The Sun. — London, England, 1834-04-14 00:00:00

ps l\ \\ PRENCII PAPERS. (Froni Galignani's Messenger of Saturday.) The Massager says, that the departure of Marshal Gerard for Lyons is talked of. The Ministerial evening journal gives the following . details relating to the events at Lyons :—" The Go vernment received this morning by express a report of the proceedings at Lyons on 'W ednesday. It presents: a lamentable picture, since French blood has been shed, but at the same time affords positive assurances' of the triumph of order and the laws. For several days the authorities had been warned, and were pre pared for sinister occurrences. Every thing showed that the agitators, despairing of success in the capital, where the magistracy is sustained by the National Guards and the garrison, determined to make an at "tempt in the provinces, and the unfortunate city of Lyons, the capital of industry, obtained the deplorable 'preference. The Me.thellistes appeared little dis posed to engage in thsa plot, and it has been nearly de monstrated that inly such workmen as have become edtliated with political societies joined the anarchists. early as the preceding day, the brave General Aitiotta made his arrangements. The Court was well eiarde,-.1 ; reinforcements were called in from the envi m,:ts. The Prefect went to the Place St. Jean to judge of the state of affairs, and to consult with the military com manders. Although the Court was sitting, the Place St. Jean was completely free from any assemblage of the people, and this solitude evidently proved that the anarchists had determined to come en masse. In fact, they made their appearance about eleven o'clock. A man read an incendiary address, and in a few minutes after the barricades were begun. The Prefect, with out a moment's hesitation, gave orders for their bein g destroyed. Major-General Buchet, who commands the Department of the Bouches-du-Rhone, under Ge neral Aimard, directly brought the troops forward. The gendarmerie under Colonel Canuet, and the in fanrpy, assailed the barricades with the most deter mined resolution, and carried them under a brisk fire. The Prefect never quitted the troops during the action. The barricades were all thrown down as soon as they were raised, but still there were a great many seriously wounded, and some killed, but the greatest loss was not on the side of the troops. The severest part of the action took place in the Place de la Pr6fecture. The anarchists found their most solid intrenchment in the new temporary hall, and it became necessary to beat down the palisades with cannon-shot. They were soon destroyed, and those who had endeavoured to defend them were put to flight. The place was then entered by the troops, and a long exchange of musketry ensued between the soldiery and the in surgents, who had- stationed themselves in what is called the Organ-gallery. Cannon were again used, the gall-,ry was forced from the alley, and entered. A filled with rioters armed with muskets, was 'Durst open by means of petards. A great number of prisoners were taken, some wounded, and others blackened with gunpowder. At every point the troops had the advantage. Other engagements took place on the bridges, at the Place des Terreaux, and at La Croix Rousse. The cannon and musketry were firing for several hours together in the midst of this com mercial city, where nothing would be heard but the setttia of the looms, if factions had not attempted to 00.1 t a stop to them. During a contest of five hours the troops displayed a firmness which must put an end to the criminal hopes of those who, it is said, relied upon their defection. The military and civil authorities tivalled each other in zeal and devotedness. It is painful to have to bestow upon them this praise, but it is t. duty to do honour to those who expose their lives s)r the maintenance of order and the laws. At four the action ceased. Some few musket-shots resounded afterwards at intervals in the streets in the centre of the town. The troops were in repose. The Go vernment has not received any telegraphic despatch since that of yesterday morning, which announced that General Aimard was in full possession of all the positions, but to-day no telegraphic communication could come beyond Semur. Despatches from all the surrounding country, as well from St. Etienne, Ma con, and Dijon, announce that all was quiet there." By Royal ordinances of the 9th and 10th instant, M. Edmond Blanc, Secretary-General of the Minister of Commerce and Public Works, is appointed Secre tary-General and Director of the Administrative Per sonnel of the Interior Department, in the room of M. Didier ; and M. Vitel is appointed Secretary- General of the Commerce Department, in the room of M. Edmond Blanc. _ Several members of the Societ6 des Droits de l'Homme were arrested yesterday. Government have taken strong precautionary mea sures for securing the tranquillity of the capital. The troops are consigned to their barracks, with a battalion of each regiment, for pickets. Cartridges have been delivered out, and during the last night numerous patrols have paraded the streets. It is satisfactory to be able to announce that perfect tranquillity prevailed. A few groups, assembled in the populous quarters of the city yesterday, at the hour when the workmen usually go to dinner, dispersed on the remonstrances of the police. The Constitutionnel, after giving the report upon the proceedings at Lyons, on Wednesday, from the evening Ministerial journal, which will be found in another column, has the following :—" The despatches from which the above recital was taken were brought yesterday morning by an officer of ordonnance, who left Lyons at 10 o'clock, on