The Sun. — London, England, 1844-03-29 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE'. EvEmmi, NY.:'. Donizerr:'s ce'emited OLera, enticed THE FAI. 0 13.1thaza , , M.. Berrani; F2rdtrand, M Dr.pivz ; Roger. After which, Wia be repeated Albert's e•lebrated Baltet of THE BEAUTY OF OHEN U. Marquis de San Lucar, 31. Albert ; Betie.,ict, M. Hoguet Vestris; Beatrix, fddlle. Fieury ; Agnes, Mdile c lara Webster; Julia, "aflame Petit Stephan; Diana, Mdlle. O'Br3 an. Dress Boxes 75., Second Price 3s. tid. ; Upper Circles of !loxes 55.. ' Second Price 25.; Pit 3s, Second Puce as.; Middle Gallery 23., Smond Price Is.; Upper Gallery's., Second Price 6d. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. MR. BENJAMIN WEBSTER, LESSEE. IHIS EVENING, MARCH 29, Will be repeated Shairspeare's Comedy of The TAMING OF THE SHREW. Petrucio, Mr. Webster; Grumio, Mr. Buckstone ; Katharina, Mrs. Nisbett. After the Comedy Mr John Parry will sing his New Song, entitleJ " The Accomplished Young Lady and her Mamma," accompanying himself on the Grand Pianoforte. To conclude with JOSEPHINE. Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Boxes, ss. ; Pit, es. ; Gallery. 25.; Upper Gallery, Is. HalLprice —Boxes, _3s. ; Pit, 25.; Gallery, ls. ; Upper H Gallery, 6d. Doors opened at h alt past Slix, and the Performances edrnmetice at Seven. Tickets and Places to be had of Mr I. T. Archer, at the Box— ()dice, from Ten till Five. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD.STREET. LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING, MARCH 59, Will be performed an Eng ish version of OTELLO. Otello, Mr. Allen; Elmira, Mr. Weiss; Roderigo, Mr. Gardner; lago, Mr. Burdini; Desdemona, Madame Eugenia Garcia; Emilia, Mips E. e. onner. After which. THE MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE, in which Mr. and Mrs. Keeley and Mr. Walter Lacy will perform. To be followed by a New Farce, in One Act, entitled THE YOUNG SCAMP; or Mrs. My Grandmother's Pet. Joseph, Keeley; Mildew, Mr. Keeley. To conclude with a New Grand Ballet, entitled LEOLA; or, the May.day Bride. Patrick, Mr. Chicheley; Phelim, Mr. Gilbert; Rhona, Miss Charleton ; Leola, Miss BallM. DAV IDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. W. SMITH. THIS EVENING, MARCH 29, Will be pe performed Shakspeare's Tragedy of RICHARD THE THIRD. Duke of Glo'ster. Mr. H. Hughes; Richmond, Mr. N. T. Hicks; Lady Anne, Mrs. R. Honner. After which, the burlesque of OTHELLO, ACCORDING TO AC r OF PARLIAMENT, in which Mr. W. J. Hammond, Mr. A. Wigan, and Miss L. Lyons will sustain their Original Characters. __. To conclude with THE Mt MOIRS OF THE DEVIL _ Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box.. office, from Eleven to Four. THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, MARCH 28. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 42 ; Highest, 57 ; Noon, 55. BAROMETER, 30.45.—WEND, N. NOTE.—The number 32'on the Thermo . meter denotes the freezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is usually placed opposite 30, and rain at 29. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning ... 8 minutes after 9 I Evening ... 50 minutes after 9. 4 • A A ~ ~....,, .0,...,44,. ~ _ .„, , v imilC) ) ilia ••7 7., ;1::: :. , • f _ ,4- ' -iii,1:,,,-, 1 „o '. A s. ..., \ f :j• /iv.. ..... 4, ,3 • ...'...•/; ..' ‘, • - ':- ‘.., ',.- , " 17 •44 W 1P ' , " „, ''' ; 4 , 44Ctrig,Ato ' 1 ::-3.-"" 7 " Z"` A ".r . , , •—'' ' ' "'lt o •‘-'- ',::-.._ A . / yin. LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1844. In the House of Lords a brief discussion took place relative to the late State trials in Ireland, which leaves no doubt that the subject will be brought judicially before their Lordships. The report on the Ecclesiastical Courts Bill was brought up and received. The Duke of WELLINGTON gave notice that on Tuesday next he would move that the House do ad journ on that day till the 16th of April. The Commons did not make a House, there being only thirty-four Members present at Four o'clock. An eccentric, but not unamusing, article, appears in the Post of yesterday, on the subject of " Mr. JOHN CADE"—as Sir ROBERT PEEL respectfully calls that great practical philosopher—and his political principles. The object of our Contemporary is to show that, for the last hundred and fifty years and upwards, the House of Commons has been, to all intents and purposes, a close follower in CADE'S footsteps, and that a pro digious number of his most zealous disciples may still be found gracing the Conservative benches. "By virtue of its Constitution since the year 1688," says the Post, "the House of Commons has been a giant JACK CADE. Since that memorable period, the most valuable forms of property have, in truth, been stiipped of all security by the direct agency of the House. Was CADE a revolutionist ? The constitution of St. Stephen's is the spawn of revolution. Did JACK CADE propose to confiscate the possessions of the rich ? Since 1688 the House has been chiefly occupied in pil laging the poor. In 1688 the Commons robbed the Crown of all the prerogatives of sovereignty. Subse quently they robbed the Crown of its pi,ssessions in land." It is in the two last sentences ae this notable passage that our Contemporary's animus breaks out. He cannot forgive the House of Commons for its injustice and audacity in having ventured to inter fere with the sacred doctrine of—what POPE calls— " the right divine of kings to govern wrong." He is in arms to resent its tyranny in having dared to cashier JAMES 11. Though the matter is one of such long standing, yet the Post is just as irate as if he had himself been one of the leading organs of Absolutism in the year 1688. We suppose we shall next find him defending the encroachments of a TmEnius and a CALIGULA on the rights of the Roman senate and people ; or launching the heavy thunders of his indig nation at the head of the democratic DEMOSTHENES for having oppOsed himself to the despotism of PHILIP of Macedon. The Revolution of 1688 has long been a sore subject with our eccentric-minded Contemporary. He sees nothing in it but a flagrant breach of good faith and justice on the part of the Legislature. He passes by,. as a matter far beneath his lofty consideration, the no torious fact that JAMES 11. was a violator of all the laws of the realm ; that he trampled upon liberty of conscience, treating the people just as if they were so many brute beasts to be dealt with according to his own sovereign will and pleasure ; that he promoted discord among the different religious sects in the community for the purpose of furthering his own fanatical views ; and that he was only deprived of his Crown when every other means of reclaiming him had been tried and found utterly unavailing. Had this Royal tyrant—this gloomy, ferocious bigot, who, except in intellect, was a perfect lac-simile of PHILIP 11., and whose na ture never felt one redeeming touch of humanity ;—had this anointed vagabond been allowed to remain in unmo lested possession of his throne, the commonest rights of Englishmen would have had no existence but in fiction ; Popery in its most disgusting and intolerant form, would have been the dominant religion of the country; other LATIMERS, and RIDLEYS, and CRANMERS would have been burned at Smithfield, and other BONNERS and GARDINERS would have been found to exult in their martyrdom. But our Contemporary can see nothing of all this ; in his purblind view JAMES the SECOND had a perfect right to do what he pleased with his subjects—to decimate them even, if it suited his caprice to do So ; and the House of Commons was bound in honour, common sense, justice, and law, slavishly to submit to the caprices of its Royal master. For having scornfully repudiated all idea of such base submissions in 1688, and for having, from that time to the present — more especially of late years—kept a n atchful eye on the rights of the people, the House of Commons is sneered at by our Contemporary as neither more nor less than an assembly of JACK CADES I The claim preferred in the House of Commons, on Tuesday night, by Sir GEORGE STAUNTON, in his mo tion on behalf of the widow of the late Rev. Dr. MOR RISON, and of the Doctor's eldest son, the late Mr. JOHN ROBERT MORRISON, IS one which ought not to be allowed to expire under the cold official negative and , special pleading of Sir ROBERT PEEL. Neither should a just and generous public accept the shabby discharge from obligations to which it is bound by all the prin ciples of equity and humanity, that the ingenuity of a Prime Minister has suggested. There should be no compromise in national ethics between honesty and revenue. Public servants, of no more than an average elevation of character, may rely on this middle term " expediency," as a convenient and safe retreat from the occasional pressure of "eternal principles." The pub• lie itself cannot afford to prejudice its reputation by sanctioning doctrines which, in the social intercourse of private life, individuals of loftier views and sounder morality would reject with scorn. In short, public jus tice will disdain to peer through precedents and Acts of Parliament for statutable grounds on which to repudiate the claims of public servants upon its bounty, where it admits those claims to be founded in truth and justice. Sir GEORGE STAUNTON was the mover, on Tuesday, of an address to her MAJESTY, praying that, in consi deration of the eminent public services rendered by the two lamented individuals in question—the father and the son—in China,--(by the former, in a career of six and-twenty years of indefatigable study and exertion ; by the latter during a shorter bat equally well sustained and admirable discharge of the same public duties)-- and because both the one and the other had successively fallen victims to the effect which those duties had pro duced on them in an exhausting climate—" Her MA JESTY would be graciously pleased to direct a suitable provision to be made for the widow of the late Doctor MORRISON, and for the other surviving members of his tastily ; and to assure her MAJESTY