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Among the articles in it are :—Austrian Tariff, and new Commercial Treaty with A,stoia Joint Steck Banks: Cotton Trade of Great Britain, from 1816. to 1833, both inclusive; Tables of Imports and Ex ports, comprising a full account of the Foreign Trade of the United Kingdom during the Ten Years ending with 1838; Trade with Prussia, Prussian Commercial League, and Ta riff; Railways, said Railway Legislation ; Post-office Ar raagements ; .11terations is the British Tariff; Russian Tariff; Classification of Ships • Sugar Trade, Growth of Beet-root : Commercial ireaty with Turkey; with notices of tta Vecchio; Moulmein, R:c. London: Longman, Orme, and Co. TILE ARMY AND THE CHARTISTS. r . -; 1 II L: C H A It T E R, b.l _Lt._ (Price Sixpence), • Of SUNDAY NEx ^ r, will contain another Lotter from a Soldier Chartist, on the Progress of Chartist Principles in the Arihy. Also a true exposition of the causes which have in '.- &etc; the resignation of the Birmingham Delegates. A Re vie- v of the dishonesty of the Press in the Radical movement : , Li - A a number of other Original Articles, as well as an ample Ligest of Foreign and Domestic News. WORKING MEN ! This is YOUR OWN PAPER ! ! Office, lti, Catherine-street, Strand. Give your Orders to the Newsmen in time. IVOTICE TO BOXKEEPERS..—A Meet -i.. 1 tog of the above Person., employed in Theatres will be held at the Vino Apple, Ilungerford-street, Strand, out Mutts. 1) ." tet4f, April 11, to take into consideration the propriety of establishing a Relief Fund. ' ....- , Chair to be taken at I 2 o'clock. -- --- THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. THIS EVENING, Arm!. b, Will be performed the New Play, in Five Acts, canal RICHELIEU, Oft THE CONSPIRACY, Written isy Sir E. Lytton Bulwer, Bart. The Characters Isy Mr. Elton, Mr. Ditidear, Mr. Macready, Mr. Warde, Mr. %n- Jerson,. Mr. Vining. Mr. Roberts, Mr. Phelps, Mr. G. Ben n,tt, Mr. Howe, iss E. Phillips, Mr. Tilbury, Mr. Yar neld, Mr. W. h. Payne, Mr. C. J. Smith, Mr. Bender. WI-. Paulo, Mr. Gough, Mr. Thorne, Mr. Brady, Mr. Bur t!,tt, Mr. Smith, Mr. Kirke, Mr. Hollingsworth, Mr. Wal dron, Mr. AylitTe, Mr. Andrews, Mr. T. Matthews, :‘liss relra Faucit. Miss Charles, Mesdames Reed, Corder, Lee, Vallnduke, Mathews, Mew, and Morgan. After which will be revived the Grand Dramatic Romance, of LODOISKA. To-Morrow, Richelieu, with Lodoiska, and The Omnibus. *.ri -107 ph.,. - 1::: 0 —":',* , r - !' f"- - A t . A).. c--..;ra - t - i - Tii7y -, _ .lotg ,-. ~---)-, I:A:10 ,d i' t ,,i (:r l ,ll LONDON : FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1639. Never was there a more correct description of justice as administered in Ireland forty years ago, than is contained in the above stanzas. Protest- antism was then a rare exotic ; the culture of which .was paramount to`all public duties ; gvhereas Pa- pac.y,was a weed of spontaneous growth, the uproot jug of which was as meritorious, and often as profit able, as was once the destruction of wolves in Eng land. Whether " sinned against or sinning," the general rule was to punish the Catholics. They i pate numerous and could afford victims ; whereas, , the Orangemen were but few, and according to the erroneous calculation of Governments blinded by ti ,, . , ir bigotry, necessary instruments of the subjec tion of Ireland to the domination of this country. But though impartial justice is as yet a novelty to the people of Ireland—though the placing of Ca tholics and Protestants on an equal footing before the law, only became universal during the popular and patriotic administration of Lord Normanby; the proceedings which took place at public meetings of the citizens of Dublin, arid of the inhabitants of the county of Kildare, on Monday last,----of which an abridged report will be found in our columns ' of to-day,—ought to convince the British Parliament that, to preserve the connection between the two countries, Lord NortmANßy's just and enlightened policy must be the rule by which the present Lord Limtenan,t and his successors in office shall in vac:ably be guided. There begins to be conditions oni':exed to the expression of Irish gratitude, indi cative of a complete change in the nation's appre dratiln cif the value of public services. The people of Ireland are rapidly acquiring a knowledge of their rights—they are fast assuming the indepen- dent part of freemen ; and having, under the hu mane and meniful administration of Lord NoR- I enjoyed the blessings of good Govern merit, any attempt to coerce them by brute force, will only lead to a disseverance of the connection between them and Great Britain. To Lord Nonma.NßY the people of Ireland unquestionably i• ow is deep debt of gratitude. As was well observed by Lord AILL - rowN, his Excellency was the first to substitute for the pitch-cap, the triangle, and Ore riding-house coercive system of Irish policy, a merciful regard to the wants and condition of the people. Others had mad dened them by cruelties ; he soothed them by con descending, to appeal to their reason, and by temperi ng even in punishments the administrati on I t 1 of justice with mercy. . I,. We tru s t, f or t h e sa k e o f E ng l an d, no l ess 1 t ' 1 Ireland, that Lord FORTESCUE will "irefully abide by k 0 happilyhe sy Y stem of policy commenced in Ireland by his illus tr:-)as predecessor. The nation has confi d . ice in him, . and hi s past l i fe is a guaran tee that he will neith er a b use it himself, nor i . b, those who *d ance 4#11414ar_.!, t - , attendance about (. ,•• ~,,,. -suckers , in Court dis- ,1 ceL . kl A V j • - " - 4 ; •-• 4 -/ , ... 1 —04 3 c 4,-4...-: :y ~,...).. --„,—, ' ~j~ ~g ~~J ~i Y 'i ~a The particulars of the Revenue, the quarterly racriP.3 of which are to be made up this evening, ;Ie not yet accurately known ; but we are given io !.v( l ,rs - tand that they are more favourable than, con tlie circumstances of the last harvest and the present spring, could have been expected. The severest satire which the people of Ireland —sharp-witted as they are—could make upon the G orornment of this country, would fall far short in )ignancy to what is implied in the reports of the ir-wations making to give a cordial reception to - new Lord Lic.uterrant, Baron FORTESCUE, on ExcEllency's arrival in Dublin. Justice cm ' Ld with me:ey is so rare a commodity in Ireland, that the appointment of a Nobleman of unblemished el , araeteir c - and incapable of misrepresenting in his administration the attributes of the Sovereign vvhose deputy be is, calls for the expression of a ~ cation's gratitude ! Previous to the Lieutenantcies of Lords WELLESLEY and NO RMANBY, Irish justice consisted in the punishment of Catholics for their 'own of errece and those of their Protestant fellow-country men. The letter were before always deett with by the Of . overnment as if they occupied - the enviable position of the Preaching Cobbler, so f wittily tlescri6ed in Huclibras : " Justice gires sentence many times On one man for another's crimes, As lately bappencd in a town, Where lived a Ccblcr, and but one, What out of doctrine could cut Use, And mend men's lives as well as shoes. T4is precious brother having slain, In times of peace, an Indian, The mighty Tottipottimoy Sent to our Elders an Envoy ; Complaining sorely of the breach Of league held forth by brother Patch, For which he craved the saints to render Into Ms hands, or hang th' offender. But they maturely Laving weighed, They had no more but him o' th' trade ; (A man that served them in the double Capacity, to teach and cobble), Resolved to snare him, yet to do The Indian _Hogan Megan too Impartial justice, in his stead did Hang an old weaver that was bed-rid." THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1839. guises—to abuse it in his name. His position is a proud one—the proudest which any man in the British empire could be called upon to occupy. May he leave Ireland as the Marquis of NOR MANDY left it—followed by the prayers and bless ings of seven millions of his countrymen ! The Anti-Corn-law League is exerting itself vigo rously. We insert a paper which it has just pre pared, entitled " Facts for Farmers," which will go through the country with the high authority of Earl FITZWILLIAM'S name. They will make, there fore a considerable