the night of the 9th inst. They comprise a report from General Aimard, ad dressed to the Minister of War, and a letter from the Prefect. We are enabled to add to the above extract various details it does not contain, but which trans pired in the course of the day. It appears that the workmen made their first advances in columns, and in good order, towards the Palais de Justice, announcing their resolution to protect their brethren then before the court, as the judges were defended by the troops. Numbers of them were armed. After ineffectual injunctions to them to retire, hostilities commenced, and about twenty-five soldiers were put hors de combat. Upon this the troops retorted with great vigour. The workmen, on their side, defended themselves with equal intrepidity. Their movements were directed with great regularity, and the orders given were followed with the utmost precision. The artillery drove them for shelter into the narrow greets in the centre of the town, and particularly in the Rue Mer ciere, where it was difficult to reach them. The number of workmen engaged in the combat is said to amount to between 7,000 and 8,000. Their loss has been very considerable. The despatches do not give the numbers of the killed and wounded ; but we are informed that a letter received by a commercial house says—" We have obtained to-day a great advantage, but it has been very dearly bought." It is said that an attempt was made in the Place Bellecour to proclaim a republic. When the despatches were sent off, the rioters were concen trated in the streets which are in the neighbourhood of the Archbishop's palace. ' Three houses they occupied were fired upon with grape-shot, and in one of them 150 prisoners were taken, many of whom were wound ed. Although the national guards are not embodied, a certain number of the citizens, dressed in the uni form, mingled with the troops, who remained faithful against all attempts at seduction. The telegraph which has been deranged is that at Limouset, two leagues from Lyons, and that at Fourviere has also been dismounted. It is to be regretted that the cloudy weather yesterday prevented the telegraphic despatches coming beyond Semur, and thus hindered the arrival of news. The last accounts by the tele graph were received on Thursday, and were dated about 12 o'clock. At that hour, as appears by the statement in the Ministerial evening journal, the insurgents had not been dislodged from the houses they occupied in the centre of the town, but there is every reason to Presume that before the evening this deplorable revolt had been put an end to." • The Augsbarg Gazette of the Bst inst. has the fol lowing- of the 3d, from Vienna :—" The Greek am bassador, M. Caradja, had an audience of the Emperor on the Ist. The Archduke Ferdinand d'Este set out for Transylvania yesterday. Our funds to-day are, Metalliques, 5 per Cents., 97i : ditto, 4 per Cents., 88 1 3 ; Bank Actions, 1,248." This journal has also the following :—" M. Camitz, Prussian ambassador at Cassel, will attend the conferences at Biberich, in order to smooth the difficulties which the Duke of Nas sau has raised, relative to the Luxemburg ques tion. In 1255, the house of Nassau divided itself into two branches, that of Walrom, and that of Otho. The former took the country beyond the Lahn, Siegen, Dillenburg, Hadamar, and Diez. The branch of Otho, which had already acquired great power in the Netherlands, preserved its primitive territory up to the French revolution. The two houses were bound, with respect to their Germanic possessions, by a special treaty, which was renewed towards the close of the last century. After the fall of Napoleon, the house of Otho again became possessed of its Germanic states, but it abandoned Luxemburg to Prussia, who ceded it to the house of Nassau. In this way the pos sessions of this latter house passed to the Walrom branch, now reigning, and the rights this family bad, in virtue of a private treaty, over the possessions of N r.3(~ 4 \ , N -,.. , • %. k\ ' y , Otho's branch, then extended themselves to the Duchy 1 feel their own " wringing," and be glad, of Luxemburg. Consequently, no part of Luxemburg , I can be ceded without the consent of the collateral Iwe should think, to relieve themselves branches of the house of Nassau." I from their perilous, not to say desperate, The Nuremburg Correrifnotdent of the 7th instant condition by capitulation and compromise. states, after accounfs from Berlin dated April 2, that They and their misguided f o llowers will, it is the King intends tb rnali - a journey to Konigsberg in ~ the beginnint of the hummer, and will probably visit to be hoped, speedily solicit the interposition of Posen, and then proceed, by way of Breslaw, to Toplitz. - Great Britain and France ; and there can be The Frankfort Gazette of the Bth inst. has the fol- little doubt that the two regencies of Madrid lowing from p osition has been Stock made t holm, do the ated th State Be 1 s -General to th ult :-"A pur- ro- and Lisbon will be happy to heal the wounds of chase the domain of Ekolsund, and to present it to i their respective countries, by providing a retreat the second son of the Crown Prince, the Duke of I for their refractory but discomfited princes, and Upland, for himself and his heirs; the King, how- , ny consolidating the free institutions' adapted to ever, immediately wrote to beg the proposition might not even be taken into consideration, as the bonds the progress of their country under the sane that united the branches of his family to the nation tion of the two great representative Govern rendered such tokens of attachment unnecessary." The Piedraontese Gazette of the 23d ult. gives a ments of Western Europe, Great Britain and letter from Genoa, stating that the crew of the Sardi- France. Such a consummation is devoutly to nian bombard La Signora del Carmine, who had been carried off as slaves by the Arabs, after she was be wished. When bad men cons pire, says M r . wrecked on the coast between Boujeia and Bona, in BURKE, good men should combine ; and when the month of November last, have been ransomed for northern and eastern despots busily herd toge a small sum through the mediation of the consuls of Algiers and Bona. The French Government con- I then, and confer, treat, stipulate, and cabal, it tributed greatly to their release by sending an intelli- may be wholesome, and is certainly natural, gent agent to be employed in this good office. FRENCH FUNDS.