that the House of Commons would make good the same." In the advocacy of a claim which had so properly devolved upon one of the most profound of living Orientalists whom Europe can boast, Sir GEORG 4 STAUNTON delivered himself with that habitual modesty which has won for him the respect of all parties. He alone seemed to be uncon scious of the authority with which he must be speaking _ on such a question in the House of Commons, in refer ence to his own long residence in a portion of the Chinese empire, to his extraordinary proficiency in the Chinese language, and to that peculiar knowledge of the Chinese people and the policy of their Government, which he had evinced, under the most trying circumstances that could test his judgment or tax his discretion. Now what was his testimony ? That the Rev. Dr. MORRISON, the father, went out to China, simply as a minister of the Gospel, with no desire for public em ployment ; but being, from his peculiar qualifications, selected, by the unsolicited act of the East India Com pany, for their confidential service as Chinese interpreter, he had given them, for more than a quarter of a century , the full benefit of his prodigious attainments, still pursuing the discharge of his high spiritual mission, which had been his original exclusive object. In this period he had ac complished two of the most stupendous undertakings ever achieved (we venture to remark) by the Oriental scholar ship of an European. He produced his English and Chinese Dictionary (which the Honourable Company ap preciated so highly as to expend 10,0001 upon its preparation, and printing) ; and he produced a transla lation of the Holy Scriptures—" a labour," added Sir GEORGE, with no less eloquence than truth, "which, under DIVINE PROVIDENCE, would be the means of ulti mately spreading the blessings of Christian civilisation throughout the whole Chinese Empire." On the cessa tion of the Company's exclusive privileges in China, the Doctor's services were transferred, of course, to the Bri tish Government. Entitled as he would then have been to return to his native land upon an ample pension (his salary was 1,2001. a year) after twenty-five years' service, he responded to the call which the press ing exigencies of our position in China then made upon him. He remained ; his labours were signally success ful and beneficial ; but—he speedily became a sacrifice to them. The son of this amiable, and good, and gifted man, succeeded (as Sir JOHN HOBHOUSE remarked, on warmly and ably seconding Sir GEORGE'S motion) to the father's mantle. At the almost incredibly early age of fifteen, he was called (said Mr. HUGH LINDSAY) "to the responsible situation of interpreter Ito the East India Company in China ;" and discharged all its duties from that period (in the year 1832) to his death, with the most extraordinary ability and merit. Our excellent Plenipotentiary, Sir HENRY POTTINGER, derived from his counsels and his services—in addition to the indispensable aid of his masterly acquaintance with the Chinese tongue—so much advantage that, in acknowledgement of Mr. MORRISON'S eminent capacity and usefulness, he appointed him a Member of the Legislative Council of Hong-Kong. Within a few days after this appoint ment, Mr. MORRISON, who had not hesitated for the good of the public service to abandon the two years' leave of absence in Europe, which his declining health had compelled him to ask for, and which he had ob tained—perished in the prime of manhood, a sacrifice to the zeal and the intensity of his exertions. Let it be observed here that Sir GEORGE STAUNTON, Sir HENRY POTTINGER, and Mr. LINDSAY, were all personallg Cogni sant of the talents, the spirit, and the devotion of these distinguished civilians. But, as if to crown and confirm their eulogy, and to prove the consistency and strength of the spirit in which Dr. MORRISON had never ceased to labour in the original mission he had assumed—the fact incidentally transpired, that this truly Christian labourer had " employed a considerable part of his salary in founding a college at Malacca, for the education of per sons in the Chinese language, with a view to disseminate the Gospel in China." Sir ROBERT PEEL resisted the motion for an address to the Crown, with every minute, microscopic atom of an objection, which he could detect amidst the worthless dust of his official depositories. With that callous and profound eyoisme, however, which makes him, to our thinking, the most Frenchified of any English Minister of our times, he evidently thought he was pouring balm and consolation into the cup which he refused to commend to the bounty of the State, by assuring the House " in the first place, and he did it with the greatest pleasure, that he would admit the justice of the eulogium which Sir G. STAUNTON and Sir J. HonHousE had passed on the cha racter and services of the late Dr. MORRISON and his son." Admit it ? He could not dispute it !. The be reaved widow and her five children may turn, with honest pride, to the affecting and conclusive testimony rendered to the faithfulness, the services, the abilities of their lamented relatives, by such practical judges, and personal witnesses as Sir GEORGE STAUNTON, Sir HENRY POTTINGER, and Mr. LINDSAY ; but the " ad mission" of Sir ROBERT we should think they will esti mate at the value of the smallest Chinese coin ; a price not very flattering to a Premier's vanity. We pass over the extravagant encomiums with which he proceeded to come to his buts :—"But there are certain duties imposed on public men which they could not shrink from," &c. &c. (the usual common-places, and trite platitudes of Sir ROBERT'S didactic pieces, which we need not repeat, for anybody can supply them). " In the civil service the grant of pensions had been discontinued to widows and female relations of public servants dying in such depart ments. A First Lord of the Treasury, as he was, was constantly having the strongest claims for pensions of this kind urged on him in cases of the highest merit ; and in cases of widows, &c., of clerks in public offices. It was true that in the case of the army and navy a power did exist of granting pensions to widows of officers; but then, they were very limited in amount' Public civil servants were paid large salaries, with the view of enabling them to make provision, after their own deaths, for their wives and children." (The Right Hon. Baronet never thought of Dr. MORRISON'S noble dona tions, yearly, to the College at Malacca.) " Even of go vernors of colonies, the widows now get no pensions. Then, the only fund left at the disposal of the Crown for new pensions was 1,2001. a-year, and this was at present appropriated." Again, "Mrs. MORRISON was the widow of Dr. MORRISON, who died in 1834, but she was nct the mother of the Mr. MORRISON who died lately in the performance of public duties at Canton !" We are almost ashamed to bring such quibbling, unworthy casuistry as this before our readers. What does it amount to? If it mean anything, it amounts to this— " Dr. MonarsoN was, I allow, a great and good man; an invaluable public servant. This lady is his widow. I deeply regret that our practice does not allow us to grant a pension to her, her husband's services having been thus important.- Mr. MORRISON, in talent, zeal, assiduity, and usefulness, rivalled his father, and died in the discharge of his duty. The widow of his father and the surviving five children must feel his loss severely ; but he was his father's son by a former wife. Therefore the widow cannot suffer sol [materially, nor her children be so afflicted, that I ought to recommend her and them for a pension in respect of their double bereavement." The Jesuitry of all this consists in the irresistible inference, from Sir ROBERT'S own admission, that if the widow had been Dr. MORRISON'S first wife, and Mr. MORRISON her son by him, the Government would have equally refused a pension to her. What possibly ground, then, could Sir ROBERT assign for having mooted the fact at all ? The Premier went on to show that Mrs. MORRISON was already allowed 2001. a-year, as widow of the Doctor, and 25/. for each child till they should have respectively attained the age of 18. Sir GEORGE STAUNTON reason ably asked, why, since the utmost permanent provision secured to the widow was but 2001. a-year, another 200/. per annum should not be given to the family? But we have another question to ask Sir ROBERT PEEL. Here is the case of a widow and surviving fa mily, left, as it were, sacred claimants om the bounty of a country which has been, by the universal admission of all parties, so admirably served by the husband of the one and the father of the other. Why is not some more adequate allowance to be made to them, than the pittance they now receive, rather we may say, through the interposition of an East India Company precedent and minute, than by the spontaneous act of the Government ? He relied on the defi ciency of Government precedents. Find us, said he, precedents of such services as those of the two MORRISON& Why are other services, of far more doubtful character, so much more magnificently re warded, in defiance of the practice and precedents of the public departments on which Sir. ROBERT so much re lies? Is it because Dr. MORRISON was not only the upright, intelligent, and civil servant of the public,—but a simple-minded, self-denying, conscientious minister of the Gospel of Peace, which, knowing, he taught, and, teaching, travelled sixteen thousand miles to disseminate? Is it that his gifted son was not only—like his father— an accomplished and devoted public servant, in his own peculiar sphere; but of such varied capacity of useful ness as to have been selected by one of the most remark able diplomates of the day as a member of his Council, and to have had his death recorded, by that celebrated functionary, as a " public calamity?" Shall the claims of such men—represented by the widow and her children — be thus passed over by a Government which acquiesced in the grant of an hereditary Peerage and a pension of 2,000/. a year, for