The Sun. — London, England, 1830-03-25 00:00:00

NATIONAL REPOSITORY. At the private view on Tuesday, the Chevalier Aldin ) was in attendance, explaining the nature and use of his fire-proof dress. It is a contrivance perfectly adequate to the valuable purposes of defence against fire, and will un doubtedly prove of great utility; its efficacy has already been tried, as we have stated, by the New Police. The asbestos, a thick fibrOus and flexible substance, is a slow conductor of heat, and over it is to be worn a light ar mour of metallic gauze, capable of resisting the action c f flame. Thus accoutred, and also provided with a shield of wire gauze, a man is enabled to encounter and even pass through the fiercest flame with impunity. Among the other novelties was a sinking catch for gates, a contri vance which well merits attention. By rising or sinking into the ground as the gate is closed or opened, it obviates the inconvenience of the present plan as regards the feet of horses. We observed a new and very ingenious move ment applied to the action of pistons, four of which are in this model set at work by the revolutions of a globe hung in gimbals, after the manner of a ship's compass, and acted upon by a rotatory horse movement beneath. The idea, as far as it at present goes, is perhaps more cu rious than likely to be practically useful ; but the ingenuity of the inventor will so doubt enable him to accomplish the requisite improvements. A mechanical contrivance for racking wines, by means of which they may be trans ferred from cask to cask without disturbance of the lees or injurious exposure to the atmosphere, is an invention highly creditable to Mr. Wilton, of Regent-street. The " shadowless lamp" is a very clever improvement upon all that have hitherto assumed that peculiarity. We cannot better explain its construction than in the words of the in ventor, 31r. J. Bright :—" In this lamp the oil is at all times maintained at the same elevation by means of water descending from a vase in the centre of the column (on the principle of the bird fountain) and forcing the air from the bottom up a tube, with an uniform pressure, into the re. servoir at the top, keeping the wick constantly and equally supplied." Some improved paddle wheels are exhibited : a contrivance by Mr. Poole, for feathering the float boards, and thus oli;iating the impediment of the back water, appears to be perfect, and it is needless to allude to the advantages which must result from its adoption. A folding terrestrial globe, invented by Mr. Pocock, attracted nisch notice. It is composed of pliable paper, and hav ing a circular aperture at the bottom, is readily inflated with air by raising and sinking it vertically six or eight times in succession. Though four feet diameter when in flated, it may be folded up into the compass of a thin quarto volume. The oiled paper of which it is composed is by no means so liable to injury as might be apprehended; the inventor however proposes to construct them hereafter in silk. The visitor will be much gratified with the su perb specimens of Porcelain, in the style of Dresden, China, and Sevres, and, as far as we can judge, not at all inferior to the celebrated manufacture of those places. There are also some magnificent specimens of Manchester silk, of complicated workmanship. A long extent of bas relief in plaister, representing the triumph of Alexander, ornaments one of the rooms. A new manufacture in imi tation of gold, by Mr. Riley, of Sheffield, will probably, with some further improvements, supersede the use in some cases of that costly metal. In colour and weight it closely resembles gold, anti is extraordinarily cheap. The specimens here presented appear, however, to be deficient in brightness. Ivory carvings, cutlery, &c., and various curiosities, too numerous to be mentioned in detail, add to the attractions of this Exhibition ; nor should we forget the self-acting piano -fortes, which by their brilliant and tasteful execution contribute not a little to the gratification of the company. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF Loaus—(LAST NIGHT). HAMERTON'S DIVORCE BILL. A brother of General Murray, who was one of the witnesses to the marriage, proved the General's hand-writing, and that he was unable from ill health to attend at the bar. Anne Hatton's examination continued—Mr. Hamerton examined his wife's trinket case in the presence of the witness, and found there some letters from Mr. Bushe, and also a miniature picture of him. In answer to questions by Lord WYNFORD, she stated that Mr. Hamerton had examined the trinket case alone before he desired her to attend, and had taken out one letter, as he told her. Lord WYNFORD—He might then have put letters and portraits into the case as well as have taken them out. It would be desirable to have better evidence of the adultery than letters taken from that box. A Noble and Learned Lord (Eldon), who sat long on the Woolsack. expressed consider able doubt whether letters from the adulterer or the adulteress ought to be received in evidence at all. Some letters of Lady Ellenborough had been re ceived, however, the other day, and, therefore, he would receive these letters in the meantime. What effect they ought to have would be a question after wards to be considered. The Postmaster at Cheltenham knew Mrs. Ha merton and Mr. Bushe when they resided at Chel tenham in 1826; Mrs. Hamerton used to call at the post-office for letters addressed to Mrs. Go dolphin ; he identified some letters shown to him us having been delivered to Mrs. Hamerton, although addressed to Mrs. Godolphin. In answer to a ques tion by Lord Wynford, he could only say that he delivered some letters to Mrs. Hamerton which were addressed to Mrs. Godolphin, but whether these were the letters he could not answer. William Pitt proved that the letters were in the hand-writing of Mr. Bushe, although Lord Wyn ford doubted whether, on this evidence, they ought to be received. Another servant-maid of Mrs. Mathews, at whose house the parties were accustomed to meer, stated that when they were there together she had orders from Mrs. Mathews to admit no other visitors ; Mrs. Hamerton and Mr. Bushe used to be together by themselves in a room in the house for a consi derable time. The witness mentioned some appear ances from which she iHferred the fact of the adul tery. Mr. Bushe gave her money, sometimes