The Sun. — London, England, 1842-04-15 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAFER9 OF YESTERDAY. GLOBE. —Ministers have got their income tax majority —much good may it do them. Our readers will remember (we may at least be allowed to put them in mind) that, on the first introduction of the Peel Budget, we admitted the Opposition were, in a great measure, 'disabled from resisting the pro ject effectually by the defectiveness of the • Whig Budget in providing for the immediate finan cial exigency. The practical demands of the day are what are first looked to' by the English public—and the late Ministers expiated their short comings of those demands by the failure of effective support from the most active and influential classes. The present Mi nisters, as it appears to us, have risked discredit with those classes by the opposite course of exaggerating the demands of the present crisis, and throwing the burthen of making them good too heavily on the Middle and mercantile classes. The Whig fault was a fault of weakness ; the Tory fault is a fault of class-strength. ' If the late Ministry are to he blamed, it is for not having thrown the reins of Government sooner to those who now hold them : but to their last acts, it - - mist be remembered, we owe the first acts of the present, so far as those are of Liberal tendency. What the present Government have exclusively to themselVes is the responsibility of the income tax, We are much mistaken if this responsibility will prove a light matter. Is it supposed that, in its pre sent shape, such a tax can be permanent ? The inten tion is disclaimedon the part of its authors. We are not to have a permanent income tax. So they tell us ; and whatever they may mean, the public will hold them to their word. But, on the strength of their income tax, they are actually preparing to part gratuitously with 1,200,0001. of revenue from a pro - ductive and unobnoxious impost ! They are doing this in the face of an annual deficit, only filled up .by an income tax ! We desire to know how, as a matter of principle, their conduct differs in this re spect from that of their predecessors, whom they charge so vehemently with relinquishing 1,500,000/. from the Post-office ? Is it the 300,0001. that makes the difference between prudence and imprudence ? It will be replied that our finances may be expected to have improved five years hence. The same plea may be urged for the probable increase of the post age, and other revenues. All that is clear at present is, that Ministers, with the warning example before them—for as such they choose to parade it—ol their Whig predecessors, with the ruinous effects of their conduct, as they Choose to assert, staring us in the fitce, imitate that example in the very first steps of their course, abandon a tax, the abandonment of was not even asked for by the public, and do this at a moment when the accumulated dangers, of .deficiency have forced them, as they say, on an' im post so odious that they dare: not proclaim it perma nent—so odious, we add,,that the public will take good care that they shall not make it so ! STANDARD.—The adjourned debate upon the income tax terminated last night in the adoption of the measure by a decisive majority—a majority of one hundred and .six, in a House of 515 Members. The numbers were—for bringing up the Report, 308; against it, 202. It is thus that the representatives of the people of 'England proclaim to Europe, and to the world, their determination to maintain the honour and interests of their country, at whatever sacrifice may be necessary. We have lately heard much of the confession of weakness involved in resorting to an income tax. We are willing to trust to the judgment of the world for the decision, whe ther to go on year after year, nursinc , defi ciencies-after deficiencies into cumbrous debts, or getting rid of , deficiency and debt by a bold, ener getic, and generous sacrifice, is the greater proof of weakness. The most intelligent of the foreign journals has already given its decision on the matter. "The late news from India," says the Journal des Debats, " was received in England with a profound feeling of pain ; but likewise with remarkable dig nity. * 4 4 The eminently practical and positive spirit of the English has postponed all other conside rations to a future period. They are occupied in esti mating the real injury sustained, in taking measures to repair it, and acting with all the energy the gravity of circumstances requires." This is a true picture of what is nowpassing in this country, and a very faith ful indication of the character and temper of the British nation.; our great poet has described them with inimitable precision and force : " Beware Of entrance into a quarrel, but being in Bear it, that the opposer may beware of thee." This is the national character, and to a nation or to an individual such a character is the highest claim of respect and good-will, the safest guarantee against wrong or insult. It is not by the amount of the resources of the wealthiest people in the world that the safety of danger of provoking a quarrel with that people is to be measured, but by the greater or less prompti tude with which they will use those means their pos session of which can be doubtful to no one. In this light we cannot but regard the Ministerial victory of last light as of the highest political importance—as the cheap and bloodless equivalent of many military triumphs. COPPER ORES, &c. A deputation of the Members for Cornwall and several of the leading Representatives of the mining interests, was received yesterday by Sir Robert Peel, Lord Ripon, and Mr. Gladstone. We jsave reason to believe, that the result of this interview was extremely satisfactory. The Cornish gentlemen expressed their intention of not contending for such a scale of duties on foreign ores as may exclude them from the market; and the Govern ment has shown its anxiety to meet the reasonable wishes of the mining proprietors and population. The duty on copper ores, which was originally stated to be 51. per 100 on the value of the ores, is now proposed to be Si. per 100 on the value of the metal to be extracted from ores containing more than 14 parts of copper; and 21. 10s. per cent. on the value of the metal in ores containing less than 14 parts of copper. The Deputation urged the propriety of making the duty 5/. per ton on the metal, assuming (as is the fact) that the average pi ice of copper in Eng land is about 100/. the ton. It appears, however, that there is a considerable departure from the original plan. and no slight danger of fraud from the proposal to admit the poorer ores at a duty of 2/. 10s., instead of 51. For such an enactment would pro bably make it the interest of the foreign miner to send his ores to Froland in a poorer state, either by mixing the rich ores and the poor ones together till they should come in at the low duty, or by stopping the process of dressing the ores at an earlier stage, by which means the east of dressing would be diminished, and the additional freight, would be compensates! by the reduced duty. Thus, in point of fact, the importation of copper ores to be smelted in England would take place at the low duty, and the revenue would receive only 2/. 10s. per ton of metal, instead of Si. Ores con taining 14 parts of copper are rich ores ; those of Cuba vary from 12 to 23, but the average of the ores of Cornwall is only eight. Hence it is clear that the higher duty would never be paid, the revenue would be less benefited, and a quantity of poorer ores would probably be brought into the market so sud denly and abundantly as to affect the prices to a considerable extent. We hope, therefore, that the final decision of the Board of Trade will' fix the duty on copper ores at a uniform rate of Si. per ton of the metal. The interests of the tin mines and the manganese trade, and the drawback on timber for the use of mines, were also satisfactorily di,cussed by the Deputa tion.—Morising Paper. THE MURDER at ROEEIAMPTON. After the verdict of the Jury was given on Wednesday, Mr. Carter, the Coroner, issued a warrant for the interment of the mutilated trunk of the ill-fated woman ; but at the same time recommended that it should be kept above ground as long as possible, as in the event of the apprehension of the murderer, which was hourly expected, it would be of vital im portance, in furthering the ends of justice. The trunk is at present en the premises of Mr. Sheills, where the inhuman deed was perpetrated, under the protection of the police. Wednesday afternoon, as also at an early hour this morning, great numbers of persons visited the village to obtain, if pos. sable, a sight of the remains, and the premises, but the Superin tendent of Police has given orders that no persons of whatever degree were to be admitted. `GREAT NORTH OF ENGLAND RAILWAY. Traffic returns for the week ending April 9, 1842: Passengers £Bo4 7 6 Merchandise .534 0 6 Darlington, April 13. £1,338 8 0 W. O'BRIEN, Secretary. REVOLUTION IN PERSIA. In a Belgian journal of Tuesday. received yesterday we find the following important piece of intelligence, which we quote without a word of comment :- 66 L e tts s from Odessa announce that a revolution had broken out in Persia. The Shah was dethroned; and 30,000 insur gents were marching towards Teheran. This intelligence 1 ( 1 C1113 to require confirmation." DRITEX-LANE 'THEATRICAL FUND.—The anniver sary festival of this useful Society was held on Wednesday at the Freemasons' Tavern. There were about 260 gentlemen pre set t. The Duke of Cambridge in the chair, supported by the Marquis of Clanricarde, Lord Dunkellin, A. B. Cochrane, Esq., M.P., H. H. Lindsa , Esq , M.P., J. G. Booth, Esq., B. B. Cabbell, Esq., ttcc. Ze. On the removal of tho cloth, " Bene dictus" was sung, by the musical assistants present, including Mist Hawes, Miss Romer, Miss P. Horton, Miss Betts, the Alisses Williams, Messrs. Crouch, H. Phillips, Reeves, Fitz william, Giubilei, Balfe, Allen, &c. &c. The usual toasts having been proposed and duly honoured, the illustrious Chair man proposed Mr. Harley al success to the Drury-Lane Theatrical Fund, after which lt r. Cooper delivered the custo mary address. Subsequently the amount of subscriptions to this fund was announced. The total amount was 830/. Amory , the principal contributors we observed —Her Majesty, 100 nti neas ; the King of Hanover, 50 guineas., the Duke of Cim bridge, 25 guineas; the Duke of Devonshire, 25 guineas ; the Duke of Bedford, 50 guineas; Hugh Hamilton Lindsay, Esq., Esq., M.P., 10 guineas; Alex. Baillie Cochrane, Esq., 10 guineas; 13. 13. Cabbell, Esq., 10 guineas; Aliss Coutts, 50/. ; Earl of Dartmouth. 