two or three lives, to Lord KEANE and his successors, for military services in a sanguinary campaign, the merits of which services are now as much matter of doubt to a vast proportion of the British public, as their utter inefficiency to secure the subse quent peace of Central Asia, and the British supremacy north and west of the Indus, is matter of certain and disastrous notoriety ? The costly campaign of Sir JOHN KEANE, destructive and ruinous as it was to the forces and the commissariat employed, was distinguished by a few brilliant combinations, but left to the Anglo-British army the disgraceful legacy of the massacres and eva cuation of Caubul, and the wholesale extirpations of the passage of the W'yber and the Bolan passes; reverses that could Orly be, as they ere, avenged in blood and desola tion by the intrepid conduct of SALE and PoLLocx. But the labours of the man of peace and the man of business —Dr. MORRISON and his son—enabled Sir HENRY POT TINGER to spare an incalculable amount of human car nage, and materially aided the counsels and the policy which have established for us a powerful and honourable and respected position of permanent commercial influ ence and authority, on the coasts and in the islands of China, to the mutual benefit of the Chinese people and the British natiun ! According to accounts from Madrid, of the 20th, the QUEEN, with her mother, was expected in that capital on the 23d. The Madrid journals bring no news of the slightest interest. and the intelligence from the pro vinces is nearly of the same character. In a Barcelona paper we find the following description of the executions which had taken place in that town :—" The execution of the conspirators was particularly solemn. The Con gregation of the Blood,' with the holy crucifix, assisted at the execution, which took place in the presence of an itrmense crown. Four men were shot." On the Madrid Bourse, the Three per Cents. were dor e at 35} for cash, and 361 at 60 days ; and the Fil e Cents. at 231 at 60 days. Most of the Paris papers contain articles on the re svlis of the division which took place last Friday on Lord ASHLEY'S motion for shortening the hours of la bour, and, on the whole, discuss the important question at issue with moderation and impartiality. Even the Opposition writers throw aside their hostility to England when they see the general voice of the country roused in the cause of humanity, and Tories even preferring the interests of the poor to their political principles. In ad verting to the division the Courrier Francais says " Nothing is more curious than what took place. The period of twelve hours, upheld by the Ministry, was re jected by 188 votes to 183, whilst, by a sort of compen sation, 188 votes to 181 rejected the period of ten hours, which had previously obtained a majority of 9. The House would have neither ten nor twelve, and it is not a case where two negatives make an affirmative. This hesitation of the English Parliament is easily explained. Humanity declares that 12 hours' work exceeds the strength of human nature. Manufacturing and com mercial interests reply that a diminution of labour involves both a falling off of profit and a diminu tion of the general prosperity of the country. After having yielded to a movement of charity, they now cling to considerations of self-love and State reasons. It is not useless to show in what proportion these two sentiments were exhibited amongst the manufacturers. Gni; of 150 from Lanchashire, who sent a deputation to S'r J. GRAHAM, only 13 accepted the ten hours pro posed ; 17 would agree to eleven, and 120 called for the continuance of twelve hours' labour. They declare that oven with twelve hours they are scarcely able to sustain ihe competition with the produce of America and Ger many ; if two hours be lopped off, the day would be in. sulicient. Unfortunately, this consequence is only too probable ; several workmen declared to Lord ASHLEY that they would accept the change with terror. Would they not have the next day to repent it ? Such is, therefore, the state of the question between the work ing classes and the manufacturers—to the one less money to satisfy the most pressing necessities of life, to the others less profit. Work, then, your twelve hours ; wear out your feeble bodies with an over toil, which expects no old age ; be the devoted slaves of those in defatigable machines, which would stand still during your rest ; let the young generation be worn out in the service of those instruments of production, which crush, torture, destroy, like instruments of destruction and ruin ! War has its food for powder ; manufactures, peaceful as they are, have their food for machinery in that class of factory children decimated by a precocious conscription. However, it is not in vain that humanity raises her voice, for the words of Lord ASHLEY have roused England ; and a part of the English Press, let us render justice where it is due, examines the matter with courage." The National makes the following remarks on the subject : " With the present Constitution of England, there is no so lution possible for even a slight amelioration of the condition of the working classes. For what is the real question under discussion ? To reduce by two hours a day's work, already very painful and very long. To give two hours' rest to women and children already worn out, to respond to the cries of a population which suffers and sinks, to satisfy those sen timents of humanity which always exist in the heart of even those nations where selfishness has its most brilliant altars. Was this so enormous a matter? And yet the whole manu facturing community takes alarm, and capitalists are in com motion. They speak of emigration, and cry out that there is a design of ruining manufactures. Profits ant' '9SSeS are calculated before the House of Commons, and it is a ted that this reform threatens the British Constitution. 'I speakers affirm, figures in hand, that these two hours taken away de prive the capitalist of the only profit of his production. The greatest interests of business are placed at stake, the duration of the English nation is attached to the measure, and the prospect of an irremediable misery for the wretches whom it is intended to protect is pointed out 1 And the House, hesi tating and uncertain, decides and undecides in the same even fng, declaring that the present situation appears to it in tolerable, and that it can neither declare in favour of it, with out offending humanity, nor destroy or ameliorate it, without giving a shock to all the interests of manufactures. Are we then too severe, when we accuse the constitution of a society where such results are officially stated in the face of the whole world? And would to God that this frightful struggle between capital and labour was peculiar to Great Britain ! But let any one look round him here, and cast his eyes for a moment on our own territory. We are well aware, and we declare it with pride, that the odious abuses which the late discussion has brought to light in England, will not be met with here to the same degree. Thanks to our revolution thanks to the sentiments of equality spread amongst us, there are certain things impossible in our country. But is there nothing to be done to render the condition of the labouring classes amongst us less wretched ?" The Moniteur announces that by a Royal order, dated the 3d instant, on the report of the Minister of Marine and the Colonies, Rear-Admiral Laplace has been appointed to the command of the station of the Antilles, in place of Rear- Admiral Moges ; and Rear-Admiral Hamelin has been ap. pointed to the command of the station of Oceania, and the western coasts of America, in place of Rear-Admiral Dupetit Thouars. By another Royal order, dated the 17th, Rear- Admiral Turpin is appointed Major-General of Marine at Toulon, in place of Rear-Admiral Hamelin. The following are additional extracts from the papers : "On the 27th ult. M. Durand, responsible editor of the Nation, was condemned by default to six months' impri sonment and a line of 6,000 f., upon a process founded cn articles published in that journal on the 28th of October, 28th and 30th of November, and 14th and 15th of December last, r gainst the reigning dynasty. M. Durand having moved in arrest of judgment, and obtained a new trial, the case came to a hearing on its merits yesterday befiße the Court a Assizes. The result was a conviction by the jury upon the articles of November and December, and his re-condemnation by the Court to the same penalties—of six months' impri sonment, and a fine of 6.000 f. , The National states, that — "A great number of Ministerial Deputies have quitted Paris since the vote on the Secret Service Money. Every question which could place the existence of the Cabinet in danger is now decided, and nothing remains to prevent those men from returning home, who, when in Paris, are not easily satisfied." Letters from Naples of the 17th inst. announce the arrest of Messrs. BOZELLI and DE AUGUSTINIS, tw•o dis tinguished men for their Hterary works, of M. CHARLES POERIO, the son of the celebrated Deputy and orator of the Neapolitan Parliament of 1820, and of two nephews of General PEPE. The Courrier Francais states that Lieutenant-General PI REE, who was lately superseded in the command of the 9th military division, having published the correspon dence that had passed between him and the Minister of War, had been ordered to repair to Lille, and constitute himself a prisoner for two months in the military prison of that city. The French funds fell considerably on Tuesday, the Five per Cents. closing at 121 f. 60c., and the Threes at 82f. 75c. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 29, 1844, per or equitable than that railway proprietaries, to whom the public ere indebted for the invaluable be nefits of the present rapid transmission of correspond ence and communications between all parts of Great Bi itain, should be well and even liberally rewarded for the arrangements which have been made to ac complish objects so desirable. But it must be re membered that, however desirable in themselves, these objects were not the main ororiginal ones proposed by the projectors of railroads, in those magnificent con structions. The carriage of the mails can be re garded simply as an indent, for the purposes of which their scheme of operations, and the materiel and service of their roads, were quite available. In like manner, in the case of each railroad, the amount received from Government for carriage of mails can not be legitimately considered in any other light than as a mere subsidiary heal of income. The direct expenditure and contingent charges incurred for mail carrying by any railroad company, will form but a very inconsideral3le proportion of their general outlay, in the first instance, even. After these arrangements and details are established and in working order, the current expense of them will be but fractional, com pared with the returns on that total expenditure, of which their provision forms a part. Thus the act of conveying mails by railways is a very different affair from that of their conveyance by the highways and roads on the old system, unler which every incidental expense is special and continuous—as relays of horses for the mail coaches, exclus:'vely, forage, wear and tear of carriages, harness, carriage-lighting, &c., &c. We apprehend that, in France, the Government contract with the railway lines for transmission of mails is on very moderate terms indeed. Whether we look to this analogy, or to the nature of the negotiations which Mr. Labouchere, when in office, opened so properly and carefully with various railroad proprie taries on the subject, we cannot repress our astonish. ment at Ending in the returns in question, so vast an annual charge, for the carriage of mails by rail, is 85,0001. MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.—The return for the week ending, Saturday, March 23, is very favour able, showing a decrease-of Bas compared with the pre vious week, 28 less than the average. The total number was 981, while but a few weeks since it exceeded 1,200. In epidemic diseases, including small-pox, measles, typhus, and scarlatina, the number was 190, average 170 ; diseases of the brain 167, average 163 ; of the lungs 309, average 330. Of the latter the following is an analysis :—Bronchitis 34, average 19 ; pneumonia 78, average 91 ; asthma 26, average 45 ; consumption 147, average 146. Only four died of influenza ; old age carried off 79, average 88 ; and 23 died from intempe rance, privation, and violence. Of these seven were from burns and three from suicide ; and of the 22 persons who died of small-pox 17 had not been vaccinated. The thermometer was highest on Friday, the 22d, 494 de grees, and lowest on Thursday, the 21st, 29'0 degrees. THE BOURSE-TUESDAY, MARCH 26. • First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five per Cents l2l 80 .. 121 80 .. 121 30 .. 121 30 Four-and-a-Half ll O.. 110 .• 110 .. 110 Four per Cents.• • • Three per Cents B3 5 . • 83 5 .. 81 90 .. 82 90 Banrof France.... ...... 3080 ..3080 •.3080 ..3080 Latlitte Bank,ll,oooL Sharesll2o .. 1120 •.1117 50 .. 1120 5,000 L Sharessl2o ..5120 ..5120 ..5120 Belgian Bani..• ...... . 660 .. 660 .. 657 50 • • 657 50 1841 . • • • • • • • 1082 50 ..1082 50 ..1082 50 —lOB2 50 Belgian Fives, •.•• • • • 1051 .. 1051 .. 1051 .. 1051 1840..........108 .. 108 .. 108 .. 108 1842 .• • • Spanish Active .. ••..•• • • • • 331 .. 34 .. 331 .. 34 Passive 6l • • 61 .. 61 .. 61 Threes • • ..... 361 .. 361 .. 361 .. 361 Neapolitan ••••• - • • • ....... 102 .. 102 .. 102 .. 102 Roman . . . 106 .• 106 .. 106 .. 106 RAILWAY SHARES. St Germain ..•.•••••••••• 850 .. 850 .. 850 .. 850 'Versailles, R. 8..• •. • • 4OO .. 400 .. 400 .. 400 L. 8.• ••• • • 245 247 50 .. 247 50 .. 247 50 Rouen Rouen to Havre. ••• • • 692 50 .. 692 50 .. 699 .. 690 Orleans . ..... ..... 900 .. 500 .. 900 .. 900 Strasburg to Bale.. Avignon to Marseilles .• .. 775 .. 775 .. 775 .. 775 RAILWAY SHARES, FOR THE ACCOUNT. St. Germain • • •• • • • • • . • • • . 850 .. 850 .. 850 .. 850 Versailles, R. 8.• •. • • ....... 400 .. 400 .. 385 .. 385 L.B 250 .. 250 .. 215 .. 220 Rouen .......... ..... 910 . 912 50 .. 910 .. 911 25 Rouen to Havre 691 25 .. 691 25 .. 690 .. 690 Orleans 902 50 .. 902 50 • • 895 89 5 Mignon to Marseilles- • • 770 770 770 .. 770 We direct attention to an abstract which we have given, elsewhere, of certain Post-office returns ordered l a st year, and recently distributed f rom th e P r inted Vote Office, with the view of remarking upon the large amount of the payments made by th e depart ment in question for the conveyance o f ma il s by rail way in Great Britain. For this service alone —in Great Britain only—there was paid in the year 1842, no less than 85,644/. Last year this amount was 75,1831., showing a reduction of 10,4811. But in either case the aggregate is enormous. Knowing, as we do, that on some lines these mails are carried at fair and reasonable rate s, we infer, from the very heavy nature of this charge, that there must be many other lines on which the charges of trans mission are exorbitant. Nothing can be more pro- DUTCH MAIL. AMSTERDAM, MARCH 27.—The Handlesblad, in an article headed, " Make haste while it is yet time!" again strongly recommends the public to take part in the Three per Cent. Loan, and showing the evil consequences that will ensue if the loan shall not be filled up. The Staats Courant ob serves that " it is absolutely impossible further to pro long the time for subscribing, and that after the 28th of March no person will have an opportunity to sub scribe. What then ? Entering your name is not paying. The first may be done in two days, as well as in a week or more. No payment is to be made before the 15th of April, and this only for one eighth part of the sum subscribed. Can any one be so foolish or prejudiced as to bear the share in the property-tax, with all its inconveniences—to pay on the Ist of May, with the loss of 25 per cent. more than he would have to contribute to the loan." It is justly observed, on the part of the Government, in the Staats Courant," that everything possible has been done on its part to save the people, from the necessity of laying open this affair and paying the tax. Nobody, we suppose, is so foolish as to flatter himself that the property-tax, if necessary, will not be rigorously enforced. A greater public interest depends on it than the mere financial neces sity. The State must be ruined, society would be broken, either if it falls into a state of lawlessness, or if laws passed by the competent authority remains inef fective. We learn with pleasure that many of our fel low citizens, having heard the explanations given in the town-hall by the committee of lawyers which daily meet there, have hastened to subscribe to the loan. May their example be generally imitated." THE HAGUE, MARCH 26.—The Dutch navy con sisted, on the Ist of January, 1844, of the following ships :—Two of 84 guns, five of 74, two of 60, one of 54, eleven of 44, three of 32, nine of 28, one of 26, two of twenty, eleven of 18, one of 16, ten of 14, one of 12, two of 8, five of 5, and four of 4 guns —in all, seventy-two vessels, with 2,087 guns. Be. sides these, there are one ship for exercise, one war , steamer iur transports, and seventy-seven gun boats, c various sizes. The corps of officers con sisted of one admiral, two vice -admirals, three rear-admirals, twenty-one captains, thirty-one cap tain-lieutenants, two hundred and seventy-two lieu tenants, and sixty-six midshipmen. ^--S": FLANDERS. MAIL. BRUSSELS, MARCH 23.—The King has put off for a few days his intended visit to England. The accounts which we receive of the effects of the late inundation are very distressing. The damage done by the overflowing at the Dyle is very great. The hurricane of the 10th and 11th of this month did much damage in several parts of the province of Brabant. BRUSSELS, MARCH 25.—His Royal Highness Prince Albert is expected at Ostend on Thursday. He will pass through Belgium on his way to Coburg, but will not come to Brussels. AUGSBURG, MARCH 21.—Letters from Gallicia and Mora via mention the discovery made by the Russian Custom-house officers of immense quantities of smuggled goods in several houses occupied by Jews, respecting which the most alarming accounts are said to have been sent to St. Petersburgh. It must be certified that this discovery comes very malapropos, and that the Russian Jews on the frontier run the risk of losing by this circumstance the feeling of conipassion, and in terest in their fate, which was just beginning to be exerted both in Russia and in Europe.—Allgemeine Zeitung, March 22. THE TEN HOURS' BILL. MANCHESTER, MARCII 26.--The operatives here are more resolved than ever to pursue the agitation on the Factories Bill. The Short Time Committee met this evening, and unanimously adopted the following memorial, together with a petition to Parliament on the subject : " TO TIER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY, VICTORIA, QUEEN OF GIZEAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. " The Memorial of the Lancashire Central Short Time Committee showeth,— " That your Majesty's loyal subjects, representing the feelings and wishes of the operatives employed in the fac tories in the counties of Lancaster, have, during many years, sought in vain to obtain relief from a system of excessive and injurious labour fur the women and young persons so em ployed. " That on Monday, the 18th of March, 1844, the Hon. the House of Commons, after mature deliberation and discussion, resolved that women and young persons ought not to be em ployed in factories for a greater length of time in one day than ten hours. "That notwithstanding this humane and wise determina tion of the House of Commons, your Majesty's memorialists have reason to fear that the intentions of the Legislature may be defeated by the ill-advised perseverance in a course of cruelty and injustice of your Majesty's principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, who has avowed his inten tion of withholding all relief from oppressed women and chil dren, and has sought to effect his object by means most in sulting to the faithful representatives of your Majesty's loyal subjects in Parliament, and tending to degrade the high of fice bestowed on him by your Majesty. " That your memorialists therefore humbly pray that your Majesty will be graciously pleased forthwith to dimiss the Right Hon. Sir James Graham from your Majesty's councils, and your memorialists will ever pray for the health, happi ness, and long reign of your most gracious Majesty over a contented and pi osperous people. " Signed on behalf of the Committee, "GEORGE HIGGINBOTTOM, Chairman." PROPOSED NATIONAL MONUMENT TO NEWTON.