impression, and arouse many farmers diligently to consider the subject. Between the pretext of the Legislature, that the Corn-laws are to put money into the farmers' pockets, and the fact that it does not get there, they cannot fail to distinguish. Of all the monstrous delusions that ever were palmed off by cunning selfish knaves on ig norant dupes, none is more monstrous than the pretext that the Corn-laws benefit, or, as it is called, protect agriculture. We can excuse poor credulous timid women, or ignorant superstitious savages, for believing the fictions of interested priests or fetiche men, because they refer to things beyond the ken of the human understanding, and which can neither be proved nor disproved. But that men of sense should credit the assertions of interested, selfish knaves, which are continually and every day contra dicted by facts, is one of the strangest phenomena that habitually fall under our observation. Men readily believe what they wish. The farmers wish to be rich by little trouble—the Corn-law Legislator promised to make them so byldishonestly taking money out of the pockets of other men, and the farmers continue to believe the promise though they are impoverished and gone to decay. They are overreached by their own avarice. Of the additional price given to corn by the law, and which they must pay on everything they use and consume, including labour, and including even the bread eaten by paupers, they know that a large portion goes to colleges and other corporations which are great landowners, to companies, to titlieowners, to residents abroad, to residents in cities, who scarcely ever see the green fields, and to a great mass of persons who have no connection whatever with agriculture, except to consume its products. The farmers must be sensible that all the revenue of these corporations and individuals has no more influence in promoting or improving agriculture than if it were thrown into the sea, and yet this revenue is levied on them for the improvement and protection of agriculture. If they continue to be lieve that to enrich corporations and absentee landlords by raising the price of corn, and so rais ing rent, serves the cause of agriculture, they will believe that a man is served and enriched by being stripped of his property by swindlers. 'We re commend the " Facts" for their careful perusal. In Mr. FIELDING'S speech on the Corn-laws, delivered on Monday, March 18, which was not heard and not reported, but which has since been placed before the public, we find a passage which deserves, we think, to be brought rather promi nently into notice. Here it is : The American bankers have, as it would seem, to en. hance its price, made advances to the cotton planters on the crops, and engaged to keep the cotton from the mar ket, or at any rate from being sold until their object is at tained ; fur by a Liverpool broker's circular of the 15th instant, he found that the import of American cotton into the port of Liverpool up to that period this year, is only 118,145 bales, whereas up to the same time last year it was 278,236 bales, that is more than 135 per cent., and the price has risen within a few months, 25 per cent. Substitute corn for cotton, and imagine, with a deficient harvest at home, what an extremely dangerous state the people of this country would be placed in. But if individu als can thus impede supplies, what might governments do to effect some great political object? Had not tho stock of cotton in the kingdom, on the 3lst December last (321,000 bales) been larger than at the close of any year since 1828 the inconvenience would have been more severely felt than it has been ; for instance, had it been only 185,000 bales, as it was in 1834, the cotton factories would have come to a stand, for he found that the estimated stock in Liverpool on the 15th instant, is stated in the same circular to be only 219,000 bales, and the consumption is increased about 50 per cent. It will be seen that Mr. FIELDING uses the im• portant fact, he states, to draw an inference against making the nation dependent on other countries for a supply of food, and with the acumen of a prac tised statesman, for which we had not given the skilful gentleman credit, the existing evil is wholly overlooked, in order to terrify us against an ima ginary evil. He displays our present dependence which has grown up without one endeavour on the part of our Statesmen to prevent it, nay, they have encouraged it, in a most striking manner, and he forgets the existence of what he describes, in order to warn us against that which might never exist, and could not possibly exist in so aggravated a form as that which does not alarm him at all. He tells us that the bankers of the United States have contrived to keep cotton from our markets till the price rose 25 per cent., which, on the amount of cotton imported from the United States in 1836, 289,615,692 lbs., at 6d. a-pound, makes an in crease of price of 1,310,0981. The bankers and cotton owners of the United States have been able to levy a tax on our people to the extent of nearly one million and a half in the price of cotton. On the one hand then, the cotton-grower, and on the other the English corn-grower, combine to enhance the price of the raw material, and the food of the labourer, and together to ruin the manufacture of England. With such harpies sucking at the two ends of our in dustry it must soon be dry ; and as it is at present, little or nothing is left to encourage or reward the labourer, wanting which, we have the authority of the Quarterly Review for saying the nation cannot be prosperous. If it be the business, however, of the Legislature, as the Corn-law advocates say, to keep us independent of foreigners, how grossly has it neglected its duty in allowing this grievous dependence to have grown up 1 But this assump tion of the Legislature is a precious piece of hum bug, invented to cover the scoundrel avarice by which the English gentry set the American bankers the example of plundering their fellow men. It is worth noticing that England herself does not grow a pound of cotton, and her Colonies only supply her with a ninth part of what we use. Fro►n the United States we obtain four-fifths of all we import. From no other part of the world could we obtain one-fifth of the quantity we obtain from that country, and from the whole world we could not obtain the half. Thus are we bound, slavishly bound—and the Legislature, if commercial depend ence be an evil, is to blame for it—to the United States, and completely are we at the mercy of its bankers and cotton-growers. What might en sue if the Government were to join with them is the source of Mr. FIELDEN'S alarm, and we are not at all alarmed at that. The whole of the bankers and cotton-growers who can at their pleasure levy this additional 1,300,0001. on us more than the value of their cotton, would rise in arms against Mr. VAN BUREN and the Congress in an hour, were they to impede them in gaining one penny of this sum ; and while they can tax us they will take care that their Go vernment, which is their creature and servant, shall not deprive them of the means. Thus we have not the smallest apprehension of the United States stopping our supply of cotton—nor should we have any apprehension of its stopping our supplies of wheat, were we as dependent on that country for corn as we are for cotton. But that rever could be. We grow corn ourselves ; every other country grows corn —and a perfect free trade in corn could never make us as dependent on any one country for food as our negligent land owning Legislature has allowed us to become for cotton. If the supply of cotton from the United States were stopped for three months, two millions of our people would be without bread. To that calamity we are now exposed, and on the principles of the landowners they are the most guilty of men for reducing the nation to this con dition of degrading dependence. An important question is now undergoing dis cussion by the public press, the question which the Duke of WELLINGTON put emphatically during the ' progress of the Ri form Bill, " How is the QUEEN'S Government to be carried on?" How is any Govern ment to be carried on ? On old principles or on new principles ? On the doctrines and practices which grew up in conjunction