.—Two sawyers belonging to this 11 , ..(1, whilst employed cutting a piece of elm, to be used on board the Albion, discovered, in the centre of it, two woodpeckers' nests, containing five eggs. • Major-General the lion. Henry Al urny inspected and reviewed the troops in this garrison for the first time On Wednesday last, the gallant officer having assumed the command of the Western Circuit on the preceding day. THE ARMY. ROYAL ARTILLERY Woof:wren, Aran 22.—Lieutenants Green, Williams, Patton, and Morris, are to do duty with the field batte ries until further orders. The detachment at Purlleet was relieved on Monday last by detachments of Majo►•:s Anderson and Vaughan's companies. Captain Jones and Lieutenant Crofton pro ceeded with the detachments. Major Sweeting's comparv, 6th battalion, was in spected on the guard -mounting parade on Monday, in heavy marching order, by Lieutenant-General Lord Bloomfield, G.C.B. and G.C.IL ; and on Tuesday after noon Major Sweating, Lieutenant Chatham, a proportion of non commissioned officers, with thirty gunners and drivers, proceeded to London, and from thence by rail way to Weedon, to relieve an equal number of officers, non-commissioned off►cers, and men of Major llawnsley's company, 4th battalion, who returned to Woolwich by the same conveyance on she following day. Major Vaughan has taken the command of the 6th battalion, and Captain Bent of the 2d battalion. General Order, April 18, 1842. The Master-General has been pleased to approve of Second Captain A. J. Taylor being posted to the 4th battalion, and Second Captain C. J. Dalton to the Ist battalion. (Signed) H. D. Ross, Deputy Adjutant-General. General Order, April ...bl,_lB-12. The Master General has been pleased to appoint the following officers to the Royal Regiment of Horse Artil lery, viz.:— Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Hi!Tins, vice Bell, pro moted ; Second Captain A. 11. Fraser, vice HolCombe, promoted ; Lieutenant W. Henderson, vice Sandham, promoted ; Lieutenant A. T. Phillpotts, vice Cockburn, promoted ; Lieutenant the Hon. R. C. IL Spencer, vice Gambia. For the promotions in the regiment see Gazette. The following officers are posted to battalions, as follows, viz : Lieut.-Colonel Hon. W. Arbuthnot to the Gth batta lion, on Lieutenant-Colonel's pay, vice Grey ; and Lieut.- Colonel Chesney to the 9th battalion, upon Major's pay, vice Arbuthnot ; Captain Holcombe to the 9th battalion, vice Higgins ; First Lieutenant C 0 . ,: to the Bth batta lion, vice Henderson ; First Lieutenant O'Connell to the Bth battalion, vice Phillpotts First Lieutenant Brettiug ham to the 7th battalion, vice Spencer. (Sinned) 11. D. Ross, Deputy Adjutant-General. (From our Dublin Correspondent.) Thirty-nine men of the 9tith depot have joined the 91st at Naas, as volunteers for India ; also forty of the 85th. Duringthe last three weeks 220 recruits have been raised in the Limerick district. The 82d depot at Boyle are volunteering very fast. Fifteen men marched for Cork, via Dublin, on Sunday, under Ensign White, to join the 20th depot ; and ninety five men marched on Friday to join the 91st, at Naas. The Proprietors of the Limerick Chronicle say they have seen a letter froM China, from an officer with the fleet, dated December Bth, from lling Ta Ike. The writer says they are all well, with the exception of one man. " The weather has been latterly cold and frosty, and has renovated us all. We only waitfor a change of monsoon, and for reinforcements, to advance upon Pekin. Early in the spring we shall certainly go, and I expect to write to you from the palace of the Emperor, which, as it covers six miles of ground, will afford us all accom modation." CAUTION TO LOCK MANUFACT URERS AND I)EAL- ERS, AND THE PUBLIC GENERALLY. CHUBB v. COOPER and ANOTHER. The Court of Chancery having made an Order in this Cause, restraining the above defendants, Francis Cooper, of Wolverhampton, Factor, and Joseph Taylor, of the same place, Lockmaker, their agents, servants, and workmen, from mann factoring or selling Locks or Keys stamped or engraved with the name of Chubb, or with any other of the plaintiffs' distinc tive trade marks, or with any other name or marks used by the plaintiffs, And likewise from manufacturing or selling any locks or keys, as and for locks or keys made by the plaintiffs, or in order or so that locks or keys made by the defendants, may be re-sold as and for locks or keys made by the plaintiffs; and likewise from copying, or imitating, in any manner, the plain tiffs' name and trade marks, ALL PERSONS are HEREBY, CAUTIONED against in any manner stamping the name of Me,sra. Chubb and Son, or either of them, upon any locks or keys not of their ma nufacture ; or selling locks so stamped, as immediate proceed ings of a similar nature will be commenced against such per sons for so doing. And although, upon the above defend ants' undertaking to file an affidavit, setting forth the number of locks made by them, and the names of the per sons to whom they have been sold, and to obliterate the name of Chubb from all locks now in their possession, and to deliver 'up ail punches and dies having the name of Chubb upon them, to be destroyed ; and, paying the expenses of this suit, Messrs. Chubb have consented to forego any further proceedings against them, ! all future offenders will, after this public notice, be differently dealt with, and full damages, as well as costs, will be enforced against them. And any factors or retailers, having in their possession any locks or keys, not of the plaintiffs' manufacture, but having the name of " Chubb," or " Chubb's Patent," or any similar words, stamped thereon, must immediately return such locks and keys to the factors who sold them, or cause such name to be obliterated, or they will be equally liable to be prosecuted. SHEARNIAN and EVANS, Gray's Inn, London, Solicitors for Messrs. CHUBB and SON. THE WEATHER.—N ow; APRIL ,23. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Thermometer... 59 Highest 62 Lowest 48 Barometer 30.20.—WindN.E.—Freezing Point !.!2 HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. lorning 8 minutes after 0 I Evening 1 1 5 minutes after 0. 4. 11 • • gbjg, i'ttottlif72Vttion SUN OFFICE Three o'clock. When Mr. WAKLEY stated publicly in the House of Commons last night, that " there was no strong feeling' against the Income-taX out of doors, for that the opinion was, that it was the most just tax that could be imposed," he either convicted himself of gross ignorance, as to the state of the public mind ; or else he wantonly perverted the truth, in order to pay his court to Sir R. PEEL. • " No strong feeling," indeed! Why, the Hon. Member cannot enter a shop in Finsbury without at once discovering the utter fallacy of his _ assertion !. The dislike of the Income-tax is there, as elsewhere, positive —unqualified; and nothing but a deep-rooted conviction on the part of the inha bitants that opposition is perfectly hopeless with such a majority in Parliament as Sir R. PEEL now has at his command, prevents them from giving a fierce, open expression to their dislike. But Mr. WAKLEY, WO suspect, has not taken the trouble to speak with any one of his Constituents on the subject. He was apprehensive, no doubt, of being too much enlight ened; and this would not answer the purpose of one who is now struck with admiration of the boldness, sagacity, straightforwardness, &c., of the most artful, intriguing, unscrupulous Minister that ever yet played fast and loose in turn with every party that trusted hini. But the Honourable Member for Finsbury has - clearly but little faith in his assertion that there "is no strong feeling against the Income-tax ; " otherwise he would not, in the very next sentence; express his suspicions that " such a statement might make him unpopular." If he be' really speaking what he firmly believes to be the truth, how can he • be rendered " unpopular " thereby ? Unpopularity does not arise from men expressing themselves in accordance with public sentiment ; but from their running directly counter to it, as is the case just now with this very shallow, flippant gentleman. If Mr. Wm: LEY be anxious to propitiate th e f avour o f Sir ROBERT PEEL, in GOD' S name let him do so ; we have not the slightest wish to retain him among us ; for talents so perverted can confer little benefit on the cause of - Reform ; but let him not blow hot and cold with the same breath ; let him not flatter and tOadya Tory Premier from the Opposition side of the House ; but at once go and take his proper seat beside PETER BORTHWICK at the hack of the Treasury bench. 