The Sun. — London, England, 1842-03-09 00:00:00

ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, KING'S-STREET. MISS ALICIA NU,NN'S CONCERT. Under the immediate PATRONAGE of their Royal Highnesses the Duke and DUCHESS of CAMBRIDGE, and other Noble Families. FIFTY DISTINGUISHED ARTISTES will appear at Miss Alicia Nunn's First Concert since her return from Italy, at this Theatre, on THURSDAY EVENING, March 10th. Mr. H. Russell, from America, will sing several of his popular songs. Private B o x es an d Ti c k e t s t o b e h a d a t C ramer an d Co.'s, 011ivier's, Mitchell's, the Box-office, of Miss Nunn, 3, Upper John-street, Golden-square, and of the principal Music-sellers. See Programme for particulars. • Boxes, ss. ; Pit, 3s. ; Gallery, 2s. Now ready, in 2 vols. small Bvo., T lEUT,-COL. NAPIER'S EXCURSIONS -11 A ALONG the SHORES of the.MEDITERRANEA N. Henry Colburn, Publisher,• 13, Great Marlborough-street. Now ready, in 3 vols. post Bvo., KAR Afl KAPLAN; Or, THE KOORDISH CHIEF. A ROMANCE of PERSIA and KOORDISTAN. By the Hon. CHARLES STUART SAVILLE. "We have read this work with much pleasure. The author has embodied the experience of oriental character which he has gained by sojourn and travel in the East in a very well-devised and spirited tale."—John Bull. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. .„' 4 ` To be had at all the Libraries. THE NEW ROMANCE RY THE AUTHOR OF "THE PATHFINDER," " THE DEERSLAYER," & c . T TWO ADMIRAL S. A TALE OF THE SEA. By J. FENIMORE COOPER, Esq. In 3 vols. post Bvo. IS NOW READY. Richard Bentley, New Burlington -street. •.* To be had at all the Libraries. MEW PERIODICAL WORK, BY THE AUTHOR OF " STORIES OF WATERLOO." In Monthly Parts (not to exceed Eighteen) Price One Shilling each, with characteristic Eng ravings , by Dick Kitcat, the First Part to appear w ith th e Magazines at the end of March. I'HE FORTUNES OF HECTOR O'IIALLORAN, By W. H. MAXWELL, Esq. Author of " Stories of Waterloo," " Wild Sports of the West," &c. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street ; John Cumming, Ormond-quay, Dublin ; Bell and Bradfute, Edinburgh ; Grape!, Liverpool. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING, MARCH 9, - -- Will be performed a Play in Five Acts, called GISIPPUS.—Titus Quintius Fulvius Mr. Anderson ; Gisippus, Mr. Macready ; Medon, Mr. Graham; P heax, Mr Elton ; Cheremes, Mr. Hudson ; Lycjas, liar G. Bennett ; Norban, Miss E. Phillips ; Sophronia, Miss Helen Fancit ; Hero, Miss 'I urpin. After which, the Musical Farce of NO SONG NO SUPPER.— Frederick, Mr Alen ; Crop, Mr. H. Phillips; Endless, Mr. Keeley; Ma garetta, Miss Romer. Doors open at half past Six, and the Performances begin at Seven Boxes es., Second Price 2s. rd. ; Pit 3s , Second Price 25 ; Lower Gallery Is. td., Second Price Is. ; Upper Gallery is., Second Price rd THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GAIwEN. UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS THIS EVENING, MARCH 9, 'Will be repeated the New Comedy, called BUBBLES OF THE DA Y.— Lord Skindeep, Mr. W. Farren ; Sir Phenix Clearcake, Mt. Harley; Captain Smoke, Mr. Charles Mathews •' Spreadweasel, Mr. Bartley . Pamela Spreadweasel, Mrs. Nisbett ; Florentia, Mrs. W. Lacy; Mrs. Quarto, Mrs. W. West; Guinea, Mrs. Urger. Atter which will be repeated, with additions, Milton's Masque of COMUS.—Comus, Mr. W. Harrison; First Bacchante, Madame Vestris ; the Lady. Mrs. Walter Lacy ; Elder Brother, Mr. J. Vin ing; Syrens, Madame Vestris and Miss Rainforth ; Genius of the Frozen Clime, Mr. Stretton ;;Euphrosyne, Madame Vestris ; Sabrina, Miss Rainforth. _ Doors open at half-past Six, and the Performances begin at Seven. Dress Boxes 75., Second Price 3s. 6d ; First and Second Circles 55.. Second Price 211. 6d.; Pit as., Seeond Price 2s. ; Gallery Is. Tickets and Plazas for the Boxes to he taken of Mr. Grogan, at the Box-of fice, from Ten till Four, where Season 'rickets may be had upon ap.. plieation. Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews, Book seller, 167, New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRF. kireat success of Lord Byron's Werner," and First Week of a New Nautical Dram.a. THIS EVESI6I6,MARCH:9, Will be acted Lord Byron's Tragedy of Wh:RNER ; or, the IN. HERITANC E.—Werner, Mr. H. Hughes; Josephine, M's. . After which, a Comic Ballet, entitled OPPOSITION; or, the RIVAL DANCING MASTERS. To conclude with an original Nautical DraMa, called SAM SCUD; or, PERILS by SEA and LAND.—Sam Scud, Mr. H. Hughes; Betsy, Miss Martin. FRENCH PLAYS, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Last Night of Monsieur Perlet's Engagement. THIS EVENING, MARCH 9 The Performances will commence at half-past Seven o'clock with LE DEMON DE LA. NUIT. After which, L'ARTISTE.— In which M. Perlet will perform Four Characters. To co .elude with, M. PIQUF-ASSIETTE.—Pique-Assiette, M. Perlet. Private Boxes and Stalls at Mr. Mitchell's Library, 33, Old Bond street; Mr. Seguin's, 12, Regent-street; Mr. Sams's, St. James's. street ; and at the Box-offiee of the Theatre, which is open daily from Eleven till Five. Admission to the Boxes, 6s. ; Pit, 3s. 6d. ; Gallery Stalls, 3s. ; Gallery, 2s. THE WEATHER.—NOON, MARCH 8. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET Thermometer... 52 I Highest 55 Lowest 44 Barometer 29.81.—Wind S.W.—Freezing Point)* Deg. 111011 WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning l. minutes after 0 I Evening 42 minutes after 0, , -,,.'^ • "'',P,, , tt: '' -4. ' 1- " 1 76,i - , '',:ir*. . 1 pmA 3-c . 4 . 7 ... = , L',.•, a. lt,„.t' - Vilmilik .' 4 , v. ^..;. ' - , "I ~ an c lt. LONDON : WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 9, 1842. We may not expect to influence in the smallest degree the decision which the House of Commons will come to this evening on the second reading of the Corn-keeping out Trill, nevertheless, we cannot allow the last stage, on which there will probably be a division, to pass without once more entering, in the name of a long-suffering and oppressed people, our indignant remonstrance against perpetuating a great national calamity by consummating another piece of wicked legislation. The ignorant law makers of 1815 and 1828 may stand excused because they had not witnessed the horrible effects of their legis lation, but the law-makers of 1842 have witnessed those effects—have seen our commerce become unprofitable, and our people starving—and, unable to plead ignorance, they will be convicted by an impartial posterity of pure malignity. Though the division to-night will be on the principle of of the Bill, we understand, with regret, that neither Lord JOHN RUSSELL nor Lord PALMERSTON i 9 to take the lead in rejecting it, The Whigs will probably entrust this important work to some young Member of their party. They are afraid, perhaps, of committing themselves too far in the good cause, and so they forfeit that sympathy and support which au assumption of hear tiness would obtain for them. In spite ) , however, of the feebleness an] lukewarmness of their efforts, the cause is so good that it will obtain, we are informed, some in creased support, and the Bill will go up to the House of Lords condemned by a very large, a very intelligent, and a very powerful minority. Though we know we run the hazard of wearying our readers by again referring to this subject, we must remind them that the whole of that great branch of s .cial science which Mr. Maurnus so much enlarged as to make it hear his name, rests on the admitted and undeniable truth, that the only check to the progress of population, social greatness, and social happiness, is THE WANT OF FOOD 3 and that this want, pressing on man at every stage of his existence, is the source of all his difficulties, the parent of all his struggles, and the chief cause of the prevalence of vice and misery. Far be it from us to breathe a doubt of the sublime wisdom of this dispen sation. We see in the continual recurrence of the diffi culty of producing food for an increasing population, an unct using goad to invention and improvement. It is at once the means by which the social capacities of in dividuals are enlarged, and by which the earth will it. time be fully peopled. But the Legislature, which, from any fancied good anticipated by its shortsightedness, adds to thi natural difficulty, and increases the pressure of the natural want, allies itself to the powers of evil and dark ness, and becomes, by limiting the supply of food, the parent of vice and misery. • In another part of The Sun we publish a short letter from that intelligent, patriotic, and humane gentleman, Mr. LIVESEY, of Preston, who has'done much to pro mote the cause of truth and justice ; and we humbly solicit the Members of Parliament to read that brief communication before they re-enact the now extinct law for keeping food away from the people. The Legis lature passes laws to take away and burn meat which is offered for sale in an improper condition, but in this case a cow which had died and been buried, was dug up and eaten, h unger sett i ng all . laws at defiance. Hunger makes a shipwrecked crew cannibals, and to a condition little short of cannibalism, hunger, ordaincd by law, is reducing our unhappy and degraded people. Oh, but there is m uc h d anger to all classes from this. Men judge of their ow n con diti on b y those belotv as well as by those above them: The "rime Minister and his followers have set the example of teachi ng the people to be contented with privation and misery, because as he says, our people do not suffer quite so much as the serfi in Russia and Poland. In accordance with his doc trines, and with much philosophy, the old song says— Then nevir seem to mind it Or think your fate a curse, However bad you find it Still there is Some one worse. So those who get a bare sufficiency of bread or potatoes, may console themselves that they can yet live, and are not reduced to the terrible condition of digging up a dead carcase to sustain life. Those who have yet a meal of meat once a week, will, on this principle, be content that there are others who . have only an in sufficient supply of