with the rotten boroughs, or o 1 the doctrines and practices which are growing up under the Reform Act ? Is Government to be carried on by the opinions fashioned, and routine established by the 'Ministers, Statesmen, and writers of GEORGE the THIRD'S reign, or by the opinions now formed on facts which are perceived by the living generation to warrant a new line of conduct ? These questions thus stated abstractedly, are in truth now undergoing daily discussion in the press, and as the present circumstances of society were wholly unknown and unforeseen, wholly unprovided for by the Ministersand Statesmen of a former period, these questions are of great practical importance. To us it is clear that the present and the next ge neration will never submit to be governed by the igno rance of the past. What is there in all the combined wisdom of all the Ministers of GEORGES 111 and IV. which should make us for one instant suppose our judgment of things as they exist ought to take the law from their thoughts ? Even Sir ROBERT PEEL has given up old principles and practiCes, and has shaped out for himself a course totally different from that of the Tories of the last generation. The priesthood also, roused from its slumbers, is sensible that to stand by the old prin ciples and practices, would soon involve the Church in utter ruin. A new-born zeal inflames the bosom of the clergy ; they dispute and quarrel amongst themselves, as to the extent to which reform ought to go, but all agree that even the Church cannot hold fast to its old principles. The Government, then, cannot be carried on by the old, and must be carried on by the new principles. But what new principles? One statesman teaches finality, another gradual, and a third speedy, pro gress. One is for no further changes in the laws ; another is for only a small bit-by-bit change ; and a third is for a sweeping alteration. The Journals take a similar view, and each one has something of its own to recommend. In a multitude of coun cillors, if there be not wisdom, there is certainly confusion, and so many opinions are now pro pounded—there are so many thinkers and advisers, that the Government, from the conflicting forces striking it on all sides, seems incapable of motion. One of the new principles adopted by all par ties is, that public opinion must be deferred to. The Tories allow that, the Radicals make it the corner stone of their creed. They would carry everything only by the majority, and what the majority does not will they would not ask. Under such circumstances we are invited to rally round a new standard of Reform, without it being shown how the majority is to be gathered under it, or how anything can be obtained unless by the aid of the majority. How are we to gain the Universal Suffrage men by the promise of House hold Suffrage, or overcome the landowners and their forces by a smaller and more divided army than that they have already defeated ? We are Radicals enough to defer to the majority ; we look to that as our guide, and are rational enough to wish to see it brought to our views by argument, not by con straint or force. We arc not acquainted with j any arguments, or any facts, which have lately made the imperfections of the Constitution more prominent than they were three months ago, or which are likely to spread a conviction through the land that it ought immediately to be further altered. We- except always the divisions on the Corn-laws ; but if we cannot carry the abolition of those laws, when we have justice so clearly lon our side, when large masses even of the Chartists have petitioned against them, how can we carry Household Suffrage, the justice of which is positively, and perhaps justly, denied by the Universal Suffrage men, and when they, with nearly all the advocates of the Corn-laws, and many of the opponents of those laws, are against it ? We want this question practically answered before we desert practical objects for any scheme however flattering. Till we see some means likely to accomplish that, strenuous and radical Reformers as we are, we maintain that we must let the present system work till its imperfections become more mani fest, and till the majority desire to have it amended. It is the duty, undoubtedly, of Jour nalists continually to call public attention to the proofs of such imperfections, such as the couduct of the Legislature in reference to the Corn-laws, the continuance of which is enough to make all but the landlords, the tithe lords, their tenants, and their serfs rise in open rebellion. We must ask—and we do it with no animosity towards individuals, with no wish to injure the feel ings of any human being, but with a warm desire to make known to the country at large —the true reasons why our ships cannot get men, whether one of her Majesty's ships was not paid off at Plymouth recently ; whether th• Captain did not announce that he was going to have another ship, beating up, as it were, for volunteers amongst his late crew, and whether a single man offered to go with him ? If the whole crew declined, was that in consequence of their having been subjected to an extraordinary quantity of flogging ? Was it the practice in the ship always to punish the last man up when all hands were piped, whereby some one was, en every occasion that the whole crew were required, sure to be punished ? Was every man and boy in the ship flogged at some time or another except two, thereby degrading the whole crew, except two, into crimi nals ? We earnestly hope that these questions will be answered in the negative ; but having ourselves witnessed things quite as bad or worse than are here alluded to, we think it our duty to call attention to them, that the sort of stories that are put into circulation, and believed to terrify th e people from entering into the Navy, may be known. We shall put one question more and we have done. Was the W-- paid off at the same time as the S—, and were the officers of the former cheered on quitting, and were those of the latter a:lowed to depart in sullen silence ? Notwithstanding the severity of the September laws against the Press in France, scarcely a day passes without violent articles appearing in som e of the journals, not only against the Government, but the personal conduct of the KING. Never at any period of the Reform crisis, or during the Ad ministration of Sir ROBERT PEEL, when the Court was arrayed against the Representatives of the people, was stronger language used in this country, where prosecutions for political libels have ceased to exist. When attacks are made on Louis PHILIPPE, his name is not men- tioned, but a great variety of synonymes used, which are well, understood. " High regions," " the faction," " the coterie," the auxiliaries of the Court," " the enemies of freedom," and twenty others all have the same meaning, and though prosecuted one day, the same Journalist prepares for carrying on the attack, a little varied in shape, the next. The National but a few days ago was summoned to answer a libel, and on Sun day it put forth the following :—" If things go on thus the coup d'etat will turn out for the good of the nation ; for the Chambers, the National Guard, the electors, the entire nation will oppose it una nimously, as they opposed the mad attempts of CHARLES X.; and everything leads to the inference that affairs will go on so, for there is only one chance that they will take a different course, that chance is, that the machinations of the police may induce some peaceable but impatient citizens to exceed the bounds of prudence, and seek guarantees of security against a power which they now estimate at its just value. But this chance will not occur. Our pledge is the good sense of all patriots who know how to reject perfidious provocations, and en dure their misery patiently, for the sake of not compromising the safety of their noble cause. The faction, then, must of necessity proceed beyond legal bounds. Terrible alternative, the consequence of which it does not pretend to conceal ; for, but a few days ago, one of the chief leaders of the fac tion said to an intimate friend, we will not yield ; but we will take good care not to attack. CHARLES the TENTH was a fool in doing so. In every crisis like that in which we are, the party that begins ought to lose the battle. On the 14th