The Sun. — London, England, 1839-03-23 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION. To V iINE-MERCHANTS, TAVERN and HOTEL- I KE ETERS, PRIVATE FAMILIES, and OTHERS. ON F. THOUSAND DOZEN of CHOICE WINES. ft. COTTLE is directed by an erAinent firm in the Wine Trade, dissolving Partne ;ship, to offer for unreserved SALE by AUCTION, at his P.coms, 45, Holborn- bill, on TUESDAY, the 26th of March, I sg, at Ele ven for T welve o'Clock, on account of the numb er o f L o ts, The FIRST PORTION of a VALUAI'AE STOCK of BOTTLE') WINES, comprising 148 Doze.n of very choice Crusted T-ORT, Offiey's Ship ping, 2 Years; in Bottle. 56 Dczen ditto, 5 Years in Boy l e . 300 Dozen ditto, Sandemananr'AOffiey's Shipping, new in Bottle. 475 Dozen of very superior Pale, Brown, and Gold Colour SHERRY, of favourite Shi , 50 Dozen of fine CLAW ruents. E'T, General Palmer's Shipping. 68 Dozen of line old MARSALA, and a few dozen of T ENERIFFE, C H A Y -PAGNE, and FRENCH DINNER WINES. v . Co nsigned to the rare of Mr. Cottle, and may be seen at the be had Tw 45, H D o a lb s ois 1-hill, wh ere S amp l es an d C ata l ogues may o Mr. Cottle bey, prior to the Sale. ,s o call the attention of Wine-merchants, Hotel a n d T aver n-keepers, Publicans, St?am-packet Stewards, and o th ers, to Nshich i s t o be this Valuable an d Genuine Stock of Wines, submitted without the least reservation. , ajestv the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA, sag Majesty the EMPEROR of RUSSIA, ha vin I snd Hi s M a j esty the KING of PRUSSIA. AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED several Dis trioutiom.. of Money, which (though they are NO LOT TE.P.I.ELS, offer a great many possibilities of obtaining LARGE , HEINE BROTHERS FORTUNES M at HABURGH, and HEINE BROTHERS at LUBECK, are NC 11'? TRSELLING SHARES for any of the said DIS- W fTIONS of MONEY, at various prices. The Dit tributio, 2s contain various portions, from NINE POUNDS TO TWENTY THOUSAND POUNDS gist lOU n_pw ards. Persons de s i rous to p urc h ase may rece i ve PRE- S to givin g any order, the Prospectus and Particulars, 14)00 adiotssing, WITEOUT DELAY, a line to TH HEINE BROTHERS at HAMBURG'''. E NE7kT AUSTRIAN DISTRIBUTION fts`-vuNTAINTS PORrfIONS OF 4,0001., 7,500/., an d 30,0001. THEATRF, ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. THIS EVENING, MARCH 23, Will be perfor med the New Plky, in Five Acts, called • RICHELIEU, 0.11. THE CONSPIRACY, Writt , an by Sir E. Lytton Bulwer, Bart. The Characters by r• Elton, Mr. Diddear, Mr. Macready, Mr. Warde, Mr. An ' "on, Mr. Vining. Mr. Roberts, Mr. Phelps, Mr. G. Ben ne tt, Mr. Ho . tee, Miss E. Phillips, Mr. Tilbury, Mr. Yar lield, W. Payne, Mr. C. J. Smith, Mr. Bender, Ide !9 r. Paulo, Mr. Gough, Mr. Thorne, Mr. Brady, Mr. Bur t, _.elen Smith, Mr. Kirke, Mr. Hollingsworth, Mr. Wal }Pn, Mr. ltyliffe, Mr. Andrews, Mr. T. Matthews, Miss Paned, Miss Charles, Mesdames Reed, - Corder, Lee, lindanduke, Mathews, Mew, and Morgan. After which, FRA DIAVOLO. llrarquis San Carlos, Mr. Frazer; Lorenzo, Mr. Burnett; Zerlina, Miss Rain.",orth. .1 • • , rriN'" • - Alt> ecc-L-I)Je aaux. LONDON : ;SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 1839. A .t a the L or d s th e Tith es A rrears (I re l an d) A ct 414ne a but nut ne at Bill, to enable the Government to distri a let e - e Po rtion of the arrears before the whole be col ed , wa s read a recond NORMAN NBY, The h l arqu i s o f N i n withdrawing his Elatoe free a th e C omm i ttee on t h e S tate o f I re l an d , made ‘, 8 1, 111e , °l) st nvations on the conduct of Lord BROUGHAM, defended himseKto regret the severance of a friendship r , w°ll had lasted for more than twe n ty y ears. Th e that of tl3 ie Marquis of NORMANBY. u Th e I) 'uke of WELLINGTON'S E s t a t e Bill was b roug h t T i l e fro m the House of Commons an d rea d a fi rst t i me. Bill does not grant any money to the Duke, or to the lady who is to be his son's wife, as has been erroneously 5 1) Pose 3 , but mer e ly ena bl es hi m to ass i gn that lady, hoev et, she may be, a jointure t o th e ex t ent of 2,5001. ~° llt of the estates that were long ago purchased ` , l " him, by money granted by Parli amen t . Wi t h out .„,He Bill . he could not so encum b er t h e estate. The 15611111 . 1 5 , ) converts certain pl a t e, etc., now i n t h e hands of trust ees, into heir-looms. The second r ea di ng o f L or d BROUGHAM'S Beer Bill / .', 4 ;3 Put off till a ft er E aster, i n consequence of the . 1 - 1 1 ke WELLINGTON having left town which is symp tomatic' of the Lords doing no more ' business before Ea ster. 'The :Oulte of W Y.MLINGTON'S Estate Bill- was r ea d a third time in 'the Commons out of its course, and had there been it, that Opp ortu any occasion to oppose nity we are sure would not have been lost by all e watchful servants of the people. The CHAI i-cElLoit of the EXCHEQUER, in answer to eapt. PECHEa.I„ denied that any unnecessary delay had taken place - at the Treasury in paying the bounty warded for f he capture of slave-ships. Ala reply to Lord SAN DON, the same Right t nourahle Gentleman said he meant t o in aduee a Bill on the subject o f J o i n t- stoc k t a nks afte r Easter, and that he meant to renew the ispending the Usury Laws in certain cases, o . s e'4) ires thi s y ear . at 1 "'-'41 deal of bustle was noticed about the House a api,a r vel. y early period, the cause of which was soon szi 133, the declaration made by Lord JOHN Ros ' ch ' l on(!ernine. ' the Government of Irela nd, to have elsewhere adverte d. Mr. MACLEAN, u ce tre al o t'er °s.2 ..ertaining from Lord PALMERSTON, that ° , with the Porte does not include Circassia, 11 1. e .e s r h wil i '75 eh the Porte claims . no power, gave notice that lat.; °l ll i bring. the uncertamty of our commercial re ar°llB v rith Circassia under the notice of the House, Ea ster. fo Lord PALMERSTON in answer to Mr. O'CONNELL in taieertmdit that the good offices of her M A JESTY'S 1 , t were employed to put an end to the war 7 1 ‘ 1, eh th e R epu bli cs o f B o li v i a, Chili , and Buenos 3 re s are carrying on. h ( j-° a Committee on the Army Estimat es, L or d )wicic euplained that the total increase in the Army " n Year and this year would be togeth e r 9 , 411 ; f or k 3 the IN o e Lord moved a vote of 3,421,3831. t o, lBir I JENRY HARDINGE thought the estimate much `"' ! He grounded his opinion on the s evere ser ,, ,( ( air troops now h ave to undergo in our Colonies, L .n.ty out of thirty years being passed abroad ;on the rcurnsta nce that Canada was not yet in peace ; that !ecre vas a disput e as to ' the Boundary of New B:uns ' k ; that war prevailed in the East, and much discon tint, threatening disturbance at home. According to pe°. Gallant Officer, our numerous Colonies, and the to ,liar situation of the country at present, exposes us of 14 ex penses of war , if we have fortunately non e lvt,..o.y.sevastations. la`w?3,l3l..tEß made some observations on our rela wli leh America, touching the boundary question, to jee r ° l'd PALMERSTON characterized as not likely g( je;,„ ess e the facility o f se t t li ng t h at quest i on b y ne in xe7i t l? ri • He expressed a strong belief in the good iti r un s of th e A mer i can G overnment. an o HINE objected to the amount of troops , but ri Sect amendment, and declared that if the Ame tbi c a ds wished 'l3 l to conquer Canada, we could not prevent Bel and it would be unwise to try. The vote, and 'er • Others, were agreed to without opposition. finf 4 , e t wo Mutiny Bills were brought in and read a ' lnt o, and the House adjourned till Monday. f ett 4 e debate in the House of Lords and the de „T.," Ministers yesterday morning have placed their .: I , t ence in jeopardy. Lord JOHN RUSSELL last nNiptit, 'on postponing the Committee on the Irish is `uoicipal Bill till after Easter, gave notice that he 1 "° 1 1 1 .d on one of the first days after the holidays ask the opinion of the House with respect to the qc, vernment of Ir e l an d o f l ate years. Hi s L or d • 81.14 proceeded to refer to the vote of the House of words appointing a Committee to inquire into the s tate of Ireland since 1835, anti added— I t think it i s o b v i ous that the appointment of such a Com- It teet fixing the yea r 1833 as the time of crime and °4trage, must give a general belief throughout the Finpire, ; 1 11 tem e especially in that part o f th e United Kingdom Q uieh it aff ec t s , t h at i t i s i ntended to transfer the Executive House of Ireland t o a S e l ect C omm itt ee o f one fi t'ul e of Parli ament , an d more espec i a l ly i nten d e d to ca ll tiovation the exercise of one of the highest prerogatives 'M it t Crown, that of mercy, by calling witnesses before pto'elect Committee. I must say, that no person cart et to carry on the Government as Lord Lieutenant Itir t t , el4ll, l, without being assured whether it is the in villitt."4,of the House o f Commons that those principles 18 33 4 Ye governed the administration of Ireland since be Mlould be adhered to, or whether they should tvithn°t! abandoned.