ten, sometimes seven, and sometimes five shillings ; he was the only visitor who gave her money. Examined by Lord WYNFORD—Mrs. Mathews was not here; she was a Colonel's widow ; she was accustomed to allow the parties to remain togetherin the room with the blinds down ; she did not say to Mrs. Mathews that it was discreditable to her to allow such things at her house. Lord WYNFORD—No, no; the ten, the seven, and the five shillings, quieted your conscience on that subject. A person who, in 1826 or 1827, attended as a waiter at the house of a Colonel Crowder, at Chel tenham, when he had a party, among whom were Mrs. Hamerton and Mr. Bush, stated, that after the party broke up, he saw Mrs. Hamerton and Mr. Bushe kissing each other. The lady at the time must have seen the witness, but the gentleman could not see him. Lord WYNFORD—The case must be carried a great dell farther before this . Bill can be passed. Further proceedings must be adjourned for thepresent Lord DONERAILE took the oaths and his seat. The Earl of SHAFTESI3URY moved that the 2d Report of the Common Law Commissioners now laid on the table, in consequence of a Message sent to the Commons fur• that purpose, be printed. Ordered. Mr. Irving, from the Custom-house, presented an Account of Exports and Imports for the year ending the sth of January last. Mr. Danvers, from the East India House, pre sented papers relative to the affairs of the Company. Lord HOLLAND presented a petition from the Retail Brewers of Rochdale and Bury, in the cou!tty of Lancaster, complaining of hardships re• !lilting from the laws affecting their trade, and pray ing!or a revision and amendment of these laws. - His Lordship presented another petition, to the same effect, from the retail brewers of Manchester And Salford. The Earl of KINNOUL presented a petition from die merchants, manufacturer s , and other inha bitants or the royal borough of Perth, praying that the trade to India and China might be laid open. His Lordship also presented another petition, t o the same effect, from the Lord Provost, Magistrates, and Town Council of Perth. Loro STRADBEOOK presented a petition from certain owners and occupiers of land in the county of Suffolk,- praying for a repeal of the malt duly. All these petitions were laid on the table. Mr.Bobertpon, from the Commissioners of Woods LONDON. THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 25, 1830. We received the following this morning from our Paris Correspondent : rants, afaacis 23. It is no longer concealed, as I anticipated in my last letter, that a dissolution of the Chamber of Deputies is resolved on. Until evidence to the contrary be produced, the Cabinet I conceive, are entitled to the credit of sincerity in the belief which they profess, that they will be able, by fair and legal means, to overcome the united phalanx of their opponents in the approaching contest for the suffrages of the constituent body. They have already sent fur M. de Vllele, who is himself a host in all that relates to the ',league of this species of political warfare, and the ex- Minister, who has so long lived in retirement in his ❑ative province, is now daily expected in Paris. At the late division in the Chamber on the question of the address, the Ministers succeeded at the last moment in detaching some forty votes from the ranks of that section of the right centre which is obedient to the impulse of Messrs. Martignac and Debelleyme. This circumstance arose from a ruere difference of opinion as to the terms and the language in which the address slsould have been framed ; and if so slight a circumstance could thus materially af fect the relative strength of the parties, the Ministry may be allowed to calculate on some advantage in delay, from the influence which will naturally accrue to them as dispensers of the patronage of the Government, as well as from the accession of strength which may eventually arise out of the mere chapter of accidents. " To keep up the courage of their adherents the fair side of the picture is set before theta in the most favourable light. When M. de Villele was so signally defeated in 1827, it is argued, that his discomfiture arose from causes j which are now no longer in operation. The Peers, who are supposed to have so much influence in the electoral j colleges, were for the moment excited to open hostility against the party of the Minister, by the celebrated coup d'etat which had just been performed in the addition of 76 new Members to the Chamber of Peers. The strength of the Royalist party had also been divided by the numbers who had gone over to join the Liberals. The organ of this party, the Journal des Debuts, whose clients are stigmatized with the name of " the defection," had suc ceeded in exciting a ferment throughout the country, by preaching the terrors of Jesuitism. To these may be added, the numerous indiscretions of their own party, the follies of M. Montlosier, the phantom of a camp at St. Omer, and the apprehension which arose that an attempt would be made to abolish the Charter. The fallacy of these considerations, is surely too obvious to deceive the most zealous of the - Ministerial partizans. If the royalist party did not gain snore than they lost by the addition to the Peerage, the I:ncasure must have been taken to very little purpose. At this mo ment, the Constitutional royalists are at least as strong in the Chamber and throughout the country as they were in 1827 ; and as to the terrors of Jesuitism and the other arguments adduced by the organs of the Ministry, it would indeed be strange if something much more efficient, as an engine of agitation could not now be set in motion by a party, not composed, it is true, of the most homoge neous materials, but perhaps for that very reason so much the more conducive to the purposes of opposition, for which it is organized. " The 3linistry seem to forget the immeasurable strides which France has been making during the last few years in political knowledge. After the regeneration produced by the crisis of the Revolution, the country seems to have entered on a new career; the birth of freedom takes its date from the Charter ; the period of infancy and childhood have since elapsed ; and although the na tion now glorying in the youthful vigor of its gigantic strength, has not yet attained that maturity of judgment so necessary to the exercise and enjoyment with calm ness and discretion of the