of July, the 10th of August, and the the 26th of July 1830, the Court attacked and was defeated. On the 9th Thermidor, on the days of Prairial and Vendemaire, and on the 13th of April 1834, all those who attacked were likewise beaten. We will profit from the lesson and force our ene mies to strike the first blow.' This is the language spoken in high places, and we readily admit the prudence of the plan. It remains to be seen if they can adhere to it. As regards the nation, it ought to profit by it. The nation may suffer, but it is imperish able. It can wait. Let it then bide its time, which cannot be long. To attempt to hasten the tri umph might perhaps lead to its defeat. What would be said of a General who would offer battle to an enemy besieged and reduced to three da-ys provisions ?" The whole of the article from which this is taken is in the same style, and says in substance this—" The KING will not yield—he will prorogue the Chambers anew, or open them with a contemptible Ministry, and the discon tent will go on increasing till at last they stop the supplies, and refuse to pay taxes, Foreign Powers will then press him to put an end to such a state of disquietude, and then will come the coup d'etat, of which the KING dreams One l'on reve deja au chateau). We are not at all surprised that the Times does not like the movements of the Chartists. Though hos tile to the Whigs, they are ten times more hostile, as we have all always stated, to the Tories. The Times has sagacity enough to see this, and laments this morning their success at Edinburgh. The stern re solves of the people terrify it and its party from their prey. Two years ago that Journal was for reconquer ing Ireland. The people were to be put to the sword, rather than do them justice. Now the Tory bullies speak the nation fair, and talk mealy mouthed of redressing grievances and abolishing abuses. Such an alteration in their tone is due in a great measure to the spirit and determination evinced by the people. But something is also due to . the conviction the Tories have obtained by having been kept so long out of office, that they are not so powerful as they fancied. Opposed as they are by the bulk of the enlightened inhabitants of the towns, they could only occupy office as the servants of the squires and the parsons. Sir Ro lm:yr PEEL must come into power, if at all, as one of Lord RODEN'S tail, pledged to the Irish Church and the Corn-laws. With all his boasting, there never was any statesman in a more degraded situation than he is, for he thinks it an honour to take office as the menial instrument of a faction bent on maintaining bigotry, and on starv ing the people. The Times is opposed to the Corn-laws, and must therefore agree with us that Sir R. PEEL will be degraded by taking office as the lacquey of the Bumpkin squad. That a Ministry so obnoxious to ridicule as the ad interim Cabinet of Louts PHILIPPE should call forth all the epigramatic talent of the Paris Press, is only what might be expected, and with the exception of such satirical sallies, we find no thing of much moment in the French Journals of Wednesday. It appears that Marshal SOULT has not given up all hope of being able to form a strong Cabinet. He was still negotiating, but we believe with little chance of success. The Commerce of Wednesday, states that the Marshal proposed to himself the being able to meet the Chambers on Thursday, sur rounded by colleagues able to command a Parlia mentary majority. Marshal SoULT miscalculates his own influence. In conjunction with TRIERS he was everything ; without THlEtts he is but a name—a glorious reminiscence. It was finally determined on Wednesday that the Chambers should be opened yesterday by commis sion. The King shrunk from presenting himself to the National Representatives, surrounded by such a troop of official responsibilities as MONTOBELLO and Co. This manifests a sense of shame at least in the Royal breast. Several - days must elapse before the real busi nass of the Chambers can commence, and conse quently before the upshot of this long struggle can be fully ascertained. We regard nothing which may take place before the voting the Address, as decisive of the convictions of the Chamber of Deputies. Personal considerations have so much influence in the election of the Presi dent, Vice-Presidents, Secretaries, and Qutestors, that they cannot be regarded as conclusive upon the question of the Representatives' policy. We find in Galignani's Messenger of Wednes day the following article on the influence of the Ministerial crisis upon the trade of France : The unsettled state of the Ministry, and the political agitation which the late dissolution of the Chambers, and the threatening debates which preceded that measure, has been, as was to be expected, a severe blow to trade. Con siderable commercial pressure is felt in Paris in the minor branches of commerce, and among the manufacturing and working population. Reports had for some time been cir culated as to the increase of bankruptcies in the first quar ter of the present year, as compered with the correspond ing period in the year 1838 ; we hare taken the trouble to inquire into this subject, and find that the statement is un fortunately too true, a; will be perceived by the following table of bankruptcies made from the returns at the Tribu nal of Commerce 1838. 1839. January 3B 59 February March 113 204 The amount of liabilities of the bankrupts during the first three months of 1839 is nearly 18,000,000 of francs. The increase of causes brought before the Tribunal of Commerce within the same period has also been great, about 2,000 new causes having been added to the list every week during, the last month. A heavy run on the Savings' Bank, not only of Paris, but of Bout , . deaux, Nantes, Lyons, and other towns in France, has existed for the last month or six weeks, the sums drawn out exceeding those deposited ; and in particular at the Savings' Bank of Paris, according to last week's report the sums withdrawn amounted to 872,000 francs, while those deposited were only 352,793 francs; the number of weekly depositors have also sunk since the be ginning of February, from 5,996 to 2,832. It is remark able that the funds have not participated in this commercial depression, as they have in the same period risen, and are now actually higher than they were on the Ist of January last. On the whole, no serious or prolonged difficulties are at all anticipated from the Ministerial crisis, during which we may remark, though efforts to create disorder have not been wanting, public tranquillity has never been for a moment broken. Happily the sources of prosperity in France now lie too deep to be seriously disturbed by any temporary or inadequate cause. The funds have not fallen, because a combina tion was entered into by the stock-jobbers to keep them up, and hence to the surprise of the good folks of Paris they rose on Wednesday. No man in France understands these matters better than Louts PIIILII'I'E, and his connection with certain gentlemen on the I3ourse is not so secret as to leave it doubtful whose capital was employed to prevent a panic, which would have filled France with confu sion, and of which a Revolution would be an im mediate consequence. The accounts from Madrid are of the 27th ult., but they are unimportant. The chief topic of conversation was the probability of a speedy change in the Cabinet. General ALAIX had become exceedingly unpopular. Genoral VALDEZ was spoken of as his successor in office. We subjoin extracts from the French Journals : The tomb has just closed on one of the :noble remnants of ancient France. The Count de Calonne has terminated his honourable career at the Chateau of Li& mieres-Cha telain, at the age of 91 years. The Toulonnais has the following letter " ALGILRA, MARCH 23._General Rulhiero assembled on the 21st, in the plain of Mustapha, the cavalry, the division of Algiers, which he reviewed. The appearance of these troops was as fine as those of the garrisons in France. " The soldiers who have been committed to hard labour continue to work at the demolition of the Moorish houses, situated in the Place du Gouvernement. The day before yesterday one of the houses, next to that which was being pulled down, fell, and buried three men in the ruins, one of whom was killed on the spot.' —Moniteur. PARIS, APRIL 2.