The Sun. — London, England, 1844-03-18 00:00:00

COMPANION TO THE NARRATIVES OF LADY SALE LIEUTENANT EYRE. Nww ready, in 1 vol. small 8 vo., with Plates, 12s. hound, NARRATIVE OF THE J AS T CAM PAIG IN AFFGHANISTAN. UNDER GENERAL POLLOCK. By Lieut. GREENWOOD, of H.M. 31st Regiment. Orders received by all Booksellers. Henry Colbuni, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS , MARCH Will be performed the Opera EVENING of GUILLAUM IS E TELL Arno'd, AL Duprez; Gessler, Mr. G. Horncastle; William Tell, Mr. Stret on ; Lutern Albertazzi ; Matilda, Miss Romer; Martha, Miss Bat's, After which, Will be repeated Albert's celebrated Ballet of THE BEAUTY OF GHENT_ Marquis de San Lucar, M. Albert ; Benelict, M. Hcguet Vestris; Beatrix, Mdlle. Fleury ; Agnes, Mdlle. Clara Webster; Julia, Y adame Petit Stephan Diana, Mdlle. O'Bryan. Dri.ss Boxes 75., Second Price Ss . 6d. ;' Upper Circles of Boxes 55., S-con:i Price ;:s.; Pit 3s , Second Price Oa.; /411ddle Gallery S-cond Price ls.; Upper Gallery IL, Second Price 6d. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. BI R. BENJAMIN WEBSTER, LESSEE 'I HIS EVENING, MARCH 18, Will be revived Shakspeare's Comeiy of The TAMING OF TIIE SHREW. Petrucio, Mr. Webster; Grumio, Mr. BuckstuNe; Katharina, Mrs. Nisbett _ _ After the 'Comedy, Mr. JOHN PARRY will give his Operatic Scene, " Norma." Atter which, FOREIGN AFFAIRS; or, The Court of Qu;•en Anne. Count St. Louis, Madame Celeste Baron itzstoutz, Mr. Strickland; Sir James Courtall, Mr. Webster; Bareness Fitzstoutz, Mrs. Humby. Orchestra Stalls, 55. - ; Boxes, ss. ; Pit 3s. ; Gallery, 25.; Upper - Gallery, Is. Half-price—Boxes 35 .; Pit 25 .; Gallery, Is. ; Upper -gallery, 6d. Doors opened at Half.past Six, and the Performances cummence at Seven. 'tickets and Places to be had of Mr L T. Archer, at the Box , s"ce, from Ten till Five. Pitt NCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREF.T. LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING, MARCH 18, Will be performed the Cemic Opera of LOVE IN A VILLAGE. Astice Woodcock, Mr. Granby •; Young Meadows, Mr. Allen ; NN Hawthorn, Mr ood ; Hodge, Mr. Keeley ; Rosetta, Mrs. Wood. Aft, r the Opera, A GRAND CONCERT. To which will be added GONE TO TEXAS, in which Mr. and Mrs. Keels will perform. To conclude with a New Grand Ballet, entitled LEOLA; or, the May-day Bride. Patrick, Mr. Chicheley; Phelim, Mr. Gilbert ; Ithona, Miss Charleton; Leola, Miss Bailin. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Mr. ALLEN begs respectfully to acquaint his Friends, his Pupils, and the Public that his FIRST BENEFI I' will take place on THURSDAY EVENING, the 21st of March, on which occasion ROSSINI'S OPERA, 0 £HELLO, will be performed for the FIRST TIME on the ENGLISH STAGE. Pilvate Boxes and Places may be had of Mr. Massingham, at the Theatre. Tickets may also be obtained at the principal Music-shops, and at Mr. Allen's residence, 19, Baker.street, Lloyd-square, Pen tonvil'e. THEATtus ROYAL, ADELI'HI. THIS EVENINO, 'MARCH 18, Will be pettsrmed a Me'o-drama, called HEN RIETTE, THE FORSAKEN. Principal Characters by Messrs. Lyon. 0. Smith, Maynard; Forman, and Wright, Mrs. Yate s , Mi ss W oo l gar, and Miss Chaplin. To be followed by ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA MARRIED AND SETTLED. Antony, Mr. Wright; Cleopatra, Miss Woolgar. To conclude with, by permission of Charles Dickens, Esq., 7'H E CHRISTMAS CAROL. Principal Characters—Messrs. 0. Smith, Wright, Lyon, Maynard, Forman, Miss Woolgar. Mrs. F. Mathews, Miss Chaplin, and Miss Lee. Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery. Is. ; Second price at Nine. Doors opals at Hal =past Six, commence at Seven o'Clock. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. THIS EVENING, MARCH IS, Will be performed ROMEO AND JULIE I. Romeo, Mrs. H Vining; Mercutio, Miss E. Terrey ; Paris, Mrs. H. Hughes; Juliet Dirs. R. Honner After which, THE TURNED HEAD, with Singing and Dancing. To conclude with ABELARD AND HELOISE, revived with New Scenery and Dre , ses. Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box °lice, from Eleven to Four. THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, MARCH 18. TiihutmomETEß, Lowest, 29 ; Highest, 48 ; Noon, 42. BAROMETER, 30.1.—WIND, NoTE.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the freezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is a cually placed opposite 30, and rain at 29. . HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Tolorning .. 38 minutes after I T Evening .. 27 minutes atter 1 . , . -- • , . - P .. V , atll .. • ' . .. ,•, ,S ° i) , Wiari": , ~4 , • , Iv., • , 71,,. Vit •" •"'"'' ' 111 : 1 ' ' 411116111 k • .. ito • • .4nia ,-• 74:4iski, ••,. - - ..,... e ,• ~,, -'.,,,. -, ".: 7".: ,,11 '' lik• ;z4,..0, '' 44 'Z'.. , -4 . 1 : 0 9 " .bAO it W..r ...:-.''''.." - ••'•-•...,..,...,,.. ,„:" 0, '".%,.;,.-''''' SECOND EDITION Otte - 31in LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH IS, 1844, What a' Quixotic age, is the one in which we live—how full of philanthropy, and desire to remedy evils that afflict our fellow-beings--and yet how curiously does this Quixotic spirit, this philanthropic longing, show itself ; each man appears to take care of that with which he has no natural concern, and to meddle with that which ought, of right, to be looked to by others. Lord ASHLEY legislates for factories, Mr. COBDEN exhibits the condition of the farm labourers ; and the House of Commons, during the past week, has witnessed the Member for an agri cultural county decrying the unjust labour which the manufacturing poor have to undergo, whilst the Mem ber for a commercial town has been seen exposing the misery, the wretchedness, and the deplorable condi tion of the agricultural population. The Honourable Member for Dorsetshire quotes Stockport as his authority, whilst the Member for Stockport esta blishes his assertions by reference to Dorsetshire. This is, after all, not a natural state of things. It would be a far more rational and just pursuit for my Lord ASHLEY to improve; or labour to improve, the moodition of the farm-labourer on his own estates and 14'4,3 own neighbourhood, than to ramble abroad to exercise that benevolence of disposition which cannot rest, which must in any case be attempting to do good, but which might be so beneficially exercised un his own neighbours, and in his own locality. Ile reverses the old adage " that charity begins at home," and his charity goes far a field, before it can find objects upon which to exercise its benign in fluence. Now, in point of comfort, of intelligence, of social condition in every possible way, the mann fatlturing population of this country stands immea sufAbly beyond the agricultural population. Go into their houses, compare their habitations, and you will at once admit, that the manufacturing labourer is better housed. Look at their clothes, their house hold furniture, and the appurtenances to their houses. Text their ability to read and write, their moral and ioteliectual capacities, and then you will indeed wander that Lord ASHLEY did not at once devote himself to the worst fed, the worst provided for, and the least enlightened class of society, rather than to one which stands pre-eminently forward in com parison with the farm-labourers. Why is Mr. COBDEN compelled to detail to the country, by means of the House of Commons, and through the Press, the condition of the poor farm la bourer, which is to be round in the reports of the very Government Commissioners, and which he proves by reference to books published by the House of Commons, and whose authority is indisputable ? Wby is he, not in self-vindication, for he has all :Along challenged inquiry, and has avoided all conceal ment, but in order to rend the film asunder, which those who support the corn-laws have thrown around the agriculturist population, compelled to expose a far worse state of society, than any which the manufac turing districts can show ? Solely and simply, because the landowners wish to gain credit for a humanity they do not possess, to obtain favour with the manufacturers by making :some of them believe that by Time Bills, they will gain the same wages for ten hours' labour, that they now get for twelve; and thus they seek to divert the attention of the working man from the :fact, that the high price he is compelled to pay for 'glis daily bread,. is the real secret of the long-conti nued labour which they affect to deplore. If bread was cheaper, less length of labour would be required to earn the money to buy it, a n d th us a repeal of the scorn-laws would be the simplest and most effectual short Time Bill. This the monopolists full well know, but the knowledge is inconvenient, and the op/ A ka _ lion awkward; they wish to keep up the price of bread ; and so, without regard to the condition of the Agricultural labourers, their serfs of the soil, they try to get the manufacturers' wages kept up by artificial means, whilst they leave the natural means, a reduction in the price of food, untried, Wages have no relation to the price of bread ; that fallacy has long since been exploded ; but , if the labourer has to earn a loaf of bread by time work, the dearer the price of bread the longer he must work. Thus corn-laws are to the labourer _Long Time Bills, and legislation to