'His indirect praises of the Income-tax, and his direct praises of Sir R. PEEL, will then come from him with propriety. We agree with Lords MoN'rEAGLE and WICKLOW and the Bishop of DEnv, who addressed the House of Lords last night against the Irish Spirit Duty Bill, TH3-1 SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 23, x 1842. that increasing the dtit: upon Irish whisky will have the effect of increasing illicit distillation in that country. With a duty amounting in all to 150 per cent. upon Irish whisky, it is not to be ex pected that the inhabitants of wild mountain ous districts will be prevented from carrying on an illicit traffic from any fear of the vigilance of revenue officers. The certainty of large profits will crowd the mountain glens with private stills. A gambling spirit will be revived among the peasantry, and for every shilling saved to the Treasury an ounce of blood will be shed, and a habit of violating the law confirmed. The attack of Count DE BOISSY in the French Chamber of Peers uPon the REGENT of SPAIN, whom he fouliy and slanderously stigmatized as an inten tional regicide, has produced a ferment in Madrid. It has led to a motion in the Senate, and to speeches on the part of the Senators,' which will .find a ready echo out of .doors, and add to the bitterness of Gallican hatred which prevails throughout Spain. The speech of Senor linnos, directoi, of the Royal patrimony, and the mouthpiece of the Ministry, removes all doubt as to the light in which ESPAIiTERO regards the insult offered him. M. Hullos declared that the calumnies of Count DE •BOISSY were not those of an individual Peer—they were a part of the system of the French Government. Such vile insults were the fashion of the day in France, whose aim it was to reduce Spain to the condition of a dependency upon the French throne. He affirmed that Count MOLE, M. THirats, and M. GUIZOT were following the line of policy pursued by cl - lATEAUBRIAND in 1823, and that their intentions were precisely the same. lle did not like asking questions in the Cham ber, but he would put it to Ministers whether the King of the FRENCH had not apprised them that if he could not have the hand of the QUEEN for one of his sons, he would prevent her marrying any but a Prince of the BourmoN line? The noble Senator referred to the conduct of the Archbishop of Paris and ,the clergy of France, and affirmed that the time was come when every true Spaniard. was called upon to deliver his country from the yoke of France.. This speech made a profound impression upon all the Senators present. The Infante Don FRANCISCO DE PAULO was to dine with ESPARTERO on the 15th, sitting to the right of the REGENT, whilst the Infanta CARLOTTA occupied the seat right of the Duchess of VITTORIA. ARGUELLES, the Guardian of the QUEEN, GONZALES, the Prime Minister, the Duke DE BAYLER, HEROS, CAPAZ, FERRAZ, and Mr. ASTON, were also to be at the entertainment. A Madrid letter announces, that the Infante Don SEBASTIAN had obtained the authorisation of the REGENT to take up his residence at Seville. The Infante had pledged himself not to meddle in poli tical affairs, and to remain only two days in Madrid on his way to Seville. Dion SEBASTIAN, it will be recollected, was nominally Commander-in-Chief of the armies of his uncle, Don CARLOS, during the Royal expedition in Madrid in 1837. Ile is the son of the Princess of BEIRA (Don CARLOS'S second wife), by her first husband, the Infante PETER, bro ther of FERDINAND the SEVENTH, Don CARLOS, and Don FRANCISCO DE PAULO. Don SEBASTIAN is-mar ried to the Princess MARIA AMELIA, daughter of the deceased FRANCIS 1., King athe Two Sicilies, and who is therefore the half-sister of Queen CHRISTINA, the Princess CARLOTTA (Don FRANCISCO'S wife), and the Duchess of BERRY. On the Madrid Exchange on the 14th, twenty. one bargains for 14,253,000.rea1s were transacted in Threes nt 22'1 15-ICths, ; twenty-three, at various dates In tit., Fives twenty-one bargains for 12,400,000 teals at 29+, 13, for sixty days ; and 201 a for sixty days, with the three coupons. Exchange upon London ninety days, 37 to The French Journals will never have done with the Right of Search question. They seem to resent the coolness with which the affair is treated in Eng land, as if their vexation was not enough to alarm the world. In reality they are as angry as they can be, because when M. GuizoT declined to ratify the Treaty, no effort was made on the part of the British Cabinet to change the resolution of the French Alinistry. The self-love of France is so great, that she deems it an insult to he told that anything can be done without her. Ts this the result of conscious weakness as compared with her world-compelling pretensions ? The answer seems to us well given in an article in the last number of the Edinburgh Review, entitled " France, America, and Britain." " With respect to France," says the Reviewer, " we hope much from the Commercial Treaty, of which even the details have been long arranged—which each Government has long been anxious to sign—which is demanded by the Departments —and delayed only in fear of the Journalists of Paris. Commerce, manufactures , and the desire for individual advancement, may, in time, direct to peaceful pursuits the restless ambition and vanity which now seek to be gratified by parti cipating in the glory of the nation. It is with deep regret that we express our conviction, that until this change in the habits of thinking and feeling in France shall have taken place, any durable alliance between the two countries is impossible. They may not—we trust they will not—be at war ; but their peace will not be the peace of friends. If the present hostility of France to England had arisen merely from the re collection of past defeats, it would wear out as those defeats receded more and more into the obscurity of history. If it had arisen from our disapproba tion of her interference against the liberties of Spain, or her colonization of Algiers,,or from the Syrian dispute, the only matters in which, for the last quarter of a. century, we have opposed her, it would have subsided as soon as these questions were disposed of. Her hostility springs from far deeper sources. Sixty years ago, towards the close of the American war, France was the most powerful king dom in the world. Her population amounted to twenty-six millions, while that of the British Islands did not exceed half that number; that'of Austria and European Russia, about twenty-five each; and that of Prussia, seven or eight. She had flourishing colo nies, a fleet which could cope with that of England, mid a population superior in wealth and industry to that of almost every other portion of the continent, except the Netherlands. On her southern and south-eastern frontier, she had Spain, Savoy, and Switzerland, all under her influence ; then the territories of petty German States; and then to • the north the Austrian Netherlands, the weak dependencies of a distant Empire. Now Spain, Savoy, and Switzerland have thrown off her control ; Belgium, in close alliance with England, is on her north, and the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg, Rhe nish Prussia, Rhenish Bavaria, and Baden—all con nected by the powerful Germanic Confederation— close her in on her remaining frontier.. Tier military marine, no longer supported by an extensive com merce, has ceased to be formidable. Algiers is the substitute for almost all her colonies; the wealth and industry of her people are scarcely equal to those of the inhabitants of many of the nations around her ; and while her population has reached only thirty-four millions, that of the British Islands amounts to twenty-seven millions, that of Austria to thirty-seven, that of Prussia to four teen, and that of Russia to fifty., France looks at the change with