— Mr. Steele is reviving his long cherished project of the erec tion of a magnificent National Monument to Newton, which he originated eighteen years ago, by a letter from his own college at Cambridge, and in promoting which be has had, within the last seven years, two petitions presented from him to Parliament. The first was presented by Lord Monteagle, when Chancellor of the Exchequer, the second by Mr. Hume. He revives the subject by a public letter to Lord Lincoln, the Chairman of the Committee for the.lmprovement of the Me tropolis. VISIT OF THE DUCHESS OF KENT TO THE CON. , TINENT.-It is the intention of her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent shortly to proceed to. Paris, where she will sojourn a few days, en route for Switzerland, on a visit to her sister, who will pass some months there. The departure of her Royal Highness is postponed until the return of Prince Albert.—Post. THE THAMES TUNNEL.—Wednesday, the Fancy Fair, which was commenced on Monday, in the Thames Tunnel, was continued, but there was not so numerous an attendance as on the two previous days, The Tunnel was illuminated, and the shops decorated with evergreens and ribands, and all remained in the same state as on the first day. On Monday 10,178 persons visited the Tunnel, on Tuesday 35,440, and on Wednesday 20,740, making altogether 66,367 Persons, producing 2761. 10s. 7d. for the three days. PRICE OF BREAD.—According to the average ' price of wheat in the Edinburgh market, the 41b. loaf will now be sold at sevenpence-halfpenny ready money or if paid within a month, and eightpence credit.—.Edenburgh Advertiser. THE SEPARATION SYSTEM IN WORKHOUSES.— The parochial authorities of St. Leonard's, Shoreditch, have purchased a house adjoining the union, in Kingsland-road, in which they accommodate all the aged married paupers with apartments, so that they may assist each other. MELTON MOWBRAY. This renowned sporting place is filling for the races. Already Lord Wilton, the Duke and Duchess of Montrose, Lord and Lady Cardigan, Lord Seymour, Lords Cantalupe, Gardener, and Maidstone, ' are here. The Duke of Leeds, the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, and the Countess of Jersey, are to be at Belvoir Castle on Wednesday (for the party from London assembling there) for the next ten days. Lord and Lady Chesterfield, Sir 11. Mildmay, the Hon. Mr. Forester, and other persons of distinction, are expected. PHYSICIA NS ' HALL.—We observe that within the last few days workmen have been busily engaged in the de molition of the Physicians' Hall, George-street, preparatory to the erection of the splendid edifice which is intended to be raised on its site for the office of the Commercial Bank. We understand that a new hall for the Royal College of Physi cians is to be built in the centre of the eastern division of Queen-street. —Edinburgh Observer. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Vublit Optnion. " Who runs may read." I'OREIGN. On Sunday evening the King and Queen of the French re ceived the Spanish and Neapolitan Ambassadors, and the Duchess de Serra Capriola, Colonel Duke d'Estissac, the Prince de Salm Kirbourg, the Count de la Tourette, Count Corbineau, Viscount de Caux, Baron and Baroness Wiker sloot, M. de Bacourt, the Dowager Princess de Wagram, MM. Richond des Brus, Mathieu (de l'Ardeche), Toye, de La baume, Farran, de Vatry, and Journaulx. The Moniteur contains a Royal ordonnance, raising 31. Ga briel Delessert, the Prefect of Police, to the Peerage. On Tuesday the Minister of Finance laid before the Chamber of Deputies a Bill by which the Government propose some modifications of the Customs Act. One of these is to raise the import duty of machinery. The subscription for shares in the Paris and Strasburg -Railway was to be opened on Wednesday at the offices of M. Ganneron, the Paris banker. Count Mole was to preside on the occasion. One-half the shares have been reserved for England. It was reported on the Paris Bourse that the Committee of the Chamber of Deputies on the Budget, had decided on recommending strongly to the Government to take steps for the conversion of the } ive per Cents. In consequence of the rumour that stock fell from 122 f. 40c. to 121 f. 30c. The Monileur states, that the Paris Savings' Bank re ceived on Sunday and Monday last deposits to the amount of 746,6221., and paid during the same period 1,004,0001. The panic among the depositors manifested by these facts is stated to be founded on apprehensions of a conversion of the Five per Cents. Accounts from Athens to the 12th announce that the King had signed the new Constitution. Accounts from Portugal, received through Spain, state that Almeida has surrendered, and that the Queen has par doned the 600 men that formed the garrison, allowing pass ports to be delivered to such as demanded them. _ _ A correspondent at Naples writes, March 14 :—" Our fes tivities this winter have been much reduced, owing to the death of the King's sister. The Austrian, Russian, and Prussian Ministers gave splendid fetes, and, since Lent began, we have had some delightful musical parties at Lady Strachan's and Mrs. Ramsay's. The weather has been throughout the winter most beautiful, and several English yachts, as well as the Crusader, belonging to H.R.H. the Count de Syracuse, have made the Bay very animated. Several matches have taken place between the yachts of Mr. Delafield, Mr. Flemming, Mr. Berney, and Mr. Flemming, jun., but, with one or two exceptions, the Crusader has had the victory. A letter from Sombez states that on the 16th a young man named Games was shot dead, by a girl whom he had proposed to marry, but afterwards abandoned for another. She invited him to meet her in the evening, and, when lie arrived at the place of rendezvous, she fired a fowling-piece at him. She has been put in confinement. The Hereditary Grand Duke of Russia arrived at Darm stadt, from St. Petersburgh, on the 21st. LAW AND POLICE. At the Westminster Sessions Sarah Trueman, aged 23, a young woman of prepossessing appearance, dressed in the first style of fashion, was indicted for stealing a satin shawl, of the value of 1/. 15s. The jury returned a verdict of guilty; and, the prosecutor, Mr. Milnes, of Parliament-street, having strongly recommended her to mercy, she was sentenced to three months' imprisonment, with hard labour, except three weeks' solitary confinement. At Guildhall, James Perry, Benjamin Egleton, and Peter Jordan, were brought up, the former prisoner charged with having, as porter, robbed his employers, Messrs. Sutton and Co., Bow Church-yard, and:the latter two with having been the receivers. The Magistrates determined on committing, allowing bail for Jordan and Egleton, as receivers, 2001. each personally, and two sureties each in 100/. ; but the porter, as the principal, was at once committed. Robert Frazier alias Shillington, who has been in custody for some weeks on three distinct charges of stealing three va luable gold watches, was re-examined at Lambeth-street. Mr. Norton, in committing the prisoner, remarked that it was lamentable to see a person who had been well brought up, and whose friends were highly respectable, in the situation the prisoner had placed himself. By a letter from his father, which was then before him (Mr. Norton), it appeared that he had not been driven to dishonesty from want, as his wants had been amply supplied ; and it seemed, also, that he was the first of a large family to bring shame and disgrace upon his friends. At the Thames Police-court, Henry Symons, the master of the schooner Clernentina, from St. Michael's, now lying in the London Dock, was brought before Mr. Broderip, on a charge of stealing a coral necklace set with rubies, with a gold snap, value 51., the property of Elizabeth Warburton. The case was proved, and the prisoner was committed for trial. At Worship-street, William Spurrell, alias Wigram, Mary Elizabeth Spurrell, his daughter, and James Martin, a well • dressed man, described as a law-writer, were finally brought up, charged on suspicion of having fraudulently obtained pos session of a large quantity of haberdashery goods, of the esti mated value of 2501. Mr. Broughton said, that after giving the matter the most mature consideration, he was of opinion that the case had not been sufficiently made out to support an indictment. The prisoners were then discharged. COURT—r.assioNanLE. We understand that, according to present arrangements, her Majesty, accompanied by the Queen of the Belgians and the Royal suite, are expected to leave Buckingham Palace on Tuesday next, for Windsor Castle, for the Easter recess. The visit of his Majesty King Leopold to this country, we hear, is likely to be postponed until the return of his Royal Highness Pnnce Albert from Germany. The Duke of Wellington entertained the Archbishop of York and Miss G. Harcourt, Marquis of Salisbury, Earl and Countess of Jersey, Marquis and Marchioness of Douro, Lord Charles Wellesley, Mr. and Lady Blanche Balfour, Earl Howe, Viscount St. Vincent and Mrs. Dyce Sombre, Sir Henry Bishop, and a select party, at dinner, on Wednesday, at Apsley House. After dinner the circle adjourned to the An cient Concert, of which the Noble and Gallant Duke was the director of the evening. His Grace is expected to leave Apsley House on Wednesday next, for Stratfieldsaye, Hants, for the Easter holidays. The Duke of Norfolk, who came to town on Saturday, to attend her Majesty's drawing-room on Monday last, left on Tuesday for Arundel Castle. The Noble Duke and Duchess were to receive company on Wednesday and yesterday, and the Earl and Countess of Arundel and Surrey, and a family circle, assemble there during the approaching holidays. Eai 1 aid Countess Cowper are expected to leave Great Stanhope-street, on Tuesday, for Pansanger, Herts, where they will entertain a select party during the holidays. The Earl and Countess of Jersey leave Berkeley-square, on Saturday, for Belvoir Castle, on a visit to the Duke of Rutland. The Earl of Lonsdale and the Hon. Colonel Lowther, M.P., left town on Wednesday, for Lowther Castle, Westmore land. Lord Wm. Powlett, Right Hon. Sir J. Becket, and Mr. J. H. Lowther, M.P., go to Lowther Castle at the close of the week. Viscount Melbourne, accompanied by Lord and Lady Beauvale, is expected to leave South-street, on the day after the adjournment of the House of Lords for the Easter holi days, for Brocket Hall, Herts, where the Noble Lord will re ceive a few select friends during the recess. Viscount Combermere has left the Brunswick Hotel, for Combermere Abbey.. _ _ . . _ Lord Brougham - will leave London for Paris, on Saturday next, to spend the Easter, Lord and Lady Jocelyn left London yesterday, for Paris. SZISCEZIG.