The Sun. — London, England, 1842-03-11 00:00:00

LONDON FRIDAY MORNING. MARCH 11, 1842. DEPARTURE OF TROOP► FOR INDIA. 'We have great pleasure in announcing that the Go vernment is about to send from eight to ten thousand troops to India immediately. A more numerous force may be expected soon to follow ; so that the Governor- General will bare troops enough at his disposal to re venge the injuries sustained by our arms in Affghen istan, and particularly the murder of the British Envoy, Sir W3l. MACNAGIITEN. Mid Government is deserv ing of the highest praise, for the promptitude which it manifests on this great national occasion. We delight to see Ministers remembering only that they are English men, and have the honour of their country to sustain. The recent decision of the Judges in Ireland concern ing the marriage of a member of the Church of England with a Dissenter ; the discussions on that decision in Parliament, and on the Bill which has been introduced to make the law different from what the Judges have de- Oared it to be ; the motion or Lord EGERTON on Tues . - day for leave to bring in a Bill to amend the marriage law, the debate on which is adjourned till next 'Wednes day, and the totally different state of the law as to mar riage in Scotland and England, must satisfy every man that however important and sacred is this most im portant and most sacred of ad civil contracts, the law concerning it is scandalously vague, uncertain, and inefficient. In offerin g some o b servat i ons, there fore, on this subject we find it necessary to begin by reminding - our readers that between the sanctity of the contract and the enactments concerning it, there is all the distinction and all the difference which exist be tween any great natural fact, such as the tides of the ocean and a blundering and inefficient attempt to de scribe it. 'We do not mean to say one word concern the contract, or the great advantages of marriage ; our remarks will be exclusively confined to a small part of the law which has been made to regulate and entbrce it, namely, that part which Lord F. EGERTON brought under the notice of the House of Commons on Tuesday evening. Marriage being the very foundation of families, no impediment whatever, which cannot be demonstrated to be of over-balancing advantage, ought to be laid in the way of accomplishing marriages. In truth, it is a general rule of the greatest importance, that every legislative restriction being an evil of itself, none should be adopted unless it be clearly proved that the public advantage far surpasses the private injury. It is incumbent on those who propose a new restriction or defend an old one, to prove its advantages. Those who resist it have a prima facia c a se, and are at all times justified in requiring the advocates of restrictions to prove their utility. _ The principal provision of Lord F. EGERTON'S pro posed Bill is, that " a widower should be allowed to marry his deceased wife's sister." Is there anything wrong in that ? The parties are not blood relations. The sister may be supposed to have a great interest in the widower's children, if he have any. A more suitable mother for them probably could not be found. At least it is consistent with our experience that sisters have very generally taken an interest in a sister's off spring while the wife was alive, and after her death. We know no person, unless it be the mother of a deceased wife, so likely as an unmarried sister, to take a deep and permanent interest in the welfare of a deceased sister's children. The matrimonial connection which may ensue is so natural and so easy, that it frequently takes place even in spite of the prohibition of the law. In fact, were it not a sort of natural and easy connection, the I,lw would not th'nk of forbidding it. Now, the question was , • why has the law, scandalously vague and imperfect a , i n many cases it though in this precise, for bidden the widower to marry his deceased wife's sister? Sir R. INGLIS fancies, if this restriction did not exist, the husband and unmarried sister might, in the life time of the wife, form some improper connection, or cease to look on each other as brother and sister. That is one of those mere fancies which are the founda tion of much tni-niief. It implies that men will always do all the IA iekedness they can physically accomplish. Such legislators as Sir R. Nous, who confound the power to do wrung with the actual c mmission of crime, ought to take away from the butchers their formidable knives, lest they all turn assassins of their fellow creatures. The Hon. Baronet also asserts, that it is enough for him that the universal church, for fifteen m l .nturies- has always forbidden such marriages, Pli"the y ChurCh of Rome, and the Greek Church, and the Church of England has always forbidden these NEW NOVEL EDITED BY MRS. GORE. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols. post five., F A S C IN A T I 0 N. EDITED by Mrs. GORE, Authoress of " Mothers and Daughters," " The Man of For- tune," &c. " This capit a l s t or y b r i ngs before us an unprecedented va r ety of lively, amusing, and characteristic scenes."—New Monthly. 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THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING, MARCH II Will be performed a Play in Five Acts, called GISIPPUS.—Titus Quintius Fulvius ' Mr. Anderson; Gisippus, Mr. Macready ; Medon, Mr. Graham; Pheax, Mr Elton; Cheremes, Mr. Hudson; Lycias, Mr G. Bennett; Norban, Miss E. Phillips; Sophroria, Miss Helen Fautit ; Hero, Miss urpiu. To conclude with THE POOR SOLDlER.—Captain Fitzroy, Mr. H. Philips; Patrick, Miss P. Horton; Norah, Miss Poole. !Mors uper at half past Six, and the Performances begin at Seven, Boxes ls., Second Price 2s. ; Pit 3s , Second Price 2s ; Lower Gallery Is. td., Second Price Is. ; Upper Gallery Is., Second Price fd THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS, THIS EVENING, MARCH 11, Will be repeated the New Comedy, called BUBBLES OF THE DAY. Lord Skindeep, Mr. W. Farren Sir Phenix Clearcake, Mt. Harley; Captain Smoke, Mr. Charles Mathews; Spreadweasel, Mr. Bartley : Pamela Spreadweasel, Mrs. Nisbett ; Florentia, Mrs. W. 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After which, EN PENITENCE. To conclude with, L'AVARE.—Harpagon, M. Perlet. _ . Private Boxes and Stalls at Mr. Mitchell'sl.ihraiy, 33, Old Bond eft cet ; Mr. Seguin's, 12, Regent-street; Mr. Sams's, St. James's street ; and at the Bex-oftiee of the Theatre, which is open daily from Eleven till Five. Admission to the Boxes, 61. ; Pit, 3s. 6d. ; Gallery Stars, 3s. ; Gallery, 2s. THE WEATHER.—NOON, MARCH 9. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Thermometer... 41 Highest 54 J Lowest 34 Barometer 29.88.—Wind S.W.—Freezing Point 22 Deg. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning —.28 minutes after 1 I Evening .... 55 minutes after 1 ttie : " - -.1 rA , At ,A.t;4•,IVUIIIIL&Ir., ilitt -S-Atit, marriages. That is for us no argument at all, and the more remote the origin of a practice which at present seems destitute of any just foundation, the more is there reason to believe that it is erroneous and unjust ; be cause the further back we trace mankind, the more igno rant, superstitious, and barbarous we find them. In other cases, the authority of the Roman Church and the Greek Church are openly derided by the Hon. Baronet and his friends, and it is for them almost a suf ficient reason to repudiate an opinion or a practice, that it is sanctioned by the Pope or the Greek Patriarch. But whenever a doctrine of any Church, or any book, subserves the prejudices or the power of a party, that doctrine is immediately endowed with unbounded au thority : whenever it militates against those prejudices, or is inimical to that power, it is openly flouted, or cast aside with silent contempt. Another argument which has been brought against Lord F. EGERTON'S proposition is, that it is contrary to the statute of 25th of Henry VIII., cap. 22, which itself, however, has no higher authority than the Canon Law of the Roman and Greek Churches. It recites that law, and then forbids, amongst other things, a brother marry a brother's wife, or a man to marry his wife's sister. Now, it is singular enough, that this law was passed, we have always understood, mainly to gratify the lust of that king. At that period he had become tired, says the historian " of the person of the Queen," who had beetchis brother's wife, and in order to promote his object of getting rid of CATHERINE, he and his subservient Parliament, passed a law, which, in the name of morality and virtue, should tend to set him free from his unpleasant restraints, and impose for his lust a series of unnecessary restraints on all the people in future time; But the law, as we have said, rests altogether on his will and on the authority of the Church, which, when not expressly based on Scrip ture, is to be rejected the more ancient is its source. The New Testament establishes no such prohibition a s that which is on the Statute-book. The Old Testament expressly authorises, in certain circumstances, a man to raise up seed to his brother, and warrants, rather than otherwise, the matrimonial connection now in dispute. But in all antiquity the situation and posi tion of women were not such as to recom mend the precepts borrowed from that time, on the rights concerning them then established worthy of our blind acceptance. We have neither space nor time to trace their condition, whether in ancient Judea, in ancient Greece, or in ancient Rome, through the va rious gradations of slavery, concubinage, and pur chase, in order to show that the Canon law, derived partly from the Roman law and partly from the customs of the barbarians who overturned the Roman empire. ought not, except it be fully confirmed by our own reason and experience, to be of any authority whatever. The position of women in society has been continually im proved as civilization advanced ; and