The Sun. — London, England, 1834-04-22 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, The procession of the trades' unions yesterday passed off, thank God, without the slightest approach to disturbance. For this result the metropolis is, no doubt, indebted, partly to the seasonable and earnest warnings of the daily press— partly to the known, skilful, and formidable arrangements which were made by the public authorities—and in no small degree to that circumstance to which we have already borne a willing testimony, and attached its full impor tance—viz., the peaceable and loyal disposition of the great majority of the working classes themselves, and their repugnance to be moved by evil counsellors to mischief. It was published in the Times of yesterday, that any peti tion presented by delegates, who collectively formed a mere offshoot from an assembled multitude then in mo tion, and in the immediate neighbourhood of Whitehall, would not be received by his Majesty's Government, as it would have been an act of manifest com pulsion. The prediction was verified; the peti tion was refused ; and we refer for details to a narrative elsewhere given. But while no reasonable man can impugn the propriety, indeed the obvious neces sity, of the rejection transmitted to the petitioners by Lord Melbourne, we desire to be understood as by no means condemning the object of the petition itself. Yesterday, with the experiment of intimidation still undecided, it would have been a piece of truckling cowardice to say anything that could encourage the stimulators of disturbance, or shake the honest resolution of the ministers, to rebuke and Put down their audacity. Now, the case is different. The reprimand has been inflicted ; the scheme of humbling the royal authority has miserably failed ; the pert projectors of the exhibition have been sent back by the King's govern ment chop-fallen and mortified, to the crowds of poor fellows whom they had ensnared into the loss of their good day's wages, and the folly will not, we hope and trust, be repeated. We are therefore released from the difficulty which had before deterred us from declaring, in common with the trades' unions, our sympathy on behalf of three at least of the unfortunate men who have been banished by the sentence passed upon them at Dorchester. For the plea of general ignorance of the nature and tendency of their own conduct, we admit that it can scarcely be alleged in favour of the two itinerant preachers, and that the felon who had passed four months in gaol may not be the fittest object for mercy; but even as it affects these men the punishment is grave enough ; and for the other and less knowing delinquents, it is a harsh and bitter sentence. With regard to the three latter individuals, therefore, we join the trades' unions in praying a relaxation of the punish ment of seven years' exile ; but if the men have really been tried for one offence and punished for another—if they bare been tried for administering unlawful oaths, and had their sentence aggravated for making such oaths subser vient to the purposes of dangerous or offensive combinations —there is, we apprehend, a case made out for listening to the prayer of the trades' union ( intended)petition, and of that which we would concur with the " trades" in prefering to his Majesty's government. Now, to return to yesterday's proceedings. On comparing the best authenticated ac counts of the multitude which marched through Regent street and Cockspur-street to Whitehall, and verifying the calculations by a variety of checks proposed on the part of military gentlemen well used to judge of numbers when put in motion, we can venture to state the muster of unionists at something between 27,000 and 30,000 men ;- 230 passed by every minute, 12,000 within the hour, and the movement lasted for two hours and a half, su bject however to occasional stops of perhaps a minute's duration. We cannot be far out, therefore, in calling it an assemblage of 29,000 men. Nothing, we must say, could be more conspicuous than the peaceful and steady behaviour of the whole procession, nor anything more well tempered or accommodating than the readiness of the files to admit the passage where required, not only of persons on foot, but of horsemen and carriages. So far there was everything to approve of. Something there was to remark, likewise, in the downcast looks, and harassed visages of many successive divisions. We have reason to know, from the best authority, that thousands of the marchers were but ill acquainted with the avowed object of the day's adventure ; and that, by the time they reached the Surrey side of the water, the wish was general to return to their several homes. To a close observer many topics of curious re flection offered themselves. The general nature of each trade, as well as its actual state of prosperity or suffering, seemed stamped in various characters upon the figures of those who followed it. One striking difference was that of stature and original robustness of frame ; another was that of carriage, posture, and complexion ; a third again in quality and value f apparel. There were visible all degrees of decency and penury in dress—all shades of manliness and meanness in deportment—perfect in offensiveness in all. Vast numbers volunteered to be sworn in as special constables from among the shopkeepers and master tradesmen, the suspension of whose business during the procession, and throughout the greater portion of the west end of the town, was extremely lamentable, but will, by the recollection of it, rouse them, we trust, to greater energy in their general conduct, and more active union esmong themselves, as a sound defensive principle. Calcu lating, again, on the other side, the gross number of jour neymen who struck work for the day at 30,000, and of poor spectators, who, being idled by reason of the lack of business everywhere, formed an exterior mob, and lined the streets, of which the centre was filled by the proces sion, at as many more, we cannot estimate the loss of yvork to the former at less than 7,5001., being an average of ss. for each workman ; nor that of the latter glass (2s. each) at lessthan 3,000/. Then their expenditure epuld scarcely be less than Is. each, making about 3,0001. more, Thus, about 12,000/. was wasted for one day's foolery. How will their