-PARIS, APRIL ii, that the free States of the west of Europe Five per Cents., 104 f. sc. 104 f. 104 f. se. should knit more closely together, and form a Four per Cents., 93f. Three per Cents., 77f. 95c. 78f. sc. 78f. b arr i er f or t h e lib ert i es an d i mprovements o f National Loan, 103 f. 95c. 90c. Bank Actions. 1,7 2f 5Pc. 179 f. mankind, against the meditated encroachments, Bente de Naples, 94f. 40c. 30c. Boman Five per Cents., 955. and suspicious designs, of despotism and oli l!ente d'Evagne, Five per Cents., 26!‘,. Bente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 40%%%. garchy. ilovai Sonnisn Loan, 82 81% 82. Bente Perpet. d'Espagne, live per Cents., 651 i %%. The following is from the Devonport Tele- Relgian Loan, 1831. Five per Cent., 97 97%. Haitian Loan, 270 f. graph :- EXCHANGE ON LONDON. One month, paper, -f. -c. ; money, 25f. 25c. The Lightning steam-packet arrived here yesterday Three months, paper, -f. -c. ; money, 2:1. 1:c. from Lisbon, Oporto, and Vigo, brin g ing home Lord -comics Authentique. William Russell, late Minister at the Court of Donna FRENCH FUNDS.-PARIS, APRIL 12. :Nfaria, his lady and suite. Colonel Hare also came Five per Cents., 1041. 10c. Sc. Four per Cents., 93f home in the Lightning, which left Lisbon on the 27th Three per Cents., 78f. 78f. 3c. 78f. ult. and Vio as late as the 7th inst. She brings de- Bank Actions, 17990 f. 1,795 f. g Rente de Naples, 141.30 c. 35c. spatches from Lord H. de Walden, and Rear-Admiral Roman Five per Cents., 95%. Parker. No movement had taken place at Santarem, Rente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 264. but it was understood that General Saldanha would Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 401{,%%. Royal Spanish Loan, 82 commence active operations against the position of Bente PPTpet.d'Ecpagne, Five per Cents., 65 3 / 4 %. Don Miguel on the 27th, to prevent reinforcements Belgian Loan, 1531, Five per Cents , Wk. Haitian Loan, 267 f. 50c. being sent into the provinces, where the Pedroites EXCHANGE ON LONDON. were everywhere victorious. At Vigo the Lightning line month, paper, -f. -c. ; money, 2.51 - . 25c. heard that Admiral Napier had been completely suc- Three months, paper, -f. -c.; money, 25f. 15c. -Co ors Authentique. cessful in his expedition against Viana and Villachao, BELGIAN FUNDS.-BatTs;cis, APRIL 10. in the province of the Douro-the Miguelite garrisons Actual Debt, 2 % per Cent. 5l having abandoned these places as soon as he appeared Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cr , t Loan of the City, 1832, 4 iy,... Cent.- -Brussels Papers, April 12. the supplies sent to Santarem from the Spanish fron- DUTCH FUNDS-ANbTERDAM, APRIL 11. . tier, and to open a direct communication with Spain. Actual Debt, 214 per Cent. Atnort Syndic, 414 per cent S9IA to 80% The report that Spanish troops had entered Portugal Ditto, ditto. - 314 per cent. Voluntary Loan, 1831, 6 per -1... to - Madrid had sent a courier to Lisbon with offers of Loan of 14 Million, 1830, 51, cent lOO% to 100% Ditto, 18314F32, 5 per Cent. Exchange on London l2 10 when the Lightning left. The Scorpion was to leave Two Months l2 05 with the mail on the 30th March. The Nautilus came -Dutch Papers, April 12. - - _ - - ...........-. into Vigo the day the Lightning left, and she spoke the Carron steam-packet about six miles north of Bayhona Islands, on Monday evening last. The Asia, Donegal, Scorpion, Pihe, and African steam-vessel, were in the Tagus. The Mary transport, sent out to relieve the transport having the marines on board, was about to return to England, not being found large enough for the service. The Ringdove left the Tagus i the day previous to the Lightning. FURTHER INFORMATION.-SinCe writing the above, we have learnt by a letter from an officer of one of the squadron in the Downs, dated the 30th March, that Oporto is fast recovering its wonted appearance. On the 25th of March the troops marched out of the town, and falling in with the Miguelite troops, about eighteen miles north of Oporto, a smart engagement took place, which ended to the dvantage of the Con stitutional troops, who took several pieces of cannon, and a few prisoners. It was reported that the Mi guelites were about to make an attack upon Oporto, and a reinforcement of 400 troops arrived from Lisbon on the 28th, and a further force was expected daily under the command of the Duke of Terceira. Ad miral Napier took Carminia with 400 marines. The Miguelites had well prepared themselves for the at tack, but were deceived as to the point of attack, for Napier landed on the Spanish side, and marched upon their rear, taking them by surprise. He also cap-: tured two schooners laden with provisions, and the Scorpion cutter, but she had landed her cargo. The Stag, Captain N. Lockyer, arrived off Oporto on the 29th, to relieve the Castor. The Pike, Lieutenant Brooking, arrived on the 25th from England. The Saracen, Lieut Le Hardy, was cruising off the Bar. PRICES OF SOCKS THE Bank Stock _ 21316%f DAY AT ONE. O'CLOCK. 