noble functions and the free institutions bestowed and guaranteed to them by the charter ; yet the ardor of the national di s position begins already to be tempered by the importance of the duties which the people are called upon to perform ; and I have no doubt that, without the aid of that comitj directeur, whose apparition still haunts the Ministry in their dreams, although it has never yet been made palpable to their waking senses, the great body of electors will conduct them sat e h l the es very most of duringmos the approaching struggle with such method and moderation as to make remofarteb means e a waste n of power at their s occurred a o itl g. in least such a 18V by the return of M. Royer Collard, the present Pre sident of the Chamber, on the same day, in different dis tricts of the country, from no less than seven of the great electoral colleges. ‘. Having said so much in former letters unfavourable to the ultra Royalist and unconstitutional doctrines by which the Members of the present Cabinet are known to he actuated, I think myself bound in justice to record toy conviction, that in many respects, and particularly as re gards the foreign policy of the country, they are infinitely wiser and more reasonable in their views—because better instructed in international law, and more dispassionate in action—than the advocates for liberal and ultra liberal principles by whom they are at present op posed. On almost all the subjects with which the Ca binets of Europe are at present occupied, the administration of the Duke of Wellington and that of the Prince de Po lignac are happily agreed. It was doubtless the conviction of this occurrence which originally arrayed the conductors of the British Press, with so much unwonted unani mity on the side of a Ministry so obviously unwelcome to the great body of the French people. And here I think it was that the error of the English Journalists arose. In regard to foreign policy, it is clear that a very slight infu sion of political romanticism would be sufficient to cap tivate the French liberals. The late Mr. Canning has always been the god of their idolatry; and if the tone and manner be abstracted, I think you will agree with me, that in the great principles of international policy there was no substantial difference between the Canning Ad ministration and that of the Duke of Wellington. It follows that it would not be difficult to reconcile the French people to all that Englishmen have any direct or immediate interest in peomoting,—a reasonable and con sistent system of foreign policy on the part of their Go vernment, whether royalist or liberal, as regards their domestic concerns. The expedition to Algiers, for instance, has, I cannot doubt, been undertaken in opposition to the better judgment of the Prince de Polignac and his colleagues, partly out of deference to the warlike and romantic spirit of the people, and still more, perhaps, for the sake of diverting the public attention from too strict an examination of the principles which have pro duced their unpopularity. In confirmation of this idea I may mention it as being reported, and very generally believed at Paris this morning, that despatches have ar rived from the British Cabinet, announcing the inten tion of the Duke of Wellingten to use his influence with the Dey of Algiers, for the purpose of producing any concession which can reasonably be required, in requital of the insult which the barbarian is supposed to have offered to the French flag. In that case General Bourmont will be disappointed of his Marshal's baton, and he and his col leagues will be prematurely shorn of the returning beams of popular favour which a successful expedition was ex s pected to shed on the present administration. In concluding this letter, I think it right to animadvert on the imputation which a correspondent in the Times of Saturday last has so groundlessly thrown on the character of Charles the Tenth, by ascribing to him a declaration that he would rather mount his war-horse than the scaf fold. The statement, I cannot doubt, is as destitute of truth as it evidently is of vraisenzblance. There is not, I apprehend, the most distant danger either of the horrors which are thus indicated of a civil war in this country, or of the scarcely less frightful alternative to which the ob servation imputed to his Majesty too plainly alludes. If the party in power only adhere to their declared purpose of pursuing a course consistent with the Law and the Charter, there is little danger but that the impending crisis will pass away without any violent convulsion ; and I am fully convinced that, with all his political here sies, the Prince de Polignac is too loyal a subject and too good a citizen to expose his King and his country to the evils of a second revolution. The following are extracts from the Gazelle de France of Wednesday, and the Massager des Chambres and Moniteur of Tuesday:— (From the Gazette de France.) " The King has gone to St. Germain. The Duke of Mortemart was to quit St. Petersburgh on the 15th of this month. He thus takes advantage of the leave granted him to leave or remain, as he might think proper. There is no longer any doubt of the Emperor of Russia's journey to Ems during the next summer, after having opened the Diet of Poland at Warsaw." The Gazette places among the lies of the day the report that M. de Alontbel had resigned. The Gazette contains also the following sentence, which is not very precise, though not altogether unintel ligible : " We think it our duty to tell the Royalists that the consequences of the late proceedings will be all in favour of the monarchy (enonarchiques), and that the acts of the Government will soon prove it." " The Messager des Chambres, on the authority of a private letter from London, states that new difficulties arose at, the last Council of Ministers relative to the affairs of Portugal and Greece. Prince Leopold is said to have required a delay of three months, in consequence of having received unfavourable news from his future dominions.._ This paper adds, that Ministers seem to repent having so much laboured and intrigued as they have done for an individual who turns out not to be altogether suited to their views. " A letter addressed by the Alinister for Foreign Affairs to the Chamber of Commerce at Marseilles, makes the following communication, with the view of quieting th e minds of merchants of