a mixture of grief and terror. She fears that if her neighbours putstrip her in the next half century as much as they. }lave done in the last, she will sink to a secondary Power." At the risk of putting the French Press into a toweringpassion, we must say that there appears to us a great deal of truth in this. The remedy is, how ever, obvious, and pointed out in a friendly spirit by the Reviewer. She need only recal commerce to her shores, by modifying her barbarous taeiff—invite the merchants of the world to carry away her surplus produce, and fill her warehouoes with necessary and luxurious articles in exchange—give up the ridiculous system of fleecing her people to maintain fleets and armies which serve to no purpose, but the impoverishing of other States in the maintenance of rival armaments—and save her millions of men and money, instead of pouring them annually into the all-absorbing vortex of Algiers, to regain all the real power and influence which she has lost. Whatever may be her own opinion, a war must reduce France to a worse condition than that in which she is even now. The French charter and the French dynasty would be swept from the earth by the first blast of a war hurri cane. The Jourmdists who now shout "war" so lustily would ride the storm no longer than the KING. They, too, wou ld go the way of all incendiaries. We are not here supposing for an instant that England would - - pars scatheless through :such - an ordeal. On the con , trary, we are persuaded that a war with France or the United States would entail upon England 'cala mities which we are willing to make many sacrifices to avert. No highly civilised moral people can con template war without horror. It is at best the most dreadful o' ail evils—the first resort of a people really barbarous, although wearing the outward garb of a refined civilisation. Nor is it among the evils which philosophers are in the habit of calling necessary. Nothing could be easier than to constitute a tribunal for deciding the disputes of nations, without having recourse to the savage expedient of war. We trust the period is not distant, when the nations of Europe will look back with asioniSbnient to periods in their history, in which wholesale slaughter was the raw material out of which their amps ors manufActured glory ! There is no mis2ellaneous new.; of politic_►l impor t It.ce is the Preach jou,roals. BOURSE—Pants, THURSDkY, APRIL 9.1. r -1 . 4 . Highest Lowest Last Price Price ?tic,. Prier. French 5 ner cents • 1 19 ... 119 20 ... I'S ... 110 20 1 , , , , per t'strs lO7 .. 1 , 7 ... 107 ... 107 4 per ..'. , rite. ...... .... 101 75 ... 101 75 ... 101 75 3 pet Co it , quit of erairee .., 1 '370 ...mu ...5370 ...:'37 1 (atilt. Mink I , 9l llll.•S'leraft 1025 ...1025 . ..10.25 ...w.23 Se.gian 5: er Cents. S per Cart:., 1840 l O5 ... 105 ... 101% ... IUI7 ipArosh Ae,ive l5 ... 2514 ... • 25 .. '5% Passive ....... ... •k. 5 • ... 5 ... 5 .•. 5 Portuvuese 5I er Cent,. 22 .. 52 ... 32 ... 3 . 1 Neapolitan lO7 611':. ttr7 70 ... 107 C.O ... .07 70 Itraaian IOSN ...10.% ...105% ...10534 ttAli WAY atiAltr.s. St. Germain ..,...... ....... ... 012 50 ... 0 1 5 Vci sftillci.lt. P,.. L.B 2lO ... 210 ... 215 ... vri c totian rine.. s Strasburg ail:salt 237 5 0 ... 23' 50 ... 230 25 ... 2 1 -6 25 SUM6V9ARY OF NEWS AND ub Ur Ovtuton, " Who runs may read." rortErnakr. The Bureaux of the French Chamber on Thursday were occupied by the Bill granting 200,9001. to the Mir.siter of the Interior for the twelfth annual celebration of the July days of 1830. " The last anniversary of the Revolution of 1830," states M. Duchatel, in his expose,," was celebrated with eclat. During the files, recalling so many glorious recollections, the immense population of Paris again displayed, by its unanimous joy, and by an admirable spirit of order, how much it was attached to the Monarchy founded i in 1830, and to the institu tions which are developing and strengthening themselves under the protection of our constitutional royalty. We ask the neces sary credit to celebrate the 12th anniversary of the memorable event which insured the liberty and dignity of France. The Siecle, the organ of M. Thiers and M. Odilon Barrot, and the Constitutionnel, the special mouth-piece of the great little man himself, contain very angry articles, in reply to ar ticles which appeared in the andon journals, noticing the silly hopes of the French revolutionists to plunge Europe into a war. The Constitutionnel winds up its diatribe, by the mo dest assurance that " the irritation perceptible in the French journals is quite national, and the rage of the English journals is sheer nonsense." We agree perfectly that the irritation is quite national. In fact, it is too national for our taste. 'l'lle Indicateur of Bordeaux says :—" 11. Cabarrus, Presi dent of the Committee of wine growers of the canton of Les parre (Gironde), has presented to. the Prefect of the Depart ment a petition, with 160 signatures, requiring, on account of the non-sale of their wines, a postponement of the payment of their duties for 11341, as has already been granted to the wine growers of the arrondissement of Bordeaux, and in default of this accommodation, they offer to give up an adequate portion of their stock; and thus make payment in kind." The Semaphore of the loth inst. announces, under date Toulon, the 16th, that the four• Ships of the line which lately returned from the Levant, had been ordered to hold them selves in readiness to put to sea. This naval division would, it was believed, be sent to make a demonstration along the coast of Morocco, while General Iledesu would invade the territory of the empire at the head of a military force. Madrid was perfectly tranquil on the 14th inst. The masons employed in demolishing the convent of San Felipe had re sumed their work, and all the others had followed their ex ample. The Senate voted on the 14th a project of law, freeing brandies and liquor from all duty, after the expiration of the period for which they had been farmed. P.EII2.3,XAMENTAItit. — The Spirit Duty (Ireland) Bill was seriously opposed last night, on the third reading, on the ground that it demoralised the people. This argument would have had no effect, but it was ascertained that the Bill would inflict a relative injustice on the Irish di.tillers, and on that account its further progress was suspended till Monday. The Corn-keeping-out. Bill was read a third time, after a short debate, in which the inequality of the protection afforded to different species of agricultural produce was f orc ibly po i n t e d out by the Marquis of Lansdon ne. The agriculturists have made no fight, therefore, in the House of Lords. They suffer Peel to lead them, lake lambs, to the slaughter. The Merchants and Factors Bill was also read a third time. Their Lordships got through all their business before seven o'clock. The Commons, in the Gaily part of the evening proceeded with the Income-tax Bill, which stood fora second reading. Mr. C. fuller moved that it be read a second time in six months. Sir John Walsh, Mr. )Evart, Sir \V. Clay, Mr. %Val:ley, Mr. D'lsraeli, and Mr. Christie, addressed the House, bu► a division was early called, when a great number of the Members bad paired off for dinnrr, or were absent, and there voted for the sremid reading 155, against it 76, giving the Tories the re spectable majority of 79. The Muse was to have proceeded with the Ordnance estinsites, but Captain Buldero -being absent, not expecting such an early division, the House took up the Railways 1.111, and discussed that in Committee. • It sat till a Quarter-fast Ono o'Clock. :?ITXILIC OPINION. The Herold says, in reference to the Ineome.tax Bill: '° In the progress of the Bill through Co mm ittee, we t rus t t o witness very extensive modification s in its provisions. All that Sir Robert Peel can possibly desire is such an amount of annual income as will equalise the national revenue and ex penditure, and enable him to financially warrant the sacrifice of revenue which his new tariff demands. Hitherto the Right lion. Baronet has only stated very generally the amount which he anticipates from the newt tax ; but ver y gre at doubts may be entertained whether, if his