it is for us to improve it still more by doing away with what yet remains in it of their ancient condition of slavery, not to regulate it by the remains of a code which had its origin in a very rude and barbarous state of society. We can see nothing contrary to the order of nature in that proceeding to which Lord F. EGERTON seeks to give the sanction of law. We only say, ant we believe, he says no more than that such marriages ought not to be prohibited. Men may, on that point, be left to their own discretion. The abolition of the prohibition is asked for by influential individuals who are aggrieved by the restriction, and by some very powerful classes. To tell us that it comes within the prohibited degrees— those degrees having been settled, as Sir R. INGLIS says more than fifteen centuries ago, about the time the Lom bards were drinking blood out of skulls, and when murder, to obtain a throne, was a common occurrence, is tanta mount to telling us that we ought to navigate the ocean like our remote ancestors, in wicker boats, covered with hides. If no better reasons can be assigned for resisting Lord FRANCIS EGERTON'S motion than this deference to an unworthy authority, we hope that the House of Commons will take up the question in that serious mood which it deserves, and at once make the Marriage law, from being vague, uncertain, and superstitious, definite, precise, and reasonable. Other topics, we are aware, more immediately interest the public than this; at the same time this is as important a subject for regulation as can well demand the attention of the legislature. The regular mails from India have now arrived, but we regret to announce that a careful examination of them, and a comparison of four several private accounts from Bombay, all dated the Ist of February, has but served to confirm the terrible news from Affghanistan, published in The Sun of yesterday. The murders of Sir ALEXAN DER BURNES and Sir WILLIAM MACNAGIITEN the compulsory return of Major M'LAREN to Candahar, after a vain attempt to relieve the camp of Cabool—the inabi lity of Major-General Sir ROBERT SALE to form a junc tion before March or April with the late General Ea- PHINSTONE'S army, reported to be in a perishing condi tion in the month of December, are official facts which justify an apprehension of the dreadful results currently reported and believed in Bombay at the departure of the Indian mail. Some exaggeration there un doubtedly is in the report of the total massacre of from five to six thousand British troops. No doubt that if compelled to fight their way from the camp at Cabool to Jellalabad ; a distance of ninety miles, throu;;li an almost impassable country, and surrounded by ene mies, the loss of our troops would be very great ; but it is rational to suppose that two-thirds would es cape. Not that we should not regard suck a result as a very awful calamity, and one calculated to give a sad blow to, our dominion in India. The desperate condition of the Camp at Cabool was known to Sir IL SALE, and were the troops to evacuate it he might be expected to push on a light force a distance of from thirty to forty miles to meet them, and cover their retreat. Their great difficulty would be in getting through the Khoord Cabool Pass, where 500 men could prevent the passage of an army of 50,000. A re-inforcement of 8,000 men were on their march to Jellalabad to reinforce SALE'S brigade ; 10,000 men, under General NOTT, were at Candahar, so that with the first melting of the snows a British force would be at hand to revenge the murder of our Ambassador by laying the city of Cabool in ashes, and passing the plough over its very foundations. But we doubt whether we should gain anything by this. The Affghans are a wild, fierce, warlike race, strangers to fear, and indifferent to danger. With than revenge is a virtue, and to die fighting against an enemy the most glorious death. We may devastate the coun try with fire and sword, but the inhabitants, who subsist by their flocks, will betake themselves to their mountain fastnesses to descend upon our armies with the eagle swoop of destruction when lost in unknown defiles, and perish ing for want of food. The experience of the last cam paign in Affghanistan ought to teach us that we have not here the effeminate races of Hindostan to cope with. The Affghan mode of warfare was then nearly as fatal to the army of Lord KEANE as was that of Russia to the grand army of NAPOLEON in 1812. So late as Octoberlast the Belochees burned and destroyed Gundava, Dadur, and the plains of Cutchee. To revenge these outrages General NOTT, with 4,000 troops and a heavy train of artillery, marched a distance of 300 miles upon Khelat, their capital. And what did he find when he arrived ? A town without a single inhabitant ! In the Oc tober following this Gallant Officer, at the head of 200 men resolved to attack the Affghan insurgents in the valley of Tereen. To move his artillery over the heights, and through the deep ravines that inclosed the valley cost him a month's incessant toil, and when he had reached there there was not an Affghan to be seen ! They had all fled with their flocks to the mountains, only appearing when thero was a gun to be seized, or a few stragglers from the camp to be picked off by their marksmen from behind rocks. Their mode of warfare is to fly before the enemy, and destroy every thing behind them. In this way they can destroy any army without fighting, which is not provided with the means of supplying itself with provisions, provender, and sometimes even water—for every well is filled. Notwithstanding the general indignation in India on account of the murder of Sir WILLIAM MACNAGHTEN, who bore the sacred character of an Envoy, a respectable and influential portion of the Anglo-Indian Press, is strongly opposed to a war with the Affghans. The Bombay Times, for example, contends that all our mis fortunes arose from the unfortunate and criminal blunder of setting up a cruel and detested fool, the SHAH SOOJAH in the room of the popular King Dos MOHAM MED, who offered us his friendship, if we would only prevail on RUNJEET SINGH to restore him Peshawur, the kcv of his demininions on the side of the • Indus. " The Affghan's," says that Journal, are defending themselves against the invaderS of their country and enemies of their faith, who desire to impose a Sovereign on them whom they despise and detest ; and to subject them to burdens which they never brooked to bear at the hands of their most populous Princes. The cause of Affghan vengeance is the s ame i n which the Spaniards fought for eight centuries against the Moors ; which called forth the heroism of Saragossa against the French , which foiled the First and Thi r d Ed wards in their at tempts on Scotland ; which made the defence of Antwerp against the Spaniards the admiration of Europe ; and which for centuries made the nervous arm and mountain hold of the Swiss peasant- too strong for the serried legions of France and Austria !" Much of this is beside the real question at issue, which is, can we retain India, and not take signal Vengeance on the Affghans ? If the murderer-, UKHTAR KHAN, escape, shall' we not have parodies of his crime a t h a lf the native Courts of India, and first of all at that of Burmah, should we again think of sending one there ? It is not a little singular hat in the nineteenth con- Airy, $0 remarkable for discoveries and improvements in art and science, one class, and a class too that claims the right of dictating to all others, should be described by one of their own body as little better, in one respect, than barbarians. Lord HowicK, last night, denounced the system of agriculture in the greater part of England as " barbarous and neglected;" prac tical men cheered his Lordship, and the accused tried to keep one another in countenance by shouts of laughter. But facts are not to be disproved in this manner. All who have attended care fully to the different systems adopted in the northern and southern parts of this island, can come to no other conclusion than that they are as differ ent as light is from darkness, and that till a material change takes place, the land in the south must remain but half cultivated, the farmers be little better than serfs, and the landlords continue to cry out for pro tection from the Legislature. What has made the com paratively barren land of Scotland valuable but the ad mirable system of improvement, which has been entirely created and fostered, by granting the tenant a large in terest in the profits, without the fear of being disturbed, by the caprice or cupidity of the proprietor ? So con vinced were intelligent landowners in the north of the vast benefit they derived from the system that it was no uncommon practice to grant leases for thirty-eight, some times fifty-seven years, and not unfrequently for three live:. when a heavy outlay was required to bring the land into cultivation. And what was the result ? The land in some ten or fifteen years was brought into a state of high cultivation, roads were made, plantations sprung up on the inferior soil, and whole districts that were little better than wastes or commons, were converted into arable farms yielding a rental teti times greater than at the com mencement of the lease. With such examples before them, and with such certain advantages, the English landlord who adheres to the old exploded system is justly denounced as little better than a barbarian. He cries out for protection solely because le is idle or sluggish, and allows others to outstrip him. The late election was a noble exemplification of the fact. While in England the ignorant tenants joined in the selfish shout of their masters for monopoly, and returned monopolists for nearly the whole of the counties, in Scotland the cry was " Leave us alone, leave us to our own exertions, untrammelled by Acts of Parliament," and suited the deed to the word by re turning Ilepealers for several of the most agricultural counties. England must come at last to this system. To favour the ignorant prejudices of a particular class, neither Sir RonEwr PEEL, nor any Minister, can continue long-restrictive laws, which are found alike injurious to manufacturers and landlords. The Paris papers received this morning are destitute of other news than is supplied by the Overland Mail. BOURSE—PARIS, TUESDAY, MARCH 8. ?nit Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Prier Pricy. trench 5 ner Cent. ll7 40 ... 