—( Great cheering.) In conformity at N „ !le declaration which Lord Melbourne has made witir i ° ll 3 times —but in conformity, more particularly, h h ° t i le special declaration of that Noble Lord, that d e r ,,, e `u 'Ace only as long as he retained the conti leti;e,°l the House of Commons—( Hear, and cheers)— ti o it incumbent upon me, net leaving it to any other bri ii Me mber not con nec t e d w ith th e G overnme nt, to tlii,g i t his questio n t o an i ssue —( G reat c h eer i ng ) —w h et h er nt~9e adher es to the principle upon which the admi ii„rl atio 4sn of th e Government of Ireland has been conducted. ousthese grounds we think it necessary to ask of the n r „ ,e of Commons whether it was disposed to approve of ni j eaZ r ble Friend, Lord Fortescue, continuing to adopt the es which have hitherto been adopted. He will conti tiv_ t o execute the laws in the manner in which the Execu ' oas hitherto been carried . on, if the House is pleased to agree to d oes those measures; but if, on the other hand, the House b e _, not approv e of this plan, but is willing that it should n_.inandoned, and other principles be adopted, then there i left but to relinquish into other hand s t h e Govern s u'ellt of the country.._( Vociferous cheering.) On this question, however much we may differ front the Mi n i sters on other points, it is our duty to give them an honest, a cordial, and a frank sup- P °l t• Their general policy as to Ireland has al- J with our awl w e should wit see with deep regret, that superseded by the coercive tyrannical and anarchical policy of Lord RODEN and the Orangemen. A few years ago, no man in Ireland had the smallest conception of what impartiality meant, and what was called the administration of justice was merely gratifying party spite or a spirit for vengeance by a legal pro cess. The Juries, the Magistrates, the Sheriffs, the Police, the Barrisiers, were all, or nearly all, chosen from one faction . ; the Jurors, in many cases, belonged to the other, and when they could not shield their partizans, whether culprits or not, from the hatred of the Orangemen, the Catholics were sure to be heavily and severely punished. In those Tory times, confidence in the administration of the law was an unknown sentiment for the bulk of the population ; and naturally they righted or revenged themselves as far as they could without troubling themselves about legal forms. The Whig Government, particularly since 1835, when it became, in a great measure, de pendent on the representatives of Ireland, and, which it never was before, on the bulk of the population, was compelled to change the system, and to do justice, as far as the conflicts of faction would permit it, between both par lies. It dethroned the O range t yrants . I t m i ng l e d Cntho lies with Protestants on the judgment scat, in the Magistracy, and in the Police ; and, for the first time in Irish history, made impartiality in the ad ministration of the law known to the people. Than a man who has been educated in tyranny and looks on its exercise as a right, and who is compelled to acknowledge a just master, there is no more furious animal. The Ultra-Protestants and Orangemen, being in that position under Lord NORMANBY, make bitter and loud complaints, all of which, when translated into the correct language of facts, only mean that they can no longer oppress the people as their forefathers oppressed them, and as they were in the habit of doing. This is the gist of all their Jererriades. Let any man read the speeches of the Irish Noblemen, and he will find they all resolve into this. One, Lord complains that he was not consulted about this appointment; another, that he was overlooked when the Govern ment showed mercy to some suffering wretch pro voked to commit an outrage. A Mr. SLATTERY is preferred before some person recommended by one Lord, and a Mr. CARTER before some other person recommended by the same Lord : one Peer finds it a heinous offence that a person convicted of a riot against the party or the friends of a Peer is pardoned, and another is prodigiously angry be cause all those who have dared to resist being turned out to starve, are not dragooned into submission. In short the Orange Tories are a most brutally treated set of gentlemen, because they are no lon ger allowed to be tyrants, and because they cannot reward their menials by quartering them on the public. One source of bitter complaint is the suffering and persecuted Irish Church, the impoverished and outraged Church. What, however, is the fact ? The Church itself is a great scheme of tyranny and extortion, such as Englishmen could . not submit to for an hour. A 'foolish, a weak, or a wicked set of politicians, have resolved in spite of justice and experience, to maintain a body of Protestant Priests amongst a Catholic population, compelling that population to provide them with an income, while they see their own Priests exposed to poverty and contumely. Such a blister was never submitted to by any people. Other tyrants, when they resolve to controul the religion of their subjects, leave them no choice, but the tyrants of the Irish, left them at liberty to choose their reli gion, but compelled them to pay the Priests they hated. Nobody can he surprised that a conspiracy, open or concealed, exists amongst the bulk of the Irish, to get rid of this enormity; and the Orange tyrants, who have fastened it by bayonets on them, set it down as a grievous fault in her Majesty's Go vernment that it cannot controul the course of na ture, and keep such an outrage on humanity in safety, security, and peace. It was proved by unanswerable documents in the debate that the condition of Ireland was for merly much worse than under the Government of the Marquis of NORMA NBY, that more crimes were committed and fewer punished ;. that the law had acquired force as it became impartial ; and if the people, retaining those habits of relying on their own right arms for justice or for vengeance, still strive in many cases to defeat the law, there are no longer numerous bodies of armed depre dators and assassins traversing the country, openly setting the police and the law at defiance. It was proved that faction fights, those feuds which the Orange Magistrates were accustomed to encou rage—and, when they were particularly bloody and murderous, as the Battle of the Diamond, to toast in their cups—it was proved that faction fights had been put an end to since the Whigs began to rule Ireland in the spirit of impartiality. It was proved by the Earl of FINGALL, whose testimony is of the highest value, that Ireland is improving rapidly ; that property is becoming more secure, and is rising in , value. We have heard, and believe it to be correct, that rents are nowhere better paid than in Ireland, and that the interest of money lent on mortgage is paid more regularly there than in any part of the empire. A good proof of the increasing value of property is to be found iithefa fact that a nd the Marquis Of WESTMEATH, one o i f the loudest mo st empty chatterers against the Government, lately purchased an estate in the desperate county of Tipperary, and afterwards sold the half of it at an increased price. The quantity of corn imported from Ireland into Englcnd has fallen off because the habits of improving, and they consume more the a t home. e Measures have only recently been adopted to give the people a right to relief, which if it fill their bellies, will do more to preserve peace, than all the military power of the em pire. Ali these circumstances however, have no influence over the Tories ; the restoration of their dearly beloved tyranny becomes more hopeless every day, the sweets of office are denied them, and they declare that outrage prevails, and society is has- tening to ruin. But if they have no better ground of com plaint, and we believe they have none, it is the duty of the people and of their representatives. to support the Ministry, at least on the Irish question, which keeps the Orange tyranny under. It is said that the Government of Ire land is in the hands of Mr. O'CONNELL, and if it be, in whose hands can it be so fitly placed, _ _ as those of a mat, who has possessed the confidence of the bulk. of his countrymen for thirty years ? But it is not true that the Government is in hands, though he has considerable influence over it, and the late Lord Lieutenant took care, and the present Lord Lieutenant will follow his example, that Mr. O'CONNELL'S influence never leads Government to commit injustice. Ireland is split into violent factions, the one which has long been trodden down is now rising into power, the Government, whoever may administer it, must have a most difficult task, but it would be madness in the people of England to reinstate the Tories, and by endeavouring to re establish Orange ascendancy, provoke resistance, and perhaps rebellion, to prevent the success of an old worn-out tyranny. • Thursday's Monitcur has appeared, without the Royal Ordinances for the appointment of the Ministry. This is owinc , to another intrigue, conducted and suited to the talents of M. Villemain—for we cannot suppose that the King would descend to the employment of such an agent, even for the accomplishment of a like pur pose. When every difficulty appeared to be surmounted, M. Villemain discovered that he could not take office ; so Soult was all at sea again. Thiers made overtures to M. Cousin ; but we regret to state that the health of this eminent individual is so delicate, as to prevent his acceptance of the Department of Public Instruction, for discharging the