proposition be adopted, a much larger revenue will not be produced than that anticipated. Some further details of the Government calculations on this point are very desirable, because, should the produce of the tax have been understated, the most earnest supporter of the Government will then, we prsume, join u s in demanding s ome modification of schedule . • .... . The Post contains the following observations:—" The speech arguments, was in many parts exceedingly happy and amusing. andt Bath, anti Monmouth, had the Ultra-Radical plans and judgment,el, r they would have spared possessedthemselves olff t Sir re toabner l tlt Memberstii in ►r likeSi t ti a no t ge i : kro n e); rlyt , which the mirth of the House ap y eared to excite in them, and they would probably have gone to bed in much better health and spirits. Their indignation, if we may credit their own account of the matter, arose from the supposition that the Premier had treated with mirthfUl con garnedatj judgment would have shown masses of the yeople. A t tv l ee t m e r m yr' t -lightl li t a ie ti v t eiffe w ow: a rs : a n on o fd t o t b h i e :rh i st s i v oo s tn. and wishes of the people, but the strange arguments in favour of these supposed wishes—argu ments that were brought forward in the debate by the Ultra- Radical Members—with which the Right Hon. Baronet had made merry. Surely, if an antagonist makes use of an argu ment which has something in it ludicrously absurd, it is all fair to show up that ludicrous absurdity." The Tames thus alludes to Mr. Sharman Crawford's motion on the silt ject of the People's Charter:—" Mr. Sharman Craw ford's motion was rejected in the House of Commons by a majority of 159. Such a fact is a good illustration of what, e have gained by the Reform Bill. We have gained a Go vernment which rests upon a basis wide enough to be enabled firmly to resist all democratical encroachments upon the stabi• lity of our institutions ; a Government in which Members and the popular will have as great weight as the deliberate and con scientious judgment of the educated part of the nation consi ders their due. The ship had become top-heavy before ; but it is righted now." The Chronicle says :—" About the mere disfranchisement of Sudbury there would probably be no great difference of opinion. But what is to be done with the forfeited franchise? The simplest plan would be to do nothing with it : to wipe out the corrupt borough from the Parliamentary roll : and leave the House of Commons composed of 656 instead of 65S Members. But the Tory party have committed themselves in opposition to this obvious place. Sir Robert Peel voted for General Gascoigne's motion in 1831, on the first Reform Bill, declaring that the numbers of the House should not be lessened : and many of his party probably still feel a strong objection to diminishing the proportion of English to those of Scotch and Irish Members. To whom, then, is the vacant franchise to be given ? The old Tory plan, rerrlered memorable by the East Retford case, was in such • coot ingency to give the franchise to the hundreds. This would be an absurd proposition now. The plan most in conformity with the principle of the Reform Act, which must now be regarded as the basis of our electoral system, would be to look out for any two towns of which the population, has, since 1832, increased beyond the amount of ten thousand, which was tl,en made the criterion of sending one Member to Parliament." The following is from the Advertiser :—" As we stated yes terday, the frequent discussion of the suffrage questi o n will not only have the good effect etbringing all thonest and zealous friends of an extended franchise together, but it will have the further salutary result of ridding the Liberal cause of those who have been Reformers only in name. The deb a t e o f Thurs day has already, in some measure, had this effect. N o t one member of the recent Melbourne Ministry was i n his seat the whole of that evening. They one and all, from Lord John Russell doWn to the most insignificant member of that incom petent Cabinet, ignotly kept away. Coward-like, they shrunk from the discussion. They had neither liberalism enough to advance with the movement party, nor manliness. enough to vindicate their finality principles. Their conduct in absent ing themselves from such a discussion will not be lost on the country. They have irretrievably damaged themselves in public estimat'on. They have proclaimed themselves unworthy of any longer heading the Liberal party. They have completed the political suicide with which their imbecility has so long threatened them, Lord John Russell has done ter himself in a double sense. He has not only laid the axe at the root of his future leadership of the Opposition, but lie has sacrificed his seat for the city of London. A requisition was le. warded to him from some of the most influential electors in the city of London, headed by Mr. Mattison and Mr. Grote, the late mem bers for the City, requesting him to be present during the discussion on Mr. Sharman Crawford's motion. But lie did not think proper to comply with the wishes of the requisition ists. Of course, therefore, his connection with the representa tion of the City will cease with the present Parliament. And, we must :ay, it is better to have to contend with open fees than with simulating, incompetent, and treacherous friends, such as the Whigs hive ever proved themselves to the true interests of the people, which they have advocated only so far as suited their designs as a party, but to which they have ever invete rately :oprosed themselves whenever the progress of popular rights threatened to absorb the interests and influence of party ins she welfare and liberty of the nation. The Whigs will unite with the people to re-establish themselves in power; they will unite with the Tories to exclude the people from a fair representation in the Legislature. Such is Whiggery ! Their absence from the Housc on Thursday night cannot be regal ded so much in the light of a traitorous desertion as of an ol.en avowal of their hostEty to the cause with which they have associated themselves only for the purpose of s4crificing it to their own selfish ignoble ambition. LAW AND POLICE. The bankruptcy case of Messrs. Williams and Mottram was resumed yesterday at Basinghall street, when some extra ordinary disclosures were made as regards the accounts,' and confessions made by the partner, Mr. Williams. The total of debts proved up to the present date is 77,717/. 18s. 3d., and the assets realized up to the date of the Audit, the 23d of March, 7,827/. 55. 3d. A lengthened examination of Mr. Wigney, the bankrupt, took place yesterday, at Brighton, when disclosures were made which excited great astonishment. It appeared the banker bad not been solvent since the death of his father in 1836, and the bankrupt had entered into a vast number of speculations, and traded upon his customers' accounts for the last five years At the conclusion of his examination Mr. Wigney said, " I have not a farthing in the world, except this money," producing two sivereigns and a half. PINE ARTS. The silver bell of BenevenutcriCellini, in the collection at Strawberry-hill, weighs 2t; ounces 18. pennyweights: it is 51 inches in height, and its diameter 3.4 inches. SPORTING. The Earl of Chesterfield has given instructions far his splen did stud of horses to be brought to the:hammer next month. His Lordship intends to dispose of hi. valuable brood mares and stallions, at Bretby-park, the first week in September. C LEURT-FASIZZONABLE. The Queen and Prince Albert visite7lThe;Thibition of the Society of Painters inlWater-C,olottrs, Pall, mall East, yesterday. On Wednesday last her Majt44,accompanied by Pi Mee Albert, reviewed the Eleventh Hussars, under the command of the Earl of Cardigan, on Wiuibledos Comum , .. His Excellency the Lord-Li.utenant of Ireland, returns to Dublin Castle on the third week in next month, as a grand ball is to be given on the 24th, in celebration of her Majesty's birth-day. The Alarritlis of Northampton is daily expected at the Ter race, Hyde Park•corner, from Italy. His Lordship, soon after his arrival, will give his annual series of conversaziones to