117 40 ... 117 20 ... 117 20 11rer Cents. ...... lOl ... 101 ... 101 ... 101 3 per Cent, BO 60 .. 80 65 ... 80 50 ... 8" 50 Loan Rank 01 ' , ranee Lallitte Rank 5,0000 Shares 5010 ...5040 ...5037 '0 ...5037 50 seigian sank IBtl Belgian S per Cents. 5 ver Cents., 1840 116% ... 100% ... 106 ... 106 4:irnish Active 2st( ... 25% ... 25 ... '25 Portugueses per Cents. seapoittan Roman RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain Vereardles.R. 13 365 ... 365 ... 300 ... 360 5 L.B 220 ... 220 ... 218 75 ... 218 70 Rouen 5 ,7 50 530 5•17 so ... 527 • ... S r3sburgto Bale Orlean& . 2 47 59 247 50 4 ' ••• n 7 :0 •27 50 2 47 3 560 ... 560 56 65 0 AUSTRIAN FUNDS.-VIENNA, MAittu 1. . riveper Cants. Metalliques sour per Cents. ION Three rr Cents. ......".". ..................... " ....... " 76 ii Bank Shares 1617 MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, THURSDAY Eing. We have had a very d u ll market for the Eng'ishven Stocks to-day, although the accounts from India, it is hoped, will eventually prove to be less disastrous than has been repre sented in some of the published ads ices. It is evident that were full credence to be attached to them, the fall of p r i ces would have more lik e ly b een l or 2 than to the per Cent. Con sols for immediate transfer were flat, at 69 to 89i, and for the account at 89* to 891, Exchequer Bills were rather dull at 30s. to 325. prem.; and India Bonds at 10s. prem. ; .. New Thre-and-a-Half per Cents. were at 98a to 4 . In the Foreign market business was not active, but there was more doing in the Mexican bonds. Prices were without any very material alteration. Spanish Active Bonds were at 24% to ;New Three per Cents. Portuguese, at 33 1 ; and the Old Five per Cents. a t 59. C o l om bi an b on d s were at 24 i to 24a ; Mexican at a rally to 37i and 38i ; and Peruvian at 16. Dutch Five per Cents, were worth 102:4 to 102 i c. The Rtilway Shares rallied a little to-day. Brighton ob tained 141, Blackwell 13-i, Midland Counties 19i, Northern and Eastern 4i, North Midland 30, the New si, the Bir mingham and Gloucester 43, the Eastern Counties 13i, and the Edinburgh and Glasgow 7 discount, being for the latter a slight decline. London and Birmingham were 84fr to 851, the Thirds 261, the North Midland Thirds 3 / 4 , the Liverpool and Manch•ster 88, the Great Western 23i, and the South Western 19.1 premium, London and Westminster Bank Shares were 2i premium. (Piorn The Sun of Last Night.) LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET. MARCH 9.—There is no alteration to notice in the Market. We continue very flat, and though prices cannot be quoted lower, this Market is in favour of the buyer, from the large quantity brought forward for his choice. The sales to day are 4,000 bales, including 800 American and 100 Madras for export. The business con sists of 50C Surats, 3i to 4i ; 60 Bahia 64 to 6i ; 100 Alaranham 6 to 64 ; 700 Egyptian 7h to 7i ; and the remainder American 44 to 7. LIVERPOOL. SHARE MARKET.—The Market closes dull and heavy again to-day, with a tendency to a decline in prices; London and Birmingham Quarter Shares 54 ; Eastern Counties 9i; Midland Counties Twenty-five Pound Shares 19 ; Great Western Half Shares 61 3-10 ; Grand Junction 180 ditto Half Shares, 90* ; ditto Quarter Shares 24 3 4 ; London and Croydon 12k. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 9.—The mar ket is very quiet, and stock is mere freely offered. Manchester and Birminghams, 28 28/ ; London and South Western 58 59 ; North Midland, 69 70 ; Manchester Assurance, 9%. The accounts from New York reach to the 20th ult. fhe Money Market was without any material change. The banks discount sparingly, and appear determined to continue a pru dent and cautious policy. Sterling Exchange continued firm and uudoub•ed bills were freely taken. The transactions were howeverlight on London. The States ranged from 71 to 8i; and on Paris, from sf. 284 to sf. 27i. Domestic exchanges on most points were dull ; on one or two places, particularly Philadelphia, an improvement had taken place, more confidence being felt in the stability of the remaining banks. The fluc tuations in stock had not been to any great extent, and an im provement had generally taken place, especially in State Stock. The quotation for New York Five per Cents. was 76i ; Indiana, Five per Cents. 19 to 19i ; Illinois, Sixes, 19 to 19. 1 4. The accounts from New Orleans, via New York, state that several moderate, and one large failure had taken place, and it is represented that money was excessively scarce. Cape of Good Hope Papers to the 12th of January have been received this morning; they contain no news of importance. The accounts from Mauritius, via the Cape of Good Hope, reach to the 2d of December. The rate of discount on commer cial bills ranged between 6 and 9 per cent. per annum. The total quantity of sugar exported for the eleven months ending November was 173,499 bags, 612 casks, 64 cases, weighing nett 23,651,6521b5., against 190,666 bags, weighing nett, 25,502,2981b5., exported to 30th November, 1840. The adviees from Sydney, via the Overland Mail, are of un favourable nature with respect to trade, which is represented to be in a most distressing state, and that there was nearly a total cessation of business. The accounts from all the towns in the interior are of a most appalling description, nor was any im provement anticipated. Importations were still going en, espe. cially of spirits and wine, the shipper imagining that the ex treme low prices of these articles will enable consignees to com pete with old shipments not disposed of, which would not be realised, as these articles were totally unsaleable, and the stork too large for any speculators to enter the market. The impor tation of spirits by the three last vessels from London amounted to 40,000 gallons of all kinds, and several large shipments were still to arrive. No alteration had taken place in Wheat and Flour. The English Securities opened flat, with but little business doing in them. Consols are 89h Money, and 891 for the Account ; Exchequer Bills, 311. 3d. The Foreign Securities are also flat, with a tendency down ward ; Spanish Active Stock is 241 to 241; Passive, . 51 to 51 ; Deferred, 121 to 121; Portuguese Five per Cents. 33} to 34; Ditto Threes, 191 to 201; Mexican Bonds, 371 to 38; Columbian, 241 to 241. A very limited amount of business has been transacted in the English Funds this morning; the Markets continue heavy. Consols for Money, 89, and Account 891 ; Exchequer Bills 30 32 prem., In the Foreign. Market the operations have also been limited, and prices exhibit no alteration. Mexican Stock is 37 3 4 38; Columbian 24 1 / 2 ; Spanish Acti ve St oc k, 24 1; D eferred, 121 ; Dutch Five per Cents, 102 i. In the Share Market London and Brighton have been done at 35 3 4 ; London and Birmingham 174% ; Liverpool and Manchester 188 ; Midland Counties, 791. Consols, 891 891 ; Colombian, 241 241 ; Mexican, 371 38 Spanish, 24 5 24i. __ _ CLOSING .. _ t !Ditto India PRICES BSot op 70,1: ~ .. .. ... .. .... .. .. .. ..... .. .. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock 3 per Cent Red 9,4, i...JEalt.taßiNuse,witoonnuLi.t.ie.2si.d. ;10 2 p p m ra 3 per Cent Cons B9 !Ditto iild A nnuities iT'' 3i per Cent Red.. New 3i per Cent New 5 per Cent.. Long Annuities t,; pm Jan. Ditto Small 32 pm Jan. 1 86 i; ..... ••••• Bank Stock for 0pg,... Oct 1959. ...... 'lndia Stock f or Acct — 4s.n. 1860. FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent.... (Portuguese, 5 per cent. 9 Belgian, 5 poi cent — Ditto, New Ditto Brazilian 80nd5.... 671 ,Prussian, 5 per cent.., — Buenos Ayres_ 6 per ceit, !Russian, 5 per cent — Chilian, 6 per cent..... , Ditto, Metallic ...... . Colombian, 6 pet cent.. Spanish, 5 per cent 24i Ditto, 1824.. ....... ..... iDitto, Deferred.... .. 121 Danish, 3 per cent French, 5 per cent. —l. —e. Greek, 1825,5 per cent — !Exchange ... 1 —.c. Mexican, 5 per cent. ... 38 French, 3 per cent. —... _ c --Dutch, 21 p er cent. , P D e it r t u o v , i 6 an 7 B2s e7t 6 . p l e B3 r c 7 t. Ditto, 5 per cent. ~ paid) P) 5 17 7 i Cheltenham SHARES. Birmingham and a G and Gloucesterreat Western Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid) Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) ... 43 Great Western Railway 65 paid) BBl Ditto New Shares (50 paid) ... 61} Ditto Fifth (4 paid) Liverpool and Manchester (100 paid) lBB London and Brighton (50 paid) . 35l London and Blackwell Railway (25 paid)... 11i London and Birmingham (90) Lawton and South western Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) ..... .... •• Ditto Quarter Shares ( - 2 paid) 4 Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) • 80i Northern and Eastern (40 paid) North Midland Railway .000) Ditto New Shares (40 paid 341 South Eastern and Dover (48 paid) . 