10/. ; Ch a rl es Kean, Esq., 201. ; Lord Francis Egerton, M.P., 10/. ; the late Mr. Davidge (a bequest) 100 guineas, &e. An aszzoeiation of Russian nobleinenai l l in de of merchants is about (says the Constitutionnel) to open a from the centre of the kingdom to .Nico i aelf, with a branch road to Odessa. This line is afterwards to be united to the St. Petersburgh and Moscow Railroad, to which alone it is inferior in iii , portance, and, when completed, will bring St. Peteriburgh within six d a y s ' journey of Constaninople. ln st s commercial point of view, this undertaking will make Petersburgh and Odessa the two great entrepots of the empire, , since, in less tha n e i g ht d a y s , the merchandise of the Balt i c will be transported to the Black Sea. It is calculated that the works will be completed in four years ; or, if the Government should decide on employing troops, in a shorter period. Prince de Dcmidoff, so well known for his extensive scientific and manufacturing establishments, and for his " Journey of Scienti fic Research in Southern Russia ",will it is reported, have the direction of the operations. LAW INTELLIGENCE. SHERIFFS' COURT ', April 14. NORMAN V. MILLS. The defendant in this case is a gentleman of fortune, living in Hertford-street, May-fair, and at Blandeston Hall, in Suffolk. The action was brought for the re covery of 151. 12s. 2d. for service rendered by the wife of the plaintiff, from September, 1840, to the 16th of April, 1841, and also for eleven weeks' beer at 14d. a week, for meat at 3s. 6d. a week, and for 51. 7s. 10d. laid out by the plaintiffs wife, then Miss K en d a l, f or sun d r i es for the use of the house, such as letters, cat's-meat, chops, steaks, cheese, cakes, Congreves, candles, starch, tea and sugar for herself and her masters. The defen dant pleaded that he *as only indebted to the plaintiff six guineas, which he had tendered, and which she had refused, and which was paid into Court. Mr. V. LEE, for the plaintiff, said, Miss Kendal was employed to attend upon Mr. John Mills and Mr. Mills. while Mrs. Mills was in the country. Her wages were 12 guineas a year. but she had to feed herself while her mistress was in the country, for the gentlemen used to dine out, and nothing was left in the house for the servant, except she could feed on the atmosphere. In fact, nothin. , eatable came into the ho use d ur i ng several weeks except what was paid for by Mrs. Norman ; but she had to pay also for washing for the family and other indispensables. In fact, she had fed the family herself for some time. Ann Brittle proved many of these details. She heard Mrs. Norman say, all the money she had received for the use of the house from Mr. Mills was ss. She always complained that she could not get money from Mr. Mills. Cross-examined by Mr. C. JONES—The gentlemen used sometimes to come home late for dinner, and dine on chops and steaks. This is a receipt for the 55., but here is another receipt for 10s. Mrs. Mills did come to town in January, and then she paid what Mrs. Nor man had laid out. It was proved that Mrs. Norman had ordered several of the above articles. Mr. C. JONES, for the defendant, said, Mrs. Norman had been employed to take care of the house while the family were in the country. Her wages were at the rate of twelve guineas a year, but she was to board her self. She had received 1/. 10s. on account of wages, and 41 to pay for sundries, of which she had applied only a small part. She had also left her place suddenly. But when she came and asked for a settlement, Cl. Cs. were tendered as her due, but she refused it. Witnesses were called in support of these statements, when the Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, for 91. 6s. 2d., to be added to the six guineas paid into Court. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. Yesterday the Directors of the Blackwall Railway Company appeared by their Secretary, upon a summons for tithes due to the Rev. Mr. Betts, the Rector of St. Olive's, Hart-street, for the houses pulled down in that parish for the accommodation of the Company in con structing their railroad. The case came on before , Mr. Alderman Gibbs, Sir Peter Laurie, Mr. T. Wood, and Mr. Hooper. Mr. Buckle appeared upon the part of the Rector of the, parish, and Mr. Bodkin attended for the Directors of the Railway Company. Mr. Buckle stated that several' parishes in the City of London having had disputes with their clergy on the subject of tithes, it was fixed that certain annual pay ments should be made in lieu of tithes, and many cases had occurred, in all of which it had been uniformly de termined that the statue, 37 Henry VIII., was continued in operation, and judgments had been enforced upon it in the Courts of Law. Amongst the parishes alluded to was that of St. Olive's, Hart-street; and the Railway Company, by their 2d Bill, required that a portion of the houses in that parish should be pulled down. At first the Company made no objection to the payment of the 2s. 9d. in the pound demanded in lieu of tithes upon the houses so pulled down, but after having legally acknow ledged their liability they subsequently refused to pay, and they were in arrears three-quarters of a year's tithe, amounting to the sum of 316/. 3s. 111 d. Mr. Buckle having concluded a very long argument in favour of the claim. Mr. Bodkin said that the whole business was an attempt upon the part of the Rector to obtain from the Company 9d. in the pound more than the occupants of the houses had been in the habit of paying. It was true the Company had agreed to pay the demand in the first instance, believing that the regulation was precisely the same as that by which the occupants had been go verned; but finding out their mistake, and that so much more was required of them than they ought in justice to pay, they were resolved to resist the imposition. The occupants had paid no more than 2s. in the pound, and while the Company were determined that the Rector sjtould be completely in demnified for the loss sustained by him by the pulling down of the houses, they would certainly take care to i protect themselves. Mr. Buckle said that the tithe paid by every other Company amounted to 2s. 9d. in the pound, and that the Rector was by law entitled to that sum. He also con tended that it the. Rector, trom charitable feelings, abated his just claim in some instances, advantage could not be taken of the indulgence to deprive him of that to which he was entitled. Several other arguments were used upon both sides by the Learned Gentlemen, and The ALDERMEN unanimously decided that the Com pany should pay according to the amount assessed upon the occupants of the houses on the last quarter or occu pation, namely, the quarter ending the 25th March, 1839. An odd-looking man, who said he was a tailor, and that his name was John Grorenor, was charged with having bilked a coffee-stall in Bishopsgate-street, and caused much confusion by his drunkenness. A policeman stated that he was called to the assistance of the woman who kept the stall, and who complained not only that the defendant despatched five cups of coffee and five slices of bread and butter without paying for them, but abused and insulted her daughter and herself. The defendant said that the charge of intoxication was altogether groundless, for he was a teetotaller, and had not taken as much as a pot of beer or a couple of glasses of spirits for the last four months. The reason he objected to settling the bill was that the landlady had charged him the extravagant price of three-halfpence for a saucer which had fallen between them, and which, therefore, ought to have been paid for between them. Alderman GIBBS—What have you to say about the abusive language you are accused of having used ? Defendant—l never thought of such a thing as using bad language. Those who say so mistook their own voices for mine.—(A laugh.) The daughter of the complainant here stated that the defendant called her a fiddler's she-dog, in uglier words. Alderman Gums (to defendant)—Do you call that civil language ? Defendant—l never heard it before, I assure you. The policeman—He certainly used it. Alderman GIBBS—And you swear that he was drunk? The policeman—Certainly, Sir, he was full of drink. Defendant—Aye, of coffee, but not a drop of any thing else. Alderman Grp ns —I must believe these witnesses against you upon their oaths, Mr. Teetotaller, and I fine you ave shillings for being drunk. Defendant—Five shillings ! I won't pay it. Alderman GIBBS—Yoa must, or yoti must go to Bridewell. Defendant—l certainly won't pay it, although I have it in my power. Alderman GlBBs—Then you must go to Bridewell for a month. Defendant—Very well. To Bridewell I shall go.— (A laugh.) BOW-STREET. A Frenchman, named Louis Brabant, was charges with being drunk and incapable. Policeman F 57 proved the charge; prisoner was quite quiet. The prisoner, in his defence, said, " Your Vor.ship, I ac knowledge my guilt in breaking de law of de country. lam ver sor-ry for so doing." Mr. Ham. discharged him with a caution. MARLBOROUGH- S7'I?EET. UTTERING COUNTERFEIT MONEY. — Sarah .lackin, a young and decently-dressed woman of interesting appearance. was placed at the bar before Mr. Hardwick, the presiding Magistrate, charged with uttering a counterfeit half-crown to Mr. Thomas Morgan, the landlord of the Crown public-house in Castle-street, Leicester-square. It appeared that between five and six o'clock on Wednesday evening the prisoner entered the bar of Mr. Morgan's house, and having called for a pint of porter tendered the half-crown. Police-constable No. 57 of the C division, happening to enter the court at the instant, identified her as a notorious utterer of base coin. Mr. Haenwicx ordered her to be remanded until the Soli citor of the Mint should be in attendance. A mechanic, named William Ruff, was charged with vio lently assaulting and wounding Mr. James Gale, of No. I, Nassau-street, Soho, by striking him with some heavy weapon on the right temple, and thereby inflicting serious and exten sive injury. The complainant stated, that between 12 and 1 o'clock yestcr day morning, as he was returning home from his professional duties, he chanced to meet with a n acqua i n t ance , and repai re d with him to the Welch Harp public-house, in Compton-street, Soho, to obtain some refreshment ; and on entering the tap roami, found a number of persons, amongst whom was the de fendant, singing in a very uproarious manner, and most of them evidently the worse for drinking. Complainant, wishing to preserve peace and decorum, ventured on a remonstrance, upon which he was treated with much derision ; and eventually the defendant struck him three blows over the right eye, with some instrument he had in his hand. - The defendant, on being called on for his defence, called three witnesses, whose testimony established quite a different version of the occurrence to that given by the complainant. They proved that he was mach intoxicated, and when he entered the room "wanted to bounce it over all of them," and actually flung• a pot