the members of the Royal Society, and all the distinguished ,avans of the day. Brighton continues unusually full of visitors for the season of the year. There is scarcely a house to let in Regency-square. The Earl of Chesterfield gave a grand dinner on Thursday to the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, &c. The Earl of Shannon died on Thursday, at his mansion in Connaught-terrace. Ludy Wilhelmina Stanhope is confined by an attack of the meazles. MISCEIM.63IIIIOI,B. This being the 23d of April, is St. lieorge's-day. Ed ward 111. invoked the aid of this Saint at the battle of Calais, in 1349, from which period " St. George !" has been the war- cry of England. Crockford's Club, which, since the retirement of Mr. Wm. Crockford, the proprietor, has been managed by a Committee of Noblemen and Gentlemen, nowconsists of only 600 members. A number of old copper coinrre yesterday dug out of the new sewer near the foundation of Temple-bar. and afterwards several apparently gold coins of the reign of Charles 1. SIONtY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. The Money Market, which closed firm last evening, has had a decided tendency to improve still further to day. Consols arc 91i 4 for Money, and 914 buyers for the Account ; Bank Stock, 1651 to 166 A ; Exchequer Bills, 37 to 39 premium. The Dutch Two-and-a-Ralf • Cents. are 524 ; the Five per Cents. 100 a it) q ; Belgian, 1031 1044 and Danish, 801 81/ ; Mexican i s. q uo t e d 371. Shares are 179 180 ; G rea t Western, Birming ham - Railway94.l 954 ; South Western, 611 ; and Brighton, 37+ per share. The bonds of the insolvent States•are quoted, Buenos Ayres, 26 28 ; Colombian, 261 27 ; Peruvian, lotq 19 ; Spanish Active, 24i ; the Three per Cents. 244 24t. The West India Mail has brought an immense mass of papers, but which appearnot to ,contain any intelli gence of importance. Mattei 7 t , w,_e't6: as badly managed out there as they have been here.:7s-gvery post teeming with complaints of missing correspondence, which, when it arrives, presents such an accumulation, as to render it a difficult task to get through it. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, APRIL 22.—A fair quantity of Cotton was sold to-day, amounting to about 5,000 bales at yesterday's prices. The sales of the week have been 39,920 bales, of which 14,000 have been for speculation. LIVERPOOL 811 ARE MARKET, APRIL 22.—The market was firm. Edinburgh and Glasgow, 52,1 53 1 ; Eastern Counties, Debentures, 11/. I Is. ; the New, 51. 17 s . 2d. ; Great Western, 9.5; London and - Birmingham, 179; Quarters, 37 2 • Manchester and Leed s , 85q. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 22.—We have rather an improving Market, and prices continue to be fully supported. Our sales have been as follow:—London and Bir mingham, 179; Manchester and. Birmingham, 27i ; Man chester and Leeds, Halves, 37 1 ,2 ; Brighton Loan Notes, 81. 3s. ; Lancaster and Prkton, .Three Quarters, 18%; South Lancashire Bank, hi. 18s. 9d, ; Union Plate Glass, si. COURSE OF EXCHANGE—(YESTERDAY•) Amsterdam CF. 12 8 'Gibraltar .. ... . 46' Ditto, at sight Rotterdam .........2 U l2 8i Genoa Antwerp Hamburgh M.B. 14 Venice Altona Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 75 Palermo, per oz 120 Ditto, 3 months 25 95 Lisbon Marseilles Bourdeaux '26 0 Rio Janeiro 27.; Frankfort on Maine... 1521 Bahia l'etersburgh, 3Us ... 361 IBuenos Ayres ..... Berlin 7 few York, 21 days sight 46k _ . ... Vienna, effec. ff. 3M. 956 Trieste, ditto ... 9 57 Madrid Cadiz 36 Bilbao Barcelona Seville Philadelphia 4 6 riticas OF BULLION, TER oz. POreign Gold, bars £3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coln —.3 17 5 New Doubloons 0 0 0 New Dollars... 0 4 9,4 Silver in Bars 0 4 11i SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—FRIDAT. 2,000 GUINEAS STAKES.-2 to 1 agst Meteor; 3to I agst Petulance; 6 to 1 agst Wiseacre ; 6 tel agst Timoleon ; 4 to I agst Lord G. Bentitick's lot (taken).' ' DEE STAKES AT CHESTER.-7 to 2 agst Marion; the rest as before. CHESTER Cur.-8 to 1 agst Lanercost (taken); 9to 1 agst Lord G. Bentinek's lot ; 20 to 1 agst Jolly Tar ; 12 to 1 agst 2datshal Souk ; 23 to 1 agst Retriever ; 25 to 1 agst Cruis. keen ; 25 to 1 agst Rhodanthe ; 25 to I agst Zelmyra (taken); 33 to 1 agst Portrait ; 33 to 1 aist The Young-'un ; 35 to 1 agst George. No other change. DERRY.-6 to 1 agst Frederica c. (taken) ; Bto 1 agst. Attila; 13 to 1 agst Joann% c. •25 to 1 agst Robert de Gor ham; 35 to 1 agst Lord of Holdernesse ; 40 to 1 agst Tiptoe ; 45 to 1 agst Tripo;i ; 45 to 1 agst Meteor. The others as before. OAKS.-8 to 1 agst Dil-bar; 9to 1 agst Adele. filly; 15 to 1 agst Fury filly ; and 18 to 1 agst Pauline filly. LITERAT (IRE. LIVES OF THE QUEENS OF ENGLAND, Vol. IV. CoMurn, Lohilon, 1842. Of the six memoirs of English Queens contained in this volume, not less than three—those of Jane Seymour, Katherine Howard, and Anne of Cleves, the wives, in succession, 'Qf Henry the Eighth— are now, we understand, presented for the first time to the public. The life of the unfor tunate Katherine lloward is - quite a romance, and of a most painful chara4er ; but as the leading incidents of her chequered •• and eventful career, are well-known to the readers of history, we need not here enlarge on them; enou4ll to state that, notwith standing her youthful errors, she was far more sinned against than sinning, and fell a victim to that sin gular, unchanging ill-luck which seems to have pur sued her from the cradle to the grave. Historians have represented her as having been exquisitely beautiful; and Tytler, in his cleVer and circumstantial life of Henry the Eighth, Speaks of her personal at tractions in the warmest terms of admiration ; but Miss Strickland seems to think that she was by, no means " so remarkable for her personal charms," and that it was chiefly to the exquisite grace of her man ners and deportment that her influence over the King was owing. Catherine Howard, then in all the bloom of youth, was executed on the same scaffold on which her predecessor, Anne Boleyn, had suffered. "It has been long since removed,", adds the biographer, " but its site may still he traced by the indelible stains on the flints, which faintly map out the dimensions of the fatal spot where so much royal and , noble blood was spilled by the headsman's axe during the Tudor reigns of terror." Next in interest to the Memoir of Ka therine Howard, is that of Jane Seymour, the parti culars of whose death are .e*ceedingly curious. But, indeed, the volume abOunds in matters of curious information, and is neatly and tersely written. GAZETTEER OF IRELAND. Edinburgh, 1842. The compiler of this work, Mr. Lawson, has availed himself diligently of all the latest information from the most authentic sources, On the subject of Ireland, —its principal towns, cities, lakes, commerce, anti quities, &c. We see he frequently refers t o th e a bl e work f Mrs. Hall, and he.can scarcely draw from a better source, for no writer of the day is more con versant with Irish subjects• than this a ccom pli s h e d lady. The volume, , which forms a neat, closely printed duodecimo, is embellished with a map, on an unusually large scale, of the sister country. GRIFFIN'S WORKS. VOL. 111. Maxwell, London, 1842. The present volume contains ":Card-drawing," the " Half-Sir," and " Suil Dhuv,.the Coiner;" the second of which is perhaps the best.tale that Mr. Griffin ever penned, and that by which he is most likely to be re membered. The female characters in this admirable story are delineated with great _skill and delicacy; more particularly that of Emily Bury, a masterly sketch, drawn, we suspect, from some living original. The illustrations to the volume . are just passable; we cannot say more in their praise. SKETCHES OF LIFE AND CHARACTER. Edinburgh, 1842. The majority of these Sketches have, we under stand, already appeared in print—some in Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, and some in the London Saturday Journal. They are light and pleasant in their tone, and evince a knowledge,.Of life, which, however, rarely pierces below the surface. The cleverest of the essays are entitled the " Respectable Rogue," and the " Man whom