—The Madrid journal, called El Cas tellano, of 26th March, contains the following paragraph:— There have arrived at Bermeo, a post occupied by the Carlists, six French ships, bringing 30,000 great coats, 25,000 pairs of shoes, other articles, and ammunition, the last a present, amongst others, from M. Mole to the Carlists." On the 24th March, a new violation of the French terri tory was committed by a detachment of 150 Christinos, who came from Valcarlos. In the evening they pillaged the two villages of Erratese and Halriseen, killed several inoffensive individuals, and were carrying off a rich inha bitant as a hostage, and 17 Carlist prisoners, when they were stopped by the National Guard and the Gendarmes, as they were crossing our territory on their return, on the 25th, in the morning. " The victims and the vanquished," says a letter from Oyarzun, of the 27th, " having all arrived at the same Com mune of La Fonderie, were escorted disarmed, and con veyed to St. Jean Pied de Port. By order of Count Harispe, the Carlist prisoners were sent to their houses except one, who, being seriously wounded, remains in the military hospital. The detachment from Valcarlos has re turned to Spain, and its arms were restored to it on the fron tiers."—Le Commerce. BOURSS.—PARis, WILDNESDAY, Aram 3. HALF-PAST Tun/lc—The French Funds have continued to ad vance. Far the Account the Three per Cents. opened at 80f, 20c , and closed at $Ol. 40c , being a rise of 20c. The Five per Cents., from 109 f. 55c., rose to 108 f. 75c., being also a rise of 20c. For money the Three per Cents. are 25c., and the Five per Cents. 10c. higher. The Bank of France Shares have Improved 15f. No alteration in the Laffitte Bank Shares. The Belgian Five per Cents. are better, and the Three per Cents. 70c. For the account the Threes are 711. sdc. The Belgian Bank Shares have declined 5f., and the Coupons 2f. 50c. The Spanish Active has nut been quoted. The St. Germain Railway Shares arc 10f. better, and the Versailles Left Bank, 7f. 50c. The Strasburg to Basle are 21. 50c. lower, and the Havre unvaried. First highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French 5 per Cents lO9 35 109 .50 ... 100 35 109 45 4% per Cents lO4 5$ ... 101 50 1 , :4 50 ... 101 50 3 per Cents BO 20 ... 80 30 ... 80 95 80 15 Bank of trance Lalfitte Batik I,ooor. Sh 1050 ...1060 ...1050 ...1060 5,410Jf. Sh 519(1 ...5190 ...5190 ...5 51 Belgian i per Cents 102% ... 102% ... 102% ... 102% S per Cents 7l 40 ... '7l 70 ... 71 40 ... 71 '7O Bank 695 ... 695 ... 691 ... 690 Coupons Neapolitan Roman RAILWAY SHARE,. _ _ . St. Germain Versailles, E. B 660 ... 670 660 665 L.B. 225 ... 241 225 237 50 Havre Orleans . . 465 ... 465 ... 465 465 Strasburg t• Sale Hulhausen t• Thann 350 ... 360 ... 3.50 ... 360 ASPHALTES AND BITUSIENS. Seyssel (A) THE MURDER AT PORTSMOUTH TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN• Sia,—l have with astonishment this day read an ac count in The Sun of a horrible murder said to have been committed at Gosport. The paragraph (under the head of " From a Correspondent") states, "That a man had killed his wife, murdered his foreman, who ran to her assistance, and, for the sake of securing se crecy, had hung his two apprentices, who were twins, and that the whole town was in a state of excitement," Now, I beg to inform you there is not one word of truth in the statement—no murder has been committed in this parish for upwards of thirty years, and a more or derly, regulated town there is not .in the kingdom. I much regret that any one should have amused himself by inventing a story so truly horrible, and without a shadow of truth in it. If you can discover your Ports. mouth Correspondent, you will oblige a Constant Reader by exposing him to the public. I am, Mr. Editor, AN OLD INHABITANT. Gosport, April 4, 1839. [The letter to which this refers came to us through the post, and bore about it such marks of authenticity as in duced us, though with doubt and reluctance, to publish it. The mischievous and malignant person who fabricated the tale will not, perhaps, escape, and if we can detect him, as we are not without hopes we may, we shall spare neither expense nor pains to punish him. Will our Cor respondent help us P We should willingly give a suit able reward to detect the knave. The inhabitants of Gosport are all interested, we think, in assisting us to drag into light the person who could so calumniate them.—ED.] BRUSSELS and GERMAN PAPERS BRUSSELS, APRIL 2.—The average prices of wheat during the last week was 23,71 f., and of rye 13,02 f. per hectolitre. In consequence both are still admitted free of duty till the 15th July, 1839. Wheat in grain and in flour cannot be exported. APRIL 3.—Rye and rye flour may be exported till the 9th of this month, on payment of a duty of 25 centimes per 1,000 kilogrammes. After the last mentioned day, the exportation of rye and' , rye lloaf -- %111 be prohibited. The exportation of potatoes and pots too flour continues to be prohibited. Another article adds—That the exportation of rye and rye flour is now prohibited. - The Minister Of Public Works has sent the following official letter to the Governor of Brabant : " BRUSSELS, MARCH 21. " Sir,—l have the honour to request of you that the duty performed by the Civic Guard of Brussels, may cease from this day. " In acquainting the Commander of the Civic Guard with this measure, you will be so good as to direct him to signify to all the corps which compose it, the satisfaction of the Government at the zeal with which they have done the duty assigned to them, and the readiness with which they have lent their valuable assistance in maintaining order. " I feel pleasure in openly declaring, that the Civic Guard of Brussels has shown that it fully understands the nature of the duty entrusted to it. " The Minister of Public Works, " NOTHOMB." —Moniteur Beige. Count Lalang, our Charge d'Affaires at Madrid, re turned to Brussels a few days ago, and will stay some weeks. We learn that he has, through a convention which he ha! concluded with the Spanish Government, abolished the droit d'aubaine, and giving to Belgium and Spanish subjects the right to inherit and acquire property recipro cally in the two States. Connt Lalang will return to Madrid, with the ratification of this treaty by the King. Count Lalang has received from the kin g of Sardinia the title and insignia of Commander of the Order of St. Maurici and St. Lazarus. his is a mark of his Ma jesty's acknowledgement of the zeal of Count Lalang in serving the subjects of the King of Sardinia in Spain during these last two years, in which the diplomatic re lations between the two countries have been suspended. AUGSBURG, MARCII 31.—We have received with our letter from Alexandria, the following communication : •' DSCIIEDDA, FEB. 10.--The English are now really in possession of the town of Aden. After they had landed troops in the beginning of January, and bombarded from two men of war the ►ery ill fortified towns, it was surren dered to them on condition of their leaving the inhabitants sufficient time to withdraaw with their property to the neighbouring mountains. Thus you see that the Arabs by no means wish for the dominion of the English. The Sheiks of Aden have hitherto been independent, and even the Turks themselves were able 200 years ago to exercise but a very short-lived authority over them. But now the son of the Sheik who was compelled to sell Aden to the English, has sent deputies to the General of Mehemet Ali, commanding in Yemen, requesting his aid against the Christians, and offering to place himself under the autho rity of the Pasha of Egypt—" As Musselmans and, above all, as Sunnitcs, which we also are, you are bound to assist us, and, with the help of Allah, we shall so expel the .nfidels," such are the expressions. Ibrahim Pasha, and the nephew, not the son, of the Viceroy, immediately sent despatches to Mehemet Ali. We do not knowwhether the English intend to extend their conquests in the terri tory of Aden, but the inhabitants will certainly resist. The occupation causes a great sensation here, and the Scheriffs of Mecca whisper all sorts of suspicious things which fill us Europeans in the service of the Pasha with appre hensions. It is lucky that an English Corvette is stationed hare, which may take us on board in case of need. Some battalions of regular infantry have lately arrived here, the destination of which is not known. The last accounts from Kourschid Pacha, are from El Khardsch, the eastern part of the Nidschidchere, be levies large contributions and compels the country to submit. lie expects orders to advance. The taking of Derrach is cried up here as a great feat, but Kourschid might have taken that miserable fort in two days, by a well directed attack, instead of spending forty-one before it. Achmct Pacha, the Governor of Arabia is not pleased with the success of Kourschid, which throws him in the back ground, and may occasion his recal. It it is thought that he has views to the dominion of Arabia in favour of Mehemet Ali, which he will hardly realize without aid from Egypt. DUTCH FUNDS.