potatoes or oatmessl. Those, too, who live in an unglazed hut, and have some rags about them, may rejoice that there are hundreds who have scarcely clothing to cover, and a roof to shelter them. What more than others do they deserve, they well Tna.y say in the words of th e hy mn , " Yet G O D bath given them more." The ultimate effect then of Sir R. PExt.'s • P hilo sophy, and of the Legislature, dooming a certain po rt i on of the people to slow starva tion, which we wish to press o n the attention of voting Members of Parliament, is, to degrade the standard of well-being for all classes, and make each one in succession gravitate down to the one beneath it, till it becomes a consolation that want of food and want of clothing, and the utmost misery which human beings can endure, is not the lot of all. Many amongst us will soon praise GOD that they are not cannibals ? That is what the House of Commons is to vote to night. To starve or not to starve the people—to degrade or not degrade this great community. An awful respon sibility hangs over the Legislature, and a responsibility for which the growing intelligence of the people will assuredly make them answer. Not for Sir R. PEEL'S fortune and place, not for all his patronage and power, not even for his much admired and 1 much envied talents, would we run the risk of dooming one single being to the pangs of hunger for a single day, much less encounter the terrible and awful responsibility of degrading a whole community, by dooming a considerable number of the poorest annu ally to the pains of a slow and lingering death by desti• tution and starvation. To deprive the people of food by law, can only be appropriately described by one word, it is FIENDISH—and the Legislature which, with the present knowledge of mankind, enacts a law to keep food from the people, will be branded by posterity, Sir Ro- BERT PEEL may " depend upon it," as the Fiendish Legislature. It is now fifty years and more since Mr. BENTHAM wrote and published those works on the anomalous con dition of our laws which have ever since been a sort of hand-book to law reformers. In particular, Mr. BENTHAM exposed and satirized most of the rules fol lowed in our Courts relative to taking evidence. He described them as calculated to stifle, not elicit truth, but his remarks were derided by most of the sages of our Courts, who persisted in describing every part of the law of England as the very perfection of wisdom. It is now fourteen years, as Lord BROUGHAM—to whom it is no dishonour to say, that he was a pupil and friend of BENTHAM—stated last night, since that Noble Lord recommended to the Legislature, in his elaborate speech on Law Reform, as many of the principles which BENTHAM had expounded as the Noble Lord thought were practicable, or as the• public was then likely to appreciate. In spite, however, of Lord BROUGHAM'S noble exertions, both in the House of Commons and the House of Lords, he has been able to effect only a few of the reforms he suggested in 1828 ; and to this day the rules or laws of evidence remain very nearly as at the ,ime of BENTHAM. A great progress, however, has, we are happy to say, suddenly been made. The great number of Law Lords still in the vigour of their intellect, who are now in the House of Peers (six were present last night), seem to have made them all emulous to do something to distinguish themselves as law reformers. Hence a great number of measures to improve the administration of the law have been suddenly shot on their Lordships' table. Coming before the public from such authority, they all confirm the popular impression that the law is a great mass of unjust and incongruous inconsistencies. Nearly to that point the heads of the law are already brought, and we do not despair of soon seeing them—rivals as they now are in the race of legislation—taking the lead of the people in condemning the old and in framing new laws. Last night Lord DENMAN moved the second reading of his Bill to amend the law relative to taking evidence. The Noble Lord purposes to admit the evidence of men once convicted of felony or perjury, now wholly excluded, and the evidence of persons having an interest in a suit, now very partially and inconsistently shut out, leaving the Jury to determine its value. He quoted several instances of incongruity in our present practices. For example: a gentleman had employed a person for many years as his steward, whom he knew had been convicted of felony ; and the steward had received on his account a considerable sum of money from an attorney whom the gentleman employed. The account ran on for years : last term only a trial came on growing out of a demanli made by the gentleman on the attorney, to account for sums of money. The attorney said he had paid them to the steward, and when he brought the steward into Court to bear evidence of the fact, the gentleman produced the record of his steward's former conviction, and defeated the ends of justice. It was properly concluded, there fore, that thus to disable witnesses is to inflict damage or punishment on the innocent, who may have occasion for their testimony. The argument of Lord DENMAN was supported and carried further by the LORD CHANCELLOR, who quoted a considerable number of instances of incongruities, for which we must refer to his speech, contenting ourselves with mentioning one. A man united with others in a, policy of insurance, can give no evidence in any cause touching that policy, becauso he has an interest in it, in Courts of Law. But he, and all concerned, can go into a Court of Equity, and make affidavits about it by whole- sale. The LORD CHANCELLOR properly called this a great inconsistency; and he described several other instances, which he mentioned, as gross absurdities and great in consistencies. He said several times that the law was inconsistent and absurd. Lord WYNFORD took the same line, and the two Noble Lords went so far that Lord DENMAN, a law reformer, was obliged, as he good humouredly said, to interpose, and shield the law from the attacks of Lord WYNFORD and the LORD CHANCELLOR. Lords BROUGHAM and CAMPBELL con curred in these doctrines, and the Bill which, a few years ago, would have encountered innumerable obsta cles, .was read a second time, by the acclamation, as it were, of the Law Lords, and ordered to be committed after the recess, when, by the presence of the Judges, it is hoped that the Bill may be made a perfect law. We much rejoice at this great change, but it is not unattended with some painful reflections. These Law Lords, who now denounce the law as inconsistent and absurd, have heretofore been ready to smite to the death the unprofessional people who have doubted or decried the wisdom of the law. Writers against the law have been held up as libellers, as exciting seditio:l and provoking disorder, and almost as rebels. After inflicting many penalties and much misery on the people to support the reputation of the law, the first ministers in the temple of their great idol now shout out with the people, it is a great mass of incon .istency and absurdity. When the Tory LORD CHAN CELLOR—who seems to have returned to his first-love of something more than Whiggism—espouses such opinions, we are sure that a great revolution has taken place in public sentiment., which must soon be embodied in a great practical reform. INDIA_ AND CHINA. We have alarming news from India. In addition to the murder of the gallant and chivalrous Sir ALEXANDER BUililEA at Cabool, we haw now - to - 'record - the cold blooded cowardly assassination of our distinguished Envoy, Sir Wm. APNAGHTEN at the Court of the Shah SOOJAH. The following Telegraphic Despatch, containing this disastrous intelligence was received in Paris on Sunday, from Marseilles, where the Indian Mail had arrived on Saturday morning from Malta : "MALTA, MARCH 1, 6 O'CLOCK, P.M. " The grpat Liverpool arrived this evening from Alexandria with the Indian mail. " The latest accounts from Affghanistan are of the 23th of December. The position of the English was still extremely critical. Sir W. M‘Naghten, Envoy at the Court of Shah Soojah, was assassinated in the most treacherous manner, on the 25th, by the Chief of the Insurrection, in an interview with him on the subiect of the evacuation of Cabool. " One of the newspapers announces the death of Ge neral Elphinstone by an attack of the gout. The accounts from China are to the 13th of 1)e- cember inclusive. "It was believed that, immediately on the return of Sir Henry Pottinger to Macao (which was momentarily expected), a new demonstration would be made against Canton, the inhabitants of which had again violated the treaty. " The Erigone had arrived at Macao on the Bth of December." The loss of so many brave officers in Cabool and A ffghanistan is a dreadful blow to the growing ascend ancy of the British power on the Indus. Besides the great distance between our Anglo-Indian territory and Cabool, there is every thing to be apprehended from the dangers of the route, and the hostile tribes inhabiting the whole line of march, to render it next to impos sible for us to wreak immediat ) vengeance upon the murderers of persons clothed in the sacred character,{ of the representatives of our Sovereign at the Court ef a friend and ally of this country. The first duty of the Indian Government will now be to save the remains of our army in Cabool. Previous accounts assured us that Sir H. SALE's position was exceedingly critical, and an apprehension prevailed that unless speedily relieved, the troops would be compelled to capitulate—thus risking the almost terrible certainty of a general massacre. We must await the arrival of the mails before offering any comment upon the news from China. Owing to the comparatively tranquil state of Ireland, both in the south and north, for some years 'past, the friends of that country began to indulge the hope that the reign of bigotry was drawing to a close, and with it those cruel feuds and savage deeds which have so long afflicted a generous people. The tale, however, which Mr. O'CONNELL related in the House on Monday night for bids such a conclusion. The