EverybOdy, Likes," in both of which the author (Mr. Alexander Campbell) indulges in a racy strain of apt sarcasm. SPROULE'S TREATISE O.IV AGRICULTURE. Curry, D uilin, 1842. _ In this well-digested treatise, we find many instruc tive suggestions and remarks on the nature, proper ties, and improvement of soils ; the structure, function s , and cultivation of plants ; and the husbandry of the domestic annals of the farm. Though the work is chiefly of a practical character, yet the science of agri culture has not been lost sight of, for, as the writer justly remarks, "It is a scientific art, inasmuch as the practice is right or wrong.just as it coincides, or disagrees, with the established laws of nature, which it is the ob;ett of science to investigate " PARLIAMENTARY DI VISIONS. (I', am the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.) FRIDAY, APRIL 22. __ • THE PROPERTY TAX BILL. Property Tax Rill,—Order for Second Reading read; Motion made, and Question proposed,—" That the Bill be now read a second time •"—Amendment proposed, to leave out the word '• n' , w," and at the end of .the Question to add the words " upon this day six months :"—Question put, "That the word now" stand part of the Question :"—The House divided; MAJORITY—AYES, Ilk. 1 Ulan& T. D.—West Somerset Hillsborough, earl of—Down Alb*, J. P. — Cambridges h ire Hinde, 4. Hodgiou—Newcastle , A ntrobus. Edmund —Surrey upon-Tyne Arbuthnot, G e n eral —Kincardine- Holm• H, ii , e, Hon. W.—lsle of .. ight flouldsworth, T.—Nottingharnsh. flope, Charles—Linlithgowshire Jackson, Mr. Serj.—Dublin Unl versity Jermyn, Earl—Bury, Suffolk Johnson, W. G.—Belfast Jones, T.—Londonderry Co. 'Laseelles, Hon. W.—Wakefield Lawson, A.—Knaresboroueh L:cldell; Hon. H.—North Durham Gen. Westbury H on. H . B . _ Lindsay, H. 11. —:.andwich Lopes, Sir S ll i f r aj it' or7 Worcestershire West. M ackenziee'lhornas—Hoss-shire Mackepare, W. F.—Peeblesstaira Mackinnon, %V. A —Lymingteil Mahon, Viscount— Hertford Manners, Lord J.—Newark &larch, Earl of—West Sussex Marsham, Lord—West Kent Martin, W..—Newrort,l.of Wight Masterrnan, J.—London Aleynell, Captain H.—Lisburne Mordaunt, Sir John—Warwicksh Morgan, O.—Monmouthshire Mundy, E. M.—South Derbyshire , Neeld, John—Cricklade I N ewport, Viscount—Shropshire i Nicholl„l.—Cardiff 10'firien, %V. S.—Limerick Co. Ossidston,Lord—North NottliUM. berland • Packs, C. W.—Leicester, South !Paget, Lord W.—Andover IPalitier, George—Emit ;Patten, J. Wilson—Lancashire ;Peel, lit Hon. sir R.—Tamworth in. , cl, Col. Jonathan—Fluntingdon iPlumptre, John l'.—East Kent Prowl, %V. 'T.-at. Ives 'Price Richard—New Radnor Pringle, Alexander--Selkirkshire Ilashleigh, %V.—East Cornwall Reade, M.—Waterford City Hepton, G. W.—St. Alban's Richards, Richard—Merionethsh Itolleston, Col.—S. Nottingham Round, Charles Gray—Essex N. Round, John— ldon Ryder, Hon. D.—Hertfordshire Scarlett,.Hon. R.—Horsham Scott, Hon. F.—Rexburgtishire Seymour, Sir H. B.—Midhurst Shirley. .41—Monaghan Somerset, Lord G.—Monmeuthsh Stanley, Lord—North Lancashire Stewart, John—Lyinington Stuart, H.— Bedrorsl Sutton, C. M.—Cambridge 'ferment, J. E.—Belfast Tollemache, lion. F.—Grantham Tollemache, J.—South Cheshire Tomline ' George—Shrewsbury frenzh, Sir F.—Scarborough Trevor, I fon. G —Caermarthonsti• Trollope" Sir J.—S. Lincolnshire Trotter John—West Surrey [ Vero, Sir C. B.—East Sullolit !Vivian, John Ennis—Truro Waddington 11. S.—West Suffolk Walsh, Ste Waddington, B.—ltadnershhe Whitniore, T. C.—Bridgenorth Woad, Colonel T.—Middlesex Wortley, Hon. S.—W. Yorkshire Wyndham, Colonel—W. Sussex Young, John—Cavan Co. 1 , MIXERS. 'Fremantle. Sir T.—Buckingliain 'Baring, 11. B.—Marlboteugn S Wi shire Arkwr ght, George—Leominster Astell, vv. —Bedfordshire Attwood, M.—Whitehaverr, Bailey, Joseph—Worcester Bailey, J.—Herefordshire Baillie, H. J.—lnverness-shire Baird, W.—Falkirk, &c. Baring, W. B.—Thetford Barrington, Lord—lierksh!re Ba.skerville, 'l'. B.—Herefordshire Bateron, Sir R.—Londonderry Beresiord, Major—Harwich Black burne, Ireland—Warrington., Blake, Martin J.—Galway Blakemore, Richard—Wells Bodkin, W. H.—Rochester Borthwick, P.—Evesham Bottield, Beriah—Ludlow Broad ley, Henry—East Yorkshire Bruce, Lord K—Marlborough Bruce, C. L. C.—Elginshire Buck, L. W.—North Devonshire Bwkley, E.—Newcastle-on-Type Buller, Sir J. Yarde—Devonshire Butibury, H. -Carlow Burroughes, H. N.—East Norfolk Campbell, A —Argyllshire Carnegie, lion. Captain—Stafford Chapman, Aaron—Whitby Chetwode, Sir J.--Buckingham Christopher, R. A.—Lincolnshire Chute, %V. L. W.—West Norfolk Clements, Colonel—Cavan Clerk, Sir G.—Stamford Clive, R. H. South Shropshire Cockburn, Sir G orge Connolly, Edward M.—Donegal Conte, Sir C.—Queen's County Copeland, W. T.—Stoke.upon. Trort Curry, lion. H. L.—Tyrone Co. Cripps, Joseph—Cirencester Currie, Raikes—Northampton Darner, Hon G.—Portarlington Darby, George—East Sussex Dawnay, Hon. H.—Rutland D'lsraeli, B.—Shrewsbury Dodd, G.—Maidstone Douglas, Sir H.—Liverpool Douglas, J. S —Rochester Dugdale, W. S.—Warwickshire Eaton, R. J.—Cambridgeshire Egerton, W. 'Patton—Cheshire Eliot, Lord—East Cornwall Farnham, E.B.—N. Leicestershire Fitzroy, 111 a. Henry—Lewes Forester, Hon. o.—Wenlock Puller, A. E.—East Su; sex Gaskel I, James Manes— Wenlock Gladstone, W. E.—Newarx.on- Trent Godson, R.—Kidderminster Gordon, lion. %V.—Aberdeensh ire Gorilhorn, Right Hon. 11.—Cam. bridge University Graham, Right Hon. Sir J. R. —Dorchester Greene, T. G.—Lancashire Grinisditch, T.—Macclesfield Grogan E.—Dutniii Hale, It. B.—Gloucestershire Raiford, Henry—Leicestershire Hardinge, Right Hon. Sir IL— Launceston Hardy, J.—Bradford Heathcote, Sir W.—Hampshire Henley, J. W.—Oxiordslure. Hepburn,Sir T.—Haddingtonshirc Herbert, Hon. S.—South Wilts MINORITY- Al(lain, J. J.--Leeds Archbold, Robert—Kildare hannerinan, A.—Aberdeen Baring, F. 'F.—Portsmouth Barnard, E. G.—Greenwich Bell, J.—Thirsk Berkeley, lion. F. M.—Gloucester Bernal, it. jun.—Wycombe 'Hewitt, Reginald—Monmouth Bowling, Dr.—Bolton Brocklenurst, J.—Macclesfield Brodie, W. B.—Salisbury Brotherton, J.—Salford Browne, W. 1). —Kerry Cave, Robert Otway—Tipperary Christie, Wm. D.—Weymouth ( lay, Sir Wm.—Tower Hamlets Clements, Visc.—Leitrim Co. Cobden, IL—Stockport Colborne, Hon. W.—Richmond Collins, W.—Warwick Crawford, S.—Rochdale Denison, J. E.—Malton Duncan, G.—Dundee Duncombe. 'l'. S —Finsbury } Widen, John—Oldham Fitzroy, Lord C.—Bury St. Edm. Forster, M.—Berwick-onTweed Gill, T.—Plymouth they, Sir George—Devonport liastie, Archibald—Paisley Hatton, Capt.—Wextord Co. liawes, B.—Lambeth Hay, Sir. A. L —Elgin, /lc. Geathcoat, J.—Tiverton Howard, C. W. G.—Cumberland iumpliery, John—Southwark Hutt, W.—Gateshead Langston, J. H.—Oxford Macaulay, 'l' B.— Edinburgh ' NOES, 76. M`Taggart,SirJohn—Wigton, &c 'Mitealle, H.—Tyntinou•h Norris, D.—Carmarthen Morison, William —Kinross-shire Murphy, F. S.—Cork 'Napier, Sir Charles— illarylebane • Norreys, Sir Denham—Mallow O'Brien, J.—Limerick City O'Connull, John—Kilkenny Parker, John—Sheffield Plum' idge, aptain—Penryn Pryse, Pryse—Cardigan Itedington, T. N.—Dundalk 'Rundle, John—Tavistock Russell, Lord John—London Scott; Robert—Walsall Seale, Colonel—Dartmouth Smith, Benjamin—Norw.ch Sm th, R. V. —Northampton liwnervillc Sir Win.—Drogheda S:anley, W. o.—Anglesea Staunton, Sir Geo.—Portsmouth Thorn ely,Thos.—Wolverhampton tide, H. M.—Westmeath Turner, "Edmund—Tror o Villiers, C. P.—Wolverhampton Vivian, Major Charles—Bodmin Vivian, John Henry—Swansea Captain—reirryii %Vakley, 1 horns—linshury Wall, C. Baring—Guildford Wawn, J. T.—South Shields Williams, William—Coventry Wood, Benjamin—Fouthwart Wood, Charles—Halitax 'Wood, G. W.—Kendal TELLERS. %Her Charles—Liskeard Tuf.iell, Henry—Devonport PAIRE :D OFF. AGAINST. Duncan, Viscount—Bath Philips, G. IL—Poole Eastmpe, Sir J.—Leicester O'Connell, M. J.—Kerry Granger. T. C.—Durham Hill, Lord A. M. C.—Evesham Oswald, James—Glasgow Hollond, Robert—Hastings Oalinen, Lord—Stirling I FOll. Cochrane, A.—Blidport Tyrrell, Sir J. T.—North Essex Master, Colonel—Cirencester Gore, Ormsby—Salop Cardwell. Edward—Clither oe Douro, Marquis—Norwich Shelborne, Earl of—Calne Eastsior, Viscount—lteig:tte Cod~iugton, C. W.—East Glouces O'Brien, Cornelius—Clare - Ogle, S.—South Northumberland 111urray, Dalrymple, Capt.