&NEOUS. Mr. Murchison had his last soiree for the season, as Presi dent of the Geographical Society, on Wednesday, at his residence in Belgrave-square on which occasion the suite of roomswere crowded with ladies and gentlemen distinguished for their rank, science, or literary attainments. Among those present were the Duke of Devonshire, Lord Ebrington, Lord Francis Egerton, Lord and Lady Colchester, the Belgian and American Ministers, Sir R. Westmacott, Sir George Duckett, &c. &c. The attention of the company was parti cularly directed to the magnificent vase of Aventurine, pre sented to Mr. Murchison by the Emperor of Russia, and two exquisitely-worked plateau of inlaid damask steel, a gift from the administration of Russian mines, and executed at the manufactory at Slataoust, on the Oural Mountains. On Wednesday a quarterly general Court of the Governors of the Scottish Hospital was held at the hall of the Corpora tion, Cane-court, Fleet-street. The Secretary read the mi nutes of the proceedings of the last quarter, from which it appeared that in January 2001. 9s. had been distributed to 363 petitioners and pensioners; in February, 2071. 145., to 371 ; and in March, 212/. 155., also to 371. He then informed the Court that the application made to Prince Albert, through the medium of the Duke of Sutherland, to request his Royal Highness to preside at the approaching festival of the Insti tution, had not been attended with success. Wednesday a sermon was preached at St. Olave's Church, Old Jewry, by the Rev. Edward Bickersteth, on behalf of the Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest, recently erected in Chelsea. The Rev. Gentleman, in the course of hie sermon, said that the statistical:reports issued by the Regis trar-General showed that 59,025 deaths from pulmonary con sumption took place in England and Wales annually. The execution of John Lawrence, for the murder of Mr Solomons, is fixed for Saturday, the 6th of April. Wednesday several houses Were disposed of by auction, on the line of the contemplated new street from Shoreditch Church to the London Docks. At this part of the intended metropolis improvements a large space of ground has been cleared away, comprising nearly the two streets between Flower and Dean-street, Spitalfields, and High- street, White chapel, and which has been for some time in that situation. Wednesday a meeting of the Governors of St. Anne's So ciety was held at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, to receive the report of Mr. Alderman Johnson, the treasurer. It appeared that the asylum at Brixton now contains 150 boys and 80 girls, and that the town establishment provides for 60 additional children, making a total of 292, who are all boarded, clothed, and educated on the Madras system. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. Loximie, MARCH 28.—Wind this day at noon, fresh northerly breeze, and fine clear weather. DEAL, MARC!! 27. Wind W.S.W., moderate. Arrd. Philadelphia, Philadelphia to Hamburgh. Put back, the outward bound, which sailed yesterday, except Miranda, for Antigua; Elizabeth, Quebec. FALMOUTH, MARCH 27.—Wind W.S.W., fresh breezes.— Off, Glenmore, Barnett, Batavia for Rotterdam. BRISTOL, MARCH 27.—S1d. Peru, Bordeaux and Mauritius. LIVERPOOL, MARCH 27.—Wind W., moderate.—Arrd. Queen of England, Hookey, and London, Benn, Calcutta; Stewart, Fisher, Paraiba, sld. 14th ult. ; Windsor, Pepper, Ceara ; Leonora, Metcalf, Demerara ; Lady Raffles, Craig, Rio de la Hache ; Oregon, Glidden, Natchez ; Superb, Hardy, Mobile ; Triton, Smith, Savannah. The Chimera, hence to Mauritius, got ashore on Formby Rock, but has been got off. • DUBLIN, MARCH 26.—The Majestic, Corkhill , which was ashore near Ballydoyle has been got off and in here, where she fills with the tide. HEEL, MARCH 27.—The Magnet, from Peterheadto Goole, which was stranded on Whitton Sand, 23d inst., has been got in the beach. CORK, MARC!! 25.—Arrd. Francis, M'Lean, Honduras. LIVERPOOL, MARC!! 27.—S1d. Saguenay, Charleston ; Sheffield, United States, New York. Off, Magella, Mary Queen of Scots, Lima, and Flora. DRURY-LANE THEATRICAL FUND DlNNER...4lW nesday the anniversary dinner of the Drury-lane Theatrical Fund, took place at the Freemasons' T avern . Th e M arqu i s of Clanricarde, owing to the indisposition of the Duke of Cambridge, took the chair at six o'clock, supported by Mon. tague Gore, Esq., M.P., B. B. Cabbell, Esq., &c. The sub scriptions were announced by Mr. Harley ; amongst others w.ge the following :—The Queen, 100 guineas ; the Duke of Cambridge, 20/. ; the Duke of Bedford, 50/. ; Lord Francis Egerton, 10/. ; Miss Burdett Coutts, 50/. ; B. B. Cabbell, Esq., 10 guineas ; Charles Kean, Esq , 20/. ; M. Duprez, 10/. ; F. Ellis, Esq., 6 guineas ; Anonymous, 50/. ; and from thQ au thor, as a share of the profits of the " Religion of Shak spew," 50/. The sulAcriptieus amounted to 8861. 53. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, THURSDAY EVENING. Consols closed quietly at 98:1 to 981 for Money and Time, with scarcely any business doing. The Foreign Market continued good, and the Bears were pushed to obtain stock. Spanish Actives realised 254 to 25-1, and the Three per Cents. 37 to 37k for next Account, April 16. Colombian rose to 14i and 15k. Peruvian were quiet at 308 to 301. The Railway Shares have been rather inactive. The settlement has taken place without difficulty. Rather more was done in Mines. The Directors of the South Sea Company have come to the resolution of submitting a plan to the proprietors for employing their capital more advantageously than at present, by taking public and private trusts. (From The Sun of Last Night.) The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 3,500 bales, 1,000 of which were on speculation. The market was very dull, and prices were Ad. per lb. lower than on Saturday. An average business was done in Railways, at steady prices. Eastern Counties were Ha, Edinburgh and Glasgow 64, Grand Junction 232, Dublin and Cashel si, South Western Eights 4a, Manchester and Birmingham 47, Manchester and Leeds, 114, Paris and Lyons 24, South Eastern 37. Again we are without any colonial advices. The Continental advices do not possess the least interest, if we except a statement that a treaty of commerce had been completed between the Zoll Verein and the United States, limited, however to certain specified articles. The informa tion upon this topic—important, if true, most unquestionably —is very limited, and it is much questioned in well-informed circles. But, admitting that the news is only partially correct, how assiduous ought our Government to be in counteracting the injuries that must he inflicted on our commercial and manufacturing interests, by quietly allowing other and rival States to fraternise, through the medium of reciprocal treaties, and how much will Ministers have to answer for by upholding the corn-laws, the master-grievance and preventative, as respects an extension of demand for British fabrics in foreign markets. This is a subject thought deeply upon in the City among mercantile men, and is one which, if the policy of Sir Robert Peel as to the corn-laws, be much longer continued, will have the sure effect of making his past and warm adherents, determined and lasting opponents. One reason for discrediting the report of the treaty alleged to have been concluded is, that it is supposed to be contrary to the engagements the United States have towards England, to admit us to equal privileges with other countries. We are not prepared to say how far a special treaty might be construed as an exception to the engagement with us, as we shall still be on a footing with all the States, but those in the Zollverein. The Commissioners bought about 25,000/. Consols this morning at 981. Not a single bargain has been made to-day in Consols for the Account. The New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. have been quoted at 1021 a. Bank Stock at 2044, and the premium upon Exchequer Bills-is given at 68s. to 70s. In the Foreign Stock Market the principal movement. has been in Spanish Bonds, the Actives having advanced from 25A to 26, and the Three per Cents. from 364 to 361. The rig is progressing, to induce by the attainment of advanced prices, the public to take portions of the new loan now in embryo. Poi tuguese Converted Bonds have fallen to 451; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. have been quoted at 57A ; and the Five per Cents. 1011 to 102 A ; Mexican Stock is rather firmer at 36A 4 ; an6l Colombian ex-Venezue lian at 141. The variations in the Railway Share Market have been but slight to-day, nor has there been much business transacted. The Cobre Copper Mine Shares have been sold .at 9 dis count; and the St. John Del Rey Mining Shares at 14 dis. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 27.—There ap - pears rather more disposition to bring stock to market to-day, but still sellers are not inclined to give much way in price and there has been a fair business done in the following stocks :—Bolton and Preston, 31 ; Lancaster and Preston, 384 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 461 ; Midland Counties, Fifths, 3 1-16; Scarborough Extension, 201; South Western, Eighths, 4 11-16 and 41 ; Harrogate and Knaresborough, 4A ; North Bristish, 3 ; Manchester and Salford Water Works, 56. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red 3yer Cent. Cons Indian Stock. — pm • Ditto Bonds — pm. ...... 98N Ditto Old Annuities . _ 3% per Cent. Eel — Ditto New Annuities... New 3% per Cent 102% Ex. Bills, I,OOW. I•Xd... pm. New 5 per Cent....... Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small — pm Jan. 1860 — Bank. Stock for Acct.... 200' If - -- - - Oct. 1859 lConstils for Acct 95 Jan. 1860 l2 9.16 llnclia Stock for Acct.... FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian. 5 per Cent — ,Portnguese, 5 per Cent 73 Belgian, 5 per Cent — Ditto, New Ditto — Brazilian Bonds Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent... Russian, 5 per Cent — Chllian, 6 per Cent — Ditto, Metallic — Colombian, 6 per Cent Ditto, 1824 — Ditto, 3 per Cent 37 Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent O3 Ditto, Deferred 15% Danish, 3 per Cent Greek, 18 5, 5 per Cent Mexican, 5 per Cent Ditto, 6 per Cent., 1837 'Dutch, 2% per Cent 57% Peruvian, 1825, 6 per Cent... 30% Ditto, 5 per Cent ... ...... 101% SHARES. - Birmingham and Derby (100 paid) 62 Ditto Thirds (25 paid) Eastern Counties (23 paid) Ditto Registered (816 s fid paid) Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) Hull and Selby (50paid) 6O London and Brighton (50 paid) London and Birmingham (Stock) London and South Western (41/. 6s. 10d. paid) — Ditto Eighths (15s. paid) London and Croydon ( " Trunk) Norwich and Brandon ( 2 paid) 6% Paris and Orleans (20 paid) Paris and Rouen 120 paid) FS% South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) 37 SOUTHAMPTON, March 28. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Liver pool, Captain R. W. Evans, arrived this morning, at seven o'clock, bringing the following mails :—Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Cadiz, and Gibraltar. Her dates of departure are as follow :—Gibraltar, Sunday, 17th ; Cadiz, Monday, 18th; Lisbon, Thursday, 21st ; Oporto, Saturday, 23d ; ti igo, Sunday, 24th. . Ships of War Ivinw at Gibraltar—lTer Britannic Majesty's ships Malabar and' Scout, American sloop Fairfield, French steamer Crocodile, and her Britannic Majesty's steamer Locust. At Lisbon— Her Britannic Majesty's ship Albion, French steamer Gomer, and brig Volage. Vessels passed off—The Danish barque Auchinthor, of Arendal, in lat. 47 N., long. 7 W. . Specie on board 22 packages, and 13 passengers. The Little Liverpool is later home than usual ; she was 24 hours beyond her time at Vigo. She brings a full cargo of fruit, principally oranges. FACTORY QUESTION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—There is nothing like resolving all impor tant questions into their simplest elements. Let us consider the Factory Bill on this plan. We have first to decide whether the Legislature have the right to interfere between the employers and the employed. Secondly, if it be expedient to do so. Thirdly, in what manner. I think the reply to the first inquiry is, that the Legislature has such right in an extreme case, but in no other. If the crew and passengers of a vessel are wrecked on a desert shore, the paramount necessity of prolonging human life justifies the divi sion of the private stores of food belonging to the passengers among the whole body, after the general stock is exhausted, not otherwise. Secondly, legis lation is expedient if it can remove the evil—not, if no such power exists. Thirdly, the manner—this must be by a general action of the law, not a partial one. If it is necessary to divide any portion of the stores of the passengers, the abstraction for general purposes must be pro rota from all ; it is not just to take all the property of A., of 8., and of C., and leave untouched that of E., of F., and of G. Let us apply. Beginning with the first branch of inquiry : Is the general condition of factory labourers so bad as to justify extreme measures and violations of general principles ? This point should be settled by exten. sive inquiries, the condition of a part must not be assumed as that of the whole.. On the second branch of the inquiry—Can the Legislature enforce an alteration in the ratio of re muneration to the labourer ? First—Can it it prevent the employer reducing the wages of the employed ? If not, the result of legis lation will be, that A B (the labourer), now obtaining twelve loaves by twelve hours' labour, and finding the quantity inadequate to his or her subsistence, will obtain only ten loaves, but will have two unem ployed hours for rest. Second—ls, or is not, the profit of the master manufacturer sufficient to allow of the abstraction of that portion of it which is produced by the last two hours of the labourer's exertions ? This, again, should be ascertained by extensive and searching inquiry; assumptions are mere froth and wind. If the profit of the manufacturer is wholly produced by the two hours' labour proposed to be withdrawn, it is clear that the Legislature cannot enforce its decrees. No Act of Parliament can force a man to continue a trade by which he loses. The third point is, whether the House of Commons be disposed to act with impartiality, and pass a Ten Hours' Bill for agricultural labourers, as well as factory people ? The former are said to be even worse than the latter. Finally—lf such a Bill be passed, and the farmer requires a higher price for his loaf, on account of the greater expense of cultivation (employing twelve men for ten hours, instead of ten men for twelve hours, and paying per head as much in one case as the other), whether the consumer be prepared for the enhancement ? POPL IC OL A. STEAM-.BOAT ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday as the Dublin steam-ship, Duke of Cambridge, which had left the St. George's wharf a few minutes previous, was going down the river on a strong ebb tide, when, owing to some misma nagement on board, she ran into the collier brig Maria of Newcastle, now discharging coals. The stern of the brig was stove in by the collision, part of the quarter carried away, and the coalwhippers' stage, on which the men were at work, was smashed, and they narrowly escaped severe injuries. The shock bent bhe top hamper of the brig's main-mast like. a reed. There were three barges along-side the Maria, wait ing to receive coals, and they were all broken adrift by the violence of the concussion. The Duke of Cambridge pro ceeded on her voyage uninjured. FUNERAL OF THE EARL OF LONSDALE.—The mortal remains of the late Earl of Lonsdale were removed'on Wednesday afternoon, in a hearse drawn by six horses, from Twickenham to the Euston-square terminus of the Birming ham Railway, from whence they will be dispatched by spe cial train to Birmingham, where another train will convey them to Liverpool, and thence to Lancaster, where horses will be provided, and the mournful procession will go to Lowther Castle, where the remains of the deceased nobleman will lie in State until Saturday, when the funeral will take place in Lowther Church. HuLL.—On Monday the new graving dock was opened to the public. The works have been comphited at the cost of about 10,0001. The first ship docked was the Ganges, Captain Blythe, 755 tons register.—Hull Packet. We are gratified to be able to state that the sub scription for the widow and children of the late Chief Officer of Police is going on well. The amount up to last night yeas about 6001., independently of a sum of 5001., which the commissioners voted at a special meeting last night. The barristers present at the late assizes contributed nearly 401. to the food.—Brighton Gazette. COURT CIRCULAR. His Royal Highness Prince Albert left townyesterdtl. morning for Germany. His Royal Highness left FUC ingham Palace at half-past nine o'clock, attended by li d George Edward Anson, Captain Francis ScymG 2 r , s t n b e Colonel Bouverie, and proceeded to the terminus of al South Eastern Ralway at London-bridge. Th e ilq party took their departure by a special train for Pe Y er, his Royal Highness embarking on the " Princess Aloe' steam-packet for Ostend. Colonel Bouverie and Car tam Francis Seymour are expected to attend the Brince to the Continent. The Queen and the Queen of the Belgians walked the Royal Gardens of Buckingham Palace yesterdsPA, The Royal Family were taken airings yesterday in "" Royal Garden. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester TisiLid, her Majesty the Queen Dowager yesterday at Ow borough House. in Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent left t O / 71 : 1 6 a carriage and four, at ten o' c l oc k yesterday lor n ke for her residence, Frogmore Lodge, near Windsor. Royal Duchess returned to Clarence House, St. J ame in the afteoon. k of The Governor and Deputy-Governor of the B an the England had an audience with the Chancellor of Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence Downing-street. Tura M. Van de Weyer, the Belgian Minister, and nil 'Ceiba, Bavarian Minister, transacted business yest sr "" at the Foreign-office. t e A to Mr. Gladstone and other C a bi ne t Mi n isters 11..