duties of which he is so admirably qus.lified. M. Sanzet was spoken of ; and, in the absence of Guizot and Cousin, we know no Member of the Chamber whose appointment would inspire more confi dence. However, a very few days must put an end to this state of uncertainty. In the mean time, the King will not be idle, His efforts to thwart the extreme views of the Coalition will be incessant. The Chamber of Deputies is composed of four hun dred and fifty-nine Members. From the following list of them, professionally arranged, English readers will be able to form a tolerably correct idea of the influence which the Court has, or may easily acquire in such an assembly : Counsellors of the Court of Cessation six, namely— MM. Isambert, Bernard de Rennes, Berenger, Thil, Renouard, and Flerre. Procureur-General of the same Court, one : M. Charles Dupin. Advocates-General of that Court, three : MM. He bert, Pas ealis, and Gillon. First Presidents of the Court, four : MM. Amilhau, Mater, f3aillard Kerbertin, and Charpentier. Presi &I-Its of the Court tl;rve • Ikl M. C,lnmutin, Poulk, Alibutuee.. Co.unsellors of the Court of Cessation, fifteen : MM. Taillandier, Doson, Portalis, Joscran, I\leilheurat, THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, TIARCII 23, 1839. Limperani, de Malleville, Vejux, Teulon, Marion, Al cook, Piron, Feure-Dere, de Golbery, and Verne do Bachclard. Procureurs-General of the Court Royal, four : MM. Cliegaray, Daguenet, Moreau, and Pares. Advocates-General, three : MM. Berville, Bouct, and Ressigcae. Presidents of Tribunals, thirteen : MM. Debelleyme, _ _ Perrier, Moulin de Bord, Mathieu, Salvage, Teillard Noserolles, Albert, Mitnaud, Corne, Arnauldet, Azais, Lachese and Danse. Judges, four : MM. Perignon, Saint-Albin, Merlin, and Espigat. Royal Procurators, three : MM. Desmortiers, Tes nieres and Chazot ; with three Deputy-Procureurs ; MM. Bonnefonds, Carl, and Delespoul. Magistrates, one : M. Lescot Lamillandrie. Counsellors of the Finance Court, three : MM. Sapey, Rihouet, and Abraham Dubois. Counsellors of State, in ordinary, six : MM. Vivien, Dumon, Vitet, Real, Quenault, and Chasseloup-Lauhat, Masters of Requests in Ordinary, four : MM. Tour nouer, Paganel, Lasnier, and Guilhem. Auditor, one : M. Sahune. Ambassadors, one : M. Sebastiani. Secretaries of Embassy, three ; MM. de Grammont, De La Grange, and Desmousseaux de Givrc. Directors-General, four: MM. CAlmon, of Domains, Bresson, of Forests, Legrand de la Manche, of Roads and Bridges, and Laurence, of Algiers. Subordinates in Ministerial Offices, six : M. Parant, Under-Secretary of Justice ; M. Vatout, President of Public Works ; M. Tupinier, Secretary of Marine ; M. Lavielle, Secretary of Justice ; M. Delbecque, Secretary of Public Instruction ; and M. d'Hauterive, Secretary of Foreign Affairs. Miscellaneous functionaries, anostmasters, Inspec tors-general of Universities, &c., eight : MM. Gravier, Lavocat, Lahaye.Jousselin, De Gcrente, Gauthier, d'Hauteserve, Dubois, de Jussieu, and Lemairc. Engineers, six : MM. Billaudel, Goury, Colomes, Lacordaire, De Berigny, Mallet, and Nozereau. Counsellors of Prefectures, three : MM. Genoux, Chaigneau, and Manuel. Marshal, one : M. Clausel. Lieutenants-General in Active Service, eight : MM. Bugeaud, Meynadier, Doguereau, ji:eque minot, Bonnemains, Schneider, anti Rosarnel, who is likewise a Vice-Admiral. Colonels, six : MM. Leydet, Girod, Esperocnier, De Garaube, Lacaste, and Paishans. Chiefs of battalions, two :.MM. Bessieres, and 1. Chasseloup-Laubat. Captains, four : MM. Allard Schauenburg, Lara bit, and Mathieu De La Redorte. Military Intendants, three : MM. Boissy-d'Anglas, Vcrgnes, and Dintrans. Belonging to the Royal Household — Aides-de-Camp to the King, two : MM. De Ber thois, and Delaborde. Superintendent of Decrees, one : M. Liadieres. Gentlemen of Honour to the Queen, one : M. De Montesquieu. Attached to the Household of the Duke of Orleans, three : MM. Chabaud-Latour, Bertin de Vaux, and De Praslin. Attached to the service of other Members of the Royal Family, two : M. Hernoux, Aide-de-Camp to the Prince de Joinville, and M. De Chastellux, Gen tleman of Honour to the Princess Adelaide, the King's sister. Here are no fewer than one hundred and forty public functionaries, of whom ninety-two are at' the service of the Court ; and all more or less liable to be influenced by the blandishments of the Sovereign. The landed in terest can only boast of thirty-eight representatives, while the number of Merchants, Bankers, and Manufac turers returned, does not exceed sixty-three. Of Medical Practitioners there are six, but of Lawyers not less than sixty-eight. The number of ex-Ministers is fourteen ; of ex-Prefects, 12 ; of ex-Sub-Prefects, 75 ; of retired Superior Officers, 33 ; of Men of Letters, 14 ; of Journalists, 2 ; and of Members of the Institute, 18. In an assembly composed of such materials—where chicanery, vanity, and brute force are so well repre sented—the influence of an intriguing Sovereign must be very great indeed. Wounded self-love, and under rated apostacy, will be much more likely to swell the ranks of the Opposition, than the ardent feelings of a generous and honest patriotism. The following letter from Toulon, of the 14th of this month, is a confirmation of the report which has been for some time in circulation, of a plan for the marriage of a Prince of the House of Austria to Queen Isabella II.: " News from Vienna has been received here. That Cabinet has formed a plan for marrying an Archduke to Queen Isabella ; and Prince Metternich has positively re fused all pecuniary assistance to Don Carlos. It is fur ther affirmed that conferences are going to be opened at London. France and England alone will be interested in this question ; as fur Russia and Prussia, they will leave Austria to take its own counsel." The Memorial Bordelais says--" It is believed that Maroto and Espartero will shortly sign a truce for five months, as a prelude to dynastic negociations."—Le Com- coerce. The following letter has been communicated to us : MILAN, MARCH 12.—A Colonel of the Staff of Don Carlos, and an ecclesiastic, who is chaplain to the Princess of Beira, who have arrived at the palace with Sardinian passports, set out immediately for Vienna, with an orderly officer of his Royal Highness. The Central Board of Police has received, from what quarter Ido not know, the description of several strangers who are to be arrested, among whom are two French tra vellers from Paris, who are accused of being propagandists. Another had already been taken in the carriage which was going to Bologna, and was conveyed in a close carriage to Peschiera. • The Army of Occupation in the kingdom will be in creased in the Spring by fifteen battalions and squadrons, and there will be a change of troops in the principal gar rison. The Roman Frontier is still lined with troops._ Courrier Francais. BOUIZSE.—PARIS, THURSDAY, MARCH 9.1. HALF-PAST Tnass.—The market has been brisk. For the account The Three per Cents, opened at 79f. 95e., declined to 791. 75., and closed at 79f. 95c., being a rise of 20c. The Five per Cents., ex dividend, first price, 108 f. 60c., and after reaching 108 f. 75c., closed at 108 f. 70c., an improvement of 10c. For money, the Three per Cents. are 15c. better, and the Five per Cents. 10c. The Bank of France Shares have advanced 2f. 50c. The Latlitte Bank 5,000 f. are 15f. lower. The Belgian Three per Cents. ate 10c. lower for money ; for the account they are 71f. 15c. a rise of 25. The Spanish Active is to per cent. lower; from 21 it declined to 20i, at which, after some oscillations. it closed. The St. Germain Railway Shares have advanced 5f., the Versailles Left Bank 15f., and the Versailles Right Bank 17f. 50c. First Highest Lowes Last Price. Pi : ice. Price. Price. French 5 per Cents(ex. div.) 103 65 ... 105 65 ... 10S 60 ... 10i 60 4 per Cents lOl 50 ... 141 75 ... 101 50 101 75 3 per Cents 79 75 74 90 ... 79 75 ... 79 91 Bank of Prance ilaititte Bank 5,008 f. Sh 5210 ...5215 —.5200 ...5200 BelgiamL3 per Cents 7O 80 ... 70 CO ... 70 80 ... 70 90 Bank 616 ... 655 ... 615 ... 655 Soanish Ac ive 2l ... 21 ... 21% ... 20% Don Miguel Neapolitan Roman RAILWAY SHARES. St. ( l ermai' ... C6O ... 660 Versailles, R. B 655 ... (40 ... 655 660 L.B. 232 50 ... 246 ... 232 50 ... 240 955 ... 955 ... 955 ... 955 [avre Orleans ... pbo ... 4511 ... 450 ... 450 Strasburg to Bale 340 ... 34 ... :540 ... 340 ASPHA LTES AND BITU tIENS. Seyssel (A) 2OOO ...2000 —2OOO ...2000 DUTCH FUNDS.—AmerEitnam, MARCH 19. Money. Bolls. Actual Debt, 2)4 per Cent Ditto, ditto 5 per cent. Assault Svridic, 4 % per cent 94)4 91% Ditto, ditto, 314 per cent 79% 79% Commercial Company, 4 , 4 per cent 178)4 179;1 Ditto (11~12 and 1833) 5 per cent. Ditto 1837, S per cent. Loan 1837, 5 per cent. Exchange on London, One month ll 95 Two months BELGIAN 1' U NDS—BaussELe, MARCH 10 Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent P 0)4 Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent 9l 3 per Cent. 70% Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent 95 Society of Commerce, 45 4 per Cent 122 Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 65 National Society —Brussels Papers. Marcia 20. HAMBURG BORSEN HALLE, MARCH 19. Bills. Money. Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares 1470 1467 An 10-Russian Loan 107% 107'.4 Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate Russian 5 per Cent. Hops and Co. 3d and 4th Se i.s 98% 951 4 Ditto in Certificates Dutch - ctual Debt, 2% pec Cent. 53% - Polish Bonds New I icket Angle-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent 72 71: 4 PRUSSIAN FUNDS.— BERLIN, Matto! 13. Bills. Money. St. Schuld. Sch., 4 per cent 10 3 1,4 102% Prussian English Loan, 1830, 4 per cent 102% 101% kachange on London, three monras 6lO —Prussian State Gazette. March 14. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, Menem 12 Five per Cents. Metalliques Four per Cents. Three per Cents. Bank Shares 1484)4 —4llgemeineZcitung, March 17. We do not believe a syllable of the pretended revelations of the Courier Francais of Wednesday respecting negociations between the Courts of Madrid, Berlin, and Vienna, for the betrothal of the Infant Queen of Spain to an Austrian Grand Duke. The bare idea of such an alliance is pre posterous, and would not be entertained for an in stant by Prince METTERNICH. Surely M. THIERS does not require to bolster up the policy of intervention by such bungling expedients as this ? Cannot he imagine something more plausible ? The conduct of Louis Philippe towards M. Thiers, the leader of the Coalition, is justly compared to that of a Sovereign who induces a criminal to con fess, by holding out hopes of mercy, and then orders him for execution. BODY FOUND IN THE RIVER.—Last evening about six o'clock, some watermen returning from Woolwich in a skiff, saw a substance floating on the surface of the river, which, on approaching nearer to it, they discovered to be the body of a female. They immediately hauled it on board and conveyed it ashore at Blackwell, where it was delivered to the parish authorities. The clothes showed that deceased had moved in a respectable rank of life. An inquest will be held on the body. MILITIA.--Notice has been received that one third of the available force of the Militia will be called out for twelve months' permanent duty, to be succeeded by thee other portions in rotations, and the w hole body to be called out for twenty-eight days' training yearly.—Dublin Flyiny Post. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 22.—1❑ Harbour—The Britan nia, T 20, flag-ship ; Victory, 104, ordinary guard-ship; Excellent gunnery-ship ; Meteor And Messenger steam vessels ; Fanny, Gossamer, Emerald, and Gipsy tenders ; and Etna sloop. In Dock—Not anything in commission. In 'Basin—The \Vatcrwitch, 10 ; Curlew, 10 ; and Snipe cutter. At Spithead—The Powerful, 84, for the Mediterranean. ARRIVALS, SAILINGS, &c. DURING THE WEEK. On Saturday, the 16th.—The Zebra was observed to have anchored at St. Helens, having put back from stress of weather ; and the Barham, 50, arrived from the Medi terranean via Lisbon. On Sunday, the 17th.—The Zebra, 16, succeeded in getting away for the Mediterranean. On Monday, the 18th.—The. Gossamer tender sailed for the Eastward, with supernumeraries for the Cleopatra. On Tucsday, the 19th.—The Barham, 50, sailed for Sheerness, to be paid off at that port ; the Winchester, 52, being about to be commissioned there for the flag of Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Harvey, who is appointed as the successor of Vice-Admiral Paget, deceased, on the West India station. On Thursday, the 21st.--The Gossamer tender returned from Sheerness, and the Gipsy with seven seamen for the Powerful. On Friday, the 22d.—The Meteor steam-vessel arrived with part of Lord Fortescuc's luggage on board, on her way to Plymouth, and still remains. The Royal Frederick will not be launched till May, the Queen's visit to Portsmouth will therefore be delayed. The Powerful, 84, is still short of her complement about 200 men. Is this done to prove that seamen's wages are net sufficient, or is it that the gallant Captain is not a favourite with them ? The Revenge and Benbow are named for commissioning at this port, and the Thunderer and some other line-of-battle ship at Plymouth. Vice- Admiral Sir Thomas Harvey will proceed-in the Cleopatra to take the command of the West India station; and the Winchester, 52, will be commissioced as his permanent flag-ship. The appointments already known are Captain Parker (late of the Cruizer) to be Flag Captain; Com mander Henderson (a son-in-law of the Vice- Admiral's); First Lieutenant, J. Evans; and Flag Lieutenant, Thomas Harvey (son of the Admiral). Sir Graham Moore, it is now said, will take Plymouth ; if this should prove true, Captain Eden will be the Flag Captain, and Mr. Edye the Secretary. CITY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MARCII 22. We con tinue to hive a very lively demand, and an extensive bu. mess doing, with gradually advancing prices. They are now kd. to id. per lb. higher than those of last week. The trade have purchased very freely this week, not from any conviction as to the truth of the report of short crops, the solution of which is a mere question of time (such reports being, as we base before remarked, periodical in the growth itself), nor yet from such a positive improvement in trade as should indicate a permanent and substantial advantage to the consumer, but rather from an apprehension on their parts, tbat the powerful influence and management which has forced up the prices thus far may continue to operate awhile longer, and may be made to bear as effectually for a time as if the crop was really so small (whether so or not) as some of the most sanguine or, this point would have us believe. Speculators have taken 14,000 baler of Ameri can, 4,250 Surat, 350 Egyytian, 200 Babies, 150 Pera nams, and 100 Maranhans. Arrivals this morning : French and Hamburgh mails. No ship letters. The private letters from Rio Janeiro, received yester day, state that another slaver has been captured by the Wizard, brig-of-war, with 233 slaves on board. During the last month the number of slaves imported into Rio was 4,668, and in the course of the year 37,000, which is less in number than the year 1837. This may be ac counted fcr by so many being sent to Bahia and Pernam buco, as well as to other Brazilian ports. We have an exceeding blank morning, both in respect to news and business in the Funds, owing to there being so few arrivals. There has not been any material alteration in the value of money during the present week, and discounts on bank bills continue at 31 to 31 per cent.; but money for com mercial affairs is rather more difficult to be obtained, and higher rates of disccunt are demanded. The report of yesterday, that Government was going to reinforce the Army, in part proves correct, but not to that extent which was stated. 'I his has somewhat abated the alarm which prevailed in the Money Market, and to the present time no sales of stock of any consequence have taken place. Consols may be quoted with an improve ment on the leaving off prices of yesterday, closed at 92g i for the Account, at present 921 i for the Account, Money 9211 1. " Exchequer Bills, 55 57; India Bonds, 58 60 ; Bank Stock, 200 201 ; India, 253 254. In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active is not 'so good as it left off, and receded from 201 i to 20 1 1; Portu guese, 341 351; Belgian, 10'4; Brazilian, 791 ••• ; Scrip, i disc., 4 prem. ; Colombian, 29k; Dutch f wo-and-a- Half per Cents., 551 56; Five per Cents., Ib3 i. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Steck - ' India Stock — 3 per Cent. Red. — Ditto Bonds 6? 58 pm 3 per Cent. Cons. ...... —92 X iki ; 7 , i, % South Sea Stock 31.,', per Cent Old Annuities — Ditto Bed — New Ditto New 3% per Cent lONi 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1731 New 5 per Cent. Bank Long Annuities teexpire Ditto 500 ... pm. Jan. 5, NM — Ditto Small 55 57 pin. Oct. 10, 1259 Ditto Commercial — pm. Jan. 5, 15 0 . Ditto Advertised pin. Jan. 5, 1850 — Bank Stock for Account... 201 April 5, HMO — India Stock for Account ... Jan. 5. 1570 PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds — 4 Peruvian Bonds ~....... —.. Belgian Bonds —l Ditto Acc0unt.......... ..... Ditto Account Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account Buenos Ayres Bonds — Ditto, 3 per Cent. „..„—“, Ditto Account Chilian Bonds D tto Account Columbian Bonds — e Ditto Account — Ditto Account —j Ditto Metallic — Columbian Bonds, 1321 Ditto Account Danish Bonds Ditto Account — Ditto Account. ' 0W 3 t Greek Bonds — French, 5 per cent. f —e, Ditto Bonds, 1625 — 4 per cent....... —f. --e. Ditto Account — 3 per cent. —l. —c. Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent l7 --- Exch,3tige. Ditto Account Ditto, 6 per Cent Ditto Account — Ditto Account Neapolitan — Ditto Account — fIIIOES OF SHARES THIS DAY ATP NE O'CLOC id. Per SK. hare. Rattern Counties Railway l3 840 Great North of England ltailway Company 3O 16 Great Western Hallway Company 65 72 1 bl , nchester and Birmingham Railway l5 Ditto IA Shares 5 27 London and southampton Railway Company SS/. 17s. 9d. 42V, Midland Counties Railway Company. 6l 49 London and Westminster Bank :2O 2:1 1 A Anglo Mexican Mint lO 11 Mexican and South American 6 4;, HALF-PAST ONE. Consols, which were in the early part of the morning done at 92i for Money, may be quoted at present at 924 ; for the Account, 92i. Exchequer Bills, 55 57 ; Bank Stock shut, for the opening 201. In the Foreign Market the chief business doing is in Spanish, which has receded to 203 ; Portuguese 344, also lower ; Brazilian 791; Colombian 29 : Russian 112 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 554 j ; Five per Cents. 