— Wigtonstiire Mame, lion. }ox—Perth ltulherfurd, lit. lion. A.—Leith Ferguson,Colonel—Kirka'dy Dundas, Hon. J. C.—Richmond Gordon, Lord F.—Forfarshire Dalt; James—limit!Afire James,Sir:W. C.—Hull Bell, M.—S. Northumberland Johnstone, J. 1 7 —Dumfriesshire lhineonibe, Hon A.— Ett,t Retford Campbell, Sir H.—Berwickshire IForbes, W.—Stirlingshire Hill, Sir Rowland—Shropshire Balfour, J. M.—Haddington, Fcilden, W. J.—lllackbarn i Chartcritz, Hon. F.—Fast Glouces. Byng, George—Middlesex C —Beverley lloward, Sir 11.-IVicklow Co. teroiire Manners, Lord C.—N. Leicesters h. Egerton, Sir l'.—South Cheshire Sturt, Henry Chas.—Dor fetshire RAILWAY RETURNS. We extract from the Railway Mtgazinc the sums re ceived on the principal llailivays of Great Britain for the week ending on the day of the month prefixed to each. The return includes the money received for passengers, parcels, carriages, horses, mails, and mer chandize Week Miles Total. ended Name of Railway. Opened. £. s. d. Apr.l6 Birmingham & Derby Junet. 48f 1,054 18 11 15 Birmingham and Gloucester 55 1,517 6 10 9 Brandling Junction 25 788 11 0 15 Chester and Birkenhead .. 10 Dundee and Arbroath 17 Eastern Counties 16 Edinburgh and Glasgow 16 Glasgow and Ayr 16 Glasgow, Paisley, & Greenock 22f 730 5 4 16 GrandJunct., Chester &Crewe 113 8,736 15 n 16 Great North of England 45 1,295 4 8 17 Great Western 21 Hayle lB 273 8 9 16 Hull ~ ..nd Selby 16 Lancaster & Preston Junction 20 1 1 402 6 11 15 Liverpool and Manchester 16 London and Birmingham 112 & 16,940 11 8 21 London and Blackvvall 16 London and Brighten 16 Ditto Shoreham Branch 19 London and Croydon 21 Lfindon and Greenwich 3J 827 13 3 17 London and South Western 14 Manchester, Bolton, and Bury 10 565 3 6f 18 Manchester & Birmingham 16 Manchester and Leeds 16 Midland Counties . 18 Newcastle and Carlisle: ..... 14 Newcastle and North Shields 7 328 11 7 17 Northern and Eastern .. 16 North Midland 15 North Union 16 Preston and Wyre l9f 152 19 3 18 Sheffield and Manchester 7 261 9 2 17 Ulster 16 York and North Midland '2B 1,567 1 8 BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.) There were no cases brought before the Court this morning possessing the slightest interest. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. FROM THE MORNING I'AI'ERB OF THIS DAY. TIMES.—A Gazette extraordinary published at Caraccas on the Ist of March mentions the arrival of a communication from M. Fortique, the representative of Venezuela in this coun try, containing an official notice, on the authority of Lord Aberdeen, that the British GoVernment have determined to remove the landmarks laid down by 111. Schomberg, the coin mitsioner, near the Orinoco, in the course of his survey. Orders to this effect were to be given to the Governor of Bri tish Guiana, but it is distinctly understood that the British Government does net abandon any part if the territory formerly held by the Dutch. The conduct of eur Government seems, by the tone of the paper, to have given the highest satisfaction in Venezuela. It is said that the suspension of payment by Messrs. Ralston, mentioned yesterday, will occasion some delay in the payment of the dividends on Virginia Six per Cent. Stock, as a portion of those dividends was remitted in the shape of bills upon that firm. 'With respect to the Pennsylvania dividends received the other day by Messrs. Dennison, it should be ob served, that those are dividends on so much of the Pennsylvania Stock as :is held as a part guarantee for the " U n it e d St ates Bank " Bonds, amounting to above 60 per cent. of the interest on those bonds, the remainder being guaranteed by the in solvent States of Mississippi and Michigan. SUN.--Soine purchases having been made in Stock, prices have recovered from the depres., , ion of yesterday, and Consols leave off the same as on Wednesday evening namely, 9112, ma for Money, and 91/1 91i for the Account. Bank Stock, 165 166; India Stock, 244 245; Exchequer Bills, 37 39 prem. Dutch Stock is not quite so good. The Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 5'112 52 ; the Five per Cents., lON 100 h ; the other Securities remain as before. Belgian, 1031 104 1 4 ; Brazil. 67 68; and Danish, 80 1 / 2 RIM. Railway Shares, with the exception of Birmingham, which are I!. higher, leave o ff nearly th e same. Great Western, 94 93 ; the Hall Shares, 64 65 ; Birmingham and Glouc e st er , 55 57 ; South We s t ern , 61 61/ ; Gosport, 61 611 t; North Midland, 69 70 ; the New Shares,. 33/ 34 1 / 2 ; South Eastern and Dover, 30301; Eastern Counties, 10 10* ; Blackwall, 12* 123 ; the New Shares, 10/ 101; and Brighton, 361 37k. The rates of exchange aid not materially differ from those of Tuesday, and were generally reported as being firm. Ams terdam, 12 5 12 5* ; Rotterdam, 12 5* ; Antwerp, 12 5; Ilaniburgh, 13 124, 13 13 ; Frankfort, 151 g 1514 ; Paris, 25 821 26 87/; Genoa, 25 82/ 25 871 ; Marseilles 25 85. 25 90 ; Vienna, 9 53, 9 54 ; Trie s t e , 954, 9 55 ; L e gh o rn, 30 0, 30 05 ; Madrid 36136/ ; Lisbon, 52h 52-s":. The, speculation in Mexican has taken another turn, and, apparently, it is now about to be raised as rapidly as it was depressed, the closing quotations being 354 36, or about 2 per cent above the lowest:l)unit of today. When it is remem bered that all these changes have occurred without any legiti mate cause, it will be perceived that the cautions which have been repeatedly given against time bargains in these low priced bonds, have not been without reason. If this intelligence were of a nature to affect the market, the result should have been to advance the quotation, it being decidedly favourahle for the Mexicans. And here it may be incidentally remarked, that it is not improbable that attempts will be made to contract a loan for the United States of Ame rica in this country. If such should be the case, the present prices of their stocks held here, and what was p a id f or them originally, should be carefully contrasted previously to any put. elta,es being made in it. There are sufficient sources for the employment of spate capital at home, with equal advantage to the borrower and the lender, witlit.ut risking it abroad. The bonds of the insolvent States are thus quoted :—Buenos Ayres, 26 1 / 2 27 ; Colombian, 26!4 ; Peruvian, 181 , Portu guese Five per ('cuts. 37ti 37►,4 ; the Three Der Costs., ; Spanish Active, 24,;, and the Three. per Cent. Stock, 241, 24i NEW TAX ON COALS EXPORTED. We have received the following Statement of the effects that will be produced on the English Coal Trade by the propOsed Tax of 4s. per ton on Coals exported"; and Reasons for opposing the same : The several statements recently submitted to the public have clearly demonstrated that the, export trade in coal is one of very recent growth, and that its rapid extension since 1834 has been owing to the repeal of the previously existing duties. The proprietors of those collieries whose coal is chiefly exported, seeing the demand that has thllow ed, have, under the fancied protection of the law of 1834, ex pended a large capital in opening out their collieries. An entirely new coal district has been recently called into existence, and a public harbour lately constructed at Warkworth, in Northumberland, at the expense of the owners of colliery-works which • would never have been undertaken but under the sanction of the law .of 1834. If the effect of this proposed measure was such that the tax could be realized to the reve nue, the coal owners would have no right to complain ; but it must he conceded, when all the facts are fairly stated, that the real effect •of this tax would be, not only to disappoint the expectations of the revenue, but destroy this important and increasing industry at the same time. This assumption will not only be lunply demonstrated by reference t o th e state of the export trade in coal, before and after the repeal of duty in 1834, but a glance at the history of the coal trade in other countries, un der the existence or the absence of import duties, will still more clearly demonstrate it. It should be recol; lected that England is not the only country from which the continent of Europe can draw a supply of coal, Eng • land has the advantage over other