3 per Cent. Red 89%'4 3 per Cent. Cons 901.04% 3 per Cent. - Dito Red q7 1 .i% New 3!,‘ per Cent 98504 3 per Cent. Ann. 1726 — ! 4 per Cent. 1826 lO2B Bank Long A nn. to expire Jan. 5, 1869 l7 1-16 Oct.lo, 1859 — i Jan. 5, IWO Jan, 5, 1880 — Aprils, 1840 Jan. 5, 1870 — New 5 per Cent. — India Stock Ditto Bonds" ...9 31 pm. 'South Sea Stock ..... Old Annuities 'New Ditto 3 per Cent. Ann. 1751 — Ex Bills, £1,020-52 53 50 pm• Ditto ',00...52 53 51 pm . Ditto Small .... . . ...%1 53 50 pm. i Ditto Commercial pm. Ditto Advertised — pm. Bank for Account .... ...... India for Account 960 Cons. for Account 9 l 91 '1,4 ~ 17 1 4 3-16 .. . PRICES OP FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. A tist ri an Bonds ..... ... lO2l Peruvian Bonds 'fig B I , lian Bonds 99) Ditto Accotint 0 1N Ditto Accent). I 91 ; Portuguese 80nd...? 6B 9% Brazilian Bonds i 11 . ,... i Ditto Acconn . 69% 9% nitto Account 7114 Ditto New Bonds ...66% 9 1 4 •bicros Ayres Rondo 25N , Ditto A cconn t.......38N 9 %t% Ditto Account 26 !Prussian Bonds .. ..... .. 103 , 4 3 ' 7l ' il a n Bonds ••••••• .......... 4 , Ditto Bonds, 1822 lO3 Ditto Account 26 Russian Bonds, 1922 Columbian Bonds Ditto ,Account 23 I Ditto 111 I 10414 Ditto Bonds, 1 1 ,324 0 .11,4 ; Spanish Bonds, i5' , ....3034 1 1 ,4 Ditto Acc , •unt 2 556%1 Ditto Ace. .31 !.. 2 %%1i% Hanish Bon.ii :4, Ditto Bonds 18,3 . ..... 2704 5 Ditto Acer tint.. 73441 Ditto Account 2B ;Ireek Bonds 'French Roues, 5 p...-.. _f. —c. Ditto Bonds, 1825 ...... -. Exchange ...... --1 ---... Ditto Account.. ......... « — ,---S per Cent. ...... —f —c. S•texican Bonds, 5 per cent 31% : -- Exchange . .... —r —^. Ditto Account Dutch, 21 p. c 5914 MI 'it o, 6 per cent 39 Ditto Account 843% Ditto Account 19% • Ditto, sp, c. 95% 1 4 Y.l Neapolitan.. ............. —. Ditto Account 95% TRICES OF SHARES TIIIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid, Per Sfiare. Allen Mining Company £9 I 1% ArAgiti nex. Ain. ..;o. ;;;.s. at ai. pm £loo - 9 1 .4 Bolan n?.; Mining Company £l5O 130 Brazilian Mining Company £s 15 Brazilian Imp. Min. Co. (is's. at 5/. pm.) £ 2:: 51 1 ., Ditto Macanbas Cocaes 18)4 Ditto St. John Del Rev Data Branca Mining Company :3} 2 514 !:.ritish Iron Minim. , Colima. v .... Columlk n Minint Co. (its. at 5/. pm.) 5214 10 1 .4 English Mining Company . ...... •leneral Mining Association l2 Hibernian Mining Co. £lo 3% Mexican Mining Co. ......... ilea] dcl Monte Mining Co.— (unreg.) 33 '.., rated Mex. Min. Cr, (is, at 2/. em.) 40 : 731 Ditto New Sci ip 5 I() Alliance Fire lwiirance Co , o I! p l3 erotector I nsitrance Comp 'Australian Co. Canada Cf.mpany ......., .............. _ IS . 491 General Steam Navigation Co. National Provincial Bank of England 15 13!4 : Rio Doce 2 2% Provincial Pant, cf Irdand 2.5 421,:i HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO MORROW. Morning = .sl minutes after 5 i Evening...lBminutes after 6. 5 4 z7 . 47'.•%1W -- 4...APra" ` - *4 rds LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 14, 1834. Lord WILLIAM RUSSELL set off on Satur day from Plymouth to Endsleigh, near Ta vistock, where his father, the Duke of BED FORD, was waiting to receive him. We are assured that Don PEDRO was most marked in his attentions to him on his taking leave of Lisbon, and that nothing but the strict regula tions of the Foreign-office could have pre vented the Portuguese present of gold ingots being forced upon him by the gratitude of the EMPEROR REGENT—a pretty pregnant refu tation this of the calumnies propagated against his Lordship some months ago, and a proof that the disseminators of such scandal, not the objects of them, were the real " Miguelites." The Lightning steamer, with Lord WIL LIAM RUSSELL and his family on board, ar rived at Plymouth on Friday. The intelligence from Lisbon, Oporto, and Vigo, is very satis factory. CARLOS DA PONZA (Admiral Lord NAPIER) finding the sea too rough at Figuei ras to execute his original project, proceeded to the northward, and, landing five hundred troops at the wouth of the Minho, took Ca minha, and soon afterwards reduced Villa Nova and Valenza. The latter. a fort ress of some importance on the south bank of the Minho, and immediately opposite to the Spanish city of Tuy, surrendered most willingly to the Gallant Admiral. He also captured in that river the Scorpion, the chief if not only means by which the Nliguelite and Carlist fac tious rebels have or some time maintained communication with their Ultramarine friends and partizans There wait a rumour that Viana had already declared for Donna MARIA, and the small but spirited force of DA PONZA was marching upon Braga. In the mean while a detachment from Oporto had marched on Guimaraens, and in all human pro bability the rich and cheerful province of Entre Minho and Douro has ere this acknowledged its legitimate Sovereign without any fresh effusion of _blood. This is as it should be. The two heartless, Pretenders themselves, even if inca pable of compun tiora a d self-reproach, will The advocates of the Corn Laws make as sumptions, upon which they declaim, in place of attending to the facts of the case from which alone any sound conclusion can be drawn. A favourite position with them is, that as the United Kingdom can grow enough of corn .for her consumption, she ought not to be rendered dependent upon foreign countries for a supply. But how comes it that she does not grow enough ? Nay, whence is it that her home growth of corn is progressively diminishing, and that she is becoming more and more dependent upon foreign countries for a supply ? Now we pledge ourselves to prove incontestably that these