26* • 102 i THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 11, 1842 The Marquis of Salisbury entertained the Duke of Wellington NEWEST LONDON AND PARIS and a select circle at din ner , on Tuesday, in Arlington-street. FASHIONS FOR MARCH. Earl Fitzhardinge has removed from Berkeley Castle to his villa at Cheltenham. MB 711.11sANIC WITS On March 10, 1832, Mutio Clementi, the Celebrated musician, died, aged 80. So early as his ninth year Clementi passed an exa. ruination as an organist, and before he was twelve he had written a mass for four voices, which established his fame. At a meeting of the creditors of the Newton Bank, held at Exeter a few day• since, it was stated that Mr. Baker, one of the partners, went into the concern with 17,0001., and had not now a shilling. (From the World of Fashion, Monthly Magazine.) CARRIAGE HATS AND BONNETS are being generally niadt in velours epingle, and plain velvet; they are mostly ornamented *ith drooping feathers, either round or spiralees ; others have fldlttlis of the most natural appearance. Some of them are worn with no other trimming than a voile d'Angleterre. For in stance; a capote in sky blue velvet has a charm ing effect ; the voile d'Angleterre being plaited, and totally enveloping the capote, and f o ld s being gathered on the left side, and passing through a nceud of ribbon composed of velours epingle of the same colour, shaded with white. Capotes are being made in velours des Indes, of a new and graceful form, trimmed with bouquets of feathers. BERTHES OF PELERINES are now all the fashion ; it simply a berthe which opens in the front, but is sufficiently deep to almost shade the ceinture - CAPS are now being mostly made in lace ; those in point lace are considered most recherche, trimmed with nceuds of grenat velvet; those in blonde are generally made in the following style : the cap is composed of a double barbe off' blonde, the two ends being reunited on the left side by an agrafe of drooping roses ; the laced edge of the blonde falling over the front, throws a becoming shade over the forehead. A funeral took place at Hempstead last week, at which a baker's Cart was used instead of a hearse ! RUMOURS 01' THE DAT. It is generally rumoured at the cubs, that the earthquake has consented to delay its approach until a certain Noble and Gallant Marquis pays his tailor's bill ! Both extraordinary events are ex pected to take place on the same day. Mr. Benjamin D'lsraeli . is, we learn, nic.named at the Clubs, the " Hypnologist" of the House of Commons. HEAD DRESSES.—The greatest novelty arc those pretty little turbans in velvet : the top of the turban being perfectly flat and plain, ornamented with Arabian acorns. The arched bandeaus are still fa vourites with those whose complexions are somewhat dark ; then there is the Arabian head dress, composed of cherry coloured rouleaus in velvet, and gold cords, or with the barbes d'Alencon. WALKING DRESSES.—The most fashionable style adopted for out-door costume are les robes redingotes, made in pearl grey satin, faced with velours epingle, edged with a plain face, and down the centre of the skirt are placed bows en choux. A double pelerine or cape is always worn with this style of peliSse, moderately high, bordered with velvet and lace; the corsage plain, and waist rounded, no band being worn ; the sleeves plain, having facings of velvet, edged with lace. EVENING AND BALL DRESSES.—The form of eve ning costumes differ more in the skirts than in the style of the corsage, the latter being gene rally made a pointes, the top of the body ra ther high, plaided, or a schall ; sleeves very short and simple, and solely ornamented with the same kind of trimming which decorates the skirt. We select the following, as being the prettiest, and in tended to grace the form of the beautiful Duchess of B. ; the material of one of the dresses being in white moire, the jupe open, with the facings of a pretty colour, worn with a satin skirt underneath, the whole ornamented with a silver ribbon about three fingers wide Another dress was composed of crepe crepee, of a:delicate sky blue ; the skirt a deu jupes ; a draped body, and very small short sleeves, the two jupes being caught up with two agrafes, composed of tips of marabouts, at tacved upon a bow of brilliants. THE KAZAWIKA.—This is a charming fantasie, made in velvet, the body high, and showing the figure to great advantage ; brandebourgs and cordelieres in chenille ; the sleeves large a la reine, somewhat in the Amazonian styl e o f th e regence ;. andi underneath this wrap is worn a dress of B ros de Tours, with rows of gympe trimming, a fine dargent. CoLoußs.—The most fashionable colours are mar -1 ron, Oreille d'Ours, greens of different shades, blue marine, and torturelle. The darker colmirs being still worn. SP 'AIN. MADRID, FEB. 28. ADDRESS OF THE NATIONAL GUARD OF MADRID TO THE REGENT, TILE DUKE DE LA VICTORIA, PRESENTED YESTERDAY BY THE WHOLE OF THE OFFICERS OF TILE ABOVE FORCE. "Serene Highness—The National Militia of Madrid, al ways anxious fur occasions to give to your Highnebs fresh proofs of their respect and devotedness, as well as to mani fest their sincere gratitude for the numerous distinctions with which you have honoured them, take advantage of the present opportunity to congratulate you in commemo ration of the' day, and to assure your Highness that nothing could be more grateful to the militia of Madrid than placing themselves under your Highness's com mand, in all cases demanding the defence of our actual institutions of the throne of our innocent Queen, and the Regency, which the nation has so properly confided to the hands of your Highness. Please to accept these new proofs of the heartfelt affection with which the National Militia .of Madrid have the honour of greeting your Highness upon your saint's-day."— COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen held a Court yesterday afternoon at Buckingham Palace. His Excellency the Baron de Nieumann, Envoy Extraordi nary and Minister Plenipotentiat y from his Majesty the Em peror of Austria, had an audience of her Majesty. His Ex cellen-y was introduced by the Earl of Aberdeen, K.T., her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Sir Robert Chester, Master of the Ceremonies. The Sheriffs of London and Middlesex, Mr. Alderman Magnay and Mr. Rogers, were presented to the Queen at an audience by Sir James Graham, her Majesty's Principal secretary of State for the Home Department, to receive her Majesty's commands relative to the reception of an Address from the Court of Aldermen, and also an Address from the Lo d Mayor and Court of Common Council. Her Majesty was pleased to appoint Saturday next, at two o'clock, for the recep tion of both Addresses. The Sheriffs were accompanied by the City Remembrancer. Sir Claudius Hunter, the Chairman of the East India Com pany, Mr. Masterman, M.P., and ether gentlemen, had an audience to learn the Queen's pleasure when her Majesty would receive an Address from her Majesty's Commissioners of Lieutenancy of the City of London. Her Majesty was pleased to appoint Saturday next, at two o'clock. The deputation were introduced by Sir James Graham. Her Majesty was attended by Viscount Hawarden, the Lord in Waiting, and Sir Frederick Stovin, the Groom in Waiting. Lord Hill had an audience of her Majesty yesterday. Her Majesty and Prince Albert took an airing yesterday afternoon in an open barouche and four. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Sir Edward Bowater, rode out on horseback yesterday, and visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, at Cam bridge House. Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal was taken an airing yesterday in a carriage and four. Baron de Nieumann, the Austrian Minister, had an audience of his Royal Highness Prince Albert yesterday at Buckingham Palace, after his presentation to her Majesty. • The Sheriffs of London and Middlesex, accompanied by the City Remembrancer, had an audience of his Royal Highness Prince Albert yesterday, to learn his Royal Highness's pleasure relative to the reception of the City Address. The Royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace yesterday evening included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, the Duke of Wellington, the Earl and Countess of Rosebery, the Earl of Westmoreland, Lady Fanny Howard. Lord Fitzgerald and Vesci, Lord and Lady Ernest Bruce, Lord and Lady Robert Grosvenor, and Sir George Couper, Bart. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent took an airing yesterday in a carriage, and walked in Kensington-gardens. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke of Cambridge and Prince George visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager yesterday, at Ma•lborough-house. The Sheriffs of London and Middlesex, accompanied by the City Remembrancer, had an audience of the Duchess of Kent yesterday at Clarence-house, t 3 learn her Royal Highness's pleasure respecting the City Address. Lord Francis Egerton, M.P., Lord Granville Somerset, M. P., Hon. Robert Clive, M. P., and a deputation of Members of Parliament, had an interview with Sir Robert Peel yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street. ON MRS. NISBETT'S LAUGH. As heard in her " Pamela" during her representation of the Election Scene in Douglas Jerrold's new Comedy of Bubbles of the Day. Bless it !—Nisbett's music-laugh ! Nought I know so sweet by half As when from her twins of lips Sharp its silver titter trips-- Still with arrant wit-shafts ringing— Still with quips sitiric springing : Merriment delighted tetls, How she there has hosts of spells ; While, with wine-stoups, toasters quaff NISBETT'S MUSIC-LAUGH !" Tho' her form be fine and slim— Round her head, and braided f rim— Tho' her cheeks, on both sides bright, Blend with red and balsam-white— Tho' a running sweetness plays, O'er her arch capricious ways— Tho' before her pranksome wiles, Stoic-fronts suffuse with smiles Tho' these all in Nisbet shine, Win they less, and less entwine, Than the one delight divine— One—to which we toasters quaff " NISBETT'S MUSIC-LAUGH Dear-bewitching Whig !