abrid ge the hours ot . labour, unaccompanied by legislation to lower the prlo,e of bread, is all a farce. Since Mr. COBDEN entered the House of Commons facts huwe not been allowed to be kept back, an d fi c . tions put forth as truths in the way they formerly used to be. The principles of free trade are beginning to be felt and • understood, and the condition of the farm la bourer is now in vain attempted to be identified either with the corn-laws or with the interests of their sup porters, for if cheap bread be of importance to the manufacturing labourer, it is still more so to the ploughman, the peasant, and the farm labourer. We shall pursue this subject in our next. The union which happily exists between England and France ought to be a subject of no ordinary con gratulation to all the friends of liberal institutions. Never was such a union more desirable than at the present remarkable epoch of constitutional govern- I Our intelligence from America, and especially the Philadelphia correspondence of a Morning Contem porary, continue to present the Oregon question as the engrossing subject of political speculation in the United States. It had formed the prominent topic of discussion in Congress, during some days past, on the 28th ultimo, and the shape in which it was then in troduced before that body, was a resolution, moved by a Mr. SEMPLE, "to give notice to Great Britain to abrogate that portion of the treaty of 1818 which provides for a joint occupation of the Oregon." This resolution, if correctly reported, is very strangely worded; but grammatical precision is, probably, un worthy of statesmen who are committed to the " go a-head " policy, so popular in the States at this mo ment. It may be presumed, however, that Congress is not meant to be called upon to desire us to abrogate the stipulations of a treaty (as Mr. SEMPLE'S words might lead one to infer), but that it is to instruct their Government to intimate to our's their own in tention of adopting that course. The account me quote from presents an amusing picture of that cre dulous excitability, and that big talking, which to subjects of old-established Powers of the first rank and power, sound so oddly, that the momentary dis position to feel indignant is merged in enjoyment at the absurdity of the language. The original mover of the resolutions was also the leader in a career of extravagant vaunting, and of garbled statements of facts,—wherever these would have told, if fairly stated, against the territorial claim of the States, through which career it seems impossible to prevent our western " brother" from running, when anybody has pre viously entered upon it. This political temperament renders him in many respects like his own high pressure engines. He cannot be content with the legitimate working of his own energy and powers. These can do so much, that, without any more substantial reason or necessity—he will compel them to do more. He increases the pressure, and steams along at "an awful rate" to the well-beloved music of his own incessant paddling. He puts on a further pressure still. From a just and manly confidence in the re sources of his country and his own personal powers, he expands into vain-glorious boasting; from ear nestness he rises into arrogance ; from arrogance into insolence; and when he finds he makes "strange way" by exalting the pretensions of the Republic and its citizens, he betakes himself to disparaging those of every other nation and its subjects. At length, he is apt to overdo the thing, and an explosion takes place, which is likely to be more harmful to his own craft than to those of his neighbours. A Mr. ATCHESON, in supporting the resolution in question, declared that " the whole of the 'Western States were unanimous in not relinquishing one inch of Oregon." It will be time enough to prove this de. terminatio n when they have got the territory. He said " the question was one of national honour." For that very reason, we have already shown, the States should feel themselves precluded from claiming what is not their own ; and what, being our's, upon the same principle, we never can concede. He complained, first, "that in the Ore gon, subjects of the United States were dragged before British tribunal; and second, that, "British laws now extend over the whole region. , A man of calmer judgment could scarcely have sug gested so strong a case of presumption against any possessory or paramount rights on the part of the States,—so much in favour both of the one and the other, on the part of Great Britain,—as these two facts to which he has helped us. This gentleman felt the weakness of his case, and therefore changed the ground on which he supported the resolution into this plan for a war with England : " The West has no more reason to desire war than the East or the South. But if ever war do come, it had better be with England than any other country, ' as a remembrance of former wrongs would only make us strike the harder.' " This is artless in an orator, who should better conceal the animus of his tirade ; but here comes the high pres sure, and the explosion of his accumulated folly : " He thought a war would result to England in the loss of Canada and the West Indies. Let but one drop of American blood be spilt in Oregon, and you will have have war to the knife, and pin k n if e to the han4le." " The two steam-frigates, and the one building ; And the two small *Arne Ts," (we The case of the Reverend Mr. MARSH was again ncidentally referred to in the House of Lords on Friday night by Lord CAMPBELL, on which occasion the Bishop of PETERBOROUGH " frankly admitted that he had felt something like an unwillingness to pro ceed against a clergyman, when he was accused by a person of ill-fame of an act committed four years ago. The fact of the accusation was all he knew of the case at first, and when further inquiries were made, he was told that Mr. MARSH had paid a visit to this unhappy female at Paris four years ago. Under these circumstances, while there was living in the parsonage an aged and excellent mother, in a very precarious state of health, to whom any agitation might have been fatal, he had felt thankful, and he was sure their Lordships would enter into his feel ings—he had felt thankful that there was an oppor tunity given him to be backward in this case, until something more came to light which would justify him in proceeding." We cannot at all sympathise with the Rev. Prelate's expression of thankfulness for having been furnished with an excuse for being " backward" in investigating such an aggravated case as that of the Rev. Mr. MARSH, in consequence of his aged mother's delicate state of health. He should have borne in mind—to the exclusion of all inferior considerations—that he was a high and responsible dignitary of the Established Church, and as such, that it was his bounden, his sacred duty to probe the matter to the quick, the instant the crying scandal was first made known to him. " Fiat justitia,' ruat ccelum," should have been the stern and wholesome principle he should have taken as his rule of action. In criminal cases, the law makes no attempt to shield the delinquent or let him off easily, out of a tender compassion for the feelings of those members of his family who may be heart-broken by his exposure and and his punishment, but adopts a lofty, uncompro mising course of proceeding without favour or affec tion. If such be the stern, moral course pursued by the Law, surely it is still more incumbent on the Church to take an unfaltering, impartial view of such cases of clerical delinquency as maychance to f a ll under its cognizance ; for the Law derives its autho- rity merely from man, but the Church derives it--or professes to derive it—direct from the DEITY, and riowher do we find it ordained in Holy Writ that f fialltishajl have the shield of protection thrown AND ment. With the exception of two kingdoms that should be allied, both from their proximity and the , T nature of their institutions, there is scarcely a spot on the face of the earth where men can call them selves free, and it is an ennobling sight to witness the lead which these civilised States take in the affairs of Europe, in overawing by their attitude the despotic rulers of the Continent, and, above all, , in checking the progress of Russia in her inroads upon Turkey. This union saved the little kingdom of Greece from the grasp of the AUTOCRAT, and it is destined, we trust, to save the Turkish empire from a fate which has long been the darling ob ject of the Russian Sovereigns. Disappointed in his scheme of bringing MEHEMET ALI to Constan tinople, and in his designs upon Greece, the Emperor NICHOLAS is now engaged in a new scheme, and by his emissaries is inciting the blind and stolid Divan to resist the friendly advice of England and France, and offend the only Powers that can save this miserable remnant of a great empire from utter destruction. He knows well that they are determined at all hazards to protect the Christian race—that they are aware of his designs—that he has no chance of success but in sowing divisions, and he therefore loses no opportu nity in urging on the obstinate Musselmans to main tain what he calls their independence, and allow no interference on the part of foreign States with their internal