10* There is little doing in the Foreign Market, and most of the Funds are heavy. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISR FUNDS. Bank Stock India ..S Del( — 3 per Cent. Bed ~ per Cent. Ccas. 'r244 Ditto Old Annuities — 354 per Cent. Red 1011 4 Ditto New Annuities ...... ... New 35 v per Cent 100% !Ex. Bills 1,0001 '2%d....56 pm. New 5 per Cent — k Ditto 500/ pm Long Annuities to expire Ditto 50 0 / b 7 p m . Jan. ISti'l Oct. 1859 Jan. Hitt) FOREIGN FUNDS. Portuguese Bonds, 5 per cent. Ditto, New Ditto Prussian, 5 per cent — Russian Bs, 5 per cent-11'2 Ditto, Metallic — Spanish, 5 per cent — Ditto, Consolidated — French, 5 per cent. f. —c. Exchange —f. —c French, 3 per cent —4 —4. Dutch, 0% per cent. Ditto, 5 per cent. 103% Asturian, 5 per cent — Belgian, 5 per cent — Brazilian Bonds 7 9 1,4 Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent — (Milian 6 per cent Colomb , an, 6 per cent. Ditto, 1824 29 Danish, 3 per cent 76% Greek Bonds, 1825, sper ct — Mexican, 5 per cent 17% Ditto, 6 per cent., 182.5 — Peruvian, 1525,6 per cent 17% RES. Bristol and Exeter Railway y 10 1 4 Eastern Counties Railway ......... . ........................ ts; , . Great North of England Railway l6 Great Western Railway London and Brighton Railway . ....... 104 London and Birmingham Railway lti L o ndon and Southampt on Railwa y 421{,4 L on don and Croydon Railway ( T r unk)... .l._ London and Croyd on Railway (New Scrip) .. 41 Midland Counties Railway 4Sq Three striking in stances of the imperati ve neces sity of a summ ar y and local jurisdiction occurred at the last Hants assizes. One was the prosecution of a p erson f or stealing two turnips, the probable value of which did not exceed a penny ; another of a woman for stealing three basins, worth about twopence; and the third of a child of tender years, for stealing a few halfpence from, his master, to prove which several witnesses_ were bro ug h t f rom the Isle of Wight. The expenses of these three prosecutions, in all probability, cost the county more tha n 501 . ; and the value of the prope rt y alleged to have been stolen was cer tainly under half a crown. REFonm IN 1831 AND 1839.--. When the Re form Bill was introduced, and even after it was passed, not only Sir C. Wetherell but the Duke of Wellington, the head of the Conservative party,declared that it would seal the fate of the British Constitution, and that under it no Government could carry on the aff a i rs o f the country. Now the Reform Act is the idol of the party—they guard it with religious are , and expect every day to be called in by their Sovereign . to carry into effect the provisions of that very . measure which . they denounced as atrocious, destructive, and l revolutionary, On the 21st of March, 1839, the 1\ ?ble Lord who excited such horror in every C onser v ative breast on t he Ides of March, 1831, condemning to utter destruction 56 boroughs, and depriving 30 more of half their vitality, is told by his supporters that be is as good a Conservative as Sir Robert Peel, and bad he been of the same mind then, he would have gone out against his own Bill ; nay one of them, Mr. T. Attwood, goes still f ur th er , an d implies that Lord John Russell is a Conservative, and something more, for ' 0 they would be bett er un d er t h e boroughmongers than under the present House of Com mons, as that House was no more the representative of the working classes —of the . Commons of England— than of the Coulmois of China. L . all this be true, the Reform Bill has indeed produced a revo l ut i on among the three great parties in the State. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS DAY.) HOUSE OF LORDS. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY, in the absence of the Lord Chancellor, took his scat on the Woolsaek shortly after two o'clock. The Duke of Wellington's Estate Bill was read a se cond time, committed, and ordered to be read a third time on Monday. The Tithe Composition ( Ireland) Arrears Bill went through Committee, and was ordered to be read a third time on Monday, The House then adjourned to Monday. STATE OF CRIME IN IRELAND. DIVISION IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS ON THURSD.4Y. MAJORITY :n favour of Lord Roden'sMotion on the State of Crime • DUKES. Montrose Dorset Wellington Buckingham mArsourssEs. Tweeddale Abercorn Bute Downshire Thomond Cholmondeley Westmeath Ormonde EARLS. Winchilsea Abingdon Haddington Galloway Kinnoul Aberdeen lartmouth ankerville DUKES. H. R. H. the Duke of Sussex Somerset Norfolk Argyll Cleveland MARQUISES. Conyngham Normanby Head fort eadalbane EARLS. Albemarle llch ester ut,tit?gdon INllridie Fingal) Errol Mcath Camperdown FOR. Vernon Shrewsbury Belhaven Sligo Laindowne Rosebery in Ireland. EARLS. Harrington Digby Courtoun Roden Afoulitcashel Clare Bandon Donoughmore Ligierick Charleville Verulam Bradford Falmouth Ripon Brecknock viSCOUNTS, Hereford Hood Strangford Middleton Gage Hawarden Beresford MINORITY Against the Motion, EARLS. Lovelace Oxford Thanet Cowper Gosford Bruce Lichfield NISCOUNTS. Melbourne Torrington Falkland Ehringron Thineannon Lismore BISHOPS. Hereford Durham Ely LORDS. Cottenham Holland PAI BISHOPS. Rochester Bangor Oxford LORDS. Colville Monson Grantley Calthorpee Redesdale Ellenborough Sandys Colchester Maryborough Rayleigh Bexley Wharnclifre Tenterdenf Cosiley Stuart de Rothsav Brougham and Vau% Da Lisle LORDS. Barham Langdale De Mauley Foley Sudely Saye and Selo Berners Vaux Hatherton Wrottesley Dinorben Carew Lilford imore Byron unket rnaird Montfort Gardner Hill Glenelg AGAINST. St. Vincent Carnarvon Eglintojjn Harrowby Aylesbury Eldon HOUSE OF LORDS.-(THIS DAY.) The House sat to-day to hear Scotch Appeals. The Peers present were—the Lord Chancellor, Lord Brougham, the Earl of Aberdeen, the Earl of Hadding ton, Viscount Melville, and Lord Berners. THE PRESBYTERY OF AUCHTERARDER V. THE EARL OF KINNOUL. Sir F. PoLLocx concluded his reply in this case ; and their Lordships, at the suggestion of the Lord Chancellor and Lord Brougham, postponed their judgment until after the Easter Recess. MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) COVENT GARDEN. Supplies large, trade dull, and prices much as last week. - - NENVGATE AND LgADENHALL. Supply of Meat large, and trade dull. Beef, 2s. Bd. to 3s. bd. ; Mutton, 2s. 10d. to 3s. 10d. ; Veal, 3s. Bd. to 4s. sd. ; Pork, 3s. Bd. to 4s. 10d. ; Irish, 3s. to 3s. 6d. Grouse and Poultry a large supply ; trade dull, and prices lower. At the Insolvent Debtors' Court yesterday, Mr. W. H. Wallack, the well-known actor, was heard on his petition to be discharged. His debts amounted to about 7001. The insolvent was not opposed, and was ordered to be discharged forthwith. CHARGE OF BlGAMY.—Yesterday, at Bow street, the case of Anne Stephens alias Sterling alias Hughues, on the charge of bigamy, which has so long oc cupied the attention of the Magistrates, Sir Frederick Roe and Mr. Thistleton, terminated, and she was fully com mitted to Newgate, to take her trial at the ensuing Sessions of the Central Criminal Court. DETERMINED SUICIDE.-Last evening a Co roner's inquest was held before Mr. Higgs, at St. George's Hospital, on the body of Thomas Cuttar, under butler to Edward Fletcher, Esq., of 125, Park -street, Grosvenor square, who cut his throat under circumstances of a dis tressing nature, evidently resulting from temporary derange ment, there being adduced no evidence to account for the act. The jury returned a verdict of "Temporary mental derangement." SUICIDE OF A TRADESMAN.—Yesterday morning about seven o'clock, a milkman was passing by the side of a basin at Stoke Newington, when he discovered the body of a male person in his clothes floating on its sur face. He procured assistance, and on the body being got out and searched, a paper was found in his pocket directed to a member of the board of trustees of the pariah of Clerk enwell. It was then discovered that the deceased person was Mr. Thos. Savage, formerly a member of that board. A Coroner's inquest cNill be held on the body. THE LATE CASE OF ALLEGED HOGUSSING ♦ND ROBBERY IN CLERRENWELL.-The man and woman accused of being concerned in the late outrage upon Eli zabeth Anne Clarke, were re-examined at Hatton-garden Office yesterday, but nothing of any importance transpired. The prisoners were remanded till Monday. The police have got some clue to a third party supposed to be impli cated. The prisoners bear a bad character, being known as the associates of burglars. THE LATE ATTEMPT OF A HUSBAND TO MURDER ills WlFE.—Richard Whiting, whose case has already been noticed, was yesterday re-examined at Ed monton, and committed to Newgate for trial, on the capi tal charge of attempting to murder his wife. The parties bad only been married a few weeks. THE MURDER OF ELIZA GRIMWOOD.— The front portion of the house, No. 12, Wellington-ter race, Waterloo-rood, in which the above murder occurred, has been razed to the ground, previous to the erection of a shop front, the premises having failed to let as a private house. A number of persons bad offered to become ten ants, on the condition of paying no rent ; but the landlord refused to accede to these terms. . SUPPOSED MURDER AT DUDLEY.