—AataTEanam, APRIL 3 Money. Bills. Actual Debt, 2yz per Cent Ditto, ditto 5 per sent. Amen Syndic, 4 per cent .. 94% 954 Ditto, ditto, 314 per cent. SO SO% Commercial Company, 4 per cent 17934 180 Ditto (IKI2 and 1833) 5 per cent. Ditto 1837, 5 per cent. Loan 1537, 5 per cent. LAchante on London, One month ll 95 Two months BELGIAN /. U NDS—Bstussm.s, APRIL 3 Actual Debt, per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent. 1 OA, Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 3 per Cent. 70% Loan of City, 1932, 4 per Cent 95 Society of Commerce, 4 % per Cent 123 Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 8134 National Society —Brussels Papers, April 3. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, Mamen 25 Five per Cents. Metalliqucs FoMr per Cents. Three per Cents. Bank Shares ILO7 —AligemeineZeitung, March 31 HAMBURG BORSEN HALLE, MARCH 30. Bills. Money. Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Snares 118.4 142 An 10-Rialian Loan 1i.7!4 107.yi Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate Russian 5 per Cent. Hop: and Co. 3d and 4th Se irs Ditto in Certificates Dutch .. ctual Lebt, 2y4 pe - Cent Ditto S per Cent 99.1, 1i94 Polish Bond, New Icket Anglo..l anish Lean, 3 per Cent 72% 72 Norwegian Loan, 141, 4 per Cent......... ine 993, PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, Maui; 23. Bills Money. St. Schuld. Sch., 4 per cent. lO3 102 42 Prussian Eng.ish Loan, 1830, 4 per cent 102 1015 :,xel)ange on Loodoo, three months 6 - .Kota —Prussian State Gazette. March ..9. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The ar►ivals of English Grain and Flour this week have been small, and of Foreign Wheat much less than of late. The weather being ungenial to vegetation, all descriptions of Wheat obtained 2s. per quarter advance on Monday's prices, and the factors were reluctant sellers, in the pros pect of the duty on Foreign Wheat advancing. Barley and Beans firmly supported their last currency. For good Oats rather higher prices were asked, and the sales made showed some improvement on Monday's rates. There has been rather more done in the Flour trade this week. ARRIVALS. Wheat. I Barley. Oats. Flour I 1810 qrs 2,720 qrs. 3,010 vs 1,205 acks 1 70 525 English Irish - - I I Foreign SMITHFIELD. --- br Is. Supplies generally short, and trade was very heavy, and with the exception of the prime sorts of Veal, the cur rency of Monday was barely maintained. Beef, 3s. 4d. to 4s. 2d. ; Mutton, 4s. 6d. to ss. 4d. ; Veal, ss. to ss. Bd. ; Pork, 4s. 4d. to ss. 4d. ; Lamb, 6s. to 7s. Beasts, 515 ; Sheep and Lambs, 3,120_;_ Pigs, 390; Calves, 121. CITY FISH.MARKET. Supplies good, and trade i❑ proportion—prices much as last quoted. TEA SALE—FOURTH DAY. The biddings were languid, and but a small proportion of what was put up sold—prices as last quoted. The at tendance was good. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) DEAL, APRIL 4. —Wind E. S. E.—Came down from the river and sailed the Douglas, Douglas, for Montreal ; William, Currie, Mogadore. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 4.—Wind, E. N. E. to S. E.— Sailed the Bachelor, 'Murray, for Quebec ; Alarm, Stewart, ditto ; Charlotte, Abbinett, St. Michael's ; Samson, Sturgis, London ; Foxhound, Betts, ditto. PLYMOUTH, APRIL 4.—Wind, E.—Arrived the Defiance, Brown, from Cadiz ; Lady Clinton; Farmer, Messina; Arbopago, Nicolla, Trieste ; Prince Kohary, ditto ; Restitution, Hooper, Quebec ; Industry, ditto. Off port, an Austrian brig under quarantine. FALMOUTH, APRIL 3. —Wind, E. to E. S. E., strong breezes.—Arrived the Hope packet, from the West Indies, sailed from Cape Hayti, 3d ult. ; Orient, Taylor, Batavia, sailed 3d December ; Grafton, Cocks, Odessa, with bow sprit sprung ; Shannon (steamer), Pym, London, and proceeded for Dublin; William and Mary, Moore, Cork; sailed the Express packet, West Indies, _ . . LIVERPOOL, Arm, 4.—Wind S. E., fresh breezes.— Sailcd the Java, Pickering, for Manilla; Malvina, Burton, Gibraltar and Monte Video; St. George, Crawford, St. Domingo ; Rowena, Reed, Apalachicola ; United States, Barr, Philadelphia; Richard Anderson, New York; Ar cadia, M‘Kenzie, and Devercux, Esdaile, Quebec ; Flora, Naughton, Smyrna; Mary and Jane, Osborn, Messina; Aunts, Neil, Montreal ; Elizabeth, Richebucto. Off port, Herculean, from Calcutta; Geneva, Sr. Marks. RAMSGATE, APRIL 4.—Arrived the Maria Louisa, from Blankanese, bound to Yarmouth, assisted in leaky, having been on shore, and will discharge to repair. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Arrivals this morning. —French, Ostend, and Dutch mails ; ship letters from Sierra Leone and Barbadoes. ( From Barbadoes papers received to Feb. 14.) . . LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS OF YESTERDAY.—Prayers being read, Mr. TAILOR requested the indulgence of his Uonour and the House to introduce a short Bill before pro ceeding with the order of the day—" To extend the powers of the Court of Appeal," vihich would render a greater improvement to our colonial jurisprudence by that Court. Communications came from his Excellency. The first referred at considerable length to the distressing case of a policeman who had been beaten so severely in the execu tion of his duty as to be still almost helpless. The second recommended an extension of the powers of the Court of Appeal. The third was some dispatches of Lord Glenelg, referring to the appointment to Justices and Judges of the Court of Appeal being vested simply in the Governor, and not in the Queen. The Secretary of State for the Colonies objected to their appointment being vested in the " Governor in Council," instead of the Governor simply ; which point the Colonial Legislature recom mended. In fact, the Secretary for the Colonies only wished to get that patronage, which has hitherto been always the Governor's. The fourth was a dispatch ,of Lord Glenelg, acknowledging the receipt of the Act amending the Court of Appeal Act. A lengthy petition was presented from some Committee of a large meeting of the coloured community, praying au extension of the elective franchise, complaining of invidi ous distinctions of colour, &c. Mr. Graham immediately rose and gave notice of a Bill to amend tl,e law of election, the object of which would be to extend the franchise to houses of a rent-value of ltd., and the holders of five acres of land. The Speaker appointed a Committee of six or seven, to prepare and introduce a Bill on the subject. A memorial was presented to his Excellency, the Governor of the island, from the Committee of a public meeting of the inhabitants of the island, in petition for a reversion of the election laws at present in use : " Government House. Barbadoes, Feb 9. " Gentlemen—ln reply to the memorial you have this day been pleased to present, an in reference to the peti tions to the Legislature therein alluded to, it gratifies me to inform you, that there exists on my part every diaposi tion to take into immediate and favourable consideration such enactments as, on revising the election laws at present in force, the Honourable the Council and Assembly may think fit to pass upon that subject, and for an extension of the suffrage to an equitable proportion of the inhabitants of this island. (Signed) "MURRAY MACGREG Oft, Governor." We are pleased to hear that our agricultural labourers are going on well as yet in breaking out the crops. The sugar manufacture is proceeding favourably, though