The Sun. — London, England, 1839-03-22 00:00:00

14NENING EDITION. the Noble Earl who .opened the debate did not differ in epinion with his Noble Friend as to the non- necessity of any new laws. The Noble Duke, indeed, bad hinted at measures, but bad not stated what those measures were to be.—(The Noble and Learned Lord then read several ex tracts from the speeches of the Noble (Roden) to show that it was impossible, consistently with his recorded reasons and opinions, for him to bring forward the present motion, and to defend himself against certain unjustifiable and calumnious imputations, cast on him (Lord Plunket), in 1827, by the Noble Earl. He would also call the at tention of the House to the speeches of the Noble Earl on the Refurm Bill, and on various other occasions, in order to prove to the House that the Noble Earl was no very safe adviser on any subject. The Noble Earl had taken upon himself to pass judgment on the Marquis of Wel lesley, a statesman whose name was now adored in extensive countries where the name of the Noble Earl had never been beard of, and would be remembered when the Noble Earl should be forgotten. The consequence of adopting the motion of the Noble Earl would be to com mit the supporters of it to the repeal of the Emancipation Act, of the Reform Act, and of the Education Act, and he hardly thought his Noble and Learned Friend would go so far as this, or would agree with the Noble Earl in his censure of the Marquis of Wellesley. Since 1798 Ribbonism machinery had not been completely removed from Ireland, nor had it increased. There was not, he was sure, any tendency to insurrection in Ireland —but Ribbonism should be watched and, if need, be punished. He differed from his Noble and Learned Friend that mercy was no longer so if it did not proceed from justice. But he believed that the ancient custom of this country was on the aceession of a Sovereign, down to the reign of George the Third, to pass a General Act of Grace. ( Hear, hear.) He would admit that this might be a foolish custom. But the Noble Marquis did not go beyond the limits of the prerogative of mercy in the pardons he had granted. The Noble Lord (Brougham) did not blame what he called the " delinquency" of the Noble Marquis in 1837. What additional reason had he now to do so ?—( Hear, hear.) But suppose the Noble Earl should come to the vote on the motion of censure, would his Noble and Learned Friend (Lord Brougham) neutralise and contradict all his former acts, and turn round on all the friends he had so long acted with, to join now in a factious vote of censure, which was a mere party measure—(Cheers) —from which no good could come, and which bad no other view than to overturn the present Ministry—a vote in which the intelligent people of England, Ireland, and ' Scntland would not concur. The other party in this most extraerdinary coalition would soon have reason to re pent the alliance they were now making with the Noble and Learned Lord. Depend upon upon it, he would soon re pay himself with usury, as usual, for the advances he was now nicking.—( Hear, hear.) Lord BROUGHAM explained. He would have said fiftc en months ago what be had just said, if he bad been driv: , ri to it. He merely agreed with the Noble Lords op posite only on this one view—the necessity of the motion for a Comniittee. lie had been very much misrepresented by the Noble Lord (Rossmore), who had spoken for the first time to. night. He said he (Lord B.) had attacked Ire land ;be had not—he praised the people of Ireland rather. The Marquis of NO RMAN BY said he wanted none of the forbaar-InCe noun assumed by the Noble and Learned Lord. lie had made professions of friendship last year and corgratulated him upon folowing up the administration of Lord Wellesley—now he uncandidly retracted those pro tesiion s. Lord BROUGHAM explained. He would not have Er , ,,Acn as he had fificen months ago if the facts had been to prominently brought forward then as they had been to-aiight. lie bad done his duty candidly and ho nestly, and if he even had made professions under a niistake, was bis mruth to be stopped for ever? He would vote only for an ingniry, that could not amount, as yet. at least, to a vote of censure. the .Eart of WINCHILSEA entirely concurred with ...... ........ _ . the Noble 'and Learned Lord in support of the motion of th , ! Noble Earl. Ile vindicated the character of the Noble Earl ( linden) as a great benefactor and honour to Ireland. Tl:e Ead I of RODEN replied in a few words. Srritogers were then ordered to withdraw, and their Lordships dt‘ided. • Contt nts 63 Non- contents 5B Majority in favour of the Motion —s The licuse adjourned at a Quarter past Four. ---- Al n, IWNISTERIAL ATTACK UPON THE CITY'S PRIVILEGES. Ti 7 E BUG .NANGHAM PALACE, Mallen 21, 1839. clay, the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, the Alder "— Recorder, Sheriffs, Common Council, and Offi cers of the City of London, waited upon Her Majesty with the f.l.owing Address and Petition, which was read by the Hon. Charles Ewan Law, the Recorder, and which Her Majesty was graciously p:eased to receive on the throne , " To THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. " The humble Address and Petition of the Lord Mayor, Alder men, and Commons of the City of London, in Common Coun cil assembled. " Flo,t Gracious Sovereign,—We, your Majesty's most loyal and dutiful subjects, the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Com mons of the City of London, in Common Council assembled, humbly approach your Majesty' w.th feelings of unshaken confidence to solicit your Majesty's aid and protection against a measure now pending in Parliament in violation of our - no st sacred rights and privileges, being assured from your Majesty's mo,t gracious declaration in the Guildhall of your ancient. city of Loudon of your Majesty's regard for the r.reat commercial community, the met opohs of your empire. Prior to the Norman conquest, the citizens of London pos. srsstil and exorcised the important right and privilege of Electing their own Magistrates, and of providing by rules and regulations, made by their own municipal authorities, for the protection of their property, and for the preservation of the peace within the City, by the appointment of proper officers for keeping watch and ward within the same. " King William 1., by his charter, granted and secured to the citizens of London the integrity of their rights, customs, arid franchises, as fully and freely as they were enjoyed in the dais of King Edward the Confessor. Under the said Charter the citizens of London continued :"rise these rights and privileges, and the same have been armed by repeated charters of your :Majesty's Royal prede detsers. to ex() " The ancient rights and privileges of London were arbitrarily invades! by a colourable judgment in a quo warronto obtained by King Charles 11. ; a perseverence in these and such like illegal and unconstitutional pro eeediLgs in the reign of his successor, King James 11. tended to shake the stability of the throne, and operated, amongst other causes, by the glorious Revo lu.ion, to transfer to your Majesty's ancestors the domi nion of those realms. To indemnify the city of London for the past, and to provide a permanent security for the future, to the rights, franchises, and liberties of the citizens, an Act of Parliament was passed in the second year of the reign of King William and Queen Mary, entitled ' An Act for Re versing the Judgment in Quo Warranto against the City of London, and for restoring the City of London to its ancient Rights and Privileges.' "By the Bill introduced into the House of Commons by your Majesty's responsible advisers, entitled ' A Bill for further Improving the Police in and near the Metropolis,' it is proposed to enact, amongst other things, that the city of Lon don, and the liberties thereof, and all precincts and places within the outer boundaries of such places, shall be part of the metropolis police district, and that the Justices appointed and to be appointed under the provisions of the Act of the 10th year of the reign of King George IV. shall be Justices of the Peace of the said city, liberty, precine+s, and places, and empowered to act therein, as fully as if the said city, liberties, precincts, and places, had been named in the said Act. " The Bill se introduced is an encroachment upon, and a violation of the ancient chartered rights, liberties, and privileges of London, without any reasonable cause of complaint or advan tage to the public. "It is to us a matter of deep regret and disappointment to find that your Majesty's Ministers (professing liberal princi ples of popular representation and self-government, as opposed to aibitrary power) should be authcrs of a measure calculated to wrest from the hands of the citizens of London, and place under the control of a Minister of the Crown, their ancient, unabused, and long respected right of protecting their own pro perty, liberties, and lives. " Should such measures pass into a law, your Majesty's citizens of London will be deprived of a privilege which Parlia ment in its wisdom has recently conferred, without distinction, upon all the Municipal Corporations in the kingdom. " We, your Majesty's most dutiful subjects, have established a police in the City of London fully adequate to its wants, and equal, if not superior, to the Metropolitan Police; and we, therefore, feel that there exists no occasion or pretence fur the, measure contemplated by the Bill. We are most anxious for a thorough and complete co-operation between the two bodies, and that such an union may be effected as shall carry every wise and _ salutary principle fully into operation, without interfering with or destroying the immemorial rights and privileges of the citi zens of London. "We cannot but contemplate the proposed measure not only as destructive to the rights of the citizens 111 London, but as dangerous to the Constitution, involving, as it does, a prin ciple of centralization inconsistent with and in opposition to the franchises and liberties of the whole people. .