stupid and hard-hearted chiefs indemnify the industrious for this cruel reduction of their comforts? Once more,—we have been called enemies of the working classes ; but by whom ? By miscreants who cheat and prey upon them. We are too upright to be flatterers of the wealthy, and what honest man will dare charge us with having ever abandoned or betrayed the poor'? Who has pleaded more strenuously than we have done for that reform which has put power in the hands of so many of the working classes? Who has pressed so vigorously against the landlords the wickedness of their tax upon the poor man's bread ? Who raised and directed the public spirit of England against the vile massacre of the marrafßcturing poor at Peterloo in 1819, when every man that dared to open his mouth against the Castlereagh and Sidmouth despotism must have set the Six Acts at defiance ? Who would now open the poor man's eyes to pie snares and treacheries which his mock friends are prac tising against him, who but this Times journal?—the object pNv v ry villain's vengeance, and of every slanderer's abuse. On such creatures we disd ain to waste words—we despise mid defy them : As fur the attacks on us by the Tory journals and the Tory clubs (the frequenters of White's will know what we mean), their splenetic effusions have aF.Tised us ; indeed, we forgive their rage, which, it must be exifessed, is natural. They expected that there would )De a riot yesterday, which might embarrass the govern ment, and the quiet and orderly result owing, as they no doubt think, in a great measure to our remonstrances and warnings, has baffled their hopes and covered them with disappointment and confusion. Hence their explosion of resentment against the Times. We cannot choose but laugh it such anger thus occasioned.— Times. FUNERAL OF THE LATE J. BENTLEY, WHO WAS KILLED IN THE RIOTS AT OLDHAM, APRIL 15. This event, as was expected, produced a most extraor dinary sensation. The interment took place at six o'clock, e,nd the procession started from his late home at five. The procession was evidently composed of the superior class of pperative. A number of females formed an imposing part of the mournful spectacle. There were 256 bands, of six each, in the procession, united by the customary friendly Igament of small fingers interlocked with small fingers. There was a band which played admirably the Dead March II Saul, and which produced a most solemn effect. The deceased was a member of the Lodge of Independent Odd Vellows, and that lodge, with their respective insignia, formed part of the retinue. The distance was about three quarters of a mile from the house of the deceased to the c h4iel, and it took half an hour for the procession to pass, every ;lich of the way bei ng crow d e d t o su ff oca t ion; every elevation that could by_ any possibility gi v e a s i g ht of the processipn was literally studded over ; yet all was order, all regularity. The i n terment took place at Hope Chapel (Independent) Rev. Thomas Fox, minister. The service commenced by the rev. gentleman reading the 10th psalm • and after wards the sth chapter of Corinthians. On finishing the reading of the Scriptures, he proceeded to the grave, and commenced a most impressive prayer, to which the utmost attention was paid—every head uncovered. After prayer, the rev. gentleman addressed the numerous multitude in a most plain, faithful, and energetic strain, and in the way remarking, that not one week had elapsed since his appearance at chapel as a worshipper and his funeral obse quie being performed ; thus remarkably showing the un certainty of life, and he called upon all to be ready to give an account of their stewardship—not knowing how soon an account of that stewardship might be demanded. He remarked, that as various opinions would be enter tained on the course he should pursue on this occa sion, he was wishful it sh ou ld be understood that he was not anxious to possess the smiles of the great at the expense of not doing his duty to God. In this sense he feared not man. He had higher aims—the approbation of his Maker ; to whom alone he must finally account. He passed on by saving that this was no fitting occasion for debating on politics ; notwithstanding which he assured his hearers that he had his opinions on such subjects. In conclusion, he made a most affecting appeal to the widow, impression that t h o er m l a o k ss e e a s v, gr a e s at o i t m t r ieys and utib apeared f was p in n the e, 41as , li rdkiitrt, and consolation,mercy her )iity - of owl Sa • iiilesus Christ, who had promised to '", ' father to theni.tierless, and a husband to the widow." "..`" i.;A fter the rev. gentlerri4es address, the 49th psalm of r :Dr Watts's collection - was! sung by the multitude to the - old 100th psalm tune. ,idk concourse then dispersed. -. It is worthy of remark tliat not one individual out of this r anY " ~ . 'vnag mass but was sol,ei and decorous. lij.iiii-, PRICES OF STOCKS THIS Bank Stock 214 15 3 per Cent. Red ' 89115 3 per Cent. Cone. 90%%% L 4% ni per Cent. 96% 7 1 ,A 7 Ditto Red 97 %%4 New 314 per Cent 98% % 3 per Cent. Ann. 1726 - 4 per Cent. 1826 102U% Bank Long A nn. to expire Jan. 5, 1860 l7 1-16 Oct.lo, 1859 Jan. 5, 1860 Jan, 5, 1880 Aprils, 1890 Jan. 5, 1870 - PPirEs OP FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds ...... 10214 Belgian Bonds .99 1 4 Ditto Account 99)4 Brazilian Bonds 73 Ditto Account 73 Buenos Ayres Bonds 2, Ditto'Account 26% 5% 6 Clilian Bonds • 0 414 Ditto Account 23 Columbian Bonds Ditto Account. 23 Ditto Bonds, 1924 244 Ditto Accrenst .21►4 Danish Bon 3 - 314 Ditto Account 74 Greek Bonds I)itto Bonds, 1825 333 Ditto Account — ilex i can Bonds, 5 per cent 313 y Ditto Account — o, 6 per cent .391 i Ditto Account 4O Neapolitan 9154 T)AY AT ONE O'CLOCK. New 6 per Cent. India Stock: WON Ditto Bonds 30:28 PM South Sea Stock lOl% Old Annuities New Ditto 3 per Cent. Ann. 1751....., Ex. Bills, .£1,0)0...49 48 50 pm. Ditto 500-44 48 50 pm. Ditto Small 49 48 50 pm. Ditto Commercial pm. Ditto Advertised — pm. Bank for Account India for Account Cons. for Account 9ON% THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Peruvian Bonds 0 0% Ditto Account oili Portuguese Bonds 73 Ditto Account 73 54 3 Ditto New Bonds .73 % 3 1 Ditto Account, 7 2 34 3 Prussian Bonds .... ..... .. 