that city respecting the state of Government relations with the coast of Africa. " We are (says the Minister) on a perfectly good un derstanding with Egypt, as well as all the other provinces under the dominion of the Sultan ; but our relations with Tripoli are precarious, since the Consul of his Majesty was forced to remove frem this regency, in consequen ce of insults which he had received, and because be considered his personal safety in danger. He caused the French flag to be taken down, which has not been replaced. " We are at peace with Tunis, and the empire of Mo rocco. The King has determined on the adoption of vi gorous measures for putting an end to the war, which, f or three years past, has been carried on against Algiers. The military preparations now in progress in the ports o f France are destined solely to act against the Barbary power. " The expectation raised on the coast of Africa by the blockade of Algiers, arid the preparations for more active warfare now in progress, together with the uncertainty of our relations with Tripoli, seem to have excited in the • Barbary States an agitation which should induct our mer chants to be circumspect in their transactions in that qu irter. The same motive has induced his Majesty to order the departure of two frigates, which are now cruising off Tunis and Tripoli, for the protection of French commerce.' " PETERSBUGIT, MARCH s.—lt appears from the arrangements that are making at the Turkish embassy, that the abode of our Mussulman guest will be prolonged beyond the time originally fixed. " It is believed that this mission will have important results for the future policy of the two empires, and that probably it will become an epoch in the annals of their history. It is said that our Monarch, in his high wisdom, is thinking of giving to the Porte all possible facilities for paying the debt contracted on her part by the treaty of Adrianople; however, we are disposed to believe that his generosity will not make him pass the limits prescribed by the interests of his empire and his subjects. " Reports are still circulated here about an interview between several great potentates, in order to discuss some questions of a high political nature. It is believed that these questions will be connected with the interior affairs of several countries which now appear to be rather in bail condition, and to claim the whole solicitude of the august personages whose duty it is to insure the tran quility and prosperity of nations. " Several distinguished officers of our military navy have received orders to go to different parts of the Black Sea. It is pretended that the state of our fleet requires many essential ameliorations, in order that it may be put on a respectable footing, and adapted to the part it is to play in the southern seas of Europe. . _ " It is said that the Government intends to establish a nautical school in one of the ports of the Black Sea, where foreigners will be admitted, especially Greeks and Italians, who are to be trained for the Russian service.— Constitu tionnel. " Some persons pretend this morning that a note sent Wellington was to o ff er hi s media and obtain sufficient satisfaction from t h e D ey . We d fr o o t l i n bt E fu n l. gla T n h d e re D m i l k er e ed of theexpedition again s t Al g i ers very e ti a o n n, give no credit to this news; our Mi n i sters are pant i ng for glory—they must acquire some at any cost or expense. Even the influence of the Duke of Wellington himself can not bear up against such considerations. The expedition will therefore take place, and even agai ns t w i n d an d t id e . The remonstrance s of the diplomatical corps will not be more listened to than those of our Admirals.—Le Globe. (EXTRACT crs A COMMERCIAL LETTER. " LEGHORN, FEB. 29. —Yesterday the Tuscan Govern- ment announced officially to the co mmerce of our town , that according to a convention between E ng l an d , F rance , Austria, Russia , and Prussia, differ en t measures are to b e taken for the destruction of the three Barbary States of I ripoli, Tunis, and Algiers, and that the Sublime Porte consents to their incorporation with the possessions of the Pacha of Egypt. empire of Morocco would there fore be the only remaining Power of the same kind, and we may at last expect to see the navigation of the Mediter ranean rid of all the apprehensions with which it has hitherto been encumbered.—.Le Temps. WaLLacnia, MARCH 2.—New orders have arrived from St. Petersburgh to accelerate the organization of the military forces of the Principalities. In the present situation of those provinces, especially after such a rigorous winter, men will not be wanting, and the number requisite will soon be found. One may infer from the celerity of the military organization, that theßussian troops will not remain so long in the Principalities as had been stipulated by the treaty of Arianople, and their evacuation is attributed to the negociations opened at Constantinople and Petersburgh. Generally speaking our politicians give themselves up to consolatory hopes for the future. They say that the Porte has been taught by the events of last year that her pros perity depends on her amity with Russia. " In consequence of the treaty of peace, the state of our commerce has much revived since last autumn. Our mer chants flatter themselves especially that they are to share the advantages granted to the Russian commerce by the li treaty of Adrianople. A deputation of merchants of Bu charest, Jassy, and Gallatz is to set off, in order to obtain this privilege from the Turkish authorities and the Russian Ambassador. It is also asserted, that to revive the com merce of the Principalities as much as possible, an un limited liberty will be granted to it in all the places along the Danube. —National. " 'The following is from the Augsburg Gazette of the 19th instant Letters of the 4th instant from Ancona, mention the passage of several couriers from London to Greece, with despatches for the agents of the Allied Courts. A letter from the Prince of Saxe Coburg to Count Capo d'lstria is also spoken of, in which he informs the Count of his having accepted the Sovereignty of Greece, and requests him to continue to direct the affairs of the State till after his arrival. Many persons doubt whether the Pre sident, with the best inclinations, will he able to comply with this request; fur upon the first report of the allied Sovereigns' resolution to appoint a foreign Prince over Greece, the President perceived, to his regret, how little gratitude he could expect from his countrymen for his sa crifices in the organization of the State. It is therefore presumed, that Count Capo d'lstria will shortly retire from state affairs, and take up his residence in Italy.' " The .Nuremberg Correspondent of the 18th instant states, that in the ensuing spring a General Congress will be held at Vienna, to take into consideration the present state of the East, the state of Portugal, that of France, and lastly the definitive settlement of the South American States with respect to Spain. The Correspondent adds, that this idea of a general meeting had been in agitation for some time among the leading Cabinets of Europe." FRP:NCH FUNDS.