Government. He had the same object in view when, in a fit of passion, he shipped off his Minister from Athens, like a convicted felon. The disorganised state of Greece, and the universal in surrection which broke out against King OTHO and his German satellites, roused the hopes of Turkey— never reconciled, and not to be reconciled while she has any strength left—to the loss of an important country in the very heart of her dominions. Russia then appeared her only friend, and Russian agents took care to impress the fact on this worn out and helpless race. Not content, however, with these deep designs for her own aggrandisement, she has, ever since the triumphant result of the Syrian ex pedition, been wore; on the fears of Austria and Prussia, and has magnified £he dangers with which despotic Governments are threatened by the friendly interview between two Sovereigns placed at the head of free monarchical and representative States, and above all has pointed out to the former Power the madness of allowing a kingdom, like that of Greece, to be established almost within sight of the shores of Italy. So far the EMPEROR has been successful. The King of PRUSSIA has suddenly changed his policy. Old METTERNICH has become alarmed, and though Russia has seized the mouths of the Danube, and has shown no unequivocal de signs upon Servia, the fear of liberal institutions has worked more upon his perverted mind than the fear of conquest. But let them unite. They cannot stop the progress of civilization. They cannot even keep down the Poles, much less rule Turkey, if France and England are true to their own interests, and every day furnishes some fresh proof that, though there are certain parties in both coun tries that retain all their old prejudices, the great body of the people take a just and national view of the question. Even the Opposition journals of Paris, so jealous of the " entente cordiale," call upon England and France to join in pro tecting the Christians of Syria, and in resisting the aggrandizing schemes of Russia. A de monstration like this is sufficient. Austria has not courage to go to war, and Russia, with her usual deceitful policy, when danger approaches, will disown the arts of her agents, and profess the most anxious desire to preserve peaceful relations with all States. Should the result, however, be otherwise, these rulers would soon be brought to reason. Russia, Austria, and Prussia, even with the help of King ERNEST, could not resist France and England for twelve months Their combined fleets, with the assistance of a small army, would pass the Dardanelles, sweep the Black Sea of every Russian vessel, take possession of the mouths of the Danube, and every fortress from Tre bisonde to Odessa. Such an expedition may be nearer than the Oppressor of the Poles and the Per secutor of the Jews imagines. It is a fact which can not be denied, that Russia is only waiting for a favourable opportunity to pounce upon Constantino ple. It is the duty, therefore, of these free States, to guard against such a calamity, and convince NICHOLAS that Russian armies shall never again cross the Balkan. .. w... ..r.•••.............aaku.....—................."-- 0 • MONE Y AND C OMMERCIA L 7 , O 4 The Cotton Ma 0 „ Sato . . 6 04, ke C t / T at Y, Lh 9 er U p A t il l, TER r° rday,l oo dull, and prices had a tendency downwarogore )I,s; bales. There was not much animation 1 11 th e ofsse' r o lan 0' Eastern Counties were 11/.38.9d. ; Liverpool d or! pi Half, 110; South Western, 82/; Paris en 5 5 1; Paris and Ly ons , 21 . 15 5.; S ou th Eastern' New, 36*. for tl / 1 Consols have advanced to within 11 of P er Tye ( 1 ' cor nd • - , r Along.. Junt, and to within I} per cent. for Moi B t t b e t, sioners have bought about 20,0001. Consols at 'ictar;s. rate of the day. Th e p rem i um o f Exchequer India Stock has improved to 287 ; and theNel v .40 0 Half per Cents. to 102 i. A considerable amount of business has more g. in the Foreign St oc k M ar k e t thi s mo g , 0 00151; appears to be in favour of realising, and Price:gush, ° loll; cline. Russian B on d s h ave f a ll en t o 117 i; 0.,t0 51; n Brazilian, to 82k; Dutch Two-and-a-HallP er , c coup" Belgian Bonds, are at 105 ; Peruvian, for th e • and Mexican, 354. and T i p gre l / 2 A firm market has ru l e d f or th e Railway wes , he prices in ma n y i ns t ances h ave a d van ced. are annexed. 1. 0 C 14 BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'C (From the Official List) ), 3 per Cent. Consols. Annuitie5..............."" ••• 105 New 3% per Cent. Annuities.. ...».«••••«' A A A India Stock Consols for Account .............. ••••••• •• 10 Exchequer Bills, . 111 61 Ps' 1,0001. 500/. Ditto Small ........ O.CIA FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT 01 .45 . 105 a Belgian Bonds, 5 per Cent ........ 92 .2 Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. ........... 21. x Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent ........ • 1470 Columbian 80nd5........ ........... Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent. Ditto for the Account. Ditto Deferred Stock.... ..... Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents. ........ 31 DittO for the Account. Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent . ......... 0. 46 Ditto Converted Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent.,......*••••••••"* . • Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent 15441.....••••• • ,• •• g Ditto for the Account Ditto Deferred..... ....................... , , Ditto Three per Cent Ditto for the Account. .............. ....... ..." Dutch 2% per Cents. ..... Sr it Ditto for the Account ....... .... — lO/1„ Dutch 5 per Cents.. ... New Loan 1837, 5 per Cen t s...". ....... "' ... .0/4S , PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT /ILAILwAxs. p.m. Firs 7.0 Birmingham and Derby l2O 58 0 Birmingham and Gloucester -- 100 Ditto New .......... ....... ..... 2 . ro ll Bristol and G10uce5ter.......... 90 Chester and Holyhead Eastern Counties Edinburgh and Glasgow 5 023 Ditto Registered Great North of England lOO ..... .... Great Western Ditto % Shares ... . .. «.. 50 .. . . Harwich (Bralthwaite)....... ........ " . Harrowgate and Knareaboro' Hull and Selby Lancaster and Carlisle ......... ... e 444 Liverpool and Mancheste r lOO ......... s•— 7r" 0 London and Brighton 5O London and Birmingham. Stock London and Guildford J unc ti on 5 ..... " 7. - •••••"" London and South W estern 41% t 2 „ Ditto Eighths. ...... " ..... ...... ,; London and Cro yd on (Trunk) 13% Manchester andßirmingham 40 Norwich and Brandon 2 ..... .„"foll Newcastle and Darlington junet. 18 ..... . ..... Northern and Eastern 45 58 " North Midland Ditto % Shares 4O ..... , Ditto Thirds 2l/. 13s. 4d..... .... 011 Paris and Orleans ..«.«.».. .....». . 22 _,DaZ ". Paris and Rouen ... .... r a , South Eastern ancl .. D . o7e r ... ..„ - . .. .. 50 r York and North Midland .. .. --'"-; Ditto New Shares 2O &54 0 ". ...... Ditto Scarboro' Branch 2g MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH exhibits greater firmn ess gene ra lly, exceP t a 6 3 ; which offer low er . —Edi n b urg h and Glasgavit_.„,n• gbh don and Bright on , 44} ; M anchester and piillosenur" Glasgow and Ayr, 50 ; Manchester , Bury, ahu Manchester and Liverpo o l Di s t r i ct Bank, 101. PROMISSORY NOTO' t , ofl The Return relative to the Issues of the Ba n country gives the following results:— ENGLAND. Bank of England, Last time 09, 1 Q1:471'1 Now ............ .. . ........ 357, 1 , 4,9 9 P .................. 499, ................. Decrease Private Banks, Nov Last times 76 1 Increase ................................ •.. 3,4 - Joint-Stock Banks, Last time........ . ......... 3,4 f> ii Now ........................ Decrease .. SCOTLAND. Chartered, Pri va t e , an d Joint-Stock Ban" 2,77"1 Last time ................... •••• 2,6 1 "5, Now .............................. • ,-- 10"1 1 Decrease .................................• IRELAND. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MARCII 18, 1844. quote from the Norfolk Beacon (U.S.), of the same date as this discussion), comprise the stock in trade— so far as the " steam arm " is concerned—with which this Bobadil would venture a collision with the " one hundred and eleven war steamers," which the same paper, in commenting on the inconsistency and folly of the war party in Congress, reminds him that we possess. The emancipated negroes in our West India Islands, we calculate, would like nothing better than to settle accounts for their less fortunate brethren in the Southern States of the Union, with their re publican, freedom-prating, humanity-outraging op pressors. The resolution seems to have boasted the support, also, of Mr. HANNEGAN and Mr. BENTON. And to be sure, they must have ent ;red into a copartnership of intrepid allegations, which none but " whippers of nine - times-their-own-length-in -wild-cats," would have ventured on, in a Legislative Assembly. Mr. HANNEGAN who " was not to be terrified by 1,000 Hudson's Bay Trappers,"—" then alluded to the murder of 400 or 500 Americans." (A mere casualty, we suppose, in Jonathan's estimate of the value of human life ; just worth " an allusion,". but not grave enough to make him particular whether the number murdered was four OR five hundred. Then we have an off hand interlocutory, thus :—) " Mr. BENTON.