—when next England's with elections vent, Arm in arm, with you I'll go Canvassing all Muckboro', Then, I swear, more votes shall bold By scores to us, than Tory gold; Those Goths shall doff their horrid Blue,' And Whiggish " Yellow" wear, like you !" And you the plumpers—you the split—. Shall re4p in conquest infinite ; While each ten.pounder with his vote, . To quit his conscience and his coat, Will own, t' excuse his new enlisting, " 'Twas Ni=bett's face, and no resisting !" Face won him part—the other half HER LUSCIOUS MUSIC-LAUGH ! The Haniburgh Gazlette of the 20th ult. publishes the following from a correspondent, as his opinion of the effect which would be produced in Germany by the tn , sv Corn-laws, proposed by Sir Robert Peel:—" The siding-scale of import duties in England on foreign corn, not only prevents safe specu lation in distant ports, but necessitates the purchase of corn in the ports of the north of Europe, particularly Hamburgh and Dantzie. The sliding-scale of Sir Robert Peel is, therefore, much more advantageous to Germany, whose pets would thus have the exclusive supply of England, than the fixed duty of Lord John Russell, as that would admit of the competition of the speculators in corn of Odessa and of North America." A letter from Gratz, of the 18th ult., announces the arrival there on that day of the Duke de Bordeaux, who left Vienna on the 16th by the I•Zeufkirchen railroad in a special train. His Royal Highness was in good health, and not at all fatigued by his journey. On the day before his departure from Vienna, the Empress, and all the other members of the Imperial Family, paid hi Royal Highness a visit to take leave. Two deaths were caused the day before yesterday, in the Rue Coquenard, by the eating of mushrooms which had been stewed and left to stand in a copper-pan badly tinned in side. The parties were a greengrocer, and a woman, his neighbour, who dined with him that day, on his invitation. The greengrocer's wife, who prepared the dish and partook of it, is hardly expected to live, from the same cause. Two clerks of a cloth-merchant in the Rue de la Bourdonnais stifled themselves accidentally, two nights ago, by osing the valve of the flue of the stove in their room, to throw out the warmth of the braise. They were both found dead in their beds next morning. A subscription is being raised for the benefit of the widows and families of those who met with premature deaths by the late explosion at D'Frnst's fireworks manufactory, to which her Majesty, it is said, has been graciously pleased to contribute 601. One of the caves in the rocks near Saumur, in the Maine et Loire, which afford habitstions to numerous fami lies, fell in a few days ago, and buried a man and his wife. Their neighbours immediately set to work to dig them out, hut. after five hours' labour, their bodies were found crushed and lifeless. Another cave gave way, but the dwellers were fortu nate enough to escape. A LESSON FOR SCOLDING WIVBS.—" And I dare say you have witted your wife very often, Newman," said I, once. Old N ewman l oo k e d d own, and the wife took up the reply. " Never to signify—and if he has, I deserved it.' And I dare say, if the truth were told, you have scolded him quite as often." " Nay," said the old woman, with a beauty of kindness which all the poetry in the world cannot excel, " how can a wife scold her good, man, who has been working for her and her little ones all the day ? It may be for a man to be peevish, for it is he who bears the crosses of the world: but who should make him forget them but his own wife? And she had best, for her own sake—for nobody can scold much when the scolding is all on one side."—Brawer's Student. The Correo A r acional of Madrid states that among the remains of the bodies interred in the vault of San Felipe el Real, there has been found the body of a woman in a won derful state of preservation. It has retained its natural form, the deceased having been of remarkable embonpoint. The nails on the hands are still perfect, the countenance has under gone no change, the lips are half open, and show between them a double row of beautiful teeth. It should seem that the female must have died in the flower of her age. Even the clothes are astonishingly free from decay.. The robe, of a Clark gre n, is trimmed with silk, and of a richness that indi cates she Was of a Wealthy family. A thousand conjectures have been. formed as to her identity ; but whether she will be again bu.ied, or placed In a cabinet of natural history, is not yet decided ill on, as the civil and religious authorities are at variance on the shhjeet. 'We find the filliovVing frOnl COnsfantinople, fth tilt., in the AugsturgA Gazette.—."A firman has Jost been read in all the mosques, ordering the people to adhere to the the old Turkish cestiirrie ; Only ohne ftinctiOalifies are t ► be pertnitted tb *ear the EtirOpean costume. The Porte has tea fused to iccede to the irrangedient prdpeSed by the British Attibtlisider relative to the creek indemnity or a titillioti of drachmas. The Divan prefers paying what it owes to England, and leaving Greece to pay the Porte: It is said also that the English Ambassador requires that the Porte, iii addition to the orthhary expenses of the campaign in Syria, shall pay the pens sions of the wid o w s an d orp h ans of the English soldiers and sailors who lost their lives in that service. The Porte has not replied to this application." LONG MEASURE.—A person has calculated that persons now weave cloth forty inches wide and one mile in length for 3,35., and that fer this sum the shuttle has to travel 2,160 miles, and thefect have to move upwards of 900 miles ! In addition to this, some have to walk Oigh or ten miles for work. A new mode of evading the entrance duties has lately been tried at a town in the department of the Nord. Some washerwomen had entered the barrier several times with a quantity of wet linen. At length an old officer of the ref.!, whose nose had become keen by practice, perceiving that the linen emitted a stronger odour than it could have acquired from the ordinary process of washing, examined it more closely, and found it Completel.' saturated with spitits above proof, on eta. urination, it appeared that, when the linen was got into the tOwht the spirit was wrung out, and, being reduced to a proper degree of strength by admixture of water, was sold for consumption. A letter from Leipsic states that, on the 18th ult. a Student of that University, who had been killed in a duel arising out of a fight between the dogs of the respective parties, was buried by express order of the Senate of the Uni versity without any of the usual ceremonies . A single coach with th? deceased's father followed the body to the aenietery, • - 0 and a clergyma n a uiscourse over the grave, in which he said—" The deceased has lost his life to satisfy a false prejudice." Upon this, a Student exclaimed—" No ! He died n defending his honour." Notwithstanding the 'injunction of the Senate, the burying4round was filled with students. The adversary of the deceased has become delirious from distress of mind at the fatal result of the meeting. A. letter from Vienna announces the death of the Count d'Alcudia, formerly the agent of Dou Caklos at Vienna. THE IfEGENT'S " Gentlemen—l receive with all the feelings of my heart the congratulations and offers of the National Militia of Madrid. I reckon upon, the valiant National Militia of Madrid to continue, as they have hitherto done, to devote their valour and patriotism to the good of the nation and of the Queen. I shall never forget the numer ous services performed by the meritorious National Militia of Madrid. Never shall the merit displayed by them on the night of the 7th of October be erased from my memory. For this emblem of honour and distinction (pointing tg the cross of the 7th of October upon his breast) I am indebted to you — it was you placed. it there. Soon after that memora ble night, my presence became necessary in the northern provinces to put down the insurrection. I entrusted to your care the protection of our exalted Sove reign, of her august Sister, the Goverment, all the powers of the State, the preservation of public order, and the capital of the monarchy, and well ;lid you respond to the confidence reposed in you. Aided by citizen sol diers like you, I fear no one—l fear not all the despots of the earth, even though all the despots of the world were to conspire against the liberties of our coun try. Upon you, citizen; soldiers, I rely —you may count upon me ; for you know that as soldier or citi zen you shall ever find mr: ready to sacrifice my life, if necessary, in support of the constitution of the State, our liberty, independence, the glory of the Spanish people, and the constitutional throne of our Queen. Por the accomplishment of this glorious undertaking during the minority of our Queen, I calculate upon your entire co-operation, and upon th a t o f ' all my fellow-countrymen ; and trust that, on her Majesty coming of tige, and my delivering into her august hands the reins of State, our country may repose free, independent, and happy. • I shall then loose myself amongst you, and, in the retirement of private life, expire with the glory of having done all that was possi ble for the freedom, the independence, and greatness of the Spanish people." On the presenta!ion and delivery of the preceding addresses, there was scarcely absent a single otlietr of the National Guard of Madrid. One or the largest rooms in the capital, where the scene took place, was completely full on the Occasion. At that part of the Re gAit's reply. in which he alludes to the conspiracy in p:ogress, the whole assembly, forgetful of the presencd and place they were in, burst into a loud and enthusiastic " Viva " for the speaker. The late Sir William Hay Macnaghten, Bart., was se.ond son 'of Sir Francis Workman Macnaghten ' Bart., by Miss Dunkin , eldest daughter of the late Sir William Dunkin, of Clogher, and was born in 1793. At an early age he went to India with his father, on his being appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court of M A dra s ; an d, on t h at Learned Gentleman's removal to Calcutta, in 1815, resided there some time with the family. In 1823 he married Mrs. M'Cli,tock, widow of Colonel M'Clintoek. He entered the civil service of the East India Company when young, and his long residence in Bengal and other parts of our Indian de pendencies fully qualified him for the highest agency. In 1839 he was appointed Envoy and Minister from the Indian Government to his Majesty Shah Shoojah-001-111oolk ; and it was for his eminent services during the Affghan war in that year that he was created a Baronet by her Majesty, at the recommendation of her Ministers. His venerable father, now in his 79th year, is still living at, we believe, his seat in Ireland, having retired from the Bench in 1525. The Director of the Mont-de-Piete at Rouen has drawn up a statement of the operations of that establishment for last year, from which it results that during this period the pledges amounted to 86,575, and the sums advanced to 949,066 f., being an average of 10f. 96c. per pledge. The arti cles redeemed were 67,326, and the money returned was 656,761 f., being an average of 9f. 75c. for each. The pledges sold were 4,650, the loans upon them being to the amount of 50,689 f., or an average of 10f. 90c. The advances exceeding 6f. on each article were 48,463 in number, and, consequently, more than one-half of the total. The Director remarks that, among the whole of the pawners in the year, there were only 17 accused of having stolen the articles pl e d ge d. Only 24 of the pawners had become bankrupts, and their pledge were to no great amount. SINOULAR ATTEMPT AT SELF-DESTRUCTION.