things are so. We agree with the advo cates of the Corn Laws, that the United King dom ought not to be dependent upon foreign countries for a supply of corn, and it is precisely because the present Corn Law is rendering her so dependent that we raise our voice against it. There can be no dispute about our imports and exports of corn. These appear in the books at the Custom-house. The- accounts of the yearly import and export of corn from 1772 to 1820 form part of the appendix to the Agricul tural Report of 1821. An account of the yearly importation from the year 1815 to the year 1830 was laid upon the table of the House of Commons in March, 1831. From this ac count, and froni those forming part of the ap pendix to the Agricultural Report of 1821, Mr. MUNDELL has constructed a table, which he has published in the work to which we have oftener than once adverted, showing the amount of the imports and exports of corn in each period of five years, after the first three years, from 1772 to 1820, and we pray attention to these results : Deducting Exports, the Imports in the three years ending in 1775 were 2,:391,1 09 qrs. Deducting Exports, the Imports in the five years ending in 1790 were 2,292,059 Diminution of Importations 99,050 So that in the five years ending in 1790, as compared with the three years ending in 1775, the home growth of corn in Great Britain had increased greatly. We pass over the next five years, because from the year 1794 to the year 1801, the home hate and would undermine, when they dare not l , operations of industry were deranged more by attempt its direct overthrow. They are very the interference of the Government, and by the silly persons. Let them reform their own insti high bounties paid upon the importation of tutions, and gradually accustom their people to foreign corn, than even by the severity of the the enjoyment of freedom. It is the only secu seasons, severe as these were in those years. rity for the lasting power and prosperity of We, therefore, advert only to the five years Kings as well as subjects. ending in 1800, in which, deducting exports, We learn through the Allgemeine Zeitung, the imports were— 7,259,327 qrs. from Vienna, dated 2d April, that Princi; And from thence we proceed to the five CARADJA, Ambassador Extraordinary from years, ending in 1815, until which year the the King of GREECE, had the honour to be trade in corn continued virtually free, in which five years the imports, deducting ex- received by the EMPEROR yesterday in a pri p3rts, were 4,783,956 sate audience. The Archduke FERDINAND of Este sets out to-day for Transylvania. VIENNA, APRIL 3.—Five per cent., 91 ; Four per cent., 88 1-5 ; Bank Shares, 1,248. So that in these fiftevn years, the home growth, in 1815, as compared to 1800, in creased °,495,371 In the year 1815, the law was made which prohibited the importation of wheat until it reached 80s. a quarter, and in the five years ending in 1820, the imports, deducting exports, were— 12;767,337 qrs. But in the five years, ending in 1815, the imports, deducting exports, were on!y ..... 4,793,956 So that the home growth fell off in the very first five years of the restraining law no less than 7,963,581 The importations diminished in the five years ending in 1825, from the abundance of the. harvests of 1820 and 1822. Still they were' more than double of those in the five years ending in 1815, and in the five years ending in 1830, when there were no exports to deduct, the • imports were— 22,151,525qr5. But the imports, deducting exports in the five years ending in 1815, having been 0n1y... 4,783,956 The home growth in the five years ending in 1830, as compared to the five years ending in 1815, appears to have fallen off Now it appears, from the population returns, that the increase of the population in the fif.... teen years ending in 1815, throughout which the home growth of corn increased 2,495,371: quarters, was just as great as the increase, with , the difference only of the per tentage—of the population in the fifteen years ending in 1830, during which it fell off 17,377,539 quarters ; and the population being thus out of the ques tion, and the average import, deducting export on the five years ending 1815, having been less than the sale of a million of quarters per annum, and the average import in the five years ending. in 1830 having been nearly at the rate of 4 1 - millions of quarters per annum, it follows that, upon the average of the five years ending in 1830, Great Britain had ceased to grow at the rate of about three and a half millions of quarters per annum, which she raised upon the average of the five years ending in 1815, and consequently, that a number of labourers, equal to those required to raise that quantity annually, had been thrown out of employment. Upon the average of the fifteen years ending in 1830, the importations from Ireland, and the importations from abroad, appear to have been nearly equal. But, in the year 1831, the quantity imported from abroad went much beyond the foreign importation in 1830, the total quantity in 1830 having been 2,355,412 quarters. But the total quan tity, in 1831, was 3,541,809 quarters, the bulk of which was wheat and wheat flour, the last account being 2,311,362 quarters ; and this exportation is explained by the Agricultu ral Committee of 1833, which states that the occupiers of the heavy clay lands have of late expended less of capital and labour on their cultivation, and that these heavy clay lands are going out of cultivation, though many of them are proved to have been ancient corn land, on which wheat has been grown for time im memorial. There is no very important intelligence from Spain. The French Government has received