— Yes : many of them my own friends." Mr. HANNEGAN, unwilling to be behind hand with Mr. BENTON, after this handsome intervention, pro ceeds :—" Yes ; 400,—0r 500 Americans" (he would not for the world be more precise than Mr. B.) — who have emigrated to that country have disap peared :—No one knows how, no one knows where, The Hudson's Bay Company alone could tell." (! !) Were it not that in a subsequent period of the de bate, the good sense and moderation which were dis• played in either speeches were such as should redeem the character of Congress from the disgrace of this balderdash —very ridiculous, truly, but not the less' unprincipled —we should blush, indeed, for the legis lative body which could tolerate, or dismiss, without indignant repudiation, such gratuitous and scandalous falsehoods as these. How it might very well happen that 400 or 500 American emigrants might not be again seen by their countrymen after emigrating to Oregon, —without this atrocious imputation on the Hudson's Bay Company, of their wholesale murder—mayobe collected from a remark in the speech of Mr. DAYTON, of Ohio, against the resolution :—" The dis tance of Oregon was 18,000 miles by sea, and 5,000 by travelling route 3 by land ;"—the land journey, be it observed, lying across the desolate and wide-spread valleys interposed between the Mexican frontier in the parallel of 42 deg. N., and the Rocky Moun tains ; or across the howling wastes of their bleak and barren range, over which our en terprising MACKENZIE—who, of all Europeans, had first trodden their lofty solitudes,—forced his way from the North-Eastern regions of the same con tinent to the Pacific. The truth is, the Americans are nettled at the inimitable management, the steady ef forts, the sagacious feeling, the undaunted enterprise, and the brilliant success of our Hudson's Bay Com pany, in exploring the great peltry country within and beyond the Oregon ; and in not merely following up the animals, like back woodsmen, for indiscrimi nate and instant destruction, as they retreat before them, but, in securing—by all proper means, such as "preserving," the best hunting-grounds, &c.—fu ture annual supplies of the furs in which they trade. The question of priority, or preference of right to the disputed territory, we shall be better able to illus trate, in the course of a day or two, by a , review of Mr. Thom's clever and interesting pamphlet, en titled " The Claims on the Oregon," &c. In the meanwhile, our readers will not be displeased to peruse an extract or two from the debate to which we have been alluding. They are from the speeches of Mr. CuoAtr., of Massachusetts, and Mr. DAYTON, of Ohio; and are exceedingly illustrative both of the character and relations of the contested region, and of the feelings with which the war-cry, so openly excited by the partisans of "appropriation," is re garded by the sound sense, and sober judgment, of other Members of Congress. Mr. CHOATE, of Massachusetts, said— " The resolution of notice which Mr. Atcheson wished to give Great Britain is, in effect, that twelve months from this notice, we shall take forcible possession of the Oregon territory. The claims of both countries will then come in collision—bloody collision—upon the desert plains of Oregon.' England had no more idea of an agricultural colooilation of Oregon than she had of colonising the top 'of St. Pain church ; but she only wished to protect the Hudson's Bay and other English hunters; and these, as animals were be coming scarce in Oregon, were fast moving northwards to wards the Russian territory." With regard to the ultimate settlement of the Oregon question, Mr. CHOATE thinks that it will be determined by the preponderance of numbers amortg citizens of the United States, over every other class of emigrants. What is stated of the Hudson's Bay Cotnpany in the following passage, is also curious : " The colonisation schemes of England were directed to wards Australia, Nova Scotia, Canada, &c. • but not to Oregon. But from th e U n it e d St ates, etnigrants would pour over the Rocky Mountains by thousands and tens of thousands ; and even with the present joint occupation, now that emi gration from this country to Oregon had become the rage, the Hudson's Bay hunters and the few English settlers would soon melt into an American population, under the influence, the infallible influence, of the United States emigration. The Hudson's Bay Company had recently bought out the Russian Hunting Company ; they were, therefore, rapidly disappearing from Oregon." Mr. DAYTON, of Ohio, we are glad to perceive, spoke under a deep sense of . the moral responsibility of the Federal Government, its functionaries and citizens, for their past dealings with the aboriginal " red men" of the New Continent, which does him honour. It is an awful page—a blotted record—in the annals of civilised mankind, to which he lightly but impressively alludes. We know but little, in Europe, of the wholesale process of extermination which has been carried on by the citizens of a State professing its attachment to the inviolable rights of human freedom against the native denizens of the wil derness. " lle (Mr. Dayton) doubted whether the Oregon territory was the terrestrial paradise it had been described; and he thought that the sentiment in favour of emigration to Oregon was not so universal as had been stated. Gentlemen seemed to have forgotten that there were 340,000 Indian warriors in that territorry. They, too, had their rights—rights that ought to be respected ; but between an Anglo-Saxon irrup tion from the sea, and another from the Rocky Mountains, they were in danger of being crushed. They would defend their hunting grounds--we must not forget that—we must treat them with justice and humanity—their fate, and the fate of all the Indian races, would lie heavily on our souls at the last great day." Are we to punish only the criminal of yesterday, and permit him to escape who can plead antiquity as an offender ? Really, this h a new code in ethics for which we little thought we should be indebted to a Bishop of the Established Church ! We have read— and that not long since—of a man having been con victed of a theft perpetrated upwards of twelve years since ; but if this episcopal doctrine is to hold good in law, as well as in clerical matters, such ancient offenders will lenceforth escape with comparative impunity ! Where was the righteous Bishop of Lox- DON—he whose _pious eyes are so shocked by the passing and repassing of pleasure boats on the Thames on Sundays—where was this mirror of orthodoxy and Evangelism, when the monstrous doctrine was propounded that a clergyman may justly be treated with forbearance who can satisfac torily proye that the crime of which he is accused to his Bishop, was committed " four years ago ?" Where, we ask, was LONDON, when this doctrine was gravely broached in Parliament ? "Echo answers, Where ?" There is no section of London society more help less, and yet more worthy of sympathy —more desti tute, and yet more deserving of attention—than the dress-makers and milliners of this great metropolis. The speech of Mr. BRIGHT, on Friday evening last, disclosed some startling facts. Can it be believed, that in the very centre of civilization, females shall be compelled to work for more than 20 hours out of the 24, and this for weeks together ?—That on any Satur day morning, at 2 o'clock, girls shall be called up, and kept at labour until Sunday morning at 8 o'clock, a period of 30 hours •without intermission ? And can it be believed, that this has occurred in a Christian coun try, in a country which prides itself upon its legisla tion to prevent cruelty and unreasonable labour ? We shall be delighted to give our best 'efforts in the cause of the oppressed dress-makers and milliners of London, knowing that we shall thereby aid a helpless and a deserving class of females, whose birth and whose education, in many instances, have fitted them for better things than to sing the " Song of the Shirt," and to work themselves into disease and decline. Madrid journals of the 10th have been received, which contradict the capture of BONET, but confirm the accounts published on Saturday of the surrender of Alicant. General RONCALI, who seems to regret exceedinglY that the insurgent Chief has eluded his grasp, thus writes on the 6th of March to the Minister of War :—" In spite of the measures of vigilance which I had adopted, BONET succeeded in traversing . our lines, with six or eight of his most decided ad herents, early in the morning of this day, suffering nevertheless, the Are of my nearest posts, and the consequences of my previously adopted precaution; so that being closely pursued by detachments of cavalry which I sent off for that purpose, Colonel CONTEERAS, of the Lusitanian Regiment, being at the head of one of them, the greater part of the officers who accompanied him have already been taken, and I flatter myself that BONET himself will come to suffer with these persons the punishment that the laws have appointed for traitors." This dispatch is dated a day before that on which BONET was said to be shot, and we therefore fear that the first account will prove too true. _ _._ Accounts from Carthagena of the same date men tion that the