103% 3 Ditto Bonds, 1822 — lO3 Russian Bonds, ire? I r 4% Ditto Account, Ditto 111 Spanish Bonds, 18611....33 , 4 414 Ditto Acc. 33N:4% 1 434 Ditto Bonds ISi23 ... ..... ao x, DittolAcoount 303 French Rentes, sp. c. —l;—c. Exchange —r --3 per cent —f —c. Exchange —f —c. Dutch, 9.1 p. c. 50% Ditto Account Ditto, 5 p C. 95% Ditto Account 9514 PRICKS OF SHARES THIS DAT AT ONE O ' CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. Alten Mining Company £9 11% A LW° Mex. Min. (AP. (iss. at 51. pm ) £lOO 8% Solanos Mining Company £l5O 130 Brazilian Mining Company 5 Brazilian imp. Min. Co. (iss. at 51. pm.) £2u Ditto Macaubas Cocacs ! 20 Ditto St. John Del Rey Cata Branca Mining Company 3% ttritish Iron Mining Conmany £so Columbian MininA Co. (iss. at 5/. pm.) 525% English Miring Company 12% :eneral Mining Association l2 Hibernian Mining Co. £lo Mexican Mining Co. £4B teal del Monte Mining C 0.... (unrog.) Gaited Mex. Min. Co. (iss. at 21. pin.) 40 Ditto New Solo 5 alliance Fire Insurance Comp 0 Protector Insurance Comp. Australian Co. Canada Compan♦ ....................... lB General Steam Navigation Co. l3 National Provincial Bank of England 15 Rio Doce Prcrincial Bank of Ireland Al 7 0 31% 494 15% 13% 2% 42% HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO MORROW. Morning .56 minutes after 1. I Evening...2l minutes after 2. THE NEW ROMANCE. This day was published. in 3 vols. post 8 vo., THE CONSPIRACY A VENETIAN ROMANCE. Richard Bentley, 9, New Burlington -street. (Successor to Henry Colburn.) ERRATUM.—In our leading article yesterday " Commis sioners for Churches" was misprinted—it should have been Charities. 'llllll LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 22, 1834. The Portuguese, Spanish, and French Am bassadors have been in very earnest communi cation with Lord PALMERSTON these last three or four days, and we have little doubt it will turn out that the four courts have come to an agreement on the means of‘restoring the two kingdoms of the Peninsula to peace and good government, and removing from their soil the two rebel princes whose pretensions have oc casioned so much disaster and bloodshed. The Bishop of EXETER, in his zeal to vin dicate the practice of his Alma Mater, ex plained (oh, courteous term I) the principle on which subscription to the most solemn, awful, and difficult propositions, is required of lads of 16 or 17 years before they are admitted to the benefit of a religious education. It seems they are required to profess, subscribe, and swear many things which they are not expected to understand, and which they are not strictly or literally bound to believe ; so that the first lesson the ingenuous youth is taught in ' his progress to Christian purity and truth is that he may say, sign, and swear one thing and mean another. He means, forsooth, by signing all the subtle and abstruse propo sitions contained in the articles of his faith, ' that he is willing to learn what they are, and not that they are what he has learnt. Pretty sophistry this for the schools of religion and learning. His reverence for the Deity is to be enforced by being told that it does not much signify what he in the first instance may practically sign or swear about him, and his habits of Christian sincerity are to be riveted by the practice of saying one thing and meaning another. Is this the Episcopalian nostrum for curing us of the malady of dissent ? Is this the Oxford logic and religion ? Are the sincere and conscientious to be reconciled to orthodoxy by being told that it is to be pro fessed and testified by signature first, and to be studied and ascertained afterwards ? The plan of Lord ALTHORP for the aboli- tion of church rates, and the substitution of a ge neral tax, or (what is the same thing) of a certain sum out of the general taxes, did not give entire satisfaction last night to radicals, tories, or dissenters ; the heads of these respective classes had all some objections to the measure. Sir R. INGL is objected to it because it interfered with the security of the church ; Mr. Wm ics, as a dissenter, objected to it on principle ; and Mr. HUME, as a good radical economist, objected to it (and it will be seen he was supported by a large minority) on the pound that there were ample funds for the maintenance of the church, without having recourse to voluntary or compulsory contributions. This objection is the only one tenable. So far from interfering with the security of the church, it is calculated for its protection ; and if the dissen ters object to it from principle, we can see no reason why they should not also object on principle to grant an equivalent for tithes, or to any other grant, for the support of any civil or clerical establishment of any description which did not meet their views. If there is to be an Established Church, that church must be maintained at the expense of the public. If the connection between church and state is to be dissolved, then it is as absurd to allow an equivalent for tithes as it is to contri bute to the repairs of churches, or pay for organists, beadles, and bell-ringers. Tithes were originally granted for the maintenance of the Church ; they have, by Act of Parliament, been transferred from one church to another, and the only security the Church has for their payment is the sanction of Parliament ; for they might with as little deviation from justice or equity be taken away altogether as be taken froth one church and conferred on anothe r. We cannot, therefore, concur in Mr. WlLics' views of the subject, or believe that the dis senters as a body will repudiate a plan which removes a serious grievance, merely on the grounds of the infringement of some ab stract principle. As to the payment of the 250,0001. out of the land tax, that is a pure distinction without a difference. Though, nominally, it is to be drawn from the land tax in England, the Scotch and Irish contribute their share of it in the same way as they con tribute their share of any other taxes. If the whole of the land tax is not wanted, then there ought to be a remission of taxes to that amount. If it is wanted (and of this we think there can be little doubt) then the deficiency caused by this abstraction of 250,0001. a year must be made up by the community at large. The great question, then, not only for dissenters but churchmen, is to consider and ascertain whether the funds of the church, (that