of ale in some of their faces, and challenged any of them to fight if they dared. Mr. HA RDWICK said, he should not have expected such con duct from a person in the prosecutor's station of life, and there fore, believing that he brought the evil he complained of upon himself, lie should dismiss the case. George Lowndes, a young man of fashionable appearance, who, in answer to a question from the Magistrate, said he was a gentleman, was held to bail in the sum of 200/., and two sureties of 1001. each, on a charge preferred against him by a young man, 17 years of age. He implored for mercy, as his character would be ruined by a prosecution. U.N/ ON HALL. Ann Slatten, a'blind woman, was charged with robbing an old man named Jones, of a variety of property. The old man took her home with him, and she got up, when he was asleep, aid robbed him of nearly all his property. It was stated that she had been previously convicted of felony, and sentenced to transportation, which was commuted into a year's imprisonment in the Penitentiary, where she lost her sight. She was committed. The following are the details of the death of Gen. Lavalle, while prosecuting the war against Rosas :—After several daps, f orce d march e s, with 300 men w i t h w h om he was retreatin g to th e f ront i ers of Bolivia, he entere d a peasant s hut to rest himself. A party of the enemy passed shortly after, and one of them, through mere wantonness, fired his musket at the closed door, totally unaware that any one was inside. The ball wounded the unfortunate General mortally. bat he lived long enough to recommend his men to conceal his body, that Rosas might not have the satisfaction of having his head. His last wishes were executed, and his soldiers succeeded in transporting the body to Potosi, where it was interred. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 15. 1842. L 3 RICES OF CANAL,DOCK,ASSIni- ANCE COMPANY SHARES, &c. etc. &c, CHINA AND INDIA. The view the Treasury authorities have taken re specting the " Opium Scrip" given by ,Captain El liot, as indemnification for the drug delivered for destruction by the British merchants, at Canton, when the first rupture occurred there, in refusing the allocation of any portion of the ransom money for the liquidation of it, is naturally regarded by them as ominous of a total rejection of their claims, and therefore the last letters from India mention the subject with some degree of concern to their con nexions here : seeing that the appeal which was made for the appropriation of the " sycee silver" to this purpose was not entertained, but that it was specifically held to be a droit of the Crown, the holders of the scrip despair of Parliament ever making good their loss from the public exchequer, inasmuch as it is stated, that although no doubt the primary demand of Sir H. Pottinger, when the Emperor is brought to reason, will be the reim bursement of the expenses of the war, these will have swelled to so large an amount, that any consideration which might be. entertained for the 2,000,0001., the estimated value of the drug destroyed, will he fore borne, should it in any measure be supposed to im pede the other and larger settlement. Under these circumstances, it issaid, not, however, with the idea of weakening the rights of parties who hold the Go vernment responsible for such claims, but rather as a mitigation of their loss, should the Treasury autho rities still exclude them frim relief, that it is some consolation to learn that the loss sustained by the delivering of the 20,000 chests of opium to the Chinese has been, if not altogether, in a great mea sure, made up by the gains which the merchants have made in their subsequent opium transactions. The destruction of so large a quantity of the drug did not fail to give it an enhanced value in the market, and thus contributed to reimburse those who had been sufferers. LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 12. Number Dividend Price of per CANALS. per &darer. Annum. Paid. Silva 1,786 7 per cent. Ashton& Oldham,..Average97l.lBs.sh. 93 1,482 41. Ashoy-de-le-touch Average 1131.5 h, 78 1,160 Basingstoke... lOOl.O. 5 .1,0h5 Si. Brecknook and Abergavenny l5O/.sh. 92 8,000 I.letlt. 101. 131rmingham,1-16th share . ..S3l. & 711. 194 4,000 ....... Ditto & Liverpool Junct.lc6ll. 80.1000 31 600 31. Bridgewater and Taunton.lool.lb. all pi - 400 51. Chelmer and Blackwater ..... lool.sh . 101 300 321. Coventry ........................ ... . . . lool.sh. 305 Croydon... Ave:A[o3li .25.10 d. sh . - 2,060 31. Os Dud1ey.......................... ........ 1001.113. 92 600 131. Derby lool,,sh . 120 20,000 4 per cent, Danube and Mayne 411.134. 4d.pd 30 3,5751 4 , Ellesm.treand Chester Average 1331.1 k. 159 231 821 Erewash ... ........... ..... .....1001.10. 735 6,485 8 1 1. Forth and Clyde Mesh. 100/. pd. 128 11.453 7t. Grand Junction 1001.11 n 125 2,f 1 49 I 251. Grand Onion lool.sh 27 ',500 ....... Grand 5urrey.......... 11 . 1001.'. 15 1,0001 41 . percent. Ditto (optional) Loan 1001. .396 .. ... Grand Western 600 13. 12 4.8 d. Glamnrganshire, Aver. cost 1721.138.4 d. 410 749 121. Grant/twin ..... .. . .............. .... ..1501.8h. etu 6 . 338 2., Os . Huddersfield Average:, /1. 68.6 d. oh. 19 100 .. Kensington loosh. allpd 10% 2.328' 11.10.. Kennet end Avon, Av. 391.185. 10d. sh IS 11,6991 11.10 s. Lancaster Average 471.64.8 d 27% 2,8972 304. Leed a and Liverpool lOOl. a h '720 5453 1 1. !Os. Leicester 1401.21 150 ,13117 51.24. Leicester & Northampton Mer P31.10, '72 2,409 101. Monmouthshire 1001.51' 200 250 101. Melton Mowbray . 1061.5 h. 200 500 251. Mersey and Irwell lool.sh. 540 3,000 11. 10s. Macclesfield lOOl. sh. all pd 15% 947 171. Neath lool.lh. 364 '1.400 51, Peak Forest Ave' oge about 781.3 h. 64 1,418 Bs, Regent's (or London) Av. 33/.162.8d. sh. 101,( imp fil. It ochdalc Average 351.5 h. 62 500 81. Shropshire 1351. sh . 137 900 111. 10s. Somerset Coal lsol.sh. 170 3,6001. 6 percent Ditto Lock Fund Stock 121.105. sh. 1 1% 700 WI. Staf f ord and Worcester 1401.5 h • 686 500 15/ Shrewsbury 1251. sh. 280 300 91. Staurbridge........... 1451.1 h. 396 3,647 21. Os. Stratford.on:Avon A ver....791. 91. ed. sh. 33 539 12f1 Swansea 1001.sh„ 265 3.762 2/. 12s. Severn and Wye &Railway Ar.26/.l)s. sh. 45 .600Ish. 321. 10s. Trent Ind Mersey, I share lOOl. sh. 475 8,149 1 " :50 *1 141.. Warwick and Birmingham lOOl.O 202 1,000450, 980 10. Warwick and lapse. lOoi.sh. 118 7,000 41 Worcester & Birmingham Av.7Bl.Bs.sh. 57 5.000 365. Wilts and Berko Average 871. lOs. Bd. sh. 18% 800 6., Wytlev and E55tngr0n.......... IQS/.sh '74 .28 905 il Wey and Arun. 1101. on. 20 i DOCKS. :.60011 3 p. c. Cominerc al . ....... 1001. sh. 61 1,90515 h. 5 per cent. East and West India ........ Stack 1034 ,238,31011. 311.p.ct. London . .... ....Stock 78 Ditto Bonds 2,209 31.65. sd. Bristol Average 14''1.95. sh . 75 68,3241.51. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts lO6 152,752 5 percent. St. Katharine Stock 97% 500,090 41 per cent. Ditto Bonds ............. The report of the Agricultural Society of India had made its appearance just prior to the despatch of the journals received by the last overland mail, but unaccompanied by the papers which are read at the usual meetings, and which illustrate the progress made in the various experiments of cultivation. It, however, states, that the chief objects which have en gaged the attention of the Society during the year 1841 were the condition of rice cultivation in Bengal, and the benefits likely to result from the introduction of Carolina rice, and the, interchange of the Baraset grain with other districts of Bengal ; the establish ment of hop cultivation in India, and the production of ripe hops at Bangalore ; the planting of timber trees throughout the north-west provinces, and the receipt and distribution of a large supply of Ameri can cotton-seed, to the extent of eighty-two maunds, which are stated to have been despatched to almost every district in Hindostan, as well as to the neighbouring countries. At the nursery of the So ciety the greatest attention has been bestowed on the culture of the sugar-cane, of which 41;400 had been distributed through the provinces, the aim being the raising of the character and value of that product. The Society, on the whole, appears to be in a flourish ing condition, and the native members were increas ing ; the ratio at present, as compared with Europeans, was however as 1 to 16. . _ . .200,000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds for 10 years Deptford Pier ................201. sh. 20/. pd 10 BRIDGES. 1,600 11. Hammersmith 501.5 h. 21% 7,231 1,700 11. Ds. • Ditto, New, of 'lf per cent., 501.5 h. 15N 0,000 5,000 02s. 0,1. Ditto, Old Annuities of 81 60/. pd 21 5,030 19s. Scl, Ditto, New Ditto of 71. 4O!. pd 18 80,0001. U. per cent. Ditto Bonds 5,948 27s Vauxhall ..... ...Average 70/. 108.3 d. sh 2O ASSURANCE COMPANIES. 2,000 3110. Albion 5OOl. all. 501. pd 72 60,000 16fill 15s1 Alliance British &Foreignlool.3ll. 11/. pd 14 50,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine 1001. sh. 51. pd 5% 24,000 f 1. perch. Atlas 5Ol. sh. 51. pd 14is 1,200 ph. 5/. Birmingham I. ire...... ......`2501. sh. 551. pd 107% 90,000 41. percent. British Fire 2501. sh. 50/. pd 41 12,000 61. per cent. British Commereinl 5O/. sh. 5/. pd 5% 5,000 51. per cent. Clerical & Medical Life, 1601. sh.2/10s pd 6% 4,000 710 s County lOO/. sh. lOL pd I , 9,000 3s. Eagle 2 ,,,. r 5 per cent.] '-'" j and 301 bs. Economic Lile 1000/. sh. 2501. pd 406 2,271 22s.per cent. European LI to .0/. s h. all pd 22 50,000 2s, Ditto, New 201. sh. 2/. pd 114 .000,000/. f 1. per ct Globe Stock 116 20,000 5 / • GI uaril ian 30,000 4s. 01 Hope 50/. sh. 51. pd 5;4 2,400 51. 12s. Rd. Imperial Fire 5OOl. sh. 501. pd 136 7,500 10s. fd. Imperial Life 100!. sh. 101. pd 11 13,459 5/. per ceia. Indemnity Marine IOW. sh. 8/. pd n. 2,020 3110. Kent Fire 5O/. sh. all pd 91 3/. Ditto Life 5Ol. pd n 6 Immediately below the abstract of the report of the Agricultural Society, in the India papers, is the account of the failure of the cotton experiment at Surat, where it will be remembered it was com menced under the three American planters whom the Court of Directors procured, at so heavy an expense, in order to improve the cotton cultivation of India. The ill success attending the experiment seems to have arisen from the bad management of the general superintendent, the Chief Collector of the district, who appears to have been a person but little adapted for the overlooking of an experiment so important in its character, connected as it is with the manufac tures of the mother country. ~.. 10,000 25s Law Life lOO/.lh. IC/. Pd 22 1 4 5,000 las. London, Fire 25/. Th. 12/. 10s. pd 17U 3,900 10s. London, Ship .. „ 25/. sh. 121. 