- views with Sir Robert Peel yesterday. ANCIENT CONCERTS. Wel" The second performance of ancient m us ic took pleke on on , nesday, under the direction of the Duke of Wellio_,,gt° ll " ductor, Sir H. R. Bishop; Lead er , Mr. Loder; orgim"..set, Lucas. The performances commenced, in a sublime with a maificent Sanctus by Mozart, which was finely 50 formed. Ceminiani's concerto afforded Mr. Loder dir led for Mr. Cramer, who was unwell) an opportuoil playing the dexterity of his bow ha n d, in the allegr o, " bo ra is by no means easy of execution. Geminiani be at Lucca, in 1666 ; he came to London in 1714, I' lu tberi passed many years. In 1761, he went to Dublin, i ds he died the following year, aged ninety-six. 10 Hymn is a very sweet composition, with harp °b oor , — , played by Mr. T. Wright H _,- a semi-chorus of fema le _.;,ltb' had a charming effect. andel's glorious chorus cl':.t t er , first part in the most effective manner. Martinis q v ; D er which has been as popular as Kreut zer ' s Locloiska, formed on this occasion after the manner of the ola n the tras, ending with the slow movement, the rondo (w by Sir oboe obligato) being omitted. In a note inserteo.%ver . Henry Bishop in the concert books, it is stated that 0 1 , 5 ; 0 0 ture was composed in 1774. The selections fronl Orfeo is one of the finest dramatic scenes that was eyerbri posed, and Mr. Bennett acquitted himself most adour s s ing , Orpheus, in the very difficult solos which he had te_oice, some of them high enough for the most acute alto,' 004 liandel's fine chorus was given with a prodigio us ‘e l effect. Mozart's chorus from Idomenio, which be to be among his best productions, was awfully gran"' the companiments being quite overwhelming in the o rr ibea e o l th i: Caldara's Cum Sancta Spiritu is a sublime composit i brought to a close a performance which evidently eff,.° 14 ,,,0 4 highest gratification to a brilliant assemblage of disto'rairec' persons. The third concert will take place under the tion of the Archbishop of York, on the 17th of APril.„ o • A mong the company were the Duke of . 4„_ o' ton, the Archbishop of York, Earl Howe and de. a ! and Lady Jersey, Marquis and Marchioness of 1). 041 ,71,0 11) St. Vincent, Lord and Lady Norreys, Lord C. Vi r eloStiirotit,..: Mahon, Ladies E. Palk, Sykes, M. Stanley, . 13 ' n , f , Johnstone, E. Marsham ; Sir John and Lady S°.,.,V r eal IV. Curtis, B. Camac, A. Barnard, T. Phillips, G. " ?0 . .; G. Talbot ; the Speaker of the House of Comrno°B', se Harcourt, Sir John Campbell, Sir T. Brinckmaot Esq., &c. THE SWORD OF ADM IR A L DUPETIT THOUARS. belt!! Public subscriptions, as every one knows, are ireSc, raised in France for a sword to be given to th e OP Admiral, who exhibited his Gallic valour by a ke , tb e over Queen Pomare—a feat which Mr. T. P. C°° r oper l f only recognised British seaman, would veryfrP 011 describe as an act " unworthy the name of jg ‘ t h„ would rather see all his timbers irrevocab l y i ; at r; than run down a craft with a helpless fon, ° ,; 0 (15 1 ' figure-head, when he ought to be piping all 'cle, ~,, the protection of lonely, defencelees, and, of e o ° tuous woman." nahtl''o, of Punch, ever anxious to combat against ht l , of the every description, and to rush into the thiCkg s LO fight, has called upon one of his artists t 0 sword, which has been accordingly drawn 8 , g ar t ; hoped that our cut of this sword is more to Ole /is 0 than any cut the sword will ever give in the haP ro gsr i i intended owner. The hilt represents Que en ' WI whom the French Admiral endeavoured to oth e- o f of. On the blade is another representa tion 0 0 1 Tahitian Majesty, kneeling before Thoulenosiel with a littleness that quite justifies his P io t 03° te 5 ( 1 of Petit, is waving insultingly over her t_ os pec, e , obtrusive bit of rag, which was formerly "'old as the tricolour, but which is sadly soilel 9o iii e• graded by some of the hands it has since fh 01% The scabbard is covered with various emblein, o o 01; signs, headed by a little monstrosity intend ed tad ski, Young France, who, if not both " old enough 70 enough" to take care of itself, certainly po sse n, fhb latter of these two requisites for self-protect f or s!'l e j other devices are emblamatical of ' the object,: tin, the sword is given ; but the Admiral himself/55011W by the inside, which, as the sword is out of the, conveys the idea of absolute emptiness.—V aticw a THE COMFORT OF ~K NO W THE WORST." - ged'o At the Huntingdon Assizes, Gifford Whi te ',olo o 4 Ras sentenced to transportation for life fo r s o k : li d letter to a farmer, threatening to burn hi s „ Da ce, t y the farms of others. Lord Abinger passedserluro ee d said, " the sending of letters threatening to t ole s 0 , property of the parties to whom they Nv er . e oef oo t was worse than the putting the threat itself 1 0 ; at er e tion, for when a man lost his property by fir, e ge ts , f „, 1 0 1 knew the worst ; but he to whom such tu r ",.otitl!' d d made was made to live in a state i d by terror and alarm." Hence, instructed are l' e lfet Abinger, let future Gifford Whites sP of Ic pens and ink, and at once make use des tret, ottl matches. For, as it is a lighter offence t ° the Off fib perty than merely to threaten its destructi on, t 0 4 V White, who actually burns the farm oaf f t e ithr ie rli transportation for fourteen years ; r‘ , villainy, he merely makes a threat, he is ve p al of condemned a slave for life. t of t ' 4 5 4 °' In our last number, we reported the res'llibe 'lee the Rev. Mr. Day, who plunged a knife ja . r a A,b 0 .0 seven sheep that trespassed in his close. -u"Geno n e ftli g feelingly put it to the jury, whether the ile y ' ro nee... y e t D did not torture the animals out of pure igt t i ° ,, o de law; being a clergyman, he of course ha; IV co t study the statutes ? He was acquitrewschitstiet,‘ not plead for an acquittal of Giff°rdfit 541c ivi of course his education and position otetl,ooo must have made him intimately IA! OP f o rt ° , the statutes, which he knew he vertic,e ihis cad However, according to the judge, he has 0 ;04 bee' his misery—at least he knows the worst' boa think may possibly consist in the fact of big tried by Lord Abinger.—Punch. --- v FATAL ACCIDENT AT as BAILEY BRIDGE „ f O (From the Second Edition of the Ma'ache"- 00 0 of Wednesday.) . I „, r eble,,e, About 11 o'clock this morning, collo"' lei" was created by a rumour that the scaffoldingo jtteef' tion with the building of the bridge, no` ° le), of erection, over the river Irwell, at Sof o f 1 0 " 4 " had given way, precipitating a n umber we fo r; into the water. On making inquir e tbsA st„' d the report to be too well founded, 011 ,,"„ ser"„,oo -e ing appear to be the particulars of t,,, 4 " 1 "„, i0 f 5 ,0 ° Across the river extend two large beT ir tber tr„i parallel to each other, covered with rails , J p - O o sis t leoll of bearing a travelling crane. This cran, e wheels placed on the rails of the v e ho ilc j t i I across the river, and a strong ar ticles f a from one wheel to the other, on wbi c bef o f apparatus, for raising stones and other f ol eo 1 0 appears that, at the time of the aceid ell h i e ceft O l f f men were engaged in raisi means of t as oe , „ o rs' i the arch of the bridge, by of th t e t be te o te e r eJj g ` lij i some unknown cause, the beam nesr e . s , 4 , tr e br bridge over the river gave way, and, 1 43 ' rive' e rlt it crash, the travelling crane fell into th frot eci ro e t , ing down a quantity of wood en were 11 ifs t€ d its way ; and seven men, wh° th e ,,004 4 0 , at the time, were precipitated ' ll— t be rlt r oP An alarm was immediately given t f the let co , adjoining the bridge ; and a number L a so bo ia o er , as soon as the momentary consternation ha sob '" riO t ps on to lend their aid in ng the several of whom were observed strugg • fl itirioelit he tt ling 10 t ll6P b e f Three of the men got out, with no othel: t t io g lv otr i ot fright occasioned by the fall, and the that f e o bt° ° o B received; but we are sorry to state tn i t bri: 4* e j t O ,O l were not so fortunate. Three of them we'L l ivei At e the river much bruised, and iminediatelc.tberl:na, ei Manchester Infirmary. The body of t fig % re & ' O, 0, 1 44 soon afterwards found, shockingly ili a! iP fectly lifeless. It was taken to an ace d sa• rs'ijißdi it was identified as that of a man nte e .. r d) 11 0 10 1 the son of a shoemaker (we have "... e a at t Manchester, and who had been emP for some time. &t oo/ 5 0 8 ,, e ' ti What renders the accident m ore par , r e 5 0 o p ing is the fact that two of the men who o ther 1 ripj bruised are brothers (one elder and th.e a gilt' of the unfortunate person who is killed. , no s 1 , 1 We understand that no previous sing e w bes nv ol . 1 4 °1 i ! way had been observed in any 0 . .' 0 „ is s t lecs",,ti weight of the centre they were rals_i h• ad ten tons; and it was supposed that it 1 % 6 0 4 tt os e . i on some projecting piece of the &OLT' b s o roe ditional force required for raising ac wa c s id i e n n su t. insufficient ei Perhaps ent te h itea bear s On making inquiries at the infirnisinegertoo",e the two brothers (Kirk) are doing 17010 cod another tqheuiwteeasi another man, named Ke ll y, who had. al so ere the in fi rmary; but the injuries he recto' - 0 1/ J 9 tively trifling. A 0: A .19 Ps or , d o, DREADFUL SUICIDE IN A FIT or _ .OO 0 0 ,1 the evening of the 18th inst., a married Wwf,ifosPlhei,vig, opt.roblob..l: to111:11,000.i,1:10,14,0 Blackford, was admitted into the Middles!sLitb MVP $ 1) the following circumstances : — S he resided 5o• es, a tailor, on the second floor of the house, ill'4tloBl.7t street, Golden-square, and on the eveniefvooo:4ol% quarrelled with her husband, and b eing 3 the citable temperament, she rushed, pendln a _g was 13„lacra window and jumped into the street. DSility, fe it r, police-constable 24 C, in a state of in sensi it lo s ji v e 0 0 .1 expeditiously to the above hospital, whel. t il v r ef i her injuries consisted of a fracture of bet° • ithotig tp the spine, and extensive internal injuries geons of the hospital had no hop e of her rui , btL A , her every attention their skill could sugg e hog gradually sinking, and died on Tuesday ery Sp( one o_ finally to berby 11 to 15 t o 1 5 to 17 to 2 3 to 25 to 25 to 30 t o „ trazsact r ed nta► ne to -4 agar C 1 SIR • Feat 4 p ei la te Phil a chest said flb jeC . ellg a psis • s ent : h ow b ut !t.t. •• 1 1 — tari • GoGo t ; ot •ku s ao g tvid , said tl tu g is i ,~; Pei Apral 8 41 - lie