is, tithes and all ecclesiastical property,) are not suffi ciently large to pay the clergy and keep the churches in repair. If they amount to what Mr. HARVEY says—five millions a year (and he has had good means of ascertaining the fact), —not one farthing additional should be raised, and every man throughout the community should not only be exempted from any tax for the support of the church, but be exempted from the payment of all fees or Easter offerings, and charge for baptisms, marriages, and fune rals. It has long been our opinion that there are ample funds for all these purposes, and we there fore blame such men as Mr. Wu, s and Mr. HUME for nibbling, to use the latter gentleman's phrase, at such a driblet as 250,000/., without going manfully to the main question, and compel ling the Government to make returns of all the church property throughout the kingdom. Let that point be once ascertained, and there is an end to all discussion on the subject. If it can be made out that there are five millions, nay, only four millions of annual church revenue, then no ministry, Whig, Tory, or Radical, ever could form a House of Commons to vote away one penny either for church rates or any other rates for the maintenance of the established religion. Till this, however, is ascertained, we cannot blame Government for taking steps to put an end to the present system so fraught with danger to the church, so disgraceful to religion, and so annoying to churchmen as well as dis- ' senters. Ministers, what with their wish to preserve the church, and at the same time please the dissenters, have a most difficult task to per form, and if the opinions of Sir ROBERT INGLIS and Mr. HARVEY are to be taken as the opinions of the two great classes, they can not by any possibility please both. We have too much confidence, however, in the good sense of the latter to believe them incapable of yielding a little to circumstances. They are not so unreasonable as to expect all the victory on their side, or so unwise as, for the sake of an abstract principle, to thwart and annoy men who have done more for them than any former Ministry. The more judicious and the more numerous class will rather look forward to the redress of real grievances, than risk all for the doubtful chance of a complete victory. We cannot, therefore, do better than press on their leaders the neces sity of ascertaining the full amount of all eccle siastical property, as the only rational means of coming to a definitive settlement of this great question. Another assumption of the advocates of the corn laws is, that agriculture is the first of the arts and ought to be protected. But we have shown that, since the year 1815, the home growth of corn has been progressively dimi nishing, and the import of foreign corn has been progressively increasing. Agriculture, therefore, has not been protected by these laws. We shall now show the operation of the laws which prevailed previous to 1815, under which it will appear that agriculture enjoyed a protec tion of which it has been deprived since 1815. The importation prices fixed in 1772, 1791, and 1804, had no operation, by reason of the then continuing fall in the exchangeable value of money, and the duties were so low, that they did not prevent our great demand from raising prices abroad, as it did at home. The situation thence arising is adverted to by the agricultural committee of 1821, in these words :—" The necessary consequence of the trade in corn having been vir tually open with the continent, and the impor tation allowed at prices merely nominal during the period of forty years, has been that the general price of the shipping ports on the con tinent has not, upon an average, been materially lower than the price in England, except to the amount of the charges to be incurred in bring ing the foreign corn to the markets of this country." This state of things always presented a sure protection to the home grower, because the dealer could not buy foreign grain cheaper than British grain, to which, therefore, he gave the preference, inasmuch as, before he could bring foreign grain to the markets of this country, the price might have fallen, and then he was exposed to a loss. The advantage was thus always with the home grower. But this state of things has been completely reversed by the laws which have prevailed since 1815, whereby our great demand is prevented froth reaching places abroad until the price reaches the import table price, and as the law now is, not only un til it reaches the importable price, but until the duty ceases to amount to a prohibition. In the absence of our great demand, prices at the ship ping ports on the Continent fall in propor tion to the previous rise while our demand operated there. The dealer buys at this low price for the purposes of foreign trade until the home price reaches the importable price and the duty falls ; and thus he is enabled to enter his foreign grain for home consumption at a time when it is most advantageous to him, and disastrous to the home grower. The advantage which formerly rested with the home grower is thus now transferred to the foreign dealer, witl whom the home grower is exposed to a compe• tition in the home market, which he cannot withstand. The first consequence, therefore, of the laws which have prevailed since 1815 is, that the home grower has been prevented from exporting, his grain. Now it is a remarkable fact, appear ing from the table constructed by Mr. MuN DELL, that the quantity of home grain exported during the whole of the forty years that elapsed previous to 1815, was equal to one-sixth, and rather more, of the foreign grain imported ; and, what is still more remarkable, the export was nearly equal in each period of fifteen years. Even in the fifteen years ending in 1815, which included a portion of the years of scarcity, the export was nearly equal to that in the preceding fifteen years. Previous to 1815 Great Britain always exported grain of one kind or quality, and imported it of another, but now she exports none. By the laws which have prevailed since 1815, the home grower is thus shut out from the foreign market, in the vain hope of giving him the monopoly of the home market ; of which he is deprived by the foreign dealer, at a time when it is most necessary to him. The con sequences have appeared in the loss