10s. pd BIN 1.060.000/. -. ..... Minerva Life 1001. sh. 95,000 s'. per cent. National Loan Fund... 201. sh 2/. lils. pd 2% 30,000 51. per cent. Palladium I.ite 5O/. sh. kl. pd 216 s 50,000 5/. per cent. Protector Ufa 201. sh. 21. pd 17s ad 10,000 4 per cent. Protestant Dissenters ....MO/. sh. 5/. pd 5►% 9.500 U. Provlilent Lite lOOl. sh. 101. pd 20 200,600 41. 00. Rock Life -. 89,220/ 51. per c.ist. Royal Fitch:lnge Stock 1:0 6,00 , 1 5 per cent. University Life 1001. eh. 5/. pd 11 10,000 4 per cent. Uniteti Kingdom Life 100/. sh. 51. pd 7U JOINT STUCK BANKS. 25,000 Agric. and Corn. of I reland2s/. sh. 101. pd 15,000 S per cent. Australasia 401. sh. VI. pd 53 10,000 10 per cent. Bank of Birmingham 501. sh. 10/. pd 13 10,000 IA per cent. Birmingham Bank 5O/, sh. 10/. pd 134( 31,000 6 per cent. London & Westminster 1001. ail. 90/. pd 22% 60,000 5/. Londan Joint Stock 501. sh. 10/. pd 12% .1.009 4 per cent. Lancaster lOOl. sh. 50/. pd 30 25,000 10 per cent. Liverpool 1001 oh. 1211. pd 19 50,000 7e percent. Manchester and Liverl 501.5 h. 151. pd 19% pool Dia^ onn t 20,000 7 per reut. Manchester ION. sh. 10/. pd 4% 20,000 8 per cent. Provincial Bank of I relandlool. 5h.25/.p4 41% 10,000 fl ier cent National Bank of Ireland NI. sh. 1711. pd 16 10,000 6 per cent National Provincial Eng.loo/. sh. 351. pd 35 1 4 111,001:1 ... Ditto New 101. sh. 101. pd 10 10,000 Gloucestershire 5Ol. sh. 10/. pd 32 6,000 10 per cent. Hampshire 5Ol. sh. 51. pd 9 GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. 2,500 16s Od Bath 201.0. 101. pd 22 5,000 ..... .... British 401. sh. 16/. pd 19 3,000 [ s . t n 'l' d ' e ; t e L ei t s 3 Ditto Provincial 2Ol. sh. 191. pd t'l 928 51 101 Birmingham 50/. alt. 98 1,250 210 s Bristol 2O/. sh. 36 2,250 31 lOs Brighton 2O/. sh. 13% 750 31 10s Ditto, New 2lll. eh. IS/. pd 9 1,471 41 per cent Brighton General 2Ol. sh. all pd 934 4,000 71.105. Continental Consolidated ....75/. 0281. pd 110 1,000 101. City of London.. ....... .. .100/. sh. all pd 195 1,000 01. Ditto, New 1001. alt. 751. yd 150 4,000 3/.os, Equitable 5O!. pd 194„ 10,000 31. per cent. Imperial 'MI. sh. co% 900 51. per cent. Isle of Thanet 251. sh. 20/. pd 183„ 11,350 ti!. per cent. Independent 'O/. eh. all p., 56 11,000 51. per cant. Phoenix 5O/. sh. 32/. pd 30g 1,000 '4l. per cent. Ratcliff lool.Bh. 80/. pd 03 4,000 S'oith 1 1 .1 ,tropcnitan 50!. sh. /314!. pd 17 9,000 M. per cent. United General 501. ah. 47/.pd 28 240 51. per cent. Warwick 5Ol. sh. 50 400 51. per cent Wakefield 9,000 3/. Westminster Chartered 6,000 12s. Ditto New 5(l. sh. 1(11. pd 11 780 3 per cent. Yarmouth '2o/. sh. 181. pd WATER WOIIKS 1,J300 34a. Birmingham 2 4 '. sh. 25/, pd et 1,433 71. East London ROL sh. 105 5,500 21 15s. Grand Junction Average 411. I:,s. 4d. sh. 56 2,000 :U. Kent 100/. sh. 52 372 10/. Liverpool Bootle 2201. sh. 325 1,509. 211(11 New River London Bridge WaterA nu... 60 6,486 2/ 1.01 Manchester and Salford 1001. sh. 54 1,000 5 per cent. South London . 100/. sh. 98 8,294 431. West Middlesex Average 63/4125. 9d, sh. £4 1.360 1114 s York Building Co. Lessee Prop. 1001. sh, 35, IRON RAILWAYS. 6,300 2/. Os. Birmingham and Derby ...« 10tH. pd 514 9,500 3 pet cent. Birmingham and Gioncester 1(0/. pd b,, v s 15,000 4 per cent. Bristol and Exeter .........100/. eh, 70 pd 41 7,500 .-..... Cheltenham &G. Western 100/. sh. 72x1. 16% 309 8,000 .... ..... Dublin and Drogheda 1001. sh. 52 pd 50,000 ..... -.. Eastern Counties 251. sh. 231, pd f% 10,000 5 per cent. Great North of Englandlool. sh. ROI. pd 87 10,918 12 per cent. Grand Junction lOOl. sh. all pd 182 25,000 4 per cent. Great Western 1001. sh. 65!. pd 94 25,000 3 per cent. Ditto New 50/. sli. 50/. pd 6534 0,000 5 per cent Gosport Junction... 50!. sh. 50/. pd :9 2,000 8 per cent. Hartlepool 1001.1 h. 100/. pd 14534 8,000 Hull and Selby 50/. sh. 502, pd 39 2,100 4 per cant. Leeds an d Selb y 1003 h. C 5 5,100 10 per cent. Liverpool& Manchester 10(/..h. lOW. pil 1883( 7,968 10 per cent. Ditto Half Shares Si!. pd 90 11,495 10 per cent. Ditto Quarter Shares 254 pd 45 36.000 ...... ,„ London and Brighton 501. sh. 50/ pd 37% 24,000 10,000 3 per cent. London and Greenwich ...20/, sk, 901 . p d , % 25,000 01 per sh. London & Birmingham 100/. sh. OW. pd 176 25,000 21. 'ls I'd. Ditto Quarter Shares -.25/. sh. 51. pd 361 31,050 21. :is. 4d. Dit o New Shares 12/. sh. 324 pd 2944 30,000 3 par sh. London and S. Western A A v Y : 1 3: : 1 1 5 7 . 3 . . g li d d: 60 34 ,, 33,000 ......... London and Croydon] ...... Ditto New Scrip.... 13% (3,000 4'. per sh. Manchester and Leeds...loo/. sh. '7O/. pd 81 t 3,000 Ditto Half Shares 5Ol. 30/. pd 36% 10,000 Manchester and Birmingham 70/.sh. 40/. 29 Ditto Extension 7l. pd 2 10,000 22Ies. Midland Counties 'OO4 sh. 1001. pd SO 15,000 2/. Os. North Midland 1/.los. Ditto New 4O/. pcl 3434 10,256 1/.los. Northern and Eastern.... 50/. sh 45'. pd 41% 2,600 Freston and Wyre 5O/. sh. :eV. pd 36 38,000 4 per cent. South Eastern and Dover 4Bl. pd 26% 1,000 let. per cent. Stockton and Darlington . ... . inpi,sh, 265 9,000 ...... ... Thames Haven 501. sh 51. pd 6,000 10/. per cent. York and Nerth MINES. Midland : 5 1, 0 00 . 1 8 .2 h 81 . h. 5 .1 0 a, / I . p i)p d dd P 521 ti 8,000 Albion Copper 51 vh. 21/. pd 12 4,070 IL Bs. Altcn 10,006 ass. Anglo Mexican,iss.sl. l 1 5 ,m 1. Ditto Subscription 25/. pu I g 2,060 flolanos l5O/. oh 811 pd 4 10,000 11. 10s Bratilianlmp.iss.s/. pm 351. sh. 212 pd • 9ii 6,000 ....... Macaubas & Locaes United 2525h.252 pd 3 11000 Ditto St. John Del Rey 2O/. sh. 142 pd 1 N 1( , 000 Bolivar Copper Company, 201. sh. 20/. pd 1 10,000 ........ Ditto Scrip lOl, oh. 10/. pd 2 Amp ... ..... British Iron lOOl. sh. 70/. pd 8 ,000 ..... ... British Copper 5/.sh. 4il. pd Is 4 . Cit s Branca 6l/. pd 6% Candonga...... 10,000 1 1 Copiapo 2O/.sh. 13/. pd JO 8,500 ... Cohimblan, ins. 5/. pm 551. sh. 55/. pd ON 2,e50 31. English 20,000 11,155 Mexican Company 1001. sh. 6112 I A 3,008 Polberou Console . lO/. sh. 8/. pd 4 11,500 Real del Monte, Unregistered 334 Ditto Loan 1 , 10te5... ..... .... .1501. pd 50 ..NN...30 . 000 ...„,„ United Mexican, iss. rpm. 441/7sh. all pd 134 Dittt. Scrip l% Ditto New Scrip. 41 pd 3% West Cork .e. ... .......... .. ... 501. sh 50/.pd 39 LITERARY INSTITUTIONS. 1,000 London, with Bronze Ticket ...75ge.sh. 13 1,500 London University lOOl. sh. all pd 7 :0 0 - Russell .25gs eh. 6' King' College 1001. 19% MISCELLANEOUS. ;0, NA 158. Australian Agriculturallool.lsh. 281. pd 37 6,100 1. percent. British American Land Company 3514 pd 9 10,000 61. per ceiet. Canada Company 1001. sh. 3214 pd 28 )0,000 51. per cent. Upper Canada Loan City Bonds, 4 per cent lOO 20.000 It. Os. General Steam Navigation 15/.. h.:141. pd tiii 101. per cent. Hudson's Bay Stock H. London Com. Sale Rooms ....Av. 751. sh 1100011.1.0 Caoutchouc Company 1211. pd 12% New Brunswick Land C0mpe1...y...501. pd 12 5,'.'87 41. per cent. Reversionary Int. 50c...1001. sh. 100/. pd 93% i,fal 5/. per cent. Ditto New 100/. sh. 100 V. pd 107 4.000 .0, 000 6e. Van Dle_nen's Land.... 1001. sh. 181/. pd 10 LIST of SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES APRIL 9, 1842. BANKS. 49( 0,001 4 " 61. p. et. Bank of Scotland...B3/. 6s. Sil. Th. all pd 155 8,000,0001 El. p. ct. Huai of Scotland 1001. eh. allpd 150 500,000/. 81. p. ct. British Linen Company 1001. sh. all pd 7thi 600,0001. 71. p. ct. Commercial 5OOl. sh. 1 001. pd 158 500,0001. ( P. Ct. National loCl.sh. 10/, pd 14 500,0031. Si. p. ct. Glasgow Union 2501. sh. 501. pd 81 1,000,0001. 6 p. ct. Western of INSURANCE C ScOMotIanPANIES.d 2OOI. sh 401. pd f$ 150,0005 h. 61p. ct. Scottish Union 201.3 h. 11. pd 23s.Cd. 7,500 10 p. ct. Hercules lOW. sh. 10/. pd 134 100,000 10 p. ct. Insurance Co. of Scotland .101. sh. all pd is 50,000 lo p. ct. North tritish 130/.811. 10/. pd 175 j 1,000 10 p. ct. Caledonian Fire 1001. sh. 10/. pd 20 5,000 10 p. ct. Edinburgh Life 100/. sh. 101. p. 4 15 100,000 31 p. ct. West of Scotland lO/. pd 141SCELLANE0 US. 4,818 ... ..... Edin. and Glas. Un. Canalso/. sh. all pd 10 Ditto Allocated.. ....” . ...... 964 sh. all pd 45 425,40('l per cent. Edinb. Joint Stack Water.2s/. sh all pd 34 I,uoosb 21 per cent. Shotts Iron F0underv......50/.sh 48/. pd 36 0,000 3 per cent. Edinburgh & Leith Glass.2o/. sh. 16/. pd 3% 4,500 10 per cent. Edinburgh Coal Gas ...... ...25/.oh. all pd 50 5,450 10 pet cent. G'asgow Gas „.. 254 sh. all pd 52 750 71 per cent' Leith Coal Gas ........ ... 2O/.4h. all pd 25 1.154 ......... Edinburgh and Dalkeith ........ 50/.ab 30 EMIGRATION.--In the course of the last week the early American ships, which go by the name of " the first spring fleet," sailed from the Broomielaw, and, in consequence, the business bustle which was noticed at this portion of our locality has been somewhat lessened. Theycarry fur the most part general cargoes, of large aggregate value. Amongst the fleet are dispersed a considerable number of emigrants, all of w h o m, with the exception of the cabin passengers, are of the humbler orders, belonging princi,,aty to the small towns and villages in the neighbourhood.— Caledonian Mercury. REVERSE or FORTUNE.—:In eminent jeweller, who at one time was reported to be worth 400,0001., is now an inmate of the Charter-House. PEEL AND THE LANDLORDS. The following letter of Sir Charles Wolseley, written some six years ago, will be read with in terest at the present crisis. It was addressed to the nobility and gentry forming the Agricultural As sociation : My Lords and Gentlemen,,--As a man engaged in the same pursuits, and bound by the same interests as yourselves, and of experience equal to almost any of you, I have a right to address you, which makes any excuse unnecessary. From the nature and terms of your Association, and from the published senti ments of many respectable men of your body, I am led to believe that you will reap nothing more for your labour than the pains thereof. An institu tion for the attainment of practical good, must not only have cohesion but unity of purpose, single ness of action, and direct and tangible means for following that purpose out to its conclusion. The fable of the bundle of sticks has a point which is all very well in its way. But if you get no fur ther than the imitation of sticks in a bundle, I fear that a waggish and mischievous generation like the present will be apt to say that you are indeed a pack of sticks, in no way formidable to any other portion of the community. I observe the most strange dis cordance in your views, even now, in the days of your noviciate, and long before that trying season when you will be front to front with the crafty enemy, namely, the monied, mercantile, and manufacturing interests. In their forces you will find no resem blance to your own condition and conduct. Full of envy and rivalry as they are, one with another, you will be astonished, and, I fear, confounded by their firmness, union, and adroitness in the hour of trial. Already, while you are criticising one another's sentiments with an acrimony which makes 'Change Alley shake with laughter at your expense, their organs in town and country are