• We therefore humbly and earnestly implore your Majesty's roost gracious interposition on behalf of your citizens of Lon don, and that your Majesty will not countenance your Majesty's responsible advisers in a measure calculated to subvert the rights and privilege, of our ancient Cit y. ("Signed by order of Court) " HENRY WOODTIIORPE." sty was graciously pleased to return the following Her Maj answer : " The pcace and security of the . inhabitants of my capital re quire my care and the attention of my Government. With these objects in view, I have directed measures to be submitted to Parliament, which will, I have no doubt, receive their de.iberate consideration. " I fully rely on their zeal for the welfare of my people, and their regard for the rights and privil , ges of ii my subjects." _ --.-_. -. ----:--------- ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE TIIE REV. J. I. 111:RIESFORD.—An insurrectionary spirit has of late exhi bited itself in the Queen's County. On Friday night, the Bth instant, a shot with a ball and about fifty slugs, was fired into the drawing-room window of the Glebe house of Donoughmore, the residence of the Rev. J. I. Beresford. The reverend gerAleman and his lady had fortuntely left the room a short time previous ; but Mr Beresford, bearing the report, at once prepared and placed his servants to meet an attack, and, raising a win dow, he was in the act of firing on a man whom he per ceived retreating, when the window, having no pully, gale way, which prevented Mr. Beresford from firing, until, it is to be regretted, the ruffian escaped the effect. The following morning, P pistol (made from a musket barrel cutA:bort, with a "home-made" stock) was found on the walk opposite the window . , it is supposed from being over loaded, it fell from the assassin's hand when he discharged it. There is not a better-hearted man than the Rev. John I. Beresford, but in Ireland of late the most humane cha racter is not exempt from danger. About a week previous, the house was robbed of 261. by burglars, wbo forced an entrant through a parlour window, after the family had retired to rest. A meeting of Magistrates on the subject of the outrage above detailed is to take place in the en suing week.—Morning Post. c l i :AmnuiiiNt.—The question at isAte between hs artist a n d L aporte, accor di ng to a l e tt e r received this day from to Paris, thearsms reference of his engagementsimply it appears; has nothing to do with t he at her Majesty's Theatre ; but to bind himself to a refusal. on the part of Tarnburina of th e Season , for r t e h m e ain in En g la n d a f ter the conclusion without additional remunuerrilotsioen(Lf . s " r d a o s i i i c i a g i tvvlie,orplyvinccs" METROPOLITAN POLITICAL SUMMARY. The Times, in reference to the Queen's reply to the City address, says:—" The import is insulting enough. Ministers do not mean to recede from their projected measure. Now, Citizens, what will you do ? We do hope you will bestir yourselves. We hear you are indig nant. Another address to her Maj est y may, perhaps, follow." The Morning Herald of this day, in the course of a leading article, the text of which is furnished by the de bate on the state of Ireland, which took place in the Lords last night, observes:—" In reference to the Whig plea that Ireland, under Whig rule, is not more disgraced than formerly, by the prevalence of crime and outrage of the most shocking character;—in reference to this plea, we would observe that it involves the bitterest possible con demnation of Whig policy." When the distracted condi. tion in which Ireland was left by the Tories is borne in mind, and more especially the strenuous opposition to all practical measures for her relief, which Ministers have constantly experienced from English and Irish Tories, the wonder will be, not that they have done so little, but that they have done so much, to ameli orate the condition of the sister-country. The evils en gendered by centuries of misgovernment are not to be remedied in five or six years. In another article on the subject of her Majesty's answer yesterday to the City of London's Address, the Herald say s :—" the reply which Lord Melbourne has presumed to put into her Majesty's mouth, partakes, we regret to say, of positive incivility His Lordship has studiously excluded from the reply to the City Address, all those courtesies of expression that are usual on such occasions. Her Majesty is not permitted to acknowledge the long-tried loyalty of the citizens, nor to advert to their honourable attachment to old civic in- stitutions." The Morning Cdronicle, alluding to the system of policy that the Tories have invariably pursued towards Ireland, remarks as follows :—" Toryism never departs from the ancient ways, when they lead to crime and misery. The Irish peasantry are used to be famished and hanged, and the old usages of a people are not to be rashly meddled with. If the custom of England, as Sir Edward Coke says, is the law of the land, the maxim, we suppose, ex tends to Ireland ; and hence it follows that the law of Ire land expressly prohibits eating, nothing being so contrary to the custom of that part of the United Kingdom 1 In this view of the matter, a dinner in Ireland is clearly a lawless proceeding, and an Irishman might be indicted for having had a substantial meal. Eating is almost the only lawless practice to which the Tories have not driven and enured the Irish peasantry. Let well al( ne,' is their cry in England. Let ill alone,' is their maxim beyond the Channel." The Morning Post contains a brief leading article sug gested by a measure which Mr. Labouchere has announced his intention of bringing forward in a few days in the Commons. In this article our Contemporary sa;s—" The Bill of which Mr. Labouchere has given notice for Tuesday next, is a Bill to suspend the Constitution of Jamaica, and to invest the Government with despotic powers. Ministers are now ambitious of producing striking contrasts and the atrical results ; and, therefore, having made the blacks in Jamaica free, they desire to increase the splendor, and en hance the value of the gift, by making slaves of the whites." The Morning Advertiser comments as follows on her Majesty's answer to the City Address :--" In this reply we reco;nise with pain not only an indifference towards the wishes and opinions of the authorities and inhabitants of the metropolis of the British Empire, but an almost contemptuous disregard for public opinion generally. Well might her Majesty falter, as she did, in delivering such a reply to the respectful remonstrance of the citizens of Lon don I We say it with reluctance, but we say it broadly, the Queen is ill-advised on this subject. The Globe speaking of the Bishop of London's inter view with Lord Melbourne on Wednesday on the subject of a Sunday transmission of letters from the Post-office, says :—" No one will question that supreme regard for 'the interests of religion actuated the 'Bishop in the pro minent put he has taken in Parliament and elsewhere against the apprehended change. With him the trans mission qf a letter is an overt act of impiety which nothing can justify, and the most extreme necessity can only palliate. So says the Prelate in his place in Parlia ment, and as the head of the deputation to the Premier. But what says the Right Rev. Prelate by his conduct in his Palace—to his family and servants there—to the Post-office 6 er/tints—in his own vicinity, and to the frank inspectors at the Post-office in London ? The Bishop to each and to all these saith thus My hor ror of Sabbath desecration is reserved for public exhibi tion ; but cools down to zero when I get within my pa lace gates. Although lam aghast at the bare notion of a tradesmen, whose credit may be ruined if a remittance arrive not on a given day, and which calamity will ensue by the detention of his letter containing it—al though I would prevent a letter on life or death from being sent out of Laudon on Sunday, I will allow myself to write, frank, and post letters on the Sunday, as if there were no law of God or man to forbid it.' Let not our readers start at our temerity. We write not these things without the means of proof, if called upon to adduce it. Such proof has been placed in our pos session, in a letter recently written and franked by the Bishop's own hand, and posted on a Sunday—a letter not containing a remittance to some poor child of suf fering, nor to pour consolation into the ear of a dying soul whom his Lordship's other engagements precluded ' him from visiting in person—no claims of charity or of mercy urged and obtained a breach of the law—it is a letter on ordinary business, appointing an interview on c following Friday !" SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL' S— YESTERDA THE DERBY. A thin attendance, and the betting very dull. 0 to 1 agst John Scott's lot—taken 20 to 1 agst Sir G. Heathcote's lot 8 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Brother toßayMiddleten—taken 15 to 1 agst Duke of Rutland's Flambeau—taken 15 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Dey of Algiers—taken 16 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Erin-go-13ragh—takers 18 to 1 agst Duke of Cleveland's Kremlin—taken 23 to 1 a!st Lord Albemarle's 'Pros—offered 25 to 1 agst Lord Westminster's 'I he Lord Mayor 28 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Bulwark 30 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Epidaurus—taken 30 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Ilderim—offered 30 to 1 agst Colonel Anson's Zimmerman—taken 30 to 1 agst Lord Lichfield's Gulnare colt—offered 33 to 1 agst Mr. Wreford's Westonian—taken 35 to 1 agst Sir G. Heathcote's VaLincourt—taken 35 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Accelerator—offered 40 to 1 agst Mr Dixon's Cammellino 40 to 1 agst Mr. Ridsdale's Bloomsbury 40 to 1 agst Mr. Wreford's Wapiti 40 to 1 agst Sir G. Ileathcote's C mborazo—taken 40 to 1 agst Captain Williamson's Melbourne—taken :50 to 1 agst Mr. Batson's Brother to Plenipo—taken 50 to 1 agst Mr. Clark's Dragsman—taken 1000 to 10 agst Mr. Mostyn's Hugh Lupus—taken 10(X) to 20 agst Mouche—taken RIDDLESWORNI. 