despatches from Madrid to the 4th instant. They are of a favour. able character. The ordonnance for the convocation of the Cortes was expected every moment. The in telligence from the provinces that had reached Madrid was satisfactory. The bands of the Carlist Chiefs, Carnicer and Loche, had been dispersed. By a decree of the 27th March, the parish priest of Lasarte, Don Juan Antonio Arroyabe, who remained present at the murders perpetrated by the factious at Hereida, has been banished for ever from the kingdom. Don Carlos is now sick with the fever. In the evea of his dying, the regency is to consist of the Curare Merino, General Moreno, and the Bishop of Leon. The Captain-General of Galicia, Count de Cartha gena, who is convalescent, has left Giuza for Orense, to resume the military command of that province. According to various reports that have reached Bayonne from Navarre, and notwithstanding the forced retreat of General Lorenzo into Estella after the affair of Villa Fuerte, the losses experienced by the Carlists on that occasion are irreparable ; for all those who were willing to take arms for Don Carlos in that province are now in their ranks. The Queen's troops and the insurgents occupied, on the sth, the respective positions they held before that action. The Carlists of Navarre are again flying in all di rections, the Queen's troops in that province having received a reinforcement of 2,000 soldiers of the Royat Guards. It is true that in the present year there have been few or no importations from abroad, but the same was the case in the year 1828 from the month of !January to the month of July, in the beginning of which year the highest price of wheat in England did not exceed 51s. Bd. per quarter, but it rose to 765. in the month of October in that year, and in 1823, which fol lowed a harvest as abundant as the last, we imported from abroad only 53,641 quarters. No sound iuference,therefore,can be drawn from the imports of a single year, and we must not deceive ourselves by what follows after a plenti ful harvest, which, though it is a blessing to the consumers, has been rendered a curse to the grower of corn by the operation of the present law. -NVe pause here, that our readers may ponder upon the facts now presented to them, for the accuracy of which we pledge ourselves ; but we shall not fail to resume the subject. We are enabled to state that there is not t'ie least truth in the report, that the impor tant measures, of which notice has been given by Lord ALTIIORP, will be postponed —on the contrary, they will be introduced im mediately. The accounts received here from Frankfori confirm the reports of the favourable prosper of the negotiations respecting Luxemburg. We cannot imagine any calamity of a tem porary nature more injurious to a country than combinations among workmen, formed for the purpose of forcing masters to raise the price of labour. In their mildest form these combina tions injure the workmen as well as the masters, —when accompanied by violence they injure every class of society, and finally terminate in the defeat of the unionists and in the enact ment of laws incompatible with free institutions. This is the history of all popular commotions of this description. The people, or more properly speaking those without property, may obtain the mastery in particular districts, and even carry on for a time a partial civil war, but their victory, from the very constitution of human nature, never can be lasting ; all persons possessed of property, or looking forward to the possession of property, naturally unite against them, and even the leaders them selves, in the moment of success, begin to repent of their acts, from the conviction that their principles must lead either to the destruction of their own power or to unmitigated despotism. The plans adopted by such unions as those of Lyons, and some other manufacturing towns of France, can never be permanently effect ual,and have as little chance of being adopted by any civilized country as the often-proposed plan for a division of property. All persons of in telligence, industry, and activity• see that if the world ever could be reduced to such a state, all distinctions must cease—all reward of merit, and all inducement to good actions be abolished, the best feelings of the heart destroyed, and time most upright and intelligent placed on a level With the most profligate and debased of the human race. Such a state of things is so re : puguant to the innate feelings of mankind that all attempts of the kind, from the servile war in Italy to the wars of Jack Straw and Wat Tyler, in the reign of Richard 11., have had uniformly the same result. They have created a great deal of individual suffering with out conferring: , one benefit on the mis guided multitude. We have too much confidence in the good sense and in the intelli gence of the working classes of the present day, to believe them capable of such' folly. They may create confusion, cause great loss of property, and drive trade and commerce to other countries, but they never can succeed in obtaining the prize held out to them by designing and unprincipled leaders. The hopelessness of such attempts are thus forcibly described by a close observer of human nature. "Of all the evils incident to human society, the insurrections of the popu lace, when not raised and supported by persons of higher quality, are the least to be dreaded the mischiefs consequent to an abolition bf all l rank and distinction become so great, that they are immediately felt, and soon bring back affairs to their former order and arrangement." We give, from the French Papers, the latest accounts from Lyons. We wish it were in our power to state