giving tongue, in most harmonious yelping, to raise the people against you. I know that none of us are wiser than our need. But I cannot help wondering at you when I read of an organisation which, by its protestations, with re gard to debt, taxes, and currency, has nearly bound itself to complete inaction before a blow is struck. Can it be possible that men with reasoning heads upon their shoulders, complaining to the world of the unjust depreciation of their property, and the ruin of their tenantry, have published the alleged causes of their sufferings, with an undertaking that they will not in any way provoke or allow discussion upon them, although the catalogue comprises the only con ceivable causes that any one can point out ? Yes, unhappily, it is possible, and it is fact. You give the world to understand that your Association has nothing " political " in its object, and many of your members join the cry ,of " mad dog," when any allusion is made to the state of the currency and the taxes, as connected with prices and rents, as rabidly as any of the cronies of Sir R. Peel. If you shut out what is " political" (meaning, ac cording to Johnson, that which concerns the commu nity at large),—if you' shut out the consideration of a debt contracted and taxes laid on to pay the inte rest of that debt in money, 90s. of which were required to buy a quarter of wheat for ten years together, and the payment of which is now enforced with wheat at Ss. the bushel,—if you shut out the fact that in the former period the Government forced upon the country a vitiated paper currency, and then, when the whole burden of state profligacy was weighing upon the shoulders of the productive classes, the Govern ment passed laws to prohibit the circulation of paper money on any terms,—if, I say, you resolve upon the exclusion of these things from your deliberations, because, forsooth, they are "political," what, I ask you, have you left to waste your breath and ink upon ? Suffer me, with a firm but friendly hand, to re move the veil which disguises, without giving any interest, to the beauty of your designs. In disavow ing. anything " political," you unwittingly prove yourselves to be rather too politic. Confess, now, without blushing, is not this course suggested in order to shun the politics of the Liberal or Movement party? Yes, yes; you own the soft impeachment. You cannot do much longer with rents, dwindling or in abeyance, with lands racked out, fences fallen down, and drains choked up ; but neither can you go on, as you believe, without Sir Robert Peel and his " Conservative principles of government." Ah ! Sirs, you will find, before long, who has the best of Conservatism—you, in the incomes of landed estates, or he in the receipt of a princely revenue from the funds, those funds being replenished by taxes squeezed, in the main, out of the pro duce of your lands, that produce being reduced, by an Act which bears his own name, to the minimum of value. Why should any of us wish to hide the fact ? A great, a ruinous blunder has been com mitted. You were tempted by the syrens of the money market. You were warned with more than the persuasiveness of Ulysses, by. Mr. Cobbett, of the danger of listening to them. You passed the cash payment Act, and doomed all bonded debtors, public or private, to pay treble value to their creditors in future. This, with respect to the debt called national, is a deliberate confiscation, without the receipt of any equivalent by the nation of two-thirds of the products of all the national industry for ever. This, however, does not describe the actual nature and amount of the Peel and Ricardo scheme of plunder. Under the stimulus of this harassing goad, the industry of the country multiplies products in a ratio out of all pro portion to the money in circulation. The cheapness of products caused by their multiplication would of itself be a general blessing. But under the action of the debt, aided by the ',increasing disproportion of money and commodijie that cheapness has no other effect than pamyorilig the public annuitants with fresh spoils torn from the sinking ranks of industry. One illustration may be useful. I know of an estate which had a mortgage on THE FRENCH FOST-OFFICE AND GAIAGNANI'S NEWSPAPER. We give the following paragraph from Galignani's Messenger of Tuesday, as a specimen of the ill-treat ment which everything in the shape of an English jour nal experiences at the hands of the French Post office: " We have once more to call the attention of the superior authority to the unaccommodating conduct of an under director at the Post-office, by whom a portion of our yesterday's journals, which arrived five minutes after the stipulated time, was refused, thus depriving part of our subscribers of their journals, containing one of the most important debates of the present Session of Parliament. Were there any reason for this extreme rigidity as to a few minutes more or less, it would be excusable ; but there is none! the mails not being despatched from the Post-office until six o'clock, three hours after the time they insist upon the newspapers being taken to the office. What a contrast does this conduct present with the prompt and business-like activity which reigns at the same establishment in Lon don, where the journals are received until within one hour of their being despatched. The difference is, that in England the object of the Post-office and its employes is the service and accommodation of the public, while, in Paris, that establishment, in the opinion at least of the sous-directeur, M. Mollard, seems to be kept up, not for the public service, but merely to supply its heads with comfortable berths and salaries at the least possible amount of - trouble. In a word, these gentlemen take upon themselves to be the masters, instead of servants, of the public ; and it is high time that this conduct, which has notoriously given rise to complaints from so many quarters, should be seriously looked into by their superiors, It is stated the' utmost anarchy prevails throughout the establishment ; however this may be, it is extremely hard that the inconveniences of such an im proper state of things should fall upon journalists who, as in our case, after making every possible effort to supply their readers with the fullest and latest intelli gence, find all their exertions defeated by a system o f petty despotism like that we have described?! " ASSES" IN PARLIAMENT.—The Times suggests " as a curious subject of physiological inquiry, what it can be that makes the whole House of Commons go off into violent fits of laughter on the slightest mention of an ass—as if it were some newly-discovered animal, which had never before entered their imagination—some lususnaturce—some startling and ori ginal phenomenon, as yet unheard of within or without the walls of their House." Certainly an ass can be no such'novelty to 'Weathers of Parliament ; can it, Colonel Sibthorp ?—Punch. LIVES OF THE QUEENS OF ENGLAND.—We con gratulate the public that Miss Strickland has at length been enabled to produce the fourth volume of her highly interesting work, comprising the Lives of Elizabeth of York, surnamed the Good, Queen of Henry Vll.,—and Katharine of Arragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour. Anne of Cleves, and Katharine Howard, consorts of Henry VIII. It is rather singular that in the best written histories of this country scarcely any notice is taken of the Queen's Consort, although most of them exerted considerable influence over public affairs and society during their reigns ; and to Miss Strickland the reader is indebted for the first effort that has hitherto been made to give them the his torical importance to which they are entitled . Her learned and entertaining volumes, therefore, have become indispensable. companions to every' history of England, and are deserving of no less respect from the scholar than admiration from those who feel a proper interest in the annals of their country. BRUSSELS, APRIL 11.—Prince Nicholas Esterhazy, the eldest son of Prince Paul Esterhazy, who lately married the daughter of Lord Jersey, arrived at Leige on the Bth of April, on his way to Vienna. The Countess Vandermeere, mother of the General, died yesterday morning, at an advanced age, after a long and painful illness. She had supported with admirable resignation the arrest and condemnation of her son. We find the following in a letter from Nuremberg, given by the Journal de Franefort :—" The King has ordered that some distinguishing mark shall be put upon the house which was occupied by Palm, the bookseller, who was shoe by order of Napoleon, for having preferred death in the cause of the honour and liberties of Germany to an infamous denunciation." A correspondent writes from Alexandria to the Leipsic Gazette that., in the early part of March, several wo men in the harem of Mehemet Ali died, and were buried without being subjected to the inspecti o n o f t h e ph ys i c i ans o f the Board of Health ; a proceeding which led to a conclusion that the plague had not ceased its ravages. During the fair at Vichy, in the Allier last week, the ferry-boat to Charineil, which was overloaded with pas sengers and cattle, was upset in the middie of the river, and eleven human beings were drowned. The boat was known to be very crazy, and the water was very rough, yet these unfor tunate persons ventured in it to save the trifling difference it would have cost them by paying the toll of a bridge, to cross which would have taken them but a very short way round. Sixty millions of litres . (rather more than 63 mil lions of English quarts) of beer, says a Belgian journal," were consumed in Brussels last year, making an average consump tion of about four litres per day for each beer-drinker. It would appear from this statement that teetotalism is not in high favour at Brussels. In Auvergne and the Allier, says a letter from Gannat, the weather, during the first week of this month, has beeen most severe, and more snow and sleet fell than is within the recollection of the oldest inhabitants. The Konigsberg Gazette has a letter from Poland, stating that the statue of Joseph Poniatowsky, the model of which had been been made by Thorwalthen previous to the Polish revolution, has lately been cast in bronze, with the in tent of its being erected at Warsaw. A decree, however, was sent from St. Petersburgh forbidding this, and ordering it to be sent to Russia. Against this disposal of the sta'ne, the Coun tess Tyszkiew, the sister of the Prince, who had contributed 2,000 ducats, protested, in behalf of herself and the other subscribers, claiming the work as their private property. To this claim no answer was given ; but the Russian Cabinet transmitted an order that the statue should be melted down, and the model by Thorwaldsen, which had long formed one of the greatest ornaments of the collet:6bn of plaster-casts at War saw, be broken up and destroyed. ACCIDENT AT HYDE PARK.