7 to 4 agst Lord Jersey's Brother to Bay Middleton—offered LATEST BETTING AT MANCHESTER. CHESTER. TRADES' CUP. 8 to I agst Mr. Copeland's King Cole—taken 9 to 1 agst Mr. Ferguson's Harkaway—taken 12 to 1 agst Lord Westminster's Cardinal Puff—taken 12 to 1 agst Captain Berkeley's Caravan—taken 100 to 7 agst Captain Healey's Van Buren—taken 15 to 1 agst Sir 'l'. Stanley's Cowboy—taken 16 to 1 agst Captain Lamb's Chit Chat 16 to 1 agst Mr. Ileseltine's Slashing Harry 18 to 1 agst Mr. Meiklam's The Drone—taken 20 to I agst Colonel Peel's lon—offered 20 to 1 agst Mr. Allan's Percy—offered 20 to 1 agst Mr. 'l'. Walter's Vertumnus 20 to 1 agst Mr. Barrow's Eaglet DERBY BETTING. 9 to 1 agst Ld Jersey's Bro. to Bay Middleton—taken 100 to 8 agst Duke of Rutland's Flambeau—taken 15 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Dey of Algiers—taken 18 to 1 agst Duke of Cleveland's Kremlin—taken 20 to 1 agst Lord Albemarle's Tros 25 to 1 agst Lord Westrcinster's The Lord Mayor—taken 33 to 1 agst Mr. Thornhill's lot :13 to 1 agst Col. Anson's Zimmerman—taken 33 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Erin-go-Bragh THE RIDDLESWORTH. 6 to 4 on Ld Jersey's Brother to Bay Middleton—offered WARWICK SPRING RACES.-WEDNESDAY. Match for 100 soya., three-quarters of a mile.-Mr. P. Charlton's b. f. Manumission (late Cap of Liberty), by Eman cipation, 3 yrs. 7st. (Chapple), beat Captain Lamb's b. g. Vivian, aged, a feather ; easily. The Trial Stakes of 10 sovs. each, with 30 added by the Town of Warwick, and 20 by the Stand Proprietors, for two and three yrs old. Mile course. (15 subs.) Mr. Ilawlinson's b. c. Chilson, 2 yrs, 6st. 121 b. (W. Day) 1 Mr. E. Peel's br. c. The Dean, 2 yrs. 75t... 0 Mr. Jones's br. c. The Poet, 2 yrs, 6st. 121 b 0 Mr. Collins's ch. c. Springfield, 2 yrs, 6st. 121 b 3 The following also started, but were not placed:-Lord Stanley's br. c. Charlatan, 2 yrs, 6st. 121 b. ; Mr. Copcland's gr. c. Vertumnus, 3 yrs, 9st. ; Mr. Copeland's b. c. May the First, 2 yrs, 7st. ; Mr. Sadler's b. f. Deceit, 2 yrs, Ost. 121 b. ; Captain Lamb's br. c. Speed, 2 yrs, 6st. 121 b. ; Mr. Hervey's b. c. Bibury, by Cardinal Puff, dam by Rober t s, 2 yrs, 6st. 121 b. ; Lord Warwick's br. c. Ethiopian, by Belzoni, dam by Ardrossan, 2 yrs, 6st. 121 b. ; Mr. W. Tempest's b. c. John Doe, by Pantaloon, out of Michaelmas, 3 yrs, Bst. 1 0 1 b. ; and Mr. G. C. It. Wegulin's b. g. Isabella, by Oppidan, out of Shepherdess (h. b.), 2 yrs, 6st. 121 b. A•good race between the first four. A dead heat for second place between the Dean and the Poet. The Debdale Stakes of 5 sovs. each, with 30 added, for horses not thorough-bred. Gentlemen riders. Two miles. (Seven subs.) Captain Barton's Marc Antony, aged, 13st ... 1 Mr. Robertson's b.g. Why Not, aged, 12st. 101 b... 2 Mr. 4lostyres gr. g. Silver, aged, 12st The following also started, but were not placed :-Captain Lamb's b.g. Shepherd, 5 yrs. 12st., and 111 r. J. C. R. We gulin's b.m. Pussy, aged, 12st. 71b. Won easy. Hurdle Race Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, with 25 added b. the Stewards. Six leaps. Gentlemen riders. (Eight subs.) Mr. Jones's b.g. Decider, 4 yrs. list (Mr. Powell) 1 Captain Barton's Marc Antony, aged, 12st. 2lb Mr. Little's gr.g. Sponge, aged, 12st. 21b... Mr. Oliver's b.g. Sportsman, aged, 12st. 21b ......... 4 The Farmers' Stakes, value o 0 sovs., with 10 for the second. Heats two miles. (Seven Subs.) Mr. Lucas's b. f. Ellen, by Merman, dam by Ambrosia, 3 yrs, lOst. 21b. (T. Pearks) 1 1 Mr. Knight's b. c. Young Vivian, 4 yrs, 1 Ist. ...... 2 2 Mr. W. Cowper's b. f. Emmeline, sister to Emma, 3 yrs, lOst. 21b. The following also started, but were not placed :-Mr. H. Robins's br. f. Kitty, sister to Maria, 3 yrs, 10st. 21b, and Mr. Page's b. g. Sailor, 4 yrs, llst. Won easy. A Forced Handicap Stakes of 10 sovs. each. Once round and adiAance, (Seven Subs. ) Mr. W. Walters's b. c. GoldhUrst, 4 yrE, 9st. 61b. (Taylor 1 Mr. Collett's b. m. Duenna, aged, lOst 2 Mr. Collins's b. g. Powick, 4 yrs, Bst. 121 b The following also started, but were not placed :—Mr. Thompson's b. I. by Harry, dam by Marmion, Bst. 131 b, and Captain Barton's Marc Antony, aged ist. kil.tb. Won easy. Mr. Hindle) , paired off last ni Mr. Hume's m ,tion, wit ght, in favour of innon. SOUTH COAST OF DEVON. TO BE LET or SOLD an excellent FAMILY lIOUSE, with Flower and Kitchen Gardens, Coach- House, Stables, and all necessary Offices, and with or without Five Acres of land. The Premises are situate near Lymp stone, on the banks of the Exe, opposite P-owderham Castle, of the grounds of which it commands a fine view. For particulars apply (if by letter, post paid), at the Office of H. R. Hill, 12, Copthall-court, London ; Mr. F. Dore, auctioneer, Exeter ; or Mr. F. Searle, Lympstone. ccts. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1839 wisdom can only and ought to conform. The To ries, however, believe, and declare, that Acts of Parliament give an impulse to society, direct its course, and regulate its form and growth. They, accordingly, never look beyond the four corners of the Statute-book, and conclude that as long as that remains unaltered things will remain stationary, and society will adapt itself to that procrustean bed. Hence they suppose that because they have in both Houses voted against agitating the question of the Corn laws, that this subjectis settled and unalterable ; but out of doors the reverse is known and felt ; and no man of business, no farmer, no landlord will or can believe, so as to take or let farms or make contracts on the belief—that these laws will remain just as they are now, or for the next three years. Now, Lord JOHN RUSS.ELL, who formerly pro fessed a nobler faith, has adopted this Tory prin ciple and follows this 'Uory practice, so far as the Reform Act is concerned ; and he placed a veto on Mr. HumE's motion, because he would not disturb and shake the confidence of the people in the durability of our institutions. Poor little man ! he does this at the very time when the whole land is teeming with the most violent condemnation of that Act—when, as Mr. WARD told him, " it had filled the hearts of the unenfranchised with gall and bitterness, and all uncharitableness towards the enfranchised ;" and when they are everywhere declaring the utmost hos tility, even to taking up arms, against this very Re form Act. If Lord JOHN RUSSELL and his pre sent supporters had wished to preserve for our in stitutions the authority of prescription, they should have left them unaltered ; but it is too much to claim for the miserable anomalies pointed out by Mr. HUME—for the wretched abortion, which the fierce Tories, aided by some false Whigs, made of that Act, after an operation of only six years—the autho rity of antiquity, and say that in it then shall be no innovation. There was some reason in the Tory doc trine, that under the old Parliament, the nation had gone through a long career of glory and had attained as much happiness and freedom as ever were known ; but it was totally unable to bear up against the irresistible arguments of Lord JOHN RUSSELL and his friends, that this career and this happiness had been attained in spite of the anoma lies and abuses of the rotten borough system, and that society had changed and expanded so as to make that condition of Parliament wholly unfit for the present times. We agreed then with Lord JOHN RUSSELL; but now he goes further into error than the Tories, for since the Reform Act was passed, much bad and very little good legislation has been enacted, many old grievances have been unredressed, and new ones created, numerous wrongs have been perpetrated and rights denied, till the whole land is in a flame of ungovernable dis content ; and yet he claims for this law of six years' standing, which has been as yet attended by no per. ceptible advantage, and while the feeble, pro. crastinating, if not perfidious men, are ye in existence who, made it and suffered it to be perverted, all the deference and veneration which the Tories, in 1831, claimed for the rotten boroughs, after an existence of some hundred years. Lord JOHN RUSSELL should have taken care, if he meant to preserve the Reform Act unaltered, to make it perfect ; and loudly condemned, as it was at the time by many of the most enlightened friends of Reform ; had he then declared that it was to be a final and unchangeable measure, they would have repudiated both it and the