insurgents had made a sortie on the previous day, with a force estimated by the Govern ment commander, General PARDERO, at 600 men, which att ac k e d th e e o x f tr th em e tewleoftboafttatlhioenlsineofoGf irblOnclade at Escombreras, the insurgents protecting the operation by the fire of four coast-guard vessels which cannonaded the Go vernment position. The affair seems to have been a severe one. The besiegers lost several men, and had two officers killed. But little business was transacted on the Madrid Bourse on the 9th. The Three per Cents, closed at 30i for cash, and 301 at 60 days; and the Five per Cents. at 224 at 60 days. Most of the Paris papers advert in terms of com mendation to the public dinner given to Mr. O'CoN NELL at Covent-garden. The National forms an exception, and seems utterly at a loss to comprehend the political principles of a leader who wants to ex tend the rights of almost universal suffrage to the Irish, while he is constantly attacking the Chartists for advocating nearly the same measure. In allusion to this speech, that journal says, " We shall not analyse this harangue, of which the groundwork and the form present nothing new or striking. But why are the Chartists so incessantly the object of O'CON NELL'S anger ? Has he forgotten that he himself was busied in drawing up the Charter which serves as their watchword ? Is it because the Chartists aim at serious reforms, which would strike at the very heart of this abominable British COn stitution, of which wealth, bigotry, and birth constitute so large a part, that there remains nothing else to the rest but toil and misery ? Could it be also that, in the ardour of their faith, they have consulted their convictions rather than their strength—that they have boldly proclaimed war in the name of the people ? Could it be that their propagandism has penetrated into Ireland, and that, in the midst of this population, decimated by pauperism, where O'CONNELL always preaches up resignation and peace, they have appealed to less Christianlike and more manly sentiments ? If this be the cause of O'CONNELL'S angry tirade s against the Chartists, we pity him for exhibiting them. But it is neither in his power, nor that of any other man to crush the bud that is growing, or to prevent the future which is everywhere in preparation." On the same topic the Constitutionnel has the same just remarks : " At the Covent-garden banquet he asked for nothing but what was within the bounds of sense and reason, nothing but what is practicable. He kept aside the question of repeal, which has rio possible solution, but enlarged upon the mise ries of Ireland, on the partiality of the Government imposed upon her, and the enormities committed there in the name of justice; appealing to a jury of Englishmen against theury of his own countrymen, by w hi c h h e has been condemned. He treated, in short, questions which, without wounding the na tional self-love ofhis hearers, excited a lively interest in the breasts of all loyal Englishmen. Consequently, his success was great, and if he perseveres in this course, if he does not suffer himself to be led astray into his former aberrations, if he does not resume his old theme of Repeal, he will obtain a position against the Tory Ministry much stronger than that which his agitation i n I re l an d gav e him, and he will be much nearer than ever to the attainment for his country of those just reparations whi c h h e c l a i ms w ith such ardent solicitude, Even the Courrier Francais looks upon the dis play with joy, and praises the English nation for its generosity in forgetting and forgiving Mr. ° I CON-. NELL ' S tirades against the Saxons. " Undoubtedly," it says, "the nation has shown itself to be more wise than the Government. Whilst the Ministry only testified for Ireland a cold pity, well calculated to prolong enmity, and whilst it seemed to punish a suf fering race in the orator who represented them—, whilst it perpetuated discord and antipathy in en deavouring to immolate O'CoriNELL to the union of the two people, what has England done ? She has taken the victim in her arms fice into tri ump h, and thereby a sincere reconcilia tion of the t wo nat i ons is prepared, Tes, 1.1-gigil4 has conspired with the conspirator, ag#a4s with the over his offences ! We can readily believe that the knowledge of the delicate state of health of the Rev. Mr. MARSH'S mother produced a most painful struggle in the Bishop's mind, and that, for her sake—and her's only—he acted as he has done; but he should have resisted the amiable weakness, and remembered that his first duty as a Christian Bishop was to protect the spi ritual interests of the flock committed to his care, by providing them with moral, decorous, and trust worthy pastors, by whose sincere advocacy of reli gious truths they might profit, and to whom they might look up with confidence as examples worthy to be followed in all the social relations of life. Instead of this, how stands the ease ? Why, thus—the Rev. Mr. MAasn's parishioners have foryears been subject to the ministrations of a man who has set all the de cencies of society at defiance ; who preached pub licly from the pulpit olsservances which he disre garded in private; and whose hypocrisy, conse quently, is an outrage on the feelings of his own im mediate flock, and a scandal and an injury to the Churchgenerally. And this man, forsooth, is to be visited leniently for his turpitiade, because he has an aged invalid mother, whose feelings may be shocked by his punishmeNt! Admitting that this plea is not without its force, is it to be suffered to overrule graver, higher, more comprehensive considerations— the serious blow inflicted on the character of the Church by an attempt to hush up so flagrant a scandal? As for the Bishop's second excuse for his " backward ness," namely, that the offence was an old one, having been committed four years ago., it is absolutely without a leg to stand upon. What ! does crime cease to be crime when it is of long standing ? Is it, like debt, to have a " Statute of Limitations" accorded to it ? • Rouen.... Versailles, R. 8....... L.B .. Rouen toißavre Orleans . ..... .. .. Strasburg to 8a1e..... Avignon to Marseilles. MEETING of PRIVATE COUNTRY BANKERS. The Deputation of Private Country Bankers were very courteously received, on Saturday, by Sir Robert Peel, who expressed his willingness to attend to any suggestions which the Private Country Bankers were prepared to make. He added, that he consi dered it inconsistent with his duty to disclose the in tention of her Majesty's Government, having declined to make any communication in answer to similar applications. Sir Robert Peel also stated that no measure would be proposed until after the Easter recess, and that ample time would intervene for the consideration of the details of the measure after it should be proposed. O'CONNELL BANQUET AT COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE. —We have just seen an engraving illustrative of this memorable public banquet, which, it may be remem bered was under the sole superintendence of Mr. Rouse, of the White Conduit Tavern, who gave great satisfac tion by the completeness and liberality of his arrange ments. The engraving is very cleverly executed, and gives a very vivid idea of the splendour and imposing character of the grand banquet in question. The theatre, as was actually the case, is represented as crowded to the ceiling; pit, box, and gallery, all overflowing:with occupants. On the stage, and across the boarded pit, are placed long ranges of tables, at which the numerous guests are seated ; and the moment selected by the artist for representation, is that when the guest of the evening, Mr. O'Connell, has just risen to return thanks for the enthusiastic reception he has met with. The plate is a highly creditable one, and will, no doubt, find a ready sale among all who were present at the grand banquet which it commemorates. `lllll . ILLNESS OF THE KING OF SWEDEN. The following are the latest bulletins of the King's health : " MARCH 4.—His Majesty has had a tolerably quiet night, and is ne ar ly th e same as for the last few days. " " MARCH s.—His Majesty had some good sleep, and felt pretty well when he awoke, but at eleven o'clock this morn ing he fell into a fainting fit, which continued till a quarter before one o'clock, when he recovered, and is now, though very weak, in the same state as in the morning." MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE —MONDAY. The very finest qualities of Wheat fresh up, were mostly disposed of at prices about equal to those obtained on Mon day last. All other qualities had, in some instances, a down ward tendency, without, however, any actual depression being observed in their general quotation. For Foreign Wheat, free of duty, previous rates were supported. For Grain underlock, prow were nominal. With the exception of the finest Malting Barley being held with firmness, the Barley trade was in a very sluggish state, at barely previous currencies. For Malt there was no alteration of moment in the quotations. The best Scotch Oats were quite as dear; Irish were to be purchased on somewhat easier terms. Beans and Peas at late rates. Flour at barely last week's prices. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. WHEAT-Essex & Kent, !Muir-Chevalier... .... . 