countries, inasmuch as a great part of her coal lies to seaboard. Nothwith standing this, the greatest rivalry now prevails in ,foreign markets between the English and Belgian coal, besides which there is the great basin of Saar bruck, in Rhenish Prussia, from whence a large supply is now drawn, both by France and Germans-, Again, both in Belgium ,and • Rhenish Prussia, cog s a are brought to bank at cost equally moderate with that of England, and the proposed tax will more than compensate those collieries for the single advan tage posseszed •by England in her seaboard. It appears from parliamentary returns that the quantity of coal exported in the year 1840 amounted to 1,606,313 tons ; of this quantity one-fourth Part, or 394,9,54 tons, was shipped to France alone, 'while in 1828 the total quantity exported fromA;ngland, including the colonies, did not exceed 355,800 tons. A reference to the fitets connected with the past progress of the French coal trade, as influenced by import and discriminating duties, will fully con firm the opinion that any, the slightest, tax on coals exported will cut off at once one4ourth of our entire exports, independent of similar resift; which may be expected in regard to other countries. In 1788, before the French Revolution, English coals were admitted into France on payment of an import duty of 6s. I ld. per ton, while Belgian coal was sub jected to a duty of 10s. Id. per ton. The quantity of English and Belgian coal admitted in 1788 was, English Coal 184,773 Tons. Belgian Coal 51,819„ „ After the peace in 1814, and on the opening of the Canal of Conde, the French Government, with a view to exclude English coal, and fnour those of Bel gium, placed an import duty of 13s. 9d. on the one, and 2s. 9d. on the other, which discrimination con tinued up to the year 1834. During this period, the twenty years' average annual imports of English coal into France did not exceed 30,000 tons ; while the quantity of Belgian coal which entered France had increased from 90,000 tons in 1813 to 620,176 tons in 1834. In 1834, simultaneously with the abolition of the export duty in England, the French import duties were re-modelled, and the following table will show with what rapidity the English coal trade has developed itself in France when freed on the one hand from a tax on exportation, and on the other by the equalisation of import duties. Quantities of Coal, omitting fractions, imported into France from Foreign countries, from 1834 to 1840. English tons. Belgian tons. •Saarbruck tons. 1834 1835 ...... 98,0(10 615,100 1836 1837 *lB3B ..... 304,600 1839 1840 394,900 ..... No return..... No return. Add to tons 15 lb. to equalise the quintal metre to Eng lish weight. By the foregoing statement it will be seen what are the consequences likely to result to English enterprise under the proposed coal tax. Under the influence of the same state of things as is now sought to be re-esta blished, the Belgian French coal trade increased from 90,000 tons in 181:1, to 620,100 tons in 1834; and ulti mately to 740,800 tons in 1839, while the Eng lish French coal trade, which was in 1788, 184,000 tons, did not average after the peace, from 1814 to 1834, more than 30,000 tons annually, but since 1834, under a new modification of duties on both sides, has increased front 48,000 tons in 1834, to 395,000 tons in . 1840. T o t hi s may b e added the development of the French Coal basins under the ex clusive systems that were in vogue from 1814 to 1834, the total produce of French Coal Mines being; in 1788 1814 1839 ... ...3,133,200 „ It is evident that the proposed tax will give an in creased stimulus to the working of coal mines in France itself, and which exists in no less than fifty six departments. And further, it will be found that, without offering any equivalent to th e revenue, i t i s calculated to ruin our foreign export coal trade, and seriously affect the multifarious employments and capital connected therewith. A FASHIONABLE THIEF. A Berlin letter, in the Constitutionnel, gives the following account of the discovery of a most extraordinary series of audacious frauds and rob beries lately committed in that capital. A lady of rank, having been robbed of a packet of trea;r. sury bonds, applied to the p o li ce . Th e off i cer questioned her as to the persons who had visited her in the course of the day preceding. The lady named several of distinction, and among them one who had been introduced to her as the Marchioness of Hereford, of a noble English family. From what reason d oes not uppear, the suspicions of the offi cer a t once reste d on t hi s high dame, and, going to her residence early the next morning, he entered her chamber before she had mien. Announcing the object of his visit, at which of course the Marchioness ex pressed her surprise and indignation, he de manded her keys, and searched all her desks, drawers, and closets. Nothing that appeared suspicious was found, but there were many things of an extraordinary nature. Among these were the minutes of a writing addressed to the King, on the subject of the religious differences in Prussia, and a correspohdence with men of science. With these papers was a plate of cop per, which the officer took to the lady who had applied to him. She at once recognised it as a token of some peculiar event in her fatumly, which she had always kept in her jewel-box. This box was brought, opened, examined, and not only was the plate missing. but it was discovered that all the precious stones of the ornaments it con tained had been taken out, and false, jewels sub stituted for them. This box must have been taken away, and kept several days before it was replaced. Inquiries were made, and it was dis covered that the real jewels had -been sold to respectable jewellers at Berlin. This led to the discovery of other robberies and frauds, and ul timately to proof that the pretended Marchioness of Hereford, who under this title had lived at Berlin for a long time in sumptuous style, was the daughter of a forest-keeper at Herstort, in Westphalia. She had in her passport converted the words of Mensen aus Hersforteli into Mar chioness of Hereford, being greatly facilitated in her assumption of her noble character, by the fluency with which she speaks English. She is conAned in the criminal prison. MAItKET. Wneat, Red, Essex and Kent -s. 5Cs. to 6( s. t i ne 64: . • --L WAKEFIELD - CORN -C. 62e. to C 4.. nor C,51. bl i to -s. &fis. to tik`s. tine 034. Yorkshire -I. Lfii. to ' , Us. tine &:s. ...-.--. White ..•.. -s. GO.. to 83s. fine Vtis. .......--. Foreign, Red ••••11. ••..1. to 553. fine E.'ss. o n r . a l n a d a c n a d t S .. itttolk ..... White - -6* -...5. to -s, sine fats. .-..-.....----.-• Barley, Norfolk and Suff olk 'l4. to ~.. tine .104. ....... LitiColll6l l i re , Y or k s h i re %sold .............. .... 255. to 6 -13, tint LW. ----- t'oreign B e ans, New "Os. to -4. tine 3`.25. - Old . ... ....... .. .................... 35i. to -s. tine Oats, Potato -s to li(n. tine •Vs. -...- Poland -s. -s. to t'.o3. tine Lt2s. --... Vrierland and Small .... --.. thcaling Shelling. pet Stone. tas to 9 8,0 d. per Lou'. Malt ttapcsecd ....... ..... .. ....... •••••••••.• 1 0111. 341.05. 351. Os. Per La" - - The Bude-light has been introduced into some large establishments at Birmingham with brilliant success. Contracts were made on Thursday by Government for 60,000 pairs of boots and shoes for the army; and 8,000 pair. for convicts. DIEM—At his residence, Wilburton; Cambridge shire, on the 16th inst., Croply Camps, Esq., aged 53. A TRAGIC AcraEss.—We find the following in a New York paper Miss Clifton has horsewhipped -one of the fashionable loungers of Richmond—probably one of tkose chaps who eat soup at the close , of dinn er t o fill up t h e c hi n k s —and walk through the ladies drawing-rooms of the Exchange Hotel with their hats nailed down upon their heads. We wish her Highness would go , to Washingto t i, and horsewhip Con gress into some decency., THE INDIA SUN, CONTAINING A MAP AND FULL ACCOUNT OF AFFGHANISTAN AND THE THEATRE OF WAR IN INDIA, IS NOW READY. mown.... ,rious ke us ether Ld of l e of of .5 01 Y" -- , lerP si'' 'We_ Mit 10.15 t he • in e j 5 .tOl '11; 4 .11 1 " ~r=,