of the farmers' capital, in the diminution of agricul tural labour, in the diminution of the home growth, and in the exhaustion of the soil, in a manner which we shall take another opportu nity of pointing out. The French papers of Sunday and yesterday contain no news. Every thing is tranquil, and people are beginning to reflect on the causes of the late events and the calamities which have been caused by them. The Prefect of Lyons, the General who commanded there during the late revolt, and the Procureur du R oi, have been severally re warded by promotions in the Legion of Ho nour ; and the Prefect has, in addition, been created a Peer of France. The numbers of killed during the late riots in Paris, were—of the troops, 12 ; of the insur gents and inhabitants who perished in the houses, 28 ; and in the streets, 11 ; in all, 51. The Greek Envoy to the French Court (Prince SouTzo), presented to King Louis PHILIP, on Saturday, his letters of recall, having been appointed Minister for Greece at the Court of St. Petersburgh. KING'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.) The Court was occupied all the morning with hearing arguments on cases in the special paper, and nothing of public interest occurred up to the time of our reporter leaving. The only judges present were Mr. Justice Littledale, and Mr. Justice James Parke. The other Judges were engaged in the Exchequer Chamber in hearing writs of error. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Posted at the North and South American Coffee-house : " Falmouth, April 20. " There is a small cutter just arrived from Lisbon. Napier has taken all the northern provinces, except Fi gueira, which I have no doubt, ere this, is taken. It was expected that an attack would have been made on Santarem, but it has not, as yet, taken place." From the French papers received this morning : " The Minister of the Interior has issued the following circular to the Prefect of the Police : " Sir—l am informed that they are impressing on the minds of the working classes that government is disposed to put into force the law of the 10th inst. on the associa tions for mutual assistance, to put down the union between the working classes which have been formed by authority. I invite you immediately to make known to the delegates of the various societies, authorised by the administration, that I have no intention to trouble in any shape the existence and utility of these associations. Signed " GISQUEL.' " The above, no doubt, applies to the benefit clubsat Paris. The accounts from Madrid of the 13th inst. state, that the Spanish Government has acknowledged Donna Maria as Queen of Portugal, and also entered into a treaty, offen sive and defensive, with Portugal. Accounts from Lisbon of the 14th inst. state, that Gen. Avila's progress in Tras os Montes was very satisfactory. General Bacon had returned from the army, and gives a very favourable account of it ; he was to return again on the following day. It was expected by the 25th that some movement would take place before Santarem. A report prevailed that Napier had entered Figueira, but it was not confirmed. An old Lisbon mail has arrived. The express from Pales this morning is of minor im portance. The papers continue to be filled with further details from Lyons. THE FUNDS. Yesterday the city was in a state of agitation, and much gloom prevailed, caused by the procession of the trades' union, as it was generally expected that some mischief would take place ; but this morning the city has another appearance —more life and animation, as the immense pro cession passed off without the least riot or confusion ; and, indeed, we may say that we never witnessed such a nume rous assemblage of persons conducted with so much order. This termination of so eventful a day has operated on the Funds this morning. Consols, which left off yesterday at 90% % for the account, and 90 1 % for money, may be quoted at present 90% 91. Owing to the favourable information from Lisbon, the Foreign Market is in a state of improvement. Spanish, 33 3 / 4 ; Portuguese done at 73 1 ,4, at present 72% 73. We have no arrivals this morning of ship letters. HALF-PAST ONE. We have again a report of a Spanish loan, which it is sup posed will be contracted for by the great city capitalist. It is also stated that the Spanish Government is on the eve of acknowledging the South American republics. Consols are 90% to 91 1 h, for Account. Spanish has improved to 34% ; Portuguese 72 3 % 73. _ THREE O'CLOCK. Consols for the Account, 91 1 / e . CLOSING PRICES.—HOUR O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 215 India Stock —— ---- 2601 3 per Cent. Red B9; Ditto Bonds.. 3l pm 3 pet Cent . Cons 9Ol South Sea Stock 101; 31 per Cent. 97 Ditto Old Ann 3f pvr Cent. Red 971 Ditto New Ann. 8 New 31 per Cent 9S Ex. Bills, 101,01 5O pm 4 per ( (in lO2l Ditto MO/ 5O pm Long Ann. to expire Ditto Small 5O pm Jau. 1860 l7 1-16 Bank S. for Acc. Oct. 1859.. Jan. 1860 l7l India St. for Opg FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 perecnt. lO4 Belgian, 5 per cent 94 Brazilian Bonds Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent 26 Chilian, 6 per cent 241 Columbian, 6 per cent 2l Ditto, 1834 25 Danish 7:3 Greek, 5 per cent 33 Mexican 5 per Cents, 1825 30 Ditto 6 per Cent., 182.5 4O Peruvian 6 per Cent. 2Oll Portuguese, 5 per cent 73 Ditto, Iteg. Bonds Prussian, 5 per cent. Russian Bonds, 5 per cent lll4 Ditto, Metallic lO4 Spanish, 5 per cent 341 Ditto, 1823 3l French 5 per Cent.... - 1. —c. Exchange —f. —c. French 3 per Cent --f. —e. Dutch, 12* per cent. 5 Ditto, 5 per cent. .. 