63s to - red 44s to 633 '0are-Yorkshire and Ditto, white Norfolk and Lin Potatoe ..... ..... .... 25s to coin, red 42s to 49s Y oug h all and Co.rk, Ditto white 4ss to 58s black .„, l7l to lffi Irish, red 471 to 50s Cork, white Ditto white RYE-Old 214 to 33s Beam-Tick 30s to 36. New 36s to 38s r PEA/- (hey 3ss to 384 BARLEY-Grinding 2ss to 28 s 1 M aple 333 to 341 Malting Chevalier 32s to 35s Boilers 32. to 381 MALT-Suffblk and Nor- Fromm-Town made ~, 4 8 s t o 531 folk s6s to 62a Suffo k .... ~., .. . 311 to 38 1 Brown 50s to 541 Stockton .14 " NoriolIC 34a to 30 Kingston and Ware 56s to 62s FOREIGN GRAIN A D FLOUR IN BOND. WHEAT-Dantric Hamburgh 36s to 40s PaA 8 0 to 271 B ARLEY 3os to 33 3 flow( American v•tr ft 23s to 254 OATS-New Feed l4s to 16. s SMITHFIELD. The Beef trade was unusually heavy, at a dedine on last week's currencies of fully 2d per Sibs., the very highest figure realised for the best Scots and home-breds being only 3s 10d per 81bs. The Mutton trade was not quite so active at un altered figures-the best old Downs selling at 4s 6d per 8114, Calves at late rates. The Pork trade was comparatively steady at our quotations. Lambs at from 53 to 6s per 81bs, Per 81bs. to sink the offal. s. d. to 8.01.1 s, d. to s. id, Inferior Beasts. ..... .... 2 4 26, Inferior Sheep ...... ... 2 8 3 Second quality ditto... 2 2 2 10 , S econd quality ditto... 3 0 3 2 Prime large Oxen '4 2 3 6 Coarse.wQolled4 ditta.. 310 4 2 Prime Scots. &c. 3s3 l & Southdown Wethers 44 4 6 Large coarse Calves.- 310 4 81 Large Hogs Prime small ditto 484 10 Small P0rker5........ .. 3 8 4 4 Suckling Calves, each 18 0 28 0 f Quarter old Pi gs , eachl6 0 V (/ SUPPLY AT MARXICT. Beasts. I. I I • Sheep. CIIIVoS. Plea 3,003 1 23,230 60 375 BirEVITGATE AND LEADENIZAX.L. Generally speaking, the Meat trade has ruled inactive, gild no variation of moment has occurred in the quotation;,, At per stone, by th e C arvaae s. d. tos. 4.; 5. d. tea. d. Reef, Inferior.... ..... 2 4 2 Id, Mutton, inferior ..... 2 6 2 8 --- middling ......... 210 3 0 ( ---- middling,,,., 210 3 4 —.. prime large ..... 3 2 3 4, --- prime........ . 3 6 3 8 paime small 3 4 36, Pork, large. .............. 2 6 3 8 Veal .....».»..........» 3 6 4 101--inu511............... 3 6 4 4 Lamb. 4s led to 6s. Od. - ARRIVALS DURING THE PAST WEEK. Beasts. Sheep. Calves. Alga. Scotland l5 600 Yorkshire - - 8 70u12 Norfolk - Igo Suffolk 7 94 -- 210 Cambridgeshire Surrey Devonshire tio Wiltshire 20 16 140 170 10 112 Other parts 0 100 30 .--.... _. ....._ -.._ Total 133 -- 2,204 552 3,,0 Previous week's arri va l III 1,920 400 ;434 Difference since our last S? 284 - 152 890 BOROTIOR 4Nfl SMITA.tiMeLDS. The arrivals of Potatoes in the Pool since this daySAlliglit, have amounted to about 3,750 tons, in, for the most part, good condition. The best descriptions have sold freely; other kinds slowly, at but little variation in prices. BOROUGH 110 P 11111.3L1C.MT. Although there is not quite so much business doing in Any kind of Hops as of late, the demand must be considered steady, at, in most instances, full quotations. WOOL ZW.ARZET. Privately a steady business is doing, but at prtsvjt pg pgb is sales are advertised. very for the last tinu 410111 l irm W di ; fi as cu t lt o ptorificensdor%t synoet This market continuiresAveL7L yan.cd,faotr tthheeqAuouttautmiono.ofl4tlsls3d7 ie of the year at 41s 9d. The deinalld iroLn thC trade in London is certainly very limited ! Bn4 tho continuedfalling off in th e delivery leads us N think that the demand from the cnntry is gnytialng Out good. T own T a ll ow i s 4ls to 4le Rtt u 441, • NEW INvENTIoN well known a§ ~ - .41111. Pauling, o f M anchester, an extensive and successful contractor f o railway works, is erecting machinery, on a very extensive scale, for the purpose of executing almost every description of joiner's work ; the special nbjOot being to effect the most difficult parts,_ such #§ morticing and the malting of sash frames, &o. *port says that this enterprising gentleinan .has succeeded, and that the work thus tinished is in ; in Other terno, thgt It is not possible for mere han dicraft hibotlf tO Yi@ with the work finished by the invention, he `g}'k4 are on a very extensive scale, and, if fully cut. ployed n , will, of necessity, re vo l ut i onise this branch of the buildig business.—Scot#mun, agitator; and, on his side, the advocate of the repeal of the union constitutes himself the preacher up of the fraternal union of Ireland and Great Britain. Behold him forming an alliance with the Saxons, and turning against the aristocracy his eloquent and sarcastic anger ! Nothing is finer, in our opinion, than this intervention of England between her Government and Ireland." Several of the papers have articles on the conver sion of the Three-and-a-half per Cent. Stocks, and express not a little astonishment at the apathy with which such a vast financial change is viewed even by the parties who will suffer by it. These French writers are beginning to understand the character of Englishmen, and will at last do them justice. We have, therefore, great pleasure in giving the following tribute to their honour, from the Siecle : " It is assuredly a fine sight, an operation so colossal as this ; done, as it is, without more trouble or embarrassment in the finances of the country, than it would cost a banking house to effect a simple operation in the funds. This proves not only the solidity of public credit, when it has for its basis the wealth of individuals and the good faith of States, but, still more, it proves the progress that must have been made in the science of finance, when a measure, which in the preceding age would have been sufficient to have put a Government in peril, should now be a simple matter, which causes no derangement in the machinery of the Adminis tration. Whilst England is entering, with prudent courage and perfect loyalty, upon the reduction of its debt, certain Continental States, such as Belgium and the Neapolitan Government, think to follow its example by simply violating the engagements which they have contracted with their creditors. There is the same difference between the proceed ings in the two cases that there is between a merchant who pays his debts and a bankrupt who gives so much per cent. to his creditors." The reduction of the interest on the French Five per Cents. forms also a topic of discussion in the journals. A great majority of the Chambers, it is said, is in favour of the plan, but the Government is opposed to it. This belief has had a favourable effect on the Funds. On Saturday the Five per Cents closed at 121 f. 75c., and the Threes at 83f. 15c. THE BOURSE—SATURDAY, NAVEL 16. First Highest Lowest Last . . . French Five perCents.exdiv 121 Price 45 .. 121 Price 75 .. 121 Price 45 .. 121 Price. 60 Three per Cents.— • 83 • • 83 15 .. 82 95 .. 83 10 Bank of France.. 3245 ..3245 .. 3240 .. 3240 Laffitte Bank, 5,000 f. Bharesso9o ..5090 5090 —5090 Belgian Five 5....... ••.• • • • 1051 • • 1051 • . 1051 • . 105 f 1840 •• • • 1081 .. 1081 108/ • . 108/ 1842 .. •• • • 1091 • • 109 f • • 109 f • • 109 f Spanish Active .. Threes •• • . 36 .• 36/ .. • 36 .• 36 Portuguese Five per Cents.. 48 • • 48 .. 48 • • 48 Neap01itan.........• • • 102 15 .. 102 35 .. 102 15 .• 102 30 Roman ..... ......• •• .. 1061 • . 106/ • • 106 • • 106 RAILWAY SHARES. • 383 75 .. 385 .. 383 75 .. 385 175 .. 175 .. 175 .. 175 R0uen....... .... . . ....... 890 .. 895 .. 890 • • 895 Rouen to Havre.. .•• • • • 685 685 .. 682 50 • • 682 50 Orleans . Strasburg to Bale— .... •• • • 245 .. 246 25 • • 245 246 25 RAILWAY SHARES, FOR THE ACCOUNT. St. Germain .......• •• • • 837 50 • • 837 50 .. 837 50 .. 837 50 Versailles, R.B. ••• • • • 385 .. 385 .. 385 .. 385 L. 8....... •• • • • • 176 25 .. 176 25 .. 173 75 • • 173 75 -•••• • • • . 890 . 895 • • 890 .. 895 687 50 .. 687 50 .. 681 25 .. 681 86 887 50 .. 891 25 .. 887 50 .. 888 75 246 25 .. 246 25 .. 246 25 .. 246 2:" 768 75 .. 770 .. 763 75 .. 770 SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Vutiltr Optnton " Who runs may read." LOYD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS DAY,) LONDON, AlAliott 18.—Wind this day at noon, frtsh breeze from E.N.E., and fine clear weather. DEAL, MARCH 17.—Wind strallg,--sArrd. Dorothea, Smith, Calcutta; Lascar, Sheddaa, €leylon; Emma, New York for Bremen ; Eleonore Sophie, Sopren, Brazil for out 37 days, Sid. British Empire, Madras ; Roseberu, Bombay ; John Edward, Calcutta ; Druid, Barhado e s ; Portland, St. John's, Neiv Brunswick ; the rest of the outward bound. PORTSMOUTH ' 4inpit 17.—Wind E.N.E., a gale.--Sid. Singe, Cllinc*; Ileftin, Madras ; Gladiator, New York; 'S. Tortoise, Plymouth. COWES, MARCH 17.—S1d. Richmond, Havannah. It IS blowing a gale at East. OFF ST. AtiliASea, Mancit 16.—Caroline, Mauritius. OFF THR WIGHT, MARCH 15 .—Godiaetts, St. Thomas ; Trident, Porto Rico for Haruburght PLYMOUTH, MARCH E.—Arrd. Swift, David, St. Domingo foT Aptweip. Sld. Martha, Trinidad; Asia, Balt.inaora • 'Virginia, Boston. ofr port, Pekin. 14114 Tit, E., violent gale.—Off port, Amicltia, Michaelson, Wind for Antwerp. It is blowing a violent gale at East, BaISTqL. ! 141ttt l6.