deed to which it refers is an exemplification of the most atrocious description of Lynch-law, and that deed, too, to the disgrace of the parties, is sanctioned by a Protestant Jury, sworn to do .ustice between man and man. A Roman Catholic, it appears, had quarrelled with an Orangeman in the north-of Ireland, a friend of the former interfered to pacify the combatants, and for this praiseworthy act, he was set upon by a party of Orangemen, to the number of forty, possessed of fire-arms, who pursued him from one place of retreat to another, and having dragged him at last out of a lime-kiln where he had taken refuge, instantly put him to death. - Some of the murderers were brought to trial, and when acquitted by an Orange Jury, contrary to the evidence and the summing up of the Judge, the hall of justice resounded with shouts of "To hell with the Pepe." Even Lord ELIOT, the present Tory Secretary for Ireland admitted that he was at a loss to conceive on what grounds the Jury had rested their ver dict, and expressed great regret at the result. He well might express regret at a scene enacted in a Christian land which could hardly be surpassed by the most savage barbarians, because it shows that the voice of truth is drowned amidst party strifes, that the worst pass:ons of the human mind are excited under the garb of religion, and that the power of the law, in such cases, to detect and punish crime is a mere mockery. Earl DE GREY, a man of an amiable disposition and of the most upright conduct, no doubt is shocked by such proceedings, but he must know well that these party riots in the north have greatly increased since his accession to office, and that the Orangemen have returned to their lawless , habits, from a belief that their deeds will be winked at, as they were under the old fire-and-sword system. The LORD LIEUTENANT, therefore, in order to maintain his dignity, and preserve peace, has only one course to pursue—strict and impartial justice. Let him call to account the Ma gistrates who allowed dangerous assemblies of armed people in a time of peace, and among a portion of their fellow-subjects, whom they hate more than the most hostile foreigner. If these Magistrates have winked at such outrages, or failed in carrying the law into effect, others can be found to supply their places. And is not the fact of one party being armed and the other not, the best proof that justice is partially admi nistered ? Such an invidious distinction, and especially when such use is made of it, cannot fail to excite the worst feelings among Catholics not only against Orange men, but against the Government. If Earl DE GREY, therefore, wishes to be in reality the Governor of Ire land, let him throw to the winds all party prejudices, and use his power, not for the supremacy of one section, but for the equal protection of all her Majesty's Irish subjects. A notice has been placed on the books of the House of Commons by the Member for Argyllshire for the ap pointment of a Select Committee " to consider the Con stitution and principles of the Church of Scotland, and to inquire into the causes of the collision between the Supreme Courts of that Church and the Supreme Civil Courts." Now when the Government find that the ques tion is to be brought forward by Mr ALEXANDER CAMP BELL, the nominee of the Duke of ARGYLL, known for only one act of his life, the concoction of an Anti- Patronage Bill, which satisfied even the " wild men," they will no doubt be on their guard against the cunning devices that lurk under the motion. What occasion is there for any such inquiry ? The causes of the collision between the civil and ecclesiastical poWers have been already fully inquired into, both by the Court of Session and the House of Lords, which found that the collision took place through the reckless and unskilful conduct of the Church ; and, there. fore, pronounced • for the State. The object of the parties, knowing to what a low depth they are brought in the north, is to excite the public mind, not only by giving evidence before a Committee, but by harangues throughout England, for which a great number of Missionaries are about to start. We trust, therefore, that Sir ROBERT PEEL will see through the trick, and at once negative the motion. The main purpose of it can be no other than to increase the power of the Kirk, which Sir JAMES GRAHAM, thinking it already too great, must be anxious to diminish. The law as it stands is amply sufficient for the settlement of the question. We really cannot see any great good that is likely to be gained by mooting so often the question of the claims of France to the possession of Algiers. Were a war probable, some moral advantage might be derived from an appeal made by a Power which had never recognized the usurpations of fraud and force; but when it is not intended to resist the aggression, people had better hold their tongues about it. For this reason we rather regret that any necessity should exist for the explanation given in the House of Lords on Mon day night by the Earl of ABERDEEN, of a conversation between himself and the French Ambassador, the Count DE St. AULAIRE, which hasalready created an immense excitement in France. The Noble Foreign Secretary, in answer to a question of the Marquis of CLANRI CARDE, repeated the statement made by Sir ROBERT PEEL in the House id' Commons, that he had not said to the French Ambassador that he looked upon the occupa tion of Algiers as an accomplished fact ; but that he had no observation to make upon the subject; and therefote re would remain silent. His Lordship read a despatch which he wrote to the Ambassador correcting the erroneous impression under which his Excellency laboured, and which was made known to him by perusing a speech of M. GUIZOT in the French Chamber of Deputies on the 20th ult., in which the conversation between the Foreign Secretary and Count DE St. AULAIRE, relative to Al giers, was quoted. There has been a mistake some where, and while Lord ABERDEEN boars the fullest testi mony to the high honour and amicable disposition of the French Ambassador, he asserts that it has been on the the side of that functionary. Taking all the circum stances into account, it is with some degree of regret that we feel bound to express a different opinion. Cir cumstances and reports have been mentioned to us, which will not allow us on this occasion to distrust the Ambassador's recollection of the Noble Lotd's conver sation. One of the first actsof the French Govern ment, when Lord COWLEY arrived in Par*, was to er deavour to prevail upon his Lordship to co-operate with the French Cabinet in obtaining from his Court the recognition of the conquest of Algiers, and to change altogether the Whig policy in Spain. Lord COWLEY fell into the trap laid for him by LOUIS PHILIPPE. He declared in favour of M. SALVANDY'S etiquette preten sions, and even addressed instructions to the British Envoy at Madrid, which that Minister had the spirit to reject, and to propose, if persisted in, that he should be recalled. At this stage of the affair, the press got hold of it, and Lord ABERDEEN became sensible of Lord CowLEv's stupid blunder. The Ministry saw that a retrogade policy would not do in Spain ; and the consequence has been a regular backing out, by the Tories, of every pro mise made to conciliate France. But we have no wish to see matters carried too far. All we want is the certain assurance that the Tories will pursue the line of foreign policy so successfully adopted by the Whigs. The French are very sore on the subject of Algiers, and while the Government withholds a recogni tion of its occupation by them, the most prudent course undoubtedly is t' say nothing about it. We trust this w,ill be the course pursued in Parliament for the re mainder of the present Session. There is a dearth of political news in the French Journals. We, however, gather from them that the partisans of Madame Murton, while denouncing the re ported design of invading Spain as a hoax, are making all the preparations which they can for raising again the standard of civil war in the Basques. The Court organs having affected to throw discredit on all the intrigues c f the Court, the National, of Sunday, asks : Is it true that MM. Toreno, Zea Bermudez, and Martinez de la Rosa, three leaders of apparently distinct and even hostile parties, all obey a supreme and all powerful direc tion? Is it true that Queen Christina, excited almost to madness by resentment, vanity, and disappointed cupidity, has promised to pay all the expenses of the insurrection, and to pay down 25,000,000 f. and more if necessary ? Has not Don Carlos been solicited, as he was in September last, to give his assent to the attempt projected against Espartero? Were not magnificent conditions offered to his family on the hypothesis of his consent? Is it true, that in rase of refusal threats were held out of act ing diplomatically with the Powers who su pply him with subsidies, and so deprive hi m of. means of existence? Is it true that the concurrence of Villa_ real, of Zariateguy, of Gomez, &c., has been obtained? that Cabrera has been invited to come to Paris ? and that enlisting on account of Christina is going forward in all the depots of the Carlist refugees by well-known in fine, that the refugee s h ave b een ap prisedamong them who shall ref use to enl i st for C a agents that al l u i Christina Is mdepend for the future on rece i v i ng the ts must h true , onsoe t subsidies allowed them by the munificence of the Ch am b ers ? If all this be untrue, let It Le said so and proved ; but if, en the contrary, it is isipossible to deny those facts, do not accuse us any longer (of stating falsehoods)." The Moniteur of the 6th of March publishes in its official part an ordnance of the stb, containing the nomination of I several Justices of Peace. The Jena, of the line, Captain Trorpin, and the Africai ne frigate, C a pt a i n T r i u l o d e , l e ft B res t on the 4th o f March ; they were bound to Lisbon. 