Whigs, and would have run their chance for a better measure rather than take it on those conditions. The whole rea soning of Lord JOHN RUSSELL rested on a Tory foundation, which he had before overthrown ; and preferring his authority in 1831, when he was un hampered by official ties, to his authority now, his speech only convinces us that he pre fers ease to principle. If he had shown that the present Act worked well—if he could have pointed to numerous, serried, and harmonious supporters, to an opposition disjointed and feeble—if he could have pointed to the Corn-laws repealed, to the Church effectually reformed, to abuses of the law eradicated, to great economy in the national expenditure combined with great efficiency in the public service, to industry stimulated and honoured, and to idleness .repressed arid disgraced—if he could have pointed out one act of great substantial, unpolluted justice done by the Reformed Parlia ment, we might have thought that he made out a semblance of a case ; but all his arguments only branded himself and his friends as incendiaries for ever having disturbed the rotten boroughs. P Mr. D'lsnA ELI made one of those exhibitions of himself in the House of Commons last night which have caused him to be classed with the amusements of the House. He always provokes peals of merriment when he speaks, being as vague as a novelist, while, like a rigid mathematician, he continually demands .precise definitions of his op ponent. He has a flow of unmeaning words and a great paucity of ideas. He wrote a pamphlet some time ago, in which he insisted that the House of Commons was not the House of the People but an estate of the realm, though what it is, as an estate of the realm, but the House of the People, the Honourable Member always forgot to explain. Greatly to the amusement of the House he repeated over and over again his definition. just as the fools of novelists and play-writers do, with words they do not understand, without ever • getting further, and excited the loud laughter of both friends and opponents. What will the electors of Maidstone think of a Representative who, like a clown hired to make grimaces, is an object of general ridicule ? In 1815 they were so averse from the Corn-laws that they chased Lord DARNLEY and his friends from the hustings, when they met to petition for protection to agriculture, and compelled them to agree to their resolutions, and draw up their petition in a private room. Times are altered now, and, under the Reform Act, both the Representa tives of Maidstone, the seat of one important branch of industry, the manufacture of paper, now vote in favour of continuing the Corn-laws, and of keeping bread dear. ,The towns are not only swamped by the counties, but they are misrepresented under the Reform Act. That is, however, in a great mea sure the fault of the electors themselves, and they will deserve no better if they continue to send strangers to represent them in Parliament whose conduct covers those who choose them with ridicule. We insert the Address of the City of London to her MAJESTY, and her MAJESTY'S answer, which is of a nature not to enhance her popularity with the City functionaries. Her MAJESTY tells them, coolly and calmly, that the peace and security of the inhabitants of her capital require the care and attention of her Government ; that she has caused, with these views, measures to be submitted to Parliament, and that she relies on the zeal of Parliament, and its regard for the rights and pri vileges of all her subjects. Her MAJESTY, there fore, will be at issue with the Corporation of Lon don ; and this answer is, we believe, the first ungra cious one she has had to return to any body of her sub heads of those infidel bakers who shock the pious by enabling the poor man to enjoy a hot joint after Church-time ! Judging from present appearances, we think nothing more likely than that the Right Rev. Prelate will persuade Ministers to make fools of themselves after some such fashion as we have just described ; fur if he can make them believe that an early delivery of letters on Sunday, is an act of irreligion in London, when it is considered perfectly orthodox in the majority of our country-towns, he can make them believe anything, and, what is worse, perpetrate any ab surdity, however preposterous. The truth is, the Bishop of LONDON—in his public capacity at least, for in private we hear he is a truly pious and unas suming man—considers religion as a mere cold, dry matter of fortn—a thing of conventional etiquette ; and acting on this narrow, pedantic principle, he bids fair, by his influence over Ministers, to give a wonderful stimulus to Hypocrisy, who, even as it is, needs no spur to quicken her march. if it be essen tial, to the progress of true religion, that the forms and observances of the Sabbath be kept up with puritanical strictness, at least let fair play be observed, and all the classes be equally bound by such forms. If no cleric or postman be permitted to give out a letter on Sundays, let no cook be al lowed to work in a rich man's kitchen, or a West end hotel ; for the one servant is quite as much entitled to rest on the Sabbath as the other. The delay which has taken place in the forma tion of a new Ministry in France, has given rise to serious apprehensions that the King, though seem ing to yield to the conditions of the Coalition, is fully determined to maintain his own peculiar po licy, and that he is confirmed in this determina tion by the secession of GuizoT, and still more by the irreconcilable pretensions of the different parties that still appear to be united. We should not indeed, be surprised, if Louis PHILIPPE contrive to nullity (as the Americans say) the result of the elections. He has certainly materials to work upon which have no inherent attraction for each other. They were forced together by his headstrong policy, and a little relaxation on his part, together with an infu sion of some new ingredients may restore all the original force of the repulsive qualities. GUIZOT asserts that though refused the only situation which he could accept, he will remain neutral. ()DILLON BARROT, if refused the Presidency of the Chamber, says he will'also remain neutral ; but will their followers•show the same disinterested conduct, or will they themselves long remain in this isolated position when surrounded by so many attracting powers ? The only chance of success the Coalition had was by remain►ng united, and if the different members have not sense or patriotism enough to sacrifice their own minor differences to carry out the only principle for which they coalesced, the lessening of the power of the Crown — they will become even less powerful than the defeated Ministry. The organs of the Court seem already certain of victory, and boldly as sert that the policy of the KING is the policy of the great body of the French people ; that he was chosen KING not because he was nearest to the Throne, but because his political principles were those of France ; and that though this policy may vary on some points, its fundamental doctrines can not he overturned ; any Ministry that would atempt a different course would only lose their time and labour So says the Revue de Paris within these few days It adds, " Nothing will be changed, and M. TM ERS will not be abl e to adopt a more liberal foreign. policy than M. MOLE." We fear there is seine truth in this conclusion, and mote than one Liberal Paper attaches the greatest importance to this all but official declaration. " The Court," says the Commerce, " has soon got rid of its alarms, and has resumed all its original pretensions and blind policy." We never remember having heard these pretensions asserted before, with such boldness and precision. And what in spires this confidence ? The certainty that it has already sown seeds of discord, in the ranks of the new Ministry. A few days, however, will unravel the plot. The French Evening Papers of Wednesday announce that after a world of difficulty the Ministerial question may be regarded as settled, and that the Ministry whose names we published in The Sun of Monday will be appointed. The history of the intrigue to break up the Coalition is curious. The KlNG—hollow to the last—invited the several proposed Ministers to meet him separately, that hu might consult them respecting the policy of the new Cabinet. On re-assembling on Tuesday at the house of Marshal SOULT, they found that he had been more anxious to sow dissensions among them than to reconcile differences. On SOULT proposing that the Ministerial List should be made out and published, the KING, whose other objections were all removed, insisted upon having a written programme of the policy of the proposed Cabinet, signed by all the Members. This, his MAJESTY calculated, would be work for a week for the Coalition. He was disappointed ; the programme was presented to him in less than an hour. Irritated at the unexpected agreement among the leaders of the Coali tion, he refused to give the Marshal en immediate an swer, upon which Ti► Ens wrote to the Marshal declining to have any thing more to do with the Cabinet. SOULT handed Tntras' letter to the KING, which fortunately was accompanied with the result of the vote in the Belgian Chamber of Deputies, in favour of the Treaty of the Twenty-four Articles. The KING at once yielded, and 'NIERS consented to withdraw his letter to Souur. Thus stood the question on \Wednesday even ing. The new Ministerial programme will be published, whether the Coalition take office or not, in a day or two. The correspondent of a Morning Contemporary gives the subjoined account of it : The programme comprehended a total chan,ge in the system pursued in respect of Spain, not an intervention, I must observe, but a real enforcement of the orders given in conformity with the Treaty of Quadruple Alliance, and to exact which Mr. Ellice stimulates M. Thiers. The domestic points on which the new Ministers insisted were, the conversion of the Five per Cents., and a sweeping revision or reform of all the public functionaries. For ex ample, they demanded the dismissal of from twenty-five to thirty of the eighty-six Prefects, and of a still greater number of sub- Prefects ; the recal and removal of five, if not six, Ambassadors, and the creation of a large batch of Peers. There is no domestic news of any moment in these Papers. We have advises from Madrid of the 13th, which state that M. PIZARRO, the Minister of Finance, had concluded an arrangement with the Bank, which had agreed to advance him 4,000,000 reels in March, 3,000,000 in April, and 3,000,000 more in May. The Bank had accepted, in exchange, bonds to the amount of from 13,000,000 to 15,000,000, payable out of the extraordinary war tax. BOURSE.