— Henry Robinson, a deputy officer of the Woolwich Court of Idgtitmts, made a singular attempt at self-destruction en Tues day morning. listing received some trifling affront from a person, he jumped down a well in Waterman's-fields, forty feet deep. He was found to have sustained some severe injuries, pal was removed without loss of time to Guy's Hospital. He Has Made several attempts at self-destruction. FouNTAM have just visited a jet of natural gas, which rises throtigh a small river about l mile from Pont-y-pridd (Newbridge), Glamorganshire. The brook has its source in the valley between the Llantrissant and Minas Mountains, flows into the Rohe.a, and joins the Taff at Newbridge. In the centre of this river or brook, is a con tinued rising or strong bubble, of about eight or ten inches above the stream, as though the water Was blown up by A cur rent of air, or natural gas (and exceedingly cold to the hand I. This, when ignited, produces a powerful flame, from four to five feet in height. with intense heat; and the smell is the same as burning sulphur. There are two jets in the field ad joining, and three on the other side the brook • but they are not so strong as the one passing through the water. The effect by night is grand and beautiful, having the appearance of one mass of large, brilliant blue flames. This singular phenomenon was accidentally discovered by one of the men at the adjoining mill about two months since.— Correspondent of Athenceum. TIIN ST. ALBAN'S BRIBERY CASE.—The friends of Dr. Webster have invited him to attend a public dinner this day, to celebrate his acquittal from the charge of bribery, which the hypocritical and bribery-steeped Tories of that town were base enough to trump up against him. Patriote de Saone-et-Loire relates that, on Sunday last, as one of the men of the Hirondelle steamer on the passage from Macon to Chalon, was running along the deck, he fell, and the tube of his pipe, which escaped from his pocket and stood vertically on th e pl an k, entered his head above th e right eye, and penetrated to his brain. The first effect was to deprive him of his h ear i ng; h e then became delirious, and on Monday was so ra v i ng and violent that he w as necessarily strapped down on his bed. His life is in imminent danger. the A night or t wo back some thieves got into church at Vitry, and completely . of all the sacred ; othei article of vessels, the money in the poor-box, and every the least value. • stripped it SUMMARY OF NEWS AND publtc Optnton. " Who runs may read." ____ FOREIGN. The Journal des Debars has an attack upon The Sun, our com mentary upon which must stand over till to-morrow. The French Opposition Journals cry out that England and Spain are leagued together against Spain. There were interpellations in the Madrid Cortes on the let. Senor Mendez Vigo questioned the Ministers about Cabrera and Narvaez's movements and machinations, and the doings of the French Government. Ministers replied, they were on the alert. The affairs of Portugal were also alluded to; the Minister declaring he had no right to interfere in the affairs of other countries. P ARLIAMENTARY. A number of petitions were presented to the Peers for an al teration of the Pool-law, for the repeal of the Corn-lavrs, and for legalizing Presbyterian marriages. Another case of doubt as to their legality has come before the Assizes at Carrickfergus, and as a special verdict was returned, that case will be argued before the Lords about May next. On that account Lord Camp. bell wished the Marriage Bill now in progress to be postpo ed. In reply to the Marquis of Clanricarde, the Earl of Aber deen said he had received no further despatches from Paris con cerning the dispute about Algiers. In reply to the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Duke of Wellington stated that the Government intended to continue the grant for national education in Ireland, and that no alteration is to be made in the system. Earl Stanhope, in presenting a petition from a working man, declared that he waa the advocate of the rights of man, as laid down at the commencement of the French Revolution, for vrhich and similar sentiments, Lord Monteagle toJk the Noble Earl to task. The Loan Societies and the Apprentices' Regulation Bills went through a Committee. Lord Denman laid oa the table a Bill to enable Anabaptists to give evidence on affirmation instead of oath, which was read a fist time. The Commons did not meet in sufficient numbers to consti tute a House. At four o'clock there was only one Tory and thirty-one Liberals present, so the House stood adjourned. Sir Robert Peel, it is supposed, did not like Mr. Ward's motion for a Committee t , ) inquire into the burden on land, and tlure fore shirked it. PUBLIC OPINION. The Times remarks, with reference to the late disastrous news from India:—" This moment, so critical to ourselves, the Govern ment have chosen for exciting a mutiny in one of their fellow corps at Madras by a sudden reduction of pay. It makes one believe that there is a fatality attending our present efTorts in India, to hear of such madness. Except cowardice, almost every fault of which men in command could be guilty has already been committed. The adoption of the cruel and contemptible Shah Soojah, instead of an alliance with the popular Dost Mohammed, whom the ad. dress of Sir A. Burnes had conciliated—the haughty and ill.judged behaviour (though we do not now wish to dwell on that) of the late Envoy—the reckless massacre at Khelat i Ghilzie—the neglect of the warnings given to Sir A. Burnes by Captain Gray of the intended rising the unfortunate departure of General Sale's brigade from Cahoot at the very mo. ment when his presence was most required—the neglect to secure the magazines of provision, which fell a prey to the first rising of the insurgents, and which would else, after all other mistakes had been made, have saved our troops—crime—negligence—miscalcu. lation—one upon another—ending in the terrible catastrophe which people seem to apprehend has now broken upon us, would indeed remind the superstitious that ' Quern Deus volt perdere pries derneniat.' We cannot, however, yet believe the account which is put forward. It is too terrible. It seems, not an event of the English empire in the I9th century, but a hideous dream, a horrible tale, when we read of 6,000 men massacred almost in cold blood—a British Envoy treacherously murdered, and 16 of our countrywomen (as is asserted) carried off by an army of savage enemies, with sickening details which we could scarcely bear to write, feeling, as we do, that there are those in England to whom such particulars are not, as to ourselves, mere frightful barbarities —a fearful page of history brought nearer—but piercing appeals to their own personal recollections and affections. These accounts, however, at the least have made our own course more clear. Any thing less terrible might have left us still hesitating from shame at our original aggression, and the consciousness of the ill deserts of our country. But by the treacherous murder of our officers, and the settled determination with which they are pursuing, and are said to have effected, the wholesale slaughter of our men, the Affghans have at least released us from any debt to them, and left us free to pursue that course which the blood of our countrymen and the safety of our empire demand. They have yet to learn what it is that they have provoked." The Post says :—" The intelligence from India, which we were enabled to pub ish at considerable length in our impression of yes. terday, can excite but one feeling. The stain on the national honour, the brave men sacrificed in vain attempts to sustain it, the miseries endured by their survivors—all concur to stamp these ac counts with a character of the deepest melancholy. It would give us unfeigned satisfaction if we could encourage our readers to de rive any comfort from the comparatively cheering manner in which the intelligence is treated by a contemporary. But this is out of our power. Our correspondent at Bombay is so intelligen! and cautious, fine has always proved himself so well.informed, that im plicit re;iance may be placed on his communication ; and if it were necessary to confirm his statements by additional evidence, such corroboration would, unfortunately, not be wanting; for we are enabled to assure our readers that the accounts received by Govern. ment are, if possible, of a more disastrous nature than those which we have been the medium ofgivieg to the public." The Herald thus alludes to the rumoured massacre of the Bri. fish troops by the native tribes of Affghanistan :—" In the depth of a Siberian winter they have slaughtered a British army, mur. dined two British civil authorities, and hem in three thousand Bri tish Indian troops in a frontier town. They first half starved the force in Cahoot, and then cut it to pieces. In the midst of their successes they offer terms; they are the immediate evacuation of their country ; and they make this offer with a perfect knowledge of the strength which the Supreme Government of India can in the spring bring against them. They acknowledge that British artillery can open the passes to Cabool, and clear the defiles; they are aware that they cannot withstand the power of the British nation ; you may,' they say, ' again occupy our cities, and by brist. ling our hills by your guns preserve them from our attack ; but in so doing you do not conquer the AfFghans; you can subdue us only by extermination.' We may level the cities and scour the plains, from Jcllalabad to Herat —our reward will be famine and pestilence ; the Affghans will destroy all provisions, and drive their flocks into the mountain recesses; each succeeding summer may witeess our dearly-bought victories, but winter will yearly restore to the Affghans their triumphs. Will, then, the British nation enter into a war of extermination ? Will the British Parliament sar.ction such a war ? Have we become such ennrmous hypocrites as to censure the barbarities of the French in Algiers, and yet enact similar scenes ourselves in Central Asia? What injury had the Affghan tribes ever done to our empire in India, or to British subjects, before we invaded their country ? What right had we to occupy Affghanistan, and to disturb its Government, save that which might gives to us? If Persia carried on war in disguise against us at Herat, could we not have diverted the strength of the Shah from his eastern to his western frontier, by debarking an army from the Persian Gulf ? If Russia intrigued against us in Central Asia, why did we not countermine her intrigues in the Black Sea ?" The Advertiser, alluding to the disastrous reports from Affghan istan, says :---" The right divine' in the East is practically the right of the strongest, and therefore England ought, Instead of making a revolution in favour of an outcast Prince, to have conso. lidated around herself the Powers already existing. This ought to have been her policy. Now, however, there is no choice left. Our authority in Affghanistan must be asserted, and the treacher ous murder of Sir W. H. Macnaghten must be avenged, even if the whole resources of our Indian empire were necessary to accomplish such results. There is no middle course open through which Eng. land may retreat. She must unflinchingly maintain her autho rity in its widest latitude, so far as is consistent with native institu. tions, or altogether abandon her eastern empire." The following are the observations of the Chronicle, on the sub ject of the recent news from Affghanistan :—" In the dates to which sothere are discrepancies which it is intelligence is published in the e md lh eiffi i ocf Gazette, uttheto evuen w ndt h e i r c sa h trae s n a d y a. s s t s Tg a n t hedu M : Major Pottinger as the successor of Sir W. Macnaghten, commenced negotiations on the 24th of De cember : while all accounts agree in assigning the murder of the Envoy to the 25th of December. At the dinner of the Seaman's Hospital Society yesterday, Captain H. Tuckett, who may be re. garded as an authority in Indian affairs, stated that he had had letters by the last mail, a month ago, an - muncing the death of Sir W. Macnaghten, and we believe the death of Captain Trevor was p c o o u se r s o o t. , t disposed t d o , t r . e b f t e r u t p o o s t c h r e e pgaennmsl o a f ec t u h r l s a n of f t o h r e t h i announced by a Contemporary a t that time. We are not, of Bence ; but until we shall have more authentic details we shall not regard the position of our force in AfTghanistan as so desperate as it has been represented." NCONNIT— TRADE—COMMERCE. The lace-manufacture at Taunton is in a very decayed state more so than it has treett during the last seven years. The opera. fives are all working on short time. PIONEERING. The Hon. Hanbury Tracy has been named on the Reform side for the Brighton contest, and Lord Alfred Hervey, the Marquis of Bristol's son an the Conservative. NAVAL AND MILITARY. The anniversary of the campaign in Egypt, under Abercromby, in 1801, was celebrated on Wednesday at the United Service Club with the usual splendour. Twenty.tive officers of both services, and of all arms, sat down to dinner. There Hill be three launches of vessels this season on the Thames; the Worcester, 50 guns, building at Deptford; the Chichester, 50 guns, building at Woolwich; and another smaller vessel at the latter dock-yard. At a meeting of the Seaman's Hospital Society at the London Tavern yesterday, Admiral Bowles stated that since its foundation upwards of 60,000 seamen of the Port of London had been relieved. Among the subscriptions received, the more prominent were, her Majesty (annually) 1051. ; the King of Denmark, 1001.; Trinity Corporation (21st donation), 3001. Merchant Elder Brethren (16th donation), 1001. ; the Hon, East India Company (10th done. tion), 1051. ; together with numerous others, amounting on the whole to 1,0031, 108. At Salisburi. on Tuesda Isaac Smith was indicted Cot the LAW AND POLICE. murder of Ann Little, a woman with whom he had Cohabited for y, several years. The untbrtunate woman had received three deep cuts in the abdomen which cattsed her to bleed to death. The Jury at first returned a verdict of "Guilty of murder," but on some observations being made by Mr. Justice Coleridge, they al. tered it to manslaughter. At the same assizes, a fine respettable looking man, named Robert Crook, was indicted Rd* the murder of his wife on the 7th of February. It appeared some dispute had arisen between them about the payment of a bill, and that the pri= soner had struck her, and she had fallen with the bank part of her head on the ground with great violente, which caused her death a few hours after. The prisoner was convicted of mansiaughter t and sentenced to be kept at hard labour for twelve months . Several new arrests of sawyers, making eleven in all, have been made in Cork, on suspicion of being connected with the late out rage of throwing vitriol en Mr. Wilson. At the Worcester Assizes, E. Maiden, a tailor, was indicted for the manslaughter, of J. Fisher, an ostler, on the 26th of July last. It appeared the deceased had applied an oftensive epithet to the prisoner when a scuffle took place, the deceased was knocked down and his head struck against the curb stone. He died three days after. The prisoner was found guilty and sentenced to imprison. ment for one month. _ LITEILAR.Y AND SCIENTIFIC. Among the present relics at Strawberry Hill, is the ;ed hat of Cardinal Wolsey. Bishop Burnet found it in the great wardrobe; it then passed into possession of the Bishop's son, the Judge, and from him to the Countess of Albemarle, by whom it was pre. rented to Horace Walpole. The valuable library and collections of the !ale Aylmer Bourke Lambert, Esq., F.R.S., have been left by him as a bequest to the British Museum. stated f t rtmeneedtienfg hisof t a h te Sandwich had Ited s Society, e 11 e ,1 1 t r h . A Newport earus Crossii from a mineral solution, by a current of voltaic electricity, continued for eleven months. TUELILTRICA.Z. s Her Majesty and Prince Albert *lilted edireitt:gatelt on Wednesday, to itiiiiiii the. Theatr'e heti coined of irubMel4't . e D 4 'itns4 Comes. No* tlid her Majesty has affixed her itnprimateur on this brilliant comedy, hundreds of the servile, would-be fashionable middle classes will discover excellencies in it, who before were stone-blind to them. COVET---rasinrONAZILE. His Grace the Archbishop of York arrived in Grosvenor.square on Tuesday. The Ma - r - cbioness of Lansdowne bad an evening party op Wed. aft sz night at ;lantiowne BELGIAN CONSPI HACY. The exami na ti on o f M a ' ame V an d ers missen was eon tinu ed at some length in the latter part of the sitting of the Court Assizes at Brussels, on the 2d inst. She denied all the chart, of the act of accusation, the principal of which were, that - had been an active agent between the leading, conspirators; and also declared to be false the statements which conspirator ; bee t. made as to language used by her against the Govern*nbo After her examination, the gatekeeper of the priael l ' • had been mentioned as having heard Crehen tel l the poi cones Verprect to i m p eac h t h e other prisoners seemed' ;: J he would be well re war d e d b y th e G ove rnment, WM a He to corfirm or deny the truth of Verprect's assertion. ,aid that Crehen had advi se d V er p r ect not to Vas e j„ n r , confidence in the generals, as they would give him pith L is and also to give up his own counsel, and confer (Crehen's), so that they might act in concert for their ow interest. He thought he had heard the word " Governfr,er.,t, used. The Avocat-General, in consequence of this in that observed, that it was important to remove any imp es Crehen was a police agent, and called M. Hody, the ebi entered the Department of Public Safety, who at great length o f e into the details of the denunciations which had been mo de by Crehen previously to the arrest of the other prisoneralooi showed satisfactorily that the police had never eleP ot loo him as an agent or spy. M. Hody, in answer to a tln, b a d which was put to him, stated that the prisoner ParZe been in the police, from which he was dismissed. 