that all apprehension of further disturbance is at an end. It is, however, a social rather than a political movement, al though the Carlists would doubtless take ad vantage of the slight change which has taken place in the Cabinet, to increase as much as possible the alarm which such occurrences might be expected to excite. Like our own trades' unions, the workmen at Lyons, and other places in its vicinity, are endeavour ing to intimidate the masters, and to force them to terms which, if they were complied with, would lead to a removal of trade to Ame. rica, and ultimately compel both masters and men to emigrate or suffer ruin. The profits of the masters are even now very small, and if House e le of hof Commonsf e pri i s pal (by permi committee-rooms ssion 0 f the of t b e Speaker) been occupied for the last two months by a committee of the Astronomical Society, for the purpose of com paring the Parliamentary standard yard with a new standard measure belonging to that society of a form and construction totally different from those usually made. Similar standards have also been made for the Danish and Russian Governments, and the whole have been compared with the standards used for the trigo nometrical survey in England and in India, so that now we have a prospect of one uniform measure of comparison for this important purpose. Upwards of 1,000 comparisons have already been made, and the apparatus is now removed to the Tower for the further prosecution of the comparisons. The Parliamentary standard made in the year 1760, and which was declared, by an Act of Parliament passed about ten years ago, to be " the only imperial standard," is perhaps the worst instrument for the purpose that ever was formed, and is by no means suited to the present refined state of the art, nor to the present improved state of science. The measure is directed by the act to be taken from the centre of two dots made on the bar ; but the dots are so large, and of such an irre gular shape, that no two persons agree as to the points intended, and considerable differences consequently arise, which ought not to exist in an affair of this importance. Surely it is high time that this was cor rected, more especially when we see other Govern ments striving to attain the greatest accuracy on this subject. Times. they were compelled to pay higher wages, or to suspend their works, the injury would finally fall on the labouring classes and the shop keepers, who depend on their expenditure for their means of support. The Constitutionelle, published at Zurich, contains a translation of the Note of Neufchatel, to the Directing Canton. It is long, and we have not room to spare for it. It is clear, that the despotic Sovereigns of Europe, and the King of PRUSSIA amongst them, look with great dissatisfaction at the slightest move ment in Switzerland, as elsewhere, favour able .to freedom. They live in constant uneasiness, and would put down the press when they cannot use it to delude the people. Re publican government, or the least approach even to truly representative government, they ;- COURT OF CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY•) WILSON V. MOORE. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL stated that his lordship had a short time ago given final judgment in this c ase, as far as his clients were concerned, dism issin g th, . appeal with costs as against them, but that the y found there was some difficulty with the registrar in drawing up the order. The LORD CHANCELLOR said that no doubt arose from his having taken further time to consider the costs of the widow ; and upon more maturely considering that point, he was now inclined to say that the widow must have her costs, and directed the order to be drawil ip in that way. PRACTICE OF PUTTING CASES INTO THE PAFF' B. The LORD CHANCELLOR stated that as he w as the asvg 0' at there would be one or two heavy eas es i n - e paper to-day, he had distinctly directed that no ca for after after Page v. Broom should be put into the p a p er to-day, but, notwithstanding that, four or fi ve oth . r_ s t had been put in. He desired it to be unders to od. th a t no one had a right to put a case into the paper witLi,enn his permission, and ordered that those which had a n y so put in should be immediately struc k o ut. " costs had been incurred by having had tlrbse e ases fi t ' e r into the paper to-day, he would take care her ea that such costs should fall upon the proper parties' OLD BAILEY SESSIONS.-(THIS DAY.) Nothing of importance took place in the O ld 0r New Court up to the time of our going to press' SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-THIS Di°. (FROM LLOYD'S) At! DEAL, APRIL 13.—Wind N. E., fresh breezes.-; rived from the river and sailed the Thofna§ ° l ° l Nixon, for the Cape of Good Hope , Tullock ce, Rayner, for Jamaica; Britannia, Tho ' m son 2 _for Qu bec ; Admiral Moorsom, Moorsom, for P - o°l°3ll. The Baltic Merchant is astern of her, and The Kingston passed to the westward at two , P . ' m o expec ted t pass towards evening. F. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL. 12 AND 13.—Wind squally.—Arrived the Admiral Moorsom, M from London, for Demerara. m to r PLYMOUTH, APRIL 12 AND 13.—Arrived the steam packet, from the Mediterranean • Light ll , o steam packet, from Lisbon ; sailed 27th ; ()poi. 31, and Vigo 7th inst. 1 2, FALMOUTH, APRIL 11.—Wind E. to .o• ; to E., fresh breezes. RAMSOATE, APRIL 13.—Arrived off port the tunus, Folkees, from Tampico. Cove JERSEY, APRIL 12.—Arrived the Abenna, from Keil. BRISTOL, APRIL 13.—Arrived the Hickman, well, from St. Petersburgh. DUBLIN, APRIL 12.—Arrived the H eron d Rendie, from Bordeaux. KINSALE, APRIL 11.