—PauIa, MARCH 23.—Five per Cents., most 80c. 65c. ; Four per Cents., 102 f.; Three per Cents., B:3f. 75c. 80c. 70c. 75c. 80c. ; Bank Stock, 1,005 E ; Rentes de Naples, 92f. 85c. 80c. 85c. ; Rentes d'Espagne, 124 IS 12.4 ; Royal Spanish Loan, 80f. I.‘ ; Rentes Perpetuelle d'Espagne, 74 ; Haytian Loan, 530 f. 527 f. 50c.—Exehange on London—One month, pa_ per, 25f. 65c. ; money, 25f. 65c. ; three mouths, paper, '2sf. 50c. ; money, 25E 50,:.—tours dullsentique. The Dia?•io Flurninense, to the 25th January inclusive, and Lisbon Gazettes, to the 13th of March, have been received this morning, from which the following are extracts : (From the Diario Fltaninense.) RIO DE JANERIO, DEC. 30. . We learn from good authority that his Majesty the Em peror, being nearly recovered, intends to remove on the Ist of next month from the residence of the Marquis de Canta Gallo to the Imperial country seat of Boa Vista. DEC. 31. DECREE—(OFFICIAL). " It being incompatable with the sentiments of huma nity, and with the national honour, that the Portuguese emigrants should be suffered to perish with want, who corning to this empire, have obtained an asylum in it, and it being urgently necessary to afford them speedy assistance without prejudice to the national revenue, which must not be diverted from its legal object, I think fit till the Na tional Aassensbly shall have provided otherwise, to grant four lotteries of 100 centos of rein each, from which 12 per cent. shall be deducted for the benefit of those emigrants." —(Here follows the plan of the proposed lotteries.) JAN. 2.—Yesterday morning at nine o'clock their Im perial Majesties left the residence of the Marquis do Canta Gallo, and went to Boa Vista, with a numerous suite, and followed by a great number of persons eager to express their joy at the recovery of their Majesties. The Emperor, on taking leave of the Marquis de Canto Callo, honoured him with an Imperial letter, expressing his deep sense of his signal services, and conferring on him the honour of Grand Dignitary of the Order of the Rose, of which he presented him the most splendid insignia. The Empress also presented to the Marchioness her por trait, richly set in diamonds. JAN. 22.—•0n the 20th a grand ball was given by the Court and Household of the Emperor on his happy reco very. The Emperor and Empress, his Most Faithful Ma jesty, their Royal Highnesses Don Parala and Donna Fran. cisco, and the Pi ince of Leuchtenburg, were present.— We shill describe in a future number this brilliant enter tainment, and content ourselves with adding, for the satis faction of our readers, that his Majesty the Emperor ap peared to be perfectly recovered, and by his cheerfulness arid affability enchanted all those who were present. LISBON, MARCH J. To-day was carried into effect the sentence passed upon the individuals guilty of the horrible excesses committed in one of the churches in the Island of Madeira. They ►ere conveyed to the Caes do Jodie, where they were strangled. Three of them were brought to the place of execution on hides, drawn by horses, their bodies burnt, and the ashes thrown into the sea. We have received this morning German Papers to the 19th inst. The Nurernburg Correspondent gives an extract from the Bigen horde, published at the Hague, to the effect, that the Project of Law on public instruction having met with considerable oppositition in the Sec tions, will probably be withdrawn. "It is affirmed," adds the same authority, " that the Law on the Press will have the same fate":— TIIE HAGUE. SITTINGS OF THE SECOND CHAMBER OF THE STATES-GENERAL, MAncit 19 AND 20. The debate on the Code de Procedure Criminelle was continued ; the result was as follows : Chap. 6 adopted by 70 to 25 7 ditto by 92 to 8 8 ditto by 80 to 13 9 ditto Unanimously. 10, 11, 12 ditto ditto 13 ditto by 86 to 10 14, 15 Unanimously. 16 by 65 to 31 17 by 91 to I BRUSSELS, MARCH 22. A Russian Cabinet Messenger passed through this city yesterday afternoon, with despatches from London for St. Petersburgh. MARCH 23.—An Austrian Cabinet Messenger arrived here yesterday evening from Vienna, with despatches from London. The Biymkorf, published at the Hague, contains the Following article :—. " The project of law on public instruction has met with so much opposition in the Sections, that it is said it will be withdrawn. It is affirmed, that the law on the Press will have the same fate." The Ilandelsblad says, under the head, " The Hague," —" It is said, that the law on public instruction will be withdrawn by the Government, because in the Sections the majority of the Members were of opinion, that the time is not come to introduce new legislative regulations on this subject. BERLIN, MARCH 12. The loan contracted for paying off the preceding Eng lish loans is a financial operation advantageous to the state, and beneficial to the contractor. The house of Rothschild takes the Four per Cent. Loan above par. The inundations which have again ravaged the Prussian provinces give reason to fear a farther diminution in the revenue : however, the damage done this time is not so great, because the corn fields, being still hard frozen, could not be so much injured as last year. It appears, too, that the falling off in the gross amount of the revenue of last year will not prove so great as there was reason to ap prehend. sTurrGARn, MARCH 14. In yesterday's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies, M. &Alma) announced, in the name of the Government, that it intended to convoke an Extraordinary Assembly .)f the Diet, to deliberate on various important matters relative to the administration