with not quite as much spirit as formerly ; so far, however, it is satisfactory. The country negrocs, we trust, are returning to reason ; we wish we could say the same of the town people. Of the domestic servants, from every quarter we hear complaints ; and we have had our experience of the plague and torment which these people inflict upon em ployers—not the least dependance can be placed on their commencing our business, if the work they have to do be ever so light. These people are so insuff,rably proud of their new state of freedom, that it is with the greatest difficulty any of them can be persuaded to perform their menial offices or any drudgery work of a house. Pride and insolence characterise the greater part of them ; they are impatient of reproof, even if adminis tered with gentleness. Freedom has, to a certainty, had a completely contrary effect on the mind of the Negro to that which we fondly expected—their character has not im proved, indeed it is rather worse. It frequently happens that families arc left without one female servant to assist in domestic occupations. We have received the Antwerp Journal of yesterday's date. The Belgian papers are now becoming void of interest. Accounts from Hassell, April 1, state that the first divi sion of the army at the camp, is to be relieved by the second division of troops, under the command of General Grethuls. The Dutch continue to cover themselves with entrench ments, as if they expected an attack, and the line is guarded with the greatest rigour. We have received Trinidad papers to the 16th of February. Its now ascertained, be) ond a doubt, that the available labour in the colony, is generally disproportioned to its necessities, that, in tact, the crop cannot be taken off within she time usually set apart for that purpose. The rise in the British Funds during the course of yester day, may be attiibutcd to the Bear Account having been bought in. Owing to the state of the weather this morning, and no intelligence of any importance having been received, the various Funds at present continue in an inactive state. Consols opened at the closing quotations of yester day, 921 I- for the Account; Money tha same. Exchequer Bills, 39 41 ; India Bonds, nothing doing ; Bank Stock for opening, 201 202 ; India Stock, 251 i 2521. The Foreign Market is in the same state as that of the British, and the prices are nominal as yet, the same as they closed at. Spanish Active, 201 ; Portuguese, 334 ; Three per Cents. 204 i; Belgian, 1021; Brazilian, 76 77; Colombian, 281 29i ; Mexican, 23 24; Dutch Two and-Half per Cents., 65i ; Five per Cents., 1001 PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Steck 3 per Cent. Red. 3 per Cent. Cons. 9:23$ 3N, per Cent Ditto Red. India Stock - Ditto Bonds 42 pm South Sea Stock - Old Annuities - New Ditto - New Ss¢ per Cent ION% 4 New 5 per Cent. - Bank Long Annuities toexpire Jan. 5, 15160 Oct. 10, MO Jan. 5, 1660 l4 11-16 Jan. 5, IsBo April 5, 1550 - Jan. Jan. 5, 1570 - PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 Exch. Bills, £l,OOO ... 40 39 pm. Ditto 500 ... 41 40 pm. Ditto Small 4l 40 pm.- Ditto Commercial — pm. Ditto Advertised — pm. Bank Stock for Account 202 India Stock for Account ... Consols for Account 92 30 is 'HIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds Peruvian Bonds Belgian Bonds Ditto Account Ditto Account Portuguese Bonds Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account Buenos Ayres Bonds Ditto Account Chilian Bonds D Us Account Columbian Bonds Ditto Account Columbian Bonds, 1524 Ditto Account Banish bonds Ditt• Account Ditto New Bonds .. Ditto Accoun` 2334 Ditto, 3 per Cent. Ditto Account Prussian Bonds Russian Bonds, 11122 Ditto Account Ditto Metallic Spanish Bonds Ditto Account Ditto Bonds, 1834 Ditto Account. 9J 19% 2 Greek Bonds French, 3 per cent Ditto Bonds, 1825 Ditto Account 4 per cent. 3 rep cent. Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto Account Nsictmnge. -r. Dt 3 ltch, 2!;, per cent. Ditto, 6 per Cent Ditt• Account — Neapolitan fRICRS OF SHARES THI: DittO ACCount Ditto, 5 per cent lOO% Ditto Account S DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share ,ered 63/. Ws. lid. Real del Monte Mining Co., Regist Ditto Unregistered nristol and Exeter Railway Company 9l Eaztern Counties Railway l3 314 4 7N, li 6'J 85s 1 Crest Western Railway Company ris Brighton Railway London and Blackwall Railway Landon and Birmingham Railway Company ylt 154 London and Southampton Railway Company 311. 17s. Id. 421 i 3 North Midland Railway Company l5 lA% 9 South Eastetn and Dover (New) 3 1.1% HALF-PAST ONE. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET OF THURSDAY.—The demand for Cotton continues to be limited; the sales 2,000 bags, without change in prices. During the whole of the morning not the least spirit for business has been displayed for operations in either of the Markets. This may be attributed to the uncertainty of political and local affairs in the Fren ch capital, as well as to the prevailing opinion of some change in our Ministry. Speculators are afraid to operate before the result of the above accounts are ascertained. We have no further arrivals, consequently we are very dull in the city, both in respect of commercial affairs and news. Consols may be quoted at 921 i for the Account • Money, 92i- ; Exchequer Bills rather lower, 39 • India Bonds, 42 prom. ; Bank Stock, for opening, .n,0•?, In the Foreign Market Spanish Active, 20 • Portuguese, 331; Three per Cents., 20i ; Brazilian 76 :Deferred 9 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents nothing done ; Five per Cents., 1001. EVENING EDITION. WESTMI NSTER SESSIONS• (THIS DAY.) (Mr. Sergeant ADAMS in the chair. ) James Carpenter, 17, was indicted for stealing a blanket and a sheet, value 4s. 6d., the property of John Davies. The wife of the prosecutor proved that she let the lodg ing to the prisoner's mother with the property, and tha t t h e prisoner had pawned them. The prisoner bore a g ood character. Mr. PAYNE (as amicus curia) suggested that the ment was bad upon a point of law, and referred to Roscoe's Conyer's Digest, p. 517, in support of his opinion. The CHAIRMAN coincided with Mr. PAYNE, and the soner was acquitted. George Eveleiyh, Thomas Turneliff, and W. English, were charged with stealing 3 lbs. of soap, value ls. 6d. the property of John Charles Brant. The policemen who took them into custody deposed to . seeing them run out of a shop. He ran after them , and the soap was found on them. Turncliff ran a different way from the rest. The prosecutor's foreman swore to the soap. 1 The prisoner Turncliff said he knew nothing at all of it. He had been taken in mistake for another boy, in which he was corroborated by one of the other prisoners. The other two offered ne defence. Turncliff'e brother, a respectable tradesman, gave him a good character, and said he had intended to take him as an apprentice. Ilarriet Turncliff, the prisoner's mother, deposed to his having left his home to go to look after a situation on t he day in ques'ion. The policeman, when recalled, said he had returned to take Turneliff into custody after having taken the other two. Ile found him standing with his back towards Wm' He did not run away. English called a witness to character, who admitted that he knew he had been committed to Newgate. if The CHAIRMAN, in summing up, directed the Jury , they thcaight the policeman was mistaken in the identity of Turncliff, to state so in their verdict, as he would then leave the Court with an unblemished character. The Jury acquitted him, believing the policeman to ha" been mistaken in his identity, and found the other persona guilty. The CHAIRMAN, before passing sentence, said he coo' curred in the verdict, and took occasion to remark on viblt t he denominated the stupid conduct of the Newspapers,, le attacking the Societies which sent children abroad. ' l ,." e sentence of the Court was, that each of the prisoners ve imprisoned three months with hard labour, and once to b e well whipped. (1 James Forster was indicted for stealing a waistcoat all, other articles, and also a sovereign, the property °' Thomas Butt. The prosecutor had got intoxicated at tbe d Cumberland Arms, where the prisoner was pot-boy, a n t had left his waistcoat with these articles in the pock ° there. The policeman found them on the prisoner. Two of the prosecutor's witnesses did not answer. , The prisoner's defence was that the prosecutor Itt tipsy at the time, and that he had picked up some of the things from the floor, without knowing whose they War e ' and had told the prosecutor where the waistcoat was. a The prisoner's master gave him a good character, It said the prosecutor was so drunk as not to know what "" was about. The Jury acquitted the prisoner, and the Court refisseti the prosecutor his expenses. John Herbert was indicted for stealing two pewter pc."' the property of Thomas Payne. Richard Cuff, the footman of Lord Seaford, saw the , prisoner take the pot, and gave him into custody. The p. liceman produced the pots, which were identiar" - by the prosecutor. The prisoner said he picked them up.