—Arrived the Harriet, F ig from Rio Grande. LIMERICK, APRIL 11.—Arrived the Jean, from Lisbon; Foyle packet, Hutchins, Limerit. Oake, Constantia, Rees, Economy, Jones, and from London. GALWAY, APRIL 11. —Arrived the Camilla, lings, and George and Margaret, from London. LIVERPOOL, APRIL 12.—Arrived the Cornet, soy, from New Orleans ; Bon Acord, Burnley, Africa ; and St. Antonio, Piaggio, from Gen°a.is OPORTO, MARCH 30.—This morning the barolit. cessively rough, and nothing can come i n ° I. 4° The Eolus, Evers, from Wismar Gullholman fkuil to ving water, dismastd, and abandoned, ha Marstrand) was on the sth instant wed in been down by the St. e Petersburgh, Zattow, from St• r burgh to London. THE FUNDS.—(THIS Four foreign CX' Flanders, and one Dutch, also the Express frontal which is of some importance respectinm the the city of Lyons, which appears to I7e of a - s e nature. Much blood has flowed and many lis-e been lost, as the troops and the people of buty C m l a T ils Y; hav T e WarrEiv-Ler tw°o been fighting during the whole of Wednesday, ,: result of this catastrophe is not as yet ascertainea all probability we ma y h av e another Express Paris in the course o f this day, bringing a tel.( e eacrasu to t P r ar e that pr ecautions the pital ; the police are on the alert, and strong are on the movement. all despatch eruncnais. taking It strong also app d a p The Ostend mail brings information that again quiet in Belgium. The account s by. the mail are of the same stamp as the former iii from that quarter in respect to the affairs of The Lightning steamer having arrived at instead of Falmouth, disappointed our who h ave agents at the latter place ; cens e. they did no t receive the information she brot tLhiesbiownivautnetilletltaetres haveint beheafen received fro"'ternoon;butthisat the 29th ult., whi c h are f avou rable, and state that pier is very successful, with further accoun t n o rth provinces of Douro de Minho, in the s'h, Portugal, have declared for Donna Maria.. t aw, formation from Spain is of a mixed d e l he -- upon the whole still gloomy to the cause a ,„ r iorie r Regent, who, it appears, was nearly ma de o t her the Carlist chief Locho, and that s at) "e s entered the town of Sandon, fourteen laat'ari•isoa Madrid, with 800 troops, and part of the Madrid was sent to drive him away. fd THE FUNDS. 90; 9 10 Consols, which left off on Saturday at Tia t theV,elf the account, opened at 91 to At pre se ':, OS c 91 sellers for the account, with not mu ch as the chief speculations are in the or oa r Spanish, 34 31. Portuguese, 68i. r, 0 611(. 11i ONE °' at ° „„ O ri o: We have just received the following la' ° " ' t hultit . the private letters from Oporto of the ' 3 ° „ u s , d G e en c e o r n al de T . o E rr p e a s z h e a n s d t i, ak a e n n d v ß i r a a n g a a . , G i r r a e r p a ' or tea ti,,, Valencia has been taken by Napier. f For- fits - All the above towns are in the north 0 t p . Beja has been taken by Bernado de I % ii t i o ,oc io whole of the province of the Douro de f declared for Donna Maria. The governor had his head shot off. oj % o / We have the following letter from L is Th e is Constitutionalists. Ina 27th nit.: guelite militia have joined the Pedroites• capital of the province of Minho, is o cculi l n r eaY,4 Miguel is said to have escaped b swim a ta fi k H g e h n A t L b b y F ef l l N ) re s. A p s i S e a r:: l 3 6 : ll :l: , :t t oo l) : I ,i tb being defeated. The Lightning s tarted 1P:,,5,,i 1 „ 1 previous to the taking of the various l ° l :ft v e rd' south of Portugal by General Torres, tr ll° , c tre at with 4,000 m en . D on Mi gue l' s troop s co all! his approach. lit a Consols may be d 90,-; to DI for, 0 1.# Portuguese done at e 69-1 ; Spanish 311 We have a report that a battle tools-el i .01 017 - opposite side of the Tagus, before Sautairrs , o . 2,000 of Don Miguel's troops were put ho rs 1 070' p 4 I . the HALF- - from is of it; Oporto Papers have been received .cotiao.to• ult to the 30th, containing the officia l " tie taking of Viana by Admiral Napier on bit ' o ts c a ' i . c ( l Afterwards, at the request of the iii ll3 lencia, he took that city. Oporto a nd e lle.' Glared free ports. the eO5 t he It is reportedthe taking of Beja, totallYr t'' 111 guelites, and destroyed 2,000 of that. ara ble fi ca The news from Portugal is more tV ° e) , h as three months past. Portuguese St°- L 0 CF.. reached 70. TILR.E" Consols for the Account, soi 9 1. ) *-) 01 0 1- , 1 1 CLOSING PItICES.--FO 4 L , ' :tank Stock 2'3+ I nitia .• '''' :i per Cent. Red SPiI Ditto ti ,soe' 3 pet . Cons , 41. t t Vi t i A n o ............. i tr; '3; per Cent. 97, , , Ditto , ti rr nt. Red 97K Ditto .. 51.,9 New 1•, Cent,.. isi• 10 .5, 4 per ecitt lo2i , Vittu ..... ;:tt7,l Long Ann. to expire , Ditto jr Ace....... 11...11) ISS" Jac 1851 l7 3-18 j India 0 17 ( 14 (131:Filscog",..u.! iogi;g: 1. 1. 1( t ,1, 5,t i 1 , : i l l a l, " 11 cja l r )C e r e c n e t ntF 0.- . ..r. P 9; , Ditto Reg'--nt. ' ,it• 9 Brazilian Bonds 71 Prussian. 0 , j.. 5 p er ~.. • 011E191047, i1:ctirt14„3.15,„..,. e,ll,o;:drs ce: t " . .::: t i 'll BnFnos Ayres, 6 per tent. 0 6 i Russian 80n.,,•• .... „ , 4 (,-.1;`:'131'.. " Per ceiv• O5-1' Ditto r,1et1:165,..:::.t.......... 2 ..ohnninan, 6 per cent lt , Spai;ll, 5 r ct ' L. •••"..... 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SO Mining Co. of Ireland ilallaat Office Deb. 4n. c. 9 . 2 1 ,4 Commercial Building?. MAILS. Ai - rived /inc.. A tri:ei. i)II. O Americi 0 0 llanabure 0 Brazil 0 Buenos Ayre:s O Cartliagena 0 ! 0 lee , , , ard Islands ... I ' 2 Dublin 0 0 Lon 0 O Flan , lers 0 ! 0 ~171aita...... ......... ... 0 . -- ,crar.ce 0 1 Sweden 1 , 13uernsev .!ersev,. U 2 Watcrtnr 4 _ - - I 1 r