931 The Observer of yesterday afternoon, price Seven-pence, contained upwards of two folio columns of particulars of that day's Movements of the Trades' Unions' March from Copenhagen-fields to Kennington.. common. A Monday afternoon edition of the Ob server, price seven-pence, is regularly published at the Office, No. 169, Strand, by G. Goodger, which edi tion of the Observer is best adapted for the country and readers abroad. The Clerical Intelligence of Oxford and Cambridge is also officially published in Monday afternoon's Observer. The Observer is a strictly impartial journal, neither Whig, Tory, nor Radical. About eight o'clock yesterday evening, as the Earl of Lonsdale was crossing from the House of Lords to Mr. Bankes's, of Old Palace-yard, where he was going to dine, he was knocked down by the pole of a carriage, which dreadfully lacerated his Lordship's 'under lip. Mr. McCann, surgeon, of Parliament street, was immediately sent for, who promptly attended, and sewed up the wound. His Lordship was then conveyed home in his carriage, WHAT IS TRUE-PIETY? " He had heard it said that it was a solemn mockery for per. sons only sixteen years of age to subscribe to the thirty.nine articles. He should, indeed, agree that it was ridiculous to do so, if the subscription implied that the party knew what they contained, and believed them to be true. Such, however, was not the case. The subscription was only tantamount to saying that the party subscribing belonged to the established church." (Vide Bishop of Exeter's speech last night.) In the good old times ere priestcraft ruled ( And that, you'll allow, is a long time since) If a gentleman's mind was rightly schooled, As we've seen in so many a peer and prince— That is to say, if he feared his God, And kept aloof from Satan's squad, Was chaste in thought, correct in deed, Kind to his neighbours in hour of need,— Such a man was usually held to be A model of genuine Piety. Absurd idea, only fl 4 to engage The thoughts of a vulgar, barbarous age ! Thanks to our bishops, Piety's ways Are changed for the better now-a-days; And he alone is dubbed devout Whose conscience, like whip-cord, tough and stout. Can swallow the indigestible particles Of the Nine-and-Thirty High-Church Articles : No matter whether it be his lot To understand their meaning or not ; No matter whether his conduct be Otherwise marked by purity : If he &At not these (tho' they make him sick ) He's nought but a sinful heretic. So Exeter tells us, and who can err That thinketh the same as Exeter ? COURT OF CHANCERY.-(THIS DIY The Court was occupied this morning with hearing the remainder of the arguments in the part-heard appeal of Green v. Spicer. The Loan CHANCELLOR will give judgment in the fol lowing cases at the rising of the Court. Docker v. Somes, Yould v. Kemp, and Byfield v Provis. VICE-CHANCERY COURT.-(THIS DAY. BARKER V. GRIFFIN. This case came before the Court upon demurrer. The bill was filed by the plaintiff for the purpose of obtaining the opinion of the Court on the construction of the articles of partnership, entered into between a gentleman of the name of Barker and the defendants. The plaintiffs were the personal representatives of the late Mr. Barker, who carried on the business of a jeweller and bullion-dealer, in Leadenhall-street, in partnership with the defendant Griffin. The condition in the articles on which the present question depended was with respect to Mr. Barker's son, as to whom it was provided that on the death of his father his executors should manage his interest in the business for his son, who, if he chose, on attaining 21, might take his father's place as a partner. The son attained 21 before his father's death, but took no part in the concern on his father's dying. He refused to take any part in the business, and the question now was, whether the executors, under such circumstances, had the right still to carry on the business in connection with Mr. Griffin. The bill was filed, asserting the right of the executors to carry on the business, and the present demurrer was filed by the defendant for the purpose alone of having the opinion of the court, all parties being willing to act according to the opinion of the court. Mr. KNIGHT appeared in support of the demurrer, and Sir E. SUGDEN was counsel for the plaintiff. His HONOUR, without hearing counsel in behalf of the plaintiff, gave judgment in favour of the executors, declar ing them entitled to carry on the business. BAIL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) ( Sittings at Nisi Prius, before Mr. Justice TA U NTON and a Special Jury. ) HUDSON V. C ODSDEN. The plaintiff in this case brought an action against the defendant to recover back 141. under the following cir cumstances. The plaintiff bought a horse of the defendant at Smithfield, for 15/., the horse being warranted sound in every respect. The plaintiff paid 21., and sent his son with the balance, and to bring home the horse. It was, how ever, very soon discovered that the animal was lame and full of faults, and in consequence the plaintiff returned him, demanding his money back, at the same time offering to lose 11. if he could get the other 14/. The defendant pro mised to give him back the money, or another horse, by the following Friday ; but, as he failed to do either, the plaintiff brought his action for the 141. There was no defence ; and witnesses being called to prove the plaintiff's case, the Jury found a verdict for 141. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-THIS DAY. (FROM LLOYD'S.) DEAL, APRIL 21. —Wind N. E. , fresh breeze.—Arrived from the River and sailed the Lord William Bentincit, Hutchinson, for Madras ; Ceres, Addison, and Sarah, for Honduras ; Reliance, and Nevis, for Jamaica; Frankli n , and Gratitude, for New Yo r k ; M argaret, Bruce, for , Messina ; and Elizabeth, for Providence. PLYMOUTH, APRIL 20.—Wind E. FALMOUTH, APRIL 20.—Wind E., moderate.—Arrived his Majesty's ship Scorpion, from Lisbon —sailed the 30th ult. ; Hero, Gaiie, from Alicant ; Osprey, Payne, from Lisbon. PENZANCE, APRIL 20.—Arrived off port the Jubilee, Luce, from New York. LIVERPOOL, APRIL 20.—Arrived the Cordelia, from Bengal ; Wolfhart, Olison, from Liebau. LxiwEßicx, APRIL 21.—Arrived the London Packet, Bret, from London. You Gun L, APRIL 21.—The Fame, Beynon, from Lon don to Liverpool, put back to Lime r ick leaky ; cargo dis charging. DROGHEDA, APRIL 19.--The lower-deck beam of a vessel, supposed from 500 to 700 tons, was picked up at Clogher Head this morning. LISBON, MARCH 29.