—Arrd. Neptune, Campb e ll, C a l cutta. Sld. Neste;:, frica ; Eliza, Jamaica; Mtramichi, St. John's, NeW - Ijrunswick. BRIXIIAM, MARCH 17,--The wind, yesterday, shifted sud denly from 5,y1 7 , to S.S,E. and E., and it has since blown a a desperate gale. The Hibernia, from London to Liverpool, is ashore on Paynton Sands, but expected off if the weather moderates —crew saved. A copper-bottomed brig has driven ashore at Broadsands, and has become a wreck —crew missing. The stern of a boat, marked " Fortune, James Cork," has been picked up ; also a green baize, marked " Fortune," and a bible, with " James, 184,3," on it. Several large s are riding heavily, amongst them the Elizabeth Hunter, ship Hunter, from Sheilds to Marseilles, with loss of fore-topmast and bowsprit, having been in contact with a brig to leeward, and carried away her foremast, which lies over her side ; both Vessels are riding very heavily. The barque Spring, the Tagus, fi•om Shields to Naples, and a brig, got ashore, opt, side the pier, in running for the harbour. The gale CfMtinties about twenty sail are in the bay. PWLLHELI, MARCH 16.—1 t is lidOWlllif 4 heavy gale from S.E. The Mary Ann, from I)9A Madoc to London, camp ashore this morning, in a sluicing state, and is under Water, The Thorno4 of 441N.ijai ; the smack William MA of Parigor ; and the Castle, Lady T Q. tile 4-,..4e1 And another, all of Auerystwith, came ashore P4l Ow heaati this evening. The schooner Miriam, of this port ; the Hope, and Content, of Nevar ; a French brig i haul the Whitehaven (brig), at'S ridirg we at Abersach. Very little of the erg al the Oaroline has yet been saved. MONTROSE, MARCllngl,srooTkhh-Peetgreol,unhedncine tocuLotnednonilayin. going out this morni The Chase, London to Sunderland, is also ashore there. The Estop NAN flvni London to Stockton, is on the beach. DU4114.N, AIARCIL 15,--sA copper-bottomed brig (bottom o u n p) t , h witht,loss Qf NON', sad copper very clean, was passed of lat. 47, lon. 13, by the Lady Wright, ars riV_ .411 W MID St. Michael's. idIVERPoor., Sidon, MARCH 16 • srn - 17.—Wind E., fresh.—Arrd. Hero ch of nd Th New Orleans; 'Garlick, Fmk, New Y or k ; pßeinami, omas, Halifa x . Off , A mbassador, Africa. Sld. Sit?aftll4 Sanderson, China; H arr i son , Chilton, Calcutta fri s and Satisf ac ti on, Cape of Good Hope ; Arica and eorgina, Arica ; Chimborazo, Valparaiso ; Adrino, Buenos Ayres ; Pyth agoras, Rio ; Lydia, Bahia ; Mary, Africa ; Campbell and Isabel, Africa;Enterprise, Vera Cruz; The New Orleans; Hero of Acre, Savannah; Superb, Baltimore; Elizabeth Ann and Mazeppa, Newfoundland ; Birkenhead, New York ; Moslem, Port au Prince ; Bruns wick, St. Andrew's; Corsair, Newfoundland; Frederick, St. John's, New Brunswick ; D'Arcy, Batavia ; Beatrice, Cape of Good Hope; Emulous, Vera Cruz; Wilson, Trinidad; Adriana, Barbadoes ; St. Martin, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Sarah Fleming, Montreal ; Eleanor, New Orleans ; Lavinia, Cambridge, and John Cuming, New York. THE MURDER AT BRIGHTON.—.III consequence of the lamentable occurrence at Brighton, the superintendent of the E division of the metropolitan police has issued orders that no officer shall under any pretence leave his charge until he is secured in safe custody in the cell. This will, it is expected, lead to a new general order to the same effect front the head -quarters at Scotland-yard. FOREIGN. In the French Chamber of Deputies, on Friday, the Bill relative to the Greek loan was passed without discussion. ' On Saturday a motion for voting in the Chamber of Depu ties by division, as in England, was rejected by a majority of only 7, there being 174 for the motion, and 181 against it. The Commerce, the National, and some other papers, have for some days been urging on the Government the propriety ' of imitating the example of England and Belgium in the re duction of the interest on the national debt of France. The Journal des Debats is opposed to such a scheme, and affirms that, unlike England and Belgium, France has not the power to reimburse the holders of French Stock by paying them off at par.' The • Constautionnel was on Friday put up at auction at the upset price of 150,000 f. It was adjudged to M. Wren, one of the old shareholders, at 432,500 f. (17,0000 An important measure has been recently adopted by the Hungarian Diet. hitherto the nobles of Hungary, who are very numerous, many even of the smallest farmers being noble, have been exempted from the payment of taxes. The Diet has resolved that this shall no longer be the case ; but the amount and mode of taxation remain to be decided. The grand demonstration of sympathy for Ireland, made at Covent-garden Theatre, is the subject of comment in most of the Paris papers.: Nearly all of them praise the eloquence, mo deration, and justness of the views announced by Mr. O'Connell. A man named Michel, the author of a book, entitled " Caducite des Religions p r et en d ues Re v e l e es, " was tried by the Court of Assizes of Paris on Friday, and convicted of " outrage against religion and public and religious morality," and sentenced to six months' imprisonment and a fine of 2,000 f. The seized copies of the book were ordered to be destroyed. The annual exhibition of the works of art was opened at Paris on Friday. The catalogue comprises 2,423 articles, or 826 more than in 1843—namely, 1,808 paintings and pic tures, 348 miniatures water colours, paintin gs on porce l a i n, &c. ; 24 works of architecture, 133 of sculpture, 89 engravings, and 21 lithographs. A terrible hurricane burst on the 12th over the town of Douai and its vicinity, accompanied with hail, lightning, and loud claps of thunder. The electric fluid struck the steeple of the church of Fressain, and set fire to it. From the violence of the wind, it was feared that the whole village would catch fire. At last, some carpenters boldly ascended amidst the burning timbers, and cut down the u pp er part o f the steeple, which checked the downward progress of the fire. To the courage of these men the safety of the village is to be attri buted. The Manheim Journal states, from Vienna, that the first prize (250,0001) of the State Lottery for 1839, which was drawn on the Ist instant, has been gained by the house of Rothschild. LAW AND POLICE. At the York assizes George Lowther, 37, and Matthew Pearson were indicted for the murder of John Moffit, a game keeper in the employ of Lord Normanby, by shooting him with a gun. Pearson was acquitted, but Lowther was found guilty, and sentence of death passed on him. At the Maidstone assizes the indictments and other pro ceedings arising out of the disputes between the proprietors of the Watermen's Floating Pier at Greenwich and the Stone Pier Company at the same place, were terminated by nominal verdicts being taken by consent on each side, and the matters in dispute referred to an award. This has greatly shortened the duration of the assizes. On the Crown side at the same assizes, Mary Anne Wal ton, 20, a good-looking young person, and who was stated in the calendar to be a married woman, was charged with steal ing a silver watch, some gold shirt studs, and other articles, the property of William D'Oyley Alpin. The prosecutor is a Lieutenant in the army, stationed at Chatham, and the prisoner had cohabited with him at his quarters. The evi dence disclosed a course of heartless depravity on his part, which drew down the severe reproof of the Learned Judge, who ordered him to leave the Court. The woman was found guilty, and sentenced to four months' imprisonment. The present is a " maiden" assize on the civil side at Bed ford, not a single cause having been entered for trial ; not so on the criminal. There are fifty prisoners for trial, and amongst the offences with which they are charged are in fanticide, manslaughter, malicious wounding, highway rob beries (all by women), burglary, and arson. The Midland Circuit Assi ze was opened on Saturday, at Nottingham, by Lord Chief Justice Tindal and Mr. Baron Gurney. COURT - PASHIONABLE. The Queen is expected to return to Buckingham Palace from Claremont to-morrow. The Duke of Cambridge, who has been suffering from in disposition arising from an attack of gout in his feet, is some what better. The following distinguished personages were present at her Majesty's Theatre cut Saturday :—The Duchess of Cambridge, the Countess of Sheffield, the Duke of Leeds, the Marquises of Ailesbury and Douro; the Marchionesses of Ailesbury, Westmeath, and Wellesley ; thi Turkish Ambassador and suite ; the Countess of Cardigan ; Ladies Brougham, Bulkeley, Williams, Hope, Joddrell, Bowyer, Smythe, Martins, Caro. line Masse, Stanley, and Fremantle. The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch gave their second dinner party for the season on Friday evening. The party consisted of the Earl and Countess of Shelburne, Viscount Castlereagh, Viscount and Viscountess Sydney, Viscount Os , sulston, Viscount and Viscountess Leveson, Lord and Lady Jocelyn, Viscount and Viscountess Canning, Lord and Lady Beauvale, Lady Adelaide Paget, Lord Lovaine, Mdlle. D'Este, Mr. RObert Dundas. On Saturday evening their Graces also had a dinner party, which was attended by Lord and Lady Prudhoe, Lord Wharncliffe, Lord John Manners, Lord and Lady Granville Somerset, Sir James and Lady Graham, Earl and Countess of Haddington, Sir George Mur ray, Bart. ; Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone, captain