'the Colo gne G aze tt e, o f the 3dof March, has the following latter from th e R uss i an f ront i ers : " Letters from St. Petersburgh say that the Russian Go vernment, which has resolved to make the iron railway flora St. Petersburgh to Moscow at the expense of the State, will negotiate aloe s for that purpose to the amount of forty or fifty millions of silver roubles. Negotiations have already been opened with several banking houses, from which tenders are expected. It is affirmed that Messrs. de Rothschild are among competitors for this loan. " The Augsburgh Gazette has a letter from Alexandria of the 6th of February, which says, ,4 It is affirmed that the English Consul has written i n very energetic terms to t h e Pasha ) wishing hi m t o fix his r es id ence at Cairo or Alexandria, or else to appoint a repre sentative, that the solution of the most important affairs may not be delayed indefinitely, the frequent change of residence being manifestly designed to avoid the re presentation of the Consuls. It is affirmed that the Austrian intends to go to Cairo to-morrow, and to declare to Mehemet Ali, that it he will not grant freedom of trade, he must re nounce the advantage of the new Treaty respecting the cus toms. The Consuls of Austria and England are perfectly agreed on this point. We hardly believe that they have received from their GJvernments authority to take so decisive a step." Boghos Bey has just sent 275,000 crowns to Constantinople. —Constitutionnel,6th March. I C. DIBDIN'S SoNcs.—We are glad to learn, from a printed circular issued by Messrs. How and Parsons, that there is no truth in the report that the stock of this work was totally destroyed in the conflagration of the printing-office of Mr. G. H. Davidson, late of Tudor street. A portion of it only was destroyed, but the greater part of the st ereotype p l ates were f ortunate l y i ; and there is no doubt of the work beingl on reprinted premises riutedand completed. As the undertaking is 1 a spirited and meritorious one, we heartily wish it success. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, THURSDAY EVENING. The Stock Market this afternoon was acted upon by the intelligence (per telegraphic despatch) from Marseilles, an nouncing the continued critical position of the British forces in Affghanistan, and the probability that Canton must once more be invested, in order to secure from the Chinese the exe cution of the Elliot Treaty. The reaction was not serious. We regret to hear another stoppage mentioned this after noon, of a firm in the East India and Colonial trade. We are not yet at liberty to publish the name, though we fear there will be no arrangement effected to save the credit of the house, by preventing an entire stoppage. Consols for imme diate transfer were 89 to 89%, closing at 891 to 69- 1 4 , and for Account realised 89j to t. 9/. Exchequer Bills maintained the premium of 31s. to 335., and India Bonds were not reduced in value, being at Bs. to 10s. premium. India Stock is shut. New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. were 981 to 98j. The Foreign Securities were fiat to day, being influenced by the heaviness of our own Funds. Mexican were lower, because of the apprehension that a war will arise out of the Texas affair between Mexico and the United States. The announcement that the dividends will be payable on Spanish Stock has led to no improvement in the Bonds; the price varying from 251 to to 241. Portuguese New Five per Cents. were firm at 334. Mexican declined to 38% to 38. Colombian Stock was dull at 24% to French Five per Cents. realized 119 f. 25c. ; and Dutch Five per Cents. 103 to 1024. The Railway Shares were neglected, and bore generally a slightly reduced value. We notice a decline again in the rate for Bills of Exchange on Paris and Trieste; but Amsterdam and Antwerp are much the same, while Hambtirgh and Frankfort improved a shade. The following is the official return of the exports of Bullion, from the port of London, for the week ending '1 hursday last : Silver Coin to Hamkurgh 26,000 ounces f/ Mauritius ... 21,797 „ Rotterdam Silver Bars Ditto ff Hamburgh 29,200 „ (From The Sun of Last Night.) LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, :MARCH 7.—The sales to day are about 5,000 bales, including 500 Peruvians, 700 Ame ricans for export; the Peruvians are of low quality at %'l. With this business we keep our ground steadily, but still there is an abundant supply of middling and inferior qua lity of American in the market. The good sorts are scarce and prices firmly maintained. The sales consist of 400 Surats, 311(1. to 41c1. ; 120 Maranhams, sd. to 6d. ; 100 Perna ms , 7d. t o 7d. ; and the remainder American, 4id. to 6d. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, .MARCH 7. —The Market has closed rather flat, and the business not so good as durieg the last week. Grand Junction Halt-shares, 90; London and Birmingham, 175; ditto 32/. Shares, ex. div., 30; Great North of England, 87 ; Paris and Rouen, 14/. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 7.—We can not report any material change in the value of Stock, of which our market continues very bare. Manchester and Salford Water Works have been sold at 5l per Share, and Manches ter and Birmingham, 28i ; Manchester and Leeds, North Mid land, Midland Counties, Bolton and Bury, &e. are in request. There are no later ship letters to-day from any quarter. The overdue steamer with the mail from the West Indies is very anxiously looked for. The news from India brought by the Overland Mail and telegrapheu from Marseilles to Paris, is considered to be of an unfavourable nature, in consequence of which the English Securities have declined. Consols are now .89A for Money, and 89i for the Account ; Exchequer Bills are down to 31, and India Bonds 7 to 9 premium ; the business doing, however, has been very limited. • The advertisement for the 'payment of the dividends upon Spanish Stock has at last made its appearance ; its effect upon the Securities was trifling. The Active Stock advanced in the early part of the morcing to but has since receded to 24ii, which is the T resent quotation. Colombian Bonds a re 24i ; Mexican 38%; Portuguese Three per Cents. 2Ci t ; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents. 51i ; Ditto Fives 1021. Very little business doing in Shares; prices are lower. Consols, 891 ; Colombian, 24 ; Mexican, 38 Spanish, 24& 25. CLOSING PRICES BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock — 'lndia Stock ••• 3 per Cent Red Agi Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent Cons 89,1 .Ditto Old Annuities ... 35 per Cent Red.. — IDitte New Annuities... New 35 per Cent New 5 per Cent. . — Ditto 5001. . . _ 33 pa Long A.nnuities;.oexpire Ditto Small 33 pm Jan. 1860 ..... (Bank Stock for 0pg,... Oct. 1859........ India Stock for Acct.... Jan. 1 860. ......... 1.2 i Consols for Acct 895 FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 pal cent._ Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 pet cent — ; Ditto, New Ditto — Brazilian 80nd5.......... Prussian, 5 per cent. Buenos Ayres, 6 percent ,Russian, 5 per cent... . Chilian 6 per cent..... Ditto, Metallic . Colombian, 6 pet cent.. Spanish, 5 per cent. .... 254 Ditto, 1824.. ....... ..... Ditto, Deferred . 12i Danish, 3 per cent French, 5 per cent.ll9 . 25c. Greek, 1825,5 per cent — l Exchange f ...c. Mexican, 5 per cent.... 38 French, 3 per cent. —. —c Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Dutch, 25 per cent. . 515 Peruvian, 1825, Eper et. Ditto, 5 per cent. .. . 1024 SHARES. Birmingham and Derby Railway (100 pd) 56 Great North of England Railway (100 pd) 86 Great Western Railway 65 paid) BB5 Ditto New Shares (50 paid) ... 62 Ditto Fifth (4 paid) London and Brighton (50 paid) `,55 London and Birmingham (90) •• • •• Ditto Quarter Shares (15 paid) 36 London and South Western South Eastern and Dover (48 paid) ...... . 26 York and North Midland (50 paid) ... ...... Ditto New Shares (15 paid) 315 ' COURSE OF EXCHANGE —(YESTERDAY.) Amsterdam CF. 12 75 Gibraltar . . Ditto, at sight Rotterdam ...2 U. 12 8 Genoa Antwerp l2 75 Milan Hamburgh M B 13 144 Venice ... 47 Altona Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 70 Paler mo , p er oz 120 Ditto, 3 months 25 95 Lisbon Marseilles Bourdeaux 25 95 Rio Janeiro 27 Frankfort on Maine... 1515 B a hi a l'etersburgh, 3Us ... 37 Buenos Ayres 8er1in..... Vienna, effee. 11. 3 M 954 Philadelphia .. Trieste, ditto 9 55 PR ICES OF BULLION, PER OZ, Madrid ' .. 6a7cii. .-- ' - Bilbao ... 35 Barcelona ............... 35 Seville New oubloons 0 0 0 New Dollars... 0 4 99 Silver in Bars 0 4 11 Porto _..,.., .. al Gold Coin ..3 17 5 S UM MARY OF NEWS THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY MORNIIstG, MARCH 9, 1842 AND Vtibitt Optlawn. " Who runs may read." ' o3 ;L2excz•nr On the subject of Algiers the Fr; nth Opposition papers assail M. Guizot with unsparing vindictiveness. They contend that "it is in vain for him to draw con clusions from the similarity of observation' to objec tion,' so long as England shall continue to withhold its recognition of the right of France to her African con quests." The Courrier Francais asserts that, although M. de Bourqueney and Sir Stratford Canning are on very good terms together at Constantinople as to Eastern affairs, the diplomatic relations between the British and French Cabinets are by no means of an amicable nature, Lord Aberdeen having declared that he would not enter on any fresh negotiations with M. Guizot until the Right of S earth Treaty had been ratified by France. The Journal des Debuts states that the Superior Coun cil of Commerce had on Saturday voted the prohibition of home manufactured sugar by a majority of 13 to 12. The Debuts is of opinion that this is one of the most fatal measures ever adopted with regard to the general interests of France. " We have been informed," says the Constitutionncl, " that several Christino chiefs have been summoned to Paris, where they are now holding a sdrt of council of war." The Pressc having asserted that General. Narvaez, the Christina General, was in Paris and not at Tangiers, as stated by the Spanish papers, the Constitutionnel explains, and this we know to be the fact, that Narvaez