—At a lit t 1,2 after four o'clock yesterday afternoon a gentleman wa, thrown from his horse in the ride called Rotten-row, in Hyde Park. He was conveyed to St. George's Hospital in a state of insensibility. The usual surgical assistance was immediately afforded, but without any results which leave a hope of his recovery. His name and circumstances arc unknown. Prince George of Cam bridge witnessed the accident, and made repeated inquiries a the Hospital respecting the unfortunate gentleman's condition, We lern from Rome that the murderer of Count Palin has been tried and condemned to death. He was a dealer in antiquities, of whom the Count was in the habit of making purchases. We learn from Bastin, by R letter of the 31st ult., that there had been committed at Ajaceio four atrocious mur ders' all within a week of each o th e r. Th e fi rs t v i ct i m was a relation of the commandant of the citadel, who rsceived se veral gun-shot wounds in the open market-place, in the pre sence of at least thirty persons, all of whom immediately fled to prevent their being called upon as witnesses, and thereby subject themselves to the vengeance of the murderers and their families. The second was precisely a similar attack, in the same public situation, upon a defenceless woman, who was repeatedly stabbed with a stiletto by a single ferocious as sassin, who was afterwards suffered to go off to the moun tains without the least impediment from the numerous people who were spectators of the scene. Afterwards one man was shot, and another stabbed to death in the middle of a frequented street by a single bravo, who was quietly suffered to make his escape. MR. HULLAII'S MUSICAL CLASSEF.—These classes held their first great choral meeting on Wednesday evening at Exeter-hail, in order to show the proficiency they had acquired by Wilhelm's system. The orchestra was divided into " re served seats" for the more distinguished portion of the auditors, amongst whom were his Royal Highness Prince Albert, the Duke of Wellington, the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, the Bishop of London, and Lord Wharncliffe. The coup d'ceil presented by the hall shortly before the commencement of the evening's . performances, was exceedingly grand, the body of which was filled by the immense mass of male and female vocalists (1,500 in number) who have followed Mr. Hullah's course of instructions. At eight o'clock the performance commenced. Mr. Hullah conducted the chorus, which was unaccompanied by any in strument. The concert was divided into two parts, of which the first comprised various psalms and hymns; beginning with the 100th Psalm, and the seconal a madrigal, by Donato, some songs by Wilhelm, and concluding with " God save the Queen." The effect of such an unprecedented number of voices was most singular and imposing, and considering that there was no instrument to guide the singers, their general precision was remarkable. In the course of the evening Mr. Hullah made his pupils go through ascending and descending scales in various times, representing the notes by manual signs. The concert terminated about ten o'clock. Prince Albert and the Duke of tot ellington were loudly cheered as they left the Hall; the Noble Duke looked exceedingly well, and ap peared much to enjoy the evening's performance. His Grace the Duke of Wellington will take the chair at the anniversary dinner of the Royal South L on d on Dispensary on the 11th May. HAYMARKET.—This theatre was on Wednesday night crowded to the full to witness Mr. Charles Kenn's first appearance in the character of Claude Melnotte, in the Lady of Lyons. The character of the sentimental swindler, which is little calculated to excite the interest, or enlist the sympa thies of an audience, was, through Mr. Kean's representation, rendered an attractive and emphatic part: and the various episodes of the impostor were well delivered. At the close of the performance air. and Mrs. Kean were, as usual, called for, anti loudly applauded. The piece is announced for repetition on Monday next. FRENCH Tarbffe was played on Wednesday night, in which Mdlle Plessey 's Elmire was as fine a specimen of the character, as this drama can be said to have produced. M. Cartigny made a very efficient Orgon, and M. Otidinet succeeded as the hypocrite. A brief vaudeville, en titled Arriver a Propos, preceded ; and a one-act comedy of Andrieux, also added to the entertainments. SCOTTISH SONG AND MUSIC.—HANOVER - SQUARE R ooms. —Mr. Wilson's second entertaining illustration of Scot tish music and song, was on Wednesday morning given in the Queen's Concert Room, Hanover-square, before a fashionable audience, among whom we noticed Lord Viscount Gae, Lady Fraser, Lady Lumley, and Mr. Allen Cunningham. I'his en • tertainnient was, as usual; exceedingly instructive as well as pleasing, and his budget of fact, anecdote, reminiscence, and tradition, was stored with abundance of what is quite new to us " Southrens." Mr. Wilson entered into an interesting ex ptanation.of the curious endings of the old stock airs, showing that several of them were peculiar to mountainous countries. Melodies ending on the sixth of the key—an odd butcharactere istic effect—were well illustrated by the song of "The Birks of Aberteldy," and those on the third of the key were exempli fied b y o H oy e ; Wife of Aldivalloch," the anti-tonic finish of which mnst have struck all who have sung or heard it. The second part commenced with a narrative respecting ancient poetry, with allusion to songs—the "Complaint of instruments in use amowngititlheapieaatsiganhtarhyleduarhineegdtehtee Scotland ;" pe O e ; n ttuhrey highlander's; the e si f x i t t e s en e t ff h ee c t me thod of teaching music, laughable in the extreme. " Thou has left me ever, Jamie." Burns used to say of this air that it was enough to drive a man to despair, if he heard it played by the late Mr. Fraser, the celebrated performer on the oboe. SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL 13.—The Peninsular Corn- Mr. Wilson appears at. the Hanover-square Rooms every Wed• Any's iron steamer Cairo, Captain Moody, left Southampton nesday, under patronage of the Duke and Duchess of suther- Water last evening for Egypt, to run on the River Nile. land and the Earl and Countess of Dalhousie. Mr. Wilson's The South of England Steam Packet Company's steamer illustration next Wednesday will be on Highland Melody; it is Monarch, Captain Forder, commenced her summer voyages to one of the most interesting of the s er i es , and h as f or its tinale, Havre last night, with the Earl of Leven and his family, and a the famous " Reel of Tullochgeru m ," a d m i r ably s ung by Mr. large number of passengers on board. The same Coin- Wilson. patty's steamer, t en At Captain Babot, commenced The Piedmontese Gazette; of the sth inst., publishes running also between this port and the Channel Islands and an amnesty granted by the King of Sardinia, on the occasion St. Maio. The Oriental it is expected will be detained a con- of the marriage of his son, the Duke of Savoy. It compr siderable time in quarantine at the Mother-bank, in conse - bends only the persons condemned for political offences in quence of the virulence of the plague at Alexandria when she 1821, who are divided into two categories—the first relates to left that port. The Commander of the West India steamer ah those who have already received temporary permissions to Medina has receised strict orders to leave Southampton for F return to Sardinia, and in their case the amnesty mouth on Friday next, at 12 o'clock at noon. the second category refers to persons in whose favour there has men - A letter from Rome, in the Leipzie Gazette, not hitherto been any act of Royal mercy and who are to snake on which orders tions a report that Don Miguel intends to quit the capital formal application for the benefit of the amnesty, to both account of his not being treated with sufficient consideration the restoration of civil rights and confiscated property by the Cardinals. l categories, is complete ; for 4,3001. The interest, 5 per cent., had been pa, for years with about 360 bushels of wheat. At the present prices it would require at least 800 bushels. Is it better with manufacturers ? By no means. Mr. Fielden has proved before Parliament, that, reckoning the payment of interest by the prices of the cotton manufacture through the whole of the periods before alluded to, the fundholders have received back both principal and interest, and are now indebted to the pub lic for an overplus. What has been the fate of the Ba ronet himself all this while ? His fortune in 'the funds stands at its nominal amount, while yours is dropping into annihilation. He is at the point of summer heat, and you are falling below zero. The lower you go, the higher he stands ; the more he gains. But I suppose yon will find it necessary to "grin and abide it." He is your own. He is your serpent of the wilderness. But he gazes on you without healing you. There is only one way to safety. You Must .go back by the road you came. You must return to the point at which you departed from justice and fair dealing with the masses who have to pay the taxes. Whatever else is suggested is froth or smoke. lam no paper-currency man. I - am no currency doctor. I will not be hunted by the clamour of Whigs and stock-jobbers. I know that this country is pay ing three times . the value due to the fund holders.. I know that this has been effected by . a-gross violation of public faith, and can only be re medied by an honest adjustment of the contract, ac cording to the terms upon which the money was bor rowed. Liberavi aninatm. I have done my duty. I wish you better times, or rather, I wish you the reso lution, as you have, the power among you, to" make the times better.—l am, my Lords and Gentlemen, your obedient servant and fellow-sufferer, CHARLES WOLSELEY. P.S. Mine will be a lady's postscript : it will con tain the whole mystery of the subject. Consider it Well. It was written more than a hundred years ago. Observe what wisdom, what prophetic sagacity, breathes through it! 