—The Madeira, Ross, from Liver pool to this port, got on shore to the southward of the Bugia on Tuesday night ; a small part of the cargo has been saved, but much damaged, also some of the materials. The Scorpion, Whittaker, from Caminho, and San Jo ciono, Boggiano, from Genoa, were sent in as prizes on the 26th and 28th inst. The City of Rochester, Riches, from Swansea to Corfu, arrived at Gibraltar leaky, and must discharge. GREAT MEETING OF THE TRADES' UNIONS, AP RIL (Concluded from our Second Edition of last night.) six O'CLOCK. The leaders of the unions have upon this occasion shown great good sense. After marching their first lodges out to Kennington Common, they dis banded them, with an understanding that the answer to the petition had not then been re ceived, but would be communicated at the various lodges in the evening. Those lodges that were last in the procession were dismissed on the road from the Obelisk and the Elephant and Castle. The conse quence was, that all was peace and quietness along the road, which more resembled the time of a Camber well or Peckham Fair, than the day of such an alarm ing meeting. ANOTHER ACCOUNT. SEVEN O'CLOCK. Since our first edition we have ascertained that up to the present time everything has passed off in an orderly and quiet manner. The vast number of th e unionists who assembled on Kennington Common marched off or dispersed in the most peaceable manner, and not the slightest manifestation of feeling was exhibited. Every person seemed to be under the orders of a superior, who exhorted them to peace, and those exhortations were strictly attended to. The dif ferent unions, we understand, will take refreshment at their respective lodges, but the greatest anxiety appears to be with them not to do any thing to disturb the public peace. Not a soldier, not a policeman, has been called into action, on such a day as this, when so numerous a body has met for one common object. The following is the petition to the King : . " TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. " The humble petition of the Members of the Trades' Union of Great Britain and Ireland. " Humbly showeth,—That your petitioners deem it a most sacred duty they owe to themselves, and to posterity, and also to your Majesty, thus to declare to your Majesty the intense interest and anxiety with which they contem plate a decision which has lately been pronounced in one of your Majesty's .courts of judicature, at Dorchester, against six agricultural labourers, who had been then and there convicted of having administered to other agricultu ral labourers, a certain oath, not required and sanctioned by law, and who have been in consequence sentenced to a punishment of seven years' transportation. " Your petitioners considering this sentence to be both extremely cruel and oppressive, and viewing the proceed ing as they are obliged to do, in the light of an unjustifiable attack upon the rights of humanity, do hereby humbly supplicate your Majesty's interference to prevent its ex ecution, and that your Majesty will be graciously pleased to order a strict investigation to be made into the whole of the circumstances connected with the affair, which your petitioners verily believe involves consequences of the highest magnitude and importance, and also that your Majesty will be pleased to appoint a special commission to inquire into the real causes of the great distress which prevails among the working population of your Majesty's empire, and from which, if not speedily averted, your petitioners apprehend the most deplorable results. " And your petitioners, as in duty bound, shall ever pray." THE. MARKETS-(THIS DAY.) HAY MARKETS. --(At per Load of 30 Trusseal• 0 o 0 I' New Meadow Hay 315 4 0 Useful Old Ditto 4 10 c o S a a r3 p e p Supply e r a a v t y h e L r o l w i m la i n te d d C lr:a i d d n o e w E b r i ti t i i s a k A ) „ .. N f l :l .. . pri ces z a 3 s lif s t t q o u olt-(1.11 • Fine Upland Meadow and Eye grass Hay........, 4 0 - n 45 5 - Clover Hay .................. ..... . ........................ 16 Oat Straw ....Xi 10 to £1 l"; 1 Wheat Straw ll4 I SMITHFIELD. A moderate supply, and a dull trade ; price as Caarse heavy Lowianu Meadow Hay .t3 , cu --- ri ... 0 0 D " Naw Meadow Hay 3 in 315 Useful Old Ditto 4 5 4 10 line Upland Meadow and Itye-grans Hay .... . •••• 4 0 415 Clover Hay (extra fine)....£s 0 -Generally ;at Straw ... II lt: to XI 14 1 Wheat Straw 1 14 last quoted 10 lIUNGERFORD. A short supPl3,anTasliiggish trade. z ,, 10 Coarse Meadow Hay £3 5 to ~.:., 0 New Meadow Hay 0 0 A u 0 Useful Old Ditto Fine Upland Meadow and liye.grass Hay 436 :15 Clover Hay I 0 1 16 Oat Straw £1 12 to Xll4 1 Wheat Straw.... 114 _..... COLONIAL MARKETS.—(THIS DAY.) 60 BRITISH PLANTATION SUGAR. —The contrary ‘.. ,_„ keep out many of the West Intliamen, with cargoes of ,7 new crop, and the quantity of Sugars on show limited, so that not much business is doing. Th e t 4, liveries last week were limited to 1,200 hhds. and tr. The stock in the West India Docks has been reduced l 4,900 hhds. and FOREIGN SUGARS. —There are but few public sales , ~ by . private contract these Sugars are not much in reque.g._. EAST INDIA SUGARS.—A small sale of Maurito; brown ant; Sugar is fixed for this afternoon. Middling good grey yellow still is worth 51s. 6d. to 585 - eld. F e n In foreig cwt., and fine yellows 575. to 58s. per cwt. sorts there is no change. THE REFINED SUGARS continue depressed. busi' COFFEE.—At our last quoted prices there is some f ness doing in British plantation. About 2,000 bag s ° Ceylon Coffees will be offered publicly to-morrow. for RUM.—There was a greater delivery last week thanwo the last few weeks, but prices continue dull. Ab out puncheons were taken for home use and exportation. there RICE.—At the decline of from 6d to Is. per cwt. is extrerneeiel), has been some business doing. - there INDioo.—Since the Company's sale concluded, - ,,,,,s has been some demand at full prices, and the market W a lively aspect. slia TEA.—The deliveries continue pretty extensive , the country trade is represented as being brisk. COTTON.—The prices have remained heavy at the lan decline, and there is but little doing. ta te. Sti.x.—The market remains in a mos t depressed s 1, TALLOW.—The Tallow market continues very be t a ;,,.. The following are the parti cu l ars re l a ti ve t o this rtia rk i e B 34, 1832. 1931 13, 304 Stock this day 11,291 9,53 8 71 I )elivery last week 1.094 OS 99,` 24 ' Ditto from Ist June Arrived last week 4O 894 1 05,51 9 Ditto from Ist June ... 97,5)1 95,!71 435. Price this day of Y. C. Ditto town ti PRIC BREA 1-^i The highest price of Br EO 1. ead in the Metr D opolis is 8, De lo 4b. Loat. There are others who sell from K,ci. to 1,." that price. OE SEDS—Ar 21 e , New FnglishßedPßlCE Clover Seed (pe E . Cwt.) 42 p s, il 663. fine''' . . fig j. ..... Old Ditto Ditto . • New Foreign Ditt0......,...... -.= -.