had re beived counter-orders at Falmouth to return to Paris just as he was embarking for Tangiers, via Lisbon and Gibraltar. Several of the Christine chiefs are now in Paris, having daily interviews with Queen Christina. The Commerce states that the hopes which were enter tained at Madrid of an amicable arrang ement with the Holy See have vanished, the Pope having pu blis hed' an Apostolic letter, in which the Sovere i g n Pontiff, after enumerating his several causes of c om p laint a g ainst the Spanish Government, alludes to the law recently pre sented to the Cortes, which he terms execrable, and re presents it as threatening the Catholic religion with com plete destruction. Madrid papers of the 27th, state that the Cortes did not sit in consequence of its being the Regent's birth day. His Highness received the Grand Deputation of both Chambers, who came to p resent con g ratul atory addresses, t o which the Regent replied in the most gracious manner. The accounts from Barcelona of the 27th ult. state that several amnestied cabecill Is, who were affiliated to the Carlo-Ch r i st i no c o ns piracy, had been shot. Two cheifs, n ame d E spacu l e ll a a nd I?atnisa, taken prisoners in the n e i g hb our h oo d o f Vich, had been likewise put to death. A Consta n ti nop l e corres pondent, in his letter of th e 9th, say s th at Si r S trat f or d Canning, who has recov ere d from a s li g h t i nd i spos i t i on, i s said to be pres s i ng t h e Porte to recogn i se D r. Al ex ander as Bishop of Jerusa lem. Th e P orte, h owever , r efuses the demand, on t h e ground th at t h ere are no P ro testants in Syr:a ; ,but th e ; r1 e t e o l i hear o r the all power co - true motive of its refusal is, that Russia, Austria, and France encourage the resistance of the Sultan. missi on sasde PARMXILIVEZNTAR72". The Lord Chancellor last night laid a Bill on the table of the House of Lords ta improve the jurisdiction in lunacy. Its principal provisions are to appoint two standing Commis sionersJudges,h ti paideo, to by g i salaries,%e the, Lordil t fees c ha to appoint a third in special c ases, and to nominate a smalle r number of jury men t o h ea r the evidence, if he think fit. Lord Cottenham and Lord Campbell expressed doubts of some of its provisions, but their suggestions were post poned till the Bill i s i n C omm i tee , A Committee was appointed to consider the whole subject of the marriage law in Ireland, and the Lord Chancellor said he had no doubt that the Bill brought up from the Commons and referred to the Committee might speedily be passed in such a shape as to settle the whole question, and not leave the law as at present, shamefully vague on this important sub jeet. The Committee is to meet on Thursday. The Loan Societies and Parish Apprentices Bills were read a second time. • Lord Denman's Bill to improve the Law of Evidence was also read a second time, after a short and interesting discus sion, to which we have elsewhere referred.—Adjourned till Thursday. In the Commons, the Marylebone Paving Bill, which seems to excite some interest, was postponed for a week. Mr. Wakley hoped it would be withdrawn. The first of Mr. Ferrand's bubbles burst, by the Hon. Mem ber withdrawing a notice he had given, because the motion he contemplated is impracticable. Mr. Brotherton, on account of the number of persons who have repelled Mr. Ferrand's charges, withdrew his motion for a return of the number of manufac turers who adopt the truck system. Mr. D'lsraeli, who spoke for upwards of two hours, and over hauled all our consular and diplomatic appointments, moved a resolution, that means be taken to unite the consular and the diplomatic bodies. • Lord Claude Hamilton seconded the motion in a speech almost as long as his leader's. Dr. Bovviing commentett on the motion, and Sir Robert Peel opposed it. The motion was finally negatived, having served t!:e purpose of allowing Mr. Disraeli to make a display of his minute researches during the recess. The House subsequently occupied itself with Mr. Mackin non's motion, for a Select Committee to provide for the in terment of bodies be3ond the precincts of la, ge towns. Lord F. Egerton then moved for leave to briny in a Bill, the princi pal object of which was to legalise the marriage of a widower to the sister of his deceased wife, the debate upon which was postponed till this day week. Some f_rther business was transacted, and the House ad journed at One o'Clock. PUBLIC OPINION. The Morning Advertiser is of opinion that if the people are uninterested in the progress of Sir R. Peel's Corn-law Bill, " It is because of their unspeakable contempt for it ; and because they ate determined to meet their enemies on ground where the political fo.rns in which they are now entrenched, will have no existence. It appears that Lord John Russell has decided upon dividing the House against the Peel propo sition to-morrow night; but we may not hesitate to tell him, that the country is as sick to its very soul, of the inane pro ceedings of the one party, as of the more daring attempts of the other." The Chronicle says.—" It is upon the Corn-laws that all the odium and mischief of the truck system (and we admit all that Mr, Ferrand himself may say of its evils) are justly chargeable. Let Mr. Ferrand move for his Committee on the truck system if he please—and the more extensively he can prove this harsh and grinding practice to prevail, the more overwhelming a case will he make out against the Coin-laws he thinks he i 3 defending, by accusing manufacturers of truck." The Post states that there are many manufacturers very good kind of men, but that they have no monopoly of good ness or intelligence among them; and adds :—" They are not altogether perfect. They have glass houses among them. Let them not be quite so ready to begin throwing stones. They have been too long suffered to have their own way in praising themselves and abusing others. Let them be thankful for the past, and more careful for the future. Let them think of the rapid fortunes so many of them have made, and the means by which they have made them." The Herald has an article on the subject of Lord Ashbur ton's mission to England, wherein our Contemporary remarks: —" If immediate war is to follow Lord Ashburton's return to England, without having accomplished the objects for which he left, we will not do the American Executive the injustice to suppose that it is not prepared to make some concessions to avert so disastrous a calamity. The dreadful alternative thus put forth by the Madisonian is, most probably, only an at tempt to pave the way for such concessions ; if so, the tone re cently sysumed by the more influential public prints begets the hope that the reasonable and moderate among the American people are not unwilling to support the Supreme Government, should it be now inclined to diverge into the paths of peace." The Times says, in an article suggested by Lord Mont eagle's speech on the Exchequer-bill fraud.—" Lord Mont eagle will not take much by his self-adulatory speech, the whole gist of which was to show that he is entitled to be held clear of all blame whatever, because his predecessors in the controlling power over the Exchequer were almost as neg ligent as himself. His view of the duties of a public officer seems to be, that he is to do just what his predecessors have done, and no more.' The public will be apt to take issue with him upon this po'nt. They imagine that the large salary which he receives is given as a quid pro quo—not as a fee upon a certain number of signatures, but as the reward of an effec tual supervision over an important department of the national service." MONEY—TR.ADE—C °MATE ACE. A Brick and Tile Company have contracted with the South- Eastern Railway Company for 14,000,000 of bricks, to be com pleted within three sears. 'I his enormous quantity is to be made in the vicinity of Maidstone. We learn from a Nottingham paper that the hosiery and lace trades still continue in a most depressed state, and that things, instead of improving, get worse as the spring approaches. It is rumoured that the duty on Colonial sugar will be re duced to 18s., and that on Foreign to 365. LAW AND POLICE. On the sth instent at York Charles Rhodes and Thomas Leatham were indicted for a beititlary in the house of Thomas Bramall and cutting and wounding the said Thomas Bramall, an offence which is still capital. From the evidence it ap peared that the prisoners had attacked an old man who kept a public-house at Mot,kbrettoo, and nearly killed him. The Jury returned a verdict of guilty, and Mr. Baron Rolfe expressed his intention of looking carefully into the depositions before passing sentence, to see if any facts in the case would justify a mitigation of the punishment which the law imposed for such offences. COURT PASHIONAUX.E. The Prince and Princess Nicholas Esterhazy arrived at Chandos House last evening from Osterley Park. The Duke and Duchess of Bedford will have Oakley House at the end of the week, for Woburn Abbey. The Dowager Countess of Essex is expected to leave Paris to-marrow fur Belgrave-square. The Earl of Jersey arrived in Berkeley-square last evening from Melton•Mowbray. The Earl and Countess of Eglinton have, during the last week, been staying at Croxteth Park, Lancashire. Lord W. Russell arrived at Bedford House on Saturday last. MlSCMladiltrEol7l3. The Semaphore of Marseilles states that at the end of 1841 the number of horses in France was 2,453,712, of which 1,241,789 were mares, and that the number of horses born an nually is 185,303. The number of entire horses the property of the State is 4,577, and the number of mares annually put to breed by these horses is 49,408. Two little shops in the Market-place, Louth, Lineoltishire, lately occupied by Miss Wakelin and Mr. Kew, gunsmith, con taining together fifty-six square yards, have been sold for 705/. or nearly 13/. per square yard ! COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert arrived in town at a quarter before two o'clock yesterday afternoon, in an open landau and four, escorted by a party of the Scots Greys, from the Royal Pavi lion, Brighton. Col. Buckley and Major-General Sir Edward Bowater, the Equerries in Waiting on her Majesty and his Royal Highness, followed in a chariot and four. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal were in the next carriage. 'I he Royal Suite occupied two carriages and four, and consisted of the Countess of Dunmore, Hon. Miss Devereux, Hon. Miss Stanley, Baroness Lehzeu, and Viscount Hawat den. Her Majesty and Prince Albert were received at Bucking ham Palace by the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, the Master of the Horse, and the Vice-Chamberlain. The Royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace last evening included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Fanny Howard, the Earl of Liverpool, the Earl Delawarr, and the Earl c.f Jersey. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her 'Ma jesty the Queen Dowager yesterday at Marlborough House. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by the Princess Augusta and Mary of Cambridge, also visited her Majesty yesterday. His floial'llighne - ss Prince George of Cambridge visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent yesterday at Cla rence House. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge dined with the Noblemen and Gentlemen's Catch Club, yesterday evening, at the Thatched House. The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone had an interview with Sir Robert Peel, yesterday. Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Excise, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street. The Grecian Minister transacted business yesterday at the Foreign. office. The Earl of Denbigh had an interview with Lord Stanley yesterday, at the Colonial-offire. The Earl of Minto has left Farrance's Hotel, Belgrave street, for his seat in Scotland. PRINTERS' PENSION SOCIETY. Monday the annual meeting of this useful Institution was held at the London Tavern, prior to which five pensioners were elected. The chair was taken by Mr. R. Taylor, when the Report was read by Mr. Hodgson, the secretary; from which it appeared that the funds were greatly increasing, and that the funded property now amounts to 2,600/. The last anni versary dinner brought the Society 801., the steam excursion 501., and other resources 15/. The annual subscriptions now amount to 5621. 3s. 6d., and the life subscriptions to 73/. an nually ; and the pensions paid to 4361. At present there are 19 males and 24 females on the funds, who receive 12 guineas and 8 guineas per annum respectively. Allusion was made in the Re port to statements going about that the elections were unduly in fluenced by members of the trade union, which the Committee declared to be totally false. During the past year one female pensioner died, and two others had sought the refuge of the workhouse. 'I he Committee alluded with gratitude to the following circumstance : —During the course of business, Messrs. Harrild and Sons became possessed of a printing press, which turned out to be that of the philosopher Benjamin Franklin, and at which he worked as a journeyman in 1725-6. Mr. Murray, of New York, applied for it to be sent to Ame.. rica, which was agreed to by Mr. Harrild on the under standing that a sum of money should be presented to this Society to establish a Franklin pension. Two hundred pounds had hitherto been received from the exhibition of the press in London and Liverpool, and in the latter place 150/. 9s. 4d. of it was gathered at a lecture on the Life of Franklin, delivered by the Rev. Hugh M'Neile. The total receipts for the year were 1,774/. N. 2d., and the expenditure 1,2781. 12s. 3d., leaving a balance of 4951. 16s. 4d. Mr. Palmer moved the adoption"of the Report, which was carried unanimously. A long discussion then took place in consequence of the motion of a subscriber for altering the third rule of the society, by insert ing the words " blindness only excepted" after the words limit ing the eligibility for pensions to fifty years of age. As the show of hands was so dubious, the question was adjourned till the next election. Mr. R. Taylor was then elected treasurer for the year ensuing and the other officers were chosen. It was neat ly six o'clock before the names were announced, when they were Hannah Hookham, aged 68, 2,668 votes; George Sears, aged 60, 2,090 ; Elizabeth Grapes. aged 53, 2,051 ; Mary Cherry, aged 70, 1,759 votes ; and John Coppock, aged 69, 1,506 votes, who was chosen for the Whittingbam pension of 71. 3s. 6d. annually. A vote of thanks having been passed to the chait man and scrutineers, the unsuccessful candidates were presented with 1/. and upwards, according to the number of yearly applications made, when the meeting separated. It was yesterlay reported in the City that there would speedily be a contest for the office of City Solicitor. WIGNEY'S BANK. A private meeting was held yesterday amongst some of the principal creditors, to concert easures for the appointment of assignees. It is said that an attempt will be made to fix some of the late partners, who are very wealthy men, as the chstolution of partnership has never been gazetted. By the will of the late Mr. Wigney, the father of the present bankrupt, two legacies of 50,0001. each, were left to members of the family, on condition that it ,hould re main in the Bank for ten years. It is generally reported that this amount was drawn out before the expiration of that period. A public meeting is expected to be held at the Town Hall (Brighton) to-day. The price of a small Bible neatly written and trans lated in 1274, was 30/., a sum equal at least to 3001. of our present money. WRECK OF THE CITY OF ERIN_ BURGH STEAM-SHIP. Yesterday morning intelligence of the wreck of this splendid steam frigate, the property of the General Steam Navigation Company, commanded by Captain J. G. Hast, was received by the Directors, at the Company's office in Lombard-street, City. The City of Edinburgh, it appears, left the Custom-house quay on Tuesday afternoon for Ostend, having on board, it is said, between thirty and forty passengers, and a general cargo After leaving the river Thames, she encountered a heavy gale from the westward, which lasted the whole clay and night, but, notwithstanding, her passage was not impeded, and she reached her destination in perfect safety the following day, and brought up alongside of Ostend pier to land her passengers, which was safely effected. At an early hour the following morn ing ( Thursday), while the crew were busily employed landing the cargo, it came on blowing a hurricane, and all of a sudden the warps that secured her to the pier snapped asunder, and she drifted out into the centre of the stream. The confusion that ensued amongst those on board can be imagined when it is stated that Ostend Harbour, though a fortified seaport of the Netherlands, is one of the most dangerous on that part of the coast, and several large vessels have been lost in an at terr pt even to enter it. In consequence of the steam not being up, and her sails being furled, she was completely un manageable, and in the course of a few minutes she was hurled against the stone battlement of the east pier. She swung round and drifted swiftly away past the pier, and run adiore about three quarters of a mile eastward of the harbour. Within an hour after the splendid vessel had struck hundreds of persons had assembled on the beach to reth'er assist ance to get her off, for which purpose measures were immediately adopted to lighten he*, and in the course of a surprisingly short time the whole of the cargo was got ashore, together with her costly furniture, pier glass, and fittings-up; but to no purpose, although several powerful vessels were en gaged in the attempt. Preparations were then made to get ter machinery, engines, and boilers out of her to further lighten the vessel for a second attempt ; but night coming on, the crew and others were compelled to defer any further opera. tion till the following day. Her aypearance on Ft iday morn ing foretold her fate. Her masts and the entire of her rig ging had been swept overboard during the night, as had also her furniture. At high water another desperate attempt was made to get her afloat but all the powerful assistance that could be brought into requisition proved utterly impossible, and after another night's exposure to the heavy seas'and blustering gales she became a complete wreck. Captain Hast, the commander, on the day she got on shore, sent information of the disaster to London, and the Directors, on the receipt of the communica tion, ordered one of the Company's large steamers, the Lord Melville, to proceed instantly to Ostend, arid assist in towing the ship off; but on her arrival she was found, as before stated, a wre , A. The City of Edinburgh is said to have cost the Leith Steam Packet Company, of whom the General Steam Steam Navigation Company purchased her some few years since, 30,000/. Her present owners have expended consider. able sums of money in lengthening her decks and on other im portant improvements, and she was considered one of the Corn pany's first-class steam-ships. MONE Y MARKET i.nd CITY NEWS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. CHRONlCLE.—Anotherilure of a house in the Austin.