of justice, the penal code, &c. The Chamber has now closed the debates on the budget for the next three years. VIENNA, }LARCH 13. An Engl6ll, a French, and a Russian Courier, coming from London, have hastened through this city on their Way to Constantinople. ST. PRTERSRURCH, MARCH 10. It appears from the annual report of the Board of Fo reign Commerce that the total amount of the importations into the Russian empire last year, on which duty was paid, was 202,648,313 rubles, aed the total exports 253,934,164 rubles, being a difference of above 51 mil lions in favour of the exportation. The greatest increase was in the exportation of tallow, which amounted to nearly four and a half millions of poods : the quantity of hemp exported was considerably less than in preceding years. Despatches were received at the Foreign-office this morning from Lisbon, dated 14th March ; from Rio Janeiro, dated 28th January; and also from our Ambassadors at Paris and Brussels. At the Colonial-office, despatches have been received from Malta, dated 9th February ; from Gibraltar, dated 3d March ; and from the Go vernor of Barbadoes. Although Mr. M. A. TAYLOR has dropped the Bill he introduced for diminishing " the " inconvenience and expense of Commissioners, " in the nature of writs de lunatic° inquirendo," its introduction has not been without benefit, since it has occasioned the practice regarding Lunatic Commissions to be looked into, and the LORD CHANCELLOR has, in consequence, declared that he has the power to direct these Commissions to a Judge of Nisi Prius, a course which we fervently hope will hence forth be invariably pursued. His Lordship, when speaking in the House of Lords on the proposed amendments in the law, ad verted to this subject, and stated, " that in " general the expence of a (Lunacy) Commis " sion was very trifling, although there had been " cases where the costs were most enormous," and referred particularly to the cases of LORD PORTSMOUTH, Mr. DAVIS, and Mr. BOWLES. Expence is, no doubt, a matter of great import ance ; but the open, fair, and honest administra tion of justice is of still greater importance. Few Commissions may be of such importance, from the station of the parties, or the course of the proceedings before the Commission, as to attract much public attention, divided as it ever must be with so many other passing events ; but it is never to be forgotten that to the humblest individual, whose fate is decided by a Lunatic Commission, it is a ques tion not only of privation of property, but of every enjoyment which renders life de sirable, including personal liberty, in most cases for the term of existence, and too frequently under circumstances the most distressing and revolting. The LORD CHANCELLOR, when addressing the House on the occasion before alluded to, stated it was "desirable that the business of the Courts of Law should be conducted in the presence of the public, and in the open view of the whole profession." It is with feelings of the highest gratification we record that such is the avowed opinion of the highest legal functionary in the kingdom, which inspires a general confidence that no Commission of Lunacy will again be issued by his fiat to any but a Judge of Nisi Prins, and that the fate of alleged lunatics will not in future be permitted to be decided upon in holes and corners, before Juries suddenly, though it may be, not surrepti tiously assembled, often in a pot-house, upon evidence that would not be listened to, or dared not be adduced in a public Court of Justice.— We should nevertheless have much preferred the enactment proposed by Mr. M. A. TAYLOR, since, as past Chancellors, who, it seems, pos sessed the power to direct Lunatic Commis sions to a Judge of Nisi Prins, in practice, invariably directed them to private Commis sioners, the public have no security without some such enactment, that future Chancellors may not recur to the like practice. We know of no case in which the high func Lions of a Judge of the land are more impe riously required to be exercised, than where the property and liberty of au individual are at stake, and to be decided on by the same verdict, or any in which an individual has a higher claim to the protection of the law, than in a case of al leged lunacy, when, if the allegation be well founded, he is suffering under the heaviest of human calamities ; and, if groundless, the mere imputation deprives him,—if not of the personal ability to defend himself,—yet deprives that defence of the respect and attention to which it would in other cases, and under other circum stances, be entitled and receive, while in many instances he is deprived by the parties who bring forward the charge, of the means of obtaining effectual legal advice and assist ance. We cannot imagine the course pro posed is likely to add in any material degree to the business of the Judges, since, when it is once known that every Lunacy case must be argued in open Court before a Judge of Nisi Prius, a Commission will seldom be sought that cannot be honestly and openly supported. BENEFIT OF THE LAW.—A man named PETER WALSH was tried and acquitted, at the Sligo As sizes, on a charge of stealing ten pounds of straw, alleged to be the property of a Magistrate of that county. The straw, it appeared, was worth but two-pence, and on sus picion of stealing it, the unfortunate man was confined in prison for sixty-three days. This is one of the beauties of the Irish system.—hublin Morning Register. ELOPLMENT.—A youthful pair, flying on the wings of love to the haven of their wishes, were arrested at Galbally, county Limerick, last Wednesday, by the police. The young lady was supposed to be a ward of Chancery, and those faithful guardians took her from the chaise in which she was posting with her intended. The names of the parties and their destination is yet a mystery. - - - Died, suddenly, on Saturday morning, Mr. N. LAMB, blacksmith, of Tonbridge. He went to bed between 11 and 12 o'clock, in good health, and about four his wife was awakened by his struggling, and before she could procure a light he expired. He has left a wife and a large family, who must now be supported by the parish. —Mu idstone Journal. r; 4 `An inquest was held on the body of THOMAs BRADLEY, a journeyman silk-weaver, 61 years of age. Ile had,heen afflicted with fever, and was compelled to re ceive relief from a benefit club, to which he had been a subscriber upwards of 25 years. From some unexplained reason the stewards had resolved to scratch him off the books, and this circumstance operating upon the weakness induced by illness, disturbed his reason, and, taking ad vantage of the temporary absence of his son, he hung him- Insanity. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.) FROM LLOYD'S. Dem., MArtcrt 24.—Wind W.—Arrived from London, the Claude, Sergeant, from Demerara. Arrived, the Southworth transport, from Valparaiso ; the Admiral Cockburn, from the South Seas ; the Antoine, Harwood , from Lisbon ; and the Rosanna, Forster, from Berbiee. PORTSMOUTH, MARCII 24.—Wind N. W.—Arrive his Majesty's ship Spartiate, from the Mediterranean ; and from London, the Richard and Sibella, for Jamaica. FALMOUTH, MARCH 24.—Wind N. W.—Arrived the Cygnet packet, from Rio Janeiro, sailed 26th January ; the Emulous packet, from the Mediterranean, sailed from Malta the 9th ult., from Gibraltar the Sd inst., and from Cadiz the 7th ; the Stanmore packet, from Lisbon, s a iled the 14th inst. ; also arrived tke Harding, Gibson, from Pernambuco. ALDIRNEY, Aliacn 20.—A wreck having been seen yesterday off this island, some boats went out, and succeeded in bringing her into Linge Bay. She proves to b e the Despatch, of Exeter, no person on board, and both masts gone; she is laden with brandy; 33 hhds. and 9 pipes are already landed. The Eliza, Brewer, from the Mauritius, has arrived og Dover. The Charles, Hart, from Oporto, has arrived off Porte' mouth. Vessels spoken with.—The St. George, from Batavia to England, on the 3d inst., in lat. 25. long. 36 ; and the Helena Christina, from Batavia to Rotterdam, i❑ lat. 1 27. long. 36., by the Fanny, arrived off the Wight. THE FUNDS.—(THIS DAY.) CITY, T WEL O'CLO CK A Mail has arrived from Lisbon, brought by the Stan mer, sailed 14th March. A Mail from Malta, by the Emulous, sailed on the 9th February, and from Gibraltar 3d March. A Mail from the Brazils, by the Cygnet, sailed from Rio Janeiro 26th January. Some late advices have been received from Chili, stating that a general dissatisfaction prevails in that country ; the Intendant had marched into the capital at the head of 600 foot and 1,000 cavalry to upset the Government. There has been a great failure at Martinique to the amount of 100,0001. sterling. Accounts from Servia state that the Grand Sultan was expected in the month of May at Adrianople, to organise that province. Admiral Mallet, of the squadron of Algiers, was on the point of his departure for Toulon, to superintend the at , . liniment. One thousand head of cattle were 'on the waY to Toulon, to be embarked. It is said the fleet is to be provisioned for six months. The brig Alacrity has at' rived at Toulon from Navarin—left the Ist of March. She brings accounts that Admiral Rigny had sailed for Poros, where he found the English Admiral and Admiral Heytien, and, after a long conference with them, departed for Egina, and had a long interview with Capo d'lstria. Accounts front Madrid, of the 11 th of March, stale that the Queen was pregnant. The King has prohibite d all religious books from entering Spain. THE FUNDS. The Express from Paris, arrived this morning, does 1 1 ° t , appear to be of much interest; all was quiet there, o' l not the least fear of disturbances taking place. M. Villele has arrived in the above capital, supposed to take an ac tive part in the present state of affairs. The French Renter have come lower ; in consequence of which the Consul Market is not so good as yesterday, when they left off 92i / for the Account, and opened this morning at 921 , and 94 for Money; at present they are 92-g, alternately buyers and Fellers, with little doing. The reduction of the Four per Cents. has not had any effect on the Market as yet, although it is the opinion of the well informed that the Ministers' plan will succeed. In the Foreign Market Greek Stock has improved one per cent. Brazil Stock has declined about one per cent. ENGLISH FUNDS. 31 per Cent. New 4 per Cent., 1021 4 per Cent. 1826, India Bonds, 78 79 Exchequer Bills, 78 '79 FUNDS. Greek, 401 41 Mexican, soi 11 Peruvian, 20 1 Portuguese, 681 91 Prussian, Russian, 110 Spanish, 141 Bank Stock, India Stock, 3 per Cent. Cuns. 921 Do. for Account, 92 t Ditto Reduced, FOREIG Brazilian, 704 71 Buenos Ayres, 31 33 Chilian, Colombian, 204 21+ Danish, 751 French, 5 per Cent. 106 7 Ditto, S per Ceat. 83i 4 TWO O'CLOCK. Up to the present hour there is a dead calm in the Como! Market, and scarce a bargain has been done during the whole of the morning. Consols have continued at 921 for the Account, alternately buyers and sellers. It is holiday at the Bank, consequently no money transaction ) have taken place for this day. The private accounts from Rio Janeiro are not of 0 favourable nature. The Government have been endes vouring to raise a loan to take from circulation the bank paper, but hitherto they have not succeeded. Their trey' sury is rather in a sickly state, and the Six per Cent. Loan has fallen from 69 to 641. Exchange, 231. We do net hear of any political information having occurred. The town of Leipsic, which raised a loan during the wart intend to pay it off, if the bondholders will take 3 per cent; We also understand that the Grand Duke of Nassau, al Ensinghen, who has his bonds out at four per cent., in' tends paying them off at 31 per cent. In the Foreign Market there is more business going for' ward than in the British, particularly in Greek Bond which have improved per cent., but Brazilian securities have gone down about one per cent., owing to the unite vourable accounts from Rio Janeiro of the inability of the Government to raise money. Up to the present hour we have no political informatioO' 7 HREE 0' CL 0 CK. Consols for Account, 92k. FOUR O'CLOCK.—CLOSING PRICES. Consols 92} - Danish Do. for Ac. 924 I Greek, 1825 40 Brazilian Bonds 71 Mexican, 1825 30i Buenos Ayres 3-f , Peruvian 19, 1 Chilian Do. Russian 1101 Columbian, 1824, 21 Spanish 144 and Forests, presented a Report, by Mr. Telford, relative to a road in Shropshire.—Ordered to be printed.—Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS—(LAST NIGHT.) At Four o'clock, there being but eleven Members present, the House was adjourned till to-morrow. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS Bank Stock 3 per Ceut. Red. 3 per Cent. Cons. 92.Y 2 sy '”,', per Cent. shut Ditto Red. - t per Cent. Ann. Ditto, 18:26 shut Sank L. Ann. Ditto 30 years Ditto 50 years India Stock shut j Ditto Bonds SO prn. I DAY AT ONS O'CLOCK. South Sea Stock Old Annuities 'New Ditto Ex. Bills, £l,OOl 2d. 78 77 pm. Ditto ljd. 78 79 pm. Ditto 500 2d. 78 79 pm. Ditto lfd. '7B 79 pin. Ditty Small 2d. 78 79 pm. Ditto ljd. 78 79 pm. Bank for Account India for Account Cons. for April PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds Brazilian Bonds 7l 7073: Buenos Ayres 80nd5......... Chili= Bonds .............. Colombian Bonds Ditto, 1824 Danish Greek Bonds Ditto, 1825 4 0 1,4 G uatimala Mexican Bonds —.27 3 ,4 d 34 14 9 Ditto, 1825 THIS DAY AT ONK O'CLOCK. Neapolitan Peruvian Bonds Portuguese Bonds I Prussian, Old Ditto, New Russian Spanish, :821 l4 :923 French Rentes, sp. c —f —c. Exchange —t. —c. 3 per cent. —f. —r. Exchange —l. —c. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AY ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. Brazilian Mining Company 5 10 9T , , Brazilian Imp. Aim. Cn. (iss. at 5/. pm.) £2O 82 1!4 Alliance Fire and Life Insurance Co. 10 10!,i PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, MARCH 22. Bank Stock 235!-, ISt. Patrick Incur. (per sh.) Consols, 3 per cent. Gor. Stock, 334 per cent. 99 i National Ditto — Ditto, New — i Patriotic Ditto — 4 per Cent lOl% Hibernian Bank 2O Gov. Ileb. W, percent.... Provincial Ditto — Royal Canal Stock. 47M Royal Irish Mine — Grand Canal Stock 25 Imperial Mine — City Deb. 4 per cent — . Mining Co, of Ireland Ballast O ff ice Deb. 4- —p. c. Commercial Buildings — Arrived. Due. i Arrived. • America O Brazil O Buenos Ayre' , 0 O Cart hagena 0 1 Dublin 0 1 Flanders 0 1 France 0 2 Guernsey &Jersey 0 Due. O Hamburg O Holland O Jamaica 0 O Leeward islands 1 Lisbon 0 O Mexico O Sweden 1 Waterford DIM{ WATER. AT LONDON BRIDGE TO.3IORROW. Morning ...31 minutes after 3. I Evening... 49 minutes after 3. TO LICENCED VICTUALLERS. Committee Room, London Tavern, Monday, March 15. THE TRADE COMMITTEE inform their 13rethren throughout the Country that they are anxiously and zealously engaged in the endeavour to protect their Property avd Interests. They sit daily, and request to be favoured with Subscriptions towards the expense of the Petition to the House of Commons, and any communication, for thu general welfare. DOUBLE NUMBER OF THE SPECTATOR. rro make room for a Paper of considerable A. length, and first-rate importance in the present state of the country, the SPECTATOR for the Week ending SATURDAY, 3d APRIL, 1830, will be EN LARGED to TWICE the ORDINARY DIMENSIONS. No extra charge. Advertisements intended for this Num ber must be forwarded to the Office previous to the evening Of THURSDAY, the Ist. 4, Wellington -street, Strand. TIIE INTELLIGENCE. THE First Number of this Paper, which was published on Sunday morning last, met with unprecedented success and gave great satisfaction. The Second Number will appear on SUNDAY next, and may be had of all Newsmen. The contents of the First Number having enabled the Public to judge of the talent engaged on the Paper, and of the official and other sources of information to which it has access, the Proprietors need not repeat the pledges which they made in their Pro spectus. An Edition is printed on Saturday Evening, and sent off by the Post for Country Circulation. The Sunday Morning Edition will contain the latest intelligence on every subject. Office for Advertisements, No. 11, Crane-court, Fleet.. street, London. 4, ...ti ew - A yf e ,4,. 104 + = - ~,.,.;,..,.„),,,,,,,,,i,-,,.. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY). GENERAL AVERAGE PRICE OF BRITISH CORN. For the Week ended March 19, 1830, made up from the Retorof of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and Wales, per Imperial Quarter. Wheat--. 2d.1 Oats 21s. 31s. 41. Barley...—. 2 1 .15. 5d.1 Rye 345. 4d.1 Pease— 355, 10' IMPERIAL AGGARGATE AVERAGES OF TUB RIX WEEKS PRECEDING . Wheat-593. 4d.] Oats .......... 215. 4d.1 8ean5.,........ 30s. 10d. Barley.-- 225. Od.] Rye ...—,.... 345. Bd. I Pea5e........—, 355. 6d• DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. Rd. 1 Oats 158. 3t1.1 Barley 18s. 4d.1 Rye 18s. 3d.1 Pease 94; SMITHFIELD MARKET. In this day's market, which exhibited but a limited supply of fat stock, Veal met with d brisk sale at an ad' and v anc,e po o rk, of from 4t.rda.dteo teas exceedingly e p x e c r ee s d to in n g e ly ; with day's prices. The supply embraced about 900 Lamb* which have seldom in past years been so numerous before Good Friday. PRICES PER STONE OF BLES. TO SINK TH E OFTA L S . S. d. to s, d, at Beef, barely ely Mutto" ori : s. d. tog. 1; Inferior Beasts 2 2 2 4 Large Lambs Second quality ditto 2 4 210 Prime small ditto.., 7 0 7 0 Prime tarp Oxen... 3 2 3 8 Large coarse Calves 4 8 5 0 Prime Scots, 3 8 4 0 Prime small ditto 5 6 0 6 Inferior Sheep 2 4 2 8 Large Hogs 3 2 3 6 Second quality ditto 210 341 S ma ll P or k ers 4o 4 Coarse-woolledditto 3 8 4 0 Suckling Calves 12s to 40s. cacti. Southdown ethers 4 0 4 41 Quarter old Pigs 14,s to 18s. eac tj. SUPPLY, AS PER CLERK'S STATEMENT. Beasts. (Sheep and Lambs.' Calves. Pigs. ,26 443 40 130 I :120 Milch Cows, whi c h were numerous, went off tardili' at about last week's prices, though a few superior shor t horns, with their small calves, produced from 211. t ` ) 22/. each. NLWG ATE AND LEADENHALL MARKETS. At per stone by the Carcass. cl. I. d. to s. r!I 5.41 toe. 6 Beef 2 2 3 4 I Veal Mllutton 2 0 3 10 Pork Lanths,—...... ss. 10d. to 6s. Bd. __., HAY MAEKETS.—(A t ST. JAMES'S. lg Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £2 8 to £2 0 New Meadow Hay :1 " Useful Old Ditto ....... Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay • 4 0 5 5 Clover Hay per Load of 36 Trusses.) 3 13 5 ,4 Oat Straw £2 4to£6 8 1 Wheat Straw... 210 2. ' A good supply, and a dull trade; prices as last quoted. M ' B ,ast R. .UCKINGHAM'S LECTURES.- L , night Mr. BUCKINGIIA3I delivered a free Lecture on the Monopoly, Trade, and Constitution of the East India Core pany, in the great room of the Crown and Anchor T 3 ' vern. He began by giving a brief, but succinct, histori of the first formation of the East India Company; showed how, from traders, they had assumed and mai"' 'dined the character cl sov,reigns—dilated on the Mil: chievo us c on s equences o f th e i r p o li c y, an d s h o w e d the 1" vaatage which would arise from a free trade. ~`~ KArt: ,bt4c - ~ :a:;. ~: !ves4l