William Gordon, Mr. Pemberton Leigh, and Mr, MaeOnochie, B SI S CIEILLANOI76I., The Bishop of Lichfield preached on Sunday in the church of St. Clement Danes, on behalf of the funds of King's Col lege Hospital. In urging the claims of the institution upon his congregation he said the necessity for the establishment of the hospital had been fully shown by the fact that from the commencement of its operations in 1840 up to the close of last year no less than 4,500 patients had been admitted, while during the same period it had dispensed its benefits to 35 distressed inhabitants of the district in which it was situ ated ; 11,000 of whom resided in the parish of St. Clement. The Right Rev. Prelate concluded with an eloquent appeal on behalf of the charity, which was resp on d e d to by a very liberal collection f rom a densely vrowded congregation. The following is the total number of petitions presented to the House of Commons on various measures up to the Bth inst., viz. : — Against a repeal of the co rn -l aws 316 petitions, signed by 25,503 persons (the number having increased by upwards of 7,000 within a few days) ; against the union of the dioceses of St. Asaph and Bangor 2$ petitions, signed by 2,424 persons ; for a reduction of the duties on tobacco 148 petitions, signed by 25,712 persons; for a n a l teration of the new poor-law 36 petitlik signed by 1,797 persona for with holding the supplies until the grievances of the people have been investigated and redressed 46 petitions (all of which were presented by Mr. W. Sharman Crawford), signed byesls4 We find not one praying for a better observance fth Sab bath, while in Sir Andrew Agnew's time, petitions to that effect were presented in hundreds at a tivilqi An account of all the moneys received and di s b ursed by the Governors of queen Anne 'S Bounty during th e year end ing on the 31st of December, 1842, has been also presented (pursuant to Aot of Parliament). We find that the gross total sum received amounted to 1 94,8961. Bs, 5d., and the gross total sum disbursed to 185 ,4 M ta. 10d., leaving a balance of 9,4191. Os. 7d, On Sunday Mr, Q'COnnell was invested with the order of the 'icily Wild of St. Joseph and St. Mary, in the Roman Catholic chapel Virginia-street, Ratcliffe -highway. 3,6(1 9 ,/ Bank of Ireland, N ow ...... ... • .3,515 1 Last time ................... 01 Increase .................................... 2„01 Private and Joint-Stock Banks, Last tim e "' 2, 45/P / N0w......... A A d I Decrease ................................. 'or Bullion, N ow... ..... ..... .......................... 15,0/ Last time .......... . ........ . ........... L od epti vast accession tothelfrequent e rs of the Nor til t ierol i of American Coffee-hou se t oo k p l ace t hi s morning'. 70, as visito rs th e A mer i can Dwarf, and a comps' . The 0 the form o f a Mi ssouri, or stark Indi a n' t hou/ rft specimen o f t h e human species wen t sin g 01 exhibition of the G rec i an statues, and • en , Long;" and the " Red Man of the Woods, , nts pef d i danced the "war dance " of the natives of the it' stiloy i was certainly a remarkable sight to find such same oibta l° smaWa dwarf, and so tall a man from the n OW 0 ( 1 The former can well cradle himself on a couch4 ,ien tly velvet-hued specimen of which was shown auT e p cious only for a six-shilling wax doll) 0 pleasing posture by ti ny h ands. Afterwards th e I k . f.t specimens of humanity paid a visit to the StuY' s PO - 01 i and the Hall o f C ommerce. The semi-wild roan' tiny one, a Bea r -- o f i nc h es and of weight. t d e tellEJ SUICIDE IN A WATER••BUTT.—A act of self-destruction was perpetrated on Satunoieell lane, Long- acre , b y an individual named Franc' s A s uli appeared that the deceased left his homes la th s ;" ping 0 1 street, at an early hour in the morning, for been fog coo , / visiting his brother, who has for many Y ea rpearceP in the establishment of Messrs. Baxter anubaek makers, of Long- acre, and resides in the breg _AO ai their premises, which extend to Cross-lane. owe:, Made' e% with his brother's family, and shortly after h o e - fte,„ o cure to retire dOwn stairs. His coaI:WWI Alarm, and upon the deceased's niece gOini „ kitchen, she disc overe d him, with his hees a r, is id the water-hint, An al arm was i nstan tly given r assistance having bee n sent for, every endeavour rT e 7 to restore animation , but without suceese•_, co • evidently premeditated, for the deceased h ad t t o coat and waistcoat, folded them up, and P l a ce s ti lSe chair in the kitchen. The members of the orchestra under t i t. " e l : have presented:him with a handsome testimOn! ber e in the shape of a baton, superbly mounted vat' . ts, is no more than a just tribute to his spirit and a has been manufactured by Mr. S. Uherri ll ' ca. s ; place, Clerken we ll, an d is in the same style 'b . fo !boo sented to Sir George Smart and Signor Cots , ing the inscription :—"Presented to AL JVOL:sifi l i members of the orchestra, as a mark of the ~1iig.0 1, 4070 0 14 they entertain for his musical talent, and of his hberal and gentlemanly conduct t' i w go 04. his management of the concerts at the ' thesiT e r,, lish Opera and C ovent - garden. Londo Febru - ' , -Dramatic and Musical Revimu. S. 0° SUSPECTED M URDER AT L citement was created in the neighb onebood 0f4 1 4 ,7101L Pwhich appeared in some o f the,o 4 . be ov - wsisy, stating that some arm and leg brmes, part w . ders t° _, li tre e . the skull of a human body, had been found o l fin gair:,„ circumstances in a dust bin at a house in 'i r sctn re of that the police surgeon had discovered a large ....02.1000e.. skull, which were supposed to have been the i - o seet be' old man who was suddenly and raysteriouslY oug e 11 1 ; ye 14 years since, and further stating that the ~,h , , repo4, closed some time. From inquiries made by i e re' the ; De terday, the following particulars, which may be in," t e i were obtained :---On Friday a ft ernoon some ploy of Mr. Kitchiner, house No. 21, Stangate-street, which has n al r fi t Ibt 61 .00 01 2 1 „, the dust-contracto r, hee oo7per: o about a week by a Mr. Warren. The mes a pose of clearing the dust-bin, which havi n g s kullt i irsrre ll A plished, they discovered part of a human grs-_,;bt, bones and a small bone, and on mi lli ' g the ;1.401.,,,.) attention to the subject, she WAS shocke d a t %,. 0 „sP, begged they might be removed, and they I - AP taken away in the oart, and shot with to!, t i fsei";i l be s! Kitchener's yet, On Mr. Warren returnin* .400, sea evening he was informed of the circumstr7, o tretwo once repaired to the L police-staticrt,l47,%4GeestsboSeg.ei gave information, and in conseqatiWn I'll''' . orn i -001r wetit to Arr. Kitchiner hp ; however, brought fftyv th e pi ece of sk all o r b i af h'se,e ° , piece of a leg-12e,n0 ; this piece of skull the 1 0 ao a dently 's, latlt coka nbt find theog e aNC4 tte practised hand of a enr la n been in l i enl fractWit 48 ernineously stated. No old man ;f o od b . „ d i #'9u seen years, nor has the house been -,:,ccuP,e 41144 a few weeks, having been previousiL l tsesij o ge; draper's shoptnan, and the skull, &c., is suPP= o ecsP, 0 do; used by some surgeon or student, but whet he r in lodging in the house, by whom or when pla ced oc hin, or whether with the knowledge of the fain e is at pre sent i nvolved in myst e ry. to th 44 ha , The Cou n t ess of Uxbridge, according Al t o dical reports is sue d on Satur day and yesterds e i.,h o ls• be o gli some tranquil sleep, and was cotetm.ip s d. on th • alth o pt A Up to last evening her Ladyship yrs , dingy b ,pd, - slowly. The several members of the roY. messengers to make inquiries after her I : a n ci unl y. e - i f o r atto r j ?": 0 the calls of the nobility have been 1n 0eb , r0. .....P 9 ' t po0,1 1 ) , ANTIQUE SURGICAL IMSTRUMEN, , , :t hoin 4 surgical instruments have been latelytn l u e se dib t Aa r ' 1 , 0004 - oe' o f which bear a strong resemblance to those tbe , 0 in the present day. It is singular enoug h there i 9 P vast number of rehcs brought from Egyp t iro been b a surgical instrument, whil s t so mini 0710 0, e v o , Pompeii.—Polutechnie Review. • in h c o ol A Midland Counties Demonstratiot i x 0 the most distinguished p a t r i o t of the ar b e h e ld Esq., is in contemplati on . It i s intend ed r" 0 1 1 00 tingham.—Nottingham Review. vmjr,A.ZON -... : 10 450 5 da VISIT OF KING LEOPOLD TO •-•-• o i the Begr eor pr ir MARCH 16.—His Majesty the King 00 Cl suite are expected at this port on the 26ti11," s t Lis visit her Majesty the Queen of England ar . in_t ye sesi,„",)P ness Prince Albert. The Princess Alice s i a e l ' in bark , the Dover mail-packets, it is expected, 7 1 "_ to Siroe' r e s ll, jesty and suite on that day, and convey thera u The contemplated marriage betwee n dot e to Clifton, of the Ist Life Guards, and Miss la dl 3 !`' of the Hon. Colonel and Lady Eleanor Lowtsonl4.l,ooa to the Earl of H ar b oroug h, i s expected to lt ttJ ne in the ensuing month. A . of loe OPY - COLOURED GLASS.--The propor ti on , art ny aso s in colouring glass is so small, that we could ",-,„ 0 that it could produce any chemical effect. _ . ` - 0 0:00 , '" grains of glass are highly coloured by one tcra w Polytechnic Review. 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