- ban trade was announced on Saturday, and a firm in the home trade, in a moderate business, was at the same time under the necessity of suspending payments. In other respects, we be lieve the engagements, falling due on the 4th of the month, were generally well provided for. The reports from the country continue gloomy. We must expect this, at all events, until after the commercial plans and financial expose of the Govern ment are made known. FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE GENE RAL POST-OFFICE. On Saturday afternoon Mr. Payne, City Coroner, held an inquest at the Mourning Bush Tavern, St. Martin's-le-Grand, on the body of Mary Witchell, aged six years. It appeared from the evidence of Mr. John Gottick, and of City con stable 463, that at about a quarter to six on Friday evening they saw a mail-cart that had been driven in at the Newgate street entrance of the Post-office, proceeding at the rate of ten miles an hour, within th e ra ili ngs roun d t h e eastern s i de of the esiifice. As the vehicle was traversing the public foot path that leads from Foster-lane to the back entrance of the Post-office, the horse by which it was whirled along knocked down deceased, who was running across the footpath, and the near wheel of the ma:l-cart passed over the girl's head, fractured the skull, and caused instantaneous deatn. Both these witnesses said the driver of the cart made no attempt to pull up his horse until he got to the door o! the general letter-office, about twenty-five yards north of the footpath on which the child was killed. Craddock, a constable at the Post-office, and Hammersley, a guard, who was in the cart at the time of the accident, said the horse was travelling at no more than eight miles an hour, that both driver and guard gave notice of danger by hallooing to the persons crossing the footpath, that the deceased child shot out suddenly between the horse's feet, that the driver, directly he perceived the child, endeavoured to pull up, but that he was unable to do so in time to obviate the occurrence. The cart came from the receiving-office in the Borough, and a quarter of an hour was the time allowed to perform that distance. If the driver had been behind time he would have been reported to his superior. The Coroner pointed out to the Jury the obligation the driver, being in the public service, was under to travel at greater speed than would be necessary in ordinary circumstances. Besides, he was not driving in a public thoroughfare, unless the footpath alluded to could be considered as such, and in addition, the evidence was fairly divided for and against him. He hoped the Post-office authorities would order the mail-carts to be driven of an evening into the yard through the north western gate in St. Martin's-le-Grand, for then the footpaths, that at the Newgate-street entrance, and that on which the accident had taken place, both always crowded towards the hour of closing the office, would be avoided. Mr. Fortune, clerk of the works said, no alteration could take place unless ordered by the Noble Postmaster-General, and that since the prcsent accident had occurred a suggestion similar to that ex pressed by the Coroner had been communicated to his Lord ship, who, no doubt, would cause it to be, adopted. Verdict,— " Accidental Death," the Jury recommending that a little more caution should, for the future be used by the mail cart drivers in coming into the Post-office -yird. MEXICO, TEXAS, &c. LIVERPOOL, MONDAY EVENING. Several vessels arrived here at a late hour this evening from New Orleans, by which we have been supplied with papers from that city to the date of the 7th ult. inclusive, being five days later than those received via New York. The greatest possible excitement prevailed there in consequence of the continued confinement, by Mexico, of the American citizens recently captured in the Santa Fe expedition, notwithstanding the remon strances made by the American Government, accom panied with a demand for their immediate release. It appears by the latest accounts from Mexico that the prisoners are subjected to the most shameful treat ment, being compelled to work in pairs in chains in the streets of Mexican cities, and it is said that Santa Anna is inflexible in his determination not to release them until such time as he shall be compelled by an appeal to arms ; and in order to place himself in a fit state to defend any attack that may be made upon him by the Americans, he has ordered 34,000 troops to be raised with the least pos sible delay, a small portion of which are to he stationed at Vera Cruz, and the remainder near the Texian line. In short, the movements of Santa Anna are such as to leave no doubt as to his intentions with respect to the future treatment of the unfortu nate Americans who joined the Santa Fe expedition. The above state of things had caused a complete blaze in New Orleans and other cities in the southern states, and popular movements were every where taking place, for the purpose of expressing public opinion upon the subject, and calling upon the federal government for firm and immediate action in the matter, in order that the lives of the prisoners may not be sacrificed to the avarice, cupidity, and despotism o f th e M ex i can Pre sident, Santa Anna. At New Orleans, a very large meeting had been held, at which a string of resolutions were proposed and unanimously adopted, denouncing in the strongest possible terms the gross barbarity of the Mexicans, and calling upon the federal government to take immediate steps for the vindication of the ho nour of the American name, and the protection of the liberty of American subjects, and urging it to in flict summary punishment upon Mexico for the insult and injustice which she has already offered and inflicted. The Legislature of the State of Louisiana had also had the subject under its consideration, and had adopted resolutions partaking of the same sentiments as those adopted at the public meeting at New Or leans. That body had also passed the Bank Bill, which enjoins immediate resumption of cash payments by the money institutions. Such as are not able to comply with its provisions are to go into liquidation forthwith. The bill was not very popular among the people, though a large number of mercantile men approved it. We have advices from Texas to the 30th of January. Congress would, it was supposed, adjourn about the Ist of February. A bill regulating the import duties had become law. The rate of duties average from 15 to 20 per cent. ad valorem, paid in par money. The law authorising the negotiation of a loan had been repealed. The threatened invasion of Mexico had not taken place, but the people were in .daily expectation of it, and were still engaged in organising measures to repel it. Business at New Orleans had somewhat improved in the interval between the date of the last alvices and the present. This change had been produced by the receipt of news from England, of an improvement in the cotton market, and the announcement of Lord Ashburton's mission to the United States, which is looked upon in a favourable light, and the southern men anticipate the happiest results from his labours. The cotton market was active, and the prices inclined upwards. Money was easy, and the rate of exchange on London declining. It was last quoted at 11i to 12 per cent. premium. THE MARKETS.-(YESTERDAY.) COLONIAL MARKET. Prices remain depressed and the transactions limited. B.P. Sugar i 3 not lower, but the tendency is di.wnward. Refined Sugar sold slowly at 795. to 80s. per cwt. Coffee of good quality being scarce, and full prices paid. Pimento dull. Pep per • rather lower. Rice a b ou t 6d . per cwt. below last week's i ates. Saltpetre in demand at firm prices. TEA MARKET. The accounts from China have had little effect upon the mar ket, except that holders have - become firmer, with less inclina tion to sell. Company's Corigou Is. 1l per pound cash. TALLOW MARKET. Prices on the decline, with very little demand. P.Y. C. on the spot, 48s per cwt. WHITECHAPEL. The supply of Hay and Clover was plentiful, he qualities in request, an d or d inary sorts heavy on hand. Of Straw the supply was ra th er s h ort, and the trade brisk. Clover, 21. Ws. to 51. Bs. ; H ay, 2 1 . to 4/. 6s. ; Straw, if. 16s. to 21. (From the London Mercantile Journal of March 8.) SUGAR.—The West India market remained quiet to-day, the sales being only about 150 hhds and arcs, but the merchants continue firm, and the prices of Friday last were fully maintained. AIA navrius.—The demand was steady to-day; and at public sale 4,607 bags sold at full rates, indeed, in some cases, a small advance was obtained : middling to fine yellow fetch ed 62s to 66s 6d. EAST INDIA.—At auction 2,515 bags 297 chests Begs: sold at full rates; l ow to good white at 62s to 675, b r own* 5U 6d to 523 per cwt. FoKEIGN.--,We have to report a firm market for Foreign Sugar. At public sale to-d a y 1,800 boxes white and lAj, boxes 3ellew Ilavannah, were all sold at lull rates, middlinC . good 3elloa• at 19s to 21s 6d, middling to good white at 26 0 " 27s 6d, low ditto at 24s to 24s 6d per cwt. but lIEFINEn.—The demand f rom th e h ome t ra d e i s quiet, i prices are steady ; standard Lumps 79e to 79s 6d per e N F. w sal es were made for export, but the price of 11)°° Crushed i s s t ea d y at 28s 9d to 29s per cwt. WEST INDIA MotessEs.—The transactions of the week ate t about 200 p uns m id d l ing St. Kitts at 255, good Demera ra : 4 245, and com mon qua li ty from less esteemed Islands, at 22fi to 3s per cwt. S COFFEE. —The demand was pre t ty goo d to- d ay f o r CO - - in i for home use. Ceylon sold at 71s to 73s 6d for good °ill' f all superior 78s 6d p er cw t ; 6 8 casks West India broug ht 6,1 rates ; Demerara low middling and middling 92a 6d to 1 0 ` 21 par cwt. A sll Cocoa.—At public s a l e 320 cas k s, & c. W es t Inw ;* ' ist sold ; 'frinidad low t o goo d re d at 39 s to 44s 6 d , an d St. Lue at, 34. 6d to 36s per cwt. close y TEA.—The large publi c sa l es were b roug h t to a 0 „ '1 Lursday, with a spi r it amongs t t h e b uyers, and firistt amongst the merchants, f u lly support i ng t h e pr i ces o f the sales. WO 'f he advices received to-day from China, produced but and in the Tea market, a fair business, howev e r, was done , lit per lb. advance cn f ormer t ransact i ons was pa id . Coq n y ' Congou is Is 1 lid cash and 2s to 2s Oid prompts. " , tki4 N UTMEGS —There is little variation in the value 01 bt article.— 0 casks Amboyna offered at public sale were b°"°o ii., good fair bold first quality little limited at 3s 7d to 3s per lb. ci GINGER.—Very little prog ress ran yet b e ma d e in o a les o it East India Ginger, n o t w i t h s t an di ng t h e very l ow Prig which the article st i ll ru l es , an d i n t h e a b sence o f pu blic no transactions worthy of notice have transpired. PIMENTO is held rather more fi rm l y, an d i n t h e a bsence 1 a public sale stiff prices have been paid for small parcels. I PorrEit.