'Where would you be now, if, instead of mortgaging the soil and the people to the fundholders, to carry on crusades against the liberties of mankind, you had acted the part of " natural guardians," as you style yourselves, and firmly held to this advice, given by the great Locke ? "This, by the way, if well-co ns id ere d, m i g ht l e t us see that taxes, however contrived, and out of whose hand soever immediately taken, do, in a country where their great fund is in land, for the most part terminate in land. Whatsoever the people are chiefly maintained by, that the Govern ment supports itself on. Nay, perhaps it will be found, that those taxes which seem least to affect the land will most surely of all others fall on the rents. This would deserve to be well considered in the raising of taxes, but the neglect of it brings upon the country gentleman an evil which he will be sure quickly to feel, but not be able very quickly to remedy ; for rents once fallen are not easily raised again. A tax laid upon land seems hard to the landholder, beeaused it is so much money going visibly out of his pocket ; and therefore as an ease to himself, the landholder is always forward to lay it on commodities. But if the rich man thoroughly consider it, and examine the effects, he will find he buys this seeming ease at a very dear rate ; and though he pays not this tax im mediately ou.t.a£.lli.aversi.purse, yet his purse will find it bra greater want of money there at the end of the year than that comes to, with the lessening of his rents to boot; which is a settled and lasting evil, that will stick upon him beyond the present payment." CORN AVERAGE:;. • GENERAL AVERAGE,PRICES OF Littll'lSl, Cifilt o t of Far the ' , Neel:. en'cied AprilB, 1.'342, made up fi ,,, ” re hem 0 ,1 the Inspectors in the diff erent Ci t i es an d 'l. o un, 10 Engla n' Wales, per . Imperial Ouarter. . 2i. 16 ' Wheat 5Ss. 2d.1 Oats Barley 2 -e. 211 Rye AVERAGES OF THE LAST SIX WEEKS, Week ending WHEAT. BARLEY. OATS. EYE. BEANS. ,-----. ---- -I March 4 ...... ... (0 9 , 2.8 3 19 1 31 10 --- 32 9- 1 1 11 18 ...... 9 2 o 25 5B 4 26 6 18 4 3.3 4 s 9 9 40 0 April 1 8 ...... ,SS 2 1.:45 2 Is 11 n 3 10 2i 7 IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF THE SIX W. "s '• Wheat 59:. In. 1 Oats ......... 185 9(1.1 Ztans ......... : 0.. _ Barley,. 27a. 01.1 Rye DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. 0_ 31' ' 275. B d.l Oats - , J. 211. 43. I Rye ral°s ' Wheat Barley THE MARKETS-YESTBRVA COLONIAL MARKET. The operations were fair, and full rates were paid; the d i t t; ports small. Prices look up for all sorts of Raw Sugra, an ew . demand good. Rum di ffi cult of sale, and prices on the d e nte d. Proof Leewards, 2s. sd. per gallon. Rice firm, and WS Bengal, 9s. to 121. per cwt. TEA MARKET. d s Prices were not low e r fo r T ea , b u t the market tree Low Free Trade Congou, 13. 9d. cash. TA11:, MARKET. Previous rates were bare OW ly sustained, and the Inar et 1 for dull. P. Y. Candle, 46s. 3d. on the spot ; and 4 88 . °' delivery in the last three months of tLe year. WHITECHAPEL HAY MARKET. ~s e ct The supply was moderate, with a good demand at the Pr/ 0; quotations : —Clover, 2/. 103 to 5/. 8s ; Hay, 21, to 4 Straw, 1/. 12s to 1/. les. • COUNTRY CORN MARKETS. ____-/ --- Ivo" Wheat. Barley. I Oats. I Beani. h...., .....—__ .......,---,----.....- . :, !,, Per Quarter. s. to s. * . to 1.-.. s. to s. -a.to 4. 5 3 : 1 ; Boston ilraintlee 52 70 27 34 93 29 33 5- 36 (4 IS , ighton CO t 8 28 37 22 28 37 44 .... 35 Cambridge — 60 25 16 „,, Z f 4 :I Chichester 26 65 25' 33 20 23 . 1 0 1- 33' Dunmow ,7 57 20 31 19 25 29 40 i Grantham Grimsby 56 74 29 33 lb 21 36 40 ii Hailsharn Hitchin 5O (17 27 34 20 3 (1 34 4 ; 133 33 Ipswich 5l 60 22 29 21 26 24 5 ' 53 Lewes Lynn Maidstone 59 67 36 39 26 32 38 40 5 3 35 Norwich ' 5B 64 24 29 23 90 34 36 36 .14 . 25 Petworth Romford o: 62 24 30 . 18 '26 24 3 4. 0 4 1 Sandwich 6l 71 21 34 :,5 30 :o3 C:' 153 56 Tnetford . ... 2 Wisbech Witham 5l 61 21 26 19 25 24 3. I 0 Yarmouth 160 69 3o 32 24 30 39 t 0 I 3 Li V ERPOOL CORN MARKET.—ApriI 12 ~ BP r WHEAT, English, White, per 70113... --- Red .., 9 6 0 " 6 Scotch, Welch, and Manx ..---- Irish, White 6 9 1 a ------ --- lted % 4 . a. to 11 . 95 3 /j 37 3:1 5° 44 23 40 42 20 40 36 40 36 40 32 24 34 45 29 SO 34 26 08 32 38 4 0 34 26 33 40 31 93 I= 9 40 44 31 24 at 38 40 ,April 12 10s. W ." .• 6 6 r ) 1 , 6 9 1 t 6 0 8 5 3 11•••• 2 6 g 4 0 0 II 0 o re S 3 O 4 ti n ••••• . 3 6 40 0 0 -r 36 d , 24 „0 96 o ' 2 0 •••.c 4 0 48 „ „ 45 eti 24 0 40 38 36 • O CS V 4b 0 id Scotch, per 4511).....: Foreign . OATS, Riglish. Welsh, an Irish Foreign EARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter Scotch and Irish, pet 601bs. Feeding BEANS, English, per Imperial quarter Irish, &c. . Foreign PEASE, English, per Imperial quarter Foreign FLOUR, English, per 2801 h. • ---- Irish OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 2401bs Immix CORN, per 4801 b. Rrs, per Imperial quarter .......... MALT, per Imperial quarter ........ IRISH MARKETS. 'UBLIN MARKET NOTE for the Wcel ending A .elL . ', . . N From To 'ge , 562 Wheat,perbarret 4i0tie...... 27 0 27 0 1$ f 307 Bere ... los tole l4 (1 14 i' 15 5 287 Barley l6 Mont l4 0 17 0 it , 42.1 Oats '4 stone lO of 13 0 .- 9 a Flour, per cwt... 8 stone — 0 -- 0 11 435 Oatmeal —.............. 8 stone • 11 6 14 6 Sold to Bakers only. 0 :0 20,855 Cwt. Flour 8 0 ‘24 Average price of Wheat and , lour 55. Od per to o r 4: t'" Fans .. from I7s. Od (~ 174 ',„/ Receipts of Flour, 9,215 i swou ',' t , Hales of Do. 23,459 Thirds ....:::. from Ss. lid' " Paler OF 3REAII. ,ad. Quartert I.oat ...... ...N. : I tali Spartern ....,' Od 'ID' CORN M A RKETS.—ApriI 9. 0 /0,, .0 Wheat (per 205t.)2:28 0.1. te:.'.24 Od. vats Iper last.... 6,, , ' 41 '' Harley (per 16s 1 .)11 0 t 3 0 11.1orr (per cwt ~ . 4 . Oattreal per cwt.)... .2, Od. to :Ss. u ' t o Y! ' Reef, 6d. to 6441.—Alutten, 511. te. Oct.— Veal, 4 6 d . k k'orlt, 4d. to sd.—Fresh Mittel, lid. II 12d Per lb PRICE OP To M nurratt. the erchants. To t he Ca nrst Quality... .......... ....... 75 ....... ............."' .. . secnrid ..71 .................. . ..,• .•. l'hird ...... ...... .. Fourth Filth 4.1 ..........„,..„, ...... •••• . Sixth 2 •.....«. «. ... ...... .. "' ' HAMBURG Wneat, Marks 405 to 49S --- Magdeburg to 468; -- Anhalt, wane 435 to 516 - red 37:i to 486 - Brunswick .05 to 498 - Mecklenburg 39S to 49S -- Polish 450 to 52S - Holstein 166 to 465 , Rye, Mecklenburg .... 234 to 2611 -- Marks 246 to tau - Elhing and Ko nigsburg - Pomeranian - Anhalt cu•r] Carolina and Tennessee 7 , 4t0 9% Georgia. Ist suit 7% 8 2d . 6 , 4 614 :Id and 4th ... _6_l M COI to I:3 Batavia Sumatra - ?Li° b% I Bahia 2 5% SUGAIi.. (Will Havannah, 3 to :i74 Brown Rio, White .• • - :IA, 4 Brown Manila, Brow )1 1 " - 63s Fte td '34 MARKETS. 0 .MIN. I, 4 0 )0 3 Barley, Mecklenburg. , : g te o ,3 : -:: holstein '' .. ..... : j i . : :I, 'l4 O l -- Odeibruek ...... I 0 0 1 0 I Oats, Eider .....• ...... i cg WO '-- Mecklenburg • .... ~g to ' - Holstein ........... 1 ::',; 1 is:o °I-- Upland ........... .7 6 lot: I l e P e o a a , s i e , , ...... e . . 4; . .............. ... ............ :I.:4 ; t , r e k Buck Wheat ............... .4 3 to R'' Rapeseed, Hano ver ••• ', i o l' iia Malt ........................ ; 6 3 E 0 Tares ........................ ' tv_o4 TON. 64 ki , Mar,nharn . ............... , oi hladras ...................... 4 6 Surat 4.. ...................... Domingo ..... ............ 0 4% FEE. Domingo .''•l 1 611 "" I etf La Guayra ............. ••"',lt 6i Porto Rico ....•'" i. Havannah .......... , ..... ...: 1 .11 83 Discount.) 6 ; S: t 1 ';',i Bahia, White ,..• ...:1; 1 6 3 grown ............. ',l Pernambuco, W hite " 1 3i In . 2% to 25 • '3 ...n.O - It - - q d log The Auxiliaire Breton says that a n't , ' oual-gbo SI P a few days back, through Orvault, and seized en a ti ed c re s s the Mayor's nephew. The furious animal inflic t ~ity l'' r e wounds on his face, and the child would in all prelni pot s ':,:i perished, if a little girl, attracted by his cries. ' ll ,l O O Ilt • c li courageously run up and flung her apron over the, ~ ell' a , drawing it as tight as pos s ibl e . A strugg l e took ri a : e igbb e must have ended in her being overcome, when thf„,.t.; Il e came up and killed the animal. Th e g i r l was nn" b " ec ,ii c : If The Chartist list of churchwardens Ito ~ not Poor ried at Leeds this yea r . Th e success f u l party s r ; o aer l pledged to oppose a chu r ch- ra t e , b u t to ' go t o prison 9 O C pay it. tr' The geP,, LONDON AND BRIGHTON RAILWA.., . -- „ ri sai n yfi' on this line already feels, to a considerable extent, an it ii'uiii tation consequent on the approach of summer ; ag o nor th io during the past week, the prevalence of a stj i n g,. t he tr;j o s wind has given to the season the character of win ter ' the th e f e cl , have been exceedingly well filled. Every portion e d P e o e o is in excellent order, and indeed may be consider a t heg c ol Strevens' blue vane ceased running on Mondays end ed ble and luggage hitherto taken by them are now con ", 1 ,. 11 { e sr' in the mixed trains. We understand that a reit u T, e o 1 0 0 0 train is to be started on the Ist of next montht $ w ill n ight rangements for the running of the summer train; the l' f ibe into operation. It is also in contemplation to r u :',ide ° l i n e. mail on the railroad. The separate rails by th vot er the y Greenwich Railway for the u se o f th e B r ighton a 0 before are progressing rapidly ; but some ti me will elaps e ..- are open for traffic.—Brighton Gazette. ;ell , low The estate of the late Charles R. Blo v ,i 10 ° mo re of Blundell, Lancaster, is about to be adnunis t lerab i l he lei' eery. Mr. Blundell's personal estate was eon s ' 1831,e Cat than 200,0001. By his will, which was maele,,,,i n l oo t" 2 gr• priest,Rubinson,for lOvroowttasCoalilseogea, 5,0001 to the plaintiff, the Rey. Mr. Walsh, a o° e 1 1 ,,,i 30 i , fat he le ~..,. D0 w ,,,,,e, c iv ath S o t i a i ir c o p rd r s ic h s i t r , e ; t ° ft 4,0 1 '' ' l , s itie Ampleforth College, in Yorkshire ; and 4,0001.4e0 Gustsn"o College, in Somerset ; and 4,0001. for Old Hall Oath e„rieihe in Herts ; and 15,0001. for the use of Roman Ca,'"„o 1 - I " t iaof and near London ; and 9 ,0001. for Lydiate li °-- °hie,. t he Chapel. He left annuities to two other pri" l 7 eg aeies et; are have been made to the present payment of the that th ' scminaries, on the ground that it may turn o ut The Jesuit establishments, which are contrary tt: la w ' l c!" • BO ei'ove r° , Sr. CLEMENT DANES SAVINGS nk to -- - , w riest amount paid by the Trustees of this Savings' 13 , a t° 20h , ;,;(1.1 ment for immediate annuities, varying from 4 r., 0,6 07/ l i , ant the past three months, ending the sth inst., v4' 2 ' 1 _ 0 410 1 , 1 ibis being almost double the amount paid for such ail .ol , e nt Yoe preceding quarter. The gross sum paid to Gov , e: 7 ,. 4d. e 1 1,8 institution for these small annuities is 140, 486g 00 0t sin c a, in' Savings' Bank's capital has increased above ( .6 /. 