—COnSi derable excitement has this week been produced at Dudley by the death under peculiar circumstances, of an unfortu nate girl of the town. An inquest was held on the body on Thursday, March 7, and by an adjournment on the Tuesday following, and concluded on Thursday, by finding, "that the deceased had met her death from falls, and consequent bruises, received while she was in a state of intoxication." ..--• A FAIR ALLOWANCE.—A witness in a case heard yesterday in the Secondaries' Court was asked whether he had not been drinking. He replied that he had only taken his" usual quantity ;" which he afterwards explained to be twenty-seven glasses per diem partly of gin and partly of beer At Nottingham Assizes, this week, an action was brought to recover the value of a mirror of the intrinsic value of only ten shillings, but it had become an article of vcrtu in consequence of a man having shot himself before it. On Friday, the Ist of February last, a curling match was played on Lechleven, between the married men and bachelors of the Kinross Curling Club (the most an cient in Scotland), and which, after a well contested game of three hours and a half, was gained by the former by eleven shots a head of the latter. The game was for a quantity of oatmeal, to be distributed, as usual, among the poor of the place.--Glasgoto Argus. MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS.—There is a man in Salem, Messachnssets, who says he has made 1,500 dollars during the past year by attending to his own business, and 500 more by letting other people's alone.—Nsw York Paper. IRISH OUTRAGES. GOVERNMENT RE- WARDS.—From December 1, 1837, to February 20, 1839, the sum of 13,3901. was offered as rewards by Government for the discovery and apprehension of 186 murders, homi cides, &c &c. Of these the official returns produced be fore Parliament state that only eight rewards were claimed and naid, and 178, of course, remained unclaimed. SUICIDES IN BELGIUM.—In the last six months of 1835 seventy-six persons committed suicide in Belgium ; in the year 1830, they amountod to 187. In this total number of 263 there were 237 men and 56 females. A DESIRABLE NEIGHBOURHOOD.—An ad vertisement appeared in the Morning Advertiser a day or two since, relative to a public-house, which, by way of re commendation, was stated to be " situated in a gin-drink ing neighbourhood." MIL MATHIAS, AUTHOR OF " PURSUITS OF LITERATURE."—One of his peculiarties is, an extraor dinary tenacity of memory respecting the dates at which he, for the first time of the season,- had eaten green peas, or any other early culinary delicacy ; another is, the con tinual exclamation of " God bless my soul l" Dinner was not half over before he told us on what days he had eaten spring chickens, green pets, Aubergine, and a half hun dred other dainties ; and at each cntremet that was offered him, he exclaimed—" What a delicious dish—God bless my soul l" Mr. Mathias has an exceeding dread of being ridden or driven over in the crowded streets of Naples ; and has often been known to stop an hour be fore he could muster courage to cross the Chiaja. Being known and respected in tha town, many coach men pause, in order to give him time to cross without being alarmed ; but in vain l ,,.for he advances half way, then stops, terrified at his imaginary danger, and rushes back, exclaiming, " God bless my soul I" It is only when he meets some acquaintance, who gives him the support of an arm, that he acquires sufficient resolution to pass to the other side of the street. While he was dining in a cafe, a few days ago, a violent shower of rain fell, and pattering against the Venetian blinds with great noise, Sir William Gell observed that it rained dogs and cats; at which moment a dog rushed in at the door of the cafe, and . a frightened cat in at the other. " God bless my soul !" exclaimed Mathias gravely, "so it does—so it does I who would have believed it ?" This exclamation excited no little meriment ; and Mathias resented it by not speaking Ito the laughers for some days.--Lady Blessington's Idler in Italy. _ „ MANCHESTER. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—It again becomes my unpleasant duty to contra dict a mischievous statement in your Paper of yesterday. It is, " that a report prevailed of riots at Blanchester ; and that a regiment of troops had proceeded to that place ; and that orders had been received that artillery should go to that quarter." Now it is quite hurtful enough to the interests of our trade, when its channels are obstructed by actual occur rences of the kind alluded to; but vrhen our peaceable town is represented as being in a state of alarming disor der, we cannot help imputing to you a too great readiness to insert unauthenticated reports, which must not only damage the credit of your Paper, but mislead, and fre quently put to serious inconvenience, those who believe them ; for you must be aware of the fact that timid per sons, at a distance, will not be drawn, even by business, to a town which is in a state bordering upon insurrection. As this letter may correct the misrepresentation, I beg your insertion of it ; and again take the liberty of remind kg you, that b e f ore y ou g iv e currency to reports of so serious a character, you ought to ascertain whether or not they are founded in fact. A CONSTANT SUBSCRIBER. Manchester, March 22. O C- Jur (.. , orrespondent ought to have seen that we con .radieted the statement to which he refers. It is no part of our duty to give circulation to exaggerated reports, but we cannot always guard against their insertion, however desirous we may be to ascertain the truth. Reports fre quently obtain currency in the City, the correctness or in correctness of which cannot be ascertained for some days, and for such we cannot be held responsible.—En.] THE ANTI CORN-LAW LEAGUE. (FROM OUR OWN REPORTER.) MANCHESTER, FRIDAY. Despite the admonitions of the'. Globe, the Anti- Corn-law " League" has commenced its work of agitation, and the question whether it will become a " political" agitation or not, must soon be decided. If large masses of petitioners are to have their petition; contemptuously rejected, and themselves stigmatized by the scions of hereditary wisdom as assassins, and other names equally l.olite, it is no wonder if, although they may entertain divers nations upon the question of the suffrage, and other speculative questions, they should unite heart and hand for the attainment of one common object. This appears to be the fact of the case with respect to the Anti-Corti-law League. Oa this ques tion Whig, Tory, and Radical will speedily unite—in fact, are now uniting, and the "finality" of the Corn-law will now become the test of a man's fitness to represent the ma nufacturing and commercial interests. It was announced at the meeting of the Delegates in the metropolis, that lec turers would be engaged to go through the manufacturing and agricultural districts for the purpose of diffusing right notions into the minds of the great mass of the agricultural population. It was indeed fitting that the ice should be first broken in Manchester, and that the lecturers appointed should he men of first-rate ability, men who are known in the literary and scientific world, and whose pub lished opinions on other matters havo met with the smiles of the public. The first lecture un der the auspices of the League was delivered last night at the Corn Exchange, by Sydney Smith, Esq., of Edinburgh, a gentleman well known as a writer and lecturer on phrenology, and a member of the profession of the law. The public were admitted to the rooms by the exhibiting tickets, which were presented gratuitously to all appli. cants at the rooms of the Association. Although the evening was exceedingly unfavourable, by reason of the heavy rain, which fell in copious showers, the room was speedily filled with a goodly assemblage, composed princi pally of working men. Mr. Smith was introduced to the assemblage by Mr. Wilson, the Honorary Secretary to the Association. As the lecture occupied upwards of three hours in the delivery, its length preclpdes our giving anything more than a gene ral outline. Commencing with pointing out the difference between the principles which appear to guide politicians of the present and past times, and those principles which Christianity inculcates, the lecturer ridiculed, with great force, the interested attempts of political quacks to create prejudices against people of other lands, in the minds of the people of this country. Showing the original design of the Almighty that the whole of the human race was that they should form but one family, all mutually de pendent on each other, although they might happen to be separated from each other by rivers and oceans ; he stated that in consequence of the impolitic laws which regulate the introduction of corn into this country he knew of per sons who fed not only their families but their horses also upon sago; finding that that commodity was cheaper in price than the corn which grew at their own doors. Man alone was an outcast, miserable, poor —and an outcast, driven from his miserable hut, he cried for bread, and we gave him a stone ; we drenched the people