—PARIS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH CO. HALF-PAST Tuanz.—The market has been brisk, and a great deal of business done. For the account The Three per Cents. opened at 79f. 50c., rose to 79f. 80c., and closed at 79f. 75c., thus recover. ing the 10c. fall of yesterday. The Five per Cents., from 108 f. 45c. ex dividend, got up to 108 f. 60c. last price, and a rise of Sc , For money, the Three per Cents. are 15c. higher, and the Five per Cents. be. The Bank of France Shares are as yesterday. The Laffitte Bank 1,000 Shares are 2C 50c., and those of 5,000 f. are 10E, better. The Belgian Five per Cents. have improved per cent., and the Three per Cents. 10c.; for the account the latter are, however, but 79f. 90c. Much has been done in Belgian Bank Shares, which have gone back 451, which is sf. more than the ad vance of yesterday. Notwithstanding the number of transactions in the shares of both the Versailles Railways, they closed as yester day. The Havre have crept up another sf. First Highest Lowes Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French 5 per Cents(ex. div.) 101 45 105 55 ... 10 , 45 ... 10i 13 4W, per Cents lO4 50 ... 101 50 ... 104 50 ... 101 50 4 per Cents lOl 50 ... 101 50 ... 101 50 101 5 3 per Cents 79 55 _ 75 79 55 79 75 Bank of prance Laltitte Bank I,OOOE Sh , 1057 50 ...LOW ...1057 :A _woo 5,004 ;h 5225 ...5225 ...59:2.5 ...5225 Belgian 5 per Cents lo'2 ... 102 ... 102 1 0 2 3 per Cents 7l ... 71 ... 71 „,, 71 Bank 670 ... 670 ... COO 6:20 anish Ac ivy 2t ... 21 1 4 ... 21 1 4, 21i /4 Don Miguel Neapolitan Roman RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germai , Versailles, 11. B 643 645 ... 635 042 50 L.ll 225 225 ... 2 20 ... 225 Charleroi 455 • ... 455 455 ... 455 Orleans .. 445 ... 450 450 450 Strasburg te Bale 340 ... 310 ... 337 50 ... 337 50 ASPHALTES AND BITUAENS. Scyssel (A) 20110 —.2600 ...20011 —.2000 Yarn (Maberly's) Galvaniz,:d Iron HAMBURG BORSEN HALLE, MARCH 16. Bills. Money. Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares 1472 1470 A n In-Russian Loan lo7ii losi Russian 5 per Ceitt. Ist series, Certificate Russian 5 per Cent. Hop,. and Co. 3d and 4th Se i s 914 08 Ditto in Certificates - Dutch ctual Debt, 2y, pe Cent. Polish Bond; New I ickct .. . 156% 1564 Anglo. t'anish Loan, 3_per Cent Mr. Foote, the father of the present Countess of Harring'on, died yesterday at his house in Henrietta street, after a few hours' illness. Mr. Foote, in early life, wa:, an actor of no high standing in the profession.— There is no truth in the report in the Globe of yesterday of the death of Mr. Foote, father of the Countess of Har rington.] LEICESTER ELECTION.--Mr. Wynn Ellis was yesterday returned by a majority of 310. Just as the House of Commons was about to adjourn on Wednesday night, Mr. Wallace moved for a return of the total number of advertisements, and the total amount received therefrom, in England and Wales, Ire land. and Scotland respectively, for each year, since the duty was reduced to Is. 6d., and for each year, during a corresponding period, bJere the duty was reduced. — Ordered. On Wednesday, a deputation of Citizens, headed by the Bishop of LONDO N, waited on Lord MEL BOURNE, on the subject- of the transmission of letters through the London Post-office on Sundays. The Bishop, who was spokesman on the occasion, express6d a world of pious alarm at, what he called, " the threatened desecration of the Lord's Day ;" but was soon soothed and q uieted by the meek, demure reply of Lord MELBOURNE, that " Go vernment had no present intention of acting upon the Report of the Committee of . the House of Commons ;" and the deferential rejoinder of Mr. SPRING RICE, w hi c h was pretty. nearly to the same effect. Really, the Bishop is a most extraordinary man—endowed with qualities of a most awe-inspiring nature, for, one after the other, all our Ministers take fright oautrhiLmo,radndjoalicNedietuuisii hesitatingly to all his demands. t was but the other day that—whether by menace or cajolery we know not—he impressed p SELL with the conviction that to permit theatrical entertainments on Wednesdays and Fridays in Lent, was to strike a m ortal blow at the Established Religion, and unfurl the M banner LBOURNE ot Atheiandsm ; Mr. and now he persuades Lord E S. R ICE that to allow the delivery of lett e e r r h s a b p e s fo h r e e ten o'clock on Sundays, is to be guilty of an eq ua lly atrocious assault and b atter y on Mother Church / What next act of cant or foll y this p otent a p ostle will induce our Bishop -ridden Government to per petrate, we cannot possibl Y surmise ; p may insist on their heading a crusade against the old applewomcn who vend a few chance penny j worths of fruit on Sun da y s ; or com p el them 'to launch the thunder of an Act of Parliament on the THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. TO-MORROW EVENING, MAKcu 23, Will be performed the New Play, in Five Acts, called RICHELIEU, OR THE CONSPIRACY, Written by Sir E. Lytton Bulwer, Bart. The Characters by Mr. Elton, Mr. Diddear, Mr. Macready, Mr. Warde, Mr. An derson, Mr. Vining. Mr. Roberts, Mr. Phelps, Mr. G. Ben nett, Mr. Howe, - Miss E. Phillips, Mr. Tilbury, Mr. Yar nold, Mr. W. L. Payne, Mr. C. J. Smith, Mr. Bender, Mr. Paulo, Mr. Gough, Mr. Thorne, Mr. Brady, Mr. Bur det, Mr. Smith. Mr. Kirke, Mr. Hollingsworth, Mr. Wal dron, Mr. Ayliffe, Mr. Andrews, Mr. T. Matthews, Miss Helen Faucit, Miss Charles, Mesdames Reed, Corder, Lee, Valanduke, Mathews, Mew, and Morgan. After wliich, FRA DIAVOLO. _ _ _ Marquis San Carlos, 31r. Frazer ; Lorenzo, Mr. Burnett ; Zerlina, Miss Rainforth. tgea' 7 " - ' - rj;) -- 4 , gi r5 ,7 44 - .4 ..,msr•-5w.4.0;,r-4.- ..„.... t-ixs •..- t.„, eiTot ;> - ,4 LONDON : FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1639. The Lords, like the Corn-laws, are the parents of great fluctuation. On Wednesday they were down to Zero, last night they were at a red heat, and seem to have been repairinc , themselves on Wednesday for a grand display on Thursday. In reply to a question, Lord NORMANBY stated that an arrangement is in progress respecting the trade be tween Jamaica and St. Domingo. A considerable number of petitions were re ceived, and then Lord RODEN brought forward his motion relative to Ireland, which was the buFi ness of the evening„ ,and _occupied_ their Lord- ships till long after midnight. The Earl of RODEN made a very long speech, which was a very tedious re petition of the speeches of Mr. SHAW and Mr. Ser geant JACKSON, delivered a few nights ago, and of his own and other speeches during former Sessions, some little fresh seasoning of later outrages. We heard nothing new, for it is not new that the ultra-Protestant Peers, while they give the Catholic priests no main tenance, and while they and their friends con tinually heap abuse on the Catholic priests, and stir up against them, as far as they can, the most savage passions ; and it is nothing new in the unjust Protestant Peers, to require at the hands of the Catholic priests, the in culcation of all the duties of humanity, and to reproach them, as if they were the well-paid servants of the State, and responsible for all the evils and outrages that are committed. The Noble Earl and his friends actually blame the despised and poor Catholic priests for not doing the duties of the rich Protestant landlords, and the well-endowed Protestant Clergy. We are disgusted with the injustice which the Saints think themselves authorized to practice, and re gret that we are compelled, as the Times said, to insert debates that arc vapid as ditch water, and exclude matters from our columns that in comparison are as brisk as champagne. The Earl of RoDEN moved for a Committee to in quire into the state of Ireland since 1835. Lord NORMANDY followed the Earl of RocEN, and defended his Government. He proved that Lord RonEN knew that the former state of Ireland was worse than its state at present. He said that two persons were in custody for the murder of Lord Non- BU RT, and he characterised the motion as an attempt to take the Executive Government out of the hands of Ministers. If, however, he can only prove, in support of his Government, that there are Protestants in Ire land who differ in politics from Lord RODEN as much as Lord RODEN differs from the POPE in religion, he will make out a very poor case for himself, for the Noble Earl does not differ from the POPE any appre ciable quantity. Lord NORMANDY shouldstick to facts, and not trouble himself with comparisons. He opposed the motion. A considerable discussion ensued, in which the Duke of WELLINGTON, the Earl of CHARLEVILLE, the Earl of ROSSMORE, Lord LismortE, Lord MELBOURNE (who declared that the motion was an attack on her Majesty's Government), Lord BROUGHAM and Lord - .PLU N K ET-the: Noble Lords fighting the question as though it were one of life and death. At length, towards four o'clock, their Lordships divided.