—Verdict Guiltli He was again convicted of stealing a pot the property ° W. Gorringc ; having been convicted at a previous ICS' mons he was sentenced to seven years' transportation. Chas. Russell was indicted for stealing a pair of bo ots, the property of Mary Roberts. The prosecutrix satv.t be prisoner take the boots out of her shop, gave the alat eb and had him arrested. The witness was cross-examined by Mr. PAYNE, 01 1 be half of the prisoner. The policeman saw the prisoner leap out bf the;shoP'„l Cross-examined by Mr. PAYNE—Did not lose sigh' - him until lie took him. Mr. PAYNE in defending the prisoner, took o ccasion express his great dissatisfaction with the system of seocl iga children out of the country. The CHAIRMAN begged that Mr. Payne would keep himself within the record. Mr. PAYNE said that the Chairman had alluded to tb e t stupid papers, and he thought she had a right to show t b .ei s t , they were sensible papers. He knew that the Jury a l " - convict the prisoner. et. The CHAIRMAN—Then you should not address 1° observations to the Jury, and you know that as well & L. do. You may go on if you like, and I shall read the 0 0 " paper. id Mr. PAYNE—WhiIe the Chairman is reading the s to p paper-- The CHAIRMAN —I said nothing about stupid papers. t o Mr. PAYNE said he should call a witness, whoa ° „ prove that although the prisoner had been summarily °°"; vieted by a Magistrate ho had never been convicted Il se Jury; and be hoped the Jury would recommend hita buo mercy, to save him from transportation. He was sorry Chairman's love for the Children's Friend Society be made him forget the feelings of parents. re l l William Clay was called to character, and was se" examined by the Chairman. The CHAIRMAN, in summing up, said it had never btaesl his lot to see the sc e n e w hi c h h a d t a ken place in ho t Court. The case of this y o ung man , 11 y ear s of age, " been made the foundation of an attack upon the Childre fl n , Friend Society, which might app ear i n t h e P a pers tv morrow. Mr. PAYNE said that he had no such wish. The CHAIRMAN begged he might not be interrupted. . t Mr. PAYNE hoped the Chair man wou ld not misreprese",,, him. The CHAIRMAN then continued his sum m i ng u p, at the : conclusion of which the Jury convicted the prisoners. t d, The CHAIRMAN said h e h a d be en f requen tly taken . L , custody as an utterer o f b ase co i n ; h e wou ld a rrest ill u % ment until inquiries could be made as to his having b ee r previously convicted by a Jury. He would not be U . ° ported. took At the conclusion o f th e case mu t ua l e xplanations - place between Mr. P a y ne an d t h e Chairman, and bars° p f was restored. Charles Smith and TV. J. Cook were indicted felt : stealing two pairs of boots, the property of W. Newton'..4 The prosecutor swore to the boots which were fb w ; l3 on Smith, and the policeman took Cook into custo d y 3 . concequcnce of what Smith had told him. The prisoners denied having taken the boots. ,ber, Cook's aunt said he had been neglected by his who had objected to his being sent abroad by the Childr Friend Society. He had run away from the Chadr e o Friend Society School ; he bad profittee much W" - he was there. The Jury found both prisoners Guilty. it The CHAIRMAN, in passing sentence, " 1 " i s i et could not be too widely known that by . an w as of the last Sessibn of Parliament, a prison " b at established; for the reformation of juvenile offenderi!df the difficulty was to know what to do with the pris o ';,.. when discharged. After warmly eulogizing all the 01 : 4 1 .1, ties for the reformat ion of juvenile offenders, told dil a , ' soners they would have the opportunity of going to P lll. l O - Prison, when they would have healthful occupation 01 instruction in religion and morality, by which they v i t ° oo have an opportunity of reforming, the sentence 0 ' Court was two years' imprisonment and hard labour. of The CHAIRMAN, in passing sentence, took occasion to o t. a high compliment to Lord John Russell for the gre at , d k tcntion he had paid to prison discipline, and to the ref°r— tion of juvenile offenders. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE' fel l The whole burden of the performance last night 0, upon Madame Persiani, who came forth amidst the 01r o s .est applause. Her health appears much improved 'lathe we had seen her last, which enabled her to add t 0 pd finish and exquisite delicacy of her singing a breadth _fte power of execution we never witnessed in her P l y She executed her morceaux with the boldness aa" A cision with which Paganini might perform them ° P oi violin, adding is this all the impassioned toae IQ expression of which the human voice is capable' 14 . her first air, " Come per me Sereno," there was a P ,s 1; fulness and sweetness which held the whole audience lt ß u t• lent delight; but in the last scene, after the preghi et t tite tered with heart-moving simplicity, she burst forth P - r issi "Ah giunge" with an e ff ect which was perfectly elect,. the injhe power it exerted over ter hearers. This,fina e , oe, opera was received with a furore of applause, wh'c,loo the fall of the curtain, was renewed until she re -a PP - I ,isfOt on the stage amidst the waving of hats and handkere"t of more common in the latitude of Naples than in th , a yely London. Ernesta Grisi arriving at six o'clock las t in too late to make her debut as the secunda doance At L g, Sonnambula, Madame Bellina, who filled that Otis& the Opera Buffs, supplied her place at a short 000. The house was thinly attended owing to the Easter re nee d ' Lord John Churchill, who, it has been anO t !" bat was to commission the Vernon, is not to put that she the Druid in commission. be e° The weather which, for several days, blis this remarkably cold for the time of year, has greeted 11,91o'fied, morning with a large fall of snow, wiich is now frer by rain, which promises, we hope, to %e the p recuP fine spring weather. bat USE or A HAT.—The whole use o f al Is probably not generally known—it is of more u s r d , be covering the head. If, when a person fell overbost apd had the presence of mind to instantly take off his 111 ;0 0 hold the brim of it to his chin, so that the hollow 1 o °pe •0 upwards, it would keep him above the water as, ,0011/ ever he could hold it. This has been tried, an d proved correct. t he i NOVEL REPAST.—An immense bir- , ° s a ;„, F cern a Swan species, was shot, a few days age, r betif un Common. Hungerford, weighing in its plunlag e ' d a t I"" thirty and forty pounds. The bird was dresse ot .1, 1 0 e.• Bear Inn, on Monday night, when fourteen gent' A wei down and partook of it. It was both tender B°l.oo flavoured, and pronounced to be a rich trea t ''' . to Independent. thing S .ao TIIE BRITISH NAVY. —Looking a t r th s e r general, we must confess that we are not o. ° ot he r. dream that our navy is quite in a desperate state . be et ! _ countries may be building ships—so much , th., i n tn. British bluejackets must be very much altered fo r " event of a war, they are not building them Quarterly Review. g__cicer 4 THE MACKEREL FISHERY. ---1 11 boat", fishery has been commenced by our (WorthoTpur, were Plymouth , Nbie late laid up, buterlei t n h d ei w r i a th rr t iv h a e l etxhceerpe,tiotnheo; htahvreefbeeniatocessofili During the moonlight nights they in the western part of the Cuanne the 000 a. put to sea as soon as the dark unightixerdeotanroni enough to reach the nets at the full Brighton Gazette.