— There is no alteration in the eaht t o this article, but the demand is only partial, and b4 l business is almost co n fi ne d t o th e pu bli c sales of LW bt, Malabar, which sold at 30 to nd for g,.od fair and good "1 3 0 at 3d for fair light, and at 3d for a few lots of grey, and bags ordinary to good Sumatra at 2 i ld to 3d per lb. ~, fof , CAssia..—At auction 10 c h es t s a ll so ld at 8 6 s 6d to No' ' middling and good, being full rates. boe e FRUIT.—A cargo of Denia Raisins, now landing, has _,,is taken by the trade at 30 s . Wi t h t hi s exception prices c''' much the same as before quoted. ~ , .Is' SPIRITS.-1 he Rum market remains very firm. ra 3 , - e r maim 5s 7d to 5s 10d, and good 5s 3d to 5s ad ; prom biec t wards 2s 2d to 2s 3d. Bengal Rum, I '7o to the high duty, at is 3&d to Is 4d, and n 01 lot at is sd; admissible f or h ome consumpt i on at the '° p er rate of duty, at is 9d to 2s per gallon; Mauritius, one cent. under proof at Is 7d p er ga ll on. B randy at f u ll pe o p Geneva unaltered. Y; sok' Sac o.—Several parcel s were b roug h t f orwar d i n ptwa ..iii tt consisting of 1,283 bags 100 b oxes P ear l , which chiefly 1 ": t he 12s to 28s 6d for fair to fin e P ear l, b e i ng s tiff er ratest°' Lest sorts. • sol e Ric E.—The demand was s t ea d y to- d ay, an d a t pubh° o to 3,697 bags Bengal were all sold - at 9s 6d to lls for I ° good middling white, being full rates. d tbe Ons.—Common Fish Oil s c o n ti nue d u ll o f sa l e , but ":400 stocks are still very light, th e h o ld ers d o ' not appear de ' o r to realize, and the few transactions that have taken pla ce 00 port the prices of last week. Sperm also quiet, but feel e i t lp off • can be found under late price s . Li nsee d Oil goes .o s o chiefly for export at 33s to 34 s 3d per cwt, t h e crushelle or , however, looking for high er p r i ces . R ape Oi l very ,iititopok quired for, and its value littl e b e tt er t h an nominal. u iif Oilremains dull, but Spani s h con ti nues to fi n d b u yers 6 i pi proving rates, 521 to 531 paid during the last few dajlt, ei r few parcels now to be had un d er th e l atter fi gure. No 1 0 ` tion in Cocoa Nut or Palm Oils. t be; TALLow.--In this market w e h ave no new feature to i r or the transactions are still of a limited character and for 10 1 diate consumption only, but th e h o ld ers cont i nue firm. 0 irk, little change can be quoted in prices ; fine parcels of fin, e as SF, .low Candle on the spot h a v e c h ange d hands at 48s to g' so to per cwt. For delivery in the autumn 49s is the price n e wt by the importers, but there d oes no t appear to be any' i ll pi' tion at present to purchase thereat. In South Americ a : 1Y IJw few sales have occurred ; the stock of this descripton o. ol Ist instant was 397 se r o ns an d 1,790 cas k s, &c. 1 : flee Tallow ,was in slow request, and 48s is now the nearest P of P. Y. C. on the spot. COUNTRY COR MAR ETS Wheat. Barley. Beans. Y~ I/~ A Per Qua! ter. Abingdon ndover H,nbory Bash gstoke Cirencoster ;;uventry tiaventry I .);?rby If Avden s. to s. 57 7.2 59 6 , ; 56 CS a 4 5•3 70 S. to S. 25 36 26 0 32 40 32 37 23 24 32 33 44 25, 29 S. to S. 99 31 `:6 28 2-3 33 24 k 8 22 31 21 29 98 94 24 S. to %. 35 44 36 '4O 42 46 43 44 SS 30 44 22 42 I ungerford Malton 29 37 26 32 32 35 ‘;3 30 SO 31 8 38 25 30 22 34 25 31 19 27 30 32 26 90 40 45 Nl:ti,lenhead i4ottingham kVatitzge ‘V:irwick 36 44 37. 40 36 40 Winchester York _ 43 gp 26 s. d. s. d 3 6 4 6 17 28 30 46 Per Bushel Birmingham d 1 96 4 0 . 1 s. d, s. d. 50 70 ~ d. f 6 0 fig 72 51 68 41i 73 62 '76 52 75 58 74 65 76 - 76 58 64 s. d. 8. d. 70 S 6 CORNWALL MARKETS. (Calculated at 24 gallons to the bushel.) .... 41 .... , (Calculated at 24 gallons to the bushel.) -----'"' 10 ' Wheat. Barley. l l 2t/i t 0—..............,..... , tO i ' ii Id. s. d. s. d. to s. d. $. d . „ 5 , Truro.... ........ — 0 75 0 3 6 u 9 g flelitene — U 7 8 0 3le 0 $ 0 St. Austell ..... ..-- 0 Bo o 5 6 0 s i Isodnu n --0 8 8— 0 4 4 0 . ~, iskeard _ .o 76_ 0 3 6 0 $ 1 Launceston - 0 3 8 0 $ i Camelford 6 6 7 0 3 0 3 4 2 6 I Penzance THE FRENCH PLAYS. Monday evening Moliere's Makide Imag inaire vra s e sbi formed, the principal charact er b e i ng admirably susW! fsr Perlet. The incidents of thi s pl ay are somew h a t tiw.lj re' sical, and the humour more b r o a d, th a t i s consistent "lisitl, gular comedy : but the piece is full of the peculiar V i ore' of its admirable author; an d the Malade Imaginaire is a capital picture, to which Perlet does the gre atesti o ipt; The characters of the two sist ers were very c l ever ly 5u .. 4 1 1 by Mademoiselle Arithaume and Mademoiselle ile n i,gir oo ,re Cloup. The latter, who is ve r y y oung , played e the ,b to , with much archness and nai ve t e . It is to be regre t- 4V think, that Perlet has brought his engagement to a close out having performed the Tartuffe. The theatre was again vi s it e d b y a m ost e th i guished audience, among whom we noticed his • •J r r a :sii . " Duke of Argyle and party, Marquis of Douro, su l 'be.; Aylesbury, Earl of Lichfield, Earl and Countess of p aie i terfield, and the Hon. Mrs. Anson, Countess anti t a t Cadogan, Earl of Pembroke, Earl of Dartmouth, Co.„Jr c e r sr'' Glengall ; Lords Chelsea, R. Grosvenor, Ossulston . -NJO r and Temp'etown ; the Ladies Colborne, C. Denniaonb r oor bury, Quentin, A. Foster, Willoughby,. Mahon, and h to e , ' ham ; Count Creptowitch , Baron and B arone ss Re; Air Baroness de Roths c hild, Si r C. N ap i er, M rs. Monte fivr" G. Wombwell, Hon. James Macdonald, &c. .1 Stun DEATH OF LORD TEYNHAM.—Died on f e ed i apoplexy, in Cu rzon - s t ree t, i n t h e 74th year of his ale' j,or'; Francis Roper C urzon , f our t een th L or d Tevnham. , ship is succeeded by his eldest son, the lion. Henry Curzon. t he ERRATUM.—In the advertisement entitleL soo " Second R formation," &c., which appeared in I D t e dob c) of Friday last, th ere was a m i spr i nt. I t shou l d h ave bee Green, 121, Newgate-street instead of Ludgate-street - DR. REID'S LECTURES.—A course of lector e e t/i; the " Chemistry of D a ily Lif e " w ill be commen d evening, at Exeter Hall, and conti nue d every c°°" id ' Wednesday, by Dr. D. B. R e id, w h ose l a b ours i n the s ` , t io ie til )p world, and excellent imp rovemen t s i n t h e p l an o f ve' t o of the House of C ommons , are we ll-k nown. Th ey are c o c il delivered under the sanc ti on o f th e C omm i ttee o f 0:00 0 ', Education, and, when th e i r i n t e resting.and instructiv e 13 opulPoi is considered, they cannot but form the most Ars set. of lectures that could be devised. The i r t o elr o Chemistry may be al mos t sa id to identify th e- o p a with those of Life ; they mix themselves o f 0 such a multitude of shapes, with the routines and for lo everyday existence, that they are in a certain degr e , e v iti i , parable, and a no more delightful companion could be i s l ol! i ',1 into our houses than the chemist who could explain P ri l e , S' re , the chemistry that is daily going on before us; an d i r„ e - losupii may be described as such a person, and in the "'- hich his familiar lectures will make, there will doub much to surprise and gratify. O: THE LATE ALLEGED DEFALCATIDN tef er TREASURY.—We understand there will be no loss the public in consequence of the irregularity in Mr- "•: ri to A t ‘ r accounts. That gentleman h as already•paid I,o ool ' Treasury, and, we understand, given a bond for the re - p 9 of what is due from him. Mr. P. is much respecte d who know him. 44 Among other objects left by Count Pozzo &T A :7; to his heirs," says the France, " is a mag n ifi c ent sue ° „et table. valued at mo r e th an a m illi onro f f rancs. " 1/0r ' We have to announce the death of Baron to $l 4 ; of the Academic F ranca i se . H e un d erwent, two bis an operation for a disease in the kidneys, from vib i hut the roily and friends h a d expecte d a complete recover y, hopes have been disappointed. . • 0. I Sir James Graham and several of the Cabln,_ fee / at the Hon. Baronet's residence in whiteba ll Gardens:_ , nisters had an interview yesterday morning with Si" - rs i„„ ft iS' SILVER PLATED CORNER I u'it; T. COX SAVORY, Manufacturing Silversmith, No. ,r hill, London (Seven doors from Graeechurch-street l / 2 ‘ 'vorfi i . o s t the prices of the following patterns of strongly 14 4 Dishes, with silver handles and edges, and silver OW engraving the crest or coat of arms:— The Gadroon Pattern. 11 9 1 0 Pour Strongly Plated Co rner Di s h es an d C o v er s... Pour Extra Strongly Plated Corner Dishes and 1 . 2 1 0 Covers The Flower Pattern. 11 Four Extra Strongly Plated Corner , Dishes and 31 0 I Cover s 1 O A tO t•••• , N.B. The covers are made w ith moveable handleb g sr jea they form extra dishes. Drawings of the above for: oe , any part of Great Britain or Ireland, postage free. BIRTHS. d)('' iCeo ° On the 28th ult., in Park-street, the lady of J. Ef:q., her Majesty's Secretary of Legation at the u" Naples, of a son. b t , tr On the 28th ult., at Kensington, the lady of Crspt3i pard, of a son. On the 27th ult., at Dublin, the lady of W. D. W 039°"9141)' Eq., of a son. P On the 2d inst., at Chudleigh, the Lady Catherin e . of a daughter. On the 4th inst., at Canterbury-villa, Maida-vale, the jog of Gregory Cook, Esq., of a son. MARRIED. On the sth inst., at St. Martin's Church, Nicholas If; Pignatorre, of Cephalonia, Greece, (Doctor of Laws), t pr theme, eldest daughter of Mr. George Nicholson, of (I,n-street, Old Palace -yard, Westminster. "' On the 25th ult., at Rhu n dd l la E n, i) St. Asaph, Popham, R.N. h On the 27th ult., at Davenport House, Shropshire, t- t i'f' Edmund Sharington Davenport, aged 64. rie4; o o On board her Majesty's slaip Iris, on the coast of Af Vernon Dickenson, second son of General Sir 'William - 0 ei Bart, aged 23. t 591 h On the 4th inst. at Smaley Lodge, Nees, the Walt Li :utenant- Colone l HankeY• raw. isf London: Printed ;Ind Published by SIURDO N0..1 Pi, Stran.l. at Me Sun Oftice, No. 112. Strom :Captain Stee° the County of Middlesex, Wednesday, . 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