— Contents, 63 ; Non-Contents, 58 ; Majority, 5. This is a defeat of the Ministr) but what its consequences may be, we v;i11 not now sto to inquire. In the Commons the London and lilackwall Rai] way Bill, and the Norwich Improvement Bill, were both read a second time, after a division on each. Mr. LABOUCHERE stated, in answer to Mr. O'CoN NELL that letters had been received from Sir J. COI; BORNE and Sir G. AtiTima i❑ Lower and Upper Canda, stating that no more executions would, they hoped, be necessary. Mr. HUMS then brought forward a motion relative to reforming the Reformed Parliament, to which we have elsewhere adverted. Mr. FRENCH moved an address to her MAJESTY to secure the advantage of railroad communication for every province in Ireland, and then, at a quarter pas nine, the House was counted out. Mr. HUME, after making a speech which was highly and deservedly complimented last night, moved for leave to brinr , in a Bill to amend the - Reform Act. The Hon. Member gave the fol lowing view of our representative system, which our readers will find a strong confirmation of Mr. PARKEs' remarks at the meeting of the Corn-law Delegates : By the census of 1831, it appeared that the population of England was 13,000,000, of that number there were 3,199,000 males of twenty years and upwards, and the electors were 619,000, being one in every five. In \Vales the population was 860,000 males, above 21 years of age, 194,000, and the number of electors 37,000, being one in five. In Scotland the population was 2,300,000, the num ber of males above 21 years of age, 549,000, and the num ber of electors 64,000, being one in every eight, while Ireland, having a population of 7,700,000, and 1,867,000 males above 21 years of age, the number of electors were 92,000, being one in 20. . • • • • • In Manchester, in 1834, there were only 8,400 electors, while there were 12,700 inhabited houses. In Lambeth there were 154,613 inhabitants, 29,079 inhabited houses, 16,405 ten•pound houses, but only 4,455 electors. Fins bury arid the Tower Hamlets were in the same situa tion. Again, he found that Cheltenham and Salford, having a constituency of about : 1 ,054, returned only two Members of Parliament, while six Members were returned by boroughs having only 1,259 registered elec tors. No man could say that this was a fair state of re , presentation. In England there were five counties re turning ten Members, with a registered constituency of only 16,296 ; while other five counties, returning also only ten members, had a constituency 0f.80,500 electors on the register. The same anomaly existed in the county representation of both Ireland and Scotland. Surely that was neither a full nor a fair system of represen tion. He had made an analysis of what the House was now, and he was sorry to say it did not appear to be any better than it was in 1793. He found that 331 Mem bers. a majority of the House, was elected by 157,492 electors, or one-sixth of the registered electors. Was that a system with which the people of England ought to be contented. The remedy which Mr. HumE contemplates for this anomalous state of things is Household Suf frage, and his notice embraced that principle, giving to every person residing and paying rates for a year a right to vote ; but on the su gg estion of some of his friends he w as induced to confine his mot ion to asking leave to br in g in a Bill to amend the Re form Act. The mo tion was abl y su pp orted b y Mr. GROTE, Mr. W AR D, and Mr. O ' CONNELL, but they these justly gentlemen hahall t spoke eomp toai complain o %ic r the thin little attention House, and vouchsafed by the representatives of the people to their grievances. If the motion had referred to some paltry question of privilege, such as L or d MAIDSTONE'S attack on Mr. O'CONNELL ) the House would havebeen crowded ; itsemptiness when such a question was under discussion, was of it self an unanswerable argument in favour of M r . HussE ' s motion. It was lost on a division by a majority of 35, the noes being 85, the ayes 50, while the whole number of Members present including the tellers, was only 139. We will not complain of the discourtesy of noit allowing the Bill to be brought in, for we hold it to be the .duty of Members to defeat any measure to which they are opposed at the earliest opportunity, and so save trouble and expense. Lord JOHN RUSSELL opposed the motion,and made a slip-slop speech, which deserved no compli ments, and which no person complimented. His Lordship has taken up the Tory maxim, and acts on the Tory practice, that Parliament can settle everything, and that it gives the law to society in stead of taking it from society. If there be one truth, however, which recent political events have established more firmly than another, it is that so ' ; ciety has a peculiar coarse of its own, derived from L the laws of nature, to which legislation inits highest L 1: V. WARD OF FARRINGDON WITHOUT Ministers being in the minority last night in the House , of Lords, on the motion of the Earl of Roden respecting , Ireland, has rather damped the Funds this morning, as well as the sale of some Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Consols, which closed yesterday at 921 i for the Ac- , count, arc at present 923_ 1 1. for Money, and for the Ac count 92 K. Exchequer Bills, 60 62; India Bonds, 64 66 ; Bank Stock, 200 201 ; India Stock, 254 255. In the Foreign Market Spanish, which closed at 201 1, at present 201 i ; Portuguese as they left off, 341 3541 Three per Cents. 21:422 ; Belgian 10i 1021 ; Brazilian 791 1; Colombian 29,-; ; Mexican 231 24 ; Dutch Two and-a-HalF per Cents. 551 56 ; Five per Cents. 1032 .3-. Very little doing either in the British or Foreign Markets. A Dutch mail has arrived with Papers to the 20th inst. Dutchyfwo-and-a- Half per Cents. 55 ; Five per Cents. 101. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock —l ' India Stock 3 per Cent. Red. - 1 Ditto Bonds — pm 3 per Cent. Cons. 354 per Cent — OM Annuities Ditto Red. — New Ditto New 35¢ per Cent lOO% Y 41454 3 per Cent. A nnuities, 1751 New 5 per Cent. Bank Long Annuities toexpire Ditto 5OO ... 53 55 pm. Jan. 5, 1560 , ~ Ditto Small 5B 55 pin. Oct. lii, 1559 Ditto Commercial — pm. Jan. 5, 1860 Ditto Advertised Jan. 5, 1580 Bank Stock for Account.. 200;4 1 April 5, 1880 lndia Stock for Account ... Jan. 5, 1870 Consols for Account 92%% PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds — t Peruvian Bonds 1754 Belgian Bonds Ditto Account Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account Buenos Ayres Bonds Ditto Account Chilian Bonds D tto Account Columbian Bonds — Ditto Account — Ditto Account Columbian Bonds, 1624 Ditto Account - - Danish Bonds Ditto Account Ditto Account 2 O ,A %.14 Greek Bonds — French, 5 per cent....... —t. —c. Ditto Bonds, 1825 — ---.. 4 per cent. -f. —c. Ditto Account —. '3 per cent. Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent. Exclvnge. -1. —c. Ditto Account — Dutch, '254 per tent.ssN % X Ditto, 6 per Cent Ditto Account 5 5 7 44 Ditto Account Neapolitan Ditto Acc0unt........ ...... PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. Bristol and Exeter Railway Company O5 1054 tasters Counties Railway l3 8 % 7 %% Great Western Railway Company 65 745‘ 2 1 2 Brighton Railway Lanion and Birmingham Railway Company Landon and Southampton Railway Company 3PI. 17s. Pd. 4274 11,,i M nehester and Birmingham Railway l5 11 lonian : tate Bank London and Westminster Bank 2O 2 3 56,4 Assam Company 5 4% a HALF-PAST ONE. We have no further arrivals to announce, but the British Market appears rather heavy, owing to a report that the Government are going to increase the Army with 25,000 men, for in all probability great reinforcements may be re quired to send out to Canada, should the United States Government continue obstinate in their demands on the Boundary Question. Several sales both of Three-and-a- Half per Cents. and Consols have been effected during the morning. Consols at one period were done at 925 ; at present may be quoted 923 1 Money ; Account 921 ; Ex chequer Bills lower, 55 57 ; India Bonds 64 66 ; Bank Stock 200; 201 ; India Stock 254 255. In the Foreign Market the only business doing is in Spanish Active, 20; i ; Portuguese, 344 354- 1 ; Three per Cents. 211 22 ; Belgian 1014 1021; Brazilian 794 ,i ; Colombian 291 ; Mexican 231 24 ; Dutch Two-and-Half per Cents. 551; Five per Cents., 1031 i. PRICES. FUNDS. India Stock — Ditto Bonds 5S Ditto 01,1 Annuities .......... I)itto New Annuities Ex. Bills, 1,0001. ..... .2%d....55 pm. Ditto 5001. ...... . ......... 5,5 pm. Ditt o 500/ 55 pm. Bank Stock for Opg 201 India Stock for Opg Cons.lo for Act O2l S FUNDS. Asturian, 5 per cent • IPortuguese Bonds, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent 11)2 'Ditto. New Ditto Brazilian Bonds 79% Prussian, 5 per cent thienos Ayres, 6 per cent..... Russian Bonds, 5 per cent.. Chilian, 6 per cent — 'Ditto, Metallic Coloraton, 6 per cent — Spanish, 5 per cent Ditto, 11.124 2 9 5A Ditto, Consolidated Danish, 3 per cent ........ .. ..... F r e nch, 5 per cent. Greek Bonds, 1825, Spec ct. Exchange Mexican, 5 pert.,nt. ............ French, 3 per cent — Ditto, 6 per cen 1825......... Dutch, 2 1 ,' per cent. Peruvian, 1825,6 per cent..... 17% Ditto, 5 per cent. SHARES. B ir mingham and Glouc ester Railway 22 B r istol and Exeter Rail wa y IN Eastern Countios Railway sy. Great Western Railway L on don and Brighton Railway London and Tilackwall Railway L on d o n allii Birminp„lntin Railway IC2 6 T. London awl Greenwich Rai lw a y ..... Condon and Southampton Railway A Manchester and Birmingtin 41!,6 lUi CLOSING BRITIS Bank Stock 3 per Cent. lied 93% :. per Cent. Gals . ,•,, 3t per Cent. Bel ll'o4 New 3y4 per Cent 1 ,, 054 New 5 per Cent Long Annuities to expire Jan. 181 i., Oct. 1859 Jan. 1860 FOREIO f. -C. f. -c. .1. -r. "103• 553 A meeting of the Ward of Farrint, - ,ulon Without took place this day in tie New Court, Old Bailey, for the pur pose of petitioning Parliament against the Bill for extend ing the Metropolitan Police to the City of London. At half-past twelve the Chair was taken by Alderman HAnmeei, who stated that although labouring under ill health, he felt the importance cf the present question to be so great, that he could nA without a dereliction of duty absent himself. The measure of the Government appeared to him of a very arbitrary character—( Hear, hear) —and it created a great number of new offences, hitherto un known in the City cf London. The worthy Alderman then referred to the various provisions of the proposed Act, which he contended gave a very arbitrary power to the police constables and inspectors, and which took away the power of appeal, one of the greatest advantages which the accused parties could possess. He then referred to the report of Colonel Rowan for the year 1838, for the purpose of showing that the number of burglaries , Monies, and other offences, committed in the metropolitan districts, was much greater than the number perpetrated in the City of London. What seas proposed uy the Bill? Why, that the Magistrates were hot to have the power of control over a single police-officer : the Cummis:;ioners were to send Iv bat number of police they pleased, to attend the Mansion-house and Guildhall ; the Magistrates had nopower to saytheta certain officer should execute a particularwarrant ; who was to execute that warrant was left to he determined by the superintendent. In what situation was that placing the Magistrates of the city of London? He belietved the whole intention of the Government was to lessen the Ma gisirates elected by the people.—( Cheers.) He bad been told that the Deputation that had waited upon Lord John Russell remonstrated with his Lordship on the measure, stating that it would lower the Corporation of London below any other Corporation, to which that Noble Lord replied, that though other Corporations elected their police, they did not their Magistrates; and lie asked whether they were willing, on the part of the City of London, to give up that power. Now, he (Mr Alderman Harmer) thought that was a piece of insolence the City of London ought not to bear.—(Hear, hear.) If the present Bill passed into a law, instead of the Cor poration of London being the greatest in the kingdom, it would become the contempt and ridicule of all other Cor porations. —( Hear, hear.) Mr. FEARON wished to put two questions to the worthy Alderman in the chair. He wished to point out the clause in the Bill, which enacted that when persons were taken up they should not have the power of appeal, and be also wished to know what authority he had for stating that Lord John Russell had made the statements which he had repre sented, as an insult to the city of London. Mr. Alderman HARMER said his authority was several gentlemen who bad attended the Deputation, added to which were the statements of Mr. Stevens in the Court of Common Council. As to the other question of Mr. Fearon, he would only ask him to read the Bill and judge for himself.—( Hear, hear.) Mr. FEARON—He and the Alderman upon such a sub ject had but one object, and that was to arrive at the truth. Would the Alderman point out any Clause in the Bill which said that persons might be taken up, and being con victed, had no power of appeal. Mr. Alderman HARMER—It was not in the Police Bill, but in the Police Courts Bill, with the qualifications 1 • stated. Mr. FEARON—You stated these qualifications subse quently, and in consequence of any question. Those qua lifications arc very important, and should have been stated honestly in an address to a mass of people, very few Of whom had ever read the Bill. The ALDERMAN was very glad that the question had been asked. He wished to keep back nothing, for he thought it made the matter worse. Here there was a pause, which was interupted by Mr. BECK, who said the friends of Lord John Russell seemed very quiet, he would attempt to rouse them, and would, therefore, more that that meeting should pass a vote of censure upon the Ministry generally, and upon Lord John Russell in particular.—(Applause.) Mr. PONTIFEX—WiII Mr. Beck include in the motion a vote of approbation to the Corporation. Mr. BECK—No, no. I only wish to rouse you. Mr. WELLS—Surely the requisitionists ought to pro ceed with the business for which they have called us to- , gether.—( Hear, bear.) Sir JAMES WILLIAMS said he had been going another way, but he felt something drawing him back, and there he was to take part with his fellow-citizens in the presen t struggle. He had seen the introduction of the nevi police into the country with alarm, but his experience an a Magistrate had shown him that, undea proper management' the force might be, and was, a very useful one, One part of the system, however, he had much objectio n to—he could not bear the spy system—(Cheers)—and disliked the police going about in plain clothes.—(AP' plause.) In the country he thought, under proper control, they were very useful. It was a very different thing, boil,' ever, to bring the police force into the City. — (H ear./ The Corporation of London were representatives of the great body of citizens at large, not for their own honour only, but for the welfare of the inhabitants generally. He believed the, present attempt was only a minor object , ' when once the door was opened further innovatio n; would be attempted, until the whole power of the CO" • poration was destroyed. Whatever legal opp osition could be given to the measure, he thought the citizen : should adopt to prevent its being carried into effect. l b s country generally looked up to the city of London eg ia sort of polar star to guide them in the cour s e they ,hotel adopt, and he hoped a proper example wou ld be set in the present case. He wets not influenced by any spirit of I: position to the Government, but he was anx iou s to see , rights and franchises of the citizens of London upheld ne maintained.—( Cheers.) Sir James e - mcluded by movieg o a resolution to the effect that the best safeguard of tb liberties and immunities of the people was Municipal Cori porations, constituted on the principle of a popular elective basis. The resolution was seconded by Mr. BUTTERWORIt who denounced the proposed measure as a bold atteeli to deprive the Corporation of London of its rights an d privileges. If they had not very lately esta blishe i an etEctent body of: police in the City of London, Lord J. Russell might have bald some ground for the present stet; but he contended that under the present circumstances ..1t was wholly uncalled for. There was a design on the of the Government, to intro duce a system of centralizati.°o all over the country, which would ultimately be destruc o to the liberties of Englishmen:. Mr. FEARON wished to knob" whether there were e l l other resolutions of a similar te,idency to be proposed•-' (O A h, oh, an EN ld aughter.) CITIZ thought Mr. Fearon was quite out of or der in putting such a question. to Mr. PONTIFEX considered it was the usual practice 0 , read a string of resolutions which we're intended to be Fr posed. Mr. Alderman HARMER said as a. ntatter of convenie.°2l: it might be better to read the whole series of re solutt_lif but it must rest with the discretion of the gentlemen " had to move the resolutions. The next resolutions were then read, which were to t t effect—That the citizens of London viewed with e fo r suspicion the introduction of a Bill by Mr. Fox Matile: i fo r taking from them the management of tile police, att bo at creating a number of new offences, to be punished Wi t 00 the intervention of a Jury, and without reference nos established City Magistracy. That the citizons of V i g or had for some hundreds of years enjoyed the sole tot ment of their police, arid having well dischorgeu.„, t er duty, there was no necessity for Government ,I"tbio ference. That the citizens, therefore. oonsid ?re° &belt Bill as a wanton and arbitrary interference with old long established rights ; an interference which " t otili be productive of no practical or beneficial resolis and which was a flagrant and impolitic violation °edr rights and charters of the City, never before attenibst even under the worst of Governments.—(Cheers.) tb s the citizens deeply regretted the strong predilection c l ; part of the Ministry, for the introduction of a re' der centralization which, however it might be fitted fe r t ioe 6 potic Governments, was utterly incompatible with tbo t t he of liberty which characterised Englishmen. And the boil citizens were greatly surprised that a Ministry v° Via( vested the new Municipal Corporations with the linoel meta of their own police, should have attempted W it bs that privilege from the City of London, by w hom 0 ) been exercised with great public advantage.