with political nostrums instead of giving them benefits of a more substantial character. He contended that the Chartists stood greater chance of gain ing extension of the suffrage, after the repeal of the Corn laws, than they would if the law were not to be repealed, for it was the Corn-laws alone which invested the landed interest with so great an influence in the State. Ridicul ing the idea that the Corn-laws were beneficial to a country, he stated that there was greater misery amongst tl:e people of Great Britain than in any other country, in the globe. There never would have been a Chartist in the world if the people had been allowed to obtain cheap food for their wages ; and if peo ple met by torch-light not for the advocacy of an abstract principle, but to say " We will have cheap food for our. selves and families," it was not a proclamation that would disperse them. If, in consequence of our refusal to take corn horn her, America Was to refuse to let us have her cotton, and Russia to refuse to let us have her hemp and flax, what would be the consequence ? An immense num ber of our people would be thrown out of employment. Notwithstanding the protection of the Ccrn-laws, the pro duce of grain in the United Kingdom fell short of the con sumption by about three millions of quarters annually, and as our population was increasing at the rate of one thousand per day, we must find food for them. We had colo nies of our own, the inhabitants of which would be glad to supply us with corn if there were no duty on the importa tion on corn. Referring to the argument that is used by the supporters of the Corn-laws, that the inferior soils would be thrown out of cultivation, he contended that those lands ought never to have been placed in cultivation; and he was quite sure that if by the repeal of the Corn-laws there should ho less land set aside for growing corn, more cattle would be pastured. If the Corn laws could possibly have benefited an agricultural country how was it that Ireland, which was almost solely an agricultural country, was in such a state of destitution ? His hits against the aristocracy were of a " heavy" nature, and he called upon the people to join together upon this question, laying all others out of sight. The lecture was most rapturously applauded, and the sarcastic " cuts" which Mr. Smith gave to the supporters of the Corn-law told with amazing efhct. He will deliver his second lecture on Tuesday evening next. METROPOLITAN POLITICAL SUMMARY. The Morning Chronicle of this day, alluding to the de bate in the Lords on Thursday night, on the subject of the' present state of Ireland, and the majority against Ministers on that occasion, says—" The House of Lords have impeached the Irish policy of Ministers since 1835, and it is proposed that the House of Commons shall vote a direct approbation of that which has been so much im peached. So far so good. Now is the time for Liberal Members to come to an understanding on certain main points on which they are notoriously at present divided. Throughout the country there is a lukewarmness on the part of Reformers; and to revive the enthusiasm of the People, by which alone the collision with the House of Lords can be conducted to a successful issue, Ministers must make up their minds to abandon their negative policy, and identify themselves with the whole Liberal party." The Morning Herald contains a leading article on Lord John Russell's speech ih the Commons last night, with re ference to the recent division in the Lords on the question of Ireland, in the course of which our Contemporary ob serves—" The House of Lords has vitually censured her Majesty's Ministers. No vote of the House of Commons can remove that censure. The House of Lords has virtu ally taken the Government of Ireland out of the hands of the Whig Administration. Let Lord John Russell fret and fume as he may, his tenure of office must, necessarily, be brief. The vote of the House of Lords will have the ef fect of neutralising to a great extent, the misehevious ap pointment of Lord Fortescue to the Lord Lieutenantcy of Ireland. Nay, it is just possible that Ireland may never know Lord Fortescue as the occupant of Dublin Castle." The Morning Post comments as follows on Lord John Russell's speech in the Commons last night :—" We can not regard the notice given last night by the Ministerial leader in the House of Commons in any other light than as the device of a Ministry which is content to live on from day to day. That this is the true character and chief ob ject of Lord J. Russell's speech we the more confidently believe, because we think it highly improbable that the Ministry, as at present constituted, will be in existence after the Easter recess." The Morning Advertiser, in a leading article suggested by Lord John Russell's speech last night in the Commons, remarks—" In appealing to the House of Commons, we trust Ministers will take a bold position in reference to Ire land. Hitherto, the moderation, we will not say timidity, of the Cabinet, has been its weakness. It is time that this indecision were brought to an end. A passive policy will no longer stave off the crisis of the country." LLOYDS SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY DEAL, MARCH 22.—Wind W. N. W. moderate. —Came down from the River, John Heyes, Wetherall, for the Cape of Good Hope; Jane Willis, Willis, Demerara; Lady E m ily, Wilson, Malta; Minerva, M'Phin, Ilonduras ; Hope, Lambert, Africa; Iberia (steamer), Lisbon, &c. Sailed the Tickler, Ellis, for Sydney; Europe, Bride, Arrived and proceeded for the River, the Arab, Lowe, from the Mauritius. PORTSMOUPII, MARCH 22.—Wind W. S. W. to N. W.— Arrived the Margaret, Smolt, from Cork ; Agnes, Stra nack, London; Sheplaison, Harkstrom, London. Sailed the Genio Speculatorio, Treprovich, for London ; put back Glycina (steamer), Cuddy, Lisbon, with damage to machinery. PLYMOUTH, MARCH 22. —Wind W. N. W.— Arrived the Helen Mar, Benson, from Taganrog. Sailed the Kate, Cuthbertson, for Hamburg. LIVERPOOL, MARCH 22.—Wind W. to N. W. Very fresh. —Arrived the Frith, from Monte Video ; Isabel, Cape Rio Grande ; Grace, Pearson, Demerara; Lady Mary Fox, New Orleans; Neptune, Pack, Mobile ; Gos hawk, Blisser, Berbice ; Rachel, Odessa ; Harvest, ditto ; Tercere, Trieste ; Heart of Oak, Ancona ; Mary Ann, Stockholm ; Dan and Elizabeth, Mackmar, Amsterdam ; Veracity, Andersonjlamburg ; Typhis, Bordeaux. and not the Sylph, as reported yesterday ; Courier, Banks , Mobile. Sailed the Pernambuciana (steamer), for Rio Janeiro.! VENING EDITIW EPISCOPAL CONSISTENCY SAYINGS versus DOJNGS. " The Bishop of London deems the writing, or trans— mission, of a letter, on Sunday, an act of impiety which nothing can justify. So says the Prelate in Parlia ment, and as the head of the City deputation to Lord Melbourne. But what does he say by his conduct in his palace? A. proof has been placed in our possession, of a letter recently written and franked by the Bishop's own band, and poskd on a Sunday !"—Evening Paper. Bishop Cant, with his pious eyes meekly upraised, Protests with a groan that he's like to go crazed At the thought of the citizens scribbling away, And posting their letters on God's holy Day ! Such conduct, quoth he, they must quickly amend, For it makes all the hairs of my wig stand on end ! Oh, right says the adage—'tis easier to preach, Far more than to practice, the duties we teach, For London's Apostle, though pious and pure, And in conduct so ultra-sabbatical, sure, Disdaining to put off his business 'till Monday, Himself writes a letter, and posts it, on Sunday ! ! COURT CIRCULAR. FILIDAY.--lier Majesty held a Coat at Buckingham Palace yesterday afternoon, fur the reception of the Address of the City of Lenticm, respecting the Metropolitan Police Bill. At two o'clock the Lord Mayor arrived in State, attended by the Sword-bearer, the Mace-bearer, and his Chaplain, the Rev. Mr., George Wright, and accompanied by Alderman Sir Clan dits Hunter, Alderman Brown, Alderman Sir Matthew Wood, Alderman Sir Peter Laurie, Alderman 'enables, Alderman Farebrother, Alderman Sir John Key, Alderman Sir John Cowan, Bart., Alderman Kelly, the Recorder, Alderman Sir C. Marshall, Aldermen Harmer, Humphrey, Lawson, Mag nav, and Gibbs, the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex, Mr. Alderman Johnson, and Mr. Alderman Thomas Wood, the City Chamberlain, the Common Serjeant, the City Remem brances, the City Comptroller, the four CitE Pleaders, the two Secondaries, the Under Sheriffs, Messrs'. Langham and Ellis, and also by one hundred and ninety-four Members of the Court of Common Council. The Lord Mayor wore his Robe and his Ensigns of Office and carried his Sceptre. The Deputation assembled in the Green Drawing Room, and were afterwards ushered to the presence of the Queen, ad vancing to the foot of the Throne between the ranks of her Majesty's Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms. Her Majesty received the Address on the Throne ; on either side of her Majesty stood the M*ltioness of Normanby, Lady in Waiting, the First Lord of tlO Treasury, the Lord Privy Seal, the Secretary of State for the Heine Department, the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, the iliSter "ef Alfa How, Lord Gardiler„ Laid-in-Waiting, the Captain of Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-.at-Arms, the Treasurer of the Household, the Comptroller of the Household, Sir Fretle derick Steven, Groom in Waiting, Honourable Colonel Caven dish (Clerk Marshal), Equerry in Waiting, Master Ellice, and Master Cowell, Pages of Honour in Waiting. The Recorder read the Address to the Queen. Her Majesty returned a gracious Answer. The Lord Mayor, the Aldermen, the Recorder, the Sheriffs, the Principal City Officers, Mr. Galloway, the Mover, Mr. Stacey, the Seconder, of the Ad dress, had the honour to kiss hands. The Deputation then retired. • The Court was attended by Lord Hill, Gold Stick in Wait ing ; Sir Thomas Reeve, Standard-bearer to the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms; Mr. James B Curling, Clerk of the Cheque of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at- Arms ; the Groom of the Robes; Sir Benjamin Smith ; Cap tain Bellairs, Exon in Waiting; Sir Frederick Smith; 111 r. sßlackwood and Mr. Randall. Gentlemen Ushers iu Waiting. A Guard of Honour of the Coldstream Guards, with. — the band of the Regiment, was on duty on the Palace lawn. ThC Yeoman Guard lined the Marble-hall. Her Majesty gave' audiences to Viscount Melbourne, Lord John Russell, and the Lord Chamberlain. The Earl of Minto had an audience yesterday of the Queen. The Earl of Surrey, Earl of Mulgiave, Ho - n. Miss Caven dish, and the Hon. William Cowper, joined the Royal Circle at dinner last evening. The Band of the Coldstream Guards was in attendance at the Palace-during the evening. The Hon. Miss Murray and the Hon. Miss Lister have suc ceeded the Hon. Miss Cocks and the Hon. Miss Cavendish as the Maids of Honour in Waiting on her Majesty. Despatches from Colonel Doherty, Governor of Si erra Leone, were received yesterday at the olonial-ottice. SATURDAY.—The Queen ,field a Court yesterday afternoon at - Buckingham Palace. The Hon. John Duncan Bligh, her Majesty's Envoy Ex traordinary and :Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Hano ver, had an audience to take leave on returning to his mission. Mr. Bligh was presented by Viscount Palmerston, her Ma jesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. The Court was attended by Lord Gardner, Lord in Waiting, Sir Frederick Stovin, Groom in Waiting, and the Honourable Colonel Cavendish (Clerk Marshal), Equerry in Waiting. Viscount Melbourne and the Chancellor of the Exchequer had audiences yesterday of the Queen. The Royal dinner party at the Palace last evening included the Earl of Albemarle, Viscount Melbourne, Lord Saye and Sele, Lord Alfred Paget. the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Right Hon. George Stevens Byng, Hon. William Cowper, and Mr. John M'Neill. The Duchess of Gloucester visited the Duchess of Cambridge yesterday at Cambridge House. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at the re,i deuce of the Marquis of Lansdowne, at Lansdowne, House. The Noble Marquis is sufferin g from an attack of the gout in his feet. The council sat two hours. The Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the East India Company had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exche quer yesterday, in Downing-street. The French Ambassador transacted business yesterday at the Foreign Office, Sir James Graham and Mr. M‘Farlane had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday. Dispatches for Sir John Colborne, Governor of the Canadas, were sent off last evening from the Colonial Office. Viscount and Viscountess Sidmouth left Fairance's Hotel yesterday, for Richmond Park. POSTPONEMENT OF HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO WINDSOR.-.-WINDSOR, MARCH 21.—Preparations knve been in progress for some days past at the Castle, in the full expectation that her Majesty would arrive here about Thursday or Friday next, and remain until after the ter mination of the Easter holidays: and it was not until last evening that the inmates of the Castle were officially made acquainted with the change which had taken place in her Majesty's determination. The necessary arrangements which were about being effected preparatory to the antici pated arrival of the Queen, have been countermanded, in consequence of her Majesty not contemplating leaping Buckingham Palace until a short period previous to the races at Ascot-heath. The town of Windsor is extrerney gloomy in consequence of the absence of the Queen, and her procrastinated stay in London.—EveningPaper. APPREHENSION OF THE ASSASSINS OF LORD NORDURY.—The following extract from a letter, dated the , 20th inst., from Tullamore, is c o pi e d b y t h e Dublin Evening Pest of Thursday last :--" There was a sale at Durrow on Monday ; everything went off high. There is a man at present giving some information re specting the murder. The consequence is, that there are great numbers arrested, and who, I am told, are fully cm_ mitted. One of Odium's drivers, a man formerly in Mr. Scully's employment, has this day been arrested when leaving the hotel with the boat, and I am told is just now committed. I believe there is every chance of the whole affair soon coming to light. Our chief constable is going away, and.is to be replaced by Mr. O'Brien, from Mount , mellick." _ _ ---------- ADJOURNMENT OF THE COMMONS.—Lord John Russell last night gave notice that, on Wednesday next, he would move the adjournment of the House of Commons from that day to Monday the Bth of April. In fact, a great number of Members have left town already, in anticipation of the holidays. LEICESTER ELECTION.—The numbers at the close of the poll on Friday, as supplied by the Leicester shire Mercury of to-day, were—for Ellis 1,666 ; for Fre. wen 1,371, thus making Mr. Ellis's majority 295,. and net 310, as was stated yesterday in the Morning Chronicle. CORPORATION BILL (IRELAND). The Dublin Evening Post says that the Bill will positively pass this Session. .For Leamington Friday's Steeple Chase and Stag Hunt, read Belts Life in London of Sunday, March i 24, price Fivepence. PENSION LIST.—The revised Pension List has blade its appearance, and the entire sum to be annually provided for out of the Civil List amounts to 130,6351. Col. Davies, M.P. for Worcester, has retired from the army by the sale of his commission. WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET, MARCH ,22. —The arrivals of Wheat are good, but the millers are not disposed to buy, and the few sales made are at a decline of Is. Beans steady, Barley as last reported. Wheat 9,517 quarters; Barley, 4,120. NIA NC lIES TER. FRIDAY EVENING.—THE COTTON TRADE.—The probability that Cotton will at least maintain its present value, if not go still higher, has, for the moment given more firmness toit he trade in Grey Cloth and Yarns. In goods the demand was very consi derable on Tuesday ; and an advance established on most goods of 3 or 4 per cent., and this advance has not only been maintained ; but in many cases, a trifling advance on Tuesday's currency has been realized; with a great firm ness in the market at noon, to-day. The business doing in Yarns is large and at improving prices; though still un equal to the advance on Cotton. Some of our large ship ping houses are buyers to so lar g e no extent in Yarns, that they are compelled temporarily to store their purchases in buildings specially rente d for the p urpose. It is thought, that next week Yarns will be still higher. EXECUTION.—HiIIiard, the wretched man con victed at the last Essex Assizes of shooting Mrs. Playt, at Mountnessing, was executed this morning, in front of the Convict Gaol. A petition in his favour we learn from the Chehn.yin.d Chronicle, was got up by those parties in the neighbourhood who are opposed, under every circum stance, to the taking away of human life by the execu tioner ; but, from the first, so little doubt could be enter tained of his guilt—the blood of the wretched woman a p_ peared so clearly upon his hands—that small hope could be e ntertained of discovering a ground, in the present state of the law, for a mitigation of his sentence. At first his conduct and demeanour was that of hardened ignorance, but latterly he has paid attention to the instruction an d the unwcarying exertions of the Reverend attendant of the prison, and there is reason to hope that be was brought to a sense of mind somewhat befitting the awful situation in which crime has placed him. On Tuesday evening, while the horses of the Monarch were waiting in the stables of Mess's. Reilh , at Pickwick, for the arrival o f the coach, one of the m (it is r supposed), struck a candle out of a lantern b y a toss of its head, by which mean s the litter was ignited, and th e whole of the stable becom in g s p eedily on fire, three h orses were y burnt to death, and t wo others were so severel y injured by the fire that th e y are not expected to live.— Devizes Gazette. W Alms-houses s ßl for CHARITY.--r 1 Institutio n f or theerection ER of A f R A N Im S ; aged and l decayed ater men.and lightermen of the River Tham es , and AT their wi. dows, has met with so much success that, although seve n weeks have elapsed since the project was only Set on foot, the sum of 4,000/, has been l d a rea y subscribed, inc lud"* a donation of 500/. from the npian Watermens' Cut ) w:IL) .:. are the trustees of the charity. 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