135. • 2 20th of November last, which makes 88,3 ,iierg• for' vested with Government, and belonging to d e r; rries•' t he Some time since a fisherman named 0. , to s t r t he regig t ! ution te e nd t warded 251. in notes and a money order for 14s• son at Portsmouth, first taking the preea- , it is cons w ood letter at the Brighton Post-office. Although _ lost, ~,i , ,,jirej almost impossible for a registered letter to ne obtained detecting the guilty parties, in this instance, _,,,,,, : e , h olti letter. Priest considered it a great, harasu'rdiraeti en . o o to the most searching inquiry, no clue could be v iii ' a i 0 , 7 f t he be the loser, after having complied with tied applicaerit Jed .to Post-office authorities, and has made reet s t lastl i n to pa/ his solicitations, and directed the them on the subject. The authorities he l `, 4 ffrigu,' - e d i feft him the full amount of his I w hich ' 11-055, 055, A c Ar 10 4' days since. On S 1111 ";1 alb a postmatq a t recta ~,.. Rear-Admiral Coffin died at Dover , I..A dmir ob e in his 73d year. He obtained his flag to ilet He w it 'OO White in January, 1837, on the retired list. _ net ot h er o nibio; quently, with the Hon. Sir Cortenay BoYls , ,': Navy, $ ' 1 i ' of the same rank, called to the active list of t h e Ittgiest i f eommission dated August, 1840. ..._, Isis -.- -- 1 tjof DRURY-LANE THEATRICAL X cn ) r i ie. Bentiettei the King of Hanover has transmitted to e t . . 2 ,, which iv _ ... ' bi secretary, a donation of 501. At the o f Nor th ;4 . place at Freemasons' Hall this day, n th' t to s upport signified their intention to be pre?e." t d th e is anticipa e • . Polder, or Chairman. A full company L ws • at —Hr o • a surf ST. JAMES'S THEATRL• this theatre in ..0,010, and Clanricarde, and Earls of Pembthroke and Dartmo , Roya l ing manner. He styles himself % t miraculous doings last ei hing 3 it German, conjured on Tuesday i.ight r l it in to the King of Prussia, but his . are many more t_ ii. were 'sufficient to convince that there dreamt of in our pilau!: f,!,, Natural Phi ni l it st heaven and earth then were ever our readers who are . fen_ o 'i country. We strongly recommend all to take an ear . . early opportunity of being amused or astonished, . 'raculotis maeician. _.„ witnessing the proceedings of this mi The following a?: POST-OFFICE COMMUNICATION. n Post-office corarn:„°,,, the Professor will find a large concourse of students in ti n the Members of the Select Committe i e n e d: _ Viscount logeh'sio cation between Great Britain and Ireland Mr. 00 , • Norreys, Sir Robert Ferguson 1 Viscount.l,_eE__.....ain j:rkri.ey, Vivian, .Ir. Octavius lt °rpm, .1 . Willi Henry . Mr. Shaw, Mr. Corry, Captain B e l Mr. Philip Miles, Mr. Heade, Mr. Captain Dalrymple, and Mr. Murphy. who has been for some 10 The Earl of Shannon, indisposed his . s at reside indifferent health, continue in awcnStamnlryyn,,Sir Denjetio Connaught-place MR TS S. rr' On the 12th instant , in 13erkele y -s q uare, the lady of Peers Williams, Esq. M.P. of a daughr. ore: , On the 6th inst., at Castle Coole, thete C oun t ei s of Deis' of a daughter. ..! On the 7th inst., in Park - road , Peckham, M Fr. , - - rs. e r Mills, of a daughter, still born. On the 7th inst., at Rugby, Mrs. C. Anstey, of a tlat l l; ht°t ‘ - 0 1 London; Printed aid Published by MURDO Y 0 LV. O No. 112, Stran.:. is Sur Office. No. 112. Strantirl the County of Middlesex, Friday, April 15, 1642. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. DEAL, APRIL 13.—Wind, N.E. strong.—Arrd. from the River and sailed, Jane Catherine, Mauritius ; Rob Roy, Rio ; Sir George Arthur, Bermuda. A schooner is reported to be ashore on, the Pau sands. 'V% ind W. N. W. April 7—The Bruns wick, Porter, from Hull to London, was lost on the sunk sand this morning. Crew saved. DOVER, APRIL 12.—Arrd. Despatch, De Gruchy, Monte Video, with loss of figure head, having struck the buoy coming in. The Prince Leopold, from Calais to Neweastie, in run ning for the harbour this morning, got on shore behind the South Pier, and remains. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 12.—Wind E.N. E. —Arrd. Sir George Arthur, London for Bermuda. OFF THE WIGHT, APRIL 11.—Zadsircus, Bater, St. Do mingo, for Altona. Sounimstprox, APRIL 12.—Sid. Cairo (st.) Alexandria. FALMOUTH, Aram 12.—Wind E.S.E. to E. N.E., strong breezes.—Arrd. Talisman, Pernan, Ancona. Sid. her Ma jesty's ships Fly and B ra mble, T orres Straits ; Liverpool, steamer, Vigo. Arrd. off La Fayette, Daunberg, Port-au- Prince for Gothenburg, short of provisions, out 60 days. LIVERPOOL, APRIL 12.—Wind E., moderate.—Arrd. Australian, Ireland, Sydney, New South Wales. sailed 6th of November ; Pasha an 4 Hinda, Monte Video ; Hinda. Mauri tius ; Lady Colebrook, M'Tear, Savannah. Sld. Prentice, New York ; Gosiypium. New Orleans; Sarah and Arsilia, and Itussen, Glover, New York; Siren, Halifax; Trandler, Dor chester ; ruella and A capideo, Quebec ; Trafalgar and Hender son. Newfoundland. Arrd. off Watkins, Lydia, and St Lucia. CORK, Aram, 10.—Freeman and John Anderson, Jamaica ; Westmoreland, St. John': , , New Brunswick; Maria, Quebec; Eden, Baltimore. Arrd. Slama, Clayton, Gonaives. SOUTHEND, APRIL 12.—A board with the words "for New York ship Brunswick, goods and passengers" on it, was picked up off Shoebury. yesterday. Chairs, tables, &c., were seen floating about this side of the Pau sands, and it is feared a vessel must have gone to pieces on last Friday night or Saturday morning. LONDON, Aram 14.—Wind this day at noon E. DEAL. APRIL 13.—Wind N.N.E., moderate. OFF CROOKHAVEN, APRIL 9.—Barbara, Mauritt master and six men dead. -- - OFF DEVONPORT, APRIL 13.—Her Majesty's sh hard, Cape, sailed Feb. 1. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 13.—Wi n d E.N.E. PLYMOUTH, APRIL I2.—Wind N.E.—Sld. Spermacetti, Quebec. A ship, from 300 to 400 'tons, bottom up, with a quantity of timber floating around her, was passed the .13th ult., in lat. 48, lon. 12, by the Arab, arrived here. FAL:WV:TN,• APRIL 12 . —Wind, E. to N. E., strong breezes.—Arrd. Effort, Adams, Requeada. Sld. Thomas, Quebec. The Familius, Haab, Abelstsd, from Sunderland to Pambeuf, which put in here on the 30th inst. leaky, has dis charged part of the cargo, and been brought into the pier. JERSEY, APRIL 10 —Sid. Adelaide, Rio; George Ramsay, Quebec. _ _ . _ Coax, Aran. 1 I.—Arrd. Lady Ann, Ames, Teneriffe. Sid. Tayagam, Quebec. DUNBAR, APRIL 12.—The Dorothy, Miles, from Lynn to Leith, got ashore on Bass Island the 9th instant, but was got off next day, and towed into North Berwick without apparent damage to either hull or cargo ; cargo discharging. LIVERPOOL, Aram 13.--Wind fresh.—Arrd. Ariel, Ful ton, Pernambuco; Delight, Julius, New Orleans; Leonore, Bray, Charleston ; Chieftain, Malta; Hopewell, Ancona. Sid. Charles, New York ; Elizabeth, Andrew White, Win - scales, and Indian Chief, Montreal. A vessel of about 300 tons, abandoned, and withnothing standing but main and mizen mast:, was passed Ist inst., in len. 20, by the Leonore, arrived here from Charleston. PooLs, Aran. 13.—SId. Port Glasgow, Quebec. OFF PoftTLA wn, Arita. 13.—Arche, Messina for Bremen. HAftwicti, APRIL I3.—The Countess of. Westmoreland, Clarke, from Shields to Alexandria, has been assisted in here leaky, and with part of her cargo thrown overboard, having struck on the Lemon Sand. RIME, ISLE OF WIGHT, APRIL 12.—The Louisa, of Fowey. was ashore en the sands. SHIELDS. APRIL 12.—The Providence, hence to Kiel, has been four 41 to be leaky, and must di,charge. VESSELS SPOKEN WlTH.—Orestes, from Mauritius, Jan. 20, off Cape Agathas ; Pal °dies. Singapore, for Hamburgh, Feb. 4, lat. 23 S., lon. 4 E., which had spoken a large ship dis masted, going into the Cape, by the Arab, arrived at Ply mouth. A ship (supposed the Britannia), Liverpool, to Halifax, 7th inst., lat. 51, lon. 12 ; a ship, with a black hull, supposed the America, from New York, same day, by the Setrigh, ar rived at Liverpool. Antelope, for Seville, sth inst., lat. 46, lon. 10; Atalanta, Alexandria to Liverpools same day; Ha milla, Clyde to Valparaiso, Bth inst., lat. su, lon. 9 ; John Qomilly, 'London to Newfoundland ; Warren, Liverpool to Af rica; Affiance, Calcutta to Liverpool, 9th inst., 150 miles S.W. of Tuskar ; Ann Betsey, bound to Lisbon, sth inst., lat. 9, lon. 8 ; Unity, of Jersey, for Quebec, 6th, lat. 19, lon. 9, by the Ocean Bride, lat 30 N., lon. 30 W., by the Anna Ca - tharina, arrived at Texel. EAST INDIA SHIPPING. Arrivals—Her Majesty's ship Wizard, Somerville, from the Cape of Good Hope, at Plymouth, sailed Feb. Ist, St. Helena, 13th ; Barbara, from Mauritius, off Crookhaven, sailed Dec. 15. Arrivals at St. Helena—Ons Genoegen, Feb. 10, from Ba tavia to Amste r d am; R usse ll, 11th, f' om M an ill a , an d sailed 12th to Bost on; B atav i a , Pronk, llth, from B a t av i a , and sailed 13th t o R otter d am Gezina, Abdoll Aerdt Van Nes, Bodeman, and Stad Schiedam de Boer, 11th, all from Ba tavia, and sailed 12th to Amsterdam; Forlarshire, M'Carthy, from China and Singapore, sailed 13th to London ; Mary, Severance, from whaling to New Bedford ; Otterspool, Little, 12th, from Calcutta to Cork ; Seymour, Davies, 12th, from Calcutta, and sailed 12th to London ; Minstrel, Burton, 13th, from Manilla to London ; Union barque, 13th, passed for —. Departures from St. Helena—City of London, Martin, Feb. 10th, to London; Olga, 11th, to Hamburgh; Mary , Robertson , to Cork; Countess ofDunmore, Snowden, to Amsterdam ; Pondicherry, to Bordeaux • Sarah, Heidrick, and Trusty, Els don, 12th, to London. Admiralty, April 12, 1842. Sra,—l am commanded by my Lords' Commissioners of the Admiralty to acquaint you, for the information of the Com mittee for mana g i ng t h e a ff a i rs o f Lloyds, that her Majesty's sloop, Scylla, and th e Alb an , s t e am-vessel, have been ordered to the Chops of the Channel, to assist any merchant ship de tained thereby the easterly winds. I am, Sir, &c. &C.. (Signed) JOHN BARROW. To William Dobson, Esq., Secretary, Lloyds. EQUIVOCAL COMPLTNIENTS.—CompIiments may be offered in all sincerity, and yet have a very equivocal sound, as in the cbse of the City knight unable to aspirate the letter H, who being deputed to address William the Third, exclaimed, " Future aces recording your Majesty's exploits will pronounce you to have been a Nero." Not les , l honest and ambiguous was the negro's compliment to the great emancipator. Gora mighty bless Massa Wilberforce ! He hab a white face, but he hab a black heart."—New Monthly. YORK CATImmtAL.—On Thursday last, the great tenor bell was raised to its position in the 'S.W. tower of our Cathedral. Its weight is 2 tons, 13 cwt., 3 qrs. We under stand that in about a fortnight we may expect to hear its sono rous tone—publishin g to our ci'izens the hour as they pass. When it was raised from the ground, the master of the works, Mr. Dent, struck a blow at it, and the sound was found to be extremely sweet.— York Courant. The Journal de Caen says that the gossips of the town of Pontorson have been lately iu a state of agitation, in consequence of a strong and heavy chest, bound with iron clasps, and shut with' padlocks, being found in a house lately purchased by a M. T . The new propretor, in making some changes in his acquisition, came accidentally on the trea sure-trove—for so the gossips of the town declare it to be. 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