--(Checo The first resolution was then put and carried clamation. Mr. WILLIAMS rose and was left speaking. ge co llB (We shall give the conclusion in our Edition.) AO; e The General Steam Navigation Coraff tb packet the Columbine, from Rotterdam , arrived ° Custom-house last night. K i tt ° SETS OF PLATED DISH COVERS , .$ O Ol l STRONG SILVER- EDGES, may be selected 8,010,0 Patterns, price 161. the Set, or Sets of the same P lO l4lO Argentine Metal, quite equal to plated in appearanco9lliltioPi and a Half Guineas the set, at T. COX SAVORY,Vitou' Goldsmith, Silversmith, and Watchmaker , 47, Carob! , ( Seven Doors from Graceehureh-street). The Set 4 o f one cover 20, M 14, and 12 inches in diameter. o firo°' N.B.—The three Show Rooms contain a lame e, superior Silver-edged Plated Goods. A Pairiphlet. ° l ,o to , Silve. Spoons and Forks, and Drawings of S a c pe Plated Goods, Watches, Clocks, &e., may be IA. will be forwarded in answer to a post-paid applicat'° Al 11•••101M•11.0.MOMMTM•10••••=1•01•11MERMINTOIll............ 41 3° BIRTHS. CM 5 On the 20th inst., at Trengwainton, near Penzel' solle of Carteret J. W. Ellis, Esq., of a daughter. ey ° f e On the 19th inst., at Knypersley Hall , th e ja ' l. Bateman, Es., f a son and heir. o' l4- On the 20th i o nst., at Bridgwater, the lady ° f .P" Poole, Esq., of a daughter. 1a 49 On the 21st inst., at Goldsmiths' Hall, the Lane, Esq., of a son. street' MARRIED. of s oe Esq'' On the 20th inst., Joshua Alexander, Esq. , 1.. Finsbury-square, to Jemima, daughter of 1$ " 1, 1 3 rd of Mansell-street. jeseg t raVor. On the 21st inst., at St. Mark's, KenningtV,,' ,of 1 1 . cott, Esq., second son of John E. Boulcott, ' s icter ° House, Essex, to New Tregeare, second daug oo , j. j o b Bullemer, Esq., ofington-place, Kenuiugt D AP o f J° s On the 15th of January, at the Cathedral, Otiarghter Howell, Esq., to Eliza Gertrude, youngest 43 Cocke, Esq., of the Kent-road. d 0 41;° s t gt 1 ; London : I'rintcd and Published by 1 -. s r,. 11- , No. 112, Strand , at Th e Sun Otflee. 262,183- Ai ar ch the county of Middlesex. —Friday, LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(TNIS DAY.) DEAL, MARCH 21.—Wind W.- Arrived and proceeded for the River, the Isabella Ellen, Blake, from Newfoundland ; Anna Maria, Westward; and Anna Agatha, Rotterdam. Came down from the River, and proceeded, the Tickler, Ellis, for Sydney ; Europe, Bride, Mauritius ; Wasdale, Saner, Lisbon ; Emma, Whyte, Jamaica; Susannah, Ilawell, Rae bucto ; Diadem, Bower, Leghorn ; and Ruby, St. Domingo. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 21.—Wind W. S.W.—Arrived the Philadelphia, Morgan, from New York, and sailed for London ; and Glcnelg, Shetler, London. Off port, the Frumde, Meyer, from St. Thomas. PLYMOUTH, MARCH 21 —Wnd W.N.W.—Arrived the Rover, Duckclles, and Tantivy, A yes, from Zanto ; and Kate, Carthertsen, Liverpool. FALMOUTH, Mutes 20.—Wind S.W. to W. S.W., fresh breezes.—Arrived the Greenock, Mercer, Trinidad. Sailed the J. P. Davree, Gook, for Antwerp. LIVERPOOL, Maßca 21.—Wind N. \V., fresh.—Arrived the Ardent, llartgrave, from Savanilla ; Eli Whitney, Dyer, Savannah ; Corsair, ditto ; America, Mackie, Charleston; Ark, Glandus, Virginia ; Caroline, Jenkins, Nc.v York ; Chaineook, Andrew's, New Brunswick ; Norval, Murray. Odessa ; Hirondelle, Smith, Constantinople ; Concurrent, Marseilles ; 'lappet, Mediterranean ; Harriet., ditto ; Herald, Gibson, St. Michael's ; Rapid, Robertson, Trieste ; Ann, Candid', Seville ; John and Joseph, Bayonne ; Jane, Mackinnon ' ditto ; James and Jane, ditto; Gun, ditto ; Thomas Bennett, Hagn, Charles ton ;De Pesler, Alesden, Bordeaux ; Sylph, ditto. Put back, the Lady Combermere, for Africa—had lost one man over board. PEszascE, MARCH 20.—Arrived the Constanse, Marga ritta, from Longsound ; Martha, Ahlson, Dram. . . THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. Small supplies of English Grain, of Irish Oats a fair quantity, and of Foreign Wheat a very large return. The Wheat trade has been in a stagnant state since Monday. Barley rather cheaper. In other Grain no alteration. ARRIVALS. i V. heat. 8.11 - ley 62,531 its 7,13 qr.>. Forel.in . .... .1 51,640 English ...... ..., Osts. I F. , F,9 'fiqrs 4,400 acks 8,790 brli. 7z-0 I SMITHFIELD. Beef and Mutton deelintA 2d. per stone for all but the best sorts. Pork and Veal unaltered. Beef, :Is. 4d. to 4s. 4d. ; Mutton, 4s. 4d. to ss. 4d. ; Veal, 4s. lid. to 53. 6d.: Pork 6d. to ss. 4d. Beasts, 626 ; Sheep, 2,190; Pigs, 380 Calves, 106. . _ BILLINGSGATE AIARKET. Supplies good, trade brisk, and prices much as yesterday. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, T IV E L VE 0' CL 0 CK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MARCH 21.—" The Cot ton Market continued to he very active, the sales to-day are 8,00 bags, of which 2,000 are Americans, and 1,000 Surats, have been taken on speculation, exceedingly full prices have been obtained." We have received Buenos Ayres Papers to the 30th Dec. from which the following are extracts : —" Two cir culars, dated, the 10th instant, were published in the Gaceta Mercantil of the 21st instant, the first was signed by Senores Gonzallez, Ravelo, Alma, and Salmon, and conveyed an invitation to various citizens, to form a guard of honour to the sixteenth Legislature of the pro vince, on its opening, Ist January next. The second also conveyed an invitation to various citizens, to form a guard of honour of cavalry. " This day (29th instant) completes the 277th day of the blockade. The weather has been damp and boisterous, more so than usual at such an advanced period of the summer. It has delayed the getting in of the harvest, we trust it will not injure it." The above Papers contain a very long manifesto of Ge neral Manuel Oribe, Ex- President of the Oriental Re public of Uruguay. It is relative to the infamy, treachery, and perfidy with which the French Rear-Admiral Leblanc, and other agents of France residing in Monte Video, have rendered hostile and brought un.fer the tyranny of the rebel Reviera, the Oriental State of the Uruguay, which, in conformity to its Constitution, was under tae legal Presi dency of Brigadier-General Manuel Oribe. This manifesto concludes by stating that after such ex cesses, injustices, violations, vexations, and violence, it cannot now be asked what character Admiral Leblanc and the Consular Agent of France have represented in the Oriental Republic. How will their conduct be viewed by civilized nations, and the whole world? What rule prescribed as the common right of nations have they re presented? What crime against national rights have they omitted ? Pretensions at once unjust, infamous, and arrogant ; restrictions of a most shameful nature, sustained only by force, and imposed by a friendly nation ; hostilities committed without the least provo cation ; scandalous and humiliating interference in the do mestic affairs of other States; in fine, the most complete violation of all which the civilization of the age respects. This is the character which Rear- Admiral Leblanc and the Consular agents of France have represented in Monte Video. The above manifesto is dated Buenos Ayres, 18th De cember. The documents connected with it Ise shall notice in our next. —British Packet, Dec. 20. Exchange upon England during the week 41-d. ; highest price of doubloons, 202 dollars ; lowest, 195 daring the week. We have the arrival of the Philadelphia packet-ship from New York, but not of a later date than the Great Western steamer. A Company is forming in the city for cultivating the newly-discovered Tea plant in Assam. it appears that the intention of the Company, in the first instance, is to open a treaty with the Government in India for the purchase of the East India Company's plantations and establshments in Assam, and when granted to carry on the cultivation of Tea there, and to import it into this country. The capital to be raised for the above purpose is stated to be 500,0001. The prevailing opinion among the great Tea dealers and the East India mercantile houses, that the importation of the above tea at a future period would produce a great profit to the Company, has caused a great demand among the tea speculators for the Company's shares ; but it is yet to be seen whether this great distant speculation will have the anticipated success. We hear that the various documents and papers for the signatures of the Kings of Holland and Belgium to the Treaty of the Twenty-four Articles are ready, and it is expected that on Tuesday next their seals will be put to `,hem by their representatives in this country. THE FUNDS. _ • On Tuesday, March 26, THE SECOND PART OF M RS. TROLLOPE'S FACTORY BOY." Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. 111/Well, .c.,ti., LU 1.411,1. VierLl MAC, yuuto , - - Cocke, Esq., of the Kent-road. ~./''- daughter DIED. sec °ll4 Til es On the 14th inst., at Twickenham, Dorothea' l a te .I . s - of the late General Lister. ii , of the too' On the 19th inst., at Ramsgate, Mary,re t Sex ton' Townley, Townley, Esq., aged 86. In gr S " On the 17th inst., at Stockton-on-Tee s, ro bric i g e. war t ' aged 85. 1 of C a . t o S te On the 21st inst., Mrs. Teeson, form et, Nvillt- .lalct On the 16th inst., in Tichborne-str ect, John tl 1 ot Esq., aged 54. the late , teo 3°' On the 20th inst., Mrs. Hale, relict of rr ,pplee a Esq.. a the Brewery, Redcross-street, - f M —n () " c . fa ordon, Surrey, aged 92 . ...iofi N6 A ' : l ° rl•-'