1 : 1 0 de cond witness called was M. Jottraud, an avocet, v r " po.ed to General' Vandermeere having, in a co nversatin. t he him, said that Belgium would be much better governea., by present King of Holland, and in union with Ha an ' c on. as it was now. Two other witnesses were called as %or vcrsations of no moment. The person who sold t he c They to Crehen deposed to the sale, as did also his son. „ A la said Crehen had another person with him, but thelco' ort not iden.tify him amongst the prisoners before th t his The remaining part of the proceedings, in the sitting 0 , 0 „,e day, was without interest. In the sitting of the ad d a ted letters were produced in Court and read. They we re v a reat in 1839, 1840, and 1841, and were from the prisoner _ffeto to M. Hody, administrator of public safety, containit i'lol of his services as a secret police agent. Parent det he had ever been a police agent, and demanded that de• should produce the registers of his office, but the lan rode' dared that he had burnt all reports and registers of h.ri: ti (110 cessors on coming into possession of his functions. l e i ft isat Parent declared that, some time ago, the King of the n us# l6, had given him 300 f. on condition th a t he would loave oat and live in a village, which he did , and also that whenn i l re the to Paris he was summoned to the Pavilion Marsan cs"Teries), King of the Belgians has his apartments while at the Tu h of° and was there desired by General d'Hane to keep a lis te d Os General Vandersmissen and M. Claes. M. Ortas o " e „ u irste counsel for the prisoners, urged M. Hod y to cco un- tter'' what reports he had in his possession relative to these ' D i viev and the latter promised to do so in private. Genera/144a dersmissen remonstrated against the conduct of t l l he t sj police in keeping a surveil ance over him, even v" , ;:„ .. ., of 1,, ". at Paris, and was occupied solely with the 'duo"' children. THE GOOD WIN SANDS , 40, tr oo-l e Allusion was made not long since to the man}. projects for dealing with this dream land, as i t ' I. or e , reality, and erecting thereon li g hth ou ses," an"';: j ee. strange still, constructing there " harbours of ;of Meantime, while- those projects are yet in petto, be useful to record particulars of a deed accorOlnis"ileci‘ of the "safety beacon" erected there by Captaill'', ,t r i A ltP under the sanction of the Lords of the Aue';• raters' and which has now withstood the storms of two oioelt, and one of them of unusual. severity. Captain 13 k il a Aa• in a letter to Captain Beaufort, hydrographer to i'f the miralty, states, that in carrying on the surv e L, - e oley Thames it was found expedient, as the work tri 1)7,60 15' seawards, and the receding landmarks grew "• 5 0 to erect fixed marks on the different ireo The first of them . was nothing more than. I n to it' bar driven into the sand, with a Hag-staff affixeued bf This stood but a tide or two, and was su cceed be id various modifications of the same simple plan, sieY s 'AO added to support the shaft ; but in vain, the l e g Alt erected in this manlier all yielded to the 61. „ st otio li f of wind. It then appeared that some I.°i...re of was wanted to enable them to resist the a° 607, the waves. To remedy this defect the bar w e t s 0 40 . in a broad cross of wood, from the extremities o f otoi chains were attached to the staff, and after re Fol ti trials success was attained by this means. Th e i cn o , i • of the experiments above related, joined to the i s et , ledge of the lamentable loss of life annually taltiegV' on the "Goodwin Sands," induced the persu asl, since it was found practicable to fix bege°;ilett" them, it was an imperative duty to erect ono h"," lated for the Reservation of life. The safety now standing upon the Goodwin Sands 1 7; e t1 thus described shaft, or mast, forty height, and 12 inches in diameter, is sunk into the s an g through a strong frame of oak, in the form of firmly secured by four long bars of iron, 511 ;, 0 5i1 with several tons of ballast, chalk, &c. The, c a o sustained by eight- chain "shrouds," in attached to iron piles, 17 feet long, which ti r- , /1 0. 9 '; down close into the sand, and are backed o ' r Li room anchors to prevent their coming bottle , 41' wards the mast. On the shaft is fitted an ocuf l oc' e h r lery, capable of holding 30 or 40 people, all i oco b , less than 16 feet above high water mat l / 2 t • •" rs°ll - gallery there is temporary safety for 20 P e nit off more. The mast is also fitted with a light if co ° on which a blue flag (always at liar' V i e ; be hoisted, when aid is required from the 5 but which is kept struck, or down, to give the the appearance of a wreck, thus answerig purpose of a beacon of warning, and a 117 c, a n refuge. Directions are given in eight Janglob -s r t bread and water, with a small supply of .-pirits , e 4 ;10 upon the beacon, properly protected from the ‘ cc iet ol To the beacon is also appended a chain ladder ° 11 11, 4 ascent, as well as " cleats' to the mast, and, /AV ° basket chair is kept in readiness, with ropes an d - to succour the exhausted. CORN AVERAGES sit co lli ltli ' GENE:RAI. AVERAGE PRICES OF BRIT I ~ pen / i For the Week ended March 4. 1842. made up front t1 0 g140. , ',; the Inspector. in the different Cities and Town. in 04 6 41 O f Wales, per Imperial Quarter. .... , 4 43 Wheat 6 - s. 9d. i Oats ... ...... 19s. id. ' Beans.... ..5.1*,,,w,,,, Barley 28.. 3d. I 'lye - 00 AVERAGES OF THE LAST SiX WEEKS' H o. ,Ai, Wnek ending , wites . r..BAßLEl OATS. I EVE. 1 S EA- .• -0 ,1 " T 1 1 .------,....---.-, Jan. - ',B 6l 7 23 3 2 0 1 37 4 ; :3 4 4 4 ,- -, 4 ,' Feb.' 4 .1 I 1 5l 1I 23 2 20 4 36 0 0 7, 5 ,vi :8 6O 0 28 5 19 8 37 1 , :;;; j 0 .1e 9 2i March 4 (0 9 28 3 19 1 3. 3' : , 'fir'l l , IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF THE S - 5 0 1. Wheat ...... ... 60, 5 1 . Oats Barley 284 41.1 1 Rye DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. ' .0' ilk Wheat.... ..... '6 , . 81. Oats I. 3d.1 8ean5...07..0 Harley 194 I 101. Rye 4) nV A • ' THE MARKETS.-(YESTE- . o i WHITECHAPEL. • h NHS I" s' The Market was but moderately supplied 11 'it 0 Clover, and the demand middling for all qualities. er ,§ l 4 l . 0 the supply middling and the trade good. First C l l, O , 51. S s. ; Clover Seed, 21. lOs. to 41. 159. ; First P to ll. 41. 65. ; Hay Seed, 2/. to 3/. 15s. ; Straw, 1 1 . 16 6 ' 0 01 COLONIAL MARKET. the .111 1, ' Prices were firm for most kinds of produce. bu t r ole, i d of business done was limited for export. The hom e ' co ' nO O- ever, had buyers to a f iir extent ; they entertain more as to the future state of trade. f ' TEA MARKET. The Market became dull for Free Trade Tea, but hol4 Ast were fi,m, and obtained full rates ; Is. I Id. was Ole o: Common Congou, cash, and Company's Is. 1 lid- P er do ll. large public sales declared tend to keep the market ie li , TALLOW MARKET. f be. Prices wen , firm tor Tallow, but the amount ° 4 800 flls transacted was limited. Yellow Candle on the spo t of / . 495. 3d. for delivery, in the last three mouths of the 1 stock of Tallow was large. i COUNTRY CORN MARKET.S_:__4f Is. „....""P Wheat. Barley. Oats. Bea l .., 4 te 0 -..--- ---- a. to 0 8'• 31) ei Per Quarter. s. to s. s. to it. a. to s. Boston iiraintree 52 70 27 34 23 29 3 3 ,4 0 ~, . ~. Brighton 6O 18 28 :7 .22 28 . 9 9 p Cambridge — 60 25 16 . 4g 1 Chichester 26 65 25 93 20 23 4 42 0 3 , Danmow 5l 64 22 33 20 26 2 8 4 0 ':. ff Grantham 0 Grimsby 56 74 28 33 IS 21 36 04 Hailsham 66 72 29 33 50 21 32 .., .. . 41 at Hitchin 5O 67 27 34 20 90 3. 54 . $0 Ipswich 6O 67 28 32 21 26 3 3 38 I; /, Lewes 6O 66 32- 31 21 22 34 34 b. e Lynn 5O 64 24 36 18 22 28 40 .1 41'„ Maidstone 59 67 36 39 20 32 3 8 si I' o 0 , Norwich 3 SO 0 0 Petworth Romford 54 68 25 32 18 2 - 8 %. :8 0 ~,. Sandwich 6l 71 23 31 iss 30 3 3 44 s 0 , Tnetford - 41.' Wisbech Withawl 5B 68 24 30 21 27 2 7 40 I• 7 A i farmouth 6O 69 SO 32 24 30 9 8 8 P , WO I 9 9, ) LIVERPOOL CORN lid 1 1RKET.-.- 1 A „ O.' 0 0 WHEAT, English, White, per 701 b.... ................ ~ ; 3 1 0 0 i Red -----• Scotch, Welch, and 3lanx --.. Irish, White 5lO 1 0 0 ------- Red Foreign 8 ' 9 OATS, Hagfish. Welsh, and Scotch, per 451 b. ....... -- Irish Foreign 0 9 • 4 o 1 BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter ...... .4,1„ Scotch and Irish, pet 60I1rs. Feeding BEANS, English, per Imperial quarter ................. s 4 6 0 ....-..... Irish, &c Foreign PEASE, English, per Imperial quarter - 0 , .--- Foreign FLoult, English, per 280119. _.--- Irish 23 ° 49 0 OATMRAL, English and Irish, per ' Ifilbs. ......... .. 4Q 0 90 INDIAN CORN, per 4801 b. . swe r w e ............ ••••• ." 0 • rs . v.,, ILYR, per Imperial quarter ° .. MALT, per Imperial quarter ____----"'" .10 —.. BIRTIS. f Sir ju- On the 9th inst., in Eaton square, the lady 0 , , • tu t Thorold, Bart., of a son and heir. of P e On the 4th inst., at the Cedars, Putney, the lady 00 , p nant-Colonel G. Hutchinsen, Bengal E n gineers , of i dei th ie r, On the sth inst. ,at Biggleswade, Mrs. Weston , of a V' On the 6th inst., at Cheltenham, the lady of the 1 18/ * tis H al ve', pf a daughter. B eds , On th e 6th inst., at the Vicarage, Milton Ernest, ciete b l lady of the Rev. C. C. Beaty Pownall, of a son. On the 7th inst., the lady of Mr. Phillipson , Lu 1 1 ' , of a daughter. A Of l''' On the Bth inst., at Mythielton-square, the lauY Brien, surgeon, R.N., of a SOD, still-born. et MARIURD. SW'S On the Bth inst , at Bethnal-green, James nalg it e s 'be € l .„ , Camborne, Cornwall, to Eliza, relict of Count u l ot $ 69 " Bourdonnais, and daughter of the late L ewis Cord ° ~,, Purser in the Royal Navy. Pi f pg p On the Bth inst., at St. George's Church, in t he for 0( George La Mark, youngest son of William La Markas__Nbter th e Commercial-road, to Isabel Susanna, youngest dun the late Captain Andrew Carr. gingham, O n th e in n7th th e u N i t o . r , theth R • .. A of Se° GO. A t Edinburgh, Lady Leith, widow of the late Major- Sir George Leith, Bart. life r On the 7th inst., at Gordon-place, Tavittock-square, widow of the late Lieutenant-Gere. 1 Walsh , aged 7 4 ' ( ,•ra. Richard r sh r :r"e.wdei 11.".' afSi 0 D 0 04 i° London: Printed and Published by MURDO Y ~,i s h No. 112, Strand, at The Sus (Moe, No. 112 5 P . '" 4h• County of MidcUeles, Friday, March 11, Vita A Rev.id i DpgloEf D y o. th- 1