- 46s. —s. — 64 . fine -"---: 5 6 g:: 6. Old Ditto - ................. -s. 403, fine "'. op. New White C10ver.....................„. 51's. 605. fine 63 9 •--''' Old Ditto Ditt0............ 4 B s. 6s fine -;, 21'• New Trefoil ..., - IS& 205. fine d . ......S. Old Ditto - —s. —s. fi ne ; 1 5, ` l.l '' Rib Grass —....—. - -.—.. 14s. 163 fine ' n e SS. , English Carraway Seed —s. --s• fit ''' 6 fin e 87:• .."-..". 843• n I.ls. Foreign Ditto Coriander St. Foin ......-...........(per Quarter),........... 28s. 30s. fi ne on. fin'' Rye Grass -- ..,. ___,.. n new 6os• ------.. •-•9• e w .. 3. Pacey Ditto Linseed, for feeding --.--- —s. 4 53 . :::,. „. Ditto, for crushing • . 465. 5 09. 5 6 3 fine 6 'l' Canary Seed, New-.......—.---.......... ...3.." 5. s . fine'. -7,5• 1 ,. White Mustard Seed.—.(per 8u5he1)..... —s• 11' i. MIL ---.),.: Brown Ditto . Ar.r.ww...... •••s• 1."• . 0 ., fi n e '1,•• Turnip Seeds, Rounds.-...-- Green and Red Ditto .—.........w... -- - s L . - -.1. ' 1 6 7 :, : e b.n 4 e i. 261d' : Tares, Old 4,,, Od. c s 4. N I Ditto New ..... 4s. Pd. tin . o . ~ f• zr Ra•eSeed, English, fine (per Last) 2.6 , . ‘;.9'...,«.F2 •,,,.-------- PAICES or HOPS —April ' l ' New Kent rockets (per cwt ) 51 5 5/. 12.5. to 61. et . ' Choice 61 10 :: 7 t. Os to St. It East 6!. 0 (11 * o ' . to 71• 1 - to 81 Sh Choice New S..ssex Pockets Superfine Ditto Far ham (fine)....,—. Ditto (seconds)...-- 71. 10s. 51, Ps. 04. to 5/. I:2f. 5/. 15s. 0 1 . Os. to 61, 0i• 11/ 11s. 0/ Os to lel. ue 1.24 .101 Oa 01. Os to 11 ► Itlt.:E OF VOTATOgS.—ApriI 21. Os. to 3/. 10s. per ton. Os. to 21. Os. ditto. 1. 10s. to 51. os. ditto. -31. Og. to 41. Os. ditto. to 21. Cs. ditto. Shawl Middling Marsh Champions scotch Iteds----, Chats Paler; or oil.. Rape Oil, brown Refined X 42 0 Linseed Oil Linseed oil Cake at the Mill, per tl Rape liousand WHITECHAPEI. HAY AlAttrieil.—Aprii 19. 753. ed. to Os. Od. I C lover 70.. ud. to 90 , vs 30i. Od. to COAL MAIt - - Per Ton. S. ( 4 • Adalr's 17 3 Beniham Main 16 0 Chester Main 15 6 Dean's Primrose _ l5 6 E.abt Percy. 16 6 Felling 15 9 Elebburn Main 19 0 H'lywell •••••••...........„•••••••••••• 17 6 Ortrs Redhugh 16 0 Pontop Windsor 15 9 r field 17 6 West Hartley 17 3 Willington MARIAMIWWWW.• 1 9 0 Wylana 17 6 W E. Bell, Robson, & Co. 19 3 Walls End Bewicke & Co. :0 0 Walls End Brown's,,—.. 19 3 Walls End ('arr and Co. 18 3 Ships arrived since 1J KET.—April 2 l. s 4l. Per 'l'on. Walls End Gosforth...-- 541 6 9 Wails End Heat0n.......- 1' Walls End iy 6 Wet; E n d Killingworln j! , 9 Waits End Newitiarctil, Ditto Nortliumbe rlant., Walls End Perking,.....-- Helton DWv W a ll s l aa a t o E i l l s R EE nE ks u ;i n :s i l td ut (i s l e t ?)3 : 1 : 9 1 1 006 116. W Walls End Tees 'Je tta , fi 0 Walls End N'Ve 61 , ,,,„...-.• ' 0) 0 Hartley Neville's LlanellY ci c „, ID Silkstone Dield an last market-day, 100. SPORTING INTELLIGENC TATTERSALL' S. eal Wi Aa gr „„ ) ol The room was crowded yesteroay afternoon rwi bets were made. without giving rise to any cil.lpg`" ance. The following were the closing odds :-- TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES . 3 to 1 offered on the field THE DERBY. 7to 2 agst Mr. Batson's Plenipo (offered) bre.l) 5 to 1 agst Duke of Cleveland's Shilelah ( 0 7 to 1 agst Mr. Watt's Bubastes (taken) 10 to 1 agst Mr. Yates's Bentley (taken) 18 to 1 agst Lord Jerseys Glencoe (taken) 20 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's %'iator (taken) 20 t o o agstagst Walker's hlills's Delirium BrothertoK ( a ta te ke (o a fered) 20 25 to 1 agst Mr. Gardnor's Comet (taken) m ken) 25 to 1 agst Sir M. Wood's Br. to Marpesst er o 1000 to 30;:agst Duke of Grafton's Olympic (t ken) 1000 to 20 agst Duke of Cleveland's Guardian OAKS. 3 to 1 agst Mr. Walker's Cotillon (offered) 10 to 1 agst Mr. Forth's Louisa (taken) 12 to 1 agst Mr. Greville's Pickle (taken) 12 to 1 agst Col. Peel's Rosalie (taken) N a r %A b S ' y rE B y o T e . k L aEnGdER. Bubastes (take n) 14 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Flycatcher (taken ) n i 14 to 1 agst Mr. Vansittart's Slight filly (t 3O- ' 14 to 1 agst Sir S. Graham's Zulitna (tahen) 4000 to 100 agst D w O WOO to 100 agst Mr. Bat son ' s Pl en i po 12 to 1 apt Mr. W a lk er ' s Cotillon a James lit in H e s S M h 0 t hoe.. lady o i l a . a) t , l o 1- . On the 19th inst., at Burton Crescent , ' ..--- well, Nottinghamshire, the lady of W. B. M ar ' ''' • Parbury, Esq., of a son. S °ll of On the 11th inst., at Thurgarton Prior'', I t 'f lr f sq. ' 0 f O M n r. the . I s Bt a i h 0 inst., o s t n . s , , Mrs.ofsquai e, a daughter. surceY , re W I Old Kent-road, of a daughter. i I .gton ,t ea On the 19th inst., in Duncan-terrace, isb i n i v sat' 1 , short time. daughter, w On the 19th inst., in Cambridge-terrace, the On the 21st inst., in Grosvenor - squa re ' . ./10 Henry Bainbridge, Esq., of a son. ell er c o il fteg tie, c o Ve i s i t n on i_E s D up . er_ the lady of William Ryves, Esq ., of Ryce s Ca' On the 17th inst., at iller, of of Limerick, of a daughter. PI' ward Ness, M.A., of Kingston S 0 , S° v" r aile i , ill' to Laura Henrietta, only daughter e of the late • •„ oi l Jackson, Esq., his Majesty's Envoy Extraorclin,ao9ericaigoe nister Plenipotentiary to the United States of l i ve, AO O 3 On the 2d inst., at Stroud, in Gloucestersooroge, Allan, son of Isaac Cooke, Esq., of Clifton, to the t' Cole, only daughter of Geo. Wathen, Esq., °' cap' near Stroud. thsh lre ' Pe le j On the 17th inst., at Kinfauns Castle, Per goo. 3 0 fain Ainslie, of the Royal Dragoons, to the of Gray Ann, youngest daughter of the Lord Gi22::_________ Kinfauns. of DIED. a $ ""' e e , At Hastings, in his 73d year, William De la te Sandling, Kent. relict o f the On the 19th inst., at Limehouse, Mali , cog Rev. George Williams, in her 73d year. aced 39, st, A lare,,the ogr::.lvre:, On the 19th inst., Constantine J. Brigs:'4.plae e, son of Constantine Briggs, of Bridge-h u Afi o George's, Southwark. io n . e nt's-P arl,, On the 20th inst., in Park . place, "'Mb , el, Mills. ..., ag o. , i , nSION,, - 0 5 e, On the 18th inst ., at Spring-grove, Hoy of B, • sq. , Mrs. Fish, relict of the late John Fish, k; 10 4 square and Kimpton-park, Middl esex. u ~,0 r 014 , ifh a On the 19th inst., at the Grove, near Andrews, Minehin, Esq., aged 67 ---• London: Printed and Published by MURDO ° the Stift Moo ) No. 112, itrond.,